Housing the weve been building, we lose three units of rentcontrolled housing. Thats not quite standing in place. If not a terribly impressive track record. Not one we should accept as a continuing trend. Why those units are being taken off the market is of course because of a number of speculative forces but we know the shortterm rentals being so unenforceable such a lack of compliance is a right opportunity for speculation removal of those units we have to but not all. This legislation is a very simple step forward what puts accountability on the businesses were making a nice any Profit Office as well as the clients to ensure the simply complying with local laws. If everybody was like misnomer we would not have the kind of housing affordable to crisis with this industry that we do. So, please, supervisor this is really low hanging fruit. They shouldve been and are legislation in the first place asking the businesses to take responsibility for only listing registered host is a very si
Parks makes it more accessible. If you want more information about how to enjoy wifi in San Francisco parks, go to [gavel] supervisor peskin good morning and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Im the chairman, supervisor peskin board and i like to thank the folks at sfgtv for Live Streaming this meeting. Mdm. Clerk, any announcements clerk yes be sure to sound all cell phones and electric device. Complete speaker cards to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the court. Items after the will be on the june 14 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor peskin thank you. Please read the first item clerk yes, item number one resolution approving sfmta eight 201617 paratransit broker in operating agreement withservices incorporated supervisor peskin thank you. Is there a representative hear from the mta to address this item . Staff annette williams. Before you today is a new contact or Para
on the budget at this point. before the presentation one of the goals for today is for members of the board to indicate what specifically is possible. we want to acknowledge that this is a fluid document that is changing. we have four more meetings to go with the public. we have lots of things that are good to happen between them. it would be helpful for the staff, the agency, and the public, if we were able to give some sense of where we as a body are, particularly relative to the proposals listed for balancing the budget. i will be prepared to do that, and i hope our one else will as well. a presentation comes first. executive director reiskin: i do not have a presentation, as we provided one at the last meeting. but i would maybe offer some opening comments to frame the issues or refresh folks where we left out. then we can move to public comment. where we had left off in terms of the expenditure budget we made a number of i have developed a number of proposed cuts t
issues or refresh folks where we left out. then we can move to public comment. where we had left off in terms of the expenditure budget we made a number of i have developed a number of proposed cuts to the budget. if you recall, we started out with projected shortfalls in the $45 million range for the next two fiscal years. i was able to find significant savings or propose significant reductions in various areas, from management to equipment budgets, to bring down the expenditures below the level of the anticipated revenues. what i also indicated two weeks ago in the proposed budget is to properly fund the maintenance of the system. predominately, the muni system, but also some maintenance on the parking and traffic side, as well as safety staff and crossing guard staff. these are areas that i think have been cut or frozen in the past that leave us with a system that is not adequately resourced in terms of maintenance. as an example, we had a switch failure in embarcadero