as i said, within our general fund, the biggest departments that make up about 75% of our flexible general fund are our core city functions -- public safety, police, sheriffs, and the fire departments. and then our core county functions, which are the human services agency and the health department. those are the departments, the parts of our city that have the biggest share of our general fund dollars, closely following on the list are dcyf, the rec and park department, and others. as supervisor cohen said, we have asked our departments to propose 10% reductions to their general fund support an additional 10% contingency to put ideas on the table, to think about how we are going to be able to close this deficit. we are in the process right now of looking at those ideas and thinking them through. as the mayor said, we want to hear your thoughts about these ideas as we are in our decision making process. just to kind of put the challenge in perspective, if we took the full 20% from every department and said we were going to put that in our budget, that would only save us about $180 million

general fund. this gives the policymakers and the mayor's office the ability to see exactly what we're spending for each individual item within the human rights commission. this year, we're spending a little over $800,000 on non- discrimination and policy, which has increased the general fund of roughly $400,000, but that $400,000 has been offset by a corresponding decrease in work order funds, which are general fund departments. consequently, our overall increase in general fund after you deduct the reductions in work order funds, is about $38,000. these are the various work order funds. it is very hard to see, but you can see with the large, round graphs that our primary work order funds, they fund primarily all of our work order activity. surety bond fund, which is the fund that allows us to assist small businesses and local businesses in gaining performance bonds. again, primarily funded through the puc, the airport, and dpw, the major contract in bodies of the city. as far as authorizing and f

we are here today to talk about the proposed $248 million general obligation bond. before you today is the resolution of public interest and necessity, which is necessary before this bond can go forward to the voters. in a few weeks will be the actual ordinance calling for the bond election, and that is where the final decisions about what the bond will consist of will be made. i want to talk through a little bit about why we're here and why we are talking about bond financing for the streets. early in my tenure at public works, before 2006-2007, we were having a crisis in our funding of streets and right of way programs and all the spending about $17 million a year. since that year, our funding has gone up to about $40 million a year on average from all sources, and that has been enough funding to stave off the decline in the condition of our streets. we have been pretty much holding steady in the condition of streets for the last four years. before that, we were seeing a steady decline over the previous years. since 2006-2007, we have had funding that has come in

we are completing and building san francisco general hospital and san francisco general hospital will be looking at needs of equipping the hospital and the debt service cost and principal interest on debt and depreciation. many of the items we have included in our 11-12 budget. to give an overview, we're one of the largest departments in the city with the largest budget reduction and primarily funded with earned revenue from the general fund dollars and less than 25% of the total budget is comprised of general fund and draw down for matching revenue and supports those we cannot bill for including the inmates and the uninsured. this limits our options to reduce general fund and limits us to general fund that is not matched and this is one of the negotiations that we had with our community-based organizations because they also in their cuts did not want us to cut where we were also cutting revenue along with general fund. many of our general fund nonmatched funds are in the community programs area, particularly in some of our substance abuse and mental health areas. the new dollars we a

in general explain is there less pollution for this very high level of hatred for is. high level of violence during the civil war. the main reason of this tragedy is nationalist. serbian nationalism muslims nationalism creation nationalism now so you want to say that that the former yugoslavia yes it was a nationalist country. it was. it didn't happen like this i mean it should have been nationalist before before the war seriously there were only two federal so-called communist countries in the europe soviet union and former federal soviet republic of u.u.u. for chicken stock you'll say yes it's exception because after they divorced czechs and slovaks they are living in peace in the sea and. in harmony in. the european union but in the case of former soviet union it was a small number of victims but in yugoslavia there were thousands of people killed because of nationalism nationalism is on the first place and you met a bloody show yes it was in montenegro really yes it was. i didn't expect. about i'm a journalist i was looking for this or worse while. i was in montene

