of course the members of the san francisco community for coming out. i think this product is truly an engagement of the public, not just of our own individual contributions to the redistricting process, and i hope that san francisco residents recognize -- my personal goal was this is going to be an inclusive process for all, and thank you. mr. mcdonnell: excellent. thank you very much. i also vote in support of the map. i think it reflects where i began the process. i said yes to participation because of my interest and desire in getting the community engaged. on the one hand, i feel really good that we did a good job in that regard. that said, there are still a number of people in our community who did not get engaged. as i think about what we might have done better, that is one

area that i wish we had more time and resources to focus more time and attention on. that said, still had a great turnout of the committee, which i am proud and pleased about, and i feel like they're for where we have landed with respect to this final map represent that. the last comment i would make, when we began the process, it was clear to me from a number of perspectives there was this expectation that the political views and perspectives of many, including individual task force members, would dominate the process. i am very, very grateful to my colleagues that has not been the case. i think that speaks to the commitment and integrity of task force members that was not the case. it is not that we cannot have political points of view, it is that we allow this to be put on the back burner and allow ourselves to be open to public comment and land on decisions with respect to the districts that allow us to land on this

now final map. so i am happy to say that we now have an approved final map. thank you all very much. [applause] >> could i add one more thing? i want to thank you and vice chair lam for taking on roles that he played. you in particular presiding over i92 of the 100 hours of the meetings we have had, i know it has been a very difficult role, and you have done extremely well, and we all owe you. and everyone involved in this, whether this side or the other, owes a lot to you and to chair lam for stepping up, and you also did a wonderful job. mr. mcdonnell: thank you very much. all right, thank you all very much. moving back to item number five, we have a draft final

report that we will now insert the approval date and folk, and that will allow us to have a final report. before i ask for a vote, at any public comment on the final report ? excellent. ms. leigh, anything else we have to do with the final report before approval? ms. leigh: i believe there was a comment about delegating authority to someone to make final grammatical mr. mcdonnell: edits mcdonnell yes. ms. leigh: other than that, not to my knowledge. are you satisfied it is final? ms. tidwell: yes, with the exception of the vote and final grammatical fixes. mr. mcdonnell: okay, two pieces?

>> combine them. mr. mcdonnell: all right, i entertained a motion to delegate the final edit responsibility to ms. tidwell and approval of the final report. >> so moved. >> second. mr. mcdonnell: alright, is there any objection? >> not objecting, but what we do a roll call on the final report. mr. alonso: yes. ms. melara: yes. ms. lam: yes. ms. mondejar: yes. mr. pilpel: yes. mr. schreiber: yes. ms. tidwell: yes. mr. mcdonnell: thank you so

much. >> i just wanted to thank tidwell, melara, and leigh, and really, thank you for taking the time to pull all lavar reports together -- pull all of our reports together. mr. mcdonnell: thank you very much. it moving again, item number six. a press conference. based on lots of discussion and exploration with the city attorney around options, they are fairly limited in that while we do want to find a suitable, formal moment of issuing of the report, the problem is if we do

it collectively, that it constitutes a meeting. once it constitutes a meeting, we are back where we started again. so our options are, a, we hold a press conference with less than a quorum present, which therefore does not constitute a meeting and we issue it, or to report its issued and a less public, less formal, less visible way and just gets distributed to committee and habitants. discussion? >> i have a suggestion. i suggest we hold a press conference with share mcdonnell and vice chair lam, and maybe a couple other task force members

would be willing to participate in that so we would have at least a public presentation of the final map and the result. mr. mcdonnell: thank you. mr. alonso: or perhaps we could have john did a press conference on his own, provided he has time, since he is not an official member of the task force. mr. mcdonnell: okay, and obviously we would have to explore that with him. we cannot commit him at this moment. atmr. lee: i do think it is important, in whatever way, to get the word out quickly, based on the same issues that member pilpel reyes, there are a number of implications that will move quis in our interest and the city's interest for people to know what they're voting, when they did not expect to be voting, and vice versa, not to mention all of the other political activity. i think a press conference would be good.

i am find myself with not attending the press conference, but i think we need to do whatever we can to spread the word quickly and widely. ms. mondejar: i'm not really sure bridget ms. melara: i agree this information has to get out to the media and as many people as possible, as soon as possible. by tomorrow, this will be old news, so a press conference is probably it less than effective. it is more trying to get the information out. mr. mcdonnell: thank you. any other comments? i wouldn't say whether it is a press conference or not, the idea is it is a moment of idea distribution. i don't want to get caught up on the language of "press." mr. pilpel: perhaps since we have issued press releases

before, if we could just issue a short release saying that we have adopted this matter and report, distribute that to anyone we could think of it as a beginning, we certainly have seen some coverage today. i don't know of the board of supervisors would want you to make a short presentation at a meeting on tuesday, to just say, is there, something along those lines. mr. mcdonnell: okay, thank you. mr. alonso: the press is out there, so we could just run out in the next five minutes? mr. mcdonnell: nice. we have one proposal on a press conference with less than a quorum, at a conference at event. mr. alonso: no. ms. lamms. leigh: yes.

