e to san francisco waters. and other funds included, in this budget are area plan development impact fees and federal bridge grants. and i think that with that said, and we will be continuing to work closely with the budget and the analyst artist and this concludes my presentation and i will take the questions. >> and colleagues any questions or comments? >> supervisor weiner? >> thank you. director. and i, and having this is my 5th budget committee year and this is actually the first time where i really am consider pleased with some of the enhancements and in the budget and i want to thank you and the mayor, and particularly around some of the cleaning and greening enhancements and i

think that they are dangable and the pit stop is great and the extra cleaning crews and the extra money for the forestry and i am happy and do i want to just thank you for noting, that the city, can and that this funding for trees in the budget, and while it is positive, and while it does not, stop, the terrible program which not only is unfair to home owners and guarantees the very poor maint nens of the urban forest and there are home owners that do the wonderful job maintaining the trees and many of them either, blow it off completely, or don't know and they are supposed to do it or don't care, and some of them want to do it but they are physically unable to do it and if you are 80 years old and living on social security, and unless you have a neighbor who is going to help you, you know, we are expecting these people to pay a lot of money, to maintain one two or three more

trees to fix the sidewalk and it is just i know that i am preaching to the choir and i think that we need to continue the momentum and ultimately to go to the voters with a funding measure so that the city can take back all of the trees and have a long term funding source to take care of them and to expand the number of trees that we have in the city, and yesterday, i voted against the assessment, and assessments on the property owners, and because there were so many tree related issues and i just can't stomach it any more and i want to express that to you. understanding that i am preaching to the choir and we need to keep the momentum because it is getting worse, thank you for all of your work on the issue esupervisor yee?

>> thank you, and the board of supervisor iss considering changes, in to the chapter six? and of the administrative code. and you, and i guess that, some and the question here is do you, and if, and if that passes, do you think that will have any effect on your budget at all? >> and i mean, that the changes to, chapter six are long overdue and the changes that chapter six has not really been overhauled in over ten years. and so, a lot of those changes will allow us to be more efficient in providing the service, and that we do. and you know, some of the changes, and are minor and as much as just the way that we advertise the projects and so it still requires us to go to the newspapers, and we can do the electronic advertising and it allows us to do the things of sort and on the design part it allows us to look at

projects a little bit more that give us more, i would say, value, and to the things that we are looking on in terms of selecting and so, i guess, and your short answer is yes, just these are for the better of the delivery of the projects for the city. so, the answer is we would probably have a cost savings. >> and i think that it is a better way of doing business and it is a better ways can result in cost savings. >> so it would not be a major impact on the budget at all? >> i hope that they allow to us do things more efficiently but in terms of costing more money, no. >> supervisor mar.

>> and yeah, i wanted to thank mr. nuru and i know that some of us that follow you on twitter, call you mr. clean sf, but thank you for always getting the job done so efficiently and communicate withing my office and my staff, and i did want to say that i think that you have created more livable communities with the limited resources and so it is about time that 100, new ftes come to your department for all of the projects that you are working on to implementing zero, and as i came into it is office a few years ago, when, your, and the department had done away with the weekly, merchant corridor street cleanings and i know that that was always a concern of some from the districts one and the richmond district is when are we going to reestablish the better system to clean the merchant corridors but i know that of the new, operating budget, changes there is significant residential

cleaning, for the district six, 3, 9, and with south of market and china town mission and the polk street neighborhoods and is there any additional cleaning that will happen to the merchant corridor and for example for the west side neighborhoods that have it from the sunset to the clemen at the street and those area and that is a constant complaint is when we will return to the path of these weekly cleanings? >> we will continue the partnership with the human services agency where we have a block street, program, and the block street program has about 130 people in it, and we intend to add a few more block streets to the very critical areas and the block streets are trained to work with merchant and to keep many of the corridors clean and with the enhanced

residential cleaning in the alley ways and many of the neighborhoods that you mentioned and what currently happens is that a lot of the staff get diverted from the other parts of the city to go to the other districts. and with the enhanced cleaning we will be able to provide the service that is needed and that staff can stay in those neighborhoods that they have bid for and have chosen to work in and we should be more stabilized rather than being a firefighter type of a response. and we have the teamwork and then we have the work that we have to respond to and based on calls. and we take 8, to 10,000 calls every month, upon, the 311 and a lot of those calls come from downtown, and so we actually have the data that shows us, that if we have, these programs, and these and a lot of our people will be able to go back to where they are supposed to be and we will be more stabilized. >> thank you, mr. clean. >> supervisor tang? >> thank you, and i just want to build on what supervisor mar was saying in terms of some of

