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Good morning, everybody, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance, for january, 11, 2017, my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee, and i am chaired by tang as well as yee. And i want to thank the clerk of our committee as well as mark and sfgtv for covering the meeting today. Do you have any announces . Silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted t...

Report, that if we propose resolution authorizing the 105,000 of expenditures to the Committee Fund is approved in many fund balance will be 4 million 250,287 and we recommend that you approve this resolution. Thank you. Colleagues any questions. Why dont we open it up to Public Comment . Anybody from the public wish to comment on this item . Please step forward. Good morning, board of supervisors thank you for having us today and my name is joslyn and i am with the Housing Program. And the Prog...

To the clerk and it will be on the 18th unless otherwise stated. Thanks, madam clerk, could you call items, 12, 3, together. Authorizing the department of technology to accept a gift of 600,000 in cash from the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for technology and innovation in order to provide fryer wireless Internet Access for the public in concern parks and recreation facilities. Item two isresolution authorizing the department of technology to accept a gift of equipment , software, and servic...

Joined with avalos, the day after his 50th birthday and i want to thank the clerk of the committee, miss linda wo ng, as well as the members of sfgtv covering this meeting. Do you have any announcements. Be sure to silence all cell phone and devices and speaker cards will be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk and it will be on the 18th unless otherwise stated. Thanks, madam clerk, could you call items, 12, 3, together. Authorizing the department of technology to accept...

Thank you for including the arts and Community Based cultural based institutions and i view this as a critical part of the battle against displacement of not only low income residents from the city but some like lopez who came to the board talking about their housing displacement but i know that many arts groups and Community Based organizations are facing that same kind of displacement. I wanted to also add that i believe that mr. Decany coming from the Nonprofit Sector and Community Arts group...

The budget analyst as well. The organizations that do support the arts and concerned about equity that we really need to be doing something as a city to insure that we can keep up our Cultural Heritage here in San Francisco. With the raising cost effecting many, and so we actually met with Arts Organizations and tom from the arts commission, and kind of look at how we can address this issue and here to provide m outline for what we discussed and also want to thank amy chan and supervisor and pre...

Item three is,resolution retroactively authorizing the department of technology to accept a gift of equipment, software, and services from ruckus wireless, inc. , with a total value of 701,894 in order to provide free wireless access to the internet along market street. Okay, thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, and this is an item that i had introduced a number of months ago and i want to thank supervisor avalos for being at our initial announcement last year, something that i am excited to brin...

The cultural equity realm as well. And i wanted to say that i do want to know, a little bit more about how the nonprofit work group is progressing and if the report and recommendations will be done by april kind of on schedule, and also, had a question on how do we insure equitable distribution especially the arts funds and i know that the Arts Commission have a role with their significant ininvolvement in the cultural equity for the arts but those are some of the questions but i am supportive o...

Talked about how the rising costs in the city and commercial rents is leading to an exodus of the Community Based nonprofits and supervisor avalos and many of the arts groups, especially small, Community Based organizations and Community Based groups that do work in the cultural equity realm as well. And i wanted to say that i do want to know, a little bit more about how the nonprofit work group is progressing and if the report and recommendations will be done by april kind of on schedule, and a...

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