city librarian received $181,000 from the friends of the san francisco public library. mr.hafee's previous speaker had an additional $30,000. this is particularly the items that are spent on travel, hotel accommodation etc. herrera has a total discretion to spend these funds including some for his personal benefit. he has failed to report any of these gifts as required by state and local ordinances, i have to wonder whether any of these sums were reported to the internal revenue services and franchise tax board. these gifts were spent on the staff, i wonder if city employees were given information about the potential tax liability incurred by accepting these gifts. using his position as city librarian , to make false statements and has placed a dozens of employees to having violated both federal and state tax codes. on a different topic, icon congratulated one member on this board who has paid attention to the commendation. while they are particularly honoree they pay attention but they don't pay attention to other people. i think it's really disconcerting being honored and

when we point out that the city librarian and library commission have been lying -- yes, i said lying to the public about the financial dealings of the friends, you look the other way. 50 to $60 million have been raised since the year 2000 and the library commissioners and the city librarian have absolutely no idea how much of that money actually benefited the citizens of this city. they have abused the public trust placed in them. when we point out the $181,000 of freebies given to the library staff for them to look the other way, you just look the other way. why don't you care about these abuses of the public trust? since you're not going to look at it, i'm putting forth a thing and i'm going to send to the franchise tax board because i think a lot of those $181,000 are gifts given to those library staff were illegal so a whistle blower complaint to the internal revenue service. maybe the state and the feds will do something very much [speaker not understood]. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. next speaker. >>> good afternoon. my name is ann brubaker and i am chairman of

. >> basically the city librarian is violating their own established policy in disregarding it. and if they can do that, what would keep them from simply 6 months from now, saying that we are not going to put these on 150-word summaries in the minutes any more we are going to put them as an addendum and make me fight the fight all over again, the bottom line is as i have said before, i have been looking into the finances of the friends of the san francisco public library and we are talking 50, 60, million dollars. and they come before the library commission, and they present documentation which is taken at face value but if you look at it as a financial person and i have a agree in business management and a master's degree you can't tell a damn thing from those records. what they do is they come in and say that we gave you 750,000, what they don't tell you, is 350 of that, 325,000 of that money is restricted funds that they have no choice but to pass through the library. so what they actually give, is 375,000. so they raised between 4, and 4 and a half million a year. and they s

and thanks to our city librarian, we will be extending library hours throughout our city. (applause) >> we are going to make san francisco an even safer city. we developed a six-year police staff and fire staffing plan to train san francisco's first responders. over the next two years ~ san francisco will hire 300 new sworn police officers with six new academy classes. and we will add 120 firefighters with three new fire academy classes. with with 35 construction cranes across our skyline, you can see public and private construction jobs being created every day. in fact, an estimated 223,000 jobs will be created over the next 10 years from city projects alone. for our part, we're making a sound investment of $25.1 billion in capital projects over the next 10 years through our city's ten-year capital plan. this proposed budget includes unprecedented levels of general fund sub poderth for these smart capital investments. ~ support $72 million in year one and $105 million in year two. thank you, president david chiu, for your collaboration on our city's 10 year capital plan t

when we point out that the city librarian and library commission have been lying -- yes, i said lying to the public about the financial dealings of the friends, you look the other way. 50 to $60 million have been raised since the year 2000 and the library commissioners and the city librarian have absolutely no idea how much of that money actually benefited the citizens of this city. they have abused the public trust placed in them. when we point out the

the department of building inspection, public works, the school district and our city librarian and host. i feel like a choir director we have the aging and adult services and child services the health department the adult probation department the control and the mayors housing department. and finally we have recreation and park our supervisors and the police department you've already seen the fire chief. i also wanted to introduce the workforce development and the office of - that's everybody so without any further adieu let's hear from you >> thank you, my apologys for being late. i'm so proud we had such a great turnout i was horrified that so many people had to leave but we're engaged in making the community where we want to live. i get a few minutes to speak i'm going to give you you a few minutes of my time you can come to talk to me anytime i want to thank my staff but this time is for you thank you for being here. >> thank you, thank you for that important information and thank you for the introduction apparently i just want to remind everyone please turn in a comment card and th

city librarian luis herrera and the library commission led by jewel gomez have been negligent in theirrsight of the friends of the san francisco public library. an examination of the documents produced at the library commission meetings over the years show they have simply allowed the friends to self-report regarding more than $60 million raised and expended in the name of the citizens of this city. it is my belief that this private-public partnership will be reviewed by the civil grand jury. and eventually by a civil jury of 12 san franciscans. and they're not going to be too pleased. in a typical year, the friends raise approximately 4 to 4-1/2 million dollars. they spend another 2 to $2.5 million from former reserves and the citizens of this city benefit to the tune of less than $400,000. here's what you approved previously. and if you looked down here at the bottom, you see $750,000, but you also see right above it, donor designated funds, $309,000. so, out of 6-1/2 million dollars a year, the friends do manage to turn over $400,000. and as i've mentioned before, they also use a lo

the pardon of emergency management; the city librarian, public health department, mta, health supportervices, juvenile probation department; i also see -- did i miss anybody? ann hinton from the department of adult services. without further ado alternate over to supervisor farrell. >> for those of you don't know kate is spending late nights and weekends at the mayor's office getting the budget together. we are going to ask the folks from district two to come up first. first i would like to ask the friends of mountain lake park group. there will be two committee groups from district two and two from the six three, each will have four minutes. hi guys. >> good morning mayor lee, good morning everybody on the panel. excuse i will try to project. thanks for giving us the opportunity to share about a project with you today. we are members of friends of mountain lake park playground, located on twelfth avenue and -- richmond district. they learn in 2012 that the current playground, was receiving a failing grade. we decided to build a new playground. linkin park was born. we work side-by-sid

luis herrera, city librarian. [speaker not understood], the chief financial officer. before i begin, i want to express my appreciation for the [speaker not understood] for your help in our budget and certainly from the board analyst, mr. harvey rose and many of you for your help on this. we want to start off by reviewing some highlights on what's happening in terms of our mission and the success we're having through our 28 library libraries. we served over 7.2 million visitors ~ and have circulated 11 million items annually. the user trends speak to the fact we have one of the highest visits per capita and circulation rates per capita among urban librarieses. that is something to be proud of. it's attributed to the support we have from our community. in terms of youth engagement, we continue to do well in terms of library program attendance. just as an example, 250,000 children and teens attended programs this past year. strong emphasis on learning and i'll speak more at length about that, but over 2.9 million items, both printed and multi-media, are available in 15 l

the city librarian told the budget committee, and i quote, we have one of the highest visits per capita and circulation rates per capita among urban libraries. the whole truth and nothing but the truth includes the fact that san francisco is the second highest and per capita expenditures in the country. 233% above average. the only city higher gets 28% of its funding from the state of ohio where it's located. san franciscans pay more for library service than anyplace in the country. do we have comparable performance for the money? not a chance. [speaker not understood] per capita, he we own 44% above average. in circulations per capita we are only 22% above average. why is that, you might ask? first, we are slightly below average ~ in collection items per capita and we are also slightly below average in [speaker not understood] expenditures for materials. you have an increase this year in the budget of 9.2%, 3% materials increase and only the electronic, not one penny increase for printed materials or books. up until a week ago they had a plan to cut 32 hours evening hours, all the hour