so as you know, the city charter requires us to have a balanced budget every year. unlike the federal government, we cannot borrow money and operate at a deficit. this is an ironclad requirement. it requires us to ensure that our sources and the money coming into the city are equal to our users, and that is the expenditures we make. when we look ahead at next year, we do a projection of what our revenues look like and what our expenditures look like, and what we're seeing for next year is that we are going to have a little bit of good news on revenues -- about $37.7 million, but offsetting that is an expenditure growth. it is getting more expensive to operate our city at the same level, and we're going to have about $344 million worth of cost increases. much of the do, as mayor lee noted, to increases in employee benefit costs. that will be one of the issues that i think we will all have to tackle over the next several months. the bottom line is that we have a $306 million deficit projected for the coming year. this is a little bit better than our starting point of $

it's sometimes different for folks not used to working together. sometimes our partners have told us. it's helpful to have an outside agency come and serve as a catalyst to serve the folks on the ground. the chief talked about the juvenile strategy. we have worked with john tores and the san francisco police department and other organizations, as the chief talked about. those who are most at risk. those are 18 to 24 years old. those are folks out of custody and were called in to receive the message that the violence must stop and it's community services giving the same message together with amount of service providers in the room. and again, the partnerships are really the key to that. one thing we have seen in the adult colin strategy. they have worked in a way they weren't doing before in term was co-case and coordinating. >> are you telling us, the call-in program, as it relates to young adults, you have seen a reduction? >> we are from a university. when we talk about research. it's going to be propered and there's a significant reduction. we do know violence was down. ho

we found that lets us not only to compare the quality, but it allows us to compare the outcomes. we significantly reduced what we used to be charged for. we have to preapproved the attorneys, and we also require a budget, and this gives us the ability to control costs superior -- control costs. >> you have 1.5 million plus $500,000 for special ed. >> yes, it is through the county superior -- through the county. >> you're asking for asa and -- permission to spend 300,000 out of the 500,000. >> that is correct. >> i want to say i appreciate the way you are approaching the contracts with outside law firms compared to what you used to do, and i ask this question earlier and was not going to question it, but i do appreciate the fact that you have a bench. i keep thinking interests -- jurists, but i think that is a good approach. we can pick and choose, and depending on some of front contract, it feels like you almost have to use amounthem, so thank you. >> i also want to thank you for your approach and how you are going to undertake the work they need, and also i'd appreciate her you have really taken the view on how we can get things done, but i w

nato used to have a fairly strong presence here, outposts securing the area. a few years ago pulled back. that left the afghans in control. since late march of this year, the talibans have moved in and taken over this village. the report you're about to see is sinister for some people because it shows their flag flying above the local administration there and them suggesting they are the law in that part of afghanistan, potentially shocking for the future of this country. in this quiet village near the pakistani border, one of nato's fears is realized, the local

use others. the major thing we have to look at is prevention. we have so many different levels of things we have to use. we can't just say, okay. drop your gun off, you're cool. that's not a shot at the program. we need that problem. but we need these other programs and dealing with the parents and families. we just first grader at cleveland. i worked at cleveland. he probably found the gun. stuffed it in his back and went to school. >> nobody knew >> all my friend that is have guns. it's because it's for protection. because they don't want to be caught without a gun. if you're without a gun, there's more of a chance you're going to get hurt yourself. >> i guess the question is how do we make people feel safe in our communities? the issue is how do we need to get people to feel like they don't need a gun. >> you got video games that allow them to placate the attitudes. we have movies that make millions of dollars of that attitude created from our community. yes, we must do this, we must look at all the components. as reductions took place. man if

i am a senior now and i have to use a cane. the streets have drivers with bicyclist and skateboarders. the sidewalks are not safe for seniors or children. we can't work collaborative lead to bring some respect for each other? the design of the city streets with the bicyclist have been crazy. it is crazy. there is no respect for the drivers. i have a vehicle and i can't ride a bike throughout the city anymore. bicyclist take up the whole street. it is not safe for seniors or children. we need to change the plans of the city. also, i want to mention that it would be good to make in the whole mission historical district has was the western addition. we need to develop those and to save our history. i have been doing that for the last 10 years. we need to preserve our past. we can't forget it. if we depend on bureaucrats, it will never happen. >> this is for you. city pools, all but one are closed on sundays. and of his open on sunday, and there doesn't seem to be much of a community outreach to get people in for swimming. the pool

