program, less than 60 percent of the kids got in trouble and all the kids stayed in school. this is 30 percent over capacity meaning we have 30 percent more requests for assistance than we can provide. in year, the program won the mayor's fiscal advisory award, ordered by spur, and we also won the public defender's association state wide program of the year award. these are the recommended cuts by mr. rose, and i'm going to agree with three out of four of them which i think is pretty good for the public defender. we agree with the $15,000 reduction in the medical examiner services, we agree with the 29,000 reduction in our equipment budget and again, we agree reluctantly. these are things that we very much need. and we agree with the $5,000 reduction in material and supplies. what we do not

agree with is with the $55,000 reduction in attrition savings and this will explain, mr. rose, i'm sure is going to stand up and commend me and my office for delivering a $623,000 surplus this year. as you are he call, chair farrell, this is the promises i made to you when we fixed our salary saves program. salary saving is that number we've su month poesed -- we're supposed to save with employees on leave. we had an unusual large number of employees who took lead that is year, and you can see the number there. we had 28 employees who at various times took and they weren't out at the same time, but different times but it equalled $623,000 in

savings. the three that i've noted here are the three investigators and those three investigators because they weren't able to fill these positions for over nine months, we saved close to $200,000. these savings are not going to repeat themselves next year. in fact, if you look at -- for 2014-15, we only have 11 vacancies and if you look at your packet, we actually set forth the hiring delays and leaves that we're anticipating. we're projecting a $17,000 deficit and we're going to work to make sure that we don't have a deficit, however, if you you add $55,000 deficit, we can't afford that. and the net affect of this if this is imposed because

we were not given -- we were given two off budget positions for the lee program for the educational attorney and the associate worker, their grant expires at the end of december, and so we were given two off budget positions for social workers and for an attorney and instead of receiving funding for that, what our budget analyst did is that he increased our attrition. so by reducing our attrition by $55,000, here's a net affect, we lose our social worker and we don't want to lose a social worker. this is a program that the mayor supports, this is a program that is growing in terms of its need and capacity. we're seeking a paralegal to also assist with the capacity and again, we want to

be able to continue this service, so with that, i'll be happy to answer any questions. what we're asking is to impose the three cuts and reject the $55,000 reduction in our attrition. >> okay. thank you, mr. dochi. colleagues any questions or comments? mr. rose, why don't we go to your report. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee. just to put this budget into perspective, the public defender is requesting a budget of $30 million. the budget analyst has recommended total recommended reductions of $75,000. our recommendation to increase salary savings by $55,000 is very conservative. it has given the public defender more than what he needs. if he can provide us documentation

with two other recommendations, but based upon what we've seen, our recommendations is conservative. you can't calculate the percentage of this reduction to the $30 million budget request. so the fact that the public defender is agreeing with a couple of our recommendations doesn't mean a thing to me. anyway, mr. chairman and members of the committee, on page 68 of our report, our recommended reduction to the proposed budget totaling $75,000 in 2014-15, those are all ongoing savings and will increase $2014-15, those are all ongoing savings and will increase an increase of $1.58 million or 5.4 percent reduction. the total budget is -- $73,000 are

ongoing savings and $29,000 are one time savings. these reductions will allow an increase of 1.2 percent in the 15-16 budget. we'll work with the public defender in the weeks. if he can provide documentation, we'll go with it, if not, it had be modified. >> colleagues, any questions for mr. rose at this time. >> if i may add one thing. >> real quick. go ahead. >> i know it's hard to impress their roseman. i did include at the back of your packet, the actual salary savings that we're projecting for next year. i want to point out one thing, in terms of our attrition savings, we're behind the ball by about $200,000 already. what we're saying is that we'll willing to wrestle with that $200,000 deficit and we'll find a way to cover that, however, if you make that

