in the 20-21 budget. why is there an increase when we're seeing that many of these materials and supplies from other departments are decreasing? and also, there's an increase into the 2021-22 budget from the 20-21 budget, so can you give us an update on that? >> you're correct. the $46,000 increase in materials and supplies to the year ahead to $363,000. our materials and supplies is about .3% of our total budget. it's almost entirely used to buy technology equipment for our workforce, so laptops, screens, and other materials they're using. and what we're finding at the moment is that the demand for those -- those -- that equipment and those materials is heightened, as least in the short-term, because we have 300 people working remotely that normally we would not. i'd be happy to explore changes to that budget with the committee members and the b.l.a. in the weeks ahead, but that's the rationale for it. it's almost entirely for that kind of equipment. >> supervisor fewer: okay. that's great. thanks so muc

we will be passing hopefully our budget from our budget committee. so before we start though, i would like to have my colleagues on the committee, would they like to say a few words before we actually go into a vote? so, colleagues, would you like to say anything? i'd like to give you an opportunity to comment if you would like to do so. supervisor mandelman? >> i just, madam chair, want to thank you and your office, particularly chelsea, for running an extraordinary process. and managing a really difficult budget. there were a lot of passions i think in the public and on the board, and i think that this was a really well-run process and, you know, i feel like, you know, no one is going to be happy with everything that has been done here, but it's a good product. and i am really grateful for the way that you led this process. so, thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you, supervisor. supervisor mandelman, i see you in the queue -- i mean, walton, i see you in the queue? >> supervisor walton: thank you, chair fewer, and i want to echo the sentiments of sup

i like to thank the rest of the mayor's budget office team who worked so hard to put this budget together under mayor breed's leadership. today i'm happy to walk you through the details of the mayor's fiscal year 2021 and 2 21-22 budget. the total size of the proposed budget is $13.7 billion in fiscal year 2021 and $12.6 billion in fiscal year 2021-22. the fiscal year 2021 proposely budget represents a $1.4 billion increase over the fiscal year 1920 budget primarily driven by one expenditure related to the covid-19 pandemic which go away in the second year of the budget. the total proposed budget is made up of $7.5 billion or 54% nongeneral fund expenditures which include enterprise and self-supporting activities. 6.2% or 46% of general fund expenditures. it is important to note that self-supporting and enterprise funding are restricted and not eligible to be used to balance the city's general fund budget. these includes things like operations that are airport, the public utilities commission, port and the mta. it is also important to note that the $3.9 billion of the $6.2 billion in gene

today, i want to really talk about our budget and the proposed budget that's working it's way through the legislative process as we speak. part of why we are investing $446 million in response to covid has everything to do with the understanding that we're going to be living with this for some time. that's money that i wish we could divert to other things. but unfortunately this is the reality of today. i hope that's not the reality of our next budget cycle. we're committing about $93 million directly from the general fund. again, that's money that i wish we could be diverting to other places and the fact is, it's going to be important that we're prepared and doing what's necessary to keep the public safe. today, i want to get into our slides and talk a little about our investments so you have a clear understanding of why and what's being invested based on our response based on our budg budget. so let's look at exactly what it is that our response is this year in the budget. it includes 16 point five million for operations. health response. 62 million for food distributions and housin

i like to thank the rest of the mayor's budget office team who worked so hard to put this budget togethernder mayor breed's leadership. today i'm happy to walk you through the details of the mayor's fiscal year 2021 and 2 21-22 budget. the total size of the proposed budget is $13.7 billion in fiscal year 2021 and $12.6 billion in fiscal year 2021-22. the fiscal year 2021 proposely budget represents a $1.4 billion increase over the fiscal year 1920 budget primarily driven by one expenditure related to the covid-19 pandemic which go away in the second year of the budget. the total proposed budget is made up of $7.5 billion or 54% nongeneral fund expenditures which include enterprise and self-supporting activities. 6.2% or 46% of general fund expenditures. it is important to note that self-supporting and enterprise funding are restricted and not eligible to be used to balance the city's general fund budget. these includes things like operations that are airport, the public utilities commission, port and the mta. it is also important to note that the $3.9 billion of the $6.2 billion in genera

