analyst? >> we actually by the city attorney's comments we're actually not. >> deputy city attorney john givener again. you can adopt the amendment today and then continue so that the next time this item is agendized, the amendments will appear in the notice. you can adopt the amendments today and [speaker not understood]. >> okay. so, we can do that. we can adopt those amendments first. >> i'll move the amendments. >> okay. first of all, can we rescind the previous vote. colleagues, we can do that without opposition. i'd like to make those amendments [speaker not understood] subject to the legislative analyst. we can do that without opposition. and from the underlying items number 8 and 9, we can continue them to the call of the chair. so moved. all right, thank you very much. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 10? >> item number 10, hearing on the annual review and adoption of the board of supervisors draft budget for fy's 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.

>> thank you. and we have ms. cavilo from our board of supervisors office. give us one second. >> good afternoon, chair farrell, members of the budget and finance committee. angela [speaker not understood] clerk of the board. i'm here today with deborah [speaker not understood] to present the department's fiscal year 13-14 proposed budget based upon budget instructions the committee provided at the december guideline hearing. as you know, we are on a rolling two-year budget cycle. the committee's general direction was to prepare a budget, a draft that was similar to the budget that was adopted last year with slight changes. today i'll take you through the current year's budget and the department's administrative and finance deputy deborah land

iswill review 13-14 and 14-15. and finally since the goal today is to obtain your feedback * should you make significant changes or would like an additional presentation, we can return to the committee on february 13th if the committee desires. if the committee would indulge me just for a moment, specific to the new members on the board and interested members of the public, for background information we are a small department, but we have a full-time employee counted, has remained constant for many decades while delivering cost-effective services to the public. notably we do decrease the department's advertising expenditures from 1 million down to 50,000. and the board has successfully convinced lafco and they have agreed to use general fund money and use existing surplus until it is spent down. we have reorganized and reclassified management and other positions to provide resources in needed areas.

or create career ladder positions with existing positions. [speaker not understood] based wage increases still been able to find some savings. we have increased our revenue collection by implementing cost recovery from the enterprise department for city-wide membership and increased our assessment appeals fees. so, if we'll turn to the current year's budget. by division, it is approximately 12.4 million. and we typically look at the budget from three points of view. from division, expenditure type and labor contracts. this slide shows expenditures by division where you see supervisors offices comprising 50% of the department's budget or 6.2 million. the office of the clerk of the board is the second-largest division comprising 24% or 3 million. the budget and legislative analyst comprises 16% or 2 million.

the assessment appeals board is 7% or 9 20,000 which includes a one-time 350,000 for online software application very many and 1% for the youth commission and the sunshine ordinance task force. finally the gift that keeps giving is the lasco's willingness to spend down last year's funding and not appear on the budget. if things remain equal this may also be the case in fiscal years 13-14 and 14-15 budget. alternatively, when looking at the budget by type of expense, the department's budget is 73% for salaries and fringe or 604 million. for salaries and 2.6 for fringe. 25% or 3.1 million for professional services, that includes yes, the budget analyst contract, but also the c-a-f-r, which is under 300,000, and the raab tracking system. the remaining 2% of expenses

are materials and supplies. and work orders which are determined by the level of service required from the department of telecommunications, building maintenance and smaller amounts for risk management and youth work. if we look at the department's expenditure by costs, the budget overwhelmingly funds labor. budget and legislative analysis and our c-a-f-r. all other costs including materials and supplies, work orders, software licensing, legislative expense cost to each supervisor's offices makeup only the% of the budget. ms. landis will now review the changes. we recommended for fiscal year 13-14 and 14-15 budgets. ms. landis? >> good afternoon, supervisors. deborah landis, deputy director at the board of supervisors. i have been asked to review the proposed budget changes that we have in our draft budget for fiscal year 13-14 and 14-15.

as you can see, we have found some significant salary savings with the step adjustments from the third aid positions that were added in the current year -- excuse me, 12-13 budget. they're all added at top steps to the budget. and we are able to see some step savings there just under $2 80,000. so, that is definitely our largest change for the proposed budget for next year. to give a little bit of background each year's budget begins from the biggest budget. so, that's the current year budget plus annualized changes. for example, new positions added part way through the year or -- and those positions would have an additional cost the next year when they're annualized. also from the base budget one-time expenses from the current year are removed such as equipment funding or project-specific funding.

so, the largest changes year to year are all the salary and fringe benefit cost increases. the department's current year budget of 12.4 million grew to a base budget of 13 million which is the adopted budget from the prior year. there is a change about $45 from the adopted budget to the base budget. so, the 13 million is our starting point from where we make the cuts this year. and the changes that we're proposing result in approximately $181,000 worth of savings resulting in a budget for 13-14 of about 12.9 million. i have already mentioned the step adjustments from the new hires and new fte this current year. and again, it's based on the local 21 m-o-u mandating that the legislative aides come into

the city at step 1 unless there was loss of compensation, but they've been added to budget at top step. so, those are our step savings there. so, if we move on to the next item, we are still seeing some high assessment appeals board revenue and we are anticipating that will decrease. we think it will decrease at a slower rate than we had thought last year. so, we're able to add just almost $15,000 taking our revenue from 400,000 to 415,000 for projections for the next year. we're decreasing our interpretation budget based on current and past year's expenditures with a little bit of buffer for anticipated additional need next year based on conversations with different members of the board about potential increased needs for interpretation. and we have included the funding for the third position for the youth commission in this draft budget. we know that this is a question

