Safai present. Commissioner stephanie. Stefy absent. Commissioner walton. Walton present. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Im going to be excusing commissioner stephanie and dorsey who reached out to me and asked to be excused and i believe you have a Public Comment announcement. I do. For members of the public interested in participating, we welcome nor presence inperson or you may watch channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider or stream this live. For those wishing to make Public Comment remotely, dial 415 6550001 and when prompted put in the access code and then press pound and pound again. You will be ainl to listen to the meeting in realtime. When Public Comment is called for the item, press 3 to be added to the queue. When the line is unmuted you will be allowed to speak. When your two minutes are up, well move on to the next caller. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down distractions around you. ,. Speakers will be taken from inperson first and then on line. As chair,
And the good news if youre looking for a job. Thanks for joining us, im audrey asistio. Parents are demanding immediate action. Theyre upset after racist hate speech was discovered in the bathroom of an Elementary School in oakland. Velena jones is there with what parents want to see from the district, and what the investigation into who is responsible. These kids know how to read, and you know one thing they read . They read on tuesday that black lives dont matter and some should be killed. Reporter the outcry comes after parents discovered a message written that say black lives dont matter, kill them all. This is Learned Behavior at home. And a threat to society. Reporter she has two students at the school. And along with other parents, is calling for more security, including officers and cameras, staff to address Mental Health needs and a focus on diversity. Its a racial issue happening, and not just at thornhill. Reporter his daughter is biracial and says safety is at the top of hi
Good morning. Everyone. Welcome to the october 25th meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. Im ra fell mandelman. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. Commissioner [indiscernible] 37 present. Commissioner dorsey, dorsey excused. Chair mandelman. Present. Commissioner mar. Mar present. Commissioner mel guard. Present. Commissioner present. Present. Commissioner Preston Preston present. Ronen present. Commissioner safai. Safai present. Commissioner stephanie. Stefy absent. Commissioner walton. Walton present. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Im going to be excusing commissioner stephanie and dorsey who reached out to me and asked to be excused and i believe you have a Public Comment announcement. I do. For members of the public interested in participating, we welcome nor presence inperson or you may watch channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider or stream this live. For those wishing to make Public Comment remotely, dial 415 6550001 and when prompted put in the access cod
We have on the expenditure side we are living within budget. Youll see that we have a projected 16. 6 million favorable variance in salary and Fringe Benefits so were coming in below budget by 16. 6 millions. That is due to a couple of things. We have a couple units that are under their budgeted agent census so weve incurred some savings there and we also have some savings from our delays in hiring. I wanted to point this out because this is something thats come up at a couple of the last commissioner meetings and its also come up extensively in our meetings with our Nursing Union as weve talked about their contract. We have despite the salary savings, that is not coming from our inability to fill our clinical positions, although that is a very serious issue for us. We have about 80 nursing positions at San Francisco general that are unfilled and we are working overtime to fill those positions, however, from a financial perspective we are back filling those shifts with per diem and reg
Census so weve incurred some savings there and we also have some savings from our delays in hiring. I wanted to point this out because this is something thats come up at a couple of the last commissioner meetings and its also come up extensively in our meetings with our Nursing Union as weve talked about their contract. We have despite the salary savings, that is not coming from our inability to fill our clinical positions, although that is a very serious issue for us. We have about 80 nursing positions at San Francisco general that are unfilled and we are working overtime to fill those positions, however, from a financial perspective we are back filling those shifts with per diem and registry, so thats not whats driving these savings. Its the units below census and the other positions we are having trouble back filling, which are things like our information technology, weve had a hard time hiring there, clerical positions, interpreters, etc. I want to point that out in particular beca