This is the august 12th, 2020 budget and pre prations meeting. Im sandily fewer, chair of the budget and Appropriations Committee. I am joined by Committee Member supervisor walton, mandelman, ronen and yee. Do we have any announcements . Due to the Health Emergency and to protect our members citi employees and the public, the board of supervisors and ledge lay ter of chamber and Committee Room are closed but members will participate in a meeting remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in a meeting to the same extent as if theyre physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda and streaming the number across the screen, each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available by calling 415 6550001. 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. 1460772734, a
Diverse burst of technological innovation of the past 150 years, writes historian leslie berlin. Quote, five Major Industries were born; personal computing, video games, advanced semiconductor logic, modern Venture Capital and biotechnology. Unquote. The valley brought to life new Iconic Companies including apple, atari, genentech and major venture firms. Berlin spent six years doing research with many of the Unsung Heroes of this era behind these landmark developments and that set in motion these ripple effects which have literally changed the world. Tonight she joins us to discuss her new book, troublemakers Silicon Valleys coming of age. This side of the stage were really pleased to present a small exhibit just for you tonight of artifacts related to each of the seven Silicon Valley trouble merricks featured in troublemakers featured in her book. And were very thrilled to have several of the reimaginer troublemakers remarkable troublemakers with us tonight. So, al, mike and sandy, w
Atari, genentech, venture firms, berlin spent six years doing research with many Unsung Heroes of this era behind landmark developments and set in motion Ripple Effects which changed the world, tonight she joins us to discuss her new book troublemakers, Silicon Valleys coming of age. The side of the stage we are pleased to present a small exhibit tonight of artifacts related to each of the Silicon Valley troublemakers featured in her book. Bob swanson and bob taylor, we are thrilled to have several of the remarkable troublemakers with us tonight so please stand and be recognized. [applause] thank you. To tell the story of these remarkable people and others, leslie is the project historian for Silicon Valley archives, a fellow at the center for advanced studies of Behavioral Sciences at Smithsonian National museum of american history. To introduce her i would like to share as our tradition five members. 35 mi. As described in her book, 14 wild years chronicles, two books published, soun
Criminalization. [speaking spanish] translator they are part of our community and we should respect them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Public good afternoon. I too would like to thank for doing this. I have been familiar with the plaza and the area around the plaza for 20 years. And it has been the object of the most outrageous forms of neglect and has been treated as a drug containment zone without any attempt to solve the underlying injustices and problems that are generating the amount of drug use we are seeing in the plaza. This neglect contributes whether intentionally or not, to the disinvestment that is now being used as an excuse to general gent identify as people become more desperate both economically and to using and selling drugs and to other forms of behavior that have to do with getting by out of here desperation. Im grateful we are taking steps to clean the plaza and assist people with their struggles. I would ask we remain along this track and not allow this to b
Going to simply just really water down the work of those two staff members. We need to have a minimum of two people funded fulltime for this to be successful. It costs approximately a quarter of a Million Dollars to be able to provide that service. But i think it has been successful and worth looking at. Also just as a suggestion, maybe a little bit outside of my lane, is i know in l. A. , usc for example, they have funded they are ambassadors. I think they wear yellow shirts. And many are from homeless or formerly homeless or from the community. I think if we want to edge gauge people who are perhaps involved in behavior thats not really conducive for the neighborhood they are in or appropriate outdoors, i think having Community Ambassadors to talk to, to work with, to point folks in the right direction and encourage them is Something Else we should be considering in the city. My focus really is how do i help as many unhoused people get off the streets and into shelter. However, i cer