Okay, great. Supervisor fewer good afternoon, everyone. This is the march 11, 2020 meeting of the budget and appropriations committee. I am sandra fewer. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this tv. Any announcements . Please make sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices, complete speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Supervisor fewer item number 1. Hearing to review the report on the Controllers Office on the current years expenditure and revenue information and projections as of december 31, 2019, sixmonth budget status report and the mayors budget instructions for 2021 and 2122. Supervisor fewer we have a presentation from city controller on the sixmonth budget status report for the city and county of San Francisco, which was released last month. Ive asked mr. Rosenfield to share early assessment of the impacts of covid19 in the city, although we may not have yet definitive numbers, this committee should be informed in realtime about the financial picture of the city. Thank you for sharing what you can today. Finally, ive asked mr. Rosenfield to give us a brief overview of the new city website that is created since the passage of the budget transparency. Thanks again for all the colleagues that signed on. Im so proud our access during the budget process is being realized. Since our legislation was passed in december, we have seen city departments, not just check off a box, but truly take on the challenge of Holding Public meetings to gain meaningful input. Thanks to departments like the office of economic and workforce development, recreation and parks, and Child Support services for implementing new practices, inviting me to participate in your community presentations. These steps toward the goal of Greater Transparency for allocation of tax dollars are building on years of best Budget Practices from departments Like Public Health and will make the budget process stronger. This website is a powerful tool to help San Francisco residents navigate the complex process, so i appreciate the effort from the contr Controllers Office to finalize it. With that, Ben Rosenfield from the Controllers Office. Thank you. Good morning, thank you for having us here today. This is certainly timely and so we look forward to not only talking through briefly some of the highlights from the sixmonth report which we published almost exactly a month ago. Ill talk through some of those updates and well provide you with updates were seeing regarding events in the local economy here today and we can Start Talking here and elsewhere about what the financial implications are to the city. Weve got a couple of updates coming just to let folks know what is coming after this. Our office is working on tax revenue ranging and updates related to covid in the current fiscal year. We hope to have that complete next week. At least for initial range. And then all three financial offices, our office, the boards budget and legislative office and the mayors Budget Office are updating our projections of the next four years. That will be complete tend of the month. Flu on the sixmonth report we publicish each year, we do see good news in the sixmonth report. I know we briefed many of you individually on this, about 98. 1 million improvement in ending fund balance. Ill talk about how that applies to next years fall forecast. The majority of this good news is really being driven by two departments. So we have significant good news over 60 million in the department of Public Health as of sixmonth. And our Human Service agency 20 million. Ill talk about each of the departments in a membership and what is going on in a minute and what is going on there. Ill talk about taxes overall, but the big news is the continued strength we saw in the first half of the fiscal year related to transfer tax. We saw a number of Large Properties trade hands in the year, with payments in excess of 20 million for a single transaction, so we had a lot of strength there. Under the way the citys reserves work, that volatile revenue, a significant portion, ends up deposited into a onetime reserve. And like i talked about most ill talk about in a second, most other taxes are trending toward budget. At least as of sixmonth. And there is some weakness in hotel and some in admissions tax as of the sixmonth mark. This is showing a picture of all the major tax revenues that we feel in the general fund. And you can kind of see on the far right chart column, how the 6month projection various from varies from the 3month projection. Theyre trending toward budget. You see that for property, for sales, for utility user tax, parking tax. And also how significant the real transfer tax news is. That is 71 million. But were we werent seeing a lot of change versus our other previous projections of major taxes. In terms of department, this gives you a summarized view of everything going on with all of the departments and the report itself contains much more information, but overall, departments net improvement of approximately 90 million. You can see where that is falling across the departments, but Public Health and Human Services are the vast majority. Ill talk in a second about them and juvenile probation which i know is of interest to the committee and we do see issues halfway through the fiscal year. So, briefly, for the department of Public Health, this is summarizing that good news in health. Halfway through the year. Its almost entirely on the revenue side and the majority of the good news at Public Health is driven at zuckerberg General Hospital. So patient revenue continues to outpace expectations. And we did have some settlements of prior year claims resulted in onetime revenue at the General Hospital. Another thing for us to keep an eye on here, as you may know, the waiver that the state has with the federal government for many different kinds of Health Services expires at the end of this calendar year. There is a lot of work going on in Public Health departments throughout the country to organize for the renegotiation