slide 7, where i just have a few comments on the property tax. i think we have basically covered that the year and was about $18 million before the projection because of some late fundamental assessments. the secured growth was 5% higher than anticipated as a result of those late assessments that were impact enrolled. as i mentioned, we are projecting an $18 million surplus after setting aside a certain amount for appeals. we do not yet have the total number for 2010. the assessment appeals board is still entering the appeals into their database. i hope that in a few weeks we will have a better picture of the universe, although we will not know until we get decisions and know how much people are receiving. chairperson avalos: last year, the appeals board hired additional staff or transferred staff. is that happening again this year, because there has been a

high volume of appeals that came in? >> i believe they are hiring additional temporary staff, perhaps not as severely year, which is why we are getting a letter result on this. going over the department to results -- departmental results, the most significant is the shortfall in the hospital fee, the new state program that assesses fees on private hospitals and allows the state to draw down additional federal funds and return some of those revenues to the public as well as the private hospitals. there is still -- there have been developments on that that reduce the retroactivity, which is why the department has said there is at least a shortfall of $26.50 million. more of those funds remain uncertain, as we will mention in another slide. on the fmap, the federal medical

assistance percentage, that was reduced somewhat. they did in have some of their funds, and their estimate was met. from our uncertain revenues, the mental health state plan amendment, the department is telling us, is still not complete, but is likely to have reduced retroactivity. the one departmental expenditure item that was reported was staffing at the sheriff's department. at this stage, we are anticipating a $4 million shortfall there and potential need for something in that area if no other measures are taken in that area to reduce the shortfall. finally, there is an item related to federal policy around the human services agency employment and training program, resulting in a $1.70 million shortfall. on the plus side, we have refinancing savings on our debt

service, resulting in $2.70 million to the good. that will make that $38 million category. the next slide is a summary on our uncertain revenues. the largest items were the hospital fee and the federal medical assistance percentage and the mental health state plan amendment. of these, we have strong confidence on the final number of the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage, because that was approved by congress. the hospital fees still requires final approval. it is looking good, according to the department, but there is uncertainty about formulas, uncertainty about the total amount of money we will get, which we are estimating a $13 million range in what we might receive there. on the mental health state plan amendment, that is delayed in terms of its process. there is a lot more uncertainty around it.

i think it is likely it will be less than the maximum that was assumed. the remaining $8.60 million is still regarded as uncertain. supervisor elsbernd, you mentioned the hotel tax revenues. there was $6 million assume from that. we are regarding that as uncertain until next week. we will see what happens. there are a few small items, as with the impound account and the cigarette lighter abatement fee which is still in litigation. -- the cigarette litter abatement fee which is still in litigation. chairperson avalos: there is a pending -- i will talk to you about it off line, actually. >> there have been questions about the rainy day reserve. i added a table that was not in the report to summarize how we get to the $33 million level. you can see here that at the start of last year we were looking at $98 million and the

budget withdrew half of that, $49 million, for the city, and a quarter of the preschool district. that would have left $24.60 million. thanks to higher than anticipated year-end revenues, which rose so we could only withdraw $50 million, we did not withdraw $15 million we thought we would. we budgeted this year $6.10 million to the school district and $12.30 million to the city. according to current revenue projections, we are right at the withdrawal limit of the reserves. if we have exactly what is forecast, we will not be eligible to withdraw. we are assuming that $3.20 million will not be withdrawn from the reserves for next year. if in fact our revenues are reduced this year, then that would again allow for the

trigger of withdrawal from the reserve in this year. if we have bad revenue news, the order would be that first you could withdraw up to the $12.30 million that was budgeted from rainy day reserves, and if it was more than that, you could look at general reserves to cover that if there were not other measures to be taken. if you get bad expenditure news, that would not allow withdrawal from the rainy day fund, though the general fund could be used. finally, the bottom line from this is that the current year budget remains balanced as it is now, given these cautions. if the $30 million in uncertain revenues are received and there are no other major developments, the $25 million general fund remains intact and the rainy day fund is not needed. but as you well know, with the school year budget shortfall, it remains a major challenge. supervisor mirkarimi: that was

slightly adjusted a few weeks ago. can you repeat the number again of the deficit? >> the's -- the controller's office has not done a final projection. i prefer to leave that to the mayor's office if they would like to provide an updated number. supervisor mirkarimi: go ahead. >> through the chair, i think our current estimate is that the budget shortfall is in neighborhood of $450 million. however, we have not finalized the budget deficit number for fiscal year 11-12 and will be revising that estimate over the last month. we cannot agree at the end of november or the beginning of december with budget instruction and a projected deficit. our hope is that the positive,

slightly positive, revenue trends we are seeing in this report will carry forward into the budget year, and that might reduce the deficit somewhat, but i think we are still cautious with the numbers. supervisor elsbernd: and the budget office and controller's office are aware of the demographic changes to the actuarial analysis that more than likely will take the employer cost higher? >> i think the short answer is yes. supervisor elsbernd: good, ok. chairperson avalos: mr. levenson, thank you very much. we can open this up for public comment. we will close public comment. this we will continue to the call of the chair without

objection. and i believe that was our last item. we are adjourned.

