and it is what supervisor ferrill said, you have a lot of diversities. and i assure you each and every one of your comments is going to be repeated over and over again, as we deliberate among ourselves about what we need to invest in and i do want to say that overwhelmingly, all of you want a safer city. and we are going to work on those. because you can't do anything in the city, unless you feel safe. so, i heard that that is probably one of the highest priorities coming out of this meeting, but the other things that you said are just as important and i will want to thank the people that have supported the translation of your views, and to make sure that everyone here has a great weekend. but know that we are going to work hard to make our budget reflect all of what you need to make this city successful. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> all right. thank you everyone for coming. >> the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is always a hit now completing itself 12 year of music in the incredible golden gate park. >> this is just the best par

now we will have supervisor ferrill, do you want to say? >> [ applause ] >> thank you mayor lee, and happy saturday, my name is mark ferrill and i am the supervisor for district two and the honor of chairing the budget city and town hall. and with chu who did a great job the last two years, i am going to keep this short, as mayor lee mentioned today is about listening to you. we are doing six of these town halls out in the different neighborhoods of san francisco, we did an on-line town hall the other week on the internet. the point is that we will have a budget that reflects the values of san francisco but we want to make sure that everyone has the confidence that we are doing it in an open and transparent manner and our priorities really is to manage our budget in a way that not only reflects our values but also balances the need to make sure that we do everything that we can today in san francisco, but also that we plan responsibly for our future as a city. and future for our children, and for our grandchildren to make sure that san fran

. >> super supervisor ferril,. >> i appreciate those who are here on this item. i know that the item is continuous to the amendments and will going to the full board in the early may meeting. last week i agreed with the sponsor to amend into my original legislation under the ospices and the hope that we can work together and find common ground, both the advocates as well as tenant advocates. again, to repeat, some of my comments from last week, but my goal in this legislation has always been three-fold. one to protect and help vulnerable members in san francisco that in true regards as to what supervisor campos mentioned earlier represents the families here. and they need our support in city hall and continue to fight for them through the legislation and otherwise. >> second of all to protect the tenants that are in these buildings, and i know that there has been a lot of commentary about addiction and that is not something that i support or any of the co-sponsors do not support. and to create a large pool of money for the house ng san francisco. as has been comm

the san francisco budget and finance subcommittee meeting for wednesday may 15th, 2012, i'm mark ferrill also joined by kim and london breed. and mr. clerk do you have any announcements >> silence all cell phones and devices. please include all of the documents to be part of the file should be submitted to

ferrill promotes. that is why we need the two protections, a minimum ten year and narrow the future lottery. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> can you hear me from here? >> it would be better if you could pull that down. >> great. >> so the people on tv can hear you too. >> good afternoon, supervisors miem the jessica layman and i am the senior director of seniors action, we build together the people to build a voice for those community and we are very concerned about the loss of units and the rise of evictions we hear about people who are being evicted or it seems like the popular thing is to harass the people until they leave so-called voluntarily, it is nobody choice to leave a unit that they have lived in for years when they feel like they have nowhere else to go. >> so many of the seniors and people that we work with don't have other options people are talking about having to leave san francisco and that is where the support networks are and get the resource and services. we need to protect the co

also supervisor ferrill and i are co-sponsors of this and we agree on a few things, people should not assume that we agree on everything. and so, with that said, if there are no additional comments, madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> on the motion, item three as recommended. chiu. >> aye. >> chiu. >> kim. >> aye. >> weiner. >> no. >> we have two ayes and one no. >> the motion carries. >> madam clerk will you call item four. >> the resolution finding the development of sea wall lot 337 and pier 48 adjacent to at&t park, feasible and we will wait one second to allow everybody to clear the chambers. >> we are on item number four and just i believe that my understanding is that we will need to continue this to the call of the chair and then president chiu will be transferring this to the budget committee to the termination of this hearing. >> that is my understanding from the conversations that my staff has had with the project sponsor and with the city departments >> thank you. >> and so, we will turn it over to phil williamson from the port. >> phil williamson, (inaudible) 4

mayor, supervisor tan, and ferrill and department heads, and d7 and d4 residents, i am very happy to be here today to hear from you about your priorities for the city's

