$800,000 and the thursday. thank you. the ethics department. this is a department we did hear from briefly last week. this is a department that we did ask the budget analyst to go back and see if they could provide some brief information on, a particular because we do have a significant pot of money in the mayor's campaign fund, a public campaign funds that are in there, so it is worthwhile to cover that and have a budget analyst report on them. >> thank you, madame chair, supervisors. we did work with the legislative analyst's office, and they did complete the review. also, you requested a breakdown of how we expect public

financing expenditures in 2012 to pan out. i did forward the document to all of you with that breakdown. the only other thing i would highlights while i am here today, last week, i told you the total funds distributed under the public financing program was $1,674,000, and in the seven days since i gave you that figure, an additional $826,869 has been distributed in the last week, bringing us up, that much closer to our estimate. i do not know we will hit the $3.1 million by this thursday, but we're going to come very close. at this point, we are just over

$2.5 million in expenditures for this fiscal year on the mural public finance program. supervisor chu: with regards to the campaign fund, we have a balance sitting there that will be carrying forwardthe mayor's s an additional amount in the budget as well. to the extent that, come november, after the mayor's race is completed, and all the public drawdowns have been completed and verified, if there is a huge remaining balance, is there any provision to allow us to bring that back into the general fund? >> there is actually two ways you can deappropriate those funds, directly through the mayor's office or an act of the board. the amount i am proposing would be leftover. circumstances being what they

are, it is difficult to make an exact prediction. but we are anticipating that out of that $3.5 million, we would need about $900,000 for the following board of supervisors. supervisor chu: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: i assume you are using pretty conservative calculations? >> i think we're being conservative in the ability of the leading candidates to raise $400,000 is reasonable. id is not certain. and then the ability of -- it is not certain. in any ability in the past has been reasonable, but not certain. in the mayoral race, we're doing the best we can. in the board race, we least have

something to go on. supervisor wiener: so, under your estimates, using fairly conservative assumptions, after we finished the mayor's race, there will be $3.5 million left in the fund, and you will need the best part of $1 million, $900,000, for 2012, so that would be about $2.5 million. >> a little bit more than that. supervisor wiener: what is the policy rationale for leaving a sum of money that large above and beyond what we expect to use for the mayoral and for the first half of next year, for the supervisory -- given that we have so many services ranging

from use the service to trees or roads that are facing major budget efficiency is it? >> also, the policy decisions are in your hands to make. i believe the founders had in their vision a separate fund that would be capped in that it is more attractive to the candidates in the future to participate in public financing should they know the money is already there, rather than being dependent on future operations. i think that is the rationale. supervisor wiener: i understand the pleading the fund to zero -- depleting the fund to zero could have issues erratic, but perhaps that portion could be used for other purposes? >> our experience with the mayor's office is, those times

when we were concerned there would not be and out, it did happen on one occasion. there was a very swift supplemental appropriation. obviously, this $4.2 million restoration is an attempt to meet that obligation. again, the process has been there. supervisor chu: thank you. given the budget analyst report, showing $3 million or so, there is no way to have that reallocated to any general fund except to actively appropriate from the department, correct? >> madam chair, member from the budget analyst at's office asks supervisor wiener a question. each year, there is an

appropriation of two -$75,000 per resident in the city. in prior years, the mayor had deappropriated funds from the balance. the current budget we institutes funds previously taken out of this budget to make them whole. at this point, there was a supplemental appropriation of $3 million just a few months ago, an additional appropriation this year. right now, with what is in the budget, they are completely whole in this fund. if any funds are reduced, there would be protected about $3.5 million fund balance at the end of the fiscal year, 2011-2012,

at the department projections are correct. you should know if any funds are taken out, they would have to be restored in the future. supervisor wiener: it effectively would be a loan from the fund? >> correct. in essence. and that is what has happened in the past. because there was not an election and there was not a need for the funds in that year. the mayor had taken funds of the budget. but now the budget is made whole. supervisor wiener: right, and i understand the way the system is designed, it can lead to potential over-appropriation into the fund well beyond what is needed. at the same time, we are making devastating cuts to health, human services, roads, trees, rec and park, all these other areas and we are accruing a

larger and larger balance. that is one reason why i did not approve the $3.1 million supplemental appropriation. i did not believe that was the right way to go. as the director noted, i remember when there was a deficit in the fund, and the board of supervisors may be supplemental appropriation to ensure the candidates would receive what they were entitled to in financing. it is really a balance about making sure we are allocating our money appropriately, while still being committed to public financing. supervisor chu: thank you. mr. rose? >> manager, actually we have no other comments. as the department indicated, we do not have any recommendations. supervisor chu: thank you. thank you for the report. given that we know the

conservative estimates may add a balance of $3.5 million after this year's election and every year thereafter we will necessarily be putting in another $2.2 million because of the mandatory $2.75 per resident, we get to where we will have $12 million again in the year 2016, where hypothetically we will have an incumbent mayor. at some point, we do need to evaluate the levels of funding we are putting in their. we had not had a mayor's race yet. this will be the first mayor's race we will see. maybe that will be informative going for. supervisor wiener: it will be $9,900,000 for next year's supervisors' races. that leaves us with $2.6 million. then we will automatically put

another $1.7 million, or what ever that number is -- $2 per resident. , atwood -- how much would that be? >> about $2 million. supervisor wiener: then we would automatically put another $2 million in, bringing us up to $4.5 million. there would there would be some drawdown, but presumably not more than $500,000 or $1 million, or whatever. then we will not have it may years race for three more years. i am just trying to get my head around why we -- i guess the system is what it is, but it encourages an extreme over creation, well beyond what we actually need to publicly financed these races. >> man?