to thank everybody today. i know you've taken your valuable time. if you have any more questions, feel free to get in touch with us. i know gail and i and the other folks are available to talk about any other questions you have in more detail. so, again, thank you for your time and thank you all for coming today. >> thank you, everyone. >> i want to thank all of you for coming this afternoon. this is one of our favorite events. this is the mayor's principal of the year award. we're here to recognize and honor three outstanding princi pals from the san francisco unified school district. [applause] before we honor them, we are all going to be honored because of the amazing kids from our school district. first i want to introduce the choral director of the group who will introduce the kids. [applause] >> good morning. good morning to our wonderful mayor, the superintendent of schools, our wonderful honorees, wonderful parents. i am from mckinley elementary school. we have brought the second grade to perform two songs for you in honor of the wonderful honorees. because you are somebody, we are somebody. then we're goi

do is give you a chance to have more dialogue with us. we have prepared a couple of questions. there are three questions. we would like to offer you a chance to ask us any questions either about the process that we went through, some of the comments, our reports, our recommendations, or any reports we have given since then. we have been able to follow what the initial report with a number of board meetings since then. before i get started with the questions, i wanted to ask you, would you rather we read all three questions first or would you like to take each one at a time? >> i would prefer that you read each one first and the sub questions so that everybody has the information. then the board will have any questions like to talk to you about. -- any questions they would like to talk to you about. >> [speaking foreingn language] >> i would like to ask these questions to the board. are we missing something? are we seeing some things that we are not addressing? or have your priorities changed? >> [speaking foreign language] [inaudible] [spe

that is back at the general fund, but be allowed to use it. we have enough in the reserve fund to operate for another year. >> any commissioners have questions on item 9? any member of the public that would like to speak on item nine? public comment is closed. this is the second vote if we could have a motion by supervisor mirkarimi, seconded by commissioner pimentel. without objection. we now have the joint regular business for these advances go public utilities commission. o item #3. >> opening remarks in discussion for the joint meeting. >> and i don't know if you would like to say a few words at this point. president vietor: i particularly want to welcome and thank supervisor campos for assuming the chair of the lafco. we really look forward to moving the process forward as quickly as possible. i think it is quite interesting that there is a new climate change study that has really put us all, giving us a wake-up call saying that we can do whatever we can to combat sea level rise. and we can really reduce our contribution and greenhouse gas emissi

people are not used to having cars anymore. they sometimes use a car and go to a car sharing club or something. it is socially acceptable to cycle. 30, 40 years ago, you would maybe be seen as a loser if he came on a bicycle, -- if you came on a bicycle, but now it is for everybody. everyone is cycling. it is not, the former generation in the 60's, denmark, they could afford to buy a car and they really enjoyed it. they wanted to show it, and all trips they made or made by cars, the the new generation has a completely different view. >> i already gave my answer during my presentation. it is everything, especially if it is business or businessmen, it is money driven. show it is comparative in cost or it is less cost for business. because if you show that, there is a discussion. >> let me ask before i go to the next question, what in your experience the you believe was the most influential and excepting the different stages of the car and its role in the city? i am sure over 40 years, your attitudes toward the automobile have chan

us? anyway, our muni, our bart brings these employees to the doors of where they have to work. we service them. that money has to come from somewhere, and it should not come from us. they should pay the freight. i mean, because, where is our pride? we have all the good ideas. anybody moves away, what is going to happen is they are going to die on the vine. thank you. [applause] >> [inaudible] you know, we want you all you allsro -- let sro people know what is going on. we did not feel we get a fair representation. we want to have a better city. an earthquake should not have to come before we all come together. it is time that everyone in this city that brings money to the city and loves this city is a fear it will want to know what is going on at city hall. we need to let people know what is going on. people do not know what is going on. we want people to know that is not free shelter. thank you. >> thank you, everyone, for coming out. i want to thank all the speakers. i want to thank everybody who is here. i am a district 6 residents. i am a parent in this neighborhood. i am a

