programming direct examination division thank you to ann draw and other for working with the california transportation commission we were able to do some great work to insure that over subscription doesn't harm the one bay area grant this projects are a reminder of the second street project and the masonic streets project. there had been a proposal to ship those out but working with mta we've keep the the year of programming intact on the transbay center we congratulate the city on the establishment of the ma la recuse and supervisor kim with who chairs the ma la rose district that will help

complete and support of the phase one terminal project and the caltrain extension into the transbay center. the cf defense is financing and funding mechanism that will help to provide the $3 million for the improvements for the small businesses in transportations network. revenues from the cf have been assumed for the downtown extension plan and this action helps to close the gap on the phase one $1.9 billion terminal project together with the other agencies will be keeping on eye on the remainder funding for phase two the downtown extension of caltrain on vision zero thank you for the board of supervisors for the budget city providing over one $.3 million in general

fund for the vision zero in several districts our staff along with mta will be coordinating to figure out how to best use the monies. in fact, today, you'll be considering the approval of practicing that improves this bicycle and signals that are funded vision zero a really good project. our hope by the september meeting to bring back a plan for how the city agencies will put the funds to use. turning to the geneva as you recall this is a rapid transit connection to connect the

hunters point shipyard and communities across through the bayshore station near visitacion valley and connecting to the bookkeeper in the outer mission this is a an important reliable service for the existing neighborhoods that are developing primarily on the east side. the outreach round began with a meeting of the folks with the baptist church and setting up more meetings no august and september. the contact for this project is sarah and the transportation authority you see more information at sf ct a.org. in terms of the project deliver we have a west portal elementary school safe roots to the system we were able to feature this in

the local papers thank you sfmta for delivering this it project will includes a speed curb on and russian island a large round about. we were trying to draw altercation to those projects to comfort on the clarifying delivery and design to insure they continue to move forward this fall we expect to see chinatown and other promotions move forward. for more information on those types of project please vital sf and contact courtney at the transportation authority. the project for the nsb r project we thank the arts and civic design domino for their approval of the brt designs they

have jurisdiction over the urban design and expressed their appreciation to coordinate across the departments. so thank you for that and pleased to see that move forward >> now with the completion of that milestone we're going to position quarterly on the reports. you have the geary project this continues with the circulation of our administrative draft and we're prepping to circulate that to the mta and to the public in the october formulate and finally on the management administration side i want to thank our finance and administrative staff for helping to prepare primarily assessment for the low and behold entrepreneurs and others you participation at the

transportation authority for our professional services and contract on, on average we're meeting the goals we've set for the expenditures and continue to track those closely reporting out to supervisor cohen through the finance committee and continuing to insure we're inclusive in our operations of the meeting the cities goals for this area with that, that concludes my report. happy to take questions >> thank you very much ms. chang open this open this up for public comment any public comment on item four. >> i'm francis i does not come for those meetings i've come after a along the time of the 8 sfrifrz who are here 50 percent are having sidebar talks and i'm watching the deliberation while the director was giving her

report he's having a sidebar chat i'm saying millions and millions of dollars are going to be spent you have no business asking the constituents of san francisco to pass on this when your don't pay attention to what's being said as i'm being talking to you now there are 2 supervisors having a chitchat you get one hundred and sro thousand benefits to represent the people not to screw around not to give us this huge fingers talking about grants and the transbay and nobody is paying attention who the hell do you think you are getting millions and millions of dollars from the state government go to van ness

and see congested and fulsome and it's congested talked about the southeast and what about the sequa and the environmental review report and what about the common footprint we the constituents want to know what you are doing about this we can't go on preventing everything is okay spending billions of dollars with no accountability and no transparent we have two supervisors that are still talking. thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. >> . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> in time when the plans and assistance local land geographic response the mobilitytion with

progress one step at a time. right now the southeast corner is - >> is there any further public comment on item 4 seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk item number 5 >> item 5 allocate $5 million plus in prop k funds with conditions for 6 requests subject to the trichoid schedules with the prop plan this is an action item. >> colleagues any discussion seeing none, is through any public comment on item 5 seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk please call the roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos.

supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor jane kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes. item 6 >> item 6 appoint ramona smith to the advisory committee. >> seeing no names on the roster we'll go to public comment any public comment on that item on item 6. if there's a medical cannabis please come forward >> sometimes in the western they ponder the chinese map i mean, of course, about 7 times 7 is 49 actually, it's the 15 body 349 usage application and wonders in the charge 7 charge

and 7 enforcement yeah. >> they make a mighty professional. >> is there any further public comment on item 6 seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk call the roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> okay will you call item 7. >> approval the prop k this is an action item. >> seeing no names on the roster we'll open this up open this up for public comment any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk will you please call

roll >> supervisor avalos absent supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes. >> thank you. madam clerk call item 8 >> item 8 possible closed session for the employee evaluation. >> colleagues, we, kick this in open or closed session i know that supervisor mar and supervisor cohen will be prepared to report to the board of the personnel committee to shall we do this any member of the board wants to do it in closed session i'll put that out

to the bodies. anyone have a particular view >> closed session. >> so do we need 0 motion to go into closed session. we'll go into 8. >> is the door now unlocked? okay. okay. members of the public waiting to get in. i want to welcome the public

back to our transportation authority we conducted closed session and back in open session supervisor mar would you like to report out >> yes. the committee met on july 10, 2014, and gave a recommendation to evaluate our tilly chang with an exceptionally good recommendation the board supported the evaluation done after an evaluation process that included several executive director record of acknowledgements and the transportation authority analysis we have rated our executive director as exceptionally good in her performance thank you. supervisor mar would you like to make a motion in terms of what

was demolished >> second by supervisor yee if i'm seeing no names on the raufrtd madam clerk call the roll. >> not to disclose the content. >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes. >> okay. that motion is approved. item number 9 >> introduction of new items. >> actually before we get there do we need public comment on item 8. >> okay with that, should we resend that vote and do public

comment? okay. there's no public currently in the board chambers is there any public comment on that item on item 8 okay. seeing none we'll close. and do we need to resend that vote and revote we don't need to? okay item 9 a introductions of new items this is an informational item >> colleagues are there any introductions of new items. seeing none, is there any public comment on item 9 seen none, public comment is closed. . madam clerk item 10 >> general public comment. is there any general public comment seeing none, public comment is closed madam clerk number 11 adjournment

>> we're adjourned thank you very

>> okay, good morning, the meeting will come to order. this is the regular meeting of the governor audit and oversight committee, i'm supervisor london breed, the share of this committee to my right is the vice chair, katy tang, and to my left, president chiu is also on the committee, the electricker is miller and i would like to thank sfgov tv, and madam clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes, be sure to silence your phones, and speakers cards to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk, items acted upon today will be on the august second, agenda, unless others stated could you calls the first item?

>>resolution approving a contract for operating the sheriff's jail commissary and inmate trust fund accounting & management system, between keefe commissary network, llc., and the city and county of san francisco, acting by and through its sheriff's department for a three-year term beginning september 1, 2014, and ending august 31, 2017, and two one-year options to extend, exercisable by the sherriff's department with a guaranteed annual minimum income of $590,000. >> okay, sheriff, welcome. >> good morning, supervisors. madam chair. there was a prepared presentation, but i don't see the staff here that has copies so i want to be sure that we have it. here you go. excellent. i want to make sure that you have these in front of you. also f it helps, i would like to... there is a story also in today's san francisco chronicle that highlights our ongoing reforms on the exorbadant cost that the families who are incarcerated have to pay and

this contract before you is step two of an ongoing menu of reforms that my administration is pursuing before this committee. not that long ago, you all helped make history that we were the first county, sheriff's department, in the united states, to dramatically reduce phone rates, even though some attention has been placed on the federal level. what, i think, many do not know in the general public, in the world of consumer activism is that those utility and retail industries that provide services to the prison and jail systems, throughout this country, are virtually unregulated and having an unregulated corporate industry being welcomed by federal state prison systems or county jail

systems, makes for a haven, where the express goal of generating revenue or profit has been done so on the backs of poor people. and this has been the practice for decades throughout the united states. and yet, i think that there is not been enough of a nexus in looking at recidivism rates and the inability of families or loved ones of those who are incarcerated, very difficult time in coping during that loved one's process, in incarceration and what that does to egsaserbate the rates and the poverty that they already live in, and in california, as it states in this article, 80 percent of families of incarcerated live at or below poverty level in

the state of california. and that does not exclude san francisco. so, when we came into office, what i did and what we have been doing with it excellent work of my staff, is review all contracts that the san francisco sheriff's department is committed to and dissect where we can implement reforms. reforms so that it helps us in the larger goal of enhancing public safety by reducing recidivism and by also fostering the groundwork of all of our good staff inside and the people themselves who try to better themself to prepare for the release and connecting recidivism levels on the outside. to me this gets to the return of how recidivism has continued to allude the most enlightened

