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

it is that kind of thinking, that kind of broad stroke around agency priorities, and then those priorities will go over to the arts commission and the community arts and education program. their director is here today. they will be able to say, ok, if you're having an impact in district 10, they have over 40 years of expertise funding, grass-roots, local, on the ground efforts. they have their own process, which we will make sure it's consistent with our community benefits policy. as far as from the standpoint of the p.u.c. of being in the weeds identifying artists, we do not have the expertise, so we will lead partner in -- so we will be pondering with them. president vietor: thank you. that is helpful. any comments on this item? >> is this saying we have approval? >> who has approval? >> the p.u.c. >> in the past or moving forward? >> the past is already over. >> pretty much. this is saying the p.u.c. has approval over how we spend our arts enrichment dollars. if we wanted to, we could say we want to support francisco to do an art project right now. we have the discretion to do that. the

we are in the process of the commission's priorities. this is an ever-changing target in terms of priority. we can work with you with what we think your priorities are. we will give you some feedback. what you should do is scheduled this for another date of 10 to commissioners, tell me when you think we should do this. >> i will forward a list of priorities up to date to the police chief so that he is up to date to that extent. the director already has that from other commission meetings. is that right? >> yes, i would like to also have it. i have it from other commission members. >> my only comment about the priority list is that there seems to be something that we use when we need it and want it. we should probably figure out if it is every two months or something like that. that is my main concern. >> i echo your concern in terms of kind of going out. i have all only been on the commission for roughly 11 months and my perception was that maybe it kind of drifted off a little bit because we became very distracted on some urgent crises.

or have your priorities changed? >> [speaking foreign language] [inaudible] [speaking foreign language] >> the proposed feeder patterns do not seem to achieve your priority goals. first of all, and racial isolation and the concentration of underserved students in the same schools have an equitable access to the district's range of opportunity. >> [speaking foreign language] >> and having systems that are very transparent and having systems that work for families. and having access to the range of opportunities. in fact, many of the feeder patterns seem to do just the opposite. >> [speaking foreign language] >> for example, some of the feeders would concentrate from lower performing elementary schools and the same middle school. >> [speaking middleforeign lang] >> others will block students from getting into higher performing schools in the west side. our question is, are we missing our question is, are we missing something? >> thank you, pac and parents. >> in the recommendations presented on may 9 of district staff,

from 4th and king down to the bay shore has transit signal priority. we have a system several signals a way. whenever ran the t-line without priorities -- we never ran the t-line without prior ries. our models show we are saving about 20% of our running time if we did not have the priority is in place. we think we would reduce our men time by about 25% by having priorities in place. supervisor cohen: would you say that having the t has decreased the time from visitation valley to the market by tenants? but i do not have the data. supervisor cohen: ok. so, you mentioned about broken v-tags. how do we go about replacing it? >> i guess i can only talk about the intersection side. it is usually up parts -- a part of the filter that means to be replaced. if it is part of the filter, they replace it. if not, they do what ever they have to do. supervisor cohen: i of one last question. what is your strategy to limit the traffic flow on the third street corridor. >> bonnie t third corridor, the train is the highest priority. we try to reduce travel time for tra

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

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

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

we are requesting, however, the there are still -- we have three priority areas, housing, employment services, and restoration of violence prevention programs. there was a 10% cut to violence prevention programs. asked that there are funds available, that housing be restored, the work force development programs be restored. 18 to 24-year-old have the highest unemployment rate currently, more than they have ever had since we have been tracking unemployment data, and the violence prevention programs that target 16 to 24-year-old, be fully funded. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> i am executive director at bayview-hunters point foundation and chair person. that is an african-american foundation. i also would like to say how much i have appreciated the budget process this year. it has been very different and very hopeful for those of us working in the community. i offer my comments, particularly on the san francisco department of health substance abuse service cuts in the mayor's budget that has been presented. as well as the violence prevention initiative cuts. i oppose these pr

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

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

. >> our number one priority is that response to 911 calls for service is the first priority. >> reporter: the chief says gang investigations are also at the top of his priority list. but there are some things that might be taking a back seat. >> on the property side, we're not going to be able to put much priority at all on property crime investigation. >> reporter: from 2000 to 2006, san jose was the safest big city. at that time, rand 1,400 officers were employed. right now, around 1,200 are working, but in july, the number of employed officers in san jose will drop to around 1,000. >> it's a very sad day, because we've never placed off officers. >> keep in mind, there was some good news that came from this san jose city council meeting. i talked with union reps and they said that police officers decided to take a 10% cut. this saved 156 jobs. for now reporting in san jose, j.r. stone, kron4 news. >>> turning now to the state budget battle. if state lawmakers do not pass a balanced budget and send it to the governor tomorrow, they will forfeit their pay. yet despite this approaching de

we recommended the tie breakers to be sibling priority over any other party mechanism, and many of us are from the southeast side of town, and we do not like the idea of our children being locked into a new -- underperformance or, and most of the parents that are happy with the feeder system are being sent to the highest achieving middle schools. it does not give any of the rest of us parents, who are already into lower achieving schools, a way into those schools. we are behind everybody else, so we do not recommend it that you pass the feeder system as it is, the proposal, because we want more information on the transportation, how equity is ç i know we will probably have to go through this conversation again if it is not passed, but as we all know, the devil is in the details, and we all would like to see more details. >> i am sorry. i was one to answer your second question. i am sorry, commissioner norton. i misunderstood. we did know about that, and we did develop that after the first reading, so we did know about that. that is the short answer. to answer your second question, i t

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

the sunlight this year is also with the priority policy. i have no doubt at all that an architect could devise a design solution that would not have to take anything to add to the light that 75 mars already enjoys. especially interesting is an overhang that will protect 75 mars from getting too much light and cast a shadow on my window. it seems to me perverse that anything being built to limit light should do it at my expense next door. i think that the only adjustment that would have to be made to the building as proposed is to move it back a little bit and remove the awning, which is only to keep the extra light out of the structure. it is so ironic to me. i did not even think of it today. it is a bright, sunny facade. i think these reasons are good enough to prevail based on what i read in the planning code master plan, which talks about access to sunlight, character, consistency with those priority policies, that the master plan and priority plans rely on them, and i have one other comment to make. in discussions we have had, the neigh

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