should feel very good about that. i look forward to working with you. again, we will also go back to another issue, which is making sure, on the issue of the audit, that as audits are completed we follow up to major departments are following up on the recommendations that were made. i know that is important as well. why don't we open it up to public comment? if there is a member of the public who would like to speak, please come forward. >> good afternoon. i have lived in san francisco for 59 years. i would like to think this committee once again. i actually heard there will be an audit on san francisco general hospital revenue and

operations. i would like to suggest you use the 2003 board of supervisors audit as the guideline. in that audit, my own department was currently -- was thoroughly criticized, and ultimately led to my own mandatory sicklied fort two years. since we are going to audit san francisco rebuild, we are going to find out how well the money is going to be used at san francisco general hospital. in my own opinion, one employee was singled out and was put on mandatory sick leave just to cover up habeus fax that, in my opinion, the office still refuses to disclose publicly. i am of the opinion that when the city does its audit of general hospital revenues and operations, i dare the audit to

prove my allegations wrong. so far, i have not seen anything that proved my allegations wrong. all that has happened in the last four years is a continual delay. i have to admit it. i have to think this committee for finally having the operations and revenues for san francisco general hospital. please do not forget laguna honda hospital. i do not hear any comments from a certain supervisor regarding what is going on at laguna honda hospital. i think the people are due an explanation. chairperson campos: thank you. are there other members of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. this was simply a hearing.

can we filed this item without objection? the clerk, please call item five, our last item. >> a resolution regarding north of markets/tenderloin commun ant to the committee. chairperson campos: do we have a presentation from staff? >> good afternoon. i am with the office of economic and workforce development, where i come-manage the community benefit district program. i know you have been here all day, or across the call -- the hall. hopefully, this last item will move quickly. what you have is a bubble -- a resolution asking the board of supervisors to approve the annual report and financial statement of the north of market community benefit corporation. it is for fiscal years 2007

through 2010. the north of markets/tenderloin community benefit corporation is a nonprofit that manages the community benefit district. before i get into my presentation, i actually want to ask the interim executive director of the north of market tenderloin cbc to provide a summary of their work over the last two years. i will come back and do a brief report on items of economic and workforce development, which is based on state and local laws. >> good afternoon. trina is going to get the power

point ready, but i have a hard copy as well. i'm want to submit that. as a train and mentioned, i am the interim executive director of the north of market/tenderloin community benefit district. our community benefit district provides cleaning, beautification, and safety services in the tenderloin neighborhood. we have a board of directors that governs the organization. it is a 13 member board. we just had our annual meeting where we elected a new board members. this board is comprised of seven property owners, three business owners, and three residents. we currently have a vacancy in the property owner category.

as you can see, we have a pretty good cross-section of the tenderloin that is represented on our board. we have st. anthony's, ymca, rescue mission, hospitality house, 118 jones, a private residence, tenderloin housing clinic, a nightclub, and a grocery. we also have three residents on the board who are residents of the tenderloin. we structure our organization with committees. we have the executive /organization committee that provides oversight of all staff and contracts. they provide basic overview. -- a basic overview of the

organization. the public rights of way committee provides oversight of our service contract with san francisco clean city. they provide all of the cleaning services for the district. this committee also works on the safety and training projects. -- and greening projects. and we work on promoting the identity of the neighborhood and the organization. the way our budget is structured, we received assessments from 605 properties. it is actually more property than that now, but the fiscal years we are reporting on, this is the number of properties that were assessed. our annual budget is around $1 million. we received that revenue in two installments. the property owners are build with their property tax bills --

are billed with their property tax bills. the funds we receive are applied to that fiscal year. we received another installment of assessments in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year. that installment is applied to the next following fiscal year. we have had questions about the large number of funds in our budget. but it is divided into 2 below fiscal years. that is sometimes confusing for people. we basically provide cleaning, beautification, and safety for the neighborhood. the san francisco city coalition provide the cleaning services. we use san francisco clean city as our service provider because i have a strong job training and placement program.

they train and place about 150 people every year. about 75% of those people that are placed actually retain their jobs for the full year longer or after. that was important to the neighborhood when the community benefit district was forming. the services provided -- every property gets hand swept daily. they get sidewalk scrubbing with a machine twice a month, and power washing once a month. clean city also provides graffiti abatement. the service hot spots in the neighborhood. they also help us with hazardous waste -- needles, human waste, and a large trash items. they do not, unlike other cds -- other cbd's, we do not operate

