taxes. how will he make these tough choices -- will you make these tough choices? supervisor campos: the budget is the most important policy document that the city can pass. it reflects the priorities of city government. i believe we have to be creative in how we look at the issue of the budget. it is important for me that certain things happen. i think that public safety has to be a priority in the budget, the public safety cannot be compromised to save a few dollars. but i think the public safety goes beyond funding the police department and the fire department, as important as that is. it includes funding violence prevention programs, after- school programs so someone has -- and people have something to do after school, funding our

department for recreational opportunities for young people during the summer or after school. if you do not do that, that will have implications on public safety. the safety has to be protected, because if we do not do that, we are creating more problems that will be even more costly in the long run. i think that we have to think about it in a very strategic way. i think it is important to protect the safety net. i think we have to find efficiencies in terms of where we can do things better. i think the issue of overtime is something we have to continue to monitor and make sure we reduce overtime costs as much as possible. but i also believe that there is only so much that you can cut in terms of balancing this budget. that you have to think of creative ways, innovative ways to inject revenue into the system. and i think we need to think about options, and is a

conversation we need to have with all of the stakeholders. we've been cutting and cutting and cutting for the last few years. i always say, you know, it has gotten to a point where we have cut the fat, cut the muscle, and we're now putting the bomb. how deep can you go? -- and were now cutting at the bone. we are not going to cut our way out of this budget challenge. we are also not going to tax our way out of it either. there has to be a balanced approach that recognizes you have to do more with what you have and to have to inject revenue into the system. >> you mentioned public safety as a key issue. let's talk about that and the issue of crime in your district. what has happened with the issue of crime? supervisor campos: we have been

lucky that over the last couple of years we have seen crime go down in the city. in march, we have seen a number of shootings in the mission especially. which are very alarming. we have an increase in gang activity in that neighborhood. i think we have to be very proactive about this. that means we have to increase police resources so people understand we're not going to tolerate violent crime. there is no excuse for someone shooting someone else. at the same time, we also have to think about long-term, with our strategy for preventing some of this crime. when it comes to gang activity, there are things you can do on the ground to change the lives of some of these gang people, those who do want to make a

better life for themselves. i think for some of them, if you give them opportunities, they can really turn their lives around. i think it is important to engage the community. you have to make sure that you create an atmosphere where people feel safe, and to feel safe, they have to feel like they are in partnership with the police department. i give a lot of credit to our current chief for reaching out to the community and to merely -- mayor lee. that is where community policing comes in. having officers on the ground, who were not afraid to get out of the patrol car and walked down the street and interact with the merchants, the residents. having that visibility is important. but there are other strategies.

as a former police commissioner, i realize that something as basic as the lighting in the street can make a difference. doing that is something we have to do. public safety transcends what happens to individual neighborhoods on the ground. you ought to focus on muni. people have to feel safe on our buses. you have to have strategies around that. it is a complicated issue. it is something we have to focus on. if public safety does not work, nothing else works. >> let's talk about transportation and muni. is there enough new need service? supervisor campos: one of the things we did last year, and i was very proud to push for that, was to restore some of the service that -- service cuts that were made.

new emitted & service cut across the board -- muni made a 10% service cut across the board, which was very significant. here we are. we are paying more and we are getting less. so we worked with the county transportation authority to help restore at least half of those spots, so about 6% was restored. that is not enough. we need to do more. we need to do more to ensure the system is as reliable as possible. i do think we have to focus on best practices and how the agency is managed. it is an $800 million operation, and one of the things we started last year is be called for a management audit. the management audit looks at how the agency is being run, whether or not it is following best practices. it is bringing common sense into

the operations in the city agency, and muni actually has not had a management audit in almost 15 years. that is a long time for an operation of $800 million to go without a management audit. we're now going to the second phase of the audits, which is going to come out very shortly because we do want to look the best practices. i think we also need to look at our investment in the system. part of the problem is a lack of reliability in what we have, whether it is our bosses, what happens -- buses, what happens at some of the stations, the repair areas. there is a sense we are not investing enough capital into the system, which is why, you know, we have trains on the rail. it is important to make the

investment. san francisco should have the best public transportation system in the world. and we don't right now. we have the choice of making it better and that will continue to be a big priority for us. >> we are almost out of time, but are there any other issues you would like to talk about during your term as a supervisor? supervisor campos: we are introducing a charter amendment, because one of the things we have seen is our trash collection contract has not been re-bid for almost 80 years, and i not think that is the best practice. the company that currently does it does a really good job, but there is nothing wrong with injecting competition. we want to make sure the ratepayer in san francisco does the best deal possible, the best service possible, and competition allows us to return that.

