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that this finance committee would adopt a budget of the transportation authority that is divisive, exclusionary, and it is mean-spirited. number one, the stakeholders were not invited to the table. never was this issue vetted. no one heard about it in the faith community. we do not matter. it appears, friends, that of the faith community, african-

americans, are excluded from this democracy. sunday, for us, is a day not only of rest, but it is a day to engage people for the empowerment of doing things for the good of the whole city. if there were an earthquake, our facilities would be used as a place of refuge. we have housed the homeless, fed the hungry, counselors to those who have been breakers of the law. for us, $1.9 million -- >> thank you. >> i deserve the respect for you to hear me through. i would do the same thing for you that has been done for others. >> thank you.

as you know, we have to afford every single speaker the same amount of time. >> i know about the time. >> if there is a question? >> i have a question. maybe you could share with us your final thoughts. >> my final thought? it is not final, it will continue. i will never let this thing go. if you want to hear that -- >> yes, we would like to hear it. >> of this measure, this budget's, should be sent back to the metropolitan transportation authority, because they have been mean to our community. the closedown churches continuously. there is no prior arrangements

to give alternatives to churches, revenue is lost. they do not have their house in order. in terms of relating to this community. that is their basic stand, that is their basic wrong. they do not respect us, they do not consider us. when you talk about language, we should be language user- friendly, but there are people in this town -- is there any translations for those people who happen to be of african origin? nope. we need to go back to the drawing board and make sure that all means all in this city. in miami, florida, people do not have to pay to park around churches.

in atlanta, georgia, they do not have to pay to park around churches. even in new york city, with 12 million people, they are so user-friendly that they will give faith leaders permission to place placards on their automobiles. this city is increasingly proven that it is mean-spirited, unkind, and not inclusive of people who -- for people of faith. this is not just a christian and thing. the muslims are with us, the jews are with us. they are saying the same thing. you do not care about this. >> thank you, reverend brown. next speaker, please. >> i am a native san

franciscan. our sunday meters have been something i have been proud of. i could say to people feel -- i could say to people that you do not have to pay today. it is something that allows the community to develop and time to be spent with family and to take one thing off of your mind. i'd been proud of this city in many ways. that we consider the human being. this is not considering the community. putting wealth and the wrong pockets. considering wealth in the wrong way. we should consider our people more than our bottom line. i hope the supervisors and that the parking and traffic can consider that above what that

amount of money can bring to the city. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. they have been a great collaborator on several key issues. they have exceeded expectations beyond the 20% minimum threshold that was required in the first year. the second issue is clean power sf. the third and most recent issue is the idea of solar incentives. as we have seen, there is exciting progress being made.

solar is a multi-craft occupation. this has overturned the controversial reservoir decision that existed a while back. the budget cuts front in the progress that we have made in the solar industry. this has been indicated in the statistics. the success of the program, before 2007, san francisco ranked dead last in terms of solar installations per residence. now it ranks first with over 5 megawatts in stalled over thousands of homes. hundreds of jobs provided for it through the solar industry. that not only includes the 82 economically disadvantaged residents that have been hired as a result, but also the ability to respond to climate change.

again, affirming the importance of the program, and hoping that we can seek a resolution to restoring the $2 million in cuts that have happened. >> thank you. >> good evening. i and the pastor of the broad street baptist church in san francisco. i am president of the san francisco baptist ministers' conference. i lived in a little hollywood for the past 40 years. i want to talk to you about what mta is doing. before i went into the ministry, i spent 25 years with the pacific electric and gas company as a manager and i ran my own consulting business for 10 years.

