supervisor cohen? >> supervisor cohen: aye. >> clerk: cohen, aye. the motion passes. >> supervisor cohen: all right. chief, you're done. thank you for your time. i'd like to call up kelly kirkpatrick to discuss technical amendments. >> thank you for your patience. i had to get all the papers together. the clerk should be bringing them over to you. i have included three rounds of technical adjustments. round one is what you had heard on monday? all the technical cleanups about balancing overhead entries, correcting work orders, accurately reflecting grant amounts, and it includes the detail which i submitted to you all via e-mail over monday, but i wanted you to have that full package to accept. round two of which there's a letter as well as excel sheet is attached are actualizing the rebalancing plans for homeless and mohcd, so it was removing all items related to proposition d that was included in the first budget, removing the state revenue, reflecting the updated retiree health benefits, addressing expenditures both at h.s.h. and mohcd to fund ho

>> supervisor cohen: hold on. the reason why it's eight miles a day is it's an old car and it's breaking down. >> and the reason -- >> supervisor cohen: director, director, i'm sorry. i want supervisor sheehy to finish his thought. >> supervisor sheehy: i just thought it would be great if the b.l.a. could look at car usage overall and look at the size of our fleet. who knows. maybe they'll put everybody on scooters. but honestly, the cars, that's -- now, it's just -- there are a lot of city cars. >> supervisor cohen: maybe we do need city scooters. >> supervisor sheehy: we do need -- i mean, we put so many encumbrances on people being able to drive in this city with the goal of everybody using transit, but we do not follow that practice in my experience as a city. so if we can eliminate one car, i think we'll make progress. >> if i may, i just -- this car is used by the enforcement staff to go from our office which is kind of central to the city to locations all over the city. with all respect to m.t.a., and i thi

>> supervisor cohen: it's probably easier. >> okay. >> good morning chair cohen. good morning budget committee members i'm director of property and permits with rec and park department. i'm here first before you to present legislation to adjust our tennis fees. these adjustments are the first time they have been adjusted in over 20 years. the new rate has been publicly discussed during community meetings as well as rec and park commission. the ordinance will enable and ensure equitable rates in our service and activity in the golden gate park tennis after it is renovated. the lowest possible rate for our residents. if you have any questions. >> supervisor cohen: yes i do. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: i like your senior rate. i would like to suggest that the seniors be identified as 60 years and older and rather than 65 years and older. was there a discussion about that? >> that never came up. that's what we've had all our senior rates across our other facilities. we were matching those. >> supervisor fewer: you identified, across all your programs, it's

>> supervisor cohen: please. we'll continue for the next one. >> for the recreation park department, we recommend reduction for $1,024,489 in fiscal 18-19. it allow increase fiscal year 18-19. recommends closing out prior year $56,749 for total general fund savings $996,000. also with the policy recommendations, we understand that the department is prepared to accept our policy recommendation to delete one replacement for 250 extended cab. are little to accept the savings reduction for the upward substitution of the policy recommendations of $18,904 first year and $18,888,000 in the second year but with position authority to do that substitution and then in the second year, our recommended reduction to the budget total $55,755 and all of those are one timesaver -- time savings. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: can you go through the amounts again? you're saying year one, it will be 1,004,000 -- $1,044,000 that are one time only. this is what i have? is it one time only. >> that's correct. >

>> supervisor cohen: over two years? >> peryear. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is louie gonzales. i volunteer for the coalition on homelessness, and i just want to travel you how embarrassing it is to travel to third world countries and find out there is more homeless people on the streets of san francisco. i implore you if you could use those funds for the homelessness, the youths, the future of this country. just because they're homeless does not make them disposable people, and i think it would make me proud for you people to use the funds to help them out and i would -- want to die knowing that i lived at a time when i had very important and wise supervisors that made a change. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is von chase cly. i'm speaking on behalf of the chinatown nmca. we're asking you for continued support of our s.r.o. program. in the last two years we've served after 128 families with a comprehensive support program that provides them with economic self-sufficie

