griffith hope that's f site. finally, we have included on the sheet, in the budget a hope sf budget initiative director to manage this project in a more cooperative way and to make sure the tories neighborhood grant is shepherded to completion. supervisor chu: supervisor cohen? supervisor cohen: i was wondering if there was any budget -- money that was set aside for emergency for, let's say, a fire? >> i am not sure i understand the question. for general emergencies? supervisor cohen: we are talking about hope sf, hunters view, in particular. is there money in the budget that would address -- >> i am the cfo of the mayor's

office of housing to there was an early morning saturday fire at the hunters view affordable housing development site. luckily, there were no injuries, but the site was damaged, including the progress we had made for the affordable housing sites. we are still evaluating what that means. sf fire department is investigating. i think you'll have to work with the developer as you would with any developer project to see what they would be able to do or what additional fine and they would need similar to any affordable housing project that deceived financing that had damaged at the construction site. there is not a reserve set aside in our budget but we have had experiences like this in the past. we will be responsive to what the development team needs out there. supervisor cohen: thank you. i did not need to cut you off with my question, but the cfo answer it.

>> that is why they are here to >>. team effort. -- that is why they are here. team effort. supervisor cohen: could you continue to talk about the hope assessed program in relation to the proposed housing trust fund? and it's dedicated sources? >> the completion of hope sf and the housing trust fund? i can talk briefly about that. currently, the budget includes -- pope asset is not a fully funded project. we do not have sources for all those sites. i think the housing trust fund would certainly be a potential

source for the completion of all of the hope sf projects. supervisor cohen: [inaudible] for affordable housing. >> as you know, through the chair, supervisor cohen, the mayor has proposed for the ballot a housing trust fund. this would be a dedicated source of funding to anticipate what we have been through in the last several years in terms of a drying up of state resources, dissolution of redevelopment, cuts to important federal programs, loss of stimulus funds. how it relates to hope s.f., hope s.f. is one of the major initiatives that our office is working on. part of our general fund budget

here, as well as future bond issuances for allison griffiths and for the upcoming two other sites would be part of any overall budget strategy. whether we use funds from the housing trust fund or wheat issue certificates of participation for hope s.f. sites, whether we are to include this as an enforceable obligation, the housing trust fund will provide a stable, nondurable committed source of funding over all for affordable housing, including those projects that need get financing at the hope s.f. sites. supervisor cohen: thank you. >> moving to the additional investments in mid market, the city is continuing to invest in

economic revitalization on mid market and sixth street. those funds include $3 million over the next two years for the program that are delineated below, including business attraction and retention, community ambassadors, continuation of the improvements, tenant improvements, completion and operation of the sixth street substation, as well as arts programming and planning, neighborhood community in gateman, and economic development planning. the majority of these activities are included in the office of economic and workforce development budgets. a small portion is in the city administrator's office. supervisor chu: supervisor kim? supervisor kim: before we go on,

i do want to thank the mayor's office for the tremendous amount of work that went into this. it was an incredibly complicated process to move around funds and find homes for a lot of these projects and programs that are incredibly important to our communities. in particular, in my district and in supervisor cohen's district 10. i was pleased to see a lot of this was prioritized in the mayor's budget. i know folks in the mid market and sell the market were happy to see that. we are happy to learn that some of them turned out to be enforceable obligations, whether it was the alleyway improvements, which people were concerned about. one of my concerns now is we have many departments owning this work, whether it is the city administrator, mayor's office of economic develop a work force, dpw, mayor's office of housing. i am curious on how we plan to retain discussion and

communication, and whether we can do more consolidating? in particular, there seems to be a lot of overlap between the city administrators on community ambassadors, central market partnerships, small business improvements, and economic development. i think it can be challenging. i have seen this in our work with pedestrian safety when we have too many departments to work with, sometimes things fall through the cracks and there is not a lot of ownership for the work. i am curious to see whether that dialogue is taking place right now. in particular, i know the city administrator is taking on a large portion of rda, along with the community ambassadors program, along with amid market citizens advisory council, yet there is still some stuff. i am curious as to whether we can put that all in one place.

>> generally, supervisor -- the city and minister and director of economic work force may have other thoughts they may want to share. supervisor kim: maybe i could put that question out there. i know both departments are presenting any way. for me, i would rather fund just one rather than both. i think i would just put that out there and we can come back to that later. >> great. in general, the vast majority of work related to implementing the economic development activities is and the office of economic and workforce development. moving on to the work that the agency previously did in the bayview, the city is continuing

that work, including along the third street corridor. we are including $4.7 million in the mayor's budget over the next two years, including significant capital for southeast health center facility planning, sf shine tenant improvements, community ambassadors, a real- estate project pound center, as well as neighborhood community engagement. there are other projects that were previously -- there are some projects that were previously done by the redevelopment agency that are considered in forcible obligations, such as the work associated with the bayview opera house. that will also continue. in visitation valley, it is one of the more complicated pieces of this puzzle because there was

