Transcripts For SFGTV 20240622

p every day i seek a positive direction for my life through my accomplishments and, now, with help and support for my family and others, i own i own i own my recovery from addition and depression. Join the voices for recovery. Its worth it. For information on mental and Substance Use disorders, including prevention and treatment referral call 1800662help. Brought to you by the u. S. Department of health and human services. Today, were honored to have mayor ed lee here to present the citys budget for the next 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar years mayor ed lee welcome floor is yours. Thank you good morning, everyone. Good morning. Thank you supervisor president london breed and budget and supervisor mar farrell and members of the board our elected the officials and commissioners and Department Heads and labor our Wonderful Community leaders thank you very much for being here and thank you all for being such a great partner in helping me deliver to the people of San Francisco a balanced budget that sets our city up for lesson lasting success. Our citys budget is a reflection of our values and were making historic investments to make sure our city remains save solvent and successful a city in which everyone what prosper it was just a few short years ago we were suffering from an entrenched economic recession maybe double digit unemployment and massive shortfalls and forced to make very hard discussion i random those along with many of you did not heads as well but today thanks to our budget discipline our smart economic policies and focus on job creation and the innovation in the resilientcy of our residents and Business Community were at a unique position to you assure that every resident can share in the prosperity in our city we have an opportunity to make sure we have a safe city a caring city and educated city, a liveable city a city that moves and meets our affordability challenges my budget doubles down on the Public Safety investments to mediate h meet the needs of the growing demands of the frrmd well hire 4 hundred Additional Police officers hundred and 98 firefighters, 55 paramedics and 36911 dispatches and in addition for the first time in a decade we have the opportunity to hire at least thirty cadets that will join our Public Safety system in a few short years clapping. and i know that we all agree that a safe San Francisco is about more than Public Safety any Public Comment . That is also about centralizing safety fleeting so were a caring city at the heart of our system of every is is is our San Francisco General Hospital which will open later this year im proud weve worked together to build a metabolic safety hospital that will serve the generations my budget includes hundred and 48 now worldclass care at San Francisco general our Wonderful Communitybased organizations that also provide Quality Health care and other social services to our residents they all will receive a 5 percent increase over the next two years. But with those new resources we must agree to Work Together for the sustainability as well as thats why well develop a plan to address those important issues and this year my budget will also make unprecedented investments to serve the homeless well see the successes in the Navigation Center but you must shush True Investments in homeless weve xhutd six hundred you are talking about for the Homeless Individuals in that budget there are 0 so there our stepped up efforts we will end chronic homelessness for veterans clapping. we must to do more now is the time to take up a complicate challenge one that i and my administration and board of supervisors are willing to take up this is ending family homelessness with a Strong Partnership between the city and community and philanthropy i know we can rise to the change of ending homelessness speaking of families lets remember that seniors are an important part of our growing city we need to make sure were serving this growing population my budget includes 7. 4 million of new investments to have the meals wait list to make sure that people live in their homes longer and expand the senior programs those represent a down payment on the true need that is why ive asked my staff to Work Together with the plants of the dignity fund a fund that is a program that is modeled after our very successful Transportation Task force that lets us wish tote to develop a road map. The needs in the community and the recommendations for sustainable funding and at the same time, we must invest in our youth and the future so thanks to the leadership of the board of education and superintendent carranza we continue to be one of the top of urban schools in california and by many measures in the nation we have all worked together to be a stronger system with stronger and better Public Schools we know we have to do more and make sure our investments lead to the outcomes that our kids deserve we know many we have to be prepared for the successes to the 21st century of our economy and that our city needs to remain affordable thats why my budget includes over 690 million to support San Franciscos Public Schools, preschools for all and the programs there and summer programs and afterschool programs to clear out the waiting list were making sure our children are educated and ready to succeed by working together to reauthorize the Childrens Fund and Public Education Enrichment Fund through our bolted efforts to improve the San Franciscos children and families were establishing our children our Families Council not one agency alone can tackle the challenges that many of our families face and thanks to thanks to the prop c we were bringing together the city and school the School District and the community to this council to create a policy agenda that truly puts children and Families First and San Francisco with more People Living and working than any other time in our history we must continue to be a liveable city thats why well invest over 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar hundred and 53 million in our goal plan to maintain streets and roads and invest in access for people that disabilities and make water Wise Investments to address the drought well invest