i am kate howard, i am the mayor's budget director. i thought i would give you a brief overview of our city's budget. as supervisor cohen pointed out, the budget is one of the most important laws that san francisco passes. it's a law of our source and how we spend it. and it's a plan that sets our priority. so it's important for us to hear from you what those priorities ought to be. i have here on my right, your left, a series of charts that show you a little bit more about san francisco's budget. overall the city's budget is about $7.4 billion annually. that includes all the funds we have to spend. all the city functions and the county functions and the airport and our police department and fire department and human services agency and our health department. you can see the next chart shows you where we get most of our money. so we spend a lot of time in san francisco talking about how to balance the budget. and we tend to focus that balancing conversation on what we call the general fund. those are the funds that the city has discret

i want to thank the mayor for his budget that he proposed and kate howard for all your incredible hard work. and for the controllers office to our budget office and harvey rose for all your hard work and our city attorney for the board of supervisors and the community leaders who were involved. and be specifically, my staff katherine and this took everyone thoughtful board he, he and didn't i didn't know how appreciative i am. and now we've passed out amaze at the budget and finance committee we skuktd in passing a $7.9 billion budget and it wasn't that late into the night but in particular i want to mention to me this reflects after a dozen town hauls and other districts i do think the budget reflects the proprietors of all san francisco and really built on mayor lee's budget. we achieved fully fuvend all the hiv funding services and opening the new club hours in every district and a $2 million for workforce training and 2 million in services and adding two fire academy classes and adding new gardensers and additional family friendly services and enhancing our homeless services as wel

thank you. >> good morning, everybody, i'm kate howard, the mayor's assistant director. thank you for being here this morning. i wanted before i started just to quickly identify the departments that are here this morning so that you know who is here listening to you. so, we have the mayor's office on disability, the fire department, the department of public works, the mta, the recreation and park department, the health department, the city administrator's office, and the department of technology, the controller's office, our supervisors and mayor, dbi, the human services agency, the department of aging and adult services, the mayor's office of housing, san francisco police department, the department of emergency management, the san francisco housing authority, and the department of economic and work force development. so, we have a lot of folks here to listen to your ideas and concerns. and also people who you can talk to after the conversation today as well. we also have a standing audience, our office of small business here. so, thank you all for being here. i wanted t

i'm kate howard. i'm the mayor's budget director. i'm here to just to talk briefly about the really exciting opportunity that i think is going to be coming up in the city, which is announcement of our new chief data officer. some people may think that the budget office is mostly being countered, but really our office is focused on how do we make government more efficient, how do we make it more effective, and how do we use information to make better decisions. and i think that's why the mayor has asked that the chief data officer sit in my office. so that they have access to financial information as well as a team of people who are already inclined to work on analytical problems. so, as the mayor and board president chiu indicated we'll be hiring a chief data officer looking for the best and brightest people. so, if you know of people or if you yourself are interested, i'd love to talk to you, so, find me after. the role of this person is to figure out how do we build on what we've already done in terms of open data, how do we make g

up next, we have kate howard back things were a trust matter for the board to review. we have the specific funding remedies that are proposed by the programs that are listed there which total $886,000 they are so specific allocations is discretionary such that the specific matters are the matters of board of supervisors >> and to be calory on those items we've done this last week there is no action on the committees behalf. >> colleagues any questions or comments. >> okay. thank you ms. howard. why don't we move on to our city attorney's office >> good morning naomi. i'd like to thank harry rose and this is for all the productive conversations we've had. i'm breaking out my budget we agree with the budget on operating budget with expectation of one is our medical examiner and reduction to the attrition in the medical examiner's office. there's a recommended kit by 82 though 8 hundred and 88 and reducing the attrition by 80 notice o thousand in fiscal year 2014. the medical examiner is required by state law to investigate the cause of suspicious deaths. this supports th

and that concludes my report and i i'll up front to kate howard because i know that was more than 10 >> colleagues sorry any other questions for the chief at this time. >> i justice wanted to know if you were going to make any comments been the budget analysts report. >> yes, we got final recommendations yesterday and some concessions we were ready to make and other a longer conversation. >> okay. well speaking of mr. rose why don't we move to your report. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee on page 57 our recommend reductions total 2 million and 1489 in 13 and fourteen and want hundred and 26 savings. still allow an increase. in addition we recommended closing out prior years general fund income brands. we would have a total of savings for the general fund. our recommended reductions total 1.7 million in fiscal year 2014 and 15 and those recommendations would allow a 10th of the budget. mr. chairman and members of the committee with our permission i would like ms.

