to my right is supervisor fewer and sheehy and stefani and norman yee. we ha also, our clerk is linda wong. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> yes, turn off any cell phones or electronic devices. >> thank you very much. could you please call item number one. 1. 180221 [hearing - controller's six-month budget status report] sponsor: cohen. hearing on the controller's six-month budget status report for fy2017-2018; and requesting the office of the controller, and the mayor's office of budget to report. 3/6/18; received and assigned to thank you. tell us what's going on? how are we looking? >> i think we're looking pretty good. supervisors, i'm from the controller's office, presenting our six-month budget update. in short, we're projecting an improvement of approximately $62 million in the current year ending fund balance, which can be used to balance the upcoming two-year budgets, bringing our total shortfalls from 200 million to 262 million. i would say the improvement is from three things: property tax, business tax, and revenue at the departme

i would like to say that norman yee, when he stated that it's time for us to recognize each other and to ms. cohen to take the courage to bring that to us. let us make that possible, what we have not had for many years, a celebration for our cultures. maybe we need a cultural minister or a cultural cabinet here in san francisco to celebrate all of us together. so i hope we can work toward that end. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i would like to ask supervisor cohen to come up here and open this up, please, to any particular page. >> sir, your time is ticking. >> okay. i won't read from it. that's a province do. at 6:32 a.m. during the blue moon that we haven't had since president andrew jackson, the president called michael savage. he called him at his home on his cell phone. yesterday i heard that he's actually thinking about putting his hat in the ring against feinstein. i pray this will take place. i'm telling you what. i really want to see that debate. that was a very rare occurrence. another rare occurrence -- but that could have been planned,

. >> the family forum benefits throughout san francisco i'm supervisor norman yee representing district people are homeowners fritter buyers and they don't thinks the planning. >> what you'll notice if you walk around today's activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have one-on-one free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. >> we did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to community meeting to tell people about this event we'll have a whole line of people that will wait to ask skews i'm thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak but i cannot speak english well we created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good informa

norman. supervisor yee. >> i'll make a motion. >> to cause and recommendation to the full board. >> i think that's all we need. >> does she want it as a committee. expedited. >> no, no. this is good. positive recommendation. >> ok. thank you. do we need to -- that's a good question. do we need to send thought as a committee report to go? >> no. >> it will make the next report. >> ok, great. >> ok. >> so the motion is to send it with a positive recommendation. secondedwithout objection that item is ordered. congratulations. any other matters before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned, thank you. . >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco district

norman. supervisor yee. >> i'll make a motion. >> to cause and recommendation to the full board. >> i think that's all we need. >> does she want it as a committee. expedited. >> no, no. this is good. positive recommendation. >> ok. thank you. do we need to -- that's a good question. do we need to send thought as a committee report to go? >> no. >> it will make the next report. >> ok, great. >> ok. >> so the motion is to send it with a positive recommendation. secondedwithout objection that item is ordered. congratulations. any other matters before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned, thank you. >> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, february 27, 2018. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. [roll call] cohen not present. [roll call] [roll call] tang not present. madam president, you have a quorum. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> madam clerk, are there any communication s communications? >> clerk: yes. super

norman. supervisor yee. >> i'll make a motion. >> to cause and recommendation to the full board. >> i think that's all we need. >> does she want it as a committee. expedited. >> no, no. this is good. positive recommendation. >> ok. thank you. do we need to -- that's a good question. do we need to send thought as a committee report to go? >> no. >> it will make the next report. >> ok, great. >> ok. >> so the motion is to send it with a positive recommendation. secondedwithout objection that item is ordered. congratulations. any other matters before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned, thank you. >> supervisor peskin: good morning welcome to the transportation authority meeting for today february 27th. mr. clerk, if you could call the role. >> clerk: (calling roll) we have quorum. >> supervisor peskin: we have a motion to excuse commissioner safai made by commissioner breed and seconded by commissioner stephanie. we'll take that without objectjectiobjec objection. i'm going to talk about two issues we have been discussing here at the ta with increasing frequency,

norman. supervisor yee. >> i'll make a motion. >> to cause and recommendation to the full board. >> i think that's all we need. >> does she want it as a committee. expedited. >> no, no. this is good. positive recommendation. >> ok. thank you. do we need to -- that's a good question. do we need to send thought as a committee report to go? >> no. >> it will make the next report. >> ok, great. >> ok. >> so the motion is to send it with a positive recommendation. secondedwithout objection that item is ordered. congratulations. any other matters before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned, thank you. be. >> hi, i'm average i'm a personal analyst that the human resources examining and recruitment unit and suffix i started my career as a san francisco state university and got my bachelors in psyched and orientational psyche if they had we have a great relationship that the san francisco unified school district i exploded for american people interim shopping mall and become eligible for a permeate job. >> okay. perfect. >> i love working for our human resources services

norman. supervisor yee. >> i'll make a motion. >> to cause and recommendation to the full board. >> i think that's all we need. >> does she want it as a committee. expedited. >> no, no. this is good. positive recommendation. >> ok. thank you. do we need to -- that's a good question. do we need to send thought as a committee report to go? >> no. >> it will make the next report. >> ok, great. >> ok. >> so the motion is to send it with a positive recommendation. secondedwithout objection that item is ordered. congratulations. any other matters before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned, thank you. >> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had

norman. supervisor yee. >> i'll make a motion. >> to cause and recommendation to the full board. >> i think that's all we need. >> does she want it as a committee. expedited. >> no, no. this is good. positive recommendation. >> ok. thank you. do we need to -- that's a good question. do we need to send thought as a committee report to go? >> no. >> it will make the next report. >> ok, great. >> ok. >> so the motion is to send it with a positive recommendation. secondedwithout objection that item is ordered. congratulations. any other matters before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned, thank you. >> hi, in san francisco we're doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. and today we're going to be talking about the neighborhood support center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at the urban center in san francisco with sarah karlewski, deputy director of spur. we're talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. and part of being able to shelter

norman. supervisor yee. >> i'll make a motion. >> to cause and recommendation to the full board. >> i think that's all we need. >> does she want it as a committee. expedited. >> no, no. this is good. positive recommendation. >> ok. thank you. do we need to -- that's a good question. do we need to send thought as a committee report to go? >> no. >> it will make the next report. >> ok, great. >> ok. >> so the motion is to send it with a positive recommendation. secondedwithout objection that item is ordered. congratulations. any other matters before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned, thank you. >> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that