something ever but i want to put that out there and with all the diversities measures of accountability one of the things i want to hear is how i want hear if those groups and have them more deeply involved in the conversation additional how we can improve their ability to side their work and be supportive and you know inform feel like they have truly partners in the photo copy and other piece we talked about data is the african-american student report that is mentioned in the resolution i imagine that is still to come; right? this is not what we saw tonight we want to make that clear for the publicized although this is an important

presentation a - not the african-american student report that i hope and expect to address some of the things and a lot more data that is available to the public and that we truly are transparent the way we're going to be in all the things the suspension data many of the things we've talked about here much anymore open about that and a number of things we'll include the african-american student reports not consulted this year important to make sure we include there one is to a lot closer at the programs and schools where we are having some success we're seeing better results and self-support and love we met

with the students across the district again seen the programs and whatever it is we want to know what is work in internal revenue district and up to date the district and be able to replicate that and really better understand what that looks like across the district and talked about developing new programs and academic themes there is a whole sets of things in terms of being pro-active as reverend brown said turmoil the urgency we need to run much faster we need you to tells us in an honest way what that looks like we said that we want to extend our resources in a transparent way that actually addresses this in how we allocate human resources an criminal so what did that look like we we think

about we had this conversation agency a boards in other context school is that our larger african-american that are having a huge turnover from the teachers brand new teachers every year bringing school leadership this is innovate honoring the vision and not honoring the commitment we've made in this resolution i love many of the things we're doing and the new way of tracking and focusing on post secondary and above and beyond but from the young people are not going to school to have a high quality of teachers every single day and that person is there and not having substitutes and someone that is rrpdz those are huge systematic issues i don't want to get it a point we're missing the forests for the trees it something we've down done a lot things to track

and again, if we know this is continues to be the realties for the most of african-american students we're not going to be able to be successful down to early which would we talked about high school i appreciated but but what about the african-american early education are not leaving our preschools prepared for kindergarten our schools that is something by the know have to give attention we have to start earlier so the last thing in this tonight and one of the many thing is understanding of what we need to do and can do around rational isolation a continuing the

segregation in our school district what that means for african-american students we have to ask ourselves that question we've not done that in a serious way and expected the reality and port of resolution to say what school environments and resources are needed to insure the success of our african-american and put that at the forefront that is the baseline and everything everything else could follow i'm looking forward to continue this conversation and the fact we have you all and over leading this at that level of urgency transparency and hopefully partnership with our communities i think that there is the pieces

can take us to a place of proud of what we've done to fail our african-american students and communities the city and that's something we can and should and must change superintendent. >> thank you president haney i also want to very briefly expends my congratulations to the team we want to thank you for bringing in mid-term recorded that mid year report to the board and public quite frankly that is keeping with the commitment we made tobacco transparent we're to be honest and who all the work as we develop you are going medics but never going to be a perfect set of metrics we're that's a great question with fidelity and pursue you that p make sure we're not hyde anything for

anyone that is listening or watch san francisco unified school district occupies a special place in the national conversation around educating african-american students loan with the brothers and sisters under oakland in many communities across the country people can't say have this conversation in a very real way people are having conversations about strategies in others communities well, let's do more after-school programs we're starting to side in san francisco pale back the layers of decades of institutionalized ranch and communities racism and bias that happens in workplaces and school houses on street

corners red light where poor people live and can gets jobs and not get jobs but pulling back the layers and looking at the impact on the children that we educate every single day in our city so i'm greatly glad to hear the comments of the commissioners that will not be a quick fix you take our pill and solve this is decades in the making but what is different about this initiate we have everyone at the table and even when we don't have everyone at the table as deeply or contempt as we like tonight's we need to make a bigger efforts with the black ministers and the clergy into this if a deep way that will be included in the

next judgment how will we do that and make sure that people are involved and make sure their voices are being heard so this is going to be the commitment we say to our complunts that is an process and the process you'll have to make plagues and make some false starts but the process to get beyond the solutions i want to congratulate the team for setting the stage and i want to put that out there and thank to the commissions in a way that drives our thinking to a much deeper place and briefly the landon dickey is not the african-american student success savor in san francisco not london dickey and continue to make that point what landon

is doing and assembled and very, very robust smart dedicated passionate team but our point person to help to cooperated the departments and the many individuals in the school district around this initiative around this board resolution that we've all committed to we are supporting landon landon should not be us this is on us in the classroom and the boards room and the central office and on us in the living rooms having conversations with the black children what our responsibilities we're supporting him and he's supporting us a mutually beneficial balance the budget but this past week had the critically honor of attending the california african-american

superintendents of the ministry leaders convening in sacramento studying deeply this topic one the prelsz that struck me some come i can see from california that development an strurmd this instrument you can put in the el cap and look at this in this session they say word african-american and went through the entire el cap guess words african-american never showed up once they put in other school district and african-american didn't show up once and another one it showed up device and much to my chagrin they put in san francisco

unified school district el cap into this particular tool it was over 200 and 48 instance of african-american specifically coming up in our el cap and aggregated they showed the work tied to funding going to african-american student achievement and initiates if you remember i want the public to be aware we are unabashedly pitting it out there but cannot have the priority if you don't tie the funding to the priority in san francisco we may not have walked a the way we're walking the walk and putting dollars behind that work we've on this just begin so watch where the money gets spent and hold ourselves accountable for making sure that we're doing what we want to do and that's the kind of transparency we want

and need from you to work with us to support landon and his team we make a difference for african-american children thank you, very much. for your presentation. >> a measure that is important and i'll add that a lot of black students go to the schools the same once if kindergarten to high school if they're leaving one school is there a loss of time between if it they have a sat to follow them that will be an important thing to track also. >> thank you very much for your presentation. >> (clapping.) >> and calendars resolution, there is none tonight. and votes on see consent

calendar which was moved and seconded under section f. >> you want to take theote an consent calendar. >> please thank you. >> ms. fewer on the consent calendar they can't hear the vote calling the votes open is consent calendar ms. fewer ms. mendoza-mcdonnell on the consent calendar. >> yes. except for item one item. >> president haney can we - >> yeah. we'll take 30 seconds to people - >> what did he want to do here are you waiting. >> we're going to wait a few seconds ms. casco.

>> all right. we'll vote on the consent calendar. >> ms. fewer ms. mendoza-mcdonnell except for item k-2 it is retroactive truly badly. >> i'm sorry, i need to ask the with an that was corrected and make thank you dr. murase ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns mr. haney 6 i's. >> consent calendar resolution

severed for the action, there is none tonight. introduction of superintendent proposal i'll introduce the following proposals policy 41 hundred for the policy 42 clarified board policy 4 three hundred and drafted by management and classified supervisor 91 phone call at public combrsht expenditure funds for 2017. >> yes. president haney can i ask we have that particular proposal for the combrsht fund expenditure the deputy young can say one word. >> quickly thank you superintendents so commissioners you have been provided copies of

the spending plan that is associated with the first reading and would just ask that if at all possible if everyone can look at at least spends a little bit time reviewing the spending plan that will be one of the subjects i've lost track of but that is going to be a substantive discussion about the spend plan it will be greatly helpful in commissioners can spend a little bit of time looking at this and the materials you've been provide and per discussion that took place at the budget committee family commissioner norton and part of your report out but on the topic the extending plan if commissioners can comment prepared with your thoughts give us direction and reacts racks

about the first reading and especially ms. fleming will be ward's over the next few weeks to basically respond 0 all the feedback you'll collectively give us for the second reading. >> if i ask add to that president haney because this was a discussion we had at the budget committee what we're trying to avoid is feedback creeps is if everybody can allow staff it in about it we have the same information at the same time it is important. >> do we have a hardcopy of the information. >> no it is like a 68 page report has that been printed.

