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front of you. either way, i have my back. i wanted to point out first that we have translators. so i would like everyone to speak clearly. and when you finish a sentence, pause before you start the next one. it really will help them out. i want to go over the two-minute rule we are going to have at the very end. and we are going to have two minutes for every speaker. i know you all will not get a chance, but i think you put your questions and to the fish bowl, and we will take one ques...

for those of you who need translation [speaking spanish] welcome to our second annual budget town hall. i think that many of us were here last year when we have the first annual budget town hall. i want to begin by welcoming all of you to district 9 and i want to thank the school and the school district for making this auditorium available to us. if you could give the school a big round of applause. thank you for hosting us tonight. i also want to thank each and every one of you. we ha...

were built. about 500 of these units were affordable. this is 37% of the units that are affordable compared to what the -- what we are mandated to produce, which is 60%. this is a breakdown of the targets by affordability. 59% of the total production targets have been achieved. 36% of affordable targets have been achieved. you will see the darker column is the actual production. light blue is what the targets should be. you will see that we are doing fairly well with market traits and ...

>> 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 is a good i...

we have a motion? we have a motion and a second. >> and no members of the public wishing to address you on this item. [roll call] item 10 is approved. director kim: thank you. we have now gone through the consent calendar. are there any other items? >> no, that does conclude your business before you today. director kim: seeing no other announcements or items, this meeting is adjourned. >> this is one of the museums longest art interest groups. it was founded by art lovers who wanted th...

in the most expensive housing market in the country, providing such an opportunity is extremely difficult. it takes patience, determination, and wit -- two qualities he had. he was not too good on the patience side. confronted by the philosophy that says we cannot afford health care, public education, and affordable housing for the broad majority of our fellows, both national and state governments have withdrawn their support for affordable housing. currently mayor lee has undertaken a...

curious why in previous reports it was broken out. this is academic. i think 150% ami at the top of that is about 100,007 dow -- is about $107,000. it is a key part of any help the economy having people of that income range and it is worth tracking. putting it together, i am curious as to why that change happened. >> it is not actually a change. when we worked on the most recent housing element, middle income was an issue the city has started talking about. it is a recent issue with in...

point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find busi...

>> thank you, supervisor chiu. i also want to quickly thank everyone the for coming out tonight, especially those from districts two who traveled all the way from the telegraph hill. that is right, go ahead and clap for yourselves. thank you for coming out tonight. last year we started this with mayor lee, and i do think this has become such an integral process and kind of part of our budget cycle in city hall. we really want to hear from you. tonight, that is what this is all about. i...

the units in the pipeline are entitled. this is because of the citywide projects. about 200 units are under review. as far as the immediate pipeline, these are expected to be completed by 2014. about 1700 are expected to be affordable. that represents 27% of the units that will be completed by 2014. this is how all those units would break down. approximately 60% of the production targets would been an -- would have been achieved by 2014. in the 2006 report, san francisco achieved 86% o...