>> supervisor cohen: sure. the controller will standup and let us know. >> i don't know that i can do the math that quickly. obviously, the value of the different items that were discussed here over the last couple of hours are dramatically in excess of the 6.8 million, so i think part of the exercise is among the different priorities that have been talked about here, in a world where funds are finite, kind of what does the final package look like for the board? >> supervisor sheehy: but the mayor has already submitted his budget priorities. >> the discussion today, supervisor, this was tens of millions of dollars of discussion over the last couple of hours. it's up to you how you want to structure the conversations with the mayor's office. >> supervisor sheehy: i guess i'd like to make hard decisions given how much money we have. and so -- 'cause what are we trying to develop a basket of funding for? what's our number? are we going to come up with $10 million that we're going to spend? >> supervisor cohen: i t

she ha michael cohen, it's michael cohen.told rachel about how michael cohen is feeling. >> the president has done nothing in order to make michael cohen feel like he has michael cohen's back. and that has been a problem. you forget the president went on fox news and basicallyd i barely know the guy, he's a coffee boy, he did a small and rudy giuliani has gone on television repeatedly making this harder for michael cohen. and the reaction from michael cohen, from everything i know from my reporting, has been these guys don't have my back. now a man who is frustrated, isolg alone and feeling very, very angry at the trump family in general and at the president. >> angry at the trump family in general and the president. and he has information about the trump family and the president. >> and lawrence, i think what's going to happen, look, nothing lasts forever. i know people think things last forever, they don't. so what's going to happen is the narcissism of this president, his arrogance, his stupidity is going toch up to him b

. >> supervisor cohen: it would be mr. herrera. >> i'm sorry. >> one thing that was pointed out to me. couple of years ago we started doing lawyer work here. i we have lawyers that handled lawyers law work. never came back and look for additional funding for that either. that is going to be consumed within this unit that is going to be -- >> supervisor cohen: we've got some questions here that i want to get some clarity on. i want to go back to the state legislation. it passed out of committee 31-0 and frankly i believe expected to pass. what are the implications of this legislation passing? what are the implications going to on city county of san francisco? >> it's hard to predict. my understanding of that legislation, i don't pretend to be an expert on it, it will expand the definitions of who can be conserved. there will be an increase in the population if they need help. it expands the definition who can be conserve. that would lead more work on top of the 500 cases existing now with the current definition. >> supervis

thank you. >> thank you supervisors. >> supervisor cohen: chief. >> good afternoon chair cohen. i'm making sure we have a quorum still. >> thank you so much. san francisco fire department. i like to acknowledge and thank the budget legislative analyst office in addition to mr. rose who i have great amount of respect for. i like to report that we agreed on everything and reached consensus on all but one item. it's the core function what we do. we're not asking for additional positions. it's an equipment item. we feel very strongly that it is something that needs to be funded in order to be able to meet our mission statement. it's sort of ironic that i stand here in that four years ago, the department received lots and lots of criticism. we had a target on our back. i certainly felt the target on my back as it related to the provision of prehospital care. which we need ambulances to do that work. one thing i'm excited about, supervisor cohen we spoken about. supervisor yee you're a huge champion of vision zero. we've set aside some funds. we need funds $700,000 next fiscal year no

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, i have some announcements about the procedure and what you can expect for today. each member of the public will have an opportunity to speak. they will have an allotted time of one minute to speak. public speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed to testify for two minutes of public testimony time limit. priority will be given to public speakers who may require special accommodations such as persons with disability, special accommodations will also be given to the infirm, to seniors, or any person with a child under the age of five. saving of seats are standing in the chamber, as you know is prohibited. individuals should stand in line to speak and not gather ask -- in a group at the podium. only one person is allowed at the podium at any given time unless for interpretation or the individual is speaking on behalf of an entire group. speakers, speakers will not be called by speaker cards. those who wish to fill out a speaker card may do so to ensur

thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. again, for everyone's identification, the reason why we are doing it this way as it is a cleaner and more efficient way and we are making decisions based on policies, not on personality. supervisor kim, it is good to see you. you are next paragraph sorry, supervisor ronan is on their. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. again, i have been very supportive of many of the tasks that i have heard from my colleagues. i just wanted to highlight a few. there are some that are especially important to me. the first one is the cultural district staffing central coordinator that is on here for $175,000 for both fiscal years 18, 19, 19, 20. >> supervisor cohen: the first question i have, district allocation. would you like to increase it? it is currently at $1 million. >> supervisor ronen: if we were growing the pot, i would like to increase it if we are not going to pot i would like to keep it. >> supervisor cohen: you're absolutely right if the pot is large, you will be considered growing it to wha

i don't know if emily cohen is here -- oh, emily cohen is here. i'm going to give her an opportunity to speak on the rebalancing plan. >> thank you, supervisor cohen, supervisors. just want to thank the mayor's budget office, kelly and her team for the diligent to rebalance the budget after the failure of prop d. we're very excited about this spending plan, about this new budget, and the items that reply with it will bring approximately 300 units of new rapid rehousing, the navigation center, and we wanted to express our sincere thanks to this board and the mayor's budgeting office for working through this, and i'm hoppy to answer any questions -- happy to answer any questions you may have. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. and i'm happy to recognize kelly kirkpatrick and her team, and i want to recognize emily cohen and jeff kovitsky for their patience and flexibility. since there are no questions, i'd like to make a motion to accept the rebalancing plan in the h.s.h. and mohcd budgets. all right. seconded by supervisor sheehy, and i will take that

cohen: good for you. i like that haircut too, it looks good on you. have we explored the conversation on purchasing the building. the retirement board as an example -- >> they're in our building. >> supervisor cohen: yes. and they purchased a new building and they'll be moving out? >> yeah. >> supervisor cohen: so my question is, in terms of the city, it is most frugal, and in our best interest to own every asset as opposed to paying rent and being beholden to landlords. so i don't know if the department of real estate if you are relatively new and so maybe you have not been part of the conversation and maybe i should pivot to the mayor's budget office to hear more thoughts around this? >> i think is a great question and i think that a good -- the city administrators office has a overview of that the city leases for departments and we work on those together. so it's reat question for real estate to help us to kind of assess on what the options are for all of our kind of rentals and building ownership acro

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i'd like to request that the mayor authorize a growth in the budget by the amount of the closeout. can you take care of that? >> it is my understanding that before actions just taken by the board as related to police, that there was $2.06 million worth of encumbrances? >> supervisor cohen: say that one more time. how much? >> 2.06 million in encumbrances or prior closeouts identify by the budget and legislative analyst's. since that would grow the bottom line of the budget that does require the mayor's office to increase the appropriation authority. given that the board was put out a spending allocation plan that is $31.6 million and in combination with the b.l.a. baseline cuts, this additional 2.60 million offen -- 2.60 million of encumbrances would get them to the 5 million approximately, and i have been authorized by the mayor to make that department -- increase the appropriation by the 2.60 million. >> supervisor cohen: okay. thank you. we're going to take the $45 million of discu

h.s.c. . >> supervisor cohen: how much? 2998 position for $140,000. >> supervisor cohen: including benefits? >> dedicated -- >> supervisor cohen: does that include the fringe benefits? >> yes. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. h.r.c. does investigations very well. d.p.h. mission is treatment and services. the department of status of women and the commission on the status of women is outlined in the charter and identifies the issues of sexual harassment and we would like to play a role and i want to thank supervisor ronen and however, with a staff of just six people, responsible for the needs of 49% of the population, we just do not have the staff capacity. we identify staffing as a need for this issue two years ago without our family council five-year plan. that was not funded. at the request of the board of supervisors we convened the safer schools sexual assault task force last year. 47 recommendations. the number one recommendation is additional dedicated staffing to the issue. and i just want to say that this staff person

thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors, chair cohen. i'm representing the supportive housing providers network. commend you on finding over $29.5 million that you can reallocate to urgent needs. we are here today to also express gratitude for the new units of supportive housing in the homeless balancing plan that you did do. we are here to represent the thousands of units of supportive housing that are underserved and don't have the dollars to operate effectively. without additional funds, we cannot serve the hardest to serve, the hardest to house. we have seen addiction rates go up, crisis in the properties go up. we are asking for $10 million over two years to enhance existing supportive housing and services that are failing across our communities from the marina and district 2 to the western addition, to the bayview and tenderloin. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. come on down. >> hola. [through translator]>> i'm here for homelessness. [speaking spanish]>> here to express gratitude for what you have given. i'm nervous. >> super

>> supervisor cohen: one more time. i didn't hear you. >> supervisor cohen: yeah. it's need-based subsidies for housing and the homeless. >> supervisor fewer: i think this homeless workforce development is really important, and i think it's an answer to homelessness. and then i have to say i'd like to see 1.2 million into a.p.i. citywide services. i think the largest population of children that we have in san francisco that are in poverty are asian. and although -- i mean, i feel like many of these services were cut during this dcyf budget cycle, so i'm just looking to enhance that pot a little bit. and then, domestic violence folks, and i think that we made a very good case about how they are the first -- first people, quite frankly, over the police that the community calls because there's such deep trust, and i think there's need for more money for that. and of course, we did -- >> supervisor cohen: supervisor, before you go on, there's -- there's one thing that i had some questions about -- about some subsidies. how -- how is it taken care of in the rebalancing

thank you miss cohen for the funding. budget we request that you fund the 14.8 million that we are requesting for our budget. it is really important to support the homeless families. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> good morning board of supervisors. we are from district six and we want to thank you for having us here this morning. we want to thank you for the $5.6 million you have funded towards our ask so far. we are also here to request that you please cut the eight% budget to increase the police force department. idepartment.in order to fully fd the remaining acts. our city desperately needs the remaining $9.3 million in order to support the san franciscans that have been left out of this budget. the current budget proposal includes 100 new officers to the police force, yet leaves out support for the most vulnerable people in our city. please find the $14.9 million house but ask in full so we can include hotel vouchers for families, critically needed mental health services for all of our communities facing poverty

and tonight we have text messages from michael cohen indicating that michael cohen considered himself am booker for sean hannity's show. or at least friendly enough with fox news that he could book a guest on the network whenever he wanted to. i have her tentatively scheduled for hannity tonight, call me after your trial. that's a text message from michael cohen on january 17th of this year, it was a text message to keith davidson, who was stormy daniels' lawyer at that time. michael cohen had booked stormy daniels on sean hannity's show that night so that stormy daniels could say she never had sex with donald trump. the reason michael cohen wanted stormy daniels to say that is that an old interview she had done with intouch magazine in 2011 had just been posted on line by intouch magazine, and in great detail stormy daniels in that interview describes her night with donald trump. the night she spent in donald trump's hotel room talking with him about his fear of sharks and spanking him a bit, and having sex with him. all of that had become public the day before when in touch magazine

one report even raises the possibility that cohen may. more likely to flip and start cooperating as a highly valuable witness for the government. nbc news reports that cohen has not yet spoken with prosecutors, but the possibility of him flipping has rattled trump's allies, who see the potential legal jeopardy for the president. in large part, because remember, the president knows the kinds of things that would be seized during a raid of cohen's home and office. >>> also tonight, "the washington post" has brand-new reporting on robert mueller's continued focus on michael cohen. quote, cohen is under intensifying scrutiny from mueller who's continuing to investigate episodes involving cohen, according to a witness who testified in to front o grand jury inhington last week. a former member of the ukrainian parliament said in an interview that many of the questions he faced during several hours of testimony on friday were focused on his interactions with cohen. "the post" writes that the witness met with cohen in january 2017 to discuss a ba

