degette: madam chair, i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment number 2 printed in part b of house report 115-919 offered by ms. degette of colorado. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 1049, the gentlewoman from colorado, ms. degette, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from colorado. ms. degette: thank you very much, madam chair. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. degette: madam chair, this amendment -- h.r. 4606, the ensuring small scale l.n.g. certainty and access act, is far from perfect, as several of our colleagues have noted. the amendment i'm offering today would reverse most of the bill's -- most egregious shortcomings and help ensure that liquefied natural gas exports benefiting from expedited approval truly are in the public interest as the original bill purports to do. it would help keep methane waste at a minimum for the l.n.g. exports permitted by the bill. it requires export applications to show that

thank you. >> clerk: item eight, citizens advisory report council chair. madam, i do not see the chair nor c.a.c. representative here, so there will be no report. >> let's go ahead and move public comment to after the consent calendar and after the regular calendar, as well. so at this point, i'd like to move onto the consent calendar. >> madam chair, these items will be considered unless a member of the public or the chair requests that an item be severed. madam chair, i've received no request to sever an item. >> colleagues, do we have any motion to sever any items? all right. hearing none, we'll take the consent calendar. all tho do i have a motion to approve the consent calendar? do i have a second? all right. motion approved. >> i'm manager for the page street project phase one. if i can pull this up. so page street neighbor way, phase one, first of all, neighborway is the term an agency is using to describe a street, predominantly a local neighborhood street where we are prioritizing walking and biking to nearby destination, and i'll talk nearby ways in a

>> thank you, madam chair. when you do the outreach, please include the ethnic media, because they represent a sizeable population, so please reach out to them. >> thank you for the reminder. >> commissioner chiu: public comment on item seven? charlie, go ahead. >> yes. i really wanted to laud the new desk -- no, dashboard. i was going to say desktop. dashboard system, and i wanted to say there's been a development that you want to be aware of, and that is that we have a new assistant i.t. person who has incredible skills apparently in enhancing that dashboard system. i've seen him twice now in action, and i was very impressed. i've certainly been impressed with mr. massey. he's brought us into the modern era, into the 21st century. the new hire's been exceptional in his contributions, as well. i would also second commissioner lee's comment regarding -- i guess i hearing aid to use this term, but -- i hate to use this term, but minority media in the city. i have asking to appear and be subsequently translated i

amendment and make a motion to send to the full board -- >>clerk: madam chair, i believe the b.l.a. does not have any recommendations. >> it turns out the legislation was changed to already include the retroactivity. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. thank you, madam clerk. well, let's make a motion to approve and send to the full board with a positive recommendation, and we will take that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: okay. item three, please. >>clerk: item number three, resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute a grant application which provides funding for counties to develop multifamily housing specifically for persons with serious mental illness who are homeless, chronically homeless or at risk of chronic homelessness. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. we've got amy chan from the mayor's office of housing to present. welcome. >> good morning, chair cohen and supervisors fewer and stefani. so item three is a resolution that authorizes the mayor's office of housing and community development to appl

if there are no questions for staff, i'd be happy to bring up -- >> i have one question, madam chair. >> supervisor peskin. >> thank you. with regard to the t.i.d.'s actual income over extensions for the year-ending june 2017, wherein, there's a net income deficit of $1.8 million made up by a surplus in m.e.d. can you speak to that? >> what slide are you looking at, supervisor? >> i am looking at the report on page -- it doesn't have a page number. there are no page numbers on here. but it's the financials on the page after the t.i.d.-m.e.d. collection methodology page. >> i don't have report in front of me. i would be happy to go back to my office and get back to you on that. >> or maybe m.e.d. can speak to that? >> supervisors, the tourism improvement district management corporation. i don't have the slide in front of me. i do have to say the t.i.d. and m.e.d. act separately. i do know if there's a deficit in the t.i.d. it can't be made up by the m.e.d. money. because they are separate. potentially, the deficit in t.i.d. could be due to lower collections during '16 and '17 because o

