Grateful to have your support for four more years on the b. A. R. T. Board. Thank you so much. Hi. I am alia, and i am running for San Francisco city college. I never knew that i would one day grow up and oversee the Free City College program at the department of children, youth, and their families, increasing access to Educational Opportunities for our Community Every day. In this role, i also monitoring the entire budget for the program. My passion for education started at a young age. I grew up in a lowincome household and have experienced firsthand the transformative nature of education both as a student and teacher. But over time, i realized how Education Systems failed our most vulnerable students. As a former legislative aide, i worked on legislation to ban the box on private college applications, making San Francisco the first city in the nation to do so. During this time of a Global Pandemic and a social movement to dismantle systemic racism, city College Needs a new voice and
We dont want in drafting, start with what is the problem that you want to solve, and that is we dont want people asking for donors to pay for their holiday party. I think theres some question, as we get into the legislation, why theyre getting around the gift role . So its perfectly legitimate for organization, a corporation, or contractor to give money to the city, say, to help with the clean streets program, etc. , but if its over 10,000, they have to go to the board or it has to be posted on the departmental website if its under 10,000. We need to look inhouse in terms of is that process too arduous to go through where they go through this funding or they dont go to the parks alliance, they just throw this money in a special fund to a fiscal agent, and then, they can spend it more quickly. Sometimes, lets face it. Contracting, you give the money to the city, and then, they want to go out and contract somebody to provide rain barrels for drought resistance, and by the time you put ou
Brap testing for sfgov. Testing for sfgov. Testing for sfgov. Thank you mr. Chair, were ready for the meeting. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 9, regular meeting of the joint city, School District, and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, claihair the committee. Do we have any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 health emergency, to protect Board Members and the public, the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating remotely. This is pursuant to the local state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, depending on your provider, cable channel 26, 78 or 99 or sfgov. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. You can call the number streaming on your screen, 4156
Congress to help. Welcome to the program from the beaches of spain to the streets of los angeles coronavirus cases are searching on almost every continent faster and further than ever before its taken just 4 days for the global number of cases to jump from 15 to 16000000 over the past week 37 countries reported record spikes in daily infections including the u. S. Where the tally is going up by 60 to 70000 every day california remains the epicenter of its outbreak while florida has overtaken new york with nearly 424000 infections brazil is the 2nd worst hit country after the u. S. And the number of cases across latin america has surpassed 4300000 more than the u. S. And canada combined but those top 3 hotspots the u. S. Brazil india now. Count for half of the worlds infections Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned the indian public to remain vigilant saying the danger of cope with 19 is far from over well in a moment well have the latest from the United States but 1st a listener on petty
He says the new york city area and other areas are more complicated due to the need for coordination with other neighboring states. The briefing is almost an hour. Gov. Cuomo that afternoon, technically. Happy sunday. Today is day 57. It feels like more, but it is only day 57. It feels like 57 years. News today on the numbers is relatively good. The descent continues and that is a good starting place. We are back to where we were on march 31, before we started this dramatic increase in the number of cases. We are still watching big questions. How fast is that number continue to go down . First, does that number continue to go down . That would be a nightmare if it picks up. And how fast does it come down and how low does it go . Before we started this, you had a couple hundred cases. When did we get back to a couple hundred new cases going in . The overall hospitalization rate is down. Is number of intubations down. Even the number of new covid cases is down. Still not good, still 1000