>> good afternoon everyone at this point i will come back to our two meetings of the budget and finance committee at the san francisco board of supervisors. we're coming back from recess on our 9 am and 9:05 am from wednesday, june 24, 2014. my name is mark farrell. i'm sharing this committee i also want to

welcome back kitty tang as wells committee member norman e scott wiener and eric mart and -- so colleagues, are now wrapping up our budget process this year. i want to thank everyone who's been involved in this process.. i'm extremely happy that once again we broken the timing record and coming to a budget this year that will be a consensus budget once again for 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. it is never an easy process. it is always easier said than done given our diversity of opinions and perspectives here at the board of supervisors, but were very proud working together once again with natalie members of the board of supervisors but members of the community. all the department heads and the staff to get this done. i want to thank in particular, my committee members for the past

few months of work vice chair tang, supervisor mar yee. i want to thank the mayor for his budget that he committed to us on june 1. a budget approaching $9 billion for the first time in her city's history, and something that i believe just so many concerns did a great job of addressing semi-great concerns we face here as a city from affordability, to public safety housing, expanded services of public works and recreational park. funding for our schools and some any other priorities. i'm particularly once again want to thank the mayor's budget team, kate howard who does such an amazing job. ms. howard, thank you for your hard work. to your entire team, that is there supporting you at all times, i drove some you -- i see a lot of them back

here. thank you everyone for your hard work at either the long hours, weekends that nobody sees over the last few months, so thank you for all your hard work during the process. i will say, i guess i've only been budget that you chair in my time but i couldn't imagine a better team to work with on the mayor's so thank you to all of you and thank you ms. howard for your partnership in this. in terms of our committee work, we could tactic is to get rid hearings around themes with the recreational park or families or affordability and public safety. i think we were able to do a lot in those hearings and bring up some of the concerns that we had as a board and hear from a community as well. i want to thank all the people i work so hard with us at the board of supervisors on this budget as in every year. first of all, to a controller's office , ben rosenfield, thank you, ben. todd is right there, michelle, lisa is there to your

entire team, both you that are here your administration and supports up everyone that is back upstairs, thank you so much good to her budget and legislative analyst, mr. rose, 41st year of the city's budget, i believe? to mr. rose to dan, your entire team has been here working for the department, thank you for all your hard work. you get a great job again this year and we simply cannot do without a view, the board of supervisors. so, thank you. the city attorney john giving her thank you mr. given her for all your hard work it to our committee clerk window long, thank you for all of your long hours here. i think victor young, to them for spelling you to the times and other members of the clerk staff i know rick -- to john -- prebudget website accept the tv sfgtv file be stated since early to our department heads and their staff for the time they took to it with a budget analyst to work through their budgets into

their commitment only two working varsity but in this process in terms of the package that we've come up with, from my perspective it's historic on a few fronts. first of all, record number of actual dollars that were bringing back to the budget over $66 million in this two-year budget cycle, for the first time. in particular, when excited about is the highlight of the $25 million of affordable housing there were going to be adding to the budget this year. it will finance the housing trust fund as we've done in years past, and were going to be able to not only in year two, but hopefully anyone increase affordable housing as we face the affordability crisis that we face as a city today. in terms of other savings and highlights from oliver for my perspective we have over $3 million dedicated to increase funds for homeless housing here in the city of san francisco for families in particular, seniors, single adults in --

youth. over $1 million for increased for food security. including, get lunch bills for seniors, home delivery groceries, over two half-million dollars for childcare and family services in over $2 million for workforce development programs here in the city of san francisco. not to mention, the additional funds on top of what the mayor put into the budget around public safety, mission zero, funds for different communities such as seniors, lgbt and traditional transitional age youth and around our recreational park system. i do want to thank lastly, i staff, to catherine who -- who just who helped out quite a bit in the budget process. to michael, thank you for all your hard work. to the staff not only my committee members but everywhere the board of supervisors, you do a lion share of the work hearing

