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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
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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
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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 you very much. >> colleagues could i have a motion to accept the amendments, so moved. and in the underlying item, and motion to approve. >> you can do so without objection. >> and madam clerk, could you call item 9? >> item 9, is an ordinance authorizing the office of the city and administrator to accept and expand a grant in the amount of 440,000 from the rockefeller foundation to hire a officer for san francisco, and amending ordinance, 160-13 to reflect the addition of one grant fund position in class, 0933 at the office of the
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city.ordinance authorizing the office of the city administrator to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $440,000 from the rockefeller foundation to hire a chief resilience officer for san francisco, and amending ordinance no. 160-13 (annual salary ordinance, fys 2013-2014 and 2014-2015) to reflect the addition of one grant-funded position (.25 fte) in class 0933, manager v, at the office of the city administrator, for the period of april 1, 2014, through march 31, 2016. >> in order to hire the chief officer, position and also to amend the annual salary ordinance >> good morning, to add one grant funded position, in order to serve as the chief resil ans officer, also referred to as cro, the rockefeller foundation, through the 100 city challenge in the process of developing a worldwide network to insure people and communities and systems are better prepared to understand the events and recover, fast and her stronger from the shocks and stresses, san francisco was lucky to be selected as one of three cities to participate in the year of the 100 year city challenge, to support san francisco in this challenge, they have awarded the city to fully fund the
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benefits for the chief officer within the city for a period of 2 years. the chief officer will be the primary point of contact to interact with the staff and the newly created global network of cros and the cro will provide the central point of focus to establish a decision, driving the conversation, and implementing the effective strategy and leveraging the benefits and services of the 100 cities network and platform. the cro will work with regional partners participating in the 100 cities network which include the cities of oakland berkeley and alameda to develop the strategy and i am available to answer any questions and i have patrick here that can answer the questions to the grant. >> thank you. >> colleagues any questions? >> okay. thank you very much. >> we do not have a budget
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report, we will move on to the public comment. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> could i have a motion to approve this. >> and send it forward to the full board without objection. >> all right, madam clerk, do we have any other business in front of us, >> no, chair. >> all right, we are adjourned. >> for wednesday, march 12, 2014. [inaudible].
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my name is supervisor mark farrell. i'll be chairing this committee. i'm joined by supervisor john avalos. i want to thank the clerk of the committee linda wong as well as the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting, jennifer low and [speaker not understood]. do? >> while we wait till our quorum to arrive. we will gavel down and go back into recess and be back in a few mo >> okay, welcome everyone back from resetsv we are now joined by supervisor eric mar. we now have a quorum. madam clerk, can you call item number 1, please? >> item number 1 is a hearing to receive an update from the controller's office and mayor's budget office on the updated city's five-year financial plan. >> okay, thanks. colleagues, we're going to enter tab a motion to continue aye telemundo number 1 to next
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week's finance and budget committee meeting. want to make sure supervisor wiener and supervisor breed are present for that briefing. they're both back on city business in washington next week. before we do that we'll open this up to public comment. anybody wish to comment on item number 1? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> can we take this [speaker not understood]? >> without objection. mad alemany clerk do we have any business in front of us? >> no, mr. chair. >> thanks, everyone. we are adjourned. [gavel] hub. >> hi, i'm jean yes my name is
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jean and sometimes, people call me sir, girl. san francisco has served our sewer system and it's no square feet it's a matter of time. that's why we're planning major upgrades public health depends on it that. see how this important work is done. i was fascinated by it.
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we're going to creek. i would recycle you to come up and see the sewer system in minnesota that's why we see this through the plant. a lot of people don't realize how much work sgo goes into cleaning the water were. we offer free service to san >> we've never been in so much focus worldwide and will not be
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this this is a the moment in time when a story going and make a wish is a program that fulfills wishes for children we operate in every cities there are 62 chapters. our chapter was formed in 8984 we fulfilled 24 wishes. our chapter covers from movntd ray 17 communities and we expect to fully 3 hundred and 50 wishes this year. we send verizon's it out to the wish families and interviews the wish child and if you do their heartfelt wish then go to work to make it happen.
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dismissals is a 5-year-old boy who was diagnosing diagnosed with life without parole when he was 20 months old he's 5 hose now in remission he had his port removed hose monopoly on the chemotherapy. this particular wish the parents wanted to wait until he had energy. i began assigning this wish with the family in march and started to understand the two miles how are we going to achieve that i made a bold statement into turning this into goth am city.
