[applause] maria sue from the department of children youth and their families. [applause] carla johnson from the mayor's office on disability. denny kern from the rebecca and park department. john haley from the san francisco municipal transportation agency. young lee from the san francisco unified school district. greg wagner from the department of public health. [applause] william lee from the department of emergency management. [applause] regina dickey from the office of small business. charean mcspagen. and we have daniel allen, principal of city of parts and technology.

thank you again for opening up your auditorium for us. chief joanne hayes white from the fire department. and chief greg serb from the police department. [applause] and we have from the san francisco public library jill bourn. [applause] and anyone we may have left out, we have hodges mendosa from the mayor's office on education. i knew it. and also our cool board commissioner. thank you so much for being -- i've got to pass this on to our emcee shaman walton and is now the district 11 resident as well. shaman. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i'm going to try this again. good morning, everybody. thank you. it's a privilege and honor to be here to moderate this great discussion. i have the privilege of living in district 11 and working in

district 10. so these priorities are important to me. and as a leader of the community, i'm going to be very objective today. so i need you all to stay focused on the task at hand so we can have a great and productive conversation while we're here this morning. can everybody do that? all right. so a couple of housekeeping things. when we get to the open mike part and i'm going to stay urn my two minutes during my conversation as well. just to be a good model for what we want to see in the conversation. but when we get so the open mike part of the conversation, we're going to allow for two minutes. whatever you would like to say, you need to keep it into two minutes and be mindful of the times so that everybody will have an opportunity and we'll get more people with the opportunity to speak. ok? so two minutes. we're going to keep it to two minutes. you can either ask a question. give a speech, give a show. but it's going to have to be in two minutes. second thing is we're going to

alternate two districts so we're fair that both districts get ample opportunities to address their concerns. everyone can't speak at the same time. so we're going to let the speaker be heard. we're going to be respectful and mindful of the fact that only one person can talk so they can be heard and they can be clear so the proper questions can also be answered. housekeeping. there are headsets up front for translations when you come in. we have captions for the hearing-impaired. so we want to make sure that everybody gets a chance to whether heard as well as are accommodated so they can communicate very well. so with that said, i think we get an understanding of the flow of the conversation when we get to the open mike. i'm going to bring up the mayor of budget director. >> good morning. good morning, everybody. thank you. so -- can you guys hear me? good. so i'm just going to speak very

briefly about the budget. just a few highlights since i think you've heard a lot from everybody else already. and really our purpose today is to listen to you. so san francisco's budget as you've heard is really a statement of our priorities. it's what we invest our money in to deliver services to all the residents and people who live and work in san francisco. our budget is about $6.8 billion every year. and about half of that is in what we call the general fund. and that's really the place where we have the conversation about a budget shortfall. what do we spend that general fund money on? we spend it on things like public safety, police and fire. we spend it on health. we spend it on programs for children, youth and families. and we spend it on things like rec and park. we also have -- we're also the biggest employer in the city and county. we have about 26,000 employees who work for the city every day. i have some charts up here.

i'm not going to go through them all, but basically, one of the tasks that i have every year is to balance our budget shortfall. and you heard the mayor say he would like to be in a place where we have a budget surplus but we're not there yet. and one way of thinking about that is we get our revenues. those are from property taxes, from sales tax, from the hotel tax. and all of those revenues together aren't sufficient to pay for all of the expenses that we have. one way of thinking about it is, you know, over the past few years, because of the economy, many people have experienced having income that is platt or -- flat or declining. maybe your rent is more expensive. the price of gas is more expensive. so you have to figure out what do i trade off? you know, how i can afford to continue to do the things i need to do? and we're in the same situation. so our goals as the mayor said,

we have to have a two-year balance budget. we want to hear from you about where should we be investing? what kinds of things can we improve? and what should we be paying attention to as we think about making those trade-offs? i really appreciate everybody being here and that's all i have to say. [applause] >> thank you, kate. so as you could see, the city much like some of our own households, they have some real scenario where is they have deal with and they have to prioritize and i'm glad to hear the mayor say that we're not as at a surplus. i have to remind staff and board members of that all the time. increased revenue does not necessarily equal surplus. so the city has to prioritize and make sure that they focus on the most important needs and the values of the city to make sure that we get what we want and get what we need but at the same time, they have to do it with the fact that we don't have a

surplus in the budget. they have a hard job up here and we want to let them know that we appreciate the hard work that they do working on this budget so with that said, i'm going to introduce a couple of speakers. first, we're going to have speakers come from district 10. we have neil who is with you a on thea and the human rights commission advisory board and mr. al norman with the baby emergence. if you could both line up right here and we'll have neil go first. >> good morning. i have two minutes. so this is my "american idol." are you guys ready? yeah. first of all, i would like to thank the mayor and our supervisors for coming out and everybody for showing up. the last time i was here was in the seventh grade in the production of hare.

