tv [untitled] January 4, 2012 4:01am-4:31am PST
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>> good morning, welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. i am joined by supervisor kim. supervisor mirkarimi will be with us shortly. supervisor wiener is joining us. are there any announcements? >> please turn off all self loans. if you would like to make a comment, please submit speaker cards to myself. -- please turn off all cell phones.
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>> thank you very much. we have a number of items before us, 11 and total. it is possible that we will be calling items 9 and 10 earlier in the meeting to be able to get the general managers' report. that might be coming earlier than what you would assume. item number one. >> resolution authorizing the issuance and delivery of multifamily housing bond not to exceed 18 million for the purpose of providing financing for the acquisition and construction of a 60-unit multifamily rental housing project known as the natoma family apartments. >> we have a representative from the mayor of's office of housing.
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>> good morning, supervisors. i am the project manager of the mayor's office of housing. what you have before you today is a standard multifamily housing bond issuance which our agency is organizing on behalf of the san francisco redevelopment agency. this is a standard conduit financing which does not require the city to pledge a city bonds under the payment of the bonds. for there is credit enhancement provided by lenders. the sponsor is bridge housing and we have a rep if you have any questions.
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we hope to close the financing on december 19th. this is 60 units of housing for families located at 474 natoma. the median income is 60% for all units. i would be happy to answer any questions. >> i just have a question about when the time -- about when the project would be completed. >> i am not sure. i would have to have bridge housing give you more details. >> good morning, supervisors. the construction is 20 months. >> 20 months beginning later this month pending bond approval? >> thank you. we do not have a budget analyst report because there is no general fund liability with
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this item, correct? why don't we open this up for public comment, are there those that wish to speak on item number one? seeing 9, public comment is closed. this item is before us, can we move this with recommendation? we can do that without objection. item two. >> item number two, ordinance authorizing the adult probation department to retroactively except and expand a grant in the amount of $747,000 from the united states department of justice to implement reentry, a comprehensive reentry pathway for people on post release community supervision in san francisco. >> that you very much.
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>> i would like to thank the mayor of's budget office and the board analyst for your work on this. one of my new responsibilities is to establish and monitor the realignment services for our ab109 population. we will accept an expanded the grant from the u.s. department of justice into launched reentry sf which is designed to be a comprehensive reentry program for those on supervision. people come directly to us from state prison as well as those on mandatory supervision, those returning from county jail. the second chance act is the sixth that the city of san francisco has received.
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san francisco has competed nationally in these national competitions than any other. this is the intended to be one piece of the alignment services was building for our population. this is in addition to the services, funding allocated by the board in the appropriation. we know we will have to continue to aggressively identify other sources of funding, to continue to build out the capacity that we need to bring out the housing, education, and employment needs. this will augment the services and supervision of a pd by strengthening our capacity to provide critically needed planning, organization, transportation, mentor ship, and vocational skills training educational programs, job training. we expect to serve 195 individuals during the first
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year. too rapidly implement reentry sf, we partnered with the senior offender program, good will, bay view sf. they have been engaged in the planning since day one and are critical planners with the capacity in place to make this happen quickly and effectively. a full $620,000 will be distributed to these four partners to provide these services, to walden for transportation. the used justice institute will provide mentors ship. the adult probation plans to spend money to allow for the
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ordination of case planning. the department has proposed a halftime position within their reentry division dedicated to coordinating the services. this will be responsible for coordinating and conducting all of the pre release planning for individuals released from state prison and county jails. we will be sharing the health records as well as from our local system. by dedicating a person to this, we will be able to gather and assess the information about folks coming back to us prelease said that we can better target resources. one example is the resources of transportation, this is very
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costly, very time-consuming, to drive to the prison to pick someone up. we're committed to doing that for those of serious mental illness or other news but we need a good pre release information so that we can direct limited resources. that is our plan. provided that this goes forward, i expect we will be on track. >> i'm delighted to see that we are securing this grant. what is the 12,000 for travel? >> i will let diane answer that.
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>> this is for transporting people into our county. >> what is the current practice for the pickup delivery of someone from the outside? >> they are in the process of developing a policy but right now our officers are driving up to the state and bringing the clients into our office. >> do they go through it everywhere in the state or do they go to a central -- such as sacramento. >> they specifically go to sacramento and san quentin. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you.
