supervisor chu: you just repeat again? >> page two, lines 14 through 17. the lines reading whereas, soma supporting a union-level instructor to provide training as part of the previously approved resolution -- that entire whereas clause, we would like to strike. supervisor kim: why are these happening? these two strikes? >> if you look in the attachment, at the top, it reads funding recommendations for the soma community fund. it is the third proposed grantee. this was part of a plan to hire and employ an experienced union instructor to provide carpenter training out of asian neighborhood design. since they had these discussions and review the proposals for originally, the cac asian neighborhood design, and unions, have all the sudden this is not the strategy they

want to move forward with. they will still be working with amd but also with citybuild. supervisor chu: was there anything in the resolution that recommends that? hiring a union-level instructor? >> no, i do not believe so. supervisor kim: could i have a copy of that resolution? >> i gave my copy to your aid. supervisor chu: could you just repeat the other amendment? i think there were two. >> at the very beginning, instead of the amount of 120,000, it should read 100,000. and then strike no. 3. supervisor chu: the union journey law will instructor. >> right.

so the intent is to still work with a union instructor, but they are rethinking their strategy on how to do that and what partners. supervisor chu: that was something agreed upon by the organization that would have received the funding, an addition to the labor unions, and cac? >> correct. supervisor chu: anything else you would like to add to your presentation? >> i could read the background on it. in august 2005, the rincon hill area plan was approved, rezoning the carrier for residential development. the board of supervisors approved an amendment to the code establishing the soma community legislation fund. this has an impact fee of $14 per square foot on residential neighborhoods in rincon hill.

in addition, approximately 6 million of the rim, held improvement bonds, $11 per square foot, will be transferred to this fund. the ordinance also stipulates there will be a soma community stabilization fund advisory committee. the chair of the committee is also present today. composed of seven members of the soma community to advise the mayor's office of housing and board of supervisors on the administration of the fund. in february 2006, the board appointed seven members to the committee. the committee staffed by the mayor's office of housing developed a strategic plan to guide the administration and expenditure of the fund. committee and it was a critical part of the process and the committee held three town hall to solicit input regarding their needs. the plan has four coal areas, one to strengthen community cohesion, two, support economic and workforce development for low-income residents and businesses that serve the community, 3, increase access to

housing opportunities for existing residents of soma, and four, improve the infrastructure and physical environment. the strategic plan was approved by the board in april 2008 and plans serve as a framework for the first round of grants, which the mayor's office of housing is currently administering. in july of last year, the board approved resolution 38110 authorizing the mayor's office of housing to expend soma community stabilization fund dollars to subsidize the development of on-site affordable rental housing units at 333 harrison. under certain conditions. including 450,000 that will be deposited into the fund for community benefits, such as work force and jobber in the services, as well as housing average services to make sure some residents can benefit from the employment and housing opportunities created by this development. the committee is recommending 50,000 of this 450,000 be allocated to fund a committed to

coordinator to assist community based organizations serving soma prior populations in preparing for the employment and housing opportunities created by the 333 harrison development. additionally, prior to releasing another round of grants, the committee is recommending 50,000 the allocated to hiring a strategic planning consultant to assist the committee and mayor's office of housing in assessing and revising the fund strategic plan now that we have had a first-round pick in the assessment would include any evaluation of the car grantees performance and achieving outcomes. on january 31 of this year, the mayor's office of housing released two request for proposal for a community coordinator and one for a strategic planning consultant and technical assistance workshop was held on february 2 and proposals were due on february 11. panel consisting of five members, two mayors of office of house staff, two committee members, one expert in committee -- community development and the land of the main recommendation.

