department, who are also going to be a part of -- throughout the summer -- with the summer school and the camp mather experience -- and that is a big deal. also, not here, but as part of the partnership and of the table, the police department. and a number of other community-based organizations that of all been at the table to make sure this program work and that kids are safe and that san francisco is going to be safe through the summer. thank you for coming out, and hopefully we will leave here and i will -- and we all leave as agents of change and talk about the exciting things the city is doing in share with our communities so we have as much participation as possible, but moreover that we have awareness, so people know not just what the city is doing, but what we are doing it, why it is important,

and why it matters to the citizens of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you, paul. it is not just about public safety, but it is also about learning throughout the summer. no one knows that better than our director of the department of children and families. >> hello, i am maria su. i want to thank the mayor and his leadership and appreciate carlos garcia and his leadership of the school district. we definitely see our department as the glue that connects the city with the different departments together and to help advocate for services for children, youth, and families. i want to mention a few things the department is doing for the summer, because we are doing a

lot. if you want to learn more, please go to 311, 211, or our partent-specific website sf.org. our goals are to create programs and services that meet the needs of working families. i want to emphasize working families because i received a directive from the mayor that require this to make sure all of programming help support all of those working families in san francisco, because you know how important that is to keep our families here and to have " -- quality services for them, and to focus our services on at risk children, youth, and families. we also have a lot of families that are struggling right now. we need to make sure our

services prioritizes families. finally, we want to make sure would provide a healthy meals for all of our children who are experiencing any of these programs. of note, we want to make sure that everyone knows we're finding a variety of summers services for kindergartners up to eighth grade. he wants to make sure that we were able to find $3 million to invest in full day summer programs. there are 63 full day of summer programs throughout the city. right now, where families can enroll, so they can have that quality experience. we project to serve approximately 7000 children this year with just that one strategy. this is one of many different

strategies. we are working very closely with the school district so we can provide them those opportunities so that those kids who are going to summer school will have the opportunity to receive this enrichment programs and other fine quality programs. in terms of services for teenagers, we of 53 programs throughout the city that will provide enrichment, leadership services, and in one thing we have heard over and over again and all of our community meetings -- youth employment opportunities. we will continue that the summer. we will continue three of our largest youth employment programs in the city. one is called the mayor's youth and education program. with allocated approximately 450 slots for youth the summer. youth works, a department -- and

we have allocated 150 slots this summer. and then, finally, work creation, which is a partnership with our rec and park department in which we will allocate 120 slots, through partnership of course, to have people in our park facilities this summer. and paul henderson has already touched on violence prevention. we will continue our programs in service of violence prevention services. these are full year programs for our community. but very important -- we want to make sure everybody knows that all of our violence prevention programs are working with the department of public safety throughout the city, so we can coordinate our services and make sure that our services are

targeted where we need to be periods -- need to be. we have been able to work with a wonderful food vendor, and they will be providing organic, locally grown sustainable foods this summer for all of our children and all of our programs. we will provide 80 programs this summer. some of them are at park and rep. some of them will be at a community-based organizations. we will have food opportunities for children starting in june of the way into august, and the project to serve approximately 5000 meals per day every day during that time. this is more than last year, and i believe we will have better quality food because they are organic and locally-grown foods.

if you want to learn more about any of these programs, please go to 311, 211, or sfkids.org. >> thank you. so the benefits from this? uc student leaders. -- you see student leaders. we've had great partnership with families throughout the city where these services matter most. we want to invite one of our parent leaders, apparently a son actually -- a parent liason actually. >> hello. in apparent leader, and i wanted to let know that we all should have the opportunity to have a

good education, regardless of what neighborhoods they live in. this is of fundamental value for college and her rear for all. this year, in the mother of an eighth grader in the san francisco unified school district. the freshman class will be the first graduating class to meet the new graduation requirements that ensures access to california state university and university of california approved courses, otherwise known as a through g. this is one of the many ways the san francisco unified school district is keeping its promise to access and equity to all the students in the city. the commitment of city leaders like the mayor, the board of education, the board of supervisors, to increase summer

programming and access to summer school is the strongest sign of keeping a promise to the next generation of san franciscans, providing the summer program for ninth graders -- about 900 students -- who otherwise would be off track and could not continue is just amazing. i am so excited about it. this year makes the 20 anniversary of the children's fund -- the 20th anniversary of the children's fund, and i am happy about having leaders who put the children's fund in impacting lives through the after-school program and child care. we would like at the same time to think the mayor and maria su for working hard with community members to understand the needs that we have.

