president chiu: welcome back to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. would you please call the special order? >> items 12 through 15 comprise the special order. a special hearing. approval of a conditional use authorization located on property at 1111 -- the masonic

center. approving the conditional use authorization at the california street address. a motion disapproving the planning decisions -- commission's decision. president chiu: thank you. as is stated, i would like to continue these matters to next week given that we are lacking 3 colleagues today. if i could have a motion to that effect? is there a second? seconded by supervisor campos. let me see if there are members of the public who wish to speak with regard to this motion to continue. seeing none, at this time, colleagues, if we could take the motion to continue without objection. this item will be continued to march 27. with that, madam clerk, is there any more business in front of the board? >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals.

for the late clarence saki. president chiu: thank you. unless there is anything else in front of the board, the meeting is adjourned for today. thank you, colleagues. [gavel]

>> good morning, everybody. i am the manager -- we will kick

it off first with a message from our cities librarian. the director of the san francisco library system. [applause] >> thank you. this is fantastic. good morning to everybody. i am a little jealous. i said, this is not my house. it is your house. welcome to all of you. this is indeed your house. i am a little jealous because i did those of green t-shirts. -- dig those green t-shirt. we are proud to be part of youth advocacy day.

that is where it begins. congratulations to each and every one of you for being here. i cannot say enough about our great librarians. we need your feedback. today is going to be one of those great opportunities to tell us all about what you need and what makes this city a great. have a fantastic day. it is my pleasure to be hosting you. [applause] thank you. >> good morning, everyone. i am so happy to welcome you guys to the third annual youth advocacy day in san francisco. [applause] i know that we have lots of young people in the audience today. i will ask people to raise your

hands and make some noise. right on. how about lincoln? is mission in the house? yes! as i was walking over, i realized we missed the school. [applause] right on. i am so happy that you guys made it through the rain. you got here on time. so ready to inform all the public officials about what you think needs to happen in the city. a little bit about our department. dcyf funds a whole bunch of

programs in the city. we believe that young people's voice is the most important to guide our program development and to lead or this city. as you go through your programs today and learn all about the inner workings of the city and when your meeting with those public officials, make sure you explain to them that not only do you care about education, about transportation, about safety, and about jobs, but that you also have really great ideas to share with them. when you finish today, i expect you to come back with some great reports about all the things we will change to make your lives and the lives of your siblings and friends and families better. another thing i want to make

sure you know, if you like what you were doing today, please connect with some of the young advisers and dcyf staff because we have a number of opportunities for young people to share your voice. we have yet advocacy council -- youth advocacy counsel. are there youth warriors in the room? right on. yay! ok, i want to introduce today the most important person in the room today. are very -- our very youth from

late mayor of san francisco -- youth-friendly mayor of san francisco. [applause] >> good morning. is that how you say good morning? good morning! welcome to your house. it is my pleasure to meet you this morning and to talk with you about what we are doing. some of you i met last year for the first time. i had a chance to explain what i was trying to do as the interim mayor. remember that? right now, you are looking at somebody who has gone through his first public election for the very first time. i think i told to the last time

i ran for public office was i was your age. i ran for senior class president. in high school. i never ran for public office before. just last year, i ran for being your mayor in san francisco. i remember that your progress, you voted me as your mayor. thank you for helping out. [applause] i want to thank dcyf and our school district. libraries have been the center for a lot of their communities. this library was built precisely for your kind of involvement. thank you for coming from all the different high schools. most of this morning will be for you -- for me to answer your

questions about what we are doing. i want to let you know what has been happening in my first term as your mayor. what has been going on in the mayor's office. have by become a professional politician? or am i still be ed lee you thought i would be? i know those schools a little better, but i know balboa, washington, and mission pretty well, too. i did something a little different when i was working in government. when i was working at public works, i ended up having to clean all the city. the way we did it when it came to the schools was we talked to your principles and tried to get you involved. during those years, we got the

saturday clean it teams, where a lot of your cohorts are getting credit for working with us. they are planting trees, like getting the environment going. i hate going to other schools. when the school is well kept, clean, when the neighbors feel that the students are in and out of the school and respecting everybody's right to have a nice place to go to, you feel a lot better. we did that with you as students, with your principals, and many of your teachers. you got credit for it as well. we even painted some of the benches red for those eagles. a lot of the other school sports

areas. we are working hard to make sure you have jobs when you come out of school. that is what i have been working on. [applause] thank you. one of the things when i was running for mayor last year, i had to go to all these different meetings in the community. a lot of your parents were engaged in telling me what they thought they needed to happen. the number one thing i heard all the time was help us get more jobs in the city. people feel that if they do not good jobs, they do not have the income to afford all the expenses. when you go in to good restaurants or the movie, it cost a lot of money. it cost a lot of money to even

get a car. which i would advise you not to get too early in your life because there is no parking. i would want to encourage you to get a bicycle instead. we are investing in our committee system so that you get around any place you what -- are muni system so that you can get around any place you want to go. my daughters never asked me for a ride. outside of that, they would see their friends all the time. we do not need you to give us a ride. at that time, it was $10 a month for a pass. now, it is $21. it is getting harder and harder. the movie might be asking, this is so expensive, academy -- some of you might be asking, this is so expensive, can we do anything about it? we are working on it.

