is this something -- >> did you look into the general public information? s is in the consent calendar for today. >> is there someone else would like to make public comment on the consent calendar? public, disclosed. commissioners? >> i entertain a motion. >> all of those in favor signify by saying aye. >> we are now on item 6, the san francisco zoo. >> thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. it is a pleasure to be here. this will come up on the screen? >> can you state your name for the record? >> before i go into the presentation, i would like to give you updates about what is happening at the zoo right now. we have lots of exciting programs and opportunities for everyone to learn about wild places. we have about 300 volunteers in the youth program, with the junior zoologists program. we have the teaching assistants to help with the program, and they are waiting to have an encounter with you and tell you about wild places and wild things. we have a couple of exciting things going on. you may remember that we have a new sea lion cool, and they are doing

i understand we put it in the general fund, but that is the reason. i do not know what the potential cuts might bee, but i think we understand that, and i think we have said that to people, and i agree. i have been the one who has been thinking that rather than do what we have done, which is to take a percentage of this than to ask him to decide which cuts to make, it seems to me we still have money on our minds as categorically restricted money, whereas some districts have taken all of their money and said this is unrestricted money a merged with other sources and how do we want to spend that money? that is another way of looking at it and getting out of the categorical frame of mind. we are keeping most of the money in the targeted improvement finund, which is used to close lohan -- close the gap your your -- close the gap. i think people would be appreciative of knowing, especially at the schools, what we are doing to keep the school budget was low as possible. >> -- and budget as low as possible. >> i want to start with page nine, which gives of b

the podium next to me. it is always available on our website. generally speaking, we find the revenue estimates assumed in the mayor's proposed budget to be reasonable, given current thinking about the state of the local and national economies. a couple of caveat to add, the first, of course, is that the city's general fund relies heavily on the state of california for revenues to support both city and county functions. the mayor's proposed budget includes a $17.5 million allowance for future and, as of now, unknown state budget cuts, and to the extent that final state actions are less than or more than that $17.5 million, it may require later corrections by the mayor and board of supervisors. it would appear that we're going to actually have an adopted state budget today. at the legislative level, we will work with the mayor's budget office as to get more details about what the final budget holds and provide an update to the committee in the coming week about how that reconciles to the budget you have before you. it would appear that the state is likely

this really impact of the general fund. this is only 6% of the portfolio. >> supervisor, i see your question. >> this is not considered it a debt, and the city has no legal authority to have this tax be paid. the only has the obligation to appropriate and the underlying asset is the collateral. state law requires that we have use and occupancy of the building. investors are concerned about this, the useful life of the asset, and this will continue as a goal long with the general funds to pay the debt. we paid the debt there city do not have any of these contracts. >> the next slide shows the results of what was discussed earlier. you only require the projects fund and the payment fund, and on the lease revenue side, this is during the construction. we're using this during the construction to make the interest payments. we also have the reserve fund, and the investors require this. you can have about 10% and if you cannot make payments, those will be drawn up to be replenished immediately. >> i know that these numbers fluctua

additional general fund revenues that the project will generate, and those would include property tax, sales tax, and a host of others, the payroll tax included. so the net -- or actually, the gross revenue we expect coming to the general fund, including the $3.3 million from property tax, would be over $20 million. we have also estimate whatwe hal city costs and we have worked with the fire department, muni, etc.. there is a cushion of $7 million, $8 million to the general fund beyond just the property tax revenue. >> if i understand this correctly, currently the property tax margin is 8.8. payroll tax and etc., we are expecting $20 million in revenue from that with $40 million incurred in expenses against that. >> correct. there are police officers there nell, so this will be an additional cost to the city, using today as the baseline. >> given a scenario where we might see finance is not coming out the way that you expect, what are the options for reevaluating the investments? >> we have a fairly large cushion of seven or $7 million to protect against that. to your second point on

item number three, the general managers' report. >> i have a few things to report. this is all good news. tuesday the 21st, the 23rd. thursday, june 23, we will have the william hammon hall award at 2:30 in the conservatory, and the awards are jointly presented by the parks and recreation department, and laborers local. next tuesday, june 21, the department has been invited to participate in the blue-green awards, to support the employees and apartments who have shrunk in the carbon footprint. two members of the staff -- will be recognized for their achievements and their efforts in reducing the carbon footprint. the department leaves the city for this waste, and we're working on strategies to continue to reduce the overall footprint. next month, the superintendent will make a presentation on the department's action plan. next month, we will present the year in review for the department. i wanted to give you a sneak preview into some of the news, that we are particularly proud of. we are expected to conclude the year with a reduction in workers compensation costs, wi