the committee met on february 17 to finalize the recommendation that are before you today. supervisor chu: thank you for your presentation. why don't we open this up for public comment. i have two cards. ada chen. stephen suzuki. >> good morning. i am the chair of the soma stabilization fund. connie, the co-chair with me, was not able to attend. we wanted to make sure to talk about the purpose of the funds. as you know, soma had the bulk of the development that occurred in the past decade. in the future decade, we expect a lot of development will be occurring in soma. 333 harrison is one of the new developments in the city. we are excited to be a part of this. specifically, because we see

there are some tangible outcomes that we will be working with the developer to ensure accrues to soma residents. also, the community coordinator position we see as critical. we thank ccdc in helping with the implementation and helping to bring their capacity to ensure jobs and housing outcomes come to some residents. we also know this capacity will probably be looking at other issues in soma, too, so this position is critical for the long term success of the fund because it will also be evaluating our ability and out comes around 333 harrison. the strategic plan, the grant is -- i do not know if you are familiar with ms. walker. she has a lot of experience on the national front in terms of foundation work. she is also on the local level in soma and citywide issues, so she will be looking at us in that context and coming up with outcomes regarding soma.

thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. the speaker. >> i am the executive director of asian neighborhood designs. i wanted to speak in support of this measure. we are a soma-based nonprofit provide architectural planning and green contruction trading services throughout 7 cisco. this initiative would really help us as an organization set up of market by providing greater strategic planning and resources. -- throughout san francisco. given all of the cuts, we need as much support as we can get. my comment -- asian neighborhood designs have been working with the stabilization fund and the union for a number of months to try to bring this great opportunity to fruition. we have a contract with the stabilization fund right now. we are providing soma-target residents with our construction

training programs. we have a 40% higher rate right now, folks graduating out of it. it is difficult with the economy. the real point of this, moving forward, is that the opportunity for union work, a career in union, we have to make sure that as we move forward measures are in place that ensure residents from soma are recruited into the program, that they are case managed, and that they are placed on the jobs and followed and case managed after. we have been meeting with citybuild, the developer. i know the intent is to get this in place. my comment is really, this is a great opportunity. we are working -- looking forward to working with all the entities to bring this forward. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. bright line defense project. for several months we have her

murmurs that the local hiring commitment has been going sideways. the project's sponsors commitment to 27% hiring was an expected to to product approval, especially as hiring law was moving in the background of 333 harrison. it is our understanding there is still willingness on the part of the developer to follow through with this commitment, and thankfully, there seems to be committed to that in the hearing today. but we have also heard of pressure by some remaining holdouts, the local hiring law, who seem to -- seek to intimidate developers and contractors. therefore, before disturbing any future funds to 33 harrison, with just a follow-up hearing for the developer and contractor can share with the board language that guarantees this local hiring for local 7 to residents and soma residents as well. supervisor mirkarimi in the past years has been more than aware of the need to put this on

the public record and make sure this does not -- this local hiring commitment is not just based on hearsay. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> ♪ cities cities that help soma are the luckiest city in the world a city that does not get half the amount of money know, and they need it all first be a city that helps soma people in cities help soma are the luckiest city in the world ♪ supervisor chu: thank you. >> i am the chairman of the emerald funds, the purchaser of

333 harrison. we are in the final stages of executing a document with the mayor's office of housing committing to provide 25% local hire on the project. i should note, we are actually at an extraordinary critical part of the project. we originally executed agreements with webcor back in july of 2010, subject to approval by the fha. we did it to four contractors, and into an agreement in july. as part of that agreement, we had the agreement that was included in the webcor contract. we then took the recommendation from the board of supervisors in august. we entered the first source hiring agreement executed by our company and by webcor in

november. we picked up the building permit and paid for it in december. we have received national loan approval from the fha for this project. we have not gotten a firm commitment yet but we have gotten an e-mail from hud. our product is ready to start. we need to have the mayor's office of housing execute it now. the government is supposedly going to shut down on friday. we are trying to get the fha firm commitment in the next two days. this document, which is 100% negotiated, is ready to be executed. we are trying to do the best we can to meet our local hiring needs for the city. we are not hiring just 50% of the initial entry. we are guaranteed to hire 100% -- supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other members of the public of which to speak on

this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. the item is before the committee. supervisor mirkarimi: motion to accept. supervisor chu: supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i am not sure who i ask this question to, but my understanding is amd was the initial response to do the work to train soma residents in order to help meet the goals of employing at least 30% soma residents for additional employment. my understanding now is that citybuild will be doing that work. i wonder if i could ask some questions? i guess i'm curious as to how we are going to ensure we do the

