but as an overall commitment to a dollar amount that we are prioritizing to go to the category? i'm happy to support this issue today as long as there is that commitment to have that -- have that larger discussion. thank you. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to thank my colleagues for the comments. i think that it's important when we talk about a supplemental appropriations, that we provide context for the issue at hand and what else needs to be done beyond the supplemental. that said, i do want to sort of provide some context for the fact that i think that it's something that we as a board should be very proud of, the fact that we on the board of supervisors are talking about providing additional resource hees for homeless people and homeless families in san francisco, and i want to thank supervisor farrell for, for leading that because i think that it's quite a statement that in the context of what's happening with the affordability crisis that we are prioritizing some of those vulnerable people. san francisco right nows has the second highest inequali

and, so, you have to prioritize. the system is over 100 years old. so, we know we need to reinvest in there. we can identify 7, $8 billion we need to invest in there so we need to prioritize. so, we did the best prioritization at the time with the information we knew. we came up with a program with $4.6 billion to address that. so, yes, you can look at the system and there may be other parts that are getting old that we haven't really evaluated. the other thing, keep in mind is that you just can't shut down the system and expect the whole system. you have to deliver water most of the year. and, so, it's very rare that we can actually go in these tunnels. for example, irving ton, we haven't shut that tunnel down forever and, so, we, you know, are now able to -- we punched a hole through and we're probably going to bring that online so that we can have a chance and look at irving ton tunnel. we haven't even looked at it, but we knew it was very vulnerable. so, yes, we probably should have looked at it, but just like all the rest of the infrastructure,

will be able to prioritize them more effectively into limited resources we do have. the two key things for homeless outreach is until we have some currentey -- currency to change their lives, after a while you are just harassing them. the idea of having care on the street be much more accessible with this team enhancement, we think we can engage people more to be part of the system. and the stabilization rooms are key to getting people off the streets. most people want to get off the streets. the stabilization rooms are very effective ways to get people off the streets. once they are in stabilization rooms the work is not done. there is the big question of do we have permanent housing but i would say with quicker and broader response. more visibility for people who live and work here. i would see more visibility. yeah, we are focusing on the more seriously ill chronicallien entrenched people. it could be people that you are seeing may not fit that mode, so we would have to talk about how to spread the services in a different way. >> i appreciate that and i guess you

so we do need to do some type of prioritization and those organizations that have shown the effectiveness of their services because they've received the investment by the city will receive the first priority >> i think there are plenty of extremely effective nonprofits that don't see the city money and they maybe at risk. i don't know if that i agree with that kind of - so we have a lot of wonderful nonprofits some receive city money and some don't. again, this is criteria that the agency would set forth. we don't make that determination in the legislation. so i guess in terms of when we come back when this comes back for release requested release from reserve i don't know when that will be in a few guess so or months what will you have to present to us? will you have the structure in place including the criteria in place? and yeah. so we're completing now is the report itself which talks broadly about the overall policy recommendation. what we anticipate is bringing the full report. we were also planning on bringing to you a description of the overall criteria with some degree of specifi

those are the elements we'll be looking at so we'll not be prioritizing a situation >> so your assuring me there won't be geography favorism. >> so colleagues i'm given the shift to have this harder at the full board for a decision whether or not to release the funds but this week and next week the votes are preliminary and we won't release the funds until we've had a working group report given that i'm comfort in supporting this today we're in an emergency situation with a lot of the nonprofits. >> supervisor breed. >> i too am comfortable especially with the item come back to us. i do want to bring up a couple of points as a former director of a nonprofit supervisor chiu and i have worked together in the past and most challenging is a lot of technical work required in order for nonprofits to actually quality whether they submit an r f x or rfp and the process we went through the extensive process that goes into what folks need to do to quality. what i've seen and this is one of the most frustrating most of the organizations that receive funding are the same organizations with the capa

we still have to prioritize. >> you're talking about how you are going to prioritize. when you look at the other services and the proposals there that -- to sacrifice manpower, you folks are very dependent on the other forces. you alluded to that in your earlier comments about the planes. we need the guys with the planes. we need the guys with the bases. when we look at the other services cutting manpower, how does that affect you guys? and the added risks that your forces are going to face because of the enablers? >> to be honest with you, i'm not sure we know just yet. i think we'll have to see how the services take their cuts and how those cuts influence support the u.s. special operations. intuitively we recognize it as the service begins to draw down there will be less of some specific military operational specialties. m.o.s.'s, we think we'll need. i have a tremendous partnership with the service chiefs and geographic commanders. so as they draw down and the g.c.c.'s make their demands known for soft and conventional forces, we are partnered together to make sure

and so, we are asking all of our city team to fully engage, and to fully prioritize their time to get to the deliverables that we see are urgent. and then, we are also, starting the stake holder engagement to try to get the input on the task force itself and the key areas that we need to focus on. the first meeting is schedule for june 10th and the reason is that for dph and mta are putting together a lot of data analysis and we need to get that ready to prioritize the projects have them out of the gate. with that, now, within mta and the streets, we have started the process of identifying what those 24 projects could look like and we will talk about that in a moment. but, we are committed to design, deliver and fund, and implement these projects if not on a monthly basic on a bi monthly basis through 2016 so that we get 24 projects out of the great and in 24 months.

