Goldhammer. Mr. Clerk . I like to reminds you to silence phone and electronics. Documents provided me will be include part of the file as should be submitted to myself. Items are expect today appear on the supervisor agenda on october 31, 2023 unless otherwise stated. That completes my announcements. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Call item 1. Item 1 Charter Amendment. To amend the charter of the city of an fran establish Staffing Levels sworn officers of the Police Department requiring a period of 5 years the mayor and the board of supervisors appropriate funds to meet Staffing Levels establishing a Police Full Staffing fun for a period of 5 years the purpose of facilitating minimum staffing and allowing a temporary froze on appropriations to the funds in the budget and economic emergency and election on march 5 of 2024. Thank you. Item one the Police Full Staffing Charter Amendment. We began working on last march. Some of you may recall i anouned this publicly last april after San Franciscos
Supervisor connie chan, chair of the committee. Im joined by, supervisor myrna melgar and Shamann Walton and today, supervisor matt dorsey has been temporarily appointed to replace president aaron peskin, our clerk. Its brant saliba. I would like to thank jamie ivatury for from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcement . Thank you, madam chair. Just a friendly reminder to those in attendance to please make sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices to prevent interruptions to our proceedings, should you have any documents to be included as part of the file. This should be submitted to myself. The clerk, Public Comment will be taken on each item on this agenda, when your item of interest comes up in Public Comment is called, please line up to speak on the west side of the chamber to your right, my left along those curtains and while not necessary to provide Public Comment, we do invite you to fill out a comment card and leave them on the
Interruptions during our proceedings should you have documents to be included as part of the file submit them to myself the clerk. Approximately comment will be taken on each item when Public Comment is called lineup to the west side at this time right my left along those kurt anxiety. Not necessary on provide comment we invite to you fill out a card and leave them on the tray if you wish to be records. You misubmit comment in writingeck e mail them to myself at brent. Jalipa sfgovtv. Tell be forwarded to the supervisors include part of the fortunately file. You may send written comments Via Postal Service to city hall 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place room 244, San Francisco, california, 94102. This concludes my aupon nouns ams. Thank you and lets call items 13 together. Items 13. Items 1, 2 and 3 consider the per ses may proposed budget for airport commission. Board of appeals. Dbi. Child service, department of environment. Library, municipal transportation agency, port, Public Library
Officials from the Veterans Affairs Department Office of information and technology spoke about workforce recruitment and retention, Cyber Security concerns and modernization efforts while testifying on the president 2025 budget request. This is about 1. 5 hours. I would like to call this hearing to order. Once again, testimony was delivered late, only three hours before the hearing. I have mentioned this before. I am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. Ee. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses wi
Can go. We are going to leave this here for live coverage of the house hearing on president bidens request for the 2025 budget. Officials are testifying. Live coverage on cspan for you. As mentioned in this hearing before, i am starting to feel like i have walked into a brick wall. Congress always elicits testimony from the executive Branch Agencies and gives it great respect, even when we fiercely disagree. This exchange of views between the legislative branch and the executive branch is fundamental under the constitution. When the vas testimony is so late that we may not be able to read it in advance, that is disrespectful and it undermines this process. I urge witnesses with all the people in all the layers of the va and the white house bureaucracy who wrote the testimony to do better, not just for this committees sake but for the benefit of all the veterans who ultimately will be impacted by this. Good afternoon. Today we will examine the biden administrations budget requests for t