and then she's our full time kind of grant writer and grant coordinator. but each grant we put together, she's kind of the overall project facilitator, and she'll work with the program teams. and so it's never just an individual effort, even though she's the lead of that effort. but that's kind of her mostly full time job. and she also does some press and some media and some heavy duty blueprint stuff on the side. but she's essentially full time for grants when the occasion requires it. thanks, charles. any other questions? joe? so, you know, the policy program is a new program. and as such, we don't have, you know, a year over year comparison that we can make on this. so i'll just point out that that, you know, there's currently about $100,000 deficit. and again, that's related to some general fund reductions and the issues that we're facing in that area. but otherwise, you know, this is the first year of the of this program in its current form. so i don't have anything to compare it to. all right. you've heard a lot from me today. i'm here to share the a

this is a grant entitled clinical from nih through texas and the grants is part of a the big southwestals a research network in the fat i forget a national institute within nih for the research and determine the efficiency of the extended release of medication. compared to move forward the injects for the same cocaine and the grants increase represents a $13,000 increase bringing the total to and 4 households will be march 24th through 2025 and this grants is extensive opioid substance abuse site based program to the department of justice and the goal to create an overdose review with with the office of the overdose review team are review overdose and increase identifying the ways to prevention overdose. the total amount one $.6 million and the grants if october 2024 through september 27th. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. morale no questions hear from the next depa board of supervisors and commissioner mandelman. >> beverly with rec and park provide you a little bit of background in september of 2024 we were awarded from the federal highway administration and they do the rec and park f

this high grant rate was not just aligned with the patents grants of an exclusive right, but also provided a level of certainty important to both patent owners and infringers. in 2006, the supreme court issued ebay versus merck exchange and dramatically altered the patent landscape. under the test imposed by ebay, injunctive relief is no longer certain. instead, some patent owners can be more certain they will not be granted an injunction and will have to settle for an ongoing royalty set by a court while the infringer is permitted to continue using the patent owner's innovative technology. studies after ebay show that permanent injunctions were granted much less frequently than before ebay, especially for patent licensing firms. there's some new research that shows that patent owners, regardless of business type, are not even asking for injunctive relief at the same rate as they did before ebay. if you take into account these patent owners who don't even seek injunctive relief, the decrease in granted injunctions where infringement is found is down 66% for operating companies and 91% for

under the grant. public works would act as administrator to ensure the work is completed as specified. >> sorry for the interruption. >> oh sure. no caption. is that requirement for ada? >> sorry to interrupt you, do you understand what is happening? >> yes, no problem. >> he will coordinate with sfgov. >> i think sfgov is capturing it, it's just not showing. >> oh okay. >> we are not broadcasting today, it's not live streaming today but it's being recorded by webex. >> can i proceed? >> okay. okay as the bayview connections is part of the candlestick development area located in the southeast corner in san francisco in district 10. following procurement process that began in 1998, cp development col.l.c.was selected by three applicant now the office of community investment o.c. ii to be the master developer adjacent shipyard phase 2 redevelopment areas. the developer is obligate today construct the improve--obligated to improvement. and is a owner of the portion of the land that would be constructed u

now, i grant you that unity and this broad expansive sense is aspirational.re and who we can be. but there isn't much to be gained by our prayers. if we act in ways that further deepen the divisions among us. our scriptures are quite clear about this. that god is never impressed with prayers, when actions are not informed by them. nor does god spare us from the consequences of our deeds, which always in the end matter more than the words we pray. those of us gathered here in the cathedral, we are not naive about the realities of politics. when power and wealth and competing interests are at stake, when views of what america should be are in conflict, when there are strong opinions across a spectrum of possibilities and starkly different understandings of what the right course of action is, there will be winners and losers when votes are cast. decisions made that set the course of public policy and the prioritization of resources. it goes without saying that in a democracy, not everyone's particular hopes and dreams can be realized in a given legislative sessi

