i believe ben rosenfield's going to be presenting on this. with you heard this two weeks ago at the may 30, presentation. all right, ben, you're up. next after ben, we'll hear from the civil service commission, michael brown. >> you are correct, madam chair, the -- what the appropriation that's noticed here today is a small appropriation that's required under state law to fund the county office of education, which is a small piece of the school district. it's just a small statutory allocation. the majority of the funding that we allocate to the school district flows through dcyf on the way to the school district. i think they'll be presenting later this week, and if you have questions regarding school district funding, that's probably the best place to speak to it. >> supervisor cohen: all right. thank you. does that conclude your presentation? all right. appreciate it. colleagues, are there any questions for mr. rosenfield? if not, we'll keep moving on. ben, i just wanted you to know that presentation was about 30 seconds. yo going to get a g

ben rosenfield, supervisor's office. the charter requires our avenues each year prepare what we call the revenue letter. we issued it last week. you have copies in front of you, and i'll briefly run through some of our findings in this document. generally speaking we're reviewing and talking through the revenue assumptions that are in the budget. we're commenting on various other code requirements such as whether baseline requirements that have been approved by the voters have been met. there's a lot of information in the report. i'm happy to talk about any of it here today, but i thought i would hit some highlights given that you have a full day. at a high level, we work closely with the mayor's budget office on preparation of the revenue assumptions in the budget. generally speaking, they're consistent with our projections of continued economic growth here in the city and the country, but of slowi so you'll see that as i talk through the tax revenue assumptions. mostfoart, they're contined growth but with -- at a slowe

first, ben rosenfield. i also want to thank and acknowledge harvey rose. it has been a pleasure with the board of supervisors to working with him. and lastly, and i want to say most importantly, i want to thank my entire budget team. they're all sitting over here, and to keller kirkpatrick, our acting budget director, can we give her a round of plauz? [applause] >> and i want to acknowledge my chief of staff, jason elliott, jason, thank you for everything. [applause] >> so before i dive into the specifics of the budget, i do want to acknowledge where we have been over the past seven months. i think we all remember where we were when we heard about mayor lee's passing and the shock that it felt. no one could have possibly anticipated that our mayor would have been taken from us in december, taken from the city that he loved. we all have endured a lot since that fateful night. many of us have cried, many of us have mourned, but we have come together as a city. we have definitely had our disagreements and debates over the past seven months, but we have stayed

. >> ben rosenfield, i would ask that you make a motion to accept the department's recommendations, and that'll allow us to act on it as he go. >> supervisor cohen: folks, i'll introduce a motion if there's no discussion. the motion to accept the budget and legislative analyst's recommended cuts. i saw a second from supervisor jeff sheehy. may we take this without objection? all right. we will take this without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. what's next? okay. we've got -- i want to call up h.s.a. h.s.a., we'll hear your b.l.a. report. >> chair cohen, members of the committee, for the human services agency, the budget and legislative analyst's recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 1,701,295. of that -- sorry. okay. of the 1,701,295 in 18-19, 1,601,295 are ongoing savings and 100,000 are one time saves. these reductions would still allow an increase of 5.8% in the department's 18-19 budget. budget and legislative analy . >> supervisor cohen: thank you. trent, i want to give you an opportunity. >> good morning, again, commit members. trent rohrer, huma

ben rosenfield. madam clark, 5, 8, 9, and 10. ordinance adopting the neighborhood beautification and tax destination ceiling for 2018. item 8 is 800,000 from district 7, 8 and 10 board projects responsible unit propitiating 800,000 to zar yus departments to support budgeting projects in fiscal year 2017-2018. item number 9 is a resolution concurring with the controllers and establishment of the consumer price index for 2018 and adjusting by the same rate and item number 10 is a resolution with the controllers certification that services previously approved can be performed by the project and by private contractor for a lower cost than similar work for city and county employees. >> all right. >> thank you, i appreciate that. >> just so we're on the same we're talking about a total budget of $68.2 million with a 1 million-dollar increase and personal at 252 and there's a request for six-perso decrease. you don't see that very often. >> thank you for the introduction madam chair and i'll be brief as requested. you know as well our m