one is through the general fund support. third is through the work orders, with various agencies in the city, and for, and the final one is a sure yvonne, which is also through work orders -- sure the bond -- shirty -- surety bond. one of the primary things we did this year is previous years of the human rights commission, all of our non-discrimination and policy personnel costs were integrated into our work order funds, so each of the major contract in organizations in the city paid a percentage of our non-discrimination and policy division. since none of these directly impact those particular divisions, and they are more of a citywide function, we work with the mayor's office to separate all of our non- discrimination activities and put them directly on the general fund and then reduce the costs of the general work order fund to offset or exchange the increase in general fund. this gives the policymakers and the mayor's office the ability to see exactly what we're spending for each individual item within the human rights co

the biggest distinction is what is in our city's general fund versus the non-general fund. the general fund is where most of the tax revenues go. it is what we used to pay for police, fire services, cleaning the streets, many of the health and human services programs, programs that do not generate their own revenues. within our $6.5 billion budget, only about 45% of that or $3 billion is within the general fund. to further complicate things, we have a large number of spending requirements. we have the pension and benefit obligations. we have made a commitment to our employees to provide a benefits package. we are obligated to pay for that. we have federally mandated programs we need to pay for. we have voters approved spending requirements where we allocate a certain amount of the general fund to the libraryies or other worthy services. those chip away at the flexibility we have to balance our budget. at the end of the day with another $6.5 billion budget, only about $1.3 billion of that is flexible, discretionary general fund money we have available not committed to some p

. >> the next item is general public comment. i have no speaker cards, but anyone who wishes to speak on an item within the commission's jurisdiction but not on the agenda, now is the time. commissioner vietor: comments from the public on items not on the agenda? >> yes, if i may. one issue we have been determining over the last year with the california stem cell agency is to give a report to the taxpayers as to how many jobs are created, what kind of infrastructures have been directed -- erected with the use of their money. i was wondering -- do we do that here with the puc where we provide the ratepayers with an expenditure of jobs that have been created? because that is taxes coming back into the city, back into the state that we ought to at least at some point delineate to the ratepayers and let them know where and how their moneys are being used effectively to create these employment opportunities, these construction opportunities, and just the contributions that the puc -- i have been here just a short time -- are approving.

the first two our general fund encumbrances. first is a matter of a recreation and park project that was in litigation, so we are not in a position to be able to de- encumber -- the second item is for a contract for a hall of justice generator project and while this contract we can close out the funds that the project still is not complete and requires the funds to complete it. so i don't think you're acting on these today but i did just want to point them out. the others we will be closing out and returning the balances, but they are not general fund resources so they would be returned to the general fund sources. and with that i conclude my presentation and happy to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you very much mr. res skrvings -- mr. riskin. mr. rose? >> as mr. riskin has referenced on page 109 of our report, we are withdrawing the last recommendation of $21,595. i've withdrawn that. and on the recommendation above that services of other departments, we leave that. we recommend that you cut that by 200,000 dollars

the m.t.a. thank you. and now to our general fund allocation. >> just quickly, the citywide membership that's a result of being able to recover from enterprise performance? >> that's correct. while we're seeing an increase in general fund support, the proposed budget is $508,000. so the cost saving measures we have taken over the last several years are still showing results. you can see from this chart that reductions in budget and legislative analyst services by far is the largest -- is the division that's taken the largest decrease. the youth commission is also down due to holding a position vacant. the a.a.b. and sunshine have been given additional resources from the clerk's office based on workload demands. and all other increases are reflecting the growth of fringe increases. i'm confident that our department has done its very best to cut costs and still deliver our core services required in the charter and the administrative code and now to the five-year fork. as is this trend in general fund depends this department's expe