>> supervisor cohen: yeah, june 25. >> yeah. m dachair, we typically, at the very end of june, part of what we'll do as the controller's office is continue to monitor trends what we see going on with tax revenues and other sources, and weypicly complete a study at the end, regarding what news we see. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i can't wait for that date. >> so how did we balance the 137 million that was projected in march? on the revenue side, the nine month report had approximately $94 million of currentar either savings, but mostly it was additional revenue, and of that, the vast majority was revenue from the department of health, including two payments for medicare that we received in one year, and also patient revenue from more individuals having insurance, we reflect that revenue in our department as an ongoing solution. additionally, there is projected some ongoing grminally ongoing property tax th. the roles are growing, but it is a finite role pool that we will be pulling from, so that was a big help in 18-19 finite

cohen? >> so on the one hand, people inside the white house are not particularly sympathetic to him. there's a reason that his life has turned out very differently than he envisioned it. and sort of almost since the campaign, it's been a series of disappointments. he expected a huge role on the campaign. he didn't have that. he was sort of shunted off to an office in trump tower but not officially part of the campaign. he expected to come to washington with the president, be white house counsel and he was blocked by some of the president's family. and a number of people who knew him quite well from the campaign. and now this. and there's a reason he was blocked, because people on the campaign knew and people in the president's orbit knew when there was a sensitive issue and a sensitive discussion they didn't even like talking about, someone would say that's okay, michael cohen would handle it. that said, there is a lot of unease within this white house about him. there is a sense as the muel

thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. there is always one or two people who forget, no applause, ladies and gentlemen. no applause. >> hello. i'm when the coalition on homelessness. i just want to say that every issue that you here about today feels a ripple effect of poverty in the city. funding the organization, funding people who no real solutions to real issues that affect all of us, and can actually provide resources to the homeless population, and homelessness effects everybody in really big ways, whether or not they are paying attention. please fund has budget fund real solutions that with people who have done the resource dose research and know who to help -- how to help. >> supervisor cohen: thank yo you. >> good morning. i am with the coalition on homelessness. i've been working in the bayview community for several weeks now, and if you didn't know, the bayview community has 40% of san francisco's homeless population but only six% of the services. there's only one shelter in the bayview community called providen

>> michael cohen's attorneys are withdrawing or separating from michael cohen. en this happens it's important to remember that this could be for a number of different reasons. there's situations where attorneys can voluntarily withdraw. there's situations where nay must withdraw under the rules of ethics. it can be for reasons like non-payment. an ir retrievable break down of communication. it could be another reason. another possibility is an attorney cannot counsel any future crime. that's one of many instances that warrant an attorney's withdrawal from represen >> one of the theories in this case is that michael cohen may be changing his strategy in whatever way he thinks is necessary. is that a possibility as well? >> what we're seeing here is a classic example of the federal government's war of economic attrition against ndants. michael cohen, if he does erate, he will be like many others before him. for the first year of the investigation of prosecution claim i will never cooperate. i will stay strong and i will go to trial. after maybe a year or so of dra

[roll call] >> clerk: there are three ayes, one no, with supervisor cohen in dissent. >> supervisor cohen: all right. so one thing we need to think about is year two moneys, so i'll make a motion that we put that on reserve until we have more of an idea about the budget. >> supervisor fewer: i second that. >> supervisor cohen: all right. can we take that without objection? without objection, thank you. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor cohen: okay. moving on. city administrator. want to welcome the city administrator back to the chamber, with departments at 49 south vanness to create a one-stop permit center, and it's necessary to have a level of position with the skill set to work with department heads at building inspection, the fire department, city planning, the department of public health behavioral -- not behavioral health, environmental health services to make sure we have a true stream lined one stop permit center spot for everyone to go to. we would still like to reject the 18 -- the deletion of the 1822 administrative analyst position. i know this position has been sitting vacant for som