Marzullo is live at Treasure Island. Trrpt was parked here at the end of this pier on Treasure Island for the last several months, but it took off early this morning headed for its new home in stockton. Thats about 80 miles east on the sacramento San Joaquin River delta. And as you mentioned, sky 7 hd live over the barge right now. It just arrived at its new home about 20 minutes ago. This is because the San Francisco bay conservation and Development Commission gave orders on january 31st that the barge had 35 days to leave Treasure Island because Treasure Island doesnt have the proper building permits. Google confirmed this week the barge was headed to stockton. Sky 7 hd caught up with the barge on its journey this morning. It was at the antioch bridge right around 8 30. Meanwhile, i caught up with a man who lives here on Treasure Island, who says the barge really had become part of the landscape here. Never saw any activity. The only reason you knew something was going on, was becaus
Beverage tax. The sweelgd befrmg tax will be a gamechanger era unparalleled way to create a healthy environment for our Community Len in a supervisor breed has a question. I i know when the superintendant came to us the fact we have less students in the Unified School District but were spending more money i want to understand that data from any guess, you know, dating back to the 90s or the 80s in terms of how much are we spending now compared to them. We talk about how we have less and less children over the years in San Francisco but we have less children attending Public Schools and closings schools in certain areas at the same time from my understanding the amount of money were spending in school is increasing so having an understanding of exactly how that makes sense based on our comments specifically, i want to know what looks like i want to have a clear understanding of that information by the way, what youre talking about around school and food programs and alexander Additional
Adding money from this tax and id like to understand how it used clearly on the Nutritional Program and the athletic programs but wanting to get an understanding of where the dollars are going and somewhat of a historical understanding of that i know that jill and martin are here but thats an issue for a great discussion of the joint committee of the board of supervisors board of education. M members but ill ask for the data for ask the serves how theyve spent their money and enrollment i think those are great questions. Thank you, ms. Brooks please continue i know we have many people that want to make comments ill wrap by driving home this the development thats possible from a sugary tax will be pronounced and touch the lives of tens of thousands of School Children everyday in San Francisco. Those are the same kids that deserve to live and make the right choices. I mean, ill leave it at that im happy to help in any way to get the information thank you supervisor wiener. Thank you for
One of the districts chief ideas to so close the gap and i believe in improving the aspects of our Meals Program taking the kids from being hunger will close that gap and the good news is the district is in agreement with that and the district wants to radically change its food program and takes a magnifying glass to tour nutritions program in january of 2013 they brought in a vendor offering Higher Quality of food in their program and most recently and most important they engaged in a scale that resulted in wonderful road map document and you guys have a subset of this in the handout that was distributed earlier. This contains essentially 10 core recommendations that could be implemented in the School District. And those range from family style meals in Elementary Schools those transformations means that eating School Lunches could be great. We have this farreaching goal to serve 3 meals a day to kids. But implementing all those brilliant idea p are bedded in this vision and it takes
Concerned today than i was a day or two ago. In the sense at the moment policymakers are moving in opposite directions. In part thats the ways of washington and i think well see a few collapses before we ultimately get together somewhere in the days before christmas on a compromise. We have been talking about marginal tax rates, which i think are a key part not only of the budget question, but a key part of the broader economic question in terms of Economic Growth. And im hopeful that any solution that comes together is going to think a lot about Economic Growth and not just budgets. Host ethan . Guest i think i may be a little more hopeful than alex is. I think that theres a general agreement that the sequester will happen. Republicans and democrats and the president are all opposed to it happening. Theres also a consensus right and left it would be bad for the economy. So i think that when we are just looking at the tax component, there are certain things that we kev knitly definitel