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 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