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>> i just want to add, the goal of the adult probation department is to have -- once the deputy probation officers are brought on it early next year, we will have more capacity to do more transportation. but now, we are part rising high as the individuals for the transportation. we have deputy probation officers right now driving the weekends, 6:00 a.m., at all hours and days, but we try to do is target of transportation to the people that have very low functioning levels and who might not even safely make it back to san francisco. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. supervisor chu: we do have a budget analyst report for this item. >> the 1-year reentry but it has a budget of $1.4 million, and
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that includes the u.s. department of justice fund. an additional 700 $708,000 in other matching funds. the budget details as well as the funding sources are shown in the table, table 1, on page 4 of our report. i would note, because the new 1823 senior administrative analyst position is coded as a grant-funded position, the position will terminate at the expiration of the grants. we recommend you approve this proposal ordinance. supervisor chu: thank you. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? >> jane, and jane, jane
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i found our budget time to job training train, train, train time to do some job training first of all we need some money change new 9 chain, a chain, and chang, i found the budget i am just the money linking chain we need some money change change and we need some job change training. supervisor chu: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor mirkarimi: motion to set with recommendations. supervisor chu: we can do that without objection. thank you. item 3. >> item 3. resolution authorizing the department of emergency management to retroactively
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accept and expend a fy2009 buffer zone protection program grant in the amount of $199,820 from the u.s. department of homeland security, through the california emergency management agency, to fund critical infrastructure protection needs. supervisor chu: thank you. >> amie alden. the bread before you today as the buffer zone protection program. this is a grant from the u.s. department of homeland security that is designed to protect critical infrastructure. the grants go from the fed's to our state, cal ema, to local law enforcement to enhance security around critical infrastructure. examples include power plants, dams, stadiums, financial institutions. part of homeland security works with law-enforcement to identify the site that may have some risks associated with it and to identify specific threats and vulnerability. they grant money to the local un
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force the agency to enhance planning, equipment, and training in the to mitigate the risk to the side. for this grant, the department of homeland security is given approximately $200,000 off to the san francisco police department for equipment. specifically, equipment used by the bomb squad and four interoperable radio equipment. department of medicine management is a fiscal agent for this grant, which is why i am here. there is no local match to this funding. free money for the city and county of san francisco. the opposition's funded and no grant funds have yet been encumber or expanded. happy to answer any questions you have. >> supervisor chu: we do not have a general fund impact, so there is no budget analyst report. if there are no questions, let's open up to public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? >> good morning, supervisors. my name is douglas yep.
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i have lived in san the scope for 59 years. i would like to speak in support of the resolution. by, among others, especially on the east coast feel that san francisco has not gone recognized as an active target for overseas terrorists. i know that terrorism is the lifeline of san francisco. i think we have to be realistic and recognize the fact that san francisco is among one of the top targets for overseas terrorists, even the most of the people here in san francisco lead to downplay that. this item is something that is overdue, and i have to admit, homeland security does a good job, even the recently they did have that item that was publicized nationally, warning us about exploding turkey during thanksgiving. i thought that was kind of a
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reach for homeland security. i guess that is part of their job. this resolution goes to something that is pretty basic, which is government's responsibility to protect its residents. 200,000 is more than nothing. san francisco needs to be on its toes to recognize, that even though we are a city of tolerance, one thing that we will not tolerate is terrorists trying to hurt our residents. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. are there other members of the public who wish to speak on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. calis, can we send item forward with recommendations? without objection. item for. >> -- four. >> item 4. resolution fixing prevailing wage rates for: 1) workers performing work under city
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contracts for public work and improvement; 2) workers performing work under city contracts for janitorial services; 3) workers performing work in public off-street parking lots, garages, or storage facilities for automobiles on property owned or leased by the city; 4) workers engaged in theatrical or technical services for shows on property owned by the city; 5) workers engaged in the hauling of solid waste generated by the city in the course of city operations, pursuant to a contract with the city; and 6) workers performing moving services under city contracts at facilities owned or leased by the city. supervisor chu: thank you. this is an item that come before us every year to set the prevailing wage rates. do we have a representative from the department's to present on this item? >> good morning, supervisors. rich david.
