different subjects, including transition h yes. -- transition age youth. my predecessor, bevan dufty, committed to this issue, and i am going to continue to do that. you have an ally in me. [applause] so, the next question is from bill hirsch. given the cuts in funding for hiv/aids services, do you promise to protect services for san francisco's most vulnerable residence? maybe you can state with the department's plans are and where we are? >> thank you. >> [unintelligible] >> in the chief finance officer

for the health department. what i can tell you is we were given a fairly large budget target. be the largest city, the largest amount of discretionary funds. it is understandable we would have the largest general fund reduction target. we've met the majority of the target with the revenues, and we've also identified a number of deficiencies we can still at the end of the day to close the deficit. we have proposed some budget service reductions. we have made no reductions of any kind to aids prevention services at all. we made that decision in recognition of the fact that we may be facing reductions in care funding. that is an issue we view as

certainly an important policy issue for the mayor and the board of supervisors, but at the same time, we have the funding in our own budget to work with ourselves. our understanding of the situation right now is that we know that each year the care award has been short $4 million for what is referred to as a stop loss funding. the allocation for march this year is short $4 million. over the past several years, the fund has been restored through earmarks, earmarked put into the final federal budget by nancy pelosi. those would show up on oct. dates when the budget was finally approved. we're now looking at a situation where the situation in washington is very fluid. we know that the president has

included that $4 million of funding restoration in the base budget that he has sent forward for consideration, but it is obviously very difficult to predict what will happen to the president's budget as it works its way through the federal legislature. so, we know we have funding today to continue providing services. we have not proposed any cuts. we know we will pretty much be all right, we believe, until october. the period from october to june next year is uncertain for funding. it is a situation where our intention is to continue providing services at the same level we have and work with what comes when it comes. and if there -- hopefully that is our response to your question. i would certainly be happy to follow up if not. >> take some money away from the

richest. [unintelligible] >> thank you. supervisor wiener: thank you. the next question is for mr. ford. why do -- why does muni run one part of the train in the underground during the a.m. and p.m. rush hour? >> that is a very good question. we have one-car trains along with two-car trains. we scheduled those trains based on the ridership of four particular lines. the n-line carries 15,000 people a day. we have a limited number of railcars, and we have to equally divide them based on the

ridership per line. that is the formula. it is not unique to the me system. that is how it is done in the transit industry across the country. -- it is not unique to the muni system. rail cars are expensive. we are looking at increasing the fleets. in the meantime, we're doing this rehabilitation. the fleet increases another 25 cars over the next 10 years. at the same time, we will be looking at a new design of car in terms of weeks as well as dealing with low floor vehicles versus the stairs in the vehicles we have now. thank you. [applause] supervisor wiener: thank you. the next question will be for bill ginsberg.

the ggrna proposal will concentrate dogs in smaller areas which will lead to inevitable problems. how will the city deal with this? i have been working with bill on this issue. >> i was expecting to be challenged by a love questions tonight, but the dog question might be the most challenging of all. i think we are all falling -- following the public discussion facing the golden gate national recreational area draft eir that will restrict off-leash dog use in the area. dog use issues are tricky. park stewards need to balance a variety of recreational uses and

a responsibility to protect and preserve the environment. there is a question, however, from my perspective it is almost a matter of common sense, that if off-leash dog use is restricted in our parks, it will put pressure on the neighborhood parks. through the leadership of supervisor wiener, we have expressed our point of view to the golden gate national recreation area, and they have agreed to talk to us and listen to us and understand why we think they need to be paying closer attention to the impact that their process is going to have a neighborhood parks. the national parks service generally does not allow for off-leash dogs, but golden

gates and ocean beach is really the only national park property in the dense urban environment like ours. it is tricky. communication is ongoing. this is not a process we control. again, and you very grateful to supervisor wiener's leadership on this issue. we will be having ongoing dialogues. thank you. [applause] supervisor wiener: thank you, bill. the next question -- if the city needs revenue so badly, why no target in san francisco? why chase trader joe's out of the castro? businesses like these will provide revenue and jobs. why discourage them? i want to address trader jon's -- trader joe's. i like a lot of people was disappointed by this. ultimately, a trader joe's walk

away. there were a lot of concerns in the neighborhood about parking and traffic issues, given what has happened with the trader joe's on masonic street. but trader joe's, to my disappointment, walked away. i have been trying to provide support to the tower records site to make sure we get that space filled. another are a number of retail entities that have expressed interest in taking over pieces of its. really, there are three separate spaces. i'm cautiously optimistic we will get the space filled, and that is absolutely critical to the economic development of the neighborhood. it creates major blight when you have an area like that. as regards to target -- that

