also increase. this is based on the actual cost of one clerk position, which reflects our agreement with the puc general manager. this is offset slightly on recovery costs of citywide memberships, based on the mta, puc, and port contributions. the next slide presents the projected salary costs for fiscal year 2011-12. the proposed budget does not include any new positions, position upgrades, or other increases in staff resources. $7.60 million or 4.8% higher than the current year. increases to fringe benefits is what is driving 85% of this change. according to the mayor's budget instructions, the department is to assume that retirement increases are 13.6% to 16.5% of

the current salary and that health service, dependent coverage, and dental benefits will increase by 10%. the fringe benefit estimate also includes job-sharing arrangements, which cost between $10,000.12000 dollars per position for a legislative aide. -- $10,000 and 12 close in dollars per position for a legislative aide. there is also an increase of the temporary salaries at the aab to support demand. this is offset by reductions in temporary salaries in the clar'' -- clerk's office and staff turnover. this next slide presents the projected non-salary costs.

the budget proposal increases the non-salary budget by 2.6%. the primary reason is deferred i.t. licenses for currently own software. it includes the necessity to replace 20 computer monitors that are over seven years old and upgrade software, adobe acrobat, which is also old. in our other current expenses line, we are asking for an increase for new copiers from the citywide rico contract. there are marginal escalations in cost for the same supplies. the only new item is software for newsletters at the request of supervisors so the board can allow for more effective constituent communications. this assumes that lafco will

have sufficient carry forward funds. will find out in april or march if that will occur. the board will need to determine if they intend to adjust for cost-of-living prior to exercising are considering the exercising of the first option on the budget analyst contract. the current contract expires december 31, 2011, but may be extended through december 31, 2013. the budget will be adjusted accordingly, following the board's determination. now, the proposed budget by division. the chart above provides an overview of the preliminary budget proposal by department division, and shows the result on department growth over time. the proposed budget does increase the general fund allocation by $361,000, off 3.1%.

more than 80% of this increase is fringe benefits. the proposed budget is still 3.9% lower than the board's general fund budget of three years ago. notably, we have reviewed the division changes. that also reflects a modest new bit of resources from the aab, and increases the clerk's budget to address equipment and software needs. the next slide reminds the committee of our budget targets. to reduce the budget $123,000, the department has few options not related to salary. i suggest to evaluate the current a vacant positions, which i will read to you. they are not listed on the slide. if there is a need to consider de-funding the lowest priority,

i believe that is where we are. we have an administrative deputy position, a committee clerk, and a records manager position. i have crafted the proposed budget to meet our mandates and requirements, as discussed. to maintain the legislative record current and historic and comply with open meeting requirements, to provide public access to the legislative record and the members, and to provide the administration and operation that is required to resource members of the board, in addition to the extra duties, such as the youth commission, that the board has opted to put into the budget. but mostly concludes my presentation.

i am trying to shortcut and not go so deep into all the details. i thought it would be prudent to provide you with all of the information about our budget. i am available for any questions might have. chairperson chu: thank you, angela. just a few questions from me. the salary budget shows that we have money for temporary salaries. those are overtime. can you explain what we spend our temporary dollars on, and whether we have been experiencing a lot of money in that area? >> there are three areas where we spend our time salary. the first is about $56,000 in the board of supervisors' budget for legislative aides when they go out on family leave. there was a motion passed by the board that the clerk fund back- fill positions. i have done that. the other used for temporary

salaries is for when i have staff to go out on medical leave and we need to back-fill extra work to assist with our daily duties. and i have over the last two years had some prop s salaries which assisted us in the early days with trading our new legislative deputy. now, we utilize the funds for specific historical questions that my legislative deputy and i encounter and cannot answer ourselves. chairperson chu: in terms of our usage of temporary reverses overtime -- versus overtime, do we have a past practice of only using a portion? >> i am happy to provide you with the current, proposed, and actual usage today.

in terms of overtime budget, there are not that many dollars. we mostly use overtime when our courts have to clerk late meetings or its staff are preparing some documents on a timeframe and need to work a couple of hours overtime. chairperson chu: on the draft non-celery budget side of things come up with professional services, you mentioned that was primarily to contracts. >> one is about $300,000 and the rose contract is about $2 million. there is a $50,000 contingency, which was also in their last year, which we never had to use. it went back to the general fund. chairperson chu: in the current year or last year? cracks in the current year, excuse me. in the budget year as well. chairperson chu: you mentioned a large portion of the expenses we would see for the i.t. licenses

