we are also adding a truck driver to enhance athletic fields and meadows which is going to be business for us. on the echo incremental education said were invest in urban agriculture program and stewardship volunteer programs which been very proud about. our third area focuses has been active living. our recreation division offers 5400 programs a year with over 15,000 registrants. right now were in the middle of summer camps. if 80 summer camps going on all over the city. a variety of violence prevention programs that were offering this summer as well. our programs are accessible to everyone. were very proud of the fact that we now offer well over well north of $1 million in scholarships. our scholarship program operates ray's similar to the school districts free and reduced lunch program and in fact the

sub subsidies are targeted to anybody eligible for particular subsidy for the free and reduced lunch program. again, growing city demands more from its parks and some of the investments here are designed to address that. one will be is a conversion of some temporary staff to prominence that it were about five years out of very significant reorganization in a recreation model is been wildly successful, but we now have been able to understand where we need permanent staff and what we terminate every seven were partners of sei you who arrived in agreement to convert some of the people working in our facilities from temporary employees to permanent part-time employees, which is the right thing to do. significantly, we will be for the first time translating all of our activity guides into three different languages. it is worth noting, our website actually offers about 100 different languages through google translate the hard copy of guides visibly been in

english ever-changing that this year. we will continue to use language in a variety brother in person translation services to make sure that regardless of what language you speak your boxes to our programs and services you understand them. again, some additional materials and supplies for recreation and special event. we are well well well below the national average for materials and supplies for recreation facilities. each of our major recreation centers has a material and supply specialist of about $20,000 and it averages about 100. turning to our fourth prong, customer service. we want to be more welcoming and accessible to the park users we serve. again increased density, increase parties at his impact here. we want to make it easier for people to access our programs and services online, so we are

upgrading our program registration and permitting software which will allow people not just to register for programs, but for the first time ever to register some of our permit functions such as ticket and tennis courts online. something we have not been able to offer with the current system. we have a new golf reservation software which will save us money in the long-term. you have conflicts have become a bigger and bigger deal as more people are using our products. we have some additional permit staff and field monitors opus with them. a big investment here very grateful to the mayor for supporting it -- the vehicle and the claimant repair. will now operate a night shift out of theto

go.we sought to many facilities on dollop networking. lastly, and enjoys one, we are supporting the botanical gardens 75th anniversary that a family that was committed a welcoming of thousands of people to the guardian a few months ago and never variety of educational programming and activities all year long. >> brass to be brief and so that is it. i am happy to answer any question. >> thank you. cali so many questions for their partner? supervisor yee >> thank you mr. ginsberg for your presentation. in all the services you provide for the city. i want to point out, thank you for getting those

things translated into legs. as you know i have spoken to you about that issue with the botanical garden [inaudible] i think they finally put it up. it is important for our departments to make all citizens in san francisco feel like they are part of san francisco, and chesler the materials those that are limited english speakers is really important role to do that. the consideration for the park hours was that last year, i think. legislation which i supported, you stated you expected legislation to result in sort of a decrease in vandalism. have you found that to be true or can you quantify

the savings? >> this is still a work in progress supervisor yee. i think the legislation puts us on par with every big city urban park district in the nation that actually has an operating hours in its parts. it does give us a tool to proactively address the potential vandalism and bad behavior before it occurs. it is too soon to determine whether there are any savings as a result and plus some other data points that are important to consider, which is that other we have park hours, we still do not have an adequate number of park rangers to actually enforce park hours. which is something were working on in this budget cycle. as more people are coming to our city and more people are using our products, we are seeing additional instances, more instance, people in our parks at night doing things they should not be doing. so, i think were hovering. i believe that were expected to provide our

next full annual report in the fall on the legislation. >> are most of the i guess you park rangers going to be assigned to duties in the evenings? >> no. are park rangers off 24 hours a day seven days a week it is one the reasons we been before the committee is spoken quite a bit about the importance of investing in this unit. we have a very good partnership with the seven cisco police department, but a lot of very fundamental park activities that are within the responsibility of the rangers and they include education ambassadorship, but they also include opening and closing facilities may also include mediating, monitoring, youth complex and yes, enforcing the barcode which is something that primarily falls on our rangers. rangers we need a day shift. we

need a swing shift, and we need an evening shift. with these additional investments, was fully hired, we expect to be able to have approximately 6-8 people on each of those differing districts that we spoke about. two odyssey moorpark rangers and hopefully they will create happier and healthier part usage going for. >> uni avec old-timer san franciscans and grew up in the recreation and park system. as you know, it is upon a time, we had a very healthy recreation directors group that was always opening up a rec center and clubhouses and so forth. i know through the years, that has been diminished. part of it -- you do a good job in trying to activate some of the gigli,

the clubhouses, which is important to my district, and some of it through leases to groups and so forth. they are still an element that is missing when it you lease to groups of course. one of them is that when we used to have regular directors for these river directors [inaudible] and buzz become sort of a community hub of some sort. were people drop by and so forth. so, i am just wondering, what strategy are we looking at to get the city to support moving back in that direction? it does a few things for me. one, not only is your activating those times when it is not least and become

