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Next speaker, please. Yes, hello. Speaking for equity for older students sm wstudents. We can be reached at equity forr older students dot org. The issue is public land being sold privately forever. City college is in very dire straights. The board of trustees and administration have made massive class cuts including the almost complete disruption of the older adults program. Three hundred classes cut last fall. Five hundred in the year before. This year, huge cuts in the esl program. Campuses are closing. Now theres to be another cut to existing use and potential growth including Affordable Housing and other uses by city college. We urge you to consider that many of the staff and teachers of city college are opposed to this as well. I would lake to bring your attention to two letters that were recently sent to the committee. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im in support of the reservoir project. I hope you ....
Supervisor fewer good afternoon, everyone. This is the appropriations committee. I am joined by Committee Members supervisor walton, mandelman, president norman yee and supervisor matt haney is subbing today for supervisor ronen. Our clerk is linda wong who is assisted today by grant philippa. We would like to thank [inaudible] sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk . Mr. Clerk. I think that we need to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. Id like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. A second please . Second. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Could i have a roll call vote . Im sorry, could you clarify who is the second . Walt supervisor walton walt supervisor walton. Walton aye. Mandelman absent. Yee aye. Ronen sorry, were excusing her. Fewer aye. Clerk chair fewer, aye. Supervisor mandelman . Mandelman absent. You have three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I believe supervisor haney is ....
Culture and competent care, multilingual contact tracing. Thank you for bringing that up. Supervisor yee thank you. This is everybodys responsibility. I dont see anybody taking responsibility right now. One last thing, in terms of resource distribution in districts, supervisor brought up this issue. My argument sometimes its counterintuitive. If you look at my district, theres really no nonprofit. Nobody wants to come out there to help 100 rvs parked out there. I think its too easy just to say one district has more need and that were not getting the resources. As you know, most of the nonprofits are in those areas, in those districts where the needs are the greatest. You cant ignore all those resources that are serving that community doesnt exist. It wont matter this year. In the future, i want to say that because its not fair to just say, little piece of pie, we should get more of it, because not taking into consideration that in hat bigger budget, 99. 9 , if you look at whats allocat ....
On the motion, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. City attorney . I just wanted to clarify one thing. The motion was just to accept the modified d. A. Into the board file. It was not because the changes were substantive, just to accept it into the board file. Just wanted to clarify that point. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, madame city attorney. And now i in closing i just want to say to president yee, a very happy birthday, president. Thank you for joining us. And we have another meeting that were very late for. Were over an hour late, but i am going to call a recess for 15 minutes. I would say supervisors have been sitting at this meeting and i think we also sfgovtv wants to transition. So lets take a 15minute break. Lets come back at 2 25. Excuse me, madame chair. I just wanted to clarify that the motion so the motion that were taking, were on item number 4, can we also take a motion on item number 5. Su ....
Kudos to Technical Service division who successfully completed the code update. This was a huge undertaking involving coordination and tight deadlines. Thanks to all the dbi staff. And finally, id like to recognize a great employee of our city for many years and who is just retired from the department of dbi, like to recognize bill strong. Is bill here . I owe him a big lunch because i was away when he retired. During his time, he impressed us very much with his knowledge and professionalism and attention to detail. I know i speak for my colleagues as well when i say we will miss him. He was a great anchor for the department and his history goes back to senator feinstein and i was talking to john about it earlier, he took a little time off in the middle and then back to dbi for, i believe, 13 years was the time . I dont know how many times i tried to upset bill and i could not. [laughter] and i made genuine efforts to do it. He ....