supervisor cohen? >> supervisor cohen: aye. >> clerk: cohen, aye. the motion passes. >> supervisor cohen: all right. chief, you're done. thank you for your time. i'd like to call up kelly kirkpatrick to discuss technical amendments. >> thank you for your patience. i had to get all the papers together. the clerk should be bringing them over to you. i have included three rounds of technical adjustments. round one is what you had heard on monday? all the technical cleanups about balancing overhead entries, correcting work orders, accurately reflecting grant amounts, and it includes the detail which i submitted to you all via e-mail over monday, but i wanted you to have that full package to accept. round two of which there's a letter as well as excel sheet is attached are actualizing the rebalancing plans for homeless and mohcd, so it was removing all items related to proposition d that was included in the first budget, removing the state revenue, reflecting the updated retiree health benefits, addressing expenditures both at h.s.h. and mohcd to fund ho

>> supervisor cohen: over two years? >> peryear. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is louie gonzales. i volunteer for the coalition on homelessness, and i just want to travel you how embarrassing it is to travel to third world countries and find out there is more homeless people on the streets of san francisco. i implore you if you could use those funds for the homelessness, the youths, the future of this country. just because they're homeless does not make them disposable people, and i think it would make me proud for you people to use the funds to help them out and i would -- want to die knowing that i lived at a time when i had very important and wise supervisors that made a change. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is von chase cly. i'm speaking on behalf of the chinatown nmca. we're asking you for continued support of our s.r.o. program. in the last two years we've served after 128 families with a comprehensive support program that provides them with economic self-sufficie

. >> supervisor cohen: it would be mr. herrera. >> i'm sorry. >> one thing that was pointed out to me. couple of years ago we started doing lawyer work here. i we have lawyers that handled lawyers law work. never came back and look for additional funding for that either. that is going to be consumed within this unit that is going to be -- >> supervisor cohen: we've got some questions here that i want to get some clarity on. i want to go back to the state legislation. it passed out of committee 31-0 and frankly i believe expected to pass. what are the implications of this legislation passing? what are the implications going to be on city county of san francisco? >> it's hard to predict. my understanding of that legislation, i don't pretend to be an expert on it, it will expand the definitions of who can be conserved. there will be an increase in the population if they need help. it expands the definition who can be conserve. that would lead more work on top of the 500 cases existing now with the current definition. >> super

>> supervisor cohen: it's probably easier. >> okay. >> good morning chair cohen. good morning budget committee members i'm director of property and permits with rec and park department. i'm here first before you to present legislation to adjust our tennis fees. these adjustments are the first time they have been adjusted in over 20 years. the new rate has been publicly discussed during community meetings as well as rec and park commission. the ordinance will enable and ensure equitable rates in our service and activity in the golden gate park tennis after it is renovated. the lowest possible rate for our residents. if you have any questions. >> supervisor cohen: yes i do. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: i like your senior rate. i would like to suggest that the seniors be identified as 60 years and older and rather than 65 years and older. was there a discussion about that? >> that never came up. that's what we've had all our senior rates across our other facilities. we were matching those. >> supervisor fewer: you identified, across all your programs, it's

thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors, chair cohen. i'm representing the supportive housing providers network. commend you on finding over $29.5 million that you can reallocate to urgent needs. we are here today to also express gratitude for the new units of supportive housing in the homeless balancing plan that you did do. we are here to represent the thousands of units of supportive housing that are underserved and don't have the dollars to operate effectively. without additional funds, we cannot serve the hardest to serve, the hardest to house. we have seen addiction rates go up, crisis in the properties go up. we are asking for $10 million over two years to enhance existing supportive housing and services that are failing across our communities from the marina and district 2 to the western addition, to the bayview and tenderloin. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. come on down. >> hola. [through translator]>> i'm here for homelessness. [speaking spanish]>> here to express gratitude for what you have given. i'm nervous. >> super