>> i believe well make sure you have i thourpts provided hard copies we'll make sure you will have those. >> thank you. >> yeah. if we can get a hard copy is pretty detailed thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. >> all right. so one of 3 dash sp one referred to rules committee with all of those expect for the speaking of and 7 referred to the ad hoc personnel so one through 4 and then one of 3 dash open space 8 the resolution is received that takes place on march can i have a motion and a second? so is it policy one 41 hundred

to go to personnel and labor >> yes. >> and those other ones are rules. >> all of them other than this iowa's one as rules. >> so moved. >> second board members proposals, there is none tonight. and immediate action, there is none tonight. outstanding committee reports can we have a report from the building and combroinz committee commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> i was absent can i defer to mr. walton. >> thank you commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell we have a couple of informational items at the last building and imprudence an update on the former youth park and the demolition out to

by evidence we have a abides last week so more information been coming firemen's in terms of who is selected and had an information update on the 2011 facilities bonds and local hire program where we saw the status i'll be working with the trades they'll doing great we'll continue to monitor that in a nut shell and the next meeting is commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell do you know the dates for the next meeting. >> currently it is schedule for for the fourth mondays. >> april 25th now. >> thank you. >> committee as a whole once again we had a super exciting communities lastly last week, a update on the empowerment and strategies moving forward a good conversation and the planning

for that the 2016 bopped recommendations what we'll do a lot of public comment with certainly communities tomato see so those conversations will continue. >> on the budgets and business services. >> yes. the budget and business services met march 2 i gave the report on the students with incarcerated parents and heard the charter position for peck we sent that back to the board without recommendations go seeking a little bit of information and had a short and interesting presentation if our assessor-recorder carmen chu about her office and tax collection and the subject was important that care about revenue coming out the city and we heard the h.r. budget review a long discussion and we are

continuing to work on budget development for the 2016-2017 school year one thing hopefully you were provided it is helpful to start to keep a chart of budget priorities we've identified collectively or individually and keeping take which ones are funded and likely the funding will come from if you don't get a copy of the presentation we'll impose on deputy superintendents to send it around or ms. casco the next meeting a wednesday april 6th thank you commissioner vice president walton again. >> thank you president haney excitement was the air yesterday

a curriculum meeting our first action item to grant or deny for the arts and technology high schools we forwarded without recommendation the second action item disposition of the boards policy and the high school graduations requirements we this posted with a positive recommendations by the general convention and expectations we farther without representation and encouraged students to exercise they're voting rights and forwarded would you tell us recommendation and received a brief update open is index and the full update on the lgbtq protective courses and excited about continuing the program and hopefully that happens and over next curriculum program committee meeting is on

april 4th and that had been a night to remember that's correct. >> your sold on overseeing committee meetings show up board member report. >> commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> thank you. i have an appointment to make on the pta i'll be appointing leah who is a parent in your district as well as is guess services director for the academies of sciences and i want to thank all of the no timeers we we have closed and we're excited about they've be recognized at the gallop for

spark and remembered folks an annual yerba buena fair for all the young people 16 to 24 it is schedule for saturday march 26 at the youth usf campus think mission bay is please join us from 10 to 2 on march 26 and i'll announce if about great the fair i think richard you mentioned you say resource trail; right? okay. thank you. >> scomploern i want to announce i have open seats an is bye communities council and looking for candidates in anyone linking or the members of the puic have a candidate you want to recommend recommend for the

bio - i want to mention the next personnel meeting is on march 17 and it will be in this room the board room and 6 o'clock and i want to say i had a wonderful experience at sunsets elementary schools also at alamo elementary schools and lafayette and also to piggyback on what the superintendents said on saturdays march 5 a wonderful parents summit that all the parents attends emancipation proclamation the it was raining and the superintendent and i attended a microi didn't celebration graduation alters adjoining merit elementary schools we have been going to those graduations where apartments are been trained think how to use chrome book and

given a chrome book thank you 40 or is donors for making the connections and also to our great development team headed by laura thank you. >> commissioner wynns. >> i want to record a positive vote on the consent calendar for (laughter) to step auto a minute i want to announce the next rules committee is march 16 at 6 o'clock and urge everything at the table and large numbers all the legislative proposals are in no way and changes many of them but the deadline is pass this is the meeting this committee is authorized to take positions this 11 positioned we reviewing all the legislation this is your

chance to be inside and outside of the board of education you mind to be involved for public education this is hallway you u how you do it locally on march 15 the day of you are committee as a whole next tuesday is the vaccinecy day in sacramento your urged to make a trip to sacramento and i too have openings on the bio lingual committee and would be interested in suggestions i'll we could use for guest don i mean they're all white but certain there is a small language group that is not recommended etc., ect if you want to talk to me about that

i'll be happy to do that thank you. >> any other reports. >> all right. no informational items no memorial adjournment and sinc nolosed session oh. >> so resolution for the. >> we rae convene. >> oh, sorry all right. all . orightay a report of closed session actions the closed session reports of march first, the boards board of education by a 5 to two absent turf approved 3 certify presses and a 5 two absent approved the certify of employees the board by and vote

of 5 i's two absent commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell and turf approved the releases of two certifies employees this meeting is now

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order, the finance committee to order. our chair, spurp mar will be here shortly, and i'm lon down breed and we are going to get this started. to my left supervisor norman yee and jane, kim and we should call the record. >> commissioner breed? snechlt here. >> compos? >> absent. >> kim >> present. >> mar? snechlt absent. >> yee. >> here. >> could we approve the minutes, without objection, those are approved. >> we will take the public comment. when public comment has been

completed. >> all right. let's get to item number, 3. and we are now joined by commissioner mar. who is the chair of the committee. >> item three. state and federal leg sislativep date, this is an action item. >> welcome. >> happy to be here today. i thought that i would give this a brief, overview of where we are at the capitol and where we are. >> could you identify yourself? >> i am sorry, yes. >> mark watts, advocate for the transportation, authority in sacramento. the legislature welcomed the new assembly speaker yesterday, when he was sworn in and he was elected in january and so he is now, fully in charge of the transition has been completed. and it was a very, very, happy ceremony. and i think that he has filled out priorities for his term.