when i heard the presentation from mta, so many questions come into my mind. when they talk about implementing parking meters on sunday, what is the rate of return? the cost of implementation, the cost of installing new meters versus, it's money they're going to get back. i do not think the dollar's add up. the other part is that you look at the impact it will have on the communities that are being involved and the ill feeling that will be created. the value will come up to be a loss instead of a positive. a lot of this stuff, you have small businesses that are involved and it is gone to impact them, which is going to affect their revenue. i am asking for the board of

supervisors to support us. i want to thank supervisor wiener. it is important because a lot of our churches, the service is run from 9:30 until about 6:30 in the evening. from 12:00 until 6:00 is the main meat other service. the people coming into san francisco on those days, i think it says to those folks is that we really do not want you here. >> thank you. >> so we're going to kick you out. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. [applause] >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am representing the san francisco green party. i want to chime in and to do

whatever it takes to fully fund solar sf. as most of you know, i have been a cheerleader for clean power sf. that is going to be the game changer. that will give us hundreds of megawatts of renewables and direct jobs, 4000 jobs a year, for at least the first four years. however, that stuff is not coming on line for a year or two and some of its longer, and we need something to prime the pump. we need a project that has been this successful. has hired people, hired local people. we have 5 megawatts of solar that we did not have before. it will be able to plug into

clean power sf and help but get off the ground. -- help it get off the ground. we need to do both. we need to support those programs. one other point on water, puc said a lot of good things about water and wastewater. a new thing they did not talk about that we need a test pilot for is composting toilets. if every toilet in san francisco was an urban composting toilet, we would save 5 billion gallons of water per year. i would encourage you to encourage puc to do a test on that.

it could do a lot to decrease our water use. >> thank you. >> i want to speak with respect to the puc presentation earlier. to find funding to restore the cuts to the goal solar sf program. some comments have been made before. what i really want to say is that we are working with the general manager to find some solutions. the program has created similar opportunities for 500 homeowners. businesses, low-income families.

that number dropped to 250 and the funds ran out about eight months into the year. i do not mean to paint the overly daughter nature to you to say that it is not impossible -- dire nature to you to say that it is not impossible. we are working with the general manager, and he spoke about how the local hire numbers are phenomenal on the project. you did not hear it from the general manager, but we know what happened. even though our new headquarters is not covered by the new local hire policy, i want you to treated as such. he give local hire policy a great trial run to show that it can work. the assistant general manager helped deliver the message to the contractor. we are working great with the general manager to do that.

one thing to tee up to the community -- to the committee to think about, multiple trade unions can now be involved in solar. it might help us to organize the solar to go union. thank you. >> thank you. are there other members? i have one more card. if you have not submitted a yellow card, but would like to speak, please line up in the center aisle. these are for public comment for items 1-11. budget items are related to the port, airport, rent board cut public utilities commission, department of the environment, and the mta. >> good afternoon. thank you to the board for their ferro -- thank you to the board. thank you for hearing me.

i came here to support glide. in their support, they have done a lot of great work for the community. they feed people. they except many people that are overlooked. -- accept many people that are overlooked. i want to thank muni for deaf great job they have done. i am a -- for the great job they have done. i am a san francisco resident. muni has done a fantastic job. most of the people who drive the buses are polite and drive carefully in consideration of their clients. many people come from all over the world, across the state, to

see glide celebrate life. perhaps the income drawn from the parking meters could be turned over to the church, to all the churches. one day of rest is necessary. thank you. >> thank you very much. are there other members of the public who wish to speak? public comment is closed. ok, colleagues. we have the items before us. let's make sure we're going through all of them quickly. to the mayor's budget office, with regards to item number three, my understanding on that is they are all existing cro prp

j's. >> [inaudible] >> the comptroller's office did analyze each of these and all the services have been contacted out for a number of years. there is a significant savings in each and every one of these contrasting proposals. therefore, we are recommending that the board accept the certification. >> thank you very much. on item number four, colleagues, we heard from the puc earlier today. the area of concerns we raced had to do with the plans going forward for this huge project would be. one of the suggestions that i had put forward and the general manager had suggested on that

item, appropriation of the $588 million, was to put on reserve value to allow them to go towards the boards in their summertime. i would like to entertain a motion to reserve year 2. that value is $255 million. do we have that motion? we can do that without objection? thank you. on items #5 and items #6, i believe public utilities commission had articulated a number of amendments quickly to those items. i would like to ask the controller's office to reiterate them.

