Good morning, everyone. This is october 9, 2019, regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank those from s. F. Gov tv for broadcasting. Can we excuse supervisor fewer. Please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the next minutes. Can you please call item number 1. Clerk lease amendment lexington lion San Francisco, lp 350 rhode island streetnorth 2,600,000 rent credit. I would like to make a motion petitioner this to be continued for one more week. Before that i will take Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item 1, seeing none, that item is closed. I would like to make a motion to continue the item to october 16. Clerk item 2 is resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health, Behavioral Health services to enter into a
Please call the role. [roll call] [roll call] thank you both. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I would like to welcome all of you here this evening for the special joint hearing hosted by the Human Rights Commission. I would like to welcome our human rights of commissioners. Thank you for joining us this evening, on behalf of my colleagues we are delighted to be cohosting this hearing with you. We look forward to a good, and open conversation this evening. We have some excellent speaker testimony that we are looking forward to gathering. We very much look forward to hearing from members of the community on the issue of the border crisis, our first order of business to are there any announcements . Thank you. Office of Civic Engagement and veterans affairs. To members of the public, this is special joint meeting at the San Francisco immigrant rights commandant commission on the Human Rights Commission cosponsored by yee and ronan. Please silence all cell phones so speakers are commiss
Street w. This new data and focus on the 200, we can make a difference. I think when people are ready for treatment and volunteer for treatment, that is key. I also think we need to recognize that one of our challenges on the streets that some people will refuse treatment. Some people in the most dire needs of treatment will refuse treatment. So we need to be there when people are ready to go into the services and meet them. When theyre ready. But we also need laws like the conservatorship law to provide people with the support for shorttime conservatorship to help them save their lives. These are lifesaving interventions. And that persistent compassion is what we have seen here and what weve come to expect from our director of Mental Health reform in. A few short months, hes transformed the way many of us think about caring for people experiencing the intersection of homelessness, serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse disorders. This is a population, as youve heard of 4,000 peopl
Josh, great to see you. Glad to be here a tight trading range for the major averages this week. Yeah. How would you sum it up so far. I think whats interesting is there seems to be this rotating cast of stocks that are working against the averaging, so today is transport i think three out of the worst stocks are railroads, some of the big ones being hit hard. Theyre not very important in terms of waiting, but very important in terms of people paying attention, either because theyre technically inclined and because they think thats a important technical indicator, or theyre people that think its an economic story that needs to be understood, and theres some skinned of bowling pin effect but i think the bigger story is that some very important stocks to the market cap weighting of the s p, netflix being a reasonable story as well theyve gotten smacked down where they could have broken out. And netflix having a tough week. And thats got an impact on psychology and on the construction of t
Issues, both the policies and politics of it. I want to thank everybody that came out today to share your perspectives on either side of the issue and the many that have communicated directly to my office and to my colleagues. I think this sort of contentious nature that we have gotten to around the proposals to streamline Affordable Housing highlight how complex these issues are and there are a lot of different perspectives to best address these problems. It highlights how important it is to get the details right and to consider the specific details. I think the presentations today, thank you so much to the Mayors Office of housing and Planning Department as well. The presentations have been helpful along with Public Comment in clarifying my thoughts. I want to say that i am proud of the board of supervisors measure. It will rezone and streamline Affordable Housing sites across the cities specially the western neighborhoods serving a wide range of people without pitting it against low