Good morning the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the april 24, 2024 meeting of budget and finance committee im connie chan. Joined by Rafael Mandelman ask supervisor melgar. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting. I reminder for those here silence all Electronic Devices to prevent interruptions. Should you have documents to be include they should be submitted to myself the clerk. Public comment taken on each item of the agenda when your item come and up comment is called line up to speak to your right my leftment along the curtains and not necessary on provide Public Comment we invite to you fill out a card and leave them on the tray by the doors. If you wish to be recorded for the minutes. You may submit comment in the following ways e mail them to myself the budget clerk at brent. Jalipa sfgov. Org. It will be forwarded to the supervisors and include part of the official file. You may send written comments Via Postal Service to city hall 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place
Russell verney spoke to r t about these twitter revelations. It is true overstepping it well if theyre sharing information with the federal government bone tara we think they would be overstepping however whenever youre ready is goes onto a website they agree to the policies of the website and if you look through the per se policies of twitter it gives them the right to every bit of information you have opposed to you deleted and they have the right to sell that information given away so were giving away our awful lot to these companies when they come out and publicly say they want to be the public forum for free speech yet theyre censoring free speech and theyre slanting what free speech can or cant be heard then theres a problem. U. S. Army is looking for help to access and to respond to foreign social media platforms with a system so sophisticated it can even understand and use slang the ad was posted on a site for federal contractors are to come up and has more. Now the ad was post
Infrastructure funding. And in land waterways have the impact of the panama canal expansion on us ports. It is an hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. And i happen to be one of those. And i recognize that this time, senator cardin. And introduce pleasure to have secretary ron here before the committee. Secretary ron, secretary of transportation in maryland. As i was telling as a chairman, this is the third state, secretary of transportation. Department of transportation and new mexico state highway and transportation, cant hold onto a job. Very proud of the work in maryland. And the organization in maryland with the secretary of transportation is responsible for coordinating modes of transportation. Mister ron has done an outstanding job in directing that department, very large budget. He also served as american state transportation officials, 20072008 and national leadership, proud to have him before the committee. Very good. Recognize senator
The meeting will come to order. Since we to have members here that want to be recognized and introduced to everyone, and i happen to be one of those, i think we might go ahead before Opening Statements and do that before we lose someone. If we already know a Lieutenant General todd semonite, youre a regular here pim recognize at this time senator carden to recognize pete ran, introduce pete mr. Chairman, thank you very much. A pleasure to have the secretary here before our committee. Thats secretary of the of transportation in maryland but as i was telling the chairman, this is the third state hes been secretary of transportation. Hes directed the Missouri Department of transportation and the new mexico state highway department. He just cant hold onto a job. Were proud of the work he does in maryland. We have a pretty challenging organization in maryland where the secretary of transportations responsible for all modes of transportation and coordinating all modes of transportation. Mr.
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