and last year i had the pleasure of working with united way and match bridge and i participated in a real estate management program [speaker not understood]. with that i was a six-week internship learning about accounting, learning about the different styles of real estate management, property management, you know, also insurance. a lot of different stuff, budgeting from homeowners association. i had the pleasure of working with that. after the six weeks my supervisor asked me if i wanted to be permanent. and i immediately said yes because, why? it was a chance for me because my major is accounting. it s a perfect way for me to link my job and my experience to my education. and i just want to talk today about the importance of youth jobs. because if after college, if you don t have any experience in our major how are we supposed to get our job? match way united way, thank you for allowing me to have a job that will be useful to me in the future. so, i just wanted to talk ab
thank you. thank you. (applause) all right, thank you, linda. so, now i d like to call up caroline from the jewish family and children services. anyone from jfcs here? okay, all right. so, i guess we ll move on to public comment, then, or summer jobs, actually, here. good morning, everyone, mayor lee, supervisors, department heads. eric mcdonald chief operating officer for united way of the bay area. we are thrilled to be partnering again with mayor lee, city departments, and our private sector leaders to provide jobs and internships this summer. last summer mayor lee raised his hand, let the nation, i should say, raising his hand to say we in san francisco will make a commitment to investing in the lives of our young people in creating jobs and internships that, one, will hopefully inspire them to sofa focused on their educational pursuits and two have them see the vision and the opportunities that are in public sector and public sector jobs. last summer we celebrated ov
we started holding these community meetings, we had some significant budget deficits. and in years past they were even worse. now we ve come through a lot of that and i m thankful to all the department heads that are here because they worked very hard to work with me to find all the efficiencies, to make sure we balance that budget. clearly, the members of the board of supervisors and today we re focused on districts 1 and 4, but i want to thank supervisor mar, supervisor tang, and supervisor farrell for providing their leadership at the board because we can only make it work if the mayor and the board work together. but most importantly, we ve got to listen carefully to our residents. and i want to begin by saying this has been a pretty intense week for all of us. you know, we all watched together the horrifying events that happened in boston. they don t follow too long from what happened in connecticut. and i just want you to know that i think i watched a lot with you about
approximately. i was told that i could ask mayor lee when i was here, and i would ask you to talk to our landlord. maybe you can get a rent reduction for us. that would be very helpful. thank you. thank you. (applause) all right, thank you, linda. so, now i d like to call up caroline from the jewish family and children services. anyone from jfcs here? okay, all right. so, i guess we ll move on to public comment, then, or summer jobs, actually, here. good morning, everyone, mayor lee, supervisors, department heads. eric mcdonald chief operating officer for united way of the bay area. we are thrilled to be partnering again with mayor lee, city departments, and our private sector leaders to provide jobs and internships this summer. last summer mayor lee raised his hand, let the nation, i should say, raising his hand to say we in san francisco will make a commitment to investing in the lives of our young people in creating jobs and internships that, one, will hopefully inspir
whole purpose of these budget town halls is to listen to our neighbors, our residents, to find out what you think matters in our city. i just wanted to put a little backdrop that a year ago when we started holding these community meetings, we had some significant budget deficits. and in years past they were even worse. now we ve come through a lot of that and i m thankful to all the department heads that are here because they worked very hard to work with me to find all the efficiencies, to make sure we balance that budget. clearly, the members of the board of supervisors and today we re focused on districts 1 and 4, but i want to thank supervisor mar, supervisor tang, and supervisor farrell for providing their leadership at the board because we can only make it work if the mayor and the board work together. but most importantly, we ve got to listen carefully to our residents. and i want to begin by saying this has been a pretty intense week for all of us. you know, we all wa