additional general fund revenues that the project will generate, and those would include property tax, sales tax, and a host of others, the payroll tax included. so the net -- or actually, the gross revenue we expect coming to the general fund, including the $3.3 million from property tax, would be over $20 million. we have also estimate whatwe hal city costs and we have worked with the fire department, muni, etc.. there is a cushion of $7 million, $8 million to the general fund beyond just the property tax revenue. >> if i understand this correctly, currently the property tax margin is 8.8. payroll tax and etc., we are expecting $20 million in revenue from that with $40 million incurred in expenses against that. >> correct. there are police officers there nell, so this will be an additional cost to the city, using today as the baseline. >> given a scenario where we might see finance is not coming out the way that you expect, what are the options for reevaluating the investments? >> we have a fairly large cushion of seven or $7 million to protect against that. to your second point on

you aspire to be a senior general and a general cannot talk in any such wild way. none of that advice ever stuck. shock value, was with who he was although patton knew it was a dangerous name. he would tell reporters attached to the surge army in europe, not politics or the allies high command but certain things made their way into print, he hated the press conferences he had to do from time to time because he made so many deaths during the war he never knew when his laugh was going to run out and get him fired. in this end there is a clash about -- bradley grew to dislike patton. he didn't think patton was managing the army of sicily very well. to bradley patton would send tons of small arms ammunition and keep the vital artillery rounds near the beaches. he would do irresponsible things. the seventh army headquarters would forget to run communications wire to the corps headquarters. he might not keep the air services in formed where the infantry was. bradley and patton also fought about tactics and bradley and an end to top all off with a field commander who rece

this really impact of the general fund. this is only 6% of the portfolio. >> supervisor, i see your question. >> this is not considered it a debt, and the city has no legal authority to have this tax be paid. the only has the obligation to appropriate and the underlying asset is the collateral. state law requires that we have use and occupancy of the building. investors are concerned about this, the useful life of the asset, and this will continue as a goal long with the general funds to pay the debt. we paid the debt there city do not have any of these contracts. >> the next slide shows the results of what was discussed earlier. you only require the projects fund and the payment fund, and on the lease revenue side, this is during the construction. we're using this during the construction to make the interest payments. we also have the reserve fund, and the investors require this. you can have about 10% and if you cannot make payments, those will be drawn up to be replenished immediately. >> i know that these numbers fluctu

$64,709 to the general fund. the total savings of $1,000,000.106 -- and we come to the total savings with the general fund. what the department was referring to in terms of the correction, the report is correct except on page 73, which does not change the bottom line at all. on page 73, where you see the recap, the general fund impact isshould be $543,623. the total would be $888,840. the non general fund would be $210,0000. the totals would be the same. so my citation of the original general fund savings are correct. supervisor chu: to be clear, from my understanding, the report shows savings in terms of total recommended reductions of 1,000,098 belt -- 1,000,098 $840. it should be $888,804. >> and that number on page 64 of our report is stated correctly, where i initially commented. supervisor chu: can use it to the number is again? >> of the recommended reductions, $888,840 our general fund. in addition, there's another $64,709 to close out general fund encumbrances bit of the total recommended savings would b

we are very much a union shop at san francisco general. that said, there is a large contingent of san francisco general hospital employee who is very much favor this particular contracting out proposal. it particularly in areas such as the emergency department and psychiatric emergency services, acute psych, but in particular the med-surge unit and the i.c.u.'s are of particular concern. i have a whole list of employees in my pocket and on my blackberry who wish they could have been here today but couldn't because they were at work and i can forward you their names. this proposal actually had a dual path coming to the point that we're at. certainly the budgetary one was primary, but there was a grass roots effort of frontline nursing, staff, and ancillary staff so concerned about safety at san francisco general and the lack of response of what the sheriff's department could do that they brought this issue to me as the director of clinical

it is in a non-general fund departments. the puc and the airport are the two larger increases associated with the capital investment and the opening of terminal two. we also have a significant increase of the health department associated with the medical waiver. overall, we're still at a relatively lean tt

assistant general manager for power. when we compiled the information that the general manager just presented to you, as he said, we worked with the vendors of certified installers to compile that information. we also worked with oewd, and these numbers were confirmed as recently as this morning to the numbers that are accurate representations of the disadvantaged san franciscans currently employed. supervisor chu: the number is 13 jobs created this fiscal year, 72 total short-term and long- term? >> yes, with 23 hires still employed over the duration of the program. >> we have not seen what ever you have, but we work closely with them on this program. supervisor kim: could summon clarify for me when this number came from? - danny was a came from the mayor's office. perhaps what we can do is request that the mayor's office workforce development folks do come and address that question, and in the meantime, perhaps we can continue with the presentation. >> thank you. >> the next slide is a slide of the most successful inst

