o properties once the 45 ballet day ends up the july 2, '50 millin dollar 8 board of supervisors meeting the ballets are counted and the board of supervisors established the b cd your amount with the assessment formation process and hopefully clear this is very much mirrors the traditional formation process entails districts establishments the formation committee becomes the interim board and the in time organization is formed in the fall and the board of directors elections are held again, the g b d sign a formal city contract and the property bills are issued in november and november and december the g b boarded votes and signs a contracted

agreement with the service provider and the assessment are collected and distrusted and january 1st, the g b d begin the services so that is the end of my presentation i am sorry to the board. >> colleagues, any questions for mr. goldberg seeing none, thank you for your presentation. >> thank you so colleagues, i see we have several members from the steering committee in the audience i want to open up for public comment and invite steering committee members to speak in public comment bruce would you come up public comment is officially open. >> we're going to condense our presentation down. >> wonderful want to take you

introduce 4 areas that are exhaust outreach into the community we spent the 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar plus years going drove a number of meetings and had a exhale survey a high degree of appetite for this assessment district and did an vision plan as part of it we formed an initial vision plan around what we do in the future during the next 10 years i did want to also let you know as part of the process we want to design something that the transparent using citizen technology so a lot of the mobile devices we want to develop a map about what is happening in the district some of the numbers i would like you to put of quickly i have one minute left and please. some of the numbers that help you to do that.

>> my name is gerard i'm the project manager at dell public on this just a few quick statistics in the broad range of support that support that is represented of the population of neighborhood at large this is how large the g b d is compared to the others. >> gerard thrum about your presentation the numbers. >> yeah. and lastly just the distribution nevertheless of petition supporters versus the overall neighborhood as you can see it is relatively proportionate that slides didn't look like it made it lastly just the main take away interests brought to support in

is not something that came through as the large property owners it is really a lange large range of small property owners >> bruce how come we didn't include showcase square with you we looked at dog patch potrero we noticed that aligns with the proximity to a freeway we were inclusive as possible in the future we'll consider those as better to be safe than sorry we move forward. >> you see a feature federal and state this is part of the vision plan expanding once we demonstrates the assessment of demonstrating the swath area. >> absolutely an increase of the number of people how they become part we have to approve it. >> how to remain for inclusive.

>> my office has received acquire how to be part of the g b d. >> thank you for your time and commitment. >> welcome back. >> mr. ma gill. >> supervisors you'll partner the pun when i say this is a true grassroots effort i thought that appropriate but it is a grassroots effort obviously from the neighborhood it is not like an initiative process you have paid people going out and getting signatures that came from the neighborhood as you epgsz i too look forward to the xarnd further as it becomes successful and i think that could happen very very quickly after people understand what is happening

mohammed stole some of my thunder when i first not on that steering committee one of the first comments i made a year if it's initiation that will be in ever planning magazine nationally as a new type of initiative it has not been done anywhere else it is a true san francisco concept and it is the proper place for it to go forward i thank you very much for your leadership. >> i thank you as well. >> please come on up. >> good afternoon, supervisors. >> thank you for linking to us gene from the north's west potrero hill where our northwest potrero hill is interested in 954 we were divided by and

freeway so on freeway on both sides of sort in the middle of the neighborhood that freeway has open space on it since we're having more neighbors coming with additional buildings we have already started projects on freeway right-of-way and we have other maintenance to take care that that that's where why we're interested in having the g b d helping us with the open space expansion in the neighborhood thank you. >> thank you for your leadership. >> next speaker. >> hello supervisors i'm tony i'm the thirds co-sponsor the steering committee i'm happy to be here this is an idea that i first ordinary from isabel badgering book whetherer that on the steering committee of the

mayors tvkz /* tk task force and this is in 2011 for the neighborhood and then it really drives all the academics the spaces to bring to the support of supervisor cohen's and the advocates for citywide and so for the it great to see it here a couple of things to mess up about the formations one is that petition process was really home it is more owners this is the most owners benefit district around 4 hundreds petitions that were turned in if you look at the number of parcels and owners and you subtract out the ones owned by government and the ones out of town this is the most we can do what you have in the petition to