today, i want to really talk about our budget and the proposed budget that's working it's way through the legislative process as we speak. part of why we are investing $446 million in response to covid has everything to do with the understanding that we're going to be living with this for some time. that's money that i wish we could divert to other things. but unfortunately this is the reality of today. i hope that's not the reality of our next budget cycle. we're committing about $93 million directly from the general fund. again, that's money that i wish we could be diverting to other places and the fact is, it's going to be important that we're prepared and doing what's necessary to keep the public safe. today, i want to get into our slides and talk a little about our investments so you have a clear understanding of why and what's being invested based on our response based on our budg budget. so let's look at exactly what it is that our response is this year in the budget. it includes 16 point five million for operations. health response. 62 million for food distributions and housin

this is a two-year budget. so we are talking about maybe $9 million worth of police officers that we would lay off. so i just want to state that i know supervisor walton is in the queue but i want to state this, i am not in favour of laying off police officers but in favour of reducing the hsoc team when we have a plan but i want those officers back on the street and i don't want to have to fill these academies which are millions and millions of dollars. and this is where i would do the cuts personally. because i actually think these working-class men exwomeand wome feeding their families and the majority are putting food on the table and paying for their food and rent. they're not different from other working-class families, except they've chosen a profession that we are trying to change out of the scope of what we do. i don't think as individuals, we would take their livelihood away from them. i don't think i feel comfortable taking away their ability to support themselves or their families. and so i am not i

there is a budget to balance and we are asking you to cut police budgets and other law enforcement budgetsthat do not serve our communities. we know the programs do not keep the communities safe. we don't believe we need another police academy and to fund important social programs like the ones i mentioned. thank you for your time and please stand with our community this is year and pass a budget that will serve us. with the immigrant hotline and so many programs that the communities need right now. to be impacted on how to pay for child care assistance and for our elementary school daughter and even as we are still paying for day care. for the youngest we can't home school her. my partner's income has been cut and what we need is the programs and urge them. to help the communities with that part. >> hello, supervisors. i live in the mission district of san francisco. i reach out to let you know that making deep austerity cuts impacts us as we deal with the pandemic and worried about keeping that roof over our head. with the raised class and gender inequality ands proer thety will only mak

a budget for all.to really look into each department's proposed budget with the lens of maintaining city services. please look into pet projects and those contract projects that are not started earlier or yet -- >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. [inaudible] [♪] >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is trina, and i live in district 8. i have been disappointed about how you all at the board of supervisors have handled this budget. as a resident of the mission district, i have seen how the police department has constantly been unable to keep people safe. i would like to be able to call a number to keep people safe, a number that doesn't lead to sfpd coming in to take care of situations like the unhoused. i would love to be able to call a number to help women and indigenous to keep them safe, and a number that doesn't involve sfpd coming on

to department budgets. a few things i want to know. there is no trailing legislation today. reminder to new members. the hearings are noticed separately. this is all one meeting. we are taking up the following day at 10:00 a.m. one meeting for wednesday, thursday and friday. no public comment this week on the budget, which is items one and two. all public comment will be heard on monday, august 24th at 10:00 a.m. there. is no other business on monday except for the comments. the budget and appropriations committee will recess at 12:30 or 1:00 p.m. for lunch. yesterday we finished every department. i imagine today may go longer. there may be policy recommendations that are being brought forth by committee members. remainder, if there are departments that require examination, it is possible to bring those back on friday afternoon. this is the week we should try to finalize our cuts to the budget. it will be held in the order listed. i want to recognize we need to accommodate scheduling conflicts and call depa

we are a less than a $5 million budget, s budget, and that budget is wholly fund doed, as you know, through the city's general fund. 87% of our budget is attributed to our personnel. the distribution of work is shown on this pie chart on the slide. roughly 50% of our total f.t.e.s are directed at supporting laws, with filing guidelines, training, and tools for effective public disclosure system. roughly 38% of our f.t.e.s are directed at what we call our post filing compliance activities. those are audits, investigations, and administrative enforcement. and then, 3% roughly is related to our administrative work, and that includes the executive director, a payroll clerk, and our work collecting late fines and fees. so in sum, we have an organization that is very lean. we have very little overhead. our total materials and supplies budget is equivalent to roughly $1,000 per staff member per year, or .5% of our total operating budget. that's used for essential computer equipment, other supplies, certain software licenses that help us do and offer our work to the public. we have another $419,000

