Okay good morning, everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco Budget Finance Committee for wednesday, october 5, 2016, my name is mark farrell ill be chairing im joined by supervisor katie tang want to change clerk linda wong and Jennifer Lowe and leo from sfgovtv so for covering the meeting items acted upon today will appear on the october 18th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you very much madam clerk number one. Authorizing the department of health a continue to receive funding for the emergency relief from the Health Administration and to request approximately 16. 5 million in hiv emergency podium relieve funding for a period of march 2017 to february 2018. Okay. Thank you madam clerk so do we have shawn from dph please come on up and speak. Good morning any questions for you at all. You want to give a quick overview but for the members of the public. Over 16 million. If you would sorry about that to hiv positive folks in the city and county of San Fran
Happen, its because of good leadership, steady leadership, and im proud to have worked close, shouldertoshoulder with supervisor cohen, with her staff, because she has been passionate about getting passionate and patient. Because we have had stores here before. Weve talked about the dream of having people more healthy in this neighborhood. And we have never forgotten that. So kind of like what were always doing in the bay view, it is new, but its really fulfilling an old promise for people who have lived here for generations. Promised that you will be part of a city and youll be healthier and all have more housing and youll have Neighborhood Grocery stores and, in fact, i kind of think that is why they asked me to come back here early. They wanted to put me right next to the vegetables something was talking to anita too much, put meg putting me right next to the vegetables, with no candy or nothing, but vegetables. [laughter ] no soda that is right, no soda. Im excited for our neighbor
Happen, its because of good leadership, steady leadership, and im proud to have worked close, shouldertoshoulder with supervisor cohen, with her staff, because she has been passionate about getting passionate and patient. Because we have had stores here before. Weve talked about the dream of having people more healthy in this neighborhood. And we have never forgotten that. So kind of like what were always doing in the bay view, it is new, but its really fulfilling an old promise for people who have lived here for generations. Promised that you will be part of a city and youll be healthier and all have more housing and youll have Neighborhood Grocery stores and, in fact, i kind of think that is why they asked me to come back here early. They wanted to put me right next to the vegetables something was talking to anita too much, put meg putting me right next to the vegetables, with no candy or nothing, but vegetables. [laughter ] no soda that is right, no soda. Im excited for our neighbor
Wonderful leadership with supervisor cohen and please join me in a big thank you to supervisor cohen. [ applause ] and the second reason why im here this is something that is deeply personal to me. My parents were Small Business owners and my husbands family shared the same story as howard and amanda, where they were immigrants, refugees from vietnam and they stayed in indonesia and they made it and struggled in San Francisco and eventually create a Bright Future for their families. So to howard to, your family, i want to say thank you for not only taking a chance on San Francisco, but also taking the opportunities you were given to invest back in our communities. This is what happens when we do it right. When we invest in our local merchants, when we support our local merchants, they in turn give back and they in turn hire back in the community and they in turn take a chance on communities that are overlooked by everybody else. So with that i just simply want to say thank you to all o
Today . All right. So we are here to announce the grand opening and cut the ribbon on duc loi pantry. How about a big round of applause . [ applause ] as you all know, duc loi is a long time San Francisco business that is expanding and opening here on 3rd street in the bay view, filling a vacancy on 3rd street, bringing good local jobs, and providing Fresh Produce to the neighborhood and the community. We have a number of speakers here who want to celebrate this milestone and important occasion and beginning with mayor lee, supervisor cohen, Assembly Member david chiu and howard ngo, the owner of duc loi and anthony page an employee at duc loi and the assessorrecorder carmen chou and without further ado, mayor lee. [phra urt ] [ applause ] come on up, the School District and school board is here as well. Come on up. All right. Congratulations everyone, you now have a local Grocery Store [ applause ] you know, i want to say thank you to you and the staff for working so hard with the Sup