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growth it has nothing to do with permit fees or increases it is more use and more efficient use of the requests. you see a one-time stadium revenue line item there in the budget last year when we submitted our two year's budget there was a $3 million stlementd in t in t in the 49ers they stopped their lease a year early and that money is budgeted and is a fiscal edge. the 2 million you see is revenue from the reuse of resale of the candle stick infrastructure. which we will do before the stadium is transferred to lanar
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and the shipyard project. just a little bit of a highlight in the budget solution our center has done a good job with our job costs a $350,000 from workers' compensation it's also, we do were pretty aggressive with tracking workman's comp and get back to work early it's a do not have reduction in costs and do safety training. so you mentioned two of our budget priorities we're reinvesting in recreation and we are trying to do our part to work on what we believe is a
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serious obesity or inactivity epidemic. we're working with the school district and working with lots of partners trying to provide more programming designed to get children and seniors outside and running around. on the customer service side one of the enhancement is our human resources function. when we did our recreation model it's been quite successful a few years ago. we probably after looked the hiring we're hiring a lot more people on a temporary basis 80 that have a specific skill and increased our summer hiring the model is to have a more temporary workforce with respect to the instructors themselves.
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we run pretty high open vacancies and so we've asked for a little bit more h.r. support to do our part to turn around vacancies in park control and we have some reinvestment as well. on the technology side which we are trying to keep up with they are presenting interesting technology supervisor farrell led the wifi initiative but there's other opportunities for us to not only create our technology but to provide better customer service. i can go into it a little bit more county jail bus that's essentially the detail of our investments >> okay. colleagues any questions at this time?
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okay. thank you mr. ginsburg and katie. we'll see you back shortly >> open this up for public comment is there any public comment on item 4? okay seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues can i have a motion to table item 4. we'll take that without objection. >> would you like to file the item instead. >> i'm sorry yes file it instead. thank you madam clerk, call item 5 >> this is a hearing to receive an update open the sheriff's department budget for the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. >> okay. i don't see the sheriff's department here. we're on item 6 why not go into a 5 minute recess and come back
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point. >> okay welcome back to the san francisco budget & finance committee wednesday, april 23, 2014. madam clerk, call item 5. >> this is to receive an update 0 on on the sheriff's department 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 budget. >> thank you, mr. chair and budget committee per good afternoon. we'll start with our slide presentation if guiding you through. a lot of people don't know all the services that the san francisco police department performs this is what the sheriff's department law enforcement agency is love
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people think we're strictly about custody and corrections as you see if this chart only 49 percent of our sires are allocated toward the custody side and 5 percent to equipment services and 8 percent of our resources to administration and finger 8 percent to the court position and 14 percent to security services and 6 percent to field and security services. only 6 percent to our programs with the post custody erect and innovating the jurisdiction from all around the state and country. the next slide is the progress
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that our department and the city is making collectively with other leaders in the criminal justice system is the dramatic considers of our jail population. in january of 2014 our population at that metric has already been 40 percent under crowded of our maximum population is it's now even further than that you heard if the self-employed police department with the drop in the jail population we're not seeing the increases in crimes or public safety where one says that's the untint consequent o
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those not incarcerated the purifying and our department and community and city hall can appreciate that we are seeing also significant improvements in anti recidivism and lowering the repeat offender rates that's the population staying out of jail. there's something that role went very undetected in san francisco and that's kind of a of a should've thing to do i shut down the entire jail county jail number 3 the sixth floor in its existence that had been shut down. in the parlance of what it means to proceed over our incarceration system building a
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jail is a big discussion and a you shutting down a jail shouldn't go unnoticed. that leeltd for us the ability to have flexibility in our staffing to redistribute some of our staff one of the main richlz in the condition in that jail was to bad it was the paralleled of the discussion but because of overcame. we thought we'll be able to save our city, of course, the fund that are being used unnecessarily for overcame. once you shut down the jail it's unlikely we're going to especially it back up. so while county jail the sixth floor of the hall of justice p
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had been closed in its history speaks to the kind of overall position that the jail is moved. we allocated our jail with 5 and 11 which is the downtown san francisco and county jail number 4 with 5 that went to the hall of the couldn't justice and a records kwifks our it u institutional police and we believe that couragely this is now allowed us to innovative other central records utilities this is currently operated by our sworn staff.