>> hello, i'm meg, welcome to "culture wire." for this episode, the director of cultural affairs, luis, will take you on a journey through presidio has been tet. -- presidio habitat. >> welcome to "culture wire." today i'm at the presidio trust, a treasure within san francisco, because the presidio trust is really a national park in the center of an urban setting. it dates to the very founding of the city.

national park. toting me today to talk about this amazing exhibition at presidio habitat is cheryl hanes. can you tell me a little bit about the idea of the presidio habitat? >> succinctly, i have been long involved in the presidio. i was here when it was still a military base in the 1980's. i remember driving down walmart to the golden gate bridge and seeing the military guard at the gate and being utterly fascinated. >> so presidio habitat is an exhibition where you have

invited, how many artists to think about the habitat? >> we put together a list of possible participants, local, national, or international, of people who are concerned with environmental concerns, made some sort of contribution to the landscape and conversation we're having here. we said that broke -- proposal requests and we received 25 back. from that 25, we went through and chose tend to realize in the landscape. >> including this building, which is an amazing example of recycling. >> we are proud of this space. it was designed by a local architecture team. we said, we need something that is a temporary structure,

something that can be brought onto the presidio in pieces, act as an exhibition space for one year. we came up with the notion of shipping containers. it was important for us that we made this project for the place, of the place. what i mean by that is participants would also used repurchased materials. >> we will be speaking to one of the artists that you selected. what excited you about his idea? >> have many things. first of all, i am a fan of his architecture. because of that creativity, i knew that he could come up with something unique. i love the fact that he was specifically addressing the

landscape around here, and it was also about the human interaction with this place. >> what are your expectations with the people coming to presidio habitat? >> we really hope people will come with their family, dogs, and come back a number of times the works will change over the year. the feedback we are getting is you cannot do all of them on one visit. it is really better to come back and have different experiences. >> thank you. i am with mark jensen of jensen architect. he was one of the architects to be chosen to do the presidio habitat. when you heard about this project, what inspired you about that call? >> our inspiration is a great blue heron.

it was the site itself that attracted us. this is an incredibly beautiful outdoor room. we did a bit of reverse engineering once we knew we wanted to work here. which animals live here? the great blue heron jumped out at us. we walked around, and quickly, you get into another pace. you slow down, leave the city behind you. you can feel the wind and the breeze. in our increasingly frenetic, fast-paced, connected life, the chance to be of here and slow down a bit was part of the agenda. as part of the installation, it was suggested that this would be deliberately not mowed because it would allow the sustaining of

insects, plants, that would graduate -- that would gravitate to the area. >> that is right. i think you quickly notice that. >> thank you for being here. presidio habitat is an exhibition at the presidio trust. it will be in san francisco through may 2011. we hope you will come out to experience this amazing exhibition and great natural treasure. >> to learn more about the other habitats installations in the presidio, visit

supervisor mar: good morning. the need to and come to quarter. this is the meeting for october 28, 2010, the meeting of the government on its end of oversight committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. our clerk -- i would also like to thank the sfgtv staff for their great work in the city as well. could you please make any announcements? >> please make sure to turn of cell phones and pagers. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items act upon today will appear on the november 9 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor mar: thank you, and

we have three items on the agenda today. please call item 1. >> item 1, motion directing the budget and legislative analyst to conduct three audits in fiscal year 2010-2011. supervisor mar: this item has been to committee several times, so this is a report from the budget and legislative analyst's office. >> good morning. as you stated, we have had several presentations on proposed audits for calendar year 2010. so this motion is basically the result of the prior meeting. at that meeting, i was requested to also meet with the controller's office and the department of human resources to speak specifically about the second audit, the one that had

mou provisions. i did meet with them, and we agreed to have a narrower scope for this project at this time. looking specifically at the city's implementation of a worker pays city-wide, they identified that as two high risk areas that need would further review. for the second audit on here, at this point, and narrowed the scope to those pieces. supervisor mar: thank you. are there any questions or comments? seeing none, let's open up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion on this item? with recommendation, without objection. thank you. could you please call item two? >> item two, ordinance on many

