stimulus, we spent our money but in districts eight and nine, we are not taking it very far. >> the amount that came into the city was 4.3 million dollars. i want to make that point. >> moderator: nathan from the bike club coalition. okay. move on to our final comment, mia too much. (applause) >> howdy. my name is mia too much i am the youth commissioner; i work at lyric but i am representing myself. i have two important issues i want to bring up, lgbt -- we still don't have an lgbt

(indiscernible) i would really like to see that coming to fruition. i would like the 400-unit goal to be met and exceeded, to have no homeless gay youths. we have 5000 homeless youth. if we are setting goals here, we need to meet that. i'm shaking, life or death thing. i live in the mission. i survived a hate crime. i want to have affordable housing. i live in the mission. if i could live in supervisor

farrell's district i would love to. but the mission is my home. please continue violence prevention dollars. thank you. (applause) >> moderator: we are coming to wrap up. i want to point out that if you have one information about the budget hearing process, go to the front, the mayor's office staff will give information about what the plan is for the upcoming hearings and how you can be engaged. now we will have closing remarks. i want to welcome supervisor campos, that supervisor wiener, and then the mayor.

so he can make a final closing remarks. >> scott wiener. we heard all of you. all of the comments will make an impact and we appreciate the fact that everyone came out. i want to highlight a couple of communities that were heard loud and clear, the transgender community, this is something that we have to deal with and i also want to speak to the chinese speaking unity and parts of the city like the portola, i do believe that we need to do more of that population, we need some funding already that we need to do more. thank you very much enjoy your weekend. >> i want to thank everyone for coming out today. this is the beginning. we'll be having budget hearings. i talk to people, e-mail, on the street, many ways to

understand what people' parties are. thank you. >> if we could give a big round of applause to our moderator, larissa. thank you larissa, a great leader in our community. >> i too want to thank larissa and -- and thakn the cesar chavez school, and the community ambassadors for keeping us safe and the group of people coming in to help us establish a high level of safety and working closely with the law enforcement; i want to thank the departments for being here. because of you we'll work extra hard to make sure we balance the budget in a way that it earns you respect. this is why we do our jobs and we are always constantly earning it. i want to be the first one to

apologize if someone did not get chance to speak. please know that we will hold these throughout the city and you're welcome to come and join us in the other budget town halls but again thank you very much not only for the birthday call-out but to know that i am or carefully listening to all of you. i will say this. we are invested in our city they time. we want everybody to succeed. you know that i always use sport analogies. i will and with sports. this week we saw panda hit a home run, in the ninth inning we saw belt hit home run, in the eighth inning -- last night we saw posey hit a home run. all of us, when we start off the budget, we start with the

deficit, down a few points, down a few home runs, but then we get even, and pretty soon we will hit a homerun with all of you; we will see three pointers, and some game changers. one of the big three points and big home run since when we say we are going to make 6000 kids in our city get paid intern summer job; that sets the success of the city. thank you very much for coming out. we are going to work on everything from health to anti-violence with you and make sure we have a really healthy and successful city. thank you very much. >> moderator: please return the translation equipment. --

>> good morning, everyone. thank you so much for coming out to washington heights and the richmond district for this first of a series of budget town halls for our cities. isn't this wonderful to have the city department heads, the mayor, supervisors tackv and farrell with us this morning as well? i wanted to say that my role is

to facilitate this to make sure that we're going to stick to time and that we can have you out of here in a short amount of time, but also to gather as much input as possible. my name is eric mar, i'm the supervisor for the richmond district. and i wanted to first introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. thank you. (applause) ~ >> thanks, supervisor. i'll be very brief because the whole purpose of these budget town halls is to listen to our neighbors, our residents, to find out what you think matters in our city. i just wanted to put a little backdrop that a year ago when we started holding these community meetings, we had some significant budget deficits. and in years past they were even worse. now we've come through a lot of that and i'm thankful to all the department heads that are here because they worked very hard to work with me to find all the efficiencies, to make sure we balance that budget. clearly, the members of the board of supervisors and today

we're focused on districts 1 and 4, but i want to thank supervisor mar, supervisor tang, and supervisor farrell for providing their leadership at the board because we can only make it work if the mayor and the board work together. but most importantly, we've got to listen carefully to our residents. and i want to begin by saying this has been a pretty intense week for all of us. you know, we all watched together the horrifying events that happened in boston. they don't follow too long from what happened in connecticut. and i just want you to know that i think i watched a lot with you about what transpired and i'm very glad that we're investing in our law enforcement, but we also have to invest in education. we have to invest in a lot of things as we think about how we could have prevented that kind of horrible activity in the boston marathon. and we will make our events