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so on department chouchlt we're seeing significant reductions in rhythm - recidivism there's not a central definition of recidivism and not in the sheriff's department. based on random milestones that have been submitted it the controller for their index reporting some of the indexs we're comparing against 17 percentage of remaining for them that complete the sisters program some of our infamous in house custody programs and 57 recidivism for electronic control. so based on a bureau of justice 65 recidivism for prisoners that
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were released since 199 that that's an overall federal and state statistic. the other initiative it mrept the affordable care act we're the first in the country that has been suggested that as a sheriff's department institution to provide avoidance to the department of public health department and who's also led the effort but we're 247 operationo and h s a can't also be in the jail system so we want to cast a net so people who are booked into the jails can participate. the pilot programs next week
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city college comes to the jail system. we were able to initiative that city college that they're going to start 2 classes in our san bruin 5. we have the first education in our jail and many of those who are getting their depleting or diploma have reached a ceiling so having city college in hand helps us be able to extend their level of education and hopefully as we're able to excel that continuous of education with the supervision that is made part of a factor in the completion of their probation. we're excited bmw city college coming in the jail system and
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will benefit those who are getting scombat back into society. our bike program is new for the san francisco sheriff's department like the horticulture program the horticulture we use tools inside the jail system and for any kind of correctly atmosphere climate or jail system or prison system the introduction of tools inside a jail system what about intoimentd but thanks to our program staff we found a way to adversity the tools to the walls so there's accountability for the tools and the instruction that's been provided is a testing ground for us over the last year by having the bicycle
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repair program to spark interests. accident sheriff's department has been famous that deals with the e emotional side of skill and hard skill side this is where our administration prepares people for the job force. we're increasing visitation. san francisco prior to 2011 had the lottery in visitations hours. had i look at the other of people to visit our jails a maximum up to 12 hours and looked at the complications of poor people to visit their loved wunz ones i thought we should increase and visitation hours we're looking to do that cross
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the board and tripling them as well. we visit programs that really zone in layers in on the reunification percentage parents who have children's on the outside and unless there's a thing a prohibits them our staff is trying to help us create a bonding system of visitation in connection were there hadn't been before in the sheriff's department. we looked to calling attention to some additional programs around mother's day and then the reentry pod that's something we've been before this body to
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present and this body approved the contracts between the san francisco police department and the adult probation department and the correction of protect we're the first to take a dedicated pod that's located in county jail number 2 the a pod and designating that pod for a reentry problematic wrap around services up to 60 days before their released. our transportation system leaves next week week to go to san quentin to have the population cob that have been prequalified through our clarification unit from between our adult probation
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department and san quentin. the chief and myself went to san quentin and met with the warned and developed a number even if orientation materials for the inmates we think this is potentially very excited being the first department in the state to do this there are other couldn't departments that want to do it but the recreation up to 56 inmates that will be ben inside the reentry pod being ready for the release of the adult probation that exporting process you would think should be continued in a post custody world it never happened without the level of focus or scrutiny.
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this is what the enter pod doesn't see it will be more practical use or around the state or country. electronic monitoring is the - electronic monitoring is something in my as precisions in being sheriff as a supervisor i spoke candidly about diversion around from incarnation and look for the tools that are afforded to the sheriff's department one by diverting people and making sure that there is no risk to public safety. we were surviving taxpayers significant amazes of money $55,000 a year and $15 and year
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from somebody on electronic mortgaging yet we're seeing in not better sometimes on the recidivism or repeat offender. and 2013 was a banner year for electronic monitoring in the san francisco sheriff's department we/3 hundred and 59 on e many there was no breach of the electronic monitoring nobody had been recidivist for those who unfortunately, this is an issue that remains unsoefld for people who can't afford bail remain in jail but those who are more higher risk for the lower risk to not be in jail. next please.
