captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chu: welcome to the

regular meeting of the budget finance subcommittee. our clerk is mr. victor young. are there any announcements? please -- >> please turn off all cell phones. please fill out speaker cards if you wish to make public comments. items at the dupont today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on may 10, 2011, unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: please call item no. 1. >> resolution authorizing the san francisco department of the environment to accept and expend a grant of $100,000 from the bay area air quality management district to contribute to the cost of installing 60 publicly available electric vehicle chargers. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have got bob hayden and mark

western from poe. >> thank you. good morning. this resolution before you is for one of a number of grants that we have or are expecting to receive shortly, which altogether provide the funding for us to install the electric vehicle public charging that we had planned for the city as our first effort this year in making public charging available for residents throughout the city. one month ago i was before you when we had a resolution for a grant that allowed us to receive a number of electric vehicle charging equipment, charters themselves, as a result of getting several federal grants. this resolution before you today is for a grant from the bay

area air quality management district that helps us install -- helps it so that we can install additional chargers for the remainder of the year. this grant is specifically to cover the cost of materials that are associated with putting those chargers in. pipes, conduit, wiring, a considerable amount. as i indicated, part of these chargers will be the ones that we received through the grant that you reviewed one month ago. we will be receiving additional grant funding, we anticipate, a bit later this year, which will allow us to purchase the remainder of chargers. altogether we are planning on installing 60 chargers in the downtown area. there will be additional chargers at the airport. the public ones are ones that

are meant to supplement what people used primarily in charging their electric vehicles, the electric charge -- but local chargers. we are putting these in on public property to provide access to convenience charging if people need it during the day when they're going to meetings at some location for a couple of hours to top off their batteries. there are additional chargers that will be available to the public in addition to what we are installing on public property, with commercial landowners, owners of retail stores, parking lots, they are also putting in public pay available charging throughout the city. " we have here is going to be on municipal property. we are looking at a number public libraries throughout the city, branches with locations where we can put chargers and

are doing site visits this month to assess the feasibility of doing it that individual public library branches. we are looking at the possibility of seeing if we can try to install chargers at the zoo, there is a redevelopment site in bayview hunters point and we are working with the redevelopment agency on other charges that we are installing in city-owned garages, primarily locations where we are updating existing charters that have been in place for 10 years but are now obsolete. as i indicated, this grant is to provide materials costs for installing chargers throughout the remainder of the year on public property. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you for this presentation. if there are no questions, let's go to public comment. with any members of the public

wish to comment on item number one? if you want to speak on item number one, please come on up. go ahead. >> good morning, supervisors. i am retired and living in san francisco, i have lived here for 59 years. the reason that i wanted to comment on this item is that there was a very interesting article this morning talking about $120 million hit that the mtc toke on a very interesting financial transaction. it is part of what i call voodoo economics. hopefully this item, which deals with electrical vehicles, is not going to involve any suspicious or hybrid financing. the reason why i bring up this item, when i read it, it looks

to me like [no audio] use by public employees. that is the feeling that i get. i am kind of wondering, what is the protocol for residential use? i have a feeling that most of these 60 units are going to be placed where local politicians will have access to them rather than the residential people that somehow could afford these the hackles. also, i would like to bring up the issue of security for these units and liability in case of a malfunction while the vehicle is being charged. i would like to know if that is being checked out thoroughly, especially the reliability portion. you know electricity, sometimes it is unpredictable. if a vehicle gets fried, who will be liable for that? i would like to make sure that

those units will be located where residents have vehicles. we should try to make sure the people that can afford them can use them. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is joseph [unintelligible] and i have a couple of issues concerning this. first of all, i was wondering if there would be any problems between municipally created stations as opposed to privately-owned, disrupting the market process. also, would these be exclusively available for san francisco residents only bella or are commuters going to be available to use them? thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: i had a couple of quick questions. i think that this is a very

fitting step forward in the city's ordinance commitment towards the climate action plan. i think that this is consistent with what our goals have been for the last four years. for public knowledge, where is the energy coming from. what is the source of electricity? >> for the chargers on municipal property, in almost every case said francisco public utilities commission. supervisor mirkarimi: i think it is important to underscore that point, something that we should be proud of, this is puc generated. also, are there costs that will be generated for the amount of electricity is used? what will be the reporting and assessment of how well these are used or not used?

