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>> >> good afternoon, supervisors. >> so, over all of the ethics commission, implements provisions of the city charters and statutes and ordinance involving campaign interest. the proposed budget the mayor's budget represents an increase of $200,000. and 85 percent of all budget is driven by salary and benefits. and so that is the major driving force here. we are not looking at any new ftes, however, on paper, i have 18 ftes, but since the budget down turn i have not been able to fill all of those positions. initially we are down to 15 for about two years, we have been at 16. and with this proposed budget,

i have planned to at least fill one of those two remaining positions my out reach and education coordinator position has been vacant for months, if i meet my attrition savings and there is money left over, i will intend to fill that 18th position which is a third investigator, so i am optimistic that i can bring it up to 18 in this budget and those are not new ftes. >> and, out here based on these positions. we don't have any new departmental initiatives, currently we are working very hard to existing initiative to stream line the services by moving to all electronic filing which is taking up a great deal of our time. and in general as a rule we don't use over time, so, i have

no anticipation of those. moving on to the additional questions, our client base has narrowly defined and we provide services on behalf of the people involved in san francisco and involved campaigns and workers to the employers and the officials and the media and the public. for example, we don't have any demand for our services, and or other language services, although we are cap able of offering those in mandarin, spanish and italian and in a limited basis in tagali and hindi. and my staff points out that we are fluent in html. we do not (inaudible) in media basis but i would like to include that the budget analyst has not included us in his report and we fully agree with that. >> thank you for coming before us today and presenting this budget. and do you have any questions at this time?

>> okay, thank you. >> thank you for being here. >> we move quickly on to the budget analyst report, and from the department of elections. >> >> good afternoon, the mission of the department of elections is to conduct all federal, state and local elections, to have an open process to provide the public confidence in the elections process to provide out reach and continuing to improve on the services to the san francisco voters and the major would be the elections that were schedule, two for the most fiscal year and one for 14, 15 and the smaller elections that we conduct every year.

as far as changes to our budget, our budget when you compare it like election cycles is similar from year to year, which this chart shows, so 2012, 13 we have one election fiscal year and so the base budget is very similar, but the majority of the cost increase for 14, 15, is wage increases and also increases in cost. and we do have changes in revenue and they increase or decrease with the elections that we have. because of the school board elections and the community college elections and the election and we get reimbursed for those contests and so when we have two election and we have elections, and we get more revenue in the odd number of years. and the changes in fte

positions, we are requesting fte additions to our budget, and positions are currently under exempt requisitions. and the cost will be offset by the attrition savings or the reductions. it is not new positions and it is really the core staff and the department and now we are requesting that we can make these positions rather than permanent than to carry them as temporary personnel as we have in the past. >> major drivers in our budget, and the number of elections in the fiscal year. and the number of pages in the voter information pamphlet. for the mail and language assistance and we need to implement new technologies or to expand our services. and the biggest one for us, and the location of the warehouse

and the lease on pier 48 will end at the end of 2015, and that is in our budget for the project and for the 14, 15 fiscal year and we have been working with the department of real estate to find a new location. >> over time costs, before the reelection we look at the processes and plans to meet the work load without over time and we meet after the election to see how successful our planning was. and we plan to minimize the over time hours as much as possible and the over time requests must be authorized by myself or the deputy director. >> as far as language access is concerned, every election, we have bi lingual poll workers and the bigger elections we have up to 1,000 people at the polling place and all of them are election materials and are translated into english, chinese and spanish. and we worked closely with the media since the well

represented in the bay area and we will partner with them and do radio call-in shows and television call-in shows and we have lines that are dedicated to the languages year long which we increase the staffing during the election periods and the folks have been certified through the dhr process for the bi lingual capabilities and we also provide purposefully the services for folks with disabilities. and again, we have large format, that we post on-line which we can also provide if requested. and the audio formats of the books. and the polling places we put a lot of time into making the polling places as accessible as possible. we also have, technology, which will assist people in assessing our information. and then, also, we also are seeking to increase our accessibility of our service and we are looking more at creating videos for different aspects of our operations and

we are also, rethinking our out reach to folks who were incarcerated or previously on parole due to the realignment in california last year. and then, also, we are, we have at least quarterly meetings with the non-profit organizations that we have worked with. and east of the elections and the materials that are things like that can get to the con stit you entcy. and i want to thank deborah for working with us, and working with us, through the office. >> and all of the recommendations. >> and colleagues, from time. >> thank you very much. >> and we have to come after they recover. >> and the report of the department of elections? >> yes, mr. chairman and members of the committee.