sort of a community center. i think we have staff there. also it reduces the vandalism because you have somebody there that who belongs there were two other regulars and who is not, and that would, even though it would not reduce the osha would not necessarily get rid of or lessen the need for park rangers, may reduce the need for them. >> you make a variety of point supervised. i am not sure i agree with the library last one. so, let me give you some context. we had to make some very very difficult decisions during the nadir of the budget cycle. we have six have inflexible as big as six assets are our parks and our buildings are flexible assets are our programming which we can scale up or scale down dependent on the budget that we have. around

the time when several big cities were actually getting out of the business of public recreation altogether, we came up with a very creative strategy with our partners in labor to develop a new model for recreation. that model focused on fully activating our 27 full-service recreational centers doing it better than we have ever done it before. i staff, even when were operating both clubhouses and recreational centers are sophists. so thin that the programming was really weak. the partnership, that model also include identifying community partners to help us with our 40 off in one room were two room clubhouses. yes, if we had our druthers, we would operate every one of our buildings seven days a week, 24 hours a day. that is the service that we provide, we have to make resource choices. resource choices that we made in this respect was again, to try to identify ebert partners

that could activate those spaces. while i agree with you, that i think having playground monitors were reckoned by staff on playgrounds i, would be a terrific thing, i think some of our nonprofits such as the boys and girls club, such as self-help for the elderly, such as the ymca such as opportunity impact, such as a number pre-schools that offer b-schools in a variety of different languages, rashly done a good job of activating those spaces. we look back and looked at this. of our 40 647 clubhouse, 50 currently have programming of $2000 a year or more. that is either all nonprofit partner programming or like it was portal of blend of nonprofit partner programming and some programming that onset has been able to provide. another 14 are operating 25 hours a week or more. another 10 property 20 hours a week and you we still have seven

clubhouses in our system that are less than 20. so, were constantly real property management system costly looking for the appropriate it would opportunity there. you have heard me say this. i think as a city, it is important to invest more in our open space and recreation facilities. i think we have done a lot this particular budget, we need some longer-term sustainable strategies as a population growth another interesting statistic i know marie will talk about the expected projections would have more more kids in the city. over the next 20 years was a wonderful thing. increased density, injuries multiunit housing our parks are more important than they have ever have been. in the meantime, will continue through a government is no longer providing services entirely on its own anymore. it is a convener. sort of a hub and spoke model. we have identified some terrific partners. -- is such a perfect example partnership that works. that has programming at that

clubhouse is put on by the boys and girls club put on by the white and our own staff. like to do more of that. we have to be careful to spend our resources so thin that we do not do any of it as well. that is a challenge. >> again, i am not disagreeing with the strategy. what would i would like to see more of, and would love to look work with you and him and to try to get resources from the city to weaken understaffing. it is not to take away from park rangers, we also need to have a strategy to get more program staffing is what i am suggesting. >> colleagues, any further questions? mr. rose can you go to report please? >> yes mr. chairman, members of the committee got on page 5 on a report the recommendations total 698 541 in 50-16. of the

six 9541 recommender reductions of one or 65,000 ongoing savings. 530 to 9 of one-time savings these reductions would still allow an increase of 13 million or 8% of it opponents 15-16 budget. while also recommending that you replace $250,000 on budget finance committee reserved for the open space neighborhood parks and square programming having pending submission of a program plan and budget details to the budget and finance committee. i recommend a reduction to the total budget totals 205,000 in 16-17. of that amount 90,000 941 ongoing savings at one or 14,000 one-time savings that were still working with the department and will port back next week. >> thank you mr. colleagues are many questions for the

apartment on a recreational department budget? thank you see you next monday. can you please call item number eight >> item number eight [inaudible] authorize an apartment of children youth and their families to accept and expend grant funding in the amount of the 6000. from the cities of financial apartment fund for the summer job connect program for period of april 2015 to april 2016. >> i am going to switch -- excellent. good afternoon chairman ferrell and members of the committee my name is -- on the director for that upon the children and youth and their families. it is my pleasure to be before you again to share with you our budget., which i feel very strongly really reflects the needs of our children and families and reflects the commitment that the mayor has made in all of

his committee meetings. before i start, i want to acknowledge and thank the mayor's budget office for working with us. and for mr. rose's office continuing to work with us. we look forward to more conversation in the upcoming days. the biggest change in a budget this year is the passage of opposition c. the children and families first initiative. this proposition, once again, i said this before -- it truly highlights the commitment of the citizens of the city to call the importance for children's services and to ensure their secured funding for children's services. there are a number of key policy statements that we voted on in this past november. one, we wanted to ensure that these findings available for our children and family for the next 25 years. two, we want to

increase the children and youth fund to allow for additional services for kids. so much so, were actually allowing the children and youth fund to grow up to four cents of every $100 of property tax revenue collected by the city. and, third, we want to allow the children and youth fund to serve disconnected young people up to the age of 24. i am sorry. i want to make sure people can read the powerpoint. fourth, we wanted to reconstitute the oversight and advisory committee for the department to clearly define the roles and response abilities of the councilmembers. so there are is clear transparency as members.

