President Trump Federal budget is not a surprise, but nonetheless they remain disturbing in stark contrast to invest in infrastructure, he has proposed the budget of 16. 2, billion reflect as a 13 percent cut, with major impacts to transit, and hitting urban and Rural Community as like, the budget proposes eliminating all future funds for grants that we know as the new starts program when are not a part of the signed full Funding Grant agreements. This will effect several major transit projects that have undergone years of review and development and leverage significant state and local voter approved funds, including cal train, and barts expansion and, vehicles and train and control and other local and regional priorities such as better Market Street and brt improvement and cal train, but the impact would not be limited to the region as jobs that are associated with these projects span across the state and nation, in the hundreds of thousands. I want to thank the representatives from c
Budget and finance committee. I want to acknowledge my colleague to the right is vice chair supervisor norman yee and to my left is katy tang. Today were clerked by john carol and lynda wong will provide Technical Expertise and backup. Any announcements . Yes, please silence all technical devices and cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the april 25th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Call first item. Clerk resolution designating those agencies qualified to participant in the 2017 joint tbund raising drive for officers and employees of the city and county. Im joan letter, mesky. Weve reviewed all seven applications and find them all to be in compliance with the administrative code. Do you have any questions . That was a quick presentation. Okay. Thank. Lets see. Colleagues, any other questions . Questions . None . Okay. Well, sthawrchg. Well go to Public Comment. Ladies and gentlemen, this is time for Public Comment where you have two minute
15 ab for cases Howard Street from the Supervisor Office and the project manager is amenable to a continuance to july 14th. Okay. Thank you any Public Comment on this item . Proposed for continuance seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner Vice President richards move to continue items 14 and 1 ab to july 14th second thank you, commissioners commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore. Commissioner wu commissioner Vice President richards a and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to and places. Excuse me be continued to july 14th laughter thank you zoning administrator. Commissioners under our consent calendar consent calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this o
Serious and rigorous analytical work and research to get us to where we are today and i want to thank the Parks Community and parks advocates generally. I see Rachel Norton here from the parks and lands and for pushing us to be the best Parks Department i think we can be so lets talk a little bit about this lens, and how we hope to apply it. It starts with the actual charter language which we have which asks us to develop a set of equity metrics to establish a baseline of existing services and resources in low income neighborhoods and disadvantaged communities compared to those Resources Available to the city as a whole and literally maybe the day after the proposition passed we began thinking how we were going to do this so we have been at this sort of internally from an analytical standpoint for quite some time. I want to emphasize this is an evolvingity riffive conversation. There is no perfect answer. You dont immediately land on the perfect formula and metric. Demographics change