[gavel] this meeting will come to order. This is the regular meeting of the government and audit oversight committee, and thank you for joining us to starting an hour earlier today. Thank you, scott wiener. Im supervisor london breed, the chair of the committee. Im joined by the vicechair supervisor katy tang and president chiu here today, and sweden supervisor wiener is also joining us as well. The Committee Clerk is lisa miller. And i want to thank jim smith and jennifer low from sfgovtv. And, madam clerk, do we have any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the april 22nd board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay, are there any changes to the agenda . No. Okay. So, can you please call the first item . Item number 1 is a hearing on the San Francisco employees re
Educator at lyric. Before that i was a very shy and quiet kid and by becoming interning and lyric i became to learn to advocate for myself and my family. Now the internships that we have at lyric are for high school students. I want to make it more accessible for youth 1824 because i am a leader in my community and i want to be able to expand that and give those other resources to you that comment on there that get kicked out of homes because they dont conform with their identity or sexual orientation. Thank you for your time. Thank you, next speaker, please. Hello, my name is oscar cortes and an educator at lyric. I want to say how it impacted me. I started as an intern appoint lyric in 2013. At first i didnt know what i wanted to do with my future, but thanks to lyric in opening up its doors and educating us on these social issues going on in our community i realized that i wanted to get into politics and maybe sit up there with you and make these decisions. I think there are a lot o
Becoming homeless in this city that is gorgeous, but its not really children friendly. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors, any other name issel ga. We have a 35yearold organization in the city providing programs and recreation and Leadership Development programs to low income children and their families. Mostly in the mission district. I am also a mother of there e girls in San Francisco schools. The oldest of which is graduating from the high school. Im here to support the recommends of the children Funding Community coalition and wanted to zero in on 3 specifically that are important for jamestown. No. 1 is to increase the fund. The increase is fairly small and im speaking as a homeowner in district 7 and you will hear repeatedlly about evidence and investment in the enrichment in childrens lives and providing services around them will provide all sorts of savings not to mention we are investing in the lives of human beings and how wonderful is that. No. 2 is to supp
2013. I think with the Wellness Team we have a health coach every wednesday now taking appointments for people in the civic center area. The shape up walking challenge is going strong and i think eap has been very busy and enjoying the new location. It gives them a little more room to do counseling sessions. I think thats it for my highlights. Did you want to add anything . We want to encourage our commissioners and our loyal audience to join our shape up walking team. You can help boost our numbers. Thank you. Any comments on this item no. 7 . Any Public Comment . All right. Item no. 8. City clerk item 8 discussion item. Update on the Financial Report as of february 28, 2014. Pamela levin, is out today. If anybody has any questions, they can put them out there and we would continue them to the next meeting. This is about the Financial Reporting on item no. 8. Does anybody have any questions on this item . All right. Any Public Comment on this item . That will be continued until next m
The Supreme Court has two cases remaining, the hobby lobby case on the contraceptive mandate and Health Care Law and another on employee unions. Decisions on those will be announced monday, the final day of the courts term. We have many of this terms oral arguments on our website cspan. Org where you can listen to the cases as they were argued before the Supreme Court. One of the Court Decisions handed down yesterday and talked about during the event we just watched was the case involving an Abortion Clinic buffer zone. Politico has this story about the case. The Supreme Court on thursday unanimously struck down a Massachusetts Law that restricted speech outside abortion facilities. A decision abortion rights advocates decried as a threat to patients safety at clinics nationwide. The court said the state law violated the First Amendment because its buffer zone limited speech too broadly, covering 35 feet from the doorway of facilities including public areas like sidewalks. Thursdays de