i love this city and bike to work day is like christmas for all of us. the sfmta is at the forefront of providing support for this event. a lot of the speakers have mentioned the green by claims, improvements, park lit, thing that make our city more livable. so i want to thank the staff of the mta. i see a lot of you out there now. just to hear the support from the board of supervisors and know that the board of supervisors and mta is on the same page. the sustainable streets group, you are doing such great work, and i am proud to support it. the chairman of our board is here. he rode in with mayor lee. i rode in with supervisor wiener's group, from the castro. i want to mention the fact that there was a 58% increase in the city in the last four years. that is an impressive number, but even more when you put it in context. could we have handled a 58% increase for muni writers? 58% increase in car traffic during rush hour? no one would be going anywhere. this is a lesson to us. we have an ambitious goal. 20% of trips are bike trips by 2020. we can do it. i

that is really motivated by total coordination from all the city departments. commissioner lee: thank you. commissioners, any other questions? commissioner walker: great. commissioner lee: thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment? item three. the next item on the agenda, item four, public comment. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm a 30-year resident of san francisco. i would like to read a prepared statement. with the one interruption. i would like to begin by thanking president hechanova for stopping by the department, meeting some of the staff, and i've had the distinct pleasure of seeing commissioner walker and commissioner murphy. i first came before you two months ago and made two increase. one regarding an additional deputy director and how a additional deputy director was created. the other inquiry was a request to know have no homhow many directives have been issued. i appeared one month ago to hear the result of those inquiries. nothing had been done. i used to the director of malfeasance for failure to provide written directive to sta

what i've said to the departments, that i want a budget that reflects a safe city, safe in that all ofhe residents here can feel that they live and they work in a very, very good city that's safe for them and their families, that's the public safety sense, but also safe in the sense that we have a core level of services that we provide that are helpful to people in need. and that core level of the social network of services that we can provide will also produce a very safe community in san francisco. i also want a budget that reflects that our city is solvent, that we have programs that we can pay for, and that will mean -- i've said this in every town hall meeting -- i'm working so hard with all of our departments and the labor unions to make sure that we have a pension partnership for public employees that is solvent in and of itself that does not cut into the general fund of our city as does it now, to the tune of over $125 million. we have to straighten out our pension system so that it doesn't hurts. we can do that without hurting our labor unions interests, and also without hurti

i have to tell you this is the first place in my life for all the different parts of the city, the colleges everybody comes together, the school district, and we all think about what will be best for our children. and that is what makes -- you know, talk about having a great san francisco promise. this is a place where we walk the talk and make the new priority. i want to thank everyone who is here. it is not just the school district. mayor, i cannot thank you enough. and go, giants. thank you. >> thank you, carlos. part of the work we have been doing in the mayor's office is focused around public safety issues. without our committee response network, many of them are here with us this afternoon. they pushed us as well. bill and alan nance were instrumental. that acknowledges how important public safety is in our office. he has come through, talking about what we need to do for our youth. i would like to bring a poll henderson. -- paul henderson. [applause] >> come on. you can clap louder than that. i am going to get warmed up here. this is fully warmed already talking about public safety,

he is the executive director of liveable cities, whose major nonprofit partner. lastly, i want to find all the partners from our city sister agency -- agencies. and last of all but not least, the sfmta staff for getting this program together. i want to thank every one of them for their contribution. so we will see you this sunday, and looking forward to biking, walking, and if you can make it, get there by transit. [applause] >> this concludes the press conference, but i did want to invite you -- we have the president of the north beach merchants. >> welcome to "culture wire." on this episode, we explore what it means to the aged, in today's society -- what it means to be chicana in today's society. chica chic features an array of artwork by five leading chicana artists that addresses a range of issues such as integration, sustainability, and integration. using a distinct visual approach, each of the artist's response to the shifting needs of their communities in ways that offer unique perspectives and multiple points of entry. >> the exhibition is to bring together the voices of a new gen

all of the different languages, we are changing rapidly in the city. we're going to get all of our vulnerable communities ready. i know everyone here is ready. i want to make sure that we dedicate this year to the survivors of japan. we are more ready ourselves as a city. i feel extremely confident we can survive anything that happens. all of you are here so early this morning with us. thank you very much. it is wonderful to be out here commemorating this with you. >> let's have a nice hand for the mayor. [applause] i would like to welcome our chiefs to hang the wreath. come on up here, donna. it is good to see you. i am not sure how we hang this. all right. it is like how many people you can fit in a phone booth. this is interesting. wow. i am counting on you. i am falling here. joanne has done this a few times before. there we go. perfect. nice going. can you dunk? [laughter] [applause] i have not met you. jeff would like to say a few words. >> it is my pleasure to be here. the mayor said he needed a tall guy hang the wreath. that is why i am here. >>

