I think both of us really believe the Death Penalty is wrong, and is flawed for many reasons. The list is as long as my arm about several others. We feel this is important for both of us, personally, to participate in the debate of this issue in a way that we can help people frame it for a conversation. Welcome to the tjpa board of directors meeting for thursday, january 10 2013. Happy new years to everyone. And clerk can you please talk roll call. For the record director lloyd has a scheduling conflict and will not be present and director mett calf. Present. Director reiskin. Present. Director sartipi. Present. Director ortiz present. Supervisor kim . Present any communications today . Any new or old business from the board of directors . Seeing none well move on to the executive directors report. Good morning everyone and happy new year. We begin our january Board Meeting like we do every year with an update of what we did the Previous Year and what the plan is for the current year 2
Cooperation. Two years ago, i asked that we move beyond the traditional opposition politics, position inflexibly taken. We are not voted into office to take decisions. We are voted into office to get things done. While getting things done may have been reminded to us and campaign slogans, i want to tell you how proud i am of this board of supervisors has been getting things done in recent years, whether budget reform when we first came to office, the class of 2008, a supervisor avalos pointed out, we had half 1 billion dollars deficit; that is a quarter of the size today. What the pension reform, americas cup, construction cranes along the city, we passed when our Founding Fathers set up our democratic system of government they envision that the legislative branch would not be neat and tidy. It is messy. We balance the communitys interest as we meet the challenges today. We still have a lot of work to do. This morning i was almost late to supervisor breeds swearingin. My bike lights go
Residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to build on henrys comments and its extraordinary that the grants across the country that were awarded to hud two of them are in the same state and its more extraordinary that both of them are in the same city, San Francisco so congratulations. [cheers and applause] so for context i just want to mention a few things and this is no news to all of you here in the room and the people standing up with me today, but today in america more than 10 Million People are living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and limited investment and opportunities for themselves and their children, and we know that one of the most important factors in determining
The navy or their contractors by our regulatory agencies . Our understanding and our records and review of the records that we have is that the states lead Regulatory Department of agency, toxic and substance control hasnt issued violations to the navy or their contractors. Shaw environmental, who is the navys contractor on this work, did receive a notice of violation from the California Department of Public Health, the agency that had been conducting these scans that we talked about, on june 23rd, 2011. These violations a notice of violation is a statement that says, you need to correct these problems. And all of those violations, those problems were corrected by shaw to the satisfaction of the California Department of Public Health. Okay. So, during this time we only have one reported notice of violation, that was to shaw, in june 2011 and they have since abated addressed and abated that [speaker not understood] . That is the information we have, yes. Now, let me say that they contin
Okay. Mr. Mayor good morning everyone. I am mr. Alva residence and the director of the Housing Authority and today mayor lee will be announcing one of the most extraordinary funding announcements in the history of my 26 years in this business to ever occur. Today were going to get twins. Were going to get the mayor is going to talk about two Choice Initiative Planning Grants, this i believe culminates the mayors leadership, cements the idea for hope sf and restores hope to hope sf and we have resident leaders here, the commissioners. I want to be clear this is a priority for the Housing Authority. Its a priority for me. Its a priority for the residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to