or 6 percent and r678 budget and rerecommend placing $2 million plus in budget and finance respectfully yours reserve and for 78 our recommend reductions to the proposed budget totaled 538 plus of that amount ongoing $204,000 in one time savings we're recommending plaza one million dollars plus in budget & finance committee reserve and will report back to the committee next week. >> thank you very much police car colleagues, any further questions for the department supervisor mar. >> yes. i wanted to say i really know our department of the environment does a lot with a small staff i want to ask about some of the revenue there's electrical vehicles chasing give us a brief

overview of the revenue coming in i sit on the bay area quality district what is it the transportation fund for clean air and see other departments air carbon fund and circled grant some idea of new fund coming in. >> it's very exciting you may went last last year we have trouble with our air quality and we had a successful year putting all of our empowers looking at grant funding and as a matter of fact we've emigrate alternatives for a hundred and 50 thousand a charging slieksz grant for 3 hundred thousand and fuel infrastructure as well as save routes to school so - >> i said that.

>> oh, i'm sorry my apologies. >> it's a variety of looking at look around electrical vehicles whether or not it is charging or looking at field sells. >> with hearing on the loss of neighborhood circling centers is that state cal recycle grant recommended to promoting the zero waste and what's the fate of our growth arrows and community recycling centers. >> the grant money from cal circle is not for a particular use a one-time funding for two years in a row with flexibility to spend it we'll met with them to go over plans to utilize caltrain properties for the hub

circling centers they've worked with us to maintain the few supermarket we have right now to work creatively with our market. >> we've lost save ways and is there ever any way to regain community recycling centers like big bucks and recycling centers after lost. >> that's exactly the conversations we're trying to engage trader joe's and costco's to see if they have interesting parking lot they're at the table with us cal circle with safeway not sure they'll come back. >> thanks very much look forward to see seeing you next week next up oewd.

>> good afternoon, supervisors todd director with the office of economic workforce development thank you to which supervisor farrell and budget committee i want to give an overview of our budget and discuss the current year outcomes and the new initiatives for the year ahead we'll pull it up on the screen. >> so our fiscal year t 2015-2016 is up from $36.8 million a there of 3.7 because of the services for the $6.6 million and it means our budget 2015-2016 includes 8 new ftes within the department of 9

the staff in terms of outcomes for the current year i'm sure you're aware of down from 9.5 percent in 201118 thousand san franciscans remain under employed it creates the conditions to retain and attract and provided the train and support to connect those residents to good jobs this is why the good opportunities for san franciscans continues to implement our manufacturing fiscal year focusing on the erecting sector this year with the arts commission gone through the focus of real estate assistance and for those who are expanding as well those facing relocation in collaboration with supervisor wiener's office we've got a budget of peace corp. that

will focus on implementing the outcomes in terms of the small business commission they provide direct assistance to the small businesses we've launched on time to the business portal that is available in 7 languages averages 3 thousand users from the cross the country to streamline the process for restaurant and food businesses oewd wants who initiatives on buying local one on consumers getting local residents to shop at local businesses as well as one focused on larger companies to challenge them to spend they're spending to local businesses we have the best neighborhood district we provides water more o more 4 hundred 50 grant to the bay area

opera house and sf beautiful so for the renovation question help businesses to understand the issues and implemented hundred and 42 easements with the support of supervisor mar we make affordable food options in the tenderloin and bay area and o m i we have the small business plans for 72 small businesses not bay area as well as the alley for us the challenge program oewd has attended improvement projects in terms of the business loans heed and 18 loans $4.6 million to san franciscans for the loan fund and merging and the c e g finland groups and finally are

the district program two more information and others that are expressing interests thank to our support for the filming in san francisco is increased 3 film productions have received intrurms for every dollar rebated we have money spent on hotels and food totally 14 point plus million dollars through the joint development teams we have the projects emphasizing 5 m and pier 70 and mission rock we're working with dpw to implement the mayor's office housing plan in office of economic workforce

development we have the construction and health care and technology who network academies and placed over 2 thousand job seekers for the year ahead start with small businesses you know a major challenge is small businesses facing redefined space we're going to initiate a building of our legal and laelgz assistance for brokerage services for the at risk bmw's to help them with their space research san francisco has seen two of small businesses effected by disasters like flyers and in responding to the disasters oewd we realized that the time following the disaster is a critical one in time that

small businesses needs the assistance that's why we'll develop a citywide small business disaster recovery fund to provide loans to small businesses in the immediate aftermath of an event in the i can't remember ahead we'll implement the business popularity through the streamlining effort the importance of coordination this is something if you supervisor tang and some of the others on the board it includes an fte that focuses on accelerating the business permit program for small businesses the staffer will only experience it they'll sit at the permit center and form a nucleus of the acceleration team with planning and dbi and health and other departments that is the pilot

