the general government purpose of the city attorneys means that for budgeting the general city general fund budget includes that department. >> and is that an hourly, is it billed hourly? >> and while the numbers are very large, we now run a billion dollar utility. so in the connect of that we are the largest bond council program as well that we have a lot of heavy lifting and technical items that almost all of them are somehow legal because of rates and the california constitution, prop 218 or otherwise capital projects. >> it's hard to direct a page number because there aren't any. so it's the external affairs. i'm asking because there must be a reason why, travel and training and entertainment proposals -- promotion has increased so greatly. >> for our external affairs department and if miss -- ellis wants to comment that was part of our new benefits and a great new additional list has been occurring whether it's a discussion that the general manager that she's working on for getting more attraction at the u.s. department in washington for potential funding for the water infrastruct

enterprise department and so the report, puc and the airport we are the only one on a fixed two year budget and while the other city and general fund departments do prepare two-year budgets they are on a rolling cycle and so they actually did do a budget update in 2013, 14, and so in that. 13, 14, budget, they made projections for 14, 15 that now, are appearing to be they are having to reconcile for that. and ask for additional cuts, for next year's budget. >> right. >> so it is said a different way and you may recall that when we had our second year of twot-year budget, and the fiscal year we were allowed to make changes up to 4 percent and, this is the second year of twot year budget and, the first year of the two year budget they will be working on the second year and there will be allowed to make much more significant adjustments and the budgets will be reviewed more diligently than we were in our second year of a fixed budget. >> yeah. >> so it is not really apple to apples yet. >> i guess on the port side i appreciate that you did provide i think, more information not just in the attachments but some of the detail of the

the fire department has the fifth largest department budget in the city. and its resources are derived from the general fund. total projected expenditures for the fire department and fiscal year totalled on -- >> we're having a technical glitch here. in 1997, the city's ems emergency emergency function was relocated from the department of public health to the san francisco fire department. and today the fire department continues to provide both fire suppression and emergency medical services to the city. the table presented here shows the total calls for service broken out by function of ems and fire from 2005 through 2013. over the past few decades the courts and the elector has taken -- in 1988 in response to civil litigation, a federal judge ordered a consent decree which had work force requirements for the san francisco fire department. this was a requirement that the department achieve 40 minority representation in the work force and 15 percent in the female work force. after about ten years, the courts terminated the terms of the consent decree through a stipulated order which called on the city

this speaks of the funds of the city the focus is generally on the fund which make ups our budget. we talk about the highlights it continues to be another positive news report continuing the trend over the last several years we project that the ending balance available in the general fund will be approximately $208 million. our practice is to stack the balance at the end of one year and apply it to the subsequent years. the $208 million represents the two or $3 million improvement from the mayors balance projection and the balance you previously appropriated in the last two year's budget approximately a 63 million dollars change. and the mayor's office can talk about the changes this deficit changes in the year ahead. the improvement is driven on both the revenue and expense side of the revenue this is driven by property tax and hotel tax and michelle can talk about that in a minute. on the savings side open the department spending side we see net good news in health and those are four pieces of newspapers property and health are the drivers of the good news. significantly when we

last would be a comment on this state of the city, which i'm generally going to be in support of this modest increase and i have been a part of the city budget process for 11 years and we have seen the mayor's budget instructions being double digit numbers and so, i mean just the 1.4 and the 1.95 for the second year of our two year budget, is great. and i think that it is very good and it goes to show that the economy of the city is good. and it would be interested to see the mid year controller's report and i think that our revenues are strong and, i'm always, nervous when we ask for an increase that it does not fly in the face whaf could be the reality of a crisis and you look like a fool and i don't want us to look look a fool and what we are asking for is modest and it is certainly justified. >> and i just, i just have a question on the mathematics. you say that the mayor's is asking us to do is to cut 1.4, from the general fund for the next year and 1.85, and you said that this would mean a cut of 36,752 and then you get down to the paragraph where you say in the current fiscal year it would cut the budget for the temporary staff of 100

going with any city department that is doing this type of work, or how are we -- how do we come up with the general scope of work for these projects? >> well, i think through the budget process also, we will need to include this in our budget and other city departments will need to put that in their budget as well. so, we'll need to be working to make a proposal and you'll see it on your side as we propose it in the budget. this is what we want to do, similarly on their side. so, further, this is not to restrict it to any city department. this gives us -- this is sort of a place holder to give us the expenditure authority and we need to do the next steps which would be to sort of identify what department is the most appropriate department. >> just a follow-up, the department of finance has not put any other kind of special instructions on this other than it has to go to capital improvements? >> that's just a tax exempt bond restriction for any tax exempt bob proceed. the department of finance restrictions, i think it does mention it needs to be consistent with the original bond covenants which we would have to do anyway because we can't violate the bond covenants. th

last would be a comment on this state of the city, which i'm generally going to be in support of this modest increase and i have been a part of the city budget process for 11 years and we have seen the mayor's budget instructions being double digit numbers and so, i mean just the 1.4 and the 1.95 for the second year of our two year budget, is great. and i think that it is very good and it goes to show that th

i think what happened is the board voted then to because of severe budget cuts to cut all of summer school and credit recovery options and the city camen and generously helped us fund. what we've seen through these strategies i think we should have brought our updated list on who is on track to graduate in 2014. we are actually so close. i was completely shocked. i was sort of blown away myself because many of us saw the thousands of students on track not to graduate and i was freaked out because we knew it was a higher bar. but what we've discovered and i think we'll have new numbers because we are just calculating our last term. that more and more students are on track to graduate through these credit recovery options and we are meeting our goal so close of graduating all students with the graduation requirements. this has been a great collaboration between the city and the hard work of our school district and also uc and in your department. thank you. >> thank you. actually my office did send in the numbers for this year's seniors class to graduate through 2005. this combines both the sophomores and juniors. i did want to ask about online classes.

