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please. >> hello, i'm with the asia pacific arts center i love it because of mark first and foremost thank you to the supervisors that were engaged at the hamburger last week and supervisor mar that carried the torch for a number of years and supervisor farrell made a appropriate priority to schedule the meeting and supervisor wiener and others we have been turning a corner we're actually having a group of artist and talk about cultural equality not only the lip service but to see change happen owe not just talk about it i want to see say, i side on the committee for alba we try to figure out the sloukdz and
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making investment in the art to see how we can make the difference and it acknowledges and comes up with solution we should invest in the arts it's a model program but and if those issues of inequality are addressed we should fund them more there's a lot of art commission and they've been doing a fanatic job in funding the city and ab boo makes significant contributions for the arts commissions that as a result culture economic program so i want to thank you, again so much for letting this conversation happen. >> that's correct very much>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> 50u i'm kevin the scombrgd a former grand maker and whole a lot of other things i'm here to talk about an experience american people an individual
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artist for the last 12 of 11 years scrapped together my fund to make videos and other cultural event last year, i received the public funding the culture equality fund and in the amount of $10,000 this grant completely changed how i viewed my progress and allowed me to get to now heights this program has been in existence within the recommendation of alba the arts coalition incision an increase of one thousand dollars that allows meaningful and thought fund for the artist you here are hear from a lot of small and large organization actors are out swapping money to put their shows together they're not going to stop create we know that
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artist not art association or organization create art so, please support united states. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm beverly with the workshop and . >> we're here to highlight some of the youth opportunity represents from alba i think everyone will agree we live we're the best city in the world for the fact we invest in the art and need to invest in the next generation of artists young people with that want to - i'm here to request 2 hundred and 50 thousand for the hydrants in the art and to echo something that supervisor mar said this is a kind of investment that is important. >> another one of the recommendations to support
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access for new youth bans organization to high quality infection space this is really important i'm not going to forget the pre k we took the stage at our sustainability showcase is it at the moment k45i7kd her outlook she said i want to perform and with the best professionalism and exhibiting in professional great spaces opens up the world to young children and take themselves seriously and see themselves different you don't get that chance i know that is the kind of opportunity that is could he to opening up arts venues to the neighborhood thank you. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors
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peter cohen the housing orchards i wound consider myself an artist but i appreciate my kids artwork on my refrigerator artists needs places to live and i'm here to listen to the hours and development it is interesting the planning department and the malice talked about some large city initiative i want to could he on the specific point planning department staff planning department has a city of neighborhood initiative at the end of the day supervisors our district supervisors and folks relate to policy at a local level you peer into the staff proprietors about what they're going to be do with their time and look at the questions that a neighborhood scale what kind of a analysis for each neighborhood the types of housing and what sort loss of
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rent control or other such things what needs for the population whether youth or a homeless or whether it is homeownership it is not enough i'll august to look at those things many a marking are have $10,000.0 units but what is the right fit of our housing policy we are different across the city it is one of the things wonderful and slaerl the policy is our investment so how are we investing the investment in the malice in different parts of city not only for 10 thousand units but as it is playing out at the neighborhood scale as i supervisors are thinking about budget priority your understanding how it plays out in the neighborhoods you all
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experience and know. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you for your prashdz or patience while we talk about the art i came with prepared notes and after listening to the may find and our comments about the art i decided to tell you it is kind of interesting i'm the last one in line i know that supervisor mar i'm in supervisor wiener's neighborhood i know supervisor tang loves studios they're a huge community near the sunset district and i am the executive director of arts span we'll have a 40 year time of bringing arts into every single neighborhood we have a thousand artists members and a huge part of community in every community my husband is a well-known
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artist in the san francisco newspaper i find today compel we were told lecture our landlord is going to evict us that is disconcerting 20-year retained that give theirheart and souls to this town i saw the other gentleman that thinking about ways for neighborhoods to provide housing and different types of categories i think that artist hours is an important consideration and hope you give the alba i've been asked to speak about serious consideration and the other considerations from the people that spoke about the mayor's office of housing and the planning department as well thank you, thank you very much. >> any public comment on this item? item one seeing none, public is closed
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so i want to thank all the members of the public and certainly all the department heads and i apologize we'll continue public comment please line up if with you haven't spoken please line up against the far wall. >> thank you for thank you for the opportunity to speak my name is underscore are a district attorney's office invited by alba to speak i'm here for a community investment fund by $2 million to help with the code violations this past mark an artist and i started a business we're losing you're working studio places in san
