August 20, 2020. Budget and Appropriations Committee. Good morning. This is the august 20, 2020 rescheduled budget and Appropriations Committee meeting. I am joined by supervisors walton, mandelman and president yee. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Do you have announcements . Due to the covid19 health emergency, the Committee Room are closed. Members will participate in a meeting remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders and directives. Committee members may participate to the same extent as if physically present. Put lick comment shall occur at the recessed meeting august 24 at 10 00 a. M. You may send it in the following ways. Email to the budget and finance committee clerk, and it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. Thank you, good morning. We are reconvening our meeting from yesterday. This weeks hearings are focused on changes and reductions that the Budget Committee would like t
Clerk there are five ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, id just like to say, get a good nights sleep tonight because tomorrow will not be so easy. I think we saw departments very compliant, and tomorrow, they will not be. Supervisor ronen im so excited. I have time to actually study. Chair fewer so everyone got the b. L. A. S report. Look at that, and say these are the recommendations, and if you can think of other things, great. This is where we start, and so we are growing that pot. Congratulations to all of you for growing that pot for the add back, and for the communities. Okay. Thank you very much. Seeing nothing further, this committee is recessed, and thank you, madam clerk. Clerk of course. Good morning. This is the august 20, 2020 rescheduled budget and Appropriations Committee meeting. I am joined by supervisors walton, mandelman and president yee. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Do you have announcements . Due to the covid19 healt
Participate to the same extent as if physically present. Put lick comment shall occur at the recessed meeting august 24 at 10 00 a. M. You may send it in the following ways. Email to the budget and finance committee clerk, and it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. Thank you, good morning. We are reconvening our meeting from yesterday. This weeks hearings are focused on changes and reductions that the Budget Committee would like to make to department budgets. A few things i want to know. There is no trailing legislation today. Reminder to new members. The hearings are noticed separately. This is all one meeting. We are taking up the following day at 10 00 a. M. One meeting for wednesday, thursday and friday. No Public Comment this week on the budget, which is items one and two. All Public Comment will be heard on monday, august 24th at 10 00 a. M. There. Is no other business on monday except for the comments. The budget and Appropriations Com
Groups out of qatar, out of doha altogether, where do they go and to mr. Goldbergs point is there some, is there some benefit to having them there instead of in the arms of isis or in tehran . Thank you. Exactly i think this is precisely sort of the point. Its complicated. But what i would say is, maybe ill start with an example of hamas and ill quote an israeli former head of research, the former head of research for israels military intelligence, who is brought up here a lot talking about incitement, saying nobody else is ready to help out but qatar when it comes to gaza. Heres a perfect example of the situation were dealing with three wars between israel and hamas over the last few years in gaza with large casualties for the palestinians and the ids and the israelis are starting to realize maybe we should not be this approach is trying to squeeze hamas and gaza doesnt seem to be working. Maybe we should think about a different approach and alleviate the humanitarian situation and tr
Russia and north korea sanctions and then vote on that before returning to work on the health care law. Again, live coverage of the senate is available on our companion network cspan 2. Back now to a hearing we were showing you from yesterday on relations with the country of qatar. Military base right there, which is, as you said, insane or can you just comment on that possibility where this is another dimension and another threat to this because every week it seems we have to reevaluate which is the number one enemy. Dr. Levitt, could you start . I havent seen this report, so i dont want to comment on a report i havent seen other than to say the north korea issue is an important and pressing issue. Much more important than this one to be sure. But in general, i think we need to learn ways to be able to leverage conversation and if necessary pressure on qatar on a wide array of issues that we have with them, and this would be one more. You have to do it in a way that is flexible becaus