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it codify catapulted. so, now it's a much for ininaccurate indicate from the divorce. people starting twoet and reposting and it went viral. it was incredible about make a wish he wanted to be thinking about being batman. there's been a lot of super issues that have happened cross the country but i think that can only happen in san francisco the mayors on board and the city hall it's an incredible outpouring and i love how san francisco is in the spotlight here and people around the world sending their love to san francisco.
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you kids we thank you for your encourage and we wish we can erase the pain we hope this is the day of magic and that you'll remember this forever. bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in this way and it's part of our compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. it's about san francisco and it's inspired by miles and about every child who has a severe because we have a great waste
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water system here in san francisco, we do about 80 million gallons of waste water here in san francisco, which means we basically fill up 120 olympic sized swimming pools each and every day here in the city. we protect public health and safety and environment because we are discharging into the bay and into the ocean. this is essentially the first treatment here at our waste water treatment facility. what we do is slow down the water so that things either settle to the bottom or float to the top. you see we have a nice selection of things floating around there, things from bubble gum wrappers, toilet paper, whatever you dump down the toilet, whatever gets into our storm drains, that's what gets into our waste water treatment and we have to clean. >> see these chains here, this keeps scum from building up. >> on this end in the liquid
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end basically we're just trying to produce a good water product that doesn't negatively impact the receiving water so that we have recreation and no bad impact on fish and aquatic life. solids is what's happening. . >> by sludge, what exactly do you mean? is that the actual technical term? . >> it's a technical term and it's used in a lot of different ways, but this is organic sewage sludge. basically what it is is, oh, maybe things that come out of your garbage disposal, things that are fecal in nature. it's sludge left in the water after the primary treatment, then we blend those two over and send them over to digestion. this building is built to
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replace tanks here that were so odoriferous they would curl your hair. we built this as an interim process. >> is there a coagulant introduced somewhere in the middle of this? . >> this coagulant brings solids together and lets the water run through. that gives us more time in the digestion process, more time to reduce the amount of solids. these are the biggest ones in the world, like we always like to do in san francisco. they are 4 meter, there's none like it in the world. >> really? wow. >> three meters, usually. we got the biggest, if not the best. so here we are. look at that baby hum. river of sludge. >> one of the things is we use bacteria that's common in our own guts to create this
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reduction. it's like an extra digestion. one of the things we have to do to facilitate that is heat that sludge up and keep it at the temperature our body likes, 98.6 degrees. >> so what we have here is the heat exchanger for digester no. 6. these clog up with debris and we're coming in to -- next wet weather season so we always come through here, clean them out, make sure that we get maximum heat exchange during the colder wet weather. sludge season. >> rubber glove. >> right here. >> rubber glove, excellent. all right, guys. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> this is the full on hazmat.
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. >> residual liquid. we're taking it time to let it drain. we don't want to get sludge on it necessarily. take your time. stand on the side of it. . >> should we let it release for a while? . >> let it release. >> is that the technical term? . >> this is the most important bolt on the whole thing. this is the locking bolt. it locks this thing right in place. so now. >> take your hammer and what we want to do, we get rag build up right in here. the hot water recirculates right in here, the sludge recirculates in here. the sludge sometimes has rags in it. all we want to do is go around the clean the rags. let me show you how. take the slide hammer, go all
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the way through the back, go around. >> got you. >> during the real rainy season, how does that change the way dealing with this job? is it a lot more stuff in there? . >> what we do, charles, we do this quarterly. every four months we go around and clean all the heat exchangers so we don't have a large build up. . >> go around? . >> yeah. (sound of hammering). >> what i'm trying to do, charles, is always pull it out on the low stroke. >> right. so you are not, like, flying
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out. now talk about clean up. . >> then where does this stuff get deposited? . >> we're going to dump it in a debris box and it will go back to the plant. >> if you think back, the romans came up with a system of plumbing that allowed us it use water to transport waste away from the hub of civilization, which enabled cities to grow. . >> you have a large bowl, a drive motor and another motor with a planetary gearbox with differential pressure inside there. the large mass up there spinning separating the solids from the liquid. we have to prevent about once a month, we go in there grease
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those, change the oil, check the vibration levels. the operators can tell just by the hum of that machine that it's a harmonic noise emitted that it's out of balance and the machine needs to be cleaned. it will start vibrating and we have vibration analysis machines that will come over here and check the levels. so it's kind of an on-going thing that you have to stay on top of on a daily basis. >> handled properly, you take organic residuals, as we call them, that are leftovers of our society and turn them back into some energy. and we have another ability to take that sludge and get a nutrient value for crops there. we actually are running a kind
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of composting energy recovery system. >> well, this is a dirty job. we try to do it safely and we try to do it without imposing too much on the public. people want to flush their toilets and have things go away and not be bothersome again. we do a lot to try to accomplish that. i'd like to invite you to come back any time you want. once you got this in your blood, you are not going to be able to stay away. the raging waters are fun and when we do digester cleaning i really hope you can come back. that's quite a sight. >> yeah, that sounds interesting. >> i really appreciate you coming by and it was a >> welcome to culture wire. we will look at the latest and greatest public art project.
