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Supervisor peskin good morning welcome to the Transportation Authority meeting for today february 27th. Mr. Clerk, if you could call the role. Clerk calling roll we have quorum. Supervisor peskin we have a motion to excuse commissioner safai made by commissioner breed and seconded by commissioner stephanie. Well take that without objectjectiobjec objection. Im going to talk about two issues we have been discussing here at the ta with increasing frequency, Transportation Network companies and dri...

We have a cspan audience, Live Streaming soap wonderful to have everybody joining us for what they think wilwethink will be at conversation. Im excited about the people weve gathered and the ideas we are going to be discussing. Welcome to the committee for responsible budget for thostherf you who do not know if they Nonpartisan Organization the board of directors or people many of whom are with us today who have run all the bigbudget institutions in washington so the federal reserve, the treasur...

Weve gathered and the ideas we are going to be discussing. Welcome to the committee for responsible budget for thostherf you who do not know if they Nonpartisan Organization the board of directors or people many of whom are with us today who have run all the bigbudget institutions in washington so the federal reserve, the treasury department, omb, the Budget Committees comes of a. To try to have a realistic understanding of the budget improvements are going to be needed to improve the fiscal sit...

Welcome, everyone. It is really tremendous to see so many people in the room for what is a really important issue. It does not get enough tension. For the next hour were going to focus on the peculiar way we choose or president. Not by direct selection of our people, but indirect manner. Electors who then go through process to select our president. Louder. Okay. Can you hear me now if i speak like this . Okay. The election of duty experience that was disheartening in other ways with our panelist...

Subcommitt subcommittee. Represents from advocacy and Veterans Service groups testified as well as officials with the departments of veterans affair, labor and housing and urban development. Subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Its my pleasure to welcome you to todays subcommittee, joint subcommittee on health and subcommittee on Economic Opportunity oversight hearing on veteran homelessness. Want to apologize first for being a little late. I had ano...

On the peculiar way that we choose our president , not through a direct election by the people, but in an indirect by 51 separate elections to elect 538 electors who then go through a process to select our president. Louder i can you hear me now if speak like this . The election of donald trump marked the fifth time in our history that the Electoral College awarded the presidency to the candidate that did not win the most votes. The experience of the last election was also disheartening in other...

Vice chair for life. [laughter] all right. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Complete speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items asked upon today will appear on the february 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. All right. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call the first item . Item number one, establishing the gary mason...

Opportunity oversight hearing on veteran homelessness. I want to apologize first for being a little late. I had another obligation in my responsibility on the budget committee. And my breathe brad winstrup, chair of the Health Subcommittee will not be able to make it and so im going to preside. We have the vha subcommittee chair Julie Brownley and her capable leadership. Thanks for being here. Then my friend from texas and Ranking Member of the subcommittee for Economic Opportunity, orourke is j...

Thank you for sfgov tv. Can we have a roll call please. Commissioner bleiman commissioner perez Vice President thomas. And well note president tan is excused. Great. The first item of business is general Public Comment for items not on the agenda. I have one card for general Public Comment from michael noltey. Theres my mic. You have two minutes. Can i have overhead . It actually says five. Anyway, i wanted to point out that the guidelines for mentioning neighborhood outreach, i was at one of th...

To positively impact the people. And its no secret were losing a lot of people from San Francisco that can no longer afford to stay here, and this is an example of what can be done to try to keep people here and to work with people, create jobs for those that are here and as you said also, bring people back. This is really a thoughtful project. I was struck as i was reviewing the project before the meeting, the wonderful little details, too, and the things that people got right, from figuring ou...