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Meeting good morning. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and Financial Committee for november 6, 2013, im mark farrel and im be doing this meeting and i want to thank Supervisor Scott Wiener for joining us and supervisor mar and avalos will join us in a while. I want to thank victor young and the sfgtv covering this. Mr. Clerk do we have announcements. Yes. Be silent. And phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Itemed acted u...

The regular meeting of the government sorry. Good morning. This meeting will come to order. This is the regularly scheduled meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor breed the chair of the committee to my right is supervisor tang. Supervisor chiu will join us shortly. We have our clerk and i would like to thank the arkansas sfgtv for this meeting. Do you have any comments . Please silent all cell phones and items will be on the board of supervisors agenda unless ot...

More than cpi i think in some cases it certainly would and in some cases we dont know. The individual leases which will expire in the twoyear budget window we dont individually address what might or might not happen to thep. As a general assumption we assume those leases will continue on either under the current tenants name or be released under similar terms to someone else. I am a little wary about turning the dial up in aggressiveness because we want to make sure we dont overbudget and have t...

Granularity of forecasts, our budget forecast has been within 2 percent and the methodology we have kept true in prior periods. Where i was a little too conservative was the parking forecasts and based on conversations we have had in former years i got a little more aggressive and hopefully we will see a tighter performance of budgity to actuals in the future. The question would be the leases. Did we have some leases executed a long time ago and even with cip increases if they were to come onlin...

Wellness plan and operating expenditures for the wellness, the work thats done through the Wellness Center. One of the positions, the major part of the two positions is to help focus on other departments and help them with their wellness activities that includes not just reaching out and helping their coordinators but it also includes providing training, wellness training and increasing our eap capabilities and help on an outside basis. There are training and lots of classes providing that now. ...

Changes in federal state and local stages in our work that would have collecting analyzing and presentation in health data and would help the directors in terms of being able to provide outreach so that the city can be more of a player region wise and there is an education component to that. That is one position. The next page is the next group of funding packages. The next one is implementing the strategic wellness plan and this is to go to the general fund. We are at somewhat off. It syncs bec...

And really listen to what the needs are, the challenges are with that veteran or family. Ive had difficulties in the fact that i have nightmares. And so, in that situation of having those nightmares and having those flashbacks, um, it was very difficult for, for the reunion. Family members are, you know, are really impacted because they really sacrifice a lot while their spouse is in theater. You know, they are taking on a number of different roles, and so when their spouse returns, it is, it ca...

Extremely organized and vocal and participation during the budget process and because that really has a significant impact, and i think on the mayor and on the board in terms of making sure that priorities are actually getting addressed. For the next steps we need to finalize the planning and determine what is the best fit in order to provide a modern facility that meets the needs of the animal and refine our own work load and look at best practice and smart practices and talk to our partners re...

I just wanted to add, to my comments that if you have not visited the facilities, if you have your image of dog catchers in mind and as what the department represents it could not be further from the truth with the really caring people that work under really difficult facility and conditions there. And so i am glad that you have some slides on Facilities Needs and i think that is coupling up and i know that there are a ton of people that want to speak. And i did want to say that the increased th...

I decided to teach what i learn and it made me want to give back. I discovered that seniors do a lot of review. I am a beginner, so, little by little i learn. I learn a lot now. If you get the basics, you can learn it. Its simple. Its easy. Once you know it. And thats what i want to learn, how to make my life easier and more knowledgeable with the computer. So, what we need right now are more people who speak languages other than english or in addition to english who can give their time during t...