specifically for mayors and cities in the west, from mayors of larger cities. issues range from local federal tensions like gun violence and issues like tax constraints and pension reform. but we know that regardless, mayors continue to press on and solve problems particularly around these issues for example, mayor of new york who is exploring revenues despite policies at the state level, expanded use of solar energy and a review of how city owned properties can generate new revenue for the city. the primary way that mayors in the nation's smallest cities are talking about budget and management issues is in terms of government efficiency and effectiveness. for example, using new examples to streamline pross and pet registration. they talked about the property tax. for example, mayor adler addressed the 288% property tax increase for residents in just five years, saying when people say property taxes are too high or growing too fast, wee not talking about city taxes or county hospital taxes or hospital property taxes or school district property taxes. we're talk

homelessness is a crisis in the city of san francisco. our city government needs to step up. our city, our region, our state, our country is dealing with this tragedy every single day on the streets. the roots of the epidemic are complex. there is no single solution to solve the issue. we need to pursue a wide variety of initiatives. we need to fund programs that have been proven to work. we need to be flexible to fund programs that will work. we need to measure ourselves by the success of the individuals living on our streets today. and when they get off a street and get into shelters and onto their own 2 feet and onto better lives. today, i am announcing approximately $30,000 in funding to address the homeless crisis in san francisco. first of all, i'm doubling down on the homeward bound -- bound program. this initiative helps struggling individuals with family members and loved ones. i know elements of this program may seem controversial, but we have to acknowledge the fact that it is here in san francisco where we have had a very effective program. as mayor of the city i'

city. he is also the president of the national league of cities. he also became the spanish language broadcaster and as chairman and forecaster of cityview, he's chairman of the executive committee of the national public and corporate market finance firm. born and raised in san antonio he has an undergraduate degree from texas a&m university. a masters degree by harvard and a phd from george washington university. please join me in welcoming our guest. [applause] >> is good to be with you. my mother raised me properly. >> you did a very good introduction. he only mentioned he was head of the texas tribune. he was also editor of texas monthly before that. >> i've had a job for a while. >> henry, this is a great topic. the reason it's a great topic is at this particular moment in our democracy and the history of the federal government, cities have a lot of power and a lot of impact. talk about that. >> this kind lady has said i take this belt off for me but there's a story about it. >> you said it is not a man purse. it is a medical device manufactur

s should be made exempt from the city wide p.l.a. ordinance so they businesses have an opportunity to be nurtured and grow and consistently with what the city of san francisco has always believed in, and purported. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello. my name is dorothy. i'm a resident of san francisco. we would like to have 100% l.b.e. exemption from the p.l.a. ordinance. we would also like a trade union to open up their membership and document to the city how they are recruiting long-term local residents who are women cap who are people of colour back and who are immigrants. we would also like that to be documented for the city to have. i am for the l.b.e. it works for me. thank you. [applause] '. >> hello supervisors. i am a local women-owned business. i'm certified l.b.e. i've been doing business for 17 years. construction trucking. i work on the local road. with this p.l.a., it will severely hinder my ability to continue to work and provide trucking to contractors. ultimately, i think this will make me shut my doris and i will no

naomi kelly, city administrator. i thought i would just quickly go through and say that i am, too, cautiously optimistic that we'll get to a project labor agreement. both the department of public works and rec department are in support. we've seen these being done at the airport and the school district. the devil is always in the details. i'm a fierce advocate in my career of supporting minority and women-owned businesses, protecting local business enterprises, protecting local residents and making sure local residents are a part of this and protecting workers and wages and benefits. i do think we'll eventually get to a win-win situation where we're all in agreement. i want to thank supervisor peskin, safai, and fewer in leading negotiations with everyone who they've identified. i will quickly go through some areas in which we discussed around the table that we thought would be great, that we've all agreed on. one is the definition of core employees where we all a that the core for contractors who are existing core e

