good. >> i'm ready. >> would you unmute the next person. disability san francisco is unmuted. no comment? control can you unmute the next speaker. can you hear me this is disability acvichl sf i'm starting my two minutes now. >> correct. >> thank you. so, i appreciate that previous comment from accessible san francisco the business entrance program is super important i don't know why it is not on the agenda, either. i want to ask alicia you are unmuted and it is creating background noise. i have been posting in the chat and no one checkings the chats for the meetings february disabled people i don't understand yu don't have staff to check the staff. i have been asking for alicia to mute it it is destroying the meeting dye by not having a clear line of audio i request my comment made in a time there is not feedback and problems with audio to be properly recorded in the public record if this can have a response? >> i think you are making comment now -- right can alicia mute there are -- in the audio >> go ahead. i would love to restart my timetory have a clear line of audio i ha

wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. each person will have two minutes to speak. we will begin with in-person public comment followed by public comment over the phone. for the record we do not have any in person or over the phone. public comments. this concludes public comment for this agenda item. >> thank you. we'll go to a vote for their vote. >> vice chair de antonio. yes. member of freedom park. yes. member haddix. yes. member jackson. >> yes. member preston. yes. member shifrin. yes. member martinis. absent member walton yes. chair williams yes. thank you. >> the motion passes. thank you so much. all right. so we'll now get into a discussion about our community impact liaison role. at our last meeting we got folks into all of our liaison roles. so thank you for all of those who signed up. i notes additional work that you're doing but we really appreciate it. so the community impact liaison role is currently being held by vice chair. while you were supporting that role so i would love to hear from vice chair dantoni

wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. each person will have two minutes to speak. we will begin with in-person public comment followed by public comment over the phone. >> for the record there are no in person or over the phone public comments. this concludes the public comments section for this agenda item. all right, so we'll transition to item four which is the ocho fund fiscal year 2425 mid-year update and i'll turn it back to robert. sorry i'm running the show today. >> great. well, hopefully a nice seamless transition into talking about the mid-year update. and just as a reminder, we're in fiscal year 2425. this update represents where the fund sits after the first six months of spending and as well as departments do an exercise of projecting what their spending will look like for the second half of the fiscal year. so i'll get into it. >> so we'll talk about the sort of as spending ability which represents the revised budget. and we'll talk about expenditures and projections at the fund level. and we'll dive into s

chen, i'm bringing you in so if you could please unmute yourself and turn on your camera.i didn't see me very yes thank you. thanks commissioners for sticking with me through this process. i've been great. i own a few other businesses in town including voters and press club all of which have limit of light permit so i recognize the value of the process. i don't think there's anything that wasn't mentioned in the report. we're primarily deejays and we're in an entertainment complex. our persons are not affiliated with the city so they didn't have any objections to that. so happy to answer any questions but we're looking forward to opening for the general public very soon and the thought of having all of these and then maybe i can show you what's going on and so that i can figure out when i see quite blurry, quite blurry and blur your background. >> yeah and blur. are you guys really like curious? >> i'd say yes. yes. let's see background of the facts none. oh, here we go. there you go. that's better. yeah. big go where we are right now doing that service. how many square fe

not press star three again or you will be removed from the queue when the system says your line is unmuted the live operator while advise you that you are allowed two minutes to speak when your two minutes are up we will move on to the next caller. calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. best practices are to speak slowly clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. public comment for items on this agenda will be taken first from members of the public in attendance in the legislative chamber and then afterwards from the remote speakers queue on the telephone line. >> thank you. thank you madam. thank you, madam clerk. before calling the next item as chair i'd like to invoke rule 3.26 from the rules of order to limit total public comment per item to 30 minutes for today's meeting each speaker will have two minutes to speak on a given item. madam clerk, would you please call the next item item to approve the minutes of the june 11th 2024 meeting? this is an action item. >> thank you, madam clerk. we have i don't know if there's any public com