she ha michael cohen, it's michael cohen. let's listen to what she told rachel about how michael cohen is feeling. >> the president has done nothing in order to make michael cohen feel like he has michael cohen's back. and that has been a problem. you forget the president went on fox news and basicallyd i barely know the guy, he's a coffee boy, he did a small and rudy giuliani has gone on television repeatedly making this harder for michael cohen. and the reaction from michael cohen, from everything i know from my reporting, has been these guys don't have my back. now a man who is frustrated, isolg alone and feeling very, very angry at the trump family in general and at the president. >> angry at the trump family in general and the president. and he has information about the trump family and the president. >> and lawrence, i think what's going to happen, look, nothing lasts forever. i know people think things last forever, they don't. so what's going to happen is the narcissism of this president, his arrogance, his stupidity

>> michael cohen's attorneys are withdrawing or separating from michael cohen. en this happens it's important to remember that this could be for a number of different reasons. there's situations where attorneys can voluntarily withdraw. there's situations where nay must withdraw under the rules of ethics. it can be for reasons like non-payment. an ir retrievable break down of communication. it could be another reason. another possibility is an attorney cannot counsel any future crime. that's one of many instances that warrant an attorney's withdrawal from represen >> one of the theories in this case is that michael cohen may be changing his strategy in whatever way he thinks is necessary. is that a possibility as well? >> what we're seeing here is a classic example of the federal government's war of economic attrition against ndants. michael cohen, if he does erate, he will be like many others before him. for the first year of the investigation of prosecution claim i will never cooperate. i will stay strong and i will go to trial. after maybe a year or so of dra

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. does that conclude your presentation? >> that concludes my presentation. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. we'll pivot to the b.l.a. >> okay. >> good morning, chair cohen, severin campbell, budget and legislative analyst's office. our recommendations for the sheriff's department -- [inaudible] >> -- or 6.8% in the department's fiscal year 18-19 budget. these are one time increases -- or reductions. we have no recommendations for 19-20. so i want to kind of concur a little bit with the sheriff's department while continuing to support our recommendations, which is we understand that this is a department that has to come back for a reappropriation from salaries to over time because of the staffing in the jails. we understand it's been a relatively flat budget over time, and that this is the first time that they've actually objected to our recommendations. we stayed away from any recommendations that impacted positions, that impacted the jails, we stayed away from everything that we thought

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, i have some announcements about the procedure and what you can expect for today. each member of the public will have an opportunity to speak. they will have an allotted time of one minute to speak. public speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed to testify for two minutes of public testimony time limit. priority will be given to public speakers who may require special accommodations such as persons with disability, special accommodations will also be given to the infirm, to seniors, or any person with a child under the age of five. saving of seats are standing in the chamber, as you know is prohibited. individuals should stand in line to speak and not gather ask -- in a group at the podium. only one person is allowed at the podium at any given time unless for interpretation or the individual is speaking on behalf of an entire group. speakers, speakers will not be called by speaker cards. those who wish to fill out a speaker card may do so to ensur

. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor sheehy? >> supervisor sheehy: again, on the crossing guards, are i know my district, i walked with a mother at school drop off at fair oaks and 24 who had fiven run over with her ear-old daughter. both of them had been hit by a car. so in that reality, this is just a small part of your budget. it's 2.2 million. we went and we opened sanchez school with mayor lee -- everett school on sanchez, everybody was out, watch for kids, and they were a crossing guard down, and i don't think they've ever been filled. i heard supervisor fewer say there were a number of schools in her district that don't have crossing guards. i just -- i feel like -- it would be great to know that every school -- i guess what i'm looking for is a commitment that every school in the city that needs crossing guards will have crossing guards. i mean that's what i'm really looking for. and if you overbudget, and you don't need as many as you might need, but so many schools -- like, the schools that i -- i was -- over on 24th a

