mayor lee when he became mayor and the protocol and i went in to talk to the mayor about his goals and sister cities we the consulates were a part of the city we we are very proud of them their represent the computescy of this great city. the mayor said he wants to support ourcy city and respect them and pay a great deal of attention. and the mayor has come through of what he's done. may i present mayor ed lee >> i know charlotte is incredibly overjoyed with this wherever we have to greet and visit our cities and others mayors we immediately within minutes can appreciate the change and there's so much going on with this city. the commissioner looked at two relaxed during the invest. and barring also known as comments us. i want to thank you for your visit here. although he's been here before this is his first official visit. his commencemee emt our staff c together and challenge great information about technology. health care, transportation are changing industrial areas like we've done in mission bay. literally we're looking at how we have progressed and at the same time paying great

mayor. and gentleman. mayor ed lee. i am very proud to have business, leading up to the completion of this project. now and also the bust will be displayed and a building that was created with love and professionalism. and all need to know in 2015, we will be celebrating the 100th university of the construction of (inaudible). the bust (inaudible). he can explain more in detail the life of the mayor and i would like to headline (inaudible). 1896, sutra became the mayor of san francisco and in ten years, (inaudible) the ability and willingness to spend the time to be with official and bureau crats. jewish came from japan and a jewish from russia, and this celebration was not only to sutra, but also the immigrants were failed and given to the lands of the united states. chinese and the ukraine and russian and immigrants are present today. all immigrants that are influenced about and delighted, (inaudible) never forget the roots. i would like to express an important thing here that the counsel general of germany and russia

>> mayor ed lee and supervisor farrell and the mayor's budget director kate howard. this is part of san francisco's inclusive budget and to ask questions about san francisco's budget. it's a very best of big budget and we're assuming that you have lots of questions that you want to ask the mayor and you will have a chance to do that today. before we start the conversation, i want to remind everybody that you can participate by either emailing your budget questions or concerns to mayor ed win le@sf.gov.org and include the subject line "budget line town hall." and i think we're ready to go. let's start offer by introducing san francisco mayor ed lee and just a few opening remarks, your initial thoughts as you approach the budget season? >> thank you, barbara for moderating this and thank you supervisor farrell, this year the budget chair and he is supervisor in district 2 and that is a very important part of our district. he is going to have a big job on his hands this year, working with me to balance the budget before the board of supervisors and the administration. s

a whole month of celebration, mayor lee? >> thank you, claudene, thank you for your annual work. you and the committee, i know that you get together with everybody months in advance to pull this off and there is an exciting number of events that we have, but let me say, first of all, thank you, to assess recorder carmen for joining us today and our newest supervisor tang for joining us today they are going to be great partners in helping me run this city. also, again, to the committee that there is going to be so many events happening this month, the month of may, for all of you is a very, very busy month. many, many different events. i often go back to that nice musical that i watched many years when i was

i said to the mayor -- mayor jordan how do i approach these people? how do i do it? and he said "well, john i heard you speak before. just throw one of your guilt trips on them" and it worked. i know time is running out. i will make this quick but i wanted you to know how we got here. it didn't happen. it wasn't magic and this building as the mayor told you was a direct result of a tragedy on 101 california street and went up in the building and the crazed gun man killed all those people and i asked to build this building for a long time and the mayor knows that and all of a sudden the money was available and the mayor asked me to do a investigation and it was in the papers and unbelievable. you know it's difficult to investigate the police department. it is. my father is a police officer. you have to walk carefully, and i came to the mayor and i said "mayor jordan -- i said it's a dog's breakfast. 911 is broken. they don't practice the incident command system. they do in each department but it's all stove pipe. the radios didn't work in the enclosed stair wells, and

and mayor's office of disability didn't know about it. it's rather short and my concern was that there was to be publicity and that didn't happen. i would suggest and i can speak to carla later and joanna about this coming to compliance with the compliance. the other thing that concerns me seriously is what to do if you need to have reasonable accommodations and you didn't get it. i was trying to get reasonable accommodations august of 2010 and i didn't know this had been passed and i suffered at the hands of the evil landlord. thank you. i will see you on item 7 as well. >> thank you very much. >> if you can, when you fill out your speaker card, i didn't see your item, that's why i didn't call it. it doesn't have 3 on here. i'm sorry. thank you very much. is there anymore public comment? okay. thank you very much. seeing there is no more public comment. the report from the chair, good afternoon, everyone. i am chair wilson and i would like to mention a couple of things in my report. last month director carla johnson talked about the sro

before i introduce our mayor, as many of you know, when mayor lee ran for office there were three very important things that the mayor said that he was going to do. and one of them was he was going to create jobs. and we all know, all of these projects, we have ordinances, that make sure that we have people on these jobs. and he also is an environmental stewart ship that we would do everything that we can to project our environment and build the green and lead buildings. >> this as i said earlier public safety was his number one priority and without going further, let me introduce the man who has worked very hard to get us to this point, our mayor, ed lee. >> thank you. good morning, everybody, welcome to mission bay. you know, in 2010, the board of supervisors and the mayor did everything that it could to create a dialogue with our voters. and asked them to pass a very important bond, the earthquake safety and emergency response bond of 2010. 412 million dollar bond and should they pass it we would honor it with the best thought and planning process that the city could proviet and of

