>> good morning, everyone my name is supervisor president london breed of the board of supervisors and to my left is the button chair supervisor farrell and joined by supervisor wiener and supervisor tang to here the mayor's proposed balanced budget for fiscal year 2016-2017 we look forward to

what is proposed a number of department heads and commissioners and others i look forward to a robust conversation about that fiscal year budget and we'd like to welcome you mr. mayor to present your budget thank you so much for being here. >> (clapping.) >> good morning, supervisors, good morning to the members of the public, thank you supervisor president london breed and budget chair farrell and board members your elected officials and commissioners and all of our department heads also thank you to labor and community leaders for joining us and welcome to everyone watching at home thank all of you for you're support as we deliver a balanced two-year budget.

every year the budget gives us an opportunity to address the issues our city cares about this year we have a $89.6 billion budget budget to loot and invest in ways that reflect our san francisco values my budget submissions and the boards deliberations in the coming weeks it city hall's way to menu our priorities our city is facing challenges we can't deny that neighborhood crime is up and homelessness is visible and preying concern, the need for reform in our police department is evident i hear from resident about those issues they want safe and clean neighborhoods they want us to address

homelessness they address it in a humane way 2 respect san francisco's values and want world-class city services well, this budget addresses those needs it invests in answers to homelessness and housing, that invests in police reforms and pedestrian safety and quality of life in our neighborhoods and the well-being of our people we're using this unique time to make the lives of all the residents and the city stronger homelessness is a top priority we all know that there are far too of people on the street in fact, in and around city hall and across the neighborhood and telling the truth across the

country and fortunately to as the initiative and compassionate programs to lift people out of homelessness and programs that are like care not cash and project homeless connect and direct assessed to housing the first lgbt in and of itself founded in san francisco and while we have make significant process progress in serving the homelessness veterans and families and youth we know we have to do better we're making investments to serve and house people experiencing homelessness through our navigation center model we'll helped 5 hundred people move off the streets were you we're set to open at a navigation center with

additional 93 beds but navigation centers are not enough they need permanent housing that's why in that budget i've included funding for three hundred units of supportive housing for expansion of housing empties for seniors and people with disabilities and this budget fulfills any promise to create a new department who's sole mission to end homelessness for an individual, a family and veteran this united strategy and delivery service delivery system insures we're working and highest sufficiency and help 98 thousand people exit homeless in the years as you may know i

appointed jeff the head of the homeless and supportive housing his official day is tomorrow i think he started last month and i'm confident under his leadership homelessness with will be rare and brief and a one time occurrence >> in addition to addressing the challenge of homelessness violence preservation and reforms to our public safety are at the top of shared priorities my budget includes comprehensive reform package and a $20 million have felt over the next two years to implement reforms alone are not enough to have an impact on community violation for the communities of color this budget combhudz new funding for violence preservation programs that we

know work for residence at risk of intraer into the criminal criminal justice system this includes funding for jobs programs and an african-american violence preservation collaborative and the strengthening of our crisis and outreach teams additionally the budget includes funding for policed rofrnlz to build trust between police officers with increased oversight arbitrates, and other we will insure that accompanied by the right training outline officers will have the equipment and tools they need to do their job and protect the public like the growing of the departments body camera program and i know those investments in our police department must be accompanied by funding for office of office

of citizens complaints my proposed budget a 25 percent increase in investigators and insuring a full response to every officer-involved shooting this budget also focuses on the quality of life in our neighborhoods this is an issue we all hair about it every community meeting the need for safe and clean neighborhoods that's why i created our new neighborhood based fix it teams which will but for city workers from evidently departments with the side it fix it strategy we also expanding our street cleaning and building on the successful pit stop for the improvements 6 quality of life in the neighborhoods as part of focus we need to get more officers into your neighborhoods

our 6 year public safety hiring program will continue over the next two years the city will reach one thousand nine hundred and 70 officers by the end of 2017 and it is vitally we make the investments that will pay off in the long run in this budget you will see full funding for the capital improvement plan and the information technology and our aide equipment program this includes strengthening our seawall and funding critical presented equipment go ladies and gentlemen, our strong economy allows us to make those investments and demonstrating our provided priorities to our residents i remember as sure as you do our city was cutting the budget and not adding that's why wire committed to successful financial policies we put in

place like two-year budget and longer o long-range planning times are good idea we can't get lazy this is important to self-confidence r safeguard our resources and strategic about the initiatives to bring the voters theirs affordable over the long run and it is important to bring in new revenue about when it is possible i'm proud to partner with many of you on the major revenues major initiatives i want to thank you for putting in the work to creativity this sales tax and thank you supervisor john avalos, supervisor wiener km and supervisor farrell for your leadership and most importantly to community leaders and business strrmentdz or