came from metrion. that is moving forward. there will be a target. target has indicated it wants to open up on masonic and geary. that process is just starting. i am quite confident it will come to the board of supervisors. if i take a position on that, i will be prohibited from voting, and i want to be able to vote on that one. target has a lot of pluses. we also know it has done a lot of bad things, when it contributed money to one of the horribly a homophobic politicians in the country. target has a lot of explaining to do about that one. i do believe our city government has been more and more proactive about bringing businesses to the

city and creating jobs. i do not know if mayor lee wants to talk about our plans for job creation in the city? mayor lee: as you know, i have been going all over the city, and everyone has been asking me to make sure i focus on job creation. jobs, jobs, jobs. no matter what ethnicity, and come. everybody needs jobs. the only way we can merely create jobs, and knowing this fact, that last year in california, not one new job was created. we lost jobs. we lost them to texas, to florida, all the other places. we have to develop a more positive business climate in order for businesses to help us create those jobs. and that is why i've been working hard with supervisor kim

and supervisor david chiu and the board of supervisors to experiment with tech companies, to ask them to create those jobs along the midmarket, one of the hardest things to do. we are going to get those new jobs. it is my strong opinion that this particular move we did recently with welcoming twitter in and making sure they stayed -- [jeering] i know there is some skepticism there, and i have skepticism of my own. but you have to create hope. you have to create help to ensure we have an underlying good economic climate, and the conversations are not just with twitter. the conversations are with every other company that says, ok, we can come in and build a foundation with you. i hope to work with the board of supervisors closely to help build a new generation of asset businesses better going to open

up -- san francisco businesses that are going to open up their doors and create jobs. thank you. [applause] supervisor wiener: thank you, mr. mayor. our next question comes from dennis richards. it appears that' ntnc is attempting to sidestep an order signed by a then-director lee. what's are your opinions of at&t's effort to comply with these regulations? they're planning to place 720 boxes in the public right of way. for those who have not heard about this -- at&t wants their

uverse service in san francisco, and they will install utility bosses on sidewalks. the planning department recently clear that. can you answer that question? >> at&t brought this proposal forward a few years ago. they retracted its, and they have come up with what they say is a somewhat scale-down proposal, providing smaller boxes to facilities. it would largely -- it would largely be on public rights of way. a smaller number. few were boxes. smaller boxes. unfortunately, anywhere in the country, we're fairly limited to

the extent we can regulate the utility in terms of their use of the public right of way. they have rights through state and federal law that limit, that constrain significantly our ability to tell them they cannot do it. so we can put conditions on to a limited degree. weaken regulate some aspects -- we can rest -- we can regulate some aspects. but we are limited. where we are in the process -- i believe they are seeking environmental clearance from the planning department. once the planning department makes a determination, the public will have the ability to appeal. that appeal will be heard at the board. in terms of our regulatory capacity at the city and county level, we are assuming they are able to get their environmental clearance would be very much constrained in terms of what we can do to prevent them from

putting these boxes in public right of way. there is a hearing process. the need to come to us for a permit. when they come to us for a permit, there is a process where they would notify people onion -- where we would notify people in the neighborhood. it would be able to come out and express concerns you have about esthetics or placement or anything you like. but again, we will be fairly limited in terms of what extent we will be able to keep them from placing the boxes. they seem to be trying to make an effort in meeting with neighborhood organizations. i do not know if they have met with ptna. i know they have been reaching out to the board, neighborhood organizations, to see if they confine locations that will work

for them operationally -- can find the locations that will work for them operationally. i will look forward to seeing that sometime, probably this year. [applause] supervisor wiener: thank you, ed. two more written questions, and then we will open it up to live questions from the audience. where do low income use fit in priorities for the mayor? mayor lee: they fit very high. low income use is reflected in all of the programs, whether it is phil ginsberg to making sure our parks are open and affordable for our use, -- youth, or it is muni where there

were free passes for low-income youth, and working with bill, making sure we have a fair justice system that reunites youth with family. i had a chance to meet with members of coleman advocates. they told me a serious story about low income youth in the city. there is about 900 kids, primarily african-american and hispanic, low-income, the dots -- that got f grades and were not going to graduate unless they went to summer school. he no state law is to have to

