. >> ed riskin of the department of public works. >> i maria, director for the department of children, youth, and their families. >> ladies and gentlemen -- >> thank you. thank you. thank you. can everybody hear me? all right. you may not see me, but you can hear me. ed lee, your mayor. i'm happy to join supervisor mirkarimi and all of the department heads here tonight. this is the ninth of the 10 town hall meetings we had all of the city to introduce to you the challenge of our budget, but most importantly, to listen to you tell us what san francisco's priorities ought to be, and i have been doing this because i believe that our budget should never be decided within just the halls of city hall, that we have to go out to every community and open up the dialogue and allow you to tell us those priorities. i made that promise to the board of supervisors. all of our budget should reflect what people need, what people want the most, and then we tell you what the challenges are. we work together to resolve those. i am here tonight to represent hopefully an open dialogue with you about those

ed riskin knows well what we're talking about. the third issue is parks. i want to qualify my statement about parks to say that we were given a beautiful park on naples between geneva and rock avenue. the first permanent pavement to park project in san francisco. it was a gift, not only from the city, but also from dpw. let me detail what we are talking about in our district, programs in the vessels there -- excelsior. many more park sapping and patrol in our major parks such as crocker-amazon, burke's part, allis chalmers. with those parks, we deal with a lot of seniors. in crocker-amazon, we're given a great gift with the bocce ball courts started over a month ago. trash dumping -- i will be real quick. trash dumping in our neighborhood supported by the efforts of supervisor cohen and at avalos. there are certain hot spots that we cannot do with any longer. we need public service announcements about big trash days, at least two times a year. i last issue, public safety. engleside and terrible station represents the biggest area of san francisco. -- terra

ed riskin, director for the department of public works is also here. thank you for your presence here. mayor edwin lee, without further -- adult probation is here, too. mayor kelllee, thank you for yor patience. the microphone is yours. [applause] >> thank you. as you all know, i am not going to have been long speeches. and i'm here to listen to you tonight. but i want to say a couple of things. it is my pleasure to be here with supervisor avalos, supervisor carmen chu, the other department heads, to make sure that i fulfill a promise. while i am occupied this great office of mayor, i will listen to everybody in the city. the matter where you live. that is what i have been doing this whole year. i am three months on the job and it is wonderful to have a new relationship with the board of supervisors. thank you for working closely with me, john. it is no wonder that i am coming out here more than others, but i will say this. john asked the question about how many of you have an $5 million. i noticed on many hands. -- not many hands. but i will say this.

as well as the president of public works, sai ed riskin. we have a great team from the mta, the sustainable streets team. thank you for being here. i am sure i forgot some folks. i want to say thank-you to the mayor and supervisors, in particular, for the importance of connecting us in the city. we all share the goal of making our city easier to move around, more accessible, more business and family friendly. these are the goals that we have at the bicycle coalition. our plan for connecting the city, to creating 100 miles of dedicated bikeways so that families can ride to school, so that folks of all ages can ride to work, to the part, anywhere they want to go in the city. i want to thank you for being part of the division. when we come back next year, i expect to see far more people bicycling. thank you. [applause] >> we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. -- 7th street about 10 years ago. the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and wher

patricia, i'll have ed riskin look at the 14-person pothole, maybe it was a sinkhole, not a pothole but get me specifics and i'll have him followup on it. ok. and i just want to say that i am a very big proponent of local hire and that obviously extends to local businesses and if you don't see me on certain weekends at judy's cafe or squat and gobble, i'm at the ice cream store a lot, i need to diversify up to chestnut street. it's been a pleasure. my pleasure coming out here. i learn new things every time i do these town halls. you've been wonderful. and please, again, work with us. i'm trying to rebuild trust in government and the only way i can do that is if we follow through on all the things you asked us to do and we'll be back. thank you very much. >> thank you guys for coming. i want to thank everyone up here on stage, particularly mayor lee, thank you for sharing your time, if you have followup questions, i'll stick around you know how to contact me, i look forward to working with you guys. >> welcome to the district 4 budget hall, today we have a number of people that are here.

there's another ed in this world cup, ed riskin, director of public works, he's not here, but i'll try to cover it. we welcome neighbors who see things on the streets that dent make sense. we have been adjusting the schedules for street sweepers and in fact a lot of areas that are purely residential are no longer be swept every week, it's every two or three weeks and the schedules are varying and we're not getting complaints that they're any less clean. but as you indicated, trash does move in strange ways. we'd be very welcome for you to call ed directly to have his staff analyze the streets that you see that maybe we're not doing the right thing. we actually have, this was the open data, a question we were given by former mayor gavin newsom, we have data for our ski jumes and we'll allow you to take a look at that and let you know the schedules where the street sweepers are coming. you can, for your own neighborhood, give us feedback as to whether or not that's appropriate. if you've got a corridor that's changing, a commercial corridor, you'll find you probably need more regular swe