Okay, good morning everyone, welcome to the june 16th Committee Meeting of the Treasure Island mobility management agency. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. [roll call] mandelman absent. Mandelman present, we have kwur corium. Great, would you please call the next item. Chair, may i make an announcement about Public Comment . Yes, please. Thank you. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 8882045987. When prompted entering access code 2858465 as seen on the screen. Then follow the system prompts. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. If you wish to speak on an item, dial 10. Each caller will be allowed 2 minutes to speak. When your 2 minutes are up, we will move to the next caller. Best practices is to speak slowly, clearly, and turn down the volume of your television or radio around you. Please allow for audio visual delays and the 30 second lag time during the course of the meeting. The nov
Announcer sfgov tv, San Francisco government television. Good morning, everyone, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the june 10th, 2020, regular budget and Appropriations Committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and Appropriations Committee. Im joined by Committee Members, supervisor shamann walton, and rafael mandelman, Hillary Ronen and northerlienorman yee. Clerk yes, madam clerk. Due to the Health Emergency and to protect board members, and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This caution is taken pursuant to the various local, state and federal orders, declaration and directives, Committee Members attending the meet through Video Conferencing and participate in the meeting to the same extend as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org. Each speaker
My staff works really hard, and i think we are doing everything we can to make it easier for providers and for consumers to be able to access the services that are available to them and serve the people of the city. Any questions . Thank you, kelly. It might be helpful for newer commissioners if you summarized how a consumer qualifies for ihss. What are the requirements . In terms of income or right. So in order to be able to qualify, you have to be medical eligible. If you are, you would call cristas shop, and they would arrange to have a social worker come who would determine how many hours per month you are entitled to. And once that happens, you can hire whoever you want. And about 85 percent of consumers in San Francisco have a friend or Family Member that will do the service for them, which i will also just add, keeps people housed, because then they know they can get paid to provide the service for a friend or Family Member, so there will still be income coming in. 15 percent wh
Skies. We praise you for the love that surrounds us and for your mercies that are new each day. Lord, guide our senators. May they continue to look to you as their helper, defender, and friend. Inspire them to always trust in your unfailing love as they depend on you to do for them what they cant accomplish with their strength alone. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley mr. President. Pra the senator from iowa. The presiding officer i ask mr. Grassley i ask permission to address the senate for one minute. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley my friend senator wyden and i released an updated version of our bipartisan prescription reduction act. That bill will deliver even more savings for seniors
York america in august of 1619. Good evening. [ applause ] im k. C. Matthews, chief of staff here at the somebuchombur center poo center. Im obviously not kevin young. Listed in your program. Kevin has been looking forward to this event for ytwo years an upset hes not able to join us tonight. Kevin is not feeling well and not able to be here. He hopes to join us tomorrow and saturday for the remainder of the program and is watching along online. It is my honor tonight to welcome all of you who are here in the audience and welcome folks who are watching online as well. This is the Second Annual conference presented by our Lapidus Center for the study of transatlantic slavery. This morning Public Library and vch shomburg city event the historical analysis of transatlantic slavery. Youll hear more about and from mr. Lapidus shortly. This is a banner week for the Schomburg Center. Just a few things i want to mention to you. We and our director are part of a documentary, t rary premiered we