Neighborhood thank you. Other Public Comment josh. Good evening. Im also a tenant at post and polk im a few blocks and a Community Health care worker additional familiar with this organization theyll providing Mental Health Services People coming to see their psychiatrist next to a hospital that already provides Mental Health services i dont expect my neighborhood will notice those people interest there is a wall walgreens across the street so if theres an issue of medication theres a walgreens there. Ive lived in this neighborhood nor 20 years ive been doing outreach in this neighborhood for about 15 and very clear about the kinds of people that do the sort of things were concerned about. This is not this group not thirty this population. So thank you very much i hope you support to there are there being no other Public Comment. No, we havent received any. Commissioners we have the consent calendar the committee brought forgot a request for the approval roaming is there further commen
Island for a responsibility technical process and inclusive process to help to guide decisions combh it comes time to provide that policy were hoping to get that grant. Thank you local level from is subway we appreciate the staff work as well as the California Transportation Commission for advancing state fund for the central subway project and mta will stay on schedule for the large construction project to insure we will be protected from any freeze from the high funds. One area bay grant area from our programming direct Examination Division thank you to ann draw and other for working with the California Transportation Commission we were able to do some great work to insure that over subscription doesnt harm the one bay area grant this projects are a reminder of the Second Street project and the masonic streets project. There had been a proposal to ship those out but working with mta weve keep the the year of programming intact on the Transbay Center we congratulate the city on the es
Lunch and make sure the kids are getting cal fresh and that whole range are vital to tap into the 36,000. So you are not on the same page . Yes, we are. Its not in our particular budget request but we support. I guess what im looking for is the desire to make sure that how we use dollars, its being used officially and i dont want to go somewhere where we do not need to go. From your collaborative perspective. Yonlt i dont want to add to that. All i can say is our department has been operating in the task force. I can check back with the director if hes in support. I would imagine he is. Okay. Supervisor breed, i understand the task force has home delivered meals and delivery of groceries to isolated and vulnerable. I think the additional outreach money to expend the number of people who are eligible but not signed up for cal fresh is really significant and tremendously urge. I think its 195,000. I will to have dig back to the Security Task force and add that request and work with hsa s
Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National committee. Thanks so much for being with us. You were injured at a softball game. Is everything ok . Raised over 150,000 for the coalition, i pulled my hamstring in the process but it took one for the team. A couple solid base hits before i went down. I will be back in the game next year. [laughter] were glad you are doing well. Lets start with a rock ira q. Conditions have been deteriorating, the president announcing he is sending in 300 special forces. What did you think of that move, and are you a fellow democrats willing to support him if he needs to take other steps like airstrikes . We have to protect our National Security interests. That is first and foremost. Takenk the president has measured steps to guarantee that without issuing ground toops to be able to start slowly step up our assistance to an iraqi focused security effort. The other thing the o president has emphasized is that there are tester gives political house in order.
Trying to get that resolved. That is a major contributing your to the deteriorating situation. There will still be military personnel in harms way. How did the democrats sell that to the American People that we are sending American People back to iraq, a war we said were going to get out of . We have troops are protecting and the american embassy, and so the additional troops to enhance the protection was important. It is a measured response, we have to make sure that we are protecting our National Security interest. We do not want the situation to deteriorate even further because that would compromise our interest even more. Democrats and the american all understand that there is a certain amount that we have to make sure that we do particularly because we unfortunately in the Previous Administration got fully engaged in iraq and went to war in a country under false pretenses. We have, i think of a certain responsibility to address the situation there, particularly as the situation ge