stakeholders stakeholders that are supporting this effort the revenue if the sales tax helps us to keep the promise to have a grammar transportation system and pave our roads and take care of our homeless residents as i said my budget priorities are homelessness, public safety reforms and improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods what's no coins the top priorities from all of you in the past months as well i know that each of you have issues specific budget krsz that we've done our best to address as many as we can this includes the funding for navigation centers and pit stops and nonprofit displacement the implementation of the legacy businesses and hiv

and aids supervisors in 23 spirit of coordination for the great good idea of the city i present a two-year budget balanced budget for your careful consideration i respect this board r0eb9 to improve on the violate product i commit in collaboration with did you in the weeks to come thank you to our controllers mr. rosenfeld and his team for helping us keep in mind the biggest financial picture of the city and a preempt to harvey rose and melissa light house my acting budget director and the staff for their sole hard work in getting us ready for today and a final thank you to everyone ♪ chamber this morning for being

part of this very important city process thank you, everyone >> (clapping.) >> issue. >> homeless in san francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014

homeless census over 64 homeless in individual in the city to try to address the issue we've got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the navigation center. >> this pilot project is for people living on the street what makes it different the navigation center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. >> the full realization that people don't want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services don't meet them and not relevant they're not going to be successful if you look at the

budget losses we've got a community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry we're standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up for medi-cal and all those things that are complicated for people. >> the other exciting thing city agencies come on site and provided the services for folks this is existed to see when the goal of streamlining a a whole processes of getting people on go gentle assistance into housing as much as possible. >> way totally different you can come and agree as please and get laundry services and showers

any time of the day and night it's twenty-four hours a day whatever and twhefr it's not like any other she recalls. >> they come and help people for what it is they're required the issues they need and reach out and do what we can to say okay how can we accommodate you to get you set up and straight never in my mind imagined a program like this this place it different and a a lot a lot that better it works. >> the navigation is center is a collaboration of partnerships too city departments one is the homeless outreach team managed by the san francisco distributing i look forward to the navigation center we'll have our agents go out and help and say don't go anymore over and over send our

dayshift out they've meet the population and hang out and hang in the encampment and transport people and be with them and make immediate impacts with me and my staff. >> bringing our wloongz whatever you go presents a problem this place their help with the storage i don't have to worry about it staying here you know you're getting things done they need to get things down done to get off the street avenue of the hope alsoness is gone. >> they help you if you're hungry go eat if e you need to go places go. >> they're 4th district it awe auto. >> it was funded through a

unanimous donation and of may 2015 an additional $3 million to help to continue the program beyond 18 months. >> you see people coming out they're ready to being so the future homes you know how variable the navigation center is my message for the constituents yes something can be done do break chronic homelessness it is being done. >> this is a community that sets an example but i how to pick an area that was funky they've seen we're trying to do is help their neighbors they've seen getting sicker and more frail and broken down on the streets and welcomed us that's a powerful statement people are exist and president in they're becoming to see the movement for folks and people on

the streets are only survival modes where is there next meal and their itch more carefree. >> the staff here is interpretation the first day i have a appointment and everything was made all you do is go through them this makes a huge difference. >> to get settled in a helping hand, to get on my feet, take care of the issues i have and get out of bed and help. >> even though the navigation center has been up in march 2014 the program is creating successful outreach for it's clients. >> a month ago they came to me

and asked me to go into a new program i moved into here and now 3 months later i have my own place it is mine i lock my door don't worry about my stuff it feels human again

>> [gavel] >> good afternoon and welcome to a special meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the board of supervisors i am chair and i am joined by supervisor yee to my left. >>thank you mme. clerk could

you please read the 1st and only item.[reading item] >>i want to thank mr. yoder and mr. antweiowe had a meeting last month on the role of the legislative branches together and directing your role in sacramento and there was a bunch of process

improvements leading up to that hearing and i'm very pleased that you are here in person thank you for making the trip on short notice from sacramento in the middle of a very active legislative session in our state capital--and i want to thank mrs nicole wheaton-elliott. and her staff for the work that with a have done and were now getting minutes from the legislation committee that we have been in endeavoring here at the board regarding pieces of state legislation to get them in your hand in our clerk has been giving them to use so that's been a resolution on our part and i want to give an opportunity for the public is watching as well as my colleagues to get to know you're in person it was a pleasure to get to meet know