please accept the unmute now prompt. >> the state department and the clinton administration. my question is, the connection between the military and the security situation. america's misguided policy is now that they can be no ukrainian attacks into russia but russia tax continued today even literally into ukraine. doesn't there have to be a priority to end those attacks. they are making it more difficult to rebuild and making everything you rebuild a potential target of the attack. my question is, what is the connection between reconstruction in the future conduct of the war which will go on for a while. which is a separate issue. potentially i want to say explosive in every sense of the world get. bringing 40 people mostly europeans to think what to do. one of the questions after the war finishes. absolutely not. the reconstruction, none of them would be able to come to ukraine the railroad would not work and et cetera. this is the reconstruction ongoing. down on the building, the protection, this has been done in the last years. even if you take this out, if you have some

wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. each person will have two minutes to speak. we will begin with in-person public comment followed by public comment over the phone. >> for the record there are no in person or over the phone public comments. this concludes the public comments section for this agenda item. all right, so we'll transition to item four which is the ocho fund fiscal year 2425 mid-year update and i'll turn it back to robert. sorry i'm running the show today. >> great. well, hopefully a nice seamless transition into talking about the mid-year update. and just as a reminder, we're in fiscal year 2425. this update represents where the fund sits after the first six months of spending and as well as departments do an exercise of projecting what their spending will look like for the second half of the fiscal year. so i'll get into it. >> so we'll talk about the sort of as spending ability which represents the revised budget. and we'll talk about expenditures and projections at the fund level. and we'll dive into s

not press star three again or you will be removed from the queue when the system says your line is unmutedthe live operator will advise you that you are allowed two minutes to speak when your two minutes are up we will move on to the next caller. calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. best practices are to speak slowly clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you public comment for items on this agenda will be taken first from members of the public in attendance in the legislative chamber and then afterwards from the remote speakers. >> q on the telephone line thank you. thank you madam clerk. before we start i'd like to note that commissioner mittleman has joined us and also excused commissioner chan from this meeting before calling the next item as chair. i'd also like to invoke rule 3.26 from the rules of order to limit total public comment per item to 30 minutes for today's meeting each speaker will have two minutes to speak on a given item. madam clerk would you please call the next item item two chairs report this is an information it

speaker you've been unmuted. this is for general public comment. >> yeah. this is herbert weiner. now one of my concerns is that seniors and the disabled have really been neglected by this board and by the city favorite . now certainly serve their place on the throne but then this stable and also the motorists have under presented they should even be sitting on this board. so when you do consider both card and just let's have it wait. you deserve a seat at the table. there's no question about that. now this is the new administration of that it this plan like a new penalty for making changes and really should admit this. >> and right now any expenditures by the cost is a reimbursement. and i just that's so crazy that mention amtrak commissions new pitching and paying for what incentives and fees and no money should be given because at this time during this crisis thank you thank you. no other speakers. >> we will now close public comment. secretary silva please call the next item. directors that places you on item

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operator will unmute you may also watch live at w w w dot s.f. gov tv.org. item number one roll call president marci frazier vice president paula collins commissioner steven nicastro. commissioner ami morgan is excused and commissioner alan low chief of department dean present president frazier will now read the material alone land acknowledgment the san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the roma to show lonnie who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the roma to colony have never ceded lost nor forgotten their responses cities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory as guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the roma to show lonely community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> item num

caller your line has been unmuted. you have two minutes. >> thank you.this is peter direct buyer policy director for the wyoming river trust. the chaos in washington d.c. should remind us how important checks and balances are. republicans in congress are afraid to stand up to trump even when the policies hurt their constituents and i'm sure many will eventually pay a price. for a long time the lack of checks and balances at the u.s. has harmed both the environment and rate payers. information is controlled and distorted by staff leading to poor decision making. commissioner requests have been ignored but there are no consequences. our simple public records act requests get denied based on attorney client communications even though they have nothing to do with legal issues. even official commission resolutions get ignored by staff. i've mentioned in the past two resolutions in 2019 and 2020 directing staff to work with the irrigation districts to incorporate biological growth and adaptive management into the twomey river voluntary agreement. no discussion

