Meeting to the budget and finances committee. Our clerk is mr. John carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this event. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please be sure you silence any cell phones or electronic devices. Any documents you need to present should be given to me, your clerk. Chair fewer thank you. Mr. Clerk, will you please read items 1 and 2 together. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, mr. Clerk. I would just like to start this meeting by saying thank you all for coming today to come and give us public testimony about where you think your public dollars should be spent, and your priorities to where the public dollars has been spent. For the last two weeks, weve been hearing from city departments on their plans to spend public dollars, and now it is your turn to tell us where you think we should appropriate these moneys. I want to thank you for your time. I know that many of you will have to wait a whi
Understand me, then you can provide the services for the people thaw want to help because they have a place to live. You are doing it tailend, ass backwards. You have been doing this for well over several generations and thats why you have so many people homeless out on streets right now. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Well, i feel certain that you have the best of intentions but i ask, nonetheless, how is it that now while we are presently suing a number of important pharmaceuticals, manufacturers and their regional distributors for a significant sum of billions of dollars owing to their illegal conduct in the mass promotion of highly addictive substances and by we, i mean cities and counties and states throughout the county as plaintiffs in multiple lawsuits. Im glad that San Francisco has come around to join the litigation. How can it seem like a good idea for taxpayers, with the bill, for example, for Mental Health care, for all possibly opening the doo
And i appreciate that chair fewer sheriff, i just want to say, i think this committee has heard that. I think this committee, as you know, has heard that and recognized that, and that is not what im talking about. I didnt know about this 232,000 that youre giving back. Could you please explain and mr. B. L. A. , were you aware of that . Well, thats what they recommended. If theres an alternative proposal that the department is presenting, wed be happy to take a look. Chair fewer okay. Mr. Holling . If we were given a dollar amount by the b. L. A. , wed be happy to identify 250,000 to give back. We dont think cutting back the civilianization is the way to do it. Its the qualitative aspect of these services, not the dollar amount. Were happy to work with the b. L. A. To identify 250,000. Chair fewer that is very good to know, mr. Holling. So confer with the b. L. A. , and im wondering if youre willing to come back after conferring with the b. L. A. Well take a break after lunch. I think
Temporary increase for next year only that allows us the funding to bring in an Additional Academy class. Madam chair . Chair fewer yes. So our understanding is the department wants to add these positions to redeploy Deputy Sheriffs to other areas of work, which was recommended in the controllers report. So these positions, thats what their goal is. Our recommendation still allows them to do that. Its just instead we would allow eight new civilian positions in the first year and two new additional two additional new civilian positions in the second year, totaling ten new positions in the department for that purports and allows the department to recruit, hire, train a large number of staff and assess the workload for that staff. It gives them some time to do that. Now, the overtime and Deputy Sheriff, they have six posts. We know that that is sort of a separate tradeoff. What were doing is this is allowing them to free up some Deputy Sheriff to staff those six posts, so these are, again
For broadcasting this event. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please be sure you silence any cell phones or electronic devices. Any documents you need to present should be given to me, your clerk. Chair fewer thank you. Mr. Clerk, will you please read items 1 and 2 together. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, mr. Clerk. I would just like to start this meeting by saying thank you all for coming today to come and give us public testimony about where you think your public dollars should be spent, and your priorities to where the public dollars has been spent. For the last two weeks, weve been hearing from city departments on their plans to spend public dollars, and now it is your turn to tell us where you think we should appropriate these moneys. I want to thank you for your time. I know that many of you will have to wait a while to speak, and we are not doing speaker cards today. Everyone can just lineup. We are prioritizing peopl