Of the meeting. So moved. Chair fewer thank you very much, can i have a second, please. Second. Chair fewer could i have a roll call vote please. Clerk yes, on the motion. [roll call] there are four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Clerk due to the covid19 health emergency, the City Employees and the board of supervisors legislative and the committee room, and the members will be participating in a meeting remotely. This is for the local and state and federal orders and declarations and orders. The meeting is through Video Conferencing and participate as if physically present. Public comments are available on each item on this agenda and channel 26 and fo sfgovtv. Org e streaming the number across the korean. The opportunity to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 1 415 6550001. Again, 1 415 6550001. And meeting i. D. , 146 347 6022. Again, 146 347 6022. And then press pound twice. When connected yo
Im the chair of the budget and finance committee and joined by supervisor walton, mamd exlman and president yee. Thank you for broadcasting. The due to the covid19, the Committee Room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. The interpreter, please. Im sorry, i didnt get the whole thing. Im going to find somebody that can assist, because its long. Its pretty long. So i think maybe one of our interpreters has the script and will do a more accurate job. Due to coincident house emergency and to protect boar. S. Due to coincident Health Emergency and to protect Board Members, the board of supervisors, the chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This is pursuant to the local, state and federal orders, declaration and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participating in the meeting to the same extent as if they are physically present. Public comment is available on each item o
Is that it, supervisor ronen. I remember the first meeting where trent came and we just were on the cusp of it and trent immediately pivoted. It was so crazy. It makes me sad to see this, but trent, i see you have 224 vacancies. I knew you would come to that. 224 vacancies and are those general fund vacancies . So, supervisor, none of our positions are 100 general funds. Either we charge them to a state or federal program and in some cases like a medicale would be federally funded. So because were the county designated Public Human Services agency, were able for every one of our employees, draw at least a portion of funding through federal and state sources. Its generally 40 issue, Nongeneral Fund for each position, yeah. And so its hard. When we say a hiring freeze, youre not hiring a medicale worker and even brings overhead. I think you understand. What i dont understand is that so many vacancies. Yeah, well, its a function of the hiring freeze, the modified hiring freeze, where we o
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,
Standpoint when slavery ended with the 13th amendment and soon after the chinese communities were excluded from entering the countries due to the chinese exclusion act of 1882. In rent history the black community was red lined to the out skirts of the city. Japanese americans were sent to internment camps. They have been targeted and most recently the newly latin students. The trauma continues to exist in our communities today. This is not the america we envisioned but this can be the San Francisco that we need to correct the wrongs of history. We cannot forget the pain and suffering of aning of ancestors. We are the wildest dreams of ancestors whose voices were silenced. Here i stand before you to open the conversation on reparations to lead to a plan with a reparations package for black people in this city. The institution of slavery broke up families and matched away the opportunity to create wealth and build opportunitying from our families from generation and generation. We are ex