Homelessness and supportive housing. Thank you all for joining us here today. As of today, may 4th, we have 1,624 cases of the coronavirus here in San Francisco and sadly, we have lost 29 people to the virus here in our city. And if you want more information, you can please visit datasf. Org covid19. Its or tracker with detailed information around testing and other helpful information by zip code that people may be interested in seeing. And today, i had a couple of things to talk about specifically, the new health order issued on friday by our county Health Officers and i really mention this on friday, but i think this is really exciting, that even though we still have challenges that exist, the ability to allow people to get back to work is so important. And construction in our city will be allowed, as well as outdoor businesses and today, i just want to express, again, my appreciation of the outdoor activities, outdoor businesses and how important it is to make sure that we start to
[gavel] good morning, everyone, we are in rules committee today for january what day is today, january 28. I am supervisor cohen, as katy tang, and we have eric mar, and supervisor cohen will be joining us shortly, and we have the honor of having supervisor here and take his Charter Amendment first quickly which is item 7. And thank sfgovtv and our clerk, mr. Evans. Do we have announcements . Yes, please silent devices and any documents are to be presented to the clerk, and items will be on january 29 board of supervisors agenda. Call item 7 out of order. Item 7, Charter Amendment to amend the chart of the city and councily San Francisco to require an annual baseline appropriation for the park and recreation open space with an election to be held on june, 7, 2016. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, i will save my comments for a full board with this measure. At this point i counted this charter measure has been in committee five months and have gone over 15 amendments. And i want to say tha
Good morning everybody and welcome to the special meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee. This is monday, february 8th, 2016. My name is mark farrell and ill be chairing this committee and im joined by supervisor norman yee and supervisor katy tang will not be able to make todays meeting and will be excused and thanking linda wong, as well as Charles Kremenak and sfgtv for covering this meeting. Okay, thank you, madam clerk. The purpose of this special meeting is simply to hear the amended items for the general Public Safety health bond and to forward it out as Committee Reports to hear them have them forwarded for tomorrows board of supervisors full board and if you could call items one and 1. Item 1, ordinance calling and providing for a accept election to be held in the city and county of San Francisco on tuesday, june 7, 2016 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur the following bonded debt of the city
One of juliets mentors. She is a young woman. When i was working as director of communications at the urban habitat, you know, at the time carl anthony was the executive director and president of Earth Island Institute with david brauer. And juliet was working on her mba at San Francisco state, and i was asked to sit in on the interview when she came to apply for a job as carls assistant. Basically, a very lowlevel job. But what i was id impressed by was shear passion and her commitment and her caring for community and for people, marginalized people of every color. And i sat through that interview. And when she walked out of the room, we had a flood of people from San Francisco state, from university of california, from stanford who really wanted to work as an assistant to carl anthony who was then president of and chair of the urban habitat which was the oldest Environmental Justice organization in the country. I was honored and excited, and carl and i looked at each other, and we sa
University that is excited about whats happening in california and the work that shes doing. Where was she last week . She was invited to Cornell University to the Africanamerican Studies Program to talk to them about Public Utilities because there aint no black people. And, so, to see on the web these young africanamerican and asian and latino women that she spoke to that then felt like there was a place for them in Public Utilities, so, this is a disgrace, its an insult. I live i grew up in Hunters Point so i dont want to hear about Hunters Point and territoriality. People are suffering [speaker not understood], and i dont understand why were here this evening. So, i would beg you to reject and the other thing that concerns me, somebody said, well, this is a bunch of lawyers. Well, im concerned about a bunch of lawyers who have entered into a who dont understand contract law, who have entered into a contract that they have all signed off on, that she has signed off on. I would be con