the this and what you get around the public work centered issues and so i do want to make sure that even though we are addressing some of the hot spots in soma and the china down and some of the corridors and i want to compliment the department and because we do get so many inquiries or requests or complaints that touch upon your department and i feel like that you have been creative in working on the good

solutions, >> members of the committee on page, 24 of the report and the recommended reductions to the proposed budget, total, 1 million, and in 15, 16, and in that amount, 1 million, are ongoing, and savings and 653, and the one time savings and will allow an increase of 32 million,, and and the department and 15, 16 budget and our recommended reduction to the proposed budget, and of that amount, 2 million are in one safe ands 1,000 are one time savings and these reductions, and 1 million and 501,000 and or sixth of a

percent of the increase in the 16, 17, budget and again, we are working with the department, and we will report back next week on the final recommendations. >> okay, thank you very much, mr. rose, and colleagues any questions, or comments? >> okay, appreciate it and we do have item number four, and to go with the dpw right now that we send for the july, 14th meeting. any public comment? motioned and seconded and we can take that without objection, and okay, and up next, we have the law library and but we are going to do fine arts and right after, and then we are going to break for lunch and so, the signal to all of the departments and i would appreciate everyone who has been sitting tight and i know that the law has a report and so we will have a brief with

the normal conversation and but thank you for being here. >> you are welcome. >> good morning, everyone. >> my presentation will be brief, and because, we, originally have really no changes from this, current year's budget other than, some increases to, the services and the other departments which they calculate themselves, but, this is just a substantially the same as it has been and which is also the case for the 2308ing two years and there is no change in position and no program changes that would impact this budget, or added services and just the library continues to provide the services to all sectors in san francisco, and and i am happy to answer the questions that you might have. >> i want to get a better sense and i know that the law library had moved and i want to get a sense of how that has been

working on and whether you have the same visitor ship or reduced and i know that a couple of years ago we asked the library if you could, of doing the tracking of the people who are going and if you could shed the light on that in light of the move and space. >> well, to talk about the move for a second, it is a thrill to be in the building that will not collapse during an earthquake, and so we appreciate that, and we appreciate the fact that the location is pleasant and we can see out of the window for the first time in 18 years and so it is over all a positive effect and although we have had two drastically reduce the collection because of the space concerns and the building that we are in, is a private building but it is primarily rented to the city departments, there is no signage, and outside of the building, and advertising what is in the building we are very active and in sending out,

informative, electronic updates to all kinds of members of the community, and to tell them where we are, and so we see, probably a more and because we are on a muni line and we are on bart and we are more easily accessible than it was to get to the veteran's building and we are, concentrating this year in particular on stepping up our liaisons with the different sectors of the library and the community and including providing the services to them, and i don't, >> i know that a couple of years ago we also asked for the ways that the library could improve on its tracking, and even with the counter or

something with that and again, i will follow with you off line with that. >> that is fine. >> colleagues any further questions, okay thank you. >> and we appreciate you can here. >> and now our fine arts museum. >> i want to thank you for being here and i also want to recognize both tim and de de for being here as chairman of the board and also the out reach, or the person that we are in contact with all of the time, mr. garcia. >> good morning. my name is richard, and i am the deputy director of the museums and the chief operating officer of the fine arts museum of san francisco. and in this budget and process, we thank the board of supervisors and the mayor's budget office, we are pleased

with the budget analyst of 18.2 million which is 3.7 percent higher than the fiscal year, 14, 15, of 17.6 million, and the majority of the rise is increased out lay and the balance is due to increased salaries and benefits, and capitol project funding is proposed to rise from this year's 1.1 million dollars, and to 1.8 million dollars, in fiscal year, 15, 16. and in the current fiscal year we continued work on the roof of the honor and initiated repairs and replaced the aging painting racks on which the city's art is stored. and in the next fiscal year, at the deyong we will replace the drainage issues and replace the lighting and the honor will see the new system and completing of the masonry project and over all, we will up date the fire

alarm systems and undertake tasks outlined in our approved fiscal year, 2016, 16, capitol budget. approximately, 25 percent of our operating budget is supported by the city, of this amount, over 50 percent is from museums security services. the fine arts museums both public and private employ over 530 full time and part time employees, and fiscal year, 2015, 16, we will count, 114 full time employees, which is one fte more relative to the original fy 2014 15, budget, and made less than 1 percent increase. although, we are a dynamic institution, with an exhibition program, schedule full of exciting changes, we have no major new policy initiatives or in investment changes to report and now we museum are in agreement with the budget