and i think that they will suit the state very well. beyond that, where we are in the legislative process for the capitol, is on a sheet of paper here that i can't seem to find. >> darn it. i apologize, here we go. the end of february was the last day to introduce measures and you will see that reflected in the matrix today, where we have gotten about 40 bills, that we reviewed and made recommendations on. and i will come back to that in a moment. but next major deadline for legislation would be april, 22nd. for the bills that were introduced in late february. and they have to clear the first committ committee or they are dead or they are dead for the remainder of this session. there is a spring recess in the

midst of this process, on march 17th, and march 28, they will be in recess, so the hearing for these measures will be very, very, heavily attended. and very, heavy agenda. s and as they try to get through all of these by the end of april. in terms of note, on transportation, funding, which is a strong interest around the state right now, senator bell, has a measure in the special session and he intends to amend and we had hoped to see that on monday or tuesday at this point in time, his office says that he is refining some of the amendments, his amendments will add significant amounts of funding and finance for transit projects. even though the main balance of the bill will be focusing on the state and local, road repairs. there is an indication that the administration may elect to move

on with a more stream lined proposal in about $2 billion range, that would not require a super majority vote in the legislature, we are trying to understand if that is something that they are working on. but there are indications that there are, or there is a preference to try to get a small amount of funding for state and local road repairs, rather than make the push for the larger amount, that is represented in senator bell's bill and the assembly member's frasier's bill. and i will be keeping you abreast of the developments as we go through the next couple of weeks. in terms of the matrix of the legislation, there are 13 specific recommendations that we are making to you. one is a changed position, and then the other 12 are new bills for your consideration. and in addition, there is like 32, or 33 other measures that we have recommended watch for one reason or another, and they have

may have applied to a policy area, where there is not much flesh on the bill at this point in time and many cases there are spot bills on topics that may become of interest. and so rather than trying to find them again, when they get amended and we put them on the watch and that allows us to monitor that flux more evenly. and so if you would like, i can cover the 13 measures, starting with the first one, which is ab 1550 on page six. this is a position we had recommend that opposed in the past. and we are recommending watch. and it deals with disadvantaged communities in the cap and trade area. it did not change for the proportions of the projects or the funding that is required to be spent in the disadvantaged communities and as you may realize, or you may recall from the first go around of the money

and the disadvantaged communities in the region did not fare well because of the way that is designed, and this bill, takes another step and leads the current, 25 percent requirement in place, but as the requirement and 25 percent of the funding must be for projects that benefit, low income households. and so, what we have or why we are recommending moving to a wasatch front rather than oppose. we would like to continue working on the definition of disadvantaged community more in the background and working with there is a green gas reduction, and working to see if we can improve the disadvantaged definition. and we are asking for your changed to a watch position. >> i just wanted to thank you so much for being sensitive to the low income communities. and in some ways whether they are in the san francisco bay region or east la, so that we are taking in some ways a regional and even a state wide

approach to equity but policies, but thank you. >> and we have seen a number of these types of measures over the last couple of years, and we are recommending oppose on ab 1768, and on page 10 of the matrix, and essentially, it directs, the, remainder of the high speed, rail bonds to be used to pay off the, outstanding high speed, rail bonds, effectively, turn nighting the stream for the project and so as a consequence, we are recommending oppose. and in the several more and i will cover them briefly, because i don't think that there is going to be concern about the recommendation and we are recommending oppose on 1866 on page, 12. and this would redirect, the remainder of the high speed, rail bonds to the state water project funing and again, that

is a major change in the high speed rail. and we think that the policy of this before you is for theigh speed rail program. and the next measure, ab1886, we are recommending a support and i have to tell you that i have to draw a diagram, three or four times before i fully understood this one. and esntially, there is an exemption provided within the e seqa, where 25 percent of the projects are no further than a half mile. this takes it to 50 percent, so no more than 50 percent of the land mass, is an expansion of the sequa expansion for these types of project and we are recommending a support position. ab 1964, on page, 14 is another, and a long series of bills, over the last couple of years, this one is little bit different than

the ones that we have seen before. this simply extends the white sticker, authorization, to access hov lanes, and the white stickers are pure, battery and electrics and the natural gas vehicles as distinguished from the greenstickers, when are the hybrids. and s this, applies only to the white sticker vehicles, but they are growing in sales, and the population throughout the state, is growing. and the concern is,hat allowing, the continued and expanding access of the hov lane and so we recommend an opposed position. >> ab2034, on page 15, recommending the support position to you. and more than a decade ago, the federal government, authorized the delegation, to state transportation departments. to over see nefa, of the

reviews, within their state. and that was enacted and it has been continued once and th simply continueses that authorization at the state level to allow cal transin circumstances to administer and over see both nepa and sequa documents but i will not comment on the effectiveness, but it is a continuation of an existing policy. and what will bring the high speed rail program to an end. it says that no more bonds cld be sold. >> and it will have to go back to the voters and so there is a double layer of protection against this becoming effective. because i don't see this measure moving forward but that one is found on page 15, if you would like more details or more information. we are also recommending support on ab, 2126, on page, 16. of the matrix. and this applies, to the state's current authority to utilize

construction manager, and general contractor and authority, for administering projects, large scale, complex, projects and it will be coming to another bill, similar to this in a moment that applies to you, about you this applies, only to the state. the state has the authority to do six and they have occupied the six slots in statute, and this will extend it to 12 for cal trans, to administer. >> mr. prazir is the author. and the state, highway and protection program is the main program or the main, financing source at the state level for the projectshat are approved or we construct tat provide, major maintenance and reconstruction, as well as the operational funding to operate the state highway system. and the funding is generally, only available to the cal trans. and the ctc and the annual report, recommended the

expanding a one small provision within this program to allow the operations, to also have capitol improvements. so previously, up to now, the operations will be you know, widening the guard rail, and you know, expanding tauxiliary lane, and this allows for the capitol projects to qualify for the same projects. this bl, ab2374, was introduced by mr. chui. and we are recommending that the transportation authority not only support but register as sponsors of this measure, because it came from staff conversations with the author's office. and it would uniquely expand, or authorize, some what uniquely authorize, that the ramps, for the -- island, program and the

ramps that connect to the bridge system, would be eligible utilize the cmgc authority just like we, or just like cal transhas now for a certain number of projects. and i would specifically be targeted towards some of the complex engineering and construction that is anticipated for phase two of the ramp project. and i have been doing a lot of due diligence with state engineers and other folks who have had concerns in the passed about the similar authority. senator bell, has introduced sb 1066 which is on page, 35, and we are recommending a support for this measure, it does not appear to do much on the surface. and it is more of a place holder sponsored by the -- and what it does is it provides in the state law, the authorization for the new fast act revenues approved by the feder government and by congress to flow to the regular

programs at the state level that we anticipate them to. and in essence, it does not really change the law, but it is, and it, it would, actually be operative, if it were to pass. the game plan, however, is for the self-help counties to have, a joint, jointly, jointly managed bill that they can work on in case there are wrinkles in the fast act that the people have not anticipated and some of the funding formulas. so this is to preserve their option is to move the legislation. and senator glazier from the east bay has introduced us, and we are recommending the support position and it is on page, 35. the mtc, has commute benefits ordinance, and they have the authority to adopt a commute, benefits ordinance, and that is soon to expire. and this was, simply, extend

that authorization, indefinitely, and consequently we are recommending support. and the final measure for your consideration, is sb, 1259, by senator runner, and on it is page, 36 of the matrix and we are recommending oppose. this picks up the idea that have been attempted several decade or more to allow veterans with special, decals and the ability to access toll facilities and there has been similar, authorizations in other states, where we have, and the reports are that, it can result in fraud. and associated decreases in the toll revenue. so, it is, mainly an issue of equity. with that i bring my oral part of the presentation open for questions if you have. and i will try to answer them.

i am still trying to digest all of the bills. there is more than 1,000 in each house. >> so questions colleagues? >> i wanted to say on the sb1128, by glazer that the bay air quality district, and the community benefits policies and give many options or a couple of options to employers, and i think that is a really important one in insuring that we are reducing greenhouse gas and trips as possible. and the coalition that are really trying hard on automatic speed enforcement. and the speeding cameras. but i know that some communications with some of chui's office were fruitful up until the last minute but we are hopeful that there is legislation that comes forward, but it is a little disappointing but i want to give a shout out for the work behind the teams on those efforts but thank you so much, mr. watts for the great presentation. and commissioner yee?