we talked earlier about the grant time process, about these grants. so a lot of times contractors and our consulting engineer members are involved in the initial stages of putting together budget pricing for some of these grants and we do that with good faith, hoping, you know, that they're going to escalate maybe a year out. and then we get a call three years later that, hey, the grant got approved and the price now is 1/3 of what it should be. so, yes, to answer your question, everything is -- we see that continually going up. mr. begich: this is a question for anyone who might have an answer to it. do you have any suggestions on how we can drive down the cost of new rail construction? mr. jefferies: not to hit on the same theme but i would say, getting projects approved more quickly to allow that money to be put in the ground more quickly. not to circumvent any appropriate review, but let's just put some certainty into the process so that the money you have now is used and you don't need twice as much 10 years from now when the project's approved.

clerk call item pedestrian safety improvement project for grant performance period from grant contract execution through august 30, 2029; project completion, pursuant to charter,section 9.118(b); and authorizing the rpd general manager to enter into amendments or increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the grant contract or this resolution. madam chair. >> thank you and today, we have rec and park here. >> good morning supervisor chan and budget committee members i want this to be bigger 1962 the visitacion avenue visitacion avenue bicycle and pedestrian safety improvement project it is a e four for the grant it is $750,000 it is part of the play gown and for visitacion avenue bicycle and pedestrian safety improvement project and administered through the highway administration the metropolitan transportation commission we're moving into the design phase with construction of summer 2016 that's it i want to say this was an tomb previously on the full board think agenda with that, go to public comment on this item. >> yes. any me

the high grant rate was not just aligned with the patent grant of exclusive right but provided a level of certainty important abou -- important to both patent owners and infringers. in 2006 ebay versus mercexchange dramatically altered the patent landscape. injunctive relief is no longer certain. instead, some patent owners can be more certain they will not be granted injunction and will have to settle for ongoing royalty set by court. the infringer is permitted to continue using the patent owner's innovative technology. studies show permanent injunctions were granted much less frequently than before ebay especially for patent licensing firms. new research shows patent owners, regardless of business type, aren't even asking for injunctive relief as the same rate as before ebay. take into account the patent owners that don't seek injunctive relief. the decrease in granted injunctions, where infringement is found, is down 66% for operating companies and 91% for licensing firms for the shift from a presumption of injunctive relief to a patent system for injunctive relief is uncertain has

jeffries just to ask on that of the wsrc grants and other similar grants can you talk about the value of that and would ask your help to work at local tactical level and tacticalal way to speed up all f these? thank you for the question. pedestrian motor vehicle accidents act crossings are the toughest safety challenge we continue to face dramatic decreases every other type of accident. that starts the first of all his every opportunity eliminating the crossing. with the grant you referred you, that is huge. while we wish we had endless sources of funds to separate all high-impact crossings, the reality is we don't. secondary we've got to have the best safety equipment there. warning devices through section 130 program. drivervi education, public education through partners such as operation lifesaver, if you've not done any work with them would certainly love to get you involved withlo that. making the public aware when you see track thanks trains is a common sense statement that not something is alwaysns reality. i would love to work with you and your office to continue to prioritize

first one would be is there any chance that the new government could say no to this grant the grant is so the agreement is executed. so it's we yeah, we have an executed grant agreement with the duty. >> okay. and it's one of those you know if you don't use it you lose it. >> but that's that is always that's always possible. yeah. okay. but were you trying to vocalize this as soon as possible? >> yeah. okay. thank you so much. thank you. >> okay. hearing no other comments from the board, are there comments from the public? none. thank you very much for for this good news. >> okay. next item please. item number eight consideration of proposed san francisco park code amendment applying the park code to the treasure yerba buena islands park system. >> peter somerville will present on this item. >> thanks, kate. good afternoon directors peter somerville with of staff. it's a great segway talking about being able to get more people up to our beautiful parks to the item in front of us today talking about necessary governance and rule setting for our parks. so i will walk the board through a

