the supervisors saw it is said that it could be housing. housing could be built anywhere. this was a really important civic space, dislike triangle park. we lost that, too. i was down to a meeting where some people were saying that it should be condos. we cannot afford to lose this. it is an important part of the streetscape, that everybody is passing. everybody who drives by there will see it. it is a little triangle across from washington spare -- square park. this is really important that we save this as open space and as part of the important streetscape. the library can be built and different way. i am not particularly attached to that building, but i don't see the reason to do something

to landfills, i am sure you know on seventh avenue. most of all, i am concerned about the open space. president chiu: any other members of the public that wish to speak on this item? >> i live at north beach. i have been delegated to speak on behalf of some other friends of the library project. [reading names] on the seventh, we talked about nonsense and stopping the nonsense. all of the objections the you

have heard in the last few minutes, again, every one of those has come up and we knocked it down. once again, supervisors, stop the nonsense. we need one more unanimous approval of this resolution and you can get the ribbon cutting you have been looking for. president chiu: any other members of the public that wish to speak on this item? the hearing has been held at the close. i would like to have a supervisor -- ask supervisor campos to take the gavel. so i can say a few words. i want to thank all of you for your patience, both supporters

and opponents for having come to numerous hearings. and allowing us at the board to make sure the the previous owners did receive proper notice that they could receive a hearing today. i also want to thank the patience of city staff. we have had numerous staff from the record department. and from the city attorney's office that has worked extremely well to move this forward. i do want to thank both sides of this discussion. because of the template we have received, this project is greatly and vastly improved. i want to thank all of the neighborhood advocates that have been working for the better part of the decade that have been attending hundreds of meetings in addressing thousands of

questions about this project. i want to address the fact that we are not losing an open space with what we are doing today. because of the fact that we are going to be gaining space, we are putting a library on the trial, but we will be getting far more open space than we have today in the northeast part of the city. i also want to thank the patients of the hundreds of families that have been waiting for years for this library to be built. and the kids that have grown up during the years we have been waiting. and colleagues, i would like for us to move forward with this item today so that we can get on with the work that we need to do and to make sure that as the earlier suggested, we need to take care of our families.

this is exactly the right project to do that. supervisor campos: colleagues, this requires eight votes. can we have roll-call? [roll call vote] >> there are 11 aye's. supervisor campos: the resolution is adopted. [applause] president chiu: thank you. at this time, do we have any in memoriams for today? >> it will be adjourned for the

following individuals. the late miss jane harris. for the late mr. eric swanson and robert pender. the late mr. freddy roberto. president chiu: is there any more business in front of this board? at this time, we are adjourned.

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that

golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people

before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache.

it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and

this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in san francisco. we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park,k,

>> good morning. welcome to the budget and finance committee. my name is carmen chu. i'm joined by the supervisors. mr. victor young is here. we actually had two recess meetings. the meeting that was supposed to start today at 1:00 and another that was supposed to star at 1:05, so we are combining both of those meetings at this time. mr. young, the 1:00 schedule and agenda, items 1-5. >> item number one, consolidating budget and annual appropriations. fiscal year ending june 30, 2012 and 2013. item # two, the annual budget.

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>> and would you call from the 1:05 scheduled meeting. >> item #one fiscal year ending june 30, 2012 and 2013. item #2, fiscal year ending june 30, 2012, fiscal year ending in june 30, 2013. item #3 no, -- >> mr. clerk, we have to the

bill agendas. 1:00 and 1:05. can i take a formal motion to combine the two? >> motion. >> ok, we can do that without objection. thank you, colleagues. this is the culmination of a of a very long budget process. before we take comments from individuals and give our thanks to those who worked very hard on this, i wanted to make a motion to accept a package that you see before you. what you see before you is a summary of the budget balancing plan. it represents roughly $17.3 million worth of changes and adjustments to the budget at this time. this represents roughly $3.1 million in changes and adjustments to the public health department. 2.5 to the human services

agency. 2.3 to the children, youth, and family department. small restoration to ihss. small changes to the street maintenance work. restores security and to the san francisco general hospital. allows us to have an economy class for the departments and has a number of neighborhood improvements among other economic development initiatives and city planning efforts. to articulate, we walked through what those look-alike in terms of general broad categories. overall, it would be an amended to reflect different changes that were made. partially behalf except through this committee, budget analyst productions. 3.2 million in non-general fund

cuts. there's also a fund balance technical adjustment about 346,000. war memorial hotel tax. sales tax being recognized. we will submit later as a technical adjustment. productions to the department of technology worth $250,000. in addition to that, one final piece. as we discussed in our budget conversation, we had asked controllers office to work with departments in particular with the large overtime departments what they are over time but does look like and to make sure that what we truly believe the overtime. these are all cost neutral adjustments to the budget, so we are making changes over time for salary reductions and working in conjunction with the department.