>> thank you, for your presentation, and i know that you mentioned some bills may not have all of the details, necessary, or whatever, and so you are watching it. and one of them may be, under or possibly may be ab 1677. >> on page, 9. or 17? >> i guess that what i would like to do is to move that to suggest that we urge you to move it from watch to support. and the reason for this, is because this is a bill that, so that the board of supervisors have already passed a resolution to support. and we want to keep it consistent and we want to keep the heat on. and we are actually, my office is working with the senator on this particular bill and we are trying to give them as much

information in terms or suggestions about the bill, as possib. hopefully, we will have some meat on it. >> so, commissioner yee has made a motion to add, ab 1677 from the move from watch to support. is that your motion? >> yeah, this is in regards to the tour buses. in terms of making it possible for local jurisdiction or the local government to have the additional inspectionses as sort of the general idea. >> is there a second on the motion. >> so it is seconded by commissioner, breed. so we are adding 1677, to the action list, presented by mr. watts. any other comments, colleagues? >> let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and so on the motion to add

ab1677, from a watch to a support, position, could we do that without objection? >> the house has changed. >> so the house has changed. roll call on the motion. >> breed? >> aye. >> campos? >> absent. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> yee? >> aye. >> the motion passes. >> and then now on the recommendations on the new bills and the recommended positions can we do that same house, same call? >> yes. >> thank you. >> thank you, so much mr. watts. >> next item? >> item 4, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> so let's open up this for public comment, anyone from the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. next item. item 5. ? >> general public comment.

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>> thank you. >> next speaker, anyone else? >> i would like to speak about number, 18, please? if you could go to 18. so i think that we have already haled. >> you might be in the wrong meeting. >> i apologize. >> or actually i am sorry. i apologize. >> i think that the proper time would have been when we were dealing with the legislation. but you could speak on general matters. >> that is fine.

>> okay. so seeing no other public comment, we will close public comment. and mr. stamos next item >> item 6, adjournment. >> thank you for coming today. meeting adjourned.push p

ye>> good morning, everybody welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance, subcommittee meeting, for march 9th, i am farrell, and i want to thank, young, the clerk of our community, today as it was from sfgtv for covering this meeting. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards should

be submitted to the clerk, items acted upon today will appear on the march 15th, 2016, board of supervisor's agenda, unless otherwise noted. >> would you call item one please? >> item one, resolution, authorizing the san francisco public commission to accept an award of up to $535,000 through the sfpuc's memo of understanding with the alameda county waste management authority, for implementation of our regional water conservation program, funded in part by grant funds from the california department of water resources. >> thank you, and we have fusi to speak here. >> good morning, my name is johnson, and i am a san francisco, public utility water, conservation administrator. the sfpuc has been awarded $535,000 in the grand funds and we are going to be a ply /*

applying those to the programs, and replacement of older fixtures here in san francisco is a fundamental component of the nagement. abag was awarded this granlt from the department of water resources of $32 million dollars, for the various drought relief, projects and entered into an agreement, with the stop waste of which we executed mlu and received, the grant funding for the replacement of the older fixtures on a reimbursement basis for the customer and today we are asking the committee to recommend to the board of supervisors to accept and expend. $535,000 grant award and i am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, colleagues,? any staff? >> mr. rose, could we go to your report, please? >> yes, mr. chairman, and members of the committee on page 2 of our report, we note that the proposed grant requires that thepuc contributed the matching funds of $384,195 and their

budget, of 15/16, includes, 2.5 million, and as previously appropriated by the board of supervisors to pay for the high efficiency, rebates, which thepuc will use as the source for the $385,000 in the required matching funds and we recommend that you approve this legislation. >> thank you, any questions for the budget analyst? >> okay, we will move on to public comment, anybody wish to comment on item one? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> a make a motion to approve this and send it to the full board. >> we can take that without objection. >> mr. clerk, would you call item two? >> item two, resolution approving the issuance of the tax exempt op bli gageses by the california state wide, communities not-to-exceed $16

million to be owned and operated by the california college of arts or afill ate. >> we have the office of public finance to speak. >> good morning, members of the committee i am from the controller's office of public finance, i have from the applicant, from the california college of the arts mr. ken tanser. >> background. the tax equity and responsible act, allows the tax exemption of interest on the certain types of debt, through the community, development authority. and this is a joint powers authority to which the city is a participating member. and the authority issued bonds, and notes and other forms of indebtedne indebtedness, on behalf of the organizations such as the amply can't, andhe college of the arts. and federal tax laws requires that the governing body, in which the project is located approv the financing and after previeding opportunity, for the

hearing before the bond committee on the tax exempt basis, and the jurisdiction is not object mri obligated. a hearing was held, on february 10th, no comments from any of the members of the public were received or heard. the amount of the bond assuming all required approvals are obtained. the authority will issue, an amount, not-to-exceed, $16 million. on behalf of the california college of the arts, bond council on the transaction. the purpose of the project is to pay, and or reinbers the corporation, for the construction and improvement and equipping and lease and acquisition of property, 150 uber street in san francisco and to finance or refinance, the con trucks and the acquisition,

improvement and other expenditures at other facilities at 11, 11, 8th treat, and 450 irwin and all in san francisco and to pay for other related costs for the project. this approval of this legislation will have no fiscal impact to the city and council of san francisco, and background on the borrower. the california college of the arts was founded in 87 and offered majors in the area of fine arts and design and write and have 1950 students enrolled, the project in the district ten and the legislation by supervisor, coen. >> thank you very much, colleagues, any questions for the office of public finance. >> okay, seeing none, mr. rose we do not have a report for you on item two and we will move to public comment, anyone wish to comment on two? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. a motion? >> move it to the full board

with a positive recommendation. >> movement fspurpt yee. and without objection. >> would you call three, please? resolution, to accept a grant in the amount of $750,000 from the united states department of justice office of violence again women, in the teen pilot project. >> thank you very much, we have the individuals from the department to speak. >> good morning, chair farrell, and supervisor tang and yee. i serve as the grant's manager at the department on the status of women. i am here to give a brief overview of the exciting portunity that we have to pilot a domestic team, as part of a three year, federal department of justice, grant of $750,000. and as you know, domestic

violence is a serious problem in san francisco. according to our family violence council's report, 911 receives over 8,000 calls related to domestic violence, every year. the district accounts for one of the highest call volumes and also it has exceptionally high rates of family violence, at 1.7 times the average rates city wide according to the district attorney office. several domestic violence victims are at risk of being killed by an entity mate partner, at least a third of all women murdered in the u.s. are killed by an intimate partner, these national statistics warn us of the persist ans of this issue in our own city and especially in our neighborhoods like bay view that report, high rates of family violence. that is why, in this grant, we are offering with the bay view, ymca to pilot a high risk team in collaboration with the district attorne office and the

