and others to increase bicycle and pedestrian projects kind of as the repaving is going on so really the good communication between departments and i am appreciative of the $3 million of the capital budget going towards vision zero priorities as well, and i guess i just wanted to acknowledge the work that you're doing to coordinate better so that the repaving is coordinated with street safety as well but thank you. >> okay. mr. rose can we go to your report? >> yes mr. chairman and members of the committee. mr. mayor man should i comment on item five? >> yeah, why don't we do both together. thanks. >> on item five which is page 15 of our report we -- our recommendation is that we consider proposal of the fee resolution for a policy matter for the board of supervisors. however, we know that the

proposed budget is balanced on the assumption that the fee legislation shown on page 15 will be approved. our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 536056 in 13-15 and we have ongoing savings and we have one time savings. these reductions would allow increase of of 36-point 7% in the budget. we also recommend closing out prior year expended encumbrances and those recommendations in 14-15 would result in general fund savings of 363,746. our recommended reduction to the proposed budget total listed in that amount and

we have ongoing amounts and savings of one time savings. these would allow an increase as listed or 5.5% in departments 15-16 budget. these recommendations are a result in, and there say typo on the bottom of page 15, the last three digits should be eliminated. 647,868 savings to the general fund. we are working with the department and will report back to the committee next week. >> those would have been some savings to the general fund. >> yeah, that would be great if we could maintain that typo. >> terrific. supervisor breed. >> i know that they're still working out the details. first i want to start by commending the director for his work, especially the work with some of the training programs that exist and i am just wondering would

any of these changes impact the budget to those particular programs? >> at this time i think are in agreement. i mean we're doing -- we're living with what we have gotten and we're fine. i think we just have that one communications position. >> but it won't impact the programs that you have now, the ones that work some of our very challenging populations? >> we're very fortunate. i mean they are -- there's a $2 million funding for the group that gives opportunities to the trainees and $1.1 million for the operation and maintenance so there is an opportunity to increase trainees to participate in those programs. >> and the last question i guess i would ask is one of the -- because i have informally talked to some of the individuals who were participating in the program and what has been great

before they worked some of the jobs they didn't have access to employment for years in some instances, and one of the things that they're hoping to get out of participating in some of these opportunities would be training, would be case management support, and i just wanted to mention that because i don't know if you're completely aware but i would like to make chief suhr that we are supportive. >> >> of enhancing the services for the programs especially because many of the individuals are the most challenging individuals to actually get employed in the city and i think this is the best resource we have in the city to enchief suhr not and work with them on

support to get to the next level working with dpw or any job opportunity in the city so if there is a need there i would like to understand the need and make sure we're supportive of that need in this particular budget cycle. thank you. >> colleagues any further questions? okay. we will see you next week. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. at this point we will call our planning department director. madam clerk can you call item three with this department please? >> item number three ordinance amending the planning code to eliminate the installation agreement processing fee, refunds processing fee, fee for information analysis request, information technology and fee for closed cases. >> thank you madam clerk. >> good morning supervisors. thank you for having us here

today. we will quickly go over some of the major accomplishments for this year and next year as soon as we have the powerpoint up i think, and we will look particularly at case and permanent trends that are increasing we think at an unprecedented rate in the city and we will look at the budget and position changes so moving forward to some of the accomplishments of this fiscal year we completed the retail study as you know and presented our recommendations to the commission and everyone is in unanimously agreement with that and land use in san francisco -- that's a joke. >> [inaudible] >> we have done a tremendous amount of hiring the lasted two years and hired more than 50 staff and driven by the extraordinary increase in volumes related to the

development climate right now. we have continuing work and with dpi with the mayor's director on housing and the goal that you're aware of. we completed the eir for the transit projects with mta and that is moving forward and approved. as was just said the director said the hearing for the moscone center and last week and we completed the environmental review for the housing element and we thank you for the vote on that yesterday and completed the glade development and that can move forward. in the coming we're we will be spending a lot of time on housing policy. obviously as of yesterday there are several ballot initiatives moving forward on housing issues. we have been working with the mayor's office, supervisor kim's office and many

