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Good morning. Welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee, carmen chu, joined by supervisor kim. Supervisor avalos is unfortunately tied up at a bay quality air Quality Management meeting. I would like to entertain a motion to excuse him. Our clerk is mr. Victor young. At sfgtv we have mark bunch and jesse larson. Announcements . Yes. Please silence cell phones and devices. Complete speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk...

To sfmta. Is there no deferred maintenance here and other garages that it would be more appropriately used for . Well, thats what this bond issuance is for, in terms of an mta wide, so we can address concerns related to all the garages, not just japan center. Or Sutter Stockton. So, that is our main concern, is that knowing that not only this garage needs improvements, but citywide as well. I understand that, but that seems to me like youre taking bond money, then, and transferring it through a ...

[applause] [inaudible] [cheers and applause] good afternoon supervisors. My name is dave canner and the acting director for seiu 1021 San Francisco. I want to start by saying its really unacceptable that the community has to be out here begging every year and yet private for profit contractors never have to do this. That is absolutely unacceptable and i think thats a struggle were going to need your support in fixing in the coming years. Its just unacceptable. I want to speak about the where we ...

Cost of living and food and everyday costs and were talking about wages that are pretty low and these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. They deserve to have Family Health care where a lot of folks dont have. Its so expensive that some of them use public assistance. Its unacceptable. White the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increas...

Demorizing and our jobs are point scpls cant do the work and not to mention we have small salaries and for these reasons and more were asking for the 4 so its imperative these services are funded and we get these and we dont need the americas cup. Nonprofits dont care about americas cup and the kaiser increase and taking money out of the general fund also we dont care about that and please give us the 4 . [applause] hi my name is kaitlyn and a researcher at seiu 10 to one representing nonprofits...

And jesse larson. Announcements . Yes. Please silence cell phones and devices. Complete speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will be on the october 23rd, 2012 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Just going back to the earlier comments, supervisor avalos unfortunately is tied up at the bay air quality district and will not be able to attend in time. Do we have a motion to excuse . ...

Policies in place and better streets plan and the mayors pedestrian strategy prop b i dont know how many more times the voters and the mayor can say we want safer and complete streets. And yet we have this push back and sometimes it seems like the political will is not there to say we need to move forward with these projects so i wonder if you can comment on how to go about doing that because its been a lot of frustration for a lot of us. I feel that were seeing when the outreach is done with a ...

We came to seven straight about 10 years ago. 7th street about 10 years ago. The environment is huge. It is stronger than willpower. Surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. You are making it safer. Push, push. That is better. When i start thinking, i see it actually sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. It is like watching something being spawned. You go in, ...

A race only oracle can win thats not a thing about the americas cup. By righttwo thats the highest level of quoting they have a tack all composition i want to request as the negotiations go forward i ask and appreciate your discussion as how the costs wont be as high because weve done the performance already so in the future Fire Department i think it make sense that we are able to understand get a better commitment from alison and oracle about, you know, they would pay more for using our facili...

Was to maintain the vitality of these shopping district, neighborhood district, and that commitment still stands today with the nonprofit board that i serve under, ive been privileged to serve under because they really are committed to bettering the community for which these garages are residing in. And one example i wanted to give you as far as really trying to quantify the knowledge and experience and commitment, retail [speaker not understood]. Im happy to say were fully occupied and theres n...