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Good afternoon. Meeting will come to order welcome to the may 8. 2024 meeting budget and Appropriation Committee im supervisor connie chan chair. Im joined by supervisor melgar and walton and president supervisor peskin. Our clerk is brent jalipa. I like to thank kaleena mendoza from sfgovtv for broadcast the meeting. Mr. Clerk . Thank you, a reminder to those in attendance make sure to silence electronics to prevent interruptions. Should you have documents to be included as part of the file submitted to myself the clerk. Public comment will be taken on each item when Public Comment is called lineup on the right along the kurt anxiety. And not necessary to provide Public Comment, we ini have to you fill out a comment card. Leave them on the tray to your left if you wish to be recorded in the minutes. Alternateively submit Public Comment in writing in the following ways e mail them to myself the budget clerk at brent. Jalipa sfgov. Org. If you submit comment via e mail tell be forwarded
Supervisor peskin good morning welcome to the Transportation Authority meeting for today february 27th. Mr. Clerk, if you could call the role. Clerk calling roll we have quorum. Supervisor peskin we have a motion to excuse commissioner safai made by commissioner breed and seconded by commissioner stephanie. Well take that without objectjectiobjec objection. Im going to talk about two issues we have been discussing here at the ta with increasing frequency, Transportation Network companies and driverless vehicles which have significant overlap. At the january meeting, we had a presentation of our tnc regulatory landscape study that staff outlined the regulatory arrangements. One of the findings of the report, the regulatory fees, tnc like uber and lyft pay to the commissions was a subject of an action proposing the rate on the state agenda a week later. Uber and lyft wanted fees reduced even though there was no data to justify the decrease. The San Francisco tna and i wrote opposition le
Off the coast of the northwest us the earthquake risk which is a very large risk command i think that we can show where we are going and tell you what we think is the path to get us there and then that will give you an opportunity to look at additional tools that you could give us. The stafford act was often times a constraint. In the past year we have responded to haiti which is traditionally the role of usaid. We were asked to support usaid command we did. We were asked to support unaccompanied children in detention facilities so we supported that. We were asked to support the ebola response. Many of these things may not be in the papers but our capabilities command you give us tools. The stafford the stafford act is limited to often times only those Natural Hazards with limited flexibility. I think the delegate brings up an important. What is the role of the Disaster Relief fund and the consequence world and if it is not in rebuilding in the Emergency Response cost and the ability t
Times the 1st resort for insurable property that was not insured and those losses again it is a decision that we have to look at how to best ensure communities are able to rebuild but at the same time dont support or continue growing the risk. We have to understand there is a a certain amount of risk out there. The exposure for just south florida for a repeat a repeat of the great Miami Hurricane would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars with federal cost exceeding both sandy and katrina. It is, i think something we need to look at. We have to make sure as we go in after a disaster they are setting the stage for the future. We continue to see new disaster aid programs emerge ad hoc in reaction to disasters. They all seem to have different rules and requirements and do not seem well coordinated all we are focused on obtaining the best outcomes. Is this Something Congress should take a look at so that we can streamline programs and ensure that they are Cost Effective . Mr. Chairman