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work on the aspect of that. >> and i would have to say that i spend my year, defending the budget to the budget analyst so that they don't recommend the cuts in it and that is the process in my experience. and i don't want to use the term back door to scribe anything that the ethic commission does and i will see what and it shows, because if you look at our budget today as opposed to when i started here, it is significantly different. >> okay. >> but, there is nothing wrong with back dooring the budget analyst, because that is the name of the game, and not just
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to send in the budget and argue in front of the finance committee because by that time, everything is pretty much a done deal. >> i appreciate that and i have sat through the budget hearings every year that i have been here and i have never seen the budget analyst recommend an increase. so i will have to go back and look at how that works. >> it works. >> okay. >> and i would also point out that the board of supervisors when we were talking about the civil grand jury report, and the government oversight committee did discuss that it possibly during next year's budget season, they should because of the civil grand jury recommendations they should seriously look at, giving us additional resources, and >> i saw that and, i think that is you see that is the kind of ammunition that you use, in my,
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or in trying to get a, and you are not asking for an increase and all that you are doing is asking for a position that has been authorized. >> yeah. >> to be funded and so we are not talking about an increase in the budget, we are talking about the funding something that is already there. and now, that you have got something, like the civil grand jury's civil grand jury's statement that this should be put in there, i would use that to whatever extend that you could and use it very powerfully in regard to your discussions with the budget analyst in the budget process, before you get to the actual finance committee matters. and i, i don't want to lecture you like, and like i am a school master. >> actually you be a school
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master. >> i am just a humble schoolteacher actually. >> but i think that there are things that can be done that and i would recommend it that you think about it. >> public comment? >> items for future meetings? >> anything for the commissioners? >> is there a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> opposed? hearing none, meeting is adjourne
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>> hi good morning, colleagues and keep in mind guests at this time, my pleasure to welcome the soul delegation to the city of san francisco . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so similar the san francisco soul community had the opportunity to invest cowl soul for the first time with mayor ed lee to foster a long lasting relationship with seoul that will generate cultural benefits loans with the our soul sister city san francisco has much in common with soul if their
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renowned art that residents take pride to tare historical moments and the parks our marches have much in no one they started as civil rights attorney mayor pouk is a good mayor that was imprisoned in that soul stand up for his right and our mayor led the first public housing rights strike in san francisco 38 their unexpected mayors are invented candidates that are here to serve their cities there are picture pictures of the mayor pco cleaning the students and our mayor was started the public works and when i met the mayor
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he was peppering cleaning the streets of san francisco and so those o both of them understand the infrastructure of the city but also understands what that means to be a public certificate your our commitments what they laborer look for they're ready to get their hundreds dirty on behalf of the city as we move forward i want to acknowledge mayor ed lee and pco for being the standard bears for the blooming relationship and representing both of our cities this morning as we work together to build itself cities of the future we also learn so much from each other before to build for affordable housing in so far and the blue greenway along our waterfront or the seoul's initiate to build more
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public housing and those above those are initiate around the sharing economy we have much to learn from each other we have been on the forefront of ideas whether lift or more airbnb seoul as taken that on not only have the private initiate force sharing economies but the government itself is starting it's on sharing pro mriefrm was impressed by they're using their public buildings and opening its doors and allowing the citizens to use the vacant offices and on top of air hosting companies allowing the residents to open up their homes and also start a site acknowledging the number of citizens have doubted in seoul like san francisco they're started a site to pair up with
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citizens that are pain and suffering by themselves and taking them out of slgz i think your cities have much many learn from each other and i'm excited to officially sign an mou i want to recognize a couple people our very only excessive chief of portfolio charlotte 0 schultz. >> thank you to her staff and team i'd like to recognize our own seoul san francisco sister committee chang and mike kim and others please raise our hands so we can acknowledge you, please stand actually