in terms of budget, you know, budget is incredibly tough for the city right now. you know, i think what we're seeing is a $1.7 billion deficit because a lot of the revenue has been drying up, all these things tied to economic activity has pretty much stopped. so i think that's been a big challenge for us from our organization's point of view. we're trying to figure out the best way possible to continue our work because for folks who don't know, the assessor's office is responsible for property taxes and our operation brings in about $3 billion of funding to the city year after year. that helps to fund our social services. it's the largest source of general fund revenue for the and public school and education, which is also important. we want to make sure to continue those operations, but it's not going to be easy because if we're going to defeat this budget deficit, it looks like potentially cuts. i think all of us are looking for areas where we can cut to help make balance and won't impact people and services, but for an organization like mine where 80% of my exp

into the budget. the full amount is $2.9 million back to us split evenly. we are going to work that down now to give those amounts i just gave you. >> from the point of view, okay. >> i am happy to talk with you offline if you would like. >> any more questions for chief miller? i want to thank you for the $7 million that you gave that made the non-profits whole during this time when we need to step up. i want to thank you very much. we were worried about it. the $7 million made them whole at this time where non-profit workers are making $15 an hour. thank you. it was very generous and thank you for joining us today. we will see you next week. thank you. now we have the public defender. welcome. >> the head of our it department is with us today. >> here we go. the floor is yours. >> it is good to see you, president yee, chair fewer, supervisor mandelman, supervisor ronen and supervisor walton. i am honored to be the san francisco public defender to serve the community. i came here and was drawn to this

their budget.> and so we will not know -- i mean as this board deliberates over budgets, will we know, then, which positions have been approved or not approved? and will this list continually grow throughout these budget discussions? >> so, yes, i'm hopeful to have that list available. the report from the controller's office available to you soon. all positions come through our office. that normally would not be the case but with this pause, they are all coming to us. we are approving positions that are critical to the covid response and other critical backfills and it is possible that, yes, the list will grow beyond a snapshot report date as our office sayses and decides that these are critical backfills to ensure city business continues. >> if there's a discrepancy about what might be critical, is that an area where there could be discussion or a reconsideration of actually hiring those positions? >> i don't know the answer to that. i don't know where the authority fits in approving of the positi

this is a two-year budget. so we are talking about maybe $9 million worth of police officers that we would lay off. so i just want to state that i know supervisor walton is in the queue but i want to state this, i am not in favour of laying off police officers but in favour of reducing the hsoc team when we have a plan but i want those officers back on the street and i don't want to have to fill these academies which are millions and millions of dollars. and this is where i would do the cuts personally. because i actually think these working-class men exwomeand wome feeding their families and the majority are putting food on the table and paying for their food and rent. they're not different from other working-class families, except they've chosen a profession that we are trying to change out of the scope of what we do. i don't think as individuals, we would take their livelihood away from them. i don't think i feel comfortable taking away their ability to support themselves or their families. and so i am not i

today, i want to really talk about our budget and the proposed budget that's working it's way through the legislative process as we speak. part of why we are investing $446 million in response to covid has everything to do with the understanding that we're going to be living with this for some time. that's money that i wish we could divert to other things. but unfortunately this is the reality of today. i hope that's not the reality of our next budget cycle. we're committing about $93 million directly from the general fund. again, that's money that i wish we could be diverting to other places and the fact is, it's going to be important that we're prepared and doing what's necessary to keep the public safe. today, i want to get into our slides and talk a little about our investments so you have a clear understanding of why and what's being invested based on our response based on our budg budget. so let's look at exactly what it is that our response is this year in the budget. it includes 16 point five million for operations. health response. 62 million for food distributions and housin

when i think about the budget and budget costs. there was a news story that 25 officers are leaving. there's good and bad. we need to purge the system of our bad apples. perhaps those that are leaving are leaving because the climate has become uncomfortable. i don't know. when it comes to the budget there's opportunities for cuts that are far more than personnel. when you think about-i would not be interested in seeing cuts in training. i would not be interested in seeing cuts on equipment. do officers need the best brand new squad cars? i don't know. i tend to say no. that is not something that i can have a lot of knowledge about. to answer your question shortly and su susshortly.it concerns me officers getting a raise. you think about social workers and nurses and people on the front lines who are also putting their lives on the line and taking the life of service and they aren't getting raises. i think we need to be consistent about our service. what i remember, the state of employees have gotten a raise. i think there needs to