proper outreach to soma residents, in order to get them the training they need to qualify for the jobs on this project. who is doing the out reach, how we are monitoring it, to ensure we are meeting these goals? even if we do the out reach now, i do not know when this product is getting started. if you could walk me through the time line, how this is happening. >> just to go back to your other comment, we are planning to work with citybuild to do some of the training. however, we already have funded asian neighborhood hud designs to do the training. i will let steve talk about what is currently happening. moving forward, we want to work both with amd, citybuild, and court knitters role. will help to connect the dots on all of the folks doing the work force training and development in the neighborhood. they are going to work not only on the housing but also the

employment peace as well to make sure that outreach is being done, both by citybuild and by asian neighborhood designs. supervisor kim: if you could also talk about the timeline of the project, how we plan to meet that goal. how many residents we have trained and ready to go. >> we had a contract this past year. we have trained nine folks for every contract, 15 total. four placed on jobs. moving forward, we are still in discussions. we worked to establish meetings with citybuild. the way i look at it, the discussion would be, we already have a network of folks that we work with south of market to get referrals. that is how we are able to get our soma residents into our program. we would look to keep that going into that port.

at&t would provide services to citybuild, getting them into citybuild which is their hard training. and could provide the training. post graduation, we could work with citybuild to do it post graduation placement services and follow up with the project. there are some basic numbers involved here. the union has -- we need to talk with them further but there is a set number of placing 5 community folks, essentially joined the union lines because they are being placed on call on to the harrison street project. four males, one the number graduation cycle. working with the citybuild model, similar to ours, five summer graduates. they would be guaranteed union

positions. i think as the developers said, they are trying to get going on this. i think the way the schedule looks, we are still in discussions on that. the training programs are generally 14 to 16 weeks. if we can get citybuild set up for the next cycle, when that cycle graduates, which is still kind of in flux, then they can be placed onto the developer's project site. the schedule is in flux. i would say the only basic numbers are looking at roughly 15 per year, specifically on the side coming out of the trading programs. there are still opportunities for other folks coming in through other venues on the project also. supervisor kim: i am not sure if you are even the right person to ask, but what does 30% mean? what is the number for that?

>> in terms of the actual projected the entry-level jobs? >> are you talking about -- there are long-term permanent jobs that will be somewhere between 12 and 15 actually working on the project. that could increase depending on what happened with the park. we do not know where that will stand. we are guaranteeing the 30% of those jobs will be from soma local hire. we have agreed to do that, absolutely. supervisor kim: but roughly what does that mean, 30%, what does that mean in numbers? >> if you are talking about 15 jobs, five permanent jobs for soma residents. supervisor kim: so when we talk but and you some jobs, approximately 15? >> it is just a big apartment

building. supervisor kim: i appreciate the percentages. i just want to know what that number means. i know that our programs are small. i just want to make sure that we are able to meet that goal. >> there are way more jobs in the whole union. i have seen estimates that are around 400 jobs in building the project. and you have to understand, one thing that would help is never good design. when you actually start a project, under virtually no jobs, very few jobs. you are doing excavation, digging the foundation's. it is really three, four months before as a given number of jobs. the peak of the jobs is -- in this particular project -- 12 months down the road when you have all the trades working. but the initial, not too many. they are waiting until fall. supervisor kim: so we feel

confident that the training programs and existing workers and soma will be able to meet the needs that we have agreed to in this resolution? >> i cannot imagine not. supervisor kim: since you are here, i know this is about the soma stabilization fund expenditures and not about the resolution passed in july. i wanted to ask some questions in terms of -- i know you committed to 25% local hiring. part of the legislation which you are not necessarily bound by is that you wanted to be bound by trade. what are some of those challenges to meeting those goals by trade? if not in the front end, over the long term. >> but we did last july was execute with webcor and subcontractors, the contracts subject to faa approval for the jobs. those bids were basically

