canvas for material prepared for the coworkers to take to the polling places and we have the prors center the ballots come back to the warehouse and the roster and things like that to be accounted for for balance. >> okay. thank you and i just hope that you'll be able to work out a one solution. >> thank you thank you supervisor yee. >> thank you. i was looking at the pie chart for expenditures and it struck me that for in comparison for the 2014-2015 what the 2016-2017 the salary goes up a little bit by 5 percentage so two questions there

but our fringe benefits went down 3.3 percent of the total budget which doesn't make sense to me i don't know how you save all that money but it seems like people are getting cut in their fringe benefits about a third. >> no cut in fringe buns or benefits by the percentage those are other costs coming in but i can't tell you why the change in fringe benefits no cut in the fringes as far as the department is concerned you usually once we have the positions and the fringe benefits are addressed into the budgeted by the mayor's office so - >> that would be a good answer but the way i'm looking at it almost the same salary but benefits went down by almost 25

percent of your total budget your total budget is the same so - and awe i mean the infringes it didn't go down by 25 percent. >> from 12 to 18 this is 3 percent plus for the fringe benefits percentage wise and our budget was the same. >> mr. rawlinsfield. >> supervisors we can follow-up to our questions supervisor yee immediately following the meeting one thing citywide the fringe benefits costs in most departments our pension contributions is a percentage is declining significantly so this is a sixth e significant factor about but we'll provide that after today. >> thank you and the other piece of it those are more curiosity questions when you

look at the salary and the budget is almost the same not a cola over two years how much cola are we looking at. >> all city employees salaries is loaded by our office across the entire government based the collective bargaining for the individual employees within the vice president the patterns for the majority of city employees calls on 3.25 percent increase effective october 1st and in the year two a formula between 2.25 and 3.25 floating based on the c pi we're estimating and puts that number at 3 percent. >> i guess again i look at the big numbers it looks a lot less

than what you're named unless there's fewer ftes. >> which i don't know it didn't say. >> we rely on to me employees those are noted are permanence positions within the payroll budget we bring in temporary folks and the work through november and december they're not getting fringe benefits their wages will be going up as well in circulation with the city pay scales but let go after a few months. >> thank you. i wanted to make sure ore workers you know - and supervisor mar. >> thank you, sir good luck with the warehouse search for a proper place i wanted to ask you about the numbers on page 2 the elections for 2016-2017 with only one election and the total only 55 thousand dollars why is

that year only one election and why is that so little revenue come in. >> just projections based on the candidate filing fees we've collected over the past that is in line it is also with the general election in 2016 you have less candidates than for a preliminary election. >> even though the fall of 2016 might have a ton of sproirl candidates it's still that allow. >> supervisors their filing fee is $500 other are one percent of the offices compensation so for mayor for instance the fee it 56 hundred versus 5 hundred for supervisors. >> one other questions language

equality and voting rights so tagalog was added as the filipino limited english limited population grown to a percentage if my memory is right 5 percent and then you reach a threshold and jurisdiction is required to provide bilingual ballots. >> no so the state law is 3 percent of the overhead. >> 3 percent at the state code or. >> for citywide the filipinos are introduced in san francisco due to the office of civic affairs and immigration so in san francisco once an identified population ghettos grows to 10 thousand or more than the city requires the departments to provide language in that so

that's what happened. >> so chinese and spanish languages now tagalog are there other languages that are approaching that threshold is bilingual materials and pole workers are required when you hit the threshold. >> right we're equating filipinos with the federal requirement for the chinese and spanish services even though there's a much higher numbers of people that are spanish and chinese speaking than filipino so the chinese and spanish speaking communities rise to the federal standards but we'll giving the filipino speakers the same level of services on the federal tellers. >> so there's a federal thresholds and california san francisco. >> yeah. >> so in san francisco once

the community of non-english speakers rise to 9 thousand. >> what other speakers and hard to say maybe vietnamese and russian maybe 25 thousand away from the told her and russian is a little bit below that. >> okay and that might be in the next 5 years. >> yes. and okay. thank you very much much appreciated mr. rose do you want to give our report please and yes examiner and members of the committee on page 33 of our report our recommended reductions inform the proposed budget total 2 hundred 9 thousand plus in 2015-2016 of that amount hundred and 16 will ongoing savings to reductions that allow the increase of $2.5 million of the

departments fiscal year 2015-2016 and our recommend reductions to the proposed is hundred 366 of that amount ongoing 10 thousand one time savings as i understand the department concurs with our reductions. >> thank you very much mr. rose colleagues, any further questions for mr. rose thanks very much colleagues mr. rawlinsfield. >> mr. chair it's our choice one possibility to take reductions where the departments is in agreement. >> perfect, thank you. >> so colleagues we'll take a motion to accept the cuts pending public comment last week given our department of election here and our general services