that the board will consider and determine during the upcoming budget season. so, we have it in here while that conversation takes place and it can be kept in or removed at the board's -- based on your decision. the savings that we have for the draft budget are also offset by new maintenance costs for the [speaker not understood] insight system. the maintenance will have a cost of just under 28,000 for each year for at least the next five fiscal years. so, those are the changes that we are proposing to make in the draft budget at this time. and the result of those changes as well as the salary and fringe changes that we're expecting to see city-wide can be seen in our chart here which is the same pie chart you saw a few minutes ago showing our operating budget by division. you can see that the proposed

budget is currently at 12,87 2,580 dollars, or 12.9 million to use round numbers. so, it is essentially the same as this year's budget. the supervisors offices comprise 52% of the budget. the clerk of the board 25%, very similar to the 50 and 24% that we're seeing in the current year. and those costs will be 6.7 million and 3.2 million. the budget and legislative analysis services we are budgeting at the same $2 million for the current year, 13-14 and 14-15 as well. one change that you may notice is the assessment appeals board has gone from just over 100,000 to approximately 600,000 and that is from removing the one-time project funding for our assessment appeals board tracking system. the youth commission and the

sunshine ordinance task forces are, again, -- excuse me, 2% for the youth commission and 1% for the sunshine ordinance task force. once again, 13-14 as well as 14-15 we're budgeting zero dollars for lafco as that that worked on the surplus, they currently have half a million dollars. moving on -- excuse me, the budget by expenses, very similar to the current year budget. what you'll notice here is that the labor costs are growing. so, the labor costs go from 72% in the current year budget to 76% in the proposed budget and it's 2.6 million to $3 million for that change there. again, those are the city-wide cost increases that all employees are costing more than we did this current year. so, 76% for salaries and fringe, you have the breakdown

here 6.8 for salaries, 3 for fringe, 21% or 2.7 on professional services. again, budget and legislative analysis, c-a-f-r, those are the big ones in the professional services. and then 3% of expenses for materials and supplies, and work orders. and we have -- one of the changes this year as well that are the annualized costs of those aid. so, that has increased our labor cost. moving on to 14-15, again, a very similar slide and the proposed budget for 14-15 is 13,246,906 dollars. so, again, we're breaking it down by division. and we have 52% from supervisors and 25% from the clerk's office, 6.9 million and

3.3 million there. so, again, we see the increased costs in the employees for the departments. each of these we're keeping $2 million for the assumption for the budget and legislative analysis agreement. and as you are aware, we are going out to bid with the rfp process for the contract because the current contract expires december 31st of this calendar year. and once again, lafco will be funded from its existing surplus. looking at the 13.2 split out by expense type, we see an uptick from 76% for salaries and fringe to 77%. again, 21% or 2.7 million for professional services, and the remaining 3% for materials and

supplies and work orders. so, the labor costs have increased from 3 million to 3.3 million between 13-14 and 14-15. unless you have any questions, i will turn it back to the clerk of the board. >> okay, thank you, ms. landis. >> thank you. >> thank you, ms. landis. that concludes our presentation, supervisors. and thank you for your instruction this past december. we are here to answer any questions or return in february for additional information if need be. >> colleagues? supervisor avalos. >> thank you for your presentation. so, it is automatic there is a return in february based on our conversation today? or we can actually -- >> supervisor avalos -- >> approve your budget today and move forward. >> you could approve our budget today. however, if there were questions or deeper understanding of the budget or just a willingness to hold the

budget until february, i'm happy to come back at that point. otherwise, we've provided you all of the information that you needed today to make that decision. >> thank you. well, i actually [speaker not understood] two go around, i would be okay your returning again if there are any changes. i would accept it as is. i actually am pleased to see also that we have continuation of the third staffer for the youth commission. and i've always worked with youth commission probably since 1996 and see it as a vital part of the board of supervisors. but also actually served as mayor as well. so, we're providing that service for the mayor's office and youth commission has done a really good job of reaching out and getting input from youth around the city and a third aid position helps with the reach of the commission to reach young people across san francisco. so, i'm willing to support

that. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. i know that mario is here today. he will be going around setting up appointments with all supervisors to talk about the actual plan for the next six months. >> great. supervisor mar? >> thanks, chair farrell. thank you, ms. cavillo and ms. landis. i just wanted to say i'm very impressed how lean the office is, but how much we do with so little funds. i appreciate the cost savings that were made with different salary steps and other efforts to reduce the cost. and i'm also supportive of fully staffing the youth commission given their 17 members. the important increases to outreach to youth organizations, better development and capacity building for them. and also making sure that the commission lives up to its role advising the board. so, i'm really pleased for the changes and i'm supportive of the budget. >> thank you, supervisor mar. mr. chair, we're happy to

return february 13th chance to talk to the other supervisors, not on the budget committee, about the budget so far? i want to make sure everyone has a chance to vet it before we send it forward. >> chair farrell, i have had an opportunity to speak with every supervisor on the department's budget. but again, more than happy to come back in february in the event there are new changes or new information comes to light. >> okay. colleagues, any preference here? i actually would be happy to approve it today and send it forward. >> i would actually -- i actually would like to keep it in committee. there could be changes that might come forward based on, you know, six-month report is coming out soon. that could change things we would expect as a city. i'd like to have information before making a final decision. >> sounds great. so, we will intend to do that, then.

>> i would motion just to continue to the call of the chair and we'll schedule a date before maybe february 20th for it to come back. >> sounds good. we'll do call of the chair, but we'll open it up to public comment first. thanks, ms. [speaker not understood]. at this time open it up to ifctiontion. any members of the public who wish to comment on item number 10? seeing none, public comment is closed. * i would concur with that. let's why don't we call it to the call of the chair. ms. [speaker not understood], we can work on a date to come forward in february. thanks very much. we continue to the call of the chair without opposition. mr. clerk, do we have any other items? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> okay, meeting adjourned. [adjourned]

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