the city's budget goes before the board in june, and other key items candidates, interim budget adoption. everything is on track for right now. >> there will be 19, for sure. and then the 26 if needed. your welcome -- and the final budget comes back to what is often called the add back process. the always make some cuts. there will be many opportunities to talk to you about what those might be. they tend to be projects that are worthwhile projects that did not make it in the first cut of the budget. >> we have not seen any cuts yet? >> nor have we seen specific movement toward editions that they are starting to talk about. there are always issues, for example. they put in energy efficiency programs for general fund apartments. the mayor's office is trying to figure out which of those programs will go for. that is a look at the capital plans and the general fund department. they will try the program how much they can get to spend on the programs that are energy efficiency and fund savings. they will be looking for us for additional funding, or the is aware that we would normally progress.

the budget i have seen the budget when the cold wind blows and the sweet music on the radio have youeen the budget have you seen it? why did the budget have to leave and go away i have been used to having a budget to lean on. i see your budget hands reaching out to me i wish you good luck on these years ♪ ♪ have you seen it why did the budget ever have to leave and go away and i hope it comes back soon ♪ supervisor chu: and many other members of the public that would wish to speak on item number one? public comment is closed. and we have a motion to file this item to the extent that you have the comments that are made from the rating agency, can you share that with the committee? i think it can be informative. >> hearing for an update on the budget submission from the department of youth and families. supervisor chu: does the mayor's office when to kick it off for the apartment? >> just a question about if you have extra power point presentation for the committee. i also have extra power point presentation is for the members of the public if they want to. good afternoon, supervisors

we have the $6.5 billion budget. a large amount of this is flexible for us to make decisions, making policy choices about what we can change to close the deficit. $306 million in that perspective is almost 25% of the flexible budget. this is a great challenge and that is why we are here tonight. we will be working on this in the mayor's office. we have been working very closely with the board of supervisors to make those decisions. i will leave it at that and turn its back over, and i'll be happy to answer questions. >> thank you, very much. i am going to start to read a number of questions that we have here, and again, if people want to fill loudspeaker cards, we are more than happy to get through them. i will ask the palace here from the city to be as brief as they can and i will try to read through as many of these statements as they are handed to me. this can be applied to a number of people, multiple people. how can you make certain that the adjustment that the mayor referred to in allocating the budget will not

this is all part of the overall budget picture. can we have one fee that we will not impose on people in the bay area, and the families who have relatives who want to come visit the beautiful garden? this is in golden gate park. i have had conversations with several of you and i believe that we can do better to open up the parks for greater participation. i also wonder if we can approve this -- maybe we make the japanese tea garden consistent with the botanical gardens? and we have this with the japanese tea garden. i have not been there since the residency on there. this is something that is open to consideration. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, supervisor. president chu? president chu: thank you. this has been a difficult issue for all of us and i want to thank supervisor avalos for your leadership on budget issues and on behalf of the parks. i want to thank those of the community who has been opposed to the non-residency for the botanical garden. this has been an amazing asset for the city, and there is nobody he

here is why the ryan budget is what i call the harry potter budget. it does not meet the stiff test of reality. it says tax revenues will increase, almost double, over the next 10 years. this is the only source they can provide for that, the heritage foundation study. it predicted there would be huge surpluses and great job growth after the bush tax cuts. what has happened, in fact, 10 years ago total revenues were about $1.90 trillion. today they are $2.20 trillion. even after cutting tax rates, federal revenues in 10 years are going to be $4.30 trillion, almost double what they are now. that is almost impossible, and on the planet will be almost 2% -- on employment will be almost 2%, which had never happened -- unemployment will always be 2%, which has never happened in this country. the other thing you have to realize his after the next 10 years, if the ryan budget were passed, the national debt would still increase by $8 trillion. $15 trillion to $23 trillion. so he does not cut the deficit, bring the budget into balance until after 2040. and those

does the mayor's budget office have an update on the ongoing budget conversation? in particular, a wonder if we have any new news from the state -- i wonder if we have any new news from the state. >> good afternoon. the mayor's budget director. kate howard is going to walk you through the latest from the state in terms of other upcoming news. we will have more to give you an update on the status of our balancing plan when the joint report is out. we expect that to come out sometime next week. that will update our deficit projection. we do know that we are still going to have a very substantial deficit right now. my office is working with departments to go through their budget submissions, including their contingency proposals, and as you will hear from kate how or from the mayor's office, there is additional significant uncertainty in the state budget, which we will have to see how that plays out over the next weeks and months before we decide how we are going to handle that in the budget submission on june 1. we will have a more thorough update about our balancing

