Of. Welcome back sorry for the extra read ted minute delay but we were voting and hopefully we have an opportunity to get through the last panel with the opportunity to conclude the hearing before we have another round of votes. This second panel is more technical with several witnesses present about modern development on the north slope and joining us today we have the president and ceo komen thanks for being here you also brought your seven with zero your son with you. And also bought the ring back the Arctic Program director from the Wilderness Society and then also a frequent flier to the committee the executive Vice President for land and Natural Resources from their Regional Cooperation is good to have you back Richard Perle and then known to many alaskans here in washington d. C. The former assistant to alaska n. Affairs during the previous administration. Welcome back and blast is the biologist and former Research Professor at university of alaska some of us know him as the ker
Economic condition and possible fed actions in the future. You look like nervous. Im much more nervous, like yeah. Yeah. At work it will be eight or nine days away, but it can happen any time. I hope so. Im better than that. Lets talk about schedules. The committee will come to order without objection and they declare a recess of the committee at any time. All members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous material to the chair for inclusion in the record. The hearing is for the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony and the board of governors on the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. Since we last convened to take chair yellens on Monetary Policy, headline remains low as does inflation, but the headline Unemployment Rate still rests too much on an incredibly low Labor Participation rate and regrettably high disability payment Participation Rate.
Good morning. All right. All right, party people, you guys ready to rock and roll . All right, that is what i like to hear, thank you. Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome you, this is the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee, im supervisor cohen chair of this committee, and to my right is supervisor tang no to my left is tang and to my right is yee and he is going to be joining us shortly, and our clerk is linda wong and i want to thank our friends at sfgtv. For broadcasting this committee meeting, do you have any announcements. Yes, silence all phones, and cards to be included should be submitted and items acted tonight today will be on the february, 28th, board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. Folks you heard that february 28leth, the matters that we are dealing with today will be at the board of supervisors that is important to know. We have madam clerk, could you call item one . Resolution retroactively authorizing the office of the Distric
What id like is a convenience understanding of table number 2 from december 9th and what that looks like today and verification of any of experts but not the developer saying those are our estimates and not the city putting forth numbers and seeing those numbers are wrong were looking for quite frankly for the city to know what those numbers and if this is from the staff and the third partys developers coming forth with the maichd and the department can stand behind thats what i want to see. Is that if all the committee members. Supervisor tang. I mean weve heard about from from mohcd but a clear process how well be addressing whatever that money gap will be i dont know if there will be impacts on the issues in the pipeline. Sorry let me add to supervisor kims point on top of that analysis that is literally a approach to say why are we supporting a project like this from the numbers look net positive to millions of dollars and knowing this as a result will be a multi dollars funding ga
Okay, the floor is yours. Good morning, board members. I am with the San Francisco District Attorney office of Victim Services. Thank you for having me here today. I am here to give you an overview of the services we provide at the Victim Services division. This funding allows us to serve victims of crime. In the year 2016, our division served over 8,000 victims. The 40 percent increase from 5 years ago. This funding has allowed our division to meet the growing needs of the community. We have been able to expand our services outside of our offices and placed our advocates in the community in order to proviet immediate assistance to our immigrant victims, our lgbtq victims, victims of hate crimes, Human Trafficking victims, campus sex assault victims, our homeless victims, and our most vulnerable the elderly. With this funding, we now have two courthouse dogs that assist our victims, one of whom cleared his calendar and made it today, red is here. Although i think that he is napping. He