-- is that calculated in the expenses mind? >> is under both lines. i think what you are seeing is cost for our rico copiers for the newsletters, as the cost for the 20 computers is under purchases, if i remember correctly. chairperson chu: finally, a question on the advertising line. i know that supervisor mirkarimi sponsored legislation that allows us to be more flexible in terms of our advertising. how does that affect this? >> currently, we are working with the city attorney's office to determine the effect of that legislation on this particular line item. we are asking for the full amount of the advertising dollars, just in case we do have to write public notices to the full extent we did previous to

this legislation. chairperson chu: thank you. why don't we open this item up for public comment. any members of the public who wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor mirkarimi: this is not an action item. i will continue to trust the very thorough [laughter] information relayed by madam clerk. as he stipulated, this is the first phase -- as you stipulated, this is the first phase. we look forward to hearing the next one, especially as the other satellites of this department provide budget information as well. >> thank you. chairperson chu: thank you very much. i believe that is a motion to continue the item to the call of the chair until we have the next

briefing. in terms of areas, i know you are good to be working with many members of the board to go around the budget and try to think about what other options we have, in terms of either submiting some cuts to our budget, or just thoughts around how to craft a. it would be helpful for me, between now and the next time we have a hearing, to get a little bit more information about what you have put in the budget because the board has directed you to do certain things, such as the back-filling of positions that are leaving. it would be helpful to understand what part of the budget is changing because of that, as well as some of the areas with regards to newsletters, computers, and those things. i think that would be helpful for us, so that we can understand as we look at our budget we are asking you for. the other thing is an understanding about a little more information about how it is

that we have pressures on our budget, maybe because of splitting up positions in the budget. i understand there will be an additional cost above and beyond what the cost-neutral positions would be previously because of health benefits. >> i will make sure a provide that to all of you in a memo. chairperson chu: i will ask you to work with supervisor mirkarimi on lafco and other issues. we have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair without objection. do we have any other items before us? thank you. we are adjourned.

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we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go. >> thanks for coming today. we are announcing are temporary homeowner's property tax reduction program. this is what most assessor's up and down the state are doing. homeowners are reliable -- of all property owners are eligible for a temporary, 1-year property-tax assessment reduction if they believe or if we believe dave -- the assess

the value has fallen above their market value, which means that the value would be lower than the market value. in general, homeowners who are eligible, chances are, they purchased homes after 2003. we do get applicants who have owned homes since 1995 or earlier. in general, anybody who is owned their home prior to 2003, they are doing well, which is good news. chances are the market value is higher than the assessed value, meaning the property appreciate it. people we are able to offer little relief for, the sad news is, their homes have depreciated. there will be a little bit of relief for them. in general, last year, we saw 6400 applicants in comparison to four years ago when we had 248 requests.

the form a simple. it is one page. name, telephone number, e-mail, and the address you are applying for. if you can give us sales in formation of similar types of homes, we do hope you can give us that. if you cannot come maternity leave blank and sign it. e-mail or fax it to us -- if you cannot give us that, leave it blank and sign it. e-mail or fax it was. tenderloin downtown, south of market, mission bay, and south beach. those were many of the new high- rise condominiums that went in to market the last four or five years. we have seen a significant amount of depreciation in those areas. gaviria that has seen the largest value drop is -- the other area that has seen the largest volume drop is the outer mission, amazon, those areas

have seen the largest percentage drop. it is where we have been hit hardest with foreclosures. we make sure that we take an extra look. we proactively have been reviewing every home that was purchased after 2000. even though we think eligibility is for people up to 2003, we review any homeowner who purchased after 2000. that was roughly about 15,000 homeowners. of that, reduced -- no one had to apply or call us. we did this on our own. we reduced 10,000 of those homeowners. roughly, you have 10,000 reductions that we did on our own. 1700 reductions were done through this application process. 5000 time shares is how you get to the 17,000 number. just to give you a comparison, it is quite a bit in san francisco. these are huge numbers, larger than the dot com bust.

