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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 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
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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. 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
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capital in order to develop what the cafe will look like. the next area i want to braushgs 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
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evicted. we're duty bound in order to honor the correspondent order itself it doesn't go without conscious to make sure that the 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
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project. so when small business is about ready to get evicted depending on their frame of mind we've 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
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to stave off the eviction or, you know, seek housing somewhere else often we're the people that 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
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despite the master order of 2 thousand orders in 2013 there 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
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francisco general hospital last october we received a letter from the department of emergency management and quite surprised they said they can't provide dispatch service and the second largest law enforcement agency in san francisco we're and we're the eyes of the member of the public safety family this was a sobering letter to receive. i understand d e m is struggling with their own structural deficits in staffing deficiencys but as i spotlighted in the assessment of how poor and app accurate our services at sf general there is no dispatch it's a communication center if that that resembles something out of the 1950 not having the
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services for the police department and fire department frankly, i think t is madness. and the fact that happened unnoticed by the public safety community or the board of supervisors and/or the large board of supervisors not having the emergency management dispatch systems significantly handicaps our ability to perform the services that be common place for the sheriff's department. we received a bill that never occurred before i building it was 6 hundred thousand or something. 6 hundred and 40 thousand. if that same level of billing is being addressed to us that billing will be targeted for
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other members of the pub public safety and that doesn't seem to be the case. i'm hoping 0 through the budget intellects process - >> sorry about that. >> through the process we'll come to some understanding how realignment we are on the emergency managed. the people who suffer is the people of san francisco where the dispatched communication should be uncompromised. station transfer unit is something we've proposed and we've had discussions with the san francisco police department. this is where the 10 applications it's been practiced before a if you years ago back the sheriff's deputies are the ones that go to the stations and
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pick up people in a temporary holding sells and instead of the san francisco police officer spend a lot of time and taking them to the county jail for booking and going there to booking process we can do that. it's been done before it saves the police department the crucial time to apply their efforts in other ways. our cost diverse reasonable it saves the city and coincident money. we offered a pilot without money being changed hands and our intention of civilizing the records to free up the san francisco police department.
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it's both i think in 2 hundred lap and this board to determine what that level of assistance looks like but if we can free up officers not having to sit open people having to be booked into jail that's an important efficiency for your department and the police department and the public safety overall. our department has never benefited from the field officer training program fto. the field training program is something that frankly every law enforcement agency applies and utilizes for their sworn staff they want to make sure their field and practical rode. we had a fair amount of that and it's evident from the general
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hospital tragedy last fall among other ethers not having an fto in place and funded by city again handicaps our deputies from bringing as trapped as we are the second largest agency in the city to be trained. now keeping pace with retirement. we have an academy class that will be finishing. their success rate so far meaning only one drop out for a medical reason was a high percentage for people able to sustain the academy class process. typically in the past our retirements have been 14th per year now we've seen 17 and the retirement is going to inch up
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we'll see 20 or 24 in the next fiscal year. we're very much hoping for an academy class built into the structural deficiency in planning and the last point i'm back filling staff on emergency leave this city and our department has a chronic problem with people on disability. between workers' compensation and disability to find remedies for more than several years for people on disability this is the case. the convinces of people being on workman's comp their occupy that
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position so those positions go outstanding filled and deemed inattentive. if we are depleted we have people on long term disability that paralyzes us. we ask that and through the help of peggy sugarman and other in the city that we feel we can make a strong case to fulfill those positions because we don't expect those 20 plus people to return back to the sheriff's department and feel it's unfair we simply treat those positions as filled when they're not. that concludes my presentation i'm happy to answer questions and thank our cfo who did a good job >> colleagues questions or
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comments open this up for public comment is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thanks for the presentation. supervisor avalos >> yeah. yeah. i know we've got to foil this item. a motion to file the item we'll take that without objection. >> item 6 is the ordinance appropriating approximately one hundred and 16 thousand overtime and to overtime and appropriating one hundred and 16 thousand for the sheriff's department in probating budget in order to support the departments projected overtime for 2014-2015. >> i'm lets cfo of the sheriff's department and here to request your approval important a supplemental allocation for
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$150,000 for our food budget to our overtime budget no impact. as you can see from our year over year trend the shape of our overtime is fairly consistent with the year the blue is the current and the red is the prior. earlier in the year in the first 6 weeks or so two months or so we were tracking above that overtime for the year and i'll talk about that in the next slide. again, we came to the point in it is the duty 10 we xholtd pg 3 and a sharp chiropractor in our overcame to we didn't see the slope of the line of the overtime it's more shallow in
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the pay period 13 essentially the differences between the red and blue line is the overcame we didn't concur because of the consolidating. then there the holiday season we were not able to realize the same benefits so our overtime tracked with the previous overcame and after the high school and evacuates season you'll see our overtime declines cybill. we're expecting to spend less on overtime. one of the drivers is vacation was a because we have minimum staffing. any time 0 staff member is on pco we have to restaff.
