With children unexpectedly being at home and you are having to deal with worrying about how you will pay your rent or how to keep your families safe. We really appreciate that youve joined us here to talk about something that should be seemingly minor which is a government bureaucracy budget. But for us, nothing is more important than our budget. Because it is the only relevant statement of our agencys values and it determines how we use our very, very limited resources in order to uphold the public good. Public transportation plays a Critical Role in the unfolding of this Health Crisis and in the unfolding of what will be likely a long economic crisis. Our job is to figure out how to steward our declining resources in order to therefore the services that essential workers need to have to get to work and in order to poise San Francisco for recovery, thats what were here for. Everything we do, whether its muni, parking is connected with the health and safety of budget of San Francisco.
There are other supervisors present. Will you please identify yourself. Anybody else who is not on the budget and Appropriations Committee . Thank you very much. I would like to thank Daniel Williams from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect City Employees and the public the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will participate remotely. This is taken pursuant to the state way stay at home order. All proceeding local and state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference or telephone and participate to the extent as if they were physically comment. Comments will be available on each item. Channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming at the top of the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes. You can call 888 2045984. 888 2045984 access code 3501008. When connected Public Comment is open and dial one
Francisco Police Department chief william scott. Question from kpix. Plenty of crowds on corners in the tenderloin, some with nowhere to go and others dealing drugs. Are there plans to address this crowding . Yes, and that is why it is important to work with city partners. It is a difficult issue. Crowds on the tenderloin. I have been out there with officers and seen it firsthand. Some comply and some dont. We have to keep going back and trying. The drug dealers, there is space in the jails. I want to emphasize for those committing serious crimes, those out selling drugs and causing gatherings to be worse because people are gathering to buy drugs, that is a Public Health problem. We have room in the jails for those type of individuals. Officers have been out. We are trying to educate people to give them an opportunity to comply, but as i said earlier, there is a time what enforcement is appropriate. We want to save our jail space for people that are committing those serious crimes like
The meeting will come to order. This is the meeting of march 25, 2020 regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. I am joined by shamann walton, and raphael mandelman. Miss clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to covid19, city hall is closed, however, the meeting is happening via remote. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference or by telephone and participate in the meeting as if they were present. Public comment will be available for this agenda via the number scrolling across the screen. Best recommendation is you call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn out the t. V. Or radio. If you would like to submit your Public Comment via email, please submit it to me linda, linda, wong, wong, sf. Gov. Chair fewer thank you, madam clerk. Can you please call item 1. Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. We have john lau from the of
Happening via remote. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference or by telephone and participate in the meeting as if they were present. Public comment will be available for this agenda via the number scrolling across the screen. Best recommendation is you call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn out the t. V. Or radio. If you would like to submit your Public Comment via email, please submit it to me linda, linda, wong, wong, sf. Gov. Chair fewer thank you, madam clerk. Can you please call item 1. Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. We have john lau from the office of economic and workforce development. Yes, supervisors. I have a presentation, which i am opening now. Can you share your screen . I just did press share. I do not see it. Ill try to open it again. John, if you hd like, i ca pull it up quickly. Let me try again now. Chair fewer, you have someone on your roster. Chair fewer okay. Supervisor walton chai