their budget.> and so we will not know -- i mean as this board deliberates over budgets, will we know, then, which positions have been approved or not approved? and will this list continually grow throughout these budget discussions? >> so, yes, i'm hopeful to have that list available. the report from the controller's office available to you soon. all positions come through our office. that normally would not be the case but with this pause, they are all coming to us. we are approving positions that are critical to the covid response and other critical backfills and it is possible that, yes, the list will grow beyond a snapshot report date as our office sayses and decides that these are critical backfills to ensure city business continues. >> if there's a discrepancy about what might be critical, is that an area where there could be discussion or a reconsideration of actually hiring those positions? >> i don't know the answer to that. i don't know where the authority fits in approving of the positi

budget. so it's not additional people. it's just a budget artifact. >> so, excuse me, so that means that the people were funded by a different funding source other than general fund and you switched them over? >> kind of, supervisor. so the 4e waiver was a five-year demonstration project authorized through the federal government that provided us a fixed amount of funding for fostercare and child protective services each year, which was a way to assure that we would receive the same amount of dollars, even though our fostercare caseload declined. it was to prevent placement into fostercare rather than only when someone was in fostercare and we got credit for good work in reducing kids in fostercare and there was preventative services and other things. and we're shifting those positions into the standard or regular funding stream for child welfare. we get funding to administer programs and so you'll see here in the slide that about almost 50% of our funding is from the federal and state sources

to department budgets. a few things i want to know. there is no trailing legislation today. reminder to new members. the hearings are noticed separately. this is all one meeting. we are taking up the following day at 10:00 a.m. one meeting for wednesday, thursday and friday. no public comment this week on the budget, which is items one and two. all public comment will be heard on monday, august 24th at 10:00 a.m. there. is no other business on monday except for the comments. the budget and appropriations committee will recess at 12:30 or 1:00 p.m. for lunch. yesterday we finished every department. i imagine today may go longer. there may be policy recommendations that are being brought forth by committee members. remainder, if there are departments that require examination, it is possible to bring those back on friday afternoon. this is the week we should try to finalize our cuts to the budget. it will be held in the order listed. i want to recognize we need to accommodate scheduling conflicts and call depa

there is a budget to balance and we are asking you to cut police budgets and other law enforcement budgetsthat do not serve our communities. we know the programs do not keep the communities safe. we don't believe we need another police academy and to fund important social programs like the ones i mentioned. thank you for your time and please stand with our community this is year and pass a budget that will serve us. with the immigrant hotline and so many programs that the communities need right now. to be impacted on how to pay for child care assistance and for our elementary school daughter and even as we are still paying for day care. for the youngest we can't home school her. my partner's income has been cut and what we need is the programs and urge them. to help the communities with that part. >> hello, supervisors. i live in the mission district of san francisco. i reach out to let you know that making deep austerity cuts impacts us as we deal with the pandemic and worried about keeping that roof over our head. with the raised class and gender inequality ands proer thety will only mak

budget -- mr. controller, can you please make note of the department's agreement to the cuts of the budget and legislative analyst. >> i'm here. >> chair fewer: oh, good. what say you about the recommendations? >> the department accepts the budget and legislative analyst's recommendations for the department. >> chair fewer: thank you. any comments or questions for mr. arendt? supervisor yee? >> president yee: yes. i see there's a line item for vehicles. >> correct. >> president yee: are you needing that many vehicles with this election coming up because we're not having that many places where people will be voting at? >> yes. we read -- we lease around 300 vehicles per election, and we will again for this election. the number of polling locations has not changed for november, so we'll still need fuel support personnel in the field, provide assistance to the workers in the field. we saw the article in the examiner this morning. we have not seen the report from the budget and legislative analyst's of

budget cycle. back in february, our staff worked with the clerk and board on raising our staff salaries and incorporating money for us to expand our outreach and community events. although the shelter-in-place means that our monetary needs to conduct outreach is less pressing since most events are online. we still need to keep up with the communities we serve and retaining staff, we provide invaluable support to young people on the commission which is increasingly difficult when our staff are all under the 100% a.m.i. income line. that concludes our presentation and we're available to take any questions. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, any comments or questions for our youth commissioners? i have a comment and question. so in hiring working on this committee and about the budget proposals, how were you able to -- during covid-19, to engage other youth with feedback on this proposal? >> yes. thank you for that question. that has definitely been a central part of the last few mo