on a dispatch system. in other places, someone would call in. we do not operate that way because it is a large district. we kind of schedule the district to make sure that the cleaning we provide is done uniformly, threat the whole district. -- throughout the whole district. the tenderloin has a lot of needs and challenges regarding cleanliness. in order to ensure everyone receives the same amount of services in a uniform way, we have to schedule and route our cleaning. in your packet is the schedule of the power washing and the sidewalk scrubber machine. i have also included a map of our current hot spots. these are areas where we actually do extra targeted steam cleaning to make sure these areas remain as clean as possible. in 2007, clean city -- a clean

city attracts a lot of the cleaning that they do. -- tracks a lot of the cleaning they do. in 2007, they picked up 3099 needles in the tenderloin. the next year, we worked closely with community organizations like to underline health and glide to install needle drop boxes on the inside and outside of their buildings. the next year, we saw a drop in the number of needles that were picked up. in 2009, we saw a drop again. that program, we feel, has been pretty successful. that is our cleaning. we also provide beautification. as of 2011, we have planted 182 trees in the tenderloin.

that is broken down by year for you. we have also created and distributed a neighborhood restaurant guide to highlight the many fantastic restaurants and cultural destinations in the district. we contributed to the formation of the uptown historic to underline district and the historic plaques that are attached to historic buildings in the neighborhood. we also conducted a tribute to the black hawk jazz night club. the nightclub is a very important part of the tenderloin history. we want to highlight that rich musical history, and it was a successful tribute. other beautification projects include a mural on the corner of golden gate and jones street called "windows into the tenderloin." her mural, if you walk by and

look closely at it -- you can see there are hundreds of people in the merrill -- in the mural who are members of the neighborhood she actually interacted with during the installation. because of that, the community has an investment in making sure this is not vandalized. we brought wonderland, a public art exhibit, to the tenderloin. it featured 16 art installations throughout the neighborhood. it was a way to highlight the neighborhood and a way to get people to come in and press pass through the neighborhood. we have a merrill that was part of that project and a sculpture and other installations as well. we hosted an art gallery and a

monthly concert series. that is, in a nutshell, our beautification projects. we also worked on safety for the neighborhood. in 2007, we worked closely with the community to develop a comprehensive neighborhood safety plan. that has created a movement called tnt, the new tenderloin. we were able to get a large number of residents to city hall to speak to the board of supervisors hearing and present at that time with five dozen signatures demanding the can be considered in the same way that many other neighborhoods -- with 5000 signatures demanding the tenderloin be treated in the same way that many neighborhoods are considered. we also worked with nightclubs

and liquor stores. we bring an annual street fair to the neighborhood and close jones street between mcalester and golden gate to create a safe block where families can celebrate the holidays. we sponsor the tenderloin health and safety fair. we also invited sunday streets and advocated they come to the tenderloin, and they did. unfortunately, last year it was completely rained out. next out of the movement, along with some other community groups, we created safe havens. safe havens are a network of sites that are trained, and we will allow anyone who is feeling unsafe on the street to duck

into their place of business and give them some emergency refuge if they are not feeling comfortable on the street. when we started, we had 11 sites. now we are at 52. we also do a safe passage with the boys and girls club, who started the program. they have used to chaperone the younger youth to and from their activities. we wanted to formalize the chaperoning. we intend on designating a representative in the neighborhood and putting down a brick road pattern that will be colored in by an artist, visually designated to the neighborhood and the youth that that is an area where we want them to walk safely, and hopefully eventually have all of them shop around. we also help the police

department every year with national night out. we assisted the newsom administration with the establishment of the community justice center. the mayor's office sent a coalition of tenderloin residents to the justice center, who bought into the idea of the community justice center because of what we saw there. we worked hard in the community to support that effort. at the time, it was very political. we believe it has proved itself. some future projects we are working on right now -- we are working on the development at a van ness and carry -- and geary. we also hope to increase the public amenities in the neighborhood. we have installed eight public benches. we are working on creating

public bathroom access with some of our partners in the community who we subsidize to keep their bathrooms monitored and open to the community. that is, in a nutshell, what the tenderloin cbd is all about. i am happy to take any questions. chairperson campos: thank you. i do not want to lose the quorum of the committee. i wonder how long this is going to be. >> this is going to be brief. i will go over what the office of economic and workforce

development is required to review on an annual basis. briefly, business improvement district, also known as community benefit districts, are governed by state law, local law, and a contract with the city administered by our office and the board of supervisors. our office is charged with ensuring that they are meeting their requirements, both on their city contract in complying with local and state laws. we are also required to conduct an annual review and provide you with a performance review and financial analysis. the resolution in front of you covers four fiscal years. we look at the annual reports and financial reviews. i am going to go over just a few more local and state laws so you have more information. the business improvement law does come from the streets and

