Supervisor preston. Preston aye. Supervisor safai. Safai, aye. You have two ayes. Supervisor safai thank you. I dont believe that theres any other items before us, correct, madam clerk . Clerk thats correct. No further business. Supervisor safai we are adjourned. Clerk thank you. Supervisor preston thank you. Clerk thank you. Chair fewer the meeting will come to order. This is the special budget and finance Committee Meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, the chair of the committee. And im joined by supervisor walton and rafael mandelman. I thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, any announcements. Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect the Board Members and the City Employees and the public, the legislative agenda and the Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in a meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders and declarations and directives. The meeting is through video conversation and
Department representative said, theres no data on whether it increases the proportion of the people showing up for court. Nor apparently the data about whether it prevents people from committing more crimes before their court date. My heartbreaks for the woman who spoke earlier, but the way to decrease the Domestic Violence is better education, more funding for shelters and Restorative Justice programs, not electronic monitoring. And i cannot believe that youre thinking about extending sentinels contract. If you knew that a plumber had three lawsuits against them, would you hire them . Come on, folks. Please, do the right thing here. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, good afternoon, supervisors. I am carolyn, and im the San Francisco policy director for the Public Defenders Office and i wanted to just thank you so much for delving into this critical and underrepresented issue. The Public Defenders Office had a front row seat to our local court system a
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And directives. The meeting is through video conversation and participate in the meeting as if physically present. Public comment is available on each item on this agenda. And sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period and available by calling 1 415 6550001. Again, 1 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. , 1460595898. Again, 1460595898. Then press pound twice. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions but you will be in mute and in this mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star, 3, to be added to the speaker line. And best practices are to call from a quiet location and speak slowly and clearly and turn down your television ore radio. You can submit Public Comment by emailing to the budget and finance committee clerk, and if you submit Public Comment via email it is forwarded to the supervisors and it will be included as part of the official fi
Be used to spur economic recovery but first remind folks what the Tax Foundation does and how you do it. The Tax Foundation is an organization that educates the public on tax policy and also assist members of congress in developing tax policy. We do in particular analysis of the cost to the economy and to the government of tax increases or tax decreases, Tax Foundation. Org is a website as. As we look at recovery efforts, its now been four months since america startedon shutting down. Congress congress is appropriatr 2. 5 trillion in response. At what point do we start focusing on longterm recovery as opposed to responding to immediate needs that are happening in the here and now . Guest thats hard to say. I had originally thought when the crisis began that around the end of the summer we would need to make a strong tilt towards longterm growth. We had sort of a threepart approach to this during the immediate crisis we needed to write liquidity for businesses, for households so they co