public affairs. i want to primarily thank all of you, a sunny day, a lot of other reasons to be elsewhere. but, you are here to join us on one of the most important things that we do in government, that is setting our budget to reflect the needs of every neighborhood in the city. and you ve heard that the economy looks a lot better; there s a lot of other companies that want to move here. unemployment rate has dropped to 5.4%, we are on a good roll in terms of employing more people. resources are up. we are not completely over the deficit that we re facing with the next two years so we have to do some decision-making. the other thing that the board of supervisors is doing with as is, the reason why we hold these meetings out here is because we want to do as much preventing of arguing among ourselves about what the priorities are in the city. 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
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 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.
today will concentrate on projects that we don t have a apologize for that. i beg your indulgence. everybody has a wish list and today i get to talk about mine. four things. happy days are here again is the mayor said; companies are moving in, companies hiring, tourism is back up what we are not sustaining our open space rate. mission center, patrol hill, all are experiencing vast increases in jobs; additional funds are required to maximize existing open space and recreational facilities as well as adding new space where feasible. rdp and dpw need additional funding to provide the maintenance required by the additional use of existing facilities. in district three we all know we are severely underserved for recreation and open space. national urban stems call for 4-10 acres of open space. does not take into account the thousands of workers and tourists, this just for residents. we are the city s golden goose. we have three of the city s original public squares puzzle venerabl
seminar we put on (siren). (music). fire . fire . fire . woo, woo, woo fire . when you walk and talk really sets me off and wild child . yes she does . and sleep and cheat and there is a slow chance, baby, baby . so this way and excited now . push, push let me know fire . fire . that was something that we did for a seminar and speaker reference but that s what we did this year and we have learned so much. thank you to the fire department. we really appreciate that partnership and i will end this with go giants and thank you for your time. [applause] thank you so much. that was very lively. i like that. now the next item on our agenda we re almost through folks. any announcements by disaster council members? anything pressing? okay. awesome. is there any general public comment ? hearing none i would like to thank you all for coming. remind you that we are having a little reception for admiral bitoff over here. please check out his plaque after you h
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