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facility coordinator here in hamilton. she's terrific and an icon in this city and apartment. the community is fortunate to have here. i was thrilled when she accepted that position. she is welcomed here and she is doing a terrific job. the city field foundation came in and spent $3.3 million on a new field. it changed the way that field was used to dramatically. all of us can agree that it has activated that field tenfold. the key is that we make sure it is the correct activation, right? it is not folks coming from all over the city or outside the city to be able to use it. it is a ...

is not removed we can send somebody to the property and we will build them. the ability to do this was strengthened by legislation a couple of years ago. this is the ordnance that allows us to recover the cost to the taxpayer dollars that have been spent. with regard to the street trees, this is the situation. most of the trees that lined the streets in san francisco, that are the responsibility of the property owner. i have a couple of trees and of my house and it is my job to keep them well maintained. some streets in san francisco -- for no reason, the city maintains those trees. ...

last year, the department went through a very competitive process of selecting agencies to provide after-school programs and services. we did this with the school districts. we went to the school district and we said that all of these after-school programs receiving state funding, we want to leverage enhance these programs. what had happened is that you would have a couple of after- school programs. one of them was run by the school district and the other by community partners. last year, we said this did not make sense. and that this was not efficient. we figure out a way to just ha...

>> the question is, how do we support more after-school programs in schools? last year -- and reduce the duplication of services. last year, the department went through a very competitive process of selecting agencies to provide after-school programs and services. we did this with the school districts. we went to the school district and we said that all of these after-school programs receiving state funding, we want to leverage enhance these programs. what had happened is that you would have a couple of after- school programs. one of them was run by the school district and the other ...

of $70 million. i'm happy to report that we have covered 60 million of that. $70 million without any reduction in services at all. we have worked hard to improve our revenue picture. we have looked for efficiencies in the department. we could not close the entire deficit army the full target. $7 million, the last $10 million is going to result in -- we are proposing reductions. in looking at our mental health and substance-abuse services, to begin with, the city of san francisco and the public health department provide far more services on a per capita basis than any other county in ...