>> if we could mayor the dot comeers to cover and train our seniors and i think there's a big group in the back thank you for your time and hard work. >> glg mayor lee and supervisors. >> let's be respectful of the gentleman speaking right now. thank you >> thank you (speaking spanish) supervisor kim and (speaking spanish) please keep us

connected we need the money desperately thank you. >> san francisco network ministries i've been working in the tenderloin. we operate the tenderloin technology lab with the foundation. and i want to speak on behalf of the keep us connected campaign. we're very aware of the disabled elderly in the tenderloin but throughout the city. this would help them reduce their isolation and help them to find the resources they need to stay i healthy.

i want to speak about a increase in funding for the abuse programs. they have run a residential safe house for women trying to get out of prostitution. we're concerned about the substance abuse treatments for those woman's. to reduce those programs of mental health and substance abuse promise is not humane. i would underscore our certain that c pmc is not including the type type of health needs.

we're concerned about the elimination of the psych mental health in the hospital >> we have 5 more speakers so if your name was called. it's a little bit more confusing there's a lot of seniors that are not in the room by it's important to know that $9 million was fund for 19 labs all over the city for seniors and persons with a disability and that resources has been given to the city of san francisco and now it's up to the city of san francisco to maintain the commuters and if

the commuter fwlaeksz the senior center there will be no fund to correct this. just envision user without any technology because the seniors of the tenderloin their technology is in the senior center. thank you >> your name was called next speaker. >> i'm the director of the community services better known as the center for outcome reach. we might be ground zero for the substance year but year after frigging year i come to fight for our services.

those services are support by general opportunity dollars and every year i have to fight to get those funds restored. the increases to health care for my staff i've cut two positions in the last 3 years at the same time the total number of clients that are active right now i have fewer statistical to see fewer people i'm going too fast those same cuts this year and i'll have to eliminate two more positions. i need those services. anything who knows that the tenderloin needs fewer services needs to come down and avail

themselves. >> i'd like to personally invite supervisor kim to come down and see our program. every year we get outstanding service recognition. i'm getting too old for this. thank you >> i'm amber i'm representing the agency of the services. also representing of which we're a part and i'd like to invite everyone up from can services. i'm going to handicap to over because i would like you to hear from some of the people who use

your services >> in 2345079 i was homes and sanctuary for 2 hundred and 80 days and i heard from services how wonderful they were. when i got there there was a whole lot more to a community center there's a host of the people from all walks of life and it is a community. where they get together and their daung and partying together to be selfish the commuter lab is wonderful i don't want to see that cut. years ago there was 7 males a

week then 6 males a week and now 5 males a week so, please don't cut it anymore. >> good evening. i'm tony one of the first places i respect was to the cbs food program. i'd like the mayor's office to increase funds for them. i'm going to be unselfish. >> actually your two minutes are up. thank you so much for everyone to come we're almost at the end of our program we have two more speakers rocky and reverend

woods. greetings i'm master woods from the church and i'm chairman of the new african folks. it gives me great pleasure and pride to introduce the new african - housing or job sdrimgsz the new african-american congress dedicates itself. we pledge to help the the new

african-american congress is here to serve and stay. we are a collaborative of 15 different agencies to dub patch to the mission to the western addition to lake view side. today you will hear us and we hope you'll become pro-active with the people. we endorse some of the greater programs and we here geej the supervisor in the one stop center in the western edition to

help the people find meaningful employment to the african-american congress is here. >> rocky? >> excuse me. how you doing london? i grew up with london bridge and out of the control project and it's such a pleasure to see her come so far to take part in the cities and counties government. i'm a life skills facilityor and

a proud member of the new african-american congress. i've worked with homes population over 10 years and i've worked with young adults to help them get back into society. i'm an original member of get out of control gang members it was an operation called operation contact. when the program lost it's funding the three to four years it took to get new funding we group. i'm not saying this program would have stopped did rise of gangs but i started selling drugs because i had nothing else to do and everybody else around

me was doing the same thing. i know with a program that tracks kids from 8 to 18 that helps studying and gives them something to do after school it will improve countless lives. san francisco, california prove to are - to be a model program. this will show immediate results and i hope the new african-american congress can help with the financial so for the but in the meantime, i ask the san francisco city to continue to fund it.

thank you so much. >> well, that concludes the public comment portion thought i want to thank everybody on the street and in the overflow room and out in the hall it effects everybody from the poorest to the richest and we have to advocate for those things we need. again if you were not called and you filled out a call the supervisors will be getting those comment cards and i'm going to hand it over to supervisor farrell. >> thank you, thank you all for coming out tonight. your comments are going to be take a look at. i want to go over the budget

process. basically, we're down to the last 2 1/2 months so our budget director are going to be putting together the budgets to the board of supervisors. it will be submitted during the month of june the board of supervisors will be debating about the budget and feel free to join us. and weerlg to have a flet backed budget by the end of june to be voted on in july. if you want to be heard please come on wednesday and 10 o'clock and 1 o'clock.

