[gavel] good morning everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for thursday, june 16, 2016 by name is mark farrell. Im sharing this committee. Im joined by katie tang as well supervisor norman yee and scott weiner, nothing the clerk as well as Scott Wiseman from the sfgtv for covering this meeting. We have any announcements yes please sounds all cell phones and electronic devices. Complete speaker cards and eight copies of documents as part of file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on june 20 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were goi
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Thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were going to recess at 11 45 am for lunch and we can being approximately 1 30 pm to continue the hearing. Willie taking Public Comment on legislative items. However Public Comment for the budget itself is going to be heard on monday, june 20. Next monday followed by two more days of budget hearings potentially one more day of budget hearings on june 20 and potentially the 23rd. The of to complete our Budget Committee process next to hear this balance, and for a balanced budget to the board for our the liberation set the board on july 12 to there are a number of departments that do not have budget Analyst Reports. I want to spell out specific
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