>> thank you, for joining us today. we've been talking to supervisor of david campos of district 9. watch for the next episode when we will be back.

>> what a beautiful morning. welcome to our san francisco structures forum. i do not remember which one it is, but we're always said a delighted. i kind of see everyone in the business here. it is great to see all of the. what a great energy we have in this room. we need to sort of transmit this out there into the world today. i am the publisher of san francisco business times, and along with our partner and title sponsor, and other sponsors, we're so delighted to be your host this morning for discussion, our annual look at the future of our magnificent city of san francisco. today, we're going to hear from our major and from san

francisco's planning director and from a group of developers, leaders, stakeholders who will discuss the bold vision and projects and policies that are shaping san francisco's future. while the headlines of the past few days are unsettling, this morning included, the financial market news is grim, but you know, our country is stumbling and stuttering through a weak recovery, but it seems like san francisco has been a continued bright spot in our little -- i hesitate to use the word bauble, because that can be missed and shrewd -- misconstrued. but i was told that it is a banana belt that we are in. there's a lot of good news to celebrate, not to say that it is not still * to be a little bit concerned, but at the same time, quite optimistic. so many significant wins have

happened, even since that time less than a year ago when the giants to comb the world series trophy, and we're going to talk about some of those wins and what they mean to the future of the city. and we will also peered into the future to look at wins yet to come as we envision the city. we do strike every year to paint the picture in the form of san francisco's future vision with some attention to the built environment and a look a key projects and a look at the economic and political forces, the policies, and economic drivers that influence our direction. our speakers paint a picture and tell us what it means, the things they are involved in. but we are so fortunate to be situated here in the city of innovation, with its rich

resources of the magnificent waterfront. many ties to asia, our great educational and research institutions, and just a wonderful entrepreneurialism, inventive culture here, a true city of dreams and ideas. with all of the complexity in some of its politics, certainly. many things you will hear about, i do not want to reiterate during the headlines so much. but the announcement from salesforce about its mission de kamp last year certainly have a trigger effect, a big impact, followed on by the america's cup announcement -- the america's cup announcement. we will hear more about that in the wide-ranging attack. there is a twitter of fact and renewed look at revitalizing the market. the wrecking ball tipped around the transbay terminal, and there is work in progress, significant progress has been made there.

that is a whole new neighborhood within the city that will build up. announcements of the moma expansion, the ucsf cardiovascular center at mission bay completed this year, and a hospital under way. the master developer announced great strides with treasure island, hunters point, part in merced, and work continues on doyle drive. there's so much to talk about. we cannot possibly capture it all. there's so much to look forward to. the projects all have a synergistic effect on our economy and jobs and all of the industries here. we have had such a profusion of technology companies, which have driven a robust office market. and biotech and clean tech incubators as well as large

companies. we have discussions underway for the largest private construction project in the city, and those are progressing. some of the players are in the room today. and many, many things. we cannot even talk about it all. but it is so exciting to imagine our future. it will be so different, even in three years and five. so let's talk about the progress, and let's talk about some of the problems as well and how we can collectively address those. and the impact on the economy and how we will drive some job- creation here in this great city. unquestionably, there is a transformation under way, and we're paving the way for our next era. i do want to thank our sponsors again. shepard mullin, a longtime partner. they are a full-service law firm with 560 attorneys in 14 offices in the u.s., and of course in

