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 make 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 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 that's why we're proposing a 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar hundred and $50 million housing bond to stepped construction of housing for low and middle-income families without raising property tax this creates our housing investment for existing neighborhoods and builds on the rehab thirty thousand homes by 2020 2015 avenue bond is a crucial canyon of our one .250 millin dollar billion dollars 5 year

response fund that will deliver more than 10 thousand 7 hundreds permanently affordable low and middle-income affordable housing that's why we need the housing accelerated fund to attract and secure private sector investment in affordable housing ladies and gentlemen i know we can do all of this together we must continue to build housing that's affordable to people across you'll protect spectrums in order to generate the revenues to build every o even more affordable housing over the next 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar years new market rate development is anticipated to generate more than hundred million dollars in affordable housing fees that can be put to work to insure sites and build housing throughout the city with the success of how city we

have a special opportunity to insure the prosperity of our city extends to all the residents i believe this is a balanced and responsible budget that not only security guards vital city services and affordable a budget that keeps our city save and solvent and successful we'll continue to invest in the diverse neighborhood in the infrastructure and most importantly in the people of san francisco to make sure that we retain the city for everyone i take this opportunity to thank the group of people that have been working hard on this budget that is my budget staff led by kate howard

(clapping) i also like to extend a warm thank you, again to the entire controllers staff led by ben rosenfeld that has been working alongside (clapping) and i would like to in anticipation thank each and everyone of the board of supervisors and house of representatives harvey rose and ladies and gentlemen, thank you, very much let's get this budget approved and let's get to work thank you