of you on housing policy and how we can improve our processes for all housing projects but particularly for affordable housing projects, and we are moving forward on the next required housing element, which is due in january, and by your action last night that will help move forward with that housing element and that allows to move forward with other housing initiatives in the coming year. we are heavily invested so to speak in the neighborhoods initiative. we are working with our colleagues and many of you and your wentds and neighborhoods and we are very gratified with the direction of that project. we think it's working out l we have a defined well in that project and we are working on improvement and tweaks where it makes sense doing a lot of community outreach and looking at where we

might strategically look at intervention in a surgical way in those neighborhoods. we continue to work on general plan updates. we have been starting work with mta and the ta on the transportation element of the gym plan which is long over due and several aspects of the general plan and potentially the urban design element. our community efforts are focus on the completion of the soma plan and under way for three years and hope to bring to you for adoption about a year. we are heavily involved in transportation than ever been. as you know we are the lead agency in looking at this very broad study at the cal train yard at fourth and cane, the alignment of high speed rail and how the land use and transportation efforts can come together and you have probably heard this that the permit and tracking system is finally on schedule to be -- to go live in

september and we're very pleased that long last that system will be in place and greatly help our ability to track projects to keep track of our work and allow much more robust access for the public to see how we're doing on development so moving on to case and permit volume trends. we are continuing to experience unprecedented volume growth both in terms and various planning cases. we have seen this growth over four years and case volume is projected to double with the year to year growth. by increasing more than 1100 permits and cases in the current fiscal year compared to year over year growth of 500 or less permits in prior years so we're seeing more than double the normal pace. we have seen significant growth in many applications including environmental applications, building permits and unusual number of projects that are

alterations to existing buildings and because of that since so much of the building stock is old it increases the need for us to look at historic nature of our buildings to allow those projects to go forward. this graph shows the volume trends over the last 14 years and you can see the line actually represents the percent change from year to year. we think we will continue seeing strong development activity through the remainder of this year and into the next two years actually. we are expecting overall planning case and permit volumes -- we are being conservative in our projections. i don't want to over project but we're projecting 2% increase next year and 1% in the following fiscal year but that is substantially less than what we experienced in the lasted two years. again we're being kind of conservative in our projections and i believe that

is consistent with the department of building inspection is projecting as well, so on the revenue side of our budget we are anticipating two increase by 27% from this year's budget but some of that is one time increase. some of it is related to growth and permit and planning cases which is 2%. the cpi adjustment is 2.4% which is automatic fee adjustment for us. the biggest reason for the one time growth in this year's budget you approved eight positions but left unfunded and with the notion that if we see this growth we would fund it in the current year so we are seeking those positions are funded for two and a half years out a project line you created last year and the growth is unprecedented for us so we want to move ahead and fill those positions. in the following year we are anticipating a

decrease of 6% from the budget where we are projecting the growth of permits in cases at 1% and cpa at 2.48 and the one time loss of that appropriation. on the expenditure side of course most are salary and fringe, about 65% of the budget. our budget proposes the addition of 10 and a half f.t.e.s next year and 14 in 15-16 want. our anticipated to increase a bit due to a number of contracts. a grant from the mtc will fund the consultant contract for the cal train and study and various it related licenses such for the pp ts system will go ahead and the one time funding for the unfunded positions actually is in the project line on this chart and that of course goes away in fiscal year 15-16. and

finally just looking at the position changes by type of project by initiative we see three next year, and four into 15-16 directly related to reducing backlog and from condominium conversions and environmental applications. about the same number of positions on long range projects largely funded through grants, the rail study, the waterfront studies, looking at public sites in the city, looking at the civic center public realm. we continue to see a backlog in code enforcement that we are slow -- slowly trying to address and we're looking at support services for the department to support the increasing staff. we're looking at a position to support the mayor's housing policy initiative that we can have a full time position