analyst recommendations and do not believe that follow up is required. it was founded in 1895 and the legend of honor in 24, and the museum has served the public for over a century and we continue to serve the community and region as well as audiences from all over the world with the very best exhibitions and the programs and education and out reach. while, caring for the city's esteemed art collection and i would now like to offer a quick overview of activities at the fine arts museums. >> earlier this year, we had a wonderful exhibition called hoton hall the purchase of a country house that brought the paintings and arts from that distinguished english man or house, in november we opened an exhibition keith the political line and the exhibition had the beginning in paris and the fine

arts museums and this specifically was the only u.s. venue for the exhibition. coincidence, the center was under construction, and or, about to go under construction and we were able to move the sculpture that was on display there to the lawn of the dejon and we thank the city for this arrangement and are grateful to the san francisco arts commission for the cooperation in this effort. over the weekend we closed an exhibition, and on the screen is a

collections programs and education programs our remote assess so the dprerlz is by the devices on the screen we call them the beam during the pilot project and earlier phase-in april and may have this year 24 visitors that are physically unable to come to the museum had self-xhunthd tours online enrollment is open and we're completely booked through decem

and trained 70 school district high school students and turned the students engaged school children if grades 3 to 5 in classrooms and in our galleries

free guided tours for k through 12 have brought into participation over 49 thousand students and tours r our classes 10 envious thousand more than last year and daily tours of the permanent exhibition galleries for all visitors shared the city's art collections in fact in the past fiscal year 2 hundred and 39 thousand people are participated in the education programs altogether friday night and deyoungest is continues room for everyone from april to november and the 2015 we had free friday night and people will joy joust the talks and 47 percent of the visitors on friday night for 70

were san francisco residents and local artists and musicians were hired for the 2015 seasons programming in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the new building for the museum we'll celebrate this year we'll be celebrating the p thank you. i e on the same day an saturday october 17th we plan a spectacular community bay feature free programming from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. for the 10th anniversary and invite the whole city to come finally, the volunteers of the fine arts join me in thanking the supervisors and the mayor's office and the city and county of san francisco for continuing

their support and participation thank you. >> thank you very much commissioners commissioner mondejar. >> yeah. i wanted to say i feel that the de young and the fine arts museum are in my backyard in a 15-year-old over the last 12 years or 13 years has gone to the friday event and lots of another programming i appreciate so much the league and the de young i was wondering can you talk about the new hiring of the correct director. >> i can tell you the board has organized a search committee with a search consultant and asked me to service in the capacity of the interim department head and when it officially goes off the budget

i'll be the official director. >> thank you for supporting our great institutions in the city i want to ask about membership i just renewed online with my family leadership or membership i see in the budget there is increases in charges for services i know that there goals for increasing membership there is a drop off in 2014-2015 from investors to the museum i'm wondering if you could address that. >> the visitorship is drichl by the popularity of the exhibitions and in w we have extremely popular exhibitions like a bigger exhibition and actually a actually a few others in addition one .7 millions visitor and this year one .5

millions e million visitors driven by the popularity of the exhibition we hope to increase those numbers back up there in the next two years. >> the events like the disability i appreciate the free friday at the d e thank you very much for the presentation. >> colleagues, any further questions. >> okay. just want to echo for all our hard work and the institutions of the fine arts amount in san francisco with our three children we've visit frequently and thank you to for your leadership that the board and staff has here in our city with that mr. rose to your report. >> yes. mr. chairman and members of the board on the reductions for the $53,000 plus and you 2016 are ongoing savings

those reductions allow an increase with 3.47 percent in 2015-2016 our recommended reductions for the total of 43 thousand plus of that ongoing savings as i understand the department concurs with our recommended reductions. >> i want to concur the department is in agreement. >> yes. >> with that colleagues i'd like to entertain a motion to accept the budget analyst for the fine arts museum pend public comment. >> so moved. >> motion pie supervisor tang and seconded by commissioner mondejar we'll take that without objection. >> thanks colleagues we'll go into a lynch recess we'll plan onrecess.

>> are we live we're good. >> okay everyone welcome back to the budget & finance for wednesday, june 17, 2015, we are going to continue with the departmental budget hears as we're coming back from recess we have the two departments not here but the police department chief suhr is here along with cfo if you want to get going chief. >> thank you, mr. supervisor others in attendance this is my cfo and today is our budget and presentation for the 2015-2016 budget if we can pull it up on the screen