[roll call] madam chair, you have a quorum. item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound-producing devices during the meeting. the ringing of cell phones, pagers and other electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. please note that microphones set on vibrate cause interference -- cell phones set on vibrate do interfere with the microphone, so the board respectfully request they turn off. item 4, approval of minutes for september 4, regular meeting. >> chairman brinkman: do i have any public comment on the minutes? no? seeing none, do i have a motion to approve? second. all in favor? minutes approved. >> clerk: the next meeting, october 2, has been canceled. item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. >> chairman brinkman: do we have any unfinished? business? seeing none, we'll move on. >> clerk: director's report. >> a mercifully brief report today. first, with regard to vision zero. i mentioned last time that we were initiating a series of

take a vote, take this motion that was made by supervisor fewer, we will accept it without -- >> madam chair since this is a hearing, release of reserve fund and file the hearing. >> supervisor cohen: that's right. approve the release of the reserve funds and file this hearing. thank you. congratulations. madam clerk, item 8. >> clerk: resolution approving the issues of up to 2.6 billion aggregate principal amount of san francisco international airport second series revenue refund j bonds for the purpose of refinancing bonds and subordinate bonds of the airport commission and related obligations. >> supervisor cohen: kathy widener is back with us in the chamber and still representing the san francisco airport. kathy, good to see you. welcome back. so, we are going to be talking about airport revenue bonds. and this is an authorization for airport revenue bond up to $2. $2.62 billion. why don't you take it away. >> thank you so much, kathy widener with the san francisco international airport. item before you seeks your approval of, at the airport commission's issuance of $2.62 billion in refu

>> thank you, madam chair. it's great to hear that you may be move back home october 4, before the election. i wonder if there's been a practice that you have open house to welcome the public because this would be a great opportunity as part of your public engagement and outreach initiative to really not bring in the folks who's followed you for many years, but the new communities, the folks who may not know the commission that well, this may be a good opportunity for them. and also, we have so many new staffers, it would be good for folks to meet with you. i know that we won't be able to serve coffee and cookies, but at least have people to see the beautiful new office. >> thank you for that. i do make a mean chocolate chip cookie, i will say. we do have coffee in the office, but i think that's a very helpful suggestion. i think we're excited about sharing the newness of being back and sharing it with people outside of your four walls -- our four walls may be a terrific suggestion in the future. i think that's

thank you, madam chair. >> thank you, senator scott?nk you, i have decided to pass on my time to dr. cassidy who is in such a fantastic job, i just want to make a quick comment on medicare for all, having spent about 25 years in the insurance industry, one of the things that i think we ought to do i think that dr. book was starting down that path is to understand and appreciate the overall cost that the government bears for every single program that we have. when we are spending $4 trillion of the government bringing in $3 trillion of the government, the taxpayers are the ones that are losing the elasticity in their paychecks because their money is coming to washington compelled to do so for programs that perhaps could be better provided through the private sector. if we look at the overall cost structure. so you can't not look at every facet of what causes something to cost what it does in the government perspective, you cannot articulate with great specificity the real challenge that the taxpayer has for all of the nuances that the go

good to see you. >> madam chair, i'm a senior project manager for economic development agency here, 9this has been a project two years in the making. successful prop a projects that was presented to the board of supervisors a few years ago and so we are -- we are waiting with baited breath to undertake construction here, hopefully in february of next year, and with the resolution, able to make that dent in our vast gap for affordable housing and not just in the mission, but the city of san francisco. we thank you for your support. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much for being here. no other members, close public comment. thank you. i'll make a motion to approve and send to the full board with a positive recommendation. and take that without objection. thank you very much. >> any other business before this body? >> clerk: no further business. >> supervisor cohen: thank you, we are adjourned. ood evening ev. thank you for joining the regular board meeting of the board of education. today is tuesday, august 28th. i am now calling this meeting to order. can i get rollcall, please? th

madam chair, do you want me to go through them one by one or at we get to them? do you want me to read all of them off now? >> i think you can just read them off real quickly. we're running out of time, so i'd like to be able to get as many of this done as possible. >> so there are several here, a, up coming issues from public finance, website redesign, the public satisfaction survey, expenditures audit, standardized templates, the goboc annual audit for fiscal year 17-18, and the fiscal year 2018-19 work plan. all of these items are found in other reports in your packet. >> perhaps we could have a brief update from public finance because it's just giving a heads up on your pipeline. >> sure. good morning, committee members. director of the office of public finance. we've got three bond issues that we anticipate in the next 12 months. the first will be to fund affordable housing, about $35 million. the second will be for waterfront park, about $3 million, and then finally, last would be public health, $127 million. so those are scheduled. the first would be the s

