victor young and cheryl adams. i want to say thank you for supporting us in this process. the controller's office. i appreciate the work you do. i don't think we could do it without you. kate, congratulations on your first budget. thank you for making the budget what it is. a place that we can come to an agreement. for having conversations with us. to katie tang -- she is a wonderful person, smart as a whip. really helps to get this smooth as possible. it is her who made this a good process. supervisor wiener: i want to congratulate the chair for another great year. this process is always difficult and challenging. you did a great job as always. commissioner chu: coleaguesllea, we need a cut on the budget for the adult probation department, $4,000 -- and $2015 in 2013, and this reduces temporary salaries and the purchase of two vehicles. do we have the motion? >> so moved. >> we have a recieved from the mayor's budget office, a set of technical adjustments. we just need to accept that. we have the administrative positions. to amend the aso for the temporary positions and l

wanted to thank scott walton, from the human services agency, a knee from emergency management, and cheryl adams, for being here today. we have a number of representatives here today from city departments. i wanted to allow supervisor olague to make some remarks. >> thank you -- supervisor olague: thank you. as the supervisor mentioned, i think that this has been a positive process. the network and collaborative in the city, as well as chinatown and the community development center, we all came together and work hard on this report. we worked hard and surveyed individuals that live in the hotels and it was surprising what we found. in some instances, i think there was even a sense that some seniors were not interested in leaving where they lived, but interested in seeing better conditions in the hotels where they resided. in chinatown i believe that the organizers located someone who was in their late 90's, close to 100, who had lived in the hotel for 40 years to 50 years and were very attached to that community. i think that we sometimes need to catch ourselves in these assumptions that we make

of course, the comptroller, the budget analyst, victor young, cheryl adams, all of your work as well was tremendous. you brought a great attention to detail to help us in this committee. thank you. >> supervisor? >> thank you. k -- im -- kim? supervisor kim: thank you. this budget came after many hours of work. many people were with us until 5:00 in the morning. i do agree that many of our priorities were able to make it into this budget. certainly, it was a compromise. everyone listened to each other and heard about the variety of needs that our city has to find. as always, the budget document that we put forward is a document of our priorities. i think that this represents the best of what our representatives had to offer in terms of what they thought should be included and what taxpayers thought should be invested back into. as we continue that discussion through november, hopefully, with a discussion on how we tax businesses and best create an investment pool for investing in our streets, schools, and after- school programs, with fire and police and many of the services you were