Good morning. Welcome to march 6, 2024 moteingly of budget and finance. Im supervisor cone chan chair. Im joined by Rafael Mandelman and melgar. Clerk is brent jalipa. I would like to thank colleena mendoza from sfgovtv for broadcasting meeting to those in attendance make sure to sill upon lebs all Electronic Device not to interrupt. Should you have documents to be include as part of the foil they should be submitted to myself. Public comment will be taken on each item when your item come up, lineup to speak on the to your right along the kurt anxiety not provided, we invite to you fill out a comment card and leave them by the doors. If you wish to be recorded for minutes. Alternateively you may submit it in writing, e mail them to budget and finance clerk at brent dlt jalipa sfgov. Org. If you submit it via e mail tell be forwarded and also included as part of the official file. You may send comments by u. S. Postal service to city hall 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place room 224, San Fr
And add moirable. Congratulations and thank you to each and every one of your colleagues for the work you put in the budget as well. [applause] the entire budget team um [applause] you know, i dont know if you know but i dont have turn over with the directors of the budget team because i am a difficult person to work for. [laughter] you know this budget process is so intense this they are like, look im doing one budget process and im out of here. We are grateful to you ana you have been with the budget team for year bunkham get us through the process and adjustments from the board and from the budget, the legislative analyst from the board and also the various departments and me and everything in between. And to come up with this balanced budget. Thank you to each one of you for your hard work. [applause] i dont know if Ben Rosenfield is here. He is not here. You drove him out of here. [laughter] these budgets are hard. So, you know thank you to ben because you know, this is like super
Better. We are celebrating the advocacy of so many of the same sex couples who showed up in San Francisco year after year after year asking for the right to do what anyone has the right to do and that is marry the person they love. One year was different. In 2004, when our former mayor and now governor newsom, he took the bold step to say this is what we are doing in San Francisco. We are going to issue marriage license to same sex couples and you will come to the city to deal with the lawsuits that led for all of us to join in the fight of this country. This fight started in San Francisco. [cheers and applause] we have so many people joining us here today including couples that were married at the time and getting married again. We have folks who are maybe marrying for the first time. City hall is the place to be every valentines day. In 2004, during the time when we opened the doors on february 12th, that year, the person who was a county clerk issuing all of those marriage licenses,
Commissioner byrne here. Commissioner yee here. Uh, Vice President carter oberstein, you have a quorum. Commissioner. President elias is in route. Also with us tonight, we have chief scott from the San Francisco Police Department and executive director Paul Henderson from the department of police accountability. Uh, sergeant, could you call the first item, please . Line item one. General Public Comment at this time. The public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonights agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Police Commission under Police Commission, rules of order during Public Comment, Neither Police or epa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email the secretary of the Police Commission at sfpd. Commission at sf dot org or written comments may be sent
Present. Ronen, present. Safai, present. Stefani, present. And supervisor walton, present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you madam clerk. The San Francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for whic