the general fund revenue. according to the controller's projections, wave growth will average 3.8%. and fringe will average 10.2% which represents an increase from $7.7 million to a $9.6 million salary budget for our labor cost at the owned of the five-year period. this is of course without adding any new positions. in the department in future years, we have no clear opportunity to significantly grow our nongeneral fund sources since we've already increased the a.a.b. fees and the land use appeal fees have already been increased and are now established. we're a very small department and we'll have to rely the work of the board of supervisors advancing citywide initiatives to control labor cost and perhapses the generation of new revenues. i want to say thank you to rebecca crole and to the controller, we are again short staffed in the middle of the year and both stepped up to assist us. i'm in agreement with the budget analyst recommendations and i want to thank debra newman for finding extra savings in the de

so our general fiscal -- general fund support is going down to $6,305,643. the budget analyst is recommending an additional cut, which i said we do not have any problem with conceptually, and we will work out the details of the where that additional money -- exactly what pot it should come out of. i know there has been some discussion, and it has been desired that you would like some information with respect to what our five-year financial plan is. i will say that we anticipate that we will see about 8% to 10% financial growth over the course of the next five years. that is mainly due to salaries and fringe benefits that our lawyers and other folks will see an increase in over that time. about 95% of our budget is just made up of salaries and benefits. when there are increases going to city employees, that is where we experience whatever growth we have. over the course of the last several years, we have cut -- we have renegotiated our office lease. we have renegotiated all of our outside vendor contract with respect to legal research and periodicals that we

right now the rest of both general. has divided public opinion in serbia some believe it holds c.e.u. membership while others accuse the government of the training a national hero and journalist sygate known all. covered the boldness of in the war in the mid ninety's shares his memories of the conflict the general with. the spotlight is coming up next. oh yeah welcome to spotlight. on r t alderney today my guest on the show is going to. bosnian serb general accused of genocide and mass murder in the bosnian war of ninety ninety two ninety six rats this finally in his capture was a huge boost. for the european union and now the. blasts but the serbian people are split as many of them see it. as a national hero and a martyr will this cost the country more than it may bring our guest is a journalist based in belgrade during the civil war he met in person and is ready to share his memories right now. so been present very started says europe is ready to support the countries did he join the european union this became possibl

i did all kinds of friends and got the camp set up with the general store. our second year operating the general store, and things are going well. i want to complement claudia and her staff because they do an amazing job. the camp takes a lot to get started, and the staff will go up and help out. everyone is working very effectively together. i was there that the dedication of the platt was unveiled. this was a very moving experience. they were representing the department along with the rest of the staff. i had some pictures i've brought along to share.

item number three, the general managers' report. >> i have a few things to report. this is all good news. tuesday the 21st, the 23rd. thursday, june 23, we will have the william hammon hall award at 2:30 in the conservatory, and the awards are jointly presented by the parks and recreation department, and laborers local. next tuesday, june 21, the department has been invited to participate in the blue-green awards, to support the employees and apartments who have shrunk in the carbon footprint. two members of the staff -- will be recognized for their achievements and their efforts in reducing the carbon footprint. the department leaves the city for this waste, and we're working on strategies to continue to reduce the overall footprint. next month, the superintendent will make a presentation on the department's action plan. next month, we will present the year in review for the department. i wanted to give you a sneak preview into some of the news, that we are particularly proud of. we are expected to conclude the year with a reduction in workers compensation costs, w

