Thank you very much for being here. This is a terrific crowd and the crowd we just spent a few minutes with in the overflow room is here and excited as well. Senator warren and i are here, number one, two thank you because i must tell you as they look back historically at this time of our country they will look back right now to advance of activism and an activism that is here tonight thats in the overflow room, that spread across the country and in activism that stopped the repeal of the worst piece of legislation that ive ever seen in all my time of government. [cheers and applause] senator warren and i both represent the United States people represent the commonwealth of massachusetts. But also represent marshfield and this region and in the course of the evening we will be talking not just about National Issues and interNational Issues, but also issues that affect our region disproportionally at that toe piece of legislation, the repeal of the Affordable Care act in our district al
[gavel] good morning everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for thursday, june 16, 2016 by name is mark farrell. Im sharing this committee. Im joined by katie tang as well supervisor norman yee and scott weiner, nothing the clerk as well as Scott Wiseman from the sfgtv for covering this meeting. We have any announcements yes please sounds all cell phones and electronic devices. Complete speaker cards and eight copies of documents as part of file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on june 20 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were goi
Woman. [applause] so thank you for joining us today and for committing to working across issues and sectors to advance gender equity. The success oof bay area women is critical for the success oaf bay area families and economy because when women succeed it is good for avenue wn. Good for women, families, communities and good for business. Thank you so much. [applause] shes a ceo, a author, a princeton dean, professor of Foreign Policy expert, a mother. These are just some of the roles 2459 annemarie slaurt had in her life. In 2012 she ignited a debate with atlantic article titled, why women still cant have all. Her look into the the extreme Work Life Balance of the professional women became the most read article in atlantas history highlighting the importance of this issues for todays families. She has become a thought leader on Work Life Balance and the bhook Unfinished Business is named one of the best books of 2015 by npr and econmists. Whether she was secretary of state or policy p
Thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were going to recess at 11 45 am for lunch and we can being approximately 1 30 pm to continue the hearing. Willie taking Public Comment on legislative items. However Public Comment for the budget itself is going to be heard on monday, june 20. Next monday followed by two more days of budget hearings potentially one more day of budget hearings on june 20 and potentially the 23rd. The of to complete our Budget Committee process next to hear this balance, and for a balanced budget to the board for our the liberation set the board on july 12 to there are a number of departments that do not have budget Analyst Reports. I want to spell out specific
Of their events outdoors for the Convention Next month in jacksonville. Cases of coronavirus in the United States continue to climb. More than 3. 4 million infections have now been reported. Florida has emerged as the new epicenter in this country. Hospitals in the state are getting crushed, with at least 48 now reporting they have no empty icu beds, period. Moments ago at a roundtable with local leaders, the governor of florida touted his states increased testing, stating it was the reason there were so many new cases. Last week, we averaged in the state of florida 90,000 test results a day. That is way, way beyond what we were doing in march, april, and may. So part of the reason we have more positive tests is because were doing so much testing. And in moments, the Presumptive Democratic nominee will deliver a speech in delaware to lay out an economic Recovery Plan that is focused through the prism of clean infrastructure, clean energy and environmental justice. Im going to bring in