a good debate coach. a want to give a special shout out to the custodians who worked very hard curious hundreds of hungry students with trash. the custodians did an excellent job. i want to thank them to make sure we had the right to staffing for that. participated in a celebration committee on monday. a shout out to be award winner who works with our student through the asian american community for talent research program that promotes high school students to look at college. it is hosted by the japanese committee youth council. one of the finalists was our own act gwen chen.

and a shout out to the elementary school whose kids performed polynesian dance as part of the program. a shout out to the fifth graders who will be performing this friday for one night only. thurgood marshall high school industrial design and outreach is having an event on may 18 at the museum. i want to recognize the artists from the balboa city art, school of the arts mission, and lincoln academy of arts and sciences, who participate in the youth arts center. they have their final exhibition last weekend. there are at summer internships

outofsight-sf.org. >> a wanted to make certain i spoke correctly around the commission that is meeting tomorrow. it is going to be at the metropolitan committee. the program and allocations recommends requests to the commission for approval. this is adoption of a pilot program. we need their approval to go forward. it begins at 10:00 a.m. at 101 a street in oakland at the metro center. anyone in san francisco who is available, hopefully commissioner fewer and i will be able to get across the bay and

to provide -- support supervisor campos. >> i was able to judge a championships last friday. the winner was not from san francisco. she was lovely nonetheless. it will be hosting their big grand slam in berkeley this year. we have a jobs fair for the president's jobs plus initiatives on may 12. we have almost 300 students who will be attending. most of them are from san francisco unified school district. i am pleased with that and i wanted to thank linda wells and evans, i forget his last name, for helping me. i want to a bankklw, -- thank the tavis smiley and cornell

west of that. it was fabulous. it was well done. matt martin did a great job. the event was well moderated. tavis and cornell talked about poverty and the tour they are doing to talk around our low- income families of color that plagued the united states. commissioner murase and i attended a dinner this week. we have a scholarship awards tomorrow evening. the dinners honoring carlos garcia is this week. we will be speaking, i will sit on two panels. another is about the joint oil

youth work we have been doing. we also have mission high school in tenderloin elementary school honored for the great work they're doing around composting. i want to point out one of our retirements that are happening this year, which is to the principal jim. i just wanted to give a special shout out to jim because he has done a fantastic job. that is going to be at the irish cultural center at 11 at 5:30. the mayor's teacher of the month and principal of the year awards have been finalized. we will be making an announcement on that at the giants' game. we will be on entering -- honoring them at a home ceremony on may 16. i want to congratulate usf

commencement on the 18th. san francisco state commencement is on the 19th. that's it. thank you. >> i do not know if i mention this at the last meeting, it seems like i did not. there was somebody here special that was awarded and recognize that the family coalition dinner. [applause] it was a great event. i also want to mention that there were some other people involved with this other program i am a mob with, the young dancers program. -- involved with, the young

dancers program. about 700 people showed up. we had judge garcia here. among the five judges, it was superintendent garcia and i had the president of the california pta, carol. supervisor avalos and commissioner fewer was there. commissioner fewer: it was fabulous. commissioner yee, you're not saying enough. it was fabulous. it was sweet and it was inspirational to all of us who thought we could not dance. [laughter] it was a fabulous family of that. there were so many families. it was wonderful. president yee: it was a great

day and we had such a time at the end. i thought we would have judges, let's dance the salsa, including superintending garcia. spontaneously, not only the adults, but all of the kids ran down from where they were sitting. 150 kids that went into the middle of the dance floor. it was a blast. it is one thing to have a structure, but for us to say, and did you want to come down? they all came down. it was a great site. to me, it is almost the essence of what we were trying to do where kids can enjoy dancing.

i also wanted to mention that i went to the sunny side festival on sunday. some other things. that is enough. >> i want to congratulate the garcias who were married in. it was presided by gavin newsom. two weddings in two months. that is pretty awesome. president yee: i was going to adjourn the meeting, but not yet. report of the closed session. may 1, 2012, and it was read out already had a special meeting. we made a decision to re-read

it because people here on television, including a large audience we have right now. the board of education by a vote of 6-5 approved the expulsion of one high school student and one middle school students. in approve the contracts for six assistant principals. it approve the contracts for two principals, five directors, to special assistance, one deputy general, a senior deputy general counsel, sixth assistant superintendents, six chiefs and five cokes. -- cooks. oh, no cooks./ 4 ayes, 2 nays, approve a

contract for one assistant principal by a vote of 6-core. -- 6-4. 4 ayes, 3 nays, approved the contract for one principals. men did not approve the contract for one program administrator. the approved lenders for tw -- they approved two assistant principals. one supervisor, when executive director.

the board approves the expulsion of one middle school student. this is the closed session read out for may 8, 2012 that happened earlier today. the board approved the expulsion of one middle school students. it approved a the stipulated expulsion agreement with one high school student. it approved of the contracts for two principles administrator. the board approved it will not renew one assistant superintendent. other items, the acceptance of gifts.

the meeting is adjourned.