alameda and santa clara did about 1000 come a tenfold. -- 1000, tenfold. we are doing better than our counterparts in other parts of the bay area. i feel fortunate. the tax reduction was about 21 million in taxes that were not collected. 21 million in taxes were not collected. that is a significant number. it is out of a $6.5 billion budget. overall, the difference to the city is still rather small compared to what it meant to many of the other counties in other areas. let me stop there and take questions. >> [inaudible] >> 6462.

of those, we actually reviewed only 4177. many of those were already reviewed. we have actively reviewed them. some of them were not eligible. >> [inaudible] >> anybody who has gotten a reduction, they don't need to apply. we will look at it again. if you have gotten a reduction through an appeal or through our office, they don't need to apply again. they will be reviewed. they may want to apply because maybe they want to give us information we don't know. they are free to do that. that will be reviewed as part of that process. in general, they don't need to submit paperwork if they already got a reduction last year. >> [inaudible]

>> well, i think because it is just flat, the market has not rebounded and gone up. we will probably see the same number of people deserve reductions last year. i think it will be comparable. traditionally, an economic recovery is like a v. this is more like a u. we're at the bottom of it right now. my feeling is we are going to see, you know, a very unusual real-estate market in san francisco. it will be flat and not appreciate a whole lot right now. the number people who are eligible is probably similar to last year. i bet we will give about the same number of reductions this year as we did last year. it will not be that much different. >> [inaudible] >> anybody that was reviewed --

everybody in san francisco got a letter from us in july. they were told what their assessed value was. there were told that they got a reduction. if they got a reduction based on the letter, they don't need to reapply. what people do is we will review applicants. the deadline is march 31. all 17,000 who got reductions will be reviewed automatically. everyone will get notified again in july. we will not talk to anybody prior to that. everyone else will be getting the standard notification in july. >> [inaudible] you review these every year. >> every year. the reductions we review every year. as the market appreciates, we may take their assessments up based on what the market value is. they may go all the way back up to the factor value. it may go up partially higher.

obviously, that is what he would see. you would see a step over the years to include the appreciation based on what the market is feeling. right now, we are not seeing a whole lot of appreciation. chances are, the assessment will be a little bit different than last year. the original purchase applies plus whatever the inflation factor was on an annual basis. in general, up to 2%. we had a negative inflation factor for the first time last year. everybody got a reduction last year. >> [inaudible] >> this year, cpi based on the final number we saw, is. 5% positive. it is still well below 2%. -- is .5% positive. it is still well below 2%. the economy is still rather

flat. >> [inaudible] >> everybody who does not get a reduction will get a .5% increase in their assessment. that is just a proximate. it will probably be pretty close to that. we can show you the website. we follow the same website. it is the state cpi. it is a tracking mechanism for the state. >> [inaudible] >> i think there will vote to finalize in the next month or two. i think the number is done. >> overall, when all is said and done, what is the amount that you're going to receive [inaudible] >> for reductions, it will

really just depend on how much your property might have depreciated or appreciate id. some areas where maybe there was a 5% or 3%, the good news in san francisco, we have not seen a few drops we saw in other parts of the bay area, like solano, or properties dropped 50%. you don't want that. you want your property to appreciate. that is the goal. it might be $50, $100, maybe a few hundred dollars. it and will not be anything huge -- it will not be anything huge. >> [inaudible] >> over last year, it was a $21 million difference. because of the temporary reductions in homeowners values, there was $21 million that was not collected by the county. let's put that in context of the

$6.5 billion budget. >> [inaudible] >> the total property tax collected is about $2 billion. overall, we are doing quite well. >> [inaudible] >> overall, property-tax as have done extremely well the last five, 10 years. we have seen huge increases overall. >> [inaudible] >> no idea. if i did, i should be in las vegas placing a bet, or should be in new york making more money than i am here. the controller's office is probably tracking it more than us. we don't know. we have seen -- we have seen several governments pumped $1 trillion into the economy. it is a huge amount of money. we have seen some improvements,

but not the ones they were hoping for. great. ok. thanks, everybody. >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information

and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored

for retrieval and analysis. >> the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe. with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francisco. you can search by address and find incidents