housing for three month and then nothing. and lastly i want to talk about the adult center, that serves a lot of vulnerable people. i want to thank the mayor who helped out last year, and we still need that program. and i want to have a staff member tell why she works there. >> good evening, i am christina martin, i work at the bayview health center. i worked there three years, i went through the job now program and became permanent. i graduated from this school, cff as i work there. cathy works hard to save our jobs. she's been doing that since i started working there. we lost $80,000 of funding this year, and keep losing more.

and when we went to managed care we lost funds as seniors don't understand and get confused. please save our center and keep supporting, thank you. >> carol tatem. >> good evening everybody. i have all the concerns that have been expressed here this evening. but i didn't come to talk about concerns. i came to make accommodations. i have lived in district 10 for 43 years. and i have been in more pot holes than i have years and life. but most recently in district 10, towards the end of san bruno

avenue, near manzle. there has been a tremendous street improvement. and i want to say thank you for that. because i have ruined some tires running into pot holes. and someone talked about mcclaren park and the need for improvement of services up there. i wish mayor lee, that you would take the drive up manzle, you probably wouldn't go back. because the street is dangerous. so i want to say again thank you to mohamed (inaudible) and under your direction and the department of public works and the improvements you have made to the streets of san francisco most recently. >> good evening, mayor,

supervisors, department heads. we have had a number of members that had to go, i am bradley weedmyer, i am from the home care unit workers. could our members still here wave to the celebrities here up front. thank you. we are here because we provide care for seniors and disabled in a needy community. we are facing state-wide cut this summer, july 1. we need help from the city. we are asking that with the new funding process that has come down, san francisco's budgeted this much for this portion of the ihss program. a new maintenance of effort is below that. and that's what the city now has to send for its part of federal, state and city-county money. we ask that difference go

towards our members in an hourly raise. and also that won't completely cover the cut. perhaps we can go into the general fund. and let me point out, one the best reasons for doing that is because the lower waged workers spend the money in san francisco. spend in district 10 and district 11 and across our city. it's the best recycling of the money. you know these crazy austerity people are coming back at us, put this money back in the town. help our home-care workers help keep our seniors and disabled at home and happy and serviced. and while we are doing that, let's spread some money around and make sure that our economy is thriving in our districts. thank you.

>> hi, good evening, mayor lee and cohen and supervisors and department heads and residents of bayview. i am janet, i have a couple of issues i would like to encourage you to consider. i recently met with steve kawa and mayor lee and john templeton about the development of african-american tourism. and mr. templeton submitted a proposal to provide a way to tap into those funds. and to also bring employment into this area.

and to also give value to the lives and the residents of the people that are here. and also again provide a source of employment. the other thing that i would like to encourage you to do is as we have these huge development programs in the area. that are geared towards certain percentage of employment in hiring residents. that you also include professional services such as accounting and legal and real estate sales. and thank you for stretching the dollar as much as you have been able to. i know it's tough. we are counting on you to continue to do the good work you already have been doing. thank you. >> before we hear from supervisor farrell. i want to remind everyone in the audience, if you didn't get an

opportunity to speak tonight. you definitely have an opportunity to speak with the supervisors. you have an opportunity to talk to other department heads at different times. continue, continue to advocate for your communities. and we apologize if you don't get the opportunity to speak tonight. now we will have the budget hearing process statements from supervisor farrell. >> thank you for hearing your comments tonight. it's great to hear from the community. and sorry if not everyone got a chance to speak tonight. wanted to give you a quick time frame in terms of the budget process and city hall. over the next two months we will have different departments and finance committee, it's open to the public. you are welcome to attend the the mayor and the staff will present the budget to the board of supervisors in early june.

