but the anniversary of the great earthquake was remembered.

>> i would like to ask for a minute of silence. >> let's have a moment of silence. >> they meet for the annual reflating ceremony. he was joined by winnie for an afternoon celebration. we are here to commemorate all that it signifies.

at each anniversary the leaders meet to prepare for the next great quake. bob welcome everybody to the anniversary. i got to say, the mayor gets it done. gooa round of applause for our e

chief's wife. you look terrific. do we have sydney close five? -- close by. we will pass the microphone to the mayor for a couple of quick words. we have a fire chief and the police chief. >> good morning, everyone.

106 years since our earthquake. we do have a grandson? she was with us in 2009. goopublic works is here.

this reminds us of the 3000 people but passed away in 1906 from the devastating earthquake, but the rebirth of our city is with us. i have been in all of these other positions where we are always prepared. and we are already engaged in recovery efforts. we were there with a whole staff.

we have six we assure you that when the next big event happens, that water system will be there for us to deliver water with that 24 hours. a huge change from depending on this fountain. we are handing it off to generations of youth in the city to understand -- make sure they're prepared. go to our website, it tells you all the things there. iti is about having those items prepared.w we will survive. that is how we get ready and celebrate and honor the people who left us and make sure our city is ready.

thank you for being here. congratulations to our survivors. >> very nice job. behind me is a good friend and a great firechief. you go back 106 years. braxton morning. -- good morning. one of the survivors could not be with us. those are amazing changes. it does give us the opportunity to remember what happened. we commemorate those who suffered losses in their lives and hardships. we also celebrate the city that

was nearly swept from the map. the fires raged for three days and caused rates -- great devastation. we take the opportunity to educate everyone. it is a pleasure for me to work under the direction of mayor lee. he is a public safety championship. he is a prepared as champion. he lives it. i have seen his kids and his workplace. it is all about teamwork. i am proud to be working with chief suhr. and scott weiner, it is a pleasure to have you out here. we appreciate it. it is a great team. thank you to the people who are out here. and also our partners with the

american red cross. who are here this morning. thank you for being here. it has been a tradition for many of us out here. i hope you have a great day and you remember what happened 106 years ago. it is great to be a san franciscan. >> a nice hand for the chief, everybody. i have seen this other chief speaking in the last couple of times. a nice hand for chief suhr. >> good morning. our fire chief said it. we're lucky in san francisco. we have a mayor who has moved through the tears of prepared as an goddess ready to go. we get a little more prepared every day. god bless to the survivors. >> thank you.

>> it is a minute of silence at 5-11. -- 51:11 p.m. let's have a moment of silence for a minute right now. [siren]

>> i think the fitting way to end this germany first of all,

-- this ceremony first of all. there will be playing. everybody have their words right here? i will give the countdown. as we hang the reece, i will give you a count here. have a look at me. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1. ♪ [singing] ♪

♪ >> a great day, everybody. thank you. the san francisco chornicle. and the history association. and the neighborhood emergency response team.

the american red cross. and thanks for making this happen. i want to invite everyone to go to 20th in church or -- and church. and we will meet up. we may skirt the law and serve something before 6:00 a.m. the bookmobile, where are they? >> i have my cheat sheet here which i cannot find. the library has been here after great disasters. there has -- is a special book that won an award this year. here is the book.

i downloaded it on my kindle. it can check out copies of the book mobile. nex>> thanks for being here. start walking slowly. welcome to san francisco, everyone. ♪

>> ok. good morning. it's really great to see everyone indoors on our -- working on our budget when we had the beautiful day outside. so thank you for taking time out of your day to discuss our city budget from the perspective of district 10 and district 11. my name is supervisor john avalos and i'm the supervisor for district 11. [applause] and i want to welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee for his presence here. [applause] i also want to welcome supervisor cohen who is also co-hosting our -- [applause] our budget town hall today. we also have the chair of the budget committee of the board of supervisors, supervisor carmen khu. -- chu.

