Number of migrants arriving in Southern Europe from africa. Most of them start their journey across the sea from to news yet thousands have already crossed the mediterranean on rubber boats to italy where authorities are warning that the situation could get out of hand. Those who make it to italy are desperate to find ways to earn money many end up as farm workers on tomato or lemon plantations but they have no rights and for years theyve been toiling away for countless hours and for a minimum pay these workers are called the invisibles and by now there are hundreds of thousands of them reasons mean and you alone was introduced to improve their lives but the law is having little effect as our italy correspondent found out he traveled to the southern part of the country to the region of. Known as italys a bread basket there he met some of the migrants. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere among the vast wheat fields of southern italy we meet them on a chain who found shade under the palac
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,
Number of migrants arriving in Southern Europe from africa. Most of them start their journey across the sea and from to thousands have already crossed the mediterranean on rubber boats to italy where authorities are warning that the situation could get out of hand. Those who make it to italy are desperate to find ways to earn money many end up as farm workers on tomato or lemon plantations but they have no rights and for years theyve been toiling away for countless hours and for a minimum pay these workers are called the invisibles and by now and there are hundreds of thousands of them reason fame and you alone was introduced to improve their lives but the law is having little effect as our italy correspondent found out he travelled to the southern part of the country to the region of bus known as italys a breadbasket there he met some of the migrants. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere among the vast wheat fields of southern italy we meet them on a chain who found shade under the pine
It represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. [roll call] item number two, pledge of allegiance. Item number three, approval of minutes for the june 9, 2020 Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Sorry, roll call vote. [roll call] thank y