Friday night for a couple hours and welcomed the director of the hartford Va Regional Office as well as the director of the Va Connected Health care system to listen to our veterans, and not just about the delays, but the more fundamental gaps in care that we have right now that we are all working hard to fill. Just one example, k. Robert lewis, a veteran Service Officer from the veterans of foreign wars, shared with the audience very compellingly his understanding that many veterans with the vfw has received outstanding service, but that there is a lack of providers, nurses, doctors, staff that have caused the delays and hindered veterans access to care. I know that the veterans access to care act authorized 5 billion to enable the va to hire Additional Health care providers and clinical staff, but secretary mcdonald, you have identified the practical obstacles to meeting the needs and hiring more doctors and other professionals, and that is one of the central challenges of our time,
Position of the property and supervisor thank you and the mayors staff in helping with the arm wrestling this seat back where it belongs to the community for their assets and it is adjacent to raymond were doing fantastic things to the Family Support Services Just makes sense to broaden that service to this valley. Great. Thank you, mr. Updyke so this point in time sorry supervisor kim. No problem. Actually to supervisor cowen or mr. Updyke i dont know the back story but i know that probably youre familiar with the story i was reading it is great we were able to get that at a numerical cost i was curious what the story was and how we convinced the ownership to provide this back to the community i think its a huge achievement and i can briefing go over the asset was identified and was in foreclosing we had lee age over a with wells fargo the property was lost to foreclosing foreclosing and went to the owner the asset and i explained how important this property was to the community and t
Improvements that is equivalent to their cost we thought that was more than fair and reviewing the issues the property weve certainly identified 2 hundred and 34 thirty thousand of improvements that are needed were putting that program together and have identified the funds so i dont see that as problematic we simply want to t that up immediately after gaining position of the property and supervisor thank you and the mayors staff in helping with the arm wrestling this seat back where it belongs to the community for their assets and it is adjacent to raymond were doing fantastic things to the Family Support Services Just makes sense to broaden that service to this valley. Great. Thank you, mr. Updyke so this point in time sorry supervisor kim. No problem. Actually to supervisor cowen or mr. Updyke i dont know the back story but i know that probably youre familiar with the story i was reading it is great we were able to get that at a numerical cost i was curious what the story was and ho
Good morning, everyone, welcome to the San Francisco budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday, december third, 2014, my name is farrell and i am jound by avalos and will be joined by mar. And i want to thank the sfgtv for covering this meeting as well as the cler. Items acted upon today will be on the december 9th. If we could call up item 9 for 11. Together . Hearing on the implementation of greenfinancesf for Residential Properties that qualify for Property Assessed Clean Energy financing in the city and county of San Francisco. Resolution authorizing the city and county of San Francisco to join the californiafirst program; authorizing the California Statewide Communities Development Authority to accept applications from Property Owners, conduct contractual assessment proceedings, and levy contractual assessments within the territory of the city and county; and authorizing related actions as defined in the resolution. Resolution consenting to the inclusion of Properties Wit
Notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially atrisk properties but fewer than onethird have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. Lets talk worst case scenario. What happens in a collapse . Buildings have the tendency of rolling over. The first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. In an earthquake the building is a total loss. Can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit . One of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. In an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. You have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. Where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. So, here we are actually