this year. we had three volunteer coordinator generating 100,000 hours and all of these need to be coordinated. both by the staff and the coordinator. the national recreation and parks association converts that amount of volunteer time into a dollar value based on the region and where the urban parks area will be. this 129,000 hours has translated into $3 billion. we believe one extra volunteer coordinator, there could be volunteered time. we want the community more involved in the stewardship of the parks, which is why we think this is an important institution. i agree with what he says about how the discussions have gone. >> i want to make certain the city is able to leverage the

volunteer hours. it looked as if there would be more of a comeback there. the city has passed a piece of legislation around the community gardens. if your department did not have a response, specifically that could be used in this area. are you familiar with this topic? >> obviously, we are prominent partner, and we're wanting to develop more community gardens. we have 27 community gardens, and we are in discussions with a new community garden on the edge of golden gate park, and we are fully supportive of the initiatives, we're happy to follow up on any responses as

necessary. >> things you for keeping sotomayor open. i hope you will find a way to continue this through the fall. there is a lack of service in the rec center. this is a way of reclassifying this. >> we have the north beach community, and we have worked closely with the north beach community. we have the partnership within the library, we are increasing the accessibility and the playground to move these sports. we are excited about the future of this site. we have been working as creatively with the partners as

we possibly can to offer programming in these facilities. this is part of the ballot measure that was just introduced. >> thank you, supervisor? >> in the conversation that you had, i wanted to make certain that the skateboard park is a pilot project. >> thank you very much. i was focused on an event, with the community outreach. we had to do a lot of work with organizing this, getting out to skateboard on the 21st. we're interested in the pilot project. and as you know, supervisor, we have worked very closely with you. we have the farmers' market on that street. this is a very challenged corner of golden gate park in terms of

public safety and we strongly believe that having more kids in that space engaged in healthy recreational opportunities, this will keep the parks safe. >> i know that there are -- legislation's going with this, quickly, items 8, 9, and 10. supervisors, you have for ordnances. you have harding and lincoln and sharp. we have the four courses, and changing, we continue this

through sunday. we're asking to have change to the gulf, with the administrative gulf, and we change the way that we defined the recap and we would like to charge a promotional rate. and we would like to change is to allow for a discount of 35%. we ask for the ability to increase the tournament race,

and this is designed to let us benefit from the fact the u.s. open will be held next june, at the olympic club. there will be many people from out of town interested in playing in harding park, and we would like to classified -- to capitalize on this. >> we will go to the budget analysts report. >> members of the committee, the recommended reductions total 660,000, and these reductions would allow for an increase of 236, two tenths of an increase in the budget with these recommended reductions. this is 24.6%. 74% are ongoing reductions.

we recommend returning 35,000 to the general fund, so in total, the recommendations would result in 703,000, and -- this includes 164,000 in savings to the general fund. on page 12 of the report, this should be 164. and i would be happy to respond to any questions. >> this is probably a question i was asked earlier, but the suggested recommendation of the budget analyst about the volunteer outreach coordinator,

is this that the position would be precluded from doing our reach? >> this is really more of a human-resources issue. and this is different. >> thank you. given that the department is not in agreement yet, can i ask you to work with the budget analysis to come to some level of agreement? >> we are confident we will be able to do this. >> and if there are no other questions we will see you next week. the next department -- welcome.

>> madam chair and members of the committee, in a slave from the department of children, youth and their families. i came in front of the budget committee and over the past several months, we have been working very closely with the mayor's office, actually being present in many of the town hall meetings but also with the community based organizations. since then, we have made a few adjustments to the budget presentation that we made back in april. two major changes, the first is that the mayor has prioritized children's services and they did not require this to make a second 10% contingency cut. as a result, the general fund cut is $2.8 million.

we have increases in property taxes, and we recommend in the mayor's office. -- we support this recommendation for an increase in children's funding, for the dolls channels, and we have proposed a children's fund increase will be used to mitigate the cuts coming with child care, and the resource center. in terms of a five-year planning process, we're on a three-year planning cycle and the department is currently in the second year of the three year cycle. based on the controller's report, we have the moderate increase of the property taxes within the next five years.

we are proposed to have those increases, for lack of a better word, they reserve so that we can hold those dollars, and put them through the rfp process. in the last process, we had significant less money so we had very few dollars to allocate for the community organization. we are proposing that if there are increases over the next few years, we will hold those dollars. this would culminate in the rflp process. and we are continuing, of course, to leverage the dollars. we will leverage this with the

school district. you have heard other departments talking about a partnership with the school district, and children's services. for the children to get to these -- we have a vibrant after-school services for the facilities -- we have organizations going into the public funding. we have very little administrative cost. the administrative cost is about 5% of the budget and we will try to keep the administrative overhead costs as low as possible. i want to thank the mayor's budget office for working with

us on this, and of course, the budget analyst process. in terms of the recommendation the budget analyst is making, we support and accept this recommendation. >> let's go to the budget analyst report. >> members of the committee, the recommendations total 120,000 and their ongoing reductions of 120%. this would allow an increase of 4.3 million, in the department's budget. we also recommend the general fund -- so together this will result in total savings of 290,

including 169 for the general fund. >> thank you very much. the department is in agreement? another any questions from the committee? i want to thank you for the work that your department has put into coming up with the budget is right now. there are a number of cuts in your budget, and you threw in with those cuts were, and why you made these decisions. i just want to thank you for that. and a quick question about child care subsidies. i understand that there are great cuts to expect from the state, and it is a little bit difficult to tell what this is going to be. some of those cuts are things that we may find, but others may go directly to the providers that we do not see in the budget

