Is we have no deficit due to years of budget cuts and due to the new tax revenues were realizing from voters approval of proposition 30 in november and essentially as he said, this is a breakthrough. Its not without risks. He was careful to caution. Its only january. This is only the start of the budget process. We all mull it over see how the numbers develop. He puts out his may revision then the Legislature Starts fight over it and hopefully we have a document enacted by the end of june. Were only at the very beginning. There are a lot of risks along the way. Theres a federal deficit that needs to be contended with that can have a lot of impact on the way the state gets and spends its money. The economic recovery is still sort of slow and struggling upward and any reversal on that could spell a change in our state revenues. The federal government or the courts could have a problem with some of the proposed budget cuts that we have made or want to make. Its happened a lot over the las
Well, what makes it different is we have no deficit due to years of budget cuts and due to the new tax revenues were realizing from voters approval of proposition 30 in november and essentially as he said, this is a breakthrough. Its not without risks. He was careful to caution. Its only january. This is only the start of the budget process. We all mull it over see how the numbers develop. He puts out his may revision then the Legislature Starts fight over it and hopefully we have a document enacted by the end of june. Were only at the very beginning. There are a lot of risks along the way. Theres a federal deficit that needs to be contended with that can have a lot of impact on the way the state gets and spends its money. The economic recovery is still sort of slow and struggling upward and any reversal on that could spell a change in our state revenues. The federal government or the courts could have a problem with some of the proposed budget cuts that we have made or want to make. I
Difference. I teach constitutional law. The question i ask is, why is low i. Q. An excusing condition from the Death Penalty . If you go back to atkins and read the opinion, its on the basis of an eighth amendment analysis of the twin pillars of the criminal law which are retribution and deterrence. The court makes the judgment that low i. Q. Means that youre less responsible and less likely able to be deterred. So the twin pillars of the criminal law dont really apply. But im not sure that the psychologists who do psychological testing and i. Q. Or the neuroscientists have really connected up the constitutional reasons why because it may be that theyre substructures of i. Q. That are more relevant to the eighth amendment question. Its not a general i. Q. Score that is ultimately relevant. In fact, the California Supreme Court has dealt with exactly that question of what subscales might be constitutional relevant rather than the global i. Q. Score. One question here which i think is ve
In san francisco, and a supervisor that represents four other cities largest Public Housing development i know well the challenges the Housing Authority and residents face. I left an hour and a half meeting with residents over at alice griffith; we deal with many of the challenges on a daily basis. Not a day goes by when my staff or i are contacted or personally affected when i consider that i have family members that stay in these developments, or when i received complaints about maintenance, and on a positive note, good news when we receive grants from the federal government to help with the sf rebuild. Two weeks ago i attended a ribboncutting ceremony when the mayor, i am whole community got the opportunity to tour a 4unit building. We are progressing and moving in the right direction, departing from the way we have been conducting business as it relates to our housing. It is no surprise that the Housing Authority has struggle with the more than 200 million unfunded maintenance liab
Concern. It is an exorbitant amount of cost. Getting units up and ready. It will be helpful for the budget analyst to look at other housing authorities in california. Supervisor campos mentioned this. Very fortuitous. Or other states. Urban properties, section 8 program. My understanding is that we could better administer our section 8 program. I would like to hear ideas that you come up with. I want to hear Creative Solutions and recommendations that are informed about the work that hud is doing so that we Board Members can provide policy direction to the authority and also support our Public Housing residents and begin to address our house and challenges which is no secret. We are facing serious challenges. I can provide you with documents that would be to everything for you. And i appreciate you, in the task that you are going to be undertaking. I do believe this is in the best interest of all of san francisco, not just our housing residents. Im glad that you researched, 1993 is a l