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fashion used to be circulated in order to look at it all the position approved by members if you're working in the facility and divide it 365 so a member can take all tare evaluation we changed that and vacation is now for the size of the unit for every 7 deputies will help with the slots. in addition in the current unit the senior deputies were not counted in the vacation book meaning they were able to take vacationed completely outside of the rolls of allocation dictated and this is a net increase of 19 vacation days per shift just in
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custody alone and they got one vacation day per 4 members in a unit that actually was a decrease. we had to backfill thirty more slots in custody alone that's why it is higher in the year. essential 3 c.j. 3 brought us back. you can see from the year to year trend we had a budget of $9.8 million and this year our budget we'll be spending a decrease in our year to year budget in expenditures despite
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the challenge presented by the mo u slots. we anticipate to close the year at the $9.4 million which is one hundred and 15 thousand above our existing budget if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them >> colleagues, any questions at this point in time. okay mr. rose can you do your report, please and yes mr. chairman on page 7 we report on actually overtime with the pay period ending on march 28, 2014 the 2014-2015 and the sheriff's department see operating budget in table it two american people page 7, however, according to the sheriff's department the sheriff's department is requesting fund to cover one hundred and 15 thousand plus
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which is 64 thousand less from a hundred plus bent budget and the that's based on the sheriff's department estimated overcame spending from april to june 2014 we recommend and approve it >> thank you, colleagues any questions for mr. rose. okay. thanks we'll open this up for public comment is there any public comment on this item. colleagues a recommendation to approve item 67. so moved we'll take that without objection.. madam clerk, any other business before this commission? >> no, mr. chair. >> thanks everyone we're beyond every possible
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those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the city transit system like the city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake.
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the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later.
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on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened
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heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city, and she
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entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overwhelmly. the california street cable railway was purchased by the city in 1952. there were cut backs on the cable car system and in 1957 only three lines would remain. the three lines that exist today. in 1964 the cable car's future as part of california's transit system was sealed when it was proclaimed a national historic landmark. in february, 1980, muni metro were officially inaugurated. in that same year, muni received
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its first fleet of buses equipped with wheelchair lifts. in 1982 when the cable car had a shut-down, they added an alternative attraction to the cars. the festival was a huge hit and would continue for the next four summers in a permanent f-line that would extend all the way to fisherman's wharf, by 2000 the f-line was in place. and in 2007 muni extended the third line to the southeast corner and returning to third street. for the first time in 60 years. in the course of last 100 years, muni's diverse workforce forged by men and women of innovation have reflected the many cultures
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that flock to the city. muni's ground-breaking antidiscrimination has guaranteed equal opportunity for all. the city's policy mandates the course for the future, as they work diligently to increase options and increase multialternatives, and deduce -- reduce the carbon footprint. it continues to improve the systems. during this sen -- centennial year we reflect on the transit system. driven not
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