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Evans. Any announcements . Please silence all cells phone and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. Items today will appear january 12 meeting unless otherwise stated would like to thank Jessie Larsson squh gym smith for braus braud casting todays meeting. Item 1 is consider apointding 3 members terms ending february 1, 2015 to the parks and recreation Advisory Committee. There are 3 seats and 3 appicates great, we have seberate members of prosack who are here today. Looks like [inaudible] is first is not going to be able to make it. She has written testimony boy robert brooust, if you can please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. I am robert braust and thank you very much for hearing and giving me the opportunity to introduce myself, explain why i was original picked to represent district 8 on prosack. Explain a little of what i managed to get done in the first 2 years and what i hope to get done in the next. I am a Founding Member of d
June 7, 2017. Okay, supervisor farrell. Thank you supervisor avalos and supervisor cohen and everyone who is here. I will keep my comment brief. We brought this item before committee and will continue today until the next rules committee, but want to reiterate the purpose behind this. I think everyone shares this here, the parks inside the sit a are some the greatest assets qu provide a high quality of life and as the city grows in terms of population and otherwise and we feel it every day, the parks are used with greater intensity more than ever before. Over the last few years inside of city hall the parks budget has note grown and if we want to maintain had parks and new open space we ptd to develop in San Francisco, we need to make sure spending for the park saz priority and that is what this amendment does. Before i introduce this we had a huge neighborhood process across the city. I want to thank the Parks Alliance for a great partner throughout the process. Neighborhood groups in
Okay we are back and ready for Public Comment. Thank you for the brief moment to gather my thoughts and talk with my staff. So Public Comment is now open. And i have a few cards and if first you come in the order your name is called by card, and then anyone else who hasnt filled out a card can come in behind. So first up is trevor martin. Amber actually, lets go first to people representing other people, who were to speak. Amber was here ufcw and others here will be the first people to speak, since you are speaking on behalf of actual candidates. And then well go on to the cards, okay. Thank you. Amber bauer, district director for uscw here on behalf of jim araby. He will no longer be applying for if that set and wed like to separate jan garcia in her application for this commission. Thank you. And your application actually just came in after the deadline. It did. Im Jennifer Garcia with ufcw in San Francisco and the application was in late. My local just recently got the Cannabis Divi
In the house to once again under cut the American People. This is a time for solutions and they need to be based upon fairness for all. Somebody in the House Republican caucus has to grab the wheel and hit the brakes. There are two deals circulating, first the senate, to reopen the government through january 15th, the exact date the next round of sequester cuts kicks in. Extend the debt ceiling until february 7th and create a budget negotiation framework by mid december. Obama care could be involved with a delay to the reinsurance fees employers pay and efforts to strengthen laws if your income level qualifies you for a subsidy. Then theres the house gop plan, the same dates on the debt ceiling and short term budget but would stop future efforts by the treasury to extend the debt limit. House republicans want a twoyear delay to the medical device tax and to eliminate all obama care protections for labor unions and subsidies for elected officials in washington. No matter which door we c