i want to turn it over to the budget chair mark farrell. >> thank you supervisor. don't we have a great new colleague in districts 5 everyone? so i'm the periphery for districts 2 and i'm serving as the budget chair on the board of supervisors. as mayor lee mentioned we're doing those hall meetings one on the internet and it's important to hear your concerns and your priorities in the communities. from my prospectiveful from the committee one i'll have an open and transparent process we have committee meetings every week. number 2 we're going to manage our finances in a responsible manner. we're rover asia a city but we want to prepare for our kids as well as and we want to make sure that our budgets reflects the prospectives of every citizen in our city. i'll talk about this later. thank you all for coming tonight. >> we have one last person who would like to speak with us the fire chief. >> hi everyone good evening. john an fire chief i'm concerned about the number of the people in the room. and it's all about safety i encourage you to sit in the seat and technic

so, with that, i want to turn it over to our budget chair, supervisor mark farrell. (applause) >> thanks, katy and thank you to supervisor mar. my name is mark farrell from district 2 which covers the northern part of our city here in san francisco. and this year had the pleasure of serving as our budget and finance committee chair. so, we'll be intimately involved in this budget process with the mayor, with our department heads, and with my fellow supervisors. it's an honor to be part of this process and to be leading it in city hall. i really want to thank all the department heads and the mayor, my fellow supervisors for being here today. but this is really about you and hearing from you about what your concerns are, both in district 1 and district 4. and, so, i will keep my comments short here and look forward to hearing from each and every one of you. and i think you should know that all of us are very committed to having an open and inclusive budget process and it really starts today. so, thank you all for being here. (applause) >> and now kate howard, our city'

i'm mark farrell. i'll be joined by othsupervisor. mr. clerk any announcements? >> completed speaker cards and part of the project should be submitt submitted. >> okay. can we call item number one. >> item number one hearing an is budget up dates from the mayor and including balance and shortfalls and additional revenue. >> thank you, mr. clerk i think we're going to be a talking about our update. >> good afternoon. supervisors ben controller thank you for having us as loopholes. >> two weeks ago our office put together a quarterly report for the board of supervisors and public. i'll briefly walk through the report. at the highest level the report is a highest balance of $210 million. of that $210 million a one hundred and fourteen millions has been appropriated. we have a surplus of $96 million above and beyond previous appropriations which is a significant improvement in our last projection. this is a high level run down of the component of the ending balance and further detailed on our website. but you can see at the top of the page we ended with $220 million

agenda overview in just a second - with that i want to turn it over to my colleague supervisor mark farrellnd i are blessed to not only share a border, the north south border of -- street ever-present russian hill and there are many projects that we work on together, it's been a pleasure to work with him all of these issues but i was honored to appoint him earlier this year is our budget chair for the budget committee that will be reviewing the budget when the mayor proposes it to us at the end of may so with that and with no further ado i would like to turn it over to supervisor ferrell. one last thing i want to thank galileo for hosting us today. (applause) >> thank you president chiu. good morning everyone welcome the district two, thank you for coming here today and i hope that afterwards you will hang out on saturday morning and drink, eat and spend your money here on district two, including the department heads as well. i thank you for being here again as president chiu mentioned, this is the seventh townhall don that we have done and this is the last town hall for the budget , as pre

i want to turn it over to the budget chair mark farrell. >> thank you supervisor.on't we have a great new colleague in districts 5 everyone? so i'm the periphery for districts 2 and i'm serving as the budget chair on the board of supervisors. as mayor lee mentioned we're doing those hall meetings one on the internet and it's important to hear your concerns and your priorities in the communities. from my prospectiveful from the committee one i'll have an open and

and of course i want to give the victim was a supervisor mark farrel who is chairing the budget meetings this year we will cover .all the different districts. i want to express my appreciation to all the department heads that are here today, you can see quite a number of them and cover all the spectrums. clearly many of the department heads are extra sensitive to some of the issues that arise in district eight and nine; they are here to help listen and address them. the bulk of today's meeting will be to lay the groundwork and understand what we are faced with in the budget, i know kate howard my budget director will do so. all of us are going to spend the majority of time listening carefully to what you have to say. we may not have the answers for your concerns are your priorities today at this moment, but what these hearings do is set us the right attitude to pay attention to what you believe is the most important things that we ought to be paying attention to. i know that there have been some department's budget that have already been initiated; many of you might be here to react to t

and just an announcement committee member norman will not be here instead we'll have supervisor mark farrell. we want to thank the following members of sf tv greg and we want to thank our clerk and the district attorney and ms. clerk if we can please make any announcements. thank you, mr. chair please make sure to silence all electronic devises and things included in the file should be put in - >> thank you very much if you can call item one. >> at any time a type 48 license from 1480 alabama street to steven and gym for playland llc. >> thank you if we can begin begin by calling the applicants. >> good afternoon and welcome to the n ss committee meeting. >> hi steven and harry. and jim is he up here in. >> okay. if i can speak into the microphone. so if you can tell us a little bit about the application and the kind of outreach you have done to the community as well as the license application in supervisor cowen's district. what are you trying to do in. purchase the property at the 24th street a little bit over a year ago it had an existing liquor license there and bar business since almost

