general city had three things implemented, related to working with capital assets and record keeping, and we thought that this could be enhanced. they are still working to make certain that there is the required grant money. they can keep track of them but they do not need the threshold for the financial statements. they are still working with the departments on this. the single audit finding that we have from the prior year was implemented, and then we had other observations and informational items into of the three findings were implemented, and one of them is still in the process. they would be well-advised to take a look at the internal control over this process. certainly as a result of the decline in staffing and resources. and when you have fewer people doing these functions, you may run into a situation in the internal controls are no longer optimal. we will continue to look at this as staffing declines. the last portion of my comments relate to the single audit, and this is the federal reward program. we had an audit for 16 major programs and those covering 11 different apart

that being said, in san francisco i'm very proud to be a resident of a city, fifth generation city, of a city that has always been a city of dreamers and doers, a city of entrepreneurs, a city that doesn't just identify these larger global problems but begins to address strategies to solve them. indeed, san francisco is very proud of its leadership to begin the process of mitigation so that we don't have it adopt and as some have said suffer the consequences of global climate change. more mitigation, less adaption, less suffering. this city decided a number of years ago after the united states did the obvious and that was decided not to participate in the kyoto accords to go further, as ryan was just mentioning, as kyoto would have required the united states. we want to roll back our co2 emissions 20 percent from 1990 standards. the challenge is how do you do it. we have mayors saying, well, we've done it. what's the methodology where you determine where you were and now where you are and i realize we're not that sophisticated in terms of really aggregating that information, registerin

general fund spending. that is a real challenge for the city, and that is why we are here tonight. as i said, the biggest departments in our general fund and, therefore, those that are facing some very serious challenges, our core public safety and social safety departments, the police apartment, sheriff's department, and fire department. health department and human services agency are our core county functions. those five departments together are about 3/4 of our discretionary general fund city in the city. we have asked the departments to make expenditure reductions or increase revenues totaling 10% and another 10% contingency. none of us or none of the department heads here on the stage are enjoying this process, but those are the instructions that we have had to issue to meet this challenge. we are trying to do it in every way possible to minimize the impact on services to residents as we do that, but it is a big challenge, so we are really hoping to hear your thoughts and feedback on how we can do that and on the proposals that are out there tonight. just one last point, to emp

we audit the city governmental funds, the treasure island development authority, the retirement system, general hospital, and the laguna honda hospital, and the san francisco finance corp. kpmg audit the airport, hetch hetchy water and power, mta, the health services system, and there are other auditors to audit a small component of the city's financial statements. an overview -- week issued an unqualified opinion on the city financial statements -- we issued an unqualified opinion on the city financial statements. we did not identify any control decisions that we deem to be material weaknesses in internal control over financial recording, nor do we identify any reportable matters as a relates to compliances with laws and regulations that could have a material effect on the city's financial statements. we have before you also our report to the government audit and oversight committee, which includes are required communications and the current year recommendations we have for management and also a follow-up on the status of prior year recommendations which made in the prior year. we also have to

this is a generous city. it is a compassionate city. and yet, we have a lot of people suffering. as a parent, i feel privileged to live in this district. i think some energy and intelligence and creativity needs to be applied to the problem of how do we ask those of us who have more, especially those who are in the forbes 400 list, billionaires'. and when i mainly here is about tax cuts for entities. when it is appropriate, sure, give a tax break. it is also inappropriate time to ask those who have the means to -- it is also an appropriate time to ask those who have the means to share. we want the city to look good. we wanted to be a fun city to live then. it takes money for us, and it takes money for everybody who lives in the city. not just those of us in district two. i would ask for those on the budget could talk more about the need and what we could do. if the mayor would make a commitment to study this problem, and how can we get more resources applied so that budgets -- the budgets of all of the department are not so impacted? >> i'll try. it's a great question, a huge que

never had dph, for us, a pest control operator, any information on bedbugs, other than doing generalized city-wide meetings. no training that i know of. i have never gotten any support from dph or dbi. i am not saying that they are bad, but we need procedures in place so that pest control operators know what we need to do when there is an infestation. we cannot just go in and sprayed. tenants need to prep, sometimes they need help. we are trying to have a collaborative so that tenants, property owners, pest control operators, has a minimum guideline. spraying is not a minimum guideline. it is more of a band-aid. you can spray three times and say that it is abated, but is there follow-up inspections? we have been doing this for 10 years now. we always follow up with a final inspection of the unit. i do not know any other pest control operator in the county that does a sign off. it has always been common procedure for us. it needs to be standardized, so that there is proof of abatement. just a letter from the past control operator to the city saying that they spray three times is not enough. in

