Facebook. And support the amazing events at the funds with this quarantine dance this weekend. Visit the website to learn more. And i left off fred. Fred is going to kill me. Thank you to our executive director fred, who is as we speak is watching and working so hard to put together an amazing virtual pride event. Thank you, thank you, thank you, fred lopez. Thank you all so much. Take care and show your pride. So great to host with you, carolyn. Great to host with you. Happy pride. Thank you all. Bye. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 16 meeting of the government oversight and audit committee. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to john carol and i would like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the rooms are closed. This is taken pursuant to various local state
Announcements. Clerk thank you, chair. Precautions are taken to a statewide stayathome order and all other state and local orders, resolutions, and directives. Members and the public will stay at home and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present. Sfgovtv. Org and channel 26 are streaming the number across the screen. 4156550001. The number is is 1462472457. Then press pound, and pound again. When there are items of discussion, youll be muted. If you wish to enter Public Comment, press starthree to be entered into the queue. If you submit Public Comment via email, you may could do by submitting it to me, erica. Major sf. Org. Chair peskin thank you, miss major. [inaudible] clerk the system prompts will indicate that you have raised your hand. Please wait for the system to say youre unmuted to make your comments when we get to Public Comment. Chair peskin thank you, miss major. Colleagues, as you know, the voters of San Francisco passed proposition e for hous
That i was talking about before. I dont think that we can leave public bank to decide at this point. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Clerk that is the only caller. Chair fewer okay, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, is there any more business today. Clerk no further business today. Chair fewer thank you very much everyone. We are adjourned. Disantsing. The second Corner Grocery store i went to, tables were set up. This means, you know, were in the middle of a pandemic, and i think my life is more important than having to pay a quarter for a paper bag. I think this should be suspended for Senior Citizens or suspended, period, until the mayor says that were going back to normal and. [beeping] thank you, caller. Are there any other callers in the cue operation . No more callers in the cue. All right. Thank you, operations. Thank you, charles. The next item is item 5, an update on the departments ongoing Racial Equity hish tive. The speaker is timmy [indiscernible]. This item is
Emergency, the commission on the environment meeting room is closed. Commissioners and Department Staff will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken per student to the pursuant to the statewide stay at home order. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Sfgov tv. Com is streaming the number at the top of the screen. When connected dial star three to be added to the queue. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment in the following ways. Email to the department of commission affairs, if you submit Public Comment via email it will be part of the official file. I will call the roll. [roll call] we have a quorum. President stephenson next agenda item please. Clerk next item is the president s discussion. President stephenson good evening everyone thank you to everyone who made it to this meeting. Let me share some best practice
And again, its at the early stages but i did see the announcement and would very much like that to be included in future updates. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item . Chair, there is no Public Comment. Ok, Public Comment is closed and there is no action to be taken and so we can move on to the next item. Item 6, allocate 11,230,724 in sale tax funds and 1,043,89, 1,043,898 and double a Registration Fee fund with conditions. This is an action item. Miss leport. Good morning. Chair, are you able to see my slides . Yes, we are. Super. So the first of the three requests presented today is for the annual funding that the sale tax Program Provides to the paraprogram and weve been supporting this Program Since 2004 and there are a suite of services that mta offers as part of the Paratransit Program, most of which are still operating, of course, with declining ridership or lower ridership to the tune of 70 to 80 overall. Over the la