they are great contributors to the general fund. supporting initiatives with the jobs coming in, those are important for all of our neighborhoods. my role and function in the city department is to support businesses so that we can help in the general fund creating more money for us. >> good morning, everyone. i am president of the board of education the key for having me. san francisco unified as a separate entity from the city. we are funded by the state, but we rely heavily on the support services and funding from the city. without that, we would not have been able to be afloat as we have had the last couple of years. leadership has been tremendous. it has severe impact on public health at all the things that our city is made of. you want to make sure that our kids are graduating. the last couple of years, we have been doing a multi-year budget. last year, we're looking at about $113 million for a budget deficit. we worked through that with the labor partners, cutting the costs hit as many places as possible and try to stay as far

to the general fund. together, these recommendations will result in a savings to the general fund of $1,006,441. supervisor chu: thank you. given that the department and budget analyst are in agreement, can we move to take that? ok, we will move that without objection >> greater than thank you. do i comeback next week? supervisor chu: you are done. ok, our final department of the day -- the adult probation department. >> good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the adult probation budget operations and five-year financial outlook. i would also like to thank the mayor's budget office and his staff expertise and support in our budget preparations. adulteration dept.'s core mission is to protect the community, serve justice, and change lives. our penal code mandated mission is to provide koresh ordered community probation supervision and court-ordered investigation reports. 84% of our staff are sworn peace officers and provide direct court-related services. our strategic goal is to improve pr

we started with the general question. we knew what kind of energy it would provide, and let them know that they would be automatically enrolled in we would have the ability to opt out if they chose. we asked them to indicate if they thought they would stay with clean power if the program was up and running or to switch back to pg&e. the customers split into thirds. 37 percent said they would split, 31% said they would opt out, and the remaining 32% said they did not know. we did not tell them what the potential impact on their rates was. it is likely that undecided was waiting to hear more information about the cost. in a follow-up question, we gave them that information. for customers in each of the tears, we gave them estimates of the potential impact to try to understand their sensitivity. the scenario we describe for them was one in which they would provide energy that was 40% renewable had 100% greenhouse gas from. at that level, in the vast majority of customers in the city, we see that about three and five indicate

generate their own revenues. within the city general fund, this is a little bit less than half of the budget. this is where tax dollars are coming in, and the space for this service is not generating revenue, by parks and recreation, the health department. this is where the deficit this. within that $3 billion of the general fund, we also have restrictions on what to do with this money. as the mayor says, we have the obligations to the employees to pay out the health-care costs, and we have approved the restrictions on this money. 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

the budget. that would result as a general fund savings. i might also point out that you will see the same recommendation tomorrow in the district attorney's budget. it will be a total of $2,050,000 of direct general fund savings. i believe those are the highlights. together, our recommendation would result in $1,134,088 savings for the city general fund. supervisor chu: thank you very much. supervisor wiener: i just want to -- this is for the future -- i do not know if you want to give the city attorney more money because in the future, for better economic times, and of course, i did not have any personal experience of this, but i think that this is through the city attorney and even more so the d.a., that we do not have enough support staff. when i went from private sector to the city attorney's office, one of the biggest shocks for me was particularly the lack of paralegals. i know that the paralegals and support staff generally that i worked with in the city attorney's office -- they were superb, and they worked unbelievably hard because

as a result, the general fund cut is $2.8 million. we have increases in property taxes, and we recommend in the mayor's office. -- we support this recommendation for an increase in children's funding, for the dolls channels, and we have proposed a children's fund increase will be used to mitigate the cuts coming with child care, and the resource center. in terms of a five-year planning process, we're on a three-year planning cycle and the department is currently in the second year of the three year cycle. based on the controller's report, we have the moderate increase of the property taxes within the next five years. we are proposed to have those increases, for lack of a better word, they reserve so that we can hold those dollars, and put them through the rfp process. in the last process, we had significant less money so we had very few dollars to allocate for the community organization. we are proposing that if there are increases over the next few years, we will hold those dollars. this would culminate in the rflp process. and we are

the governor general has been to afghanistan. he was in britain during the royal wedding a short time ago. 21 gun salute. with the guard of honor. parliament hill, throne speech. ["o canada" playing] >> present arms! [guns fire once] >> and the commander of the guard of honor will invite the governor general for a quick inspection of the guard of honor. see the flag, you see it every once and awhile and you are wondering, what is that with all stripes? ♪ a fellow who had long campaigned for a different flag than the one we have. he has his flag, and it looks as part of the official declaration of parliament hill. it is not. it is one individual who has put his ideas forward as what he thinks should be the nation's flag. evan mentioned the governor general's love of hockey at a time of year when many canadians are fascinated by what is happening in two teams in canada. the canuks. i watched how that city is responding to that team. also in winnipeg with the rebirth of the nhl in winnipeg. evan mentioned his time in hockey. he was a

