And residents or u. S. Interests, those interests are clearly impacted by the behavior of other countries. And the u. S. Tax base can be eroded not only by the behaviors of multinationals but by behavior of other governments. Thank you and thank you for the opportunity. Good to be here, don, thank you very much for this opportunity to speak about policy and reform. It seems to me ive seen this movie before, however. We all love to sit around and talk about policy. I will get to policy in a second. Let me just say while we talk about policy, our tax system is being slowly eroded at the level of administration. Doesnt matter what the rules are if you dont have people to enforce them. If you just take a wink, a quick look at whats happening to the intern Internal Revenue service, you would realize it doesnt matter what the rules are. Weve lost so many people the enforcement capability is diminished. Unless that gets rectified. Who cares about tax reform if we dont have a tax system. Sayin
[gavel] good morning everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for thursday, june 16, 2016 by name is mark farrell. Im sharing this committee. Im joined by katie tang as well supervisor norman yee and scott weiner, nothing the clerk as well as Scott Wiseman from the sfgtv for covering this meeting. We have any announcements yes please sounds all cell phones and electronic devices. Complete speaker cards and eight copies of documents as part of file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on june 20 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were goi
Woman. [applause] so thank you for joining us today and for committing to working across issues and sectors to advance gender equity. The success oof bay area women is critical for the success oaf bay area families and economy because when women succeed it is good for avenue wn. Good for women, families, communities and good for business. Thank you so much. [applause] shes a ceo, a author, a princeton dean, professor of Foreign Policy expert, a mother. These are just some of the roles 2459 annemarie slaurt had in her life. In 2012 she ignited a debate with atlantic article titled, why women still cant have all. Her look into the the extreme Work Life Balance of the professional women became the most read article in atlantas history highlighting the importance of this issues for todays families. She has become a thought leader on Work Life Balance and the bhook Unfinished Business is named one of the best books of 2015 by npr and econmists. Whether she was secretary of state or policy p
Thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were going to recess at 11 45 am for lunch and we can being approximately 1 30 pm to continue the hearing. Willie taking Public Comment on legislative items. However Public Comment for the budget itself is going to be heard on monday, june 20. Next monday followed by two more days of budget hearings potentially one more day of budget hearings on june 20 and potentially the 23rd. The of to complete our Budget Committee process next to hear this balance, and for a balanced budget to the board for our the liberation set the board on july 12 to there are a number of departments that do not have budget Analyst Reports. I want to spell out specific
Item 2 for case at sickle mandatory discretionary review is proposed until july 16th no other items proposed for continuance. Any Public Comment on the two items proposed for continuance noirtd Public Comment is closed. Move to continue items one and two to the dates specified. Commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner wu and commissioner Vice President richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and commissioners, that places you under your calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. Item 3 for case Howard Street conditional use authorization. Any Public Comment on is consent calendar not seeing any, Public Comment is close