receiving contracts with the city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean local businesses participation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the

bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcom good afternoon ladies an gentlemen, welcome to the special meeting of the san francisco municipal transportation agency and parking horticulture commission. >> director brinkman. director lee. director nolan and chair we have quorum. item 3 announcement of prohibition of sound like pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a. item 34 >> we wanted to congratulate director borden congratulations

we're delighted you're here this is the first time we've had a full house arrest communications. >> mr. chair you want me to call. >> on the special calendar approving this transport operations to june 30th and item 6 is the collective bargaining union local 258 with respect to the extension of the term june 30th, 2017. >> any public comment on that item? >> yes. one member of the public has so indicated. >> good afternoon. good afternoon director nolan and director reiskin i'm a muni coach operator i still get nervous when i come here i'm in support of contracted and a lot of the members want this they

were in in favor of this they voted for it is a way of moving forward and as far as the economics we're changed but the original contract is not changed we have a strong spirited leader we could have gotten more done as far as the whole contract and i'm in support of this but i want to see a little bit more with the contract done with the work conditions and new equipment and so and about the new operators coming in and gain top pay in the fifth year after 4 years after 2 years of working in the city here and, you know, they deserve top pay we want to keep them if another public transit agency is going to match

our top pay then they might go somewhere else anyway, we have a good group of people i want to see the transit operators we deal with the people all the time we've got a lot of residential buildings and sales force and officers could have important people coming in and we need more operator thank you very much i support this contract >> is there another motion open the contract. >> i move the contracts if i may take 30 seconds. >> a second first. >> second. >> go ahead. >> i want to thank our staff from the director reiskin all the way down to our negotiating teams and everyone that worked to really thread an appropriate battle to act as management to

get a good deal for the citizens of this city but at the same time to recognize the value of our employees to be positive and to promote them and not undermine the respect we have for the work and you ed. >> your staff did it and i congratulate you for that. >> director reiskin you wish to say anything. >> i'd echo the accomodation if the staff as well the city attorney's office and mayors lee and brown for the completion those agreements respecter good agreements for the agency and with very strongly recommend our approval. is there a motion and second all in favor, say i. opposed? so anything else

>> that concludes the business before you. >> it is the new record isn't it. >> the last one was 12 minutes. >> 3 minutes. >> wow, it certainly wasn't that much. >> we're adjourned. thank please give it up for ou teacher of the year (clapping) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we're really excited about the leadership in san francisco there's no doubling doubt he's serious about public education please join me that welcoming

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ms. marissa miller (clapping.) she's here from the quality elementary school. >> it's implementing a zircony model we embrace the partnership the best had a right part of working with my students the second i get there i'm the one who hears and sees their smile they give back more to me than i give to them. >> mri recess congratulations (clapping.) our next award recipient is judy from marshall elementary school spanish. >> i enjoy this kind of work there's surprisingly things i see the first and second grade there's something about those

kids their learning to be students that it is really interesting and learn how to formulate questions and to be a successful teacher have you to learn yourself your not down when you get our teaching credential dollars strategies but also things to learn about the world itself so you have to be a lifelong learn. >> judy thank you keeling clark harvey milk school. >> i got into teaching by being a community member and realizing where the needs were and also wanted to spend my life doing something it help other people. when you take a child there's the little things that come up

that's my philosophy you want them to have a free roll but give them guidance and barriers. my teaching philosophical is lots of patience and pushing kids to be better >> congratulations kelly (clapping) our next recipient award is deanna chavez 7th grade (clapping.) i like to think of might have that gives tough love to students i helping hold them accountability to reach higher and higher process i'm also having in my heart and offer

them love and support. and in terms of the academic style i want them to be independent and help them and provide them with tools to go and analysis and investigate on their own and feel successful i think the key is having a lot of patience and participation >> (clapping.) and last but not least our high school teacher of the year michael spur ran. >> i'm in a certain stage bending by the time i am done teaching i follow them through high school and some beyond and proud of what they've done and being a part of that it is important it makes us a successful teacher is one that cares about the outcomes for

students and helping them overcame the difficulties in their lives and being able to set them open a path they might not have been on. >> my congratulations (clapping) congratulations and thank you all families and community for coming >> 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 in jail. and she struggles every month to put some money on their books for commissary and talks about no matter how old her boys are she feels them to be her children and want to provide them something and she is also a relative care foster

provider for her grandchildren. a 7-month-old and a 3-year-old. she struggles every month to pay for the bus to come and visit her children and to bring the grandchildren to visit their fathers at the jail. and she struggles for diapers, she struggles for daycare for them, and the idea that we would charge anything less than just anything more than a small service fee feels really predatory and we want you to know about that and we are there to try to be sure that family cans care for each other and stay connected through the crisis of an incarceration, thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> good morning. my name is alexander and i am an organizer with (inaudible) and me myself on previously incarcerated and my partner right now is serving a sentence in the federal prison. and just by being a partner of

someone who is inside, i know first hand, how expensive it can be to take care of the loved one who is incarcerated. and the fees that are being put so that you can put money on someone's commissary books, are completely out of the question. when it comes to the fact that we are already struggling to try to make ends meet at home. like i am a transitional aged youth and i struggle every day to try to make ends meet for myself and i know lots of people who have loved ones who are inside and we already have to pay a fee to put money on the phone. and so, to have to pay a fee to put money on someone's books, it is just, it is just a hardship and a half, and it is like too much sometimes. and i support the fee being reduced but i also support the fee being completely disregarded and removed as well.

but, i just wanted to really express that it is a hardship for a lot of people who are in the system, especially because of the disproportionate amount of people of color in the system and how things are already so hard for us to survive every day. i just wanted to express that we would like the fee to be reduced and eventually removed. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> good morning. >> good morning, john murphy and i am a private detective in san francisco. i am appointed often to assist defendants, defendant whose have chosen for whatever reason to represent themselves. this phone card business has been going on for years. i have dealt with nick (inaudible) who does a good job, and talk about a thankless job, but this phone card thing, for years they gave an actual

card to a defendant, in custody, and that often times ended up in trading or sales of that card, so if this new system is like the federal system and an on-line and so you have a number of a pfn and you go and you are allowed to charge against your account, defendants will not sell their numbers because they will lose everything. and so, if this happens, and if you do keefe it is such a great thing, next to a good lawyer, the phone is the most important thing to anybody in custody it is their only way to communicate it is so fundamental and so important for a defendant either on a motion or a vote where he has already violated his probation or presumed innocent in new case, everyone has a cell phone, and what we do is talk on the phone. it is so difficult to park around the hall and go up to four interview rooms, that a quick phone call helps me tremendously.

and i want to support him in the efforts to make this change as well as other changes and nick, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> good morning. my name is lewis and i am a former inmate, at the county jail, and so i have seen this issue first hand. and one of the things that i would like to address is the larger picture of community safety. i mean, all of you probably have more knowledge as to why the crime rate tends to be higher in areas that are socioeconomically disenfranchised or lower and so these familis that 80 percent of the inmates their families are at that what