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focus on affordability and shared prosperity but address fiscal sustainability for the city and government efficiency but address government efficiency and customer service and helps to address the population growth we're experiencing other instructions are similar to what you've seen before in terms of focusing on the departments for the direct impacts to the public we continued to ask the departments to review tare fees to look at things that are not appraisement appropriate to charge and engage with the stakeholders and work there the processes with the public so we kind of are starting our review in the mayor's office of department proposals the blue
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box is where we are in the budget so we issued the budget instructions in november the governor put out the proposal and the department sent their budget on february 23rd this month we are updating the 5 year financial plan which is the joint report and we're beginning our conversations with various budget stakeholder and starting our budget process in my you'll all hear the controllers 9 month update our financial look at where we are that gives us a sense of how much additional unspent money might be available whether revenue growth and expenditures savings to help balance that and
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on june 1st, the mayor will give a balanced budget to the board we're early in the process but the departments have a lot of work so for you'll be hearing from them from this committee and they'll welcome the opportunity to 0 meet you with individually to sharing their ideas i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, ms. howard colleagues, any questions for ms. howard. >> supervisor tang. >> going back to slide 16 in terms of our potential fiscal strategies the $250 million in terms of the reserves is that just the assumption of what in terms of our charter we're supposed to be setting aside or additional amazes to put aside. >> there are a couple of pieces
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that flow in terms of a down turn we can draw on our rainy day fund and our budget stabilization reserve and the ability to reset our general fund revenue to a lower baseline that are and so those 3 things forgot a generate $450 million over the recession if you're interested in the table on the 5 year plan i can point this out to you. >> colleagues, any further questions for ms. howard thanks very much for being here at this time kansas city public improvement advisory committee is there any member of the public who wishes to speak seeing none, public comment is closed. so colleagues this is the one substance i have today thank
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you, ms. howard for being here we'll spend this time of march getting oriented to our new members as we move into the budget season we'll be spending april and may for the counterpart hearing and we will be looking at the other departments and so i know the mayor with ms. howard will be going to the supervisorial district to talk to people as we look at the budget thanks everyone for getting together and this is the first hearing we'll continue with the hearings with that can i have a motion to file item number one. >> so moved. >> supervisor katie tang has made a motion we'll take that without objection.
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madam clerk can i tall call item 2. >> budget updates from the mayor and the budget analysts including the balanced shaurlz. >> this an item we should have called one and two together so we can slotted in any items that are relevant to our budget over the next few months we have no substantive items kansas city public improvement advisory committee seeing none, public comment is closed what we have this objection. >> okay madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> in mr. chair. >> thank you madam clerk we're adjourned
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watching. >> ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the people making them happy what happened next sf oh san francisco known for it's looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with
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truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash.
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>> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. >> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known store has been making great strides. >> we grateful to give the items to goodwill it comes from us selling those items in our stores with you that process helps to divert things it from
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local landfills if the san francisco area. >> and the textile box will take it one step further helping 1230 get to zero waste. >> it brings the donation opportunity to the donor making that as convenient as possible it is one of the solutions to make sure we're capturing all the value in the textiles. >> with the help of good will and other businesses san francisco will eliminate 39 millions tons of landfill next year and 70 is confident our acts can and will make a great difference. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to
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goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us
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thanks. >> i example the first thing to point out is the first word is camp tlargz to be bugs and dirt and so long as you can get past that part in place is pretty awesome. you're going to get to our cabin and why is it so small well most of your time is spent outside.
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programming was our first step we wanted to offer a program that is, you know makes people happy and leaves them with memories. >> here and there. >> so more points. >> ready 1, 2, 3. i think a big part is it's coming from san francisco it is real estate a kind of vibe people relate to each other and everyone's living in the city and you can feel the breath of fetish air and the experience you get out here. i think it give us an opportunity to get away from technology you come out here and look at it here and not look at our iphones and you kind of lose
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users in the city and have a cup of coffee >> i'm corey a typical day increase no typical day. and just the first time being on the talent show and getting a huge applause and i never expected it is is r is a great experience i'm an executive chief here at kathy serve over one hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks. people love our meals and the idea they can pick up a meal and don't worry about shopping or doing dishes and enjoy and have
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a great time at camp mather >> grasping grab on. >> i like camp mather it is a lot of freedom and kids run around it's great. >> they have all the things i don't have to do the kids get to do what they want to do and we basically focus on them that's our only job. >> i like camp mather because i can ride my bike. >> i love camp mather. the children are up here playing around and riding their booiths bicycles that's a great place to see what the word is like outside of the city.
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well, good morning welcome to the san francisco navigation center everybody (clapping) let me first say that we're never giving up on the goal to try to help everybody the best way we know it didn't mean that the past programs were wrong in any way or short of what we designed them to it means that both government the community
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the private sector should distancing review everything we do in order to do it better when it comes to homelessness what a challenge it is never sees easy to do the things we said to do and after we've that accomplished that it is about improving that i want to say thank you to everyone might be predecessor ands mayors before him in do everything we can in working through the greatest recession to try to help people about home problems and other issues that prevent them from long-term housing we're pretty luke in san francisco to fill feel the advances of a strong economy we're able to talk with much more clarity omi and the outcomes we want to accomplish
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but we need to learn continuing from what we're done in the past and improve on that i know many of you are here are part of advancing a newer approach and thank you to everyone that is skoourd me from the board of supervisors you're here as a strong advocate here and special thipgz thanks to each and every wish especially each everyone has helped us get clarity about what wire trying to do with the homeless connect and homelessness in general and many of them have advanced a lot of those we wanted to have in the inspire challenge of homelessness through their district so i want to thank the entire board of supervisors each and every one of them many step up to the plate with the navigation
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center and supervisor farrell has been meeting with me about the ideas how it relate to 09 issues she's he's doing and special thanks to supervisor campos i specifically worked with us and the neighborhood it is a sensitive topic people are so understand what we're trying to do i believe that just telling supervisor campos that the temporary nature of this causes us to focus on the outcomes it was welcomed to be discussed in this neighborhood but to take care of the homeless issues immediately as we brandish out to the rest of the city chief suhr has been a indicative part of the community as we 2k3w5e78d in the challenges that his staff was going through and
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optimistic they're the loudest voice we cannot move people around we have to have them a place to go the services to support that interfaith group has been at the heart of the entire idea of navigation center thank you, michael and rita for your license plate and the entire interfaith council we couldn't have done it without you and to their collaboration with us became the venue through of we were able to receive serious resources to be able to open up and do this and when we got those resources at their blessing that's i'm using that term in a nice way that that vehicle more than a vehicle
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their faith in yours us that the police department and hope and all the other service providers that are reflected here i think they were not only sold but help to lead it i want to thank the city administrator to the public director a the human services to all the agencies that are putting the services on the site to have a newness to this we have to have the entitlement you're going to have the people that on the streets get help they'll not come into a place people will have learned through harshness or through experiencing things they'll not that offered or responded to
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legitimate offers of housing simply because they're only insecurities or health are ones they feel challenged or safer on the streets than in - we're beginning to understand the survival tactics that people have learned and implemented to are control their own lives to try to offer them an opportunity to get off the streets this is a continue yum of serviced of ideas of support to get people off the streets i happen to believe i know that all the folks that are standing here building as well living on the streets is not a good thing as good as the weather and generous as