[gavel] good morning everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for thursday, june 16, 2016 by name is mark farrell. Im sharing this committee. Im joined by katie tang as well supervisor norman yee and scott weiner, nothing the clerk as well as Scott Wiseman from the sfgtv for covering this meeting. We have any announcements yes please sounds all cell phones and electronic devices. Complete speaker cards and eight copies of documents as part of file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on june 20 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were goi
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Thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were going to recess at 11 45 am for lunch and we can being approximately 1 30 pm to continue the hearing. Willie taking Public Comment on legislative items. However Public Comment for the budget itself is going to be heard on monday, june 20. Next monday followed by two more days of budget hearings potentially one more day of budget hearings on june 20 and potentially the 23rd. The of to complete our Budget Committee process next to hear this balance, and for a balanced budget to the board for our the liberation set the board on july 12 to there are a number of departments that do not have budget Analyst Reports. I want to spell out specific
Also an advisory to immediate quick wrapping stories, an exclusive story done by abc news head this morning. Posted about an hour ago. For the questionandanswer we we will be using a handheld microphone. We alive on cspan tv. I will give you the mike. With that i would like to open the floor up. I i am a journalist based in dc. I would like to ask what you learned from your campaign in 2012. Obviously an active campaign but im wondering what you might have learned about politics, stuff that goes on in washington things that may surprise you and how it might impact your 2016 campaign. Thank you. My run in 2012 came after a series of runs at the local and state level, and i have to say what was surprising was that there was really nothing surprising about politics and the kind of back fighting game has its place. What was surprising to me was already people are people are in our community to rise up and fight for something different. That amazed me command we were only beginning to build