Stop center, because of the ability to add Additional Department of public works positions where these folks who have maybe a criminal background record or maybe have some challenges in their past, they will be able to move into potential job positions through a Training Program so that they do have city Employment Opportunities so that they can take care of themselves, their families, and hopefully their communities. So, ultimately as supervisor, this is what i set out to do, to change lives, to provide opportunity, to make sure that many of our forgotten residents are not forgotten. And i know some of you here feel the same way. There are some tradeoffs when dealing with a budget of this magnitude, and im the kind of person who wants everything that i want, but i also realize dont shake your head, supervisor. I gave up a lot. But we all did. Its a compromise, and im hoping next year that we have a fair and balanced process like we did this year. Im really happy about a lot of the gai
Nevertheless went into our budget season 66 million in the hole and so we still have to make difficult decisions. But excited about where we came out. You know, the mayors budget of 8. 6 billion focus on a lot of things and i think he prioritized a lot of great things in his budget. He mentioned just earlier during this Board Meeting 94 million towards affordable housing, 2 million to rehab the s. F. Housing authority units that i think are an incredibly big deal. Investments in our public infrastructure, continued our Public Safety hiring plan, and numerous other things and item that and priorities i think a number of us or most of us would agree have been tremendous. I do want to thank the mayors team in particular, kate howard, the mayors budget director and her entire staff and certainly Ben Rosenfield our controller who played such an integral role in our budget process, we wouldntible able to get this done. [speaker not understood] our work began in march as always, and met with
These rights. [applause] when i say all americans, i mean all americans. [applause] our immediate past is to remove to remove the last remnants of the barrier, which span between the millions of our citizens and their birth rights. There is no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry or religion or race or color. [applause] join American History tv as we visit the u. S. Botanic garden at the foot of capitol hill. Executive director ari novi discusses the history of the oldest Botanic Garden in north america originally proposed by George Washington at a 1796 letter. Thats today at 6 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Eastern time on american artifacts here on cspan3s American History tv. Coming up next author and architectural historian Steven Hansen chronicles washington d. C. s most famous neighborhoods, Dupont Circle. How and why weelth couples moved into the area in the guilded age and the 20th century. Mr. Hansen is the author of the history of Dupont Circle, center of high
S. F. Housing authority units that i think are an incredibly big deal. Investments in our public infrastructure, continued our Public Safety hiring plan, and numerous other things and item that and priorities i think a number of us or most of us would agree have been tremendous. I do want to thank the mayors team in particular, kate howard, the mayors budget director and her entire staff and certainly Ben Rosenfield our controller who played such an integral role in our budget process, we wouldntible able to get this done. [speaker not understood] our work began in march as always, and met with departments, each of the members of the board of supervisors i know had copies locally in their own districts with mayor lee. We held an online town hall with members of the public. That went well, including our full day of Public Comment that we had here at the board of supervisors. And this year what we did for the first time is actually invited online Public Comment throughout our budget proc
Types of decisionses. And i do, however, want to just express a little bit of disappointment that, that seiu tenderloin, not necessarily call out the organization, but also but the nonprofit workers that really work for our city were not really represented in this particular budget. And i hope that there is something we can do in the future months to come to help rectify this error. Thank you. Supervisor campos. Thank you very much, mr. President. And let me just begin by saying that having gone through a number of budgets over the last few years that its never an easy task, especially given the various views that all of us have. And i want to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues who serve on the Budget Committee for all the work. I know its a very time consuming for them and for their staff, and i especially want to thank the chair of the Budget Committee, supervisor farrell, for two years in a row having a process that i think has really allowed everyone to, to have a say and