things impact us a great deal, so we urge the passage of this resolution as a way to recognize and celebrate our history as a city and also to remind us that we as a city are committed to immigrant families so thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you very much mr. president. my name is christopher and i live at 6th and howard. i rise to comment on last week's climate report from the united nations. reporters and analyst characterized this report as or the consequences as horrible and horrendous. i think it's pacifying. within 50 years, billions of people will die prematurely if we don't fix this problem permanently within 20 years. the reality is that no solutions offered by any one else will do anything more than slow the rate of growth of carbon up load. they would never bring that rate of growth to zero much less deal with the over load we've already got. and they would need everyone to get a new house, a new car, and new power plant and new air planes. that's a lot of new stuff. it just won't happen. the reality is the most comfortable solution is more trees, all you need from more trees

really need our help as a government to get on their two feet and we might need the government assistance for the rest of their lives and in looking at how we provide that as a city and what are the costs involved and what types of services are we providing and the out comes that we are getting as a result. and about 50 percent of the budget towards homelessness is on supportive housing here in the city about 81 million dollars out of our budget. and one of the great things that i believe, came out of it and the number one goal out of our ten year plan. was to build 3,000 new supportive unit and believe it or not we actually achieve it or we will achieve it shortly and the final ones are in the pipeline, it is a goal and something that we have been able to meet and i want to be sure that we will continue to have a dialogue whether that is the most effective, strategy going forward and i will stay it as a preview, everyone that i talked to think that is the most effective way to go longer term, we are going to hear from a

members of the public that came out and i think that this is definitely something that i'm glad as a city we're really talking about and mentioned the larger context this is happening and the issue of inequality is something i have been talking about for some time and as noted we have the second highest inequality in any major city in the country and our's is growing at a faster rate than anywhere ems and recently the "new york times" talked how we surpassed other cities in terms of inequality and it's hard to imagine in a city that has as much wealth as san francisco has that we have so people going hungry everyday so i think that the work that people are doing is really important work that goes to the core of who we are as a city, and hopefully not only by 2020 but hopefully before whatever you say about san francisco you can say there is no hunger in san francisco and i will turn it over to supervisor mar and thank you for the leadership. >> again i appreciate all of the recommendations and everything from everyone and i want to repeat the comment we're one of the wealthiest cities in

to get home it's not only workers but patrons it's a significant challenge that we have not only as a city and region i we need more and better and more reliable late night transportation service. you know, ultimately in terms of affordability that is where we need to go. and i was heart end e he lived

again, about a quarter of our budget operating budget comes from the general fund. so as the city's economy does well and the city does well it's a direct impact to us. similarly some of the state revenues that we get particularly from the state gas tax have been sending higher than projected revenues to us which have been helpful. other big factor we mentioned is a labor contracts. the way the charter time lines work. we will still be in the process of negotiating those by the time we are required to send our budget to you on may first. this is how it works every 2 years. this is the way the charter is set up. we may know more when we are here on may 15th. but by the time the mta board acts, the labor negotiations will still be unknown so when we come back we'll have to make some adjustments based on the outcomes of those negotiations. then the big factor on the capital side we talked about which you are concerned with are the revenue measures that the mayor called for in the city's speech this year. in terms of the capital budget, we developed a 5-year cip every year from which co

it doesn't mean that in 20 years from now or 15 years from now, we as a city decide we should improve this housing and utilize it to a higher level. but for now, this is a rehab. there is no intention for displacing anyone. and no issue of one for one replacement. all the units will be replaced. it does allow for minimal loss of units to create community rooms and property management space and things like that. but it's primarily a rehab program. >> mr. lee, can i ask a question about the units or the properties that we know we have to completely rehab, like west side cords or holly cords, they are not necessarily included in this rad program. >> they are absolutely included, we will rehab them. >> we are not going to demolish them at all sign? >> this program is a rehab program. it doesn't mean in the future -- >> mr. washington, please, i am trying to conduct a hearing, if you need to have a conversation, if you can take it outside, thank you. >> this is a rehab program, and what it will do, it will provide for permanent affordable housing as it is rehabbed. if people in the future

