Philanthropy on education. It is to five minutes. 25 minutes. Welcome, everyone. We are so glad to have you here today. Thank you for joining us. We have a real treat today, two leaders of philanthropy talking about their involvement in this unprecedented time. Al gholston and carol, welcome. Im really pleased to have a chance to chat with you. Before we begin, i just wanted say im sorry for the loss of bill gates, senior. I know you and everyone at the foundation is feeling the loss. He was a tremendous man and many of us got a chance to know him in various ways, but probably not as well as you. He was a remarkable human being and a remarkable humanitarian. Thank you. So we are here at this unprecedented moment. Is kind of hard to imagine that we could have as many crises facing us all now. Weve got obviously the health crisis. Weve got the economic crisis. We are going through a reckoning on social justice. Many of us are experiencing climate change. Its only the tip of the iceberg.
Chair mar good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 3, 2020 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. Im joined by supervisor aaron peskin. Thank you and clerk john carroll. Thank you to sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov are scrolling a Public Comment announcement across your screen. To call in to the meeting, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting code 1464157487, then pound, and pound again. To comment on an item, press star, three to enter the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. You may email me. I am john carroll, and im the clerk of the government audit and oversight committee. My email is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. Or you may mail in your comment to city hall. The address is 1 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items acted on today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of sep
And clerk john carroll. Thank you to sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov are scrolling a Public Comment announcement across your screen. To call in to the meeting, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting code 1464157487, then pound, and pound again. To comment on an item, press star, three to enter the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. You may email me. I am john carroll, and im the clerk of the government audit and oversight committee. My email is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. Or you may mail in your comment to city hall. The address is 1 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items acted on today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 15, 2020, unless otherwise stated. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call items 1 and 2 together. Clerk yes. Item 1 is a resolution receiving and approving the annual report
Eakins support and, you know, staff continuing to look for opportunities to get all of the infrastructure work done during this closure period. Very, very glad to hear there may be some improvements on the wifi communication capabilities and stations and that is super important to the User Experience for writers, but also safety, you know, one of the concerns that ive always had, when im stuck underneath the underground and theres delays with my kids and we cant get anywhere and we cant really communicate with the outside world. So this is really very important going forward. So thank you for thinking of that. Before i open it up to Public Comments, any final questions . No, ok. Moderator, can you open the line for Public Commenters. You have two questioning remaining. You may start. Speaker this is herbert winer and my concern is this. I believe that the subway has been under budgeted all along and you dont have uptodate equipment and, basically, the reason is, the funding was reflect
Chair mar good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 3, 2020 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. Im joined by supervisor aaron peskin. Thank you and clerk john carroll. Thank you to sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov are scrolling a Public Comment announcement across your screen. To call in to the meeting, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting code 1464157487, then pound, and pound again. To comment on an item, press star, three to enter the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. You may email me. I am john carroll, and im the clerk of the government audit and oversight committee. My email is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. Or you may mail in your comment to city hall. The address is 1 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items acted on today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of sep