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
I released a 7point plan to stabilize and protect existing housing, streamline the creation of new market rate and affordable housing. Because, supervisors, i believe there is a direct link between new market rate housing and new onsite and offsite inclusionary housing and land site control. We have to develop new units at all levels to ensure we have adequate low and moderate Income Housing to meet growing demand. Supervisor chiu, i am deeply commit today this issue and i will support any proposal that includes public housing, affordable housing, and stabilization strategies. Again, we need to focus on Revenue Strategies in the coming years. Thats the only way we can build more housing thats affordable to more families and keeps San Francisco affordable to the 100 . I hope we can all Work Together on the common goals that we all share. Thank you for your question. Thank you, mr. Mayor. And our final question for the day will be asked by our district 11 colleague, supervisor avalos. We
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
Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Colleagues, we have our june 10th, 2014 Board Meeting minutes as well as the june 11, 2014 special Meeting Minutes of the rules committee. Could i have a motion to approve those minutes . Motion by supervisor mar, seconded by supervisor breed. Without objection, those Meeting Minutes are approved. [gavel] and with that, madam clerk, are there any communications . There are no communication, mr. President. And could you read our 2 00 p. M. Special order . The first item of the business is the policy discussion between the honorable mayor edwin lee and members of the board of supervisors. This week representing the odd districts, specifically districts 1, 3 and 11, the mayor may address the bo
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