this will allow for greater transparency and to make sure we really are reflecting what the department believes will be the overtime budget in the coming year. colleagues, this is the package of amendments i am suggesting that we make. can we take a motionless? >> motion to accept the amendments presented. >> we have a motion and a second. can we take that without objection? that would be the case. and to the mayor's budget office, with regard to the technical adjustments? >> thank you, madam chair. greg wagoner. i have a couple of items to submit to you. the first two are items that we have discussed earlier this week, with you and your staff and had intended to submit earlier in the week, but did not make the final submission, so we are doing that now. the first is an addendum to

transfer a function letter, which includes a couple minor adjustments that are being approved in the budget that you are adopting, transfer of a total of seven positions -- i'm sorry, eight positions, all of which are simply administrative corrections associated whips management adjustments in the budget -- associated with. when transferred to the administrative services department. seven positions from public works to the public utilities commission, gardners. and 1 position from the department of human resources to the access a recorder, which is a human resources position. i will submit that letter to you and to the clerk. the second piece is our first technical assessment again. this is from earlier in the week. we submitted this to you and

your staff informally, but i am introducing it formally here. \ this is a set of technical assessments that are truly technical corrections to the mayor's budget commission. the largest pieces included in this adjustment are corrections to budget associated reports the coit project entries in the budget system and transfer the justice project from the department of technology to the department of administrative services. there are several other smaller corrections that are detailed in a letter. the total impact of these adjustments is 346,00408 dollars of general fund money. that money is available for

operation and is factored into the technical adjustment that i will submit next and that is being used by this committee in the proposal that you have just adopted for the balanced budget. lastly, the technical assessment, which provides the funding available to implement the budget amendments that you have just adopted and includes a set of revenue adjustments totaling $9,196,000467 and that includes the sales tax revenue that you mentioned in your presentation on the last item of $3,050,000 offset by a reduction of $420,000 in baselines for the

current year, an increase of $3,110,000 in sales tax revenues offset by $430,000 allocation to baselines for the budget year. current year reductions proposed by the board of supervisors' budget and legislative analyst's totaling $1,084,467 will be added into the budget as an increase in fund balance, a close out of $70,000 in current your work orders from the comptroller's office as recommended by the budget analysts. $682,000 in matching funds get the human service agencies associated with the funding that you have appropriated in restoration at hsa peridots are matching funds required to make those programs holw. an-- whole.

and the land america settlement that is appropriated in your budget for the city attorney and district attorney's office. i will submit these adjustments to you and to the clerk's office. >> thank you very much. to clarify, the technical adjustments are simply submitted. we don't need to take a motion on that, correct? so i think that is the budget. any comments from colleagues? if not, i do want to say thank you to a number of individuals who really helped us get through this process. first, i want to thank the mayor's office, the mayor, himself, in addition to chief caba, is able staff, in terms of the budget office being led by greg widener, rick has played a great role as well as your staff. the comptroller, we could not

balance this without your help. thank you for all your assistance. cynthia, thanks for spending the night and helping us get through the final balancing. to the budget analyst, thank you for all your help. these cuts are always something we count on and rely on to make our budget work. so i want to thank you folks for taking a fine tooth comb through the budget to help us. to the city attorney, cheryl adams, who sit with us they are today and i want to say to thank you for your guidance in terms of your legal advice. and to part clerk, mr. victor young, you are here all day waiting for us to get our act together. i want to say thank you for helping us get through the budget process. in my office i want to say thank-you cady and tammy. katie has been a tremendous help in organizing and getting information out as quickly as

possible and always been helpful in addressing questions. there's no way i could have imagined it being done better than with katie. she worked with nonprofits, or would department, would with every single aspect of the process. she deserves a tremendous, tremendous thanks. and to my colleagues here. your patience and all of your staff for their work on the budget and getting us to this point. and to our department heads and folks in the community who have helped us to get to a place where we can feel good about this budget. overall, the budget, again, we spoke in high levels and allows for restoration and adjustments to the budget, that's worth $17 million. many of the things that are important to us, making sure that we support small businesses is emphasized by allowing us to add additional resources to our office of small business,

something that is very important to many of our businesses in the community. not only that, we have been able to add and will take a look at public safety in other places where we are seeing different supervisor and different boards having decisions to layoff officers. in san francisco, this board, we have prioritized making sure that public safety is a significant concern and is a top priority of this board. we cannot do that without the leadership of members of this board and all the partners to make sure that we do fund the police academy class in the coming year. again, republic comment before on the drop program and what we would expect as on retirement -- expect to see on retirement. we have been able to work very closely with our community advocates to make sure we are restoring and making adjustments to the budget that is going to be significant in terms of shoring up our public safety net

system. this is something not only important to families and seniors but also to children and the city. we talk a lot about what we are doing to make sure families stay in san francisco. some of this will go towards helping make sure that happens. the editing is, on a final note before i close and yield the floor, with regard to how it is that we are looking on a more long-term basis. i want to just know, this is the first year we have put together a five-year financial plan, something that is important. the comptroller's office has done a tremendous job putting that together and working, with the department your departments are finally beginning to take a long-term look at how we are going to balance the budget. something i feel good about in this budget is that we do have a $15 million reserve that is there to be able to weather some of the stormy expect to see from the state budget with regard to realignment, with regard to redevelopment agency issues. i feel good about that.

we are also making sure that we have some funds to been to deal with potentially any cuts to a child care subsidies, should that be something that this court and the mayor wants to address in the coming year. and so, really thinking prudently, making sure that we have some good ways to address the things we expect to see coming down the pipeline will be important. again, i want to close by saying thank you to all the folks who have helped put this budget together. it's been a long night. we are there. i think it's worth it. >> supervisor? >> thank you, madam chair. i think you have eloquently recognized everybody to be commended and appreciated. i won't return to that roster. i think you thoroughly covered it. i would like to take this opportunity to thank you, madam chair, for your steady leadership in directing this

budget committee. this is my sixth year on the budget committee. i believe i'm the longest serving member of the board of supervisors on the budget committee. this has probably been the scariest budget session i have ever been part of. even beyond this bewitching hour, i cannot tell you how concerned i was because of how tranquil and noncontroversial and calming pizzle process has been where i kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. but yet quite frankly, we are beyond the witching hour that we are now reconvening. those shoes did not drop. both feet and legs on behalf of the city are well-planted into the ground. this is a dramatic change from what we have