john rosenfield, senior scientist with san francisco bay keepers, says the warming temperatures is only making it worse. >> harmful algae blooms are microorganisms that when they multiply a lot form these gnats that look like algae bloom. they're green, on the surface, just underhe except these unlike regular old pond algae, these algae release a toxin that can be very powerful. >> to watch this full interview about harmful blooms and other climate stories impacting the bay area, go to nbcbayarea.com and click on the climate in crisis on our top trending bar. then you select climate hot spots. now in addition to this series, we've also launched "climate hacks" across all my social media platforms. i give you eco-friendly swaps on everyday thing like your toothbrush, trash bags, lot of minor things you night not think about are making a big impact on our planet. i'll see you on social and in es pan yol. oo forward to it, thank yoflowers. it's not a new idea. up next, what or who inspired one east bay co-op to pedal petals. >>> as we spotlight bay area history, we focus on author, poet an

are there any other questions or comments from miss groffenbergerbefore i bring on controller rosenfieldink is going to add to this item ? seeing not, controller, are you still with us. >> of course, terry. >> i'm here today to provide an update on the six-month budget status report which our office issued last week. >> that is the next item so we will wrap this item in. vice chair was actually teaming up to move on. so i don't think director groffenberger, isee any other questions or comments for you . can we madam clerk see if there's any public comment on items one or two? one and two? >> checking to see if there are any colors in the queue. if there are colors already, if you have not already done so please are three. continue to wait until it indicates you have been muted. let us know ifthere are any callers who wish to comment on items one and two . >> i have one color in the queue. >> supervisors, we are interested in how you're going to be spending the money . the least you can do is as you have the presentation, the presentation should be clear. imean the print . the font is so

john rosenfield says the warm temperatures are only making it worse. >> they are microorganisms thatey multiply a lot form these mats that are green and are on the surface or just under the water. but these unlike regular old ponding algae, these algae release a toxin that can be very powerful. >> to watch this full interview impacting the bay area go to c climate in crisis tab. then click on climate hot spots and you'll find the rest of our climate stories. you can also check out my new segment where i show you planet friendly swaps that you can do right from the comfort of your home and i'll be posting those across all of my social media platforms. also i just joined tiktok. all right, i'll send it over to you, scott. >>> president biden wants the republicans' help sending out those checks. one solution might be to make checks available to fewer american families. >>> and we are counting down the days until super bowl sunday. now, i know, the 49ers are not in there this year but that does not mean that the bay area is not going to be represented. i'll tell you the role some bay are

we spoke with john rosenfield who said the warming temperatures is making it worse. >> harmful algals are microorganizisms that when they multiply a lot form these mats that look like algal blooms. they're green and on the surface or just under the water, except that these, unlike regular old pond algae, these algae release a toxin that can be very powerful. >> to watch this full interview about harmful algal blooms go to nbcbayarea.com and click on the climate in crisis tab on our top trending bar. then you simply click on climate hot spots and it's right there. in addition to that, we also announced climate hack basically i show you eco-friendly swaps for every day items like your toothbrush, your hair ties, anything plastic that canlandfills. just follow me. see you on social. >> sounds good, thanks vianey. >>> coming up next on "today in the bay" living up to its promise. we'll look at the progress president biden is making on his push to vaccinate 100 million people in his first 100 days. and how it's impacting the rollout in california. >>> plus -- >> president biden also wants

rosenfield, you are on mute. >> hi. good afternoon to the commissioners and thank you to staff for the representation. i'll dive right in, bill's response in the question period was the flows and habitat are designed to work together and at this think that's one thing that bill said that we can agree on. the districts have a long history of doing habitat restoration on the tuolumne and yet we see the pattern that we see today and so i wanted to ask specifically, tim, if tim is still there, tim and his presentation talked about a special tool nine as an area where there's habitat issues and special pool nine was a habitat restoration projects and i believe that it cost a lot, and i believe that it was completed and my question for others is did that work and one of the big things i think that came out of the brooks element in 95 was salt of interest to generate funding but it wasn't included for monitoring and none for restoration. and the work that was done was the result of the group and the coalition supporting applic