. >> good morning, members of the committee, madam chair. i'm with the department of public health. and i'm here on behalf of the department seeking approval to adopt resolution for the department to participate in the funding opportunity, one-time funding opportunity under the department of health care services for a program called homeless mental ill, outreach and treatment. the program is designed to provide outreach and treatment for individuals who are homeless, with serious mental illness. available to san francisco $3 million over 18 mostly sunny. to participate in the program, submit a letter of interest and a resolution adopted by the board of supervisors by september 25th. >> president cohen: thank you very much. any questions? pretty straightforward item. no, seeing none, public comment. thank you. public comment is open for item 10. >> i believe in helping the people with mental disabilities and homeless out in the street. but i believe the best way to provide services on a permanent basis is to take care of this problem the same way that you are taking care of the probl

madam chair that concludes the business before you today. we are adjourned. thank you all very much. >> thank you. >> to be here to honor the amazing dragon boat team of lincoln high school. [applause] you know, i've been fortunate enough to be here at city hall and we've been able to honor our city of san francisco for some amazing accomplishments. a high school that once [inaudible] and the football team for winning the first state championship. and now lincoln high school's dragonboat games. this is absolutely incredible. and i couldn't be more proud of your accomplishments. this is a feat to come together not specifically to win a championship, but for the love of the sport. a committed team that is like a family. that is why they're champions because they work together and they support each other and they [inaudible]. we're training them to work hard and even when they want to give up sometimes, they pushed themselves that extra mile. so the lincoln high school dragonboat team took home four gold medals. [cheering] [applause] it says gold at the 11th ann

and madam or mr. chair -- >> the real chair. >> the real chair, i am out of time, but i would like to submit to the record for followup a question having to do with what senator hassan was talking about, related to this. in minnesota we call it diseases of despair, the significant uptick, 40% increase in suicide and other diseases related to behavioral health and opioids and addiction and what we can do, how we can work with nih on that. >> glad to. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator smith. senator jones. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, dr. collins and the whole team for being here and for the incredible work you do that touches on every family in america. i really appreciate that. and a couple of weeks ago, i had the privilege of meeting with some of the leaders at the university of alabama in birmingham which i consider also to be one of the leading institutions of not only higher learning but research in the country. and specifically not only have i met with the comprehensive cancer institute

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with that, madam chair --madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. all time for debate has expired. without objection, the previous question is ordered. the question is on the motion to instruct. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. ms. mccollum: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from minnesota. ms. mccollum: i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] . . the speaker pro tempor

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a senator: madam chair. the presiding officer: the senator from hovment. -- ohio. mr. portman: thank you. my colleague spoke earlier about the opioid crisis and the fact that we're about to vote on legislation called the opioid crisis response act and he talked about some of the innovations going on in the state of maryland. we are fortunate in my home state of ohio to have some great work going on as well. the stabilization centers he talked about, we now have in ohio the opportunity for people who are treated for addiction, who are given this miracle drug, narcan, which reverses the effects of the overdose to be able to not just go to an emergency room where they can be taken care of for this reversal of the overdose, but also get into treatment. the maryhaven addiction stabilization center in columbus, ohio, has become a model not just for ohio but for the country, and one of the early centers where they have taken some of the federal funds we have passed here and using them to come up with innovative ways to get people into treatment. their success rate is over 80%

>> exactly, madame chair. currently they don't have authority to sign purchase orders without approval from the commission. this would grant me some spending authority so i don't have to come back to the commission with every request and not to exceed $5,000 subject to available funds and approval by the chair. there's a resolution attached to this which i have which say final line the executive officer will exercise the authority with approval from the chair and be it further resolved the executive order shall provide an annual report outlining the contract and purchase orders. >> commissioner: thank you very much. colleagues, any comments or questions? >> i have a quick question. it's not to exceed the amount of $5,000 for each purchase order so we're not capping you at $5,000 for the year. >> that's correct. >> commissioner: i make a motion to authorize the executive officer to approve contract and purchase orders for professional services and equipment and supplies not to squeeze t -- exceed the amount of