police department and glide. this is the first time we are partnering with the bay view, ymca, the madres will be supporting this at the ymca with the technical and assistance, and the case management, and the glide through is to insure that these services are delivered in a competent manner. >> specifically, over the course of the three-year, grant. our department will receive, $20,000 to manage the grant over all. and the district attorney office will receive, just about $400,000 to staff a prosecutor and a victim, advocate, the police department will receive $115,000 for partial, staffing of to develop the web base the danger assessment smart for an application to identify, high risk, victims. the bay view, ymca is allocated $90,000 to provide a part time staff to screen, and for the

clients, experiencing domestic violence, who access the center there. madres will receive, $15,000 to fund a program director and a case manager to support the bay view, ymca and finally the gliend foundation is allocated about, 43,000 to provide case referrals and cultural competent, technical assistance to others. this grant will build, the capacity among our community, partner to better serve the victims in relationships and to improve the law enforcement ability to bring the batters to justice, this extend resolution, request is retroactive to october, first, 2015, when the grant was first announced. there was staffing changes of the department and i was brought on in january to manage the grant. and the federal government has not yet released the funds. but we know that the money is coming and we will ask for a no cost, expansion for the end of the grant to insure that they

are making full use of this award. we request the budget and finance committee to kindly approve the resolution. and before icon include, and let you hear from the grant partners i want to recognize the leadership of cohen and her staff and thanks, also to laro bush in the mayor's budget office and to harrison and in the district attorney office for the technical assistance. for this request. on you are partners from around the district attorney office and the police department are here to share a few words of support. thank you. >> thank you, supervisors, thank you for the opportunity to say a few words. we are very proud to be part of the multi disciplinary team, the homicides p effect, xhirn and communities and all of us. and we want to do better.

domestic violence, homicides are predictable we know from a lot of national models, we can look at victims and identify who is risk factor and see who is high risk and we know the high risk factors we can do better to protect them. ult maimately we will be able t identify the high risk victims and enhance the service and response and improve safety for them and the community. so we ask you to please, accept the accept and expand, and help us get this grant so that we can work better for the citizens of san francisco. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors, ladies and gentlemen of the committee. my name is santos and i am the lieutenant in charge of the special victim's unit. today i am here in support of the grant that presented to you and i want to talk to you about domestic violence. >> every day there is an act of

domestic violence, some are minor, most are more serious, and sometimes, they are often, fatal. the san francisco police department has an ongoing commitment to people that are involved in domestic violence incidents. and to reach that goal, of commitment, we work with a lot of the community-based, organizations. we reach out to the department of status of women. and the domestic violence council, the san francisco, district attorney's victims assistance programs, the madres and glide and others. >> to give you an idea of what it is like for an officer to respond to a domestic violence scene, and an officer, often walks into an emotional charged incident where they have a lot of tasks before them. number one, is tending to the injured parties. finding out what happened. securing the safety of those involved. providing resources for the

victim's survivor and then preparing an incident report for the incident that occurred. it is a large task when you think about what our officers have to deal with in a short amount of time. and highly charged incident. our work with our community-based organizations and our partnerships, has helped us, identify our best practices in resolving these types of situations. they have done an outstanding job, in providing commitment both ways to resolving and hopefully ending domestic violence, one of the big things that would be helpful for us with this grant is supporting our staff, with additional domestic violence investigators. and an application that will help officers have a checklist of what they should be looking for in a domestic violence situation. so that when they write a report, and it is submitted to the office of the district

attorney, for the prosecution, we have the situation, where we are not only do we help to speak for the domestic violence, survivor, but we also help that we can educate the batterer in this situation, so that when they rehab tat, they will have a better future, so i am asking, all of that, you support this grant. and i look forward to at some point coming again to share our results of positives in this. >> thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. and commission. my name is cherise and i am the director of the family support services at the ymca. and this grant for us, although a pilot, represents a significant shift. we have been engaged in this work, serving survivors and we know that this is no -- this work is significant. and it is large. and for us, what this opportunity represents, is not

only a chance to continue to deepn and extend our work but to work in meaningful partnerships, we have been present on the service end and working with lacasa and glide will support our capacity but really what it is this about the intentional collaboration with the police department and the district attorney office. and we believe that this pilot, will significantly enhance the safety, that families receive. the bay view, hunter's point has a high degree of family violence. and stress that gets associated with these situations and so part of what we honor is that this work, this collaboration is essential to really not just offer a temporary sort of ban aid solution but to increase the family's sense of capacity. and when you have a team, that is going to not only support, families and receive services, but really help to up hold, the

perpetrators accountable, and it can make the longer term shifts. so we ask that you support this pilot. and we thank you for your time. >> we kind of blended in the public comment, i want to make sure that if we have the chance to have any questions for staff? >> again, no report, and so supervisor yee? >> we don't have a budget analyst report on item three. so supervisor, yee if you want to comment or staff? >> no. i just wanted to say that i am fully in support of this grant and i want to show my appreciation for the department of the status of the women. in what they do in dealing with domestic violence. it is an issue that has been around forever. and we need to do better. and by working in the community, and i seen a lot of cases where there was not any support, and it is just happens over and over again. and so, thank you very much for

your work. >> we will move to public comment. anyone wish to comment on item three? ♪ >> life -- is going nowhere. ain't you. >> run for the city shadows. run for the city shadows. in these golden years. i believe oh, lord, i believe all the way ♪ run for the city shadows. stick with your city for 1,000 years, thank you for this grant. and it brings back or pulls back the tears. thank you. >> anybody else wish to comment on this item? >> seeing none, public comment is closed.

colleagues, any questions or motions? >> through the cherry would like to make a motion to send forward this resolution, with a positive recommendation and we can take that without objection. mr. clerk, would you call four? >> resolution of the san francisco agency to execute industrial lease agreement with tanforan llc for 7.3 acres of space located at 30 tanforan avenue in south sfa, to be used for the bus operating training courses for nine and one and a half year term with the initial annual base rent of $2.48 million, and the annual 2 percent rent increase. >> okay, thank you mr. clerk i am a creature of habit. thank you for being here for this item. >> thank you, good morning. mr. chair, and members of the committee. ed reskin director of transportation and i appreciate you giving us the opportunity to

return to cover this item, which is one that i understand is a significant one. it is extremely important to us. which is why i am here. and joined by the agency's transit director and hr director and training director and real estate, manager and numerous of others, including the controller's office, as well as representatives from the transport, local, 258, who represent the operators and we are all here because we know that this is the significant item, for you to consider as it was for my board and me to consider. it is one that we really feel is critically important. to our ability to continue delivering more, reliable and more safe, and more cost effective muni service, to everyone who rides muni, particularly those who are most dependant on it. i appreciate this being budget and finance committee.