some people are stating, making it for free. we will try to get there. we will have a pilot program that will bring the cost down so that you do not have to be spending the money on that. you could be spending your money on books, games, movies, things that you enjoy. or stuff that you want to do. maybe in ipad and be able to do anything. we are trying to do that, but it begins with making sure we have a good economy in the city. that economy begins with looking at where all of our economic streams are as the city. when we create more jobs, you, your parents, friends, can stay in the city longer and not feel the pressure that you cannot afford to live in the city. that has been a very big request

coming to me as the mayor, make the city more affordable to allow more families. making sure it is safe. i think we have a pretty safe city. we have a good police chief working with community, not working by themselves. we're trying to do this concept called community policing. when you get on certain lines, you're looking around saying if you are safe. we have been teaching all of you and hopefully you got the message, if you have an iphone or in ipad, please be alert when you are on the muni. do not become a victim. if something happens, do not be a hero. we have cameras mounted, things that we can do to catch the bad folks. we do want to make sure that muni is safe. not only affordable, but safe.

so your experience will be ones where you will always say, san francisco is my city. i grew up here. i want to be here. i want to have a family or establish myself. san francisco is a pretty exciting place to be. if you go to any other city, if you go to los angeles, new york, chicago, washington, d.c., if you tell them they it -- if they tell -- if you tell them you are from san francisco, people turn their heads. -- it is a cool place. we are the headquarters for twitter, zynga, salesforce, cloud. it is all headquartered right here in our city. what i am trying to do is make

sure those technology companies, when they start here, they were looking for people that would do the fantastic engineering. they could put it all on the social platform. that is why they have grown to billion dollar companies. they are located right here and all their talent has been right here. what if you had a chance to work for those companies? those are just three. there are 300. there are 1500 technology companies in san francisco. so of the names of which you have not heard about. they are producing all the different applications that you might be using. whether it is music, finding out

where you are apt, yelp, they are all located here. in order to get these jobs, you have to have the same talent they are recruiting. that is what i want you to make sure you pay attention to your education. if you have a good grounding in your basic stuff, if you get to college, these jobs are waiting for you. people love coming here and living here and working here. they will pay really good salaries. that is what we're working on to make sure our economy is strong. you have to get ready for them. we are using your time, too, in making sure you can get ready. it is not just what happens in the classroom. it is also what you do for yourself and what we can do together. we have two things going on. in the next month, we will announce something in concert with president obama. he is putting this whole program

together and we are one of the city's double experiment hiring youth to get into the private sector for internships. internships that will expose you to the work experience. there will be thousands of these internships available to you. so that you can choose where you want to go. we will announce that in april in concert would cities across the country. this program is called opportunity youth. be ready for that announcement. we have been doing pretty good at city government hiring many high school youth threw a lot of programs. different programs we have had at the government. but now we are challenging the private sector. all of these companies moving into san francisco, we want them to join us.

the second thing i want to announce is that we got a pretty big grant from the federal government, department of labour. we announced a couple of weeks ago. it is a $5 million grant. technology is the future. you have to know that. you have to be pretty skilled in technology in order to do any job well in the near future. tech sf is the money that was granted to us as a city, and aimed at those entities that helped train kids like you and others to the technology skills so that you can get a job at ibm or twitter or salesforce or

wells fargo or bank of america. all of these technology jobs need the skill sets. it is a good opportunity. we are working with entities. that has been putting those skills together. you can get enrolled in these nonprofits and cable brokerage you. you can get job training. i saw some of the kids. they are smiling because they know they have a future with all the these companies. they can move around and choose what it is they want to do. whether it is in the music industry, financial industry, social services industry. all of that will be tech driven.

i been spending time making sure the city is safe, making sure we do with our budget. it is an exciting for me because it is the first time i ever did this. i have not been a politician before this. some of this stuff is coming at me in a new way. i have been working for government for 23 years. i try to use that experience in making sure and make good decisions on your behalf. so with that, some of you had some questions for me. if i could take a few moments, i will see if i can answer them. i will see if the answers resonate with you. maybe you can help me figure out this stuff. why does private property have to clean its own graffiti even if it is incredibly small?

it has happened to my house and we cannot afford to match. aberdeen knows what graffiti is, right? -- everybody knows what graffiti is, right? some people say graffiti is cool because it is artwork. there is a definition of graffiti. some of that art work could look good, but the definition of graffiti is one basic difference. artwork is permitted. graffiti is not permitted. graffiti, someone is doing it on somebody's property without their permission. that is the big difference. we have been trying to get rid of that kind of graffiti because it was not planned, it was not approved, and sometimes, it is people scrabbling stuff.

we have been trying to get out of the neighborhoods, because if you let it go, more people will do more of it. all the sudden, you have stuff that is written all over the place and it looks bad. it does not add value to the place. there are areas where we have made it permissible. there are graffiti artist we have invited to help us to arts and the city. we are working on even more spaces for that. while that is happening, our neighborhoods need to make sure that it is clean for everybody. we are enforcing laws on both private and public property owners to clean that graffiti. if you come from a household where you do not have enough money to do it, we have a program. if you call 311 and tell them

what is happening at an address, where your house or somebody's property got graffiti and they cannot afford to clean it up, we have a program where we will go out and help. as long as you work with us to help make sure it is kept. that is how we can help people without a lot of income. mayor, how is sf's budget? that is a good question. i think it is getting better. we are just beginning that process to balance the city's budget. we have to balance two years in a row. we are no longer just doing a one-year budget. we have to do two years in order to get a more steady idea of our revenues and all of our debt.

the budget is a pretty complicated thing. what i am doing, i have a whole schedule to bring out all the different departments to talk in the communities. we reach every supervisor world district in this city with this -- to let them know how we are dealing with the budget. there is funding for police, fire, libraries, parks, recreation, human services, a lot of stuff in that budget that gets very complicated. overall, we're doing a better job. we still have things to catch up to the tune of about $170 million. next fiscal year, we have to next fiscal year, we have to figure out another $350 million.