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my name is david chiu, and i am honored to represent the district 3, which is the 10 any neighborhoods. i want to welcome all of you to this town hall. i want to thank all of you for your community leadership and let you know that youre taking part in a very, incredibly important part of our city governance. i thing many of you know that the budget is the most important set of decisions that we make every single year. the budget reflects our priorities as a city and reflects our values...

early, so when the budget is submitted to the board, we have worked out as many issues ahead of time and so then we can falfs on the final items. the budget process last year was not nearly as chaotic at the end as it has been in recent years past. i really appreciated that process. im glad we are doing it again. i wanted to touch on a couple of areas. there are so many important areas in our budget. three things that i am focused on and a lot of people are focused on. one is, approxim...

portal. come with me tomorrow at 2:00 p.m., and you can watch the people who park their and then get on it muni and head down for hours. they do not shop on west portal. they shop downtown. and they go to the giants game. and they do not pay for their parking. >> [inaudible] >> but if they filled their meter for 20 minutes, that is all you have to do. they can avoid the ticket. ok. all right, this will be our very last question. >> i think the problem is sometimes you may go down irvin...

town hall, something we started in mayor lees first year. in the first meeting i had with mayor lee after he was sworn in as our interim mayor last year, i asked him and other supervisors asked him for ways to make our budget process more collaborative and more transparent. and the budget team and mayor lee in the board of supervisors, we thought that this format of budget town halls in many districts around the city would make a lot of sense, and i think it has been a very good way fo...

near future with the supervisors. that would signal to you weve done everything we can to bring back economic prosperity for everybody. tonight, we still have to wrestle ourselves with deficits, with how we deal with government, how we deliver services, which services are most important, and i need that engagement with you. i also want to recognize a supervisor carmen chu, head of the budget committee for the board. she will be making virtually all these meetings with us as we go to al...

>> i am rich with enterprise community partners. it is a little disconcerting to be surrounded by barbed wire. [laughter] i was going to start by flipping a coin, but i figured only a portion of the audience would get the joke so i will not. i love the events like this. it is kind of a moment where there are no cost overruns, no change orders. there are no issues of tenants and property management. it is all wonderful. it is all a great project. i think we all need to -- it i...

office, we have had a budget deficit. so we have to make some very, very difficult choices. i want to thank not only not of you who have -- not only all of you who have come here today, but those from city government, in particular are city officials. this is the second annual budget town hall, something we started in mayor lees first year. in the first meeting i had with mayor lee after he was sworn in as our interim mayor last year, i asked him and other supervisors asked him for way...

[applause] >> my name is calvin welch. unaccustomed as i am to speaking with brevity in public, i have taken the opportunity to beat the bet that i cannot do this in two minutes. i have written my remarks. rene was part of a movement of community-based people committed to providing housing opportunities in san francisco. through his and others efforts, 25,000 units a permanently affordable housing have been produced, a record unequaled in the united states. in the most expensive housin...

>> i understand they have to make money, but they are a little high. >> people who used check passers -- cashers, they could pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees. >> i do not have that kind of money. >> i would not have to pay it if i had a bank account. >> bank accounts are essential. >> most banks require information that may limited the pool of qualified applicants. encouraging them to return to on saved check passers. -- unsafe check cashers. they are more vulnerable to a r...

item number six. comments and questions. commissioners? >> is this a comment or question? i have a few comments -- commissioner joseph: uh-oh. >> the community housing partnership has their annual fund-raiser. people who are house by them, and perform. -- come and perform. that is going to be on april 25. i am going to judge this year. it is a great party. i wanted to talk for a minute about a party called hard french. people always say to me, how can entertainment be community buildin...