streets and pedestrian and they're even better for this vitally lasting longer and consuming up to 50 percent less energy upgrading takes thirty minutes remove the old street light and repeat 18 thousand 5 hundred times while our street lights will be improving the clean energy will remain the same every san francisco street light is powder by 100 percent godfathers hetch hetchy power in one simple word serious as day turns >> good afternoon everyone. the commission will trees come to order and the secretarial call to order >> pating, here. loyce peter kalb speed present chung speed

present sanchez >> [pause] and cars speed present >> the second item on the agenda is the minutes >> moved to approve >> is there a second? other corrections to the minutes of january 17 queen seeing none, all those in favor please say aye the minutes have been approved before we go to the next item i like to note commissioner david singer had resigned in mid january for personal reasons and to acknowledge publicly that thinks of the health commission and the department for the work he put in since his appointment in 2013 for the three years he served on our health commission. now our next item >> item 3 directors report.

>> good afternoon commissioners. first i want to welcome all the san francisco state nursing students. why don't you raise your hands? all right. plenty of nurses in a pipeline. >>[laughing] okay. as you know we had so many issues that happen at the national and local level. i'm going to go through those and if there's any questions are mayor responded to the executive order on immigration and i would just say one sentence he says. i commend the judge that granted the emergency state allowing immigrants a valid visa to enter the united states. then our city attorney pedal apart old lawsuit to protect her century city policy on the 31st. there was also a response to ice appearance at [inaudible] resource center and many of us met with the staff from that incident and also from many of the organizations in the mission. we are still working with the mayor's office

who we have met with and listen to committee along with other immigrant communities to ensure they get access to services and support and how to continue to make-make people feel protected in san francisco. i want to commend all the leadership of the city and doing that. one of the incredible things that has happened as well, is that the board of supervisors all 11-we got all 11 votes for proving the us as a research center. on the usmc campus today with the final reading of that ordinance and that all came through it it's 175,000 square-foot $200 million facility. we are still dealing with it parking lot of us at g and how to financially experiment garage. i will leave it at that and then if there's any questions regarding any of the other items in the directors report. questions or

comments queen >> yes, commissioners, you have the report before you. i want to also note the approval of that ucsf building. it is remarkable. we have [inaudible] 11-0 to the fact that you're continuing to work on the financing for the number of parking spaces that will be needed, is there still conversations with ucsf on that or is it be pretty >> they basically approved on hundred 30 spaces and they are providing us with dollars for mitigation of that. what we are now having to contend with oh is a future process of how to deal with transportation and ensuring that patients come first for parking and so we are

working on a plan for that and then trying to look in the future, can we expand garage and we will come back to the commission once we have a little bit of time to figure that out. we still not quite got the financial package for that completed an ucsf package needed to go in a time period and we just cannot finish the package to the garage. that grade a lot of conversation at the boards but we were able to separate out those two issues and agree that ucsf and mitigate the problem of city on 130 spaces for the new building. >> now that's excellent. because several supervisors i talk to raise that question. separating it we were able to get the used uss of the building which is wonderful >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez >> i'm just going to ask, tongue-in-cheek and yet not on this great vote for the supervisors and everybody worked on this project. there's also been some scuttlebutt going around. will be a supplemental coming into put the [inaudible] on top we >> are not heard of that

commissioner. >>[laughing] >> serious discussion i know because we do have one at ucsf, mission bay. but they have to go through the-the railroad tracks go over some times that it's very congested. anyway that's [inaudible] data be the next four years spears >> yes. 40 years. i do want to acknowledge this was a three-year negotiation with us state entity city and county entity i do want to acknowledge mark primo, greg greg wagner is long with choline charla really helped and i think we really worked good as a team with our team and also the city attorney spend hours and hours on this issue as well. >> it's an extremely important part of the continued to world-class zuckerberg san francisco general campus. so i think we are all very pleased this is now coming online. commissioners, further questions to the director on her report? if not then we

will-thank you very much and thank you for all the items under the news that i guess we can all look at under the little [inaudible] >> could ask for one? >> sure. >> director garcía, with it raining so much in the past and withhold cold weather we've had housing reports about the status of our homeless housing. since that's moved to the other departments, we may not have an opportunity to read about that but it does have health impacts. can i ask you a favor to weather the weather is turning bad and it's so inclined to put in your report you just make mention of what we are with shelters? >> yes. we do open up shelters especially during the wintertime. so we will i will make sure to note windows-we

