you who have not only all of you who have come here today, but those from city government, in particular are city officials. this is the second annual budget town hall, something we started in mayor lee s first year. in the first meeting i had with mayor lee after he was sworn in as our interim mayor last year, i asked him and other supervisors asked him for ways to make our budget process more collaborative and more transparent. and the budget team and mayor lee in the board of supervisors, we thought that this format of budget town halls in many districts around the city would make a lot of sense, and i think it has been a very good way for us to have feedback. without further ado, i would like to introduce my co-host for tonight, who is my neighboring supervisor from across the van ness, supervisor mar farrell. it is great to have you here in district 3. [applause] thank you, supervisor chiu. i also want to quickly thank everyone the for coming out tonight, especially
very difficult choices. i want to thank not only not of you who have not only all of you who have come here today, but those from city government, in particular are city officials. this is the second annual budget town hall, something we started in mayor lee s first year. in the first meeting i had with mayor lee after he was sworn in as our interim mayor last year, i asked him and other supervisors asked him for ways to make our budget process more collaborative and more transparent. and the budget team and mayor lee in the board of supervisors, we thought that this format of budget town halls in many districts around the city would make a lot of sense, and i think it has been a very good way for us to have feedback. without further ado, i would like to introduce my co-host for tonight, who is my neighboring supervisor from across the van ness, supervisor mar farrell. it is great to have you here in district 3. [applause] thank you, supervisor chiu. i also want to quickl
in the past. two or three months ago, a man incenses the was charged with murder of twin brothers from stone mountain, georgia. i met paul and work with them in the san francisco public defender s office from june 1- august 2003 and met his twin brother while visiting new orleans. paul visited me in 2005, came by and spent the night. we made out and i found out that he had contracted hiv-aids from me. i wanted to first of all make those comments. i want to explain why i made the comments. paul is originally from kenya. his parents emigrated to the united states. he is not happy with citizenship and voting in the last election for president barack obama. because of his vote, it was legal and it created some problems. he was part of the u.s. military so he got to this service. i just wanted to make these comments to you now and address the issue of my going to hastings law school and the bar passage report sometime later this month. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next sp
neighborhoods. i want to welcome all of you to this town hall. i want to thank all of you for your community leadership and let you know that you re taking part in a very, incredibly important part of our city governance. i thing many of you know that the budget is the most important set of decisions that we make every single year. the budget reflects our priorities as a city and reflects our values. and many of you probably also know that in recent years, every year since i have been in office, we have had a budget deficit. so we have to make some very, very difficult choices. i want to thank not only not of you who have not only all of you who have come here today, but those from city government, in particular are city officials. this is the second annual budget town hall, something we started in mayor lee s first year. in the first meeting i had with mayor lee after he was sworn in as our interim mayor last year, i asked him and other supervisors asked him for ways to ma
and a shout out to the elementary school whose kids performed polynesian dance as part of the program. a shout out to the fifth graders who will be performing this friday for one night only. thurgood marshall high school industrial design and outreach is having an event on may 18 at the museum. i want to recognize the artists from the balboa city art, school of the arts mission, and lincoln academy of arts and sciences, who participate in the youth arts center. they have their final exhibition last weekend. there are at summer internships outofsight-sf.org. a wanted to make certain i spoke correctly around the commission that is meeting tomorrow. it is going to be at the metropolitan committee. the program and allocations recommends requests to the commission for approval. this is adoption of a pilot program. we need their approval to go forward. it begins at 10:00 a.m. at 101 a street in oakland at the metro center. anyone in san francisco who is available, hopefully commi