Department of transportation when president obama announced andrew fox as his nominee to be secretary of transportation we knew immediately that that would bowed well, for cities and for the whole crisis andrew fox was the mayor of charlotte and they knew each and everyone of each other there the conference the mayors and a progressive great work in that he is city in charlotte for transportation and more general that he will serve us well in d. C. He understand what happens on the ground in the city he also brought to the job a great passion for equity and creating opportunity for people in recognizing that transportation is really a big part of that and extremely important here in San Francisco more so than its ever been and a strong focus on safety and also a it up priority here in San Francisco with vision zero now almost 3 years ago in the city to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024 but i would like to see most revolutionsy a approach that may sound shocking the federal governmen
Community not serves when you are not served you not going to a participation and dialogue how electric autonomous electrical vehicles help the community impoverished for any years you want to have a policy and system that serves everybody that brings even up so the Growth Strategy was as important as the newest introduction of technology and how it will help everyone when you combine all that you get the attention of the president and the discreet and the attention of our fta administrator and the leaders please San Francisco is paying attention to everything and all aspects of improving everyones life and using Transit Agency a way to get things down thats why i celebrate not just the grant of 11 million but the hundreds of millions of weve been fortunate to receive we have not only National Leadership that paid attention but peoples Life Experience like former mayor fox that understood from the first minute how those challenges are to every city thats why we work closely they incent
Good morning. All right good morning, everyone, this meeting will come to order, this is the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee im comen chair of this committee and to my left is supervisor katie tang and norman yee will be joining us shortly and our clerk is miss linda wong and recognize our friends at sfgtv who are assisting us with this broadcast this morning. Madam clerk, do we have any announcements . Yes, silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker phones and documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk, items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. We will not be having a board of supervisors meeting next tuesday do you to the holiday. Madam clerk, item one . Item one,resolution approving and authorizing the execution of a purchase and Sale Agreement with the city of Pleasanton Pleasanton , for the conveyance by the city and county of San Francisco, acting throu
That it is going to do, seems like a waste of our time. Thank you. Next speaker, please . Good morning. First i would like to extend my thanks and appreciation to chairman cohen and the committee and supervisors fewer. My name is claire, and i am here as the managing director of the big elz worth foundation, and an attorney interested in doing probono work and the founder of the network, the legal Founder Network is a network of over 630 local organizations that all believe that Legal Services is one of the most effective ways of working on poverty ee leavation, and we include private foundations and community, foundations and crowd source funders and law firms, and government and individuals. Over the past three months, i participated in dozens of phone calls and meetings related to this issue, my meetings have included pure, funders and funders networks, ngo and attorneys and even government officials. The Funder Community is eager to help. But, many feel we are on hold as we are pre
Provides Legal Services for immigrants with hiv in San Francisco, and we are not part of that clabive, but we are very supportive of this effort. My question is to those that are. And part of it. Thank you thank you. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. We are preparing to speak after. My name is anna is i am the managing director of the services and we are part of the collaborative to receive the funding to provide Additional Services chl do you feel like that your collaborative would be not in as good as a position as the public defenders to actually call these cases thereof the people that were detained. We are already taking on these cases. And we are responding. Sure. We believe that we the city of San Francisco as a leader in defending immigrants, should provide the most robust and comprehensive Legal Defense services and that includes the Public Defenders Office that is a model that has worked in new york and a model that alena county is doing now and a model that should be imp