to help solve the budget problem. speaking simply from my department's standpoint, we have been able to achieve, in the last two years, looking at the portion of the budget that the department of technology overseas, we have continued to provide services over the past two years. we have reduced our budget by $15 million, 16 positions. some of those we moved out to other departments, some were reductions. it is a hard challenge to face as a department to reduce our budget and positions and continue to provide service and leadership. but that is really the role of coit. the recommendation you see before you, i think coit is trying to provide that leadership now. members are very engaged. in working with the board, coit can help to answer this question. how much are we spending, are we spending be a corporate amount? if we have to make reductions, where is the appropriate amount? supervisor chu: thank you. does that compare your presentation? i don't go to the budget analyst report. >> madam chair, members of the committe

the r.s.c. budget ensures our nation's security will be met by meeting defense secretary gates' requests. the r.s.c. budget puts nondefense discretionary spending on a sustainable path. in addition, the r.s.c. budget sustains medicare's long-term finances and most importantly unlike any other budget on the floor today will balance within our lifetime. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pascrell: to claim time and reserve. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey. mr. garrett: i yield one minute to the chairman of the republican study committee. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. jordan: i want to thank all the members for their work on this budget and chairman ryan for his work on the budget and committee's work. in particular the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett, mr. mulvaney from south carolina, mr. mcclintock for their work in putting this together. the r.s.c. budget as the gentleman from new jersey

in the other part of the budget, the general fund is a portion of the budget that we are talking about when we say we have a $306 million deficit. that is where we have the services that are funded primarily by tax dollars. those services are the department of public health, the fire department, the police department, the sheriff. we don't have a source of money to generate from providing those services. in the general fund, it is 45% of the budget. have significant restrictions on what we can do. we have pension costs. there are obligations that we can't decide to reduce. even before we start making decisions about how to balance the budget, we have the voters approved restrictions, and at the end of the day of the 45% of the budget, only about $1.2 billion or $1.3 billion is truly flexible money. the $306 million budget deficit is approaching and about 25% of that flexible part. we have some big decisions to make about how we will address that deficit. one last point to reemphasize, these numbers at the bottom here are projections for what the deficit is going to look like for the ne

the government budget is one of them. the congressman has been here many times in the past year and as always it is an honor for us to host him as he presents his courageous work for the future of our nation. he will speak for about 20 minutes and then host his own question and answers. please join me in welcoming congressman paul ryan. [applause] >> arthur, thank you very much. >> arthur, thank you very much. but by wanted to thank everyone here at the american enterprise institute for your warm welcome. budget debates circling around the state capitals, they seem disconnected from reality. the new stores are full of phrases le continuing resolutions and baseline levels, and the numbers are in millions and billions. the srecard is these days about political posturing and partisan edge. this debate is stable. -- stale. today we are going to give americans the debate that they deserve. we face a monumental choice about the future of our country. for too long, policymakers from both political parties in washington have trave

the budget director will spend 10 minutes giving you an overview of the budget process in city hall and telling you what we're doing in this stage of the game as we're getting prepared. then we will have an hour of questions from new. this is your chance to ask your questions to mayor li and the other members of staff who will be here tonight. you can talk to me at any point. i want to make sure we take advantage of having a dialogue with the mayor tonight and the of the department's staff went might not be able to talk with on a daily basis. with that, i will say thank you for being here and turn it over to the mayor. >> thank you, supervisor. the evening, everyone. i will be very short. i am here to listen to make sure you all have quality input into decision making. i do want to say this. the last three months, it has been a joy working with supervisor mark farrell. fresh ideas, a lot of energy. i am looking forward to working with him on business. it is all about jobs. we have got to change the city's culture, make sure we are talking the same talk. and to get people quality jobs, w

here's the house g.o.p. budget and here's the people's budget the progressive caucus budget by twenty twenty one we're we're actually showing a surplus but ryan budget in the president's budget are both still in deficit both of them are going to take some years until they actually show you know a balanced budget so the progressive caucus the house progressive cards for ten years we can do this all this without throwing the working class of the bus and really not hurting anyone including the reserves of the rich will hardly notice a couple of bucks are missing and their billion dollar paychecks and as paul krugman said achieving savings with out dismantling the new deal. the most important thing that this budget will do though is reduce reduce the wealth inequality gap in america which is higher today than it any other time in american history except for right before the great depression this budget will slay reaganomics for good and it turns out this is exactly what the american people want cording to a new study o

