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Welcome everyone here today. This is a very exciting day. Im e. J. Dion, a senior fellow here at brookings, as you know, brookings likes to be in the middle of the great debates in our country. This is going to be a year, i think, of really fundamental debates about the future or about what happens to growth and is it shared. We might actually get around to arguing about what should our government spend money on and how are we going to pay for it . Weve had crises, rather than having real arguments about that in the past few years. Its an honor for me to introduce [inaudible] join us today. She has proudly represented californias 12th district for the past 27 years. Ill continue with the introduction, but i want to say a couple of things. First of all please silence your cell phones. Tweet up a storm if you want, but silence your cell phones. To tweet, its pelosi at pelosi at brookings. We will be circulate cards for you to answer your questions and im going to dry to ask as many of th ....
Revenues and expenditures that we expect over the next 5 years as well as monitoring the process on the deficit and develop multiyear strategies to kind of reduce volatility in the citys budget process and anticipate and plan for some, for issues. Additionally weve moved the publication to the fall normally we publish in march but as you know i mentioned earlier we published in december of this year to have a more thoughtful planning process for the 5 years and in terms of of what what can be found in the plan we publish it every 2 years its a joint report with the city controllers office. So the high level take away is that, you know, what you are seeing in front of you is a summary of the projected budgetary surplus or deficit you will see its a projected deficit for the 5 years and in fiscal year 20 and in fiscal year 2017 its a cumulative shortfall ill note that the 15. 9 million is the lowest shortfall at least in the last 15 years but do know its a projected shortfall. So what yo ....
Attempting to show you im sorry its such small font but were taking a balanced approach growing at a slower rate so curbing growth and also increasing revenues doing it from both ends to present a balanced budget. Expenditures over the the 5year period are expected to average about 23 percent over the over the 5 years so our 5year Financial Plan proposes a reduction to to about 18 18 percent Slower Growth in cpi and if you want to nittygritty details you are more than welcome to dive in on the citys website and increasing revenues to 18 percent to present a balanced budget. As i mentioned earlier this is the first time the the 5year plan were presenting a recession scenario and again its small i apologize but what is your seeing here is the average length between downturns since 1900. And so the black dotted line thats vertical down the middle represents the average and so the ....
Making sure that there was basically ongoing collaborative resource stations for residents in order to make sure that anyone else from june ongoing that would end up wanting any of our support that they would be able to reach a viable source so dph provided a lot of resource stations and different events throughout the following months. And then finally ill mention under the social service piece there was a collaborative meeting where we met with residents providers that are there daytoday and heard ongoing every single month and still participate, the Mayors Office and city departments, we participate in the cbos just to make sure we understand if theres any way to intervene in any violence that occurs in the neighborhood. Just to highlight a couple of areas this area was led by the San FranciscoUnified School Distr ....
Enforcement piece. Quickly in terms of the enforcement area we had the juvenile Probation Department take lead in this area and patrol increased regularly given the incident. We also had sfpd they were directed to actually engage if a lot of positive Community Events that were hosted by the community or by city departments and then we also had the participation of the adult and juvenile Probation Department we have their support to provide ongoing compliance checks and thats still occurring. We still have them firmly commitmented especially during this time were going to encounter the anniversary. So thats the enforcement strategy. Moving along the social Service Strategy we had about 4 different leads that actually took support in intervening in som ....