now closed. it's been moved and seconded. all those in favor, signify by saying aye? >> aye. >> and opposed? the ayes have it and motion carries. madame secretary next item. >> item no. 11 authorize the general manager to execute on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, the third amendment to the memorandum of understanding by and between the sfpuc and other members of alameda creek fisheries, et cetera. >> commissioners? >> so moved. >> seconded. >> move and seconded. any comment on the item? seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. all those in favor, signify by saying aye? >> aye. >> next item, madame secretary please. >> item 12 authorize the general manager to apply for proposition 84 grant fund. >> commissioners?

>> i will entertain a motion. >> i will move that. >> second. >> moved and seconded. any public comment on this item? see none, public comment is now closed. call for the vote, all those in favor, signify by saying aye? >> aye. >> and opposed? the ayes have it and the motion carries. madame secretary, next item, please. >> item 13, approve project no. cuw36702 peninsula pipeline seismic upgrade project in northern san mateo county, california, et cetera. >> move it. >> second. >> any public comment on this item, seeing none, public comment is closed. all those in favor, signify by saying aye? >> aye. >> the ayes have it and the motion carries. madame secretary, next item, please. >> item 14, approve project no. cuw2730502 san andreas piper jaffray 2 and pipeline 3 improvements project in the city of south san francisco, et cetera. >> move it. >> second. >> it's been moved and

seconded. >> any public comment on the item? seeing none, public comment is called. i will call for the vote. all those in favor, signify by saying aye? >> aye. >> and opposed? the ayes have it. the motion carries. we're going to move into closed session madame secretary, but is it appropriate to call up mr. richard hanson who submitted a card. >> yes. >> mr. hanson. >> yes, hi. my name is richard hanson and i'm speaking as a private citizen of san francisco i used to be on the puc cac and working on water and sewer and those problems for about ten years. during the time i was on the cac, i was active in making recommendations about this and that. but one of the things i was persistent about was asking about the puc's planning for disasters. i came to san francisco originally in 1988 from a

background as a research scientist in astronomy and worked at va hospital and employed at presidio of san francisco when it was an active military base before they started the wars in iraq and kuwait and it was the headquarters of the u.s. the army and anybody that old, maybe mr. torres will remember a very active military complex. >> i'm only 57, geez. [ laughter ] >> there were a lot of bases here and a lot of people could do pipe fitting and electrical work and they had excellent training programs for young people who developed those trades, but now they are all gone. and the technical hands-on competence in san francisco is very limited. at the time of the earthquake

in 1989, i had my job as chief of operations and maintenance at the presidio for three or four months that included responsibility for all utilities. and i shortly after the earthquake, i told my boss who was sitting around and said, hey, randy, who is in charge and he said you are. i said oh, you know? it was not in my job description, but it was up to me to find out there was a lot of hissing going on and what water breaks and gas breaks and how to restore electrical power. ed at that point i rented out a type writer to write out plans because if another earthquake, i didn't want to get stuck as the fall-guy. i realized in preparing for a

disaster you have to have a plan in advance and i was wondering what the puc's plan -- typically they don't occur during normal business hours and in san francisco, you find that most of your firefighters and police and electricians and others live far from the city. more recently, i happened to visit new york city which had a storm system that flooded their subways system and closed down the statue of liberty and ellis island and had to develop responses to it. but i am -- i have passed out to you a brochure, not made by me. i had nothing to do with this. this is something that former mayor art agnos has been

giving speeches about. and i suppose it depends on big a fan you are of more building around the waterfront. >> thank you, just to be fair to the other public commenters, the time allotted for this discussion has already passed. so we will accept whatever you have into the record and just give us a final thought. >> first question is where will the landfill be when we have a big earthquake? where are we going to put all the debris? it was a big deal in new york city, if we give up all the waterfront space and open space along the waterfront and if we give up these piers, where do we put the debris? there will be a lot of buildings made prior to the new codes that

have not been corrected. >> okay. >> is the communication system now working? there are several articles in the newspaper saying it was a boondoggle. third question it's understood that the cal pacific hospital has applied for a lot of money to build a replacement hospital because it's seismically unsafe. if we had a big earthquake today in san francisco, the capacity. >> there are three questions. >> my third question, where would the emergency u.s. navy ship, a floating hospital ship dock in all the piers were given up along the waterfront? >> so i do have them here. >> and i'm giving all of these to you and there is a history in san francisco, where there are a lot of political appointees to igsignificant things like emergency response and i would hate to see that done again. >> thank you, mr. hanson.