that there has been a lot of focus and scrutiny on the cost of this proposed lease. and that is, fully justified and we thank the budget analyst for their good work, with us on this. there is no question this is not an insignificant cost. there are, however, a number of indirect costs that we are experiencing today. and fairly significant opportunity costs, that we are missing out on as well as benefits. that we think we will be able to achieve with the facility that this lease would provide for us. and it is only with a very, exhaustive review, and weighing of those costs and benefits, that i bro ut brought this item to the board and now to the board of supervisors for your consideration. i will say, as a person that is

charged with developing and presenting a responsible, sustain able budget for the agency, expenditures of any kind, are ones that i scrutinize very carefully and before i bring someone forward i need to make sure that it is going to advance the best interest of the agency. and i get that every dollar that we spent on supporting services such as training, or in this case, a facility for training, it is a dollar that we don't have available for direct service and it is something that we weigh very heavily, but, what we are trying to do is not repeat the mistakes of the past. and we are in a situation right now, where we do have a budget to bag, as the city does. and one in which some of our expenses are rising faster than our revenues, that is driven in part by the labor costs by

pension costs but it is also driven by some policy decisions that we made. for example, to forgo some revenues to make sure that more people can access muni or to invest, more heavily in the main ens of the equipment and right now the expenditures on the materials and supplies are happening at a faster rate than ever before and that is a good thing because it means that our mechanics are doing, preventive maintenance on the vehicles that are presenting in more reliable service and likewise, we are spending a lot of funds in the training to catch up and close the gap on the operator shortage, which is also, relating in more reliable service. so these are and in the past, muni had not been investing at maintenance at the level that i think that we need to do and i think that this lease will provide us a training facility

is an important part of our sustained ability to deliver a better more reliable, and more cost effective service and again i would not have brought this here if i didn't fully believe that. i get that you know, we would have loved to see, a lower costs, you know, lease in a different location or an opportunity to purchase land but as you know and you have seen this in other items that have come before the budget and finance committee, and the real estate market san francisco and in the bay area is challenging and to find the space for a training facility, is all the more challenging and i believe that our staff has done very diligent, work to bring forward, the best possible agreement given the larger economic situation to secure all of the necessary approval and to

negotiate a fairer price for today's economy that is why, that i recommend that this lease to you, for your approval. and i guess that what i would just say in closing, before i turn it over, for john, our transit director, and others, to try to aaddress some of those other indirect costs and opportunity costs and benefits, more specifically, just, i want to say, that, or remind you, i guess, that to the extent that we are not able to deliver service, because we have not been able to train enough operator as it has happened in the past, but to the extent that we have a bus that is disabled because of a prevent able collision and what happens we have not been able to offer as much training as we would like to do. and it is the muni riders who are impacted. and particularly, some of us have choices about how we get around and if muni, is not

working and we cannot afford a taxi or a bike and we have a car that we can drive, it is those that are the most transit dependant in the city that are the most impacted by our ability to consistently, provide safe and reliable and cost effective service and so that is also part of our calculation for bringing this forward to you today, thank you for giving us the opportunity to walk you through this lease, and we have a lot of folks here able to answer any questions that you have and at the end, i would strongly, and respectfully, urge that you do forward this to the board with positive recommendation and so thank you for your time and i am going to turn this over to the transit director, john haily to walk you through and address the questions that were raised at the last meeting.

>> good morning, and thank you again for the opportunity to provide additional information. and also thanks for the budget analyst for including the material that we submitted as part of of their review as i will focus in the interest of time on the questions that were raised the last time, but just for a couple of brief moments to under score some of the introduction that mr. riskin gave this has been in terms of providing the service as well as operators and training the mechanics is very much an essential and a key function and as i will walk through with you over the years, the inability to provide the level of service has had a negative and a costly impact not only on the direct provision of service, but on our costs and over all, in order for us to deliver the kind of

service and both the current and the expansion it involves making sure that we master three key variables. one is the staffing and as we have talked about before, the staffing level, we built up, as we will talk about with the training and we had the new management in place and we reviewed the curriculum and so we feel like from the staffing side, we made progress and the vehicles and with your help and support. and we brought on new vehicles and we continue to do so, over the next several years. and that will in fact not just increase the training burden, not only for the operators but for the mechanics but it will change it dramatically as we work with the other city agencies to change the nature of the workforce, in order to take care of more sophisticated vehicles. the third leg of the stool, if you will, which is what we are focused on today is the facilities not just the facility for training but all across the system, we are the product of old facilities, undersized facility and we are continually looking, with your help and

support to improve, and right now, we feel that we can demonstrate and we have made, significant progress on two of these three variable and hopefully, as i have said, with your help and support, we can make progress on the third. directly, to your questions that were raised last time, about the specific costs of training, i came here last time, and i mentioned to you that i, and we had missed two classes. and we in fact, have missed one. so, i stand corrected. in that. and that fact. as i will go on in a moment, we have also, reschedule every one no the last year and that in turn has an additional cost and i think that the important message on this particular slide is the over time cost in what you can see is the drop in over time, and that is the result of having enough operators to meet our schedule service and the cost of a missing class and we have provided the back up

detail, is approximately, 415,000, now that is direct cost in terms of the service that we would have to provide, by having enough or not having enough, operators on the street. just to point on the next one, on missing-the service and while, five percent may not seem like the significant number, i would, and it is something that we have worked very hard, and it is the essential to providing the transit service and to put the skeled service on the street and so we, putting out all of the runs is our goal and 100 percent every day and we are getting close to it and we need a proper training and we need to keep the pipeline filled in order to do that. and if you notice the difference between 2014, and 15, just to highlight one day on april 11, 20 is 4, we missed 5 percent of the service and that is about 60 or so what we call runs, and i

don'tn and i don't expect that any of you remember that particular day, but i think that if you will go back and look at your full minds in your office may have been busy but by missing some of these 65 runs on that particular day, we had things like on the 57 line. we had a 40-minute, gap in service on the mline, we had a 20 minute, gap in service that related in the crowding and the slowing of the subway system. on the m, line we had overcrowding and a gap. and so, my point is that the impacts of missing service, grow far beyond the direct, dollar for dollar cost that we talked about before. also in terms of your questions, the classes per year and you can see the chart that we provided and as i mentioned one class was actually cancelled in 2015, but all 13 were schedule and reschedule, multiple times for a

video of reasons. particularly, on the facility availability. and that is key to planning, planning transit service should be very predictable and we have a schedule and we know that we have to provide the schedule every day and we know the vehicles that we need and we need to get them ready and out there. not having a facility, to properly plan our training programs for the impact of that. and in terms of the options we walked through last time, a number of options that we looked at is we said, this is an odyssey that has gone on over a period of some 15 years, and look for a new place, no training facility and we are down to basically two, that we can get, periodically at the moment, and of the list that we showed you before, this is not a new issue for us, as it is a problem that has plagued the agency for several years. in 2013, the controller's

office, reviewed and made a recommendation that you see here.