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here to answer any questions you have. this is the animal prevailing wage that we file every year. supervisor chu: could you explain generally the process you go through, what this looks like? for many of us, we have seen this item time and again, but just for the general public will reset the prevailing wage rate might be useful. >> the process as we survey get information from the state, as well as some of the larger unions that represent the people functioning in these capacities and get their current rates that we would use to set for the city in any contract we contract with outside agencies, third-party, that sets the prevailing base line for which we would contract out the work. supervisor chu: the prevailing wage that the city has passed indicates the city would be
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paying prevailing wages for certain trades or jobs that we actually contract out for. your job has been to survey a number of different employers to see what the prevailing market rate has been generally? >> correct. >> supervisor chu: every year, you come forward with a set of recommendations to increases or decreases in those wages. thank you. why don't we go to the budget analyst report. >> members of the committee, on page 3 of our report, we point out increases in the prevailing wage rate could result in increased costs on future city contracts. however, and increased cost to the city as a result of the increased wages are dependent on future city contractor bids and the extent to which financial -- increase prevailing wage rates would result in higher bids. we cannot estimate the potential increased costs at this time, as we always did for
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this item. we consider a proposal to be a matter of the board of supervisors. >supervisor chu: if there are no questions from the committee, let's open this up to the public. i have two cards. >> jeff pillar. i think our card or identified. we are here for item five. supervisor chu: any members of the other that would like to speak on item 4? >> walter paulson. you know we need money we have the budget blues piano we need it we have read in the news i am falling even more in debt with you hanging on a budget moment here with you we have so much money there to lose hanging on a budget moment here
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with you i know you pay your dues and you need more money here, it is true did you ever go to the dentist and try to fix your tooth i am hanging on a budget moment here with you will need more money and i got the budget blues i hope you hear it now we need more money in the future and that is the way it goes supervisor chu: thank you. any other members of the public that wish to speak on item 4? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can send item forward? we have a motion with recommendation, 2nd. without objection. we will be calling item 5 next. so the public knows, after that,
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given time, we will likely call item 9 and 10 after that. >> item 5. ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code sections 21c.2 though 21c.6, and adding section 21c.7 to: 1) specify the city contracts for services that are subject to the city's prevailing rate of wage requirement ("covered contracts"); 2) consolidate consistent standards for determining and enforcing prevailing rate of wage requirements in all covered contracts; 3) provide an employment transition period for workers under successor contracts to all covered contracts; and 4) provide that all work on covered contracts be performed by employees and not independent contractors; and amending the san francisco police code section 3300c.1 to make conforming changes. supervisor chu: thank you. we have been joined by supervisor wiener, the sponsor of this legislation. would you like to say some opening comments? supervisor wiener: thank you. this is legislation to improve and upgrade our prevailing wage
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ordinance. we have a problem with the ordinance in san francisco to ensure that in a number of different areas, when the city contracts for services, that our contractors are paying a prevailing wage to their employees. in an era when we have a constant race to the bottom, it seems, when it comes to labor and a lot of different areas, this is part of san francisco's effort to ensure workers are paid a fair wage and the city is not to dissipating in that race to the bottom the areas of labour that are covered by the prevailing wage ordinance include janitorial, motor bus services, off street parking, theatrical workers, hauling of solid waste, and moving services. this legislation does a few things. first, it does some cleanup and consolidation because the
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prevailing wage ordinance has evolved over time and there is some reorganization for consistency that needs to occur. it broadens the kind of contracts covered by the ordinance. it also makes the change to the transition employment period, extending that to six months. we saw earlier this year at one south van ness, when there was a change in janitorial service, tenders were let go without sufficient transition. it also clarifies and closes a loophole, in terms of using independent contractors who are actually employees in reality, to avoid a prevailing wage requirement. i will invite ms. levitt from to speak about -- from olse to
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speak about it. we have several amendments that are small and we have been advised that they are substantive and would require a continuance. at the end of this, i will ask that this is continue to next meeting, january 4. in addition, the city purchaser has indicated she has several amendments, which i believe will be non-controversial, but unfortunately right now, i have not received those amendments. i was hoping to make those amendments by the city purchaser today. if i do not receive them today, we will consider them when we receive them and that could require a for the continued from a january 4 until january 11. i would prefer to avoid that, so hopefully, we will have those amendments today. i also want to go to a couple of things. first, i know some representatives local labor 261 are here today. we are continuing to work with laborers around landscaping,
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prevailing wage issues, that may be handled in trailing legislation. we also have, in the last few days, have been contacted by some folks in the disability community including nonprofits who work disabled people in terms of developing employment skills, as well as to the department to have some questions. between now and the next budget committee hearing, my office will continue to meet with and work with both labor, as well the disability community, the impact on city departments, just to make sure that we can all be on the same page to the extent possible and work to find common ground. i would ask during public comment today, if people have concerns about the legislation, if possible, that they propose
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concrete changes, so that we can start the brainstorming process around that. with that said, i will invite ms. levitt up from the office of labor standards enforcement to address the committee. i'm sorry. i should say what the amendments are that i have. one is on page two, line 16, to remove the phrase "property contracts." page two, line 17, to remove the word "subcontracts." and then on page 34, line 18, after the word "hire" to add the phrase "once worked for hours worked for the employer." with that, ms. levitt. >> good morning, supervisors. excuse me. i do not have my normal voice today.
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supervisor wiener did a good overview of the most significant changes that are before you today. in general, the amendment takes what was six different ordinances, combined them into one, with consistent prevailing wage worker retention and enforce the provisions. most significant to the office of labor standards enforcement are the following -- one is the requirement that work has to be performed by employees, rather than independent contractors. supervisor mirkarimi: you might want to put the microphone to you. >> i thought i would highlight the provision most committed to the office of labor standards enforcement. one is the provision that requires work on city contracts be performe
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