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To make two points. Moving forward, i think theres there are some changes that can be made in terms of the process, how budget works in terms of the board and the mayor and one of the things that i think we could do Going Forward is maybe getting the budget even earlier so we have more time to digest a lot of the things that are here. With that said, i think this chair and this committee did a tremendous with the process. I want to thank you chair and how you have interacted with the districts. ...

So that is incredible unity in the city. Moving to another topic because we will cover these later i wanted to make sure i mentioned that within these last few months through the cooperation of our city administrator naomi kelly we have appointed a manager of the caps program, and of course that is the Community Action plan for seismic safety. It is a plan we wanted to make sure that was lead by someone who can immediately get on the ground and figure out all of the things that we need to do to ...

Turk street Emergency Operations center. First of all i want to thank everybody. Anybody wearing orange gets a special treat in my eyes today. Anyway were still celebrating and i never knew that wearing orange and the giants and sports will be so closely connected to what we do in Emergency Management but it is and it is for good reason because our citys success is really dependent upon inviting thousands more people here to enjoy our resources here in the city, to tax us a little bit on it, but...

Be proud of captain stephani and margo kelly. Its hard to be an effective supervisor without having an incredible staff and i think that the fact that everybody has commented on a tremendous job that you have done, its not just only a reflection of you, its a reflection of them. So i echo everything that has been said and the fact that were here so early is a testimony to the work that has been done by the chair and by every member of the Budget Committee, thank you for the sacrifices you have h...

Good afternoon. This is our Disaster Council meeting of october 26. Thank you all for coming. Welcome to our Emergency Operations center. As you know we generally meet at city hall but today is a very special day that you will learn about as we unfold our agenda and thank you again for coming. Im going to turn the table over to mayor lee who is going to give some opening remarks. Thank you. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to our turk street Emergency Operations center. First of all i want to...

Encouraged all of the Public Safety departments to work well ahead of this, and i want to thank them for constantly keeping me and many of you on the sf Alert Program and texting us and making sure we were assured that the critical departments were working together just in case and its always about just in case. Right herald . The red cross knows this more than anyone and its about being prepared and again i want to give great kudos to all the Public Safety divisions of the city from the police ...

Administrative services, but also just where we stand on what we can do about lift inside car and car to go . I did read the new puc rulings. I have to admit im a little lost as to where that leaves us and what our options are now. I think it would be really helpful to get an update on that. I know it concerns it concerns all of us as city people and taxi riders. Especially the insurance part. Especially the insurance part. It worries me to have people getting into these cars with people they ha...

Done, its not just only a reflection of you, its a reflection of them. So i echo everything that has been said and the fact that were here so early is a testimony to the work that has been done by the chair and by every member of the Budget Committee, thank you for the sacrifices you have had to make in the last few weeks. He want to make two i want to make two points. Moving forward, i think theres there are some changes that can be made in terms of the process, how budget works in terms of the...

That. But that is all that i have to report this evening. Commissioners anything further . I wanted to give an update on where we are. Last week we had a little bit of a confusion about the taser issue. Since then, it looks like we have a couple of potential dates for Community Meetings and i wanted to put it out there and please chime in if i am saying anything incorrectly. October 22nd at 6 00. And this is a suggested location, of course if there is community input, it could be somewhere else....

So sworn officers get a significant amount of Cultural Diversity training. And it is just this other civilian branch that is. It is their training that will get at least an hour. Right. But their training is much shorter than the 30 weeks that the training officers get. Sure. Thanks for the clarification. Commissioner loftus i am impressed with the efforts that you have made and you have the responsibility to keep everybody safe. If someone cannot speak the language it is difficult to understand...