budget -- mr. controller, can you please make note of the department's agreement to the cuts of the budget and legislative analyst. >> i'm here. >> chair fewer: oh, good. what say you about the recommendations? >> the department accepts the budget and legislative analyst's recommendations for the department. >> chair fewer: thank you. any comments or questions for mr. arendt? supervisor yee? >> president yee: yes. i see there's a line item for vehicles. >> correct. >> president yee: are you needing that many vehicles with this election coming up because we're not having that many places where people will be voting at? >> yes. we read -- we lease around 300 vehicles per election, and we will again for this election. the number of polling locations has not changed for november, so we'll still need fuel support personnel in the field, provide assistance to the workers in the field. we saw the article in the examiner this morning. we have not seen the report from the budget and legislative analyst's of

budget whole. this is not the time to cut services for most vulnerable populations in san francisco. it's time to be bold, it's time to use reserves and get our arms around the most vulnerable people in this city. regarding homeless youth, these are people in our city who are often hit the hardest in economic downturn. the youth of larkin street, 45% of our youth lost their jobs and significant wages just this year part of the covid impact. they are often left out of bold plans from the city, and we're concerned that this'll force them deeper down the road of homelessness. we're asking for a prevention lens, and we're asking for a racial justice-social justice lens for the most vulnerable youth, criminal impacted youth, youth of color, lgbtq youth who are disproportionately overrepresented in this city. they have potential, they have assets, they have strengths, they have resiliency. we need more housing. we need more specific youth housing options for them. we need bold, creative vision for workfo

until the budget is complete. so we'll certainly keep in touch as things move and change its course. >> thank you. >> we have a commissioner. >> thank you, excellent presentation. i submitted a question earlier through a comment. in my concern to the public safety funds that will be coming to us and in focusing on behavior health with a racial equity lens that we are cognizant of the fact that with the community input, et cetera, that we really look at youth and elementary and middle and high school since my concern is this group is often not totally focused on it until the kids are in trouble. so, i'm hoping we can look at formulating some prevention strategies within these dollars and within the areas that i think could be very, very helpful. >> thank you, commissioner. i received your questions and i meant to touch on it and i also do know if dr. hammer or anyone from behavioral health wants to chime in on that comment and that element of the work. >> i think it's a great question and it's a lot of receptive te

we do have money in the budget.we just have less of it, and so what are those priorities that are really important and that you have to invest in in order to build public trust that what this city takes government and accountable government and transparent government seriously, and the way that you do that is by putting resources into it. it's not enough to have the service and to say this is not okay, this is not okay, but we're not going to fund training. so i feel pretty strongly about this and just wanted to note that for the record. thank you. >> thank you. i do think that executive director pellam did a good job at -- i don't know who else had a chance to watch that, but we can talk about that a little bit more on the next agenda item. we're waiting for -- oh, i'm sorry. i was going to call for public comment, but first i'll call for commissioner bush to have his hand recognized. >> am i unmuted now? >> yes. >> i want to associate myself with commissioner chu's remarks. i can't help but think of the image of b

50% over time budget cut? >> i can live with that. >> how abou about supervisor yed ronen. how do you feel about that. >> can you say it one more time? >> we are nine months into the year. that is why i am saying a smaller cut this year and then more cut next year. >> this year 25% cut and next year 50% cut in the overtime. >> 25 and then 25 in reserve. >> no, it is 25% cut this year, this fiscal year. next fiscal year is 50% cut. >> i am okay with that. >> i am, too. >> supervisor mandelman. i am sorry we can't bring you along. we have agreement. before everyone changes their mind this is what we agreed on. first fiscal year because we are nine months into the year 25% cut from the police over time budget. following full fiscal year we are saying 50% cut in over time, nothing in reserve. is that correct? okay. then the academy, we said we would cut -- we will keep one of the academies and cut three. when one do you want to keep 1234. >> the fall. we will push it. to save money we will push fall academy to jan

