Civility toward cities and the challenge that cities face. I future looks promising and i look forward to 2021. Regarding phase 2, i was joined by the chair, c. F. O. To provide an update to the california project of transportation, tony tavares and numerous staff from the cal tran team and the statewide division of rail and mass transit. We provided an overview on project history, outlined work completed since the projects reactivation in june, provided forecast of upcoming information and the funding plan. Further, to our advancing phase 2, on october 15, we provided a project update to the bay area delegation which included senator and board chair jerry hill, san mateo counties. Along with the senate and Assembly Transportation Committee Staff and offices. 20 legislative offices participated. We provided information about the project history, current status and activities as well as future plans to advance the project. The presentation was well received and we plan to continue our c
Role. Thank you, deborah. Members of the public may observe this teleconferencing meeting at sfgovtv and they may offer Public Comment by calling the phone number. Id like to welcome the members of the public and the staff for watching us live on sfgovtv. I also want to wish please call the roll. Before i begin, i will note for the record that due to a scheduling conflict, director tavares is not expected to join us. Directors, please respond. E. Forbes here. Supervisor haney here. M. Hursh here. B. Lipkin present. J. Tumlin here. Vice chair gee here. Chair sesay present. We have quorum. The next item is item 3, communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. To provide Public Comment, callers should dial into the number, 18552826330, and enter access code 126 698 0794. Then pound and pound again. And then listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. Members of the public have up to three minutes to provide comment on e
Much of puerto ricos medicaid funding expires at the end of september. Puerto rico and other u. S. Territories are on a separate medicaid system than the rest of the United States. Congress funds the him to block grants which can be depleted early if theres a hurricane or other Natural Disaster. A hearing on why states get continues medicaid coverage while the territories do not. The committee is meeting today to hear testimony on the impact of the end of medicaid funding for the areas under the Affordable Care act, also known as the use learning areas medicaid cliff. Under Committee Rules, any oral Opening Statements at parents are limited to the chairman and the ranking minority member. Therefore, i ask unanimous consent all of the members statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 p. M. Today. I ask anatomist consent the gentlewoman from the u. S. Virgin islands be allowed to sit on the dice and question the witnesses. Hearing no objections
The majority of the class were people of color, men and women. I had the opportunity of going to the access point for a whole month in and out of the office, sitting, listening, and talking to different people. I got to hear the men and women, the joy of learning how to work the computers. The peace and confidence of doing it because of being walked with hand in hand. That was the response when we told them about other places of employment and training. In knowing that we do need to pursue more opportunities to do all types of work. Many of our young people want to do the cosmetology side. And making their own clothes. We do want to see you do more differently, and better, with your side of it area there are other opportunities that are springing up and doing a good job. I wanted to make a comment. First of all, i do want to thank city build and all of the other different agencies that Work Together to do this training and Workforce Development and all of the underrepresented communiti
Does anyone in the audience want to address the commission at this point on this item . There we go. Please state your name for the record. I am Patrick Josiah bell with the bay view on his area. I am really opposed to the city bill and compliance. I have asked them about who does the compliant compliance for the hiring for the minority. I have been informed that they dont have anybody that really goes out to check. To see if the contractors are doing more than a good faith effort. I think a good faith effort is a bunch of crap. It is what minority people have been facing all of their lives. I have asked the workforce people for a monitor, to go out and check. Ive asked them to do what we call random audits. Our response to random audits. This city is spending millions of dollars and nobody randomly orders these companies to see if they are actually in compliance. We rely on the contractors to do good faith. I know contractors lie. The contractors lied about their auditing and what the