Okay, thank you. We have kate howard, our mayors budget director to speak on this item. Good afternoon, chair farrell, members of the committee. Kate howard, the mayors budget director. The item before you today is a resolution adopting twoyear fixed budgets for several departments. I thought i would briefly remind the committee as well as members of the public about our twoyear budgeting process and background on that and then talk about the item in front of you. If you will recall, in 2009 the voters adopted proposition a, which focused on a number of budgetary reform items including allowing and encouraging the board to adopt financial policies, adopt fiveyear Financial Planning process, adopt twoyear budgeting and then also fixed our contract deadlines for which we have to submit labor contracts to the board. For fiscal year 2012 to 2014, the board adopted the first fixed twoyear budgets. Those included the puc, the airport and the puc. As you recall, the mta is fixed separately by
Years later. That, to me, will make the city much more efficient in doing its work around preparing the workforce and enable many, many people from our neighborhoods to find access in the jobs on the private sector side through the First Source Program. So, the first source legislation i believe is going to be ready to go today and we can have a discussion whether to move it forward or not today. The second piece of legislation that i have is extending our local hire provisions that currently right now extend to construction for public dollars to private construction on public land. And i, in the last couple days ive been hearing from many, many city departments concerns about some of the consequences about this legislation. And they just now recently started to look at the legislation, how its going to work. And they actually have asked for more time to consider some changes around the implementation. And given that the work that we had done around the original local hire ordinance 31
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