The city of San Francisco meeting of the board of supervisors will begin shortly [gavel] good afternoon everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday may 10, 2016. Madam clerk can you please call the roll. Supervisor avalos. Here. Supervisor breed. Here. Supervisor campos. Here. Supervisor cohen. Yes, here. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim. Here. Supervisor mar. Here. Supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor tang. Present. Supervisor wiener. Present. Supervisor yee. Present. Madam president all members are present. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you madam clerk. Are there any communications . I have none to report madam president. Colleagues are there changes to the april 5, 2016 Board Meeting minutes and the ap
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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
Yet certain. Theyre being careful about how much information they divulge. Europe hunts for the suspected belgian bomber. Describe as europes most wanted. Overnight, raids yielded what is thought to be a bombmaking factory. They go through the wreckage searching for clues. A huge Army Presence at the train station. People realize, of course, just how vulnerable the transport network remains. Brussels is the site which is becoming all too familiar in europe. Officials, the mourning of the dead, another terror attack, another city in shock. In the u. S. President ial race Bernie Sanders and ted cruz won utah. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton score big wins in arizona. What we saw happen in brussels reminds us, this is a time for america to lead, not cower tributes in lights illuminating lights of monuments around the world in a show of solidarity. President obama is in argentina this morning after ending his historic trip to cuba. All that president obamas happily at a baseball game. Yuc
At least one of the unions is still meeting with bart management. But so far. No progress. We begin our Team Coverage tonight on the looming bart strike. With kron 4s dan kerman. He brings us up to date on the negotiation efforts. Reporter wednesday morning the bart negotiations resumed. Did you get any closer . We are trying to get this done. How reporter bart management remains optimistic. As of right now as reasonable fair contract does not mean that it will not change before the deadline on august 4th. Reporter the Contract Negotiation expires sunday night. Dan kerman, kron 4 news. This just in to the kron 4 news room we have a new piece of video it is an interview with one of the Union Leaders antoinette brian. She just said this. We have four days left of bargaining. Of course, there should be some concern but they should understand we are doing everything to avoid that but we cannot just part of an ourselves. They must come to our table and their responsibility is the 400,000 co