>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, march 26, 2014. my name is mark farrell. i will be chairing this committee. i am joined by supervisors london breed and john avalos and will be joined momentarily by supervisor eric mar. want to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting nona melkonian and jonathan as well as the clerk of this meeting linda wong. madam clerk do we have any announcements? >> yes, mr. chair. please silence a you will phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. the items acted upon today will appear on the april 4 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay, thanks. can you call item number 1? >> item number 1 is a resolution adopting a fixed two-year budgetary cycle for the airport, the port, the public utilities commission, the library department, the department of child support services, and the employees' retirement system, defining term, and setting deadlines.

>> okay, thank you. we have kate howard, our mayor's budget director to speak on this item. >> good afternoon, chair farrell, members of the committee. kate howard, the mayor's budget director. the item before you today is a resolution adopting two-year fixed budgets for several departments. i thought i would briefly remind the committee as well as members of the public about our two-year budgeting process and background on that and then talk about the item in front of you. if you will recall, in 2009 the voters adopted proposition a, which focused on a number of budgetary reform items including allowing and encouraging the board to adopt financial policies, adopt five-year financial planning process, adopt two-year budgeting and then also fixed our contract deadlines for which we have to submit labor contracts to the board. for fiscal year 2012 to 2014, the board adopted the first fixed two-year budgets.

those included the puc, the airport and the puc. as you recall, the mta is fixed separately by charter as a two-year budget. all our other departments have remained rolling two-year budgets. the item in front of you today would expand our fixed two-year departments. it would continue the puc, the airport and the port and would add two new departments, library, child support services and retirement. our rationale for including these departments is that they are ~ [speaker not understood] revenue and expenditure out looks are fairly predictable. the library has a space line and set aside. child support services receives as you know state funding for all of its budget. and the retirement -- the operating budget of the retirement system is quite predictable. all other departments would remain two-year rolling budgets, and that is my summary. >> okay, thank you, ms. howard. >> happy to answer any questions. >> colleagues, any questions for ms. howard?

okay. seeing none, thank you. mr. rose, can we go to your report, please? >> yes, mr. chairman, and members of the committee. we do recommend approval of this legislation. we have one minor amendment. the word charter should be inserted as we point out on page 4 of our report, referring to charter section 9.101. we recommend you approve the resolution as amended. >> okay, thank you very much, mr. rose. colleague, any questions for our budget analyst? okay, seeing none, we'll open it up to public comment. anybody in the public wish to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> all right, colleagues, we have this item in front of us. can i have a motion to approve the amendment as read by mr. rose? >> so moved. >> can we take that without objection? >> do we have a second? thank you. >> we have a second. we can take it without objection. [gavel] >> and the motion to approve the underlying motion as amended? >> so moved. >> we have a motion and second we can take that without objection as well. [gavel] >> all right. madam clerk, do we have any

other business in front of us? >> no, mr. chair. >> okay. we are adjourned. [gavel] (clapping.) first of all, let's give horn to god alleyway mighty for bringing us here today today is a historic occasion. this sermon is dedicated to the memory of doctor george davis the man that actually brought us together here today his vision to take our issues to the bayview he's no longer with us

but we know your presence here today says a lot about his legacy and passion. i'm honored to be standing here knowing that speaker pelosi is here with us the number one advocate for children and women and seniors in the entire country of the united states is here (clapping) in spite of her tight scheduling schedule her passion is here so we're 4u7b8 and i'm honored to have a hitters activity and great mayor mayor ed lee is here

with us today (clapping) on the stage we have mr. salazar that actually, the developer that helped us to put all those things together to make that happen washington and senator leno who is here for things we do in our county. we couldn't have gotten this done without wells fargo and every one of you know things happen because of ms. brenda wright (clapping) reverend walking is the board the ceo of the bayview hunters point presidio center he's not

only a pastor but an activist you talk about programs and religious activities reverend walker is the go to person in our community. thank you for being here today (clapping) i see in the audience president of the la our without him a lot of great things couldn't have happened shipyard and the community outreach making sure that people have jobs mr. cobb i didn't bonding our thank you. without any further delay i'm going to, go the program willie brown couldn't have been here today but next on the agenda pastor please come up to say a