the general format, we tend to get everybody out of here by a 11:30. we will have the mayor give opening remarks. will have the budget director run through what the budget scenario will look like for the coming year, and the department heads will each say a few brief remarks. we will open up questions and answers at the very latest to you will have ample time to ask questions. if you don't have these cards to put down your questions, will do our very best to collect questions yet to respond back to you after the meeting. if i could ask the mayor to say a few words. >> thank you for being out here to join the supervisors and of the department heads. we also want to a knowledge a number of commissioners out here. i can't name every body, but they are out here. some of them live out here and are interested. the translation is being offered by the civic engagement of the city district office. % in we created with the board of supervisors to make sure everybody is heard to make sure that they are inviting everyone's voices to be heard as well. they're doing

we are one of the largest general fund organizations. one of the opportunities we have is the ability to create revenue. 2/3 of the $400 million we have we can create revenue to that account, leveraging those dollars. i know it to meet this target, which for the department is $69.6 million, we tried to look at revenues, and we have been able to come up with almost $56 million of revenue. so we are left with about a $13 million cut. we then drove down to all the general fund that we have that we do not leverage other dollars with, and those are just pure general fund. from that, we were able to cut $13 million in order to meet the budget. $4.3 million will be cut out of outpatient programs. the department over the last several years has had stakeholder meetings with all of our ceo's because part of -- with all of our cbo's because part of our service is to our community-based organizations. the cuts will be about $4 million to outpatient programs, and in the only non-matched general fund, there will be about 50% cut of their unmatched gene

$64,709 to the general fund. the total savings of $1,000,000.106 -- and we come to the total savings with the general fund. what the department was referring to in terms of the correction, the report is correct except on page 73, which does not change the bottom line at all. on page 73, where you see the recap, the general fund impact isshould be $543,623. the total would be $888,840. the non general fund would be $210,0000. the totals would be the same. so my citation of the original general fund savings are correct. supervisor chu: to be clear, from my understanding, the report shows savings in terms of total recommended reductions of 1,000,098 belt -- 1,000,098 $840. it should be $888,804. >> and that number on page 64 of our report is stated correctly, where i initially commented. supervisor chu: can use it to the number is again? >> of the recommended reductions, $888,840 our general fund. in addition, there's another $64,709 to close out general fund encumbrances bit of the total recommended savings would be

you are invited to the general strike and a garden party. and all veterans in support of the number one prisoner of war, dr. jeffrey macdonald that blew the whistle on the bush drug dealers, the same people that terminated the life of pat until then, for blowing the whistle on the heroin cartel. the same people that terminated the life of dr. jeffrey macdonald's pregnant wife and children 35 years ago. [chime] president chiu: thank you very much, sir. again, this is public comment that wish to support the appeals related to the hundred presidio avenue project. >> i live at 2735. i have owned and lived at the property since 2003. i would like to reiterate that my neighbors and the support of the rebuilding and even beat the building of additional housing. but we feel it should fit the neighborhood and here to the current zoning limits which i understand to be four stories at 28 units. one of the biggest ironies of this project, which point out that african-american families are leaving the city in record numbers. these are the very folks that

and i have the same kind of questions for staff, some of which we have heard already. generally, i want to say i find it difficult. for anybody that does not know, i think the budget is far more accessible to people. it is all of the narratives in the front. i do recommend to people that they read the whole narrative if they want to understand the budget. it is extremely helpful. but i think that the number pages are less -- we can still improve on them. let's put it that way. again, i would like to see the department of budgets tell me actually what we do. obviously, i understand this is transferred directly. we need to know how many fte's we are spending to each department. but that does not tell us or the public what they are doing with the money, and i think we need that. as well, i think we need the ability, maybe in selective ways, to compare the budget last year to the proposed budget for this year. we are spending a lot of time going like this. almost no one else is looking at the budget either online or in printed form with both books or in front of them were both budge