this. could we have a roll call vote, madam clerk? >> on the motion to recommend this liquor license for approval with conditions, supervisor mar? mar aye. elsbernd aye. avalos no. mr. chairman, there are two ayes and one no. supervisor avalos: 90. the item passes. it will go before the full board with recommendation. >> item two, resolution authorizing adoption of the mental health services at fiscal year 2011-2012 plan update for community services and support, prevention and early intervention, work force education and training, innovation, capital facilities and technological needs and modification of the mental health services act agreement

with the california department of mental health to include these annual update. supervisor avalos: 90. we have representatives from the department of mental health. any presentation briefly? i looked at the file, and it is pretty much a lot of the same plan, but with some cuts because you are not getting the same level of funding. there was one area where there was an increase in funding, possibly. if we could talk about any major changes you are expecting. >> we are required to submit to the state two large reports each year. in december, we submit any annual revenue and expenditure reports for the previous fiscal year. in the spring and april, just a couple of weeks ago, we submitted our plan for fiscal year 2011-2012, and that is where we talk about what we did and what we plan to do, but dramatically and budget. because the revenues have

declined and over the last couple of years as a result of there being fewer millionaires. we have some cuts, but we are actually with some reserves of 1 cent funds in previous years are able to sustain programs to the same extent they are funded this year, but that does not -- is not reflected in the 2011-2012 plan. we have requested $3 million in capital facilities funding to support the development and building of the southeast complex. supervisor avalos: at the southeast community clinic? >> yes, the southeast center is being renovated and expanded, so it is a very large project. this is some capital

contribution to that. the other expansion is a small expansion of the adult services in our full-service partnership to allow for emerging actually of intensive case management programs with existing full- service partnership programs and a little bit of funding to increase the capacity of those programs to provide wraparound access to funding and other supportive services for a larger number. supervisor avalos: ok, very good. would any member of the public like to comment on this item? >> good morning. i have worked in a department of public health for 20 years. i would like to speak out in support of this resolution. i think in california, every

available mental health service is necessary, and i think everyone that troubles the streets, especially at night, has seen the obvious need for more services for the mentally challenged people in california. one cautionary note i would like to make is that in regards to the different programs for mental health services, i would like to caution that the providers of mental health services need to use the services efficiently. one of the projects i have been studying for the last few years deals with the possible misuse of psychological services against whistle-blowers, and i feel that we should make sure that these psychological services are given to the most needy and possibly -- and not possibly misused, especially by local government.

thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. any other member of the public who would like to comment? we will close public comment. we can move forward with recommendations. we will do that without objection. item three please. >> item 3, ordinance amendment portions of the san francisco public works code, administrative code, and health could to consolidate and streamline department of public works enforcement, abatement, and cost collection processes for public nuisances, including amendments to administrative code chapter 80, public works code sections, and health code article 6, revealing public works code sections 1 74.2 through 1 74.13, 728 through 734, and seven 35.1 through 735.4, remembering public works code section 707.1 as 706.9, and

making environmental and other required findings. supervisor avalos: bank you, madam clerk. >> good morning, committee members. in a legislative aide in a supervisor mirkarimi's office -- i am a legislative aide. he entered this is this legislation at the request of the department of public works. briefly, i will describe what it does. immense fortunes of the public works vote, the administrative code, and the health code to streamline the enforcement of public nuisances and lights. it centralizes the of forssmann of nuisance and light through a consolidated citation appeal -- it centralizes the enforcement of nuisance and blight. the city's comprehensive 2008 ordinance focused primarily on the abatement process, but did not consolidate the process for issuing administrative citations

for nuisance law violations. supervisor avalos: ok. we also have a presentation from the director of dpw? >> good morning. i have a presentation if you want or need it. otherwise, just happy to answer questions. supervisor avalos: i think briefly if you could discuss the benefit of the ordinance for your work and the work of your department. if you could briefly talk about that, that would be great. >> it is really -- the enforcement responsibilities that the department has for maintaining the public rights of way to be safe and clean and accessible are scattered amongst a number of different parts of the municipal code and health code, the police code an ad in code, the public works code. we have two pieces of the existing legislation.

the blight ordinance and our sidewalk inspection and repair ordinance, which actually work very well. they are very effective because they are designed to enable us to, once we have identified a problem, if the property owner does not address it, it allows us to address it and recover the city's cost. we do not have that ability with the myriad of other aspects of the codes that we are meant to enforce. they have cumbersome processes and the legal means of cost recovery, so they are, frankly, not very effective. what this proposed legislation does is for all those other elements of public right of way in enforcement that we have responsibility for, it basically holds them into the plight ordinance, allows us to use that process, which we have found has been very effective. just so you know, i know you have had questions about blight, and i think have called for a hearing on it. the plight ordinance was initially intended to address