[applause] and after having chaired the budget committee two years in a row in 2009 and 2010, i can honestly say it's one of the most challenging jobs on the board of supervisors and with carmen, you have a great leader, someone who knows the ins and outs of this budget and really will be looking closely at neighborhoods like arson to make -- ours to make sure we can get out of this budget so carmen is a great person to have on our committee. i want to welcome all the seniors and the youths and the families and residents of district 11 and district 10. we have an incredible task before us on how to balance this budget. even though budget times are looking better, we have hard and difficult choices to make as we do the budget balancing work in the city county of san francisco. our budget is really a statement about our priorities as a city.

we have lots of priorities as off our complement each other but sometimes compete against each other and we have to make hard decisions about what gets budgeted first and foremost. over the past few years, as your supervisor for district 11, i've invested small amounts of money in community development efforts of how we can create more resources for people in our district, we have a committee grant making program supporting seniors, young people. it's making sure that leaders can actually come about in our neighborhood street. there's a report on telling us now make employment work in this part of san francisco. right now, we do not have any major workforce development dollars that come directly for

employment where in the city, we want to be able to change that. this report points us in that direction so in the future, we'll be -- [applause] thank you. so in the future, we'll be pointing in the direction for jobs for youth, jobs for adults, in this part of san francisco and ways that we can support communities that don't get employment if our traditional sectors. so we'll be hearing from people about that today. i want to hear from everyone and i'll stay as long as it takes to hear from public comments and thank you for being here. i want to pass the mike on to supervisor cohen. [applause] >> thank you. >> good morning, san francisco. i'm glad to see you this morning. do we have anyone here from d-10? all right. good morning. do we have anyone here from d-11? whoa!

do we have anyone here from the city family? [laughter] do we have anyone here from the city family? [applause] we are fired up and happy to be here today because we are going to be talking about the number issue that has an effect and connects all neighborhoods, awe races of people, all classes of people and that's our budget. we are here to begin the conversation about our budget priorities and hear from you, from your perspective, from our first line of defense, our service providers, our constituent, our friends, our neighborhood leaders, our democratic clubs. all of you on here have an opinion on what our priorities should be and we have come to humbly receive that information. humbly receive that information so they're going to be very few speeches today. we're going to be putting on our ears today and we are going to be listening. and we're going to be listening in chinese. we're going to be listening in spanish. we're going to be listening in

every language that you speak. if you're speaking, we're listening. and our priorities, our budget priorities at the end of this process will most likely hopefully and will reflect what we have heard in other budget town hall meetings and all around the city. so i want you guys to put a warm welcome to a man that has changed this budget town hall process. not only under the leadership of supervisor carmen chu but mayor ed lee who began last year implementing budget town hall meetings. this is what i understand one of the few -- one of a new way that we begin to discuss budget priorities. so please welcome your mayor, our mayor, our friend, ed lee. [applause] >> thank you. >> tough. good morning, everybody. and i want to thank the city art and technology school for

hosting us here. yes. [applause] principal daniel allen. thank you so much for this lovely location. [applause] so as supervisor avalos and supervisor cohen and we're joined by supervisor carmen chu as well. you know, i've had the pleasure of working with our whole board of supervisors and i'll tell you, all of them have been very dedicated. and you have heard the new tone at city hall. no calling names. no wasting time. we are on your business. and that's why we enjoy coming out so the neighborhood. we enjoy holding budget town hall meetings because the most important thing that we should be doing is listening to the needs, not making decisions in isolation, and then respecting our communities. that's what i want to do. you know me.