to have the stillness be able to get these opportunities that will accomplish -- to have the students be able to get these opportunities that will accomplish access and equities. thank you. >> and finally, whether it is finding fields to play on or learning how to cook, rec and park has been hitting it out of the park for a while. phil, tell us what you are doing this summer. >> hello. it is hot. it is almost too hot to wear the vest. which i never take out. the recreation and park department's summer is the most joyous and exciting and important time. i want to thank mayor lee and superintendent for 7 on your side. and all my colleagues back here for the vision, which is simple. the best way to keep kids busy during the summer is to give them healthy things to do.

that is what we are all about. i am going to give you an overview of some of the things we are doing. we are proud to be able to offer over 30,000 camp slots for our kids. 30,000. that is an increase, mr. mayor, from last year. our camp programs are fantastic. they range from traditional to art camps, but we are always recognizing that kids today think differently than we did when we were kids. so we have skateboarding, surfing, the amex viking -- bmx biking, activities for young and old, roller soccer, all kinds of sports. one of our most important principles is every child has an opportunity to participate regardless of ability to bed. we have are robust scholarship

program. already this early in our registration cycle, we've given 500 kids scholarships to attend our camps. in addition, i want to thank our partners because we cannot do it alone. we have a great partner with cyf, and also they are providing healthy meals for our kids during the day. i want to think the housing authority. i do not know if they are here today. we have had a great relationship for two years where all of our children who live in public housing get to participate in our summer programs, and most importantly, our learn to swim program all summer long for free. i want to focus on two summer camps. one is a new camp we are doing this summer called camp azure. camp azure is for children on

the autism spectrum who need extra supervision. they will be right alongside can silver streak, one of our most fabulous camps. -- right alongside camp silve tree. we will be hosting a very special camp experience for children on the autism spectrum. and finally, to follow up on the opportunity for camp mather, for the first time -- camp mather has always been the most special family experience. it has never been a place for at risk youth, and for the first time, we will be bringing 60 kids to experience the wonderment and beauty of nature, right at our hetch hetchy reservoir. it is one of the most spectacular assets we have and in the city. kids learn about hiking and

participate in team building exercises, obstacle courses. they will be able to learn to swim. they will help us build trails. they will stage a talent show. i do not know if they know that yet. it will be a fabulous five-day experience for them. we are excited about it. we also have a program for people who do not want to participate in camp. summer registration starts may 31. this is for children of all ages. connie over here has our program guide for both our summer programs and our camp cycle. as we like to say at rec and park, get out and play. thank you very much. >> we have a lot that is going on the summer. i want to acknowledge any alvarez -- henry alvarez from the housing authority. i also want to and knowledgeluis

hererra, our city librarian. thank you for joining us, partnering with us, and making sure our students are safe and continuing with learning to read the summer. thank you.

supervisor campos: good morning. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the regular meeting of thursday, may 12, to the board of supervisors government audit and oversight committee. i and the chair of the committee. we will be joined shortly by

vice chair farrell. we have been joined by committee member president david chiu. we want to thank john and jennifer for their service. do you have any announcements? >> yes, please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out a speaker card and place it to the right of the podium. completed speaker cards and copies of documents presented will be included as part of the file and submitted to the court. items at the budget will appear on the may 24 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor campos: can you call item one please? >> resolution approving an agreement with the nonprofit owners association of fort ministrations/management of the ocean avenue community benefits district. supervisor campos: good morning.