previously approved by the mayor and the adapted budget last year for 2014 - 2015 and so those are not auto of the reserves the city maintenance but it starts with the general reserve and we started with the $4. million plus the four and a half million dollars wraufl and those are from the nonprofit rents and supplemental pending. we will then expect to end with 41 million and an additional reserve for 2014 - 2015 and we will end that receive with 51 million but budget savings and it captures a portion of the admin fund it catches department savings that are reappropriated by the mayor and board for one time purposes in the subsequential year budget we ended with 24 east side 24 point plus million we expect a $21 million current reserve. next year's review e revenue we projected of 16.4 million >> to be clear on that line item they were approved. >> those are board approved withdrawals. >> we do know with or about the current projected monies. >> you have a new 2014 - 2015 to revises that withdrawal so our typical practice will more fully you'll draw from that reserve for different purposes. recreation and parks department this catches it catches a portion

the budget and they said we needed it back in the phase. we are also asking for general fund for other projects. it goes to the media and information technology and goes to a lot of city leaders who evaluate and make recommendations to the mayor and controllers office on what kinds of it projects to fund. we ask from funding to review and plan for

the loss. >> i want to talk about numbers like city college 23 million for what? >> currently, we have a budget of $190 million. in general funds >> as of this fall you would expect the 23 million? in the upcoming year if this bill is not passed correct >> and this bill there's been reductions. >> yes. >> generally bubtdz go up and from this fund would that mean less than might be expected or 80 percent or 95 percent but what this college might expect to get is more than what they wanted. >> the wording in the bill is no less than 90 percent in the fourth year so again, if we turn around restoration we'll not need it but if we're restoring enrollment above that it would be what it would have been otherwise. >> the city college from community college they're in similar straits? >> not at the moment he know that a few years back there was a serious challenge to compton. >> what d about the responsibility for this lose is there an effort to collect more money from students. >> i will let the chandler respond that is out of concern that could be a vicious cycle. >> in terms of the current requirement for students to pay their

the budget and they said we needed it back in the phase. we are also asking for general fund for other projects. it goes to the media and information technology and goes to a lot of city leaders who evaluate and make recommendations to the mayor and controllers office on what kinds of it projects to fund. we ask from funding to review and plan for modernization and digitization to allow us to be able to get a new phone system to have greater ability to answer all the calls that are coming in and we wouldn't be dropping as many calls during the periods of time when it's open enrollment or when we send out letters and we get this huge amount of calls and we have to balance our call volume by people that don't normally deal with these things. there is a lot of capability that we need to get and will also allow to do a lot more monitoring of our call volume and reporting. in the past we asked for funding to actually do this project from beginning to end and we weren't successful. they like the idea but they didn't want to give us all that money. now we are asking for i believe $50,000 to do the planning, the review, get somebody from the outside and somebody from the insi

the budget analyst report, please? >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, president chiu, on page 6 of our report, the report that the proposed 2,515,000 be supplemented from the city's general fund reserves. the corresponding to the [speaker not understood], current balance of 44.6 million. so, if the proposed 2.5 million supplemental is approved, the general fund reserve balance would be 42,0 98,143. on page 47, as discussed today, there is an identified need to address the issue of escalating commercial rents impacting nonprofit organizations in san francisco. given the amount of funding needed for a nonprofit rent stabilization program has not been determined. whether this program, whether with call it a one-time appropriation, require ongoing appropriations is not known. the specific uses of the 2,515,000 has not been decided and finally the specified criteria for the spending has not been determined. so, for all of those reasons we consider approval of the proposed supplemental appropriation to be a policy decision for the board of supervisors. however, we do recommend that you amend the proposed ordinance to place all of the 2,515,000 general reserve, [speaker not und

the general public. >> reporter: four and a half feet of snow this winter has forced new york city to add $35 million to its cleanup budget and philadelphia with 55 inches has spent nearly twice what it had planned. eight inches of snow could fall in portions of the northeast tomorrow. james, temperatures next week could hit the 50s, possibly melting some of this mess. >> brown: pleasant news to many ears i'm sure, terrell, thank you so much. most of the power outages we mentioned are in south carolina and mark strassmann is there. mark? >> reporter: james, aiken, south carolina, is known for its stately trees but the ice storm toppled and splintered hundreds of them. and 50,000 people in this county still have no power. aiken looks like a tornado barreled through. one quarter of the 205,000 people without power in south carolina live in this county. a half inch of ice adds 500 pounds of weight to power lines and tree limbs. this area was caked in an inch of ice. governor nikki haley. >> what we are seeing here is worse than i think we would see with a hurricane. we have seen how tough and how damaging ice can be. >> repo

overview of the general housing plan while touching on goals and recommendation of the plan to see ho the city has faired since. we'll also ask bevan to talk about trends in his office's budget and areas where he sees successes over time. going to also have trent rohr human services agency who is integrally involved in the initial ten-year plan to also provide a perspective on success he and failures and present responsibilities to providing homelessness services here in san francisco and touching on trends in his budgets over time and ideas for the future. there is a team from applied survey research that helps hsa combine the homeless count and survey to provide an overview of the methodology they use to print the current data we have regarding the city's homeless population from the latest hsa survey and comparison of other populations's homelessness and trends. barbara garcia, department of public health, will present on dph's responsibilities in this area which are extremely large in this area, touching on trends in their budget over time and in the future. i do want to thank barbara in advance for all of the hard work on this issue. she has been terrific to work with.