the [inaudible] building public trust for transparency and accountability of meeting the needs of dhern, youth and families. last negative san francisco voters improve a increase in the fund to address needs in the community. the increase in the fund unfolds over 4 years beginning fiscal year 15/16 with 4 million to be added to the fund. therefore the children and youth fund urges the mayor and board of supervisor tooz macmize children and youth resources to address unmet needs through grant program development,xpansion and improve. the resources should nolt be diverted to cover increase in minimum wage. the mayor made comment to address fiscal praesher [inaudible] while the children and yooth fund community youth [inaudible] supports the cost of doing business increase for dc [inaudible] the city should invest in the children to support strong agency doing quality work with young peopling in need. giving budget predictions of [inaudible] 1.5 million to support [inaudible] that will divert half tho2 million of the 4 million increase in the children fund next year. [inaudible] thank yous

[inaudible] department of dhern and youth and family. thank you for waiting as we continue to talk with the other departments >> there is a request for public comment on the previous item >> if there is anybody that-why don't we do this quick. if there is xb that wishes to comment oin reck and park department we'll break this hearing item up. >> thank you chair farrell for letal me address the supervisors. i wanted to just-from [inaudible] i want to cu-mind the department on its amazing recreation suvss. a as parent in san francisco my kids have benefited a lot from cooking camp squz surch camps. i alsoment to say the general manager underscored a lot of the challenges. at the parks alliance we do a lot of work with them on this and analyzing where the department budget needs to go. i think they are very serious needs in park patrol and serious needs in urban forestry and caring for the trees, addressing the defered maintenance budget which is growing and the needs are growing. the city is growing and we need to take care and preserve th