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>> 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 give us a sense of staffing picture over the last 10 years as you can see the major crux from 2009 to 2012 you'll see the dip in the slide though our head count is growing the incident in 2014-2015 represents the addition of staff that have been hired prior to the projects and provides staff to the department the provision staff has been reduced 18 percent and make up 14 percent of the positions shown in the following slide as you can see - in the area of capital we've grown but compared to the year 2006 we've actually

declined in both operations and finance and management preparing for on economic downturn in terms of that the reality is that we will need to prioritize services for potential reductions to mitigate loss of staff we use flexible staffing and 3 year positions when feasible we also budget conservatively to insure we're not living outside of our means another way to prepare ourselves with the use of mobile to increase our efficiency and specifically the use of tablets in the field allows staff to stay in the field longer so they

don't have to upload other things lastly it is important that we continue to seek long term funding sources for street reas far as i am concerned the general fund constituted $11 million through the years 2014-2015 capital budget this can't continue with the economic downturn if we want to continue to improve our streets findings the dedicated sources in the long terms is critical with that, i'll conclude my presentation thank you all for allowing us and looking forward to working with you on the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 budget i object to take questions and my staff who do all the hard work and getting this package ready.

>> thank you, colleagues will have questions a few comments and thank you for the presentation and you talk about coordinating with other mta and puc i think part of this ever san franciscan feels your streets are being dug up another a record pace but it is a necessary project in terms of what are the agencies you work with the most how would you breakdown that the most the puc given the sewer project is it mta. >> i think most common agencies are are the ones we work with frequently with the mta and is one of them and mta primarily because of the recent bonds passed but also the living bond those require coordination but prior to the $15 million ever

sewer and water every year to to capture the best benefits of taking the street at a certain time the 3 agencies work closely to coordinate those projects to completely the project granted that is probably a little bit more sdrurngs than you usually expect but one time period we don't need to come back. >> i think everyone gets frustrated and loves the streets afterward. >> it saves quite a few dollars we're work together and usually the projects go out to one contractor so it is easier to manage. >> if you look at our staffing levels the capital projects have increased quite a bit is that in large part due to the road resurfacing or the other

projects. >> the road resfaurg bond is one of them but we handle the san francisco general and we finished the public safety building and the terminal we're working on the fire stations and we have a lot of staff working and recently staffed up to help with the mta structures and the blaring. >> thanks and one last thing that was in here he saw recent comments from folks open franklin how do we approach the night time planning. >> well, the first step to work with the community and get a sense of the best 7, 8, 9 to do the project and bones on the community feedback after with the committee feedback and the

city agencies working together again in this case frankly the mta a trying to decide when is the best time not to create congestion in traffic. >> mostly in residential areas while w we'll try with the daytime saves and in the other area night time. >> your department is great to with with thank you supervisor mar. >> thank you supervisor farrell and mr. neuroyou're happyly named mr. clean it's a pleasure with w work with folks in 200 my district we're tloord the may 167 district one clean up after the city of middle school i want to say this hearing an

neighborhood liveability is critical i'm glad we're hearing that i know as we the budget committee passed the neighborhood stabilization funds in the past under is a more severe crisis we're looking at small arts and neighborhood organizations to help to stabilize i note as we talk about liveability we're in a truth of the matter displacement of housing in those champs filled with the district resident and community groups the ethnic and the cultural in the district is being threatened we need to do more on human safety net services it is often a balance we as at budget committee last melting meeting we heard about the arts

transparent a process where fund it equality we expand the whole by i'm glad that others in the champs are with you a few minutes the silver tsunami and the senior organization and people were strongly united for the city to put it's money where it's mouthed it if we're going to call ourselves a family-friendly city i'm glad for champs are full with people relaying e represent the healthy side my question the coalition on homelessness gave me a few suggestions they're concerned that resources of the public works i everything goes to keeping the streets clean i think there is a concern that we're not doing enough to