and looking for the budget book. it's called volume two, budget overview. that's what we refer to as the budget book. that is meant to be a self explanatory manual that explains how our budget works and the various funds and funding sources. different programs and activities. a series of tables and charts. that's a better resource. it does take a little time to go through the whole thing. we'd be happy to provide a briefing to either of the students delegates or sometimes we do this for members of the public or commissioners as well. we'll follow-up and send you a link. >> thank you so much for that resource. >> that might be an agenda item for a future sac meeting. they could have an update and clarification. >> for sure. >> any other comments or questions? >> all right. seeing none. roll call. please. >> thank you. (roll call) six ayes, thank you. >> section i, discussion of other issues. there are none today. section k introduction of proposal and assignment to committee. there are none. section l, immediate action and pre posal oproposal of rules. there

today, i want to really talk about our budget and the proposed budget that's working it's way through the legislative process as we speak. part of why we are investing $446 million in response to covid has everything to do with the understanding that we're going to be living with this for some time. that's money that i wish we could divert to other things. but unfortunately this is the reality of today. i hope that's not the reality of our next budget cycle. we're committing about $93 million directly from the general fund. again, that's money that i wish we could be diverting to other places and the fact is, it's going to be important that we're prepared and doing what's necessary to keep the public safe. today, i want to get into our slides and talk a little about our investments so you have a clear understanding of why and what's being invested based on our response based on our budg budget. so let's look at exactly what it is that our response is this year in the budget. it includes 16 point five million for operations. health response. 62 million for food distributions and housin

budget. into controller, thank you very much. >> i can describe briefly if it's helpful but complicated but consistent across departments i'd be happy to follow-up with you, president yee on the rules of what gets budgeted into different buckets related to equipment. >> commissioner: just for me to look at that's why i'm asking the questions where these things -- what it means it's helpful. thank you very much. >> commissioner: there were transfers to these department's budget. was there a controversy of those? >> lease expenditures? >> he that's what i have >> commissioner: that's what i have in my notes but you're coming back next week and we can do research and talk about it then. any other comments or questions from our city administrator department? supervisor watson. >> commissioner: i do have one question on i believe slide 5, you talked about providing immigrant and language service for the office of immigrant affairs and my question is how much money do you provide for the language s

do not balance the budget on our backs. there should be no more budget cuts, no layoffs. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next speaker, please. >> hello? >> clerk: yes, we can hear you. please proceed. >> hi. good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is abbie, and i'm the coordinator for the san francisco rapid response community. we're asking you to restore the $135,000 that the hotline received through the r.f.p. process, especially during this time where i.c.e. was conducting immigration enforcement during a pandemic, and we also want to stand in solidarity with all of our community based organizations and also uphold the asks of the budget justice coalition. i also would like to name very specifically that i express full support for defunding sfpd, and that is all. thank you, and i yield my time. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller? >> hi. good afternoon, supervisors. this is [inaudible] calling from [inaudible] and also a cochair for the housing provider network. [inaudible] we ask that the mayor's office and board of supervisors also

budget whole. this is not the time to cut services for most vulnerable populations in san francisco. it's time to be bold, it's time to use reserves and get our arms around the most vulnerable people in this city. regarding homeless youth, these are people in our city who are often hit the hardest in economic downturn. the youth of larkin street, 45% of our youth lost their jobs and significant wages just this year part of the covid impact. they are often left out of bold plans from the city, and we're concerned that this'll force them deeper down the road of homelessness. we're asking for a prevention lens, and we're asking for a racial justice-social justice lens for the most vulnerable youth, criminal impacted youth, youth of color, lgbtq youth who are disproportionately overrepresented in this city. they have potential, they have assets, they have strengths, they have resiliency. we need more housing. we need more specific youth housing options for them. we need bold, creative vision for workfo

when i think about the budget and budget costs. there was a news story that 25 officers are leaving. there's good and bad. we need to purge the system of our bad apples. perhaps those that are leaving are leaving because the climate has become uncomfortable. i don't know. when it comes to the budget there's opportunities for cuts that are far more than personnel. when you think about-i would not be interested in seeing cuts in training. i would not be interested in seeing cuts on equipment. do officers need the best brand new squad cars? i don't know. i tend to say no. that is not something that i can have a lot of knowledge about. to answer your question shortly and su susshortly.it concerns me officers getting a raise. you think about social workers and nurses and people on the front lines who are also putting their lives on the line and taking the life of service and they aren't getting raises. i think we need to be consistent about our service. what i remember, the state of employees have gotten a raise. i think there needs to