the eight hours a day that a lot of people are able to. there's just not the economic opportunity, and we have all these cuts that we're talking about here, and one thing about revenue, and i think that for each of these cuts, we need to have something producing revenue, whether it be organizations employing hiv- positive people or disabled people that work within the facilities -- we need to come up with some kind of innovative thinking like we are doing with the cuts for revenue because it is not going to fly just cutting things. we are going to continue to see people flooding in throughout the country to san francisco because they are still making cuts out there, what little they have, and we kind of ignore that fact, but people are going to still come here, and there is nothing -- this is the only place that gay people have to come to live and be free. i spent years and years in texas trying to be employed, and it does not work, so i come here,

and there's no economic opportunity for us, so we need to think about that. thanks. [applause] >> hello. i am here representing the treasure island community. i'm here -- mayor, thank you for being here this evening. just to support the catholic charities and development center. we really need funding for that. and to reestablish the muni link that helps our families to the grocery store. there are no grocery stores on the island. population consists of a transitional community. we used to have about 180 kids to provide academic success, job readiness, healthy lifestyles,

and we're taking from the children that are the future of our generation. so please reconsider budget cuts, and i just want to say hello to maria and thank you for all the work you do. please do not cut our children funds. thank you. [applause] >> i am just a parent on treasure island. my kids go to treasure island boys and girls club. they need that clubhouse, just like i need my kids to do their homework. [applause] one more question for the mayor and supervisor -- i just want to know what are you guys doing with the money from the number one cash crop in california, which is cannabis? i know you guys are charging cannabis club a large tax. i want to know where that tax money is going and why we are having a budget crisis when

you're getting that much money from each club in san francisco. [applause] >> hello. in the coordinator of the friends of but never part. the reason i'm speaking today is particularly for our rec and park department and our clubhouses. the park is in the tenderloin at the corner of jones and eddie. it is only open three hours a day five days a week, and it is the only park in the north of market tender one that is open to all ages. seniors, kids, and adults. the other parks are for young people. so it is very urgent for us to have our park open more often. also, i do not know if you are aware that all the clubhouses in san francisco are not staff now. it is really urgent that we have more staffing at our club houses

in san francisco. they mainly have to be rented out to private organizations to provide the programming. even though that might be necessary, i feel and i think many others feel that we should have our own city staff at the club houses providing programming. it is a funding issue, of course, but i think it is really urgent to be able to have our own staff for representative and park department in our clubhouses and recreation centers, particularly for our own part in our own district 6 in the tenderloin. we need more staffing. thank you very much. fosdic-- >> hello. my name is susan bryant. i live in district 6 in the

heart of the tenderloin. i want to say to the elected officials, the decision makers of san francisco -- do not give away the store with tax cuts. do you remember the dot-com situation? we could not do enough for those guys. we were building lofts and not charging any taxes for schools. we were so happy that they were here and they were going to generate all that money for us. you know what happened -- those guys went back to live in their parents' basement. [laughter] san francisco -- everything starts here. where is our pride? they should be happy to be here and not have us give them tax cuts all the time. we gave the fisher family $30 billion a while back. where did that go? what good does that do us?

anyway, our muni, our bart brings these employees to the doors of where they have to work. we service them. that money has to come from somewhere, and it should not come from us. they should pay the freight. i mean, because, where is our pride? we have all the good ideas. anybody moves away, what is going to happen is they are going to die on the vine. thank you. [applause] >> [inaudible] you know, we want you all you allsro -- let sro people know what is going on. we did not feel we get a fair representation.

we want to have a better city. an earthquake should not have to come before we all come together. it is time that everyone in this city that brings money to the city and loves this city is a fear it will want to know what is going on at city hall. we need to let people know what is going on. people do not know what is going on. we want people to know that is not free shelter. thank you. >> thank you, everyone, for coming out. i want to thank all the speakers. i want to thank everybody who is here. i am a district 6 residents. i am a parent in this neighborhood. i am a service provider, and it is beautiful to me to see our community here. district 6 is a lot of times the

overlooked community in this city. people forget that families live here, people live here, so it is beautiful to see you all he appeared on april 16, the department of public works is doing a community clean-up in the south of market, so look into that. come out and support, and remember, this is just the beginning of the process. this is just the beginning of the budget process. if you were not able to speak, write down your comments and put them on the wall back there. i'm sure you can contact supervisor kim's office. there are many ways you can continue to be engaged in this because that is what we need, for the community to come out and be at the table. thank you very much. we are going to pass it on to close, but thank you all for being here tonight. [applause]