of that waiver next year. But one important fact is that the state is in the process of completing many years of audits of prior year claims. We have money set aside to guard against adverse findings in the audits and weve been waiting years for the audits to be completed. Were hopeful that with the speedup of the state completing the audit processes, will not only have certainty on these sometime before the waiver expires, but were hoping to have good news. So we dont have certainty on that, but its one were keeping our eyes on, health is tracking and well continue to update as we get news on that. Within the Human Service agency, 20 million net surplus. You can see here that the single biggest change here relates to the way the i. H. S. S. Works, that requirement with the state and there were final changes at the end of the state budget process that are favorable to us for about 13 million and 7 million of other savings largely related under spending in a few programs. In terms of juvenile probation, the big issue we see here stems at the end of last fiscal year and its largely, i think, an administrative capacity issue. I think we have remedied now as a city, but as of 6month mark, the department was operating without a number of key positions in their finance shop. And as a result, the department wasnt claiming federal and state revenue in the way they should have been. Since that time, there is a new finance director appointed at juvenile probation. Weve assigned accountness and there is a budget manager on loan to them. So were feeling more hopeful about the stabilization of the function in juvenile and i would hope to see the number come down by the time we get to the 9month mark. As always, we note in the report where departments are projected to live within their budget, but within that budget overspend their overtime line item. As you know to the extent the department wants to do that, they have to come back to the board of supervisors for reappropriations. These are the departments at the 6month mark we expect will need to come back to the board for approximate for permission or change behavior in the coming months. A quick summary as of the 6month mark, how does this fit in with the story regarding the budget deficit . As you know, the three offices publish projections in the early winter of 419 million projected shortfall over two years. The citys general practice for many years has been to take savings that occur in one year and apply it to the shortfall for next year. If that is the choice that is made i would expect it would be you would have to take the 98 million from the 6month report, apply to the previous projection and that brings us down to 321 million. Obviously, well continue to update a lot of this as we go. This is changed obviously given just this week. But the official next update to the projection itself is the joint report which our three offices will publish at the end of march. So im happy to take questions on 6month mark, or i can move into covid. Supervisor fewer i see supervisor ronen, but do we need a report from the b. L. A. , anything to report at all . No. Thank you very much. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen yes, thank you. Thank you for this. For the department of Public Health higher than anticipated budget, does any of that have to do with salary savings . I believe actually no i believe were projecting that the department is spending at the general to budgeted levels. So, at the 6month mark and well update this at nine months but at the 6month mark laguna was spending we were expecting them to spend to the budget. The General Hospital is actually because they have a higher census than assumed, theyre actually overspending their Salary Budget by 5. 8 million which is more than offset by 50 million in revenue improvement. Then they do have expenditures savings in the other parts of the department. So not the general, not laguna, but population health, mental health, et cetera. Supervisor ronen do we know how much salary savings . Its about 5 million in total uses savings. I dont have at my finger tips how much of that is salary, but we could follow up and get that to you. Supervisor ronen okay. And then in for h. S. A. , why are we underspending in cal works and medical. This is savings. Supervisor ronen do we have a sense of why that is happening, because we clearly have the need . I dont, but could follow up with. Generally speaking, these different aid programs have defined criteria as to who is eligible to participate. And to the extent that you project how much participation theyll see, to the extent that participation is higher or lower than that, you see that in our reports. Supervisor ronen id like to know why, because it could be that everyone who is eligible signed up for it could be that we have a problem recruiting and making people feel safe to sign up for the benefits. So it would be great we would be happy to follow up and get more information for you. Supervisor ronen okay. Then do we know why juvenile probation was operating without two key finance positions that were delayed 6 million in federal and state funding . Was that an h. R. Problem . Was that a departmentwide problem . Or the delays from central h. R. Which is happening in practically every department. My impression is this almost entirely driven by issues internal the department. It was kind of an extraordinary moment. Its kind of what has led us to take actions with the new chief to assign temporary help there to help with these things. I personally attribute it to management personnel and operational issues within the department this last summer. Supervisor ronen what was the time period these positions were open and we were failing to fill federal and state bill federal and State Government . The period were seeing the delayed claims was the very end of last fiscal year through this fall. This is not lost money to the city. Its just we will now have a endeavor to reach back and claim for those prior periods and we have with the new chief and