and another issue, i guess i want to address this to the president of the board of supervisors, mr. chu and also to the mayor that why don't you veto the proposal of park merced that will lose 1,500 homes to people who are already there, so instead of allowing all these corporations make thousands of millions of dollars for very expensive condominiums while these people are going to be leaving their homes and i don't know where they're going to be finding housing after five years. so you should consider that and send back that to the board so you can vote again. and i'm voting totally against that. so i guess i --. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. >> i have laryngitis. i represent central city hospitality house. i've been affiliated with this system and this business for about 13 years. but they provide coffee, toilet paper to the people on the streets. i used to give career talks. i went into the gutter. i did drugs. i'm coming off drugs. i'm an alcoholic. but they provide service for me. don't take the budget cuts from them. we need them, please don't take the b

mr. david chu. [applause] >> there are actually 37 candidate. you would make a great 38. let's go. who is ready for this weekend? are we already for this weekend? i want to tell you how proud i am a san francisco, and how proud i am of our tolerance, a diversity, shared san francisco values. i am so proud to represent the board of supervisors of harvey milk once served on. i am so proud to be part of the city that comes together all the time, but in particular comes together in the month of june to celebrate our specialness as a community. like many of you here, i did not grow up in san francisco. i grew up in another part of the country that was not quite as tolerant or reverse. san francisco drew me as it your all of us because we live in a very special place. i want to say on behalf of the board of supervisors, we have a special responsibility and leadership role in the world. as we come together, we symbolize all of the space -- this faith we have inhumanity, civil rights, as a common family. -- we have the spacfaith in humanity, civil-rights, and as a common family. i want to

chu: absolutely. and then a question to the mayor's budget office -- >> i could get credit for the end get the support staff that mr. wiener has just identified. supervisor chu: will you be submitting a technical adjustment that would include this increase? >> just to clarify for the budget and legislative analyst, i think the point here is not about credit and who uses it. it is a technical point that the controller raised regarding the ability of the board and the mayor to increase the total size of the budget. and because it is a new revenue, it requires the executive branch to increase the size of the budget. we will certainly be working with you on this and other questions of this nature. i know there are other questions that have come up about encumbrances and increasing the size of the fund balance, so we are here to work with you and the legislative analyst on this issue. supervisor chu: thank you. i want to thank mr. rose for identifying the source of revenue. and if we can do or take the recommendations without objection, and then reserve the $1 million to be added back through a technical adjustment, we

supervisor chu: thank you. thank you, mr. controller. >> thank you for your support, supervisors. we appreciate. supervisor chu: moving on, the next department is a general city responsibility. i believe the outstanding item we had was the neighborhood transition funds of $300,000. >> madam chair, members of the committee, on the last item, we do have one alternative suggestion on page 64 of our report. the committee has already taken our recommended reduction of $24,000 on this item. $300,000 or remain, which we consider to be a policy for the mayor's transition plan. we ask that the board of supervisors consider placing the funds on the budget and finance committee reserve. it would not be a board reserve. it would be reserved we are suggesting as an interim policy. supervisor chu: thank you, mr. rose. i understand this is an item the mayor has put in, so if you can elaborate a little bit on that? >> madam chair, members of the committee, in the mayor's -- i am the mayor's budget director. i am happy to answer any questions you have on the budget analyst alternative recommendatio

mr. rose. supervisor chu: thank you very much. mr. rose? >> madam chair, members of the committee -- we recommend a reduction that is 100% of the ongoing general fund and reductions that will allow an increase of 5.3% in the budget. we also recommend closing bell general fund incumbrances. together these reductions result in general fund sailing -- savings and we will work with the department to get that to the committee. supervisor chu: thank you. seen we do not have questions from the committee, we will see you -- seeing that we do not have questions from the committee, we will see you next week after you get that worked through. all right, colleagues, why don't we take our recess? supervisor chu: welcome back to the budget and finance committee. this is the second day of budget hearings. we are coming back with the second half of today's hearing. i know that there are a number of representatives from department here, but also members of the public. just want to make an announcement, we will but having -- we will be having public comment