and your out so thank you all for all your hard work. we can't get this done without you. ultimately, for my perspective is a budget we can all be very very proud of how i think everyone for the hard work. it's been an honor to be the budget and finance chair. once again for a third year in a row now. i'll see the challenges never get old, but it's something that every year we can be excited about and very proud of what we will, should this year. so, colleagues will open up any comments and once we get past comments, we will go to those we refute administrator rate admission of items to knockout the next, supervisor meter. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. should chairman, if i may, i want to thank you and congratulate you for really phenomenal work. it's not your third year as budget chair or member your first year when he told me that he had done earlier and will graduate smoothly, and i completely dismissed your prediction. you are right. every year you chair this committee the process has

gone smoothly and we got out earlier than we would have normally got out. i think it's because of you and your staff and really superbly managing the process. the appellee before that, if you ever decide that politics isn't for you i think being an mediator is probably your next gig because you do a great job, i think, being an arbiter for all parties involved. so, thank you. i also want to thank my staff. jeff green, adam taylor and particularly, ms. howard for really doing a great job on our and for budget priorities. i'm really excited. when we look at what funds some which no longer gets any press because over the last number of years with the mayor and board working together medical director of the job making certain priorities associates are pretty boring and basic part of the budget. let's not forget, for now i think the third year in a row we are

fully funding street resurfacing out of the general fund, the mayor has proposed that each year. we have, i never cut up any, from that amount. i think anyone remembers a time when the mayor and the board ever funded fully funded, will resurfacing out of the general fund, and we are doing that yet again. we continue to fully fund hiv services, including backfilling every penny of federal cuts for the sixth or seventh year in a row. we are accelerating police hiring by finding a police academy classes over the next two years. i want to thank the mayor mayor for his leadership on that funding and the sport for supporting it. once again, were increasing support for nutrition access for our most vulnerable residents and making sure that no one in san francisco goes hungry. we have increased our investment in

transit because of the support in this building but also because of the generosity of voters and adjusting the mca's baseline for public transportation. i work very hard to secure -- funding in the budget for youth and senior programs, particularly at risk youth in my district. if too many youth who are homeless or at risk of being homeless in the upper market area. every year that is a priority for me to support services for those youth and we've done so again. i am also thrilled that we were able through this budget, to implement several recommendations of the lgbt aging force. we went passing legislation as recommended by the task force, but their budget needs as well. we are able to secure funding in the budget for lgbt seniors at risk of isolation and to finally start addressing the specific needs of lgbt seniors suffering from dementia. we also were able to find funding to complete the funding for the future no valley town square.

this project will proceed up later this year and i look forward to seeing everyone at the opening next year. finally, colleagues, i want to note, we talked about this in more detail with respect to item number four, we are creating a code enforcement reserve fund at the department of building inspections. we do not do nearly enough code enforcement and the city with respect for building code and housing could. too many people in the city i live in conditions that no one should have to live in. so, we are creating a fund of nearly $4 million bill be dedicated to code enforcement. i'm very very excited about that. so, colleagues, again, thank you. thank you to the controller and the budget office and to everyone once again has allowed this to be a successful budget. >> supervisor tang

>> i do want to echo all the thanksgiving earlier to everyone who worked so hard on this process. especially chairman ferrell mac. i didn't do it my share of budget processes whether through the mayor's office side to stopping my predecessor on the committee as well and i feel like every urges become more and more refined to the fact that were here at before 3:00 pm talking about this. so thank you for that. i definitely do want to thank the mayor's office because i think that this is one of those years i've noticed a lot was really taken care of at that mayor's during his budget submission on june 1. in some sense, made our work easier in some and made it harder. because now were at this phase were scrambled to figure out what else do we want to put back into the budget. so, i want to thank the mayor's office, his old team. all the city determines work hard to identify what were the priorities to make sure we can find are critical city services here. i know that in looking at

her at pax list here before us today are so many neighborhood and citywide priorities there were able to come to agreement on. finding, making sure we're putting our children's services services for seniors the homeless, to serve our immigrant community. community based programs and even augmenting some of the department services that were potentially going to be cut off from the budget. so, i can want to thank all our city department because we are here trying to fight for dollars but you're the ones working very hard to actually help us carry out all that work. then, of course, i know there are a number of community advocates and stakeholders here today who have year after year after year made sure that you hold us accountable to make sure that were funding again the critical services, but some of our most vulnerable populations need from our city. so, again, thank you to the budget committee to chairman fontenot for making a smooth process and i look forward to approving all this and for final approval i guess on august 1. thank you.