devoted to housing initiatives and projects. we are looking for additional support on the communications side because our public outreach needs have gone up substantially over the last years and we're looking at monitoring and reporting position to follow up on not only all of the monitoring that is required because of project approvals and conditions of approval but also the department is legally required to enforce all of the development agreements that the city has, and the number of those agreements is just increasing exponentially with all of the very large projects in the planning stages so we're looking for a position to help us there. just a couple of other notes. you called the fee legislation. we are proposing to eliminate four small fees in the budget. we can go over those but we are recommending that that produce little revenue for us. we have been working with the budget analyst on the budget. we're

working to come to agreement. we will continue to do so over the next week. i am concerned about making sure that we have the staff positions to cover the backlog that we have. we are as i said the volume is unprecedented and it's important to staff up while we have the revenue in order to cover the positions and move forward so with that i will close and happy to take any questions. thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you for the presentation. i know that the budget analyst is recommending elimination of i think around four positions that the department that are included in the department's budget. i have concerns about eliminating those positions because the department is just overwhelmed at this point and we see it all the time in terms of calls from

constituent and working with the department. i think it's taking a minimum of four, five, six months even to assign an environmental review officer to a project. that doesn't mean any work has happened but just to get an assignment so i want to make sure that we have the capacity and we know that with the planning department it's just the nature of the world the big mega projects have ways of getting service and there's obviously a focus on the big projects. they're delivering new housing and commercial space, et cetera and it ends up being the small property owners, the homeowners that get the short end of the stick and they don't have lobbyist and consultants helping them and trying to get through the department and i don't know i would like you to address what the budget analyst is proposing to cut and what the need is for that. i don't know if it makes sense let the budget analyst

talk first and respond to that but i am interested? that discussion. >> why don't we do that mr. rose. >> sure mr. chairman and members of the committee. we will work with the department in this week and come back so these are not our final recommendations. i will state on page 38 of the report and it's a 1310 public relations assistant. we are recommending disapproval of that and probably not change our position on that position. mr. chairman, supervisor, the fee legislation item three -- should i comment on that on page 36 of our report? the director did comment on that i believe. did you want me to comment on that? >> yes please. >> that's item three file 140503 and based on the feed

ode and projected revenues will decline by 337 and proposed legislation to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors because it eliminates existing fees and of course the associated revenue. our recommendations which i have stated. we are still working with the department on page 37. our recommended reductions total 546562 in 14-15 and on going savings reductions would allow increase of over $8 million or 27% in the department for the budget and 596412 reductions in 14-15 and ongoing savings and again we will report back to the committee next week and supervisor wiener i can go over anything else specifically at this time. >> absolutely. i think i am glad you continued to talk. i think the other three positions

are actual public service kind of positions in terms of the department doing its job. in terms of the public relations position i understand from the department that is an existing position, a temp position now. >> that's correct. >> that they're proposing to make permanent. we need more information about that. i know do that we -- in terms of public relations aspect -- i know this is always a target go after. we actually put tremendous -- i don't want to call them burdens because it's important. tremendous work on the department in terms of doing outreach, being at community meetings, working with community groups. this is land use and at the heart of some of the political wars that go on in the city neighborhood by neighborhood and i don't want to assume because it's a "public relations officer" it's a problem because when the

department is not able to do appropriate robust community outreach it causes a lot of problems down the road. it blows up in our face politically and creates more work for the department, so i am sure this week they can tell us what the need is. maybe i think it would be helpful for the community to hear for each of the positions what they are and why they're important briefly. >> sure. and i think you hit the nail on the head on the public relations position. i thought that title was awkward. it's about community outreach and it's about social media which we are pushed into in a big way, organizing for community events and about external communications and this is the language access liaison so there's a number of functions -- >> if i might interrupt you and in terms of outreach and the social media, et cetera. if i had a dime for every time we do a project large or small where

