business owner, you would separate your business expenses from your household expenses. should i stand forward or back? what is the sound issue? ok just technology. if you think about your household expenses and business expenses, you would separate them out. that is what we do in the city. all of our business expenses are in the enterprise fund. household expenses are in the general fund. that is our human pass social services safety net, public safety services, fire, police, ems. it is also our streets and infrastructure. building capital projects and improving our streets. it is also recreation and park. so it is all those kinds of things. we also spend money on paying people to do those services. you all know, the spoke work for the city. we have about 26,000 people that work for us, and we spent half of the budget every year on salaries and benefits. so it is a big cost for us. but a lot of people ask me, why do you have a budget shortfall? what is going on? i hear rev
good evening. we are officially going to get started. if you want to take a seat good evening and welcome to tenderloin elementary school, district 6. my name is jane kim. i have the honor of serving as the representative for this district. thank you so much for being here today. this is our second year doing this and i ve seen many familiar faces from last year as well. how wanted knowledge this was initiated last year by our mayor ed lee, who wanted to make sure we were engaging in a much more transparent process around the budget where we were able to hear from stakeholders in terms of what you want to see it in terms of priorities of city dollars. as many of you know, the city budget is the most important policy document that we, on the board of supervisors, work and every year. over last couple of years, we have generated less revenue in our city, and therefore, have had the unfortunate task of making cuts that have hurt our communities and neighborhoods. this i