>> that was a brief overview of the budget. every line every piece of it is complicated. it is about 10:40, so we will do department conversations for 20 minutes. >> thank all of you for being here this morning. the mayor made some very clear statements, and i want to tell you that we're here to support them. the basic function of local government as public safety. when i came to the city, how committed to do everything we could to make san francisco the safest city in the country and we will continue to do so. we also recognize that there are tremendous and her budget shortages and there is a lot that needs to be taken care of.

we're moving to try to make the office more efficient. we are about $39 million of the total. the primary goals will be public safety. you're going to work with the police department will do everything we can to make sure that we attend low-level crimes and rican who the higher level of clients. you create neighborhood courts around the city. we know we can deal with a lot of the left -- low-level crimes and reduce the cost of dealing with the crimes. it is approximately $1,500. starting may 2, you'll see the rollout of neighborhood prosecutors throughout the city ha, ha and the goal was within 12 must have the entire city cover by this process.

they're hoping to create more room so we can attend to the more serious crimes while not forgetting the quality of crimes and all those other was under so important to everyone in order to have a good city to live in. secondly, lee wanted a shield -- make sure that we deal with white collar crime. there are a lot of problems here. there are consumer problems. when only have some bad banking practices, and at the end of the day, will also have the tremendous impact. finally, in order to get all of the gun and try to do it as efficiently as we can, we are reorganizing the office. as a matter of fact, i am reaching to fry the partners that we will work with a look for ways to make the office and better run and a more efficient office. our priority will be public

safety. white collar crime. who and how to do this in a more efficient way. >> home the morning. the san francisco police department budget for the $471 million, of that, 90% of that is salaries, fringe benefit, so what and so forth. it comes out to about $11 million that i have been given back. $11 million of that is personnel. that is the only way that i will be able to give back that $11 million to the city. in a perfect world, we have between six and eight officers that retire each month. i will have to have a least three academy class's just to

maintain that 100 person retirement account. for me to give back about $11.3 million, i will have to cut personnel from 2200. i need as many police officers as i can. but my commitment to you is that no matter what happens. getting back to the field of control services, we will have to be a much leaner and smarter thinking police department. next week i will go to seattle for a couple of days. they will have lack of personnel because of funding issues.

this is what we will do for the community and for the district. we'll make sure that we have as many assigned to patrol as we can. pool of that overtime issues and we will stream down the police department. when i talk about the sky is falling, it would be hypocritical for me to stand here and tell you that after- school programs, day care programs and elderly programs, if they are not successful, i can't be either. out of the social service programs will be vying for the same money that i am, and i will work very hard to accomplish what my task is. >> we define small business as 100 employees or less, about 90%

of businesses within the city. our role and function is to work with the mayor and the board of supervisors to advise on policy matters that help make it easier for small businesses to open and operate within the city. we provide direct services for entrepreneurs and starting businesses and help them with a road map to opening their business so it is as short as possible. what we understand and what the supervisors and the mayor, they are very dedicated to their small businesses. the neighborhood commercial corridors help keeping them alive and vibrant really helps revenue for the city. they are great contributors to the general fund. supporting initiatives with the

jobs coming in, those are important for all of our neighborhoods. my role and function in the city department is to support businesses so that we can help in the general fund creating more money for us. >> good morning, everyone. i am president of the board of education the key for having me. san francisco unified as a separate entity from the city. we are funded by the state, but we rely heavily on the support services and funding from the city. without that, we would not have been able to be afloat as we have had the last couple of years. leadership has been tremendous. it has severe impact on public

health at all the things that our city is made of. you want to make sure that our kids are graduating. the last couple of years, we have been doing a multi-year budget. last year, we're looking at about $113 million for a budget deficit. we worked through that with the labor partners, cutting the costs hit as many places as possible and try to stay as far away from the classroom as possible. we're looking at an additional $25 million on top of the hundred and 13 budget deficit. we have tried to do as much as we can in continuing to be more efficient in cutting back. we're continuing to do for love days. this last year, we're talking about increasing some of the class's, cutting back on some of the programming in it has been a

real challenge for many of our students in terms of wanting to make sure that they graduate with their requirement that they can be eligible for college. we have tough road ahead, how we are continuing to work with the city to make sure that funding continues to come through. in the city has an extremely helpful -- we have prop a. we have been able to maintain our library sports, music, and arts. as the the areas where we will not have because it was voters approved. will also able to receive a rainy day dollars. we have upwards of about $50 million that has come from the city to help support the school district. that is what has allowed us to

