Good afternoon id like to call the order of regular meeting of United States constitution today is tuesday, september 8, 2015, roll call please. Commissioner president caen pr commissioner moran commissioner kwon and commissioner courtney is excused today. Thank you. Third item is the approval of the minutes of august 11, 2015, are there any corrects or additions to the minutes . Roll call second. Any Public Comment on the minutes of august 11th . Seeing none, ill call for the vote all in favor, say i. I. Opposed the motion carries item 4. Which is general Public Comment from the public and i have mr. Decostco first to speak. Id like to talk about a number of issues in general during the general Public Comment im very interested in really what is going to happen to mountain tunnel especially in light of el nino and how that is going to an impact so i really dont know any experts that know too much about el 99 having said that, we need to have some deliberations meaningful deliberations
Begin. Stuart yes, the markets are closed. But oil is trading, and look at it now, 47. 93. Okay. Big news on money. Its the price of gasoline still falling over this holiday weekend. Will you look at this . The national alleger for regular down to 2. 06 a gallon 3. 28 a year ago. Do the math. Were saving 1. 22 a gallon. Look at this, perhaps just as important, 25 states are in the 1 club. The average for regular is below 2 a gallon half the country. The cheapest gas is [laughter] i might even drive there for this doctor 1. 35 for regular at the murphy usa in texas. Steve moore is with us this monday morning, chief economist at heritage. Steve, look, weve said this before massive stimulus from cheap gas. But now along comes the president , and he wants to take it away with tax hikes. What do you say . By the way, stuart im old enough to remember back in the late 90s paying 89 cents a gallon stuart hold on a second, steve. When i first came to america i remember gas wars. It was 25 at on
Burger . Entries you heard id say mitt romney makes it official says he is not running for president in 2016. Here is a quote released by his spokesman. Putting considerable thought, it is best to give other leaders the opportunity to become our next nominee. The editorial is here and this surprised . Of good surprise for the Republican Party. The third run would be a vanity project. Last time around he ran a biographical campaign. He never really had the ability to rebut president obamas arguments when it came to issues of economic fairness or the up value of stimulus or why are high taxes that, i dont think that changes over the years. He doesnt have the political skill to fight back on the populism the Democratic Party is promising the voters. That is true but a lot of people are going he did get it right on Different Things, russia and the middle east, up and he is a businessman that knows how to get the economy going. Lost twice. We never knew why mitt romney was running for presi
The last time but to organizational some of the comments previously my concern is we are so close to the be budget process not to take supplemental victimized on their own specifically the annual listed cost associated with that not to ignore the issue that needs to be addressed in the city with homelessness but today ill not support this thank you supervisor tang we need a motion to move forward supporting this rectify. Supervisor farrell is making a motion and sending of seconded by supervisor mar. Supervisor wiener. I wanted to thank supervisor farrell so far his work which when this first came up we had challenges around homelessness and mental issues on our streets we dont have enough outreach workers and there are different problems in different parts of the city for example, in the castro and market area there are unique issues we dont have nearly enough Homeless Outreach resources so i hope and expect this will help. And ive been assured that by the author and department i hope
15 years homelessness for the people in San Francisco. Ive stated it has been made by design. Were moving poor people out of San Francisco lets be real about this. You know you ail sit here and have commissioners, you have other Board Members come before you and rubber stamp everything that comes through instead of asking questions you have the Community Come and try to give you the facts i give you facts and what occurs . Nothing. Nothing occur. You have and it was mentioned you have all those departments here at the Mayors Office. Where did those funds come from and where it is going what was it set up to do it was to help the same people that youre talking about today has that done that no they find money at the end of the year you didnt find nothing you transfer money from one side to another side and use the money inappropriately youre going to talk and nothing being done that i is there any additional Public Comment with that supervisor farrell any final comments. Thank you for p