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vocational school training. when i was a supervisor so far district 5 i asked why are we not doing city building inside the jail whether you want to take the model or convert it that makes sense that the triumphing of the needs for jobs in san francisco and benefiting from our local economy then role one of the best candidates to help that opportunity starts in the system we have the space because our jail population has declined to create the space i reached out to our friends in union labor and others in the nonprofit community to examine what the possibilities are for
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the first time to bring into the san francisco sheriff's department a hard training system. and since it is a component of many local hiring laws and first source laws to hire people that are formerly incarcerated to begin the training process while in custody. we've preidentified many that apply in the i think the safety not a safety risk that well perform and by the people from a program like a bike repair is a precursor to help us ready ourself and we're acquit right for wanting to implement. we've put in the budget a request we implement that program. this kind of program will go a
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long way to address the issues for people of the colored community we often find disproportionately in jail so having them in the supervision of the adults and having them being placed in an apprentices program is a perfect slungs for the good work that's being done from city hall right now on a job program for underserved community should saturday in the jail. we have the programmed to help people get their driver's license to prepare for resegregation we need to make sure that during the exciting time of the economic about how many the other side of the coin
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how expensive it is to live in san francisco especially for a population like ours more to the point and unlikely or difficult it is for emerging population out of incarnation. job readiness is important here. one of the other endeavors is the cafe the in custody program like for men we can do this for women too even our women's jail population is smaller and considerably small compared to county in san francisco. we have a women's resource center on broint street across from the county jail. i want to use part of the y r.c.
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with a number of women lead organizations and with the adult probation depth to help provide a retail environmentalist we can turn our w r.c. into a cafe. we've investigated and in order to help teach and prepare the women who want to work in the process gets the culinary experience and be part of something that is something we can be proud of we've been working on that we have the capital in order to develop what the cafe will look like. the next area i want to braushgs
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is something that's been well discussed i'll say this we're the agency of last report when it comes down to evictions there's been a number of reports open the state of evictions but the true state based on the legal framework in court orders as their count strictly with the sheriff's department we have something that's an eviction assistance unit was it unit is nothing that a glorified expel the that except one deputy helped people who are being evicted. we're duty bound in order to honor the correspondent order itself it doesn't go without conscious to make sure that the
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person or families are evicted we don't want them to be homeless there's nothing in the state law that says they have to have a unit for this but we are trying to cusstion is blow and we're not as well prepared no matter from the nonprofit or the bar level or the association or even through private advertising by the time the order comes to us it's pretty sure a done deadly weapon and yet the critical process and crisis we do what we can to alleviate the project. so when small business is about ready to get evicted depending on their frame of mind we've
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seen stress growing and growing and growing we've had to deploy unit or escalates a number of help you want to see us be able to disarm and deescalate and often our deputies and our one fte that's used for eviction assistance is usually the representative in trying to explain to someone, you know, we're you need to go to seek those resources or you need to go to get this information if someone want to do what they can to stave off the eviction or, you know, seek housing somewhere else often we're the people that
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are the shoulder that people are relying on strangely same time there being a evicted. i want to try to do what we can to evaluate within the perimeters of what the law requires of us so that point of stress i've done ride along these to see what it like when someone is being evicted and someone says you're going to have to carry me out in the body bag that in and of itself necessity at that time something you can see the zip codes despite the master order of 2 thousand orders in 2013 there
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were 5 hundred less evictions carried out only 14 or 15 hundred maybe pledged based on streams of intervention and one hundred and 6 of 94124 and the next 51, 94107 and all the zip codes make up one hundred percent. next, please so on our law enforcement side right after the tragedy the san francisco general hospital last october we received a letter from the department of emergency management and quite surprised they said they c
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