highways code, which requires that each business improvement district provide you with an annual report and budget. they are also subject to the ralph brown act to ensure open meetings, and the california open records act. the are also required to host an annual meeting of the property owners within the district. through their city contract, they are required to provide us a mid-your report, annual report, and financial review or audit. lastly, the board of supervisors or the cbd's are required to have a hearing so the public and provide testimony about the work of the administration and how they have administered the district. i am one to skip all this information, since you just heard the presentation. i will just say it is a 15 year

community benefit district. i am also going to skip over their program area, since she just talked about that. to analyze their financials, we received help from the controller's office, the city service auditor. we focused on annual budget, sources of income, variance between budget amount and expenses, and how they plan to spend carryover funds from year to year. the annual budget -- you will see from this graph that they have stayed close to their management plan. so they have complied with that rule. again, there areas are cycle of operations and beautification. that takes the majority of their budget. district identity and landscape improvements. and funds for administration and contingency expenses.

the other sources of funding -- they are required to have at least 5% of their budget come from other sources. during their first two fiscal years, they did not meet the requirement, which was 5%. they raised 1% to 3%. however, the last two fiscal years, they raised 7% of their budget from other sources. in terms of budget vs actual expenses, 2007-20000 -- 2007- 2008, projects like the merrill were not finished. in the last fiscal years, they were very close to what the budgeted. lastly, each year the receive two big transfers from the city comptroller's office.

that is when people pay their taxes. the money they receive in may is referred to as deferred revenue. really, that money takes them through the first six months of the next fiscal year. at the end of fiscal year 2009- 2010, they deferred 430,000 from their budget to get them through the first six yet -- first six months of the next fiscal year. they also had net assets of $283,000 which the allocated to specific projects in fiscal year 2010-2011. i know. it is almost over. they had a budget of $1.20 million. you will see here an amount of $433 thousand, which is income over expenses. that amount is going to get them to the first six months of the next fiscal year. lastly, recommendations from our office. our office, along with the

controller, strongly recommend an annual audit, starting with this fiscal year. i am happy to hear the have already begun that process. we also recommended that they update their website so it was easier for the public to navigate and find information. they have also started on that process. we recommend they do more marketing and promotions of the district and improve overall communications to the public not only about the actual district but the work of the organization. lastly, our office provided a grant to compass point to provide north of market with a needs assessment. they're going through an executive director serge process right now. we provided $25,000 to help them with that process. that is the end of my presentation. chairperson campos: thank you very much.

colleagues, any questions for the thorough and quick presentation? we appreciate that. why don't we open it up to public comment? i have speaker cards from lisa, james tracey, steve woo, and lorenzo listano. if you can come forward, you each have two minutes. >> i am lisa. i have lived in the tenderloin for 36 years. i appreciate local programs like the north of market community benefits center, safe havens, clean city, and the good neighbor coalition project they work on. chairperson campos: great. thank you very much. >> my name is steve wu. my group wants to express our of our support for the strong leadership provided by their director. we have worked closely with the cbd for many years and have good

things to say about them and their great work. thank you. chairperson campos: thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is james tracy. the first thing -- full disclosure. our organization receives a small grant from the community benefit district. but our praise would be the same even if we did not receive a penny. the community benefits district -- north of market/tenderloin really distinguishes itself by trying to improve the community for the poorest person in the neighborhood, whether they are living in a cardboard box or a condo. programs have to benefit each and every person in that neighborhood. that distinguishes them from some of the other groups that do not have such an inclusive, wonderful scope. we are looking forward to continuing to work with them on the safe haven program. it is really a one-of-a-kind

program that we are developing with them. i really urge you to support them. thank you. chairperson campos: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is lorenzo. i am a member of the tenderloin filipino community organization. i am here with our organization because we support cbd and the leadership of deena and continuing the work. we work with them with regards to the safety and the good neighborhood coalition. we feel it is worth it to support them for their work. thanks a lot. chairperson campos: thank you. next speaker. >> i am a former board member of the cbd.

this is a rogue organization. they are controlled by social service providers. people in the neighborhood do not have recourse for the initiatives they decide to implement. the attempted to eliminate the resident board seat after i had to bring to the city's attention that they were not following the brown act and the california public records act, and they were not following the sunshine ordinance. there is a precedent for all of them to have to adhere to that. they have a problem with underrepresentation of various groups. obviously black people. but that is with san francisco as a whole. i wish supervisor kim was here to hear this, because it is her district. they had no system for administration of grants. they give grants to who they want to. it is evident because i submitted a grant as a board member, and shortly after i

tried to be cordial with them and submit a grant according to the most thorough grant ever received. i was on the board and i know the process that they did not have in place. that is what i was voted off the board illegally in a closed session, because i was wondering what systems were in place to deal with any of these things. they eliminated the organizational committee, which gay community members input for grant administration. -- gay community members input for grant administration. they gave that service to the community. as a board member, i was not allowed to go through the auditor.