the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco budget sub-committee occurring may 20, 2015, will begin shortly. >> >>

>> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco budget sub-committee occurring may 20, 2015, will begin shortly. >> good morning, everybody, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance subcommittee meeting for wednesday, may 20, 2015, my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by tang and mar, and i want to thank sfgtv for

covering this meeting and victor young, and clerking and we will call to order the 10:00 and 10:05 special meeting. >> do we have any announcements? >> yes, silence all cell phones and electronic devices and speaker cards and copies of documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk and items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisor's agenda unless otherwise stated. >> we are going to go through all of the item and then do the 10:05 afterwards and so if you will call item one? >> resolution requesting continued membership in the 18 county calwin con sort um and the renewal of the hewlett packard enterprise services, contract with it as a result of

the new procurement, for additional amount of $30 million. >> thanks, we have hsa here. >> good morning, supervisors, david flores from the department of human and we were here last year to ask for the consideration of the resolution expanding the membership for the 18 county calwin and the contract that they negotiated with the state of california and a ten-year agreement with hewlett packard and the only change is that we have accepted the board analyst recommendation to increase not-to-exceed amount of the contract and additional amount of 29,551,554, for a total amount to exceed over the ten year period of time of $82,571,463, and that what you previously adopted in 2013, i am ready to answer any questions. >> thank you much. >> colleagues any questions? >> all right mr, rose, could we

get your report? >> we did testify on this, our recommendations as the department indicated on page 4 of our report and we recommend that you amepd the proposed resolution to reflect the contract of 29,551,554 and not 26,229,281 and, we recommend that you approve the proposed resolution as amended. >> okay, thank you very much mr. rose. >> any questions? >> we will move on to public comment, anybody wish to comment on item one? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisor tang? >> thank you, i know that last time we had just had to sit for one week for this item because we were increasing the amount, so then today i move to sent forward this resolution with a positive recommendation for the full board. >> okay we have a motion by supervisor tang and we can take that without objection.

>> mr. clerk, could you call item 2? >> item two, ordinance amending the police code contains the formula retails ordinance to change from 20 to 40 the number of retail sales establishments woerd wide and business must have to be covered by the ordinance. >> okay, thank you very much >> mr. clerk, so the colleagues and this is an item that i introduced and co-sponsored by supervisor mar and we approved the amendments last week, that regard to sit for this week and i know that we are continuing to discuss the additional amendments and i would like to continue this item for two weeks to our june third budget and finance subcommittee meeting. with that colleagues f no other comments i would like to open it up and item number two? >> mr. paulson?

>> supervisors, tim paulson the executive director of the san francisco labor council and we represent 140 different unions in town, and i want to thank the board of supervisors for taking these amendments and i know that you are going to be continuing this and so we can get this all tightened up. this is a historic piece of legislation that san franciscans both on this side of the aisle and in the mayor's office are going to be proud of once we are finished with that and so we strongly support moving forward and we think that the amendments will be con sen custody that we hope that we will end up with the vote and everybody happy and so i want to thank you for all of the particular in farrell for the work that you have done on this navigating through these. >> next speaker. >> my name is connie ford and i

am representing job with custody which is a key organization that worked to get this historic legislation passed back in november. we support this amendment and support the move for two weeks, and we all work together to really make sure that we have the best possible legislation as we roll this out. because it will be and is the first in the country to be rolled out and we are proud tf and working hard and we look forward in two weeks to finish the job. thank you. >> thank you, have youer mfp, are there any other members of the public? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> could i get a motion to continue for two weeks. >> two weeks to june third. >> okay. thanks supervisor mar we have a motion and we can take that without objection. >> mr. clerk, could we call item three? >> hearing to review the economic impact study of outdoor events in san francisco, and requesting the controller and the enter stainment commission to report. >> okay.

thank you mr. clerk. i don't see supervisor weiner here quite yet. he is coming in here, so we will start this hearing momentarily. >> so while supervisor weiner catches his breath we also have ted here as well as josyln, the director the entertainment commission and a number of the public but this hearing and this report was called for by supervisor weiner and so are happy to turn it over to him. >> thank you, chairman for schedule thanksgiving hearing for today, told, we will be holding a hearing to discuss the economic impacts and benefits of outdoor events for

san francisco. and at my request the city economist conducted a study of the contributions of outdoor events such as festival and street fares for san francisco and that report as you will hear concluded that these outdoor events are a significant economic driver, for our city. while we have known for a long time that these outdoor events are a key part of san francisco's cultural fabric and a report shows that the massive economic benefit that the events have, for our city, and we now have hard numbers and we can begin to understand why it is so important to support these events. in 2014, outdoor events generated 1.1 billion dollars in economic impacts. and drew, 3.3 million dollars

attendance whose spending supported 9300 private sector jobs. and of the 3.3 million event goers, 58 percent came from out of town and 85 percent of those out of towners said that they came in to san francisco specifically for the event. and in other words, 1.6 million people traveled to san francisco specifically to attend an outdoor event, whether it was massive event like san francisco pride, or the chinese new year's parade, or the blue grass or smaller neighborhood events like union street festival, many of these events are free and low cost and treasured by visitor and san francisco residents as well. these events contribute greatly to life in san francisco and we must continue to find ways to support them. the report shows not only the economic and cultural impact of