keep our teachers. we have close to 400 layoff notices. every year, we have been able to bring back mostly half of them because of the rainy day dollars. we are grateful for that. we're working very hard to make sure that we are accessing as many federal dollars as we can. we support six of our schools, so were most of the resources tend to go all haven't additional support of $43 million. we have also secured a $10 million with the other dollars. we can use them this year. we will be able to use the $10 million to bring back teachers. we are also tapping into all of

our foundation dollars and making sure that we are going for the best as possible. the gates foundation is an organization that has not been working with san francisco for the last 67 years. because of the leadership, we have been able to bring them back to the city, and that is really important. 22% of the budget is spent on health care. this is a really big area and we need to think about our employees part of the civil service system. we utilize the the civil service system, and there are real challenges around that in terms of the budget cuts. continue to be the highest urban school district performing here in california. we hope to continue to do that. we were looking at a $19 million cut per pupil this year.

the tax extensions, we're looking at a $330 per pupil cut. that is important here because we are between the 46 and 48 yen per pupil spending. that is ridiculous. we spent about $4,900 per pupil and educating our kids here in california. york, boston, and other large cities get upwards of $15,000 to educate their kids. the list to say, we have to educate our kids. in order for california to move forward, it is something that we have to invest in. working with the colleagues has been really terrific. we'll continue to work to make sure our kids are educated.

>> we're taking direction, i will be very brief. the budget is something you can talk about something for not just three minutes, but for three days. i want to thank as well as supervisor elsbernd, i live here in district 7. i am one of you. let me package it very quickly. we have a capital budget that is really responsible for vehicles and infrastructure, the track, the overhead wires, a vehicles, and the operating budget. it is really what drives most of our decisions because it represents in terms of salaries and wages, 80% is going to salaries, wages, and pensions.

we're doing a good job but we can always do a lot more. we have the central subway project. we're in the midst of getting a fully funding -- a fully funded grant agreement to take care of the project. the board has approved the project and the budget funding, so it is going to happen. we are there. we also have other capital needs. remember last summer, we did the saint francis circle rehabilitation project. there are projects like that that will go on throughout the city in terms of the capital budget. we're also shutting down the california cable car line to do similar rehabilitation work. the idea is, while we are running one of the most complex transportation networks and the country, we are rebuilding it

day-by-day. the system as over 100 years old and so it has challenges in terms of reliability largely due to infrastructure issues in terms of rehabilitation of vehicles and to think we have a good road map, not fully funded, but a good road map in terms of what we need to do to get back to work. our operating budget is clearly the challenge. 80% of our operating budget is related to buses. salaries, wages, bonuses, and incentives. we are in the midst of our operators union, i think the supervisor was clearly in the forefront on that particular issue and has put us in a position to have a reasonable discussion with labor unions to try the reforms of the workloads veteran place.

we're in the midst of negotiations right now. we're doing what we can to make sure that our employees that have a difficult job, to make sure and have a fair wage. we preserve the most amount of service that we can provide for you as a citizen. i feel very confident that we'll be able to work out a good agreement. at the same time, it is focused on the customer's, it is focused on you to ensure that they have the greatest amount of services had the lowest amount of costs. >> i can be quicker than that. the human services agency is about the fifth biggest department in the city. to serve about a hundred and 20,000 san franciscans.

the disabled, at risk kids and seniors, will provide services for the homeless, and we provide jobs. we have about a $680 million budget. most of it comes from state resources. a lot of that comes from the discretionary and general fund. it is a little over $18 million. half of that is from cuts that we believe will not directly affect the services we provide. the other half of that will have some impact on services. it is a tough city. the city has been very generous to the court and to the needy. we will do the best we can to preserve services that provide the core services like food, housing and at risk the

services. there will be reductions that will be painful. and the deputy director for finance and administration. >> good morning. and the deputy general manager for the public utilities commission. he by no less as the san francisco water department or the municipal power agency. for example, electricity comes from what the system. we are an enterprise department. he'd gather all of the revenues from the rate payers. most of the water users are outside of san francisco. we have customers that contractually a supply water to. the budget is quite large. it is a hundred and $60 million. i wanted to highlight the rebuild we are doing right now. the largest public works project

in california today. as a stand here, we have $2 billion in completed construction. we will have $3 billion in construction. we just received bids on our signature project on friday. the engineer estimate was $235 million. the low bidder with 253. that is significant. it is on time and under budget. it saves you money in the future. the second plane is partnering. we're all about being sustainable for the future, so we are partnering with the city families. sunset boulevard is one of murdering project we're working on. we're also working on low impact developments along sunset the boulevard. will to continue if in future years with the department of

public works. we are working hot an agreement with the recreation and parks department and how events that into the future. we're meeting of the next week. lovely we can address the recreational amenities with our partner from rec and park. i will be here to answer any questions. >> i will also try to be brief. i could talk about our budget for about three days. we are blessed in san francisco with an incredible earth and park system. well over 4,000 acres of open space. we have nine swimming pools and

