Of that, we are able to create a more thriving, equitable, safe, and secure city for all san franciscans. Thank you all so much for being here. [cheers and applause] with that, i would like to turn it over to our budget chair, supervisor sandy fewer. [applause] thank you, madame mayor. Good morning, everyone. Wow. On behalf of my 80,000 residents in the Richmond District, i would like to welcome you to this part of town where our summers look like this every day off mac. But where we are doing good work to strengthen and grow communities. The Richmond District Neighborhood Center is leading that effort with the work on the one richmond initiative, the home delivered grocery program, and is the main provider of active School Programming in the richmond. I would like to thank the executive director and her staff for hosting us today. Thank you all for coming out. I am glad that the budget is being officially finalized today as together to witness the signing of the budget by the mayor, i
I just want to really acknowledge the team that really have pushed this forward quickly on this project. First of all , david wilkin sos has been our consultant from Northern California Community Loan fund. Thank you, david. Thank you for helping me understand this weave of stuff and so forth. Leading the way to make sure that we anchor the new market tax credit that we needed for the project is the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Community Investment fund, or as we call it sfif. Without them jumping in and p putting their projestamp on thi project, i dont know if othes s would have joined as easily. We just wareally want to thank e sfif for supporting us. Along side of the sfif, San Francisco sfif was california loan fund who in vvested with u early as well. The group that put us over the top is an Organization Called Community Impact partners which is more of a National Partner and they came in to push us forward as well. The irony is that two of these organizations are d
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Ill be using the overhead. Supervisor fewer oh, the overhead, please, mr. Carroll. Ilene bovin coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods here on my own behalf. On the overhead is the proposal for the 2019 Building Code update. It was presented at the Capital Planning committee on july 22 of this year. In its presentation, the department of the environment stated that 35 of the citys emissions today is from privatesector natural gas. To reduce these emissions, the proposal is to encourage all electric design in new construction. The timeline for this proposal is for review by the department of building inspection and Code Advisory Committee in august, the board of supervisors Land Use Committee in september, and the full board in october. While not in the department of the environment presentation, the Capital Planning Committee Members expressed concerns. With increased reliance on electricity, the issue of reliability was raised. The response was possible use of Battery Storage for el
Pg e require that Field Operation employees verify their identities in the employment document and whether both agencies promptly comply with state and federal investigators on request, particularly given the laxity of rules regarding membership adopted by trade unions over the past decade. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. No other speakers. Public comment is now closed. Chair . Supervisor walton any more comments from colleagues . Supervisor fewer i think we learned a lot today. I want to thank colleagues for holding this hearing. I think public speakers bring up good points about the overhanging of wires and i look forward to calling for an additional hearing about the study, but actually i think there are still some open issues about what is on those poles. And now i am being alerted that the pole heights have been extended, which is something i didnt know about. So, chair, im respectfully asking to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. The motion has be