and we will review for a month. and we will hold hearings in city hall, again open to the public. and we aim to present to the board of supervisors and have it signed by middle of the year. please come and let your voices be heard. and thank you again for all of your comments tonight. thank you. >> and now we will hear from supervisor cohen and supervisor avalos and mayor lee. >> all right, i know there are some people in the audience that still want an opportunity to speak. i want to let you know, i will speak on behalf for you mr. avalos. but it's an opportunity that we welcome everyone that wants to meet with us, can come and talk to us about the budget. i want to appreciate everyone

that came out. everyone that came out, it's important to be a part of this conversation. that's about it. there you go. >> thank you for being here, i will stay longer, we have to get home kids have homework. but i will stay longer. our process as a city needs to reflect the great needs we have here in district 10 and 11. and one thing we have is lots of senior and young people. and we have higher levels of poverty in this district. that our city needs to respond to. something that i am committed to work on and hear from more you on how i can be supportive. thank you. >> rather than listen to me, i will yield my time to you. please go up there now and give us your two minutes, okay.

i got these two in front of me. let them finish. go ahead. >> my name is robert woods. i have been working in this community since 1972. working with avallo when he was mayor of san francisco. when i worked in the community, i saw the community working and making money. and not on their knees like they are now. and for anybody to be less than human, and you don't recognize that. the community is crippled and they need help. they need help. they don't need no promises, they need help. and i say to you that i didn't just get off the tomato truck today. this is something that we have been dealing with for a long

time. and for you to come here and to deny us a chance to speak to this group. i am sorry that -- i do not like being ignored. especially when the community need help. and i say to you, whatever this community needs, give it to them. because number one i come out here every day and i teach a ged math class for adu. i ain't making no money. but i tell you what, it's something that i know that the community needs. we got six people who passed the ged test and no one really expected us to have that many people. so i come here every day to put in my time. because i look for the community

that need my help. i am an architect by education. i spent time in the neighborhood. i director of housing for the city of atlanta empowerment agency. i been around. i been around. so i do not like what i see when i drive down third street. it don't make me feel good. if any of y'all drive third street and feel good? i say this is not the place for you. thank you. >> i want to thank you mayor. you know this is my community. espinola jackson, dr. espinola

jackson's community. and when i raise my hand for them to pick up if one wants to have something to say. i had my hand in the air first, i don't know how i got behind. i ran behind for the speakers, they don't know the services we have in this building here in this community college. we have second language here, and no one should be ignored. everything was talked about except aids prevalent here in bayview hunter's point. we want to see a change in that and also in education, transportation. we have turk out in this community. our young people cannot go to school unless they are jumped upon. this needs to be stopped. and only you can stop this, and help our young people get an

education each across town. someone spoke about the transportation. i want to say this, when that third street rail was built. they didn't finish it. they started it. it was supposed to go all the way to city college, but it didn't go there. mr. mayor, i want to say this to you, and i be finished because i can talk to you later ----okay, i will take you with me. i want you to stop using the te term war-time housing, there is no war-time housing in san francisco. they were all torn down in 1954 when the integration law was passed where we blacks can live next door to white folks. the public housing, san francisco redevelopment agency, they became public housing after

1954 for black folks. thank you very much, you need to know, and i want to give you the history of my community. because i have been here 70 years. thank you. >> all right, first of all those who spoke and sat through this and all the departments and elected officials. i want to thank everyone. it's been an intense night. we got a lot of feedback and a lot of viewpoints. we have to continue working hard. we will be doing our best. and please again feel welcome to give us your input and keep working with us. that's the most important thing of these town hall meetings, we need your input and we will do our best. and keep working with us. thank you very much. good night.

>> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece.

this is the bill largest darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography.

>> we get to build the community here. this is different. first of all, this is a great location. it is in a less-populated area. >> of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. it is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. the people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. >> we offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film.

we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. we offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. >> actually, i have been here a

lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit.

they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class.