supervisor chu: mr. rose. >> just for clarification, on the security analysts position, our does -- department does not agree with that reduction. the details for the committee, our recommended reductions with that those changes detailed on pages 3 and 4, instead of the 577862 that we cited on page 2 of the report, there is also $1,962 of general fund reductions of the general fund monies. therefore, if they commit except recommendations, that would wipe out the return to general fund. on page 3 of the report the changes that the department has referred to, i am withdrawing the recommendation on page 3 for air travel, $2,000 given to us by the department. the department has given a sufficient justification. similarly in professional and specialized services, instead of recommending the reduction of $100,000 i am recommending the reduction of only $50,000. from $350,000 to $15,000 in reductions. those are the only changes, as i say. as i understand it the department is in concurrence with the recommendati

mr. rose's office. supervisor chu: thank you. mr. rose. >> the agreed upon recommendations of $53,465, which are general fund reductions. supervisor chu: thank you. given that the department is in agreement, can we

mr. rose's office. supervisor chu: thank you. mr. rose. >> the agreed upon recommendations of $53,465, which are general fund reductions. supervisor chu: thank you. given that the department is in agreement, can we take this without objection? that will be the case. thank you very much. next, we did not have recommendations, but i believe there are questions with regard to the arts commission. one of the questions i had was whether there was any ability to further fund some of the programs to deal with the graffiti abatement efforts the arts commission has been working on. >> thank you for the opportunity to come back and address some of the questions raised at the last budget hearing. there are two presentations documents in front of you. i would like to start whistling the recommendations raised by supervisor carmen chu. yet a question about the 10 staff members at the arts commission associated with the public art program. in this presentation, we walk you through the responsibilities and workload these 10 individuals are involved

mr. clerk, call the roll on items one through certified? >> campos aye, president chiu, eye, chu aye, cohen, aye, elsbernd, aye, farrell aye, kim absent. supervisor mar aye, mirkarimi aye, wiener aye. avalos aye. mr. president, we have 10 ayes. >> supervisor chiu: order andses adopted. let's skip over items 8-17 related to treasure island until that special order in our agenda. let's go to 18-21, the items regarding park merced. >> items 18-21 are without recommendation from the land use committee. item 19 is an order nascar amending the planning code to include the park merced planning district. item 20 is an ordinance mend amending the planning code. item 21 is an ordinance amending the height map with respect to park merced. >> thank you. supervisor chiu: colleagues, i wanted to let you know that in the two weeks since the first vote on this project, i did sit down with several tenant leaders. as a result of the meetings, we negotiated, and the developer has agreed to a number of technical amendments as well as several additional tenant protections. first, that there not be a

supervisor chu: ok, we take that without objection. mr. clarke, call items four, five, six, and 7. >> item four, hearing to review the mayor's proposed a budget for fiscal year 2011-2012. item five, with and it's appropriate estimated receipts and estimated expenditures for selected parts of the city and county of san francisco for fiscal years ending june 30, 2012, and june 30, 2013. item six, proposed annual salary or and it's in the marine positions in the annual budget appropriation ordinance for selected departments of the city and county of san francisco for fiscal years ending june 30, 2012, and june 30, 2013. item seven, resolution concurring with the certification the services previously approved can be performed by private contractor for a lower cost than similar work performed by city and county employees. supervisor chu: thank you. before we begin, supervisor mirkarimi would like to say a few words. supervisor mirkarimi: i have to go and chair the public safety committee. i do not expected to be a very long meeting, so i am int

supervisor chu: thank you. mr. rose? >> manager, actually we have no other comments. as the department indicated, we do not have any recommendations. supervisor chu: thank you. thank you for the report. given that we know the conservative estimates may add a balance of $3.5 million after this year's election and every year thereafter we will necessarily be putting in another $2.2 million because of the mandatory $2.75 per resident, we get to where we will have $12 million again in the year 2016, where hypothetically we will have an incumbent mayor. at some point, we do need to evaluate the levels of funding we are putting in their. we had not had a mayor's race yet. this will be the first mayor's race we will see. maybe that will be informative going for. supervisor wiener: it will be $9,900,000 for next year's supervisors' races. that leaves us with $2.6 million. then we will automatically put another $1.7 million, or what ever that number is -- $2 per resident. , atwood -- how much would that be? >> about $2 million. supervisor wiener: then we would automatically put

