team in particular, kate howard, the mayor's budget director and her entire staff and certainly ben rosenfield our controller who played such an integral role in our budget process, we wouldn'tible able to get this done. [speaker not understood] our work began in march as always, and met with departments, each of the members of the board of supervisors i know had copies locally in their own districts with mayor lee. we held an online town hall with members of the public. that went well, including our full day of public comment that we had here at the board of supervisors. and this year what we did for the first time is actually invited online public comment throughout our budget process, through our website at the board of supervisors. there are so many people to thank behind the scenes. first of all, on past of the entire board of supervisors to harvey rose and the entire budget and legislative analyst staff, thank you for all your hard work again this year. to our clerk's office, certainly our committee clerk linda wong and victor young who -- for his continued help to fill in john [speaker

of the stick like we had over past budget years. ~ shoder end i wanted to thank kate howard, ben rosenfield, and harvey rose and his staff from the budget and analyst office, special thanks to terry and the food security task force for really putting together a really thought out budget proposal. we didn't get everything we wanted, but it's a significant amount of money. the mayor -- the mayor contributed a lot, but then with the advocacy of the food security task force an additional 2 million to the 1 million that was added so that children and seniors don't go to bed hungry and that it's helping to deal with the hunger crisis that we're trying to severely end by 2020. i wanted to also say that i believe this budget is equitable because we helped to give even more support to our critical safety net in the city. and i would agree with supervisor campos and cohen as well that the one bit of unfinished business is to ensure that our hard working nonprofit community-based workers get a fair share so the cost of doing business is a critical measure na supervisor campos has taken a lead on. ~ th

. ~ monies >> supervisors, ben rosenfield controller. if it's somewhat helpful, and it may not be, just briefly a bit about how the city budget positionses and how budget money for position. >> just for clarity, these are for positionses that already exist, are funded by a federal grant, and there is no need to rehire anyone unless there is additional positions added, maybe during different process. >> right, but we have to get new positions added in order to continue that. in other words, these are grant funded only positions so they expire at the end of the grant. so, these are new portions. ordinarily they would be funded by adding money to our budget in the way that you indicated. ~ position >> so, they have to go through a hiring process. >> yes. but we -- it's our intention to continue the program with the same individuals who are in the program now. however, the mayor's office chose to fund it rather than putting the money in our budget for those positions. instead, added or subtracted from our attrition, which i suspect is what t

division and the office of contract administration, and today we met -- i joined them meeting with ben rosenfield and naomi kelly to take a look at ways to increase and improve local purchasing with small businesses. and i do know that there is -- i think supervisor david chiu is looking at doing some revisions to the 14 b ordinance and also the mayor and naomi kelly reported back a couple months ago, have done -- have conducted some outreach workshops to lbes to get their recommendations on ways of which to improve and make it easier for lbes, sbes to do business with the city. the formula retail, so, the planning heard both of the items at the thursday, july 17th meeting. the planning commission is going to continue to support the planning department's recommendations around the number of entities that will trigger formula retail. and at this point i think there will be two kind of parallel pieces of legislation for the board of supervisors, then, to finally bring together. the planning department formally introduced their ordinance last week and, so, technically this should come back before th

good afternoon, supervisor, ben rosenfield, controller. we have distributed our first draft on the measure. this is a complicated measure and in a lot of ways, we'll continue to revise our analysis as we work through the process. we find that the charter measure as proposed will likely increase the cost to government. but there is a number of caveats to that analysis. really it affects costs in two direct ways and then a third way that is more difficult to determine. the first two -- the first relates to retiree vesting for the group of employees in question here as we understand you rifes arrives at the number of 35-40 employees. if the city were to hire these employees absented the charter measure, that restrict the way that the vesting -- the vesting in retiree health benefits works versus the rules that existed for the day before. this measure would -- for those employees hired today would determine that they are subject to the former vesting rules. that generally speaking are more generous than those now in place for new employees hir

ben franklin parkway. the fireworks lighting up the skies in center city right now. >>> good evening, on this independence day. happy fourth of july to you. i'm jacqueline london. >> i'm jim rosenfield. this is a look at the huge crowds that filled the ben franklin parkway for hours tonight. people in philadelphia celebrating america's 238th birthday in grand style. >> nbc 10's nefertiti jacuez joins us live. nefertiti, the fireworks just sta started. >> reporter: happy fourth of july. i'm not sure you can hear me. there goes the big spectacular show folks have been waiting for. folks have been so excited throughout the day for what you're seeing right now. some folks have been here since early this morning. hundreds of thousands of people packed the parkway for the big fourth of july celebration. >> i think it's amazing that this many people show up. >> best fourth of july ever. >> busy and patriotic. >> reporter: many people showed off their patriotic pride wearing red, white and blue. >> it's nice to have, you know, the shows for free for the holidays. it's a great time. >> reporter: billed as the largest free concert in america, this festival was all about celebrating freedom an