to lend. >> thank you. hopefully, people have their question cards. i am going to open it up to the audience. if you have written a question down, please give it to us so we can start compiling them. if i see a repeat questions, it will help to expedite the process, answering those questions that people want answered. we have some of the best and brightest minds here. don't be shy. if you could do us a favor and use the microphone so that everyone can hear your question. >> you had mentioned about assistance in public contracting. for small companies, one of the issues is bonding. what do you do on that? >> for all public contracts, public agencies need to see that there contractors have bonding in order for them to demonstrate they can complete the contract. sba provides an insured bond guarantee to those who do bonding to small businesses on public contracts. so there is an sba program on a maturity bonding, similar to what we do. it is a guarantee to be assured the in the event of a default, that is a guarantee. so there is a charity bond guarantee, structured differently than the sba guaranteed loan program. >> i am a big fan of marketing. let u

use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so

to thank everybody today. i know you've taken your valuable time. if you have any more questions, feel free to get in touch with us. i know gail and i and the other folks are available to talk about any other questions you have in more detail. so, again, thank you for your time and thank you all for coming today. >> thank you, everyone.

us? what about our family? what about our business? what about our employees? so this is a big surprise to us and left us with lots of emotions, and we have yet to understand exactly what this all means to all of us, including to our community. it is therefore that we are asking for a continuance and asking for some time to just process this and take a look at where at all its with us and our family and business and community. commissioner olague: thank you. >> when she told me about this, i became concerned because there were a lot of people back will be affected. i'm not sure what the implications are of these changes, and i think that's -- that it would be necessary to have some time to process this. any changes can be scary for the employees, not just for the owner. i have been part of the mission community for over 20 years, and i have been there -- well, i am not sure how this works, but i thought about the balance. is this going to interrupt the balance that there is in the business? it could be good. it could be bad, but we are not sure. i think that it would be necessary to have a little time to process and see what the implicati

use. that leads to my last comment on that. accessory use generally applies to something someone having a beauty parlor in their home and the law restricts them to using 25% of their home space. it can't be any bigger than that. so that the primary purpose of that building is a home and -- ru sure, i understand. >> and the conditional use is beauty parlor. >> sure, i understand. >> and the form of entertainment, it's difficult to say that even if it's on a stage that it's only -- what is it? 25 by -- >> 200 square feet. >> ok. a 200 square-foot stage, you're not confining the entertainment to 200 square feet. the entertainment bounces off all the walls and out the front door that's -- unless somebody tells them to close it. so again, you know, i think, you know i'm positive about this, i have good feelings about this working in general but it's the unintended consequences that i'm talking about tonight and that i'm just hoping stays in the conversation as this goes to the planning commission and then goes through committee and thin through the full board, the unintended consequences. so in the case of the principle use being a

have not received any place but so far. thank you. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> good evening, first of all, i wanted to let you know that it is very hard for usto have to come here and talk to you again. it feels like you're not listening to us and it is very frustrating. goshaw>> [speaking spanish] >> i am here representing the families and we want to tell you that really don't want hoover to be the only option for our children. >> [speaking spanish] >> who want to let you know that we should be able to select a school that we want. i don't know what the board is thinking, but the parents should be able to select the schools that they think is good for the children. >> [speaking spanish] >> i know latino students are the students fallen behind with low scores. >> [speaking spanish] >> we need more schools to help them and provide tutoring with many a time when they are falling behind. >> thank you. [applause] >> my name is juana rodriguez. [speaking spanish] >> i am here representing the parents. and one of the problems that we have is transportation. it takes for your 50 minutes to be able to get to school. since a lot of them have younger

to pay it down. we have brochures back there. i encourage you to talk to us. >> let me add on that. over the last several years, a lot of small businesses have relied on their personal credit as a means to support the business. also, they relied on home equity lines of credit, which in many cases do not exist anymore, also as a source for financing their business. as far as doing public contracting, one thing about public contract in that you can count on is the city of san francisco will stay in business and pay its debt, just later than you would like it to be. when you're doing public contract thing, if you will, cash cycle -- when you do the work and when you get paid is something you have to factor into your understanding of capital needs. so you have to figure that into the process. usually, that is figured into the pricing. but it is also the case that would you also probably need is a line of credit. depending on whether you feel your credit situation is where you want to go to a bank like wells fargo or another regulated bank, and line of credit, or work for a working- capit

to it. you have to pay attention. paying attention means we will do our best to get to a point where most of us will agree that this is the way out. city employees and the public need to have this in front of them. nobody here wants to be confused with two or three proposals. you want to be able to ask the questions about whether this will solve it for the long term. we are pushing and i am pushing that this will solve the in the long term. there are certain numbers we have to be at, particularly the contributions current employees must make, including myself. >> will the salaries and pensions be cut? should they be cut? >> that is a separate part from the pension. we have to balance -- we have to have a pension system that pays for itself. we will work on the plan and presented. i predict may be to a half weeks at the most before we have something in front of the board of supervisors to get the ball rolling. salaries are always being reviewed. we have to have the careful balance between excessive salaries and salaries that will attract the best talent, as well as salaries that provide a living wage for city workers.

