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.

>> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of speci species extinction.

>> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. >> of course the overall mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. one of which is the nature of life. how did we get here? the second is the challenge of sustainability. if we are here how are we going to find a way to stay?

these questions resonated very strongly with maya. >> on average a species disappears every 20 minutes. this is the only media work that i have done. i might never do another one because i'm not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. memorials to me are different from artworks. they are artistic, but memorials have a function. >> it is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. that is the scupltural form that gives expression to maya's

project. if you think about a cone or a bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd, often to communicate an important message. this project has a very important message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we don't even know is gone. >> so, what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is, whether you want to call it like the r.c.a. victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the future? >> you can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. so, missing isn't a static installation. it is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. and she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researche e-- g

researchers at the california academy. >> this couldn't have been more site specific to this place and we think just visually in terms of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. it is an unusual compelling object. we think it will draw people out on the terrace, they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context

that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. >> we could link to different institutions around the globe,

maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country, then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. in 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to, by 2011, invite people to add a memory. so in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so to speak. so we don't know quite where it will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years. my goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. >> biodiverse city often argued to be important for the world's human populations because all of the medicinal plants and uses

that we can put to it and fiber that it gives us and food that it gives us. while these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotio l emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we

proceed forward and maybe don't commit the same mistakes. >> 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