year focusing on restaurants and od other food recommend businesses we'll look to build on the lessons and continue to expand our biological inches focused with the businesses ahead in terms of neighborhood in the year ahead straight and other capital projects cause disruptions in anticipation of that oewd will launch a program for grants and marketing and businesses for 10 corridors effected by the construction we'll also launch an express to the outdoor neighborhoods additionally we'll expand our commercial districts to deepen the critical work to support them in japantown and the fillmore and other areas and implementing the projects that booster those neighborhoods

in the year ahead launch to vacate the building with a historical significance and implement creativity short time and long term for underutilized assets our budget includes the funding for the rebate program we've seen a strong demand and finally in terms of workforce to offset federal cuts this insures we're able to continue to fund at the current level insuring the job seekers have access to the workforce procedures and so offset the federal grants to that displaces residents and in our budget to expand and add capacity to the trainings annually and we our budget includes fte for the rad prelims

and finally we're not in agreement with the budget analyst recommendations we will continue to work with them over the next week to come to agreement. >> i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you commissioner tang. >> thank you. i just want to thank you so much i'll seen womdz budget come a long ways weary feel in terms of this department i've seen the benefits at the ground level i remember i was the one walker the corridors and talking to the merchants and doing it by hand and trying to have a department that helped with us a lot of the needs for the small businesses i see it makes a huge difference in this challenging economic climate i know that one of the key interests i have in f this budget is the pilot program the senior community specialist in

terms of navigating the city's pilot phase for new restaurant owners but in the future to xapdz to other industries in the budget analyst report it talks about not being sufficient demonstration that problems have occurred in the dph i highlight it is not just dph but the cooperation whether dph or fire all of those together and it is that cooperations that i think we don't over to the small businesses so i have a huge interest in that i'll be speaking with mr. rose's office thank you for your work at oewd. >> thank you supervisor mar. >> yeah. thank you for your leadership and staff and really insuring that the office of economic workforce development is making sure that nobody gets left behind you want to say sf

made to healthy retail to invest in neighborhoods that help the geary cooperated corridors that make people's lives more stable i know that the neighborhood stabilization during the time of disaster for small businesses and residents is critical i have a question for workforce how higher lift low wage workers and people on the brink of being pushed out of the city to look them up as the region develops the region prosperity plan to pull low income workers people locked into not earning enough to survive but pulling them up to middle wage drives but we are doing that with city college and other institutions. >> it's a exactly right helping

the unemployed getting getting into the first job wore our aspiration is to help individuals to make more and more income and have more stable economic future that's why our dpaemd targets the industries are growing and those that provide was this and provide the tint for that progressive growth on the high spectrum the sf tech that gets people into the highest was this city build that has again an extension with this budget place people with $21 an hour we've gotten san franciscans through that between the academy and hospitality we're able to p did that we're

partnering are city college and other to make sure that ceo to assure we're doing it the right way. >> thank you. >> okay. colleagues mr. rose your report please. >> yes. mr. chairman on page 62 of the report our recommended reductions total one million dollars plus in 2015-2016 of that amount one million dollars are ongoing saves and others one time savings this allows one million dollars plus in the 2015-2016 budget our recommended reductions is for the proposed budget is one million dollars plus in 2016-2017 of the 126969 recommended reductions one memorial day plus and 146 are

one time savings and working with the department and report back to the community next week. >> colleagues, any further questions for oewd or mr. rose see you next monday up next director ram and real quick call item 10 please. >> item 10 ordinance men, women, and children the administrative code to eliminate the installations progressing fee and progressing freeing fee from the environmental quality act. >> thank you very much welcome director ram and it's good to be here a healthy year for us i want to go over if i might kind of where we stand in terms of the department budget and our proposal for next year changes to the budget first, i want to

highlight - some of the recent changes in the department recent mruchlt we think for the year and how wore moderating with the upper market year we are at apace of creating substantial improving our process of 10 percent a month in the last 9 months we've reviewed 10 percent more case and permit reviews each months for the last 9 months keeping with the unprecedent volumes trying to gut u cut back into the wagon we've established a project review team last fiscal year in addition to the program countering it letting led to a six months backlog and that the

disproportionment effect on small businesses so we established a smart business team that supports 3 hundred of the projects out of the cue and looked at it those separately that require public hearing at the planning commission to substantially increase the volume reapprove and continue to grow that project i know that supervisor tang you're interested in the small business aspect we're working with oewd as out of heard on the new position we're funding that position to mash or make sure that happens and that position the work of the small projects team will help we have what we call related to the small businesses a community proprietor progressing program those long names and those projects that can be done simply with fairly minimum amateur of staff time but require the

