our budget priority is simple.e do not want to destroy, to break, to interrupt any of those core safety nets that weave already established over -- we've already established over the years, things we want to continue. we're working hard with the mayor's office to identify ways for us to make that happen. you know, i don't think they want to hear me. >> they're happy to hear you. >> oh, is that the indication? right now we're looking at a 10% reduction, which equals $2.5 million, and an additional 10% reduction, another $2.5 million. we believe that we can get to these reduction strategies by eliminating one-time funding that we received in our department. so these are one-time funding that would have gone away at the end of this fiscal year anyways. and we believe that by cutting those programs, or that funding, the one-time funding, we are protecting the continuation of all of those other programs. of course i'm here to answer other questions. >> good afternoon. my name is phil arnold. i'm the deputy director for

that's one of my priorities, the essence of community policing, when the community sets the priorities for the police department. on the issue of the budget, the priorities, i think, have to be how can we maintain public safety without reducing services. the department has been successful in this area in recent years, specifically in the area of working with less resources, 'cause we've strategically trimmed our overtime budget to the point where we're working very, very efficiently and crime is still going down over the last few years, especially violent crime. one of our priority is to maintain and continue to see decreases in that area. the other area we have priorities in is maintaining staffing levels so we can obviously handle calls for service and maintain public safety. we also need service resources out there to protect other officers, to do proactive police work, for sufficient officers to respond as backup, so to speak. one of our biggest priorities at central station is maintain foot patrols. it's one of the things that remains a priority in these challenging fiscal times t

kind of next phase of transit expansion priorities. and then policy changes that are necessarily in there. and then projects not under consideration either because they conflict with city policy or aren't really transportation projects. so just to set the context, as i said before, this isn't only a very small piece of the overall process that m.t.c. is going through, they're also soliciting rehab and maintenance needs from transit, local streets and roads and highways, as well as considering project priorities submitted directly by regional transit operators. so while we've been doing the call for projects, as we move forward, we have been -- we will continue to do regional coordination efforts advocating for our project priorities, identifying corridor strategies so how do we coordinate with san mateo, alameda county and operators in those corridors, ensuring that transit service is looked at so we don't overload the transit system in the project prior advertisation process -- prioritization process. advocating for safety funding. th

that's the second generic priority. second, we need to focus on what we can do to continue to operate and make sure our business community and a community that's going to continue to create an economic cycle long-term here in san francisco that's going to sustain us in terms of taxes and ancillary revenues, how do we make it a better environment for them to operate in? i was proud to be with mayor lee today when we signed the mid market tenderloin tax legislation today, it was labeled the twitter debate. yesterday i introduced for the first time, we are the only major city in the united states that tabblingses stock options. i introduced a bill to eliminate that. we continue to keep that cycle of technology, other companies that are here today, that they continue to be here tomorrow and then next -- the next facebook, next twitter starting today in san francisco continues to be here and provides long-term jobs for our city. what we heard the other day at the first meeting of our technology council which mayor lee conven

to make sure that those are at least reflected in our own list and then reconcile priorities from one plan to another. not everything will make the list. it is a fairly complicated process. the best we can hope for is consistency among the city agencies that are providing comment on this on the criteria. also transparency. when we see how far you can go down the list people will realize everybody is being treated fairly. >> i appreciate the comments and we look ford continue working with you to understand the priorities and evaluate them. it is something we very much need to do. so, thank you. >> thank you commissioner. >> thank you mr. chairman. through the chair i want to first of all, echo my sentiment that the issue of funding is a key issue. the regional look at creating suddenable communities. i think they cannot occur or take place unless we have fund to support them. we are being asked to adopt that the principle that there should be a nexus between affordable housing and transportation. so, i certainly want the region to adopt this principle but i also think that it is import

