the head of the department of public health, barbara garcia. from our neighborhood, a member of the department of emergency management. end of the blue uniform here, a well-known gentlemen, our police chief, greg suhr. good to see you. to my letter to your right is ken from our city administrator's office but also in uniform tonight is our fire chief, chief hayes-white.

i want to introduce barbara garcia. >> buenos dias, good morning. it is good to be here. phc would not work without each one of you. at want to give a shout out to our officials. stand up. you will see some of our core staff, the staff of mental health services and medical services, our medical directors who provide the structure for everyone to volunteer. i want to acknowledge them and give them a hand. we talked about resources and support. i want to a knowledge -- acknowledge penny, who is the steward of all our donations today for project, as connect. we want to acknowledge that. i just have a special announcement. the department has been working for 10 years with the social security administration to look at the issue of homeless individuals and schizophrenia. these are some of our most vulnerable population and they have a hard time trying to get into services and the kind of complications of trying to fill out all the forms and getting treatment. through the work we have collaboration with the social security administration. we are participating in a pilot for 200

i was with barbara garcia camauro amazing public health director with social security. it was such a transformative day to recognize we will qualify 200 homeless schizophrenic who are those people you see not been able to garner services. we're looking at doing some exciting things. our jails for 10 years have had a charter adult school. they have done amazing work. we are looking at bringing five keys to six straight and sunni deal. we need to have access to education. we have 18% high-school graduation rats ies in sunnydal. it want to have the housing authority be one of the best in the nation. we want to get vacant units rehabilitated. the mayor has been helping us. home depot foundation has said they might like to cwork with out. and we have va homeless housing. and we were the nubmer one -- number one rated application out of 440 in the nation. we're doing some great things in san francisco. there are a lot of ideas and a lot of different things. you might have ideas. peer to peer, listening to individuals who have been homeless is one of the most important things.

barbara garcia from the department of public health.

from the department of public health, barbara garcia and the cfo is here.tment of public works. recreation and parks, phil ginsburg. our police chief is at the police commission meeting. we have the deputy chief and also are station capt. here. from the mayor's office of housing, we have olson lee. we have our newly appointed city administrator. we also have the mayor's education policy adviser, who is also a member of the board of education. i do not think i missed anyone. i am. sorry. that is later. it's my honor to introduce rachel, the executive director of the vernal heights neighborhood center. she is an amazing community leader. we are grateful she's here. to introduce our budget director. we'll tell you more about the process tonight. thank you. >> [speaking spanish] thank you, supervisor campos. good evening, everyone. [speaking spanish] it's a pleasure to be here, not only because my organization serves more than just district 9, which is where we are, but we also serve district 8, 9, 10, 11. it is important that we see collaborative processes lik

the head of the department of public health, barbara garcia. from our neighborhood, a member of the department of emergency management. end of the blue uniform here,

barbara garcia from the department of public health. cindy from the budget office. naomi kelly, at par city administrator -- our city administrator. philip ginsburg, parks and representative. ed reiskin. maria, department of children, youth, and families. louise herera, the city librarian. mohammad nuru, dpw. phil arnold. capt. goldberg. you are from the human services agency? chief hayes white, who gone up from the fire department. karen roy from trout support services. please stand up. the rich in capt., eric vantero. so you have a sense of who we all are. if there is time after, please engage some of us. we will be around, if you want more in-depth conversation. certainly, if you would like meetings with any of us, feel free to contact our offices. we are definitely open to that. thank you. i want to introduce the moderator henry kelly at this time. henne kelly, i'm sorry. >> she is one of the most dynamic richmond activists, a longtime teacher, and acted with the seniors in the district. >> and i work with christine daily at senior action network. >> who knew? >

the head of the department of public health, barbara garcia.r neighborhood, a member of the department of emergency management. end of the blue uniform here, a well-known gentlemen, our police chief, greg suhr. good to see you. to my letter to your right is ken from our city administrator's office but also in uniform tonight is our fire chief, chief hayes-white. [applause] from the children's support services, we have karen. to her left is our mayors education adviser and a member of our school board, hydra mendoza. a man who is responsible for cleaning and repairing our streets and other public works in our city, the director of public works, mohammed nuru puerto rico director of rec and park department, philip ginsburg. [applause] from hr san francisco mta -- and from our mayor's office on housing, olson lee. in addition, i want to thank all of the volunteers who are here. i also want to think the mayor's office on a neighborhood services, disability. bud from media services. and sfgtv for helping to broadcast tonight's town hall. with that,

we met recently with barbara garcia. we are committed to being part of the safety net and working cooperatively. supervisor campos: thank you very much. why don't we open it up to public comment? this is an opportunity for anyone who would like to say anything to come up and speak on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. again, we want to thank director riley, ms. gibson, and commissioner maufas for calling this hearing. madam secretary, i wonder if you could call item three out of order. >> thank you. it is the hearing on transitional kindergarten, sponsored by you. supervisor campos: great. thank you. what happens at the kindergarten level is something that is very important to the success of any child. we wanted to hear from the school district and, as i understand it, we have chris from the school district but we also have the honor of seeing carlos, the associate superintendent for early education for the san for cisco unified school district. we welcome our associate superintendent. >> thank you. i have

doing a great job as our moderator and for the entire panel, i had the opportunity to work with barbara garcia for 16 years at the health department and heard her very compelling story about the response to loma prieta. so really happy that you were here and each and every one of you were able to provide very unique perspectives that began to give us the whole picture of what a full community response looks like. i'm sure you'll join me in giving a big hand to our panel. [applause] i don't know about you all but i think this was a wonderful opportunity to share ideas this morning, to see old friends, meet new friends and really continue this dialogue which is so important in our recovery. there will be more of this in the future. thank you all for coming and encourage you all to be prepared and to think about our response and our working together. thank you very much. have a great day. [applause] >> i get really concerned one ip -- hear people say the payroll tax is a job killer. maybe in some industries the payroll tax might be a disincentive on business going forward, but i would not be surp