i am mark farrell, i am the supervisor from district 2 and i am the chair of the budget committee. and it's an honor to be here with the mayor and supervisors. my priorities is to have an open and transparent budget process, that's why we are here. we are doing six of these town halls and we want to hear from each of you. and secondly to manage our budget in a fiscal and responsible manner. and lastly having a budget that reflects the priorities of all san franciscans, there are so many things needed in our neighborhoods and communities. and we want to address that in the budget. thank you for being here, and i want to be this night is about hearing you. i will turn it over to supervisor cohen. >> good evening, everyone, it's good to see you. the number one thing we need to keep in mind here, that the budget is one of the most single pieces of legislation that the board of supervisors pass. our budget is $7.4 million -- excuse me, billion -- that's what i said, billion, people. clean out your ears. i would never short change san francisco and say million [laughter] so you know what

supervisors budget and finance subcommittee meeting for wednesday, may 22, 2013, my name is supervisor mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee joined by eric mar as well as john avalos. i would like to thank the clerk of the board, the clerk of the committee, mr. young and as well as the members of stgtv covering this meeting. >> mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices complete your speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk, items will be on the june 13th, agenda unless otherwise stated. >> could you call number one. >> resolution authoritying the office of the district attorney to contract for accept and expend up to $256,974, allocated from the california victim compensation and government claims board for the project entitled the criminal restitution compact. >> all right, we have jackie ortiz from the district attorney office. >> thank you for having me here today. i am here to explain to you a little bit about the restitution specialists. i wanted to let you know

my name is supervisor mark farrell. i will be chairing this meeting. i am joined by committee vice-chair supervisor eric mar as well as supervisors john avalos, supervisor scott wiener and we'll be joined momentarily by supervisor london breed. i would like to thank the members of sfgtv covering today's meeting jennifer low and karen lubert as well as the clerk of the committee, mr. victor young. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes, please silence all electronic devices. copies to be to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be appear on the may 17, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 9? ~ 1? >> item number 1, ordinance recognizing small business month in may 2013; amending the planning code, sections 302, 355(a), and 355(e); and amending building code, tables 1a-a, and 1a-e, to waive fees for the month of may for certain facade improvements; and making findings, including environmental findings and findings of consistency wi

in addition to that, just wanted to kick it over to supervisor mark farrell. he's going to show a little about his budget priorities as the budget chair this year. >> thank you, supervisor tang. and i'll keep it brief, but i want to say thank you all for being out here today, especially those who spoke at the podium. you know, from my perspective, we are feeling a lot better as a city of san francisco. as i just mentioned to mayor lee, our unemployment is actually at 6% right now this month, down from over 9.8% just a few years ago under mayor lee's leadership we've gotten so far down the road. but we do have a challenge in the budget. as was mentioned before, we have a $123 million budget deficit heading into next year. but we're all committed as a budget here to you and everyone in san francisco that we will have an open and transparent process, that we will manage our finances in a very fiscally responsible manner going forward, and that our budget that comes out will reflect the priorities of all people who live here in san francisco. i commit that to you

and just an announcement committee member norman will not be here instead we'll have supervisor mark farrell. we want to thank the following

. >> i would like to introduce your budget spouse as you described him, supervisor mark farrell who is also the chair of the supervisor's budget committee. pervisor farrell you were really the person who is going to be spearheading this lengthy, rigorous, difficult process through the board of supervisors and eventually back to the mayor. >> that is right barbara and thank you for monitoring this town hall. like mayor lee i look forward to starting our spouses budgetal relationship going forward. as mayor lee mentioned, i think it's important to note that what we're doing not only having today's online town hall as we talk to members of the public, through the internet and as we are the innovation capital confidant world to do more and more innovative ideas is to important and we're also holding town halls throughout san francisco. we have six different town halls in the districts of san francisco to make sure that the public is able to speak and listen to the decision-makers and also to give feedback. as mayor lee mentioned so many priorities for our city and i will articulate from my

with the assistance of supervisors mark farrell and -- we are grateful recipients of two million from the safe and clean neighborhood park bond. our architect is given as close to 300,000 in in-kind services. and we have a remaining 750,000 to raise; we will do that locally in the strategy of fundraising with neighborhood parties and also we have partners in -- different groups in the neighborhood. the planning association of richmond, the presidio trust, neighborhood associations of the presidio, and we are grateful to have the help of all of those partners in closing the gap in the funding that we still need to raise.we have one year to raise the remaining 750,000 dollars; we hope to deliver a playground worthy of the site. is a very exciting project. we have had a tremendous outpouring of support from neighborhoods ard families who use the playground. lots of groups play soccer in the meadow and look at the lake; we feel supported by the entire richmond neighborhood and beyond. thank you for your time today. (applause) >> we have a number of great parks, and a number of great commu

supervisors budget and finance subcommittee meeting for wednesday, may 22, 2013, my name is supervisor mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee joined by eric mar as well as john avalos. i would