Clerk yes. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment are available during Public Comment by calling 4156550001 and entering meeting i. D. , 1463515423, then pound twice. You will be entered into the meeting but in listening mode only. When your item comes up, press star, three to be entered into the queue. You may email myself, the budget and Appropriations Committee clerk, linda. Wong sf. Gov. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and will be included as part of the official file. Finally, Public Comment interpretations in chinese, spanish, and filipino will be guaranteed from 10 00 a. M. To 1
Chair fewer good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the august 24, 2020 meeting of the budget and Appropriations Committee. I am chair fewer sandra lee fewer. Our clerk is miss linda won, assisted today by several other staff from the Clerks Office. I would like to thank corwin cooley from sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment are available during Public Comment by calling 4156550001 and entering meeting i. D. , 1463515423, then pound twice. You will be entered into the meeting but in listening mode only. When your item
Back in her proposed budget the stipend for the child care providers and its not 100 , but hopefully if you pass proposition f theres a contingency in the budget to put money for child care subsidies. And we also hope that the priorities of prop c will be offered when that happens. So, please support the budget request, particularly for child care. Because the safety and wellbeing of our children cannot wait. So many missed opportunities cannot be recovered. We also are showing support for funding for poor clerk speakers time has expired. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello,caller . Caller hello, this is carl kramer, San Francisco living wage coalition. And i just want to i want to emphasize the words of Teresa Rutherford that because the worst thing that can be done in a time of economic downturn is is austerity measures, particularly in not providing wage raises to workers. And i want to point out, you know, that the city is also facing a crisis in the implosion
Major increases in the oec through the prop c opening, as you know, thats in the budget for 2021 and significant increase in our feeding in response to covid and that it will be included in the dos budget and the one Million Dollars increase for ihss is the wage increase and the impact on the general fund of that and given the economic downturn due to covid, we anticipate significant increase in our cash assistance programs in human services, specifically in county and assistance programs for adults and families. You can see the total of 19 million there and the bottom is our attempt to move thousands of people into subsidized employment through our jobs now, expansion to provide paid sick leave to employers in San Francisco so that their employees could take sick patients if they get ill. So next slide. And you asked in our presentation to lay out the fte count and we lay this out by department and you can see the bulk is in the department of human services, almost 1500 employee, dos,
I thi this is the regular meetif the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure for tuesday, april 7, 2020. Chair will be joining us later. Go on head and mute your computer. Thank you. Chair bustos will join us later. I would like to welcome the members of the public watching us live on sfgovtv and to the staff participating in todays meeting. The San Francisco department of Public Health, mayor breed and Governor Newsom declared the coronavirus is a Public Health machining and asked that people shelterinplace. Due to the health emergency, this meeting is held virtually with all members of the commission and staff participating today via teleconference. There will ensure the safety of everyone. The Mayors Office determined the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure has an urgent need to take matters to ensure Public Health and safety and authorized the commission to meet on these matters. Welcome to everyone. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Thank