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water plans built. it's taken too long. one of the slides in the legislation we introduced it does require that it says 1 year, we'll probably change it for 2 years that the departments are going to have to come and report about how they are going to accomplish the goal of only using recycled water with the planning committee should be involved in that discussion. >> yes. >> thank you. >> okay, colleagues. any further questions? >> no. why don't we move to our budget analyst report. >> mr. chairman, and members of the committee on page four of our report we know the proposed 15-16 through 2024
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gap, recommends 4.8 billion in capital improvement and 4.7 in other local funds and 1.5 being in private funds. the total cost of this program is $31.4 billion over 10 years. and the capital improvements are across 7 service areas and as shown in table 2 on page 5 of our report transportation and infrastructure streets and surface areas will receive the largest percentages of overall funding at 44% and 30% respectively. we also note on page 6 of our report, table 3, which shows the total capital expenditure plan of $4 billion by year and by service area over the 10-year period from 2015-2016 through 2024-25.
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on page eight of our report we note that under the city's financial policies with an estimated $1.8 billion as shown on table 6 of page nine of our report proposed by the plan must not include property taxes above fiscal year 2005 and 2006 lvls -- levels of the policy of the city. we do recommend based on the capital planning committee and the recommendations we recommend approval of this 10-year plan. >> okay, thank you very much, mr. rhodes. colleagues, any comments for our budget analyst for this report? >> okay, seeing none, why don't we open to public comment. if anyone wishes to
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>> thank you, chair ferrell and members. i'm with taxpayers for public safety. today we want to support the overall capital plan and we like the idea of a capital plan, but we also like that when history as advanced that we need to also modify the capital plan so we are requesting that the jail project, the jail rebuild project of the capital plan be removed from the capital plan at this time. we would like you to recommend that to the full board of supervisors for some of the reasons that you have already had in your discussion that the population is going down and the fact that in san francisco we have the most under crowded jail in the state and probably in the country and this is
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because we have diversion programs. today, in our jail we had 1108, no that was yes. 1180 inmates, today there are 1157. when the jail rebuild was proposed there were twice as many. to date we have almost as many people in diversion programs like the sf pretrial program, behavioral court as we have in the jails. this will continue. we do not need to spend $287 million plus operations to jail people when we can reduce the recidivism rate from 70-40% by increasing diversion. we'd really appreciate that you would take that quite seriously. thank you.
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>> thanks so much. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is ervin. i with the transient program. people have been sent for any reason. the figure of the united states population being 2% and the african american 47% and indigenous people at 30%. it's clear that incarceration is a huge and whether entrance -- transient of color succeed or not. the population in san francisco that is transfeminine in
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incarcerated. the hall of justice must be closed because of the size of vulnerability and rather than build one high rise and the two buildings located on the 7th floors, the buildings need to be disbursing in the district remaining close to court. why are we not locating the model and locating other non-service such as pretrial and laundry to costly building and renovate such as women's recovery center at 930 bryant. would this not be cheaper an appropriate. if we can get more service to women, it will lower the recidivism and please remove the capital
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plan. >> thanks, very much. next speaker. >> hello, my name is ito. i'm a tenant organizer and i'm an activist in the housing movement that cease the connections between the jail and the housing crisis. i want to echo the request of the last two people that the jail be removed from the capital plan because we agree with pretty much all of what the capital plan is going to do except for the jail and we don't want to burden or hinder the process of moving forward with the capital plan and i want to also just provide some statistics as to why i do see the housing crisis is linked
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closely with the jail population in san francisco. a recent report by the recent defense collaborative found that 30% of people evicted in 2013 were black, 65% people were of color and the foundation found that black women have equivalent rates to eviction to black men in incarceration rate and those in jail county are black where the population is 40%. the connections are very clear to me that what's going on with the housing crisis, with evictions, we are seeing mirrored in jail population and that $278 million can be used to build more affordable housing, bail reform and other mental health care to keep people out of jail.
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>> thank you very much. next speaker, please. good afternoon. my name is collin williams. i would urge you to take the jail budget off. that it will do harm to the people that need the most help. i think that $276 million is a lot of money and we can do a great deal of good for people who need that help more than restricting their movements. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is johnson with the transgender project. i also wanted to acknowledge it was mentioned about the conditions in the jail with the structure of what the thing looks like but i think the most important
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thing we look at is the conditions for how people are treated in jail. if there were four officers that sent racist text and there were several more, i promise there is 14 more involved in that whole racist texting. you have no idea the abuse that transgender face in jail. if you get an opportunity, go to our website and see my busting out video about sexual abuse and disparities that people face in prison. i would encourage you no the to build a new jail. and i would encourage for san francisco to come up with creative ways to create more housing for low income people and more housing to just better medical and mental health. since i have
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been out, i have been out 3 years and dealing with sexual and psychological abuse i have experienced and i have worked hard to combat that. i became the program director at the tgif project. i would like you to become closer to the community and we all know that transgender people are coming to san francisco for a safe place and we need to be that safe place for transgenders to come to and i would like you to look at all the murders that happened in the transgender community and do a little bit more and be creative without building a new jail. >> thank you, any other members of the public wishing to speak on item
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no. 2. okay, public comment is closed. >>supervisor katy tang: someone mentioned if we looked into alternatives, and i wanted to see what alternatives we looked at in the plans. >> i will refer to the project manager to answer that question because there were several of them. >> good afternoon, supervisors, charles with project management. we are looking at 512 bed facility, one is a 340 bed facility. in appreciation of the fact that the controllers opinion on the size, the requisite size of the facility. we are recommending a
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scenario of 34 for record of comparison and a scenario where we repurpose cj 2 to the level of security housing that is being proposed in the original project. as well we are looking at a project that would situate the facility whether 512 or 384 entirely within the san bruno location. we are looking into this. it's my response. >> in terms of the analysis coming out shortly, i'm glad we are doing that. i think it's very important to continue to make decisions on this, are you basically going to wait for that analysis before moving forward on considering the various
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