approval the commission we've reduced the agenda and building that helps expedite those permits for the small businesses as well we're helping approving our community planning through ceqa a process in the plan area where projects did a streamline review through ceqa we our goal to get that process done to 4 months from 8 most we're countering halfway there and progressing the mayors directive on housing for the housing crisis everything under affordable housing sites to staffing to policies and procedures that streamlines the projects and looking at to legal supplies illegal dwelling units where they can be legalized and

obamacare on other microcosms on the short-term rental i know this is near and dear to my heart the late numbers we have 6 hundred plus applications and approves 4 hundred and 25 of those denied 23 of those and reviewing 25 to thirty no about 80 as of right now numbers are slowly going up but the applications the rate is dropping we have a large number unfortunately of no shows when people make appointments a quarter of them they do shut up but we are having that issue and we went live with the new online scheduling system people don't have to call to make appointments can make appointments online on the

restoration we've looked at the goldberg and the swedish-american on the street and other nominees that are currently in the cue and finally last year the department went live with the permitting tracking system a system we've been working on with dbi went live in october represented i didn't want systems between dbi and their finalizing their should be live in a couple of months wore pleased that can move forward. >> so in terms of case and permit cases are the projects that require a higher level the review and the permits are the permits we refugee have to say we're seeing an unpersistent number of projects this is the most promotions we've seen in the history of the department this is growing another a rate

since world war ii we're trying to keep with the growth this is forcing us and urging us into a higher major critical policy issues affordable housing and transportation and short-term rental the office allocation dealing with the general plan updates and the pdr uses and those are policy issues driven by the growth in the city we're focusing and you'll see on the budget proposal altercation on the major policy issues as we move forward it is no secret this type of growth in san francisco is happening national in the urban centers we're seeing it because of the growth of the technology destroy driven by the 3.4 percent unemployment rate in terms of our volume and

staffing trends in the past fiscal year it has increased by 40 percent our staffing has kept pace the 78 hundred preliminaries for the next fiscal year and another 6 thousand planning cases and as you can see the change in the staffing levels as a result we anticipate by next fiscal year we'll be at 2 hundred and 20 ftes to keep up with the pace of growth on the revenue does the vast majority of revenues from the fees from time development for our charge of services an increase from 4 two to $47 million over the last fiscal year we have a grants budget that is dropping primarily due to one time grants that have

been expend we have a small amount of administrative fees our recovery from other departments and the general fund that is down to the lowest level in the department our general fund represents about 5 and a half percent of departments budget it is the lowest level it's ever been and we'll continue to monitor from the you mean projections we're going to stay here for a while on the expenditure side 2/3rd's is salary in fringe we have a number of non-special xchz that computed dig tiger's our files we have files paper files going back decades and we have a number of professional service contracts to support our planning initiative like the central selma and transportation and so on the waterfront works

and number of italy services and licenses we would like to pursue and a number of materials and supplies and capital equipment to invest in and also like i said trike 80 like to digitize where we review the plans electronically that will greatly make a more efficient review process in the future years. >> so just quickly looking at the position changes we're proposing as you can see on this chart looking to add a couple of positions in the current planning one position current planning recommended to architecture and design review we're proposing a position for a citywide historic survey to continue the process of reviewing the cyber city and we're looking to add a number of

positions in the citywide few minutes ago including a master plan around the civic center and proposing two community specialist positions that work with neighborhood organizations office of the city administrator on issues not related to neighborhood planning but on strategic efforts like the mission 20/20 plans and we're proposing an additional of a deputy director for the citywide planning to focus on policy and support that position as well we also proposing 4 positions in environmental planning again where the largest backlog in the environmental planning and proposing positions for in take for continued project on staff support and also proposing a position that will be funded by mta that does the super review the matt projects and

exclusively devote to side the mta projects. >> finally looking to do a more direct supervision on the committee the multi agency committee we staff that look at the compleez generated from neighborhood plans and we are looking to do a direct supervision over the finance those fees are raising and there the administrative side of the impact fees finally called into the record a minor change to the fee that will eliminate two small fees we have today it will eliminate the fee for installment agreement the project manager can pay their fees over time and eliminate a fee for refunds we charge a fee to pay them back

we're eliminating that fee as well and finally thank you to the budget analyst we've received the report last week and we haven't had a chance to discuss that but will be discussing that this week. >> thank you director ram. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you can you say a little bit more about your increase in staffing for the proposed budget versus the volume of work. >> because the volume of work your projecting not really increasing but you're asking for i guess about 15 more staff members. >> right that's right it is directly co-recommending to the staffing i guess