>> one of the benefits of the new generation of technology we are able to use for the chargers, they have a lot of software that can record how much they are being used, what hours they are being drawn on. all of that information is being reported to a central location that we have access to and that we can monitor. but the individuals, but the degree to which they are used. supervisor mirkarimi: is it possible that this technology could adopt something similar, like sf park, where one could be made known in advance when a charter becomes available? in that potentially welcome problem that people are out surfing to find an available will trickle charge. >> two dancers. because of the location and miss

their -- and communications built in, the charter companies themselves are developing applications where people can access where they are and whether they are available or not. we will be working with charter companies on how to really integrate that so that there can be a very good system, very much like sf park, perhaps integrated, so that it is part of the information that people confined. not only where it is located, but if it is available. that is coming. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i would motion to adopt this with recommendation for the board. supervisor chu: we have a motion and a second to send forward with recommendation. i will ask the department to follow up with the individuals on the questions that they had another conversation between

private and public. thank you. item number two, please. >> item #two. ordinance amending ordinance no. 191-10 (annual salary ordinance fy2010-2011) to reflect the addition of 0.25 social worker in the office of the public defender. supervisor chu: thank you very much. i believe that we have jennifer johnson on from the public defender's office? >> thank you, supervisors. this point to five position is what is left of a grant that we had hired someone as an employment specialist to work in the public defender's office, doing support of employment for people with major mental illnesses represented by the public defender, trying to get them into competitive jobs within the community. we hired someone to do that, thshe then left.

this position is to fill the remainder. i am here to answer any questions you have about the grant for the position. supervisor chu: my understanding is that this is a grant fund position without a general fund intact? >> correct. supervisor chu: thank you. without any questions at the moment, can we open this up to public comment? would any members of the public like to comment? seeing no one, public comment is closed. we can move forward without objection and recommendation. item #3. >> item #3. resolution approving the special transit fare (fast pass) agreement between the city and the bay area rapid transit district, with a term from january 1, 2010, to june 30, 2018. supervisor chu: thank you.

i believe that we have a number of representatives here on this item. would you like to begin? >> good morning, supervisors. we are before you to discuss this agreement between the mta and bart. we received the budget analysts report. at this point analysts are open to going back and renegotiating did agreement, calling back with a decision date. unless you have additional questions, that is where we are at this point. supervisor chu: could you just lay out the general conditions for the contract elapid >> the contract before you right now? supervisor chu: the proposal.

>> currently, we reimbursed bart $1 for every ride that a san franciscan takes on bart. historically, this rate has increased with regular fares as determined by their board at bart. since 2003 they have had an increase policy based. adjusting to inflation at a less than 5% productivity factor, this policy expires in 2012. i am not sure what the bart board will be doing after that. based on this formula for wage increase, it should be left to 5.5%, if you look at a biannual formula and give it an average inflation rate of 3%.

i know that for the past five years, there is in san francisco have increased by 40%. but the key financial terms of the proposal before you suggests that the reimbursement rate goes up by 17%, from $1 to $2.19. because of the length of the term agreement before you, after 2012, the rate increases are consistent with other fare policies as approved by the bart board. also suggesting annual rate cap increases of 10%. the budget analyst recommendation concurs going back and discussing this by not knowing what the board is going to do in the future, something more close to inflation. i will conclude by saying depth

both bart and ourselves are committed to this path that is a model for a nation in terms of two term assistance to create one of their product for the citizens of san francisco, referred to as a model for localities. i think they are committed to serving the san francisco writer is. we will be happy to go back and discuss this to bring it back before the board of supervisors. supervisor chu: i believe that we have a budget analyst report on this item. >> i will be brief. basically, summarizing key points in the report. on page 3-9, it is structured to look at the mta to reimbursed bart audit cost basis for an 8.5 year agreement on a fair policy that is yet to be determined, as

stated. given that the board of directors will not be deciding for the failed policy until after july 1, 2012, we consider it premature for the mta to enter into the agreement under current provisions. in table 6 on page 8 of the report, the proposed agreement has the potential to result in costs of $20.5 million by 2018, about 136% or $8 more than the $8 million paid in 2010, assuming a conservative one time writer should increases. an unknown policy in the future, the essence of