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recently, the airport unveiled the new state of the art terminal. let's take a look. the new terminal service and american airlines and virgin america was designed by a world- renowned architecture's firm. originally built in 1954, the building underwent massive renovation to become the first registered terminal and one of the must modern and sustainable terminals and the united states. the public art program continues its 30-year legacy of integrating art into the airport environment with the addition of five new commissions that are as bold and dynamic as the new building.
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>> this project was completed in record time, and we were able to integrate the artist's early enough in the process that they could work with the architect said that the work that is completed is the work that really helps complement and instill the space as opposed to being tucked away in a corner. >> be experience begins with the glass facades that was designed with over 120 laminated glass panels. it captures the experience of being under or over clouds when flying in a plane. depending on the distance or point of view, it can appear clear for more abstract and atmospheric. the subtle colors change gradually depending on the light and the time of day. >> i wanted to create an art
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work that looks over time as well as working on in the first glance. the first time you come here, you may not see a. but you may be able to see one side over the other. it features a couple of suspended sculptures. each was created out of a series of flat plains run parallel to each other and constructed of steel tubing. >> it is made up of these strata. as the light starts to shift, there is a real sense that there is a dynamism. >> it gives the illusion that this cultures might be fragments of a larger, mysterious mass. >> the environmental artwork livens it with color, light, and
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the movement. three large woven soldiers are suspended. these are activated by custom air flow program. >> i channeled air flow into each of these forms that makes it move ever so slightly. and it is beating like a heart. if-0 when as of the forces of nature moving around us every second. >> shadow patterns reflect the shapes of the hanging sculptures. the new terminal also features a children's play areas. both of the market the exploratory n.y. -- exploratorium. the offer travelers of all ages
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a playful oasis. using high quality plywood, they created henches shaped like a bird wings that double as musical instruments. serving as a backdrop is a mural featuring images of local birds and san francisco's famous skyline. >> in the line between that is so natural, you can see birds and be in complete wilderness. i really like that about this. you could maybe get a little snapshot of what they are expecting. >> it is an interactive, keck sculpture that is interacted with by the visitor. >> they are a lot about and they fall down the belt.
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it moves the belt up, and if you turn that faster, the butterflies fall in the move of words. >> the art reflect the commission's commitment to acquiring the best work from the bay area and beyond. in addition to the five new commissions, 20 artworks that were already in the airport collection were reinstalled. some of which were historically cited in the terminal. it includes major sculptures by the international artists. as a collection, these art works tell the story of the vibrant arts scene in the early 1960's through the mid-1980s's. the illustrate san francisco's cultural center and a place of innovation that is recognized and the love throughout the world. one of the highlights is a series of three left tapestries.
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they are on view after being in storage for 20 years. these tapestries representing various gardens. from his years of living in san francisco. hydrangeas, chrysanthemums, and whilst dahlias in rich, deep shades as they make their way to the baggage area. they can access behind-the- scenes information and interviews with the artist through an audio to work. it features archival audio as well as interviews with living artists. he can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commission's web site.
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the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit >> welcome to our regular meeting -- we'll wait for sfgov-tv. so, welcome, this is the regular meeting of the government and audit oversight committee. i am supervisor katy tang. chair breed is out of the state. to my left is supervisor david chiu. our clerk is erica major and we'd like it thank jim smith and jesse larsen at sfgov-tv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk do you have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. item acted upon today will appear on the march 25th board of supervisors agenda unless