the capacity of our city and a strong evidence of all of our abilities -- the capacity of our city and its ability to thrive depends on all of our abilities -- excuse me. thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> i am the director of the filipino community center. i'm here today to express appreciation for the funding we did receive through the block grant program, particularly our work in the excelsior neighborhood, serving over 15,000 filipinos, documented and undocumented. in the last year, we have seen a huge increase in the number of people who need our services. being able to come to a place that is centrally located in the community with a lit where we have been able to put people to work, help people find housing, address their needs around immigration and domestic violence, and this is because of our ability to provide culturally competent and neighborhood-based services. we know this is a difficult time and have had to readjust our programs and focus on the core strategies that are most in need in our community. while we have in the past incre

city. by 2020, we want to have 20% of all trips throughout the city on our bicycles. in order to do this, we need to imagine. we need to imagine a bicycle network from the bay to the bridge, from the east to the west, from the north to the south. we have to imagine separated bicycle lanes, finally getting bicycle parking for all of us, finally having bicycle signals. we have to imagine sake of conditions for our 8-year-old's and 80's -- 80-year-old's to go to work. i want to thank my two great tour guides. we had a great contingent from the richmond this morning. it was great to see ed lee on a bicycle or 7:15 in the morning. why do seven out of 10 san franciscans get on a bicycle each year? we're going to improve that every year. it makes us a healthier and stronger and more vibrant city. the richmond district has not only great businesses like pete from green apple, which just installed the great crowd, but we hope to see many more of those all around the city, and i really will be working with the mayor and my colleagues on the board of supervisors to insure that t

city. that is why i get some great advice. i want to welcome you all to city hall, but also to invite you to participate in government at every level that you could possibly have. i see a around here the future of san francisco. the kids here, and for celebrating with us this wonderful occasion. one day you'll be the future of san francisco, and i want to celebrate with you right now. you are looking at somebody who did not get this job in the very traditional way. it took supervisors with a bold vision to say that they could select somebody who had been working here for 21 years, who had helped them, in so many ways help our city, established a diversity, so i'm here as if women of this board, and i always will work with this board very closely to make sure we continue opening up the doors of diversity and make sure our government is run well and that we make good decisions that reflect upon the opportunity to get our kids involved and make sure they are successful and that you as families here are successful. i understand the play of immigrant famili

i mean, it is one block, but it should be all over the city, all over this community. we deserve the same things that other people get in the city as taxpayers, thank you so much, and thanks for coming out. thank you. [applause] >> all right. to close, we are going to grab some shovels. i have invited the mayor and ed and everybody to join us in bringing the shovels over here. we are going to break ground over here in front of the tractors.

we held four community budget meetings all across the city this year. we actually did some things a little differently this year. rather than just present our budget and respond to questions and respond to frustrations, we have more of a facilitated budget meeting in which we gave a short overview of where we are, and we had more of a facilitated conversation, and we broke the participants up basically into two groups, and they got to choose which group they wanted to be in. one group focused on what programs and services are most important to you to protect from budget cuts as some guiding influence for us, and another group answered questions what ideas do you have or brainstorms about ideas that they had to help solve for the reduced support from the city's general fund, which is really our fundamental budget challenge. staff took notes as members of the community brainstormed ideas, and at the end of the meeting, every attendee was asked to vote for three ideas that he or she liked best, and responses were pretty illuminating. in short access to our

we're very proud of this city, because it is so great at all the cultural institutions, so wonderful its support for its education. we want the city to continue being successful, so-so as the board of supervisors works together to maintain wonderful jobs, jobs like the twitter company will over or zenga, all the other wonderful companies locating here, or traditional jobs like wells fargo, all the established companies have been here for many years doing wonderful things with us, when they have job openings, that we allow those jobs to make sure that san francisco residents get them first. that's why i've been such a powerful supporter of local hire to make sure that we have chances at all these jobs for our kids, for our relative people who made the sacrifice to be here. so safe city, a solvent city, a successful city is the instructions i've given to the departments. they're doing their very, very best, whether it's the recreation department, the budget department working hard with me, or our social services, all of the other departments represented here, they're doing their very,

the city itself has been involved and we start to talk about this all lot and a continuing issue about our streets, we don't provide enough money in the annual budget for ongoing maintenance. as a bit of an excuse, that we have to spend more money on maintaining our aging fleet, why have we not budgeted for that in the past? that is capital planning that we should not be surprised in any given year. >> just one of my observations in time with the overtime budget over the years in muni and in the city, at times, there has been a reluctance to accurately reflect a true overtime budget in certain departments. in other words, kind of two questions. setting an appropriate overtime budget for a department and secondly, managing over time compared to actual. i know that muni is over their overtime budget by 50%, which is what we're talking about in transit, but muni has been over its overtime budget for several years. at some point, they need to accurately reflect a reasonable expectation for an overtime budget. looking at the underlying trend, the change is less dramatic. this shows you the