ms. mondejar: yes. mr. pilpel: yes. mr. schreiber: yes. ms. tidwell: yes. mr. mcdonnell: thank you so much. we will move forward with planning and event of some sort, less than a quorum, to be determined how and when. any public comment on the press conference item? thank you so much. item number 7, task force budget. ms. lam: there are no additional reporting, just a recap from the last budget. we are anticipating a net balance of " approximately $8800 related to the outreach and consultants. at minimum, we would have that balance if not more. mr. mcdonnell: any questions? mr. pilpel: consistent with the comment a while back, some funds

existing, and consistent with the admen codes, could we arrange to. a small number of reports, in addition to having a pdf available on the website for download and printing? mr. mcdonnell: yes, thank you. ok, any other questions? any public comment on budget? thank you so much. moving to item number eight, general public comment. on non-agenda items. ok. excellent. just before we adjourn, ms tidwell? ms. tidwell: sorry, yes. just on behalf of the task force, i think we were all very grateful that kay decided to come out of retirement to help us.

[appluse] we all think she has been very instrumental in the insured its posted, getting us public, as quickly as possible, posting the draft maps, and we really would not have been able to do it, stayingwe appreciate all the hef the people who have supported us, but i think you were really a crucial member to our team. we just want to say thank you. >> i will not be back in ten years. >> one last word then if i may. last kind of prerogative of the chair. again, it's been really a plesh

working with each of you as i commented a moment ago there were many who expected this to turn into some kind of political fight of progressives and moderates and everybody in between on opposite sides and it did not materialize because we didn't allow it to materialize. so i really appreciate each of you for that. and again, to kay and -- who was everywhere all the time which was just incredible and we appreciate that, to the city attorney's office, just incredible support, always available and always supporting us nudging us when we were getting too close to boundries in any respect. and our consultants have provided both technical assistance and advice and often led us when we weren't sure where we were going. so i really appreciate that. so to that end, kind of my own.

one of the things that we subscribe to at united way where i serve by day which i now get to return to my day job as chief operating officer of united way, is we talk about living united. that that's what we try to instill and catalyze in our communities. everyone owning and being trustees of community and i feel like this task force and all that have supported have done the same. so to that end i have for the q 2 team united t-shirts. i have for the city attorneys team live united t-shirt. and for each of the task force members. and we have coffee mugs. so i will be giving those out to you as you depart. so with that, and again with a deep sense of gratitude and appreciation both for all the time we spent together and for the fact that this is the last time we spend this time together, we adjourn.

>> million can hear me. i want to welcome everyone to one of the newest parts of district 5, the famous county fair building. yay.

[laughs] [applause] thank you all for coming in participating in this meeting today. i am excited to have all of you here today in my district to speak about issues that concern you. san francisco is a world-class city because we had citizens like yourselves who are vocal and willing to put in the work in the hours to make the community better. i want to thank you all for being here and giving us your input. i want to thank mayor lee and his staff for helping to put this together with dominica and chris of my staff did not like to introduce a district 1 supervisor and a dear friend of mine. we share a lot of the same values. i am very happy to be sharing this form with him today. that is supervisor eric mar. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor olague. thank you, everyone, for being here. this used to be part of

district 1. with the redistricting process, and there is a commissioner in the front row, but it is now district 5. we share the park. all of us are stewards of it. the general manager acknowledges this as well. carmen chu is here as well from the board of supervisors. [applause] also, many leaders from the richmond district that our office's work closely with over the years, you'll hear from them a little bit later we hope that the budget process will be one that is very sensitive and transparent, especially fair for our communities. district 1, the richmond district, and the other neighborhoods of district 1 feel strongly that seniors and the aging population of our district are critical, part of the critical safety net. we have a number of speakers that will be speaking later. nick and linda from the golden

gate senior service center. seniors in our aging population is critical. also, for transportation and transit needs, we have a leader from the sierra club in the richmond district. sue is on our committee for a transit as well. i want to acknowledge that children and families are critical to the nature of the richmond district. i am happy to be working closely with the richmond district neighborhood center and the staff there. they will make remarks later. the community-based organizations, the schools, the parks, and the many neighborhood clubs and organizations in the richmond feel strongly that our district has a tremendous needs. we hope in this bridges -- we hope in this budget process we will bring those needs out and advocate for them on a citywide level. i want to thank everyone for being here in the former part of district 1, but also for you do think about the immigrant

families, not just chinese but also russian-speaking in the diversity of families and seniors and others. now it is my great honor to introduce an activist who i met in a chinatown 20 years ago. as a civil-rights leader. now i am very proud to say he is the mayor of san francisco, california. this is our major, edwin lee. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor. thank you to supervisor mar and supervisor olague and of course supervisor chu. it is very important that we have this input from all of you tonight. tonight, those of you who have used your precious time to come out, we're here to listen to you. we made a promise that we would be a much more open government, that we would make sure in our decision making that it reflected important input from all of our communities.