>> so thank you very much for coming to the second annual budget town hall.

my name is david chiu, and i am honored to represent the district 3, which is the 10 any neighborhoods. i want to welcome all of you to this town hall. i want to thank all of you for your community leadership and let you know that you're taking part in a very, incredibly important part of our city governance. i thing many of you know that the budget is the most important set of decisions that we make every single year. the budget reflects our priorities as a city and reflects our values. and many of you probably also know that in recent years, every year since i have been in office, we have had a budget deficit. so we have to make some very, very difficult choices. i want to thank not only not of you who have -- not only all of you who have come here today, but those from city government, in particular are city officials.

this is the second annual budget town hall, something we started in mayor lee's first year. in the first meeting i had with mayor lee after he was sworn in as our interim mayor last year, i asked him and other supervisors asked him for ways to make our budget process more collaborative and more transparent. and the budget team and mayor lee in the board of supervisors, we thought that this format of budget town halls in many districts around the city would make a lot of sense, and i think it has been a very good way for us to have feedback. without further ado, i would like to introduce my co-host for tonight, who is my neighboring supervisor from across the van ness, supervisor mar farrell. it is great to have you here in district 3. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor chiu. i also want to quickly thank everyone the for coming out tonight, especially those from districts two who traveled all

the way from the telegraph hill. that is right, go ahead and clap for yourselves. thank you for coming out tonight. last year we started this with mayor lee, and i do think this has become such an integral process and kind of part of our budget cycle in city hall. we really want to hear from you. tonight, that is what this is all about. i hope those of you who are here will take the time to write in your questions. i know there is a format here to come up and speak. we have the best moderator in town in tina, president of the russian hill neighbors association. thank you for moderating tonight. but i encourage everyone to submit questions and conduct was after words as well. we want to hear from you and make sure we incorporate everything you say tonight into what we decide in city hall, not only this year by going forward in the future. again, we all want to thank all of the city department heads and staff that are here tonight. thank you all for being here. it is a big deal that they come

here to all these budget town halls to really make sure that any of your concerns they can speak to as well. without further ado, the one person we really want to thank for making these budget town halls happen is our major. he has taken time out of his very busy schedule -- [applause] and please note -- i know the board president mentions this as well, but it is really, as a representative of district two, it is really a pleasure to be working with mayor lee, not only on many issues on city hall but especially as it relates to our budget and is transparent process going and long way. so please give a warm round of applause for mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, supervisors, very much. good evening, everyone. it is my pleasure to be here at telegraph hill center. it is a personal pleasure of mind. i actually do -- i may be in

opposite to what you think. we do enjoy being out in the neighborhoods. it is better than the question and answer period in the -- [laughter] anyway, we do enjoy it. i know tonight we will be talking about one in the most important things that we do. and i cannot think of a better way to make an important decision that involve everybody who are stakeholders in our budget. you must tell us what you think is the most important thing that we should be focused on. and while we may think, as political leaders and people who have been elected, that we might at times know better, quite frankly, we need to hear from everybody always so that we honor a commitment that this government has made for many, many a decade. i have been involved in it for 22 years. honor the neighborhoods, and you will survive. so i want to thank the various department heads with me. i want to give a shout-out to

the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs or here tonight to translate for anybody who wants. the extra help for anybody needs to make their point across. most importantly, i want to begin with a big thank you to all of you. you kind of heard that our budget is approving a little bit. yes. unemployment is down from a year ago. in fact, we got some great news a couple months ago, that our first six-month report indicated that we were $129 million off, and the good way. that what we had thought was going to be the first year of a two-year budget to be some $225 million in the deficit, we found out that we're now about $170 million in the first issue deficit and about $312 million for the second year.