with our team and other assistants, we have a group that is working this issue as we speak. Does that help . If there arent other questions, ill move into what were seeing this week. This is an extremely dynamic situation and evolving both from a Public Health perspective and then our monitoring of what the implications might mean for the local economy, revenues and the rest. In our work, we rely on a host of official data points that are often lagged from when the event occurs. Unemployment claims, actual tax filings, reporting from the fed. We wont see some of that data for weeks and months. So in moments like this, we really look to a number of different proxies quickly to get a feel for what is going on. Weve been doing an extraordinary amount of that last weekend and through this week. So im sharing with you, the early data points. We can talk about the things were looking at and working on and ill have more information regarding the tax revenue implications of a lot of this again within the next week. A few issues of great concern. So, prior to the emergency in San Francisco, we had already begun to see declines in landings at the airport, predominantly impacted by china and asia. Youd already seen notable dropoff in landings last winter and into the spring. We commented on these in the 6month report, but you started to see a slowing of tourism into San Francisco and the u. S. From china, but that has changed dramatically in the last week. Landings at the general at s. F. O. This week are down 20 . Thus far this week for international flights. And were seeing it in Domestic Travel as well. So domestic landings at the airport are down 12 this week. That is landings. Thats the number of planes landing. Were endeavoring to get better information from the airlines and we expect to have it soon to the number of people on those planes, but its being reported that those planes arriving are arriving with fewer people as well than a week ago. The actual number of visitors coming to San Francisco or others coming to San Francisco is likely higher than this. The most Immediate Impact of this here within the borders of San Francisco and i think we felt this profoundly already this week, relates to Convention Business. And then spilling over from there into other parts of the hospitality sector. At this point Event Sponsors have cancelled all conventions at the moscone through the middle of may. The cancelled conventions account for 235,000 room nights which is a very large number. We have been spending time this week talking to Hotels Downtown to understand what is going on with their businesses this week. Theyve seen spikes in cancellations, monday, tuesday and even this morning this week. The rate of those cancellations is accelerating. And it is reported information to us, but many Hotels Downtown, if not most hotels are reporting this week theyre now operating at occupancy rates of 2030 . Thats versus the standard that weve grown used to for many years in the city of 8085 . So even this quickly our hotels are emptying out quickly. This kind of level of occupancy is actually worse than what we felt immediately after september 11 to put it into context. Weve been talking to other industries that support hotels and wraparound hotels, catering, other services, special events and the rest. And they have almost uniformly thus far reported to us a mass cancellation of almost all of their business. This is obviously a large part of our local economy. Hotels, hospitality and supporting services and employs a large number of people. Hotels directly employ 25,000 people in San Francisco. And these associated industries that wraparound, depending on how you count them, are tens of thousands of employees beyond that. So very significant and very Immediate Impacts. And the lack of any Convention Business for several months means that we should expect that these kinds of impacts maybe not at these levels but significant, will linger for sometime. Weve also seen this week things beginning to spill over beyond hospitality into other parts of the economy. A couple of indicators we look to for kind of people coming to San Francisco and shopping, not from airports, not from the airport but within the region, bart ridership was down 9 last week. Exits at downtown bart stations over the weekend, which is where were comparing last weekend versus the weekend before, were down more than 9 . So in the low double digits. And then this week, on monday, bart exits downtown were down 24 , versus the monday. Very significant slowdowns. Happening again quickly. This is somewhat related to very large decisions being made by some of our employers in the San Francisco consistent with Public Health advice to encourage telecommuting. So you see large offices downtown and large employers encouraging their employees to work remotely and that means less traffic into downtown and the city from the rest of the region. Over the weekend, you know, one thing we can look at realtime information about what is going on in some of the districts in terms of activity is sampling parking garage occupancy rates. Last weekend, it varies significantly garage by garage, but vacancies rates in the garages were up 2040 from the weekend before. So very significant changes. And its really most pronounced in a few neighborhoods. Downtown, civic center garage, given the cancellations in the civic center and chinatown, chinatown north beach. At least in terms of the weekend work. We have been spending time this week talking to a number of restaurants and restaurant associations to understand kind of what theyre reporting and seeing in the first few days of the week. And there is a broad number of restaurants reporting very significant declines in the sales thus far this week. It appears to be a bit of a different picture. Again, downtown, chinatown, kind of places the tourists go, places that Office Workers eat, are reporting some are reporting losses in excess of 50 or more in terms of this weeks sales. As we get out into neighborhoods where people