chu: thank you. and to the department, can you speak to the budget analyst recommendation? >> yes, i think we're almost there. i know that mr. rose may have some corrections to his report. i will see if he has those. we want to thank his office and also don, who has been very helpful. supervisor chu: thank you. budget alice recommendation. >> our total recommended reductions are $1,098,840. of those, 80.9% our general fund reductions. $345,000 are ongoing reductions. we also recommend closing out an expended general fund incumbrances, which would allow the return of $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 underst

supervisor chu: great. mr. rose, which elect to articulate those? >> -- would you like to articulate those? >> the total recommended reductions are $816,232. there's also a close out from under expended encumbrances of $134,055. together, the recommendations resulting in a savings of $950,287, of which $488,210 are savings to the general fund. supervisor chu: thank you. and the department is in agreement with the project close out as well? >> we are. supervisor chu: thank you. given that there is agreement for both, can we did this without objection? that will be the case. thank you very much for being here. ok, colleagues, we have a number of items that are outstanding. we have gone through the departments. if i can ask for a few motions to be made -- items number one and two, we will be recessing this meeting to coincide with the remainder of the budget for tomorrow. but item one and two will be recessed until tomorrow. however, items three and four are the aao and the aso for the enterprise departments, which we heard in may. we need to take a mo

supervisor chu: thank you. mr. rose? >> madam chair, members of the committee, our total recommended reduction for this department is $200,236. the dispute -- i would like ms. campbell to briefly respond. >> the recommendation is specific to an understanding said wide -- citywide, and employees on standby can receive 40% of their rate of pay and receive a pager or cell phone or 25% update. the concept is they have to be near a location of a telethon to be available. gradually the apartments are moving away from that and providing -- departments are moving away from that and providing a cellular phone. it is understood city-wide that everyone will be provided a pager or cellular phone and be paid a portion of pay. we do include the cost of the cellular phone in this recommendation. so as not to impair the ability of the individual to respond. supervisor chu: supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. said the $10,000 difference the department is asking us about, is that in the making of this cellular phone? wh

supervisor chu: thank you. mr. rose. >> as we point out on page four of our report under fiscal impacts, this modification of $893,000 would increase the not to exceed amount of this existing contract from $15.3 million to $16.2 million, about a 5.8% increase. i would point out that the existing agreement was previously awarded based on a competitive rfp process. although the original award of the contract was $601,000 and now the new not to exceed amount, if you approve this, it hundred $93,000 modification, would result in a total not to exceed amount of approximately $16.2 million. mr. thomas notes that the significant increases occur because the agreement was negotiated in stages. where the agreement was modified annually based on the work plan for the particular year involved, but we recommend that you approve this resolution. supervisor chu: thank you very much. supervisor kim: i just have two questions for dpw. actually, my question is just in reference to our budget and legislative analyst's report. just wa

supervisor chu: thank you, mr. rose. to confirm, the department is in agreement with the recommendations? yes. thank you. i believe the representative from the mayor's office, mr. elliott, has some information about work force. rhonda and jen cannot make it to the meeting. >> thank you, supervisor. apologies that i have to deliver this information. i can give you as much as i was able to ascertain. i understand there's some confusion. just to offer some clarity, the number of similar jobs in the city is somewhere in the several hundreds -- 400 to 500 range. we do not have a total survey. we expect -- that is across all industries, not just funded by go solar. the number funded by go solar is 72 people who have been referred and placed in the program. you could make the argument that san francisco's leadership on go solar, including the proposed appropriation for next year, does represent leadership in creating a hub of sorts around solar technology and encouraging investment here in the city. supervisor chu: ok, so it so

supervisor chu: thank you. mr. walton. >> thank you. director of the department of technology and chief information officer. a few brief slides. 10 slides perhaps. i know we distributed the report previously. to perhaps give you highlights from the report so we can have a conversation or you can ask some questions or make suggestions on how to improve this as we go forward into the future. as president chiu indicated, this is the first time we have published a five-year plan for technology in the city. i want to perhaps highlight the fact that this is not a technology plan. there is confusion at times, given the fact that we are highly decentralized. this is a citywide technology plan. we have taken a lot of care to get input from various departments. we have gone to a number of public hearings about this plan. this plan is really designed to be a structure that departments can look at and see how their day-to-day operations and long- term plans for technology in their apartment fit into where they want to go in the future. having said