of the san francisco administrative code to establish the city's open data policy and require city departments to make appropriate data available to the public. supervisor mar: thank you, and we have jason elliott from the mayor's office. >> good morning. thank you for having this hearing this morning. we are discussing this morning a proposed ordinance, but did of policy that would establish what already exists in the form of the executive director that the mayor -- executive directive that the mayor issued about a year ago whereby departments would be required to submit data sets to an online landing pad, 311, where that data would be publicly accessible by anyone to develop applications, to see what the city is doing, and generally promote transparency, accountability, and openness. i would like to let jane speak

more eloquently about how this works and why we are doing it, but before i do that, if i could read a couple of amendments into the record. i believe you were given paper copies of this. ok, great, on page two, starting with 11, section two from the city departments required to make available each city department, board, an agency shall make reasonable efforts to make available data sets under the department's control, provided however that such disclosures shall be consistent with the rules and standards promulgated by the committee on information technology and with applicable laws including laws related to privacy. if i could also be pleased on page 3 beginning with line one, did a policy, each plan shall include an accounting of public data sets under the control of the department, and rules for including open data

requirements-applicable city contracts. they evaluate the mayor's feasibility of making city datasets pursuant to a generic license such as those offered by created commons, which could grant a user the right to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works. thank you for allowing me to do that. >> find you, jason -- thank you, jason. i am with the department of technology. i will be explaining briefly what open date that is, the benefits, and what we have accomplished to date, and a quick summary of the legislation itself.

so what is open data? open date it is structured data. spreadsheets, a tabular form. it is not .pdf or word documents, and because of that, it is a machine readable, and that is an important part of it here you can create applications and analysis out of it. there is a lot you can do. open did it is also freely available to the public at no charge with very minimal restrictions. it also respects existing privacy and security laws that are in place, whether local, state, or federal, and it is really a proactive disclosure of government information. departments and agencies are for one actively putting structured machine-readable data out into the public.

so why is open did it important? if improve transparency and accountability. journalists have access to more information. artists, technology community -- generally, anyone interested in government has structured information they can use for various reasons. it also stimulates economic development. we have seen a number of companies that have been substantiated both here locally and elsewhere. an example i would like to submit is a company in san diego on track to make $10 million in revenue by making sense of department of labor information, so there it is a new emerging space of opportunity. it also fosters collaboration between cities, state, and federal governments. as an example, the department of

technology worked with other city -- cities to establish ways [no audio] it also enhances civic participation. if people have more information, they can provide input and raise awareness, and there is greater trust in government. so what have we done to date? we have made a good foundation, launched datasf.org, which is a data catalog. think of that as a yellow pages for data in san francisco. so far, we have 182 datasets, and i think that is a good start. there is also a mechanism for people to provide feedback. also, we have got really good for dissipation. 27 departments have precipitated willingly, and as you can see in

some of the letters of support, there is great value in sharing data with the public. as jason mentioned, the executive directive was issued in october 2009 that kind of put a framework around this. to date, we have over 50 applications that have been developed. this is a quality of life issue for people, and transit information is critical. we also have a lot of 311 applications, so people see graffiti in their neighborhoods, there is different mechanisms for those people to interact with their city. they can call, and they have many other options now. i want to make it clear that the city did not spend a dime on these applications. they were developed by a third

party. sometimes hobbyists, sometimes for economic reasons, but the city does not pay for any of this. also, open date it is a growing movement. -- open data is a growing movement. it started with president obama and his position on transparency, and the federal government establishing a web site called data.gov. in san francisco, we thought this was great. we followed in their footsteps. the u.k., and several other countries are doing this now. australia. the state of california is also moving in this direction, and several cities are as low, but we are definitely one of the pioneers and one of the leaders. to give you a sense of what it looks like, if you look to the screen, and you will see that it

has got data sets there that people can read and comment on. you can get more information as to how to get that information. i want to state that it is very easy for departments to use. they just need to register on the website, fill out a form describing the data sets a bit, and they are gone, so they can be done in about five minutes. here is an example. this is an iphone application that riders of muni can use to know when the bus is coming next. this is a family friendly application. it is using red and hard information, so if you are a parent here, you can no what is going on, where the nearest playground is, depending on

where you are. there are five applications to date, and they work in washington, d.c., and any other state that has adopted the standard we have worked very hard to establish, and there is a whole bunch more being created. again, this is kind of leveraging the creativity of our community. in summary, the ordinance actually establishes a single portal, datasf, and it institutionalizes the method for public feedback so people can give an idea of what they are looking for. it also requires coit to deal with some of the technical aspects of open data, such as setting technical standards, looking at whether we need to make improvements in the software contract, and also, it looks to create