The meeting comes to order, the august 19th, rescheduled budget and appropriations meeting. Im sandra lee fewer and joined by the Committee Members, supervisors walton and mandelman and ronen and norman yee. Our clerk is miss linda wong. I thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. And also, supervisor walton will be joining us a little later. Can we have a motion to excuse him for the first beginning part of the meeting. So moved. Chair fewer thank you very much, can i have a second, please. Second. Chair fewer could i have a roll call vote please. Clerk yes, on the motion. [roll call] there are four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Clerk due to the covid19 health emergency, the City Employees and the board of supervisors legislative and the committee room, and the members will be participating in a meeting remotely. This is for the local and state and federal orders and declarations and orders. The meeting is through Video Conferenc
Supervisor fewer good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the july 29, 2020 regular board and finance Committee Meeting. I am sandra lee fewer, chair. And i am joined by supervisors mandelman and walton. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Clerk yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed, however members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local, state orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. You can call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 812 0226. Again, 146 812 0226 then press pound twi
Of the meeting. So moved. Chair fewer thank you very much, can i have a second, please. Second. Chair fewer could i have a roll call vote please. Clerk yes, on the motion. [roll call] there are four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Clerk due to the covid19 health emergency, the City Employees and the board of supervisors legislative and the committee room, and the members will be participating in a meeting remotely. This is for the local and state and federal orders and declarations and orders. The meeting is through Video Conferencing and participate as if physically present. Public comments are available on each item on this agenda and channel 26 and fo sfgovtv. Org e streaming the number across the korean. The opportunity to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 1 415 6550001. Again, 1 415 6550001. And meeting i. D. , 146 347 6022. Again, 146 347 6022. And then press pound twice. When connected yo
Supplies, and work orders of other city services, such as department of Human Resources, Controllers Office services, and rent. We have six f. T. E. S with the Directors Office vacant since march of this year, and we have an open grant funded position that youre not seeing in this chart, just vacated last week that were working on filling quickly. We, like all City Departments were instructed to propose a 10 reduction. We proposed initial reductions amounting to 959,000 annually, and this was an across the board proposed reduction of almost 12 to our communitybased grant fees. Realizing the impact of these grant fees to the vulnerable populations and the populations these serve, the Mayors Office asked us to submit some lower alternative reduction scenarios. The Mayors Service accepted our approximately 7 reduction, which would come from the departments genderbased balance intervention program. Understanding that all of our grantees work serves vulnerable and underserved communities, t
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