>> my question is what is san francisco doing? >> thank you very much for being here. i will make a commitment in public to meet with you offline to make sure that i have the information just the way you wanted it to be presented and question have staff go over it. we appreciate your time today. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed and madame secretary will you read the items to go over in las vegas? >> yes >> item 17, existing litigation walsh versus city and county of san francisco. item 18, mark pare and matt pare vs. city and county of san francisco. >> item 19, city and county of san francisco vs. pegg pegg. item 20, city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas & electric. i. 21, pg&e versus city and countying of stormtrack.

i. 22, conference with legal counsel. item 23, conference with legal counsel. item 24, threat to public services or fulfillments. >> are we now in closed session? >> momentarily. >> i would like to make the motion to assert attorney-client privilege. >> it's been moved. is there a second? >> second. >> all those in favor, signify by saying aye? >> aye. >> and the ayes have it. the >> we're back on the record and announce no formal action was taken during closed sessioned and is there a motion whether or not to discuss closed session? >> so moved. >> moved not to discuss the closed session. >> second. >> all those in favor, signify by saying aye? >> aye. >> that motion carries. madame secretary, next item.

>> any other business? >> commissioners? >> i do have an item that was discussed briefly today with doctor jackson up at the podium. and it relates to the accepting work performed by one of our contractors, which we did, in fact, accept. there were discussions that reflected in the minute meetings that we adopted and approved today, relating to the connection or lack thereof of performing certain types of work at a certain rate of pay and the inability to meet certain necessary criteria and subsequent findings and to categorize that discussion accordingly and make sure it appears on a future agenda after we meet with staff and make sure they are ready for that conversation. >> any others, commissioners? seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. [ gavel ]

>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were

a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. >> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that

the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. >> this park is open.

♪ >> good morning, everyone. all right. good morning, everyone. welcome to the board of supervisors budget and finance meeting for wednesday october 23rd. i'm joined by councilmember eric mary and have been joined by

supervisor avalos. thank you for the staff covering this meeting. mr. clerk any announcements >> madam clerk, please call the roll. >> completed speaker cards and documents to be completed as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk and the agenda will appear for next time unless otherwise stayed. >> mr. clerk please call the first item and this is a grant under the california department of rehabilitation to participate in a program for the rehabilitation service program. >> all right. we have our members from dph arrest i'm the vocal director i'm here to talk

about the collaborative agreement between the habit and california department of rehabilitation. we have provided services for disabled mentally challenged folks and this lefrnz the mental health dollars as dph habit has a cash match of 21 percent. this agreement has essentially remained the same for 21 years. and the department of rehabilitation has this same agreement with 21 other chunts u counties. the voraciously services provided will be expensive services occupation skills training within the competitive

work force. this allows the funds .8 fte coordinator to assist in planning and krorpg all the work within in agreement. this position willation act as a coordinator often or on a local level to provide support rewarding the training inform theeflts within the mental health system community buffalo health services. after all department of public health department supports the service program as it's demonstrated better treatment outcomes and demonstrated mental health symptoms with patients and he helped people find training and employment. those help boost the clients

self-esteem and reduce relapse and recidivism rates. last year alone this program served over 2 hundred and 80 clients and almost 2 hundred of those clients found work. i'd like to call of darlene to speak on this agreement >> okay. i'm darlene i'm the district administrator for the department of rehabilitation we cover harry run and to counties. i don't really think there's much more that i can add except we value tour relationship with the city and county of san

francisco department of public health. we're able to help hundreds of disabled folks through the city and county of san francisco. i'm you available for any questions you have >> colleagues, any questions? all right. thank you very much mr. rose >> yes. mr. chair on page want 9 hundred 65 uses of fund under this service grant agreement between the dph and the state is shown in table two on page 5 and that includes the 2 hundred and 71 thousand plus for a .8 fte program coordinator repossession. we recommend you approve this >> colleagues, any questions

for mr. rose. >> okay seeing none. why don't we go to public comment is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> on item one. >> hello supervisors i'm jerald banks. i'm one of the lucky ones i guess you can say utilize and really get a lot out of the program through the vocal. i went on disability for stress and other things i went through as a eternal and it didn't effect me until years later. so i'm lucky enough to go through an agency citywide they're helping me to get back into the job pool. when it did they help me with resumes.