82 different clubhouses. hundred and 80 playgrounds, 150 tennis courts and i could go on and on. san francisco is not unique. all over the country, heartens are struggling right now. and as we grapple with local budget problems, the state and local park systems receive less than 1% of state and local budgetary funding. we oversee 12% of the city's land. over the last seven years, the recreation and park department has been asked to find but solutions for $43 million. it has been a challenge, but we are getting there. when a budget principles that are helping us secure through this. we prioritize revenue of for cuts.

we understand the importance of the park system and recreational programming. we believe we cannot cut anymore. we want to keep our rec centers open, our pools open, and are part systems clean. we manage our own house well. we have reduced our overtime. we have a laborer's apprenticeship program. we have totally reinvented the way we deliver recreational programming where we can and 20,000 hours throughout the system. we're working hard to try to reinvent ourselves. we partner with the community. we partner with non-profits.

the partner with philanthropy and business proudly. we partner with the department of public works. we offer 87 different summer camps for lack of programming. there is actually a lot of good news. the rec center is about to get a facelift. west sunset is about to get a facelift. for five different real projects are about to break ground. a number of renovations in both of your district are about to happen. we are trying to be as creative as we can to manage the budget challenges. [applause]

>> good morning, i am the director of the department of public works. we work mainly in a couple areas of the city. we design and renovate public facilities. as a matter of fact, this beautiful building was the work of architects and engineers. the work on the facility side ha funded by capital funds. we are actually doing a lot. the other realm that the operator is the public right of way. not out to fill, but cover something like 25% of the land area. we get less than 1% of the general fund budget for that responsibility. we design, build, repair,

maintain, and regulate. the graffiti abatement into the tree trimming, we are most dependent on the general fund. our approach, you have learned from many of my colleagues. we have cut accountants, and back office clerical staff, we have focused on safety. live been reducing costs that have been increasing significantly. the costs are going down. we have also been focusing on education and making sure that property owners understand their responsibility in terms of the maintenance of the right of way.

as you have heard also from our colleagues and community partnerships, supporting the street parking program for the cleanup events really engaging with the community. this is the legacy from, merely to really leverage our resources of the community. even with all of that focused on those kind of cuts, we have 100 fewer people on the streets doing that maintenance work than we had just three years ago. and we will continue to be strange in that area. a couple of things we're looking at for the upcoming years, one of them is the proposed capital plan that was approved by the board last month. the general obligation fund for street and sidewalks renovations, by investing

capital dollars to catch up with some of the backlog of those capital repairs hialeah been neglecting, who have sidewalks of these general fund, the maintenance of declines as we rebuild our streets. that is one thing we're looking at. another has to do with street trees. the tree in front of your house is your responsibility to maintain. there are others were the government has the responsibility to maintain those trees. it is not only an ecological situation, it is a fiscally unsustainable one. and where maintain those trees like many of us do. besides continuing to look at the administrative efficiencies, i look forward to hearing your questions and comments.

>> and the chief financial officer for the health apartment. why live in district 2. i am very happy to be here today. it is a beautiful spot for a meeting. as the largest department in the city. because we're the largest department and we get the most about the general fund, and of the largest of budget reduction target. lived asked her to reduce our health department budget by $70 million. when i am very proud to tell you is that we think we have closed $60 million of the $70 million without any reduction of services that all. we weren't sure that was going to be possible. we have leverage state and federal money. live been able to identify

significant deficiencies were we can continue to provide the same service at a lower cost. we're left with about a $10 million gap that can probably only be close with some service reductions. what we're doing right now is working closely with the mayor and our stakeholders to try to put that, if we have to make cuts, we want to make sure they are done very carefully and thoughtfully. and that they have the least impact on the populations that we serve. the only thing i want to say, and want to thank hon the mayor in the past mayors for their support of our mission can the supervisors for the support we get making sure that we have support services. i want to thank all of the residents for the support of the bond measures that have given us a brand new and beautiful hospital. we're so proud of that. e