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> good morning, supervisors. my name is roger, and i'm one of the members of casa gusta. we're here to demonstrate the importance of youth programs, programs provide the support and resources youth need to grow as people and leaders. youth have the opportunity to understand what are the roots -- root causes of the problems and conditions we see in our communities. we understand that we also have something to contribute to the struggle and are able to create change through political campaigns and organizing the community. instead of punishing us or incarcerating us, you should support us so that we can all be stronger and more unified. think not of just the youth of today but also generations to come. [please stand by for captioner switch] >> we pride ourselves in supporting the api and san francisco community. due to a transition of life circumstances and education and many more. this year, we are requesting funding for our long-standing fami

>> supervisor cohen: hold on. the reason why it's eight miles a day is it's an old car and it's breaking down. >> and the reason -- >> supervisor cohen: director, director, i'm sorry. i want supervisor sheehy to finish his thought. >> supervisor sheehy: i just thought it would be great if the b.l.a. could look at car usage overall and look at the size of our fleet. who knows. maybe they'll put everybody on scooters. but honestly, the cars, that's -- now, it's just -- there are a lot of city cars. >> supervisor cohen: maybe we do need city scooters. >> supervisor sheehy: we do need -- i mean, we put so many encumbrances on people being able to drive in this city with the goal of everybody using transit, but we do not follow that practice in my experience as a city. so if we can eliminate one car, i think we'll make progress. >> if i may, i just -- this car is used by the enforcement staff to go from our office which is kind of central to the city to locations all over the city. with all respect to m.t.a., and i thi

. >> supervisor cohen: ok. so, for that one --'s. >> supervisor ronen: is $300,000 in education. >> supervisor cohen: ok, thank you. and for clarification, that's $300,000 over two years? 's. >> supervisor ronen: that's right. >> supervisor safai: it would be $300,000 in year one. >> supervisor cohen: we are all giving different numbers. i would really like it done, you know, -- the ask is really $600,000 is what you are asking for. i translate it -- based on what she was describing, the was talking in year one. it is desirable for it to be seen manifest in your two. that is the assumption i am making unless you indicate

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i can't wait for that date. >> so how did we balance the 137 million that was projected in march? on the revenue side, the nine month report had approximately $94 million of current-year either savings, but mostly it was additional revenue, and of that, the vast majority was revenue from the department of health, including two payments for medicare that we received in one year, and also patient revenue from more individuals having insurance, we reflect that revenue in our department as an ongoing solution. additionally, there is projected some ongoing nominally ongoing property tax growth. the roles are growing, but it is a finite role pool that we will be pulling from, so that was a big help in 18-19 finite, so it is not continuing at that big of a level. and then we were able to constrain growth. f.t.e. growth citywide was about 1% 17-18. more than half of that was from our mta, a third of that was related to public safety as noted in the planned hiring plans, and then, the rest are

second by supervisor cohen, and without objection. any other motions or any other actions that you guys would like to take? >> supervisor yee: we have to make a motion to pass these items as amended. >> supervisor cohen: we do need to do that. also, if i'm not mistaken, mr. clerk, table item 1. >> clerk: i believe just taking the sfpc action, i believe it would be a motion to recommend items 8, 9, and 10. and to recommend items 11 12, and 13 as amended. >> supervisor cohen: all right, thank you. supervisor yee, i understand that's exactly what you said. >> supervisor yee: yes. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor yee made the motion, stefani seconded. >> clerk: adopted with supervisor sheehy not at the meeting. item 7, a hearing on the controller's nine-month budget status report for fiscal years 2017-18 and requesting the office of controller and the mayor's office of budget to report. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. mr. rosenfield. >> we can present on the nine-month report. i would suggest procedurally you probably on items 2 and 3, wan