binding. we are subsequently going back -- actually, the first time i ever saw this was on february 7, 2011 when i got the document from the mayor's office of housing. i had no idea that we would be subject to something that we had already picked up a building permit for. in answering your question, we are going to make every effort to do it by trade and we will track hours by trade, but we are committing for 25%, which is higher than the 20%, but we cannot actually legally commit to do it by trade. there are a lot of trades -- for example, plumbers only have 18%. they live in san francisco. it is very hard for us to

actually do it by individual trades. we will make a best effort to do that, we have agreed to -- both webcor and i will be running the original subcontractors, asking them to give preference. we have done business with the electrical pension funds. we are going to sit down with them but they are going to lean all over the unions. we will not try to do it our best by trade as well but we cannot legally commit to that. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: just a couple of statements. one of the critical pieces to this is the fact that there is strong compliance with our first source law. after we upgraded the first source lot in the last several years, that obligation has now got to be delivered upon. if i heard mr. erickson

correctly, they will have to deliver by making sure that this is all solidified with them in the next 48 hours, with regard to their ability to proceed. that is a vital portion. the second part is, there are a number of other reservoirs of bodies, other than just citybuild, where we can be recruiting and enlisting people. but citybuild is through the primary reservoir, in particular. i think citybuild is the most well-known, but it is disconcerting a little bit because there is sometimes a cog in the pipeline of them being able to keep pace, especially now with the economy turning around, and then being able to turn out graduates and people who are ready to hit these work project areas so that we have the skilled talent so that we can put them right to the job

sites. so there has to be a more concerted effort in working, not just with that central reservoir of citybuild, but working with the one-stop job training centers that are also located in a variety of neighborhoods, in particular, like chinatown, western addition, mission district. not everyone goes through citybuild or those one-stop job training centers and vice versa. that is why the nets need to be more splayed in a way that is more better at attracting people in those impacted neighborhoods. i often hear about citybuild, which has been very effective and we hope it can continue to be, but it is not just citybuild. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. we have taken public, already. the item is before us. i believe there are recommendations and amendments.

to the city attorney, those recommendations would not be sensitive? do we have a motion to take the recommendations as articulated by the department? ok. we will take the motion to amend without objection. on the item which have a motion to send this item forward as amended to the full board with recommendations. without objection. thank you. item five please. >> item 5. hearing to consider release of reserved funds, department of technology - committee on information technology fy2010- 2011 budget, in the amount of $6,393,373, to fund the consolidation, standardization, and optimization of the city's technology operations and applications. supervisor chu: thank you. i believe we have mr. walton hear from the department of technology and mr. vincent.

>> thank you, supervisors. john walton, the part of technology. we have a brief presentation for you today regarding the item you are hearing, the release of reserves. associated with the presentation is an update under way to consolidate data centers around the city. we are handing out an updated presentation for you because we just did a few of the numbers to make sure there were up to date. there were no significant changes in and out provided to you. with that, if you do not mind, i will go through a few slides. and then i am sure you will want to have a conversation about this. a bit of background about the project, the technology reserved established would generate savings through city- wide technology, accomplished through across department

corporation. i.t. is very centralized. some allies in the technology budget. a lot of the staffing and expenditures exist out in the individual departments to provide the maximum amount of flexibility and operational needs of those departments. over the last year, we brought together those departments to work together jointly on a plan to consolidate individual data centers around the city into combined share data centers. the data center project that has become a key indicator of how well the city is working together to achieve these technologies savings. in that sense, the reserve has been successful. and data center operations, to put it in context, i am sure you have seen the report, consists of $70 million annually of what the city spends city what the technology expenditures. we have been working on a plan with coit. many of you are probably

familiar with them. the government audit and overseas i.t. expenditures and policies city-wide, department heads, for supervisors, mayor's office, in a two-year plan to consolidate data centers. the department's is presenting some ideas about what we think it is of benefit to data center consolidation. we think there is significant operational benefits related to this more efficient model, rather than everyone building their data centers. probably, in light of a lot of things happening in the world right now, i would like to stress it is really about disaster readiness. the traditional way we have done things in creating data centers, although some of them have been low cost, have not been the most disaster ready facilities. this new plan really improves the readiness of the city, of the equipment in these