at all. >> this is where the second major change happens in the budget. because of the children's fund increase, we will set aside that increase pending the state cuts. we know that a large portion of the child care programs in the city use direct contracts with the california department of education. right now they propose 10-22% in reductions. this may be a 25% reduction for the child care providers. we're working closely with early care and education service areas, which include the human services agency, san francisco and the school district so that we can make certain that with a very limited funds that we have, we can allocate those

dollars to help preserve the child care for the highest need families. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor chiu? supervisor chiu: a question that i had, have you done any cuts over the last few years with the non-profit organizations? every year, when i worry about is that there are service entities that die slow death because we are cutting every single year and a wonder if you have done this analysis and if this is something that we could take a look at. >> in terms of making certain that we have a thorough needs assessment of the community to allocate the funds appropriately, we actually do. we're mandated to follow a

three-year planning process with the first year, we don't all the neighborhoods of the city and talk to children and parents, school districts and other entities within the city, to get a gauge of the needs. we are functioning right now on that last needs assessment. from that assessment, we will go through allocations process, where we work closely with the comptroller's office to make a projection of the property tax peace, but how much money will come into our department, to create a plan based on the revenue, and based on what is the need. and then we use this allocation plan as a process.

we make decisions on the grantees that we will award, and we create what we call a matrix of need. this is where we calculate by the districts, the number of children within that district, the number of children in the reduced lunch programs, with a foster care systems and other mandated systems. but all this together and this is how we make certain that we allocate the dollars to meet the needs identified in the neighborhoods and making certain that we fund the programs to meet -- to balance the needs within the districts themselves. the free and reduced lunch needs. and things like that. in terms of making funding reductions over the last few years, we have looked up

programs -- the last analysis that we did it -- and i have been more than happy to share this with member of the committee's. we look at all the programs funded by district, and the programs providing services in your district that may not be funded, that may not have a true address and we could tell a couple of stories. the amount of services coming into the district, there has always been the notion that if there is money going into the district, that means that there are more services and this is not necessarily the case. i would be happy to share with the committee this on a spreadsheet. >> i would be happy to hear this. do you have a summary of the different support services that you provide, and what kinds of

programs you are passing along, specifically? >> i know that there are school district representatives here, and i am is certain that they can also share this list. >> i would love to see this as well. thank you very much. >> supervisor? did we go to the budget analysts report yet? >> i think that we have completed this, and that the department concurs with our recommendations. >> and is there another report from the comptroller's office that it would be inappropriate to speak about at this time? the p fund?

>> good afternoon, members of the committee. the public education enrichment fund language in the charter does require the comptroller to review the plans for expenditures of these funds on an annual basis. we issued this report on june 1 of this year, and i have the summary report from the comptroller's office for each of the departments. the unified school district. i will briefly summarize the funding and the service delivery for the coming year. you have resolutions attached to these summary reports approving these plans. the commission and the school district representatives are here to answer specific questions that you may have. for this fiscal year, the charter requires a $60 million

commission -- this adjusted based on the discretionary revenue. the actual allocation is $61.8 million. this raises an allowance for the city to reduce this allocation by 25% if the deficit should be determined to be more than $100 million. the mayor's office has pulled the trigger, reducing the allocations to the schools and the first five commissions to $46.30 million. almost 31 million will go to the school district, with 59 million going to the first five commissions. the first five commission has approximately $18 million available in this budget year,

15.5 million from the allocation and a $2.5 million balance. the school district has the allocation of $30.9 million and for the school district, we can provide services in addition to cash, and the in kind services for the school district is equivalent to $2.40 million. this is seven and three-quarters percent of the total allocation at this provided in cash and kind. and the funding that is available to the san francisco school district from the city is a total of $62.3 million for the next fiscal year. the city has been very generous with the rainy day reserve that is possible, and the funding

that is before you as well as direct allocations of cash and also in kind services from the other departments. the estimated support for the school district is found on pages 10 and 11 of the report. if you are interested in the direct appropriations available to the school district from children and youth and families as well as other departments, those are listed on the pages. this is proposed for next year to serve an additional 200 children. and next year, the estimated number of services will be 3100. they have a very healthy fun going on from the prior year

funding, pulling almost $9 million, which is a large percentage of a relatively small budget of 30 million. some of this comes from the prior year and public education enrichment, and so this comes from the savings from the state sources. we also look at the performance measures that the school district has submitted, and we look at this and the difference that the city money makes in the provision of services, and we find that both the measures and the district and the first five commission's performance has improved and continuously gets better. as evidenced by the number of people seen in the school district and the other kinds of indicators. the full report that was provided on june 4 has a very

extensive section in the report on the performance measures. at this time we recommend that you approve both resolutions including the expenditure plan, and also the recommendations of the first five commissions and the school district and that they continue to improve their performance measures. one final note about a year ago, the comptroller's audit group to review of the books of the school district to determine if the school district was spending the money in accordance with the requirements, and was keeping the funding separated and we found full compliance at the school district. chris is here from the school district, if you have any questions. >> thank you very much for the report. one thing i wanted to verify.

the second table i see in the back, this shows the total city services for the fiscal year. i want to make certain i am understanding this correctly. it seems that we have tallied that the city provides $6.4 million in cash. we have the non-cash support, for the san francisco certified school district, and on top of that, we have $10.5 million. this is provided by a third party. this year would be 25.4 million. >> this is the total in kind services.

>> they were i see this, we have them likely to be able to get the inclined services, and this is $2.2 million, we value this at about 25.4 million. >> this is true. we have this to require that the city works together to define this. so these with the additional services provided in the very beginning of the program.

this is 2.4 in the budget year. this is provided in exchange for cash. >> this is $8.3 million. >> this is a question for the school district. >> i am joined with cathy fleming. >> is there anything that you would add to the presentation? >> thank you. this has been an incredible resource.