small, community based organizations and community based groups that do work in the cultural equity realm as well. and i wanted to say that i do want to know, a little bit more about how the non-profit work group is progressing and if the report and recommendations will be done by april kind of on schedule, and also, had a question on how do we insure equitable distribution especially the arts funds and i know that the arts commission have a role with their significant ininvolvement in the cultural equity for the arts but those are some of the questions but i am supportive of this and i know that the details and the criteria will be worked out later as well. >> thank you to my colleagues. >> thanks. >> avalos? >> i would like to thank them for bringing this forward and

the budget analyst as well. the organizations that do support the arts and concerned about equity that we really need to be doing something as a city to insure that we can keep up our cultural heritage here in san francisco. with the raising cost effecting many, and so we actually met with arts organizations and tom from the arts commission, and kind of look at how we can address this issue and here to provide m outline for what we discussed and also want to thank amy chan and supervisor and president chui's office as well with her work that is bringing people together and also attend the meeting that we had in the office as well to help to put together an outline. i am not sure what we have for order of presentations. mr. decany could come forward.

>> sure. >> thank you, supervisors and thank you so much for your attention to this matter, we are hearing from a large number of our grantees and the arts and culture that the rising rents is impacting their ability to retain the lease these have or negotiate the decent terms in the new lease terms. and we have been working very closely with the non-profit displacement working group, myself and my staff member have been representing the arts perspective in the conversations to date and we also have brought in a couple of representatives from the arts and culture community into the working group. and there are many parallel to what the arts and culture organizations are facing in parallel to what other non-profit organizations in children family services and others sectors are experiencing. and so, in working with brian chui as the chair of the group

we see the parallels of implementing the strategy to the increase in commercial real estate and i have seen that there are three main areas that we are looking to implement the strategy around and one is very immediate, and the triage and the response to the organizations that are experiencing immediate, eviction, or not finding agreeable lease terms moving forward and so we will see a bucket of technical assistance services to help those non-profits both with legal and probono or redaysed rate and the real estate assistance in working with the partners at the office of economic and workforce development for space matching to understand where there might be vacant inventory and helping the non-profit organizations relocate in a timely fashion, we also see possible bridge grants that could support the organizations in this interim period while they are looking for long term, or you know, three to seven year leases, if they were to

move. so some sort of an immediate assistance to help those organizations and also looking at what the long term strategies could be to stabilize the non-profits for the long term and in researching the city's response in 1999 and 2000, you could pretty much replace the dates today. and so, we know, that the cycles of the economic cycles in the city are something that we need to be prepared for, for the long term and so i think that using the opportunity to begin to develop long term strategies, to sustain our arts and culture and non-profit organizations in the city, one model that has come forward as a strong model that has been successful with two central market acquisitions, is the community arts stabilization trust, otherwise known as cast, and that endeavor was seeded with a $5 million grant from the rain-in foundation and the first five million was used to secure the 509 cultural center luggage store as well as the

theater at 80 turk street. and that is a model that allows, and supports in the small and mid size arts organization who might not otherwise have had the capacity to acquire a property to secure a property of today's market rate and support that non-profit with technical assistance and capacity building over a period of 7 to 10 years, to be able to actually acquire ownership. and so in terms of cultural equity we see it as a model, and many don't have the capacity to jump right into a capitol acquisition, but this model will provide the technical assistance, and support and capacity building support, to help those small and mid size organizations deal with their real estate issues. and we also think that it is a great vehicle for the private partnerships and both, brian chui and myself have met with a number of organization to see how these city resource kaos partner with the other private

endeavor and i think that the trust model, being that it was seeded by the private foundation, could be an attractive mechanism by which the private foundations and other invest tores and sponsor ships and the like could pool to those resources so that the city investment could be sustained. and also, the positive aspect to that model is that the funds renew and once it is secured by a non-profit over that 7 to 10 year period and those funds come back up for the axis for another arts and culture, deed restricted use acquisition and so there is a renewal aspect to that model that will support us for the long term and if we had the future investments i think that we could build a trust in almost a secondary market for our arts and culture non-profit organization. >> supervisor mar? >> yeah, what was that cast, what does that stand for again as a model? >> the community, arts, stabilization trust. >> thank you and i know that

