supervisor campos: captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chiu: good afternoon.

welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> [clerk calls roll] [cohen absent] [mar absent] [cohen present] supervisor chiu: thank you, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> [unintelligible]

supervisor chiu: colleagues, we have our previous board meeting minutes. is there approval? motioned and approved. madam clerk? do we have any communications? >> we have no communications. the first item of business is a policy discussion between the mayor and members of the board of supervisors representing the odd districts, specifically 1, 3, 9, and 11. the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. and bill recognize the supervisor who presents their own questions to the mayor. as long as the entire discussion does not exceed five minutes per supervisor. supervisor chiu: welcome back for policy discussions, mr. mayor. mayor lee: thank you very much for being here today.

i know that we have all been extremely busy. a lot of policy, project, program issues are before the board. i want to thank you for working as diligently as you are with our office in making sure the public interest is best served. with that, i would like to jump right into questions. supervisor chiu: supervisor mar? supervisor mar: thank you. statewide budget cuts have been catastrophic. and i thank you for your support for schools and the meeting with the community college system, recently. we face up to $83.8 million in cuts over the next three years. it could be even worse if state revenue measures do not pass. upcoming summer school offerings are nearly nonexistent. 210 layoff notices were sent to

the teachers. it truly is a crisis for families of school-age children living in san francisco. what steps are you taking in your office to help to fund san francisco public schools? >> thank you for that question. we are providing it will clap -- world-class education for the youth of the city, which is extremely important to keeping families in san francisco. i agree on the importance in this issue. the school district is independent of the city and we have had a history of working together to closely support their work. in our most recent budget we had a number of efforts aimed at mitigating state budget cuts that would significantly impact our school children. even though the city's economy continues to improve, the rest of the state has not caught up with us and it continues to reduce support for our school

district. unfortunately, there are triggered cuts on local schools as a budget solution. there is only so much of this that we can tolerate. meaning that the city needs to step up. our budget put our money where our mouth is. in the form of real dollars directly to the school district and programs and services that support learning. the city provided $28.6 million last year and plans more for next fiscal year. this is a 16% increase. the city provides additional support from our rainy day reserved. last fiscal year the school district with to $8.4 million and will take out $6.3 million this year in additional direct budgetary support.

the city provides more than just direct financial assistance as well. the city has partnered with the school district on a variety of efforts, like the bridge to success, after-school fall, truancy reduction, and wellness centers. these all leverage resources. in some cases, such as the bridge to success and others, they result in garnering millions of dollars to increase capacity. last year the department of children, youth, and families, they made an investment in community-based organizations to increase students' success on all of the campuses. from elementary schools to high schools.

through the first five program, the city supports preschool for all. it prepares the city's youngest residents to excel when they enter kindergarten. between the city's ongoing and onetime financial support, we are doing everything we can to help them stabilize the system to provide high quality public education for san francisco children. thank you for your ongoing commitment to families in san francisco. i'm a forward to continuing to work with you to support this vital segment of the city family. supervisor chiu: our next question, -- supervisor mar: our next question, we had seven e- mails systems when we should have had one, three dozen data centers, and dozens of contracts with multiple centers when we should have master

agreements. major i.t. programs have been years behind schedule. best practices and numerous city reports have repeated the need to consolidate spending and management. our cities system is stuck in the 1990's. what can we do to bring this technology into the 20th century? mayor lee: thank you for bringing up this important issue. this is not the first time, and i am not -- and i'm sure that bill not be the last. i would like to see these projects moving forward more quickly than they have. as i announced at the last meeting that we both attended, i will be holding individual

project managers accountable to making sure that their time lines are met. let me state my priorities clearly. i want to hold accountable those who are to move these projects forward. i also want to point out the progress that we have made. for example, the justice system is proceeding. last year, there was only one department that came on line and connected. as of today, there are three already connected. next month at the public defender will link as well. the district attorney will also connect. these are, of course, vital departments that have to do with the justice project and caseload management. the data center project is on schedule as approved. they have worked to put into the

cloud over 700 servers. eventually, in addition to that, we will physically relocate 450 servers city-wide. i also completely support the efforts to consolidate systems when we see a clear benefit. we have also made good progress on merchandise that will go live this fall. these things may not be immediately apparent to the average citizen, but i know it will make our government work better and faster and the results will be real and tangible. while we are making good progress, there is still much to do. the important work of making sure that these projects are running on time, as you know, we are members of that. i look forward to working with you on improving how we manage our critical investments. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you.