we have grants that t■:hat wind down and we enter into new grants.ee some of that business happening. >> we also have through our funding sources some ability in from past fiscal years you have a budget and we often don't spend it all and we have some receipt, some savings we retain and we are able to access some of that savings and use that funding in in years like now. so i think today and i think the next couple of months you might see some of that that savings coming forward. >> and i think what's unique about that that savings is that it's one time in nature and one time in nature is it's not ongoing funding that's available and when we think about sustainable budgeting and budget reductions, we're really looking at reducing ongoing costs. so things like this where we are spending these savings are not typically part of that that budget reduction conversation. >> it does mean that when we use savings dollars we have to be very careful in how we use them because they are going to expire. so we really need to focus them on things that are truly sh

now, i grant you that unity and this broad expansive sense is aspirational and it's a lot to pray fors a spectrum of possibilities and starkly different understandings of what the right course of action is, there will be winners and losers when votes are cast, decisions made that set the course of public policy and the prioritization of resources. it goes without saying that in a democracy not everyone's particular hopes and dreams can be realized in a given legislative session or a presidential term, not even in a generation, which is to say not everyone's specific prayers for those of us who are people of prayer, not everyone's prayers will be answered in the way we would like, but for some the loss of their hopes and dreams will be far more than political defeat, but instead a loss of equality and dignity and their livelihoods. given this then, is true unity among us even possible and why should we care about it? well, i hope we care. i hope we care because the culture of contempt that has become normalized in this country threatens to destroy us. we are all bombarded daily with me

and when we do the grants, we also have one of the prior grant awards or awardees to come in and talk about the impact. and, you know, last year we had biotech partners come. they work with schools in berkeley and oakland high school students, and they had the students come in and talk about the impact of being a part of this. their their biotech, the work that they do. and i mean, everybody's eyes are like, oh, wow, look at what we were able to do. and we know we couldn't do that. i mean, i know i can $1,000, i can do $100,000, i can't give $100,000. >> and not many people can. and to be a change maker, though, people want to be change makers and they want to be able to impact and affect the things that that they care about and that other people care about. okay, so people are watching and they're saying, one, how do i give? how do i receive? right. so let's talk about if you're a nonprofit out there and you're saying, okay, jane, i have a big idea, tell me how you get these transformational grants to people and who really should be applying here. >> right. so any nonprofit for our o

and so a single grant cycle, a second grant cycle that can actually be the death of careers that would reading your msnbc column and the fact that you were in a meeting and were supposed to go to a meeting, rather was abruptly canceled on tuesday with no rescheduling. and you've put together a bunch of researchers and scientists. you come together to compare notes and further the process of the grant. let me ask you about forbes, which reports the national cancer institute is one of the biggest recipients of funding from the national institutes of health. gets about, what, $7 billion a year? could private funding make up totally, or make up at least a significant amount in what could potentially be missed? and are there pitfalls to a privately funded approach? >> i mean, certainly we're all going to be as creative as possible if nih funding is not coming through. and almost every researcher i know has together a mixed portfolio of some private foundation funding, maybe a little bit from their university. but really the backbone of research is nih and other federal dollars. so it's hard

and then the housing endorsement of the grants.t thriving to marry they get the fund they need and through mtc and other replacement vehicles light rail and buses and 2023 electrified buses and then, of course, funding facilities for a of those including the poters yard replacement yard and housing projects in presidio and thank you for the opportunity to the street side vision zero means much need focus on the high injury network he seeing prop l and advantec consulting engineers tax that are our proposition d and later on talking about the a many of those focused on the pedestrian improvement and traumatizing and quick build i'll not go over all of them you'll see them over and over but a major policy a couple years ago that is finly starting to initiate this year and on the streets reconstruction iope you're seeing the benefits in our district and citywide, of course, with the taval the repaving and the richmo and you'll see in here ty really are sprinklers throughout the city and the setback that is ppening as we speak this com