when they get to us, they have health issues. we need to address these issues. they are not criminals when they come to us, but they are treating the day they are treated like criminals. this is a fire that i found that says no to proposition j. once again, and dph is looking to increase security at hospitals. i do not want my patients arrested. i want them to get healthy. lacks necessary training. well, the current sheriff's deputies that we have lacked training. we need people, security, who are trained to be empathetic to the people that we have and the types of patients we represent. help us help them get better. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is stephanie. i go to george washington high school. i am a senior. i am here as a youth representing the richmond district neighborhood centers, which will be affected by cuts. i am here with my gsa members. i am the president of the alliance there. when we heard about these cuts that would affect the beacon, we were horrified. most, if not all the multicultural program there are spons

to have a tremendous wrestle with himself. that he's got to deal with. i don't think any of us have to point that out to him now from what i saw of him today. but i think again i would strongly urge he go and meet with constituent groups in his district and based on those meetings, he should make a real determination whether he still has the fire in his belly for jobs and health care and the things that he really needs to fight for and whether or not he compromises that because of the media blitz whether now he can be that spokesman that people can say but i saw you do every show. it's not that he believed in something someone else told him and he believed it. >> yeah. >> something about himself that he had to know what he was saying. >> reverend al sharpton, always a pleasure. good to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. i want to know what you think. anthony weiner may not resign but his constituents will need to decide that if he deserves re-election. we'll find out whether his apologies

using an akron that without adequate explanation, but you are right on point. supervisor cohen: i know this is everyday knowledge for you, but you have got to slow down. this is the first time many of us are hearing this information. it is important for us to have this valuation. for a point of clarification about the tep program, you say you collected data. it is a curious to know if the data was disseminated, the questions or disseminated in any other language, any language other than english? >> if i may, i believe it was. but let me defer the question to julie. >> yes, the tep materials were prepared in english, spanish, and chinese. when we were developing the recommendations, we had workshops across the city providing translation in spanish, english, and chinese. in our visitation valley workshop, we also had mandarin. in our district one workshop, i believe we did just cantonese. supervisor mar: i was at its session at the jewish community center, and a number of consultants held out to make it very multilingual and very sensitive to communities. supervisor cohen: thank you, ok. >> ok, if i may, the question had been asked of -- what kind of sys

start getting a little more aggressive and figuring out exactly what we is to do put our money aside and tools we have to use to get there. >> it's not about a vineyard and beach but having to pay your out of pocket health care costs and being able to pay for your rent. the first step to rebuild for those people that aren't ready. >> cnnmoney.com has a great site. figuring out what your goals are. what is your finish line. how much is it going to take for you to get there and have a great cal kurt to use in order to figure out what it will take to get there and give you a good sense of guideline on how long it will take to get there. >> establish a goal, learn your resources and establish a system. >> how much will you get from

have the united way campaigns and chair the boy scouts. they are the ones to make sure we have the best schools. i want to see those jobs in the u.s. and for us to have the ability to compete around the world. even with businesses that do well in our system of tax provisions, they would like to see simpler, more competitive code. one business said they had 30 iris agents that lived in their business. it seems there is a way we could fund the government in a less complex way. on the individual level, the complexity issue resonates strongly. >> what is the timetable? >> it is like any other thing in congress. we're trying to do the work so that we're ready if the factors come together. i think they might. the economy is not doing what it should do. the president is facing reelection. i do not know that he wants to go into 2012 with a narrative that if we do nothing taxes will go up. i worked hard on welfare reform in 1996. people said clinton would not sign it. facing reelection, he did that. we are facing competition from around the world. we're hamstrung in our ability. i am relating to you what business people tell me. we do not add up compa