cohen: good for you. i like that haircut too, it looks good on you. have we explored the conversation on purchasing the building. the retirement board as an example -- >> they're in our building. >> supervisor cohen: yes. aney prchased a new building and they'll be moving out? >> yeah. >> supervisor cohen: so my question is, in terms of the city, it is most frugal, and in our best interest to own every anset as opposed to paying rent being beholden to landlords. so i don't know if the department of real estate if you are relatively new and so maybe you have not been part of the conversation and maybe i shoud pivot to the mayor's budget office to hear more thoughts around this? >> i think is a great question and i think that a good -- the city administrators office has a overview of that the ity leases for departments and we work on those together. so it's a great qstn for real estate to help us to kind of assess on what the options are for all of our kind of rentals and building ownership across the depar

thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i work in the coalition of homelessness. today, came to speak on behalf of the group. today we are demanding $14.8 million for funding. services, families. we are asking for a 3.8 million for new subsidies. we are asking for replacing the family shelter. 1.9 million. 2.6 million in the bay view. so the only thing i want to share with you is you are spending $20 million in criminalizing homeless people. besides using this money to criminalize homelessness -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you. next speaker. [applause] hi. i'm from the st. anthony foundation. we don't run and the -- any of our programs that help provide food and shelter and clothing and basic needs with any city money. but we are part of a family in the city that is helping to make sure that our safety net cannot lift people up and help prevent poverty and that is why we are supporting and ask for homeless emergency service provider association and food from the food security task

>> supervisor cohen: please. we'll continue for the next one. >> for the recreation park department, we recommend reduction for $1,024,489 in fiscal 18-19. it allow increase fiscal year 18-19. recommends closing out prior year $56,749 for total general fund savings $996,000. also with the policy recommendations, we understand that the department is prepared to accept our policy recommendation to delete one replacement for 250 extended cab. are little to accept the savings reduction for the upward substitution of the policy recommendations of $18,904 first year and $18,888,000 in the second year but with position authority to do that substitution and then in the second year, our recommended reduction to the budget total $55,755 and all of those are one timesaver -- time savings. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: can you go through the amounts again? you're saying year one, it will be 1,004,000 -- $1,044,000 that are one time only. this is what i have? is it one time only. >> that's correct. >

>> supervisor cohen: sure. the controller will standup and let us know. >> i don't know that i can do the math that quickly. obviously, the value of the different items that were discussed here over the last couple of hours are dramatically in excess of the 6.8 million, so i think part of the exercise is among the different priorities that have been talked about here, in a world where funds are finite, kind of what does the final package look like for the board? >> supervisor sheehy: but the mayor has already submitted his budget priorities. >> the discussion today, supervisor, this was tens of millions of dollars of discussion over the last couple of hours. it's up to you how you want to structure the conversations with the mayor's office. >> supervisor sheehy: i guess i'd like to make hard decisions given how much money we have. and so -- 'cause what are we trying to develop a basket of funding for? what's our number? are we going to come up with $10 million that we're going to spend? >> supervisor cohen: i t

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. welcome. yes. >> good morning, chair cohen, supervisors. thank you again for the opportunity to present the library's fy-19-20 budget last week. finalized the reductions with the board's analysts and we are in full agreement with their recommendations. i would like to thank the board's analyst, hampton smith, sefrin campbell and menard for the time and help. and jillian johnson and kelly kirkpatrick from the mayor's budget office for your guidance, and special thanks to the controller's office for your ongoing support. maureen singleton and i are here today and more than happy to answer any questions you may have. [please stand by for captioner change]. -- ongoing savings. $300,000 one-time savings. reductions would further reduce the planned decrease of its 1920 budget to the a decrease of $9,508,737 or 6% in the 19-20 budget. as i understand it, the department does concur with our reductions shown on pages 37 and 38 of our report. >> supervisor cohen: so the savings include capital expenditures and savings? >> that's right. >> supervisor

you talked to cohen today. can you look into your crystal ball and predict anything in terms of timing, some reporting from your publication and others that an arrest could be imminent or stephanopoulous reporting all this is about to happen, did you get that sense from your conversation with him today? >> i think it is hard when yo have people on one hand saying he's flipping and he's going to be arrested. both can't be true. usually if you cooperate, you do that before you are arrested. and from my indication, from my reporting just around people close to cohen, it is headed more towards that direction than perhaps an arrest. towards cooperation. >> towards cooperation. >> i do not know i he has sat down with prosecutors. they are ten steps before anyone would have a conversation, but from people around him -- people around him are urging him to go in that direction. >> all right. >> he might be charged im he isn't arrested. >> never be sorry. pop out there in that beautiful spot. they're going to descend on

