Move to approve and seconded. All those in favor . Okay. Thank you. We are now on item 10. Richmond playground im here for discussion and possible action to authorize the recreation and Park Department to enter into related agreements with the San Francisco Parks Alliance under the lets play s. F. Initiative for the renovation of stern grove playground and richmond playground. As we move through the initiative and ill give you the presentation, but i wanted to pause and say that these are the last two related agreements of the initiative, so its a really nice milestone to hit. So just for some quick background, as you know, lets play s. F. Is a Public Private partnership initiated to renovate San Franciscos 13 most deserving playgrounds. On november 13, 2016, the Commission Approved an agreement between the department and the Parks Alliance to accept up to 15 million for lets play s. F. And recommended that the board of supervisors approved the grant, and the board of supervisors gave
Do we have a second . A second. An all those in favor signify by saying aye. Thank you, commissioners. There is no Public Comment request for that item. And if anyone does have Public Comment request, i am the person to see. Hand me the forms. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Grant colfax, director of health. You have your directors report in front of you. I wanted to highlight a few issue, and i think the major issue that i wanted to highlight today was, as you know, we have had major patient care incidents at laguna honda hospital, and june 18 i was joined by my yor breed and the president of the board of supervisors yee to report directly to the public and to the community about patient abuses about patient abuse issues involving 23 laguna honda residents. This misconduct does not represent who we are as the Health Department and as the San Francisco Health Network, and it will not be tolerated. Laguna honda has had a positive effect on the live of gene
So that leads to my next question. Youre tracking that particular amount of money, if you will, and where its going, its going strictly to new infrastructure . To modernization . What is the plan there . Right. Well, currently today, if we exit a property, that money gets returned to the u. S. Treasury. Were not able to reinvest that. The infrastructure bill would change that. So thats why were very supportive of that. What we do save are the recurring savings, the maintenance. So we dont heat the buildings, we dont have to repair them if we get rid of them. That remains in our general what we call our nrn budgets, our recurring maintenance budgets. Do you think there will be a way to, in some way, get an idea of how its converted directly or indirectly to care or. Yes. Services. Yes. And what we would plan on diagnosis is reinvesting that money back into probably nrn or minor construction projects. Okay. We could track that. Thank you. Another question i have is one of the things that
They told the House Veterans Affairs committee that the trip was appropriate. Colorado republican responded saying it is not the objects that are not to good it is the facts that are not good. Congressman kaufman spoke with reporters after he concluded. This entire event is two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good morning and thank you for all to be here to discuss the president s fiscal year this fiscal years budget request holds a 198. 6 billion Million Dollars in va funding. That is a huge number. And even more striking when you compare the growth in the vas brother jim. Since 2006 the va budget is up hundred and 75 percent. And gdp grew only 40 . Given the aggressive expansion of the eight resources i appreciate the secretarys testimony the departments core objectives that support those objectives. It may it must stay focused. They will take action on many important items in fiscal year 2019. Some examples include implementation and
[inaudible conversations] this morning epa administrator scott pruitt testifies before House Appropriations subcommittee on Donald Trumps fiscal year 2018 budget request for the agency. Live coverage at 11 00 am eastern on cspan3, cspan. Org and the free cspan radio apps. Next, Veterans Affairs secretary doctor David Shulkin testifies on the president s 2018 budget request for his department. The hearing also has representatives of veterans groups talking about budget proposal. This hearing is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] let me apologize for being a little late. A couple things coming down the hall, i dont want to flip up on me but stand at ease. In the air force, and for just one minute, my trusted friend, Ranking Member, will open the [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] call this meeting of the Veterans Affairs committee together. I apologize again for being a little bit late but i want to make sure we are on the right track and i didnt mess anything up