general thinking to make sure you don't go crazy on future projections or how else can we plan on it as a city. because you never plan for a dip in a recession, but as time goes on, chances are it is going to happen and we want to make sure that we have a reserve for this. how do we truly implement thinking about this? >> it's a big question so i will offer some of my own thoughts on it. it speaks to i think how to city wants to position it's overall balance sheet and financials looking ahead. the city and mayor and the board have done a good job in this period of recovery of doing so. so we've adopted as a city a number of measures that improve our ability to take a longer view of our finances that is 5-year financial plan forecasting emphasizing the adoption of 2-year budgets. the city's reserve position is improving and having adequate reserves that you enter into recession helps buffer reductions and public services and speaks to spending plans, one time uses of funds that are easier to pull back when booms bust. things like capital allocations for city infrastructure or affordable housing

and the stop signs and even the paint on the street, what we have not done on what we needed to do as a city to keep it in a state of good repair. and that backlog of maintenance and repair needs starts to manifest itself in terms of safety and in terms of performance and in terms of comfort and convenience and in terms of how we get around the city and that is just thinking about for us who are here today but as we know we have more people who are moving to the city and we have buildings, flying up all over the downtown and in front of our neighborhoods and we need to figure out how to accommodate the folks that are here as well as the folks that are coming. so, starting with the streets, which is a popular topic and something that i got to spend a lot of time with when i was at dpw and i think that you all know and because you experience it every day and for those of you who are sometimes on a bike and you experience it much more directly and first hand and that half of the streets are in need of repair and repaving and it is not just inconvenience, it costs. in terms of having poor qualit

as a city government we've not responded. i've talked about this and talked about this with the mayor's office of housing to we're not doing enough to look at the house in the southeast part of san francisco we don't have a program to help people stay in hair homes and help underwater homes and people in foreclosure. we talk about the immigration of african-americans in san francisco but we have not implemented a strong program to address that. the local mroshth reduction can help to support of the african-americans and help to stop the immigration and in bayview hunters point and in the excelsior district we have many, many african-american households that are desperately trying to cling on to what property weight they have and i think we owe it to them to not negligent them but people will be able to keep up with their mortgages. richard has an answer through the mortgage principle reduction program they want to focus on there water mortgages. richard agreed to buy those loans and refinance them at the current interest rate

a shield of metal. as you well know, we've been doing a lot of work in this area, not just the mta but working across the city family, public health department, public works, transportation authority and others. i think a really good point to start moving the dial on this to work towards achieving the mayor's goals as issued in his pedestrian strategy and then further the vision zero goals was adopted by my board and your board. we found through this very rigorous analysis process is that 60 percent of the severe and fatal injuries are happening on 6 percent of our streets which is a good thing in a way because it allows us to really target our resources, or education, anything we want to do in a very small portion of the city to yield significant results. the contributors and main factors contributing to those fatal incidents are speed and failure to yield and left turns. so many are directly addressing that. >>supervisor london breed: mr. riskin? i wanted to ask you a question because we installed cameras at octavia and market as well as octavia and oak. >> i'm not sure if we did at octavia and oak. we did

i have one case that i think illustrates several opportunities for us to be way more accountable as a city and help victims and their families. so i received contact with a victim of domestic violence through a supervisor's office last summer. i sat through the trial with this survivor, and she was quite assertive. she knew her lost wages and costs were. when we talk about housing, the screen door was torn off. and the windows broken. and she had to of course, as you imagine in this housing market, she had to repair her housing right away. that's all out of pocket. she was in some ways a model case to move forward towards restitution. i think everybody along the way did everything they could to help. her supervisor tried to help. the d.a. handled the case well, and restitution was set, which we have heard was not in a lot of cases. but the offenders assets were not investigate and put on a low payment plan. and this new program could look into hidden assets of offenders. not everyone has them but some do. and make the victims whole of those assets. you can imagine if you were granted say $