discretionary grants. >> of funds. >> to their pet projects. so omb, led by russ. >> vought. >> felt it was necessary. >> to. >> protect taxpayer resources to issue clearer guidance establishing for these discretionary. grants of funding that are not directed by congress, that they go through a political approval process at the agency. >> so so let's get into that, because a number of government funded organizations. so these are organizations like meals on wheels, right? their job, their mission. it's a private organization. they get grants from the federal government. they feed seniors. um, meals on wheels is currently in the dark. they don't know. does this order affect us? does this mean we're not going to have any more funding coming in? they feed like 2 million seniors. so i'm just wondering, first of all, why a pause, an investigation? sure, i get that auditing. sure. why a pause? and what about jake? >> why don't you spend money? you can't get it back. so in other words, you don't. it's if you don't put federal programs under review tha

title one education grants. that's to help struggling schools and struggling neighborhoods that could be cut back on temporary assistance for needy families. state grants for child care. head start, a program to help with the education of children up to the age of five. not just their education, but also their their mental health, their physical health, their all the things they need to start off life in a productive way. special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. hud's community development block grant programs. epa grants to states and localities for clean water. all of these are potentially up for grabs here. in addition, there are advocates out there who are saying programs like suicide helplines, hotlines, you could have women who are abused by their husbands tonight and who go to a shelter and are told, you can't come in here because we can't be open because of this cut. same could be true for homeless people out there. there are all sorts of programs out here that are potenti

so that grant is just beginning. so we're really looking forwarding looking forward to partnering with matta on that work and with the larger kind of case community and we'll share updates as that moves forward. and that's all i have so i'm happy to answer any questions. >> the commissioners are there any questions? >> well just congratulations on the grant and welcome. >> i haven't seen you before so so many new people. this is so exciting. i was just wondering i don't know if you mentioned it how much was the grant? >> so it's 300,000 over three years. so it'll give us a chance to really kind of build the infrastructure, the admin support looking at that outreach and engagement to other organizations that are either not participating in case right now or that maybe don't have the full capacity how do we strengthen theirocacy? how do we strengthen then the advocacy that case can do as a whole and also in a lot of what case does is really capacity building for programs. so community education, professional developmen

you mentioned to the raised grants. that example, in the state of georgia, a local applicant received one of those grants. two years after they were selected, they have yet to even. it took them two years to execute a grant agreement with u.s. dot before they were even able to access the dollars. we are seeing that across discretionary programs. inefficiency associated with putting out a no flow, selecting the projects at awarding the projects. the money is just not spending out and creating jobs in communities at the rate congress hoped it would. it does create jobs and have the impact of formula dollars because of the money almost always goes out in the same year or two it is authorized. rep. crawford: mr. dellinger, on the issue of road safety. here testing for drug abuse is an issue i have heard from constituents about quite a bit over the years and the federal highway administration has been dragging its feet on regulations allowing here testing to be used in the drug and alcohol clearinghouse. i hear anecdotally a

he's on the east side of grant.what we're going to do is we're going to be the primaries on the takedown. so manny and i are going to come in, and then you guys can either go in first or we could go in first. it's up to you. do you guys want to be the lead car or the follow car? so i think we have enough space to go right in the middle. well, i was thinking we have enough space that we can both kind of just. oh, yeah. we both roll up together. position from. i'll just roll up. yeah. so we'll roll up together. we'll set it up. manny's going to start. we're going to turn on the lights. take them down with all the all the spotlights and shit. but before we execute, you're going to go and pass and then set up with the spike spike strips. and then dried pasta on on post. yeah. on post. you're going to let us know when you're set. once you're set then we'll. is he going to drive past it? yeah. he's going to. i was going to say because then you let us know if he's in the car, would you be open to taking that route south on

do you have any concerns about that order to freeze grant aid? speaker johnson: i don't. i fully support it. we got a two pager today explaining an answer to some of the faq's. it is a temporary pause for some programs, it could be an hours long pause. some programs have already been approved. i believe this is an application of common sense. we want to make sure the orders of the new president are being complied with with the guard to these programs. i think these will be quick reviews. i don't think this is a major interruption of programming. it specifies in the omb guidance that any direct 82 individuals is not -- any direct aid to individuals is not included in this. the people want us to be good stewards of the taxpayer. the biden administration engaged in a lot of abuses of the programs. we have to make sure that is not continuing, so this is the appropriate thing for a new administration to do. i think it will be harmless in the end. emily: between this grant freeze directive, the firing of the inspector general's without notifying congress, causing foreign aid pa

