supervisor chu: supervisor avalos and supervisor kim. our clerk is mr. victor young.

do you have announcements today? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk of the items acted upon today will appear on the april 24, 2012 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. from sfgtv, we also have michael and scott. call item number 1. >> item number 1, ordinance authorizing the department of emergency management on behalf of the city and county of san francisco as the primary guarantees for the combined bay area urban area and as the fiscal agent for the urban areas security initiative approval authority to retroactively a accept and expend a uasi grant in the amount of $35,546,960 from the united states department of homeland security to the california emergency management agency and amendment

ordinance 146-11 to reflect the addition of one brand-funded position in the police department as follows: position in class 1824 principal administrative analyst. >> thank you. good morning the i am with the department of emergency management and i am joined by captain lazar from the san francisco police department. it is a pleasure to be in front of the on the 106th anniversary of the 1906 quake in fire. the item before you is a regional grant that is managed by the bay area uasi. san francisco is the chair and fiscal agent of the bay area uasi organization. that is why this grant is in front of this committee this morning. the uasi grant funds planning, equipment, training, exercises at public safety agencies around the bay area. the money in this grant goes to

the alameda county sheriff's department, the fremont fire department, was a police ibarra, san mateo sheriff's to permit, and many other agencies outside of san francisco. within san francisco, this grant will support activities at the police department, fire department, dem, public help, a public utilities commission. we come before you every year with this grant. there is no local match required from the city. the funds have already been approved by the regional bay area uasi organization, and they have been approved by the u.s. department of common security. san francisco is going to get approximately $9.5 million out of this grant based on a formula that considers a risky and threat in san francisco, based on our population and population and density and likely targets. this will fund one new civilian 1824 analyst at the police department. their responsibilities will be

to purchase and maintain equipment, perform threat analysis, identify gaps in the police department did abilities, and manage various common security projects. i was asked to provide information about some of the other grants. this entire regional grant funds approximately 65 positions all over the bay area at the denver public safety agencies. slightly less than half of those are in san francisco to their positions at police, fire, sheriff, and the department of emergency management, as well as staff that to the management and administration at the bay area uasi. the balance of the positions are a public safety agencies at the places i mentioned earlier. these positions write an update emergency plans to manage regional training and exercises, and fiscal and brand management and other homeland security projects around the bay. i am happy to answer any additional questions you have about the branch -- a grant.

supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: thank you. i wanted to get a list of the positions in this. and about the budget, is it supplementing? will it allow the public safety department to hire more folks? and which positions are they? >> i will be happy to provide this to you after the hearing. but i have it on the overhead, if we could go to that. with this grant, there are 12 positions that are in this city departments. six of them are at department of emergency management. they are our planners and folks that are in charge of planning and training. they do disaster plans. they plan training and exercises. there to the existing positions at the police department. i could in italics the new position, the 1824 analyst that will be funded newly in this grant. the other ones are already

funded by previous years in this grant. it is ongoing funding. two positions and the fire department and one in the sheriff. they are ongoing positions. supervisor kim: the ongoing positions that this grant will be funding our continuing positions that were previously funded by the same grant? >> correct, in previous fiscal years. supervisor kim: with the new and those, that is still only a part-time position. will we be extending the time of an existing analyst? >> yes, that is through the end of this fiscal year. we will use ongoing grant funds to continue funding this position. supervisor kim: will be using this grant, because this is a multi-year grant, are doing other sources for that position? >> my understanding is that we will be using this grant. as well, we anticipate funding and the next fiscal year's uasi grant. >supervisor kim: so these are not from the general fund?