kind of a wide range of issues of non-building code property blight building code issues. what we found in practice is the great majority, well over 90%, of the use of the plight ordinance so far, has been graffiti. we had an existing graffiti ordinance, and we used that first, but when people do not comply with the graffiti ordinance, we then issue a blight notice. it has been very effective. we are not getting a lot of requests from the public for non-graffiti blight issues here that said, it has been very effective. our sidewalk repair program has been very effective. we want to use the benefit of those ordinances to be able to address all the rest of the aspects of right of way enforcement that we are

responsible for. supervisor avalos: ok, very good. just one brief question. you and i met in my office about a month ago. i gave you a few sites to look at in terms of blighted properties. not in public right of way. it was actually the top of edgar street. there were two, maybe three properties, just completely abandoned buildings on the top of the hill that are very visible from a lot of sites around the city. i'm not sure if anyone owns the property at all, or is just sitting there for a long time. how would we go about getting the property been -- is that where we look at dpw or dbi? >> somebody at the town hall meeting the other night sent me some info after the meeting as well. we would send an inspector out, and the way we design the process is our inspector will determine which things fall

within the admen code, the plight ordinance, and if there are things beyond that that are building code related, we have a process set up. there may be both in these instances, and we would be able to move forward and site immediately based on what is under our jurisdiction, but if we identify building code issues, we would allow that to dbi, and they would send an inspector out. i gave my contact info. he has already followed up. i have already sent it to our inspectors, so they will be checking that out this week. supervisor avalos: very good. great to hear. we will open this item up for public comment. no one coming forward, we close public comment. we move this forward with recommendation without objection. item four please. >> item four, ordinance waiting

san francisco public works code section 724.1, which imposes temporary street space occupancy fees on saturday may 7 and saturday may 21, 2011, for certain streets in san francisco, as part of small business week sidewalk sales. supervisor avalos: bank appear this is an item that one of the members of the board of supervisors sponsors every year so we can have the conditions to have different stands around the city during small business week. i am offering this legislation this year. it came from the office of small business administration office, headed by regina. >> good morning. annually, the small business commission comes before you to request the sidewalk fee waiver for small business week shop your neighborhood day. this is taking place on may 21. before you, you have a list of

streets in the legislation that we are requesting the block fee waiver. i have submitted to you a list of the merchant corridors that are participating, and we have a total of 23,000, 100 -- $23,182 in sidewalk sale at the waivers. just to note that the commit -- this is a commission-initiated projects, so if the commission was not initiated the project, the sidewalk sale at the waivers would not be happening. i have also provided you just a document of this year, the small business week committee, we are doing additional promotion for the sidewalk sale day, the shop your neighborhood day, and i have provided you with a list of the promotional materials. supervisor avalos: very good. thank you. the first day of the sidewalk sale will be in district 11. we are going to combine it with our our walk event, which will

start that evening along ocean avenue. our events in district 11 have been really fabulous. lots of great participation from district 11 artists and neighborhood residents. we have had hundreds of people on the streets at each one of our events. this will be our fourth. >> correct. we wanted to make sure that ocean avenue was able to partake in the sidewalk sale at the labor to be able to do their part what -- their art walk, even though they were not able to join us for the may 21 date. supervisor avalos: very good. thank you, regina. we will open this item for public comments. and we will close public comments. and this item we can move forward with recommendations. so done. madam clerk, do we have any other items before us? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor avalos: we are adjourned.

>> ok, everyone, but like to thank everyone for coming out this evening. this is a wonderful turnout. i especially would like to thank ucsf for letting us use this beautiful facility. i am honored that mayor ed lee is with us today. thank you, sir, for coming. [applause] i am equally honored to welcome department heads from some of our most important departments -- hint hint. i'm going to bother them up for all of us. it is also wonderful to see so many people from our communities here tonight. we are having this meeting because the city, as you know,

faces a deficit of $300 million, and the mayor's predecessor requested that all agencies cut 10% from their budget and prepare an additional 10% cut in their contingency. this means that agencies like department children and the families come upon a public health will have to spend a lot less money to do things that they want to do throughout the city. and to help us carry out the missions of many of the organizations that are in the room today. the goal tonight is to come up with our community priorities and a vision for the district as well as the city. i want to focus the conversation on city agencies that can fund cbo's rather than cut programs. i'm hopeful that with all the

smart mines in this room, that we can collaborate on ways to find some savings. here are a couple of questions for you to think about -- are there programs that overlap? are we still spending money on a program for problem that existed five years or 10 years ago that does not exist now? are there new approaches to old problems that can save money? are we spending money on temporary fixes without addressing the larger issue? i understand that no one wants to have their programs cut -- of course not. i also want everyone here to understand that no one of here wants to cut programs because they do not care about the population being served. there are no villains here. we are all on the same team. it is a tough situation, and we are here so that we can begin to work together. in about seven weeks, starting june 1, the mayor's office will come out with their budget. then, the board of supervisors will pick up the budget with the

