. there is nobody watching this. i think that is a plus to the community. i hope the graffiti people do not go out there now that i am opening of my mouth. >> i want to thank you for the 50 years you have already given to the city as an arts leader. >> i started in to briberon, i's only been 45. >> you have championed his work over these years. >> it has been exciting working with him. it is one of the highlights of my life. >> thank you for being part of "culture wire" today. >> to learn more about the program and the list of public arts in need of maintenance, visit the website. thank you for

supervisor avalos: good morning. welcome to the city operations and neighborhood services committee. my name is supervisor john avalos, the chair of the committee. joined to my right by supervisor eric mar, to my left, sean elsbernd. madam court, please share with us your announcements -- clerk, please share with us your announcements. >> if you wish to submit a copy of your presentation to the committee, please submit a copy. >> please call item one. >> item 1.

resolution authorizing the office of treasurer-tax collector to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $240,000 from the earned assets resource network for kindergarten to college program participant incentive funds. supervisor avalos: great. >> good morning. i am with the treasurer-tax office. this is an accept and expend for the initial pilot years of the program. one of them is the dollar per dollar match funds up to $100, for a famine that saves up to $100. we will provide a dollar match for that. the second is the $100 saved steady incentive. when a family has direct posit, we are going to provide another $100 to that account to provide an incentive. this provides the funding in order for us to have that.

we would like to think the current assets resource network and the san francisco supervisors for doing this. supervisor avalos: is there any other general fund support? in last year's budget there was. >> there is a general fund support for the program, over all, but not for the incentives. in fact, the incentives are provided because the city is doing the $50 per student, $100 for students to qualify for free or reduced lunch. supervisor avalos: last year, it was a bit of a hot potato in the budget. this year will be smooth sailing? >> that is my understanding. there have been no issues. supervisor avalos: the question last year was new program while we were cutting other services. in the end, we approved the program, which i think has great

value for initiating savings in families. i thought it was a worthy program to support in the end. this year, it looks like it is going forward. very good. any other questions from the committee? public comment. >> good morning. my name is douglas yepp. i would like to speak out in favor of this item, but i have some cautionary statements. some of my neighbors were concerned that the government was expanding its reach a bit too far. whatever explanation i gave them did not satisfy them. one of the concerns they mention is that there should be more emphasis on primary and secondary school education, rather than trying to expand the

government's scope to college education. so in a sense, i tend to agree with them. if a child does not get a good primary and secondary education , whatever dollars you give them available for college will probably be wasted, even if the child showed interest in going to college. the other concern i have that some of my neighbors mentioned to me was whether there was any emphasis on vocational education. it is no secret we need more plumbers, engineers, etc., so i would like to offer some of my neighbors suggestions, that some of the money be used for vocational education. by the time they graduate from high school, it should be clear sailing through the apprentice program, and then they would have jobs that could support their families in the future. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you.

is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion moved forward without recommendation. voted to the full board with recommendation. please call item two. >> this will also go as a committee report. item 2. resolution authorizing the port of san francisco to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $7,783,556 from the department of homeland security, 2009 port security grant program fund, for the pier 27 cruise ship terminal security system at the port of san francisco. >> good morning, mr. chairman. director of homeland security at the port of san francisco. i come to request approval of an accept and expend of $7,783,556

to install and maintain the infrastructure. supervisor avalos: thank you. public comment. >> good morning. my name is douglas yepp. i would like to speak in favor of this item. i know this may bother some people but in my discussions, it seems san francisco has been overlooked as a target for terrorists. some people think that no one would dare to damage san francisco's reputation as a tolerant city, but i, among others, feel like our enemies might be bold enough to use our tolerance against us. this item should be approved, and it would be well-used, especially when there has been

some emphasis on the federal level to inspect incoming cargo containers. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will close public comment period moved forward as a committee report with recommendations. item three please. >> item 3. resolution authorizing the port of san francisco to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $1,612,357 from the department of homeland security, 2007 supplemental infrastructure protection port security grant program for homeland security improvements on the port's waterfront. >> this is a three-part accept and expend authorization. pier 50 emergency power. there is no emergency power at this point. high-security sensing, phase three. that is continued installation

of fencing throughout the court. and finally, building occupancy function program. this is a resiliency system to get our system on line after a disaster. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will open this up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? motion moved forward with recommendations as a committee report for tomorrow's board meeting. without objection. thank you, colleagues. that is our agenda. we are adjourned.