generations. these were also the city's understandings. as you know, there is a mission statement that it is the preservation unimpaired of the natural and cultural resources of the park for present and future generations to enjoy. that is all we ask. looking at alternatives, i would like to make a couple of observations to share with you our conclusion that the draft does not provide a solid technical basis for dismissing the action alternative when many areas of our current -- currently working. and the no-action alternative does not mean to do nothing. it means the current management plan. the current management plan calls for education, outreach, enforcements. it does not say do nothing, and that is important, in thinking about the no-action alternatives. it is not a continuation of the status quo or whether or not the status quo can be improved by doing better under the park service's national recreation area plan. you may know that the plan is being developed in context to a larger update of the ggran plan. this will reflect a larger

so anything in addition to the five dwelling units which are so small, the parks by general city standards barely meet what is required per person per open space. so i just want to throw that out because the park in its own right is not oversized but meeting a need which is far more severe than probably many of us can appreciate. so i just want to put that into the room as one other thought to think about. and i just wanted to add to that, that this is one of the areas that this is one of the areas most underserved that relates to open space and density. one of the issues i wanted to raise to the developer and i know someone here from bridge was saying they may be engaged in the marketing is there have been a lot of context with the people along that block area as it relates to the rec center. i think if you can let people know in advance they're moving adjacent to the rec center where there are children at play because some of the complaints that people get is that the noise of children playing is disturbing to them. so i think that that's a real unfortunate situation that's developed whe

generations. these were also the city's understandings. as you know, there is a mission statement that it is the preservation unimpaired of the natural and cultural resources of the park for present and future generations to enjoy. that is all we ask. looking at alternatives, i would like to make a couple of observations to share with you our conclusion that the draft does not provide a solid technical basis for dismissing the action alternative

mention that one of the things that i know you all know well, because you're very familiar with the city's general plan, but the recreation and open space element of the city's general plan has designated this area as an area of very high need for a long time, and i'm sure in the future i think that chinatown-north beach will fill the areas of high need and still continue to find opportunities to increase the open space. the area around the park is estimated to have approximately .4 acres, less than half an acre of open space per 1,000 resident, which is 95% below the city-wide average of nine acres per 1,000 residents, as discussed in the master plan e.i.r. there are lots of other estimates about the number of acres per open space, but they're all well over half an acre. i also wanted to mention that in this project, we would be gaining approximately 12,000 square feet of new open space in one of the densest areas. and by doing this, we would be able to expands and improve and optimize the play areas and allow the new children's play area, which is over 3,000 square feet bigger than the existing

were set to approve a bond mechanism that could have had negative consequences for the cca in general. the city along with our allies manage to get that adverse decision reconsidered, and they are reconsidering that case. they have reopened that case for additional information. it is not clear of the timing of the decision or what the rules ultimately will be for evaluating that bonn did not, but we expect it around midsummer. since they were willing to pull the decision back in december, we feel it is realistic to assume the outcome should be better than we first saw. under the exit fee case, along with our allies, we have been working hard to address the method for calculating exit fees. sometimes the exit fees are referred to by their acronym in terms of how it shows up on customer billed charges as the pcia power charge. the current method, we have been arguing, and appropriately undervalues or does not recognize the value of the renewable attributes, including the exit fees customers are paying for the coverage to capture the above-market costs. the renewables tends to be above market cost

the general fund is the part of the city budget that comes from our tax dollars, property taxes, sales taxes, business taxes, and it pays for a lot of services we need to provide that do not generate their own revenue. it pays for the services of a lot of the department's sitting here. -- a lot of the departments sitting here. on the non-general fund side, we have apartments that bring in their own revenues, and a lot of those are facing financial challenges as well, but they have their own budgets to balance outside of the general fund. mta is an example of one of those departments. about $3 billion of our $6.5 billion budget is in the general fund. $300 million deficit starts to sound a little bit bigger. even within that $3 billion of general fund, we have a lot of restrictions on what options are available to us. we are legally obligated to pay our pension and benefit costs. we have voter-approved requirements that under the charter require us to spend a certain amount of money on particular types of services, and all those various requirements eat away at our flexibility within th