i don't know if emily cohen is here -- oh, emily cohen is here. i'm going to give her an opportunity to speak on the rebalancing plan. >> thank you, supervisor cohen, supervisors. just want to thank the mayor's budget office, kelly and her team for the diligent to rebalance the budget after the failure of prop d. we're very excited about this spending plan, about this new budget, and the items that reply with it will bring approximately 300 units of new rapid rehousing, the navigation center, and we wanted to express our sincere thanks to this board and the mayor's budgeting office for working through this, and i'm hoppy to answer any questions -- happy to answer any questions you may have. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. and i'm happy to recognize kelly kirkpatrick and her team, and i want to recognize emily cohen and jeff kovitsky for their patience and flexibility. since there are no questions, i'd like to make a motion to accept the rebalancing plan in the h.s.h. and mohcd budgets. all right. seconded by supervisor sheehy, and i will take that

and tonight we have text messages from michael cohen indicating that michael cohen considered himself am booker for sean hannity's show. or at least friendly enough with fox news that he could book a guest on the network whenever he wanted to. i have her tentatively scheduled for hannity tonight, call me after your trial. that's a text message from michael cohen on january 17th of this year, it was a text message to keith davidson, who was stormy daniels' lawyer at that time. michael cohen had booked stormy daniels on sean hannity's show that night so that stormy daniels could say she never had sex with donald trump. the reason michael cohen wanted stormy daniels to say that is that an old interview she had done with intouch magazine in 2011 had just been posted on line by intouch magazine, and in great detail stormy daniels in that interview describes her night with donald trump. the night she spent in donald trump's hotel room talking with him about his fear of sharks and spanking him a bit, and having sex with him. all of that had become public the day before when in touch magazine

thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. good morning. my name is april. >> supervisor cohen: pull the mic a littl closer, as well. >> hi. my name is april, and i am a parent leader, parent voices in san francisco. and we just want to thank you, the voters, for passing proposition c. even though it's passed, proposition c, it's not going to take effect until 2019. in the meantime, we have people, infants and toddlers who will lose their child care if we don't continue the million funding from last year, so we're just asking for that continuation. thanks. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> hi, everyone. mari villaluna, mommy to this two-year-old. i want to talk about child care. i just want to thank last year, you all provided 4 million for child care that was one time funding. so it makes me a little saddened to see the current funding for 200,000. that's a big shortfall. if we don't do at least $4 million this year, we will have people in this city that will have their child care cutoff? some might be a

my name is malia cohen. i'm the chamber of this committee, and to my right is supervisor sandy fewer, to my further right is supervisor jeff sheehy. to my left is supervisor kathrin stefani and further left is anthony yee. our clerk today is kathrin majors, and we are grateful to sfgovtv for their broadcasts. madam clerk, are there any announcements? [agenda item read] >> supervisor cohen: okay. thank you very much. could you please call items 1, 2, and 3 together. >> clerk: yes. item number 1 is a resolution determining and declaring that the public interest and necessity demand the construction, reconstruction, acquisition, improvement, seismic strengthening and repair of the embarcadero seawall and other needed infrastructure. item 2 is a plan reviewing the city's two year fiscal plan to increase the proposed seawall bond from 350 million to 425 million to fund phase one of the seawall program. and item number 3 is an ordinance calling and providing for a special election to be held in the city and county

cohen quits rnc gig. michael cohen wants trump to pay his legal fees. and the publisher of the national enquirer in probe. his legal problems are mounting as i understand from family and friends to do some sort of deal to avoid jail time. >> there's never been any doubt in my mind how this was going to end up. if you look at the southern district doing what they did, this extraordinary and incredible thing. we have to go back to the beginning. the raid itself on the personal attorney of the president of the united states. what the standard was to get that warrant was off the charts high. they knew he committed crimes before they walked in the door. they almost had to prove that to get the warrant. so they now are engaged in this broad wide ranging criminal investigation that is going to yield indictments and probably going to present michael cohen with a choice of spending the rest of his life in jail or cooperating. there is almost no one given that choice and someone who everyone who knows michael cohen says for all of his many defects is he loves his