not press star three again or you will be removed from the queue when the system says your line is unmuted live operator will advise you that you are allowed two minutes to speak when your two minutes are up we will move on to the next caller. >> calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. the best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. public comment for items on this agenda will be taken first from members of the public and attendance in the legislative chamber and then afterwards from the remote speakers queue on the telephone line. >> thank you. thank you madam clerk. before calling the next item as chair i'd like to invoke rule 3.26 from the rules of order to limit total public comment to 30 minutes for today's meeting each speaker will have up to two minutes to speak on a given item. >> madam clerk please call the next item item to charge the report. this is an information item. >> thank you madam chair. colleagues this month i am delighted to start with a big thank you to bart for delivering our new f

for those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted. moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> next item, please. >> item number four is an item item, minutes of december 2024. >> move to adopt the minutes. >> second. >> great. it's been moved and seconded. public comment please. >> thank you, do we have in-person public comment on this item? seeing none, moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> thank you, hearing no callers, public comment is now closed. >> it's been moved and seconded, all those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> those opposed? motion passes. next item, please. >> thank you, item number 5 action item consent calendar. >> move to adopt the consent calendar. >> second. >> madam secretary, public comment. >> thank you, do we have any in-person public comment on this item? seeing none, moderator, are there any callers on the line. >> madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> thank you, hearing

can you unmute the first caller please? >> good morning. my name is patrick goggin and i am the president of the gleneagles golf course golf club. i'm a covid adopter of golf and it pulled me out of depression initially. i want to thank you for initiating the process for the four rfq four for long term operating agreements and leases. this will increase investment in our courses. however, a last minute 11th hour decision to eliminate $6 million in golf but subsidies completely defeats the purpose of the rfq process. it is unfair. it's unrealistic that new agreements and leases will cover this grand canyon size gap. this is an inequitable and unfair policy change. by cutting the entire golf subsidy and not doing so from any other activity we golfers pay for the use of our courses while other activities largely do not. this is a very upsetting and bad political decision. it's unfair to pit activities that other athletes against one another instead spread the pain of this 5% cut across the board and not single out golf. don't throw the baby ou

caller your line has been unmuted. you have two minutes. >> thank you.this is peter direct buyer policy director for the wyoming river trust. the chaos in washington d.c. should remind us how important checks and balances are. republicans in congress are afraid to stand up to trump even when the policies hurt their constituents and i'm sure many will eventually pay a price. for a long time the lack of checks and balances at the u.s. has harmed both the environment and rate payers. information is controlled and distorted by staff leading to poor decision making. commissioner requests have been ignored but there are no consequences. our simple public records act requests get denied based on attorney client communications even though they have nothing to do with legal issues. even official commission resolutions get ignored by staff. i've mentioned in the past two resolutions in 2019 and 2020 directing staff to work with the irrigation districts to incorporate biological growth and adaptive management into the twomey river voluntary agreement. no discussion

caller your line has been unmuted. you have two minutes. >> thank you. this is peter direct buyer policy director for the wyoming river trust. the chaos in washington d.c. should remind us how important checks and balances are. republicans in congress are afraid to stand up to trump even when the policies hurt their constituents and i'm sure many will eventually pay a price. for a long time the lack of checks and balances at the u.s. has harmed both the environment and rate payers. information is controlled and distorted by staff leading to poor decision making. commissioner requests have been ignored but there are no consequences. our simple public records act requests get denied based on attorney client communications even though they have nothing to do with legal issues. even official commission resolutions get ignored by staff. i've mentioned in the past two resolutions in 2019 and 2020 directing staff to work with the irrigation districts to incorporate biological growth and adaptive management into the twomey river voluntary agreement. no discussio

when you hear your line has been unmuted, this is your opportunity to provide your public comment. you will have three minutes. please speak clearly and slowly. you will be placed back on mute when you are done speaking. you can either stay on the line or choose to hang up. if you are planning to provide a public comment on any item on today's agenda, it is recommended that you call the public comment line ahead of time to allow you to listen to the meeting live and to prevent you from experiencing delays. >> today's meeting materials are available on our website at s.f. oci cianci under commission and then the public meetings tab. i'd also like to remind the commissioners we do have a there's another commission meeting in this room at 530 so we do need to exit no later than five. >> the next order of business is item three report on actions taken at a previous closed session meeting if any. >> there are no reportable actions. the next order of business is item four matters of unfinished business. >> item for a is authorizing a personal services contract between the successor agenc