from the budget and legislative analyst report, they looked at or they surveyed a number of non-profit organizations and they said that 54 percent of those who responded would benefit from technical assistance. and they said that two-thirds or more were opened to potentially sharing space with other non-profits, and i am just curious, after the.com, boom, there is a tremendous exit of non-profit arts organizations i believe in our city, and what are you seeing out there with the community based arts groups now, and do you think that they would chair some of those same perspectives on sharing, and also, some of the other data that came from the budget analyst report. >> yes, i failed to mention that another aspect of the community arts stabilization trust is space sharing, and so, there is initial pilot and central market of the space held by (inaudible) and where the trust has taken on the

master lease for the loranne theater and for the or a number of other performing arts organizations who don't have an interest in ownership or nor do they have the capacity to do so. and by sharing that space, they can use it at a different cycles throughout the year and i think that it will be a really effective model and so the community arts stabilization trust will afford for space sharing and master lease projects as well for the organizations that might have the complimentary capacity and working with the working group we see the great potential for the arts and non-arts to also in those master leases to share the space and that is a great example for the luggage store where the hospitality house has a sublease in that property and so that i think we see a real great opportunity in the space sharing and master lease strategy as well. >> okay. colleagues any other questions? >> okay. why don't we bring up brian

chui is here. >> brian chui the director of community development and i think that the director did a great job of outlining the different options that we see for the usage of the 4.515 million dollars of funding that will come through the supplemental, and a few items that i will add in regards to the timing, we are now in the process of finalizing city department feedback on the first draft of the report and we anticipate discussing, the draft, at next friday the 21st, and which is the final meeting of the non-profit displacement working group. and we will be getting feedback from all of the city departments and all of the community partners at that meeting. and we will incorporate whatever final feedback we have into the final report, and we hope to be able to present that to this committee on april 9th

depending on what it will be at that point and we hope that the report will describe the program in sufficient detail for the committee to feel comfortable to release the moneys off of reserve, and we realize that we want to get these dollars out into the community. as soon as possible. because we really need to, even as the report has moved on, there have been a number of groups that have lost their lease even during this planning process but we really want to speed it up. and a couple of other points that i wanted to make was that i found that in this process, there have been a number of partnership opportunities that i think that the city has had not public explored in detail and i think that, you know, for our office, honestly we have not worked as closely, with our arts colleagues, and i think that it was a great opportunity for us to see the amount of synergy that exists between the

organizations and arts organizations and that was one great thing and another thing that was unique about this effort was that usually when we talk about non-profits we are focusing on those departments that primarily fund the aspect of the non-profits, department of public health and we worked closely with the office of economic development and the office of community development and infrainstruct stur and the planning commission and the controller's office and the department of real estate and i think that those departments while we don't always connect them with non-profits play an especially important role when we talk about the non-permanent affordable housing, and in a sense that is what it is. but, in a non-profit setting, so i think that those relationships will work well as we move forward and so we look for toward to issuing that report and presenting that to you in the beginning of april. >> thank you mr. chui any further questions? >> okay, why don't we move nr rose to your budget analyst

report please? >> mr. chairman and members of the committee and supervisors i would just note on page six of the report that if this supplemental is approved the general fund reserve will have a remaining balance of $40 million 980,143 dollars and the committee and the supervisor board have discussed our recommendation which is to reserve the requested 4.5 million and we consider the legislation to be a part policy legislation for the board. >> any questions for the budget analyst? >> at this point in time we will move to the public comment, is there anybody in the public that wishes to comment on item four, step forward, if there are more people, line up and everyone is going to have two minutes. >> thank you there chairman and supervisors. for the opportunity to comment on this important appropriation

to help to stabilize rents for non-profit organizations in our city, my name is dan teri and i serve as the chairman of the board of the arts ban and by day i am a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of ticket fly and an event ticketing provider that employs over 80 people in the city of san francisco. it is one of san francisco's oldest art not for profit and was founded by a group of artists in the 70s, our most notable program is then annual event in october that gathers together over 800 sf artists, and over 50,000 art enthusiasts across the city. it is city wide. and we make it a daily experience for all of the citizens of the city. because art is enjoyed in person, we acquire access to the spaces. rents are increasing and this

is threatened the well springs of our city, things like creative risk taking, free speech, spefl expression, and in many reports these are the things that the world looks to san francisco to be the leader in. for art span's part, we would like to communicate to this committee, and to all of the city agencies, tom, it is always good to see you perform and we thank you for representing our interest all of the time and so we would like to send a message to all of these agencies. and that influence the public's access to the visual arts that arts span stands ready to mobilize our artists and our patrons, to preserve the public's access to the visual arts and to make sure that the visual arts, remain a part of our daily experience. >> i am excited to announce that the board is near the completing of a process that will expand the organization's