get those announcements and the expansion of the shelters have already happened almost a month ago. though we will note that and put that in our report >> i know that the housing is moved over to the homeless services, but as much as it updates the work we are doing that would be very nice. >> yes. we can definitely do that. >> okay. >> thank you any other comments to the director? if not then we move onto the next item please >> item 4 general public on and about received any request. any in the room? we can move on to item 5 which is the report that from the finance and planning committee and those in the back standing there is plenty of seats up front. welcome to come down the aisle and six. >> commissioner chung >> good evening commissioners. the finance and planning committee met today before the commission meeting and we had like adopted a-some new

contacts and also the contact reports that [inaudible] in the consent calendar for your approval. i would also like to point your attention to the february 2017 contact report. there were some errors in the last item on the contact report and so i want to give you the correct figures. so you're proving the right amount. so, that is for the san francisco unified school district. trish and education and physical activities opportunities. and, the items that needs to be changed, the first one is the total contract amount with contingency. instead of $913,000, that number is

actually $761,600. the higher annual amount without contingency, instead of $948,000, it is supposed to be $355,000. and the annual difference, instead of $676,000, it is $83,000 and the annual difference in percentage , instead of 71%, it is 24%. that would be the corrections for the contact reports that you will be approving. >> are there any questions to commissioner chung regarding the finance committee meeting? and recommendations, which we taken up at the consent calendar?

>> just want to comment on the behavioral health services occasional services report. i really like you broke down the funding between them hsa, general service, realignment, it really just pointed out to me how creative the department has been in pulling together useful and worthwhile programs. i guess it takes a whole -multiple cookie jars to make one batch of cookies. >>[laughing] >> question creep >> i was can say they're supporting the café and did i have anything to the with the café in the report? >> omission or sanchez >> i just have a question. i know it's-i will vote for it, but in reference to our contact for our [inaudible] we are talking a three-year contracts, substantial dollars, you know and i know over the years we've always had these contracts and i guess we've always try different ways we can increase

our nursing staff in different disciplines, and we are still, you know, even though we've had fantastic efforts this past year, last year and increasing the time rate for nursing programs, etc., sometimes i think maybe we could put more money into, let's say, community college there to your nursing program so they could link with maybe ucsf or usf or sf state so they could combine the degree like them and down at uc san diego with some of the community college is there. we need them i think as we things get a little topper come i think we need to think new pathways for i know the sfgh is coming in with a new pathway without leave with uss up the duke clinical training there in their undergraduate year and that window already have the feet on the ground in for some

of these difficult disciplines. i understand where we are to we made great headway but i do hope in the future again we could come up with some other new pathways so we can ensure that some of the kids starting out or coming back to the community college to retrain for these new entries especially from the military, too, we could often new pathways to go into a four-year program with clinical services both here and in laguna honda because laguna honda and others will be working even more with new gerontology programs with schools and so again, i would just want to mention that for the record because i think it gives us a unique opportunity. we could just offer so many critical programs which would be inclusive and minimal cost to the students and the families. then provide them, because many of them will be from this area, with the sensitivity and culture that we know is you need to san francisco. anyway, and the

comments. >> i do support this but i want to think about it. we been doing this for quite a while and these two new programs for three years and we've a new program at usf gf with usf and the programs especially so hopefully it'll come on with a multitude more. >> i believe commissioner chung, this was discussed at the finance committee. it was my understanding that even as we recruit, these are actually the fill in his for short-term absences over time, searches that occur, and this does not negate the effort to continue to look for permanent nurses. is that not correct, chair? >> right. >> intact there are two different contacts for that. mission or karshmer >> i want to pass up the opportunity to applaud our colleagues at the mgh sfgh. and

the good honda good for working so closely with the nursing program in the bay area to try to provide high-quality clinical experiences to educate the next generation of nurses, and i think there's always opportunities to build those partnerships stronger in the bay area. >> just to note, when they graduate this san francisco nurses, we will need these registries. >>[laughing] >> thank you. any further questions on the finance report? if not we will proceed on to the next item please spews although there is no public comment request for that item to item 6 is the consent calendar ends commissioner chung noted the only change is the minor changes in the amounts for when the context and the contractor report which he noted. >> so you have before us the