to experience it as it is now, that is fantastic. that is why we have so many people coming to us trying to get into this school district. there are things happening along with the assignment system that i think are really telling about what we are about. parents may have had a choice that is not perfect right now. and it doesn't mean you don't go get involved and make it perfect. there are some examples. i was a member of the pac. with the examples of parents becoming involved with schools as partners. and how to figure out the way to make these places the best. the schools were not always the one -- #one school. community members got together and decided to work on it. i can't express enough. please continue to work on it. if you have a choice that you don't care for but it seems that you are stuck with it, don't be stuck with that choice. make something of the choice. i can't believe you're going to complain and complain and complain. i am not pointing to anyone specifically. i hear the dialogue that this is the school i got because it does not have all the bells and whistles t

there is no bank loan and us money, so we have to raise our own capital, save it, and use it to hire . we have to spend our own money in order to fund our businesses. we get taxes from our first year of business, you take 30 percent out, where do we put that money back into our business is so that we can find it to keep growing. host: what kind of small business do you have? caller: it is a technology business. guest: we need you more than ever to maintain that our leadership in the world. technology is where that investment has to be. to have small businesses and encouraging people to come in at what level they to come in is where america has been in the past. no one can challenge the fact that we can and should reduce the rate of taxes that we have on individuals as well as corporations. we talk about it. we had hearings yesterday at the ways and means committee and everyone agreed that 35% is too high and we cannot compete with people who continue to do that. but the same token, they agreed to in the tax code, there are trillions of dollars of waste that are there, preferential tre

not a study that gives us juxtaposition to show this is what could help us in lieu of us being able to not have to do academy class is over the next 12 months 24 months in dealing with the retirement rates. >> the limited data we have from the trial period would lead us to believe that drop is actually having a counter fact, that officers are actually retiring sooner than they would have without the program. that is the experience of the pilot period. but whether the behavior would continue in the future is in the conversation about how big the sample size needs to be before you are able to pull apart all these different factors that influence is someone's retirement. supervisor mirkarimi: if there was not any of the limitations that existed on that question of it having a counter of fact, what would be the response by the controllers office on how to correct that? so that you correct it so that it would not have that particular fact. >> i know that we are aware of nuanced differences between drop programs that exist in different places. we have not specifically studied the question of how we c

we have invested tremendous energy and resources in our country to assimilate the knowledge we have gained and to use it -- and this is a key point -- to use what we have learned and to share to inform and to empower a broader, more exclusive range of people and institutions to become a part of the homeland security architecture of our country. so as we move forward, that architecture, that sense of shared responsibility is a guiding philosophy of how we will proceed. so let me turn to the nature of the threat that we are currently facing. the terrorist threats confronting the united states right now have evolved significantly over what it was 10 years ago. today in addition to the direct threats we continue to face from a al qaeda core, we face growing threats from other foreign- based terrorist groups inspired by al qaeda or al qaeda-like ideologies. they may have few operational connections to al qaeda, but they certainly are inspired by al qaeda. indeed, we face a threat environment where they lead to extremism is neither constrained by international borders nor limited to any single ideology. on

to do in whatever capacity i have. the midmarket payroll tax thing has caused other businesses to come forward. i have a group of technology companies talking with us about how we can help them. that has led to another group of businesses who came forward. i have talked with them. these companies have been here for a long time. they want to make sure they continue to have a great connection. they are still contributing. this last weekend, i was participating in a program that used to be called christmas in april. it is now called rebuilding together. they were doing 100 projects on saturday throughout the city. 39 of them were in district 11. i had to be there. i went around to some of the projects. there were hundreds of volunteers from wells fargo, adobe systems, all of these companies that have volunteered. they are corporate center since -- their corporate citizens. they have been around a long time. i hope to continue working with the established companies that have been here sacrificing and being part of the city and in welcoming in a new generation of companies that i would also call san francisco companies that will be the new philanthropis

to have this tax be paid. the only has the obligation to appropriate and the underlying asset is the collateral. state law requires that we have use and occupancy of the building. investors are concerned about this, the useful life of the asset, and this will continue as a goal long with the general funds to pay the debt. we paid the debt there city do not have any of these contracts. >> the next slide shows the results of what was discussed earlier. you only require the projects fund and the payment fund, and on the lease revenue side, this is during the construction. we're using this during the construction to make the interest payments. we also have the reserve fund, and the investors require this. you can have about 10% and if you cannot make payments, those will be drawn up to be replenished immediately. >> i know that these numbers fluctuate over time depending on the debt markets, but the spread between the interest rates -- >> the ratings agencies + 1 or t w zero notches depending on the rating agency. what we see before 2008, we had access to insurance, and there was not much of a rating differential. but now we see this