no final development agreement for that project and it is not an enforceable project area at all. the site will work at the office of economic development. they are currently developing an mou that would allow the developer to fund the additional work in that area. in addition, through the invest in neighborhoods effort that you will hear more about from director that's later, oewd will provide specific economic development support along leanne avenue. that includes the items outlined below. -- leland ave. specific, targeted support to help that court or access funds from city-wide programs, like the small business revolving

door fund, or the community beautification fund. my last slide is what we briefly spoke about, the job readiness. previously, $1 million is included to complete the remaining commitment for jri and work into oewd in the next year. happy to answer any questions you may have. my colleagues are also available for questions. supervisor chu: thank you. colleagues, any questions? we will also be seeing parts of the redevelopment budget born in all departments today. what we move forward with the department hearings, hearing one by one. if it is fine with everyone, we had a request from the city attorney to hear his budget

first. he is going to be on available later on in the evening. is the city attorney here? if the city attorney is not here, why don't we go to the department of economic and workforce development.

>> good morning, afternoon, supervisors. director of the office of workforce -- economic reports and development. happy to be here today to talk about our proposed fiscal year 12-13 and 13-14 budget. the mayor is proposing several new programs and associated but it increases that are exciting and in powerful for oewd. in order to properly describe these and put them into context, i have a 15-minute budget presentation. the presentation incorporates economic development, work force and development and small business. feel free to interrupt me at any time with questions. the oewd fiscal year 12-13 two- year proposed budget increases -- supervisor chu: we had called

you because the city attorney was not here. now that he is, i would like to give him the opportunity to speak, as he will not be available later on. i apologize. we will be right back. city attorney? >> i apologize. supervisors, i will be very brief. i have had the opportunity to look at the budget analyst's recommendations and there is one area of disagreement that he and i have, however, i have no doubt that we will be able to iron that through over the course of the next week or so. i already had a conversation with mr. rose. we will be having a discussion next week in the hopes to come to you with a recommendation that we can mutually agree on. it may need relates to where you will see an increase in the

budget with respect to new positions. you will note, five total new positions that we requested. three of those were related to redevelopment responsibilities that are being taken on by the city attorney's office. i know earlier you had a discussion about redevelopment. five attorneys that are currently they're doing that work. we will be absorbing much of that work and have asked for two additional lawyers and a legal assistant to help us with that work. we also requested an attorney and a legal assistant to assist us with a dedicated consumer protection unit that we happen to believe will be cost effective and will pay for itself over the course of the entirety of this two-year budget cycle. as most of you are aware, we had

a long history of doing affirmative litigation in the city attorney's office that has always been supported by the mayor's office and board of supervisors throughout the course of my tenure. it resulted from an effort started by my predecessor where we used affirmative litigation to receive tobacco money, to which extend we still get $50 million a year. i have continued that tradition and you have continue to support that, i'll be -- albeit subject to reductions over the past several years. last year, i back filled through some settlements i had to make sure there was money stay in constant but less reliance on the general fund. it has been something that has paid dividends for the general fund of the city and county of san francisco. for example, last year, i spent

$1.5 million of previous settlement money that i had. we received a $4 million settlement, so it paid for itself. but what i have recognized is there are additional responsibilities within my affirmative litigation team which takes my lawyers and support staff of their affirmative consumer protection responsibilities to handle large defense cases, which we are under obligation to defend. for example, ada litigation, which has been fairly time consuming. those resources are coming from my affirmative litigation team. what i'm hoping to do is establish a pilot program of consumer protection unit within that affirmative litigation team that will just be dedicated to investigating and developing those cases which benefit the general fund and also benefit taxpayers, in terms of, i think, the publishing policy objectives that have always

been a record for the elected family of the city and county of san francisco. that is the one area where the budget analyst's office and my office continue to need to have some discussion so that we can fully explain how this one general -- benefit the general fund over the course of the next week. i am hopeful we can come to a resolution and come back to you with an approach that we both agree on at the next budget hearing. supervisor chu: just a quick question. we requested all departments speak broadly to general revenues or trends happening in their departments just to give us an overview, in addition to the specific recommendations that were provided. any major areas or initiatives that the city attorney's office is purchase of trading in in the next three years that will have a budgetary impact, aside from the general mou cost increases, held expense increases? other areas that you can help us

understand where your budget is going in the future? >> i think most of it is the general work that we are responding to on behalf of our clients. we're there to support the work done by the board of supervisors. the mayor's office and other clients. from my perspective, where i have perhaps the most control, where i would say, if i was going to look at trends, it is what i referred to earlier in my comments. that is, with the good work we can do by affirmatively prosecuting cases that benefit consumers but also benefiting the general fund. that is the whole reason why i have proposed consumer protection unit to help alleviate responsibilities that the general fund might have now to support our work, and continue to support things that

are good policy objectives on behalf of the taxpayers of the city and county of san francisco. i will tell you, that is something, whenever we have pursued a good, consumer protection cases, it has paid off for the general fund, and it has done the right thing from a policy perspective. several years ago, there was state legislation that was passed which now limits the ability of that other members of the city family to benefit in penalty that i get as a result of that litigation. when i file an affirmative case and i seek to the penalties and i sue in the name of california, that money can only be used for consumer protection efforts that are initiated by my office. that is precisely why i am trying to be created here, to have a unit that will ultimately