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i'm excited about the work underway early action plan and prop k prioritization process. i look forward to working with colleagues on strengthening our transportation sector in 2014. and enhanced project delivery across the city i'll conclude my remarks by wishing everyone an enjoyable and relaxing holiday season. we can go on to public comments to this item and seeing none we'll close public comments and move onto the next item. >> this is an information item, the directors report. >> good morning tilly cheng executive director. my report is on your desk. it's only been a few short weeks but we've got a full report for you today at the federal level we noticed that the house of representatives passed a 2 year budget agreement which reduces the likely hood of another shut down which is always good news and shows highway programs however will not be subject to can you cuts. it is positive. at the state level cap and trade discussions continue. the legal hurdles have been cleared or 2 of them have been cleared and there also appears to be an expected state budget surplus so

towards making a bigger profit or prioritizing towards environmental safety. we have to make sure our civil litigation system is more robust to ensure access to the courts to get punitive and actual damages. >> julio what is our community saying? >> so basically that's what we have been getting. >> all right. keep tweeting in to julio. what is your favorite seafood? we'll talk to one fisherman who says an entire species of fish dinner table. ♪ >> start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america ♪ >>> welcome back. we're talking about the 25th anniversary of the exxon valdez, and it's lasting impacts. it has also been nearly four years since the bp oil spill. what did the spill in alaska teach responders in the gulf of mexico, and what are the lingering effects on the seafood we eat. joining us is a coalition worker, and commercial fisherman, we also invited bp to appear. they did not res

which reform school do we prioritize? which will be tackled first? which will be on the back burner? for the past few weeks there is a sense that state owned enterprise reform might not be one of the priorities we implemented this year. this will wait until next year or the year after that, but this year it is financial reform. it is fiscal reform that will be prioritized, but what comes first or second if we have to wait for the press conference? >> there was an entrepreneur importing goods, and he said his clients are concerned about one thing. that's the communist and capitalist system bouncing around. they are worried about the to everythingsed else. >> there are underlying tensions. you have a burgeoning private sector. you still have a state owned infrastructure. tension over where the economy is going to go. we always have a big ideological disagreement and assume the chinese have figured it out. the reality is they are still discussing the options. how is the economy going to look in the next five or 10 years? is iny are making plan b case it

do we need to prioritize someone into supporting housing and having the skills to assess them. and right now if there is anyway the compromise sand we would like to bridge those more efficiently and effectively for folks living on the streets. so we have the transparent where carving out where we do our transparent where we have many more people in vans being able to go to hot spots targeted areas and respond to need from various people throughout the city. that's our first responders. the second piece barbara mentioned was about our case management. the whole focus is to remove barriers from individuals who are very sick, been homeless for a long time. the barriers to getting and keeping permit housing. that takes a lot of work. it takes a lot of work to get someone comfortable to being inside and takes a lot of work to be stabilized in hotels with neighbors and also requires them getting financial benefits. many of our priorities is to get them on ssi if possible if they qualify. we have a very high rate of ssi, some on food stamps and some are felons and they are disorganize

recommendation to expand schools for all to include 3-5 years to allow flexibility for providers prioritizing 4-year-olds and getting them ready for kindergarten. >> good afternoon board of supervisors. my name is traiven hill. i have the opportunity to receive quality child care and now i'm on the honor roll at the student academy. it's important to have child care. please vote for children's fund. >> good afternoon, i'm jefferson fellow, speaking on behalf of larken street services. even though it's a larger organization that helps youth across this city, i'm speaking from my very humble perspective from the corner of the city in the haight. item -- i'm from a tiny space. each day i would serve about 75 youth. i'm speaking on behalf of the disconnected transitional age youth and the need for additional services and funds directed for those individuals. around buena vista park and golden gate park we are ready to make bold steps and looking to employment and which as you have already discussed which i'men encouraged to hear conversation around the hot team that a lot of those issues that are

based on the results of this study, the project will be prioritized and ranked with other projects agreed to based on the parameters. i urge you to support the study. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is pat valuety no, i live in the south beach neighborhood. i attend quite a few community meetings in our neighborhood and surrounding areas. what i've noticed recently is a lot of talk is about supporting the transportation subway. in fact, our first meeting out of the gate was about the subway and 20 minutes of conversation ensued from that. what i've found going out in the community and talking to people is there's broad based support in continuing this line in getting transit going underground. i think one thing important for us to consider is that we don't live in separate gated communities. connecting neighborhoods is important. extending the subway will do so and it's the first step for us getting there. it's better for business, it's better for the environment and for our neighborhoods. if you think through the number of neighborhoods that are immediately