specific are more than half of the locally owned land in the district that's a pretty good consensus to move forward and i think an important between the districts it is affordable for most of the small business owners o small property owners the assessment but for the folks in the neighborhood that used the open spaces and maintain them that's affordable we have a good tool and way to promote more investments creating more open spaces we'll hope you'll support it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm mark dwight i'm the owner of rick a small manufacturing company in dog patch and residential property owner in dog patch i'm here to express my support for the green benefits

i'm here to say my landlord supports it we worry about the taxes we pay would cover the improvements citywide he know this is not the day i support combrlg the property owners in our neighborhood to make investments in their sourntdz i believe this allows the locals to appraiser intents and equally important engages the citizens and strengthens our community as a whole while expediting completion of improvements i thank supervisor cohen and for all of you supporting in it is truly arrest initiative undertaking and will serve for the rest the country i want to thank bruce and it's tome team and finally to thank you

mohammed nuru for their support thank you very much. >> thank you are there any any other members of the public that want to speak on item 57 that being said. >> so colleagues this resolution is a result of a tremendous amateur of community organizing over the past 3 years by residents and property owners in those neighborhoods we have collectively put a significant amount of hosting workshops and developing a math plan and securing thirty percent rated support required to get us to where we are today thank you for the opportunity to thank many of the members of the steering committee that worked to get so for the for this first come, first serve effort i'd like to thank bill public and the respective consultants with the details of the plan and the

documents from the district and finally acknowledge the city staff including the office of economic workforce development and others who are staff on this early on, on this effort want to recognize city attorney robert bryan and competitively or /* jonathan and others with dph and mohammed nuru thank you and i need to take a moment to list the special folks that came to talk about the impacts of the g b d the formation committee and the committee chairs thank you for your leadership and bruce and jean and tony we we couldn't have done it without you and also our statistical

worth cheerleaders ron ma gill thank you and i also see quentin he will who is also been a comment and mark white thank you for your office space and retail space to hold any committee meetings i hope i'm not noted overlooking anyone so given the tremendous supports i'm going to make a motion to send to forward to full board with a positive recommendation. >> second. >> if i could please i want to acknowledge the community for the hard work and the district i represent has several districts i know it is hard to get the widespread report it is hard to

get the community around making our neighborhood stronger and they've been to do that and enhancing on top of the city services this is cit at the first green district i know you'll be a role model and we may be getting the same requests if the future that motion was made by supervisor kim and this motion passes newsom with a positive recommendation moishgz. >> there's no further business. all right. this meeting is

today, we're honored to have mayor ed lee here to present the city's budget for the next 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar years mayor ed lee welcome

floor is yours. >> thank you good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> thank you supervisor president london breed and budget and supervisor mar farrell and members of the board our elected the officials and commissioners and department heads and labor our wonderful community leaders thank you very much for being here and thank you all for being such a great partner in helping me deliver to the people of san francisco a balanced budget that sets our city up for lesson lasting success. >> our city's budget is a reflection of our values and we're making historic investments to make sure our city remains save solvent and successful a city in which everyone what prosper it was just a few short years ago we were suffering from an

entrenched economic recession maybe double digit unemployment and massive shortfalls and forced to ma very hard discussion i random those along with many of you did not heads as well but today thanks to our budget discipline our smart economic policies and focus on job creation and the innovation in the resilientcy of our residents and business community we're at a unique position to you assure that every resident can share in the prosperity in our city we have an opportunity to make sure we have a safe city a caring city and educated city, a liveable city a city that moves and meets our affordability

challenges my budget doubles down on the public safety investments to mediate h meet the needs of the growing demands of the frrmd we'll hire 4 hundred additional police officers hundred and 98 firefighters, 55 paramedics and 369-1-1 dispatches and in addition for the first time in a decade we have the opportunity to hire at least thirty cadets that will join our public safety system in a few short years (clapping.) and i know that we all agree that a safe san francisco is about more than public safety any public comment? that is also about centralizing >> safety fleeting so we're a

caring city at the heart of our system of every is is is our san francisco general hospital which will open later this year i'm proud we've worked together to build a metabolic safety hospital that will serve the generations my budget includes hundred and 48 now world-class care at san francisco general our wonderful community-based organizations that also provide quality health care and other social services to our residents they all will receive a 5 percent increase over the next two years. >> but with those new resources we must agree to work together for the sustainability as well as that's why we'll develop a