safe, i assure you of that. whether it's mohammed looking at every trash can or officers making sure everyone is safe in our events, working together, every event that we have in our city is important to us, the public and the visitors and the residents be safe. and we have a tremendous amount of events that happen in our city. all through this summer rec and park has got huge numbers of events that draw a lot of people. that money will come right back to our neighborhoods as we all work together, along with the events that we have along our waterfront all year long, along with the ones that we know every year like the beta breakers. this year we have a deficit that's smaller than in past years. a year ago we were facing $170 million deficit. we have a 7.6% unemployment rate. this year and the next -- we do two-year budgets, by the way.

this year it's about 123 million deficit for this next fiscal year. the following year of 14-15, is about $256 million deficit. so, we plan for two years, but we'll meet every year just to talk through it. and then we're doing really well on our employment. we have about a 6.3 unemployment rate. so, it's gone down another big percentage point. i want to keep driving that down. my goal is to get to the 5 or even below. that means a lot more people have jobs and create their own destinies. and i need to have that happen because government can't do everything. we'll do the gaps. we'll help, of course, with our seniors, our low-income families, our children need us to provide the programs. but we have to invest really smartly these days. and i think if there's any

theme that all of us are working hard on is how to properly invest as our city totally recovers. and many of you will talk to us about the proper thing that we want to invest in that have long-term economic and social benefits for all of us. but i want to thank the supervisors for being here, but most importantly, thank all of you for coming out on this beautiful saturday at the washington eagles' site, a site where we're doing community clean ups. (applause) >> i want to thank the ambassadors for being here. they're one of our newer programs. we hire people from the community to be eyes and ear in the areas where we feel unsafe, but where we may not need necessarily the attention of a police officer, but they work together. they actually train our ambassadors to become additional extensions with our community. but we won't forget that the

community is the most important thing. if we build strong communities, then i believe very well that our whole community policing will work just as it does with so many of our other departments that rely on the community to get their projects or their work done. so, again, thank you for coming out this morning and i look forward to hearing your comments this morning. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. i'm also so happy that we have many people, the new leaders of our neighborhood from young people to the elders and seniors with so much experience and a diversity of people from the richmond. but this is also about district 4, the sunset district, and park side district. so, we're going to be doing our best to share kind of district 1 and district 4 comments today. i'm the representative and supervisor from district 1 and i wanted to make a few comments first to say that we're a city that is in the midst of working

our way out of the deficit. for the past couple of fiscal years, it's actually been five years of tremendous cuts in our city. and even though it looks like we're at the doorstep of a recovery in our city, the next year will still be challenging to many in our community as we go through this difficult budget process. and we have our budget chair, supervisor mark farrell who will be attending not only this hearing, but also all of the hearings through the city as well. the purpose of this town hall as the mayor just stated, is to provide community members with an opportunity to express to all of the department heads and decision makers here what we feel our budget should be, what our budget priorities for district 1 and district 4 should be. and the department heads and the department reps that are here are hoping to keep in mind what our vision is and what our needs and priorities are for a balanced budget in their departments. district 1 is really important. personally, i think it's really

important that we emphasize and maintain funding for senior services, as district 1 has a disproportionate number of seniors. and it's a growing population that's booming from the baby boomers to growing senior population. and we as a city have to acknowledge that. we also have great representatives and nonprofits that are here that represent children and family which are critical. and the outer richmond has tremendous transit needs as well as ed reiskin and others from the mta know, we're trying to do our best to make sure the outer richmond is served. in light of the reduction and service of 38 geary and 18 line. and also finding a way to expand programs for youth after school and in the summers as many of our nonprofits and schools know here. last thing i want to emphasize the importance of providing language assistance for our immigrants and diverse populations. so, i'm really pleased that adrian and our office of engagement is here providing translation. so, if anyone needs

translations, i know that that has been provided as well. now i wanted to quickly say that we have outlined at the board -- up here on the board what our agenda is today and the ground rules. the town hall begins with a brief budget overview by our budget director kate howard, and then we'll have representatives from a number of commutection organizations. i think it's five for district 1 and five for district 4, speak about specific district needs and an overview of the issues. after the district presentations are completed, we'll have 15 questions from our district 1 and 4 residents to come and speak at the podium. and we're asking people to keep their comments as short as possible so we can maximize as many people speaking as possible. so, again, and leo chi is up here to tell us to stop like he's told me to stop already. [laughter] >> and it's really important that if there's a person whose first language isn't english and speaking in another language, that additional