-- "hair." i'm 54. so this is really a trip. redevelopment. it's gone. our street is a ghost town. if you've seen leyland avenue, it's beautiful. we have a green way. it's beautiful. but we have a lot of empty storefronts. and with the redevelopment gone, it's probably going to get worse. how many here in district 11 has ever come down and spent a dollar on leyland avenue? great. i spend a lot of money in the mission. because there are places to go. and we need places to go in mid valley. we have a lot of services for minorities. i'm a minority. sfaft -- as a matter of fact, i'm a single dad. i'm disabled. i'm gay. i mean, you can go through all the gam mitt. -- gamut. i represent d-10 as all of you

do. there are so many different services there to help them. but the only services is not available is income. is jobs. we need something to boost leyland avenue. and i thank the city for really taking notice of what's going on in d-10. because it's very important that we all survive as a community. like i said, i went here. luther burbank. who would have ever thought i would come back and ask for the city to really pay attention to us in d-10 and d 11. so spend your money wisely. thank you very much. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. al norman, baby emergence association. and we talk about redevelopment. we talk about the city of san francisco. our mayor, our chief of police, our fire department, our new c.o.a. and then, of course, our illustrious supervisor avalos

here who help putt this thing on for us today. but the most important thing we have to remember, we have to remember what happened in the past concerning us as communities and as districts and how important it is for all districts to work together, to help the mayor to help the chief of police to help the chief of the fire department. and what's been happening there's been too much decisiveness between districts -- decisiveness between districts. and by a view is one of the poorest districts in san francisco and we suffered gnome -- enormous economic loss in the past. we have the redevelopment and all the other things coming in, and even emergence got stuff going on where we're trying to pitch in and do a lot more volunteer stuff and that's what it's going to take for all of us here. the money used to flow through san francisco like water. but, you know, they cut the tap

off right now. we have an illustrious supervisor like malia cohen and mr. avalos in what he has concerning jobs and employment and all of those things. i don't think it has to be about color. what about the economic stability with people living within the bounties and what can we do to help each other? and help our elected officials and our appointed officials and all the people who count to bring revenues to san francisco? we're putting on things and our biggest goal is to make it as one of the safest places in san francisco where you can come to shop and spend your money with us and our merchants and all the different things that we want to put out there for you. we're not just putting building houses. we want skating rinks. we want bowling alleys. all the stuff you see leaving san francisco, we want that as a

part of development and the part of our economic development. not just for the adults and everybody. we want something for our kids to do. so they don't have to hang out all night. they don't have to worry about joining no gang. they have plenty of safe havens throughout the community and many of the things you envisioned in our community, we want you to come and visit us and us to visit you and show that is as fellow san franciscans, fellow citizens of san francisco helping each other do what's needed to >> i'm a san francisco native. i was born and raised here, 1946. i'm very proud of where i'm from. i'm very proud of the people who are here. even though we go to city hall and fight like cats and dogs sometimes i'm proud of how we engage each other in conversation and we can take those conversations and make them work for everyone. thank you so much.

>> we want to thank both gentlemen. before i introduce our community representatives from district 11, if you want to be heard during the open mic time make sure that you fill out the cards. they are on the tables at the front. i believe they are color coded by district. please fill out the card completely so we can have all the information in case we don't get to you and you don't have a chance to speak we will know who to follow up w. i want to introduce mr. dora god and pat kwrty clement from c.y.o. >> good morning, everybody. i'm from out of sight centers. i'm here representing the clubs planning committee and i want to let you know we have been working hard to provide for our

unique district. it is well known we are in district 11, we are culturally diverse, we have the most families, university and seniors in san francisco. through our effort individual effort we have targeted several areas in district 11 that need to be focused on to keep the community healthy. we are inviting the city and different documents to come to the -- departments to come to the table and invest in district 11. to believe in the workers and families like we do. we want to encourage flat funding in district 11 housing since the budget cuts. we create priorities in the district to better empower our community and we believe they should be the priorities for the budget. foremost we have youth jobs. we need support from the new fiscal budget to support job development in district 11 and especially in excelsior. as many of the organizations are refocusing on training from living wage jobs from ages 14 to

