up to the plate ought to be a homeless again and those me myself when i first came to the san francisco budget & finance committee in the 87 after living in central america agency we're studying in the ground floor we won in the church since then i've been doing work with the homeless population i see myself being you know a treat to be homeless again, the issue here is that we the workers, you know who do our job you know everyday it has been increased all the expenses in the city the rent is going higher every year the landlords send us a letter and the rent is increased every year we're paying for 90 for public transportation and 0 sour basis in the food and binging food it more expensive every year we ask you to increase 4.5 percent in the budget so our lives and people serving so we can be proud of the community services not only to homeless population but to the workers you know they recognize you know where we coming from what we do and thank you so much. >> i'm going to call a few more names. >> i'm - >> thank you (calling names) >> next speaker. >> thank you. good morning supervisors

future for the homeless in san francisco and today is just the beginning thank you very much (clapping). >> several years ago when i had joined the sdpufks san francisco budget & finance committee i remember feel like we never had enough teachers or pens or enough paper and it was midway through office i realized there's the one thing the city and county city had too much it was land and what our surplus property would like and since this day this is the number one priority we know the the achievement gap is the opportunity gap we started thinking about values in our surplus property now the automatic is thinking about dollars let's build market rate housing on the site this used to be the site of fedex school it was we all had long kvendz whether what about a different surplus to build grocery stores where kids have access to healthy food and build affordable housing for teachers and kids this is what is keeping our kids insecure that was a long and multi year process but i'm excited with i came to the board of supervisors actually part of the mission in the district i represented i was able to continue working with the mayor my first year to figure out wit

san francisco yes (clapping.) well, everyone thank you and welcome to ore woemz the san francisco budget & finance committee our ownome to you that raised the irish flag proudly (clapping.) i want to just give a personal thanks to our consul general from ireland 39 six phillip grant thank you for all you do to strengthen the economic of people ties between our city and, of course, the country of ireland we join the united irish society in kicking off the city's st. patrick's day celebration it is the one hundred and 64 mini anniversary of our celebration what a wonderful, wonderful time thank you, again to liam frost the united irish society thank you for being here (clapping) and thank you for you and certainly thank you to kevin by reason ham the past president of the society for carrying on this legacy yes (clapping.) all right. and then we're also charlotte said we're celebrating our cork anniversary of the celebration so the names of jim, john again from our city committee thank you very much for your wonderful historic work (clapping.) and as charlotte said earlier i enjoyed myself on that trip one of the mos

welcome to the san francisco budget & finance committee for wednesday march 25, 2015, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee i'm joined by commissioner chan and supervisor scott wiener i believe we'll be joined that i supervisor mar and supervisor norman yee i want to thank the clerk clerk linda wong and members of the sfgovtv mark and scott >> madam clerk, any announcements? completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 31st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated okay. thank you madam clerk call item one. >> item one hearing to review the health insurance trend of reclassifying certain life saving drugs including aids drugs thereby increasing the cost of access for those drugs for patients. >> thank you madam clerk this item was sponsored by supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and scheduling this colleagues today will be discussing did growing health care assess issue we must address locally and federally and state naming the implosion of life savi

. >> good afternoon, everybody welcome to the san francisco budget & finance sub-committee for march 25, 2015, simon's i my name is to mark farrell i'll be chairing the committee and joined momentarily by commissioner eric mar thank you clerk linda wong and thank you jonathan's completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 31st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated okay. thank you madam clerk both items will be continued at the request of the mta madam clerk kauldz call items 10 and 11. >> the resolution for the funding agreement with the air quality management for the sfmta project in the amount for a term for 10 years following the board approval and item 11 resolution for the sfmta 3w4r57k9 approval for a grant agreement for the air quality management agreement for the bicycle project in seizing excess of 10 years. >> continue item for one anyone who wishes to speak and then to the call of the chair monl anyone want to comment on items 10 or 11 seeing none, public comment is clos