consent calendar from the finance committee and planning committee. it it is a request for the approval of the contracts report and five new contracts. these would be voted on as a block unless any of the commissioners which is to extract any of the items. seeing none, we will proceed then to vote for the entire consent calendar. all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. the consent calendar has been adopted. thank you. >> item 7 is the sfdph nonhospital employee recognition awards. the commissioners will be reading aloud the names and as that happens, please therefore. commissioner sanchez we handing out the word. would you like them to come enter that way? just to note, director garcía is just getting over the flu so she will not be shaking your hand but not because she does not like you. >>[laughing] >> yes, in several venues

recognizes the contribution of employees to the work of the department of health. we have recognized those at san francisco general and we recognize those that laguna honda and respected meetings there. today it is our opportunity to recognize employees that are not in either of those two locations and work for the entire-and have worked in other departments of the-i should say of the divisions of the department. so we will begin with each of the commissioners assigned to read the first-the first award will be commissioner karshmer to the field public health nursing unit >> i'm delighted to honor the field public health your nursing him. i will call your

name if you would please come forward. eileen armstrong, diane deacon, harlingen, susan you, elizabeth-malaysia- michelle-linda-irma riley, lee rossi, nokia navarro, jennifer acosta, jodi stu d, tammy thomas and alycia martin. maternal child adolescent health field public health nursing team delivers vital services to the homes of san francisco's low income mothers and children who comprise the city's most honorable population. the staff are the unsung heroes of san francisco's most at risk neighborhoods and are welcomed into the homes of women with

intrapartum postpartum and pediatric lines across the country right or phone service. health assortment patient education and parent support breast-feeding consultation and support, home environment and safety evaluations, access to and coordination of health services and community resources. please, join me in thanking the staff for their dedication. thank you. >>[applause] >> >>[applause]

>> commissioner loyce will now read the recognition for the san francisco health network dental services staff. commissioner. >> it's my honor to present to san francisco health network dental services by name, his award, good i will apologize in advance for the ruination of the pronunciation of your names. because i know that i will do that. here we go. stephen ambrose, martin g, evan philip, elaine full, irene

hylton, ron lee, [inaudible] joseph lange lillian kwon, marco reavis, race, dream toy marine one, [inaudible] anna solano, claire fits, heidi l mark, katrina-lorena gallo, nancy gallo, any pollen, [inaudible] terry lamb, mary and market, jennifer caswell, cirilo perez, michelle-, shirley yang, wendy xing, anthony lynn. after complete in 2009 of >>[cough] restored medi-cal coverage for adult

family services in 2014. the san francisco health network dental services staff under the leadership of dr. stephen ambrose responded immediately to meet the increased demand for services. in just two years in 2013-2015 the unit increased dental encounter from 8000 to over 12,000 which is an increase of 38%. san francisco health dental plan services also has been a key partner in san francisco children's oral health initiative with preventive dental care to children and child care centers in the gardens of schools across the city. they also conduct community outreach afferents to adults and children in such places in project homeless connect and neighborhood health centers. individual service [inaudible] are dental team serves as the most was 20,000 san francisco's each year. thank you very much. >>[applause]

>> i guess the rest of you out in the community are doing some work. >>[laughing] >>[applause] >> i have the privilege to be able to introduce our next awardee, tracy shaw said the guard, please. is she here? please, come on up. tracy. tracy is a health worker who has been a leader, a health

coach, and a crucial team member in our southeast health centers initiative to improve what pressure control for african-american patients with hypertension. she has worked with our center of leadership the primary care hypertension equity workgroup and key dph programs such as, healthy hearts, to spearhead a world hypertension day event in may 2016. that increased awareness among the health center stations and staff. she our reach to over 300 individuals and welcome to over 70 patients to the clinic so they could experience interactive group education, blood pressure self-monitoring, cooking and dancing demonstrations. since that event, she is continued to follow-up with patients and healthcare teams to future support their efforts in controlling their blood pressure. she is also set up similar events for copd,

asthma, childhood health, and geriatrics. her ability to reach out and connect with patients on a meaningful level has been invaluable. she is also served as a resource to train other health center staff in her best practices. through addressing equity issues through direct action, she has changed how the health network cares for its african-american patients. let's think tracy schaub synagogue. job well done. >>[applause] >> >>[applause]

>> commissioner pating will now read our commendation of the healthy housing and vector control program. >> we would like to recognize for the healthy housing and vector control program mario lena,-[inaudible] marisol quaver-many director, marine sanchez, roberto-caroline lamb, joanna home, patrick wood, amy johnson, lisa garfield, jade check, [inaudible] kerry amato, kevin ing and christine there. the healthy housing and vector control program staff provide code enforcement to assure that residents of rental units and at times entire neighborhoods are in compliance with san francisco health code article