are potentially staying because theyre telecommuting or otherwise, the losses feel less pronounced. And with some reporting some businesses reporting no loss and no losses so far, bar service, out of the neighborhoods. And then the other thing to note, of course, that restaurants, this is not just spilling into restaurant, but other small retailers, other retail activity. Kind of feeling in that same shape. A very bad week, but worse for those located in the core or in certain downtown neighborhoods. We will know much more about these things in days and weeks ahead, both in terms of the data we have access to, but we also expect more news regarding what the shape of this might be looking ahead. Obviously, there is questions here about two key questions are and i think theyre both predominantly related to how the Health Emergency plays out, theyre ones of duration. And then how spillover works out of these industries into the rest of the local economy and potentially into the National Economy . That would then potentially impact other parts of the economy that were not seeing losses this week, office work, professional services, a whole host of other industries that this week are doing okay. And continue to operate. We will come back next week with some updated ranges of current year tax revenue losses, but just to give you a sense of what were expecting to see, and again, here were focusing on the coming quarter. The last four months of the year, three months of the year. And i think the losses were likely to feel are going to be concentrated in these places. So hotel tax declines are obviously going to be very significant given the occupancy rates i mentioned earlier. And probably in the current year is going to be the Significant Impact the city feels, but we would expect to see losses in sales tax, maybe parking tax and others in this coming quarter. Interest earnings. The money that the city earns on our treasury is expected to decline significantly as well because the federal government has now cut the fed Interest Rate in an effort to stimulate investment. That means that we earn less money on our earned cash, so were quantifying that. And you may see additional federal Interest Rate cuts in weeks ahead which will further erode that. The airport transfer we received from the airport will be down in the current fiscal year and we expect to see others. Well have more on this and we will not have a hard number, but we think its important to present a range of numbers to the board of supervisors, mayors and others can begin planning how to manage this. We will see other impacts that will be deferred to next year, given the way taxes are paid and how this plays out. So business tax, for example, is almost predominantly paid activity now, the tax paid on it will be paid next spring. So that will be a deferred impact. It wont hit the current year, it will hit next year. And well have other implications well include in the later update. I think the loss in the coming quarter will be in the tens of millions, the question is how many . And i hope to have some sense of that next week. Supervisor fewer any members of the public . Hello. The supervisors, i represent the first people of San Francisco, and right here on this podium the chair person rosemary addressed all the supervisors and gave you all some counsel. Weve reached a stage in this city and county of San Francisco where corruption has reached more than saturation point. So when the controller is saying something about this pandemic, if you go to the General Hospital, the turnover of our nurses is over 80 . And if we have the need to have beds for 500 people, thats a minimum because of my training in the military with logistics and all we have like 80 beds. And we have a middle class living on the streets of San Francisco. And we have our supervisors listening, saying something, but it Means Nothing because we cannot say [bell ringing] that we represent the people when we dont do anything for them. Obviously there is a pool of money there that General Hospital has saved and the Human Resources has saved and that is fine, because you know, if you bring ten cpas each one will give is own accounting. If you want, you can say yes or say no. But the bottom line here, supervisors, is you must represent [bell ringing] the people. Supervisor fewer thank you. Any more Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. President yee . President yee thank you, chair fewer. Thanks for the presentation. And its good that we had a good projection for the sixmonth report. Hopefully that offsets some of the bad news coming, moving forward. The question that i mean, all that stuff is really hard to predict and the problem is we dont know how long its going to last. In regards to working with the convention center, for instance, theyve there has been a lot of conventions that have cancelled. Im curious, how far into the future are people starting to cancel . Just to give us a sense of what were looking at. You know, if theyre cancelling things three or four months out, i would say were really in trouble. Yes. And we can report back more, but all sponsors not the city have now cancelled all conventions at the muss coney through may 15th. There are cancellations beyond that. I dont know the count. There are some. And i think there is some hope, depending on how this works that some of the conventions cancelled can be slotted into other slots next fiscal year, but that depends entirely on how our Health Emergency plays out over the coming weeks and months. President yee okay. Thank you. Supervisor ronen yes, assuming that is San Francisco if San Francisco decided to go the route of milan and shut down the entire city, would you give us a sense, in addition to what youve already described, what additional Economic Impacts there would be . I know its enormous, but just get our wheels turning. Yeah, and this is certainly i dont want to speculate too quickly here in the moment, but these are kind of questions were asking ourselves related to projections looking