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Good morning, everyone my name is supervisor president london breed of the board of supervisors and to my left is the button chair supervisor farrell and joined by supervisor wiener and supervisor tang to here the mayors proposed balanced budget for fiscal year 20162017 we look forward to what is proposed a number of Department Heads and commissioners and others i look forward to a robust conversation about that fiscal year budget and wed like to welcome you mr. Mayor to present your budget thank you so much for being here. clapping. good morning, supervisors, good morning to the members of th...

[gavel] good morning everybody and welcome to San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday june 22, 2016. My name is mark farrell im sharing this committee. Im joined by supervisor katie tang and norman yee and jane kim. Scott weiner is joining shortly. I want to thank linda one clerk of our committee as well as sfgov tv for covering todays meeting. With that mdm. Clerk any announcements yes. Please silence all cell phones electronic devices. Complete speaker cards thank you city manager please call item number one item number one is the hearing on the ...

Absent commissioner kim commissioner eric mar absent commissioner peskin commissioner tang absent commissioner lee commissioner yee we have quorum thank you very much item 2. Item 2 enforce the transportation an information slash action item colleagues before us the expenditure plan relate to the half cents state tax at the board of supervisors as you may know we have two different sales tax pending a half cents dedicate to transportation and three quarters cents with a separate Charter Amendment dedicating funds to transportation also to Homeless Services and were here today to discuss the th...

People were actually commuters, all we could find out was how many people got on in certain places but of course there is in a system now and probably should not be a system for they get off so we dont know how many people have the long run. Weve done our own surveys and were all writers of muni and we see no reason for the statement that says buses are slow and reliable. They are not on speaking. The gary geary 38 ought. The geary 38 bay x are very fast. People are very very pleased by what they see. Theres no reason for mta to be denigrating its own service. So, there are many many more thin...

25th Largest Convention center in the country but the conventions are getting bigger so with this extension it is 13 largest we have been under construction a year and a half and set to complete the construction in 2018. It generated over 9 billion in San Francisco 35 percent of viz 2rs coming to San Francisco are coming to maus coney. 2500 jobs will be created. If we didnt do the expansion we would luce 200 million in taxes a year. The conventions they are talking about going other cities with ample [inaudible] and exhibit space and not come to San Francisco. There is a lot of [inaudible] we ...