our recommendations begin on page 87. let me comment on page 87 mr. chairman. before the recommendations, we have reported the department of elections, according to the department of elections, the average cost, the pamphlet is approximately, $3500 such as to cost $1 million, $757,000 to print and mail the full 502 page referendum against eight washington boulevard. and eight washington. and however the department of elections is currently budgeted sufficient postage for 72 pages

for the november 2013 election. and therefore, the department of elections does not have sufficient funds, in the proposed 13, 14 budget to print and post, the voter information, pamphlet for that referendum. >> currently as you know there is pending before the board to amend the code to not print the text of any ballot measure where the information that exceeds 20 pages and that is one file, 13034 and there is another file, 130431 to not print the text of any ballot measure in the way of information pamphlet that exceeds 100 pages. >> on page 90. recommended reductions total $151,934, and all of which are ongoing savings and these are reductions which still allow an

increase of approximately 4.3 million or 34.5 percent, and the department of the 13, 14, budget. >> and our recommended reductions for 14, 15 total, 161,321 all of which are ongoing savings and these recommendations will result in the 161,321 savings for the city's general fund in 14, 15 and in addition, we are recommending a budget and finance committee reserve in 2014, 15, totaling, 2 million, 500,000 of general fund moneys and that is on a new lease as explained on page 91 of our report. >> thank you, mr. rose. any questions for mr. rose at this time? >> just to be clear you are okay with the budget analyst recommendations but also the reserve? >> yes. >> thank you. >> okay. >> colleagues, any questions for mr. rose,? >> okay. thank you, all for being here,

and thank you for your presentation. and colleagues, we have the budget analyst, and could we have a motion to accept those. >> so moved. >> without opposition. >> so moved. >> and at this point in time, it is 6:15, and we have been here for 8-plus hours. and we are going to resume our budget discussions wednesday, at 10 a.m. and we will take up the remaining items on the agenda in the morning and keep going, mr. clerk, do we have any other items? >> i would like to discuss the continuances. item 6, and 7, along with all of the remaining departments are going to be continued until june 19th. and item 8, 9, and 10 will be continued to june 21st. and item number 1 1 will be continued until june 20th for the further discussions and item 12 and 13 will be continued to june 21st. >> just so that we don't, we

will go through this one more time? >> 6 and 7, that is the annual appropriation ordinance, and annual salary ordinance, that will be continued until wednesday, june 19th. >> correct. >> item 8, 9, 10, 12, and 13 will be continued to june 21st for public comment. >> correct >> and item 11 will be continued to june 20th for additional discussion. >> that is right. >> okay. >> perfect. >> and colleagues we have those motions for continuances. and could we take that without opposition? >> okay, so moved. >> mr. clerk, do we have any other items? >> that completes the agenda. >> we are adjourned. >> we are adjourned. thank you.

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>> good morning, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. my name is scott wiener, the chairman of the committee. to my left is supervisor david chiu, a member of the committee. i apologize for beginning a few minutes late, but the subway was experiencing some sort of melt down this morning so it took me a little longer than anticipate today get here. we'll be joined by supervisor jane kim shortly. our clerk is melissaer and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting today's meeting john ross and mark bunch. and for those who are watching

or here, we are on item 1, we are hearing at 9:00 a.m. and then the remaining items on the agenda we will recess and then hear at 1:30 p.m. we're trying to juggle land use committee in conjunction with the budget committee since we are the heightest budget season. so, madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence on cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards including copies of files should be submitted to the clerk. item acted upon today will appear on the june 259tion board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. madam clerk, can you please call item number 1? >> item number 1 is a hearing requesting the municipal transportation agency, department of public works, planning department, and the county transportation authority to provide an update on the better market street project, including schedule and progress on improving interagency coordination, and the proposal to construct a separated bicycle lane on mission street; given that bicycling is an important element of the city's commitment to a revitalized market street and a critical component of the city's transportation network, the departments are requested to discuss how diverting bicycles to mission street is in the best interest of the city and

the better market street project. >> thank you very much. instead of market street. ~ first i want to thank everyone for being here for today's hearing. i and supervisor chiu called for the hearing so we could receive an update about the better market street plan. this plan is one of the most important plans that's moving forward in the city right now. market street in many ways is the spine of our street system. it is critically important to many different modes of transportation in the city and for many years market street frankly has under performed. it is not up to standards that we need it to be as a world class city, as a major roadway that can accommodate all the different modes of transit in an effective manner. earlier this year the board, sittinging as the board and also the transportation authority held several hearings on the status of the plan. a number of supervisors echoing various many people in the public, we expressed concern

about the slow pace of the plan. the plan was supposed to be in process already physically and there have been a number of delays. we also expressed frustration about our perception that there was insufficient coordination among the numerous agencies involved in formulating this project and moving it forward and we expressed a strong desire for there to be better and more consistent coordination and that lack of coordination was occurring despite the fact that we had a very strong dpw project manager leading the team. the hearings were a bit tense, but i think that as a result some of that communication, there have been some positive changes. it is my sense we have i think a higher level of coordination than we had before, and i think that we are potentially moving

in a more positive direction. and, so, today we're going to be hearing an update about what has been happening over the last number of months so that we can exercise oversight of the project and also what the plan is moving forward so that this project can be formulated and delivered in a timely manner. we also want to talk about there are two specific things that we'll be discussing today in addition to the plan as a whole. one of them is the discussion about market street versus mission street in terms of which would be the primary biking thoroughfare for the project. i know that mission street is being considered as one of the i think ceqa alternatives and there's been concern expressed by many in the community and i and president chiu i think have expressed similar concern about the mission street option, but we would like to hear about what the status is of those various