Not to have to file, or pay federal income tax. But one of the things ive not really heard anybody address, we talked about in here the need for the minimum wage to be raised. And when there was an article written recently that indicated for an individual who just accepts the available federal welfare payments, they may be looking at 1,700 a month take home whereas under the current minimum wage its about 1,200 takehome. Well, the incentive there is obviously not to work. But i know my friends at heritage have encouraged as a solution lowering the minimum wage. Obviously, that would even increase the disparity between what you take home if you dont work and what you take home if you do work. If you lowered the minimum wage. So thats obviously not going to fix the problem there. But if the minimum wage is raised in puerto rico, since as my friend from californias indicated they have a higher minimum wage, then people would be tempted to go from puerto rico to california to get those hig
She is just, fabulous to serve on this commission as well. Thank you for all of your work. Thank you. And thank you, commissioner loftus and we are going to set aside a date where we are going to honor commissioner kingsley and i am not sure whether or not her regular resignation has gone through. There is an announcement that turman and i put together. And basically it is meant to explain to the public, what the commission can or cannot comment on regarding this. And as you are well aware that after the joint investigation, and a very important factor, the joint investigation between the San Francisco Police Department and the f. B. I. And an indictment was returned from the Us Attorneys Office and here in the Northern District of california and commissioner turman i have talked about this and we are both federal prosecutors. And so we understand the process, and we ask you the public is to understand and appreciate and respect the process, the process of both the criminal system and
Company and 3 is the city and county of San Francisco vs. Pacific gas protect and item next is the city and county of San Francisco of protect vs. Is there any Public Comment on the items were dealing with in closed session today. Seeing none, may i have a motion to assert motion. Second. Session. Were back from closed session id like to report on whafd item 11 was settled item e 12 no action and 13 no action and 14 and 15 no action. May i have a motion whether or not to disclose ill move not to disclose all in favor, say i. Opposed . Any other new business. Madam chair one quick item to request of staff weve done a lot of Engineering Work on what to do with the mountain tunnel. The engineering report on that ive read it makes sense it recommendations that we basically build a second tunnel and decommission the first thats twice as expensive i request staff we have somebody other than who wrote the irrational report do a kind of a challenge investigation. The reason that you go to the
Later that concludes my report youve go on got one member of the public that wants to address. I think were okay on. What do i think . Very briefly and widening the clock back an hour a couple of points open the financial specifically attachment to status of the contracts on attachment 4 which is expenses. On attachment 2 second line the downtown extension engineering this contract from last year this is the renewable of the 4 pointed 2 Million Contract the prop k funds no one is talking about the percentage i think this should go to the 1 million that the Planning Department is looking for as a study to the downtown extension in the i 280. Moving to the capital and expenditures i hope you can find this useful once again the Specialized Services look at the downtown its 26 million we may have to scrape this so we need to move forward. On the revenue side there is an interesting line were got a grant from the Homeland Security and of a hundred thousand dollars. The way i look at it, you
Things different we need to do more to prevent kids from falling through the cracks using data i had given the Closing Argument and the victim in the case was a mother of 8 who lost one of her sons to gang violence. Awhile i fought in the courtroom i was haunted by what was happening to her other children. When we were addressing the impacts on her children at home and as fate had it shortly after that trial that ended i met one of my heros dr. Harris and other person said we have to do better weve heard about the dismal statistics but we have a change to do Something Different and know the impact of toxic stress and this is a place were there this is going to end and were going to screen the kids and bring the best and bright you mind to serve the kid. Together well transform the lives of kids giving them a fair shot to grow up to giggle, to run and leap along the way every child deserves that chance. I ask that Nadine Harris join me. And then ail talk about tours im here to say thank