24 away include programs and traditional youth in summer. this is only one of the programs and thank you, mr. mayor, for having that program. we have an intern, miles, i love him. he is great. we are hard at work of the training in technology and arts and green business and we would love to have people invest in district 11 and invest in our summer programs where we are training youth to have appropriate job skills for the future. we are working hard and right now i have look 100 applications on my desk. i will have to turn away about 60 students for summer internships in the arts and technology. the parents here in district 11, we have programs for them and we want to work with them. we need affordable housing in the district because we have the lowest median income in district

11. we need workers rights and outreach programs. we are working on that but we need an investment from the city to build the program strong are and build capacity and help us serve more residents and have better outreach programs. we are doing this work and we would love for you to come to our community meetings. we have a planning action group and see what we are doing and work with us and increase our capacity. that is it. thank you for this opportunity to represent district 11 excelsi excelsior. patty will continue about what district 11 needs and what we have done together. >> thank you, dora. organ good morning. i'm here representing the all my community collaborative. not only do we need jobs for youth we need jobs for seniors.

i'm here to talk about the senior community. as she mentioned we are culturally and ethnically diverse and with that comes great challenges with the staffing for programming to be culturally and ethnically diverse. ling guys particularly -- linguisticically appropriate and while staff is trying to meet the challenges as the community changes and grows and it is growing, we are also challenged about all of the new mandates put on my doing more data collection and paperwork and that is a challenge when you are flat funded because as your population grows and the challenges and needs of the community grow it is hard to continue doing the services that are needed when you can't add any additional staff and flat funding is a cut. so we need to look at that. virtually all of the outreach dollars have gone away for services in our community. especially with senior services. if we can not outreach the seniors become isolate and

decline and if they decline they will end up in thursdaying homes and the hospital which costs all of us more dollars. we need to keep them healthy and physically fit. we need to look at different ways of doing transportation in district 11. we have a very geographically challenging community. lots of hills. we have transportation but it is just not enough. we need to get creative on how we use the transportation. then we have st. luke's hospital which is a concern here in district 11. with the deal with cpmc we are concerned they will close it. that has been a fight people have been fighting for years and we want you to hear that we need a hospital in the southern part of san francisco. where else are our community members going to go? san francisco general? yeah, but it is overloaded. if you go in the middle of the city you have multiple hospitals in a mile radius. in southern san francisco we have st. luke's and we need it to stay open. we need the city to commit to

revitalizing the broad and randolph street correspond corridor and mission street corridor. you can see the changes with the revitalization there. we need to continue that effort in our neighborhood beautification with the randolph and broad street corridor and mission street. we have community action grants which really do a lot. it gets our community members involved. it gets them to be part of our community, to invest their own time and commitment. that is what makes a good community is the members getting involved themselves, the residents. we need to continue to work on graffiti removal. it sends a mental when you come into a message and don't see a lot of graph fitty. we have made great strides but we are looking at losing more police officers and we need more academies to have the police to keep the crime reduced that we have made strides on already. we need better collaboration with city college. it is in our back yard and

there's a lot of classes that were not available in the community locations. they are all over the city but we need to invest more of those and see them right here in our own neighborhood. we have a lot of very small nonprofits who are doing a lot of work but they are at the tipping point. if we don't do something about funding we are on the verge of losing them and when you lose some of the small nonprofits that are good at what they do, they have the spurs in dealing with the population they serve and when they are gone getting them back isn't going to happen. as my colleague mentioned district 11 is unique and we invite the city to put more into the city than in the past. we have been an under servserve resource district and we need greater investment from the city. as community partners of district 11 we're committed, organized and we have capacity. we are willing to work with the city to improve our district and

