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(shouting.). more and more city s high san francisco is committing to dislocate to end all traffic death that means improving safety for people walking and driving and safety on our streets is everyone s responsibility people can make mistakes but not result in injury or death all traffic collisions are preventable as drivers you play a large role that will give you the tools to drive safely on streets a recent survey asks hundreds of drivers about save city introduce driving what did they say watch for distracted behavior and slow down and be patient and check for people before you turn the facts about city driving shows how important to be alert most collisions happen in good weather allowance even at 25 mile-per-hour it takes a vehicle 85 feet to stop this is almost 7 car lengths slowing down makes collisions less savior when a person is hit by a passerby vehicle 25 minor the chance of death is 25 percent 40 percent that increases inf ....
team with respect to every single fire have stepped up to the plate not only in trying to find housing for the victims of many fires that have taken place but also working with my office the city agencies to prevent the fires and so i failed to mention that and i want to say that but i wanted to know that. i know for instance, with every fire, i don t know we would ve been able to find housing for every one of those victims without the apartment association playing the role that are played and i know just now with the latest fire that they re playing an instrument to roll in and find housing for these folks. i want to personally thank the san francisco apartment association for the leadership ever knowing that the city cannot solve this on some to the private sector has a role to play mesa may have played a very important role. with that, mdm. chair, i like to continue this will to continue this item to the call the chair. if we can make a motion to excuse the supervi ....
yes. a motion. second. all in favor, say i. i. the i s have it. we ll go into closed session. session. all right. mr. chairman item 14 closed session the mta meet to talk about this and the boards approved the case and no action on the other two cases item 15 for a motion disclose or not disclose the information discussed in closed session. motion to notice disclose. second and. all in favor, say i. i. the i s have it. we re adjourned in memory of carla johnson. thank you. thank you mr. chairman. okay. good morning everybody. welcome to the san francisco budget and finance committee meeting for june 29, 2016. it s great to be back after budget season. i am mark farrell and i want to thank sfgtv. any announcements? yes yes. okay. so we have a decent amount to get through this morning so with that would you call item number 1. item 1 is an ordinance authorizing the recreation and park department regarding the funding and stewardship o ....
work harder and put our dollars where the solutions are. i think this budget in general, as well as many of the ad backs here that were proposing actually does that. no, it does not go far enough, but it s definitely a start and i think will continue to work in that direction and thank you to all the city staff while the legislative aides, from the other offices, who including supervisor cohen legislative eight, my legislative eight, iris sam and connor and also especially, your team supervisor farrell worked really hard to balance all of the needs and demands and challenges of a definitely demanding group of individuals on the board of supervisors. i am looking forward to passing this budget out . of the full board our fingers crossed. and good work and let s keep doing what we need to to make the city better for everyone. thanks thank you supervisor lee. colleagues, if no other-supervisor avalos i did want to block all the people who hope to work on the budget but ....
farrell and i want to thank sfgtv. any announcements? yes yes. okay. so we have a decent amount to get through this morning so with that would you call item number 1. item 1 is an ordinance authorizing the recreation and park department regarding the funding and stewardship of a new park on the francisco reservoir site located between hyde and larkin street and south of bay street. thank you madam clerk. for the last five years i have been working with the neighbors and and recreation and park to turn this into a park, a project we voted on a year and a half ago and we have been working with the francisco park conservancy and made up of the four largest neighborhood groups in the area. the neighborhood stepped up and the project wouldn t be possible without their partnership and support. they have helped build a broad group of support of over 40 organizations that have been involved in the effort. they have commitments for the funding to maintain run the park in ....