>> supervisor cohen: one more time. i didn't hear you. >> supervisor cohen: yeah. it's need-based subsidies for housing and the homeless. >> supervisor fewer: i think this homeless workforce development is really important, and i think it's an answer to homelessness. and then i have to say i'd like to see 1.2 million into a.p.i. citywide services. i think the largest population of children that we have in san francisco that are in poverty are asian. and although -- i mean, i feel like many of these services were cut during this dcyf budget cycle, so i'm just looking to enhance that pot a little bit. and then, domestic violence folks, and i think that we made a very good case about how they are the first -- first people, quite frankly, over the police that the community calls because there's such deep trust, and i think there's need for more money for that. and of course, we did -- >> supervisor cohen: supervisor, before you go on, there's -- there's one thing that i had some questions about -- about some subsidies. how -- how is it taken care of in the rebalancing

chair cohen,e ommes sandler, c.f.o. of the p.u.c. so, the sixmsteefore you, 8-13, late to our two-year capital budgets for the enterprise, hetch hetchy water and power, water enterprise and wastewater enterprise. andt week the genal ger riewed a number of key capital programs and i discussed the vetting and adoption process and review process of the c.i.p., included the commission review, and the capital planning committee. in terms of a summary of the appropriations, hetch hetchy water and power, $350.02-year appropriation. some of the projects are the mountain tunnel project, rehab, and investments in local distribution assets. water, $483 million, 2-year appropriation. the project funded, completion of the water system improvement program, and then replacement projects such as pipelines and ns ap water mains.wastwater is th primarily s.s.i.p. phase one, as well as replacement of sewer mains. and r and r generally. so, items8, 9, and 10 appropriate the sources and the uses for the capital plan. and items 11, 12, 13, authorize e ith

thank you, chair cohen. in terms of our revenue, you'll see that our revenue budget is at 188, which is down--is up 38.2 from the prior year. we are trying to control our expenditures. we do have a lot of work at port, so we're definitely targeting where we spend our money. and again, to capital, which is our key priy. so in terms of our revenue, we see we are growing in all regards except to parking, and i think this is due to trends of people moving to more an more to modes besides the car. we do see some softening at the ra of which we're growing which could be an indication of a rate stablization or even a slow down. we have -- real estate is driving our growth. real estate drives our portfolio overall. we have some risks in our maritime budget as it relates to the shipyard, and we really want to secure a new operator who can successfully run that facility. so in terms of what's happening in our budgetpens, you will see that we've grown 47% between '14-'15 and the proposed budget year '19-'20, and that g

. >> supervisor cohen: right. so you've kind of touched on the point. 15 plus 12 is 27, and originally, before we went on the break, you were asking for 23. now it looks like you maybe -- you were going to -- you're proposing to now have amended your request to ask for 27. >> well, so in this moment, we've identified 23. we anticipate next year over the year, if we're putting another 70,000 miles on a rig that has 165,000, there's going to be at least four. we'll probably have another ten or so that will be recommended for retirement. again, we're just trying to be proactive. >> supervisor cohen: i understand. the b.l.a. suggested cutting your budget $700,000 so that's over the course of two years, so that's a total of $1.4 million, and then i think in your presentation you've amended that to reduce to instead of 700,000 to 585,000. >> 585 for 18-19, and then that would give you four a year, and wait for the pilot to end and make a decision in 19-20 once the pilot ends and it's known what they're going to do. >> s