in terms of community priorities -- [speaking spanish] [applause] in terms of our community's priorities, and this comes out of the work of many years of many organizations, many leaders in the city -- we believe city government must prioritize the well-being of the residence and that we need to start looking at progress of revenue- generating measures -- progressive, revenue-generating measures. if we look at the budget over the last seven years, we see more and more service cuts are happening and less and less new revenue-generating measures. so we want to make sure the city government here is that. next slide. all right, so -- [speaking spanish] all right, so, your voice is matter. our voices matter. we believe if we start with your voices at the center, we can and former government and keep san francisco strong for everybody. do you believe in that? right on. [speaking spanish] [applause] supervisor campos: thank you. thank you for that very excellent, very clear, concise presentation. mayor lee, i do not know if you want to add anything to what you said about the budget, but i do wa

and balancing the budget will be a priority. has to be a priority. we will do that. we have done that time and time again. public safety is also something we are very interested in. it has to be a priority, because if we do not have public safety, nothing else works. one of the things we are focusing on is trying to focus on how policing works in san francisco. i used to be a member of the police commission, and i learned that the most effective community policing is the policing where you have the police and the community working together. it is important to have police officers on the street and have the police presence. at the same time, there has to be a connection within the police and the community. so, that requires -- also we have a focus on violence prevention. in the mission, we are focused on gang activity. we have to balance the very important work of the police would be very important violence prevention work -- with the very importance violence prevention work we're doing on the ground. so, public safety is something we will keep pushing on. we are tryi

one of our biggest priorities at central station is maintain foot patrols. it's one of the things that remains a priority in these challenging fiscal times to maintain foot patrols. aside from that the other issue as it relates to the budget, we talk about it every day at central station, how can we help the situation with its budget situation, because it's really our situation. we're all in this together, so as much as the unions working with the city, i know the police officers, certainly the sentiment at central station is how can we help. so stay tuned. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm over at the housing authority. thank you for all for having me here. i'll probably be the briefest of everyone here. we have a small footprint in chinatown. we're doing about $8 million worth of energy retrofits. we're partnering with my good friend, mr. phil, to do the summer youth program, which every public housing youth will go to camp for free if they choose to go to it. we're committed to subsidizing that product. it's a great partnership. worked wonderfully last ye

to me, it is a huge priority, why i did this. i will be very true what i talk about on the campaign trail. representing a. 2, but also the city -- representing a district 2, but also the city and county of san francisco. it is such an honor and unique experience, and of just having a great time and look forward to making a big difference in city hall. >> great. we have been talking to supervisor farrell from district 2. thank you for joining us on sfgtv's "meet your district supervisor." four episodes when we come back with another of our city supervisors. thank you very much. >> you bet.

one of our priority is to maintain and continue to see decreases in that area. the other area we have priorities in is maintaining staffing levels so we can obviously handle calls for service and maintain public safety. we also need service resources out there to protect other officers, to do proactive police work, for sufficient officers to respond as backup, so to speak. one of our biggest priorities at central station is maintain foot patrols. it's one of the things that remains a priority in these challenging fiscal times to maintain foot patrols. aside from that the other issue as it relates to the budget, we talk about it every day at central station, how can we help the situation with its budget situation, because it's really our situation. we're all in this together, so as much as the unions working with the city, i know the police officers, certainly the sentiment at central station is how can we help. so stay tuned. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm over at the housing authority. thank you for all for having me here. i'll probably be the briefest of ev

when we talk about my legislative priorities, the environment is also on that list of priorities. minimizing asthma, maintaining the asman task force, that we will keep implementing that my predecessors started, educating people on healthy lifestyles, exercise, healthy diet. we talked about the environment. it is about the food we are taking into our body, our stress level, and a component that is not often discussed as our mental health -- is our mental health. mental health and physical health factor into the environment that people are living in. it is in their home, it is in the neighborhood, it is the whole southeast quadrant. any way you guys sit up, we have had our disproportionate share -- you dice it up, we have had our disproportionate share of problems that are happening. the policies and priorities of the city have been implemented. we have an opportunity -- this goes back to jobs. the puc will have a billion dollar project of rebuilding the digestors, the waste water management treatment plant in the district. making sure that people are hired from the neighborhood fo