>> 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 of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility.

and through the sf applications we support from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. you can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the newest hospital or police or fire station. >> we are positive about gis not only people access it in the office but from home because we use the internet. what we used to do was carry the large maps and it took a long time to find the information. >> it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time of a particular employee at the assessor's office. you might be doing things more efficient. >> they have it ready to go and say, this is what i want. >> they are finding the same things happening on the phone where people call in and ask,

how do i find this information? we say, go to this website and they go and get the information easily. >> a picture tells a thousand stories. some say a map supervisor chu: good morning. welcome to the budget and finance committee.

>> please turn off all cell phones. if you submit copies of documents to the committee. items discussed it will appear on the board of supervisors in jeddah on july 12, 2011, unless otherwise stated. -- the board of supervisors agenda on july 12, 2011, unless otherwise stated. item one, consolidated budget an annual appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts an estimated expenditures of the city and county of san francisco for fiscal year ending june 30, 2012 for the airport, port commission, and public utilities commission. item two, and will salary ordinance enumerating positions in the annual budget and appropriations ordinance for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2012 for the airport, port commission, and the public utilities commission.

item three, resolution approving the budget of the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco for fiscal year 2011-2012 and approved the issuance of three development agency of bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $84 million. item four, resolution approving the budget of the treasure island about authority for fiscal year 2011-2012. item five is no longer under the jurisdiction of the budget and finance committee. item six, ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code to increase all fees on the controller's annual two-your average consumer price index ended up in findings, including environmental findings. item seven, ordinance amending

the san francisco planning code to increase fees. item eight, motion approving an exercise in the final option to set forth an agreement for professional budget and legislative analyst services between the city and county of san francisco and harvey m. rose associates, thereby extending the term of the agreement from january 1, 2012 through december 31, 2013. supervisor chu: thank you very much, mr. clark. again, all items on the agenda had been called, and they are all related to the budget. -- thank you very much, mr. clerke. we have for our day-to-day a

couple of departments that had not yet reached agreement with our budget analyst last week, so we will be bringing those departments back up today. why don't we start with the department economic and workforce development? since we did hear from you last week with regard to the general direction of the department among other things, if we could just concentrate on the budget analyst recommendations and where you are with those? >> yes, good morning. director of the office and economic workforce development -- we work diligently with the budget analyst over the last week, and i am pleased to say that we are in agreement with their recommendation. there is one recommendation that i believe is memorialized in their report to you that we have for the negotiated since it was published, and i believe we have agreed that it will be withdrawn. that one is specifically the disapproval of intern exemptions of the four new

america's cup positions, and having those positions be effective as of the beginning of the fiscal year on july 1, rather than those positions being 0.9 position that would have gone into effect on august 1, but other than that one modification, we are in full agreement with the budget analyst recommendation. >> madam chair, and members of the committee, we have recommended reductions of $74,744, but we will adjust that for the reasons just stated by the department. we would just advise this morning -- and this recommendation, supervisors, on page 7 is the last times on page 7 where we say "disapproval of the interim exceptions for these four positions that do not perform revenue-generating and critical department functions."

we were just advised this morning that those positions are actually existing positions in other departments that will be transferred to this department. on that representation, we withdraw that recommendation, and we will adjust our total recommendations for the salary for that one month as well as the mandatory fringe benefits. supervisor chu: thank you. if i understand correctly, there was a series of recommendations with regard to reclassification, and the department is in agreement with those recommendations. >> correct. there were down with substitutions for the three positions and one remains the same period supervisor chu: with regards to the -- the same. supervisor chu: the budget analyst is withdrawing their recommendation and saying that it is fine for a july 1 start because these are all existing individuals who are employed by the city.