you over a bowl of soup i confess i am sick and have a fever so thank you for humoring me and i just want to start by giving the 3 of you josh, paul, and karen an opportunity to introduce yourselves to the committee and tell us a little bit about what you do and then we've got a few questions relative to pending pieces of legislation. so can i start with you josh. >>thank you supervisor peskin and supervisor yee. my name is joshua schall and i want to thank you for scheduling this on a friday. we know your hearings are usually on a thursday and they are tough they for us. mondays through thursdays last night we had a meeting that went until 10 pm it would've been tough to get here on the normally

scheduled time. we have 4 other registered lobbyists that could be involved in the city of san francisco we have a pretty big and robust team who have been working for the city and county since i think the fall of 2012 so we're going into our 4th year representing you and we have been nothing but proud and pleased to work with the local electives in the city and county on behalf of your government and more importantly, those who live here and visit the city and county of san francisco. it is a point of specific pride for our firm to be working for this great municipality in california. if you would like the others can introduce themselves individually. >>sure mr. yoder. >>thank you thank you supervisor peskin ,

supervisor yee i am happy to be lobbying for this great city and county. we are on the job for you every single day in the california state capital. not just with your three-member legislative delegation but with every member of the california legislature. every key player in the brown administration and throughout the bureaucracy in sacramento. again, it's an honor to be here today and we look forward to answering any questions for you today. >>mrs. lang. >>good afternoon mr. chair and supervisor yee. my name is karen lange i have been working with the firm over 10 years and i'm very pleased to be representing the city and county of san francisco and it's a point of professional pride to work for you.

>>thank you on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. miss wheaton- elliott anything that you would like to go to add? okay no. thank you.so a lot in the state revolves around the affordable housing and the board has takena few specific pieces of legislation and we passed a a resolution that we forwarded to you and i'd like to ask where it that bill is at an as well pending before the board on 24 may i introduced a similar resolution which we will hear this coming tuesday with regard to the governors by right proposal which we

obviously are quite concerned with since san francisco leads the state relative to affordable housing production we do not want to be penalized with a one-size-fits-all solution so we would like to talk a little bit more about that in public if we made but to start with i'd like to bring some backgrounds what you guys did relative to advocating the board. let me take a step back and this is the policy body of san francisco once we take a policy that becomes the policy body of the entire city and county including the entire branch and with that in we did take a position on this

resolutionand i'd like to know where we stand on that. >>as of receipt of your board we expect apple to be heardjune 24 and i would characterize it as making the rounds as far as the key members of the legislature and the brown administration making sure that they understand that that resolution was adopted by resolution in this board and that they understand what that encompasses. >>are we have any success with gov. beal with the

performance-based language? >>i don't want to quantify right now. but am comfortable with saying that the chairman of the committee is very aware and the staff that work for them in that committee are very aware of the board's position and i think obviously that we have one state sen. and i think they are in part very aware of the board's position and the credit belongs to sen. len oh in that respect as well. and so i think that is moving along. i would add that last night in the conference committee you did ask for the governor's proposal as well when that proposal came up before the conference committee which sen. leno does cochair and he did take an issue procedurally with the measure being proposed so late in the

budgets cycle but also to the language being proposed to the brown administration. he did suggest that jurisdiction such as san francisco that are working so hard to assure affordability if that's taken into account if the measurement is going to have legs as we say in sacramento. >>does your firm have contacts with the governor's staff in regard to this matter? >>we do. not only with the governor's staff but part of the brown administration on this issue which would be the ledgeslegislation which is held by ben metcalfe.

>>are there any legislations going on right now? >>will be important to note now is that we are picking up through a variety of sources which the governor and staff have made a claim through their legislative leadership that they do expect a buy write proposal to be in the mix of part of the state legislation in response to the senate legislation in the no place like home initiative and on the democratic side a proposal to augment state

housing programs by hundreds of millions of dollars in their way or of birth of those proposals and their open to those proposals and their indicating to legislative leaderships that they are only open to those proposals of some form of by right how about this? how about if we phrase it as housing reform or policy reform because we certainly don't want to mischaracterize the governor's position. but i think it is safe to say that they would like to see policy changes to housing law in california along with potentially the money that the senate is proposing and the legislation proposing. >>is the governor aware of the

legislation that is pending that we will take up on tuesday? >>to the pending resolution i would honestly answer no. it would certainly be our plan when in it that is approved the make sure that the right folks are aware of its approval. >>mr. elliott, is there any other contacts with either the legislative branch of our government in sacramento or the executive branch that is not going through our city lobbyists? are there any direct negotiations coming from mayor, staff, or executive branch through the legislature or the government? >> supervisor yee. >>thanks for coming down on friday and hopefully you won't rush back. hopefully you will spend some time in the city and spend some money so we can increase our tax base, right? it's good to have an

opportunity to actually meet you because when i was on the school board we had our lobbyists and . come pretty regularly and meet with the board. and we actually got a lot of information from the sessions. one of the resolutions that we passed in the past that we support just recently and hopefully you got a copy of that too, it was related to the budget in terms of the women's caucus wanting 8 million for early education and childcare and its recommended to the assembly and the assembly is recommending

