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Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Happy new year. This is january 8, 2020, regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am supervisor fewer. I am joined by supervisors walton and mandelman. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Pleplease silence your cell phones. Items today will appear on the january 14th agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. I want to welcome everyone to the first Budget Committee meeting of 2020. I did want to note the committee will be recessing today before 1...

Ladies and gentlemen, the George Washington High School Marching band. [applause] please welcome kayla smith. [applause] good morning, everyone. Hows everybody doing today . Thank you. Thank you for joining us today for this historical occasion. My name is kayla smith, and i will be your mistress of ceremonies for the evening. Growing up in San Francisco d5, hayes valley, to be exact, since the age of four, i have been privileged to receive mentorship from my community. I went from running departments at project level to now earning my internship at nbc this upcoming summer. [applause] ive alw...

Update on where we are regarding our response to vision zero, especially as it pertains to the request that came from the vision zero coalition. And also in terms of our response to the safety and wellbeing of people with disabilities. We have also, this month, as denise mentioned, welcomed our new Council Members. I want to send my thanks and congratulations on behalf of the city and on behalf of the mayor to our new members for your appointment. And thank you very much for being here today. Were very glad to have you. The next few things that i want to talk about are upcoming engagement oppo...

On disability for further information or to request accommodations at mod sfgov. Org. Our next regular meeting will be on friday, november 15, 2019 from 14 in this hearing room. We thank you for joining us today. We will now proceed with roll call. Chair denise . Present. Stephen perman . Here. Alex madrid . Here. Lily marshallfricker. Present. Helen pelzman . Present. Orkid . Helen smolinski . Here. Kate williams is absent. Council member tiffany yu. Present. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you. Well go to action item number 2. Reading approve. Reminder to the guests to speak slowly in the microphone...

And, heather, you were wonderful and provided a lot of information. I, unfortunately, didnt know about your office over the past four years. When i was faced with having to deal with a decision that my sister was being removed from a transplant wait list because she could not speak and could not move half her body, i felt trapped and there was nobody i could talk to. The hospital made the decision. It was only one hospital in this city that performs lung transplants. And we had no choice to take her to another hospital. And i just dont want what happened to my sister to happen to another resid...