city, tonight is special. not just because of the award being received, which honors otter this from generations who have made this city great and have been made great by the city. no city invites the hard to soar like san francisco does. and renowned san francisco and may have set a better when she said the some of them -- synonym for san francisco is inspiration. most people think that cities inspire leaders and leaders inspire cities, but i would like to add that artists inspired cities and cities inspire artists. who knows which in print -- which inspiration comes first? it does not really matter, what matters is that happens. right here in our city, generation after generation. we are proud to participate tonight in the recognition of one of music's greatest artists. to continue to fulfill the pledge from one year ago to expand the coverage of the arts and support arts in our community. we want to thank you for allowing us to move out on this rewarding mission, thanking you for the opportunity to serve tonight on this stage and on the stage that is our city, every day of the week. we are honored to share

in part, because we recognize our city spend a lot of money on i.t., over $200 million. there is a generalsensus around the city that we have a lot of inefficiencies and redundancies within our i.t. world that we need to focus on, particularly, during these tough budget times. some of the areas we have tackled in the past has been to move to consolidate the 700 different e-mail systems we have in the city, to try to create master service agreements, rather than the contracts that different apartments have all with the same outside vendors. to work on the justice project within the law enforcement role, -- try to consolidate that project. a product of mr. walton was talking about around data center consolidation, the fact that the city has several dozen small id departments outside of the department of technology with a similar number of data centers. i'm very much appreciative the work that has been done by dt, as well as other departments, to take the several dozen data centers that we have and consolidate them into two major data centers. i want to also thank the work that has been done

part of the project and part of the back-and-forth that are outside of what you would find generally from city wide applicability. i don't have the agreement with me, so i will come back and answer the question specifically. that might be slight new ones that you're recalling. the way that the structure is conventional for development agreement, there are lots of other development agreements that the city has entered into where it is a 20-year term for that certainty. that is very conventional in that regard. commissioner antonini: my question is is related to the same. with this development agreement, and if city-wide policies were to change in some aspect, the development agreement would prompt a change and they would not have to comply with these new -- i am just throwing out an inflationary policy that would be at odds with what was agreed upon. they would not be bound by the changes after word? >> a that is correct. >> there are two points you were making. you were saying that the city can't adopt future regulations to the health and safety of the public. if you have a change in structura

the city generally votes more moderately on the whole. >>

the city generally gets four or five projects. ere are other projects around the city that have gotten this money. second street in selma, broadway, and others. i am presenting the mission district today. this would take the existing cross section that is very wide and difficult to cross with a lot of fast-moving traffic and humanize that. we showed several options. the money that we have currently will not build the features. it is just for the sidewalk greening, the corners, and restriping of the lanes. the other thing i wanted to highlight was the mission community market. it happens weekly on barlet street. it opened last july. we worked with a number of merchant and community groups to move it forward. then it opened. that is also happening. there are a couple of other projects that have been built as parks projects. the plan has ideas to make those permanent. those exist through the park's program now. it is pretty straightforward. what we're asking you to approve this to change the general plan policy in the mission area pla

, as we do for our own employees, cpi or cost of doing business increase for city nonprofits and contractors and just general inflation on the non salary part of our budget, $17 million in the coming fiscal year. several lines down from there, the city's subsidy to our convention facility, projected to increase by almost $80 million the coming fiscal year. -- buy $18 million in the coming fiscal year. that is because the city took a onetime payment to balance our current year budget. there is a significant change here, year over year. that will expire. we have more elections schedule and the coming fiscal year, 2012, costing an incremental $12 million. it further down the page, there are inflationary and other increases. general inflation. changes to the delivery system, including a drawdown of federal revenue on the revenue side. and other costs associated with electronic record implementation and all the things. those are discussed in more depth in the text of the report. i know as we have talked before, this report projects just status quo revenue and status quo expenditures for each of the years, and cap

the city generally votes more moderately on the whole. >> there is one in term mayor from the progressive be a progressive mayor with a progressive majority board. then maybe in the election, they can have another elected progressive mayor. >> another issue was to consider selecting a caretaker mayor. several may run in november and preferred that the interim mayor be a caretaker. >> the board of supervisors should respect the people's current choice, which was extended a few years ago, and at least have a caretaker that is awful, judicious, fair minded, -- they do not have to agree on anything -- everything -- but they will not play the kinds of political politics that one might play. >> that would really get the hornets' nest stirred up between the mayor and board of supervisors. if you are incumbent mayor and you decide tru