Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the january 23rd regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. My name is supervisor mark farrell and im joined by john avalos and eric mar. Mr. Clerk any announcements . Please turn off electronic devices. Copies of any documents to be included must be submitted to the clerk. Thanks mr. Clerk. Call item number one. Resolution authorizing emergency of management performance fiscal year 2012 in the amount of 289,613 from the United States department of Homeland Security through the california Emergency Management agency for the building and sustaining capabilities. Now we have amy to come and speak about it. Good morning chairman farrell members of the committee. The item before you is expense approximately 290,000. Its a general grant for disaster preparation, mitigation, response and recovery here in San Francisco. This grant requires 290,000 match. Its equal amount and its an amount we already budgeted in the current fiscal year through E
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Or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan or email us at journal cspan. Org. A piece this morning from janet hauck, a town Hall Meetings happening across the country, this is what she reports of color that is a bit on what is happening in town Hall Meetings across the country. Here on cspan we have been those town Hall Meetings and if you are interested in watching them, you can go to cspan. Org. Before we came up live here we were showing you a recent town hall meeting with congressman justin [indiscernible] a republican who many of you know is against the nsa program. Nsa, health care, Immigration Reform, it is all on the table for members of congress. What is your message to them . Greensboro, n. C. , what do you think . I am calling about the town hall caller i am calling about the town hall meeting that was played just prior to ,washington journal coming on and it looked like a representative was playing to the fears of the people in the audience. I am sure that he knew what th
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The latest outbreak of highly avian pathogenic influenza has now claimed a large layer operation owned by the nation’s largest egg producer, Cal-Maine Foods. Nearly 2 million birds will be killed at the Texas operation, the company said Tuesday.