i want to thank ben rosenfeld for having the confidence in hiring me in the first place when he was assistantty administrator. want to thank naomi kelly for continuing my journey here and making me director. thank you for that opportunity. of course to you, thank you. yes, your questions were tough, but they are supposed to be. you are doing your job. i hope we treat you with respect, even though we may be angry about having to answer the questions you might ask. that's okay. [laughter] so keep it up. although, would you give me replacement, mr. endrico, a little honeymoon, a day or two, and then go ahead and grill him. thank you very much for this honor. this is just great for my heart. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, director updike. >> after this photo, let's bring him into the well, so we can take a big, group photo. >> supervisor kim, you're up next. >> supervisor kim: thank you, colleagues, members of the public and members. i want to bring up chan to the podium. it is really my honor today as an asian-american and as an attorney to honor chan, also known as ceci wang, here at the s

gentlemen, if you'd like to comment on items 5, 8, 9, 10, the items that you heard just presented by ben rosenfeld, come on up. you'll have two minutes. seeing no one, public comment is closed. supervisor yee? >>> can i make some comments on item 8? >>> yes. >>> i'd like to strongly urge us to move this forward. as you know -- and this is the item around the appropriation of expenditures for participatory budgeting. as you know, chair cohen, this affects your district also because you've been a strong advocate for this type of program, as well as i am. and ali really hope that in th future, that it would be more than the three of our districts doing the participatory budgeting. if enough of us were to actual ly implement the participatory budgeting projects or programs, it could relieve some of the work that we have to do in our own offices to individually manage all of those. good day for district 7. i just want to say that the $300 thousand that we allocated for these, for this project will be funding about 1500 projects throughout the district. and it's really pretty much spread out. and it's o

so, i think we are going to hear from the san francisco unified school district, ben rosenfeld. >> nt nty office ofucaton appropriatf item, so, this statutory required payment from the county to the county office of education, which of course for us is the same as our school district. apopriation before you on this item. majority of these appropriations that flow to st, larger and of interest, contained in the department of children youth and families budget which you'll see in june. >> yes tright.all ght. well, thank you very much for that brief description. appreciate that. right now we are going to go to public comment. any member of the public, come on up, two minutes. public comment is open. please. someone. come to the mic. >> start off with that first speaker from the transportation. i object to h statements about school traffic monitors, monitoring the crosswalk for kids. there was hundreds that applied jb opening a sev months ago, a i w p sonthat was passing outhe job announcements, advertise you pay $20 an hour for the work. you lead the people to believe they cane enogh mon

. >> supervisor cohen: ben rosenfeld, could you speak to the supervisor's concerns about timing in terms of -- >> it's very much a choice for the committee. we'll intend to complete our work by the end of september. how much time you then want to have to review that and other questions you have prior to releasing the reserve is really the choice of the committee. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: so after hearing supervisor yee, respectfully, chair cohen, i would like to resubmit my motion to have -- put -- release six months of the fund, but after that, put the rest of the money on reserve pending the audit -- pending the audit, thanks. cone ko>> supervisor cohen: a right. that's fine. so we will take a vote on the motion supervisor fewer has made, and we will take a roll call vote yu yu can you repeat the motion? >> supervisor fewer: yes. the motion is to release six months of the funding and put the rest in reserve pending the result and discussion of the audit. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: so i would just like to