40 thousand or $55,000 worse, there's no way we can meet it. so we have provided the documentation. i did provide that to mr. rose's office two days ago and they still are recommending what they're recommending. >> okay. president mar. >> i was going to -- i was going to ask our public defender, mr. dutchy, so the slide that has salary savings, the 28 vacancy from this year, was that a projected number, did you know it would be that high? >> well, we had anticipated that we would be able to hire the investigators in a shorter time period, and we just had a number of employees who were out on either, you know, short term leave, maternity leaves or medical leaves, and that is not going to repeat itself. if you look at the

attrition savings that we had over the last four years, we provided this information to the budget analyst office as well. you'll see that what we're projecting this year is more align with what we experienced in 2013 or 2014. we can predict with accuracy what our salary savings are going to be, and that's why when we had the problem a year and a half ago where we had to come back for a supplemental, i pointed out that i said during the 2013 budget that we were going to have a short fall due to under funding of salaries, so again, we're willing to wrestle with the $200,000, but we can't sustain an additional $55,000 and maintain our lee program speaker: mr. chairman. >> mr. rose. >> you recall what mr. dochi

and what the defender's opening statement was. he said it took the system ten months to hire three positions. that's what salary savings -- that's what increased attrition savings is all about. it's not to penalize the department at all. it's just a matter of the bureaucracy. when people leave or new positions are added and we have vacant position and you try to fill those positions, it takes the bureaucracy a long time to get those positions hired. we take that as the mayor's office does, we also take that into consideration. that's why we bumped up what the mayor has as attrition savings to this additional $55,000. it's not to reduce services. it's not to hurt the department. it is simply to reflect reality. >> yes, and the reality is we're not going to experience

that delay in hiring. we're staff -- fully staffed at this point and we are expecting 11 vacancy. >> mr. dochi, you mentioned that reduction would lead to the loss of a potential social worker, is that within the legal advocacy practice project you mentioned? >> yes. >> and you mentioned the paralegal that isn't funded after the loss of the federal funding this year, so there's another position that's lost? >> yes. there's a paralegal position that we asked for in him budget and it wasn't funded by the mayor. >> just having been on the school board for eight years and i know talking to current school board members, what a great benefit for the school district and especially the young people in the school district and the low recidivism rate, you said 13 percent --

>> 13 percent. >> that's incredible compared to past data from many young people that needed more support in the school system. my hope is that the program can be continued with adequate staffing and it seems like different proposals you've made still leaves the leap program without adequate staffing so i'll be looking at different suggestions in the add back program as well to help with this award winning and i think critical program for our kids and juvenile justice system, but thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. colleagues, no further questions or comments. i look forward to seeing you next week. all right. we'll move onto superior court. mr. nguyen.

>> good afternoon, mr. chair and supervisors. michael executive officer. the court always appreciates the opportunity to visit one of our sister bran -- branches of government and today is no different. i want to thank our staff, mrs. howard, thank you to your staff and tony and the mayor's budget office and thank you to mr. rose and your staff, campbell and kd and the budget and legislative analyst office. it has been a pleasure working with both offices on the part of the city budget that relates to the court. the defense is apart of the court's budget which is funded and the rest is funded by the state. but it's very important to us because it provides defense representation to defendants who the public defender can't

represent. it's the amendment of the united states constitution and section 92 of the penal code and most important to the court, it provides quality representation to all defendants who are innocent until proven guilty. so this year's budget for defense includes rate includes for attorneys and investigators who are appointed as apart of the program. it's a rate increase long overdue. the last increase for this program was seven years ago in 2007 and because of that, the judges of the court unanimously supported this increase because again, the courts interest is to make sure that not only do defendants have representation but it's of the up most quality and this increase will help prevent quality attorneys and investigators from leaving the program. the program has cost savings to the tune of $1.3 million. so the budget proposal that's before you that

was included in the mayor's budget has a portion of those savings, $810,000 to go towards the rate increase and the remaining $500,000 is reduced from the program's budget and as mr. rose indicates to you in his report, the program is projected to not have access funding so he has not represented any reductions and the court has no problem with that, so therefore we're in agreement with mr. rose, so thank you for your time and i'm happy to take any questions if you have any. >> colleagues, any questions. i'm glad to hear you're in agreement with no cuts. >> mr. rose, can we go to your reports. >> i'm shocked that the department concurs. speaker: you have to understand what a rarity it is to no cuts.

