and they find a person how to get the people in the door we have with the help of the controller's office we've identified data potatoes points proud metrics to see how we're doing we're involved in the outreach for the programs i have those are basically the main elements of change you see in our budget i object to address any of the ongoing programs. >> thank you, ms. callahan supervisor yee. >> thank you, ms. callahan i'm glad you talked about the hiring innovation i guess for those elements in place what - what percentage time you know roughly could you say that will

shortened the hiring process this is sometimes you know as you know - and this is a good question what kind of reductions can we foresee it depends on where the problems are we find that sometimes at the departmental level some departments have an 11 of approvals to fill positions we're going to be working with the department to identify those places it can be shortened the examination the one in h.r. we have existing innovations for it and for the nurse hire we're piloting for the first time as we speak an examination online applicant can receive a score and we'll use it we'll try that out and the challenging is a

blessing and curse it has ruled in a diversity of the labor market we're the employers of choice for many communities that have not had a fair shake in the private sector market but having the hire we can't rip open the resumes we have everyone coming in the process with a fair assessment of their qualifications and identifiable process as we can access the characteristics and qualifications and ability to do the job so beyond a certain point we'll not - it is never going to be a day it's not fair but as little as 28 days to an

eligible list i'm thinking of the it hire problem with the online help assuming every person involved answers their e-mails rapidly and do so they're scoring it will be will be a month to get a hiring list for information technology i'll note we're hearing that some of the private companies are actually moving towards a testing testing the committee they see the resume and an interview didn't term determine who is qualified for the position we may not be at far out as people think but i'm confident that san francisco will be as efficient as other public employers with the merit system and that's in as many places as possible to do that where it didn't eliminate merit

based hiring we'll be doing that. >> supervisor mar. >> yeah. thanks ms. callahan i see the huge amount of work your department does with the labor contract thank you so much i'm excited about project hire it sound like a great approach to insure equal opportunity from end to end of the process i did i want to - i think the unconscious racism homophobia the train for the police department or dph makes up with the didn't you guess bias director sparks called that is important for h.r. departments to really dig into and consciously hold themselves in check as well as others staff i wanted to ask about project hire

we've discussed the 25 anniversary with the americans with disabilities act and with the resource center to many others that are struggling to create equal opportunity for people with sdrablts one one staffer that handles the law enforcement technology and portion of his position that goes towards people p with disabilities i'm wondering how to absorb the equal opportunity of people with disabilities with our staffing i know that the community groups there's a strong sense that one staff person has law enforcement and technology is not going to have adequate time for dealing with the unique challenges of people with disabilities in the employment sector. >> thank you for your question

we're committed to improving citywide opportunities for employment for people with disabilities and as you noticed a committee that works with the mayor's office on disability. >> how will we staff it we do the ad a recruiter last year and we assigned him responsibilities he is very energetic and made a lot of - >> hiss he's been great to work with. >> we're able to do at this point we've launched the - his role is supportive the fire department is moving forward with detailing the staff to go to recruiting we're startling

cooperating as we devote effort we say staff that work on the projects and have margaret that is in apprenticeship one of the biggest challenges to find the the right system to find the people and bring them in and line them up with the opportunities that is something we need to partnership with the advocacy group we've had lee a great experience with the light how did of the blind they look at our website and say i have someone to do that job they contact us and reach out to the department and like to consider the roll that's what we like we need to get have a better link of who the individuals and their qualifications and where they fit into the system. >> it's great that the d hr has

sessions with people and that's correct thanks for the process. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you director callahan for talking to heart one topic the how the parental leave issue and mashes or makes sure that everyone's understandings the anthropologies to get on board and have a stronger policy then the question you mentioned you're in agreement with the bftd is that for all the system. >> we reached an agreement on the whole system. >> thank you, mr. rose your report. >> complashg and members of the committee on page 4 six the recommendations to the reduction

$206,000 plus in 2016 will hundred and 871 ongoing savings those reductions will still allow an increase of 6.5 or 8 percent in the department 2015-2016 budget we've recommend collins closings out the general fund inincumbrance with return of 51 thesis to the general fund and recommended reductions total 264 in 2015-2016 and hundred 80 thousand are ongoing savings or one time savings those reductions allows an increase of 3.7 percent and the 2016-2017 as i recommended the restrictions shown in detail on page 47 through 49 of the report. >> thank you very much mr. rose colleagues, any questions for mr. rose or ms. callahan or team

can i have a motion to accept the budget pend public comment? >> so moved and motion any supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor mar we'll take that without objection. >> thank you very much thank you very much. >> all right. next up department of the environment. >> thank you. >> so -

>> all right. thank you thank you good morning good afternoon at this time and members of the budget and finance committee i'm dementia e deborah so pleased to be before you last year at this time it was my third week on the job so today i'm regretting what is really the culmination of my first year of work as director and excited about what is before us i want to thank my colleague joe for preparing this budget he worked with the mayors staff and the budget analyst to put together a solid proposal for your consideration i'm going to walk through about our department and quickly about the budget before i so as you can see in our presentation that those are just images of the different programs you're familiar with many of

them our zero waste effort trying to get past 80 percent sdifks where we are reducing the exposure to toxic dhemz throughout san francisco whether it is to workers or residents or city operations our investment now program what we like to call career development for residents of san francisco to be ambassadors for the investment and reach out to increase served community and our business population is where he have a phenomenal school educations we're in abandonment in public and private schools helping them to achieve zero waste in their cafeterias and preservation efforts we have wonderful programs and work closely with puc we work on compliment initiative with every he did not

as well as the private sector a green program we help the city departments to achieve their minimums as well as working with public housing affordable housing and residents throughout the city to green their buildings we work closely with the mta on clean transportation our transportation demand management to get people out of their cars and finally we work in many of the neighborhoods in san francisco that are considered environmental justice communities to you make sure that environmentalism is september to all and looking at the bio diversity as it promotes our climatic change initiatives and finally with small and medium sized businesses that's a snapshot of the wide variety of subject matters and audience that are small department is

focused on so when you look at our budget i think you'll all recall that a revenue tend to fluctuate year by year because we're primarily grant and contract funded most of our budget is work odor from other departments or grant orders as well as garbage rates because it is sometimes hard to predict year by year what our budget looks like you'll see increases and grants coming and increases if you look at the budget summer the current fiscal year $16 million in our budget next year about $17.28 million and most of that change that is about an 8 percent increase is due to significant grants we're bringing in and we also have one time grant

money from the state to do zero waste work that's predominantly in our budget if you go to the next slide looking at the staffing is is reflected in the sense we don't have a new revenue source we trying to keep our ftes they remain consistent it is defensive in our attrition no significant change in the people in the did not arrest in closing with respect to the budget analyst report unfortunately, we're not quite at agreement at this wanted have concerns over the recommendations, however, since the report was submitted a number of positive discussions with the budget analyst office to clarify their understanding of the way ero our department works and we believe that

through those current convections we'll confident when we came back on june 22nd we'll reach agreement so thank you. >> great to hear colleagues any questions or comments okay thanks again. >> a quick question. >> supervisor yee and recalling on the board we've talked about the kickback program i'm curious is that impacting our office in terms of staff time. >> that's a wonderful question fascination there will be an 18 months period we'll have concerns of the ending of the program and the roll out of the new drug program we'll come to you may be grant fund we can get and money we can get to fill that gap and once we've identified that we'll come back to the board. >> mr. rose our report please. >> yes. mr. chairman on page

44 of the report our recommended reductions to the proposed budget of that amount ongoing savings will allow an increase 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