Were on time and on budget so with little disruption there will be disruption weve been doing a lot of outreach with the community to best manage and might mitigate one of the unique aspects of this project as you heard most of us feel like van ness is a San Francisco city street that is our street and while that themselves that way technically this is the state highway so the street didnt belong to us this street belongs to the state of california so were very grateful to have as we do with the federal government a great partner in the State Government maneuvered in the leadership of the district 4 director of caltrans who with his staff we work closely at the levels of detail to make sure that design will work for the state highway so i want to thank him and his staff for the great work and please join me in welcoming for caltra caltrans. Thank you, ed good morning mayor and supervisors and distinguished guests and agencies and staff and members of the public it is a pleasure to be h
Wait around. I want to thank linda wong who is the clerk of todays clerk. And also sfgov tv, who tapes every meeting and is available to the public after that. And i want to thank the staff there. Madam clerk, there are any other nounsments . Yes, silence all cell phones and Electronic Device and completed speaker cards to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk items it acted upon today should be on the april, 8th board agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, why dont you go ahead and call item one. Resolution, retroacting the public of health. To accept and expend a grant in the amount of 1,336,000 from the California Department of Public Health to participate in a program entitled hiv care Program Supplemental for the period of november 30, 2016, through september 29, 2017; and waiving indirect costs. Okay. So with this presentation. Good morning, supervisors my name is dean and i am the administrator of the hiv sections and i i am here to request the retroactive app
President Trump Federal budget is not a surprise, but nonetheless they remain disturbing in stark contrast to invest in infrastructure, he has proposed the budget of 16. 2, billion reflect as a 13 percent cut, with major impacts to transit, and hitting urban and Rural Community as like, the budget proposes eliminating all future funds for grants that we know as the new starts program when are not a part of the signed full Funding Grant agreements. This will effect several major transit projects that have undergone years of review and development and leverage significant state and local voter approved funds, including cal train, and barts expansion and, vehicles and train and control and other local and regional priorities such as better Market Street and brt improvement and cal train, but the impact would not be limited to the region as jobs that are associated with these projects span across the state and nation, in the hundreds of thousands. I want to thank the representatives from c
Supervisor wiener. I agree when you forward a program there maybe an expectation of continuation of the program of the program and we do this every year and senior meals and hiv services and rental subsidies and there is no guarantee it will. Beyond year one or two and beyond the years. So to say its a reason to question funding Free City College today because there may not be Adequate Funding in the future and that is true for many things that we you understand fund and the average taxpayer understands that and fees go up services get cut, faculty get laid off. Its not that we want them to happen but they often happen in these budget processes so i dont think thats a good enough rationale for not supporting Free City College today if we know we have the revenue coming in to fund that program this year. Again we want to provide some flexibility as this is a new program. We didnt want to make it a charter set aside yet. We want to evaluate how this program would move forward and there w