up next, we have kate howard back

i have lent expertise of my own city staff, kate howard, ben rosenfield, micky callahan, nadia, [speaker not understood], i want to personally thank all of them for stepping up. and i've lent them to the interim chancellor to provide advice on the very complex governance and financial issues that they face. i have brought in my education leadership council members that include our unified school district superintendent, our presidents of the universities here in san francisco, our chancellors, sf state, uc san francisco, university of san francisco, and golden state university. to seek their professional advice and request their help to support the students at city college ~. superintendent caranza will reach out to san francisco unified school district students of which 60% attend city college, to inform them of the status and reassure them that their credits count. additionally, president wong from san francisco state has met with his own trustees to see if classes can be increased to accommodate any city college students that are ready to come over to san francisco state. he is also s

i recall a budget presentation by kate howard. definitely showed us that the projections of what san francisco is anticipating in the future will increase in terms of revenue. but, the expenses are anticipated to definitely far exceed those revenues we expect to generate. and the reason why i bring that up because everyone -- that discussed the budget with me in the community and a lot of my constituents they are very excited and very optimistic about the fact that we are in what is considered to be a good budget time in comparison to the past because revenues clearly are going up. i want to make sure that i understand what this means in terms of opening the door to these reserves and what -- how that is used, i personally don't really understand all lot about it necessarily. and what it means in terms and if we open it up to use it, are we opening it up to use it all or some of it? but also, i want us to be responsible with how we allocate resources. i think that there have been savings from some of the changes that we made but a

i want to thank my staff led by steve kava, and to my budget office led by kate howard.nd also a great thanks to ben rosenfield, our city controller and his staff, and then an anticipated thanks in advance to budget analyst harvey rose for his anticipated cooperation. [laughter] >> so, i know this is short, but i think you look at the budget. to me it's quite a sweet budget. so, let's roll up our sleeves. let's get this budget done collaboratively. and then let's spend our time making sure that we get 6,000 jobs for our youth this summer. thank you very much. (applause) >> san francisco 911 heroes ceremony and it is presented today by the san francisco department of emergency management and 911 for kids. my name is elise kim and i am with 911 public education and just so you all know, 911 is the universal emergency response number when we need help, and it is used in the u.s., canada, and kayman islands and other countries they use different numbers. but, the 911 for kids program was created in 1990 in response to the alarming number of calls that were not emergencies, a

i recall a budget presentation by kate howard. definitely showed us that the projections of what san francisco is anticipating in the future will increase in terms of revenue. but, the expenses are anticipated to definitely far exceed those revenues we expect to generate. and the reason why i bring that up because everyone -- that discussed the budget with me in the community and a lot of my constituents they are very excited and very optimistic about the fact that we

i'll make sure that any of the questions and comments that people wrote on the cards are given to kate howard and leo and the budget office so that they're integrated into the budget process. i also want to thank everyone for the very thoughtful comments. also, if anyone has any questions or comments for the budget process, please fill that out in the cards and we'll make sure it gets integrated. for my role on the budget committee as well, i think supervisor farrell has been doing a great job as a budget chair and we're looking forward to taking as

of course the mayor's office and kate howard and your staff. thank you for the professionalism and the hard work and we couldn't do this without ben rosenfeld and rose. and their amazing staff and the city attorney who is here as well. thank you for the legal counsel that they provide. i want to mention a couple of things because i think the budget is the most important policy document that we can pass as a board and there are gaps and there's always things that i certainly wish that we had done and hopefully we'll have an opportunity to address some of those points and certainly the cost of living increases, one of those that i think we need to continue to watch because our workers work very hard and it's an expen sifb -- expensive city so i feel for that. but this budget is a reflection of how unique san francisco is. not only have we restored the hiv cuts as supervisor wiener said, and thank you for your staff on that. you're doing things through this budget like projecting the transgender community in areas like the mission that had been se

in the budget and i had extensive discussions with our budget analyst antonio guerrero and also kate howard and those positions were not funded. >> thank you. colleagues, any other questions at this time? okay, thanks. we will go to our budget analyst report from mr. rose, please. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, on page 65 of our report, our recommended reductions total $51,452 in 13-14. that's ongoing savings. it would allow an increase of slightly over $2 million or 7.56% in the department's 13-14 budget. our recommended reductions total 66,452 in 14-15 of which 15,,000 one time, 51,452 ongoing would allow an increase of [speaker not understood] of 2.9% in the department's 14-15 budget. >> okay. i understand, is there an agreement on this or we're still discussing? >> i'm going to go out on a limb here and agree with mr. rose. >> okay. we're in agreement. all right there, good to know. colleagues, any further questions? okay. could i have a motion to accept the budget analyst's recommendations? pending public comment, of course. so moved. [ gavel] >> thank you, mr. dutchy. unle

before i move into changes in the budget, i'd really like to thank the mayor's budget office kate howard and melissa howard for all their support. controller's office and also harvey rose's office and specifically amanda guma who worked closely with our staff. we are not in complete agreement, but we continue to work on that. but in terms of our overall budget and the changes, all of the changes in our budget is really related to two things. it's related to realignment and went to sack acand fought really hard to get that funding formula change and increase it had last year from 10 to 17 million and this year using that same formula it's increased to $20 million. and, so, the increases you see in our budget primarily relate to service dollars and replacement of money that had been prior grant funded, but those grants have went away. all again targeting services. the actual sb678 funding was decreased because the legislature saw that as some of the same population as the ab 109 population. to the specific changes in the budget, the restoring expired grants, we previously had a violence ag