Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to our first full budget and finance Committee Meeting for 2014. On wednesday march 5th and im supervisor mark farrell and im joined by mar, and Supervisor John Avalos and london breed and supervisor wiener. I want to thank the members of sfgtv covering this meeting, jennifer and the clerk of the committee, ms. Linda wong. Madam clerk do we have announcement. Silence Electronic Devices and complete speaker cards and items will appear on the board of supervisor agenda unless otherwise stated. Madam clerk, call items 1 and 2 together. Item is a resolution approving a performance contract Behavior Health services and the department of Health Care Services incorporating the Mental Health act in transition for homelessness and Health Services grants, program for the period of july 1, 2013 through scombrun 30, 2014 and authorizing the Behavioral Service so sign at greement ed agreements. Resolution authorizing adoption of the fy20142014 annual update to m
Her vision. When she whacks the traffic at the capita the traffic parts as if missouris was in the building laughter and she reminded me in putting the financing together one of the loose pieces was 20 million that redevelopment agencies in the past recollection is dollars we had to go to the difgdz those were owed and due and the governor was not going to use them to use for other purposes but to use on this project so contacting thank you for a carrying on the vision and keeping up the fight and doing it with a spirit and style of elegance ive never seen so from the state to you dr. Georges memory clapping. okay. We want to get to groundbreaking and nancy pelosi has to get somewhere else. Do you have time of course, i have time i want to recognize supervisor William Kennedys work. Okay clapping. i can relax a little bit. While we thank supervisor dr. Kennedy are in the house and she was our fourth president clapping. okay. All right. So i want to bring up unknown but before i do i wa
Businesses get it and now how important it is for the vitality of america and endorsed by the aflcio, so labor understands it also. We thank both labor and Business Community for supporting the immigration bill. [applause] so, nick, youve been involved in ufcw, packing house workers and stuff, and its been my experience as i toured them, and i didnt work in them like durbin did. He was a meat cutter in packing houses, but as ive traveled around, i see more and more of the Latino Community working in our packing houses and meat cutting places you represent. Tell us about that. Im with local cw222 from northwest iowa. We have a packing house in cherokee, iowa, and dakota city, nebraska. Too together, thats roughly close to 5,000 employee, and 75 of them are latino. 75 . Yes, yes, so 75 of the membership who we represent are latino and imMigrant Workers, so, again, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, of the panel and audience, senators, im honored to be here to talk about an issue that af
The Actual Office to close down gitmo has been closed itself. We gave you all the information we have available on that subject, okay . Currently 30 of u. S. Doctors are primary care physicians. Tuesday, they examined the growing shortage of primary doctors. This is just under two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] which is going to cover, i believe, an enormously important issue. I want to thank Ranking Member for his work. He and i worked together on a number of issues over the year. I look forward to a productive working relationship. Vermont is a rural state. I know something about rural problems. His state is a lot more rural. We will see how we can go forward together. In our country today, before i begin that, i want to thank all our panelists for being here. We have a great set of panelists from all over the country, and we very much appreciate them being here. We thank them for the work they do every day providing health care, doing research. In our country, today, i
Him fairly, he says, continues to blast the network and its host megyn kelly, tweeting out just a few hours ago, quote, i refuse to call Megyn Kelly A Bim bow because that would not be politically correct. Instead, i will only call her a lightweight reporter. In pulling out of the debate yesterday, trump cited a sarcastic press release put out by fox news earlier in the day in which it said, we learned from a secret back channel that the ayatollah and putin both intend to treat donald trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president. Trump has his own secret plan to replace his cabinet with his own twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings. Heres trumps response. With me, theyre dealing with somebody thats a little bit different. They cant toy with me like they toy with everybody else. So let them have their debate. And lets see how they do with the ratings. And i told them, i said, give money to the Wounded Warriors, give money to the veterans. They