And finance Committee Meeting. Im Supervisor Malia Cohen and to my right is supervisor chang and our vice chair yee will not be here and so well take that without objection. Thank you. Okay, moving on i want to recognize also sfgovtv, the assist with the broadcast and recognize the clerk of the board today is miss linda clark. Any announcements . Clerk please silence all cellphones and devices. And files should be submitted to the clerk. I think that i said linda clark and i meant that our clerk is miss linda wong. Okay, so first weve got several items on the agenda today and this is the second to last Committee Meeting of the year. And weve got some administrative items that well take care of today and first id like to call item 13, and item 13 out of order. And the sponsor is supervisor, and please call item 13. Clerk to establish the tenant assistant fund for housing. Supervisor cohen thank you very much. So the clerk, along with the sponsor, has identified that this item needs to b
Be here and so well take that without objection. Thank you. Okay, moving on i want to recognize also sfgovtv, the assist with the broadcast and recognize the clerk of the board today is miss linda clark. Any announcements . Clerk please silence all cellphones and devices. And files should be submitted to the clerk. I think that i said linda clark and i meant that our clerk is miss linda wong. Okay, so first weve got several items on the agenda today and this is the second to last Committee Meeting of the year. And weve got some administrative items that well take care of today and first id like to call item 13, and item 13 out of order. And the sponsor is supervisor, and please call item 13. Clerk to establish the tenant assistant fund for housing. Supervisor cohen thank you very much. So the clerk, along with the sponsor, has identified that this item needs to be rereferred and heard at the Landuse Committee so id like to make a motion to send this to to the rules committee, excuse me
Assist with the broadcast and recognize the clerk of the board today is miss linda clark. Any announcements . Clerk please silence all cellphones and devices. And files should be submitted to the clerk. I think that i said linda clark and i meant that our clerk is miss linda wong. Okay, so first weve got several items on the agenda today and this is the second to last Committee Meeting of the year. And weve got some administrative items that well take care of today and first id like to call item 13, and item 13 out of order. And the sponsor is supervisor, and please call item 13. Clerk to establish the tenant assistant fund for housing. Supervisor cohen thank you very much. So the clerk, along with the sponsor, has identified that this item needs to be rereferred and heard at the Landuse Committee so id like to make a motion to send this to to the rules committee, excuse me, so that we can make a motion to refer this to the committee item. To the rules committee, yes, thank you. So mov
Members of congress, distinguished guests colleagues from the department of defense, past and present. Members of the Vietnam Commemoration Advisory Committee the, thank you for being here today. Thank you to the organizers an commemorative partners of this important event and thousands like it across the country and the entire vietnam commemoration effort. Most importantly, thank you to the vietnam era veterans and their families who join us. You honor us with your presence. In a year of anniversaries for this years marks the 150th anniversary of the end of our civil war, the 70th anniversary of the end ever world war ii, the 65th anniversary of the start of korean war, today we gather to remember the vietnam war and to honor those who served in it. We remember the 50th anniversary of president johnsons executive order establishing the Vietnam Service ribbon and we honor our 7. 2 million living vietnam era veterans. Fair fallen comrades in arms including those still unaccounted for an
Before i begin, lets call the meeting to order. Before we begin to take just a moment to say that our thoughts and prayers go out to those who have been impacted over the past few days by hurricane irma. Of course, we continue to keep those suffering from the effects of Hurricane Harvey in our thoughts and prayers as well. These have truly been horrific events, and i hope and pray for the safety of everyone involved. I join with my colleagues in the commitment to doing all we can to assist our citizens who are in need at this extremely difficult time. We will see what we can do to help alleviate some of the pain. Now, the hearing were having today will come to order. 20 years ago senator ted kennedy and i came together to create the Childrens Health Insurance Program, or chip, in order to provide Health Corner for Vulnerable Children and family who were too poor to afford private coverage but still didnt qualify for medicaid. 20 years ago we were at something of a crossroads. The year