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Good morning everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance subcommittee for wednesday march 2, 2016. My name is mark farrell. I am the chair of the committee. I am joined by supervisor norman yee. Our vice member katy tang will join us shortly and i know supervisor david campos is here for one of the items today. I would like to thank linda wong the clerk of the committee and sfgtv. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes mr. Chair. Please silence all cel...

Initial 50. Has there been any tracking of whether or not parents add into it or other people add into fund beyond the 50 . Yes, families have saved 1. 7 million of their own money in the account and no city funding that. Is Family Savings and 50 of the Family Savings qualify for free and reduced lunch. Theyre very low income. Thank you very much. Thats a good sign. Thank you and to the department of the treasurer and Tax Collector this is a program that we lead in San Francisco and proud to hav...

Case. The headline is the judge has dismissed the competency case. The winds that fight. Chairman of a company that is privately held. He is also on the board for cbs. Good afternoon. I am alix steel. The great fed disconnect. There is a chance of a rate hike in june. They are warning to not cannot the fed. Torlet, there is a new vote impeach the brazilian president. Crudethe Worlds Largest exporter must find a way to compete against shale. Head over tos julie hyman. Its been a mixed day so far ...

Okay. Thank you madam clerk so we have five items today and one is a hearing that most of the members of the public are here and well take them out of order and that will be the longest and the others are not long and madam clerk if you call item 1 first. Item 1 is a resolution authorizing the San Francisco department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately 2. 8 million in active Transportation Program funds through the metropolitan Transportation Commission ...

The members of the public are here and well take them out of order and that will be the longest and the others are not long and madam clerk if you call item 1 first. Item 1 is a resolution authorizing the San Francisco department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately 2. 8 million in active Transportation Program funds through the metropolitan Transportation Commission safe routes to School Grants program for a period of for the period september 1, 2017 thro...

The most of the session, there is a tugofwar going on. As david mentioned, Energy Stocks are performing poorly. You can see that they are up off the lows but still down along with materials. There is a commodities selloff pushing them down. On the other sides health care, up by 1. 1 percent. I wanted to dig into the rally that we are seeing. If you look at large cap pharma companies, allegan reports earnings tomorrow. Johnson johnson on the right. These of the biggest contributors in terms of th...

Israeli army in the occupied west bank. And back on stage in paris, the eagles of death metal join u2 just weeks after the massacre at the paris nightclub. The United States has announced plans for an International Summit on the war in syria. Which will be held in new york next week. The u. S. Secretary of state announced the meeting alongside undersecretary general bangladesh ban kimoon in paris. We specifically talked about the process taking place now, and depending on the outcome of both the...

Now, wmur news 9 tonight. Shelley heroin is now the most important problem facing New Hampshire, according to a new it s the first time in eight haven good evening, i m shelley walcott. Close to half of New Hampshire residents say they personally know someone who has abused heroin in the last 5 years, that number jumping to 60 for residents 18 to 35yearsold. Some of those people came out tonight to a forum in derry. Wmur s Jennifer Crompton was there. Jennifer about 150 parents and educators sho...

The world. Im ali velshi, and this is real money. Scenes of death and destruction rocking our world tonight in both Eastern Europe and the middle east. Im going to bring you details about an plane crash that left no survivors. But first the latest on the conflict in gaza. In just the last few hours, israel began a ground offensive against gaza sending troops in, it says to destroy weapons and tunnels used by hamas militants. Witnesses reported heavy shelling by israel along the gaza border. Isra...

Thought about todays hearing as it relates to cdc, it is this. With the recent incidents, we recognize the pattern at cdc where we need to greatly improve the culture of safety and i am overseeing sweeping measures to improve that culture of safety. Cdc works 24 7 and our scientists protect americans from threats, including naturally occurring threats like ebola and mers and drug resistant bacteria such as anthrax. But we must do that work more safely and we will. Theres a recap of the recent in...