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chang and others (calling names.) (clapping.) as you can see he have quite an active sister committee and we're one of the most fun delegations so i'd like to hand over our mike to say a few words. >> good morning thank you for joining us the san francisco seoulcy you committee in the welcoming mayor park in san francisco our sister committee wishes to thank mayor edwin lee for joining this morning as the city
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hall since it's city committee our primary roll has phenomenon streld a relationship between san francisco and seoul and we reenergies those with the mayor last year and today mayors park to san francisco confirms his commitment and san francisco has been a gateway city between korea and the united states and given the recent agreement and the program we expect an increase in tourm and buzz investment and a exchange of culture in san francisco san francisco a mechanic can have innovation from creativity startups to bio farms that change our lives so san francisco will play an important
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roll in korean american relationships in years to come the san francisco committee will be celebrating a 4 years anniversary we're planning to celebrate those through competitive events and a creation of a memo book it talked about the 4 years if you are planning on paratransit please consider our committee we hope that mayor park and mayor ed lee will bring moos much prosperity to our cities. >> thank you for joining your commission city meeting for mayor parks. >> thank you and now i'd like to introduce
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our schemed mayor, mayor ed lee to kickoff our signing ceremony here today (clapping) thank you supervisor kim good morning, everyone. welcome to the people palaces and mayor our esteemed work our relationship is very strong and, of course, today is we're extending a sincere warm welcome to marry park and our entire delegation mayor park and i were talking about how our cities are so alike and you'll finding out if the you now he's a great state of technology navigate he told us this morning he has 10 million twitter followers i have 2 (laughter) and they're my daughters but i want to welcome the entire
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delegation here to our great city hall and i know that it's very special certainly for our seoul san francisco sister city as we're open the verge of recognizing a great history milestone for our sister city relationship before i make any further remarks membrane e let me that's why that's why take this opportunity to talk about someone who was cerebral in our sisters relationship with the mayors and different cities and countries i want you to all join me for this very special moment in honoring and recognizing someone's birthday today ms. charlotte schultz
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(clapping.) it's been great getting older with this anywhere i can tell you i'm getting younger trying to keep up with him laura thank you, thank you (clapping) well you know choorlts served i think i'm her eight mayor she's done 40 years of service and literally known around the world in every place as literally our ambassador of the city whether culture e.r. academic business i've been lucas the mayor to have charlotte as our protocol
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officer. >> thank you, mayor park to recognize ms. schultz in our representation she's been instrumental we'll add a lot of great history to the signing today, i'm so honored to have invested seoul, korea just last october while it was one of the short trips i owe might have and also for the city i return we say had a wonderful time we met you and a at city hall and able to address our city hall depth heads and discuss how we're each trying to make our cities better looking their transportation system you should see what seoul has in their enlightened transportation system and we at that time, what mayor
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park signed a memorandum of understanding to begin this partnership and to reinvisibility it with great knowledge that we have had a strong history with our citycy and consul generals office we're honored to host you today mayor park and know that our visit will create great new ties and more vigor in our relationship i noted that earlier how wonderfully modern our cities are and how we both strife to make sure our citizenry share in that innovation we also, if you have not been to seoul i think many of you have in this room but to the millions of other followers of mayor parks twittering account we're a city
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that matches each other in beauty we have great hillside and he each value our water ways for instance, the bay is a tremendous river we're modern cities we're innovative cities a he and have strong would it be fair to say and excellent excellent educational institutions so in san francisco on the one hand are both to be considered global centers of customers and culture and education we're fantastic for tourism and cities that also have common challenges with housing, transmission, investment and inclusive activity i was asking mayor park what he's doug doing about housing i've emigrates a thirty thousand housing goal he
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whispered in my area he built 80 thousand housing a so i'm going to learn a lot i am pleased our sistercy city is a strong tie we're looking forward to next year when we celebrate a huge milestone 40 years of sister city relationship what's the result well, we're benefiting greatly and i know that seoul is as well but after signing the mou just this past october part of it was education and exchange of best practices and today, we have at our city hall two representatives from seoul government that are working here ms. chow and mr. yee who are going to be here for a very good time 18 months working right here at city hall