>> [inaudible] 4 item #5, -- four item number five, page 8 online 11, the financing cost would be changed to $18,951,686. that amount excludes the rboc amount. for the next item, item number six, which is the appropriation

for the $141 million -- on page 7, line 10, at the end of that line, we would add under rating agency disclosure cost, we would add the words "$29,912 for the revenue bond oversight committee cost. " this amendment identified specifically the amount the are appropriated for the revenue bond oversight committee. those would be the two amendments. >> great. i believe these are not rigid

these would not require a continuance. do we have a motion to that effect? we have a motion to amend items 5 and 6. we will take that without objection. finally, with regard to amendments on items number 11, we talked about amending the document to take away the additional pass through. that was something that was already articulated by the department. do we have a motion? we had a motion to that effect. we will do that without objection. colleagues, if we could, on items #3-11, i would like to send this forward to the full board of supervisors. we do have the reserves, amendments for the bond issuances, and the existing prop j's. do we have a motion to send

those items out as amended? we have a motion to send items 3-11 forward. 11-6, and five were amended. thank you. with regards to items #one and two, we had heard from port, airport, public utilities, department of the environment, mta. for the mta, we do expect that we will come back to the board through technical amendments engine because you have to adjust the revenue news we have heard recently as well as the labor component. there were a number of areas of concern that this board has communicated to you, so we would like to work with you before you go to your board to work through some of the meter issues and some other things. we look for to working with you in the next coming weeks.

if i could entertain a motion to continue items one and two to join up with our june budget. supervisor kim: i just want to make some comments. i want to appreciate a lot of the work that has been done around the mta budget. i know it is really hard to do this, but making the cuts in middle management and overtime is greatly appreciated but incredibly difficult to do. it is very important in the city government for it i appreciate those steps being made. it is something that has been talked about for years at the board of supervisors and it is amazing that it is going to happen. i know everybody -- every department is very different. i hope that other departments can learn from the work you have been able to do around that issue. i want to clarify something. there is concerns about

operating expenses. my understanding is that some of it is the leftovers, roughly $1.2 million, that had not been used when we previously allocated funding for reduced muni passes for sfusc to administer. you were not able to administer it for many reasons, but you continue to allocate money for the program that we were supposed to implement but never did writ of one and to clarify. there is some confusion. i know it is operating expenses, but this is something that had been allocated for another program that we were not able to utilize for it -- that we were not able to utilize. >> that is absolutely correct. it is arguable whether that was supposed to be an ongoing

expenditure or not. but we supported it as such. it is the $1.4 million from this year that was not used as well as what continued in the baseline for the next two years. three years of roughly $1.4 million, which is roughly $4.2 million, part of the $9.4 million zoning plan. as i understand it from the start, we did not understand -- we did not communicate that clearly. supervisor kim: i will just say this about meters. i want to reiterate that it is important that we put our meters up to date so people can say it in advance for it i do not want to see meters and i understand why people want free parking. i understand it is a tough issue and you are balancing a budget that has many needs. if someone strongly supported

free muni for youth, there is a strong need to balance our revenues. there are a lot of different groups that were shipped on different days, whether it is friday or saturday. i just want to make that point. there are a lot of good -- there were a lot of good comments made today, but i think they could have been made for other days as well. i just want to acknowledge the challenge of what you're doing. and how difficult it can be to make that balance. i appreciate there has been some discussion. i am not sure what type of outreach has happened to those institutions which would be affected, whether small businesses or religious organizations. obviously, there have been town halls. there used to be more dedicated, smaller groups to try to figure out how we could make this work, if this is the plan that moves forward. i think that level of communication is always

important and appreciated. supervisor wiener: just to follow up on supervisor kim's last comment, we have for the public comment on sunday meters and it was very church-focused. by and large, the negative feedback i have been getting about meters come from small neighborhood merchants and merchants associations who are very concerned about it. just so that no one has the misimpression that this is just about the churches. churches are stakeholders in our community, just like everyone else. there are many other stakeholders, including many small businesses, who also have concerns. thank you. supervisor kim: just one last piece on the youth program. i understand that the money was leftover money that was not utilized