as you go, i've been trying very hard, and i think we have been relatively successful in making sure that our budget process really is reflective of a neighborhood priorities. tonight, i am not here alone. i am here not only with members of the board of supervisors, we're also here with a hole that the of representatives and department heads from various city departments and have dedicated their professional lives to improving service for our city. i am so happy to be with them because i know they work very hard. i get to work with all of them for many years, and i know that they have the very heart and they want this city to improve. they want the best level of services. we're one of those very lucky cities to have a number of departments, but rich in our services to our residents. i hope we can continue that improvement even when there are cuts faced in our state level and cuts based in our federal

levels. tonight, it is very important that we get your input. while there will be introductions from our various departments, i want to make sure you know the bulk of the time is going to be listening to you. i want to begin by thanking our office and civic engagement and immigrant affairs. they are here tonight to make sure everyone gets a chance to speak their mind, no matter what language, culture. but they are here from district 5 and district 1. they are very important. clearly, we have been doing these public budget town halls for some time now. this is the fourth of five that we're committed to. on saturday, we conclude with an additional two districts to round out. we have been taking extensive notes to make sure that these ideas and these concerns -- and we're very sensitive to all the concerns. but you also know that we still have years of deficit.

but they are not as bad as previous years. we're not willing, and we cannot use the word surplus yet, but hopefully in our lifetimes and, hopefully in our future there is a strong possibility that our recovery will be ended and we will see even better times. but that takes a lot of discipline in our budgetary process. it takes a strong encouragement that our city's road to recovery has a lot to do with investor confidence. i have been talking a lot about innovation in our city, bringing jobs back, having those jobs be touching everyone in our city, no matter if you are from bayview or ared5 or d1, chinatown, richmond, or sunset. everyone has to feel they are involved in our economic

recovery, and only then will we feel we have the satisfaction of having a complete budget. but right now, it is only a partial budget. because this coming fiscal year, we're still about $170 million in the deficit. we see a way out on that, but it will be sensitive to what we can fund. and then the following year, as you recall, we now have a two- year budget, so budget for fiscal year 2013-2014 is also a legal obligation that we must balance as well. and that year, the budget deficit is about $312 million in deficit, so these are serious in numbers, once we have not figured out yet. but if we listen to you tonight, we take that under consideration along with our legal obligations, we hope to present to the board a budget that is balanced but also sensitive to community needs, sensitive to

needs of our seniors, needs of our families, needs of our youth, needs of neighborhoods, as well as making sure we fund transportation, make sure we have adequate funds to help our school systems that keep getting threatens with the state cuts, and all the other needs that you have identified. i think we are a pretty sensitive city when it comes to fulfilling these needs. i just want to make sure your note that we ask for your involvement -- make sure you know that we ask for your involvement, and we ask that you support innovative ideas and solutions to our budget. and at the end of the day, we want to make sure that our city is investment-friendly. because the way out, ladies and gentlemen, budget deficit years is never to depend upon the state that has no good news for us. they never have good news. it is all about how they can

fill the abyss of the state deficit. the federal government has signaled they have some funds, this presidential year they are not giving away anything. because they cannot have a good dialogue at the federal level with the presidential election going on. everything is politicized. knowing that, we have to depend upon our own economy and our own recovery. that says that i have to pay attention to good levels of tourism in the city, good levels of health care industry, because they are like our number two employment in our city, and then of course, in fighting technology and biotech and life sciences to establish -- inviting technology and biotech and life sciences to our city. we want returning veterans and people in mid-career is to come as much as possible to san francisco. involvement, innovation, and investment. that is what we want to emphasize for the next two

years budget whileevery commun'. with that, i will turn the microphone over to our supervisors and it sure we get everybody introduced that is here on behalf of the city. thank you for coming out and spend your precious time with us. [applause] >> as the mayor mentioned, in addition to me, supervisor mar, the mayor, we have several department heads who are here who are here to listen to your concerns. i will introduce them at this time. i would beg to introduce a car led johnson from the mayor's office of disability. regina from small businessolson lee, mayor's office of housing.

henry alvarez, housing authority. monique at the comptroller's. barbara garcia from the department of public health. cindy from the budget office. naomi kelly, at par city administrator -- our city administrator. philip ginsburg, parks and representative. ed reiskin. maria, department of children, youth, and families. louise herera, the city librarian. mohammad nuru, dpw.

phil arnold. capt. goldberg. you are from the human services agency? chief hayes white, who gone up from the fire department. karen roy from trout support services. please stand up. the rich in capt., eric vantero. so you have a sense of who we all are. if there is time after, please engage some of us. we will be around, if you want more in-depth conversation.

certainly, if you would like meetings with any of us, feel free to contact our offices. we are definitely open to that. thank you. i want to introduce the moderator henry kelly at this time. henne kelly, i'm sorry. >> she is one of the most dynamic richmond activists, a longtime teacher, and acted with the seniors in the district. >> and i work with christine daily at senior action network. >> who knew? >> i am a richmond district resident, i have been for 35 years. this is one of the most beautiful parts of the park. i am so happy to be here. this is