Buying oil from venezuela. It is not even believable. It is interesting, they give him billions of dollars, maduro, the dictator and i call him the owner of venezuela. They give him billions and billions of dollars but then they foreclose on his plane. They take away an old Junky Plane. Its not a good plane. They take away an old, Junky Plane and they say okay, he will buy a much better one. Think about it, of the country takes away his airplane pepes him billions of dollars for their oil, which is the worst oil and it is tar and has to be. There was only one plant and the entire world to refined that junk. You know where it is located . Used in texas but the environmentalist houston, texas, is refining tar. And that stuff is going up into the air. What is the only place in the whole world that can refine that very bad stuff. The state is rapidly going faster with a record 68 Million Budget Deficit last year. 60 Million Budget Deficit for a state. And the government is so incompetent t
Sfgovtv. Org. Members who will be calling in its 415 6550001 and again that number is 415 6550001. The access code is i just lost it. That is perfect. You can find it at the top of the screen under event info. Thank you. So, the access code is 146 816 8238. So the callin number is 415 6550001. And the access code is 146 816 8238. When you are dial that access code press pound and then pounden you will be prompted to do so and best practices are called from a quiet location and speak fully and Public Comment is three minutes per speaker unless established by the presiding officer of the meeting. An alarm will sound when the time is finished and speakers are requested but not required to. We have a reminder the Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that effect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. The office of Small Business is the best place to get answers about doing thinks in San Francisco durin
The third option, which is to cut their own budget. Theres thousands of people in city departments who are making sixfigure salaries. You think they could tighten their belts, quite frankly. Its not too much to ask when so many other businesses, people have lost their jobs or businesses have entirely had to close. I dont see anything thats going to create 2,000 jobs is pie in the sky speculation. Taxing the information sector . Thats whats been driving the San Francisco economy years and years, the tech economy. Theres real risk of losing losing the goose that laid the golden egg, tech being driven out of town if they continue unfriendly policies. Thank you. Thank you. Were going to go to the next question, and well start with star child. The question is San Franciscos child care and homelessness taxes has been challenged in court, and the money thats ae been collected through these taxes has not been spent by the city. If this prop is passed, that will free up these funds for the city
Confirmation in the senate, where republicans still hold a narrow majority. For now, at least with the transition poses officially under way, some of the uncertainty and turbulence of the past weeks seems to be settling down. Peter joins with the studio now for some analysis, peter, after 3 weeks, this transition is can finally begin about time. Its a big a big deal. Is this right on a normal set circumstances . This would not be a big deal. I mean, this is something that usually goes very smoothly in the mallets, you know, just days after the election, we see the, the 2 teams come together and start the transition. But in this case, it is a big deal for exactly the reasons that were 3 weeks in. Were looking at competing crises, we have a pandemic. Theres an economic crisis and experts are really said, you know, if every day that this transition is delayed, means that more american americans could be dying from the co bit because the governments are just not ready to handle the price a
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie