Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you 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 which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that given the stayhome order issued yesterday by the mayor to reduce the spread of covid19, the board of supervisors will continue to meet and deliberate on essential action items during this time. Members of the public are ad
Woolley with us here tonight celebrating a very, very important new book. Its called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs books. Dr. Woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of a. I. , emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media. He is an assistant professor in the school of journalism and Program Director for Computational Propaganda Research at the center for media engagement at the university of texas at austin. Professor woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute for the future which is a 50yearold think tank based in the heart of silicon valley. He also directed the Research Team at the computational propaganda project at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including wired, the atlantic monthly, vice, tech crunch, the guardian and many, many others. His research has b
[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 milliondollar cuts fy 2020 also 870 million from the 3 billion we invested to rebuild our crumbling Water Infrastructure. I held a listening section in st. Paul they would lose 56 percent of federal funding and approximately 75 percent of the cats were to go through the minnesota pollution control that air pollution monitoring for the communities back home and clean water action said it would be a
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently held a listening session and they would lose and what at what happened of these cuts were to go through the pollution control also proposed cuts to the clean water grant act air pollution and monitoring to have our communities back home included it would be an absolute catastrophe for clean water. And i directly heard about concerns with the budget with the pfas pollution it could be truly devasta
And actually its serving your constituents to have more of a micro handle on what is sort of going on in our districts, but also to be able to funnel people direct people to their website or to their offices versus them getting like a million calls or 311 getting a ton of calls. So i wanted to say that on the ground we could do that type of helpful work when i know that the city is working on a very macro level. Supervisor walton. Is there a regional conversation about cal pal yes, also on our list, yes. Id say lastly to the staff and then weve got to run. One of the other ideas is, you know, obviously former retirees who are in the Health Care Work as well as volunteers who have Training Background and are formally working with nonprofits or not, but sort of a Health Background or a clinical background. And the third is a lot of our communitybased organizations are deemed nonessential per the order so reaching out to employees from those c. B. O. S who are still getting paid. Were goi