i was weakness soldier of of general killed the civilian people if i'm not throng. seven or. a thousand civilians. were killed by a soldier of self. most members so it was my eyes you really yes are you sure that . each was convinced and ruthless nationalist is a true can you guess exactly really i can't say i can repeat your expression. i was more watching him several times i saw. from this during the war and i have the impression that he was like a small local napoleon yes he liked very much his. uniform he'd like to show his gun swear. but then life here was middle. his colleagues from the military academy in belgrade told me that they didn't expect that he became a general fugitive bosnian serb army general ratko was arrested last month after sixteen years on the run spotlight still in the jimmy there has more. last month the rest of russia can live each game is a long awaited really full bosnian muslims who was not accepted as happily by serbs bringing back beaten memories of the violence to go through in the one nine hundred ninety s. the collapse of yugoslavia was acco

general allan? >> senator mccain, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to appear before you today. i am truly honored to be nominated by the president to come and the international security assistance force and the united states forces in afghanistan. i'm grateful to the members of congress, the secretary defense, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff for their confidence so support and assistance extended to me since my nomination. and of course, i am and have always been humbled by the incredible sacrifice of our service members and their families who've continued to serve the nation despite many hardships. mr. chairman, at this point i must note the will of this committee and its leadership in providing crucial support to the men and women who have offered a plea served in afghanistan and iraq. thank you for the support. i would like to start by acknowledging and thinking general david petraeus whose surface is a commander of isf has been so essential to gene

and the level of concern about staff at the hospital and people in general. and i did talk to a colleague at john george at the psychiatric facility and this is the director of their psychiatric emergency service athey have ha a private security firm and explained that the firm and staff were able to work in an integrated way with the psychiatric team to increase the level of safety and found they were very responsive and i have a lot of confidence in his description of that and his experience with that. but nonetheless, i think it will be a huge transition for our staff. it will take some getting used to. people will have to realize that this is a different way of doing things that can work and has worked. but it's understandable that people would be concerned about the experience with that particular way of doing things. >> is there any data that helps us understand where the gaps are and the ability to be able to attend to these needs for intervention but was made inadequate because of the limitations i am hearing of the current structure? is there any dat

this is regarding a general matters during your -- this is regarding general matters. >> the reason i came before you is the coast -- is because i am trying to process everything that has happened. i sat through the presentation that is very amazing, because it shows those that are able to see how they are far below taser -- low basic until they get to high school and they are not able to pass into ninth grade. i monitor a lot of what you do your a good and we did what you do, and i want to keep calling your attention to two teams that keep running through my head. i hope the poem really resonated with what i am seeing. you are disorganized. you are not coordinated in the fashion that is going to achieve the goals you set out to achieve, and if somebody is not going to stop this vote from moving down the same road, you are not going to achieve access. you are not going to get close to achieving social justice. you have a lot of initiatives, and i think the thing we keep saying over and over again islam why are they not talking -- is why are they not talking. they are going to pass a b

general fund. within the city wide coit/i.t. budget, there are a number of projects in the plan. about $5.5 million worth of those projects are funded by reallocating dollars from within departments based, so we have identified with those departments savings in their i.t. and use them to fund the prior ties projects. in addition, there is about $4.7 million of deferred i.t. costs or reduce i.t. costs in an enterprise departments. the total city-wide savings from all these initiatives is about $12.5 million. supervisor chiu: do you mind presenting -- could i see a copy of the savings? that's absolutely, and i meant to bring a printed copy to put out on the overhead, but i did not. but i have an electronic file, so i can share that with you. supervisor chu: thank you. i am sorry if i did not hear the budget analyst pose a response, but i know the one difference that i did see is that the request to move the hire date from july 1 is actually for october 1 for these positions instead of august, as is i

all others were general contractors. for the last 15 or 20 years, we have seen that most public entities actually have moved towards the construction and manager so they can have a general contractor on the table to make sure the project is still plentiful and the assets are right and also to save money and -- is vulnerable i -- is buildable and the assets are right and also to save money. that is how it has evolved. >> it is cost-savings? >> absolutely. >> i love having this on the record. >> i have one comment to. as you know, this is on a tight timeline. you have to be on budget, and you have to be on time. my colleagues concur. >> is that of motion? >> the total project is for what we expected phase one is estimated at. >> i am getting an update. $59 million. hard costs for those -- for both phases. i am sorry about that. >> marginally down from our us in a spirited thank you all to return -- down from our estimates. thank you for the out. >> we will go into what local hiring needs. i apologize we were not able to go

