Good morning everybody welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance question meeting for wednesday february, 10, 2016. I want to thank jennifer low and charles for covering this meeting. Do we have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 24th board of supervisors agenda. Item number one resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department accept grant in the amount of approximately 27 million from the state of California Department of housing and Community Development to fund housing related park projects. Thank you very much. Good morning committee members. My name is tony. Im the grant manager for the recreation park capital and improvement division. The item before you is legislation to authorize recreation and park to retroactively accept and extend a grand in the amount of approximately 2. 6 million from the California Department of housing and Community Development department. The legislat
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To offer the country a new American Century. Lets chat with obrien murray. What should we be looking for in rubio . A message put americans back to work, help the economy and also go against what a lot of barack obama has already done and what hillary is trying to do. We are told its a ten or 12 minute speech, basically timed to make the 6 00 news on all the stations covering it. Is it a feeling a tone or the actual specifics you would be advising . Depends how much air time. There is no snippets on nightly news. If he actually has people watching this, it is a brilliant move to do it this time of night. Rubio says he is not intimidated by jeb bush, a greater fundraising machine he is trying to run a lean machine is that successful given the field we are looking at . If you look at his history hes not afraid of going against anybody. He had tea Party Operatives all behind him at the beginning at that point. The question is, will he get those behind him. He has a chance to tap into it,
An investigation when it comes to holding a retaliater against a whistleblower accountable. Because guess what the numbers support what im saying. You can give whatever explanation you want. But im telling you right now, the level of disrespect that you are showing to the veterans who by the way if and we know allegations are true in terms of treatment, mistreatment of patients, the lists, the laundry lists of stuff that is going on. Everyone knows that its there. Youre telling me youre spending all this time to try to hold someone accountable. Forget about whats happening about actually fixing the problem where veterans are not getting the services that they need. That is another disturbing thing to me. Thats almost an afterthought to you. So i cant hear an explanation that includes some kind of, with el, and believe me im a lawyer so i get the whole theres an Ongoing Investigation so i cant answer. Its a very convenient way of getting out of answering a question that you dont want to
Regarding the detention of children. The agreement that juveniles should be held in the least restrictive setting appropriate to their age and special needs. And generally in a nonsecure facility licensed to care for dependent minors. And it said that detaining children in prisonlike facilities both secure and unlicensed runs contrary to very hartd of the flores agreement. As we speak, flores counsel petitioned the court to reinforce the agreement in light of the expansion on family detention. Given the concern regarding the mental and physical Health Effects on children in prolonged detention, i urge you to adopt a policy that minimizes the lengthy detention of children. And use more humane alternatives like alternatives my staff attended a live bond proceeding for a mother and 5yearold child who had been sexually assaulted. The child was suffering from severe psychological stress while being detained at arttesia, the family had already been detained three months before the bond heari