so i need to remind you all of that we are no longer doing budgets on a year-to-year basis. one of the reasons that we need to spend more time in the community is to get you to know that we have to two-year budget. we have to put a little more discipline in the way we budget ourselves. a little more discipline and taking care of things like our infrastructure, think that they get very long time. a little more discipline in making sure that when we way would you tell us tonight, what we need to pay attention to, that we have the revenue and resources not only for one year but two years going down. by law, by what you voted for, we have a two-year budget. we have a deficit of $170 million in the first year and about $312 million in the second year. it is better than what we saw a few years ago for these years coming forth. now that may sound like a whole lot of money to you, and it is, but it is much better than the numbers that we saw when we did

not have pension reform, as they accomplished with the board of supervisors in with people like warren hellman and others that helped us last year passed that very important thing. it is looks better now that we have proposition d that was passed with our street paving bonds and other things that we have done smartly. but with that, we still have a very complicated decisions to make that will reflect our priorities. i want to also thank supervisor carmen chu who is out here tonight. she is going to be the head of the budget committee -- committee. [laughter] that the supervisors have selected with david chiu's help. this is her third. i have committed to six. we are combining as many of the districts together as possible, so we're trying to do this as efficiently as possible.

but we will do all six. we know, based on last year's turnout and i think tonight, the turnout as well, if we listen to closely, we go and do our homework, we will make good decisions so that hopefully you are not there the end of may screaming at us in the months of june saying we did not listen. we have got to listen early, and we have got to do -- got to make good decisions. we're ready to do that. i wanted to forewarn you that this is a two-year budget and is still bouncing a deficit. and guess what -- the news from the state and the news from the federal government is not improving. every time we looked around, there's something else of the governor says he has got to cut, because we head -- cannot figure out how to balance the state budget. if you notice, on every major decisions that they are making, they are making the cities, with their own dollars. they are pushing. so they call something realignment. that sounds kind of like, ok, you're shoveling a little bit. realignment means they are

rushing into the county's and making us figure out how to pay for it. that is what realignment is. that is what they did with redevelopment. they eliminated that agency, and now we have got the burden of coming up with solutions to build more affordable housing in the city and more work force housing in the city. they're pushing more and more things. then the federal government does not seem to be playing in a different tune as well. they're pushing out federal jobs. they are pushing down federal programs. they are cutting spending. as you may have heard, we got a big, big hit announcement or they're not going to fund red- and-white and we have people with aids that need treatment. -- not going to fund ryan white, and we have people with aids and the treatment. everything is on the table. child care is on the table. senior programs of nutrition are on the table. while we're trying to figure out

housing at the same time. we have all these problems that the city, and not just me, every urban city is experiencing this problem, particularly in the state of california. so i need to give you that backdrop to let you know that the decisions we are going to may, with all these very smart people that head up the several dozen agencies, it is not going to be an easy thing. but i will repeat over and over again, the best decisions we make the once grounded with -- with community support, and we want to hear you carefully. so i am going to end my speech is right now so we can spend the bulk of the time listening to your ideas, your solutions, and your suggestions. i leave you with this one thought. be involved. be a bit of with your ideas, because i think innovation, finding creative solutions to old challenges, is extremely meaningful in the city. finally, think about where we should invest.

because if we are an investment- friendly city and if we have our priorities straight, guess what, a lot of people with a lot of money will invest in our city as well. not government, because i told you that story, but maybe these other companies that if we talk to them the right way, if we suggest to them there are programs that are really important to all of whether to defer our parks, used, are homeless programs, that they are really important, they're going to come up with some dollars to help us with that. that is what makes an investment-friendly city and also reflects the values the city has. thank you for coming out. i appreciate your time and your effort. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i am going to take two minutes to introduce the men and women to my left and right. as the mayor said, a unit next to as the leadership of many of our city agencies that help to manage the close to $7 billion

and the over 50 debarment we have in the city. starting on my right, mayor lee introduced supervisor carmen chu, who heads of our budget committee. thank you for being here. next to her is kate howard, our city's budget director. next to her is luis herrera, our city librarian who manages the san francisco public library. our housing and 30 is run by director henry alvarez -- housing authority is run by director henry l. burress. our human services agency, derek chu. now relations between any of thechu's tonight, by the way. the head of our department of children, youth, and families, maria. the head of the department of public health, barbara garcia. from our neighborhood, a member of the department of emergency management. end of the blue uniform here,