so it is possible. >> okay, that's something we would establish under this program as a city. >> yeah. pretty much you figure how you go with that. >> i know there is a commitment of $180 million potential dollars of renovation from the federal government under this new rad program. that's not familiar? so that's something that olsonvilolson will have to explain. >> yeah, the majority of the dhs will come from leverage, we are not providing additional capital fund for renovation. >> you will continue to provide the same dollar amount? >> what you will get, the dollars convert from a grant that you get from capital and operating funds. they will convert to project-based rental assistance. they end up being equivalent, because you have that long-term contract you can leverage debt. that you wouldn't with a bank, i am not going to lend because i don't know how much money you will get next year. this stabilizes that. >> the last question is residents of public housing and the ability for them to get gainfully employed. can someone silence their cell phone, please? in past instances with p

established the tremendous need in our city, and not just city wide but each district as well and provided with high priority recommendations that we as a city can achieve with our strong actions and support, and at the end of the hearing, this hearing which is the second part from november's hearing or actually the end of last time we introduced a resolution pass by the board of supervisors that committed our entire city to ensure that all san franciscans are food secure by 2020 and we asked for solutions to improve food security from city departments and many are here today and our food security task force and many of the recommendations and findings will be presented today. i wanted to thank the five cosponsors, the six of us but also the food security task force and the tenderloin task force members here today. the community living campaign, adult and aging services, children youth and family, episcopal services of san francisco, glide foundation, meals on wheels of san francisco, protect open hand, salvation army, public health rltion san francisco human service agency, san francisco and marin food banks. sf environment, st. anthon

as a city we have to look at things maybe a little different lens at times. some your comment about this is all state and federal funded going forward starting in theory with july 1, i mean is it the case that not only the positions you are looking to fill to meet demand, i guess the argument would be it's better to have state dollars fill it than general fund dollars, but no. 2 the future if you don't pull down from the state when they literally offer it to you, is it your experience in the past that that hampers future allocations? i absolutely understand both sides of the argument about it's all taxpayer dollars and it all affects us and it does but i think sometimes as a city we have to make choices. it's like the central subway money, some people would say that's a lot of money but if you are going to pull 80 percent of the money from federal sources it's not like if we didn't pull it, the federal government would give the money back to the taxpayers, they would spend it and give it to another city. we're not going to put it back in people's pockets, it'

as affordable and accessible for young and old. we don't believe that making youth and seniors pay more that $264 a year for transit as the city is in an affordability crisis. this will help the resources around our city. it won't be a freehand out. it will be a hand up and it will be an investment for our youth and old and disabled and future and it will be in your power to bring affordable socially accessible transportation to them. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> joe chriswa of new district 8. as i testified at the ta committee meeting that i just want to echo what everyone else has been saying. that i support free muni for seniors and people with disabilities and youth up to 19 years of age. i think what needs to be echoed is what the other speakers said that it needs to be in the about you -- budget now. that's an important step to getting this commitment from supervisors and this committee. i only hope that we have an aids crisis, transportation crisis, housing crisis, displacement crisis and we have a government in crisis. we need to alleviate some of the stress that is being put on everyday citize

what we are having as a city talking about the taxing industry and these shuttles have come about because the people that live and work in san francisco. only 20 percent of them leave our city limits because there wasn't enough transportation options for them. if we had more public transportation options they would be taking them. from my perspective the public sector and we have to do a lot more investment here in our city, when it doesn't meet the demands of our residents innovation happens around them. we need regulate in the right way and we need to embrace it to make sure how it has a positive effect in our daily lives and how to enable what they want to work to do in our neighborhoods. to me it's critically important and contrary to where this dialogue is going on this discussion. you know, from my perspective this pilot program is doing more to collect more data and design for the long-term in san francisco. i appreciate the arguments on the other side. we talked a lot about it and we are going to have further votes tonight and in law legislation about housing. but to attack this p