the planning department is always involved and at the end of it you have people coming forward -- even during construction. we are seeing this on castro street now. i didn't know about it. no one told me about it. i never heard about it and obviously you can never ensure -- there are always some people that say that but the more that we can cross the t's and cross the i's and good social media and outreach and good work with the press to make sure that the press is covering these projects i think it really helps us down the road so i'm sorry i interrupted you. >> that's fine. you're making my case for me. i appreciate that. the other positions are planner two in code enforcement and again code enforcement we have a small staff. we are constantly asked by you and others to address the code enforcement issues. we are trying to beef that staff up

over the couple of years and the other is planner three in preservation and another area we have a backlog and as i mentioned earlier we are seeing increase in building permit alterations and since the city's building stock is so old many of these are alterations to existing buildings more than 50 years old and under ceqa we have to look at that and there say planner technician and half f.t.e. in question now and a position partiallyad min support and partially doing planning work for us, again in a support role for the planners in the department. those are the positions that we are in discussions this week with the budget analyst. >> thank you director and i just want to echo what supervisor wiener said. i think we had email and phone conversations about projects -- certainly in my district that take a long time to get reviewed

and it's frustrating and especially for projects the community wants. all right colleagues any further comments or questions? all right. we will see you next wednesday. >> thank you. >> so up next -- is the law library here? oh there you are. sfgtv if we could go to the overhead projector. great. >> thank you. good afternoon supervisors. marsha bell from the law library. i have a very brief presentation. i have

given you some hand out materials. they address our mission and highlights of our services, and rather than go through them at this time i thought i would focus on the budget. our budget is essentially nearly the same. there are no changes in position numbers. there are no new projects. there are no additional service from other departments. the increase is basically attributable to the services of other departments such as real estate and dt and risk management as well as salary and mandatory fringe. i am happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> colleagues any questions? okay. and we don't have a budget analyst report so short

but brief. thank you. unless there is anything else to add? no. that's fine and i assume that we're excused next week? >> yes. >> okay. thank you very much. >> okay thank you. up next we have the fire department. as we're getting ready for members of the public we're going to break at 1:00 o'clock to 130 for a lunch break today.

>> mr. chair good morning, supervisors. i am from the fire department representing chief hayes white. i believe she touched base with you and in washington d.c. for the nstb hearings on the asiana crash and she will be here next week for the hearing. allow me to give a brief overview of our budget and any updates from the last time we presented in april. first

off to our major operational changes. the first one is station four new opening want i know chief of police mentioned that and it's a new station for the fire department and nine additional f.t.e.s on for the day scheduled to open in november. in addition we have three positions in the bureau of fire prevention to handle plan review and code work due to the construction climate in the city. our demand for services have increased quite a bit so we need to assign additional personnel to the bureau and recovered by revenues of course. in our april presentation there were projects we proposed to the mayor's office that didn't get funded. one of those is a request to increase staffing levels with the argon unit. we have a -- the arson unit responds to working fires and suspicious fires and works with the police and the district

attorney. due to budget reductions we had to reduce staffing there from one investigator -- from two investigators to one per day and caused work load and safety issues over at the bureau and it's a priority for the department and we will continue working with the mayor's office on that and secondly there was a planning and recruitment, two separate positions. the planning position was not funded nor was the recruitment position. however we received allocation for outreach and recruitment position and we will work with them on the responsibilities and roles of that position. the other large budget change for the department pertains to ems division. in february in our submission to the mayor's office the department requested approximately $10 million to supplemental the division. this included requests if for 42 additional personnel as well as equipment for ambulances and medical supplies and the goal

of the funding was to bring the department and the city in line with the state's mandates with eoa. we worked closely with the mayor's office during the budget cycle and allocated to fire 16 additional f.t.e.s as well as some ambulances. there was a budget analyst report on the ems for the system heard last week and the recommendation was hiring additional 16 personnel. while we don't feel that will resolve all of the issues currently with the ambulance system we are committed to working with the mayor's office and work group with the fire department, mayor, controller as well as the medical director to iron out the complex issues of. there are many issues currently with the ambulance system. as a whole there isn't sufficient resources private and both fire department to handle the current call volume. over the past five