. >> good afternoon. welcome and welcome to the intrifk for wednesday, may 6, 2015 i'm supervisor farrell i'm joining by supervisor tang a supervisor mar and supervisor yee and thank you to the members of the sfgovtv and the clerk linda wong madam clerk any announcements

thank you madam clerk 3 items on the agenda two hearings i know there were requests for each one to go first, we'll stick to the current order and madam clerk call item number one a hearing on the neighborhood and services and requesting the public works the planning department and the malice to report. >> thank you madam clerk so colleagues, i asked for this hearing as we continue into budget season heading 0 into the core of our budget debilitations we continue to experience an economic boom quality of life is something we should focus on i know i've talked with you as

well as must be in the neighborhoods to focus on the issues and want to have a number of agencies to come down and talk about the positive side and so they can be here to answer questions we might have i see our director of the dpw and we have dpw and the mayor's office of housing so thank you for being here and looking forward to the conversation. >> good afternoon supervisors. thank you for having us here to talk about the budget. >> what the agency has been up to we have is few slides we'll go through and then we'll also pass around the package that has did presentation itself along with the agencies strategic plan

the first slide is a snapshot of public works we are 24/7 operation and our services are far-reaching we have 8 bureaus within the department with more than 13 hundred employees doing a range of jobs from programming mobile applications to manually sweeping streets and designing public building and infrastructure we have our hands in delivering go managing or supporting upwards of $4.2 billion of city projects your total budget is 237.1 million of that amount $51 million plus goes to operation activities in the year 2014 we've received $23.6 million in direct support

from the general fund and with many strengths a a as a department chief is accident strategic plan the plan drives what we do day to day that maps out specific actions that helps us achieve those goals new element within the strategic plan this year are core values we added those values to help guide the way we perform our work and conduct ourselves in order to filter those values through the staff will be conducting what we call the core value campaign that engages every single employee on the mental discussion of those values and why they're important to our work in the first 90 days of this year our values are

essential to the culture how we treat one another and how we do our jobs i'm extremely proud of those values because they hold us to a higher standard some the strengths we monitor our performance in the agency and a monthly basis through two separate meeting think public works one for operation and one for design and construction the status is performing tool we use to monitor key activities and achieve of thisness and quality of service we deliver to the public we're also showing high-level data to our core operational services that you you get a sense of overall

requests from public works we've received last fiscal year of the 90 thousand plus thousand calls the majority are for sidewalks and street cleaning and graffiti for public and private property this is the performance open the core performances you'll say times are over 90 percent meeting our target except for the graffiti on public property seeing this data helps us reflect why we're not meeting the target and what we with do to remove the tools around the agencies over the last two years we've been making huge there in the number of requests for straight cleaning the number in 2014 as you can see on the chart is on track to slightly exceed

the total number for the year 2013-2014 the chart on the lower shows the volume of calls received for tree and landscaping services and lastly the chart on the lower right shows the volume and type of permit applications we've received in street use and mapping bureau the majority are for utility he is vacations and utility related we have - in the design and construction area we also track many indicators to let us know how we're doing on the capital project this slide shows how we track the phases and the work and targeted and status of completion schedules

we're suddenly progressing on the delivery of the street bond project incomplete 6 hundred blocks of the general fund bonds ear accessibility combhochlts and sidewalk repair exceeded the improvements we've built hundred plus ramps and constructed 47 thousand more sidewalks than originally plan landscape improvements are progressing additional more expected to be constructed boo through the third and final sale of the bond 32 structures are comfort and 4 heed traffic signals have been installed our strengths include implementing and expanding new

apprentice programs for oort and other workers our outreach on enforcement are one team performs extensive outreach and seeks out legal dumbers from january and march of this year the team has issued over 17 hundred notice of violation and 5 hundred and 21 citations the pit shop has clean and safe public toilets we've seen a reduction from the steam calls and we continue to engage thousand of community volunteers to work in the cleaning of streets and right-of-way last year, we volunteers gave san francisco over hundred and g 8 thousand of hours of neighborhood clean up time and volunteers are important part of

our work and we could - couldn't do many of the projects without the hands they give us we are becoming more mindful of designs to reduce water consumes and long term maintenance costs high on any listed of strengths we're building a new culture through public works university through the university we're offering courses that allows our employees tools to succeed some of the construction management like risk management and construction delay and the acceleration of claims in the contracting and other courses offer to help build careers for apprentices and such interviews and skills and navigating the skills to date we've offered over 68 courses and over one

thousand participants have gone through the training over the last year we've made a record high accomplishments on several front since the puc issued the water reduction directive in february of 2014 we have reduced our accumulation by 69 percent through march of 20142014 we have built more streetscapes in other other year we've gridlock expanded the number of joint projects with other city agency in the physical year 2010 through 11 thirteen 13 percent of the repaving projects were joined projects with other cities this year 2015, 17 percent of our projects are

joint projects this is reflecting how we work with the puc and all the other agencies we're designing and implementing award-winning projects that the city is it proud of several public projects has one awards like the cesar chavez and most recently our newsletter one a national public award for journalism and generally our challenges center along the activities cleaning streets and alleyways and situations is the highest standard our city deserves continuing the conversation of sustainable fund for streets

waltz urban forestry and upcoming promotions and going through the mayors directive to reduce the water use in terms of street sidewalk and alleyway cleaning logically dumping is a major issue we're addressing this in our budget through the outreach enforcement teams public health issues in the right-of-way are prominent this year and rising complaints of feces and urine and other graffiti is a detriment we've insured the alleyway crews are hitting those corridors and we're bringing portable toilets to location the project has been successful and this body the board

supported with the simultaneously appropriations to continue the pilot for another 6 months and added two locations our proposal requests $308,000 for a few year as part of the requests we're experiencing staffing to toilets that have been problematic and what we find from the pilot is that those pilot has been successful because they're staffed and their monitored and we make sure their clean to address residential changes and population growth we're proposing a new enhanced residential popping program this project will provide low noise overnight cleaning to alleyways and corridors and many newly

residential areas around the mission district and south of market chinatown, and polk street service requests in those areas has increased by about 17 percent and as the city is projecting 3 thousand new homes and unit and 10 thousand new residents we must be able to serve the new residents at the highest standard with the sources laud allowed. >> trees currently our two tree crews only respond to active requests they're called in by the public or assumed by our internal sources those are for mitigating top-heavy i didn't trees and falling branch limbs and our tree crews are not able

to complete the performance planned maintenance of 2 thousand trees a year unfortunately, this proposal does not halt tree replenishment we continue to relinquish them until we have a long term source to retain our trees landscaping the 11 new positions were added to 33 which is 7 short of number needed to maintain the landscaping the proposed budget added the staff 3 landscape crews and requests of 8 hundred and 16 thousand to manage landscaping along sunset boulevard medium it is

containing about 2.1 million square feet of landscape area that is 62 percent of landscaping under the maintenance having dedicated the staff to sunset will free up the crews for other landscaping activities other challenges to address inner agency our proposed budget added permanent checkers in line with revenue growth and new staff will allow us to keep pace with the permanent applications and have a better right-of-way coordination and enforcement activities to help us manage contract oversight and key staff to set up the parking enforcement we've

had issues with complaints about construction at night and requests that us to assure their other visible alternatives lastly public outreach are doing the best they can to get the word out to the public of promises we have few staff to handle the municipal or multiply projects our proposed budget didn't include adding additional staff for public outreach this slide shows a picture of our 2014-2015 budget the 200 and $47 million of which 10 percent or $53 million is general fund support we're working closely with the mayor's office to have the proposed 2015-2016 budget this slide here