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also, title one education grants, state grants for child care and the head start program. the freeze is set to go into effect this afternoon. cnn's jeff zeleny joins us now. so, jeff, help us make sense of this. the impact that this could have. and what is the white house saying? >> pamela, we certainly will try. but the reality is this is was so sudden last night that federal agencies right now are just trying to make sense of the full scope of this. one thing is very clear that this is one more example, one more part of the president trying to remake his vision of the u.s. government. this is not a surprise. this is what he ran on to shrink some programs. obviously, in some cases to make room, perhaps for his expansion of his tax cuts and other things just to eliminate programs that he is not supportive of. but the question here is how much is the reach of this? so grants and loans and federal assistance by 5 p.m. today, they will all be put on hold. now that runs the gamut across the agencies. you are pointing out a few examples there from school lunch programs, but als

another is a reduction in grant revenue which is simply a matter of the mellon grant revenue having been fully recognized in fiscal 25. the grant period extends to fiscal 26 but the revenue has all been recognized already a slight change from last year and prior year's budget presentations is that we have as you can see on the third line broken out the symphony funds that come to us pursuant to the charter and pass through us to the symphony. >> we thought it was perhaps a bit more transparent to really reflect how much of the general fund support for our department is retained by the department for our purposes versus passing through. previously those were condensed into one general fund line. >> our overall budget request operating plus capital will fluctuate just basically given the nature of some capital projects being one time. so the overall budget does decline and request i should say budget request important to underscore that does decline moderately from the fiscal 25 to 26 and then increases again driven by a large capital project which we'll talk about on a later slide from fi

a waiver was granted back in 2019. as part of that communication the mayor's office stated that filling these positions can be very challenging given the unique qualification requirements and that not granting these types of waivers could create situations where only retirees or members of very large firms are able to serve on the hpc. to the second factor mr. baldauf has stated that not receiving a waiver may lead to a situation where it's not feasible for him to continue serving on the hpc while meeting his obligations to his firm. >> based on the factors based on these factors and the limited nature of the request especially the fact that mr. baldauf is not seeking a waiver to communicate with the hpc or the planning department or its employees staff recommends the commission grant the waiver to mr. baldauf that's limited as specified in the staff memo specifically that it's only applicable to the entities listed in the waiver request that it's only applicable to situations where other members of mr. mold ups firm c

if confirmed would you direct agencies to withhold grant funding from eligible grant applications that hold the front political identities or views from president-elect trump? mr. vought: we make decisions based on policy grounds, the laws in place, and we don't look at people's. . political inclinations sen. hassan: even if you somehow found out, you would not allow that to influence your decision making at omb? mr. vought: correct. sen. hassan: thank you. several marino -- sen. marino: i probably can't imagine that like me you are thinking to yourself, why am i doing this? i think about this every once in a while. i have to confess i was a fan of years even before thought about running for public office and i think your selection to run omb is an incredible service you're about to provide to the country. some of the good news i've heard in this hearing is a lot of talk about the united states constitution. i wasn't born in this country, i came here as a young kid, i had a tough mom who made me study for the citizenship test. she made me read all 88 federalist papers when i was a kid.

i'm grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis. the 5 basically surrounded. >> la county from the ocean to the valley. the hearst in the lydia fires there in santa clarita. the woodley fire is burning in the san fernando valley area. but by far the 2 most destructive fires are the eaton fire burning in altadena. the palisades fire in pacific palisades and that palisades fire as ed. grant mentioned earlier is the most destructive in la city history. kron four's kerman has been following the blazes. see joins us live in the newsroom now with the latest and. >> well, you know, just imagine for a minute you've lived in your home for 40 years. raised kids there and with a moment's notice, you have 5 minutes to collect your most precious items and escape only to return the next day to find your home has burned to the ground. that's the reality for many in southern california today. this is what it looked like from the air over pacific palisades wednesday morning thousands of firefighters continue to battle the palisades fire that's destr

