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improving the infrastructure the public works must have the staff necessary to design and build and manage these projects. and please, to say that the mayor, proposed budget addresses all of these principles, and i would like to begin by thafrpging the mayor's budget office and her staff for working diligently to understand, our needs and some of them to the degrees possible, within the budget. and also harvey and his staff to understand what we do and the resources that we need to serve our city and even though we have not reached any agreement. >> and well, the mayor's proposed budget and it does not include the salaries which make-up of 36 percent of our staff. and my presentation, will give
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you the public works perspective of our operating budget. and which excludes 1-time capitol sources, and then inincludes s salary and benefits of the off budgeted positions. and which we must manage in our operating budget. >> the capitol budget is 113 million. and this slide, what you are looking at shows in a more
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detailed break down of the 102 new ftes within the proposal of the year 15, 16, and it shows that the 112 ftes are being added by the funding source. and 68, and 9 positions are being added in the infrastructure and building design and in construction, and the street use, and the mapping and the survey units and the street and sewer repair and the general administration, and 32, and 33.2 general funds and supported positions and are added in the street services and urban forestry, and in terms of the forestry, and eight of the 11 appear as new and but they are actually are funded on the temp salaries through an approved, and 14,
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15, initiative and the 8 positions were ordered to the department fiscal year, 15, 16, base line in order to create permanent positions for the temporary staff. and the 6 new general fund positions in the bureau of the street use and mapping and reassignments into the general fund are supported by the department's permit revenues division. let's see the slide. in terms of budget uses, the greatest, changes are taking place in or the infrastructure in the building of the division and which are growing by 7.6 million, and to support the capitol projects, and such as fire and police stations, and ada facility improvements, and the sewer systems and the
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street scape improvements. and look at the chart, and the services have increased by 14.1, and mainly for the new initiatives. and but the general administration has grown by 4.7 million. and 2.5 million of this growth is due to increase in the work orders to other city departments for cost such as workers compensation and the financial systems, and the replacement, and the services that we get provided by the city and administrator's office. and the remaining growth can be attributed to new staff. smaller increases are also showing in street use and mapping and urban forestry as well as paying our debt service. and so what are the major changes? and the major changes, proposed
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include, 5.1 million, and in the new general fund initiative. and 2.9, was added for the new enhanced residential cleaning program, which will provide lower noise and over light cleaning in the blocks in the soma and china town and the mission and the polk street neighborhood and the budget also provides, 927,000 to continue to expand the successful pit stop program, with new funding and we will keep the -- we will keep the four existing pit stops so that we have and we will add, a few new locations, and we have started a pilot by adding some monitoring to the free standing toilets. and this will free up the manual cleaning crews to address the cleaning needs in
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other neighborhoods and as you know and you have heard me say many times and many of the staff get diverted to other areas and with these initiatives that will help us go back to some level of civilization and address some of the challenges that the department faces. >> and as part of the budget the mayor is also added 3 new arborists and equipment and, to the urban forestry to help proactively maintain an additional 2000 trees, annually and unfortunately, with this funding, it will, not end our relinguhment, but they have enough staff to maintain the trees that remain under us and for us to be able to maintain them and this work is important, and for reducing hazard and potential injuries to people and damage to properties, and caused by
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fallen trees. >> and the final initiative, will add two new gardeners and an apprentice and many of the landscaping and the major corridors that we have around the city and the additional changes to the budget include, 46 staff, and added to the capitol projects, and programs division. and lastly, two costs and recovery fee and changes are included in the proposed budget and the first, change cotifies the existing fee which was never legislated. and the second fee, allows us to cover the cost for the permit, and consulting and culttations before the applications are submitted for repraou and most of these reviews are generally last over an hour or even longer, and at this time the department has just, provides it for no
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fee. and no, the overview on the capitol budget, and in the fiscal year, 15/16, the capitol budget, is 11, 112.3 million, and or, 18.1 million higher than the 14/15, fiscal year budget. the 16/17 budget increases by 3 million to 115.3. and major projects and enhancements make-up the largest growth in the year of 15/16 and includes the general fund investments and tell graph hill and stabilization at 6.5 million and the better market street project at 1.6 million and along with the phase two of
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the jefferson street scape project at 1.7 million. and the facility maintenance in the budget, funding stays relatively the same. and the capitol in our budget and include, a street, resurfacing and at 47 million, and street, and structures and bridges, and many of them are improvements and projects of 2.7 million. and we have within and we are making a great, progress towards our goal, of reaching the pavement, and the condition index for our city streets and to a score of 70, and we are currently at 68. and the current payment score is 68 and funding in this budget, will keep us on the right track, to make the streets smooth and safe and fulfill our promise to san francisco waters.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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>> 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
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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.
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>> 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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