allow us to be self-funding, and take additional responsibility from the general fund that you're giving us now and have historically given. that is something that would be worth pursuing over the course of the next several years. i have had discussions with the mayor's office about that and they have been supportive of a pilot plan on that. that would be the one major initiative but i would say is a trend that i would like to pursue. supervisor chu: to be clear, you mentioned five new positions be requested for the city attorney's office, three of which relate to redevelopment agency work, and then the two for the consumer protection unit? >> correct. supervisor chu: and then with regard to some of the other areas where we ask departments to respond, it sounds like you do not have capital programs coming forward. do you have any jobs or internships available through

the city attorney that is able to benefit youth, particularly, in the summertime? >> yes, supervisor. as you can imagine, most of the summer work we have relates to folks in that are in law school. however, i have tried to make it something that we reach out to also provide opportunities for high school students that are particularly interested in pursuing careers in law, want to understand what the career potential is for a career in municipal lot. a priority for me when i became city attorney was to institutionalize our summer internship program. we operate at program all throughout the course of the year. fall semester, spring semester, summer. obviously, the fall and spring are not nearly as well attended

as the summer, and it mainly relates to law students. there are additional opportunities that we provide for high school and college students to avail themselves to that opportunity. this year, we have about 40 or so kids doing internships programs. they represent a mix of law school, college, and high school students. we try to make that a party and give folks the best experience they possibly can so they can understand what it is like to be involved in local government. supervisor chu: supervisor kim? supervisor kim: our office also has some questions we ask the permits as well. one was on how much your department currently spends on professional services. i know that you usually meet or exceed what you itemize for that line item. >> i'm not sure i understand question. supervisor kim: what do you

currently spend of professional services? two vendors? supervisor kim: external, nonprofit, legal, anything you are contracting out for your department? >> about $250,000. mainly they relate to support services, lexus nexus, messengers, legal support services, and the like. of course, there are times when we contract with outside counsel. some of that we paid directly out of our office. sometimes it comes out of other city department budgets. mostly it relates to legal support services and outside counsel. supervisor kim: it would be great to have a breakdown. they all sound alike were these services, but it would be helpful to get a sense of them, and we like to look a cost

effectiveness. >> just so you know, it might be helpful -- last year, we went through the budget process -- over the last couple of years, i always a few myself and our office as somewhat different from a lot of other departments. we do not have a lot of capital and fiscal products. so we try to really make sure that we are consolidating how we deal effectively with outside vendors services. for example, we put our lexis nexus services and renegotiated our rent at fox plaza to make sure we were minimizing the potential impact on the greatest capital that we have, and that is the people in the city attorney's office. i would be happy to show you the trend as well. i can show you what we renegotiated and where it came from and how we got to those numbers. supervisor kim: that is very

helpful. of course, your use of the general fund is relatively low compared to the overall budget, but these next two years, it is asking for an increase above what you usually do. in the rda, a completely dead. going from five attorneys down to two. you just talked to supervisor chu about consumer protection. i know this has come up through supervisor cohen, the one of my concerns is the backlog with dbi. that is a huge priority. we want to give a number of our very egregious lynn ward's in line with the code enforcement. -- landlords in line with the code enforcement. i am curious about capacity with that. >> i appreciate both of you taking interest in that.

that has been something that has been a priority. when i became city attorney, it was tough budgetary times. i doubled the size of my code enforcement union, because i thought it was important that we show the value that the city attorney's office can bring to people's lives each and every day. i put it under the rubric of consumer protection, and it had to do it code enforcement cases, many in your district and in supervisor cohen's district as well. the problem that we have is some of that word that we can do is something that we can directly take a stab at and after right away. there are other cases which have to go through the administrative process, exhaustive administrative remedies, have nov's issue for housing violations, building violations, and then they have to have them referred to our office. otherwise, we will get thrown

out right off the bat. unfortunately over the past several years, the backlog -- we were not taking cases referred to our office by the department of inspection. that has proven to be a real problem. i want to take some of that and put a fire under folks to make sure that we're getting cases referred to us. that goes into something a was talking about earlier with my consumer protection unit, because part of that has to do with exactly those type of cases. the more that i can develop those cases and have it be self sustaining and make sure we're making a difference in people's lives in the community, the more value you're going to see. that is something we can encapsulate within the pilot project. supervisor kim: that would be great. if we have the staff, i would love the resources to be put into that. those are certainly my question is for dbi when they come to us later, how their allocating the

resources to inspection as well as permitting. >> and you should know, when i bring those cases, some of them have a 17-200 component, so i am is suing in both the name of the city in the name of the people in california. supervisor kim: that is also good news. the last question i had is -- i noticed you are projecting increases from requests from police, fire, public works, and the board of supervisors. i know that we give you all a lot of work, but i also want to be cognizant of us working within our means as well. i am curious as to how we can control some of that. some of that we cannot help. when we are souter when the fire department is sued, those are things we need to respond to. i want to do as much work as possible, but i also want to be cognizant of how we