during that time. this is more than last year, and i believe we will have better quality food because they are organic and locally-grown foods. if you want to learn more about any of these programs, please go to 311, 211, or sfkids.org. >> thank you. so the benefits from this? uc student leaders. -- you see student leaders. we've had great partnership with families throughout the city where these services matter most. we want to invite one of our parent leaders, apparently a son actually -- a parent liason

actually. >> hello. in apparent leader, and i wanted to let know that we all should have the opportunity to have a good education, regardless of what neighborhoods they live in. this is of fundamental value for college and her rear for all. this year, in the mother of an eighth grader in the san francisco unified school district. the freshman class will be the first graduating class to meet the new graduation requirements that ensures access to california state university and university of california approved courses, otherwise known as a through g. this is one of the many ways the san francisco unified school district is keeping its promise

to access and equity to all the students in the city. the commitment of city leaders like the mayor, the board of education, the board of supervisors, to increase summer programming and access to summer school is the strongest sign of keeping a promise to the next generation of san franciscans, providing the summer program for ninth graders -- about 900 students -- who otherwise would be off track and could not continue is just amazing. i am so excited about it. this year makes the 20 anniversary of the children's fund -- the 20th anniversary of the children's fund, and i am happy about having leaders who put the children's fund in impacting lives through the after-school program and child care. we would like at the same time to think the mayor and maria su

for working hard with community members to understand the needs that we have. to have the stillness be able to get these opportunities that will accomplish -- to have the students be able to get these opportunities that will accomplish access and equities. thank you. >> and finally, whether it is finding fields to play on or learning how to cook, rec and park has been hitting it out of the park for a while. phil, tell us what you are doing this summer. >> hello. it is hot. it is almost too hot to wear the vest. which i never take out. the recreation and park department's summer is the most joyous and exciting and important time. i want to thank mayor lee and

superintendent for 7 on your side. and all my colleagues back here for the vision, which is simple. the best way to keep kids busy during the summer is to give them healthy things to do. that is what we are all about. i am going to give you an overview of some of the things we are doing. we are proud to be able to offer over 30,000 camp slots for our kids. 30,000. that is an increase, mr. mayor, from last year. our camp programs are fantastic. they range from traditional to art camps, but we are always recognizing that kids today think differently than we did when we were kids. so we have skateboarding, surfing, the amex viking -- bmx biking, activities for young and old, roller soccer, all kinds of

sports. one of our most important principles is every child has an opportunity to participate regardless of ability to bed. we have are robust scholarship program. already this early in our registration cycle, we've given 500 kids scholarships to attend our camps. in addition, i want to thank our partners because we cannot do it alone. we have a great partner with cyf, and also they are providing healthy meals for our kids during the day. i want to think the housing authority. i do not know if they are here today. we have had a great relationship for two years where all of our children who live in public housing get to participate in our summer programs, and most importantly, our learn to swim program all summer long for

free. i want to focus on two summer camps. one is a new camp we are doing this summer called camp azure. camp azure is for children on the autism spectrum who need extra supervision. they will be right alongside can silver streak, one of our most fabulous camps. -- right alongside camp silve tree. we will be hosting a very special camp experience for children on the autism spectrum. and finally, to follow up on the opportunity for camp mather, for the first time -- camp mather has always been the most special family experience. it has never been a place for at risk youth, and for the first time, we will be bringing 60 kids to experience the

wonderment and beauty of nature, right at our hetch hetchy reservoir. it is one of the most spectacular assets we have and in the city. kids learn about hiking and participate in team building exercises, obstacle courses. they will be able to learn to swim. they will help us build trails. they will stage a talent show. i do not know if they know that yet. it will be a fabulous five-day experience for them. we are excited about it. we also have a program for people who do not want to participate in camp. summer registration starts may 31. this is for children of all ages. connie over here has our program guide for both our summer programs and our camp cycle. as we like to say at rec and park, get out and play. thank you very much. >> we have a lot that is going on the summer. i want to acknowledge any

alvarez -- henry alvarez from the housing authority. i also want to and knowledgeluis hererra, our city librarian. thank you for joining us, partnering with us, and making sure our students are safe and continuing with learning to read the summer. thank you.