rosenfield, you are on mute. >> hi.ternoon to the commissioners and thank you to staff for the representation. i'll dive right in, bill's response in the question period was the flows and habitat are designed to work together and at this think that's one thing that bill said that we can agree on. the districts have a long history of doing habitat restoration on the tuolumne and yet we see the pattern that we see today and so i wanted to ask specifically, tim, if tim is still there, tim and his presentation talked about a special tool nine as an area where there's habitat issues and special pool nine was a habitat restoration projects and i believe that it cost a lot, and i believe that it was completed and my question for others is did that work and one of the big things i think that came out of the brooks element in 95 was salt of interest to generate funding but it wasn't included for monitoring and none for restoration. and the work that was done was the result of the group and the coalition supporting applications f

the other thing that we done is in light of ben rosenfield, our city controller said, rather than just purely update our 5-year financial forecast, we developed a number of scenarios kind of considering some of the questions that the board members had today. this is the part one that we're working to plan for. we will go through this as we look at our longer fiscal outlook. we'll look at the different alternatives that we have. this is the one that we're recommending that we plan for. you'll see that it show the roughly just over $100 million deficit close to $153 million. you'll see revenue recover but not enough over the 5-year forecast. we need to plan for a long-term measure for the agency to restore service to pre-pandemic level. but to make sure that we have the system is resilient and welfare the ability to provide a base level of service that people can expect with certainty. we will go into this more detail. we wanted to give you a sense of the short-term budget deficit, $134 million and our longer term structural deficit that we will be working to close. that's all i have. >>

are there any other questions or comments from miss groffenbergerbefore i bring on controller rosenfield this item ? seeing not, controller, are you still with us. >> of course, terry. >> i'm here today to provide an update on the six-month budget status report which our office issued last week. >> that is the next item so we will wrap this item in. vice chair was actually teaming up to move on. so i don't think director groffenberger, isee any other questions or comments for you . can we madam clerk see if there's any public comment on items one or two? one and two? >> checking to see if there are any colors in the queue. if there are colors already, if you have not already done so please are three. continue to wait until it indicates you have been muted. let us know ifthere are any callers who wish to comment on items one and two . >> i have one color in the queue. >> supervisors, we are interested in how you're going to be spending the money . the least you can do is as you have the presentation, the presentation should be clear. imean the print . the font is so light that somebody's

ben rosenfield. i have circulated to each and every one of you some proposed changes based on the mta suggestion made friday morning at 8:00 a.m. with myself and supervisor mandelman that the instrument be changed to a value of $129 million of which $118 million would be appropriated. those amendments are before you and i would like to move those amendments to item 7 and 8. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor peskin. is there a second? seconded by supervisor mandelman. thank you so much. and with that, i don't see -- supervisor mandelman, sorry. was that is second or -- >> supervisor mandelman: it was a second and -- >> president walton: you have the floor. >> i want to thank the supervisor for slowing us down last week. at the time i was slightly annoyed but gave us the opportunity to have the conversations with the controller and the mta that i thought, that i came to understand were actually useful and some issues that i think needed to be discussed. i think the smaller amount of th

so with that, i'm happy to turn it over to ben rosenfield, unless board members have questions aboutthe overall agenda and scope for the day? >> chair borden: any questions from board members before we jump in? thank you. we'll move on to mr. rosenfeld, because we have a lot of stuff on the agenda today. >> good morning, board members. thank you for having us back. i'm ben rosenfeld, city controller. i'm joined by ted eagan, the chief economist in the office for the city. i'm turning the floor over to ted. he's going to catch us up on things we're watching in terms of san francisco's economy and i'll close with a couple of high-level observations regarding the state budget looking ahead. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm going to share my screen now. we're going to summarize the city's current economic condition and what we're looking at over the next year. i want to start because obviously the last year and this year the economic situation is going to be dominated by the course of the covid virus with some updates of what the virus situation looks like for california. these are proj

so with that, i'm happy to turn it over to ben rosenfield, unless board members have questions aboutthe overall agenda and scope for the day? >> chair borden: any questions from board members before we jump in? thank you. we'll move on to mr. rosenfeld, because we have a lot of stuff on the agenda today. >> good morning, board members. thank you for having us back. i'm ben rosenfeld, city controller. i'm joined by ted eagan, the chief economist in the office for the city. i'm turning the floor over to ted. he's going to catch us up on things we're watching in terms of san francisco's economy and i'll close with a couple of high-level observations regarding the state budget looking ahead. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm going to share my screen now. we're going to summarize the city's current economic condition and what we're looking at over the next year. i want to start because obviously the last year and this year the economic situation is going to be dominated by the course of the covid virus with some updates of what the virus situation looks like for california. these are proj

