his was a man ivy league, who was known to all as poiseon ivy lee, he changed the public image of clients such as john d. rock feller and charles lindbergh and he very quickly declined al capone's very lucrative offer. al even tried to hire a writeer to ghost write his auto bayography, painting him as the saint and savior of everybody in chicago, but this terrified fellow was let off the hook once the government set its sites on al capone and had other things to worry about. again, hesitate to make comparisons to the political climate of the current election year but i can't resist doing it. reporters vied to describe the clothing he wore, the billous yellow or the pea green suits or the diamond pinkey ring that was anything from four to 11-carats, depending on who was writing about it, or the wads of silver dollars he allegedly threw from his especially constructed fleet of bulletproof cars. and when he set up a soon church as a genuine act of kindness in the depression, reporters were quickly say, yeah, sure, kindness, but he extorted all the photo knead served from small businesses. an

and opportunities for all and i want to thank my office for all of their work and my chief of staff ivy lee and thank labor who came out strongly in the fall to make sure that a measure second to last on the five page bol on the got attention of the voters and passed and i see the labor council here and tim paulson who the executive director and aft 2121 and tim, the president who is here today, and also want to recognize alyssa muster who is in court but hopefully be here at budget committee soon. also our city college board of trustees starting with the president raphael mandelman and the trustees that are here as well as current trustees here and the labor partners for their support and ensure that we could have this discussion today and set aside a supplemental and free for city college beginning in 2017 so i wanted to give the committee members an opportunity to ask questions if they have any and through the chair if you want to go to public comment. >> unless colleagues if you have pressing questions and i know people have been waiting for a long time or ms. campbell do you want to do