>> just one other clarification -- on page nine, we have a reserve recommendation, so we will take out that portion of the interim for the reserve amount, and we will work with the controller for that specific adjustment. supervisor chu: thank you. are there any questions from the committee? if there are no questions, if there is an agreement, we will take that without objection. >> one further clarification -- i am sorry -- at the recommended reduction that i initially said that i will adjust downward, it does not affect that amount. it just affect the reserve amount. just for the record. >> that is consistent with what i see as well. supervisor chu: ok, thank you. we will go to the next apartment. redevelopment agency. >> good morning, supervisors.

we are in complete agreement with the budget analyst, and we want to thank everyone for the wonderful budget process thus far. supervisor chu: ok, so, the redevelopment agency is in agreement. any comments from the budget analyst on the redevelopment agency? >> no further comment other than that our total recommended reductions are $459,572, including $215,999, which are general fund reductions. supervisor chu: just a question for either the city attorney or the controller's office, do we need to do anything else to get actually these recommendations? >> supervisors, know. if they agency concurs with the budget analyst recommendations,

no action is required by the board. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor kim: just wanted to thank redevelopment on the memo on some of my questions. i still have a concern -- this is not just redevelopment, actually. it is general, any reduction in funding for workforce development and job training, but i understand we have and others that led to some of those reductions. just showing that we have a continuance of job training. >> just to clarify, the committed -- the commission had committed over $4 million over three years for workforce development, and we are now in the second phase of the 18 months. while we did see the exploration of the area and the tax increment seceded, we did

provide extra funds. just to keep in note that with all of our funding, and i think there were some reductions in some workforce organizations this year, we did more money in it organizations. that said, we were mindful that some of the organization's were not serving our project areas. under those recommendations, we cannot use our tax increment for anything outside of our project area. that is why some of the reductions were made and some of our budget as a nonprofit workforce organizations, and in other jurisdictions like mission bay, transbay, and the shipyard, so we increased funding in that area because they were serving our area. but over all, we are on target and will probably exceed funding. >> appreciate that. we try to help individuals with multiple barriers to employment. that is really important for our residents. supervisor chu: thank you,

supervisor, and thank you to the redevelopment agency for working with our budget analyst to come to agreement. we appreciate that. ok, moving on. department of building inspection. >> good morning. the department of building inspection has actually agreed with the budget analyst's decision or the budget office's decision, and we have gotten complete agreement. supervisor chu: sounds like the department is in agreement with the recommended changes that would result in a reduction of $984,000.

>> yes. supervisor chu: with regards to the close out of prior year budgets for projects, $27,000 worth? >> yes, we do agree that. supervisor chu: budget analyst, any comments? >> i have no other comments. supervisor chu: if only they would go this smoothly. thank you. >> you are welcome. we would like to thank everyone for helping us. supervisor kim: i apologize again because i forgot to bring harvey rose's report in with me, but i had a quick question. the question about having the interim deputy directors over the course of last week. i just want to know, what were the long-term plans for the third interim deputy director? i'm sorry, there are two deputy directors currently, but now there is a third interim deputy director? >> right. we have lawrence cornfield

directed to the office so we have an acting as deputy director so we can make a decision as to whether that deputy director is sufficient, and we also have a vacant position. ed sweeney is filling in as both the inspection -- director of inspection services and deputy director of code enforcement. supervisor chu: including your vacant position in the interim, how many deputy directors do you have? >> we have four. supervisor chu: there was a question posed to our office, and we were not able to figure out the answer. it was whether by charter, dbi was only allowed to have two deputy directors. >> that has been taken with the city attorney. the position for the code enforcement deputy director was a hired position, and we tx-ed a higher position down for

administrative services director. those were actually budgeted at higher positions. we brought them down to a lower position so we would have a consistent management staff. supervisor chu: just the last question, what is the long-term plan for the interim director currently? >> we will choose a permanent deputy director -- right -- for both the positions. one is acting in from right now, and one is actually vacant. -- what is acting interim right now, and what is actually vacant. supervisor chu: thank you. if there are no further questions and given that there is agreement with the budget analyst recommendations, we can take those cuts without objection. thank you. next department is the planning department.

>> good morning, supervisors. we have been working with the budget analyst office all weekend. we are also in agreement. i believe the number is about $113,000 that we have agreed to, so we are pleased to say that we are in agreement and we thank the budget analyst office for working with us all week. i would also said the items 6 and 7 are related to planning department fees, and you would -- you may want to hear that as well. supervisor chu: if you could, would you speak about items 6 and 7? >> sure. >> good morning. item 6, and is the administratie code. these are the ceqa fees. the legislation as correcting