so with that, i'm happy to turn it over to ben rosenfield, unless board members have questions aboutthe overall agenda and scope for the day? >> chair borden: any questions from board members before we jump in? thank you. we'll move on to mr. rosenfeld, because we have a lot of stuff on the agenda today. >> good morning, board members. thank you for having us back. i'm ben rosenfeld, city controller. i'm joined by ted eagan, the chief economist in the office for the city. i'm turning the floor over to ted. he's going to catch us up on things we're watching in terms of san francisco's economy and i'll close with a couple of high-level observations regarding the state budget looking ahead. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm going to share my screen now. we're going to summarize the city's current economic condition and what we're looking at over the next year. i want to start because obviously the last year and this year the economic situation is going to be dominated by the course of the covid virus with some updates of what the virus situation looks like for california. these are proj

you will also recall yesterday city controller ben rosenfield talked about the city's financial plan in the future. so a lot of what you see in our projections are guided from what we get from the controller's office. on january 15th, the controller did issue an updated projection, going to the out years for the entire city. you will be happy to know that sfmta has that whole report, and we incorporate all of the guidance into our five-year financial plan. not every revenue source that sfmta receives is included in that report. sfmta is very diverse with rev new sources. i think probably the most diverse in the nation. and so there are a lot of revenue sources that we do our own self-estimating on with on our staff. and they are also very conservative. a lot of our revenue estimates are guided from long-term trends and data. and the last thing that i will mention too is that we're starting to distinguish between -- what we're calling one-time revenue and ongoing revenue. which is very important when you think of it from a structural deficit perspective. with the idea of being that --

the other thing that we done is in light of ben rosenfield, our city controller said, rather than just purely update our 5-year financial forecast, we developed a number of scenarios kind of considering some of the questions that the board members had today. this is the part one that we're working to plan for. we will go through this as we look at our longer fiscal outlook. we'll look at the different alternatives that we have. this is the one that we're recommending that we plan for. you'll see that it show the roughly just over $100 million deficit close to $153 million. you'll see revenue recover but not enough over the 5-year forecast. we need to plan for a long-term measure for the agency to restore service to pre-pandemic level. but to make sure that we have the system is resilient and welfare the ability to provide a base level of service that people can expect with certainty. we will go into this more detail. we wanted to give you a sense of the short-term budget deficit, $134 million and our longer term structural deficit that we will be working to close. that's all i have. >>

ben rosenfield. colleagues, i have circulated to each and every one of you some proposed changes based on the mta suggestion made friday morning at 8:00 a.m. with myself and supervisor mandelman that the instrument be changed to a value of $129 million of which $118 million would be appropriated. those amendments are before you and i would like to move those amendments to item 7 and 8. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor peskin. is there a second? seconded by supervisor mandelman. thank you so much. and with that, i don't see -- supervisor mandelman, sorry. was that is second or -- >> supervisor mandelman: it was a second and -- >> president walton: you have the floor. >> i want to thank the supervisor for slowing us down last week. at the time i was slightly annoyed but gave us the opportunity to have the conversations with the controller and the mta that i thought, that i came to understand were actually useful and some issues that i think needed to be discussed. i think the smaller

you will also recall yesterday city controller ben rosenfield talked about the city's financial plan in the future. so a lot of what you see in our projections are guided from what we get from the controller's office. on january 15th, the controller did issue an updated projection, going to the out years for the entire city. you will be happy to know that sfmta has that whole report, and we incorporate all of the guidance into our five-year financial plan. not every revenue source that sfmta receives is included in that report. sfmta is very diverse with rev new sources. i think probably the most diverse in the nation. and so there are a lot of revenue sources that we do our own self-estimating on with on our staff. and they are also very conservative. a lot of our revenue estimates are guided from long-term trends and data. and the last thing that i will mention too is that we're starting to distinguish between -- what we're calling one-time revenue and ongoing revenue. which is very important when you think of it from a structural deficit perspective. with the idea of being that --