today, to look at the cost benefits and the effectiveness of homeless programs in san francisco as a city. and so the cost per shelter bed, for all of our shelters, the average cost per bed, night is $29, or an average of $10,585 per year. so, then the next door shelter, which is the larger shelter, and it is 24 a night or $8760. the sanctuary *, $32 a night, $11680 and msc south, $29, $10,585 a year. but, if you take the family shelters, all of them which includes the emergency, and all is three. and the average cost per bed is $31 or $11,315 a year. >> could i ask you, has that stayed relatively constant? >> it has. we are just we are just releasing it for the single adult in the families and they have two left and it has been constant over the last four or five years. >> thank you. >> not that, and inflation has not gone up or the cost of food and electricity and in the shelter, but that will have to deal with as we negotiate the contract. >> understood. >> understood. >> let's look at the cost of if you compare the two of housing. >> we are talking about supportive housing? >> the sup

we have not paid attention to that adequately as a city. so, how can we move forward with a program not protecting tenants and very vulnerable homeowners who have actually tried -- had their houses for generations and now are at the cusp of leaving san francisco. we talk about african-american outmigration. there are many african-american household that are in this situation, left san francisco, on the verge of leaving san francisco. if we have some part of our housing program that addresses that issue, we are doing something positive. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. supervisor mar. >> thank you. i wanted to acknowledge the grassroots and housing justice groups that have been with us today. also thank jeff hadachi, our public defender, sheriff mirkarimi, dean [speaker not understood] from usf and many others that have testified. i think the legal service organizationses and the community-based counseling organizations ~ really identify the critical need and the budget analyst report that supervisor campos called for is going to

ride shares and you know, i don't know if you see it as a big deal or big issue, but a lot of people i work with and a lot of people around the city do. as a rookie driver, i feel it's unfair that a lot of the veterans have been waiting for medallion. but yet now people can come and download software and become driver's on the streets of san francisco. the people i work with have been waiting for 20 years to be able to own a car and be and go out and be a taxi and not have to pay a company, be their own boss. but these software companies, there is three big ones that create software where anybody can become a driver and drive anywhere on the streets. i think it's unfair and maybe there can be some regulations or you could maybe ask sf mta to give some medallions away. they give us medallions that go out to a number of shifts. i don't know how long uber or lift drivers if they can drive more. i don't know. maybe you know. i don't think it's fair that people who have been donating their time to this city like years of their life to be a taxi driver still waiting to get medallions. as a rookie, i know 20 years from now in san francis

we've worked to approve 0 responsible and thought fulfill plan that will meet the needs of this area as a citywhole. the future plan we at the board of supervisors approved hours for 20 thousand residents and new and upgraded roads including ferry terminal and extend bus services. this will expand the number of resident who will go live here. there's a planned transportation hub that is 15 percent walk and getting around and spending time here about will be different like with bused and ferries and so on. we're proud that the treasure island will be for the city and beyond a great benefit. with our many partners claiming the treasure island authority and the 0 deprivation and the workforce development have come together it's because of this collaborative effort we're on schedule to make our target will construction date of summer of 2015. i thank you all especially eric and other for their leadership in getting the job done and done well, with sensitivity to the community. those west rams will provide access and improvements and act as a bridge across the bay. we also create jobs. i am proud t

is strong and on that shore listening to the stories from the vietnam ins what we can do better as a city started a path the community action plan for seismic safety that panicking has been heading up and helping me to have that citywide confidence we needed to do on our soft story buildings we're confident that will help save lives and properties. that's not all we did we want to make sure our city is safer and in addition, we started a lifelines council one of the first in the country we'll dial and have meetings with our utility providers that lifeline has been critical because of their silos they have their approach to disaster that was never contemplated with our fire and police and public utils

behavior of walkers and drivers being pilot enforcement is 0 important i'm looking forward to how we as a city can work together to move forward sooner rather than later. thank you >> thank you, commissioner. i think your points are well-taken. i know that the transportation authority is putting together a potential budgetary position so we're able to inform our neighborhoods for improvement projects that are going in on their block as you he mentioned getting the proper feedback and input but explaining how they're to make our neighborhoods safer and to commander ali i thank you for your work. yesterday, i saw a young mother she was excited because several of her friends got tickets she is excited and she has been close to getting hit several times and happy that her friends are getting tickets >> supervisor mar. i want to acknowledge the progress we've made at the beginning of the year after sophie's killing on polk and alice on new years eve and i wanted to ask the committee to look at mayors work in new york city and other major cities facing similar issues. we've moved from the look twice