amount of time will be provided. then supervisors tang and farrell will also explain about the budget process. and finally the budget town hall is scheduled to end by 11:30 with clothesing ~ closing remarks from mayor lee and the supervisors. district 2 supervisor, district 4 supervisor katy tang can make their records. first supervisor tang from the sunset district. (applause) >> good morning, everyone. i'm katy tang, district 4 supervisor. i'm happy to co-host this town hall with supervisor eric mar. i think that both of our districts -- our residents share a lot of the same concerns and we have high populations of children and families, lot of seniors as well as folks from immigrant community. and, so, today i think that it is a great partnership that we have. i also want to thank the department heads who are here as well as our mayor and very

hard working budget director having been the legislative aid to former supervisor carmen chueed when served on the budget committee four years, i know how hard it is that all of you worked to put together the budget. ~ who had as you know the mayor and his team will be submitting the budget to the board by june 1st, and, so, i think that we're very lucky that we have a very collaborative mayor and his team who want to hear from you as he's putting the budget together, not after, but during the process so that he can incorporate your feedback into his budget. so, with that, i want to turn it over to our budget chair, supervisor mark farrell. (applause) >> thanks, katy and thank you to supervisor mar. my name is mark farrell from district 2 which covers the northern part of our city here in san francisco. and this year had the pleasure of serving as our budget and finance committee chair. so, we'll be intimately involved in this budget process with the mayor, with our department heads, and with my fellow supervisors.

it's an honor to be part of this process and to be leading it in city hall. i really want to thank all the department heads and the mayor, my fellow supervisors for being here today. but this is really about you and hearing from you about what your concerns are, both in district 1 and district 4. and, so, i will keep my comments short here and look forward to hearing from each and every one of you. and i think you should know that all of us are very committed to having an open and inclusive budget process and it really starts today. so, thank you all for being here. (applause) >> and now kate howard, our city's budget director is going to give her overview. thank you. >> good morning, everybody, i'm kate howard, the mayor's assistant director. thank you for being here this morning. i wanted before i started just to quickly identify the departments that are here this morning so that you know who is here listening to you. so, we have the mayor's office on disability, the fire

department, the department of public works, the mta, the recreation and park department, the health department, the city administrator's office, and the department of technology, the controller's office, our supervisors and mayor, dbi, the human services agency, the department of aging and adult services, the mayor's office of housing, san francisco police department, the department of emergency management, the san francisco housing authority, and the department of economic and work force development. so, we have a lot of folks here to listen to your ideas and concerns. and also people who you can talk to after the conversation today as well. we also have a standing audience, our office of small business here. so, thank you all for being here. i wanted to share just a few things briefly about san francisco's budget before we get started. i think the supervisors and the mayor are correct, we're really here to hear your thoughts and concerns and ideas. but before we begin, i want to

make sure we're all starting from the same page. so, when we think about a budget, i always think about the first question. what is a budget? and for me a budget is a plan, it's the plan for how we're going to spend the resources that we have available to us. it is a document and a spending plan that reflects the priorities of our city. and finally, in san francisco and in the government situation, it's a law. so, every year we have to legally balance the budget and the mayor and the board adopt that law. in front of you, behind me, i have a number of charts. just to give you a sense of what's happening in our budget. so, the first chart up there shows you the size of san francisco's budget and what we spend our money on. so, every year we spend about $7-1/2 billion in san francisco through the city's government. it's a little more than half in what we call the general fund

and it's about half in our enterprise departments like the puc, the airport, and the port. as well as the mta. we spend approximately 30% on public health and human welfare, about 30% on transportation, infrastructure, and commerce, and then about 13% of our overall budget on public protection. so, then the question becomes, well, how do we get our money? where do our revenues come from that support all of our spending? in the enterprise department those funds come from fees that consumers pay. so, the public utilities commission, for example, people pay their water bills and those revenues support the operations of that department. what we tend to focus on when we talk about balancing the budget is the general fund. and, so, the second chart shows you where do we get our revenue sources.