other things, vision zero represents a major initiative in culture shift with prioritizing safety with an opening goal of zero tolerantsy policy. i want to thank the mayor and control office and our various departments. i begin to see if departments coming together on this initiative. i know the staff is working together to support the very efforts. receive we had a hearing at the board of supervisors and now the commission on board of health is taking action later this month. i have also requested support from the control's office that track progress in our 24 project in 24 months that is key to our 0-vision plan. the control's office will report to the 0-vision's commit along with other departments and g t w. later on today, we will be considering /skp*epb expanding the size of the commissioners. we passed the board of supervisors meeting last week. and speaking of collaboration, i am pleased to see the m g a and g a's transitions from the visibility planning /stkaeupblg to /sta*eupblg to carry on in the next month. as noted at the last committee meeting last week, this program is an

the power enterprise of our puc also faces critical challenges that must be prioritized and solved. our puc has learned that mountain tunnel, which transports water from o'shaughnessy dam to the mock is power house needs critical repairs costing approximately $6 28 million. and a new regulatory requirement, and increases in distribution and transmission costs could increase an additional $50 million a year. general manager harman kelly has assured me that the puc has explained every possible action to solve these problems and minimize the negative impacts to the city. these issues are and must be our puc's priority. supervisor, i'm glad you mentioned the climate action strategy. i want to congratulate the department of environment and all of our departments for working together to create the climate action strategy. there is a lot of good news to share. thanks to the hard work of our departments, our residents and our businesses, san francisco greenhouse gas emission are down 14.4% from 190 levels in the year 2010. our power is cleaner, shutting down the power plants in san francisc

internet service providers say the added demand is stressing the system's capacity resulting in prioritizing internet traffic. meaning that certain sites load faster than others and. puts smaller sites at a disadvantage. >> the fight for net neutrality is making sure that corporations are not allowed to put tollbooths on the information super hay. this fight is about making sure that the internet stays just the way it is. free, open, equal. available to everyone regardless of how much they can pay to get their content. >> january a federal court struck down the attempt by the federal communications commission to regulate how service providesser operate saying the fcc overstepped it's bounds. now they're drafting new regulations that they hope will stand up in court. but critics argue that that will end with fewer options for viewers. how does the internet create a level playing field for everyone. tonight with us, our guests, welcome to the stream. we use the internet for everything, at home, at work, on the go. but people are concerned that the cost of it, the way we access it, and our expe

prioritize it. what mormore lawyers on the jobe 2400 in the chief counsel's office assigned someone to do what he's asked for. >> this has been a priority. >> we are talking about the first amendment. you're not working fast enough. it's that simple. this is fundamental. we've all said it, get on the job. >> we have 89,000 employees that have nothing to do with this doing very important work for the government and we have 10,000 fewer employees than four years ago so it's not a question of just pushing the switch. >> you know, the gentleman the commissioner said he's willing to produce the documents. we have almost every member asking for the documents. one of the things i'm saying is that we need to be very clear at the end of this hearing that we do but apparently you have done to make sure that we are clear on what we want because different people are saying different things. we will end up right where we are so we need clarity. the chairman wants certain things, i want certain things. we need to

on the necessity for prioritizing pedestrian safety. as some of you know, director risken we've been working with a group of transit advocate, and the muni youth around discussions for revenue coming in the new year and particularly around license fee. it's important as you all talk about your budget to consider how the vlf will impact your budget coming up and particularly how we can meet equity goals for this city as a basic standard. the seniors and people with disabilities, low income folks who are dependent on our bus system. there's another item that is going to be coming around around the transit effectiveness project but within that and how your budget effects the tep, i think it's important for you all to consider particular notes that are of particular importance to low income communities, how do folks get to general hospitals, especially when you're going to talk about tpc and you see which lights are going to be cuts and how are folks going to access city college when the 26 is gone. et cetera. there's places, there are part

and i also just wanted to acknowledge that sfmta has made a significant concerted effort to prioritize pedestrian, or just, safety in the streets as well as pedestrian, or specifically pedestrian safety and it is really comforting to know that we are in sync. and so thank you to your leadership on establishing this body. thank you. >> and i also want to thank commissioner mar and his office as well for the idea behind the vision zero committee and i think that you are coming in from his office, and i think that it is a really important, you know, plan that we are putting forward. to actually have a committee level discussion about our vision zero projects, last week, at the valentines press conference, there was a call for us that it is much more than just passing resolutions that we really have to make sure that the city is doing everything that it can do. and i think that having a committee that is not just oversight but it is really about collaboration and cooperation and how do we make sure that we are linking up our departments, and make sure that we are meeting our milestones whe