well, i'm daniel leery. the chair of the super bowl committee. we've been going at this for about 9 months now and mayor lee gave me the honor and privilege of taking on this task. we've had an incredible momentum and we have mayor and condoleeza rice and steve lewis, we have some firepower to the committee in the form of world champions and hall of famer and folks that have taken over part of 10 percent

of super bowls and we can't thank you enough for taking this on. we hand off our final package. the one thing i want to realize is that this is a community effort. it's not just about san francisco, santa clara, san jose. it's about the entire region coming together. the reason i took on this goal is that we have amazing things had -- happening in our community and we are going to highlight these in the next six weeks and i'm also highlighting things that are not yet great. we have 1.2 million people who are too poor to meet their

basic needs. what we are going to do by bringing the greatest game to the region is we are going to make this for the entire good of the community and that is why it's going to be the most impactful super bowl bid and super bowl nfl this nation has ever seen. with that i'm going to turn it over to mayor lee. >> good morning. daniel, thank you again for your wonderful leadership for aheading up our bay area super bowl committee. i remember the first time we talked about what it was and what the 9ers meant to us and i want to thank you and the whole franchise for continue to go work and the wonderful legacy

the 9ers has. just the last couple of days i have to admit that some of us were kind of looking very disappointed about the events regarding the blue angels and it remind us how important this is and events like the blue angels and that we can't do without because if they decide they can be here for any reason, there is real heavy breathing that goes on and that's something i felt. that means i'm enthusiastic about the americas cup and i'm absolutely thrilled and enthusiastic about our super bowl bid. it's bringing all

the elements of our city together, the neighborhood, fan base and has that wonderful event. i have had a chance to relive the excitement of the super bowl and if i told steve young, i paced five yards in my office all day long and at home to relive this past super bowl. that just reflects the excitement that we have with the super bowl bid. now today, it's my privilege to co-announce with everyone here two people that are additional firepower to our super bowl bid committee. george seefrd and

steve young, they really don't need an introduction but i love to talk about them to the 9ers. steve brought us his legacy. during this time, the 49ers earned the best team in the nation and continues with that legend so coach, thank you for bringing your winning record and wonderful great name to help us win another super bowl bid for super bowl 50 or 51 for the bay area. and coach seefrd's partner in 1999 was the famous quarterback steve young who through a record 6 touchdown passes during that game and became the first player to lead in super bowl rushing and passing. thank you

for your support and leadership and lending your bid for this bay area support of this effort to bringing it all the way to the end zone. you know, george and steve and jed, we all know there is no better place in america to host the super bowl for 50 and 51 than the bay area. the game to be played in santa clara, we know that every hotel and restaurant between here and san jose will be filled and the entire region will benefit tremendously from this super bowl. that's why we have everyone from our entire departments from city administrators and super works to make sure we host a great event for the whole entire area. an i know that once we

host this first super bowl, once we win it and host it that we'll be in the rotation for future super bowls as well. we have the hotels, hospital, transportation network, the businesses, the support to do this right and do this well. i want to just again, thank daniel, thank the entire super bowl bid committee and welcome in george and steve to join jed and daniel and all of us in making sure we persuade the nfl in may, that we have earned the right to host super bowl 50. thank you. [ applause ] >> as you know we have the draft coming up and for our super bowl committee team. we created to get the two top guys

in the draft. we have them now, coach seefrd and steve young. it's important to echo what mayor lee said about bringing everything together. that's what sports is about, that's what sports does for a community. we've been working tirelessly to build a state of the art state -- stadium that embodies california from a technological standpoint. this is one that i'm most proud of. tht the first league national football team. for our home games we'll be powered completely by the sun. no one else can say that in professional sports in this country. that's something that highlights what we are trying to do and what we are trying to show what sports can be, not just for the community, but a

beacon for what we should be striving for everyday of our life from a technological standpoint and stability. we are head of construction and we are moving forward and we can't wait to play game in 2014 and very much looking forward to playing a super bowl and getting ourselves in the rotation. we love the bay area and we want to show everybody else in the world that this is the greatest place to host the greatest game in the world. i would like to introduce coach seefrd and thank him and george for being a part of this. [ applause ] . >> thank you, mayor and dan, jed. i'm obviously proud and excited to be part of this committee that will attempt to bring the 50th super bowl to the san francisco bay area. it

was i believe in 1967 that the first super bowl was played in los angeles, california. it seems only fitting now that the nfl bring the 50th super bowl to northern california in the san francisco bay area. san francisco and the area over the years has hosted successfully many nfc championship games of super bowl stanford in 1985. i thought it was 95 and most recently the world series games. we have so much to offer. we have an awesome stadium and the attractiveness in the city itself and from the wine country to the north to caramel to the south, it's a great venue to host the game. i'm familiar with one of the two areas in particular more than the other, the north. and