pass those glasses to graduates -- classes to graduate. you're going to see a whole generation of low-income kids not graduate from high school. knowing there is in the generation of kids who will not graduate, who will be idled, will not have anything to do, they're not willing to find jobs. guess what? they are going to be on our streets. they are going to be in trouble. so, we costed that out to the tune of $200,000 in the summer. within days, we found that money. i said, i am not going to suffer another generation of kids walking our streets. we were able to do that because of the commitment to our city

has to low-income kids. that has to be another example, not only that we managed the city with the best of our brains, but with the best of our hearts. we are not going to lose these kids. thank you. >> [unintelligible] supervisor wiener: would you like to add anything from the school district? >> thank you. i would like to welcome everybody to the high school on behalf of the school district. i want to appreciate the mayor and of the supervisors -- all the supervisors having these meetings in our schools are in the city. we're very happy to be hosting, in a facility sense, the meetings you are having, mr. mayor, with all the supervisor. with respect to several voter- approved propositions, the

public education enrichment fun, commitment of a certain amount of money every year to find cards -- fine arts. every district in the state of california is looking hard cutting those programs. we also have a rainy day reserve. that is always subject to the approval of the mayor. for the fourth year in a row, it looks like we're going to get support from the rainy day reserve to our school. i think there are 8 colleagues on the board of supervisors supporting the resolution. we are probably suffering

greatly. the city and county and a lot of public agencies reject our school district is in great need of financial support and the appreciate the help. supervisor wiener: phil ginsberg has something about the city fell commitment to low-income youth. >> we have a very robust scholarship fund through aggressive philanthropy and fund-raising. no child is denied an opportunity to participate in our programs based on ability to pay. this summer, we will be tripling the number of learned to swim class's we have in our polls. drowning is the second leading cause of deaf for our low in, youth. -- low income youth.

it is our primary mission to make sure the children who do not have as much opportunity as others have a safe and fun place to play. [applause] supervisor wiener: ok, the last written question we will do for now is submitted by a lydia. home care providers have already been reduced to 3.6% of service hours. the county has projected a reduction of the funds that provide health insurance for these providers. we are asking the board of supervisors to restore funds, since we already save the county $10 million compared to the $184,000 the county is trying to say. the home health-care providers to go into people's time --

homes, people who have trouble taking care of themselves, they provide this critical services. these are some of the lowest paid workers in our health-care system, making around $11 an hour. it is primarily funded to the states and the state determines what the pay rate is. the state has made dramatic reductions in recent years. i know in all parts of the city, we have residents who depend on the services. it is not about treating the workers fairly, but it is also about making sure the president's have the access to the home health care -- residents have the access to the home health care they rely on. i've been talking to the budget staff as well as the human services agency to do what we can on a local level.

it is a $184,000 line item. it is not a massive amount of money. that is something i commit to you i am going to work on. with that, we will open it to live questions. is this the line? this is the line. in terms of how we're going to do this, i would request that any question you ask, that he be as concise as possible. we should richard we are going to time the questions. -- we are going to time the questions. we want to get in as many questions as possible. >> [unintelligible]

supervisor wiener: thank you, maggie. first person, and come on up. >> hello. thank you for coming here. supervisor wiener: good to speak into the microphone? >> i have a question for mayor lee. i like the idea of how you guys are getting money for the parks and recreation -- but i think the most important thing is education. i was sitting there the whole

time, and the never heard about education. i never heard, "oh, we're going to do this for the high school." i think education is really important. me as a senior, it is especially difficult if you are from another country. i am from guatemala. also, as the youth, we have voices. it is hard for us to be heard by you guys because we cannot vote. i am speaking not only for myself, but all my friends, and i hope you, mr. lee, and you guys think it is important. [applause]

supervisor wiener: i think it is a sanctuary question. >> hello. welcome to mission high school. in from mexico. i am a student here. -- i am from mexico. [cheering] we want to stop deportation for teenagers. now we want, like, a city -- [speaking spanish] we want to stop that. we have the right. we are people. we have rights.

>> i want to say that my friend was deported to mexico and he was supported -- he was separated from his parents for seven months. i know you have children. they did not know anything about their children. the key is studying hard to help his family, and there are a lot of kids working hard at school, and we really need this. we have our rights and we know our rights, and i hope you guys help this process. we are used, and we need this. thank you so much. -- we are youth, and we need this. >> [unintelligible]