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and being on the campus of san francisco stanford university and working to really understand how we work together and our successes how we take this phenomena of 2 thousand technology companies and forge even better you communication in health care and small businesses and science and truly bring those benefits to all our communities that is why they are here we're glad for them to be here and exchange constantly with them today's mou is focused on an advanced and more focused on tourism and culture exchanges and we're glad to do that we know that we want to grow internationally even more and get the high speed rail down so we can have that la commute on the rail so receive more
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international flights that's why companies want to be here in san francisco they love the bay area and the city but wanted international market we know that and being an international city is one of the prized released why i came to live here so mayor park i want to congratulate you as well on your recent re-election 10 million people that's a lot of folks to have to satisfy (laughter) and i welcome you here on this trip that we will constantly be in touch with each other i may not want to express that, too. thoughts to 10 million people like you do on your twitter feed but great cities will benefit from the strong relationship we look forward to celebrating 40
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years of relationships with our sister city. >> thank you for coming here and confirming our relationship and the things we'll do together in the near future congratulations (clapping). >> i realized in my excitement i forget to introduce myself my name is jane kim i serve on the board of supervisors it's my how shall to be the first korean-american elected to this great city of san francisco (clapping.) i was abolish in the u.s. and spent evidently summers in seoul e6r789d, i.e., landed at the airport i there was a smell you know you're at home even though i wasn't born if korea i felt
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korea was my home and in the toy we closed windows in the afternoon because of tear gassy realized it was organized by the man on stage here today who is an active fighting for a progressive and independent and democratic vision of korea now, it's my honorable to introduce a man who's a progressive for centered after ever a equality for the lunch program and to its work around the viefrment and housing and many other important issues so, please help me welcome the mayor of seoul mayor parks
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(clapping.) thank you very much for your kind introduction and good morning, everybody. actually coming to san francisco i had the strong feeling of coming home because actually, i had stayed for seven months for a as a professor in 2005 so i had chances to enjoy the parts of san francisco and supervisor kim mentioned the many common things between mayor ed lee and me and including the cleaning the streets (laughter) they say that there's the mayor are picking up garbage so i'm
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you know every morning i'm picking up garbage yeah. (clapping) so you know it's a means a complicated things the mayors should give in everyday life for the citizens so mayor ed lee it's my great pleasure to see you again, this time in san francisco i want to thank you, mr. chair of the san francisco committee for the warm welcome and all to strengthen strengthen the aspirin between both cities san francisco established thecy city religions in 1976 since then we've maintained exchanges mature businesses for the city's and exchanges of
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public servants and also very much thank you for effecting our two staff here in san francisco city i think they are learning very much and san francisco is truly one of the world's leading cities in many aspects the economy, cultural and arts there's arts from san francisco the creativity, innovations and entrepreneurship especially mayor ed lee mentioned this morning that, you know, that a backroom of surprises here in san francisco so i ask cordially to share them some of them with seoul actually literally cougar decided to establish the campus in seoul so i think in this
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sense there are so many things to enlightenment each other i'm happy to sign the mou that will fascinate a stronger relationship w in the tourism and provide for culture benefits to the cities so seoul is making air force to become a leading tourism and culture city so i hope that we know share more information and ideals and experiences there's on old korean saying corders are best when new but friends are best when they're old so i several hope this special friendship before about our citizens continues on for many, many decades in the future
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thank you very much. (clapping.) thank you. >> and now for the ceremony so i'd like to ask mayor ed lee, mayor park and mr. chow and members of the seoul sister delegation to join me in witnessing the signing of the memorandum of understanding between our two cities and i'd like to welcome our consul general.
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>> (clapping.)
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>> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco neighborhood services and safety committee occurring october 2, 2014, will begin shortly. >>