they helped me to find a way in all united states community activities in my neighborhood focus on that. i'm close to getting a job thanks to citywide working on the hotdog cater but i think it should be taken a step forward. barbara garcia does a terrific job but when it comes down to make sure that everyone wants to get into a rehabilitation it should start at the s r os because they have support staff. what the support staff does i don't know. but i happen to live in one of the buildings. one of the agencies come into the s r os give support and let people know we're here north america in case you want to go

back to work. a lot of folks don't go out and find the places so i think it would be helpful if the agencies would be allotted to into come into the city and any other members of the public wish to speak. seeing none, public comment is closed. we have a motion to move this forward. mr. clerk please call item 2 >> item 2 resolution of new flyers for the purchase of 50, 40 foot dealing hybrid buses through the cooperative material management definition in the amount not to exceed $38,000 plus and for a term not to

exceed 6 years. >> thank you we have the gentleman here from our inspirations office. >> before the committee today is the agency contract allotted to purchase 50 hybrid buses. this is the second procurement responded by committee to help provide better service for san franciscans. the issues with the buses themselves the engines breaking down and the doors not opening. our buses are old and getting older every day. the breakdowns and delays are a part of the frustration. this procurement is another step in the right direction helping

decades even if neglect they have a immediate effect on our transportation system. this procurement will be followed by the mta they're in the midst of replacing their entire fleet. so on behalf of the supervisors i'd be happy to have this board of supervisors approval >> mr. haley. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. good morning i'll add a couple of things briefly. this is a key element of a 3 part program for us which means improving our system by first replacing our entire rubber fleet over a 5 year period and second by integrating a systematic and focus

rehabilitation program with our help and support often both the number of buses and thirst basically to reindignant our maintenance program. it's important in the action before you today and in the recommendation it includes money both for the training of our staff but for the purpose of parts any and it's our goal to continue to improve our maintenance program and make sure we run the safest and most reliable fleet we can. we think that all the actions that we're putting together given where we are the fleet we have not only the most heavily used you're busy run a lot of hours in a demanding environment. we're pleaded to make this

representations and we very much thank and support the committee and the hard work your staff has put in. so this is an important element of our program to improve the service by improving the reliability of the system and in particular the business u bus system while it sometimes doesn't get the attention of a rail system but it's the backbone of our system carrying 75 percent of our riders. its important we there our standards part of what we need to do is simply to say those buses are coming in brand new and we need to arrangeor maintenance and security programs to make sure we keep them that way and get the best use of life out of them. thank you for tuesday night to

speak >> supervisor avalos. >> it's great to ride and see the new buses out in the city was it this spring or in the spring of 2012. >> the first 62 went ♪ the beginning of july the end of july >> but we had approved the contract for the 62 buses was it in 2013 or 2012. >> i'm sorry it was in the i understand of 2012. >> so we're now looking at those 50 is that what it is? i'm sorry. is that what is before us >> excuse me. the item has 50 so 62 plus 50 we'll have a one hundred and 12 new buses. >> so we'll see those in

service at the end of this year. >> that's our schedule yes our plan. >> have the manufacturing already begun so - >> there are asking you that from the first group. accepted in service. there are new flyers begun the production of the second 50 and part of the our ability to both get the price and deliver the buses on a compacted schedule is that they had a hole in their production line we were able to take advantage of that we agreed by putting a fulfilling funding package together and they agreed to begin we told them we needed the buzz so they've begun the

production of the buses and some of them are on the way. we have not accepted them but some of them are on the way to the bay area. and should be able to get the majority of the 50 buses at the end of the calendar year >> okay. so our resolution is needed to accept but manufacturing has already been done. so my other question and my staff informed me is the question of biofuels ease how we're able to use the bio fuel with those buses. in the one of our plans around greenhouse production what can you say about this to incorporate biofuels >> those engines are guaranteed by the manufacturer