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Over and funding these programs will help keeping programs in San Francisco. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Thank you for listening today supervisors. I debbie her man with the health and Services Network and i am here with the nonprofits and here to support the budget enhancement request. This is i group of asks put together by nonprofits, by the people that work for us, by the people that are served for us. There are several different areas. First of all we have been cutting the budgets for years. The economy is coming back and its time to restore services for the most ...

Helpful relief during this period but our analysis at that time indicated that we needed more to avoid really Significant Service cuts streaming down the economy. We can never predict when that downturn will occur which is part of the challenge frankly a budget revenue projections but we do know that when it does occur, having adequate reserves help us carry us through to the extent possible. Although we have improved at this level indiscernible from a highlevel perspective the concern that creates for us and the mayor and the board in adopting this policy was the you have less money available...

There was a time when one of our young people had a shotgun; he was being chased by someone, a Police Officer who didnt actually know him and definitely would have been shot at the other Police Officer who eventually joined him, had he not stop him, and hold up for a minute. Let me deal with it. Within the department as a whole regardless of additional revenues or not to be that kind of department. I know that chief has been that kind of Police Officer his entire career. I know he has a desired to try to make sure that new officers, current officers, bring that same level of commitment to the ...

Possible. Although we have improved at this level indiscernible from a highlevel perspective the concern that creates for us and the mayor and the board in adopting this policy was the you have less money available at the exact moment in time when the demand for Public Services tends to be the highest . When unemployment is higher . When the economy sucking down . I think that is what this reserve was intended to get to. We specifically commented on two different reserves, the litigation reserve and the benefits reserve and we continue to stay to the board of supervisors that there is the pote...

Within the department as a whole regardless of additional revenues or not to be that kind of department. I know that chief has been that kind of Police Officer his entire career. I know he has a desired to try to make sure that new officers, current officers, bring that same level of commitment to the people of San Francisco. We definitely need to do more work around making sure that there is more of a connection, more of a Community Policing model. Our entire city, we need to work on that. This is really challenging decision for me because i think about of course ways to utilize these resourc...