chu, aye, cohen, aye, elsbernd no. farrell, no. kim, aye. mar, aye. mirkarimi, aye. wiener, aye. avalos, aye. mr. president we have nine eyes and two notices. supervisor chiu: this resolution is adopted. item 31. >> a resolution conquering with the controllers certification that services briefly approved can perform by a contractor for a lower cost. >> roll call vote. campos, aye, chiu, aye, chu, aye. cohen, aye, elsbernd, aye. farrell, aye. kim, aye. mar, aye. mirkarimi, aye. wiener, aye. avalos, aye. mr. president we have 11 eyes. supervisor chiu: this resolution is adopted. item 32. >> ordinance amending the transportation code to establish a time limit for parking at inoperable or broken parking meter. supervisor chiu: can we take this item same call. this ordinance is passed on first edie. >> 33 is a resolution that the issuance of a liquor conference. churechure this resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 34 is a resolution a proving the community needs assessment. supervisor chiu: supervisor kim. supervisor kim: i wanted to thank dcyf for their assessment of what is going on with youth

. >> supervisor avalos, supervisor chu, supervisor cohen, supervisor elsbernd, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor wiener. mr. president, we have 10 ayes. president chiu: it is now 3:00, time for this special order. please read item 43 and 44. >> a public hearing to consider objections to reports of assessment costs submitted by the director of public works for inspection and/or abatement of

chu: this is day number two of the hearing process for the budget. we have heard a number of apartments on monday and today we have a host of the apartments. mr. gner, do you have any opening comments for today? >> no, i do not. supervisor chu: let's go straight to departments. retirement system? >> item #one. annual salary ordinance enumerating positions in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for the fy ending june 30, 2012; fy ending june 30, 2013, for the airport, port commission, and the public utilities commission; and continuing, creating or establishing these positions; enumerating and including therein all positions created by charter or state law for which compensations are paid from city and county funds and appropriation ordinance; authorizing appointments or continuation of appointments thereto; specifying and fixing the compensations and work authorizing appointments to temporary positions and fixing compensations therefore. item #two. consolidated budget and annual appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimated expenditures of the city and county of san francisco for the fy ending june 30,

supervisor chu: ok, we have mr. walton from the department of technology. >> good afternoon. john walton, department of technology. briefly, we have a for your slides to go over with you -- we have four slides to go over with you. i brought some hard copy is just in case folks wanted to follow along. briefly jumping into the slide, i wanted to revisit for a moment, we had a lot of conversations around technology in the city. just to remind everyone, to put our department in context, i was listening to the hearings this morning. i was glad to hear, frankly, many of the department's talking about how important technology is to them in delivering their services, how they are looking to improve their technology. our department is making sure -- in charge of making sure there are good data centers and a secure robust network they can run these applications over and police department initiatives together and working with them. right now, we are going through a multi-year process, as you are all aware. a decrease in the size of our apartment. but the good news is that even in the li

supervisor chu: thank you very much, mr. clark. again, all items on the agenda had been called, and they are all related to the budget. -- thank you very much, mr. clerke. we have for our day-to-day a couple of departments that had not yet reached agreement with our budget analyst last week, so we will be bringing those departments back up today. why don't we start with the department economic and workforce development? since we did hear from you last week with regard to the general direction of the department among other things, if we could just concentrate on the budget analyst recommendations and where you are with those? >> yes, good morning. director of the office and economic workforce development -- we work diligently with the budget analyst over the last week, and i am pleased to say that we are in agreement with their recommendation. there is one recommendation that i believe is memorialized in their report to you that we have for the negotiated since it was published, and i believe we have agreed that it will be withdrawn

supervisor chu: thank you for your final comments. mr. clark, do we have any further items before us? >>i do not believe that we do. so, we are going to adjourn the meeting. thank you. i feel like all of us are starng to see what the problems in this country are. i think plenty of people are opinionated. i don't think there's many forums where you can really express yourself or try to make a difference or anything. i mean...wha'...whatdo... what do i do, ya' know? the only people that i'm able to affect are the people who care about what i have to say. there is something you can do, but i'm sure it wouldn't be, uh...easy. different man: i get angry about it, but it's like... ya' know, in my own apartment. [laughs] >> good evening, and welcome to the may 25, 2011 meeting of the board of appeals. we apologize for any delay. thank you for your patience. joining us is the vice-president michael garcia, who commissioner fung. controls is our legal assistant, and i am the executive director. at the front we have representatives of city departme