Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess. We welcome the attorney general of the United States, Merrick Garland. Testified on the department of justice fiscal year 2025 budget request. The Department Request of about 38 billion in discretionary sources, an increase of nearly 2 over the fiscal year of 2024 and access levels. Once again, the departments budget submission uses names such as, quote, upholding the rule of law and keeping our country safe is the job of congress to examine whether Agency Priorities lineup with these themes and fund the department appropriately and accordingly. Unfortunately, the departments budget underwhelmeds, and has not thoughtfully identified areas where strategic reductions could be made, aside from aid to local Law Enforcement. I am not advocating for arbitrary largescale reductions. That would make the department an effective, and our country less safe. However, i do believe that robust Law Enforcement and strategic reductions ar
Good afternoon everyone. Im barbara garcia, director of health. We have mayor london breed and supervisor jane kim. Were so happy to be here today, were opening a new part of the respite providing services for those who need that kind of support from our shelter system. This respite has been open for over 10 years and providing over 45 beds for those needing support around alcoholism and around another 30 beds for those coming out of hospital who need Additional Support. These are focused on the shelter system to ensure that those individuals who need more medical support and i want to acknowledge supervisor kim who has been a champion for the expansion, particularly when she spent time in the shelter and saw that many individuals needed additional medical support. This took about two years to open with the renovation and with the staffing and were so happy today to be with you to open these new beds, as well as the fact that the staff is there already, we have served over 3,000 Homele
Senior director of gas Asset Management and system operations to talk further about the details of the incident that happened november 27th. First of all, i would like to thank our First Responders including the San Francisco Fire Department, the San Francisco department of Emergency Management who worked with our crews to safely secure the area on the day of the incident. We understand that this emergency deeply you know, deeply affects the families if the neighborhood and we are fully here and committed to provide any assistance. Were here to take any questions. Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. At pg e safety is our top priority. Were grateful for the collaboration and hard work of the San Francisco Fire Department, Police Department, San Francisco department of Emergency Management and San Francisco Human Services agency during and after the incident. On monday november 27th just after 10 00 a. M. Pg e crews reported to a gas odor on mission street. While on t
And so, the recommendations that the Land Use Committee and the working group have advanced have acknowledged that were going to need high Revenue Generating uses as financial engine as part much new pier leasing an development projects. But to balance that with the need and desire to a available these facilities for public oriented uses, port staff was really trying to think about how can we expand public oriented uses but deal with the feasibility realities. Through that process, we came up with idea of going on the basis of the recommendations coming out of working group with a twotrack request for interest to invite ideas for public oriented uses that could fit within our bulkheads and pier facilities. But because we anticipated that the revenue capability of many of those types of businesses would be insufficient to be able to cover the improvement costs of the piers, we also realized there was a need to be some Development Capability also. So we came up with the idea ofc having
Neighborhood, my experiences is that i think people almost universally in the neighborhood would like to see that developed as housing. I mean, we have a housing crisis in this city. And the parking lot itself, you know, in the long run, isnt what the community, i think, is going to want or need. The communitys becoming more tech focused. I think well see a decline in cars. Unless somethings done with the traffic situation there, i mean but tigers will be there forever. Tigers and glen park station, and la corneta, i think, will never go away. You know, this is a dilemma that im probably going to ask the department to explain, but you know, my auntie rosa owned the dry cleaner on the corner for years that had all the Police Uniforms on it. Yeah, thats my dry cleaner. Yeah. Yeah, i really think and to the degree that the five years im here, this is something i would push aggressively to see housing develop, because we do have a crisis, and for me personally, the more we can fill around