there are models and boards that could be located at this facility, that would save us a great deal of time, and in terms of, and allow us to stream line, the classes and make them more efficient right now, because of constraints in the existing facilities and if you go to some of the facilities and you can see the maintenance people putting up a board for a couple of hours and take it back down and they have to start over again, tomorrow it is an inefficient and a costly process, and so having our own dedicated training facility will have a number of benefits here

is an example of the other kind of training that we can do, operators, and again, the, and we focused on the new operator training, our operators are professional. and they are governed by a series of legal, and professional requirements, they require, annual recertification, and we could also, train our other groups in there and we have the non-revenue vehicles such as the overhead line trucks that could also benefit from being trained in the location like this. so the purpose and the value of this facility, while we have focused on the benefit for direct service provision will also go to the functions within the transit, that support that, and in terms of the lease, this is or has not changed, and there was an adjustment made in the analyst report, and there is simply the cost, again of missing one class, directly related to having to kill those runs, or what we call runs at

over time, on a particular day, and due to no operators. and again, as we have said and as mr. riskin pointed out, over a number of years, we have looked at a number of options, and the potential options are dwindling, and quickly. and so, we feel that if we do not move forward on this facility, that without, without over statement, it does jeopardize our ability to deliver the high quality of standards in service that we have come to expect as well as to meet the future service demands, in march of this year and early next month, we will do the fourth service, increase. and we are very pleased to be aible to do that. and we and one of the reasons that we can do it is because of the effective training that we want to be able to keep able, and keep doing that. and so, in finally, again we ask for your support for this, and

it is critical to the essential provicious of transit services and of high quality and safe and reliable service and we appreciate the opportunity to clarify the previous questions and i am here and as mr. riskin said there are otherwise from the agency to respond to your questions, thank you for your pashgs /* pashgzpatience. >> thank you. supervisor yee? >> yes, i really appreciate you valuing and having enough drivers out there, that are probably trained. but i am just looking at your notes, that were given to me, and i just curious, you say that you, and you say that, one class in 2015, was cancelled. and 13 were provided. what was the cause of that

cancellation? was it because of in the past, previous years, it seems like the number of classes that were available were limited to how many trainers you had. so, it was consolation due to not having enough trainers? >> but in the case of cancellation, i think that it was related and it was a resource, constraint, related to the number of trainers, and so part of what we have been doing over the last several years and working on the staffing level. so he that that, and there has been a substantial investment that we have made in getting the right number of trainers and getting the new management in the training program. but the cancellation and in this particular case was due to absence of trainers, and we have, and excess of training demands. >> and have we ever, missed or sorry, have we ever, cancelled a training due to not finding a space? >> no, we have, as the our

response indicates, and last year, all 13 classes potential classes were adjusted, and sometimes, multiple times, due to the limitations of the facilities. and that is of course, the direct cause that we talked about, but also the burden that falls with going through with having adjusted in the service and even, adjusting the hiring pipeline, which can be very difficult in this city. >> and then, and then, i also, noticed that, even though you mentioned that one class was cancelled, that last year, over time? was small for several years. and so where is the correspondence, because you mentioned the argument that by missing or cancelling a class, over time is going to be driven up 5 million dollars and we missed a class last year, and actually, the over time was

900,000 verses almost, 7 million was the year before. >> well, the over time is down, because we have over, and the last for you years in particular, we have increased the training through put and we increased the number of classes or the number of operators. and so, the over time is down over all where it is never going to be zero on a particular day because there is always going to be days that we use, 15 to 20 pieces of work in over time, so being able to reduce the over time, is a function of having enough staff, having them train through there. and so that is how we were able to row dureduce the over time, we failed to have a facility, it is a very, and what i would say that it is a tenuous proposition, because if we don't and if there comes a time when as the number of potential options is widled down and there are two and the options are

limited. and we pull together a handful of times around other events and the simply, with alameda. and so the point, to get to here, and say, well, we have not cancelled yet, primarily for the facilities, the longer it goes on, the higher the risk and clearly the impact for us, and it is very great. if we do have to do that. >> and just one last question. just looking at these numbers. for last for the calendar year, 15, there were 13 classes and then you are planning for 2016, 9 classes, is there a reason why we are reducing the numbers of classes from 13 to 9? >> yes, sir, there is. what we had over a period of years, developed a backlog of shortages that was this 5 percent, and that you were seeing, and so we built it back up. and so what you have is on a pip cal month, you have 15, on

average, 15 operators who are equipped to relieve through the attrition to leave the agency. so what that means is that you want to have, like an ideal class size and say 30 and so you want to have the series of classes, of 30, and you can, once we have caught up on the backlog, you know, and so that we are in a, a good situation so that we have, actually have the operators, so if we have the, or a bad day or sick, and have to extra service we can do that. that is why the classes should be ongoing and constant and it is critical in terms of our planning for service. because we know, given the agency's history that every month, 15 operators will leave and they need to be replaced. if we don't replace them, then their work will have to be replaced at over time or cut the schedule, and we are hopefully going to continue in the future, with your help, and support to

be in a growth period. >> in 2015, when you had 13 classes of training. how many, facilities were you using? for 2015? two right now? >> that is correct. now we are down to nine and we have caught up and i assume that, going forward, you will continue to have nine or ten to keep up with the attrition? >> that is correct. >> so that is what we need to keep up with the attrition. and the service that is coming in april, and that means that we

will be adding additional operators that will be in the training as well. and the other part of the training, is not just the training but the annual certification and the training and retraining after someone has an accident, all of those kinds of things that we need to do. and okay, i, and i, and this, there is nothing else that i can ask. >> okay, supervisor, tang? >> thank you. and i am going to repeat a little bit of what i said last time, but i completely understand the need for adequate, training for facility and having the stability that you are seeking and i want to extend my appreciation for the operators and that is what makes our service run. and so, i get that, and i think that we are just trying to sort through and reconcile, you know, again, this enormous jump in price. and i think that i would be more

comforted if i knew that at the end of the term that there was more stability after that and the fact that it is daily, city or san francisco, and that, there are zoning controls that would not, and come into play, in some way, to prevent you from continuing, and so i think that that is what gives at least, i think, most of us, some pause there. you said that in the class that was cancelled in 2015, was not due to the lack of facilities or the lack of trainers, is that an issue that mta is working on addressing then? as i said, one of the things that i said to deliver the service, effectively, you have

to have the right staffing for the training which we believe that we have, and you have to have the vehicles, which we are working on, and in that picture, that continues to improve and you have to have the facility. and that is why we are here today. but, no, we feel that we have made, substantial progress in terms our equality, and the quantity of our trainers and as i said, we are reviewing all of the curriculums and all of the rubrics and the machi manuals a they will be adopting and changing as the new vehicles come in and we made the changes to the system. so the training will be a constant need. and it is very much a core, and critical function to transit. >> i mean, how many trainers, you mentioned there is a lack of trainers, and so, what is mta's plan in terms of making sure that you have enough trainers so that you don't have to potentially cancel classes? >> i am sorry, if i was not

clear, we do not have a shortage of trainers now. >> okay. >> we have two years ago, and we have rectified that by hiring more trainers. there was -- chl >> i believe in the last year as well, all of the classes had to be reschedule as well was that due to facility issue or trainer issues? lack of availability? >> it could be a number of things part may be the dates for the facilities, because with the planning you want to be able to say that we know how long it dates and if the site is not available, and then we have to go back and look at the pipeline for the training. >> and so are you saying it was a combination of both then, for the ones that were reschedule? >> good morning, supervisors, sorry to interrupt, i am the director of human resources there are a couple of questions that i can answer.

