need to pay attention to, and who it is that we need to listen to and why. we go in and deliberate with the board of supervisors what do we have to keep in mind, walking into these meetings, who we ultimately serve? and you are reminding us today and i thank you for the incredible opportunity to talk with you but most importantly, we are going to listen and listen carefully to what you have to say and bring those into our decision-making in government and hopefully when we reflected in the budget you will have trusted us to have this incredible opportunity to represent the greatest city , in united states the city of san francisco. thank you very much. thank you mayor lee for the opening comments and let me take these seconds to talk about how to they will run. we asked the budget director for the city, kate howard to do a brief presentation on the overview of the budget as well as what the audit process entails and introduce the men and women who helped to run the city gov
it s great to see everyone here, on a saturday morning a little bit on the dark. i thank you coming to this joint district two, district 3 town hall. i want to thank our mayor as well as a department head standing behind us. i think all of you know that every year the mayor and the board of supervisors we approve the most important policy document in the city which is our annual document, the budget reflects our city s priorities and how we want to address activities or do want to engage in. i want to thank mayor lee, in 2011 when he came into the office and number of us asked him to engage more deeply in our neighborhoods and conduct town halls that solicit prospectives and feedback from all of you to us as a budget is being prepared as the budget is being proposed to our board of supervisors and is the board of supervisors considers it. let me briefly - actually i will do the agenda overview in just a second - with that i want to turn it over to my colleague supervisor ma
2011 when he came into the office and number of us asked him to engage more deeply in our neighborhoods and conduct town halls that solicit prospectives and feedback from all of you to us as a budget is being prepared as the budget is being proposed to our board of supervisors and is the board of supervisors considers it. let me briefly - actually i will do the agenda overview in just a second - with that i want to turn it over to my colleague supervisor mark farrell and i are blessed to not only share a border, the north south border of street ever-present russian hill and there are many projects that we work on together, it s been a pleasure to work with him all of these issues but i was honored to appoint him earlier this year is our budget chair for the budget committee that will be reviewing the budget when the mayor proposes it to us at the end of may so with that and with no further ado i would like to turn it over to supervisor ferrell. one last thing i want to than
on what is the heart of today s meeting which is to hear from all of you get public comments from anyone who wants to provide public comment to us and we will be asking folks to speak for up to two minutes and collect public comments. we would like to introduce kate howard from mayor s budget office. good morning. thank you guys. i am the mayor s budget director and i want to spend a few minutes talking briefly about how san fbudget works rancisco. so - the supervisors and the mayor, this is a plan that reflects how we want to spend the money available to us. it is also a document that should reflect the priorities and values of san francisco; and finally it is also the legal authority that the city has to spend money every year. up here the slide is showing you a little bit about how we spend the money that we get every year; the combined city and county, it means that we have all the normal city functions, thing s like police and fire and recreation services, in the norma
we do still a little bit of that. it is nice to have the import of the public to guide us so that we have less arguments and more about building consensus of what s important in the city. the other thing that we are doing together is already evidenced, is that we re making sure that job creation reaches everybody in the city so this summer we are going to create together with the departments in the private sector, 6000 paying jobs for our youth. about thatthis is how we invest in our kids and our families, making sure that our city is safe, the economics are sound and then today i also want to listen carefully to what you have to say about how to make the city even more successful for more people. more people want to come and live in the city, but they cannot afford it. we have to kind of build more housing for people. we have to improve our schools. i have got to lead effort to rebuild our public housing in ways in which it would never hurt us again. these people deserve the