Money and new approach to tackle californias homelessness crisis. Im dan ashley. Im kristen sze. Thanks for joining us. The governor unveiled his new 222 billion proposal stating that california is in great financial state. His budget includes 21 billion in reserves for any economic downturn and a 5. 6 billion surplus. The budget calls for 750 million of the surplus to be directed toward organized organizations that help homeless. Leslie brinkley sat down with the governor to ask him about affordability and the homelessness, both important topics for bay area residents. Certainly. Leslie joins us live from sacramento with more on her conversation with the governor today. Leslie. Reporter it was a fruitful discussion. He said that last years budget earmarked 650 million towards homelessness. This year adds another 750 million towards that goal, and he says all of that is about to come to fruition, something were going to notice on the streets in the next few weeks. What are you most wor
Alvarez said job one is simple, Police Presence in the station and the trains. I finally have the opportunity to use the Additional Police officers to put them out to our system and increase our presence. We know with presence we will be deterring and increase safety in our system. Reporter the agency is able to increase the presence with the 19 new officers hired in the past year. Alvarez says starting monday 12 will be assigned to right trains at various stations, especially at night and on weekends, to stem what has become an increasing problem. Unfortunately, 2019 we had 45 up tick in thefts of electronic devices. Reporter more than half of the Violent Crime on b. A. R. T is related to the theft of electronics. The biggest up tick was at balboa station. He is called a good filth. He is called a good fit. Someone from our b. A. R. T family. Reporter he says pairing officers with the ten unarmed volunteers who walk the trains, gives him 22 sets of eyes and ears to spot trouble, and t
Okay, good morning, everybody welcome to the final 2016, meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting. My name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by supervisor norman yee and joined momentarily with tang and i want to thank, lindy wong and sfgtv for covering the meeting. Do you have any announcements . Silence all cell phones and devices completed cards and documented to be included as part of the file should subm submitted to td clerk. Call item one. Hearing on the recent updates regarding the citys financial position, including the mayors budget instructions to departments for the physical year, 17, 18, and 18, to 19. And requesting the mayors budget director and the controller to report. Thank you very much, supervisor tang has joined us, and this is an item that we called and i want to thank the budget dreker for being here and i thought that it was the end of the year here and the mayors instructions that
Submitted to td clerk. Call item one. Hearing on the recent updates regarding the citys financial position, including the mayors budget instructions to departments for the physical year, 17, 18, and 18, to 19. And requesting the mayors budget director and the controller to report. Thank you very much, supervisor tang has joined us, and this is an item that we called and i want to thank the budget dreker for being here and i thought that it was the end of the year here and the mayors instructions that came out last week and it would be a good idea to get the up date as a board and a city hall and thank you for being here and i know that you have a presentation to go through. Great. Thank you chair farle and so im melissa the director and i am joined by the controller, and we will be going through this presentation for about the next 20 minutes. Feel free to stop me if you have any questions. Talk about three things today, the first thing is the post election rebalancing plan, the citys
Okay, good morning, everybody welcome to the final 2016, meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting. My name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by supervisor norman yee and joined momentarily with tang and i want to thank, lindy wong and sfgtv for covering the meeting. Do you have any announcements . Silence all cell phones and devices completed cards and documented to be included as part of the file should subm submitted to td clerk. Call item one. Hearing on the recent updates regarding the citys financial position, including the mayors budget instructions to departments for the physical year, 17, 18, and 18, to 19. And requesting the mayors budget director and the controller to report. Thank you very much, supervisor tang has joined us, and this is an item that we called and i want to thank the budget dreker for being here and i thought that it was the end of the year here and the mayors instructions that