stabilization fund going to save city college so that we could live to provide free city today. i would like to take that a step further and to duplicate what long beh has done with the long beach promise. for students who complete their aa at city college, san francisco should provide free state so that city college graduates can finish their ba at no cost. as mayor, this would be a top priority. we can call it the san francisco promise. we also know that here in california, we rank 50 out of 50 states in participation of food stamp programs. that's why i offer legislation removing hurdles like requiring fingerprints for eligibility to assist many more to finally benefit from this critical initiative. i lso privileged to work with a coalition of domestic violence advocates to offer legislation protecting survivors so they can break the residential leashes to make a safe exit from their homes. it is my honour to have authored the bill which will move from all state statutes the term "battered women syndrome." and replace it with "intimate partner battering." the former inferred

we all know that a clean and vibrant city is an economically successful and healthy city. and just as our city needs to be clean to thrive, it also needs to be safe. last year, we reported 31,000 car break-ins in san francisco. that's about one break-in every three hours on our street. s that's unacceptable. to the credit to our police department, they're doubled our foot patrols, creating a dedicated unit within the central police department, and increasing the burglary and serial crime units. year to date, car break-ins are down 20% in the city of san francisco, but we will not rest on our laurels here in approximate our city. this budget will reflect additional investments in our public safety departments. in particular, our police department to make sure we do not slip back. the center piece of this public safety goal is the addition of over 250 sworn police personnel over the next four years. i have often said that we have some of the best police officers in the country. we just need more of them. let me be even more specific. i believe we have incredible men and wome

to the city.it was the first public green space in the region. this park belongs to the village the former residents of the corp industrialist family at some point they fled the noise and dirt of the city and built themselves a house with a garden in the countryside actually more of a shattered it had two hundred nine. sixty nine rooms you can visit it and learn about the history of the corp steel company and family in the mansion's permanent exhibition and. lake by the nice stretches out below the villa who do the work of river is dammed up here for eight kilometers. the excursion boats of the white fleet sail from shore to shore. there are places to lounge about. and plenty of water sports to enjoy. the white sand on a seaside beach completes the feeling of summer. but what about the city's disused industrial sites. pilot they've been turned into new attractive residential areas green spaces like park one of europe's biggest steel factories once stored here now there's an artificial lake. and bi

>> we have units throughout the city. we had, as you know, a very high proportion of the 10,000 units that were acquisitions and rehabs because of our rad portfolio work. that was 3500 units. to date, we've rehabbed or acquired/rehabbed or developed newly over 6,000 units. we are at about 6,500. so about 4,000 of those are ac/rehabs. about 4,500 are reconstruction. we have about 4,000 units primarily new construction, a few existing non-profit rehabs sprinkled in there. we have, primarily, those units are in district 8, district 6, and district 10. clearly the o.c.i.i. project areas have a lot of investment because of the benefits of tax increment financing. so mission bay, transbay, and bayview hunters park, candlestick point have a lot of new units under production. but we have, also had a serious investment in district 9, with about 800 units, just about to get under way. in fact, we are having a ground breaking ceremony for the first senior housing development at 1296 shotwell next week. again, we would like to do mor

is for the city of san francisco. special thanks to our own n francisco pride team and i want to acknowledge teddy witherington who is scheduled to be here. teddy, if you are here, or he will beer on enough. i acknwledge him as well for being here. i want to acknowledge, there are a number of people up here as well. acknowledge the elected officials, alice randolph from art city officials board, carmen two, our assessor recorder, the woman of the hour, for sure. [cheers and applause] clair farley from our office of transgender services. [applause] london breed, our president of the board of supervisors. our treasured tax collector and our share of. [applause] so today in san francisco, and throughout the month, we ho both individuals that have made a significant difference in the past that are doing it now in the present and will in the future, for our lgbtq community. we also o th organizations that work with our community of san francisco on lgbtq issues that make san francisco who we are as a city. you know, asvil

and so from that that goes to the city and collected at the museums and will go to the city and the city takes what it needs to fully fund the admission attendance who are on the city payroll and the balance supports co-fam private nonoperations. and the reason it has come down is we have more tightly budgeted that number. in the past we have had excesses in that number. and the controller's office and the budget office encourag us to much better at predicting what that number should be and so it was through that extra work that brought that number down. >> all right. for instance, the orignal but of2018,nd your actual is probably will be about $4 million this year? >> i think so. i would need to confirm that, but yes. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. another question for you. i see that you've increased your target for participants in public programs. i am curious to hear how you plan to expand those programs. >> i think that's a mistake, madam chair. i think that may be a typo. i apologize for that. we anticipate that it will stay at 125,000. >> supervisor