plan to address those important issues and this year my budget will also make unprecedented investments to serve the homeless we'll see the successes in the navigation center but you must shush true investments in homeless we've xhutd six hundred you are talking about for the homeless individuals in that budget there are 0 so there our stepped up efforts we will end chronic homelessness for veterans (clapping.) we must to do more now is the time to take up a complicate challenge one that i

and my administration and board of supervisors are willing to take up this is ending family homelessness with a strong partnership between the city and community and philanthropy i know we can rise to the change of ending homelessness speaking of families let's remember that seniors are an important part of our growing city we need to make sure we're serving this growing population my budget includes $7.4 million of new investments to have the meals wait list to make sure that people live in their homes longer and expand the senior programs those represent a down payment on the true need that is why i've asked my staff to work together with the plants of the dignity fund a fund that

is a program that is modeled after our very successful transportation task force that lets us wish tote to develop a road map. the needs in the community and the recommendations for sustainable funding and at the same time, we must invest in our youth and the future so thanks to the leadership of the board of education and superintendent carranza we continue to be one of the top of urban schools in california and by many measures in the nation we have all worked together to be a stronger system with stronger and better public schools we know we have to do more and make sure our investments lead to the outcomes that our kids deserve we know many we have to be prepared for the successes to the 21st century of our economy and that

our city needs to remain affordable that's why my budget includes over $690 million to support san francisco's public schools, preschools for all and the programs there and summer programs and after-school programs to clear out the waiting list we're making sure our children are educated and ready to succeed by working together to reauthorize the children's fund and public education enrichment fund through our bolted efforts to improve the san francisco's children and families we're establishing our children our families council not one agency alone can tackle the challenges that many of our families face and thanks to

thanks to the prop c we were bringing together the city and school the school district and the community to this council to create a policy agenda that truly puts children and families first and san francisco with more people living and working than any other time in our history we must continue to be a liveable city that's why we'll invest over 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar hundred and $53 million in our goal plan to maintain streets and roads and invest in access for people that disabilities and make water wise investments to address the drought we'll invest in our public spaces and urban forecast and make sure our streets are cleaner and safety and more enjoyable we'll continue to invest in our parks playgrounds

and libraries this coming year working together in a process led by supervisor farrell and partnering with the community we'll develop a shared understanding about the parks and open spaces that are city needs as we yo and have recommendations for sustainable funding strategies to meet those needs liveability t is about the vibrancy of our city and neighborhoods my budget includes new funding from the arts shared prosperity agenda with more than san francisco million dollars to support of the artists and community equity and the eco system i'm challenging my mayor's office of housing the arts commission and the office of investment & infrastructure to work together to bring a plan to

build artist housing in san francisco. >> and we need po to move people around the city better and faster our investment in our city's public transportation will make mooning more reliable and save and clean and ready to meet the demands of the growing city and ridership our voters approved investments and transportation infrastructure without raising property tax and will improve muni and make it easier to move around by bus and car and bike and on foot our riders do deserve a 21st century transportation with improved service and less crowding by moving muni forward the result our sfmta first ever one billion dollars operating budget to approve transit

performance and reliability our mta operates the nations 8th largest public transportation and serves every community to invest in the future of muni my promoted budget also includes significant capital improvements including 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar $6 million for hybrid buses and light rail vehicles and $6 million in street and pedestrian safety projects to move the city closer to vision zero of eliminating traffic failed by 2024 we're also insuring that muni remains assembly with our programs so for seniors for people with disabled and our youth and if we're going to talk about affordability we must talk about affordable housing and housing that be affordable to lower and

middle-income families that promotes equality and economic environment that are the correspondence of our trying city you must know everyday i work on this issue and everyday i challenge my staff to do more to work with the community, to confront our city's crisis the demands with aggressive action that's why in 2012, we created the housing trvd that will invest over $79 million in the housing development and neighborhood stabilization and more we've been working hard at the state level to insure that san francisco what build the housing through the previous redevelopment agency we can do

so on the slertsdz timeline and as a result we expect to be able to invest one thousand 8 hundreds units of new affordable housing in the next 57 years nearly one thousand more units we would not have been able to do so without the legislative state we're eliminating eviction this year funding will grow to $6.4 million to make sure our long time residents can stay in their homes we also have to innovative around the delivery of affordable housing we need to build more quickly we need to be able to acquire proposed anywhere quickly and engage our development partners marrow effectively we know we need resources to build housing now