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francisco she's losing here's hers in the mission and both are a baltimore ground for spaces by the vendors it our studios that are the collateral gadget or dooming in the city my san francisco studio and those of selma studios will be evicted this november where are we to go not in selma if the new zone bill passed without replacing a pdr as recommended by todco all spades evolved will be erased in selma and once the artists leave they can't come back we've seen this before it happened at the.org stuff what can we do we can gather our voices to become one voice and shout out our concerns to ask the board of supervisors all the cultural spaces for
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dance and art and microscopic he can are they worth our joint effort to make sure the arts have a home in the city because san francisco without art would be a city without a heart you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> and if there are any other members of the public that wish to speak coma. >> i need more time to speak because today that's my service dog excuse me. today, we witnessed people with disability and seniors demonstrating with conviction and encourage stand up up for what they believe and to me that is called the heel power of community involvement when people come together with a commonplace cause
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community living was created and dedicated to serve an enriched lives of people visible. >> i think visible i have trauma post distress disorder and people living with aging in the community providing considerate services is that is free and food and shelter after i had my brain surgery in 2009 i was given hours and i was also, they paid my veteran bill and helped me with the deposit open my home i'm very emotional we need more fund and we need our commitment and the commitment of the mayor and we're trying to get a voice
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with the mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee i don't know if i can ask a question what it means fun in place i don't know what that means and the community living fund will quality for for that if you all a - if at you will possible for twice the budget thank you very, very much. >> thank you, ma'am is there any additional public comment okay that being said. >> again want to thank everyone that stuck around for the public comments and this departments i believe they've all departed but commissioner ow. >> just a quick comment i wanted to thank the people for coming out and let their opinion
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been known especially for the artist you're all invited to my office and the art youth challenge will be displaying their from they starting at 5 o'clock. >> supervisor mar i want to thank everyone from the public may be one lady didn't talk about - the gentleman alleyway all his name's and red poppy it is a crisis our united it is a really great showing for it makes me proud of san francisco and for the youth oortsz programs to the simplify to everyone between but what an amazing show of voice
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and creativity and power and hoping the mayor listened i'm proud as a san franciscan today. >> colleagues if noting no other comments i'll make a motion to file by supervisor tang and seconded we'll take that without objection. >> okay madam clerk move to item 2. >> an ordnance for $9.06 million and appropriated from present salaries fringe benefit shareholders or salaries and the department of emergency management and the public works commission in order to support the increases in overtime. >> okay that's correct madam clerk the mayors is here to speak. >> good afternoon chris if the
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mayors budget office we're introducing a supplemental request on behalf of the department this will provide a supplemental appropriations that will move salary savings over to come over expenditures no time moving similarly dollars into over time i'm sure you're aware of the offer times amendment amended accident 0 the city departments if they overspend their budget and initially the budget office worked to without parole with a projection and the total offering spend open the department again, there's no general fund impact only moving salary saves into over time the department emergency management is driven by a higher 9-1-1
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calls as well as the dispatch leads that helps keep the 9-1-1 department open and this is driven by vacancies and san francisco general hospital and implementation that it systems and upgrade did fire department's $450 for the airport due to retirements and this public works 4 hundred and 60 thoughts dollars is driven by the workload and this power enterprise from the storms of 2015 and the request is driven by higher projected retirement and the implemented mid year and we have representatives from
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each the departments in question who can answer my of the individual questions. >> colleagues, any questions before we go mr. rose report. >> first of all, let me make a clarification a general fund impact what in not spend about or will be in reserve for the appropriation approval that's why in our report on the recommendations i'm jump ahead that represents a general fund savings as far as the report is concerned on page 2 of our report we report that the unofficial reasons for the additional overtime fojd or for the fire department and the sheriff's department and others shown in table one of payment 3 of our report and we state on
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page 6 of our report that except for $91,000 plus from the $900 million plus for all the departments bans spend dictated provided by the departments the budget analyst agrees that all the departments looked at and bans expenditures we made our evaluation and agreed with everyone ever everything depict on page 7 we state based on a detailed analysis the request for the sheriff's department is $94,000 more than the estimate need for the $4 million plus so therefore we recommend you amend the proposed ordinance for the appropriations by $91,000 as
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i stated if you accept that recommendations that will be a general fund savings and we recommend you approve the ordinance as amended i'll be glad to respond to any questions. >> thank you very much mr. rose colleagues, any questions. >> commissioner president keane. >> thank you. i guess if someone can respond to the budget analyst recommendations. >> is someone from the sheriff's department here? >> good morning, supervisors. >> thank you my name is kathy i'm the chief deputy sheriff we've asked for predicament salaries and move it into your offer time budget with the intent hundred thousand dollars would be spent 0 on two needs