we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes. >> it's great to see everyone here, on a saturday morning a little bit on the dark. i thank you coming to this joint district two, district 3

town hall. i want to thank our mayor as well as a department head standing behind us. i think all of you know that every year the mayor and the board of supervisors we approve the most important policy document in the city which is our annual document, the budget reflects our city's priorities and how we want to address activities or do want to engage in. i want to thank mayor lee, in 2011 when he came into the office and number of us asked him to engage more deeply in our neighborhoods and conduct town halls that solicit prospectives and feedback from all of you to us as a budget is being prepared as the budget is being proposed to our board of supervisors and is the board of supervisors considers it. let me briefly - actually i will do the agenda overview in just a second -

with that i want to turn it over to my colleague supervisor mark farrell and i are blessed to not only share a border, the north south border of -- street ever-present russian hill and there are many projects that we work on together, it's been a pleasure to work with him all of these issues but i was honored to appoint him earlier this year is our budget chair for the budget committee that will be reviewing the budget when the mayor proposes it to us at the end of may so with that and with no further ado i would like to turn it over to supervisor ferrell. one last thing i want to thank galileo for hosting us today. (applause) >> thank you president chiu. good morning everyone welcome the district two, thank you for coming here today and i hope that afterwards you will hang out on saturday morning and drink, eat and spend your money here on district two, including the department heads as well. i thank you for being here again as president chiu

mentioned, this is the seventh townhall don that we have done and this is the last town hall for the budget , as president chiu mentioned i am the chair of the budget committee so had the honor to go to to all of the town halls in san francisco. this is a chance for you to get into our budget is given to the budget season to talk the mayor and supervisors and department heads about the concerns in the community here in districts two and three; i do thank you, for coming out on a sunny saturday morning coming out to galileo high school. we want to get the public comment out as quickly as possible. i thank you for taking the

time out of his credibly busy schedule to come and meet with the community in our neighborhood to listen to our concerns and i want to introduce you to our mayor ed lee. >> mayor lee: thank you supervisor farrell, supervisor chiu, thank you for the department heads being here, listening for the hour, hour and a half. i a give a to the department of public affairs. i want to primarily thank all of you, a sunny day, a lot of other reasons to be elsewhere. but, you are here to join us on one of the most important things that we do in government, that is setting our budget to reflect the needs of every neighborhood in the city. and you've heard that the economy looks a lot better;

there's a lot of other companies that want to move here. unemployment rate has dropped to 5.4%, we are on a good roll in terms of employing more people. resources are up. we are not completely over the deficit that we're facing with the next two years so we have to do some decision-making. the other thing that the board of supervisors is doing with as is, the reason why we hold these meetings out here is because we want to do as much preventing of arguing among ourselves about what the priorities are in the city. we do still a little bit of that. it is nice to have the import of the public to guide us so that we have less arguments and more about building consensus of what's important in the city. the other thing that we are doing together is already evidenced, is that

we're making sure that job creation reaches everybody in the city so this summer we are going to create together with the departments in the private sector, 6000 paying jobs for our youth. about thatthis is how we invest in our kids and our families, making sure that our city is safe, the economics are sound and then today i also want to listen carefully to what you have to say about how to make the city even more successful for more people. more people want to come and live in the city, but they cannot afford it. we have to kind of build more housing for people. we have to improve our schools. i have got to lead effort to rebuild our public housing in ways in which it would never hurt us again. these people deserve the best housing possible. we need to do it smartly.

integrate mixed income housing not build poverty housing as we have done before. i've got some things on my mind that i've been hearing a lot of people throughout the city say is important to them. at the same time, how about more parks? how about more open space for kids? (applause) how about safer neighborhoods? how about investing in the right things? today let us know where we should invest your critical monies; what kind of infrastructure you think are the most important things we need to pay attention to, and who it is that we need to listen to and why. we go in and deliberate with the board of supervisors what do we have to keep in mind, walking into these meetings, who we ultimately serve? and you are reminding us today and i thank you for the incredible opportunity to talk with you but most importantly,

we are going to listen and listen carefully to what you have to say and bring those into our decision-making in government and hopefully when we reflected in the budget you will have trusted us to have this incredible opportunity to represent the greatest city , in united states the city of san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you mayor lee for the opening comments and let me take these seconds to talk about how to they will run. we asked the budget director for the city, kate howard to do a brief presentation on the overview of the budget as well as what the audit process entails and introduce the men and women who helped to run the city government who stand behind me. will then proceed to hear from the community. we are first asking a couple of members from both district two and district 3 to make brief presentations on issues and budget priorities as they see them and then we will jump