>> let me add my thanks to everyone here tonight for your time, for your patience, listening to each other. it is very important that we get this information, and i also want to just thank our staff at the office of civic engagement. i see they are working very hard to make sure everyone understands what is going on. the budget is very serious. one of the most important things we do in the city, and i want to make sure everybody is included throughout the city. if it is as smooth as tonight, i do not mind going to seven more of these things. thank you very much for being patient with us and sharing your ideas and passion about how you love to be in this city and to be part of it. thank you very much. [applause] >> again, just want to reiterate, thank you so much for being here. i want to thank our department heads, our budget director for

being here. we asked him to come and just listen. you often get to hear us, and we do not always get the same opportunity to hear you, so they all came knowing that they would not get an opportunity to speak or respond, but they came to get feedback from you as they develop their budget, so we thank you for giving of that tonight. also, this would not have been possible if not for the many community residents and organizers that brought people out, that organized folks and educated people about the budget and budget process, so i really want to thank all the organizers and the volunteers. also, the greeters, the people that provide child care. all the folks out there, raise their hands. paul, chris, tiffany, johnny, diana, chilly -- thank you so much for helping me tonight. and i want to thank everyone because this is a tough and painful and emotional process, and everyone really came ready and also very respectful. it did not have to go like this,

and i just really wanted to appreciate that, and this is just the beginning of a dialogue and process for our office. we will continue to hold budget stakeholders meetings, so please, come up to our staff and signed up so you can find out when our meetings are and continue to engage. i wanted and community members for being irresponsible about what we can contribute to these cuts. we will come out and do more clean up and held out if you can help us bring lights to the victoria park. those other types of solutions. we can all can cheviot to that process as well. we really heard a lot of things that were said tonight. district 6 is home to one of the most diverse constituencies here in the city. we have the poorest residents of san francisco. we have lgbt, immigrants, people of color, youth, and a high proportion of seniors as well. we heard that people want to see more jobs, want to see access to

more jobs for our residents. we want to see more preventative compared to just reactive, so we want to see after-school programs versus the police picking up our youth because they are out on the streets. we want to see more preventative health versus going to the emergency room. those were all things that were said tonight, and we have to come together and support revenue in the city. that is where you can come together to help us put that together. thank you again. also want to recognize security here from tenderloin station. he hosts regular community meetings, so please, though. he has really been a community partner for us. are there any other announcements? >> please return your translation headsets. [laughter] them all right. thank you again so much. i hold office hours were you did not have to make an appointment with me every first friday and first saturday of the month,

said czech our website. and get on our e-mail list. thank you.

>> [speaking spanish] supervisor campos: district 9, as all of you know, is one of the most amazing places in san francisco. [applause] it includes some of the most successful neighborhoods in our city. brno heights -- bernal heights. [applause] and, of course, the mission. [applause] i want to begin by thanking each and every one of you for being here tonight, for taking time out of your busy schedules and making time to come to this town hall meeting. [speaking spanish]

by the way, i see dean. i do not know if you want to come up here -- i see the dean of the city college. i do not know if you want to come up here. please come on up. [applause] we are going to first go to the big production, so you will hear from each of the individuals we have here. they are going to say their names, who they are, what they do for the city. i also see a supervisor -- i also see supervisor kim. thank you for being here. she represents the neighboring district. this shows how much she cares about the city, so thank you for being here. this meeting would not be possible without the help of so many people that have worked in the last few weeks to make it happen. i want to begin by thanking mayor lee, first and foremost.

[applause] one of the first conversations we had was about the importance of involving the community in these discussions. one of the first things we talked about was how he was going to come to district 9 and have a budget town hall meeting so that the budget discussions do not just happen in city hall but actually happened here in this community, so thank you, mayor lee. i also want to thank the organizations that have come together to work on this. they have done everything from helping to create the format for the town hall meeting to providing things like child care and translation. on that note, each you need child care, as was previously announced, we have licensed child care personnel in room 101. you go out these doors. that is provided. we also have translation, but these organizations are the ones

that have made it possible. i want to thank these individuals. without their help, this would not be a reality. courtney, who has worked to provide food for us tonight. later on at the meeting, if you would like to go in the back in an orderly fashion, food is provided. so many others in the nation that have helped to make that happen. the district organizations that are now providing translation. [applause] the mayor's office of civic the basement. -- civic engagement. you saw the performance that happen. but also [inaudible] thank you. you saw the performance by those