mission and our goals over the next three years. for example, we are... >> sir. >> thank you very much. is there anything else. we have two minutes per speaker. >> just want to make sure that we wrapped it up. >> okay. >> we look forward to sharing our plan with this committee and relevant agencies to continue to support the public access to arts. >> thanks. >> next speaker. >> good morning supervisors. thomas ticerelo district five resident and as i expressed last week in public comment i would have preferred to have seen the report by the work group. and prior to you funding four and a half million dollars. it makes a lot more sense to see what the suggestion are before you diminish the fund

reserve. there was a comment about this will be funded by the property taxes but it is my understanding that this is an appropriation none of the rainy day reserve. and which will now be down to 40 million dollars. and so, it would be hard to whether or not this is a good appropriation before one could acertain where it would go, it would begin the rent subsidy and if you subsidize the non-profits for rent you may be discouraging non-profits from merging and sharing space, you may be doing just the opposite of what you propose you are intending to do, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors i am nancy neilson and we are one of the agencis that are being

displaced we are fortunate with the support from former supervisor to find a real estate agent who worked with us and negotiated one of those low, low market rent rates for a long term, but along with it comes the need for considerable amount of improvements and work to the building which has been not tended to for a very long time in the heart of the tender loin and we are excited of being there, but like every other non-profit along with doing our program work and serving over 2500 clients, we are also trying and we have been dealing with an architect and finding a contractor and dealing with the building department and we need the partnership of this board and off this fund and we really appreciate the time and effort and we encourage you to support this piece of legislation. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> are there any other members of the public that wish to comment on this item? >> okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> president chui. >> thank you and we appreciate

your consideration and i would ask the committee first to make the technical amendments that i mentioned before and to move this out of committee with full recommendation, i want to thank you for your consideration and thank my aid for working with all of the various city districts and supervisor kim's office and look for toward to hearing the recommendations of the various working groups and really understanding how we will stabilize our non-profits in that area. i will let the motion go first. >> okay. >> >> i will move the amendments and also the budget analyst to replace the general funds on the budget and finance committee reserve and also pending the issue until the april 2014 report. so with have those amendments

could we take those without objection? >> so moved. >> i appreciate working with president chui and also april who attends this non-profit displacement work group. and looking forward to the report in april, understanding that dollars is one of the solutions that is going to help us all for the situation that we are seeing, either in the tenant improvements such for the situation that is described by the lutheran services is what we hear from the non-profits that we find the below market rates and the rent in the city is often in our buildings that need the most tenant improvements and that is why the rent is so, low, or with the rent stabilization, building acquisition as was done by cast and that came out of the.com boom and we are able to reep the benefit of that in the next.com boom and even if

it is a long term investment and we are seeing the fruition of that today and finally of course, i appreciate mr. chui bringing up that this is a collaboration among multiple departments and dollars is one source and we are also interested in working with planning and dbi to see what other solutions that we can provide through the city, whether it is for example, figuring out, ways to get the non-profits exempted in certain areas where they can't go, but would be below market rent thank you to the committee members for working with the arts non-profits on this effort as well. >> thank you for including the arts and community based cultural based institutions and i view this as a critical part

of the battle against displacement of not only low income residents from the city but some like lopez who came to the board talking about their housing displacement but i know that many arts groups and community based organizations are facing that same kind of displacement. i wanted to also add that i believe that mr. decany coming from the non-profit sector and community arts group will be coming up with good guidelines and so we insure that it is good for the two million going to the arts or community based organizations and as someone who has worked in many of the non-profit organizations that mr. brian chui and others have funded over the years i have confidence that they will look at a package of support for non-profits including sharing of space but also technical assistance and that is so important and needed as we help to stabilize and prevent the exodus of the art groups as we face this crisis in our city.

thank you to my colleagues and also to mr. chui as well. >> okay. thank you supervisor mar. >> and this item as amended do i have a motion to send this forward? >> yes. >> and we can take that without objection. >> okay, madam clerk, could you call six? >> six isvresolution authorizing the general manager of the public utilities commission to enter into an agreement with itron, inc., for meter reading and forecasting software maintenance, for a term of five and one-half years, from march 30, 2014, to september 30, 2019, in the amount of $171,000 pursuant to charter, section 9.118(b). >> okay. thank you very much. >> good morning, supervisors, ivy fine, and i am the contract manager at the san francisco public utility commission, and pu sue ant to the charter section, 9.118 b, they are requesting that the board of supervisors to approve this contract. and the software is used for reading large facility electronic meters remotely and reading them with hand hand