are, where their priorities have changed. when chief gascon came in, it shot up by about 400 people. i do not know what his priorities will be with the direction he will be receiving, but typically after a new chief of police comes in, our population does tend to go up. that is mainly a historical operation. on the far right hand of that chart, there is a red line. it may not appear red. this is a projection based on the governor's realignment proposals, and this has been discussed by this committee, but most dramatically, the governor's realignment proposal, which has been signed into law, what it would dictate is that people resentenced -- who are sentenced to state prison for nonviolent, nonsexual, and non serious as defined will not go to state prison. they will go to local county jails. we are transferring people for the crimes that would remain in san francisco. some people who are charged with essentially drug offenses to be served up to a seven-year term, and it is not clear if someone would get at seven-year jail ter

we had second priorities include customer service, rate stability, at low rates that were priorities by roughly four and five customers. at the bottom of the list, we had renewable sources. this is a high priority for the vast majority of customers in cities. all five of these items are very important to electricity customers, but there is the variation on the degree and intensity of their feelings with reliability at the top of the list. all of these factors come into play when we ask the customers about holding power. we started with the general question. we knew what kind of energy it would provide, and let them know that they would be automatically enrolled in we would have the ability to opt out if they chose. we asked them to indicate if they thought they would stay with clean power if the program was up and running or to switch back to pg&e. the customers split into thirds. 37 percent said they would split, 31% said they would opt out, and the remaining 32% said they did not know. we did not tell them what the potential impact on their rates was. it is likely that undecided wa

we have been that our priority. until the mayor and everybody got together, and we said, you know, this is not somebody else's problem. the mayor was the first two said we have to come up with the money. the $250,000 is something that will make a reality for 900 kids who did not do well in those requirements, to let them know that we care enough that we're going to make them a priority. that could not have happened without the support. gm.ftñ behind in credits, because that is what instep happening. this is something opportunity with all the credit that they need to keep moving this forward. we could never have done this in the past, and certainly agree that without the help of everybody, but not be here. city colleges are offering summer courses for high school students. we all worked as a team now. it is great working with your departments. we talk to each other. it really is one city. i have worked in seven school districts. i have to tell you this is the first place in my life for all the different parts of the

what are the criteria and priorities to expand? what it will take [unintelligible] in clarity, we are extending the language programs already in place. >> one of the rationale offered implementing the patterns is to support a robust enrollment. but there are only a handful of under-enrolled schools. instead of setting compulsory assignment patterns for the entire district, it makes more sense to address the specific challenges that the under- enrolled schools. why are these schools under enroll? simply put, public perception. many parents don't choose schools believe are lower in quality or are dangerous. heaven looking to change people's perspectives. here are some other ideas about what the district could do to support hundred national and middle schools. share with of the community. plan to meet each student's needs. >> highly effective and culturally competent principals of schools. hold them accountable for high standards and support them to meet those standards. support of reach and positive communication efforts and are alre

we came up with priorities that kind of look like this. we wanted a budget that supported coordination among and between all providers across funding, program, and department silos. we wanted budgeting that would help in the development of social capital. we wanted to see budgets that promoted prevention, which includes access to healthy foods and folks actually purchasing them and eating them, access to safe exercise, and people actually exercising and enjoying the benefits of a, and supporting programs that improve personal habits. of our health status, only about 10% is because we go to the doctor. id% is what we do, our own personal habits. finally, we looked at some key health issues in district 10 that we thought were important to be looked at in the context of the items i just mentioned. that is trauma and stress -- ongoing traumatic stress, posttraumatic stress, and in a recent training on african- american health, we had -- that the department sponsored -- a syndrome called post-slavery stress. there is a book out on that. what is

haynes, gold, and priorities must die - aims, goals and priorities must guide assessments. is there more emphasis to shape the marine corps after afghanistan? >> that is a good question. my sense is that when we start talking about budget items and you start thinking about the the fiscal pressures, we are talking about afghanistan. i do not think there is anybody -- i will just speak for myself. if you look at the written guidance i put out after i i have the commandant, four priorities. my number one priority is to guarantee success in afghanistan for our deployed forces. that is my number one priority. my promise to marines on the ground and their families is that i will spend whatever money is required. i will take whatever personal capital is required. i will make whatever expenditures are required with regard to training and equipping our forces. i will do all of that, even at the expense of the rest of the marine corps, to guarantee success in afghanistan. you heard me talk earlier about the fact that it is not about winning or losing. afghanistan is my number one pri