11. this code prohibits nuisances such as unsanitary conditions among mold and pest infestations including mosquitoes, bedbugs, cockroaches and rodents. i'm so glad you guys are doing that. the staff also conducts inspections for neighborhood vector control issues and institutions such as hospital jails and schools. their work requires a keen to collaborate other dph divisions and other city agencies. most significantly, the team began the integrate behavioral health and social work staff 12 code enforcement efforts with building residents that contributed to the creation of public nuisances. this is resulted in a reduction of the evictions related to health code violations. please, join us in thanking the staff for the impactful and very important work. >>[applause] >>[cermonial recognition]

>> smooshed together. >> [photograph] >>[applause] >> commissioner chung will now

recognize another individual from our department. >> we are recognizing eileen volkman. >>[applause] as manager officer of the [inaudible] program provides oversight and technical assistance to community based programs funded by the sfdph. she maintains a strong relationships with neighborhoods and community residents when there are concerns about the programs. ms. lofgren has addressed the increase of litter during neighborhood meetings and a police precinct meetings but she is skilled at active listening and working with community members to design effective solutions. through her work the sfdph has installed 11 disposal boxes, have a rapid response team that beat of sewage in the civic area. she's also a consistent-she's also consistent

presence one members of the board of supervisors in the mayor's office want to address community issues related to sewage access and disposal. so, please, join us in thanking eileen lockman for her work. >>[applause] >>[cermonial recognition] >> what eileen's team, please come and join her. eileen's team. >>[applause] >> eileen's coworkers and her team? >>[inaudible] [off mic] the rapid response team. i apologize. >>[applause] >>[cermonial recognition]

>> commissioner loyce >> i want to ignores this group and the work he does because i can remember a time this kind of program [inaudible] and the department of public health do not sign contracts were the sons of services good so we have come a long way and thank you guys for your service. >>[applause] >> the commissioners always are pleased to be able to recognize outstanding individuals in this, the largest department in this county get so many more are deserving and we will be recognizing in the coming years let's give everyone was recognized tonight another big hand for their work. >>[applause] >> commissioner's item 8 resolution improving the san francisco to prominent public-health-actually, 2007

state and federal legislative plans. this resolution was introduced at your last meeting and today approval is requested. >> so that a permanent 20 present once more the changes that have been made regarding the plan from our last meeting. thank you. >> good afternoon commissioner. my name is cindy comerford on from the office of planning and planted our last health commission meeting i presented on a summary of our 2016 state and federal legislative action that we took. i talked a little bit about emerging issues and key federal updates. i also presented on or 2007 state legislative and federal plan. i

want to thank you for the feedback that you gave us at the last commission hearing and we were able to integrate that feedback into a revised memo. i think you should have a copy of the memo and then the feedback that we received is documented in a memo. i'm going to quickly go through the feedback that we got in the revisions at that meeting. on page 5, of the memo, we incorporated the participants from the healthy san francisco. on page 7, we added in to increase advocate for increasing rates for medi-cal providers.. on page 11 the change some of the language suit to augment our support for the allocation of workforce, and also on page 11 we also added in work to advocate for increased support

for tele-care. that were good changes to the state legislative platform. on page 13, we added in to advocate for increased funding for the nih, national institutes of health. we also added in similar language for the allocation of workforce development and tele-care. in addition, per request of director garcía the allocation of workforce moment we included psychiatrist. so those are the changes. i'm happy to take any questions on the plan but we are here to seek your approval for the resolution today. >> commissioner was almost a resolution language do not change. it was just the memo that ms. comerford briefed you. >> thank you. commissioners, any questions to ms., for? if there's no questions, the neighbors lucian is before us and emotion would be in order.