devises and forecasting loads. and they have provided this software and maintenance to the sfpuc since 2004 and the services are unique and the vendor is a nature provider due to the software, the agreement is for 5.5 years and not-to-exceed the value is 171,000. >> and okay, thanks. >> so could you clarify there was a discussion earlier about not needing to move this item forward? could you talk to us about what was going on? >> yeah. so there was discussion between the department, and the city's attorney's office on whether or not this contract applied to the charter section that states that contracts over ten years or ten million dollars. and should go before the board

of supervisors for approval. this is an interesting contract. where we have had a contract with itron since 2004, with multiple amendments and now we have decided to have a new contract, my understanding is that some of the terms have, you know, been changed and the escalation and we renegotiated to a lower amount and some of the scopes of work have been consolidated and it is a 5 year contract and the amount is less than ten million. >> the city attorney's office views this as the relationship with the vendor has been close to ten years and this contract will take it over the ten-year frame. and that was the discussion going back and forth. >> okay. so it has purely to do where it will be heard before us for the board of supervisors and needs our on proval approval. >> why don't you go to the

budget analyst report, mr. rose? >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, the not-to-exceed amount of 171,000 would have an escalation of 3.5 percent and each 12 month period and as i stated, that is incorporated and we recommend that you approve the resolution. >> okay, thank you. >> any questions for the analyst? >> okay, we will open up the public comment and anybody wish to comment on item six? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues could i have a motion to send this item forward. >> i move approval and send it forward with a positive recommendation. >> take that without objection. >> all right, madam clerk, could you call item 7?

>>resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $108,366 from the regents of the university of california to participate in a program, entitled "hiv transmission cluster analysis to inform prevention," for the period of july 1, 2013, through june 30, 2014. >> i believe that we have susan here from the department of public health. >> please come forward. >> thank you, good morning, supervisors, and i am susan sheer and i am the director of hiv surveillance for the department of public health and i am here with my colleague, and who secured this grant from the national institutes of health. so as a collaboration between ucsf and the department of public hel and this what we are trying to do in this study is to look at hiv, viral sequences among the people who have been infected by hiv and look at the biological data that ucsf provides to see how these infections are linked together and then using the data from the hiv surveillance and department of public health we are going to work with the patients providers and attempt

to interview them to see if we can find common characteristics that give the people who are clustered together, using this information to hopefully prevent forward transmission of hiv. >> okay, thank you. >> colleagues any questions or comments? >> okay. thanks very much. we will open this up to public comment, anyone wish to comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. calling the motion to send this forward as well. >> so moved. >> take ta without objection. >> could you call item 8. >>resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $749,967 from u.s. department of justice, office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, and second chance act juvenile reentry program, to participate in a program entitled, "san francisco family intervention, reentry, and supportive transitions program," for the period of october 1, 2013, through september 30, 2014. >> >> okay, thank you.

good morning, supervisors. >> i am dr. emily gerber and i am the assistant director of the child system of care and i am here today in support of the receipt of this grant, which is a collaboration between the san francisco health network and our juvenile probation department. and this is actually the third second chance act grant that san francisco has received from the department of justice, for juvenile reentry, which i think is a big vote of confidence and work that has already been done, the purpose of this grant is to add intensive family treatment to the juvenile collaborative reentry service and what happens is that we have 100 to 120 youth that go out of homes each year and they receive treatment in services while their families here may

receive the case management but they are not receiving intensive treatment and so the purpose of this grant is to fill that gap so that the families will receive the supports that they need while their youth are away that they can also increase the amount of contact between the youth and the family members. and insure that there is a plan that is actually going to work and be implemented once the youth return home so that they can live safe meaningful and productive lives. >> great. thank you very much. >> colleagues any questions at all? >> okay, well we will move on to the budget analyst report, mr. rose. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee on page 20 of the report we note that the united states department of justice, the second chance at grant requires a 100 percent matching funds for this grant of 749,967, such that the dph is proposing the city matching funds of 750,000 for a total

one year pilot program of 1 million, 499,967 and that is summarized on the table one of the report and all of the city's 750,000 matching funds were appropriated by the board of supervisors in the 13, 14, budgets and the superior court and the department of children and youth and family and we recommend that you approve this legislation. >> thank you. >> questions? >> we will move on to public comment, anybody wish to comment on item 8? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> the city attorney? >> deputy city attorney, and we would recommend that the board amend this resolution to delete the first further resolved clause page 2 line 13, through 16. and that further resolved clause states that the board is approving the subcontract that dph is going to enter into, that subcontract does not require the board approval and so it does need to be included in the resolution. >> okay >> thank