kids. child care provided by family connections, basic neighborhood center of family services. thank you for providing that. [applause] i also want to give special thanks to mark sanchez. thank you for your help. we greatly appreciate it. thank you for housing in the bronco heights neighborhood center -- in the burn all heights neighborhood center -- in the bernal heights neighborhood center. [inaudible]

lastly, but certainly not least, and i want to thank my staff. [applause] [inaudible] they really make so much happened. with that, i will hand off to mike so people can introduce themselves -- i will hand off the microphone so people can introduce themselves. >mayor lee: good evening. my name is ed lee, mayor of san francisco. [applause] i want to thank supervisors campos and kim. i'm here because supervisor

campos is doing his job. when he was part of the board of supervisors who appointed me to this position, i promise to do the best job i could as interim mayor, which means that every mayor, whoever he or she may be, needs to be in district 9 and in every district of our great city. [applause] [inaudible] tonight, the topic is about our very serious budget, and i wanted to have that conversation with you because we are beginning that process already with all of our city departments, and conversations with different agencies of our institutions with the state and the federal government. as you all know, our economy is not very good. it has not been good for some years, and we have had to make some tough decisions in the past. we also this year are faced with

a $380 million gap in balancing our budget. that is a lot of money and a lot of services that state -- services at state -- services at stake. so it is important for us to talk to you about it. a lot of people told me in my 21 years of working government and, certainly, the supervisors told me that a lot of surprises came out in the budget cuts, surprises that angered a lot of people, that they never heard about, that they were not prepared for. so if we talk more and share with you more information, perhaps we will take care of most of that problem. it would also make decisions where we can agree as much on the front end of the budget so we have less to argue about on the back end.

that may be a very logical step, but we have not done that for many years. so i'm trying something different this year and opening up the doors and talking to as many people as possible to see if we can get a grievance on the front end. it will not be easy. we still have to make very tough choices in the following weeks, so i want to make sure that we have input from everyone as much as possible so that we never make those decisions with closed doors and would ignore it - -- and with a their minds. so i want to thank you, and -- because you are the most important people here tonight. you come out to tell us what you believe is most important. is our job to listen carefully and make those balance decisions -- is our job to listen carefully and make those balanced decisions -- it is our job to listen carefully and make those balanced decisions. i gave instructions to our city

departments, and i want to share them with you tonight. three principles i have asked the departments to consider when they present recommendations to me -- i want the city, first, to be safe in the sense of our public safety, and i want to acknowledge the police officers here tonight. they have been doing a good job, and we had a little uptick in some of the departments in the district, and we have been paying attention to it. do not ever think that we are not concerned about public safety. i want to thank the police officers for being here tonight because they are working very closely with us, along with many members of this community. but i want to -- i want the budget to reflect that we want to have a safe city, in a sense that we protect the core level of social services that we

believe will also make a community safe. i want the city to be solvent, that we have programs that we know we can afford, and to sustain them financially and pay for them. when i mention the word solvent, that also means that sometime this year, i have got to solve the very serious pension problem that we have in the city. [applause] [inaudible] over $100 million a year, and it is eating our ability to deliver services. finally, i want the city to be successful. i saw the kids here tonight. some of them -- all of them are going to grow up to be successful -- [applause] [inaudible] they have the ability to do it. to have the ability to pay for the programs that they want, the

training that they want, go to schools that they want, to have schools and support where they need it so they can become successful individuals, successful members of their families. the city also needs to support families and support neighborhoods that make us successful. more and more, the people coming into this city -- they are not just going to fisherman's wharf any more. they want to come to the mission. they want to experience the cultural diversity we have and celebrate with us. so a safe city, a solvent city, successful city are the principles i am sharing with everyone while we make tough decisions that are bound to come up, and i want to make them with your concerns in mind. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. that was a brief introduction to some of the key figures in city government, department heads,

and everyone else who is here who will just introduce themselves. >> my name is phil ginsberg. i am the general manager of recreation and parks. -- my name is phil ginsburg. [inaudible] thank you. >> [inaudible] i am mayor lee's budget director. it is my job to work with the mayor and board of supervisors to make sure we are going to balance our budget every year, as we are required to do under the charter. i appreciate all of you being here and look forward to hearing your thoughts on the budget. [applause] >> [speaking spanish]