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

and thank you so much to mayor lee, and your leadership. already we have seen 7 people hit and killed by cars. of course that's too many. we are eager to see this plan implemented. the first streets are transformed because every time you first pave a street it's a time to calm traffic and it's time for san francisco to prioritize one of the characteristics to people all over the world that we are a walkable city. we need to make investment to keep our people safe and support our local neighborhood and businesses with foot traffic. thank you for all who attended this. first step i will invite supervisor mark ferrel from district 2. >> thank you so much. i just want to say really quickly thank you to all of those from district 2 who are gathering this morning. i see you here this morning. to my own and very proud mta commissioner, lean a bridges. thank you. we had a great time walking this morning. if we can order this weather everyday we can walk more often. thank you very much for joining us today to making san francisco the best city in th

ed as mayor and ed as leader. i've been lucky to know every single mayor in san francisco since my birth and mayor lee is quickly taking his place among the very best. i've seen ed grow into the mayor's role with great ease and aplomb and there's no surprise there. mayor lee is focusing on young people and guiding a rebust economic rebirth in san francisco. his interest in young people is quite genuine and he meets regularly with middle school principals, focusing on critical years for kids to stay engage the in school. recognizing that mayors can have tremendous impact in their communities, he co-sponsored the legislation to eradicate bullying from schools at the 2012 con conference of mayors. he is here today to address us on the vexing issue of bullying. it is my pleasure to introduce the mayor of san francisco, ed lee. . >> thank you, ann, for that wonderful introduction and i don't know where you got the ease of coming to the mayor's ofrs, there was no ease on that. ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining

now we were hoping to introduce our mayor but the mayor received a last minute invitation to be withisors come up and the president of the board of supervisors to present the award and others and we would like to invite the other peripheries and elected officials to join them and the school board member and welcome them on stage. (clapping). thank you very much. >> good evening everyone hello. okay. just making sure you guys arethe committee i also want - on behalf of the board of supervisors i want to say thank you and especially on behalf of mayor lee. i want to thank everyone to come to celebrate the contribution of asian folks to our city. san francisco is very proud of our relationship with the asian community and we appreciate all the committee. tonight we're honored to be joined from representatives from all the pacific asian countries. i'd like to have you all come up on stage. so i'm going to let you know please hold your applause until the end please welcome indonesia japan, singapore as well as the deputy general from korea and vampire please give them a warm welcome. and

cheers cheers >> although our mayor, mayor lee could not be here tonight to celebrate and honor our very special awardees, i'd like to thank him for being such a great partner and advocate for our teachers and students. i also want to thank all of our amazing sponsors and supporters and the 300 plus teachers in the stands for joining us tonight to honor the mayor's teacher of the year award winners. [cheers] >> it is my distinct pleasure to honor and acknowledge the dedication of our superb public school teachers in san francisco. the five teachers honored tonight were nominated by parents, students, peers and community members who understand the value of an excellent teacher. these teachers standing here have exceeded all standards. they have dedicated themselves to creating a classroom environment that fosters learning, diversity, and character development. they have one of the most important jobs in america. and this award is a symbol of our immense gratitude for all of their tireless work. they represent the best in san francisco. in collaboration with the san francisco education fun

mayor, i am so appreciative of that. we are working together with the community and we'll hear from some organizations who work with hiv issues to make sure we don't backslide, that we don't see increasing infection rate, that we don't see people getting sick. that is going to be a key priority. also in matthew we need to refocus on what i call the bones of our city. the very, very basic in civil services that people, everyone across the spectrum relies on an needs and that at times we have been little shaky in terms of funding. we are now thankfully fully funding three police academy classes every year; we will stop the slide in terms of the number of police officers down i think about 15% from its peak; we just had a police academy graduation last night which was amazing. we are getting new officers onto the street which will benefit everyone. we're finally having fire academy classes again and that is important because we have seen the shrinkage in our fire department. we are way, way down in our recreation and parks

mayor. nice to have you all here. this is a great opportunity to say happy things to all the department heads that i am looking at who have been our partners in great project and today will concentrate on projects that we don't have a apologize for that. i beg your indulgence. everybody has a wish list and today i get to talk about mine. four things. happy days are here again is the mayor said; companies are moving in, companies hiring, tourism is back up what we are not sustaining our open space rate. mission center, patrol hill, all are experiencing vast increases in jobs; additional funds are required to maximize existing open space and recreational facilities as well as adding new space where feasible. rdp and dpw need additional funding to provide the maintenance required by the additional use of existing facilities. in district three we all know we are severely underserved for recreation and open space. national urban stems call for 4-10 acres of open space. does not take into account the thousands of workers an