welcome to the to the first meeting of san francisco budget & finance sub-committee meeting for march 11, 2015, with our full 5 person budget combhe i'm mark farrell and joined by supervisor katie tang as well as commissioner eric mar supervisor scott wiener and supervisor norman yee i want to thank jennifer lowe and charles kremenak madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 17 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated okay. thank you madam clerk colleagues two agenda items one substantive a 5 year budget plan want to thank everyone for this and looking at looking forward to a fruitful next month. >> number one the finalized plan for 2015 through 2020 and requesting a mayor's office. >> and to speak on item number one. >> good afternoon, supervisors it's a pleasure to you here with you, we kickoff the budget season i'm here to talk to you about the city's proposed 5 year financial plan not an action item in front of you by w

the the meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting 0 for the san francisco budget & finance sub-committee i'm supervisor cowen to my left it supervisor jane kim our clerk andrea ashbury also want to recognize jessie larson and jonathan will be testifying this committee on sfgovtv thank you, very much. to staff madam clerk, any announcements? questions electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 24th 2015 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you very much madam clerk ladies and gentlemen, just wanted to let you know that supervisor wiener requested for excused supervisor kim may have are a motion to xu supervisor wiener it is unanimously approved item one. >> a resolution relieving to extend the access for licenses. >> i believe that dph it is a of will especially presenting on this. >> good afternoon public works what you have before you today is a request to extend an existing license for a intersection on west bay at 7th and mission bay drive

the the meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting 0 for the san francisco budget & finance sub-committee i'm supervisor cowen to my left it supervisor jane kim our clerk andrea ashbury also want to recognize jessie larson and jonathan will be testifying this committee on sfgovtv thank you, very much. to staff madam clerk, any announcements? questions electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will

welcome to the san francisco budget & finance committee for march 4, 2015, and should say the budget subcommittee i'm mark farrell joined by supervisor tang and commissioner eric mar as well as supervisor christensen and i believe we're going to be joined by supervisor campos i want to thank clerk linda wong and jessie larson and bill dillon madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. mr. chair silence all electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you madam clerk call item one. >> a hearing on the planning department capability to exposure the short-term rental owners and the financial resources for an effective reenforcement. >> colleagues a hearing request i submitted a few weeks ago along with supervisor christensen to discuss our planning department short-term rental owners with the financial resources necessary for the effective enforcement taking effect here in san francisco we passed the law last year one of t

welcome to the san francisco budget & finance sub-committee meeting for march 11, 2015, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor tang and joined momentarily by supervisor mar i wanted to thank the members of sfgovtv jennifer lowe and others. >> madam clerk. >> electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 17 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> that's correct madam clerk so we have a number of items number one is a hearing i requested i know one participate is not here we'll go through the other items first and tackle item number one madam clerk call item 2. >> 2 an ordinance amending the business and tax regulation code which contains a license requirement for the merchant that have been suspected. >> thanks madam clerk we'll take them in order. >> good morning amanda freed i thought i which is here for the wrong reason nice to be here today this is an item amending the business code to repel article 3 on the taxes for m

welcome to the to the first meeting of san francisco budget & finance sub-committee meeting for march 11, 2015, with our full 5 person budget combhe i'm mark farrell and join

san francisco test. >> okay. thank you we're on good afternoon, everyone. the the meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting 0 for the san francisco budget & finance sub-committee i'm supervisor cowen to my left it supervisor jane kim our clerk andrea ashbury also want to recognize jessie larson and jonathan will

contemplated over the year from 2008 to 9 the nonprofit organization received the funding from the san francisco budget & finance committee despite absorbing the high costs and in many cases not on there since 2007 or 8 for the city's nonprofits organizations because the funding amazed to a reduction for those nonprofits negatively impacting our city's safety net and the finance that don't think them and the workers that serve those organizations for the nonprofit for profit contractors in the city they receive annually increases i could to the cip or increases of 3 percent of more this is about parity for the nonprofits compared to the for profit contractors with the city that receive those annual increases until 2013, the nonprofit contractors had not received a cost of doing business since 2007 or 8 it's about parity and entity for our nonprofit organizations in the fiscal year 2014-2015 our budget included fund revenues for the generosity responsible to promote 1.5 percent increase for the nonprofit organizations that was much needed but as people came to the board meetings to saying they can't sur