mr. wagner represented that. the department had the money. in terms of actual expenditures through june 30, we had not been advised. supervisor mirkarimi: supervisors in the last budget erasion remarked of their concern about this. i do not know if mr. wagner would like to speak to that. >> absolutely. a couple of things. i know that the office of harvey rose had asked for an accounting and some apartments have responded. although i think it was a matter of timing, following up on the current status of expenditures. the main issue, as i recall, was that we had a significant amount of uncertainty at that part of the year and the bigger piece of that was related to the state budget. i think steps the discussion at that time was largely about if the state budget came in worse than anticipated and we had to make major cuts. with the response to that be that we would have to consider whether or not the ad that was on the table -- whether or not you or your colleagues on the board, as you said, wanted to have some leverage to create a trade-off dis

mr. wagner is here from the budget office and the comptroller's office might add a few words. >> thank you very much, madame chair. members of the committee. i will walk you through the high level picture of where things are right now. kate howard from my office is going to talk to the state budget picture. just to kind of frame where we are right now in the process for the last several years it has been an ongoing process, balancing the budget in the budget year. where we are right now is the apartments have submitted their budgets and have been going through the submission process for the last couple of months. they have submitted their budgets to the mayor's office. i guess that this marks the official starting point of the process of digging into those department proposals and policy implications and what they mean for the budget. right now we are still looking at things at a very high end broad level. the chair had asked if we could summarize what we are receiving in submissions, although i think it is early for me to be able to paint an accurate picture of that for you. we will dig t

mr. wagner, something to the fact that i did not go along with the fact that this was standard. i absolutely agree. had the findings clearly reflected that, i would have voted for it. but what i would not vote for is to have this board declared that were started without a permit without dbi, to that effect. and to go beyond that, you know, the resale and sale of legal drugs, we had had an affidavit that there was a nexus. in the papers, we had heard something about there may be some nexus, and then we read further that there was some negotiation, and the permit holder could mitigate these problems. then, no one showed up en for that conversation. -- showed up for that conversation. one additional pharmacy is going to exacerbate this problem -- i did not say that flippantly, because i do not feel flip about it. i think it is a terrible situation in the tenderloin. i am very sympathetic to everyone who lives there. and i wish the police department and the board of supervisors and anyone else who had any authority concerning what goes on there would pay greater attention, but for s

mr. wagner represented that. the department had the money. in terms of actual expenditures through june 30, we had not been advised. supervisor mirkarimi: supervisors in the last budget erasion remarked of their concern about this. i do not know if

mr. wagner. >> my name is david wagner. i am an attorney licensed to practice law in california. i represent the community. i am appearing as pro bono council on this matter. before the clock starts on my three minutes, i want to respectfully request a minute to explain why i would like to request a continuance. i am not sure what the proper procedure for that is. it would take a bit of time for me to request that you continue it. i just got involved in this case last week. president goh: you can have one minute to argue. >> thank you. commissioners, as i mentioned, i met the appellants for the first time last week. i have not had the time to fully prepared to argue the merits of my client's request for hearing. with an attempt to persuasively argue my case in three minutes this evening, i respectfully request to continue this matter and allow me to file a brief addressing the underlying legal and factual issues that would merit a rehearing. contrary to bay drug counsil's assertion, appellants were only represented for a month in april and may of last year. that attorney never fi