Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person and those that are appearing distancely. We look forward to their testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the Third Party Administrators are in administering the mission act. Im also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation, as well. Almost every member of our committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating and is expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title 1 under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs related to Veterans Community care programs and the program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While va officials were
And supervisor walton, our clerk is john carroll and i, of course, want to thank the folks at sfg tv for staffing this meeting, as well as board of supervisors operations it for their hard work. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you very much, mr. Chair. In order to protect the public, Board Members and City Employees during the covid19 health emergency, the room is closed. This is taken pursuant to all various local and state federal orders, declarations and directives. Committee members will attend this meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present in our chamber. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, both San Francisco cable channel 26 and sf gov tv are scrolling a callin number across the screen. It will be available by phone by calling 14156550001, and once youve connected youll be prompted to enter the meeting id, 1462251223. Following that you will press the pound
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Hi, corwin so nice to hear your hi, corwin smaings . Aings oorsmirs missours nevada dance peerng. Welcome to the thursday november 5th meeting of the government audits and oversight. Supervisor gor gordthank you tos committees clerk, john carroll carol, and i would like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. In order to protect the Board Members and public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This precaution is taken to all state and federal orders and declarations and directives. Committee members will be participating in this meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present in our board chamber. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Both San Francisco cable channel 26 and sfgov tv. Org have a number across the korean. Screen. 4156550001. After youve dialed that number and connected to the call, youll be prompted to enter a meeting i. D. The i. D. Is 1465657778. After youve entered the meeting i. D. ,
That the p. O. A. Routinely pulls into meet and confer, matters that are exclusively within the management purview. San francisco deserves better and this city can do better and to hold other bargaining units hostage, because of the police union insistence on not changing its m. O. U. To exclude management matters from meet and confer, is shameful. [bell dings] i would like to [. Clerk thank you very much for participating in the discussion. Mr. Coup, could you connect us to the next caller, please. Caller hi. First of all, [indiscernibl [indiscernible]. And by the way, we can respond to Public Comment under the brown act. So that was misinformation. Also i want to offer my sympathy and appreciation of the courage of the woman who had to experience rape and then mistreatment by the Police Department. Now left on your shoulders to stop this insanity of giving Police Raises without any agreements for transparency or stopping the endless meet and confer closed meetings, that have nothing