>> good morning. thank you. today before you is a resolution for your consideration to approve a management agreement with the newly formed non-profit owners association, which will manage the new ocean avenue community benefits district that was approved by the board of supervisors in december. this is the management agreement template that we use for all of the cbd's in san francisco, obviously tailored to this particular non-profit. if approved, the city can transfer the assessments that have been collected to the management corp., which will then be used for services in the district, per their management plan. if you have any questions, feel free to ask me. supervisor campos: thank you.

this is an item that has been introduced by supervisor avalos. i do not know that we have any questions. i think this is pretty self- explanatory. why don't we open it up to public comment? is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? [reading names] if there's anyone else and has not signed up you would like to speak, please come up. we're going to limit public comment to two minutes because we expect a large turnout for a couple of the items. please go ahead. >> good morning. i am with the ocean avenue revitalization collaborative, and also acting as interim staff person for the ocean avenue cbd. we would like you to move this to the board of supervisors for approval.

we are ready. we have set up committees. we have had various meetings with the board already, and it would be great if you could move this forward. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good morning, supervisors. today, i am representing the ocean avenue association. the new in formation nonprofit association that would manage the cbd in the ocean avenue neighborhood. needless to say, we support this contract be approved. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor chiu: i am happy to support this and would like to move this forward with recommendation. supervisor campos: we have a motion to move this forward.

we can take that without objection. can you call item two? >> item two, hearing on city services auditor's report concerning the payroll of the fire department from july 1, 2009, through june 30, 2010. supervisor campos: thank you. this is an item i introduced, and this is something we introduced in the course of conducting the business of this committee. we want to make sure we have a hearing on the key audits conducted by the controller's office and other agencies. good morning. >> good morning.

i am from the controller's office, and we are going to talk about the fire department payroll audit. in our audit program, we have instituted a program to look at our city payroll process, and what we are looking to determine is -- are we actually doing what we say we are doing in terms of -- according to the mou, our different bargaining units, which outlined our pay practices. we look at fiscal year 2009- 2010. we look at only one year. we looked at retirement lump-sum distributions, at premium pay designations for positions and configurations of payroll systems, and our work commenced on august 10, 2010, and the report was issued on march 15,

2011, and all of our audits follow our generally accepted standards. our audit scope included looking back the department in population of 1493 employees. of the population, 1425 employees are represented by the san francisco fire fighters union, local 798. therefore, the audit focused on payroll practices of employees represented by local 798, which there are 5% of the employee department who are mia employees.

unit two includes pilot and fireboat. as you can see by the slide for fiscal years 2009-2010, the department to expenditures were over $2,709, including base salaries, overtime costs, premium pays, and onetime payments. based salaries include the total base rate, also if an employee performs a long-term acting assignment, it would include that as well. overtime expenditures include any time work beyond the regular standard work week, and premium pay extenders include the amount paid to eligible employees as prescribed in the employee's mou. as well, there are a onetime payments, which are generally

retirement lump-sum payments. for this audit, we again only looked at one fiscal year, and we used a statistical method. we sought to have a confidence level in 95%, and in our process of selecting items for review, we used the risk-based approach. the department administered 63 payouts, of which 13 were reviewed for retirement. the audit tested the pay records of all 250 employees who receive the fixed hazardous materials came rate for this fiscal year, which equates to 6823 pay records, and the audit defines a

pay record as one occurrence of the pay for each individual employee. for the 250 employees, additionally, the audit test of eligibility for fixed hazardous pay, and we tested eligibility for all 130 of the 250 employees. we also looked -- during that time, there were 159 employees who receive location-based hazardous materials premium pay, of which the audit only looked at 20 of those employees for that particular premium pay. for short-term assignments, the i tested the -- the audit tested the atrophy of hourly pay for employees, or we look at all 3888 k records. for long-term acting assignments, we examine a rates for 30 of the 87 employees or

619 pay records. for education and training achievement pay, we performed an analysis for 24 of the 1190 employees who received this pay period as you can see by the slides, there are four key departments that are part of the payroll cycle from date to hire to retirement. the department is responsible -- the fire department is responsible for finding employees and injuring the employee time allocation in to our city wide payroll. part of human resources is responsible for negotiating collective bargaining and coordinating with city departments, and payroll and personnel services division is responsible for processing time submitted by city departments and issuing employee checks and maintaining our payroll system, and the retirement services is

responsible for confirming employees retirement eligibility and monitoring retirement policy. for the critical department terms, we wanted to quickly talk about some of the critical department terms. one of those terms is depression or field employees who work a work week average of 48.7 hours per week or an average of two 24-hour shifts per week. then, there are designations for positions. our temporary appointments made to fill in an open position, and there are o