Good morning everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance subcommittee for wednesday march 2, 2016. My name is mark farrell. I am the chair of the committee. I am joined by supervisor norman yee. Our vice member katy tang will join us shortly and i know supervisor david campos is here for one of the items today. I would like to thank linda wong the clerk of the committee and sfgtv. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes mr. Chair. Please silence all cell phones and complete speaker cards and documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will be on the march 8 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you madam clerk so we have five items today and one is a hearing that most of the members of the public are here and well take them out of order and that will be the longest and the others are not long and madam clerk if you call item 1 first. Item 1 is a resolution authorizing the San Francisco de
Initial 50. Has there been any tracking of whether or not parents add into it or other people add into fund beyond the 50 . Yes, families have saved 1. 7 million of their own money in the account and no city funding that. Is Family Savings and 50 of the Family Savings qualify for free and reduced lunch. Theyre very low income. Thank you very much. Thats a good sign. Thank you and to the department of the treasurer and Tax Collector this is a program that we lead in San Francisco and proud to have it. Thank you. Again no budget analyst. We will move to Public Comment. Anyone to comment on this item . Seeing this item its closed want motion to move it forward. So moved. Okay. We have a motion. Move without objection. If you could go to item two please. Item two is resolution approving the agreement with tegsco, llc dba San Francisco autoreturn and for Services Related to the towing, storage, and disposal of and abandoned and illegallyparked vehicles not to exceed 65,400,000 for the five
Okay. Thank you madam clerk so we have five items today and one is a hearing that most of the members of the public are here and well take them out of order and that will be the longest and the others are not long and madam clerk if you call item 1 first. Item 1 is a resolution authorizing the San Francisco department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately 2. 8 million in active Transportation Program funds through the metropolitan Transportation Commission safe routes to School Grants program for a period of for the period september 1, 2017 through august 31, 2019. Okay. Thank you madam clerk so i know dph is here to answer questions unless there is anything to say . No. I am here to answer questions. Colleagues seeing no questions i appreciate it. We dont have the budget Analyst Report for item 1 so we will move on to Public Comment. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Supervisor could i have a motion to move this forward without recommendation
The members of the public are here and well take them out of order and that will be the longest and the others are not long and madam clerk if you call item 1 first. Item 1 is a resolution authorizing the San Francisco department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately 2. 8 million in active Transportation Program funds through the metropolitan Transportation Commission safe routes to School Grants program for a period of for the period september 1, 2017 through august 31, 2019. Okay. Thank you madam clerk so i know dph is here to answer questions unless there is anything to say . No. I am here to answer questions. Colleagues seeing no questions i appreciate it. We dont have the budget Analyst Report for item 1 so we will move on to Public Comment. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Supervisor could i have a motion to move this forward without recommendation. Moved. So we have a motion by supervisor yee and take it without objection. Madam clerk
Much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I yield myself such time as i may consume. I rise in opposition to this amendment. This amendment does nothing to address the fundamental flaws in the underlying legislation. This amendment would simply add Unfunded Mandates as another basis for the commission to prioritize the review of certain rules. The underlying legislation contains no exceptions for rules, no matter how important. The commission the bill creates could recommend the repeal of rules such as the ones the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives finalized this week, strengthening background check requirements for buying firearms. Such important Public Safety rules could be jeopardized by this bill. I oppose the underlying bill and i oppose this amendment, which does not improve the bill. And i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The chair recognizes the gentlelady from North Carolina. Ms. Foxx thank you, mr. Speaker. I yie