the biggest distinction is what is in our city's general fund versus the non-general fund. the general fund is where most of the tax revenues go. it is what we used to pay for police, fire services, cleaning the streets, many of the health and human services programs, programs that do not generate their own revenues. within our $6.5 billion budget, only about 45% of that or $3 billion is within the general fund. to further complicate things, we have a large number of spending requirements. we have the pension and benefit obligations. we have made a commitment to our employees to provide a benefits package. we are obligated to pay for that. we have federally mandated programs we need to pay for. we have voters approved spending requirements where we allocate a certain amount of the general fund to the libraryies or other worthy services. those chip away at the flexibility we have to balance our budget. at the end of the day with another $6.5 billion budget, only about $1.3 billion of that is flexible, discretionary general fund money we have available not committed to some p

generally, i want to say i find it difficult. for anybody that does not know, i think the budget is far more accessible to people. it is all of the narratives in the front. i do recommend to people that they read the whole narrative if they want to understand the budget. it is extremely helpful. but i think that the number pages are less -- we can still improve on them. let's put it that way. again, i would like to see the department of budgets tell me actually what we do. obviously, i understand this is transferred directly. we need to know how many fte's we are spending to each department. but that does not tell us or the public what they are doing with the money, and i think we need that. as well, i think we need the ability, maybe in selective ways, to compare the budget last year to the proposed budget for this year. we are spending a lot of time going like this. almost no one else is looking at the budget either online or in printed form with both books or in front of them were both budgets available. i realize that i -- it

general fund budget. that is predominantly driven by the continued expectation of revenue growth next year, but then also, the significant good news in the current year. so those two things stacked on top of each other and lead to a pretty significant year-over- year growth in the general fund budget. you see the largest increases in terms of projected revenues for the coming fiscal year are driven by transfer tax, property tax, and business tax. and then the largest decreases, the most significant being almost a $30 million year-over- year loss of federal exemptions. that is the result of the expiration of federal stimulus funds and the loss of the hospital fee waiver that was used to balance the current year budget. the report itself goes into great detail about each of the major revenue streams. for those interested, it has more information on each of these and others. their proposed budget does rely on just over $200 million in one-timer nonrecurring sources to bring the city's revenues and expenses i

to offset the general funding cuts. we are on the right track over the last few years. we have increased the amount of revenue by $4 million. when you think about this, this is 40 or 50 staff. these are the cuts that we made last year. the ballot measure is problematic and puzzling, because the recreation program and has never been better. we have only had this for about 24 hours, and we have lots of concerns and i think the city attorney's office has some serious concerns about what this means, but this essentially says that there will not be any revenue, and beyond that, where not certain about the implications. we have been able to pencil out the impact for the coming year and this may impact why as much as $900,000. over the next five years, and she will talk about the budget plan, there could be impact of $12 million. things potentially affected by this in the coming years, we have an interest -- the commission has led us put output an rfp down to a shake shack type of burger or milk shake ammenity down on the gree

if we had the revenue, it would be more appropriate to use in general revenues -- general fund revenues. we consider conclusion, on page 10, we say in the recommendation, inclusion of the $140 million to be used for street repaving and reconstruction. $20.3 million for the minister of transportation agency transit traffic street signal infrastructure improvement to be a matter of the board of supervisors. supervisor chu: supervisor weener? supervisor wiener: for the budget analyst, regarding the last item -- this is more corporate for reconstructing -- this is more a program as a financing item. i want to ask you what your basis is for saying that. in light of what we just heard in the presentation, i do not want to say there is conventional wisdom, but there is a view out there. i disagree that bond financing is only used for building something. when you look at par bonds, we do existing work from those assets that perhaps sometimes accrued from a long period of neglect. if you add up the square footage of our roads, i would suspect that our roads are our largest asset. so why is it in

