government television. good afternoon. everyone hear me all right? ok. i will try to talk loud, but sounds like the mikes are working. thanks for coming, everybody. welcome to the new great valencia street. i m the director of public works in san francisco. it is a great honor to be here with you and all of the great folks we have around us. it is great to be here on a great day for the mission district, a great day for the ci city. the san francisco department of public works at the mayor s direction was able to secure $6.1 million, $5.3 million of which was federal funds, to make this project happen. i do want to acknowledge the u.s. department of transportation, the metropolitan transportation commission and county transportation authority for helping funnel that money from washington, d.c. right here to the streets of san francisco. as big and great as this new street is for san francisco and it is great it just yet another chapter in an ongoing narrative about
during the post event, many were sent to open. the mayor said that it will put together a budget and i believe this was approved. we re hopeful that the process will be okay for us. it is important to understand the point. there is no divorce, we are all in this together. look at the crime statistics in the last couple of years. i ve seen more crime scenes and anyone should in a lifetime. and many of the victims were not from san francisco and how many of the suspects were not from san francisco. i am open to the idea that some things can be reconciled. we re dealing with a difficult budget and the constraints are a little bit different. we are looking to keep our police officers out on the streets. we re also looking to keep our fire stations open and have our firefighters deal with the challenges. we want to continue the collaboration with oakland. we have some ideas and we have some staffing models to get us to where we need to go. i am familiar with the minimum staffi