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>> this year in terms of violence prospective we are solidifying our existing violence strategies but in can enhancing those programs up to age 24 to serve and continued to serve our undocumented programs and initiatives i'm sure you're aware of last year our president obama issued and executive order do allow the undocumented young people to apply for waivers to work we're appreciative of our federal stance on undocumented young people and we will, of course continue to support that program other things and, of course we have to use some of our budget growth to port our

infrastructure costs the main costs we're going to have to allocate our funds to ourality i it costs with additional growth and service areas to you upgrade and change our data management system a little bit we have our cost and consulting foes because we want to allocate more funding for evaluation a evaluation consultant but also to bring on consultants with bringing a true and transcript needs assessment and allocation pricilla chan process then i want to highlight two main city initiatives we'll be taking on several initiatives we'll be doing i want to share two main once the road map to peace this is something that

members of the mission community and i know that so moved, commissioners and the mayor has worked with the stakeholders to create a collaborative in which community members have worked together for the last year and a half to identify key areas that our community and residents in the mission will need to support them to live and thrive in the city we've submitted excited to partner with them on this project that project will the evidence will then show existing services and partnerships within the city so it is truly a way for us to enhance the programs and lion services we're connecting all those things for our children it will be focused for our ellis acted latino and latina residents the second initiative it children youth and families

council this is a new body that was created through the passage of prop c a 42 member council chaired by the mayor and superintendent it is a groundbreaking attempt to institutionalize the community stakeholders and the council will be tasked to improve children you go user youth and that families for them to thrive in the city hopefully, we'll create for integrated approach to serving our families and insuring they can live here and be successful there are several mandate that the council has to meet one of which to create a children and family plan this is a plan that has to be produced every 5 years that will clearly state the vision of the city and school districts for the success of our

children and families and there's also a clear sfaement in the legislation that requires us to have adequate staffing to support this council i want to share with you that we have immediate enhancements we are going to do start hopefully when the budget passes we want to thank the mayor's office for using general fund to cover a lot of the infrastructure growth and issues that our city is facing primarily the cost of doing business for the nonprofit agencies i believe the mayor has made a strong statement that nonprofit agencies are valuable and play a key function within our city and in order for them to provide that high quality of services needs the fund in his budget presentation he talked about how to allocation 5

percent of cost of doing business over 5 years mayor's office is going to be supporting the minimum wage impacts for the youth employment programs and this is primarily we don't want our reduction in young people's jobs opportunities in the city we've submitted excited to use the fund to expand i think i mentioned early the access for the transitional youth in the workforce development question have allowed service providers to serve the youth under 212 and under the new d.c. w f to use this to augment the costs for doing that arrest and then, of course, you've heard the mayor say over and over we want shared

prosperity that means and the budget increases we have services and programs for the families to survive and thrive in the city and those two strategies that he stated over and over again to insure there are summer programs so they can work and also for increase summer slots for after-school programs and also through the lens of making sure the working families have access to those programs so looking forward i know that it is about our budget for 2015-2016 both we acknowledge our budget will grow because of the children's youth fund and we've submitted thinking of will 2016-2017 and 2017 2018 will look like we've submitted hoping our oversight committee will be seated and look forward to

working with that committee to help us think about the next generation of augment will look like like minimum wage impacts in the following year there will be another there to the minimum wage allocation but we also will in 2016-2017 feel the full impact of the rent increase as well as other increases we want to continue to provide funding for early care and education programs anticipate services as well as our k young people i apologize how small the numbers here are essentially show us that the largest revenue source in our budget is the children and children and youth fund and then the expenditures the

following slide shows the largest expenditure in our budget is grants to nonprofit agency the second the work orders to fund grants for nonprofit agencies so hopefully, you can see that thought majority ever our conflict of interests goes to nonprofits to truly be our partners and provide the services we want our families to receive and with that that concludes my presentation. >> thank you for your presentation supervisor yee. >> thank you, ms. sue for your presentation. >> i guess with the passage of prop c the - our children and families council that is being created as we speak and i know that there's been some staffing that was been

helping and funded by private foundations i guess as we move forward have i figured out you know what the costs might be in terms of staffing and how that is supported. >> so the funding for the main staff person will be covered in fiscal year 2015-2016 by philanthropy by private dollars moving forward into 2016-2017 it will be funded through general funds okay. >> and has you're off figured out what kind of staffing it is accordingly to the number of body and i know that you talked about the children's services but it is this will be covering

much more than children's services including housing. >> transportation job creation and so forth have you done the sense of what will it take. >> yeah. so based on our review of others similar bodies in terms of size and scope working bodies like thirty to 50 members having the supporting staff definitely more than 2 but closer to 10 to 15 to support the data analysis and is scrape all the mandate and requirement that the department is asking for right now, we're hoping to be able to have 3 people support the council two people if the city side and one from the school district