Supports the nonresident flexible pricing at these specialty gardens and coit tower, as well as the japanese teagarden. Weve been consistent in voicing our support at the r. P. D. Commission as well as the Commission Meeting on may 16. We believe adult nonresidents, flexible pricing will allow for more manageable traffic flow within the sites and in the surrounding neighborhoods. It also encourages attendance at nonpeak times that will result in a richer experience for all people who attend because there will be less congestion. We support the fee increase at japanese teagarden, the japanese teagarden is one of our historic gems and residents and visitors alike walk away stating that constantly. We fiscally sponsor two of the specialty gardens, japanese and the conservatory of flowers. The japanese teagarden is dedicated to raising funds for this renovation. We also feel flexible pricing and the maintenance fee will have long range effects and benefit the people that visit them. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker. Good morning. Fellow citizens. My name is kathleen wells. Im a United States constitutional practitioner and a National Executive entrepreneur. My request is unique and unusual. I have requested a half a Million Dollar budget to fully implement all of the legal groundwork i have laid here in the United States of america. Specifically, im looking to collect and receive on a United States constitutional judgment demand and lien placed on the United States currency presses. Let me say that. I exercise my United States constitutional right that this moment to exercise freedom of speech and freedom of the press. First amendment, United States constitution. What i need to do and i dont have the time now is to talk to each one of you to educate you on how this city can move forward now and receive currency funds rather than cutting the budgets for all of your honorable agencies. Again, my name is kathleen wells and i am the National Executive entrepreneur. Thank you for your attention. Supervisor fewer next speaker, please. Good morning. President yee, honored supervisors fewer, stefani, mandelman. My name is jane chin. Resident of the outer ridge district number 1. I have to say that i am really, really blessed to be living in an area that is surrounded on three sides by parks. Ocean beach, lincoln park and golden gate park. I am also a member of the board of the San FranciscoBotanical Garden. Im here to speak in support of the flexible pricing program. Noting that the program will only impact nonSan Francisco adult admissions. Admission will remain free to San Francisco residents, members of the garden and school groups. And flexible pricing offers free admission to everyone at certain hours, which removes any hardship this might create. Important to note is that according to the American PublicGarden Association our current price at 9 for nonresident adults is below the 25th percentile for large Botanical Gardens across the country. So were due for an increase. Flexible pricing will not negatively impact visitation. Since august 2010, when we first began charging nonresidents, visitation has increased 129 . Flexible pricing will only help us better serve our visitors and community. It will help encourage visitation at less busy times and provide enough needed support for revenue, improvements and programs. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. My name is ryan. Im the curator of the Botanical Garden. Im in support of the flexible pricing. The garden is an amazing resource. Were visited more and more each year. Were a respite in the city. And our high attendance on the weekend, more and more people come on the weekends, and i think this flexible pricing would be great, because it will encourage people to take advantage of this fantastic resource during the week. And help a lot of the pressures we face with extra visitation to our amazing garden. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Im dr. Joseph, im an mauritius professor from madison. I partially retired in 1996 when i began to volunteer at the Botanical Garden and i learned that children doseant and adult dosant did walks and became a director of the board of society. I continue to serve as a life member on that board. Over the last 24 years, the Botanical Garden has been a major activity that ive participated in to bring people closer to the world of the nature around us. Which i think needs more attention than is usually given. We live in district 7, in norman yees area. And i just want to thank supervisor yee for the close working relationship that we in that district have with him in looking at issues. After careful consideration, the board and the Leadership Team of the Botanical Garden society voted to wholeheartedly support the flexible pricing program. It would only impact [bell ringing] nonresident visitors. Since 2010, since we began to charging nonresident admissions, weve seen an increase in the number of nonresidents and residents, and most importantly thing, weve gained resources to improve garden from the point of view of irrigation systems, planting, pathways and so forth [bell ringing]. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, next speaker, please. This is just item 4 and 5, about flexible pricing on these park facilities. Okay. Ill withdraw. Supervisor fewer done, okay . Any other Public Comment on item 4 and 5 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any questions . Nothing . Okay. Can i make a motion to move these amendments to the full board with a positive recommendation. President yee, seconded, take that without objection. Thank you very much. Oh, excuse me, someone were just going to clarify to the board of supervisors meeting on 716. Supervisor fewer thats right. So sorry. Madame clerk, did you get that. July 16. Just want to make clarification that item number 4 is amended, was amended and recommended to the full board on july 17 supervisor fewer 16. Sorry, and item number 5 was recommended. Supervisor fewer so id like to move item number 5 to the full board of july 16. Take that without objection . Seconded by supervisor mandelman. Thank you very much. Okay, madame clerk, what id like to do now is recess this budget and finance committee. Is mr. Wright here . Oh, mr. Wright, id like to open up Public Comment . Is this on one and two now . On items 1 and 2, and remember, if you speak now, mr. Wright, you cant speak later. Always want to speak after you speak when the trail is hot. Supervisor fewer okay, trail is hot, come on up. Another thing, i want to tell the listening public, if you would like to comment later when we recess back, i will open up Public Comment again for those people who would like to speak. Right now, mr. Wright would like to speak on items 1 and 2 while the trail is hot. Now, talk about you sleep at the wheel, you more asleep at the wheel, youre drunk driving, thats what youre doing. Being disappointed in yourself, you should be furious. You talk about your wasted money, that demonstration you did yesterday, where you agreed to another goddamned navigation center, when you have the audacity to what is the best way to house people without sending them through your system and putting them back on the goddamn streets and i show you how to build a 27 story Apartment Building complex to give permanent housing for the people that need housing. It didnt matter. Makes a fool out of his self after his demonstration. This is not a solution to the homeless problem. This is not a solution to the goddamn homeless problem, what the hell you doing it for then . If its not a solution to the homeless problem, why you doing it . Youre ignorant, and unproperty tax about the goddamn services and salary, you want to talk about salary. You see this guy here, city college. Everybody is going to school for free. If its a good goddamn program how come your 32 million in debt . He said he was 11 million in debt. All the other colleges in the bay area, their students not going for free. You got them coming out here and now you got to have them going to classes for free and by the same, where they live at, their junior colleges dont charge. Had this chance to work for free. You ask me that question, how we going to take care of the problem and keep them off the street. I show you how to house people [bell ringing] and you still dont take my advice. Supervisor fewer thank you for your Public Comment. Id like to continue do i close Public Comment . Any other Public Comment . Come on up. You have two minutes. Im housed at la nay and i think its ridiculous that you give me housing in a dual diagnosis building and im in district 6, and this doesnt even say district 6 downtown. They lump us in with tenderloin. So from the time that ive been there, ive cleaned up that block. Ive gotten those honduran drug dealers. Ive got a fence put up in front of the Old City College building. Bottom line im being identified as a nuisance. Theyre in the process of evicting me. And i would like to know how all these agencies that keep putting signs on my door saying they want to help me from being evicted. Im going all the way to the judge. Because when you give someone a notice to quit, you dont continue to collect rent from them. There is a lot of ridiculous stuff going on. Why do you have a. D. T. And i live in an s. R. O. , which i call it a charming studio and a charming building. And everybody in my building is turning into ice people, who dont even speak english and its atrocious. And i just i want to just take time some time off of this record to find out this young lady who you are, and then the other woman, because i really would like to talk to you all personally, to let you know exactly what is going on. Because its appalling. It really is. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. We will recess this meeting until 2 00 this afternoon. And so ill see you back then. This is the budget and finance committee. We [gavel]. Supervisor fewer this is the budget and finance committee. We are reconvening, and i am going to recess until 4 00 today right back here in this room. [gavel]. Chair fewer thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer so we are reconvening the budget and finance committee, and i would like to recess again. So sorry, apologies to everyone who spent their whole day here, but were just crunching some numbers. Were very, very close, so id like to reconvene until 5 30, and well see you back then. Thank you very much. Chair fewer and id like to recess this meeting again until 6 30. Thank you. [gavel] [gavel]. Chair fewer we are reconvening the meeting of the budget and finance committee. I would like to recess this meeting until 8 00. Thank you very much. [gavel] [gavel]. Chair fewer so we are reconvening the budget and finance committee, and we will recess until 9 00. Thanks. [gavel] [gavel]. Chair fewer okay. We are reconvening the budget and finance committee, and going to recess until 10 30. Thank you. Chair fewer good evening, everyone. We are now reconvening the budget and finance committee of june 26, 2019, and thank you all for staying here. It is approximately 11 30 at night, and we have a budget, so we are thrilled. First, id like to call on madam budget director, kelly kirkpatrick. Thank you, chair fewer, and everybody in the audience, members, and board staff. It is with great pleasure that i authorize and propose to appropriate 17 million to facilitate the boards priority spending as well as the appropriation of 52 million to help facilitate the appropriation of the education reserve for the excess eraf plan, so i ask that the members of the committee accept the amendment to accept those priorities being appropriated. Thank you. Chair fewer so i just want to say that this is thank you to the public and thank you to the advocates. You