can i have a motion to accept the cuts per our budget analyst pending public comment. >> so moved and motion pie supervisor katie tang and second by supervisor mar we'll take that without objection. >> okay. up next our board of appeals. >> good afternoon supervisor farrell and members i'm cynthia goldstein the executive director of board of appeals all to take a couple of minutes to go over the boards experience and give

you our budget experience i mean the board provides the final decision for a wide range and we try to do that in an efficient manner this first chart of the number of pillows and the projected number we're looking hundred and 85 appeals slightly less than last year and blow the 10 thousand appeals per year the vitamin is higher than than the revision or recession years the next slide look at the snapshot of the demonstrations which city departments are issued the decision as typical for the board the majority are land use

related stem from the planning department and planning commission and the department of building inspection and the zoning administrator we do also have in the last few years experiencing a number of appeals significant appeals from the department of public works this year a third have to do with tree removal and others types of permits they issue we have nos uptick by the permits from landlord that effectively rove their housing units normally this year we received 31 matters that represents 17 percent of the board docket year to date turning to our budget two revenue sources spectaculars that the majority those are collected by the permitting issuing dependent on the permit

renewable those reflect the amount of work the controller did an analysis of the speak surcharge rate up to the level of inflation but any adjustment beyond is - up $0.50 from 6 vod that's the only rate adjusted and no proposal to adjust any of the rates by legislation i'll note that is the first time that the public works rate has been adjusted since 2012 the of the of the budget is from people that file and we're not proposing any changes as far as our expenditures we're looking at moderate changes a 3.7 percent decrease in the 2016

budget learning resulting from the reduction in rent and the reductions you've spoken about the city-state retiree expenses in 2017 we're looking a 2 percent increase over $18,000 tied to may or may not surcharges and i'm sorry in salaries and fringe benefits we do expect our surcharges will coffer that but we have a reserve fund available to us we've been collecting over the last few years if we of the you been ours another a shortfall we can coffer that we're not proposing any changes to the staff and the rest of the packages of my presentation has to do with detail budget detail i'll note in the expenditure side i've given you information about where our money goes 48

percent to salaries and fringe benefits and the next to other departments the attorney and our sfgovtv for our board meetings. >> this is our organizational chart straightforward and the next two our surcharge rate and salary fee that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions and i'm would appreciate our support for our proposal. >> thank you very much colleagues, any questions no budget analyst report thank you up next to our rent board.

>> honorable chair and supervisors the executive director of the san francisco rent board and this is my incredible deputy robert collins i usually come before you saying i want to be the lease of your problems but the affordability crisis is making that increasing difficult mission of accident rent board your undoubtedly aware at this point the it was for the housing crisis g guess what it is 2015 this informs against excess rent increases the operative is to protect tenants in place obviously, no tenants not a lot we can do about that and try to

keep tenants from unlawful evictions how do we try to achieve those loft i didn't goals the major fund t is counseling we have one of the highest visited websites in the city and our office is an informational repository the counsels serve thousands of people on the phone and over the counter we're arbitrate disputes we have 12 attorneys that conduct the legislative hearings everyday in our office we strive to be fair and in the enforcement of the ordinance and committed to evenhanded treatment if you're a land i want you to feel i got a fair shake the next slide talks about

the statistics this is no surprise our work loads as increased last year a 14 percent change in petition filing and last year an addresses 15 percent we're processing 32 percent more petitions then two years ago at this time as a result last year at this time i came before you and were gracious to give me an additional law position and counselor this year i'm asking for an administrative in fact, position because as you can see in the next slide the perspective changes we can't keep up with providing accurate and timely information to the public we're doing harm and not like we're decreases and the idea do no harm but as you were hearing in

addition now that filipino is added to the may or may not languages we will need to be translating our informational information on this data i want to bring your attention is the buy out bottom category as you recall a piece of legislation sponsored by supervisor campos regulating the buy outs took us to march 7 of this year unfortunately i submitted my budget to the mayor's office and no way to see how many agreements needed to be processes but it was under the radar and not captured in the city since march 7 we have processed hundred and 28 landowner disclosures of tenants

rights and 28 executed but out agreements new cases in the last 3 months that is killing us the next slide shows you the amateur of legislation i didn't want to look like i was piling on i took out six pieces that had an impact every single one of those proposals requires something if our officer it might be as simple as a database search or might require actual administrative hearing but every single one requires my staff educating themselves and be able to understand the new allowing laws to accurately inform the public i'd like to call your attention to a couple of them that require a tremendous amount