>> thank you as supervisor farrell said this is not the last opportunity london dot breed my aids are here and you know talk to them apparently i want to hear from the commitments in my districts. this short time period is a sample of the larger issues we have in the city and i want to know about them. please end us an e-mail or call us. we're going to be making some serious budget decisions and i want to make sure your voices are heard. i want to emphasize public housing is to me and it's great

to see him here. we grew up and i want to thank the mayor for making housing that's priority in the city. so thank you so much for being here and actress i want to thank everyone for coming out. just in the youth cards alone we had 60. i'm really proud i tried to pick from board categories we have a lot of seniors and youths and from a board range of cuts from mental health to hiv and we've heard about homeless and i shelters and dropping programs.

but i did look through all the cards i got a real good sense of who came out tonight. i hold office hours twice a month please continue to come over the next month. thank you. (clapping) >> okay we're not going to close out the budget until we've read every single card. i'm going to make sure our staff look at every one of those for the time you gave us tonight. i want to thank the mayor's office to put this ail together and christen thank you very much. tonight you've seen the cameras

so those of you who had the opportunity to speak thank you for behaving. we've got a lot of work to do we're going to work for you to make sure this budget and this very, very city becomes and stays successful for every one of you. appreciate our time.

>> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the.

>> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north.

>> within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail.

>> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and

play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching "culturewire." >> it's great to see everyone here, on a saturday morning a little bit on the dark.

i thank you coming to this joint district two, district 3 town hall. i want to thank our mayor as well as a department head standing behind us. i think all of you know that every year the mayor and the board of supervisors we approve the most important policy document in the city which is our annual document, the budget reflects our city's priorities and how we want to address activities or do want to engage in. i want to thank mayor lee, in 2011 when he came into the office and number of us asked him to engage more deeply in our neighborhoods and conduct town halls that solicit prospectives and feedback from all of you to us as a budget is being prepared as the budget is being proposed to our board of supervisors and is the board of supervisors considers it. let me briefly -

actually i will do the agenda overview in just a second - with that i want to turn it over to my colleague supervisor mark farrell and i are blessed to not only share a border, the north south border of -- street ever-present russian hill and there are many projects that we work on together, it's been a pleasure to work with him all of these issues but i was honored to appoint him earlier this year is our budget chair for the budget committee that will be reviewing the budget when the mayor proposes it to us at the end of may so with that and with no further ado i would like to turn it over to supervisor ferrell. one last thing i want to thank galileo for hosting us today. (applause) >> thank you president chiu. good morning everyone welcome the district two, thank you for coming here today and i hope that afterwards you will hang out on saturday morning and drink, eat and spend your money here on district two, including the department heads as well.

i thank you for being here again as president chiu mentioned, this is the seventh townhall don that we have done and this is the last town hall for the budget , as president chiu mentioned i am the chair of the budget committee so had the honor to go to to all of the town halls in san francisco. this is a chance for you to get into our budget is given to the budget season to talk the mayor and supervisors and department heads about the concerns in the community here in districts two and three; i do thank you, for coming out on a sunny saturday morning coming out to galileo high school. we want to get the public comment out as quickly as possible.

i thank you for taking the time out of his credibly busy schedule to come and meet with the community in our neighborhood to listen to our concerns and i want to introduce you to our mayor ed lee. >> mayor lee: thank you supervisor farrell, supervisor chiu, thank you for the department heads being here, listening for the hour, hour and a half. i a give a to the department of public affairs. i want to primarily thank all of you, a sunny day, a lot of other reasons to be elsewhere. but, you are here to join us on one of the most important things that we do in government, that is setting our budget to reflect the needs of every neighborhood in the city. and you've heard that the

economy looks a lot better; there's a lot of other companies that want to move here. unemployment rate has dropped to 5.4%, we are on a good roll in terms of employing more people. resources are up. we are not completely over the deficit that we're facing with the next two years so we have to do some decision-making. the other thing that the board of supervisors is doing with as is, the reason why we hold these meetings out here is because we want to do as much preventing of arguing among ourselves about what the priorities are in the city. we do still a little bit of that. it is nice to have the import of the public to guide us so that we have less arguments and more about building consensus of what's important in the city. the other thing that we are doing together