August 20, 2020. Budget and Appropriations Committee. Good morning. This is the august 20, 2020 rescheduled budget and Appropriations Committee meeting. I am joined by supervisors walton, mandelman and president yee. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Do you have announcements . Due to the covid19 health emergency, the Committee Room are closed. Members will participate in a meeting remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders and directives. Committee members may participate to the same extent as if physically present. Put lick comment shall occur at the recessed meeting august 24 at 10 00 a. M. You may send it in the following ways. Email to the budget and finance committee clerk, and it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. Thank you, good morning. We are reconvening our meeting from yesterday. This weeks hearings are focused on changes and reductions that the Budget Committee would like t
Clerk there are five ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, id just like to say, get a good nights sleep tonight because tomorrow will not be so easy. I think we saw departments very compliant, and tomorrow, they will not be. Supervisor ronen im so excited. I have time to actually study. Chair fewer so everyone got the b. L. A. S report. Look at that, and say these are the recommendations, and if you can think of other things, great. This is where we start, and so we are growing that pot. Congratulations to all of you for growing that pot for the add back, and for the communities. Okay. Thank you very much. Seeing nothing further, this committee is recessed, and thank you, madam clerk. Clerk of course. Good morning. This is the august 20, 2020 rescheduled budget and Appropriations Committee meeting. I am joined by supervisors walton, mandelman and president yee. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Do you have announcements . Due to the covid19 healt
Participate to the same extent as if physically present. Put lick comment shall occur at the recessed meeting august 24 at 10 00 a. M. You may send it in the following ways. Email to the budget and finance committee clerk, and it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. Thank you, good morning. We are reconvening our meeting from yesterday. This weeks hearings are focused on changes and reductions that the Budget Committee would like to make to department budgets. A few things i want to know. There is no trailing legislation today. Reminder to new members. The hearings are noticed separately. This is all one meeting. We are taking up the following day at 10 00 a. M. One meeting for wednesday, thursday and friday. No Public Comment this week on the budget, which is items one and two. All Public Comment will be heard on monday, august 24th at 10 00 a. M. There. Is no other business on monday except for the comments. The budget and Appropriations Com
When looking at fiscal years 20, 21 and 2122, its important to note the significant reduction in state revenue state reassignment, ab109 dollars and while they continue to remain fairly stable, ab109 allocation have been significantly reduced. We are projecting an increase in Grant Funding from the star, which grant through department of publichealth, which is the supporting treatment and reducing recidivism grant, and two additional grants that adult probation has applied for to assist in expanding housing opportunities and treatment for justice involved people with Mental Health and co occurring disorders. Both our bureau of justice funding opportunities that we are very hopeful that we be competitive and eventually decide. To help with that program and then certainly an increase due to the other two grant opportunities if wore fortunate to get those. The increase in rent from 20192021 is over a Million Dollars. And that is due to the departments pending relocation to 945 bryant in t
This is abc 7 news. We begin with the gauntlet people have to run to get tested for covid19 as labs bog down, some people face long delays. Its at least a ten day wait to get a covid19 test through a city site in San Francisco. For many private providers, the same frustrating story. Good evening. Im dan ashley. We want to hear from you. Has it been easy for you to get a coronavirus test . Go to abc7news. Com vote. For now, stephanie sierra is breaking down what we know about that backlog and how some are getting tests. We know San Francisco is expanding Testing Capacity by 45 . But Health Experts warn until cases peak, we wont see direct impacts for at least a month. Reporter have you ever felt sick but in order to get tested felt the need to stretch the truth . Im wondering if i had to lie to get it. Reporter did you feel you needed to meet a quote yaf symptoms . She would have preferred to not tested me. Reporter or flat out denied by private provider . Couldnt get tested. Reporter t