>> it demonstrates the agitated -- >> if we can't make a cut, we're not going to recommend that. but on page 72 for the record, mr. chairman and members of the committee, we do not have any recommended reductions for both fiscal years 14-15 or 15-16 and we recommend you approve the budget as up. >> thank you. >> we have our sheriff's office up next. >> honorable supervisors, good afternoon. good to see you. i

think that there is a presentation that is being handed out to you. we'll make this quick. we look forward to answering any questions. i'm ross, sheriff's. this is bree, our cfo. i want to thank the mayor's budget office for their ongoing collaboration with our department and our cfo and i'm glad we're here before you now. the first part i want to give you and our department is mult a facetted and we're known for our in custody supervision and management of our jails, but we also have 49 percent -- 51 percent of other duties that helps spell out our role in law enforcement. facilities and equipment services, administration fiscal division, courts did he vision, recruitment and training,

security services, felleds and support services and programs division and 49 percent custody. that goes into what makes our department a substantial department, but more than just public safety, it shares the other omission of doing everything we can to try to keep people out of jail. the next slide, our jail population which is historically at the lowest point seen in in this city and the most crowded populated system. as a result of that ongoing result from our custody side and program did he vision in civilian staff side, it contributes some progress in where we're seeing traumatic changes with our jail population and how criminal justice is evolving in san francisco and thanks to our partnership

with the criminal justice industry. this is creating a see change in our operations that really has not been witnessed before and how we might want to modify our role in managing people in jail, and in contributing to law enforcement. we had reported before that in november 2013, we shut down a jail, known as county jail number three which exist on the 6th floor of the hall of justice. that was significant, not because of their jail population is declining but because the conditions in that jail were so bad and some of you have seen that. so to redistribute that population in other parts of the jail was a part of us managing a more sophisticated jail population.

we had progress in improving anti- recidivism and repeat offender measures and our programs of rsvp and road and sisters. we see a tremendous progress with our electronic monitoring in our swap sentencing which it has improved to nearly 50 percent. us as the first county joining in the state of california and as i hear in the united states, to be designated as an enrollee in the obama care. it's getting off the ground and there has been over 400 inmates that has been assisted. we assisted city college where they started last month with two classes in the jail system. it's a significant initiative because over a year and a half ago, the city college, we reached out in trying to woo them into coming into the jail

system because we're doing a good job with their charter high school, there's no next level and we're happy over this last year, year and a half, we've managed to come to now a piloting their class and hoping to become a permanent feature. the same with vote programs that never existed before, vocational programs not just for those going for their academics but those going for their hard skills and solar installation. until our administration, san francisco sheriff's department had the lowest visitation hours for families and loved ones in all the nine barrier counties. i found this -- it was better bonding between families and loved ones and those with the incarcerated and to help make that happen, one element is helping

increase visitation especially the children of the incarcerated. not only the inmate population that we're taking care of, our import is about stemming the generational tide of those who might become in the criminal justice system. it starts with visiting hour and starts with the level of intervention that we've never done before in san francisco. we're happy to see that happening. and as recently with the support of the jo committee, we're certainly making an initiative to roll back the high phone rates that inmates and their loved ones are shoulder burdened to have to carry. it's absorb that this utility company phone industry was never regulated in the united states. i think there's been some unchecked exploitation of poor people in our jails, by us doing what we're doing here, while this, i

think, is a noble initiative for us right now, i just want to for warn the fact that we're cutting against what funds programs so that the general funds does not have to so we can lower inmate phone rates. and the money from that program is generated from these commissions. those who are in custody programs. in our -- overtime slide, thank you -- we're sort of on par, even better than years before, but it increases because of our obligation now for something that the department never had to pay, and that is for what is known as a 15 minute mustard, when there's a shift change, they must get together and this is required and before we didn't have to pay for that and now we do. otherwise our overtime would be significantly under budget but that's having