each new year's day, family and friends celebrate oscar grant. his mother said her son loved music and life. he was remembered today at an annual vigil at the fruitvale bart station, where he died on new year's day 2009. grant was just 22 years old and left behind a young daughter who is now in college in 2010. the officer who shot grant was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and served 11 months in prison. the oscar grant foundation was formed that same year and has been providing college scholarships to young oaklanders since its carrying out oscar's legacy. oscar loved people, and yet he wasn't able to live out his life the way that he wanted to because he was tragically cut. but because of that, we want to continue to carry on his legacy byelping those who need help. the foundation also helps bridge the gap between young black men and law enforcement. his mom says the foundation is an ongoing vigil to oscar that works around the clock to fight systemic racism so that people of color can live safely and thrive. the new year will bring ne

wanda johnson leads the oscar grant foundation in memory of her son. the organization helps provide services to families impacted by violence, but she believes schools and city leaders need to help, especially when it comes to addressing mental illness from those traumatic events. our young men are many of them are walking around with ptsd. we term that just as a military term, but we have no idea what a lot of our young men have seen. we got to make sure that we are getting mental health supports and services starting at the at the k through 12 system and beyond. if the start to the year is any indication, those services may be needed more than ever in 2025. in oakland, thom jensen, nbc, bay area news. a bay area high school marching band had the honor of playing in the rose parade this morning. look at them go. that's cupertino's homestead high. representing the bay area in spectacular fashion. group was one of 22 marching bands invited to perform. bands also came from japan and mexico to take part in the 136th tournament of roses parade in pasadena.

i'm grant lotus. the fire now burning in calabassas is one of several fires that have been burning in and around los angeles county. the 2 biggest the crews are fighting by far the fires and palisades and altadena. the altadena fire is being called the eaton fire within the last hour, officials updated the public and said they have found 2 people who died in the palisades fire. that's in addition to 5 people who have died in the eaton fire in altadena, our country's gayle ong joins us now live from the d newsroom with the latest. what can you tell us? >> vicki grant, the palisades and ian pfizer, largest of the several fires burning in southern california, have burned at least 32,000 acres at last check, both 0 containment and more than 10,000 structures. many of them homes have burned in the fnres from above. >> dozens of blocks flight into smoldering rubble in the pacific palisades community on the ground. homeowners surveying the devastation for the first time thursday. did you decide to walk up he

thank you for being with us, doctor grant. so israel is continuing its attacks against what it says are terror targets in gaza. the officials in gaza are saying that at least eight palestinians have been killed. so for the moment, doctor grant, nothing has changed. do you expect that it will in the next few hours, or is this cease fire effectively dead on arrival? >> well, i certainly hope it's going to take effect. but, you know, we've seen this from hamas before. they had that brief cease fire back in november of 2023, and it was filled with all sorts of delays and problems and only lasted six days. now hamas says they're going to sign up to this one, and i really hope they do. but everyone agrees. step one is to release the names of those first three hostages that are coming out, coming out. and don't forget, the houthi rebels in yemen have also they've said they'll stop firing, but not until there's a ceasefire. and they launched two ballistic missile attacks on israel on saturday, which fortunately israel intercepted. so

i'm grant lotus. >> and i'm vicki liviakis said devastating, horrific, unprecedented. these are all words being used to describe the wildfires still burning across la county. more than 180,000 people are out of their homes under evacuation orders and at least 5 people have been killed. officials say the city's water system is stretched and was further hampered by power outages. as of this afternoon, hundreds of thousands of angelenos remain without their power kron four's gayle ong. she's been monitoring the wildfires joins us now live from the newsroom with an update. gayle, what are you learning? vikki and the palace. 8 sunday in fires, the 2 largest of the 5 have burned a total of at least 32,000 acres. >> both 0 containment and more than 9,000 structures have been either damaged or destroyed by the fires from above. >> dozens of blocks flight into smoldering rubble in the pacific palisades community on the ground. homeowners surveying the devastation for the first time thursday. did you decide to walk up here today? i wanted to document the damage. >> and contact m