ahead, whether the arc of different possible outcomes from a Health Perspective . What are likely interventions in these scenarios . And in protecting Public Health, by design almost, it avoids interactions and causes other damage, right. So were talking through that. I dont want to speculate. It would be profound though. Already i believe in the sectors were talking about, there is going to be quickly discussions of closures. Youre going to have cash crunches in many of the businesses that are affected. Businesses are very quickly going to phase decisions related to their estimate of what they think the duration of this is and whether it would be in the businesss financial best interests to simply close for a month. I would not be surprised if hotels are having that conversation. I think restaurants in the city are likely already having that conversation. And the broader the kind of Public Health response needs to be, the more profound those kinds of choices spread to every part of the economy. Every part of our business base. And all of their workers. So i dont want to speculate, but it would be profound. Supervisor ronen have you been studying what is happening in italy and wuhan . Some. I know the Health Experts have been working on that more feverishly than we have been in the last few days. Supervisor ronen definitely, theyre studying the Public Health impacts, but the Economic Impacts, kind of what are the measures that those economies are taking . Theyre extreme and they have profound impacts. I have not been to this point this week reviewing the specific economics, but more considering what the Public Health interventions would and then thinking through with our team and others what would the application of that kind of a rule mean in San Francisco . In top level results, you can see impacts to top line, bottom line, indicators in china. China has had a negative quarter for last year in terms of their g. D. P. Growth. I believe that was the first negative quarter in over 20 years. And i think thats entirely driven off of their Public Health response. If that gives us some sense. Supervisor fewer seeing no more comments. Thank you very much. Is there another presentation . No, i think were done. I can very quickly show this new tool off if that is helpful, madame chair. Supervisor fewer one good news thing. Yes, a better topic to end with today, or a little more cheerful anyway. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to do this. As youre aware, chair fewer, the supervisor mar, the sful full board adopted legislation for transparency and required our office to create a website where people interested in the budget process would have access to some of the time lines, tools, meetings and reporting in a centralized way. So thank you very much to the Digital Services team and the city administrators office, reesa sandler and others in the budget group. We got that site up and live on march 1. Its on the top level of the sf gov website. Weve tried to keep it very simple to make it publicly accessible as possible. Its a single landing page. Plain language, descriptions of the budget process, a calendar and then Department Budgets. Drilling into this a little bit, for example, for the timeline, the process used to develop the budget, which i think is one of your goals, chair fewer, has been increased understanding of how that process works and participation in it. There is a simple timeline that shows the different steps of the budget production process. And in each of these cases, there are links to the key documents that official documents that are considered. For example, the mayors budget instructions here. Budget and legislative Analyst Reports at a later time. The budget book. The proposed budget. The last thing and there are host of other documents archived here for ease of people to find them from the public. And then lastly im sorry lastly, because i know its important to the board and to the members, all Department Budget submissions that have come into our office and the Mayors Office are available on the site for review. Supervisor fewer i just want to say i think this is fabulous. Weve had people go on to this website and theyre just fascinated by the city budget now. Like i think it was such a huge thing that most people, lay persons, myself included, didnt understand. And i think this really makes it accessible to every taxpayer in San Francisco. Which is our goal. Thank you. And any other comments from my colleagues . None . Okay. Id like to make a motion then to file this item. Second . President yee, take that without objection. Thank you very much. Any other business before us today . No further business. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, were adjourned. Is our United States constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the United States, which is incredibly important for many reasons. Its important for preliminary representation because if Political Representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. Its important for San Francisco because if we dont have all of the people in our city, if we dont have all of the folks in california, california and San Francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. Its really important to the city of San Francisco that the federal government gets the count right, so weve created count sf to motivate all sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census. For the immigrant community, a lot of people arent sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u. S. Citizens or whether its something for anybody whos in the yUnited States, and it is something for everybody. Census counts the entire population. Weve given out 2 million to over 30 communitybased organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. Weve also partnered with the Public Libraries here in the city and also the Public Schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and weve initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. Because of the language issues that many