to me, it is a huge priority, why i did this. i will be very true what i talk about on the campaign trail. representing a. 2, but also the city -- representing a district 2, but also the city and county of san francisco. it is such an honor and unique experience, and of just having a great time and look forward to making a big difference in city hall. >> great. we have been talking to supervisor farrell from district 2. thank you for joining us on sfgtv's "meet your district supervisor." four episodes when we come back with another of our city supervisors. thank you very much. >> you bet. >> welcome to "culture wire." i'm here with james lee, and exhibiting artist, and we will have a chat today about the body of work you are presenting. after you left the military, what prompted you to go back to a place where the u.s. is engaged in military action? >> it is interesting. the population of afghanistan is around 29 million, and there's probably no more than 80,000 u.s. soldiers serving in afghanistan right now, but if you look at t

we came up with priorities that kind of look like this. we wanted a budget that supported coordination among and between all providers across funding

and in his own written response he agreed that this is a priority for the department to respond to. and that there is more that could be done and that the department was going to find innovative ways to improve minority recruitment and attention and the subjectiveness about whether or not you can orally express yourself, which i always found interesting. but yet, we don't even have a response to opm. only federal department that didn't do that and i hope we can change that and i look forward to working with you to do so. >> i'll certainly to do anything i can with tom knights and the secretary -- >> i prefer -- i prefer that we get a response that we can work with versus a legislative response to make it happen. senator? >> thank you, master burns, congratulations. i can think of -- i can think of no one who is better qualified to do the job that you're about to undertake. i have great admiration for your adroitness. [laughter] >> as a diplomat but also your wealth of knowledge. i want to get in three or four questions here. not in terms of great length remarks but i have two concer

to me, it is a huge priority, why i did this. i will be very true what i talk about on the campaign trail. representing a. 2, but also the city -- representing a district 2, but also the city and county of san francisco. it is such an honor and unique experience, and of just having a great time and look forward to making a big difference in city hall. >> great. we have been talking to supervisor farrell from district 2. thank you for joining us on sfgtv's "meet your district supervisor." four episodes when we come back with another of our city supervisors. thank you very much. >> you bet. >> welcome to culture wire. we're going to take a look at one of the biggest and most significant public art projects today. ♪ on june 26, mayor newsom and other officials gathered at the hospital to cut the ribbon and welcome the public into a beautiful new state-of-the-art facility. >> 3, 2, 1. [applause] >> in has been 10 years since voters approved the measure for the new building. >> when they cast the vote, we have an exciting opportunitie

to me, it is a huge priority, why i did this. i will be very true what i talk about on the campaign trail. representing a. 2, but also the city -- representing a district 2, but also the city and county of san francisco. it is such an honor and unique experience, and of just having a great time and look forward to making a big difference in city hall. >> great. we have been talking to supervisor farrell from district 2. thank you for joining us on sfgtv's "meet your district supervisor." four episodes when we come back with another of our city supervisors. thank you very much. >> you bet. richie! yo, tye! what-up? richie! what-up, player? how ya doing, son? all right, man. i'm chillin', of course. click freedomcenter.org to find yours. this building was built in 1936. as a board to preserve the history and make the students aware of that history. the partnering between sfmoma and the arts commission means they will be more aware of the artwork that we have here, the artists that painted a, and the history behind this itself. >> s

that budget has a few priorities when it comes to district 10. i'll go by project area. in visitation valley, you will have noticed probably by now that these locks and is not there. that is a redevelopment project area. we will be working this year to put together the agreements that will revitalize the area. the plan there is for 1200 units of housing, along with improvements to the streets date on leland avenue, and on bayshore. in bayview hunters point project area, our main focus is on third street. we have dedicated this year about $1 million for a revolving loan program for small businesses that are operating on third street, in addition to that, a significant amount of money, about 3/-- about $750,000 for improvements on third street. in addition to those things, our priorities are to wrap up and complete and in some cases initiate affordable housing developments. our two major priorities with regard to housing in bayview hunters point in the upcoming year are to get the revitalization of double lock off the ground and to basically commit all of the funding that