prayer for us today and after that we have 3 great sirens they're going to lead us the 3 sirens are martin luther and katherine are going to lead us in the national black anthem. ladies and gentlemen let's start >> if all heads would be bowed we invoke god to come in. oh, god of the universe one who loves us more than that we love outdoors we thank you for this day this special occasions we've come together to celebrate the

activity. we ask our blessings was we go forward and that everything we say and do goplegia in our sight may the words and a be acceptable in our presence we thank you now for all who are here and thank you for the occasion we're gathered here it maybe the beginning but we're on the our thank you in the name of jesus christ amen (clapping) oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light lift ev'ry voice and sing till earth and heaven ring.

ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise, high as the list'ning skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;

facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won. (clapping) ladies and gentlemen i'm having the privilege to introduce a homeboy made good he was raised in bishop in the project area he

went on to be one of the preserve contractors in the bay area mr. michael by an is one of the general partners for the building of the george senior center we're proud of you, please come on stage (clapping) and well, it gives me great pleasure standing before you and sometimes 375 woodside we've been there and said what we're doing we committed ourselves 5 years ago i had women calling me saying your momma used to cut my hair all i can say my

grandmother said we've come a a long way so we have to give him a hand our contempt and we have to pay respects to salazar who fought the obstacles and others we've done 5 hope projects and the person i'm going to introduce ms. contacting davis there's nobody, nobody i mean nobody (clapping) nobody i'm just going to say kathy come on up here (clapping.)

thank you. let me just tell you i'm not willie brown. i was counting on him for all the jokes and fun, i have to do this now his back went out so pray for someone whose not feeling well pray inform willie brown and thank him if i had to think of one politician i have a four package his, see exactly what this it took the one person whose the chair of our fund committee is former mayor willie brown i promised him the video he'll get to see it so give him a hand

(clapping) george has always told me don't go to willie brown for the small stuff. so i really want to thank even for being here. this is a spell your last name day toro everyone dr. davis family is here the family is in the house the daviss. i want to acknowledge the board of directors and we're going to do that they're my boss and they're in the house we'll have them stand but i want to thank them from the bottom of my heart so thank you. i want to start out by thinking a little bit about what dr. davis meant he was a forward

thinker and thinking about bayview in the day and bayview has changed and is different but he was thinking about it 20 years ago. and this took 20 years. and later on i'm going to talk about the beautiful people and how they've helped us and supported our organization but it was really dr. davis is the reason we're here so i want to remember that and to know we're his legacy to carry it forward when he passed it had to be hundreds and hundreds of people to make this day happen and you'll hear about that. to get to this day so a lot of other things i want to say the other things i want to say something about this housing it's going to be for the seniors in bayview.

it was advocated for the seniors and dr. davis would want me to say how the seniors can get in it. bouquet it the day to take a maker i went to denny's when something big happened but we'll have to go to denny's. the first time popcorn i'm going to introduce is dr. william walker the longtime advocate when people didn't bother with us he's the chair of directors and he would help us. (clapping.) >> distinguished and honorable persons on the platform may i mention one or two names this is

the honorable and distinguished nancy pelosi we all love (clapping) and honorable mayor of the city of st. louis mayor ed lee would you give him a nice round of clause. to my brothers and sisters who are here san francisco is a world-class city you can't have a world-class city without a world-class clark class neighborhood like the bayview service center is a world-class center. (clapping.) >>. and today, we came not to just

talk and give out information but to celebrate. i remember sophie maxwell i was in her office she said pastor walker we need a visible momentum in bayview that will represent the development and the growth and how we love those people and the senior citizen housing project and we're going to build and the senior citizen now office will be there if you building that give the lord a hand and all the people up here. come on would you repeat after me. i believe this is it >> (repeated.) the monument that will set the

pace in bayview hunters point. it's my distinguished privilege to ask the board of directors to stand and face the audience (clapping) reverend hall and sally attorney carl williams and dr. church well. thank you very much. and we need 3 more, we need 3 more fiscal board members. 3 more effective board members kwsh said you need to diversity that board so we need someone for the economic community s that has thousands and thousands of dollars to bring and the ethnic community that's not bayview hunters point it's an ethnic community thank you very

much for those words (clapping.) okay. next is tony salazar he and doctor davis made a handshake and now here we are >> good morning it's a pleasure to share the stage with such distinguished people. i want to share the word from our company the national real estate company that builds urban homes around the city we've build one hundred and 68 housing in rough areas around the united states. we went to cleveland decades ago when everyone was leaving and after hurricane katrina we've built 15 hundred units there.