opportunity to make changes. i want this meeting tonight to be an important step in that process. as the mayor and budget director speak, i would like everyone with a question to write it down so when it comes time for questions, you may ask them. we have cards that have different colors based on topics. please make sure that you include your name and contact information. when your done, and if you need another card, hold it up, and my staff will come by and help you. i would like to a college dan stein, who has been instrumental. -- i would like to acknowledge dan stein. megan. leslie. where is john? he is moving his car. well, he will be your. the colors will make sure we ask questions on different topics throughout the night, and we will know of any specific issues

that are especially important. i will call on people to either come up to read their question, or if they prefer, i can read them. we will try to get through these presentations quickly so that we have as much time as possible left for questions at the end. remember, we are all here to hear the voices in this room. i hope that we can find solutions to be very difficult situation, and again, i would like to thank everyone again for coming, and i would like to now turn things over to mayor ed lee. thank you. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. thank you, supervisor cohen, and thank all of you for welcoming us here to district tend to talk about our city-wide budget. i also want to recognize the department heads that are here today, joining here sitting in the front row as well as various commissioners. i know several of you out there

are commissioners for the city, and i appreciate your time, being here tonight. also want to give a shout out to the office of civic engagement. i know they are doing translation tonight as well, and that is exactly what we wanted that office to do when we put some funding to it. thank you very much for your team to be out here, making sure that people understand in all languages what we are trying to do with our budget. [applause] i'm not going to make a long speech for you. i'm here to listen and listen carefully to what people say are the priorities for the community. i also want to let you know that i will be working very closely with supervisor cohen. i'm excited about her leadership in the district. i have committed to working extremely closely with our supervisors, so please, listen to her. listen to us as we talk through what we have here in the next couple of weeks, departments

will be coming out with their cuts -- at least their proposed cuts to the budget. we are building in a degree of flexibility, and part of that flexibility is to listen carefully to what you have to say tonight. hopefully, as those cuts come out and the weeks in sioux -- ensue before the budget is due to the board for their decision making, that we have done our best to reflect some of the budget priorities, perhaps as many as we can, about what you're saying to us. as we hold these budget town halls throughout the city -- this is the third. i will be holding 10, just to make sure that we listen carefully to what the community has to say. that is my commitment. as many of you know, i am not running for mayor. i am running to listen to you and to make sure that i am as close to the community as possible. i will be here listening tonight as well. i have said very simply i want a budget, and i have said this to

department heads, to commissioners, and i am saying it to every district, every community -- and i want the budget to reflect a save san francisco, safe in the public safety since, save in a -- safe in the core level of essential services. i want the city to be solvent. it must have programs that we can afford to pay. that is why i am working hard on a parallel issue, which is reining in our pension costs, to make sure we have pension reform this year that will make sure we solve that problem so it never eats into our general fund. we want the city to be solvent. and we ultimately want to join you all tonight to make sure the city is successful. our city attracts you and so many other people to state and live here because we believe in the city. we believe in its multiculturalism. we believe in the neighborhoods

, that it thrives, and that is what makes the city successful, but i want that city to continue being successful. with that, i am all ears tonight, and you also have my heart open to the issues that you are struggling with because i know there is a lot of issues that people struggle with. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. ok, i'm just going to briefly go down the names of the attending agencies and their representatives. we have farber garcia, director of the form of public health. maybe just wave. that is very nice, but let's hold our applause. let's just hold our applause so we can get through the business of tonight. jim, deputy director of human resources. fred blackwell, director of redevelopment agency. we have jeff go down, sfpd.

sonali bose, sfmta. bob sitting in for phil ginsburg from iraq and park -- from rec adn park. -- rec and park. next up, we have greg wagner, who is going to be via a little bit on the budget. you can use that microphone right there. >> thank you very much, supervisor cohen. i wanted to set the stage by walking briefly through an overview of what our budget problem is, to set the stage for

the conversation we are going to have and give a little bit of background on why we are all here tonight and what the challenges are that are facing us collectively over the next three months as we need to balance our budget. so as you know, the city charter requires us to have a balanced budget every year. unlike the federal government, we cannot borrow money and operate at a deficit. this is an ironclad requirement. it requires us to ensure that our sources and the money coming into the city are equal to our users, and that is the expenditures we make. when we look ahead at next year, we do a projection of what our revenues look like and what our expenditures look like, and what we're seeing for next year is that we are going to have a little bit of good news on revenues -- about $37.7 million,

but offsetting that is an expenditure growth. it is getting more expensive to operate our city at the same level, and we're going to have about $344 million worth of cost increases. much of the do, as mayor lee noted, to increases in employee benefit costs. that will be one of the issues that i think we will all have to tackle over the next several months. the bottom line is that we have a $306 million deficit projected for the coming year. this is a little bit better than our starting point of $380 million that, some little bit of good news that we have been seeing out there in the economy, it looks like things are stabilizing a little bit. nonetheless, we still have a sizable challenge remaining to get our budget into balance. as i