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Okay. Thank you madam clerk so we have five items today and one is a hearing that most of the members of the public are here and well take them out of order and that will be the longest and the others are not long and madam clerk if you call item 1 first. Item 1 is a resolution authorizing the San Francisco department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately 2. 8 million in active Transportation Program funds through the metropolitan Transportation Commission safe routes to School Grants program for a period of for the period september 1, 2017 through august...

The members of the public are here and well take them out of order and that will be the longest and the others are not long and madam clerk if you call item 1 first. Item 1 is a resolution authorizing the San Francisco department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately 2. 8 million in active Transportation Program funds through the metropolitan Transportation Commission safe routes to School Grants program for a period of for the period september 1, 2017 through august 31, 2019. Okay. Thank you madam clerk so i know dph is here to answer questions unless th...

Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the april 26, 2016, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you very much mr. Clerk, call item one. Item one ordinance amending the administrative code to require the prevailing wage for loading or unloading products for city park property and driving of commercial vehicles for that purpose. Thank you. This item was supported by supervisor wiener im going to turn it over to him. Were continuing to work with all folks and looking this so we need m...

Operations. But even though were doing more than weve ever done before, its not enough relative to the need. Contributions are urgently needed. The second prong of our response is diplomacy on humanitarian issues. For several years, we have engaged government officials in the region to encourage them to keep borders open, allow refugees to enter their countries, authorize the work of leading humanitarian organizations, and allow refugees to pursue normal life, as normal as possible given what they have been through. We are part of a chorus of nations that call for the respect of humanitarian p...

Have been suffering from fatigue. I felt in the last year or two that their contributions while increasing were not keeping pace with the needed increases. Certainly europe now is very focused on needing to provide more assistance to help the refugees who are in the middle east and are displaced inside syria and also refugees in the surrounding neighboring countries. Then for a couple of years now we have been trying to encourage gulf states to become routine regular donors to and through United Nations appeals. And i would say weve had mixed success on this. We have seen some very large gener...