less affordable. >with that, i would like to welcome to this podium someone we have been working very closely with. come out for us. [applause] thank you, mr. mayor. they did make me promise not to play the banjo. [laughter] so that will not happen. this is truly an historic day for san francisco. we all worked on this. to think in the mayor touched on this point this is a huge nationwide problem it is being approached in various ways. adversarial, dictatorial, some cooperation. it is really in san francisco we have been able to come together. i do not want to belabor the point because it has been made, but we have taken the lead nationally and a plan in a plan that has majorly contributed that has been majorly contributed to by the unions in our city, the administration, and a number of other sources. i think there will be real surprised nationally when they see san francisco taking the lead. so, i am thrilled. i keep thinking i belong to some native american tribe
thanks for all of you being here. in january when i was sworn in, there were five major objectives that i wanted to accomplish. a pension reform was at the top. as i went through all of the town hall meetings on the budget, i indicated to the budget to the public that we needed to fix our financial house in the city. at the beginning of this conversation when he leaves started meeting, we had choices to make right at the beginning. the choices included whether or not we re going to hold out for months finger of blame claiming for what occurred. or whether we would get to work and at the numbers tell us what we needed to do. as precisely what we set out to do and allow those numbers, the numbers that we have been quoting as the numbers we had to attack. the financial house of the city , it would allow ourselves to focus as we have done. i like to thank the people that are standing beside me as well as the ones in the back of me having spent quality time in coming up with
surrounding us today. some of the other people working. i know tommy o connor from the firefighters. the police representatives. along with the board of supervisors. there was a lot of number crunching to people were fully prepared when the move to the table. this is historic. i am really proud of both the public sector and the private sector that we can craft this kind of resolution. thank you. [applause] mayor lee: i also said the transparency was well beyond the labor unions as well, as well as our city workers. so, i know this transparency was reflected in the san francisco chamber of commerce and their ongoing participation. they listened very quickly to our efforts. thank you, mayor lee. the chamber of commerce and the entire business community of san francisco want to thank you for your leadership, and supervisor tells burns supervisor tells burns supervisor elsbernd, for your leadership. businesses have had to reduce their work forces. we have 40,000 unemployed