at any rate, we have a tremendous tradition going back to the days of keys ar and our great football players and we have the back fields where everybody is in the hall of family, henry johnson, joe perry, i'm sure you remember all of them. now we have the great players part of our tradition. we are happy to offer a great event venue and steve young is here and he's the reason we've been able to win so many games and win the super bowl. what year was that? 1995. thank you very much. >> thanks, george. it's always to get reunited with him to see him. super bowl has a way of

defining careers and cities and you look at the championships that have been here recently with the giants, obviously with the 49ers back in the mix and the history of 49ers we've had a history. the idea that it's here in san francisco makes sense. it's one of the greatest destination cities in america. now that's been taken care of and i appreciate those efforts. super bowls have a way of building a lot of bridges. this is a bridge building effort and i appreciate to be associated with that kind of inclusivity to allow people with any strained relationships over the year, that they can be amended and super bowl is a place to do

that. if you think about where the super bowl has been in the past and compare it to san francisco, san francisco lacks nothing. really the entire bay area to host a tremendous event. i think it obviously makes sense to everybody here but nationwide, people think about the bay area and of course it makes sense. i look forward to that game and hopefully winning that bid next month. thanks a lot. [ applause ] . >> steve, george. thank you very much for coming on board. supervisor ferrel, thank you for all your efforts on the supervisor side. mayor lee, jed, thank you all. we'll take, you guys can grab us afford. we -- may 7, bid is due, may 27 we present in boston to the owners and with this team behind us, we are getting it

done. thank you. have a great day.

>> good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, april 17th, 2013. my name is supervisor mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. i am joined by supervisor eric mar, vice-chair, also supervisor john avalos, supervisor london breed, and supervisor scott wiener. i would like to thank the members of sfgtv covering this meeting today, greg burk and jennifer low as well the clerk of this committee, victor young. do we have any announcements? >> yes, please turnoff all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk.

items acted upon today will appear on the april 23rd, 2013 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right, mr. clerk, we're going to do a few at least one item out of order here. can you please call item number 4? >> item number 4, hearing to receive an update on the department of public works budget for fiscal year 2013-2014 and fiscal year 2014-2015. >> all right, thank you very much. we have mr. [speaker not understood], our director of public works to present. >> good afternoon, supervisors. okay, thank you.

to present our budget overview for next year, i have a few slides and i believe you have the presentation before you. the vision of our department to continue to provide world class public service. we contribute to making san francisco a beautiful, livable, and vibrant and sustainable city. that's of course our mission is to enhance the life quality of life in san francisco by providing service through public service. we build, we maintain, we improve the city's infrastructure, right-of-way, and we are very -- consider ourselves a very responsive department in partnership with other city departments in the san francisco community. the slide before you, you can see our budget for 2012-2013.

our gross budget was $194.3 million. of that, 46.7 was general fund, 19.3 was general fund subsidy. we employ about 1200 people in the department both full time and part time. some of the things we do, we maintain over 800 miles of city streets, 9,000 curbs, 22,500 receptacles, 37 -- over 37,000 street trees, over 500 street trees on the city's right-of-way, and 362 structures. that includes many of our stairways, our bridges, tunnels, and other structures. the department's essential services, we respond to over 100,000 311 calls every year

for street cleaning, illegal dumping, graffiti abatement, potholes, tree maintenance. we mechanically sweep over 146,000 miles of street, remove over 30,000 tons of debris on the streets of san francisco, and fill over 12,000 potholes. we inspect over 2.7 million square feet of sidewalk and we engage and manage thousands of volunteers to help us keep the city clean. and through many of our community programs. we also are responsible for implementing and managing over $3 billion of many of the city's active public infrastructure projects which are mostly in the form of bonds. what are the department's priorities?

