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Supervisor wiener. I agree when you forward a program there maybe an expectation of continuation of the program of the program and we do this every year and senior meals and hiv services and rental subsidies and there is no guarantee it will. Beyond year one or two and beyond the years. So to say its a reason to question funding Free City College today because there may not be Adequate Funding in the future and that is true for many things that we you understand fund and the average taxpayer understands that and fees go up services get cut, faculty get laid off. Its not that we want them to happen but they often happen in these budget processes so i dont think thats a good enough rationale for not supporting Free City College today if we know we have the revenue coming in to fund that program this year. Again we want to provide some flexibility as this is a new program. We didnt want to make it a charter set aside yet. We want to evaluate how this program would move forward and there w
Commissioner hasz is he said women want the whole damn dollar and men in the audience men in the audience you want it for them two and the men go crazy now thats a particular kind of progressive audience; right . How important to get men and women to Work Together and make your case for the employer. Right this is a good question im so happy to see an audience full of women and a few men brave men have to be a part of conversation the reason it is important to men, women now comprise half hour the workforce working moms are the sole breadwinners in many households to the income is more important so those issues are important not only to the women but the family and the economy we have got to pull that wage gap well all be better off more money disposalable and spend that money and that creates more jobs good for the economy and businesses and women we are encouraging businesses to do is to just do a survey look at our books figure out whether or not youre paying people equally request
Work harder and put our dollars where the solutions are. I think this budget in general, as well as many of the ad backs here that were proposing actually does that. No, it does not go far enough, but its definitely a start and i think will continue to work in that direction and thank you to all the city staff while the legislative aides, from the other offices, who including supervisor cohen legislative eight, my legislative eight, iris sam and connor and also especially, your Team Supervisor farrell worked really hard to balance all of the needs and demands and challenges of a definitely demanding group of individuals on the board of supervisors. I am looking forward to passing this budget out. Of the full board our fingers crossed. And good work and lets keep doing what we need to to make the city better for everyone. Thanks thank you supervisor lee. Colleagues, if no othersupervisor avalos i did want to block all the people who hope to work on the budget but i just want to say im g
[gavel] good afternoon everybody welcome to our budget and finance committee for friday, june 24, 2016. My name is mark farrell im chairing this brief committee joined by supervisor katie tang and norman yee and scott weiner i want to thank our clerk of the committee that your young as well as the jackson from sfgov tv per covering todays media mr. Card any announcements . Please sounds all cell phones and electronic devices. Thank you mr. Card. With that please call items number one and two item number one, proposed budget and appropriations ordinance four department this year 201617 to item number two, proposed annual salary ordinance and appropriation ordinance four the school year june 30, 2017 and june 30, 2010 thank you. Colleagues, we are the end of our Committee Budget season. Im going to keep this short is because i know people have places to go for the weekend. This has been now my fourth year chairing this committee could our thank my colleagues for your support during this