600 billion and 90 million from the senate and 0 from the governor. can you tell me what process you would take to advocate for a position? >>1st again, i would want to state that when we get the resolution, carcass being very good at making sure- i just don't want to leave her out of this starting with heard delegation everyone is in receipt of this resolution. in terms of how to advocate for that this really is a very astounding year in the sense that you have 3 members of the legislator representing you in 2 members sitting on the dais

cochairing the conference committee. i think 1st and foremost for your board to take a position in for it to be known by the 2 members of legislature who is cochairing as they would have it at the budget conference committee this year is probably the best path to success on that and we can assure you that weand that they are aware of that on that issue. >> as it rates to the trailing legislation that is moving so quickly the city of san francisco that has not taken a position nor have many of the leading housing advocacy groups in san francisco that

and you can't say it paul but i can say it that this deal to basically trade money for a statewide by right policy proposal that is not been a position of this board. we obviously would like to see more affordable housing throughout the state but as of san francisco the by right concept is hypothetical to the kinds of tools that we've used for affordable housing in fact they use processes allowed us and we say this all the time in these chambers to extend affordable housing for beyond our affordable solutions. i think this edible solution could be the solution to affordable housing to the extent this could be

indicated to the government and to the state staff and in front of the conference committee which would be extremely helpful. i would like a what you guys are doing with regard to the california quality act with its local use of a negotiating tool which allowed local legislators to bump up what is required in the state and locally? >>i think on that aspect of the housing discussion that is underway in sacramento right now i want to make sure that the board members and the

public are aware that statewide labor organizations are joined with statewide environmental organizations not once but twice to jointly correspond with the members of legislature and with the brown administration and there have been a very, very, nimble. there was an a in original version of the governments proposal and they reacted to that and there was a 2nd governor's proposal and they reacted to that and they are really calling out not just i will say in a myriad of ways how their current proposal will impact ceqa. and i don't think that we indicated that in either of the letters the 1st or the 2nd and we would like to indicate that in any way that we can. >>i know there are members that would like to testify and we can incorporate any other questions into these proceeding. so come on up.

>>good afternoon supervisor peskin were sorry you're feeling under the weather today. we would hope that the city of sacramento's lobbyists are supporting the governments efforts on our behalf. the plain truth is that are housing affordability and displacement crisis are getting worse years and years because we lack the tools to make a difference. as gov. brown and the legislative analyst office correctly noted

we do not have the resources to get our way out of this predicament were in. and less we have dramatic ways to improve housing production it doesn't seem likely that low income and increasingly middle income families can be lowered much less stopped. asking our state representative to oppose the governor's proposals would in this cause other legislations throughout the state to oppose the request. what exempting ourselves from the imperative to build more housing be more likely or less likely that the governor will give us the subsidies that we all want for affordable housing. the governor's proposal moves us to [inaudible] we believe will guarantee a continuation of this crisis. thank you for

your consideration. >>thank you. next speaker please. >>my name is brian hamlin i'm a housing advocate. i cofounded a nonprofit housing affordable works throughout the state. i think you for being here as well. i do hope that as supervisor peskin mentioned that you inform sacramento the unique position that san francisco faces. with a very convoluted entitlement process that renders our land use policies dead letter and subject everything to negotiation which makes it more difficult to build affordable housing. and 100% affordable housing can be called up for years in legislation before it's able to be built. i want to discuss the unique position of

san francisco's political coalitions. they are opposing ab 2501. the california legal assistance foundation and others there is a strange split between state-level and corporate housing advocates and more politically engaged housing advocates in the city. i do hope you convey to sacramento that what happens and what is happening in san francisco is a large measure and does not represent the voice of all those who care about making san francisco a more affordable and inclusive place. i would also like to address this idea that the governor's proposal is a one-size-fits-all policy. that is nonsense. the

governor propose all suggest that each of the cities follow their own housing requirements and subsidies. whatever local requirements exist that have confirmed that and i think this is all a red herring and if we want to make san francisco a more affordable, inclusive city we should support the governor's agenda ab 2501 and other housing bills. >>thank you next speaker please. >>hi my name is sonja trouts i represent the renters foundation and we think this is the type of bill that will ease the shortage. a week ago on tuesday 15 of us took off work to the san