this is where you saw the city coming together to recognize that this is important for our city. one more question. >> how many -- [indiscernible] >> three. we have had heard rumors of more that will be applying so you have heard the three that are out there. >> will you be likely to not get a permit based on behavior so far? >> i don't want to speak for the msa director and we don't know who is going to apply yet. >> is there past behavior that would preclude them from getting a permit. >> i don't want to prejudice the application and review process. we have some information about the three that we don't have about th the others but we want this to be fair and we will give a fair review of their application. >> is the city charging? >> yes, our intent is to recover our cost. the state law restricts us to cost recovery only and i don't have permit fee. there is few different fees that apply including reserve we would require them to submit to address any others that the city has. this is designed to keep the city whole in terms of expenditure. i sent out my cease and desist lette

residents in our city. you know, i want to acknowledge the contributions of our late mayor ed lee and the things he did for the lgbtq community as well. he founded the federal mayors against lgbtq discrimination organization. but he did so at the national level. he started the player. the first and its client in our entire country. and it has been a great source of pride as mayor to continue this legacy. last week, the supervisors and i announced that the city of san francisco and i will be backfilling the four-point $2 million for hiv and aids funding that a federal government cut. [applause] together with claire farley, we have created a transgender advisory committee here in san francisco. and legislation that our board of supervisors was proud to pass through and i was proud to sign. creating all gender bathrooms in our sros across a city of san francisco. and also signing legislation naming terminal one for harvey milk at our san francisco airport. [applause] it is with great pride i stand here as your

i'm an instructor at city college of san francisco. i'm with a.f.c. 2121 and free city coalition. ccsf is an important driver of economic opportunity and empowerment, and as you've been hearing and as i'm sure you know, we have a hugely successful program with the free city program, committed to by our supervisors and our city and funded through prop w, we were really proud when we ran and worked on prop w to be saying that we were leaving money on the table to help with the incredible and important things that the people need in san francisco in addition to free city. however, free city is only getting about 10% of prop w funds at this point, and it's been under funded from its launch. what's become clear in the last couple of months is that in addition to growing and growing the program, we need to be looking at closing the gap because the college has been left holding the bag for about $4.77 million. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is saira ontiveros, and i'm a peer supervisor. today, we ask the board of supervisors to budget $40 million

heren approximate our city. this budget will reflect additional investments in our public safety departments. in particular, our police department to make sure we do not slip back. the center piece of this public safety goal is the addition of over 250 sworn police personnel over the next four years. i have often said that we have some of the best police officers in the country. we just need more of them. let me be even more specific. i believe we have incredible men and women of our police department. they put the lives on the line for us every single day, and they deserve our respect, and i am proud of them. but san francisco is a growing, changing city, and we need a police force that grows and changes with it. in the next fiscal year, 130 new officers will be in the police academy, setting the foundation for 250 more officers on our streets. i want to make it clear that these new officers will not be just focused on our property crime epidemic, they'll also be working within our communities to make sure our

solutions for a city whose diversity is in jeopardy particularly in the city center the festival organizerseject monocultures and seek alternatives they want to rethink this space and be involved in shaping it. affordable land left nonetheless it's a moment where one can go the next step and negotiate with the city to participate in the development of certain spaces. what will happen to the unclaimed space in the city who gets to decide investors or citizens. which options are not dictated by commercial interests. and what about social housing. we're in an age where this notion of social responsibility is disappearing so it's about encouraging some form of social agenda or rethinking whether there can be such a thing as a coalition of interests that will preserve our research resources. financial interests which drive the city forward a new usage concepts which benefit everyone some past pioneers have shown how it can be done like the team behind the legendary bar twenty five and a tourist location in the two thousand the club was one of the berlin institutions which cemented the city's int

some of the cities remain major cities even down to the present. others like st. louis, baltimore, gradually drop out of the top 10 of these listings and are replaced eventually by cities in the south and west. a process that is still going on today. to briefly talk about st. louis and the skyscrapers at the end here, st. louis in 1900, the fourth largest city in the country, a city that, like chicago, had major industries, many of which involving stove making and shoemaking. many breweries in st. louis, one of which survives anheuser-busch, and you can , visit it where it has a tour where you can see the preserved industrial processes. also, at this point, st. louis building the world's largest train station. enormous train shed preserved until the 80's when it was turned into a shopping center. also, a building on the interior shows the influence of sullivan in the interior ornament of the main lobbies designed by an architect named lewis malay. it is the same context you have the auditorium building that is all steel frame and tries to express that fact are not