the san francisco budget and finance subcommittee meeting for wednesday may 15th, 2012, i'm mark ferrill also joined by kim and london breed. and mr. clerk do you have any announcements >> silence all cell phones and devices. please include all of the documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk, and they will appear on the may 21st agenda unless otherwise stated. >> i want to thank the members of sf tv, we are not going to be having the regular one clock and we have most of the items here. >> mr. clerk, could you call items 9, 10, 11 first. >> nine, ordinance amending the park code to designate portions of the property leased by staoet and county of san francisco under and adjacent to the portions of the central freeway located between otis and stevenson street and between valencia and stevenson street and partially bounded by the duboce avenue and referred to as the south of market and west state park and dog park as a park within the meaning of the park code and to authorize the recreation and parks department to control these portions. >> ten, resolution approvin

transportation authority, finance committee, i'm cohen and to my left is cheng and david chiu and mark ferrill will be joining us shortly. the clerk is erica cheng. er ka, are there any announcements today? >> no announcements. >> that is great, let's start with item number two. >> approve the minutes of the april 9, 2013 meeting this is an action item. >> all right. and members of the public that would like to talk about this item, seeing none. okay, this item is closed. no public comment and motion to approve. >> commissioner chiu, a motion without objection >> keep it going. >> madam clerk, item three. >> state and federal legislative update and information/action item. >> excellent, good morning. >> a few things to brief you on, today is the day that we have been waiting for several months, the governor in the the state will be announc budget and there is quite a bit in ay for the transportation and i will get into that deeper into the presentation and i want to talk about a few bills on the matrix today. and a couple of changes and a couple of additions and otherwise, it is a fairly stati

and as i mentioned at the beginning of the hearing, the request of the lead author of supervisor ferrill, of the entertaining a motion to continue this item one week to may 20th. so that we could have another marathon session next week. and before we go there, is there no initial comments, supervisor chiu? kim? >> i was asking again, if we are for sure that we are going to get all of the language that we need by next monday in because i want to be sure that we continue it as you can see the very long list of continuances that we have for this item. >> i don't have a problem with a week. it is really just... >> my understanding that we have been expected the amendments that will safety and the parties cannot make me guarantee and all of them are making... >> i support tha. >> and when we sent that to the committee last tuesday for a minute we thought that we would be able to get it done by today. but... so we will open it up for public comment. public comment on the item itself or on the motion to continue. and again, the intent is to continue this one week to may 20th, is there any publi

. >> ferrill. >> aye. >> kim? >> aye. >> mar? >> mar, absent. >> and commissioner tang in >> aye. >> weiner >> aye. >> yee, yee absent. item passes. >> very good. our next item please. >> three, this chair's report this san information item. >> okay, good morning, colleagues, i would like to commend everyone who participated and took part in the nation's first walk to workday. held last friday april 12th and i want to congratulate the individuals and organization to help this become a great event i was not able to participate that day due to a slight family emergency, but it is a great chance to encourage people to walk for all sorts of good reasons, your helpth and the environment and it is the opportunity to highlight all of the work that needs to be done to insure that there are safe and attractive walking routes in every neighborhood city wide. i have been really encouraged by the members of this body who have been taking up a lot of effort around the pedestrian safety as well. >> mayor yee took this advantage to release the

. >> ferrill. >> aye. >> kim? >> aye. >> mar? >> mar, absent. >> and commissioner tang in >> aye. >> weiner >> aye. >> yee, yee absent. item passes. >> very good. our next item please. >> three, c

neighborhoods from a quarter of the population not just supervisor kim's district and supervisor ferrill's district and delivers that level of sewage, that the possibility of a risk to that pipe was greatly enhanced. and so from my perspective, the fact that we as a body approved the eir. the fact that the planning department then issued an addendum to that air seven months later they were not provided with that report. and these are all in my mind not just around that particular project and maybe the issues that we are talking about today. and that being said i want to appreciate everyone's time and the incredible amount of work that i think that all of us in this room to a person are spending trying to understand this amazingly difficult understand set of issues around seqa, i do want to say that i know that supervisor kim and the coalition of activists have been asking us to consider both pieces of legislation side by side and ask us to wait until we could technically consider both of these versions for weeks what i have been trying to do, to do that to consider cha this is side by side