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Good morning, earn. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday, june 18th, 2014. We are calling to order the 10 00 a. M. Regularly scheduled meeting as well as calling back from recess our budget and finance Committee Meeting from monday, june 16th. My name is mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. I am joined by Supervisor Scott Wiener and london breed and well be joint momentarily by supervisors eric mar and john avalos. Want ...

Whats been going on in my district and ingleside station thats been actively involved in the relationships that have been coming together around the phenomenon of our gambling corridor along mission street. And i met about two weeks ago with the District Attorney, with mr. Gas cone and his staff, london ~ lonnie doing work in the enforcement office. We thought about having a new structure there where she would be the project manager, but overseeing the systemic approach of how were going to be a...

Time and attention. Its greatly appreciated. Supervisor breed. Youre good, okay. Mr. Rose, can we get your report. On page 77 of our report, our recommended reductions to the proposed budget totalled of that amount, 585, 859 are savings and the other is one time savings. This would allow an increase of 3,239 or 7. 2 percent in the department our total is 639, 963 in 1516 and of that amount, 574 are ongoing savings. These reductions would allow an increase of 4 million. Or 2. 3 percent in the dep...

Police in hong kong have moved in on people staging a sitin to demand greater democracy. Officers arrested more than 500 demonstrators. The previous day tens of thousands of people marched through the territory. Crowds filled the streets on the 17th anniversary of hong kongs reversion to china. They called on authorities in beijing to respect hong kongs autonomy. The organizer said the rally drew 510,000 people, an unprecedented number. The police say by their count, nearly 100,000 people showed...

Have inhouse capability. I think having both is really really good. Weve enjoyed and really really appreciated director pawns and see them as experts in making sure were doing it in the right way and in the way thats most productive. Were experts in Economic Development and appreciate that partnership to help us do better we want to continue to strengthen the expertise we have. Okay thank you. And i would just say that i would really commend oewd ive seen the changes throughout the years where y...

Closely with us on pledging funds for development and maintenance. They have raised over 9 million and pledge to raise 11 million. 5 will be ooud used for development and maintenance of the park. Our next Acquisition Policy is to look at the variety of the recreational and open space uses. This area is large and with our existing land it will be over four 4 acres of open space. We can do a number of things on this land. From eating, to active areas, possibly a dog play area and walking and bicyc...

Anything about healthcare. And i said, well i am a fast learner, and i am a community organizer. And of course i am a fast learn, right . And well, we will have to check with the Democratic Party on this, and okay. And so, you know, i said, fine, any way, so i became a commissioner under the director hernandez and she said to me, okay, you have to be, and laguna honda on the finance committee, and i am like, the learning curve . Right . And so i ended up at laguna honda, and later on and so it h...

Of food. And we play this role. And San Francisco plays a role. Just because we have hetch, hetchy water does not mean that we can waste it, we are wasting it. But we can put into gear some checklists, so that the people who work with the infrastructure are very cautious and pay respect to it. Thank you very much. And so we will go ahead as discussed we will suspend Public Comment on item 8 until we return to it and madam secretary, next item please . Communication . S five communications. Commi...

The support negative necessary to hire a lawyer and remain here with their families. I want to thank supervisor campos for bringing the item forward. I think this is a great effort and i hope this makes a real difference and i hope we can get reports on the progress. Thank you. President david chiu colleagues, do we need a roll call vote . Can we do this same call same vote . This item passes on the first reading. [ applause [ cheers and applause ] president david chiu with that, at this time wh...

I think i just feel that we are doing just a disservice when we let folks develop another way to hide. I think people are continuing to hide and using, you know, some of the bureaucracy that exists to go ahead and continue to treat it difshtsly. Differently. Its clearly evident in these numbers. You mentioned earlier you were working on data where in a couple of weeks youd have a way to track deeper information . Yes. At the moment i cant report to you school by school and by offense data becaus...