>> correct. they are all current positions. supervisor avalos: thank you for your presentation. a general question about how our uasi grants work. how much are we doing in the city in terms of civilian readiness? and we have packets that go out that provide information, and 72 hours is one of them on how to be prepared. but in terms of creating a neighborhood infrastructure around emergency response, how much does any of this work -- does this grand timber those activities? >> that is a great question. civilian prepare and this is a very high priority for mayor lee and for our department. we try to use grant funds wherever we can to supplement those activities. there are several items in this grant that focus on citizen preparedness.

one of the items is for public notification, specifically that funds the alert sf system. if you go to alertsf.org, you can sign up to receive an e-mail or text message from our department whenever there is a major incident in the city. it will give you the location and information about what you should do. aid funds that activity in san francisco and san mateo county. there is funding for equipment for the nert program which is run by the san francisco fire department. it is a national model, and the receive funding for their economic from this program. we also have funding in here to do planning and to commit for shelters in san francisco, said that if -- and for planning -- to do planning and to commit for shelters in san francisco. if there is an earthquake, the shelters will be staffed and ready to go. supervisor avalos: typically we

have had nert before us in the fire department budget. that is for personnel. the equipment is funded through uasi. has there been a conversation about doing training through uasi and that would alleviate pressure on the fire department budget? >> that is an interesting question but i am not sure. the federal government is very strict about supplanting but if we were to spend money on nert staff, it would have to be to purchase additional staff. we cannot replace general fund dollars with the grant dollars because of the guidelines. if we want to enhance nert capacity and add more staff, that is the kind of thing the fire department could ask uasi to consider funding for. supervisor avalos: ok, i recall that. the staffing for nert training happens out of the overtime budget for the fire department, i believe, so it seems like, you

know, there could be a function within the department to actually provide that training. that could be new level staffing. just for consideration. we can probably have the discussion when the fire department comes before us. >> yes, that is a suggestion that is worth looking into. we would be happy to follow up. supervisor chu: thank you. you talked about how the uasi program is for supplies or on making shelters ready in the case of an emergency. from what i understand, our shelters are not pre-a divide because he did not know the conditions of different facilities after an incident occurs. do we have it centrally located somewhere the would be disbursed to shelters we end up creating? >> we actually have a shelter plan. that is one of the annexes to the city's image as a response plan. we have identified a large number of potential sites that we would use. what we do not want to do is tell the public in advance.

and if earthquake happens, for deborah, report to marina middle school -- for example, report to marina middle school, because we do not know if the middle school will be standing. we will have a list of potential sites the following an earthquake, we would quickly evaluate which ones are safe and habitable. and then we would use functions like alert sf to tell people the applications we have identified as safe. supervisor chu: i know that the uasi program generally pays for a lot of equipment purchases and training. they have not necessarily wanted to pay for ongoing operations but have been willing to pay for new equipment purchases that helping with communication but they have been willing to pay for training that make our departments and citizens were prepared for an incident. one of the issues we have heard about in the western side of the city is because the awsf does not necessarily reach out to parts of the western part of the city, we do have underground

cisterns and other things. people have talked about some the got a portable water device. i know the chief is aware of this device. a again port water from different water sources to be able to use in the event of fire. i am wondering if we have never considered using uasi funds to purchase portable water devices? >> my understanding is that the utilities commission has purchased a device that has that function. it is possible that that was purchased with uasi funds. i cannot say for sure, but i would be happy to research that for you and let you know. but that is an identified need, and i believe the puc has started develop that. supervisor chu: thank you. we do not have a budget analyst report. public comment. are there members of the public who wish to speak on item number one? >> good morning, budget and finance. ♪ >> you know that i would beat

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going to is that the earthquake night on fire ♪ >> thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. [applause] are there other members of the public who wish to speak on item number one? seeing none, public, disclosed. we have a motion to send it forward with recommendations to the without objection. thank you. colleagues, we have a request from supervisor campos' of this year the overtime hearing at of item number two. the reason is he as an event to be at at 11:00 a.m. we do call item number 3 in four, please? >> item number 3, a hearing on the controller's 6-mother retired refer this bill year 2011-2012, including the municipal transportation agency, fire, police, public health, and shares departments are greatly exceeding their budgeted over time including whether it's a vicious stabbing or other staffing issues our primary causes, and a discussion on

whether hiring sufficient, permanent, and skilled staff is a smarter policy than spending millions of dollars on overtime to item four, hearing on the status of current and projected overtime costs for city departments. supervisor chu: thank you very much. both items were brought to us to hear the controller's succession of overtime report. one of the items, number three, is called by supervisor campos. item number four is called by me. of these items pertain to overtime, so we thought we would schedule and hear them both at the same time, given that there the same topic area. i know that supervisor campos is probably on his way, so if we could just told one minute and give him some time to get here.