the largest being property tax, it's about 32% of our overall revenue, over a billion dollars a year in san francisco comes from property taxes. we also receive a significant amount of our revenues from business taxes, hotel sales, and other local taxes. another important thing to know is about one out of every $5 san francisco receives comes from the state or federal government. so, when the state and federal government makes budget cuts, things like the federal sequester, those soon have effects here as well. the next chart over is the one with red and black. that's showing you our five-year budget outlook. and part of the reason we're here to talk to you today is to really hear from you about your priorities in the context of a situation where our revenues are growing, but our expenditures are projected to grow more quickly. so, over the next five years, what that chart is showing you

is we project our revenues to grow about 13%. during the same period we expect that our expenses will grow by 25%. and, so, that gap, the gap between the 13% in revenue growth and the 25% in expenditure growth means we have to make some choices to be more thoughtful in our expenditures so that the revenues and expenses balance. before i turn it back over to supervisor mar, i just wanted to share with you a couple of pieces of information that we have that are helpful to us. so, we're here to hear from you about your experiences and your priorities. we also have data that we get from departments and most importantly from 311, the city's line that you can call for service requests or information requests. and i wanted to just share with you today the kind of calls that are most prominent coming

from both districts 1 and district 4. so, streets and sidewalk cleaning are about 25% of all calls in the district to 311 or the two districts. i can't see that number but i think it's about 14% of all -- of calls that are related to abandon vehicles. that was much more prominent in district 4 than it was in district 1. and then graffiti is also a really significant portion of the calls that are received to 311. this is just one set of data points. we have lots of ways of getting information and 311 is one of them. but it would certainly be helpful to hear from you about whether those kinds of concerns are similar to the ones that you're experiencing. so, thank you very much for being here and i'm looking forward to hearing about your thoughts today. >> thank you, ms. howard. (applause) >> we have a number of community-based organizations that are going to present now.

if the groups could come forward, the district 1 and district 4 organizations, please come forward. i wanted to also say that those in the audience have been given cards to ask questions. and if you could start, i think staff could collect cards, if people could hold their cards up, staff could come pick them up so we can answer questions to folks. so, we have a number of the community reps from district 1 and 4. we're going to start with district 1. and i wanted to say that the three groups from district 1 that will be presenting are youth and children and family programs. charles higgins is the director of the richmond district neighborhood center. we also have preschool programs. i think jerry yang from cai ming head start is here. we have self-help for elderly, jackie chan, april chan and linda merli [speaker not understood]. so why don't we start from district 1.

this is richard charles from the district neighborhood center. >> good morning. (applause) >> >> good morning. [speaker not understood]. >> you want me to take the public officials or the public? thank you all for being here. thank you all for being here, welcome, rich, to washington high school. we run the washington -- the richmond village beacon center at washington high school. we're very much engaged and have been for more than 10 years in building a healthy community fabric and helping young people connect with their community socially and physically and emotionally healthy ways so that when they grow up and they're working in this community, that they're contributing. we're very appreciative of the support we get from the city and the school district. we run after school programs in seven schools here in the

richmond district including four elementaries, presidio, and roosevelt middle school and here at washington. one of the things that we're particularly in need of here, and i think at city wide, is building more opportunities for young people to connect both with college and with jobs. and to that effort we have a work force development program and we appreciate cooperation with the work force people. we're trying to build a bridge with the va medical center where washington high school students will have opportunities not only to volunteer, but also connect with career-type jobs in medical center. for us it's about lifelong family and community connections and we appreciate the support we get from the city and we hope that that support continues. (applause) >> so, the next speaker sarah yang from cai ming head start, you can either speak up here or

from the podium, jerry. >> good morning, i'm jerry young from cai ming. we have six centers in the city. three are them are in richmond and sunset area and we serve in total close to 300 children [speaker not understood] in the city. in richmond and sunset we have close to 120 kids. so, we have been serving the community to serve these families. we have head start program, by the way. when we have nationwide connection they work the head start program. i want to share one thing. we feel very, very gratitude to be in san francisco. because every time when we connect with those people nationwide, statewide, we couldn't believe how much resource we have in san francisco, how much we invest in early childhood

education. so, that's a gratitude i really want to share with you, with all -- with the mayor, with supervisors, and all the departments. thank you for the support to our children and families in this community. [speaker not understood], i would like to share some comments, how do we do better here. i would like to see the community that we can continue invest in early childhood education as a foundation of everything. and i would really love to see allow cbos to be able to make long-term planning. every year we almost have to learn year after year after year, we want long-term, three, five, seven years training become possible. and also we