this is the second immediate tim e we've reviewed their budget. he has certainly been the case that if there was a deficiency identified, where one thing was corrected, it went back and forth. because the petitions are supposed to be complete perfected a, when they come to us, we have not had the back and forth to do that. if we had unlimited time and staff to do that. >> so the only chance was when a clarification can on the actual verses' rounding it out. >> if i am looking at something like this and looking at an average, it takes away those kind of things. it is not the maximum amount for every individual person. they take into account how many people use their wives health insurance and independent, so what and so forth. this is based on how many people are to the health insurance and how many people are not. these are the kinds of thing is where if the assumption is not put forward in a clear way, we're going to have some issues about that. that is what we tried to move on. >> i just wanted to expand on nancy's comment. the groups that have c

if this is limited to getting all the cuts out of 12% of the budget, the discretionary budget, that it makes the job much more difficult. the second thing that makes it more difficult are these political hand grenades on policy issues that are very contentious. should there be an abortion in the district of columbia with or without federal money? should we close down national public radio? these are types of things where there is a legitimate debate, but if you have as our major objectives, trying to reach a budget resolution to keep the lights on, it is bad to have those debates injected into this discussion. host: brooklyn, new york. chris, you are on the " washington journal." caller: i have a few comments and questions that i would like you to address head-on. you just mentioned npr. c-span is not funded by the government. why should npr? abc, cbs, none of them do. if you can figure out a separate funding mechanism -- my main point is, the government was never constituted to be a consumer lending agency. there is no reason why the government should be paying for a 35-year-old study

of the budget. >> thanks, paul. thanks to my colleagues on the house budget committee. i happen to be on the oversight and government reform committee. we're committed to changing the way we do business. we don't want to perpetuate the status quo. the cuts are important. we need to be on a trajectory to maintain the fiscal sanity in the country. we want to 'chooef a 10% reduction in the next three years over the federal work force by attrition. coupled with a true pay freeze. we want to tend corporate welfare, end permanent bailout of dodd-frank. we want to take fannie and freddie off the back of the people. we are committed to reform. it will be an exciting process moving forward. i think the american people will be excited that we're living up to the obligations and commits commitments in the pledge to america. thank you. >> one of the things we are vying to achieve is we believe in this country that we ought to have a social safety net. we believe we should have a safety net to keep people from slipping through the crackses and to help people that cannot held themselv

the mayor's budget director has to leave early. he will be replaced by another member of the mayor's budget office, rick, who will be here to listen. greg, if you want to share some of your insight. i have worked with him on the budget committee and has made some tough choices. >> thank you, very much. thank you all for being here. i am sorry i have to leave. i have a sick kid at home. i wanted to be here until i have to get back for child care. i just wanted to give you an overview of where things stand with the state budget. i think you are probably familiar with the challenges we are facing in the city and county of san francisco. for next year, we are projecting a general fund budget deficit of $306 million. over the next three months, we will have to close that deficit. the mayor's budget is due to the board of supervisors on june 1. then it will go through the committee process through chair chu's budget committee. so we will be working closely with supervisors chu and avalos to make some decisions on the budget. just to put t

in addition, we are in the process of cutting their budgets. this kind of uncertainty over what is going on while we are trying to make additional cuts, i think that is difficult for the department as they try to manage through the last three months. i understand the point that you are trying to get, there are things that we still want to accomplish here. i would argue that it would probably be operationally, in terms of our time and synergy for the budget process, it would make more sense to have that conversation as a part of the budget process than to have us come back in a month and half in believe that operational uncertainty as they try to help us figure out how to operate the larger budget. that would be likely and request of the committee. supervisor chu: mr. president? supervisor chiu: let'to remind folks of where we were last year, i recommended cutting this full amount. we will find a way for cost savings in short order that did not happen. while i did come here open and moving forward to releasing i.t. reserves, we understand the fru

the ryan budget does that. the president's budget does not do it. let's support the ryan budget. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from wisconsin reserves. the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: thank you, mr. chairman. i have to show us this chart again. i need to remind the body that during the clinton administration, when we had the folks at the very top paying a little bit higher rate, 20 million jobs were created. when that rate was dropped from the -- for the high income earners at the beginning of the bush admanager, not only did it contribute to deficits going up but at the end of that period, over 653,000 jobs were lost. now the point isn't, again, that by changing the tax rate, that was the driver, the point is that small differences in tax rates are not the main engines of economic opportunity and we need to make choices here, again, they choose to provide tax breaks to folks at the very top and the medicare guarantee, for somebody who has been a champion of medicare, medicaid, and a whole number of other

