Facebook. And support the amazing events at the funds with this quarantine dance this weekend. Visit the website to learn more. And i left off fred. Fred is going to kill me. Thank you to our executive director fred, who is as we speak is watching and working so hard to put together an amazing virtual pride event. Thank you, thank you, thank you, fred lopez. Thank you all so much. Take care and show your pride. So great to host with you, carolyn. Great to host with you. Happy pride. Thank you all. Bye. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 16 meeting of the government oversight and audit committee. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to john carol and i would like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the rooms are closed. This is taken pursuant to various local state
And again, its at the early stages but i did see the announcement and would very much like that to be included in future updates. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item . Chair, there is no Public Comment. Ok, Public Comment is closed and there is no action to be taken and so we can move on to the next item. Item 6, allocate 11,230,724 in sale tax funds and 1,043,89, 1,043,898 and double a Registration Fee fund with conditions. This is an action item. Miss leport. Good morning. Chair, are you able to see my slides . Yes, we are. Super. So the first of the three requests presented today is for the annual funding that the sale tax Program Provides to the paraprogram and weve been supporting this Program Since 2004 and there are a suite of services that mta offers as part of the Paratransit Program, most of which are still operating, of course, with declining ridership or lower ridership to the tune of 70 to 80 overall. Over the la
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 16 meeting of the government oversight and audit committee. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to john carol and i would like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the rooms are closed. This is taken pursuant to various local state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming a public calling comment number. Its available by phone calling the number on your screen, th entering the i. D. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions and muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, dial star followed by 3 to be added to the queue. Turn down your televisi
Because its better to expect them, anticipate them and do all in our power to prepare for them. Since we last heard the item and gave our responses to the civil grand jury on the recommendation, i authored an additional resolution on the topic that was enacted on november 27 of last year. Among other things, resolution 48419 urged the department of emergency management, sfpuc, the Fire Department to provide consolidated report to the board of supervisors on the state of the citys preparedness for major earthquake and fire, including planned funding for efws. These are due by june 30th and the first such report was issued within that deadline. So as a reminder for the public, there are four related documents relevant for this discussion. The 2019 civil grand jury report act now before its too late, aggressively expand and enhance our firefighting water system, resolution 42219, the original resolution the board of supervisors prepared responding to the findings in that report, resolutio
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