in 2012 we adopted a three-year strategic plan, strategic plan we use to guide the department in accomplishing our mission. we track our strategic plan very regularly and see how well we're doing and where we're on track. also, our priority to maintain core cleaning and greening services when iction the city and county of san francisco. ~ within a lot of effort is put into working with the public educating them about municipal codes as it relates to street cleanliness and enforcement. we also in the department created several apprentice programs that have been providing job opportunities for many of the san francisco residents, but also

opportunities for internships both apprentices and pre-apprentices. we continue our tree relinquishment process, relinquishment process started last year. and as you remember, if you recall, it's about a six-year process. i'll elaborate a little bit more on it, but that transfer process, that continues. ~ and we also continue to deliver many of our transfer projects on time at this time and within budget. within the department, and this is part of our strategic plan, we have provided staff opportunities for extra training and making sure that staff take classes that enhance their work and bring them up to speed with current trends. we use data on a very regular basis to track our performances and allocate our resource he

accordingly. both for the operation side of dpw and in general [speaker not understood] also. our performance measures were indicators, as you can see. where we are struggling the most is in the number of [speaker not understood] relinquishments, that's the red that you see. other than that, i would say the other two areas to look at are the turn around estimate times for some of our projects where last year we set goals pretty high and we have exceeded last year's goals but we haven't reached the goals that we set for ourselves. and also a number of committees, volunteer hours that we have asked a number of community groups and residents to get involved in. the other area is our response to landscaping.

in 11-12 our response was 73%. we are at 80% right now, and our goal is to get to 90%. >> mr. mohammed, can you talk real quick about the red area, number of trees relinquish, we spoke about that before the hearing. maybe you can explain that in more detail. >> okay. within the city's right-of-way there's about 105,000 street trees. roughly 105,000 street trees, the department currently has about, i would say, about 40,000 street trees. ~ of the 105 efficient the remaining of those street trees are maintained by property owners. the 30,000 the department has included both department trees, other agency trees and some property owner trees. we started the process of relinquishment of trees, the number of trees that are not owned by the department is approximately 23,000 trees. and, so, we have planned to relinquish those 23,000 trees

by starting with 6,000 in last year's budget, and thereafter 3,000. until relinquishment completed. ~ the process of relinquishment involves where the tree gets inspected, and to transfer a tree to another department or to a property owner, the tree has to be made whole. that means it has to be pruned and the sidewalk has to be fixed. in that process, we have inspected over 11,000 of those trees. and of the 11,000, only about 2000 are ready to be relinquished. that means that we need to go back and make the tree whole so that we can transfer them. apart of our initiatives, we have an initiative to request funding for low-hanging fruits, trees that will cost probably between 5 and $800 to prune. and then we can transfer.

there are about 3,000 trees in that request. >> so, i know a number of proposals are being worked on regarding our trees. but i think the point is for constituents that call and so forth, to the extent we give over trees to local san francisco residents, they are in good shape, the sidewalk is in good shape. we're not going to happened it over with a ton of work to be done on them. >> that is the way article 14 of the public works [speaker not understood]. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you. i just want to follow-up on that. i know supervisor avalos and i have been working very hard to see if there is anyway that we can actually fund healthy urban forests in our city because we, because of budget decisions made over many, many years, we have made ourselves unable to do that. dpw has a phenomenal urban forestry section, but we have absolutely decried that section of the ability to do what it immediatex to do to care for

all these trees, which results in relinquishment placing the responsibility for tree maintenance on property owners who may not have planted the tree, may not want the tree, may not have any idea how to take care of it, may not have the financial wherewithal to take care of it or the physical capacity to particularly if they're disabled or seniors. it's a terrible system we set up. i say we because it's policy makers in terms of the mayor and board of supervisors in terms of how to fund this. just to be clear, you were extremely diplomatic in the way that you said this as you always are. i want to be a little more blunt about it. we have made a conscious decision in city hall not to fund street tree maintenance and instead to turn over responsibility to property owners. in order to turn it over, we have to make sure that the tree is fixed up and any sidewalk

damage is fixed so that we're turning over something that's not defective. but dpw did not actually have enough resources to fix all of that sidewalk and those trees in order to turn it over. so, we have decided to turn it over in order to have property owners care for them. but we don't even have the financial capacity to put ourselves in a position to turn the trees over. did i get that right? >> that's accurate. >> okay. i think that is just -- it's just awful and we have -- it's been frustrating for me just in the couple years i've been on the board to see how poorly trees fair in the budget process. and the fact it we can't even pursue the bad policy of relinquishment because we don't have enough money to fix up the trees to turn them over is just -- it's almost like a saturday night live skit about what's wrong with our urban forestry program. so, i give dpw all the credit in the world for doing everything it can do, but i

think it's incumbent on this board and on the mayor to make sure that we're giving you enough resources. >> thank you. >> continue. >> so, our two-year budget cut targets, 13-14, we met our target for both years and next year through our street permit revenue process. we have some parking lots that provide some revenue. so, work order recovery offsetting some of the general fund allocation. and we ended the debt service for asphalt plan. it's no longer in service. looking at the two-year budget, of significance there is our general fund. we have several bonds t