the president proposed his budget in the middle of january, and proposed some significant cuts to programst affect community members in san francisco and that will also affect our budget. many of those cuts were proposed at even deeper levels by congress. so i thought i would review a couple of the major cuts that have been proposed and what those level of cuts would look like if they were adopted by congress. for example -- and you will here momentarily from the mayor's office of housing, the community development division -- in greater detail. an annual basis, the city receives approximately $22 million, and those funds support a variety of computing -- community programming. most of those funds are channel through non-profit organizations in the community. on an annual basis, we receive about $22 million. the president proposed a 7.5% cut in year one, and in the second year, a 10% cut, so approximately $2 million. congress has proposed a 62.5% cut, so that would be about $12 million or $13 million. the department is planning, based on our conversations with our federal lobbyist and with

we wanted budgeting that would help in the development of social capital. we wanted to see budgets that promoted prevention, which includes access to healthy foods and folks actually purchasing them and eating them, access to safe exercise, and people actually exercising and enjoying the benefits of a, and supporting programs that improve personal habits. of our health status, only about 10% is because we go to the doctor. id% is what we do, our own personal habits. finally, we looked at some key health issues in district 10 that we thought were important to be looked at in the context of the items i just mentioned. that is trauma and stress -- ongoing traumatic stress, posttraumatic stress, and in a recent training on african- american health, we had -- that the department sponsored -- a syndrome called post-slavery stress. there is a book out on that. what is her name? i cannot remember her name. ok, i cannot hear it. violence as a public health issue -- this includes domestic violence, street violence, and institutional violence. chronic disease. environm

by law, we have to balance the budget. [speaking spanish] 30 years ago, city government was responsible for the majority of services that we are now receiving. 30 years ago, nonprofits started serving with the goal of having -- instead of reducing costs, provide services to the community. so we have city working in partnership with nonprofit agencies to provide the services you are all provided -- child care, public housing, legal services, support for the elderly, things like that. [speaking spanish] some of the things that are at stake right now is the proposed cuts are to homeless shelter closures. i am speaking in terms of the specific numbers we will be able to pass out later. also, proposed cuts to legal services to elders. there are proposed cuts from 20% to 100% for some after-school programs that do health promotion and also homework help. there are proposed cuts of 15% to women who suffer domestic violence. the list goes on and on. next slide please. all right, so -- [speaking spanish] so, what are our roles? we b

and that is the actual budgets? >> within the final budget, if we took it out, it would fall. fall close to the high, but not over the high. supervisor wiener: is that because of the set aside? you and the been closer? >> we experienced eight children's fund cut. last year, the city -- supervisor wiener: and there would be years away and it would increase more or increase despite cuts elsewhere. >> especially the years before i became director. >> thank you for your presentation. a couple quick questions. there are folks that returned -- referred to the proposed cuts that are being considered that are catastrophic. potentially, san francisco can lose $20 million of funding programs. how does that affect your department and other departments. >> it is a very important question. i think it is a given that the early care and education service area will take a significant hit. we know that the governor signs the budget for his first budget proposing a $1 billion reduction for california. the impact is really down to approximately $11 million. that is one budget impact. the $11 mill

from the president's budget over the next ten years. >> chris: house budget committee chairman paul his week laying out the big differences between his 2012 budget, and president obama's plan. we're back now with the panel. so bill, how does this budget deal affect the coming battles and they're going to start right away over the debt limit and the 2012 budget. does this compromise make it easier or harder for republicans to get even bigger spending cuts? >> i think easier, but there has been an awful lot of predictions we've been wrong in the last year about how things interact with each other. look, the president, the big news is the president, the election evident from the president that laid out in the 2012 budget, it had increase in spending. domestic discretionary spending and to reform of entitlements. now he has to reform his proposal this week as david plouffe said. that is a big moment for a president to do that, three or four months in his third year of the presidency. he is now, paul ryan is leading and barack obama is following. that is the fundamental dynamic. whether i

there is a template of budgets that looks several years into the future, but there is also a budget that was included that looks at the current school year as well as next year, which did not always line up with the budget included in the multi- year worksheets. the work sheets included assumptions for teachers and other personnel. they have different numbers than the ones included on the other budget. the fiscal year 11-12 budget only included non-personnel expenditures. it was hard to discern which one would be the appropriate document to consider. in any case, the numbers on the assumptions worksheet assumed an average future salary of approximately $54,000. to give you a comparison, the average teacher salary for us is predicted to be about $62,500. so there is a question on our matrix about whether or not the market rates are in range. these do seem to be within range, but significantly lower. that could be because of experience level of the teachers or the mix of folks they have at their sites. there was a teacher pay scale included. however, it was dated 2007 and eight. that was o