of work the buy out agreements and doing the transition agreements for treasure island from people to yerba buena and tdr not happy about the unit and there are no xhashld units we'll be doing those hearings and doing a hearing for the housing authority tenants there the hope renovation our staff is capable of doing the hearings but, of course more work so what did it mean in terms of the impact on the budget for the coming years our budget goes up over 3 hundred thousand dollars that is one additional fte as i said an administrative analyst position helping us with the translations into filipino and take the new legislation and those 13 pieces i've shown you

and take the information and update them accordingly because of senior staff we can't keep up impact on the fee implementing the rent board is not a general fund department we're fee supported a fee split by landlord/tenants it is set by the controller's office and unclear at this time if that is because we don't know how much surplus to of the there contrary to might missouri we carry a surplus much to the shock of my husband but at this point we anticipate lease a one dollar increase it could be more but at the end of the july it is by the controller's office. >> the goals in the initiatives in the you mean year to

implement this legislation including providing i didn't want to the public to increase the number of documents transmitted into filipino and streamline our petition processing procedures you in order to process this increased workload i'm afraid we'll be back before you if this workload increases for additional positions because as my friend carmen chu said we can't keep up i'm sure if with had a budget analyst report it would be good. >> supervisor yee. >> thanks for your presentation i noticed there's you're asking for somewhat modest increase something thousand i'm curious like one is for one full-time

person i don't know how much that is, i guess this is another or $85,000 for staff what is hundred thousand dollars for . >> there's an $89,000 that was put into our budget by the mayor's office because there is legislation pending i believe a resolution that was introduced by commissioner christensen to encourage the mayor to implement an eviction early warning system that requires a new database so tenants if they receive two tenants in a building getting two evictions they'll get in touch with the supervisor and the mayor's office of housing and connect them with resources. >> thanks such. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you. i want to ask about the workload statistics you said the new legislation

regarding landlord buying out tenants is arbitrarily in the last if 3 months a huge workload increase i know we allocate that is a budget committee money for community-based organizations with eviction defense and your counseling as well but mined is you can't cancel people on buy outs they're facing a a potential eviction and offered a buy out you can't cancel them. >> we cancel people all the time but can't advocate or provide legal advice but my council provides information about buy outs and their rights in an unlawful detainer decision every day what we're required to do have a assessable database so

tenants can go online and see what is a decendents deal in my neighborhood your what parts of buy out online what is something facing a buy outlook for as you noticed the 25 bye anti agreements what's. >> the neighborhood so the address and the amount of actual money that the tenant received as a result of the buy out. >> they'll know how many people lived in the unit that kind of information. >> i don't believe so. >> supervisor they'll have access to the buy out the tenants information has been detact but they'll have a copy of the scan buy outs to be included. >> thank you. >> as you can tell robert is

the person that posts those. >> colleagues questions or comments. >> up next i know that katherine dodd is here partially been waiting. >> good afternoon katherine dodd decoration of health services i'm accompanied by our cfo and thanking the mayor's office with working with us on the mayors budget portion of this i'll wait until we get loaded i'm sure you're aware of the mission or you may not know the mission of the health services mission of the city and county of san francisco we are

dedicated to having sustainable benefits and companionships all the benefits for the employees in that realm i'll invite you to a fair on june 25th mark our calendars and i should remind you, you need to stand up and take a couple of breaths sitting is no smoking thank you for modeling that our budget year by year has constantly gone down as you can see from this slide we've helped to - pardon me we've helped to reduce the liability and we've saved 54 plus million dollars if you look at the actual membership of the health services system the last 5 years have been remarkable we've increased by over 6 percent or 7

thousand lives 7 thousand lives is the equivalent of 2 large sf so the work of the department increases dramatically you gain members as they retires they're still our members and we're glad for that the issue facing the health services system are number one the increased number of new hires and retirees managing over 2 hundred and 50 thousand paper record files let me stay say- we've implement our negotiations and the rate increase is 6.1 percent as you recall for last year was negative 2.78 percent we're

coming inoblast below what was buckled in the 5 year financial plan and savings $10.3 million we're also facing continued compliance with the affordable health care act which continues to make our work complex and the new federal rates will be 14 plus million dollars and the excise tax in 2018 has a potential liability to the city from $2.6 million to $13 million and depending upon what how the irs rules on a couple of issues we're facing automatic enrollment requirements no 2016 or and that maybe detailed but unlikeable of likely and facing reporting to the irs that we have to collect that year and report on in