well, good afternoon everyone welcome to our city hall i want to say thank you to members of our board of supervisors that are here today and thank you supervisor farrell, supervisor yee supervisor tang supervisor cowen thank you very much for being here to our department heads and the controller to our commissioners to many others who are serving the city gridlock here to do something that everyone looks forward to every single year and first of all, in the context just a few years ago we were all struggling with double digit unemployment a half a billion dollars to try to kind of gap the to finance that gap in the budget and talking about layoff off a lot of people i m glad we all worked together to make the city stronger i m happy to say it is my opinion but particularly finance people that having worked hard on the way we do our budgets and the way we conduct ourselves at city hall financing we re in the strongest finest position in the history of the city. (clappi
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is provided by the wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available in our meeting is open captioned and simon which interpreted. our agenda is also available in large print and braille. please o stopper any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interference with his room the sound system, and to respect everyone s ability to focus on the presentation, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. your cooperation is a pretty appreciated. we welcome the public s participation during public comment. you may complete a speaker card available in the front of the room. or, call our bridge line at, 1415 554 9632. we are staff person will handle request to speak at the appropriate time. the mayor s disability council meeting are generally held on the third friday of the month. our next regular meeting will be held on friday september 16 2016 from one-4 pm here in san francisco city hall in room 400. please collimator s office on disability for further information or t
we ll end homelessness for thousand of people in the near future and as she walks up thank you to the president of the board of supervisors lovnd breed and scott wiener and as we re creating this new department it includes a significant increase in funding for homelessness for services for homeless residents and focus on homelessness families this is possible because of a consensus process to move on there in our sales tax come this november on the november ballot i want to particularlycy thank you not only to all the supervisors but in particular to supervisor farrell and supervisor wiener for your leadership in she saiding the sales tax on the november ballot with our service to the homeless and so create a 20 fee transportation in effect the budget also reflects investments in violence perspectives and police officers reform it includes the combheven reform pajts and $20 million investment in the violence prevention programs 2 includes first and foremost as and i i said ne
something that everyone looks forward to every single year and first of all, in the context just a few years ago we were all struggling with double digit unemployment a half a billion dollars to try to kind of gap the to finance that gap in the budget and talking about layoff off a lot of people i m glad we all worked together to make the city stronger i m happy to say it is my opinion but particularly finance people that having worked hard on the way we do our budgets and the way we conduct ourselves at city hall financing we re in the strongest finest position in the history of the city. (clapping.) yeah, that s worth clapping for. (clapping.) and so today, we re going to move on that progress we ve made by signing in a $9.6.23 year budget that is a budget that s been recently approved by the board of supervisors let me say a resist of that i ve been talking with a lot of people and going to neighborhood meetings asking the neighborhood leader and nonprofits as well