that's not a general fund. the total general fund reductions are $164,743. total reductions are 612,000 tutored 54. supervisor chu: with regard to the service equipment, there was a proposed cut to software. can you speak about that and why you are in agreement? >> this was funding that was approved for the department to implement a software package which is associated with our work order system, which we know as tma. the application would be on hand-held devices and allow our staff, carpenters, plumbers, ironworkers, to close out or quarters when they are in the field. if there's a broken toilet, they go out and fix it, they can close the work order and move on to the next item without having to come back to the yard in golden gate park. we thought it would be worthwhile in terms of increasing efficiency for the department. in terms of why we agreed with the budget analyst on this, it felt like something we were not going to be able to come to agreement on. so we let ago. supervisor chu: in terms of the need and cost, the department as saying your expenses

to the general fund. together, these recommendations will result in a savings to the general fund of $1,006,441. supervisor chu: thank you. given that the department and budget analyst are in agreement, can we move to take that? ok, we will move that without objection >> greater than thank you. do i comeback next week? supervisor chu: you are done. ok, our final department of the day -- the adult probation department. >> good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the adult probation budget operations and five-year financial outlook. i would also like to thank the mayor's budget office and his staff expertise and support in our budget preparations. adulteration dept.'s core mission is to protect the community, serve justice, and change lives. our penal code mandated mission is to provide koresh ordered community probation supervision and court-ordered investigation reports. 84% of our staff are sworn peace officers and provide direct court-related services. our strategic goal is to improve pr

next item please. >> next item would be 7, report of the general manager. >> the general manager is on vacation. i am filling in. thank you very much. commissioner vietor: nothing to report from the deputy general manager? [laughter] next item please. >> the next item with the consent calendar. all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. a) ratify the declaration of emergency made by the general manager, dated april 27, approved by the president of the commission, for immediate replacement of existing store on post street due to missing bricks, sagging, building walls, missing grout through loud and a damaged invert along the length of the entire sewer. b) authorize the general manager of the public utilities commission to apply the waters mark grant program for funding for $231,591 for the project assessing potential effects of climate change on the san francisco public utilities commission's water supply, to be matched by the puc and

his generation. he has presided over the shifting of momentum to our favor in afghanistan and he has engineered with other important contributing factors a victory in iraq when defeat seemed often inevitable. his outstanding loyalty and service to the country and has agreed to step down as the leader of said, to replace general mcchrystal last year. -- a leader of centcomm to replace general mcchrystal last year. i know this well and i know senator lieberman will view this in greater detail. he has a ph.d. and a master's from princeton, which believe will serve him well. following the abu ghraib scandal and interrogation policy, general petraeus wrote an open letter to all soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and coast guardsmen under his command in iraq. "our values and the law of governing warfare teachers to respect human dignity, maintain narrett integrity, and do what is right. adherence to our values distinguishes us from our enemy." i fully agree. is enormously important to have a director of th

this would generally be 32 hours a week. they are assigned to the busiest and most needy commercial corridors throughout the city, generally in about a five-block area. they work generally thursday through monday, and they are actively -- rather than waiting for service requests, they are actively addressing any deficiencies they see -- garbage, graffiti, or the like, anything they can take care of themselves, they do. otherwise, they notified the important agencies. they work as ambassadors to the property owners and residents and merchants. as this is a partnership with the department of environment, we will have a significant focus on insuring adherence with our mandatory refuse ordinances, which require composting and recycling as well as adequate garbage service. lots of different benefits from this. we are doing this as a pre- apprenticeship -- or an apprenticeship training program. state-certified labor training program. what is different than what we're proposing for this coming year and how we have done it in the pa

we started with the general question. we knew what kind of energy it would provide, and let them know that they would be automatically enrolled in we would have the ability to opt out if they chose. we asked them to indicate if they thought they would stay with clean power if the program was up and running or to switch back to pg&e. the customers split into thirds. 37 percent said they would split, 31% said they would opt out, and the remaining 32% said they did not know. we did not tell them what the potential impact on their rates was. it is likely that undecided was waiting to hear more information about the cost. in a follow-up question, we gave them that information. for customers in each of the tears, we gave them estimates of the potential impact to try to understand their sensitivity. the scenario we describe for them was one in which they would provide energy that was 40% renewable had 100% greenhouse gas from. at that level, in the vast majority of customers in the city, we see that about three and five indicate