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That under the current system, because we have so many of those individuals who were once incarcerated at the state level, being pushed down to the counties, theres no room at the end in terms of the county jails. So misdemeanors arent going to be sentenced to county jail but will be sentenced in Community Service or whatever. And for those individuals who do need some measure of control and supervision to deal about deal with their conviction problems, its not going to happen at the misdemeanor level. Let me go to a couple of the questions from the audience. Ive shared them with our District ...

National anthem. Uniformed officers, present arms. Oh, say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave please be seated. Good evening, i would like to welcome to you San Francisco Police Department medal of valor cer...

Mayor lee when i was here, and i would ask you to talk to our landlord. Maybe you can get a rent reduction for us. That would be very helpful. Thank you. Thank you. applause all right, thank you, linda. So, now id like to call up caroline from the jewish family and children services. Anyone from jfcs here . Okay, all right. So, i guess well move on to public comment, then, or summer jobs, actually, here. Good morning, everyone, mayor lee, supervisors, Department Heads. Eric mcdonald chief operating officer for united way of the bay area. We are thrilled to be partnering again with mayor lee, c...

Federal government. When the federal government does things like implement a federal sequester. That has an impact here on san franciscans. If the state budget changes, that has an effect here on us. Its important to know that we have control over some of our revenue but not all of them. The mayor shared with you our fiveyear budget outlook. And mentioned the first two years. This is the fourth chart over with the red and black. The red bars show you how much our expenditures are projected to grow in the next five years and the black bars. We project over the five years we will have 13 more re...

Make tough decisions. They are political in nature, in many ways, even though people denied that, but at times, many of us are politicians, but we always try to govern with our hearts. I have always considered myself having progressive politics. I believe in a vision of people having their needs met. I believe in equity. When people have special needs, we should be considered of that. I also feel that working families in the lowest income population should have a safety net. We should have civilrights and equality rights for people as well. If that is being a progressive, then i am proud of be...