authorities in criminal justice and we are taking those pieces slice by slice and frying to do something about it. and so before you the contract, and it explains what it is and the term, and the commissary, a small 7-11 for people who are incarcerated. for us we are able to reconstitute a contract by letting go to the former corporation that we contracted with and that was aramark by initiating with a new company that this department has not been in business with before. if you turned to the inmate benefit page, next one, the

graph on the right, the blue and the red graph, i think shows a pretty stark contrast of what it takes for somebody in the old contract verses the new contract of what they would be paying when money is put on the books. so, for example, if somebody is putting on the books to buy those commissary goods, they would have to spend essentially $5.70 more for every $20. and so that those commissions fees and charges that is the kind of revenue that the family and then, the inmates and themselves would have to be burdened with and shoulder. and by us revising the contracts we have been able to reduce the rates, by upwards to 40 percent, which we think benefits everybody. and the good news is, we are not losing money. so, with, i think, the smart

work of my cfo and our staff and the sheriff's department, we were actually able to enhance and increase our bottom line of how much money comes to the department, while at the same time, dropping significantly the cost to the families and to the inmates themselves. so to fine it for any agency to make this with the corporations where profit is their bottom line. >> sheriff, was there any way that we could have dropped the cost to inmates even more and not take the significant increase that would come to the department? >> no, because those based on entering the call, for the rfp, this was what the negotiable point was for us to proceed and at the point, or the price point dropped significantly. nobody else would have been able to handle it. aramark is considered a giant

in serving food and commissary and the u.s. prison and county system and keefe is a major competitor and level it to our advantage. >> so the percentage of savings for inmates will be what, roughly with this? >> 40 to 50 percent,... >> compared to what they, paid >> previously. >> okay. >> that is correct. >> that is correct. and as i said, we actually are going to be able to take in a little bit more money because of the price point difference that keefe i think, is it has been innovative in being able to furnish to us and so their profit is less, too. than the predecessor. and so, next on the department benefits, replace paper ordering system with phone ordering system. and we are at booking kiosks to reduce the time spent and handling the cash deputies and

modernizing the system and we even had to have a deputy at a kiosk, taking money and cash in, which i don't, necessarily subscribe to, and it is being the most efficient or the fool proof way, and so that is why we are trying to provide many other options for families or in mates to be able to put money on the books, pay their web, phone, or leaving credit at the kiosk itself. and the financial impact as you can see is the current is $1,250,000 and the change, is really neglectible, and our commission goes up and the commissions into the sheriff's department, and the general fund go up, and that is in return, we invest back in the welfare fund, and but what we are doing is significantly dropping the cost of all of the price points of goods and services providing by keefe and so that is the contract for you.

and it is a win/win, to say the least. and again, i think that it is consistent with the other reforms that we are making to really ring in what has been a unfettered unregulated practice between corporation, private companies, and jail systems. more than happy to answer any questions. >> colleagues, any questions? >> okay. >> supervisor? >> yes, i thank you for this and just a quick question, it says that the contractor shall provide a minimum of 5 percent of the food offered for purchasing, and so, just wondering you know, as we have been talking so much about healthy food options here in san francisco, whether there was a desire to increase that amount so that more of that is available. >> the desire is there, and i have to tell you. i am under whelmed by the options that are provided by these companies. when you look at the menu, it literally does resemble like a

7-eleven, it is not a whole foods. and so it, it has a lot of room to grow, in this capacity. and we have all been discussing that, that there is room for improvement in providing healthier options, but the companies themselves unless the price point goes the other direction, they just do not provide, i think, as many as healthy alternatives that we would like to see available and that is pressure in negotiation that we plan to work with, over this next term as a contract. and there is a lot of room for improvement there. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you, again, sheriff. >> we are going to open this item up to public comment, are there any members of the public wishing to speak on this item? >> you will have ten minutes, i mean... ten minutes. >> two minutes. >> okay. >> county, sheriff. and the jail system, it is to

make some people maybe the unfortunate ones, or the people who enter boman in order to leave the 1 million... (inaudible) in time. and then it is the ongoing improvement afterwards, you see? and so for the individual, it is benefit for them to end up in the system of jail system. and then, you get out of it. and better improvement. and what it is (inaudible) and it may be (inaudible) and all of the individual is required, yeah (inaudible). >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello, my name is sarah carson and i work for one family a program at community works i do all of the parent and child visits inside of the jails and i want to talk a little bit about just maybe one of our families that we work with a highlights these fees. i work with grandmother who has two boys, one who is in a prison and one