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anticipate before june 30th of this year those two needs are anticipated increase in the work order for the department of public health for a site up the project that involved the new hospital we expected additional staffing and in order to accommodate that request and not have to come back we anticipated that additional cost be factored into the four-$.2 million and the citywide event that have not occurred in early april those event range from incarceration to black lives matter event in order to staff those we've submitted a request for appropriations. >> have you spelled out when dennis herrera we're almost at
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the end. >> it is imminent and addresses the need for the dph when the hospital is turned over to them with the patient excuse me. >> mr. rose. >> members of the committee let me give the written responses from the sheriff's department when i happen to have in an e-mail from the under sheriff of the sheriff's department quote and this is dated in terms of at the supervisors know we provide our draft report before we show it to the board of supervisors to the department and take any information they provide to make certain if we've made a mistake or our report needs a classification we'll change the report when the department got the report this is the recommendation before you here's what they stated this is from the under sheriff it is
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dated april 30th, 2015 quote this was to our nasty will rely on your evacuation as long as we understand we're on the recording on the recorded if quote battling end of get hits us no questions regards this under sheriff and in the further e-mail states quote pleased remembered it will be an incident called by that time and mayday may require overtime to lock the property and including sflt or city hall. >> oakland is a flash point just a thought regards the there
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shelf supervisors if there's an incident it occurs in the future, of course, and qualified by the sheriff's deputy we'll recommend approval for your consideration but at the present time based on our analysis of all all 5 departments treated in the written information they've provided not the oral testimony you're hearing we modest our projects and ask you reduce this request by the $92,000 that's our recommendation. >> so may i respond thank you sir, if i have an e-mail i sent the analyst dates may 21 i want to reiterate we estimated hundred thousand dollars in order to address the needs of
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the dpw work order we'll have to fill those are needs to address did hire of additional ftes to fill those vacancies they estimate the starting date i don't think that is appropriate for me to say please verify if you require additional support you think anticipated and preplanned citywide events like mayday event and blast lives matter demonstrate the use of overtime ellis we require the use of overtime to meet our daily matters not only for the citywide matter both of those items were raised in the previous e-mails so i want to point out there's another
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overwhelm wire trying to void coming back for a second appropriation. >> based on the numbers that were prepared including we considered this our recommendation is the stage the department says they want to void come back but based on the documents that was provided to us we make that represents in the same manner for the departments again, if a scombrifs we'll recommend through the committee at that time. >> i'll say i appreciate i think you know where our coming from in the psa past we can't have departments coming to anticipate for its a challenge unless every department don't something like that going forward colleagues, we can either fully accept mr. rose's
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recommendations are not take hits recommendation i think this is a clear path to put those fund in a reserve but we know they will not be allotment to the departments budget right now and we know that evidence of the means will come down if they are to be spent that's a different option but this is for discussion i'll probably between the controllers not permitting right now open the privilege level i'd like to have the departments come back to the budget committee i very much trust the controller's office so supervisor tang. >> thank you for the suggests supervisor farrell i'll agree with i guess your third recommendations to put it on this controllers reserve that is the best of two worlds so for anyone else agrees with that. >> why not open this up quicken
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to public comment anyone wish to amen seeing none, public is closed and so i would very much support that to the controller's office office any objections before we put it on your plate. >> for the controller's office office we don't object we'll put that on reserve. >> i'll make a motion to put the $91,000 plus on the controllers reserve and pass it on to the full board i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> do have i have second. >> seconded by supervisor mar okay. >> mr. chair would you like to do you want the motion to amend the ordinance as amend it to reduce it by the $91,000 plus and we have a motion by
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commissioner tang and we'll take that without objection. madam clerk call item 3. >> for the record the ordinance is amended it is recommended as amended to the full board. >> item number 3 hearing open the proposed budget for the information commission for the fiscal year 2014-2015 and requesting the commission to report. >> to you now jason fried lafco. >> i have a power point presentation that i'm going to go through i might go a little bit quicker out of respect for time first off to go over the basic budget process we're american people independent state authorized commission and the local act establishes lafco our
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budget process is a 3 step process that is used we have to have a proposed budget presented and approved by our commission by may first that has occurred we have 92 we treatment that to the city and county of san francisco and mr. lafco this is the counties and special integrity in that county gets that we've done that and final budget presentation by june 15th we have our planned for the may 16 meeting and then from that all lafco is fund by the san francisco's case we're extinct from the san francisco and work for the purposes of helping united states out with back office work so moving on the
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