business history prospective is defining those businesses that we're trying to support move to the james weldon johnson next generation view and adapt this is an important point to think about when we frame legislation because for example, in some locations in terms of the type of products they off you want to support them as they reinvent themselves to continue to the next generations that point is important because most of the capability all my students that came up in the heritage report which is the excellent report it is for the facade or the whole this not to support the businesses as we talk about the businesses there are other types of scott taylor's schools used not put into a vital business for instance, has technology has to adapt to a changing market and so on and so forth so they've struggled in things that are not traditionally relayed but for example technology had to move their business into the modern age second point i want to - so main we can come back to that in questions the 3 points i want to throw out for thinking in those particularly businesses framing the mission of th

the most significant strikes were the fourth offensive in mid-august, which cut the vital weldon railroad linking petersburg to the blockade runners ports on the lower atlantic coasts, the fifth offensive in late september, the subject of my book, which nearly compels lead to abandon petersburg and made richmond in the greatest danger of capture by a field army the city ever face until she was occupied without resistance in april of 1865. another major one was the eighth offensive in early february, which extended the federal left flank to hatcher's run, and the ninth offensive in late march, which finally netted both petersburg and richmond. overnight, april 2 and third, 1865, lee abandoned petersburg, abandoned his james river defenses, abandoned his capital of health for a last desperate -- itself for last desperate flight toward north carolina, but north carolina proved too far away. the federal forces were too advantageously positioned. the butternut brigades had been the butternut brigades had been too badly battered throughout the course of the siege. one week to the day after the

business history prospective is defining those businesses that we're trying to support move to the james weldon johnson next generation view and adapt this is an important point to think about when we frame legislation because for example, in some locations in terms of the type of products they off you want to s

i also wanted to call out lee an weldon from the san francisco parks alliance council who is here and all of the members of the public that came and in conclusion going forward parks alliance will continue to partner with the department both for leveraging funds for the playgrounds in tier two and as dawn mentioned will also host a civic forum on playground design to get input from community members on what elements and experiences they would like all of our playgrounds to have going forward so we look forward working with the department to continue our work. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> good morning. thank you for the opportunity to comment. my name is trudy garber and a project manager at the trust for public land. i work with alhand ja who served as a member on the failing playgrounds task force. we are a national nonprofit and conserves land for people and parks. our goal is to make sure every child has safe access to play be a garden, park or playground within 10 minutes walk of their home. we're a proud and close partner with san francisco recreation and p

larkin is doing that kind of work in fisherman's wharf planning around conrad square and james weldon johnson street to improve fisherman's wharf from a pedestrian and action point of view i say keep going i want santa clause to bring me this and have it for access and stanley and know it's there to aggregate all the stuff that goes that the station. >> thank you lastly i'd like to acknowledge mr. wong all of this needed to be looked at and the inconvenience and displacement what times to people with the affordability if the land crisis raising i'm all for that but the construction after work i think ms. christensen about the neighborhood character was addressed i'm for moving forward with some type of study if the money is available. >> commissioner hillis. >> thank you for this i agree that commissioner antonini and the other commissioners the central subway is half done there's something wrong about where it has and not continuing on to connecting it to the density it part of san francisco it is newer growing sdenlser areas of san francisco i agree if we're going to take ourselves

. >> reporter: randy weldon is a local grower. he showed us how farmers who could not afford to drill wells helplessly watched their orchards die. these orange trees are dead, and there are thousands just like them not far from delano's main street. >> it's heartbreaking. in a lot of cases, the farmers have their heart and soul in this land, and it's like losing a part of your family, you know. and economically, it's disastrous. >> reporter: in california, water is considered a property right, so farmers are free to drill as much as they want. all they need is a permit. but no one knows how much water farmers are pulling from the underground aquifer-- that's the natural reservoir accumulated over thousands of years from rain and snow-- and no one knows how much water is left. if an aquifer is like a savings account, this is a run on the bank, a race to the bottom. at the urging of the governor, jerry brown, california voters this year agreed they had to be better prepared for a drought, so they passed a $7.5 billion bond for build

the most significant strikes were the fourth offensive in mid august which cut the vital weldon railroad linking petersburg to the blockade runners ports on the lower atlantic coasts. the fifth offensive in late september, the subject of my book, "richmond redeemed," which nearly compelled lee to abandon petersburg and which threw richmond into the greatest danger of capture by a field army that the city ever faced until she was occupied without resistance in april of 1865. another major one was the eighth offensive in early february, which extended the federal left flank to hatcher's run and the ninth offensive in late march which finally netted both petersburg and richmond. overnight, april 2nd-3rd, 1865 lee abandoned petersburg, abandoned his james river defenses abandoned his capital itself for a last desperate flight toward north carolina. but north carolina proved too far away. the federal forces were too advantageously positioned. the butternut brigades had been too badly battered in the course of the siege. one week to the day after the final fighting at petersburg came appomatto

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