concessions, and if voters don't approve an 80-cent personal tax, drastic changes will be coming to all city departments. >> under the first scenario, we would be closing fire stations and libraries and major programs within the city. we would stop trimming trees, the to a large extent. there would be so many things that we wouldn't be able to do. >> talking at a town hall meeting saturday morning, mayor jean kwan discussed three possible scenarios to shore up the budget shortfall. she said her plan would share the pain among the city's employees and residents. because she's left with few options. >> over the last five years of cuts, we've cut about a fifth of the city budget. most employees have given back ten%. we've really sort of run out of reserves. run out of buildings to sell. >> reporter: kwan did say that public safety is a first priority. she hopes to bring back 20 police officers this year, by rehiring those that were let go. the same time, save about $40 million, she could close the police academy. none of it is sitting well for residents. >> the primary reason i'm here is i know

as we go forward with the legislation, i look forward to getting to work with all city departments so that we can collectively address this crisis. finally, i want to give a special thank you to so many of the advocates who have been working on these issues for so long. the progress of workers alliance -- without the progress of workers alliance and especially the work of the chinese progressive association and young workers united, we simply would not be here today. pwa has been working tirelessly on this issue and making great strides to bring the often invisible issued to the forefront, so i want to thank you for your advocacy. before we move on with presentations, i want to turn it over to supervisor mar, though, again, has been a leader on this issue for quite some time. supervisor mar: thank you so much for really bringing together a tremendous coalition. many of you were out there with us with hundreds of people, a rainbow see of activists and families and workers rights advocates and organizers that have been calling attention to an urgency of thousands of people, workers in o

the city would remove all of this current batch is pushed up against houses like this one. the homeowners have signed an agreement allowing the city to do that work. those residents say they make one big change to the agreement. holder said it once and poppel to complete the temporary fix but also to find an address what is causing this devastating landslide. in the agreement san o'clock low propose the city would not be held responsible for anything beyond this interim fix. the estimated cost of permanently fixing at around $5 million. back now live, there are seven homes affected by the landslide. your house is red tagged you haven't lived here for over a month. of what is your reaction to this? >> we were hoping the city would go forth and do what they actually proposed it would do. the changes that were made it were changes that were anything of that nature. they're waving liability on the interim fix. we just move on and we hope that to our state or insurance company will kick in and get it fixed that way. we do thank-you season of sharing for allowing us and giving us

a city that respected all different cultures and ways of life. a city where you could talk to people without being offended by what people brought up. the city understanding diversity, celebrating everything that we were doing in this city. if this is going down the street in a dedicated, green lane, with huge conventions going into town, with people who can speak german and japanese, to find their way into your neighborhood with japan town -- and these great restaurants. a city with great nightclubs, the bring over a million people here on a daily basis, to find their way for jobs and all the other things. this is a successful city. the diversity and the strong neighborhoods in the different languages, things that we love about the city. those principles, of the same city and a successful city, that is what i wanted. now we have a difficult decision, how do we bridge the gap of the budget, and how do we make certain that this decision does not hurt people more, and maintain the level of services that they want and keeps you excited about the city

all in all i think you should support restoration and preservation in the city. 's vittal tour sense of community. it is title to us economically. not all of the benefits can be measured in terms of the tangible developers look at. i hope you give support to the historic preservation commission and would further thrike add to protests that it was not given more time to refute thing that's have been said here today. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. i just want to -- since you're the second person who raised that, we had i think three historic preservation commissioners testify and they all received more time than they would have as regular members of the public. so combined they received as much time for any of the departments except for planning. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. yes, i am going to be speaking for treasure island but i'm a native san franciscoan. and i just heard all of this been waiting here three hours. i couldn't help but get into this different subject. garages. one of the most attractive and interesting aspect of the city

critical infrastructures, like overpasses, bridges, tunnels we have in the city, staircases that we do not pay attention to. all of that is included, along with ada compliance on our curb ramps. that is important to me in the city that we keep up that standard, making her that our streets are up to standard. this is much more for -- much more than just for people who drive cars. it will make for more timely bus schedules. will also allow pedestrians to have safer route. it will also allow, of course, a big benefit for our aggressively growing bicycle community in san francisco, which i have had the pleasure of joining in last week's bike to work day. so i want to ask that the board of supervisors today consider it. i am asking for as much support as possible, from henry member of the board of supervisors, as well as from the public. the public has talk to me about this before and we know we are going to do this right. by november, we will have put forth things that suggest we have taken care of our but mitchell house. -- our financial house. >> thank you, mr. mayor. we would welcome the opportunity to have user