the events, but revealed the diversity of the outdoor events throughout the city. >> 79 event with over 5,000 attendties representing a variety of offerings, however, as you will also hear the colleagues, the current city and processes create unnecessary hardships for many events. while larger events can absorb the cost and uncertainty of the process, for smaller events, the cost and uncertainly can mean a difference between surviving and not surviving. these events are boosting the economic vitality of the city, and our residents, and we need to do more, to make sure that they succeed in continue to drive for the sake of our city. and we love our festival and our parades in san francisco, and we need to support them. this report will provide a starting point in guiding policy discussions in city hall and in our city departments so we don't just treat these

events as problems to be managed, but rather important parts of who we are as a city. and i want to thank everyone who made this report possible particularly our city economist ted eagan as well as joselyn from the entertainment commission and the various who allowed us to circulate surveys for the event attendties which really provided the basis for the data that was collected. so mr. chairman, if or i tell you madam vice chair, if there are no other preliminary comments by members i would like to start with the presentation. first i would like to invite up jocelyn from the entertainment commission.

>> thank you, supervisor and i did not have anything prepared because i have members my commission to speak but would i like to thank you from the bottom of my heart and we have kept the speakers to a minimum, even though as you will hear and i am sure that you know there are many events and many challenges so in the interest of time, we kept the numbers small, hopefully there is a representation of the kinds of event that we need to hear from and again, as the supervisor said we will hear about the challenges and obstacles that are facing events and hopefully some ways forward that you can support. >> thank you. >> thank you, i would like to invite up ted eagan our city economist. >> thank you, supervisor. >> from the controller's office i am just going to thank you for summary of the report and

provide more detail and i would like to acknowledge the hard work from the controlary office who did a lot of the report and ben from the office of economic and workforce development. who supported us with a lot of out reach and information on the events in the city. so according to oed there were 79 outdoor events in san francisco in 2014, that had an attendance of 5000 or more people. and as you say, supervisor they really run the gamut from the street fairs in parks and fund-raising and runs and walks and different types of cultural festival and parades. >> could you move the microphone closer. >> yes. with a wide variety of themes, cultural and political and artistic, and we described all of that in the appendix to our report. depending on where an event is held there may be a variety of permits that are needed from the mta and the recreation or

the entertainment commission, what is important for our work is that those include the estimate of the attendance and it is from what the event told the city that they would be expecting in the way of attendance and to the population of event attendties, and that we are working with. and to understand the economic impact of those, we ask events and eleven agreed to cooperate with us to administer a survey that we designed to ask the people why they came to san francisco and what did they spend while they were here. >> these both on-line and paper versions of this survey were provided by us to the par participating events which ever was easy for her and we relied on the volunteers at the events ko distribute the survey, and either by mailing it to ticket to the attendance to who provide an e-mail address or administering in person, we think that our work is really large and impressive response

rate and we got 3644 people, responding to the survey, and essentially what we were able to do is to that to the totals ta we received from the city departments. so this 79 events actually took place over 88 days, during for example takes place over ten days and in total the estimated attendance is 3.3 million people. and at these events, on a whole they spent an average of 89 dollars per person and this is at the event itself, this is includes on the event fees and donation and the food and drink, and the things that are purchased at the other ent have retail and kinds of spending there, when you add all of that together and includes spending just at the event by visitors and san francisco residents, 290 million annually, to put these numbers into a little bit

of context, on a typical day in san francisco, about 12 million dollars is spent at our restaurant and over the 88 days that the outdoor events took place, on each of those 88 days, the spending on food at these events equals 10 percent of the city's restaurant industry. and so, this represents during the days of the events are happening a fairly large percentage of the hospitality activity that is taking place in the city. >> and to get to the broader economic impact, though, and the really role of these events as a driver you have to make a distinction between the 40 percent who were residents who are recirculating money, and the 58 to 60 percent who are out of town attending who are basically bringing money into the economy and forming for the time of their visit a part of our visitor industry. so that number is about 58 percent of all of the 3.3 million and i think that it is

very important to stress that we asked them why they came to san francisco that day e85 percent of the visitors say that they came to san francisco because of the event, and these are not people who are coming to san francisco and found out about the event and decided to attend it, the event was the primary reason why they are in the city. and so that suggests that these events are helping to if you like diversify the city's tourism industry they give a different number of people who otherwise would not be visiting san francisco that day to visit on that day. another thing that is important about this group is that not all of the spending takes place at the event we have already talked about the spending at the event but many people will go to restaurants or bars or night life after the event and they are spending on transportation to get to and from the event and around the city and many of them are staying in hotels or other kinds of lodging and so if you like eat vent just kind of the

tip of the iceberg and draws them here and the economic impact of these visitors spending is not, and it is not associated with the event, but throughout the state of utah and hospitality businesses. >> so we can begin to put some numbers on to that and now this is only referring to the people who came to san francisco specifically for the event. and they spent $190 million in spending at the event itself. and on things ranging from event fees and food and drink and shopings and other goods and services and also spent an average of $330 per person outside of the event on things like transportation and 53 percent stayed in san francisco for more than a night and spent, $262 on lodging during their trip and so when you account for all of the spending of these visitors that koim to san francisco for the event it works up to a billion