that will keep our city solvent. finally, we cast ourselves with what lorenzo talked about earlier -- how to continue making the city successful. i want you to know that we understand that our city is no longer a stagnant city. it is a growing city, a city that's population is growing. companies want to come here. they want to employ our residents. they want to help us grow. so we have focused on what we can do to sustain those jobs and make sure our city is successful. we have our america's cup that is slated to occur here in 2013. what a wonderful opportunity to continue to make that event grow. it is no longer a national event. it is an international event and reminds us how much we are as an international city. we continue to embrace our local hire program. thanks to the before your supervisors, i am working extremely hard to make sure it is not just construction, but we have a spirit of local hire in every company that here. we have apprenticeships programs reflected in our budget that will allow our department o

of you know that i felt that personally, that if we do not have a safe city, we do not have a solvent city, we will not have a successful city. that has been reflective of everything we have done. to the community-based organizations, thank you very much for working very closely with us and the board of supervisors. the controller's office, of course -- [applause] of course, we worked very hard with our controller's office did not want to thank ben and moni que and the budget analysis division staff for constantly working with this. they obviously were working over ours as well to make sure they understood and analyzed everything we did and the outcomes. i also wanted to thank the department of human-resources. mickey and martin. we call them the mickey and martin show. they were there, too, at the 10 community-based meetings that we had. they showed up there with departments, and there were always there to help me explain the repercussions of everything that we did. i really want to thank them. i also want to think harvey rose. i have been on all sides with harvey on the budgets for over

making the city safe, solvent, and finally, the other principal i shared with the department of the budget -- making the city continue to be successful. that goes back to what brought you to san francisco? what need to invest? it is because of the diversity. it is because we have a very excited counselor for. we are all working together to bring in the sister cities and make sure we have excitement as a world-class international city, because with that comes the interaction of culture, more business, and the learning of what other countries are doing. and just the hope that because we signed the united nations charter here, that we continue that dream, that san francisco becomes the place where we continue to dialogue and we can suggest we can still have that international dialogue here. that, along with the perverse -- diverse corridors of the city,

to signal to the public and to your constituents the things we are getting done to make the city safe and solvent and successful. supervisor chiu: 90. we have five questions that will be provided by our colleagues that represent our even-numbered districts. the first question will be provided by supervisor farrell from district two. supervisor farrell: thank you. beyond what we have accomplished in city hall in 2011, i wanted to understand whether you have any other specific plans you plan to implement before leaving office? >> thank you. that, for me, is a very important question when it comes to stimulating our economy. as you know, i have worked very hard to do that. i see so many other cities and counties around our bay area as well as in the nation that are very challenge by the economics of the country, the state, and the area. for me, it is very important, and it has been a topic that i have taken very seriously from the very first day of taking the oath of office. as far as plans for continuing our work on development issues, we will continue to focus on sector-based strategies, and i thi

one too many times the mayor talk about how he wanted his budget proposal to represent a city that is safe, solvent, and successful. i will not belabor that for you again. but the safe aspect of that statement means two things, as the mayor discusses. it means having a solid system of public safety in the city, so that people feel physically safe against crime, fire, and emergency, but also providing the minimum level of a social safety net so people feel economically safe against catastrophe, and that they are able to have a basic level of their needs met. this proposal would dedicate the revenue from the half cent sales tax to those two types of safety. so it would be split roughly evenly between public safety programs and social safety net programs, including those for seniors and children. it has a 10 year sunset built into this measure. there is an additional provision which i think will be the sun set on the amendments the chair looked for. we do not want to impose a half cent sales tax and then have the state come back at the last election, reimpose their 1%, and their impact is that we have

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solvent. a safe part of that equation is what we're talking about today with this measure. when he talks about having a safe city, he talks about two things. he talks about public safety which is the core police and emergency response services and that is obviously a key component of safety. he also means a basic social safety net, a minimal level of social services that help people in our city feel a sense of personal safety about their future, about their health care, about their economic stability. so, the proposal that is before us would be dedicated to a fund that can be used for both of those purposes. this could be used for public safety programs and i believe you might have the expenditure plan in front of you. that gives you more details, it can be used for both of those types of services. also, a social safety net programs for seniors and children including child care that is significant a factor for a lot of the workers and employers in our small businesses and in the city. in terms of the mechanics of this budget, there are two critical pieces i want to point out. the first is that there is a 10- yea