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title sponsor. they are involved in so many of our bay area's high profile projects. he will offer his perspectives on what lies ahead and set the stage for our presentation. thank you, david. [applause] >> thank you, mary. i appreciated. welcome, all of you. obviously, i am not joan story. she would normally make this introduction, but she has asked me to express to all of you her greetings. i also, of course, want to thank the business times and mary for organizing these activities and for the sibling this terrific cast of speakers. we all appreciate the opportunity to get together and congratulate ourselves for having survived this year. however difficult things may be for four -- for certain segments

of the development business, particularly for the residential foresail end of the business, compared to the misfortune that has befallen the rest of the company, the bay area has been in relatively good shape. some remarkable changes have taken place over the past couple of years. in the 13 years since the mission bay redevelopment project areas were created by the board of supervisors, the area north of the china basin channel has been completely built doubt. when i worked on that project, those project areas, i frankly did not expect to live long enough to see mission bay north built out, but it is just about finished, quite remarkable. mission bay south has also seen an enormous amount of development over the last couple of years, including substantial progress in completing the ucsf

research campus and the start of construction on the new children's hospital and the eventual development of a women's hospital. for this progress, the agency and its staff, particularly , blackwell, amy neches, and kelly cahn deserve a huge amount of credit. [applause] finally, a couple of days ago, the agency commission voted to approve the first phase of the design approval process for the two million square foot headquarters campus for salesforce.com. this will be the largest project built for the city sent embarcadero center, also a redevelopment project. we will hear more about this from one of our speakers, and it is an interesting question why salesforce elected to make this

enormous investment in land, some $279 million, and construction for an open campus in the city when most of the technology and biotech giants have chosen to build closed campuses in suburban communities. the founder and ceo put it succinctly. he said, the talent is in the city. something to keep in mind. twitter, by the way, seems to have agreed, having decided to take on the challenge of rehabilitating the merchandised market. with the gray hulk of the merchandise mart on its way to a new life, that should kickstart longstanding efforts to revitalize the midmarket area. the city's conversion in rehab of the chronicle building will make a major contribution to that effort. the waterfront is in force --

has and forced significant attention. the port has picked for our city to rehabilitate existing historic buildings at pier 70, which had life as a center of shipbuilding, which goes back well into the 19th century. many thousands of shipwrights and other workers labored there to build warships and cargo vessels as recently as world war ii. in addition to this historic rehabs aspect of the project, which are daunting, they will have the right to develop upwards of 3 million square feet of newly constructed space on that pier. salesforce's acquisition of the last large parcels in mission bay suitable for development of the scale currently being planned made a major contribution to intents developer entrants in the port's rfp for pier 70. pier 70 is about a half mile south of the southernmost

reaches up mission bay. it is a reminder of this quite small in densely populated city that everything is connected to everything else. finally, we have what is a contest to complete an environmental impact report that is masquerading as a sailboat race. [laughter] this is probably the first time in its long history that the america's cup has drawn the attention of real-estate developers. as most of you know, there will be several desirable sites along the waterfront. the development that is expected to go forward on those sites will provide the cup with in effect a permanent endowment. because cup events are distributed over many months, they're expected to be a major economic driver for the city. development of the waterfront

sites should provide developers with a number of opportunities over the next several years. with that as background, i want to return the gavel to mary, it will introduce the next speaker. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, david, for putting such great contact on our conversation this morning. by the way, shepard mullin has this little tool and flashlight kid that you might need. you might need one. it might be the only thing in my disposal should something go wrong. we're so decide -- excited to have major ed lee with us this morning. it continues our tradition of having the mayor here to give us his vision and his priorities. i am always so optimistic after i hear mayor lee speak, and i'll

was it the sense that we're getting things done in the city. we have asked the mayor to join us to give us his vision and his take on projects and priorities and some of the sectors with the most promise. i will go light on the introductions, because i want to give our speakers more time. mayor lee is our 43rd mayor of the city. he was appointed to succeed mayor new some when he became lieutenant governor. of course, we're so proud to have our first asian american mayor, but he is so much more than that. so i am going to not go through his long and productive resume in public service, because i really do want to give him his time. i know use very focused on issues such as central subway, pension reform, and so many things