-- may i? obviously, you are the policy maker. it is your decision. the only humbled request i have is the whatever funds you do draw down, you commit to putting them back at the time we need them. supervisor wiener: believe me, i am not suggesting that we somehow deplete the fund. it would have to be done in very collaborative process with the ethics commission. >> and it has been a collaborative all along. supervisor chu: thank you. again, it does raise questions about the program and how we fund it and whether there is a mechanism we can deploy in the future to be able to draw down if the balance is overly funded, so that is something for another time, but thank you for coming in. ok, colleagues, i think those are all the departments that we have today. we had a few items before us. i believe items one, two need to

be continued to wednesday. can we do that without objection? ok. items three, four -- can we continue these through thursday? which is the final day of the budget conversations here at the committee. can we do that without objection? >> [inaudible] we cannot put out a new agenda, so you could reset the date meeting to thursday if you would like. supervisor chu: ok, we will do that. and then we have already dispensed with item five. we have moved items 6 and 7 to the full board already. item eight, if we continue that to thursday. without objection?

thank you. do we have any other items before us? >> that completes the agenda. supervisor chu: ok, we our recess. thank you. -- we are recessed. thank you.

>> we have a couple of announcements. in no. 7 will not be heard today. the st. francis yacht club will not be heard today. please turn off any electronic devices, in the secondary conversations we ask that you please take outside. you will have three minutes to speak on any item today unless the president announces otherwise. please speak to the item that is being heard, and if you want to speak on general public, and this is either item four, or

item number eight. thank you. we are on item number two, which is the president's remarks. >> i do not have anything to report. >> and is there any public comment? public comment is closed. item number three, the general managers' report. >> i have a few things to report. this is all good news. tuesday the 21st, the 23rd. thursday, june 23, we will have the william hammon hall award at 2:30 in the conservatory, and the awards are jointly presented by the parks and recreation department, and laborers local.

next tuesday, june 21, the department has been invited to participate in the blue-green awards, to support the employees and apartments who have shrunk in the carbon footprint. two members of the staff -- will be recognized for their achievements and their efforts in reducing the carbon footprint. the department leaves the city for this waste, and we're working on strategies to continue to reduce the overall footprint. next month, the superintendent will make a presentation on the department's action plan. next month, we will present the

year in review for the department. i wanted to give you a sneak preview into some of the news, that we are particularly proud of. we are expected to conclude the year with a reduction in workers compensation costs, with an almost 11% reduction. this triple of the goal that we set at the beginning of the year. i want to commend the department manager who oversees the workers' compensation program, and i want to talk about the strategies that we have employed, and i will bring the workers comp team back to talk about this a little bit further. the department is committed to save money wherever that we can, and i wanted it -- to command the entire staff for their commitment to the program.

we require all the staff to identify modified duty assignments that the injured employees can do, getting them back to the work place sooner. we have improved the rate from 60%, resulting in increased savings to the department and increased morale for the injured employees. their days out are less, and we traded a staff safety advisory committee, to champion a safe work practices, to recognize and reward safe workplace behavior, and to keep this on our consciousness, that the goal is to be safe, and the department staff members on the safety advisory committee are kimberly

from the volunteer program, and john miller, the gardener, supervisor, jim wheeler from aquatics, and the committee is chaired by sean mcfadden. this is a very fantastic result and we have talked about the responsibility in difficult times, to operate as efficiently as possible, and we have much more to come next month when we talk about the year in review. and we have received two additional fantastic grants. we had a $15,000 grant, and this is our summer camp for children of the autism spectrum,

conducted in glen canyon. this is extra staff for children who need this, and they will be working with mainstream silver creativity's. we also received last friday, 1251 week camp scholarships from the children across the city. this year, and we will talk more about this next month, we have awarded a half million dollars in scholarships to children who need them fulfilling the commitment to make certain that all the children participate in all of the programs regardless of ability to pay.

i was actually looking -- >> this is an event done by mercedes, and the 50th anniversary -- discarded viewed in 1961 and is 50 years old, and if they offer up the car, this would be worth a lot more. we brought kids down to see all the cars, many of them had never been down here, and we arranged perfect weather, so this was very lovely and we're very happy for the support of mercedes. we have had a number of groundbreakings, but rather than have me talk about them, this

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>> thank you for putting that together. this summer, we're taking care of 15,000 children across the city, something this commission and the city should be very proud of. that concludes the general managers' report. >> i noticed in reading the financial part -- there are a lot of nice things happening with the maintenance. i would like to hear something about this. >> we would be happy to include

a section on this. you can ask the question. >> there'll be an item scheduled for next month, at the capitol committee and the full commission to talk about how we spent the maintenance funding, in the current fiscal year and proposing how we will spend the maintenance funding in the next fiscal year. we will be here. we will be here to talk about this next month. >> the large and small items are getting taken care of. thank you. >> and is there any public comment on the general manager'' report? public comment is close and we are on item 4, which is general public comment. members of the public may talk about items within the subject

matter jurisdiction of the commission, that did not appear. that did not appear on the agenda, with respect to agenda items. we have allie watts and victornia bell to begin. >> i represent the growing number of citizens groups that have tried to work with the commission to minimize the environmental risks being imposed on san francisco. following the advice of the council, we are comparing for litigation by compilin