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right. good evening, everyone. welcome back to the san

francisco board of supervisor, and the budget and finance meeting for june 27, 2013. i want to thank everyone for their patience and hard work over the past 24 hours. and colleagues, not only the budget and finance, but my other colleagues joined us today. proud to present and i have our amended fiscal year 2013-2014 budget in front of us. i want to thank a number of people before we get started. certainly thank my colleague s the board of supervisors and budget and finance committee members, supervisor wiener and supervisor mar. i want to thank my staff who has been working on staff with me. and margo kelly and thank the mayor and his team and thank you for your hard work. the controller, ben rosenfeld, thank you all for all of your

hard work. to our budget analyst, thank you for your hard work during this period of time. as well as to our city attorney mr. givener and sticking around with us and our clerk of committee. thank you victor for your work. i wanted to talk about a few things i was excited about with our budget. in total we're saving over $40 million with $20 million in the first year and approximately 15 in the second year. and with those savings we're able to do so many things that are going to benefit the residents here in san francisco. we funded all of our hiv, aids federal budget cuts. [ applause ] >> we've been able toll add all of our -- we've been add the

gardeners for our city parks and open up a park in every district. and homeless prevention service for the most vulnerable. and hands ongoing for infrastructure city wide with record levels of capital spenting at $2 million in direct children services and $2 million in work force training and 1.5 cost increase for our city service providers. all the while maintaining the mayor's priorities as well as ours in public safety and providing fire academy and police academy classes and contribute to go the budget reserves. i want to thank all the committee members and the staff that worked on this hard and please today have this in front of you. supervisor, now. >> thank you mr. chairman. and

first of all, mr. chairman i want to thank you for your incredible leadership throughout this process. this is my third budget as a member of the budget committee and i know that it is -- it is not easy and we went from one fantastic budget chair in camin chair to another fantastic budget chair and another former budget chair sitting between us, so it's a hard job and i want to thank you for your hard work. also we are, i think, six hours ahead of our -- or seven hours ahead of where we were last year which is also a good thing. i just want to say just how absolutely moved i have been through this process, particularly around the restoration, 100 restoration of

federal hiv cuts for the upcoming fiscal year. i'll tell you coming into this process earlier on, i was scared because even though we came together last year in blackfield, the $7 million in hiv cuts, we were looking at almost 11 million in hiv cuts because of the dysfunction in washington dc and it gets harder every time. what has made me so proud yet again for the millionth time about this city and the government is the unwaivering commitment with the people living with this decease and we saw that commitment yet again in the mayor's proposed budget and the board completing the task with this remaining $3 million so mr. chairman, colleagues, on behalf of this community, i want to thank you

for keeping this city 30 year plus commitment to fighting and defeating this epidemic. i'm also very excited in this budget about our city's increased commitment to lgbt at risk and homeless youth. we are going to be increasing housing for lgbt on rescues and other at risk youth and the general safety net to make sure that we address the epidemic of kids living on our streets. and then finally i fought hard and colleagues i want to thank you for agreeing to the enhancement and the dpw street and public cleaners. we have years of bad budgets hollowed out and to do a good job as

dave would like to do and we would like to keep our public spaces clean and this is going to help them do that. congratulations everyone. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you chair farrell. i want to thank you for your leadership, on this budget process. he actually feel that the way you've worked with the entire board was really to see and was exempt mriry. i haven't seen that looking at the budget and i don't think we violated the brown act in any of it. but i appreciate that. it was an effort we needed to apply to make sure we have a budget that is consensus and reflects the city. i wanted to make sure we build on the mayor's budget and we have a budget that reflects the consensus between the board and

the mayor and i think we were able to achieve that through this process. this budget is the first budget where we're inacting prop c or housing trust fund, and so we're putting significant dollars into affordable housing construction and we're doing a lot of work through our housing stabilization fund that is supporting a lot of struggling cities in san francisco, tenants who were facing many many threats of evictions and we're putting a lot of funds in the pipeline to protect tenants in san francisco. it's a critical time because we're seeing the cost of living is rising and we need to make sure we have as much support for the tenants. we have the specialization support helps those maintain their properties in san francisco. so there's part of that to the housing trust fund. this budget is something that is really

something for everyone in san francisco. those who are seeking greater support for childrens and family. we have a family first budget that extended funds for childcare, for after school program, for youth services, something that's very significant. we also have a lot of funds that are really geared toward looking at preventing violence in our community. that's something that's not just the police department, but we're funding through prevention services that's enabling youth and adults to have greater opportunities and prevent them from being on the street. we have a lot of work force. we have as supervisor wiener discussed funds for the aids service, and every year we have done our major part to minimize and give back that that comes

from the federal government and we're continuing that effort and hopefully -- i'm certain we'll do it again next year. we're facing those federal cuts so i want to thank the mayor for doing that part and your office. i could go on for other services, but most of all, i want to thank chair farrell and your staff and thank the controllers, ben rosenfeld and your staff for your work helping us to come to balance. i want to thank the mayor's office for, you know, work are with us and helping us to come to, you know, this consensus where we built on your budget and harvey rose and sarah campbell who is here. thank you for your work. there's people in my office that i think i cannot fail to mention who have been tremendous on my staff. raquel and jeremy and francis shay.

we have an intern that provided support for us and a crafting list and sharing that and that is davis sector. there was another shadow aid we had in our office who is actually we would borrow from one of the other supervisors and that was supervisor norman yee who gave us help. he helps -- thank you for that for your great work. and most of all i want to thank the community for feeding me over the past couple of days and being in my office and keeping us honest about our budget and pushing on us, community labor advocates who were there. i know that there was a lot that -- for us to fulfill and i know there's still a lot that people expect more of us, but i truly believe we have something that moves the city forward and look forward to your further leadership and partnership with you in