>> i am so glad to be here and joining everyone here today. she has not gotten used to a real mustache. anyway, i am so glad to be here enjoying all of you on this very important day. i do not know if you knew it, this is important because all of us up here and in particular, carmen and congresswomen spirit -- we are so much in charge with their huge decisions that

affect everybody's lives. i have to say that a large part of my work as the mayor is trying to fill this $306 million gap. as you can imagine, we are short in the city by $306 million, and we have had some months to work at it, and then trying to work at it with every supervisor and every financial person in the city and community-based agencies, and it is a very tough job, but we will get through it and try to balance the budget as well, but for all of you, what i wanted to say this morning about personal financial planning -- it is not only a good thing, it is absolutely a necessary thing. all of you know how much money there is not out there, but guess what? actually, money is out there. you just have to be able to know where it is and then, if you see it, you do not spend it right away.

you manage it. managing money to me is one of the most important things people do. all of you have heard that once in awhile, you read about a famous actor or actress or famous sport per cent who has made millions and millions of dollars. they got a huge contract, whether they were a football player or a baseball player or basketball player, and suddenly, two or three years later, they cannot afford a house. what happens when they had all this money? then, you think yourself, "if i had all that money, i would not squander it." even people who do not have the money, when they get a chance, if you do not have the knowledge to manage it, if you have not paid attention to debt vs credit, you may end up having lost the greatest opportunity of your life, which is to set yourself up with a good

financial foundation and then allow yourself to have choices that make irresponsible way. for all of you who are young, it is hard to imagine now what there might be to make a whole lot of money peer over your lap times, you are probably going to make -- especially because you are here -- millions of dollars. it is what you do with it, how you use it, how you invest it. all of you are like me when i grew up. there's a lot of pressure. you want the car or that i had 2 -- the ipad 2 or the iphone 12. you can actually get the things that you want. but my mother and father taught me that if you want to make money, you have to deny yourself everything first because then you will put it in the bank and save it. i realize that is not the real true way or maybe not the modern way. you can do that, but do you have to deny yourself everything?

i think if you have got financial planning like the kinds of expertise around here today, you can actually get the things you want, but you can set it up so that you still have a sound financial ability to pay for those things you want and keep your life going with a good financial foundation. you can form the things that you 1 years from now. the house or to be able to travel and do the things you want to do or have just a good education so you can open up your choices. i think it is no longer this generation when you deny yourself things. you can be smart about it, put things away in a good investments and get the things you want to do today. you can only do that if you learn how to manage and how to make sure you are not in debt. make sure you build an opportunity for yourself, and the skills out here with all the agencies we have to afford the opportunities.

i want to share that with you. we're trying to be smarter with your money and your parents money and your taxes. we're trying to plant five years in advance -- did you know the city never did a five-year budget before? i am amazed. while i am mayor we get to kick off the very first time. we're not just planning a year to your budget. we are planning out five years ahead so that the city can afford to do more things it wants to do and still keep their promise, which is that your taxes and the taxes your parents pay for do not go up extraordinarily and we still get good schools and great streets and good parts to play in and all the other wonderful things that make the city successful. thank you very much, and congratulations on joining us. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor, and thank you for the great leadership you are showing our young people by posting this today with me and for the leadership you have shown.

and don't we have a great mayor in ed lee? [applause] excuse me, there is a frog in my throat. i want to thank you for being here. vice principal, thank you as well. i understand that our treasurer is either here or will be here. is that correct? he is going to tell you something pretty exciting, and that is how you can save money for college, so listen up when he appears. i understand mario is here from the youth commission. we want to thank you, as the director, for being here. [applause] aaron, where are you? somewhere. [applause] here at lincoln, you have done something that has not been done in many places around the

country, and that is, you have created an identity theft council and taught more than 200 students about the problems with identity theft. how many of you are on the identity theft council, raise your hand. [applause] is kneel here? thank you for your leadership in bringing this council together and creating this kind of awareness among our youth. as many of you are probably already aware, more people every year are victims of identity theft than those that are victims of burglaries, attempted burglary, arson, pickpocketing, purse snatching, auto theft, shoplifting, embezzlement and fraud combined. imagine all of those crimes, add them together, and there is

still more identity theft going on in this country than all those other crimes. it is a huge problem. i just heard on the tv this morning sony -- playstation -- shut down its system today because someone hacked into the system and was able to get 2.5 million names and credit card numbers. so being smart about preventing identity theft is really a huge issue and a great skill to have. if you are interested in learning more about the program, session two is one of the workshops that a that you should avail yourself of so you can learn more about identity theft. the mayor talked about the problems we are having with budgets on the city level. let me tell you about the problems we are having with budgets on a federal level. he was talking about hundreds of

millions of dollars. how about talking about trillions of dollars? that is what the problem is on a federal level. $1.40 trillion is the deficit this year, and we have a debt of close to $14 trillion. that is not fair to carry that debt so that you as young people are going to find yourself paying more money to service the debt then you are to have services in this country. that is why we have got to fix that. one of the ways we have to fix it is to stop engaging in wars that we are not paying for. [applause] i am going to test the historical wizards in the room. the hubble event two wars that we have not paid for. we have not paid for the iraq/afghanistan/libya war. we borrowed money in order to engage in those three wars. there is only one other war in

the history of this country that we did not pay for, that we borrowed money in order to pay for. [inaudible] did you all hear that? [laughter] he was right. the revolutionary war. the revolutionary war, we borrowed money from france. every other we have engaged in we paid for as we went, but we have not paid for this war or these wars, and the cost is now over $1 trillion. what is worse is that detail on that war, and i mean the fact that all those and wounded warriors that come home that have suffered traumatic brain injuries or serious injury -- the cost of providing health care to them for the rest of their lives is going to make the cost of these wars close to $3 trillion. so why am i telling you this?

