Good morning, everyone my name is supervisor president london breed of the board of supervisors and to my left is the button chair supervisor farrell and joined by supervisor wiener and supervisor tang to here the mayors proposed balanced budget for fiscal year 20162017 we look forward to what is proposed a number of Department Heads and commissioners and others i look forward to a robust conversation about that fiscal year budget and wed like to welcome you mr. Mayor to present your budget thank you so much for being here. clapping. good morning, supervisors, good morning to the members of the public, thank you supervisor president london breed and budget chair farrell and Board Members your elected officials and commissioners and all of our Department Heads also thank you to labor and Community Leaders for joining us and welcome to everyone watching at home thank all of you for youre support as we deliver a balanced twoyear budget. Every year the budget gives us an opportunity to add
[gavel] good morning everybody and welcome to San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday june 22, 2016. My name is mark farrell im sharing this committee. Im joined by supervisor katie tang and norman yee and jane kim. Scott weiner is joining shortly. I want to thank linda one clerk of our committee as well as sfgov tv for covering todays meeting. With that mdm. Clerk any announcements yes. Please silence all cell phones electronic devices. Complete speaker cards thank you city manager please call item number one item number one is the hearing on the citys financial position and requesting the mayors budget director and the controller to report thank you. This item will be continuing all the time in case something comes up we have nothing in today so i will continue this item. With that will first take Public Comment. Anyone wishing to comment on item number one . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] denied a motion to continue item
Absent commissioner kim commissioner eric mar absent commissioner peskin commissioner tang absent commissioner lee commissioner yee we have quorum thank you very much item 2. Item 2 enforce the transportation an information slash action item colleagues before us the expenditure plan relate to the half cents state tax at the board of supervisors as you may know we have two different sales tax pending a half cents dedicate to transportation and three quarters cents with a separate Charter Amendment dedicating funds to transportation also to Homeless Services and were here today to discuss the three quarters dedicated half cents tax measure a presentation from staff i see that it commissioner avalos is on the roster so commissioner avalos. Thank you im not sure if staff is presenting their presenting great pr. So want to say we have this chair chair wiener two measures one of them going to the ballot one that has been introduced by the mayor as the board of supervisors is one half sales t
People were actually commuters, all we could find out was how many people got on in certain places but of course there is in a system now and probably should not be a system for they get off so we dont know how many people have the long run. Weve done our own surveys and were all writers of muni and we see no reason for the statement that says buses are slow and reliable. They are not on speaking. The gary geary 38 ought. The geary 38 bay x are very fast. People are very very pleased by what they see. Theres no reason for mta to be denigrating its own service. So, there are many many more things to talk about about that and what i want to propose was that we have a meeting at which we have an opportunity to set forth what we think is important before you are forced into position we have two approve this. I mean you dont have the time. You have the time to investigate even though youre the duty of care to worry about this you dont have the time. We put the time into and within seven opp
If an intersection is not marched is it still a crosswalk yes did you get it right great job one more before we go on whats one of the best things to do to avoid collisions . You can it take a breath Pay Attention and slow down city streets are crowded and chaotic so seeing everyone every single everything is difficult heres a test how many times did the white team pass the ball . If you answered 11 youre correct but did you notice anything else also be aware ever youre surrounded and remember that is easy 0 miss something if youre not looking for it heres some basic principles driving near peep e people from youre drivers seat it is difficult address our mirrors to reduce blind spots people on bicycles maybe be in our blind spot give yourselves plenty of time to react look out stay on the road from building to building not just curve to curve check driveways and behind parked vehicles for people that enter our path turning vehicles are especially dangerous important people walking and