as mayor of the city of san francisco, i want to make sure that leave our city in a safer place thani took office, and i believe these investments will do exactly that. so i want to thank everyone for being here today, and with that, i want to turn it oveo our director of the department of emergency management, ann croneberg. >> thank you, may or farrell. thank you so much for your unwaivering support of public safety here in san francisco, rs andow as mayorr of the board ciscan r t staed over the last six months we've implemented strategies here at d.e.m. that have allowed us to maintain our goal of answering 90 is pfrs of our 911 calls within ten seconds or less. the first part of our strategy focused on hiring and training new dispatchers. it takes about nine months to a year to fully tra a diater, so it's long process, it's a huge commitment. the fact that the mayor is giving us the funding in the next two years to hire additional 90 dispatchers will make a huge difference for us here at d.e.m. last year we added almost 40 new dispatchers and we're seeing the results of that righ

anything that criminalizes the black and brown in our city isn't serving our city. it's been made very clear. i want to thank jeff adachi for his eloquent explanation of the problem with gang injunctions. but i just want to remind the city who you are representing in front of me right now that we have an opportunity to make a statement about racist criminalizing practices, that we face a period where increased incarceration and lifts of people who get special charges for expressing themselves, that really is fascism, we have to ask ourselves did we decide to do that? we decided not to do that, because the liberties we give up and the communities that are impacted are tsomething we are willing to give up. so i just want to encourage you to look at the broader social situation and the importance of making very strong statements against racist criminalizing practices and that's from my neighborhood. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please.

there's another sid ts ini city. and on the other side of this shining city, people are getting robbed every day on public works projects. and the administrator's report that came out vastly underestimated it oore on two school projects, just electrical workers, than what they quoted. it's rampant. and without worke on site, youwo able to protect those workers. thank you for your time. >>> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >>> thank you for the opportunity to speak. i'm with the chinese american democratic club. we are also opposing the motion to pull the city wide pla from the government audit and oversight mittee. you know, we're not agaist t pla, we're not. we believe that the unions do a lot of great things. but what we do need is we need opportunities for small ntly -- m ofh are are minoritnda women-owned businesses, to be able to grow andive thrnd then to become nio signatory. it's a symbiotic process if it's donet. irrponsi pla's are put in place, when small businesses are locked out, many of

someone who has had the opportunity to be a leader outside of city hall and inside of city hall. and at this point, it is the only person on the board of supervisors that is part of the lgbtq community. please join me in welcoming up the great lady -- leader for our city of san francisco supervisor jeff sheehy. >> thank you kate i have a certificate from the board of supervisors for you as well. [applause] just a note, under her leadership, nclr has led on these national court battles, but one of the most moving things i experienced was i was with my husband in a small town in florida, a lesbian couple, the woman who had been previously married to a man was having trouble getting rights for her child and who was there? nclr. small town, big towns, big issues, little issues, they have been there across this country. i salute you, kate. i salute nclr. the greatest. [applause] so, this is an interesting pride to kick off with a supreme court decision against our community. i recognize our acclaim this year and generations of pride and like kate, is passing down to new leadership and

city attorney. we tried to manage it like a private law firm. now we have about 185 lawyers. significantly less than we had when i came. not to mention that we continually take on additional responsibility at some times at your direction, sometimes mayor's direction and department's direction that falls within general fund responsibility that we don't any extra money for. you don't see me coming in here looking for supplemental. over the course last two years since the trump administration in office, we have incurred more than $2 million in additional legal costs fighting sanctuary and variety of other things. we never come back to you to look for supplemental not once. that is because of the efficient job that we do on behalf the taxpayers and city and county of san francisco. i would like to say that, the budget analyst does focus on percentages. they sound they are small. the impact of that may make by doing these cases right is huge. if we're gong them right the benefit to the taxpayer is going