a asking for a meeting with the mere workforce development and other departments to set a plan of action in place. we want to make district 11 an equally inviting and welcoming part of strap -- of san francisco as other districts. i have 43 community members that would be involved in helping us make this better. so, i'm not going to read them out loud but i want to thank you. >> we want to thank adaora, patty, al and neil for representing both districts and keeping closely to the time they were given. now will be the fun part of this this morning because we get the opportunity to hear from everybody here or to hear from a lot of you hear in the audience. again i want to go over the ground rules. we have two minutes, two minutes per person. you can ask a question, you can

give a speech, but you have two minutes. if you have a question directly for somebody you may also ask that question. but remember away want to keep the time to two minutes because the less time you take the more opportunity we give for somebody else. so what i'm going to do is call five people from each district first. we have dr. annette sheldon. when you come up please come and form a line behind the podium. dr. annette sheldon. ann dejesus. nicole agbayan. april chan. monica kenny. jacob moody.

i will do this better next time, too. shenn afr shenna akino. somebody who writes like me. i don't know if it is devon swis -- don swistorski. we might be related, don. owen zeke. and jim marks. >> good morning. good morning, mr. mayor and to all of you it is a fantastic day in san francisco, isn't it? and aren't we glad we live in america where we have the freedom of choice. mr. mayor, you know a meeting like there couldn't happen in some countries so we are thankful for you to bring us

together. i'm dr. annette shelton. i'm with the aids group and they have given me a transcript. i don't know how long it is but here is my agreement with you. when he comes to my two minutes wherever i am i'm going to finish the sentence and then i will e-mail it to you, mr. mayor, if that is agreeable. i would like for all of the members to please stand right quick for me. as i said i'm dr. annette shelton. i'm with the aids group and third vice president of the san francisco branch naacp and producer of "buzzing around with dr. shelton" on channel 29 sunday nights. i'm here with many other members from across districts 10 and 11 asking that next year's budget focus on neighborhood equality. this includes ideas to revitalize commercial corridors. this includes funds and ideas

that will help us create enthusiastnew jobs and fund education and build vitality in our country. i own a beauty salon on broad street 40 years. my grandson donald just opened a store the dream team right in the same -- yeah. right in that same block. he is 101-a and i'm in 103-a. i have seen my neighborhood go up and down over the decades and i want to see it flourish again. we want incentives and bank investments for new small businesses to move in and hire locally. we need investments that make our community look beautiful with new and you -- awnings and paint jobs. we would like to put a mural

[inaudibl [inaudible]. look, look, i never argue with the gentleman that keeps charge of time because my grandmother said you can't pick apples with your back to the trip so look for this to come to you in the e-mail and thank you for listening to us. >> that's a difficult act to follow. i'm ann dejesus i'm vice president of bright and i live in district 10, malia cohen's district. i'm to grateful to be here to speak. we are asking for more cadets for the bayview to increase the safety of everyone there. the second ask is of all of you.

the bayview has a lot of blight and vacant businesses. so i want to address particularly the human services. i understand that you are moving out of oakdale. i want you to consider moving into some of the vacant buildings there. thank you very much for your time and attention today. >> good morning, mayor and supervisors and city representatives. i'm april and i represent the senio seniors. a little background about the self-help we are a community based nonprofit organization. each year we serve over 35,000 seniors in the bay area focusing in the low income. and minorities. senior services serve an important role in the senior population. in district 10 we do have almost 10,000 seniors which is 55 years

old or above and there are only five city funded meals programs that are budgeted to serve around 792 seniors. in district 10 over 30% of asian and they are the only agencies that provide services oriented to this ethnicity. recently our agencies had a program in chinese and one of our meal sites john king sr. center is program that has been demonstrated to empower participants with life skills to better manage their ongoing health conditions. it is a 2 1/2 hour presentation over six-week period. it includes workshops and appropriate behavior modification and strategies to enable the participants to manage chronic disease and medication and increase physical activities.

more than 40 seniors show up in the workshop but with limited resources we have to turn away half of the seniors who simply want to learn more about how to self-manage their chronic disease to reduce the number of hadn'tizations and -- hospitalizations. i want to thank our mayor and supervisors chiu and afpls and the departments and agencies to support self-help for the elderly. thanks. >> monica kenny, district 11. unfortunately the proposed development agreement is a special deal that is good for cpmc but bad for san francisco and districts nine, 10 and 11. it is a poorly negotiated deal that cpmc spend less on charitable care than today and it is shrinking st. luke's charitable care than today and it is shrinking st. luke's