come in contact with american missionaries when he was a young orphan just running in the streets of mendosa, argentina which is there at the andes mountains, and he was completely destitute, so he came in, came around some american missionary ies. and they had a great influence on his life. he ended up deciding after he learned to read and write because he wasn't even literate at all and then learned english and then decided he wanted to come to the u.s. to study at a seminary. so in 1948 he boarded passenger freighter by himself and came to the u.s. and went and studied at new orleans e theological baptist seminary. and then later my mother and my oldest sister who was 11 years older than i am joined him there. and then my second sister was born in birmingham, alabama, when they moved from new orleans to birmingham. the whole family went back, and then i was born and my brother was born. and then we all came to the u.s. i landed in the u.s. on march the 28th, 1961. and after that we moved to birmingham for a period of time. i don't really go into that in my memoir. is so here it is, the en

work it is not easy bringing all the departmental heads together and like sxhelgz e commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell that is available to see the superintendent and mayor working together to drive this intent so thank you. >> thank you. >> moving forward no consent calendar resolutions vote on consent calendar was under f and no items severed for medicine action we'll vote on consent calendar. >> thank you, commissioners ms. chin mr. totiano ms. fewer ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and mr. haney 7 i's. >> thank you ms. casco and at this time, of course, i want to recognize and welcome paecht and now read into the record the proposals for fvrdz they are one six 4 plus in supportive of naming the george washington high school to be alfred jes pan and adopting the food standards for sfusd being introduced by commissioner fewer and matt haney and mr. walton may have a motion. >> second. >> to building and grounds and services committee and the good food purchasing standards to the budget and services competent that means no action for the curriculum committee introducti

george henry mendosa wishes he could be back home lending a hand. he's a doctor. >> we need medical professionals to help save lives. we need to send blood and medicine from here. >> they're really looking for search and rescue teams to go and assist in the relief effort. >> reporter: assemblyman moya, the first ecuadorian elected official in the united states told us his family is okay but he and his staff have already heard from constituents who lost family members or those unaccounted for. >> they really need the equipment to get through the after the people that have been missing. >> reporter: assemblyman moya has been in contact with the mayor's office, with the governor's office. however, he told us tonight that if the council general's office and the ecuadorian government do not take some sort of initiative to get relief by the end of the night, he says he'll take matters in to his own hands. joe torres, eyewitness news. >>> in japan rescuers are rushing to beat heavy rains that could cause further land slides following two earthquakes. the f

work it is not easy bringing all the departmental heads together and like sxhelgz e commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell that is available to see the superintendent and mayor working together to drive this intent so thank you. >> thank you. >> moving forward no consent calendar resolutions vote on consent calendar was under f and no items severed for medicine action we'll vote on consent calendar. >> thank you, commissioners ms. chin mr. totiano ms. fewer ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and mr. haney 7 i's. >> thank you ms. casco and at this time, of course, i want to recognize and welcome paecht and now read into the record the proposals for fvrdz they are one six 4 plus in supportive of naming the george washington high school to be alfred jes pan and adopting the food standards for sfusd being introduced by commissioner fewer and matt haney and mr. walton may have a motion. >> second. >> to building and grounds and services committee and the good food purchasing standards to the budget and services competent that means no action for the curriculum committee introducti

fleming and commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell i have a clarifying we think page 15 there was an additional 44 thousand or $45,000 provided to athletic equipment and repairs and i wanted to just wanted to understand what the facilities pieces was, you know, the past we moved the facilities monies out of athletics and put it back into the facilities department if does that make sense that the athletic department was dealing with appliances and repairs and facilities so what's the other $035,000 dollars going towards specifically. >> those are funds dedicated to ongoing basic maintenance and repairs not facilities construction projects so, yeah this is basic repairs and appliances it is not dedicated to major projects. >> can you give me an example of what a repair facility is. >> so we recently had a mat overhead hauled hello mr. truett i'm sure kevin truett don't give me a hard time i was going to be professional you started me on the road so (laughter) they all enjoyed that okay. so one of the works the matt over hauled we had to replace and repair matt's i know that displacing had to dig

american dinner table because that also was a very, very complicated process that my colleague martha mendosa concentrated on. for a few weeks we thought we could only link it to the domestic market in thailand. it was kind of do we go with it or do we wait while we have, you know, other competitive pressures and make that until we can actually get the links? >> i think we very early on were determined to publish our database for the first time once we had several months of data. so to avoid misleading appearance of the trend. once we had five months of data we launched on june 1st. "the post" a couple of days before that had published their first story on their findings. i guess you could say we could have that evening rushed out a similar thing. we decided we'll carry on. on june 1st and then it followed in july. so, yeah, it's always a challenge to know when to press the button. we feel like we did the right thing. >> so we basically had the key documents by i think may or june. we wanted to work as quickly as possible. one of our considerations was with the paris climate talks in december