deal with those complexities but the ultimate outcome of being an even more successful city, a compassionate city, a city that welcomes everyone but also figures out solution oriented innovation is what our city should be remembered for everything that we do and make sure we're a city that works for everybody and appreciates all the diversity that is our strength. >> thank you very much. thanks to all of you who participated in today's online town hall, mayor ed lee, kate howard, mostly you, the public, we hope we have been able to answer some of your questions and please stay involved in this budget process. there's going to be lots more opportunities in different neighborhoods all around the city. i'm barbara taylor with kcbs radio and again thanks so much for joining us. >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder

but also the suggestion that we are a community of people that care for each other this is a compassionate city and also not the economic success we all want but the ability to taller than and say who's next and who can i bring through the door you doorkeepers are there to keep the door open and we're going to use that door to bring success to other families. thank you for being here and in anticipation for helping us to create 7 thousand jobs this summer for youth i appreciate it very much this city is going to be on fire for everyone. thank you (clapping.) thank you mr. mayor so for those who remember the first opportunity how many got it right the first time? yeah. we're creating opportunity to learn and grow. but with that it's a pleasure to introduce the ceo of the u knitted way of the bay area >> thank you very much (clapping) thanks mr. mayor and partners i want to add an extra note of what on exiled city this room is gathered and, yes the third year and a and just as much love and excitement as the first day that we started 24 program together. and the keyword is together. across the ci

actually struggled with people coming here from other places, finding their sanctuary, we are very compassionate city and a tolerant city and an accepting city and so i just want to you know voice my thanks for supervisor weiner for supervisor chair farrell for having this hearing today. and i want to make sure that we can have action that comes out of these series of hearings that we are putting resources where they need to go. and we are actually building all kinds of housing in san francisco and we are looking at our pipeline and be it for housing for family and for the youth and seniors and all of these need to be in the mix. what we have so far is not very dramatic, we need something very dramatic to save our populations here in san francisco and our low income and our communities of color and our queer communities so that we can see san francisco 20 years from now has diversity, i don't want it to be carm el by the sea, that is where we are heading to, that the hearings are putting that movement and the motion into action and so hopefully we can have that come out of this hearing today. and we

economically successful, barbara, but i think we more and more also want to be one of the most compassionate cities you can find so that people in need find themselves, either loss of a job or disabled or other accidents can actually find help from the city. so having said those very general things i also want to make sure we know that kate howard, our budget director is here today and she has the minute details that we're working on. i will remind everybody that one of the challenges this year is that we have 27 of our labor unions having to renegotiate all of their union contracts. and that is not an easy job. but i will say we came to an agreement with the first one just the other night and it was by negotiated agreement so hopefully that will spell we're willing to negotiate through agreements with all the other 26 unions and that's part of the budget as well and we're going to be reporting that up to the board of supervisors as we're challenged with all the other needs from departments and from the communities that are telling us what they think and this is another great forum for that to happ

city and county animal shelter. please seriously consider me for the commission. i would really like to work with this group of compassionate people and help out in whatever way i can. i want to engage the younger audience and i hope to relieve some of the burdens on animal care and can control. i still have a lot to learn, but thank you for your time and attention and i'm open to any questions. >> okay. supervisor tang. >> sure. i actually don't have any questions but really just feel impressed by your interest and your educational background and what you have done in terms of volunteer time. i've actually personally got to witness davi's volunteerism and, again, your commitment to really animal welfare and safety. so, i actually just want to thank you and for stepping up and applying for this and i'm surprised that you haven't been on it already. so, thank you for sharing all of your background information with us today. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next applicant is amy fuller on the list. i understand she won't -- she wouldn't be able to come. she had a prior engagement. she just sent a statement that i looked at. the

compassionate. we have to think about the next generation. i grew up in detroit so i'm very sensitive to this. detroit was once the wealthiest cityn america and now the largest bankruptcy. and what happened? people kept kicking the can down the road and refused to accept responsibility for what was going on. some people said there was the union and they played a big role. but they do what they do. they will gladly -- just give me that right now. i don't care about anything else in the future. but the big three automakers and i blame them just as much because they knew that if they kept competing to demand of the union that one day the price would have to be paid but they also knew that by that time they would have long disappeared in their golden parachute and it wouldn't be their problem and this is exactly what we are doing today and in this nation. we have no regard whatsoever for the people that come behind us. we just want ours right now. it's incredibly selfish and un-american and we have to stop it. [applause] why to buy rail so much against the affordable care act? i wouldn't if it was the affordable care acts but it's th