supervisor campos has the next question. supervisor campos: we all know the importance of the issue of rising health-care costs. the land use development hearing took place on july 9 and the director of health services system explained that california pacific medical center refusal to charge out of network patients the same rate as hss in network patients will undermine the competing accountable care organizations. the director also explained the building of a competing aco's is one of the main strategies to control health-care costs for the entire city. my question is, what is your strategy for controlling these

costs in light of their unwillingness to follow other nonprofit hospitals and charge the same rate for in and out of network patients? >> thank you for that question. because -- mayor lee: thank you for that question. because there is an item about that on the agenda, per board rules i am not able to speak completely to that, but however, given the importance of this matter, i wanted to provide a general response to honor the substance of the question. the city is the largest employer in the county and ranks high. because we are a combined city and county, we have more employees than other cities. meaning we are providing high- quality health care to a lot of employees. as such, the cost of this will

not always be a top area of focus for meet. the health services system works with an array of partners to institute two accountable care organizations coordinated by blue shield. one by dignity health, the other with brown in colandand cohen c. we want to help employees control costs through preventative health and screening. controlling costs, providing high-quality health insurance options are our two goals. reconciling these is not always easy. we will look for solutions in our daily work, be it negotiating rates for health insurance providers, considering help bridge above list

strategies or health reform in a coordinated or efficient manner city-wide. unfortunately, there is no single solution to the rising health-care costs. we have to focus not only on negotiating the best rates for employees, but on keeping costs down by keeping people healthy. without giving away too many details, it is safe to say that the most affordable care is preventative, primary care. when it comes to the more specific challenges of premiums in fee-for-service, with health insurance systems we have marketing power, as well as the mayor's office, continuing to work within the health services system. thank you. supervisor chiu: today's final

question will be asked by supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: thank you for being here. my question is kind of long, so i will try to abbreviate it. we have had a huge spike in homicides in my neighborhood. there was the house street murders, five members of a household that were murdered. we have also had four homicides that have happened within blocks of that site. also, african-american young men. as a supervisor i have been working with young -- but in the organization on community development work. your office has been very helpful with that. we are looking to see what more we can do to make sure that we're bringing safety and peace to the streets of the community.

especially the african-american community. what is your vision for developing a greater strength in the african-american community? i am particularly interested in working on these proposals. on the 26th i will be doing a hearing on public safety, along with supervisor:, looking at a united response within our neighborhoods and how it is clearly impacted by a homicide. mayor lee: thank you for that important question. i share with you a deep concern for the violence occurring. i want you to know that that is probably the issue that keeps me up most nights. everytime i get a message on my phone about another homicide,

that is minutes lost. i think about the life that is lost their. it just so happens that it has been in ordinate. despite -- this spike is simply not acceptable. violence in this city is not tolerable under any circumstances. i want you to know that my administration takes this very seriously, supervisor. i am trying to find new solutions to put an end to down violence in the city. thank you for taking this issue on. i find that i need more partners in making sure the city is safer. i want to understand -- _ your acknowledgement, the public safety can best be achieved through collaboration between agencies, departments, and

communities working together. i also share your leave the community development efforts have an important role to play. but i want to refer back to an answer that i gave to supervisor cohen last month. we have a number of innovative collaborative efforts on the way. in the interest of time, i will not repeat my answer from last month. but these community-based organizations, serving summer employment opportunities for young people, the leadership camps that we have engaged in, through that we can foster a sense of community that does not tolerate violence. suffice it to say that the police to play a critical role, but they cannot be the only answer to gun violence within

the african-american community. where the police department can specifically getting gaged is the station's overlapping in my area. they have developed enforcement plans that result in strategic employment. plainclothes officers between the hours of 11:00 a.m. at 9:00 p.m. -- 11:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. the last thing i want to be clear about is a response to specific concerns of yours. as a former civil rights attorney, i hold dear to my heart the personal protections afforded to was under the fourth amend and. those rights are sacrosanct. as we continue our discussion about violence reduction, i will not support or put forward any

proposal that will violate those protections. i look forward to collaborating with you in continuing this conversation, knowing that we have to come up with more bold strategy to keep the guns out of our neighborhoods. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. that includes the formal policy discussions for today. madam clerk, let's go to our regular agenda. please call on items two through 23. >> items two through 23. proposed budget and annual appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimated expenditures for departments of the city and county of san francisco as of may 31, 2012, for the fys ending june 30, 2013, and june 30, 2014. item number three, annual salary ordinance enumerating positions in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for the fys ending june 30, 2013, and fys ending june 30, 2013, and june 30, 2014, continuing,