Chinese Community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. So its really important that communities like bayviewhunters point participate because in the past, theyve been under counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it wasnt enough. Were going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the tenderloin. You know, any one of our given blocks, theres 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u. N. Of San Francisco. So its our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. You go online and do the census. Its available in 13 languages, and you dont need anything. Its based on household. You put in your address and answer nine simple questions. How many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. Your name, your age, your race, your gender. Everybody is 2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and medical care. All of the residents in the city and county of San Francisco need to be counted in census 2020. If youre not counted, then your community is underrepresented and will be underserved. The new friday farmer his market is in the u. N. Plaza. It features the best of San Francisco. Grab fresh foods and veggies from the heart of the farmers market. Shop from marker local vendors. Engage in free diy craft sessions and grab lunch representing cuisine from around the world. [ ] we offer 60 varieties of organic fruit and 30 varieties of conventional. One of our best sellers so sellers is our manager in. It is super sweet. We sell 600 pounds a week. One of the things they like about the market as i get to see my regulars on a weekly basis. I get to meet their families and kids and it is really good to be here. San francisco won my heart. One of our vegetables that is very popular is kale. A lot of people go for dino kale our mission is to make sure we have access for everybody to get organic foods, no matter your financial status. We make greeting cards, invitations, enamel pins, and we do workshops. I am participating in this market because it is a great opportunity for local makers to sell to a really Diverse Community of people in San Francisco. They partnered with the market here and invited us to come out and reach out to the public. We are going to do a full event of workshops where you get to arrange your own bouquet. We will teach you all the tricks and techniques and you will be able to take home a bouquet of your own. You. [ ] we really are wanting to bring opportunities to the community to introduce these local makers to a larger audience. This is my own pakistani recipe. It goes with rice, chicken, lamb we have a very delicious drink. We have a lots of variety of foods. [ ] we do lots of different curries. We do three different types of wontons. Spring rolls, too. Thats right. It is really great they are bringing out local artists from around the city to participate and really help us making our business more successful. Sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very Minimal Energy use. It Still Matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. So having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. We heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. It was super easy to sign up. Our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. Nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. Its an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around Climate Change and its so easy that its hard to not want to do it, and it doesnt really add anything to the bill. Everything is done inhouse. I think it is done. I have always been passionate about gelato. Every single slaver has its own recipe. We have our own we move on from there. So you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. Union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. The people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. It is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. This is the move we are happy to provide to the people. I always love union street because its not like another commercial street where you have big chains. Here you have the neighbors. There is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. People have they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. I love this street itself. We created a move of an area where we will be visiting. We want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. What we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. If you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like. The renovation of balboa park, the oldest in the city of San Francisco, and now it is the newest part in the city of San Francisco. Through our partnership, and because of Public Investment from the two thousand eight fund, we are celebrating a renewal and an awakening of this park. We have it safer, happier, more joyous. 3, 2, 1, [laughter] [applause] it is a great resource for families, to have fun in the city, recreation. This is an amazing park. We have not revitalized it without public and private investment. The critical piece of the process of this renovation was that it was all about the community. We reached out to everyone in this community. We love this park dearly and they all had thoughts and ideas and they wanted to bring their own creativity and their personality to bear on the design. What you see is what the community wanted. These ideas all came from the residents of this community. As a result, there is a sense of ownership, pride and responsibility that goes along with what is going to be an exciting park. Clerk good morning. The meeting will come to order. And wednesday to the march 4, special meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. And the chair of this committee is here and joined by aaron peskin and matt haney. Thank to the clerk john carroll and thank tom loftis from sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Any announcements. Koirk silence your cellphones and Electronic Devices and your documents that have to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. An