we have to 55 and so there is no shortage there, and in 2015, we had one facility that we have offered. that we are not sure about. >> okay, did you have information, also about just again, it was just to confirm, it was a combination of the lack of trainers, or lack of facilities, when we had to reschedule all of the trainings in 2015, or was it just the facilities. >> we are rescheduling the facilities and the timing issues, is that we had to go to saturday and we worked from eight hour days to ten hour, training days because we had the facility issues so we increased the over time to the trainers to 8 to 10 hour days, and had the change the skeldz and go to weekend. >> okay. >> and then, just remind my again, how many operators or new operators are going through each of the classes? >> we are average about 30. in 2015, we were getting the job and spoke to increasing the amount of operators, and we were

shooting for, i think that we averaged about 40 something in 2015, even with the 13 classes we were doing 40. per class. >> okay. okay and then, you know this is a question that i would ask the staff internally, and i think that for the purpose purposes i think that it would be good to explain as well, the lease that we have before us today is for 9 and a half years. and has mta considered maybe, shorter term lease? not that again that we want you to not have stability, for long term and operators, but i know that this was a cost and there is uncertainty passed the nine years. >> good morning, real estate manager to address the lease, it is a 9.5 year lease, it is a 9.5 gross industrial lease, and industrial properties are diminishing throughout the bay area. we are at the mercy of two properties right now.

those two properties are the cal palace, and the city of alamena air strip field if you will. those properties, there is no reassurance, whether or not they are going to be available throughout this 9.5 year term of the lease, none whatsoever. the lease for us, in fact, is a very pro-active approach to at least get ahead of our training curve and make sure that our new operators are trained consistently and that we do requalification and all of the other aspects of training necessary in order to provide a consistent, ongoing program in a facility that will be provided to them for their use, on a very, consistent level basis. this lease, the lease is market. the lease is at market, and if not a little bit below market. the landlord, and the developer, if you will is going to put in 11 million on improvements to prepare the site for us so that we can have the dedicated

training facility, for 9.5 years, and the reason why, the lease is not going to be or should be reduced or could be reduced to 5 years, for example, is primarily, because the landlord, is putting in this 11 million in improvements needs to get financing from a lender. well a lender is not going to lend on a lease, for 5 years at a rate of say, 2.5 million dollars on average per year. because, over the term of 5 years. that would be completely ex-spended out. and so in essence, they are not going to do it because it is risky and the landlord is not going to make any return on the investment and so this is a fair lease within this market place. and that is the reason why. we could not reduce it down to five years. >> thank you for that. >> in terms of the alternative sites that you had considered over the previous years. most of the reasons cited for why we can't go with them is because they are not consistently available. and so has mta thought about

entering into agreements with any of these sites to lock down certain dates for training? >> that is what we try to do. that was our original approach and that is something that they are not willing to do for us. they typically reserve the sites for the other uses and the mta, is not, the type of use that they are looking for, on their tech properties. and it is a type of use that is zoned for this property in san francisco, and this property of this nature, of this size, we need a size site, and it needs to be between five and seven acres that is exactly what it is. these other, these other places that we looked at and exhaust syphiliv ive list, they are not willing to give us a license and lock it down for a consistent period of time, because often times we are not in the court business or the type of lesson that they are looking for. typically, one of the reasons why, is because our buses over a

period of time with training, they end up tearing up the concrete surface of the parking lot, what we end up realizing as a result of this is that we get bills back, that have to pay to fix their parking lots. why is that the case? because they are not improved to accommodate the type of service that it agency needs for its buses. what our property owner is going to do is going to build, a 7 inch concrete, base supported by rebar that is going to give them the facility to train, and the other locations no. there is an indirect cost and that is one of them. >> as i said, earlier i think that we all need to recognize the need for this and the discomfort is what is going to happen after nine years, he cannot predict that obviously. and we will not be here. but, i appreciated seeing the

cost break down in terms of what the, and we just saw that it was what you were spending, 100,000 on the rent for your two leases. >> license fees. >> right now. >> for the two sites. >> that is correct. >> but, clearly there is other costs associated with not being able to have the predictability of the facilities and being aible to get the operators out on the roads and trained. so, i appreciate that additional detail that was sent, and i think that for me, that would probably be the biggest justification, for supporting something like this. and i mean that if we could have found another alternative and i would have said, go for it. i personally don't see one at this moment. unless there is something else that you want to share. >> there is nothing else. that is why we are here today. >> so, i mean, i think that again, not fully 100 percent, comfortable, but i think that today i could see this going to the full board. >> during the term of the lease also we are going to work with

the city of san francisco to do our best to extend that development agreement. we will do that. as part of the process. and at the same time, we will also continue to keep our eyes and ears open and look for alternative sites. >> supervisor yee? >> yeah. as a quick question. if you are to be able to lease this property, i'm assuming that you won't be using it year round? with the nine or ten trainings a year? has there been any thought about subleasing it when you are not using it to offset the cost. >> yes, there are nine to ten training schedule up coming and in the past, what i understand on average if you will. but that is new operator, training. so, i am hoping that the training program can expand their efforts and use this as additional training for all of the different aspects that are involved in the training program, whatever it might be.

and in terms of doing some kind of subletting or some outside leasing, the lease is flexible just like the option of the lease it is flexible and so, the potential is there. yes. to do something like that. the potential is there to exercise the option of the lease to buy the property. but that is only going to be done if it is financially feasible for the agency to do so and reasonable because we have to work with the city of south san francisco and see whether or not this is investment that we want to make at the time. so, getting back to your question. what we would have to do because it is approved the use permit, or the conditional use permit associated with this property and this project. we would have to work with the city of south san francisco and see if they could, allow us to do some form of other type of use, because we don't know what that use is. right now, they have approved what we are presenting here today. >> i really was not thinking in

terms of other use, but i, and without knowing the situation, from the other s, and there were the bus systems and transit systems, and i am just thinking. >> we are aware about the 7th largest transit agency i believe. >> and so the question will be, if there are other municipalities that need the training space for the bus drivers or truck drivers or whatever. >> all of the transit agencies have dedicated training space for their operations. >> okay. >> any further questions? >> just for the record? >> just, if i could add, just clarify, first of all, i think that the needs of our own training department not just the new operator training but the ongoing, training will consume a pretty significant amount of the space and time that this facility would make available. that said, we do think there are opportunities elsewhere, even within the agency, we have talked to ourpara transit

provider. and who thinks that there may be some use that they could get out of this facility, and so that i think that there are opportunities for us within the bonds of the current agreement for us to leverage this, if not with other transit agencies which as he and they mostly have their own facilities but the others that we work in the city and the other city agencies and we think that potential is there and adjust our operating training alone, new and ongoing training will consume a great proportion of the time and space, that this lease would provide. >> thank you. >> thanks. okay, mr. rose. >> thanks for hanging in there. and can we go to your report. >> and yes, mr. chairman, and member of the committee? first of all, on page 9 of our report, on march first, 2016, the sfmta responded that in

addition to the 155,000 that supervisor tang i want to emphasize, that is the information that they gave us. when supervisor yee asked that this item be continued, they then told us that there would be another, that it would be $355,000 so i want to clarify that the budget analyst was absolutely correct in the report that was submitted to the committee. so on that march first, as i say, they bumped that up to $375,000, which we think is correct, because they had not previously told us about the fact that there are costs to move the trains to the sites. and the over time. and so what does that result? >> that means that during the first year of the proposed new lease, sfmta will pay, $2

milli million. on page 10 of the report, advices that one operator training class was cancelled in the 2015, and that all of the remaining 13 classes in 2015, had to be reschedule or adjusted to fit the training facilities that were available. and when the operating training classes must be pushed to saturdays, the sfmta estimates that this costs sfmta, approximately, 26,000 in over time, and reports that this occurred, 3 times in 2015, and anticipated to