in our public spaces and urban forecast and make sure our streets are cleaner and safety and more enjoyable well continue to invest in our parks playgrounds and libraries this coming year working together in a process led by supervisor farrell and partnering with the Community Well develop a shared understanding about the parks and open spaces that are city needs as we yo and have recommendations for sustainable Funding Strategies to meet those needs liveability t is about the vibrancy of our city and neighborhoods my budget includes new funding from the arts shared prosperity agenda with more than San Francisco Million Dollars to support of the artists and Community Equity and the eco system im challenging my Mayors Office of housing the Arts Commission and the office of Investment Infrastructure to Work Together to bring a plan to build artist housing in San Francisco. And we need po to move people around the city better and faster our investment in our citys Public Transportation will make mooning more reliable and save and clean and ready to meet the demands of the growing city and ridership our voters approved investments and transportation infrastructure without raising property tax and will improve muni and make it easier to move around by bus and car and bike and on foot our riders do deserve a 21st century transportation with improved service and less crowding by moving muni forward the result our sfmta first ever one billion dollars operating budget to approve transit performance and reliability our mta operates the nations 8th largest Public Transportation and serves every community to invest in the future of muni my promoted budget also includes significant Capital Improvements including 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar 6 million for hybrid buses and light rail vehicles and 6 million in street and Pedestrian Safety projects to move the city closer to vision zero of eliminating traffic failed by 2024 were also insuring that muni remains assembly with our programs so for seniors for people with disabled and our youth and if were going to talk about affordability we must talk about Affordable Housing and housing that be affordable to lower and middleincome families that promotes equality and economic environment that are the correspondence of our trying city you must know everyday i work on this issue and everyday i challenge my staff to do more to work with the community, to confront our citys crisis the demands with aggressive action thats why in 2012, we created the housing trvd that will invest over 79 million in the Housing Development and Neighborhood Stabilization and more weve been working hard at the state level to insure that San Francisco what build the housing through the previous Redevelopment Agency we can do so on the slertsdz timeline and as a result we expect to be able to invest one thousand 8 hundreds units of new Affordable Housing in the next 57 years nearly one thousand more units we would not have been able to do so without the legislative state were eliminating eviction this year funding will grow to 6. 4 million to make sure our long time residents can stay in their homes we also have to innovative around the delivery of Affordable Housing we need to build more quickly we need to be able to acquire proposed anywhere quickly and engage our Development Partners marrow effectively we know we need resources to build housing now thats why were proposing a 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar hundred and 50 million housing bond to stepped construction of housing for low and middleincome families without raising property tax this creates our Housing Investment for existing neighborhoods and builds on the rehab thirty thousand homes by 2020 2015 avenue bond is a crucial canyon of our one. 250 millin dollar billion dollars 5 year Response Fund that will deliver more than 10 thousand 7 hundreds permanently affordable low and middleincome Affordable Housing thats why we need the Housing Accelerated Fund to attract and secure private Sector Investment in Affordable Housing ladies and gentlemen i know we can do all of this together we must continue to build housing thats affordable to people across youll protect spectrums in order to generate the revenues to build every o even more Affordable Housing over the next 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar years new Market Rate Development is anticipated to generate more than hundred Million Dollars in Affordable Housing fees that can be put to work to insure sites and build housing throughout the city with the success of how city we have a special opportunity to insure the prosperity of our city extends to all the residents i believe this is a balanced and responsible budget that not only security guards Vital City Services and affordable a budget that keeps our city save and solvent and successful well continue to invest in the diverse neighborhood in the infrastructure and most importantly in the people of San Francisco to make sure that we retain the city for everyone i take this opportunity to thank the group of people that have been working hard on this budget that is my budget staff led by kate howard clapping i also like to extend a warm thank you, again to the entire controllers staff led by Ben Rosenfeld that has been working alongside clapping and i would like to in anticipation thank each and everyone of the board of supervisors and house of representatives harvey rose and ladies and gentlemen, thank you, very much lets get this Budget Approved and lets get to work thank you issue. Homeless in San Francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014 Homeless Census over 64 homeless in individual in the city to try to address the issue weve got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the Navigation Center. This Pilot Project is for People Living on the street what makes it different the Navigation Center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. The full realization that people dont want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services dont meet them and not relevant theyre not going to be successful if you look at the budget losses weve got a community sacrifice important people to