to cover cut and that puts it up a nearly $10.4 million. our staffing summary is next. while it's known that our jail population is declining, that doesn't mean that there's less to do at all especially as i outline for you all the areas that the department impacts. my concern is on part of the vacancies that exists, i want to thank the mayor's budget office and others for the academy class that had he help with your help, support funded last year which just now graduated. our first academy class in five years, we look forward to another one, but we have a staffing deficit of 69 fte's even if we did an academy class of 20, 25. something we want to be mindful of. we're committed to the effort of doing everything we can to

save. in civilization, it's something we're committed to just as we had launched with our it, we want to do it with our records unit. so fte funded seven and we believe in civilization, we'll realize it in the future. it wasn't that long ago, there was a tragedy at san francisco general hospital, and what that -- what that very, very unfortunate event had spotlighted were needs for improvements at san francisco general hospital in a security infrastructure and the infrastructure of protecting in the surrounding community. we're very pleased with the

corporation collaboration of the department of health. they helped us make improvements that should have been quite some time ago and being able to resolve some issues that stem from the implementation of our security services there in 2003. >> supervisor mar. >> i wanted to go back quickly to overtime. i know last year, you presented that training and assigning 14 academy graduates to post positions in this fiscal year was a fwoel and i know that you had set some goals to reduce overtime significantly, but the chart that i see, i know you have your 15 minute muster requirement, but it seems we're not reducing overtime and it seems like it's growing so

what's the projection for future years. >> that's our projection can the 15 minute overtime, but our commit is to continue to reduce it assertively. shutting down a jail was one feature of our commitment to doing that. county jail three and our ability to help staff with cadets which is now why we're hiring them and we weren't hiring them before. >> from last year projections, you were projected to go down but you said it went up because of the 15 minute muster requirement speaker: that's projected. >> thank you. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. sheriff, i had a question after supervisor mar's question. and we talked about this before. the jail

population has decreased considerable and it doesn't look like the number of cadets working or those working as sheriff's has declined, so can you explain that. i don't know if i missed that part of the question, but i wanted to understand that. >> as to the cadet population? >> the sheriff's deputy, the population that are there to oversee prisoners in the various jails that you manage. >> so the deputy population is down as i mentioned earlier. we have an obligation as a 24/7 operation and due to our staffing requirements, there has to be certain standards and levels of staffing in those jail systems where we're supervising. we can use a lot more deputies. as i said,

69 is the deficit and we don't for see catching up with that even with cadet officers doing sworn in work. >> thank you. got it. >> when you're talk -- when you're talking about the deficit, that's from your staff? >> it's those on long term disability. long term disability remains unsolved, maybe 25 of that number 69. this is something that paralyze our position and that can take many years. >> okay. >> so thank you. i know you have more before you then. i'm going to go into herement -- i'm going

to go into here. i was hoping this could be resolved in this budget cycle and i appreciate everybody's input to the mayor's office, but we are not connected to 911. department of emergency management dispatch system center. we made a request of $643,000 because that's what we're told it would take in order to patch us in. for really, i want to remind folks, we're the second largest law enforcement agency in the country. there's been high profile events to occur, and by us not being patched to dme, it handicaps us, so i hope in some process or in the future,

there's a discussion for funding with a connection to 911. and the other is our training pod. city builder is a success in san francisco. i was a proud member of the board of supervisors when its invention occurred and we would like to see that in the jail's system. we have the room, we want to give people the hard skills that can take advantage of this boom industry of getting a job and hopefully a sustainable living in this city, but to wait to train folks until they get out of the system for a skill like that is a squander moment. we should do it while they're in custody and that pipeline is established with us in adult probation and others so people follow through in the completion and success. that did not get funded either, so i put this out there for an add back that this is something that i believe as a city family, i think people would get behind