i've been picking up trash for a lot of you in this district for many years. we've been out in mccarron park cleaning that place up. we've been down in sunny dale trying to keep things clean, safe. we know these neighborhoods but we also want to make sure we honor a tradition that has been long held in the city. we make decisions with our community. never in isolation. that's why it's important that we be out here. that's why it's important i tell you we haven't made any decisions yet on our budget. but we are heading in a particular direction. and that direction has to be recovery. it has to be job creating. it has to be about positive investments in our communities. and in our city. because i really have to tell you the truth. i'm not going to head up a city that's dependant upon the state government that keeps failing us. i can't depend upon a federal government that can't have a

decent conversation in both houses to put forward transportation and parks and environment and schools. every time we listen to state and national political discussions, i get so disappointed. so i'm turning to the only hope i got. that's our neighborhood leaders. you've got the answers. you're positive about where you live. you're not giving up. you're picture assistant. -- percent. that's what -- persistent. that's what i love about san francisco. so we're here to get energized. we get energized at city hall. yes, you're going to tell us about problems. yes, you're going to challenge us. but when we go to work and we get things done and we feel that much better. that's why when we team one the board of supervisors, we get local hires done and done better. san franciscans need that job. when we say to you that we're going to create jobs for our youth, 5,000 of them this

summer, we ain't messing around. we go to cooperations -- corporations like wells fargo and bank of america. get your hands up. jamba juice. how many are you going to hire? we go to every corporation. and i want to thank eric mcdonald from united way. thank you, eric, for helping us lead 5,000 jobs this summer. [applause] he's working really well with our school district, with our families and children of youth and families departments, with all the city departments to make this commitment true, 5,000 summer jobs. and we've got a website for those of you who are asking i don't know how to get those jobs. well, we're aiming those jobs this summer at disconnected youth. and for you not to be disconnected, the website, hiresfyouth.org. get on that youth.

we are serious about this. we've got jobs from all of the great companies in san francisco joined with all of the departments that you see here. we've got a lot of departments here today as well. they're here to listen. and we can answer some of the questions that you have today, we'll do that. but most importantly, we're here to listen to what you believe the priorities for district 11 and district 10 are, what you think the issues in san francisco have to be paid attention to. and we want to make sure that we get this input right. and so i want to thank all of the department representatives here. we've got departments that you know. departments that you seen day to day. we're all working together to make sure that we manage your city well, manage your taxes well. i know a lot of people, d-10 and d-11 pay a lot of taxes. you want to make sure we're doing the right thing to them. we'll be listening carefully.

we'll be challenging you to tell us what those priorities are. having said that, i want to let you know the budget is not as difficult, perhaps, as challenging as it was a year ago, a year ago, we're staring at a budget deficit of over $350 million. -- for this next year. now, it's looking like about $170 million deficit for the next fiscal year. the following year, it's about $312 million. and as you may have heard, we're no longer doing one-year budgetting. we're doing two-year budgetting. we want to put in a lot more fiscal disciplining so when you see that we make investments, hopefully, you'll see the programs come out. many times, there's been years where there are problems made but you never saw the programs. you never saw the brick and mor tor come up. we need to do better fiscal planning and that's been where

i've been emphasizing and doing a better planning job with the board of supervisors and with all the different agencies. you know me. we introduced a 10-year capital plan. put in a lot more discipline so when your property taxes are at work, whether it's rebuilding a general hospital or playgrounds, you can see when they're supposed to get done. and then we promised not to raise your property taxes when we use the bond program to fund other things that you care about and you tell us that you care about. same thing with our budget. we have $175 million deficit. we are going to buy law, but also by our very commitment to you, balance that budget and when we do that, we will balance it with your interest in mind. but it is still a deficit. so please make sure you don't use the word surplus here. there's no surplus yet. that doesn't exist in my textbook of words yet. but i hope to get there with you

in a matter of years. i hope to help create a new challenge one of these days where we do have revenues that exceed expenditures. but we're not there yet. we're not there because we still got some expenditures that are far exceeding our revenues. but you hear probably three or four months, how the revenues are increasing. you hear jobs are being created. you hear businesses making private investments in our city moving back in to mid market. hopefully, filling some of the vacancies out here in outer mission and in the mission along third street. you see people making investments here creating jobs. so i'm going to end speech making because the valuable time that we want to have today is listening to all of you. and so with your help, we'll do