(clapping.) the city of detroit declares bankrupts and we were there the next day we go where not only wants to do we built one hundred and 68 developments in those communities and built them for people that need descendent affordable housing. that's what we choose to do and those are the kind of developments we want to do. this is the only development i've done that has chosen me (clapping) and that's the gospel truth. 6 years ago i got a phone call from michael by an a mutual friend of george davis who calls

me and says i have a friend looking for a developer i think you're the guy that can get along with him and meet his dandy live in la i flew up and met we talked about and he introduced me to his lovely wife and we had lunch and through three done some dominos and played cards ii went home (laughter) >> a few weeks later, he calls back we ate more peach cobbler and through down more dominos after the fourth time he liens over and says you're my developer. this project choose me (clapping) the board of directors choose me

(clapping) the city of san francisco choose me i've got to tell everyone here that i very much appreciate the opportunity and thank you for your hospitality i hope we build the beyond our exceptions and look forward to having you all back for the groundbreaking (clapping.) okay. the next person what can i say when nobody be acknowledged in us and wouldn't fund the money and george talked to everyone one person believed that's brenda wright (clapping.) thank you. well pastor walker said you remember what i said

about big dollars and it's like being in church (laughter) who can tell the pastor no. so i'm just thrilled to be here this morning. this goes back a long way and the thing that makes me feel good about this day is dr. davis i think i met you guys 10 years ago and he had this vision sea shared it and i said okay. we worked together and funded the study around the bayview compassed but for me and wells fargo this is what it's about how do you show up and make a difference. i get even though prim of being here but i have team members that do fabulous workday in and

out they're here this morning. i want to thank them for their support of vision of helping community skewed financial. we do a lot in san francisco last year, we gave over 20 million and one thing my chairman says you've never seen the thriving bank in a poor neighborhood a neighborhood that's not successful so it's our vision and goal to help the community like the bayview be successful so i want to thank the bayview hunters point and the staff this is a fabulous staff. you know when you go to meetings they feed you fried chicken but thank you kathy you plowed open

and your encourage and the work of the folks of this center you've done a stellar job on behalf of wells fargo here thrilled to be part of the community and so thank you very much (clapping) >> okay. the woman that needs inform introduction except we love her and she's been here our congresswoman the leader of the democratic house of representatives nancy pelosi (clapping.) >> thank you. good morning everyone. this will be the time i would

say i'm honored to be here with you will have you with the members of the official first name of san francisco. but that's not why i'm here today, this is personal. this is about george davis it's personal for so many of us here and, of course, i'm proud to be here with supervisor cowen and supervisor campos and our gishd mayor and senator leno so many her in spirit including supervisor max wells mother who's so much a part of this. we like what brenda had to say that was great. dr. walker hopes that i don't mind if i take a little religious liberty as i talk

about george and linda richardson has been a force and your beautiful welcome and leadership and service linda. kathy knows how much george meant to me and for decades i'd come to the senior center we'd have your birthday parties and i w0r7b9d what am i going to leave here being assigned to do you all know. to his family that's visiting i see the resemble lance making the point he's not here today but he is he had to go up there to finish this off. this is american people incredible person. a map with a dream.

a man with a vision. a man with an intelligent. to make a plan to get the job done. a man with a heart who knew that people needed not help cooperation, cooperation to have their ideas to have a better life and community. kathy knows that george was a teacher to many of us one of the things i loved that made him different all that he was doing and all the grandness of it he had this thing about people who had been in prison. it was easy to talk about seniors and children and this it was clear he took