Good morning, everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors, budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday, october, 14, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i am joined by katie tang and i would like to thank sfgtv for covering the meeting for today. Do we have any announcements. Silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed, should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will be appearing on the 2014, board of agenda, unless otherwise stated. Could you call item one . Resolution, authorizing designated city and county officials to execute and file on behalf of the city and county San Francisco aks necessary for the purpose of obtaining state and federal finance assistance under the various grant programs. My name is christian, hogan and i am the manager with the San Francisco department of Emergency Management and the legislation that you have before you today is a governing body resolution, auth
Of that money. Let me catch up to my notes here. For Foreign Trades notes provide the foreign supply trade a weekly entry a benefit that only is vertebral to Foreign Trade zone users an import erica take any number of shipments from the airports or seaports on a weekly basis and instead of having to file a customs entities they can wait and aggregate them into one weekly shipment it saves them costs of customs entries but perhaps a greater benefit it allows them to review their processing fees a federal fee that an importer has to pay based on the value of imports a minimum of 25 per customs sgri or a maximum of 485 by a congratulating having one thing entry rather than one over the course of a week and foreign trait yourself can also tampering of the direct delivery from goods from the ports that saves goods typically have to wait for customs clearance but acceptance for direct delivery they can save a day or two on the delivery of their goods for the reduce of the supply chance and p
Asked if they have board suggestions to invite. Well actually weve asked two individuals if you think there are some people that have an interesting prospective let me or over and over la and i together because we could hear if 3 people maybe the some people cant make it. If i may it occurred to me following the meeting there maybe i dont know if we can do that ask the Board Members to make suggestions but commissioner commissioner Shamann Walton there are things we ought to maybe a literature review weve looked at commissioner Vice President haney was not a member on the board and one the things that made me think about we talked about the gentleman how hose to the available for us since hose the Supreme Court justice of court but we have a voluminous you amount of stuff for us to try to get through i know for administrative review maybe we want to meet with over and over low and make available. Over and over la and i are going to moot we do have it on the calendar by sit down and do
Standards that asks our students to do much more complex thinking and as the board has taken a strong stance an decreasing the amount of testing unnecessary testing in our city halls that is an excellent example an archaic testing not in modern time i want to thank the staff for supporting that as well. Commissioner haney i want to say thank you to ms. Fewer for bringing this forward i remember this of the first brought about but i think without a doubt at the canyon core changes what we should be testing for 12 graders it makes that more irrelevant i want to make sure we a lot internally it seem like there is agreement we will like this is not an ascertainment sunshine we should be doing if were stoougz it has in the past superintendent evaluation and in other places where it is were looking at the process so we may move forward and want to access an indicator or measure if at all if the agreement on the board has wealthy so ms. Wynns. Thank you. Im supportive of this ive not been sup
Did. Congratulations Public Utilities next on wants agenda is student delegates report. Thank you, dr. Murase good evening commissioner president murase and temple superintendant and superintendent carranza march this date march 6 which is a friday from 9 30 to 3 30 which is located other mason the wells policy last night the s a. C. T. Has the wonderful opportunity to provide entity for the policy Initiative Team we would like to thank mark and others for a great presentation we look forward to continue working with this special committee next is the l cap Student Engagement were finalizing the student fbi question inform provide for all our constituents to get a better feel and quality of service this field gives thank you. Okay. So last night the fcc vementd demonstrated a handson training facilitated by the american heart did i say that wrong American Heart Association there is they were able to witness and see the cpr by a coach fac fundraising is interesting in the interest of th