know, we started with an over 400 million add back list of asks. So it just demonstrates so much need in our city in addition to a 12 billion budget. It encompasses many things. Nonprofit organizations and nonprofit workers, street trees, rental assistance, support for seniors and people with disabilities, lgbtq communities, legal defense, and so much, much more. And because of our partnership with the mayors budget office, this process has been less painful than as it has been in the past and less adversarial. Id like to thank our partners, lisa, and of course we could not do this without the budget and legislative analysts. And id like to thank sophia and lisa for working so hard with us. And then id like to thank my colleagues who sat through 50 meetings, all about the budget. And then, i want to thank the clerk, linda wong for assisting us and guiding us through this process. I would not remiss if not did not mention lisa and chelsea. [applause] chair fewer thats right. So i just want to say that she had a vision for how this whole process should work, and this is the thor hammer for her. She has a young child at home, and missed many, many nights with her daughter, and worked many, many nights. I just want to thank her for sacrificing h sacrificing her time with her family and also her personal time for getting us where we are today. I think the budget should reflect the personal values of San Francisco. Because we have advocates here in the room, i think this budget does reflect San Francisco. I think you should all congratulate yourselves because this is a collective effort. So id like to make oh, president yee. President yee i dont often rise because its so hard for me to standup. I really want to thank everybody in this process, and its been ive been at this what is this . My seventh . My seventh budget season, and this is never easy, never. So dont i kid you not, because were putting a budget together before midnight. One of the things i want to say is i made a decision in january, and it probably was my best decision, which is to make sandy fewer the chair. [applaus [applause] president yee thats because i knew she had chelsea. So besides thanking the Controllers Office and ben and the budget staff or kelly and sophia, you know, its been kay te team been a team effort for all of us. People were advocating for the things that they really care about, and we could always say, you know something . This is what i want and be stubborn about it, and if i dont get it, im going to pout about it. But thats not what happened. People realize theres more needs than were ever going to have funding for, and this has been a great process. Weve been able to expand the budget to serve more people in need, and the fact that we got this done before midnight is a testament of how we work together. Not only was chelsea involved in this process, but many of our own staff, and i want to thank them for their efforts. Many of them are still here. Thank you very much. [applause] president yee so the only thing i really want to say is that thank goodness we got to a conclusion. And i also want to thank the mayor breed, you know, because its always a give and take in all this process, and it really was a give and take. Everybody wants certain things. We got certainly things partially, but not fully, and we weve shown and were going to show the city that were adults, and we can work on something that we can all agree with, and i think thats what weve come up, is a package that i think we can all agree with. Thank you very much to my colleagues on the budget committee, and im really happy ive been able to assign all of you to this committee. Thank you very much. Chair fewer supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani thank you, chair fewer. I want to start by thanking my colleagues on the committee, and thank you, president yee, for allowing me to serve on the budget and finance committee. Its been an absolute privilege and honor. I want to thank the mayor and the mayors budget director, kelly, and sophia, and our clerks office, linda a and alisa. And thank you, chair fewer. You are just so tough. You have set an example that we all matter to you, and i really thank you for including all of our opinions on and taking to heart what we thought. It really means a lot. And of course, chelsea, we know we cant do it without our aides. My office, andy, who just came on board, thank you so much. And sam and daniel, thank you so much. I love you guys. Thank you so much for being here. Im so grateful for you, and we are nothing without our aides. Lastly, i want to thank the advocates, too. When we sat through Public Comment. Its really heartbreaking to hear we cant fund everyone, we cant save everyone, we cant do everything we want to do. But what we take home with us is the heart thats in this room and how much all of you care about san franciscans and just really seeing this process is amazing. And lastly, malia taught me to look into the camera. And gianna sophia, my daughter, who turned ten today. Happy birthday. Im so proud of you. Chair fewer supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen you know, it was somewhat auspicious that we came to our budget on the first night of the democratic debate on t. V. , where we saw a return to intelligent policy making, to candidates who care about human beings, and who care about protecting those that need help in our country. And i think that it felt good to see that again at the federal level, and to watch it right here at the local level under the incredible leadership of supervisor chair fewer. Ive been through primarily as a legislative aide my second gosh, the time. But i think so now ive been through nine budget processes as an aide and a supervisor, and this one, by far, was the best one that ive been through in the past nine years. As supervisor stefani says, it was so fun to watch you at work, chair fewer. I learned a