deputy city attorney jon givner. last year, the state legislature adopted a bill that requires that any time a ballot measure is proposed to the voters that could increase taxes, it has to have certain information in the measure, including how much will be collected each year, what the potential rate of taxation is, how long collection would continue. and so going forward, all tax measures and geobonds must include that information. the legislature is currently considering a bill that would not apply that new rule to geobonds, so it's a little unclear at this point whether the state law will restrict how we define the question for this bond. in the current ordinance before you, there is a proposed question for the geobond. >> supervisor cohen: right. >> mr. givner: because the state law might change, our recommendation today is that you can pass out the ordinance onto the full board, and the ordinance -- and the board could even vote to place the ordinance on the ballot over the next several weeks. but before you do

this city is home. >> commissioner perez? >> commissioner, i am sad that you are going to be leaving us, but i hope that you are going to be enjoying your retirement, and i hope to see you around town. >> thank you, commissioner perez. i do want to say thank you it's an honor to be a commissioner in san francisco. you know, when i got approached to do it, it was like wow, that's kind of cool. but then to come on this commission and have all the commissioners, both president tan pat, w their guidance and understanding to help me along, it was an experience, and it's definitely yoen great -- and the staff. omeee >> commioner caminong. >> yes. i want to wish commissioner lee a happy belated birthday. >> ! don't say that. >> well, thank you, and commissioner frost, pleasure being my wing man here because when it comes to the poli man, what a breath of fresh air right here. you know, it is a good - he had a lot of good things to say over the years. if i'm driving in your parade, i'll say hello. >> commissioner frost, thank you for

and maybe the city attorney can answer that question. if mr. city attorney -- i'm so sorry. a quick question. so we just heard from the controller that under the charter amendment that the city and the county is responsible for the operating expenses of just the aquarium and also the maintenance of the building. we see that this is $6.4 llion and the gentleman is saying for the academy of science that the budget is actually 10 million. so are we legally obligated to meet that obligation under our city charter? >> supervisor, we can refer and report back to you because you're raising interesting questions. but this is a long-standing historical practice where the city is paying for -- we're legally required to pay for the maintenance of the building and required to maintain it. the academy itself has historically provided funds to maintain it and the city has paid for whatever is left is the way that it's worked. i don't know that if the academy itself is providing direct funding as an institution to maintenance. i don't think that anything -- the charter doesn't prevent them

we care about the city being sanctuary city.we hear about privacy measures being introduced for the members of the public benefits. what is the meaning of that if we allow the library to impinge on people post as privacy and enable the tracking of not only what people are reading, but also there is tracking throughout the e.f.f. that they have mentioned, and described in its writings at the rfid location which the library wants to install. it will enable the tracking on a selective basis of where people go with their items, whether or not the person tracking cares about what the title is. i felt encouraged by the first meeting of the budget and finance committee through hearing about people post as objections there. i think it stays that way. and i would like to give you this letter from the electronic frontier notation and aclu which is a very strongly opposed to the implementation of rfid. that is $3.4 million at the library that could be much better used for many other things like more open hours in the evenings and other tim

i am departing city hall. so mayor breed will be naming her own chief of staff. >> wait a minute. >> so good luck. bye. so i'll be staying through the inauguration and then mayor breed will name her own chief of staff, and that person will be -- will need your support. and will need your guidance and your wisdom and your experience to lead him or her through whatever is going to come be it natural disasters or manmade or whatever it is. so i ask if i can ask you for a favor, it is to be as open and communicative as we have always been with me with the other person that will succeed me. i know it goes without saying that you will help mayor breed as well. i just ask that you extend that partnership to the staff of the incoming mayor because continuity of government on this work here is more important than anything else, right? as i said before, public safety is our numb per one responsibility as a local government, so that is a favor i would ask of you and to keep the work going and there are nonprofit and priv

cities such as san jose, sunnyvale and redwood city already have something similar in place. if voters approve the tax this november, it would be phased in over two years starting in 2020. now, the proposal itself hasn't been without controversy. both the silicon valley leadership group as well as the mountain view chamber of commerce have spoken out against the plan. we're live in mountain view this morning, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. >> chris, thank you. >>> scary moments for an alameda county sheriff's detective. he almost died after being exposed to a highly dangerous drug during a bust on friday. the undercover narcotics detective and his sergeant walked into a room at the motel 6 for a raid. neither realized they were exposed to a microscopic cloud of fentanyl. the detective caught the brunt of it. >> at one point he went into respiratory distress and stopped breathing. his lips turned blue and his eyes rolled back in his head and he went unconscious. >> the detective was given two doses of narcan. the sergeant also got sick from cross contamination. both are now recover