. >> good afternoon, madame chair, members of the committee. hospital council, san francisco section, representing the public and private hospitals, issues of mutual concern. this is one. we had the opportunity to discuss this ordinance and tsz impact on the operational impact of hospitals. we think it touches on two things we want to share with you. one, the delivery of patient care, and two, frustrating an already complex waste management at hospitals. unlike other refuse generators, as was in the presentation, with three streams, at a hospital, you have multiple streams. and they're coming in from a lot of different places and it's all highly regulated. i just want to mention a few. i submitted a letter for your consideration. there is bio hazardous, there is pharmaceutical collection. collection with respect to federal recovery act. hazardous waste. patient transfer device reprocessing. these are all the things you see when you see a doctor or nurse or caregiver. they're unwrapping things, disposing them. all of those things have to be coll

. >> thank you madam chair and ranking member marie. thank you to all the witnesses for being here today. we are talking a lot this morning about the administrative burdens and healthcare systems. i think it is important that we remember the most significant part of this whole discussion is patients and their families. i am the mother of a son with complex medical needs. at various times, he is a wonderful young man who happens to have cerebral policy and the -- have cerebral palsy and the complications that can go with that. he also doesn't communicate well with the outside world, though he is constantly understanding everything. we have been very fortunate, because he has had incredible providers and caregivers, but i have experienced firsthand what it is like to jump through administrative hoops. being stuck in the middle between providers and insurers or sometimes dealing with an insurance and company employee who doesn't have the expertise to understand the record he is looking at. i have also been there when the insurance all of a

madam chair, i ask that we have a moment of silence with your okay for sister veronica and then i would like to go into my other part. >> president brandon: can we please have a moment of silence? doipz >> president brandon: thank you. >> vice-president adams: thank you it, madam president. my second one is, to sister eileen o'malley, we have a saying that goes, "nobody likes us and we don't care." [laughter] and so right now, i'm not as adequate as the rest of my commissioners. i'm rough around the edges. what i do want to say is that -- and i know i'm out of protocol and i don't care, but i just want to say, we owe you a debt of gratitude. i'm choked up about you leaving and there are people that talk to hear themselves talk, but you are a quiet champion that goes about every day. you don't want any recognition and it's always about the team. you put yourself above everybody else and you are that person that sacrifices and puts herself out there. you deserve that. the six years i've been on commission, i've called on you several times for advice and you have guided me and you will be

madam chair that concludes the business before you today. we are adjourned. thank you all very much. >> thank you. afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. are we ready to get started? good afternoon. ladies and gentlemen, i want to welcome you to the september 4, 2018 meeting. madam clerk, are we ready? okay. want to welcome you back to the september 4, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. thank you for being here with us today. madam clerk, could you please call the roll for attendance. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. [roll call] >> clerk: madam president, you have a quorum. >> president cohen: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me by rising and placing your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> president cohen: thank you. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: there are none to report, madam president. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. today, colleagues is a special day, because we are going to be approving minuting from the july 10, july 17, july 24 minu

. >> clerk: madam chair, we should take public comment on the closed session deliberation. >> supervisor kim: we will take public comment on these items. if any members of the public would like to speak on item 7-14, please do speak now. seeing none, public comment -- oh, ok. >> i want to speak on this closed session that you got with the city attorney. and while you are back there, executive director of the department of public health, barbara garcia, embezzle one had you been $100,000 a year and not reporting the income from her female married companion, and by the same response, she get caught, you let her retire and keep her benefits. she should be fired, and should not get not one penny of benefits from the city and county of san francisco. that's called tax evasion, and money laundering, and fraud. by the same response, all the blacks that's complained about complaints in the health department, to the union, that was up here today, all of them, 98% are black. you hear me, all black people complaining about barbara garcia in the health department. had me fooled thinking she was doin

. >> madame chair, i would submit that perhaps we can approve these without going to closed session also in member of this panel would like to convene in closed session. but they seem pretty straight forward. >> ok. i actually didn't have questions on either item. so, can we do that with that discussion? ok. >> but we still need to take public comment. >> yes. yes. i will take public comments on these items but won't take a motion to convene into closed session. so let's take a -- why don't we open it for public comment on items five and six. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. colleagues -- >> i would make a notion move item five and item six to the full board with positive recommendation. >> so we have a motion to move both items forward because we did not convene into closed session, we don't need take a motion to not disclose so we'll take that motion without objection. mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> there is no further business. >> meeting adjourned. >> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and r