federer budget or the state budget. >> the mayor's budget director. i will be brief. we will have some more soon in the relatively near future. the governor may revise these on the 16th of may. they will look closing the remainder of the deficit and the plans for the november ballot or special election. additional cut proposals. my guess is that we will start hearing ideas trickle out about what we are going to see within the next week or so, but we will actually see it in mid may. probably the working assumption by the time we have just met the mayor's budget on june 1, there will not be much certainty given that he is going to have to make a proposal on legislature over the summer, so we will have to make some assumptions about what we will assume and what we do not assume. other items that are coming up, we are in the process of working on the nine month report with the comptroller's office. that is the state of the revenues, and we will update them. for the last couple of months, we have been expecting to get a little bit of good news in the report

the other thing you have to realize is the budget for the status of women is the smallest budget you will see in the city department. we have 22 different agencies that get funded through that. cutting this budget affects us deeply. we have small, tiny budgets. most of it is allocated to the shelters. we have three shelters, 72 beds for all of san francisco. i am pleading, asking, hoping that the city would not cut the budget for the department on the status of women. [applause] supervisor campos: the issue of domestic violence has been a very serious one in san francisco. let's hear from the budget director. >> i am greg wagner, the budget director. i agree with the comment. a i think we all understand the importance of the services. over the last several budgets despite proposals for reductions in domestic violence programs, we have been able to protect those programs and have not made reductions to those programs. we're trying to work with the department on the status of women to see if there are other options that we can look at. there may be revenues we can bring in through fees

that is not spelled out in the budget analyst report. it seems to be an evolving partnership. >> i think that it is a 56-year- old partnership with a memorandum of understanding between the parties. again, it needs to reflect the fee administration should the fee administration continue. this is a very long standing partnership and i want to make the point because i think there are perhaps some perceptions. we might not have a botanical garden without a botanical garden society. several years ago, the parks and recreation department used to do that your rating of the exhibits. -- used to do the curating of the exhibits. we can no longer afford to do that. we used to do the garden. the garden supports a lot of maintenance activities. what they do is actually a net loss for the city. it should not be viewed mysteriously were suspiciously -- or suspiciously. >> it is not. despite the relationship you have had, this particular contract is relatively new which is why we are here. >> that is a very valid point. we accept the budget analyst reco

that is what the republican budget for the future is all about. it is not just about getting back to a balanced budget over time. it is paying off the debt. it will take years, but you need to take the first step -- >> the republican 2012 budget plan. four hours of general debate, five substitute budget plans to be considered. after the vote on the budget debate rules, the house turns to the spending agreement reached last week among the president, speaker boehner, and senate democratic leader reid. one hour of general debate on the plan to cut $40 billion in spending over the next six months. now live to the house floor here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend arthur cavitz, st. charles luonga center. the chair: in -- chaplain coughlin: in times like these, we need the almighty good shepard with us. leave us through valleys and shadows on a straight path. we need the god of a break through to give us the ability to see transforming possibilities. guide us, lord,

there will be the budget process. the more we are involved, the more we can work with the mayor and the supervisors to make sure that the budget reflects the priority of said francisco. one correction is that the translation today was provided by the office for immigrant affairs. [applause] >> how are you? thanks for coming out tonight. we want to thank greg wider. i did not read that correctly. the budget director. i could not read my own handwriting. chief good when from the police department, please be respectful. these people have given their time to come and be part of the process. from the department of public works and barbara garcia from the department of public housing. i am new at this just like everyone else. sorry for making those mistakes. even though all of you can't speak tonight because of the limited time, it is important that we remember the example that i can think of in recent memory with the community came together to change how the cpmc was going. and i think this is the first step in the communit

analyzes key aspects of the fiscal year 2012 budget proposal submitted by president obama and the house gop budget proposed by paul ryan. internet and data protection attorney talks about why cyber attacks are on the rise and what can be done to protect consumers. "washington journal" ♪ >> the budget battle -- host: the budget battle continues here in washington. we are breeding of new spending cuts, changes in entitlements, and tax increases on the table. we want to give your reaction to that of news this morning and get your sense of what the president should say. here are the numbers to call. for republicans, 202-737-0001. for democrats, 202-737-0002. for independents, 202-628-0205. here is the lead story in "the washington times" this morning. host: that is the lead story from "the washington times." here is a bit from the white house adviser, david plus, from yesterday on the "fox sunday." >> we have a lot in health care. you have to look at medicare and medicaid to see the kinds of savings you can get. secondly, social security, that is not a driver of significant cost right now.