>> supervisor yee >> i went thank you for your leadership on this committee. this my first year serving on this committee and it's been really a privilege to see you work and see the magic you done the last few years. i also want to thank my colleagues in the rest of the people on the committee's . i also especially want to thank my colleagues and the staff that stayed last night to not quite midnight, but close, and they were running around the halls and try to get this thing done them. they eventually got it done. of course, i also want to join the chorus here to thank kate howard and her staff and then rosen, and his step. harvey rosen and his step. without them, this process would have been very

difficult. it just this partnership we have between legislative branch and the people that actually do the real work that makes things functional in san francisco. it's one point first to note it's been a good budget year, and it's our opportunity to do some, carve out some funnies for new initiatives as much as possible. maybe even refine some of things that we cut in previous years. there's many things that the balance in the city. as much as we grew our budget, there is always -- there is never enough funding to do everything you want to do. so, that's where we step in and try to make these type of decisions with the mayor to say, well, given what we have, given the additional funding, which should we do with it. i think what we did this year was strike of real good balance between all the different

elements and everybody seen him whether it's about the pedestrian safety, signing for vision zero that was added in. many items that funded children's services, whether it's the fully funding of the afterschool programs, or the summer programs. and then the early education piece, again it wasn't exactly the amount that one would want but -- asking for more than we could give. i think we could do each of the categories seem to have got their fair share. whether it's the senior services homeless issues and i think -- it's never a big winner for me but maybe it is. we been talking about it for the last two years in regards to housing and will say more about it, but it seems like a big winner in

here for this year, and try to catch up for many years is housing. so, it's been an issue for all things at all income levels and we need to start addressing it and i think this budget really does that. so i want to thank everyone for their efforts. >> supervisor mar >> thank you chairman fontenot. i didn't think it could get done and i just have to say that it's been a team effort but especially with our pitcher, quarterback, chairman fontenot you did a great job and your staff, catherine and justin simi folks from your staff really were transparent. i know sometimes you couldn't get stuff printed out as fast as we wanted it with the controller and the mayor's budget office, but i do feel that you are extremely transparent. i do want to say that the budget justice coalition and many different

organizations that were, up until the very last minute today, but also until midnight last night, in the halls, i want to thank him for keeping the the focus on human needs in our community could i think there's a lot of contradictions in his nine the focus on human needs in our community could i think there's a lot of contradictions in his $9 million budget. i think the contradiction of unchecked development purses displacement and addictions, and the goal of equity and social justice committee of the coalition's were really focused on. so i thank them for keeping my office focused on that. i also want to say that, just think kate howard, ben rosenfield, harvey and his team and so many others for helping us through this process. as my colleagues have acknowledged different pieces that they worked hard on, i wanted sega food security task force were really great. i feel positively didn't get

everything that we wanted, but the large amount for the congregate meals of seniors eating together instead of an isolated situation, the home delivered groceries and home delivered meals, poor seniors safe streets for seniors and senior meals but also money for decrease staffing and aging with disability resource centers will go a long way for the vulnerable in our communities. i want to thank pres. breed are working with my office up with a lot of arts organizations and artists that arts equity was built into a lot of district budgets but also on a citywide level is what struggling and potentially displaced arts communities within our city. i want to say that years ago when i start on the board goes across is called the people's budget on and i think what jenny freedom box and my brother gordon mar put together with justice coalition with some of the labor groups insured we did not last