the vast majority of the city's population and job growth will happen in this quadrant of the city, along this rail corridor. again, to accommodate that growth, we have the opposite -- option of expanding the highway which is absurd in our anchor -- in our current environment, nor do we think it is environmentally sustainable or friendly to our neighbourhoods. it is interesting for us to look back at the city's growth patterns and you can see the numbers. like most u.s. cities, there was little growth in the sixties and seventies. very little growth in either jobs or population. of course in the eighties and nineties that all started to change and that is true of cities across the country. even my hometown of detroit, which has seen some devastating economic conditions, is seeing growth now for the first time in many decades. we are seeing a substantial turnaround in urban preferences in terms of living and job locations. and we do think that by 2065, the city could have a population that is approaching 1.5 million people. getting down to the tangible level of this particular corridor, th

i'm the ceo of new york city and head of new york city's cyber command.hat in the world is new york city cyber command? so let me talk to you a little bit about that. this is kind of setting the stage for remarks today. okay. so, we all know new york city, right? new york city global leader, absolute presence not just here in our nation, but a global leader in, you know, commerce and culture and all those great things. so new york city cyber command created on july 11, 2017 by mayor de blasio. he signed executive order 28 which school district up the team. we're charged with leading the city cyber security efforts across 100 government agencies. what makes up the city government of new york, can you imagine all those critical things that are provided to new yorkers each and every day. the stored teams nypd, the water utility, sanitation, finance, you know, all those things that make the city run, makes up that city government. what makes our approach unique in the city from our optic, there are a number of duties and authorities that are invested in new y

we find on it the city streets as well. all of the items we find on the beach are also on the city streets. obviously, almost all of what we are finding is single use to go ware. mostly plastic. we are going to recreate this neighborhood by neighborhood and offering that information saying this is not only coastal this. is inner city affecting your business. if it is ugly and you see the trash. this legislation will provide support to businesses as well as the community to get streets clean. it all goes to the beach. we look forward to the day when we don't find the plastic straw on the beach. it looks like a year until that happen as. >> next speaker, please. >> i am the policy director for upstream. i moved to upstream about a year ago. prior too that i was the california director of clean water action where i started the program that jack mentioned. we found reduced the single use packaging businesses save money. every food business saves money this. is a good thing for business. often businesses don't really understand

faultlines is in the city of baltimore to try to find out why in the inner city neighborhoods of obama's america. life for so many young african-american men continues to be a fight for survival. our cities stubborn homicide count which is lowest level since ninety seven. thank you and we know that these crimes are the ones that gave us a bad reputation as a dangerous place and for too long instilled the deep seated fear that drove families away baltimore's man stephanie rawlings blake is delivering her annual state of the city address it's not time to celebrate a combative the population of baltimore the largest city in the state of maryland has been shrinking for decades. man rawlings blake wants to grow it again by ten thousand families within the next ten years let there be no doubt the state of our city is now better safer and stronger. requiring. more for all the talk of the climbing crime rates ultimo is still one of the deadliest cities in the united states but still talking about it. it's one forty five pm and demand to be shown. just what about another shooting incidents in the

to the city's five-year financial plan. i wo ur new initiatives include -- well, we're kicking off our strategic planning process in the next two week yews thiswil uide our work d while our staffnd myself and the board have a lot of big ideas, i really wasn't prepared to present them today because it reallywould circumvent the process. and it was ver informative to hear some of the prior departments, especially o on the equity discussion and such, these are issues that will be part of our strategic plan going forward. on the other hand we have had a successful pilot of our online self-service benefit enentrollm in 2017 where it was limited. so we plan toand that opportunity to offer an online enrollment to over 12,000 membe clg 5 yh, retirees this fall. thank you. we are rebuilding our website to facilitate easier access to th information on our benefits and well-being program. we're scheduled to launch that in january 2019. and we are in the queue to update our outdated telephone and call mangement program as part of the c