i am telling you this because it all relates back to you and your life, whether or not there is going to be dollars spent on the kinds of programs you want on a federal level, there will be a student loan program where -- when you are in college. we have maximized the student loan program on a federal level by getting rid of, interestingly enough, the banks that were making $60 billion a year servicing those loans. we decided that we could do that as a federal government. so we are all looking at ways to tighten our belt. how many of you think your parents do not spend enough money on things for you? [laughter] how many of you think they are taking that money and stalking away for your college education? [laughter] you know they are. that is really what this is all about -- prioritizing what is important and putting the money away. as much as you want that new ipad 2, think about how much you

will save by putting that money away, gaining some interest on it now, but using it for your college education. most kids i talk to in college to they have hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans that they are saddled with that they end up having to pay over a long time into their adult lives. you will want to be there -- you do not want to be there. and you certainly do not want to get these credit cards that you might find at a giants game where they are going to give you a free tall, and you sign up only to find out that it is a 29% interest rate -- i love the giants, do not get me wrong. i go to as many games as i can, but we have got to be smart. whenever anyone is trying to offer you something to get you to do something relative to credit, think about it. ask them what the interest rate is. ask them how much it will cost you per month. you are going to learn a lot

today, and i think it is going to be a great opportunity for you. let me just begin by telling you this -- people in this country are saddled with debt. personal debt, much like the federal government is saddled with debt. for the longest time, we thought that we could basically put it on plastic. that has been the american way. unlike many european countries where they do not have a lot of credit, we have used the credit card in ways that we should not have. so that now, the credit card debt in this country is it hundred $66 billion. that is the equivalent -- $866 billion. that is the equivalent of every american -- man, woman, and child -- having credit card debt that equals almost $3,000. imagine $3,000 of debt that you are paying interest on every month. so you never can get out from under that.

you are going to learn lots of things here today. i hope one of the most important things you learn is that money does not grow on trees. you should always have money stocked away for emergencies and all those great new fan a gold video equipment and games and things that you want to have today, that you just have to have today -- wait a couple of days and see if you still have to have it. or that dress or those pair of shoes or that hers. more often than not, what happens to all of us is it looks great for about 20 seconds, and then we have lost interest in it. so enjoy the day, and i am delighted you are all here to gain greater experience of our financial literacy. [applause] >> we have been joined by our treasurer. i do want to give him the opportunity to say a few words.

>> thank you, everyone. thank you, supervisors, mayor. it is great to be here as the city's treasurer. our office has the responsibility for handling the city's money. that is a big job. that is a lot of money that we collect, that we spend, that we used to provide valuable services all across the city. i am excited to be your with you today because in our office, we want to do everything we can to make sure you have all the information and tools and resources to handle your money successfully. it is so important that every community, every household in our city is able to be successful, save for their future, and make themselves and their kids financially successful going forward. i'm excited to be your today. i'm going to be back in a few minutes, i understand, to introduce our keynote speaker. i am excited about that, and i will be telling you more about what we're doing in the treasurer's office to help families in san francisco and

even an exciting new program helping public school system in san francisco have a chance to save for college. thanks so much for being here. learn a lot. [applause] >> i will just keep my comments brief. i hope you do learn a lot. you're going to see a lot of financial institutions around the rim, talk to them, speak with people can talk to you about financial aid. a lot of departments might have summer job opportunities. talk to them. make sure you use all the resources today, learn about what you should be thinking about in the future. the covers woman was talking earlier about identity theft here i will tell you, i myself actually was a victim of identity theft. someone opened a cell phone account under my name just this past year, and i cannot tell you how much time it has taken for me to go and talk to credit bureaus and try to sort out the whole mess. i will just tell you, it is something that happens to a lot of people.

you might not think it is you, but it is something that is good for you to start thinking about. i will not be saying anything further except to thank the people who have helped us today. principle pain, thank you for the use of your wonderful facility -- about princ -- principal payne. in my office, tammy as the one who pulled all this >> i have 2 job titles.

i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like

this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now stands 307 feet 6

inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital. >> you could spend days going around the building and finding something new. the embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that san francisco is famous for. >> the wood you see in the board of supervisor's chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. interesting thing about the oak is there isn't anymore in the entire world. the floors in china was cleard and never replanted. if you look up at t