>> moved to approve >> second. spews there's a motion and a second is there further discussion on the resolution? seeing none, will proceed to the boat. all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. the resolution has been approved. thank you. >> there's no public comment request that item. item nine is a resolution in support of implementation of the california end-of-life option act in the san francisco network. this resolution was informally introduce it to adopt at your last meeting and today approval is requested. >> good afternoon commissioner's good i'm [inaudible] office of policy and planning. as you may remember that your last meeting on january 17 you are presentation on the california end-of-life option act. a little bit about what the process is for patients and the departments of policy regarding

implementation in the san francisco health network. i just want to note that laguna honda hospital is also develops policies and procedures that are aligned with the networks policy that will be coming to the joint conference committee in a couple of months. i believe you have a draft resolution before you for your consideration. >> thank you. the draft resolution is before you could first the mother questions to the presenter? we have a very extensive presentation at the last meeting which was really excellent. so we can then move on to a consideration of the resolution. this requires a motion >> so moved >> second >> further discussion? there were modifications of the resolution to clarify related to california 80-15. if there's no further-any people but >> no public comment request for this item >> then if there's no further comments we can proceed to vote. all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. the resolution has been approved. thank you.

>> item 10 orissa lucian authorizing the partner public-health to recommend to the board of supervisors to except and extend retroactively a gift of $80,000 to laguna honda gift fund from molly fleischer. he was before we move on with regards to the item 9 resolution, maybe we could hear airport in one year on the implementation of the end-of-life care >> shirley. our executive sec. will note that for a report on the ada implementation. thank you. ms. harrows a spews >> good afternoon. i want to let you know, proud graduate of san francisco state university school of nursing in the mid-80s. but i am here because

last year ms. molly fleischer donated $100,000 to the gift fund to start molly's fun. within the intent to provide necessary assistive technology for laguna honda residence who lacked the funding or the means to purchase assistive devices for themselves. last december ms. molly fleischer has donated an additional $80,000 to the molly's fun. i'm here to request your approval of the attached resolution to accept and expend to recommend to the board of supervisors and approval to accept and spend ms. molly fleischer's $80,000 donation. thank you. >> commissioner sanchez >> you're just motioning? were you going to us a question or motion >>[inaudible] [off mic] you are moving the resolution, okay. let me first ask questions queen yes, commissioner pating >> what is assistive technology equipment? could you maybe expand on that

>> sure. it's the ability to communicate for some of our residents, the ability to help them improve their quality of life through technology. i could give you a really great example that we are using molly's fund ms. molly fleischer astonishment we have a resident that is-syndrome and the only way that we are able to figure out how he can communicate with us, and also monolingual chinese speaking residence, was through his left one digit of his left toe. the funding, we were it was defined in assistive technology that he can touch with his left toe and then it would speak for the residence and translate that so

that we are able to communicate with him. that is one example of assistive technology that we were able to utilize. then there might be others in terms of patients that have tricky tracheostomy's that would help with voice-recognition ability to use technology and use computers for residents that multiple sclerosis. so these are adaptive technologies for residents that are disabled and the advancement of the equipment has allowed them to either communicate, help with twoto mobilize through the hospital or even help them mobilize out in the community. >> thank you. >> okay. further questions? if not then commissioner sanchez your motion is in order. >> so moved.

>> is there a second >> second. further discussion any public on >> no public comment request for this item >> all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. the resolution passes. thank you. >> item 11 dph disco era and 17-19 budget update. mr. wagner >>good afternoon commissioner is greg wagner chief financial officer. i'm going to give you a presentation on her upcoming two-year budget process today. we have as we have in the past brokenness into two sections. the first will be today and the second will be at february 21

carried today we are going to go over the high-level outlines of the budget outlook including mayors office five-year financial forecast and with the financial outlook looks for the city and how that translates into our guidelines the upcoming budget process. when we come back to you next time and we will talk a little bit today about some of the issues and priorities that we are focused on bouncing around them when we come back you next on, we will have the details balancing plan and the initiative right up business plans that you approve on an annual basis. so the outlook for the city is essentially that the economy is still growing but it is growing at a slower pace than it has been for the last several years. we are beginning to see some leveling off of growth and potentially

some of the city hitting the capacity for sustained continuous expansion at the rate that we've seen over the past several years. in each year , as you are familiar with from past hearings, the city has required to propose a five-year financial plan. every two years it's a full five-year plan and then on the off years as an update to the plan. the plan is introduced by the mayor's office and adopted by the board of supervisors. that includes a projection for the cities general fund and with the projected deficits are for the city and it includes a set of proposed strategies for bringing the deficit back into balance over the term of the plan. in the financial plan adopted by the board of supervisors, there is continued growth projected in the economy in the city's revenues. however, as i said that growth is leveling off. the growth

over the five-year period is projected at 11% in general fund revenues. however, that is significantly slower than the growth in expenditures. there's a number reasons were that that we will touch on briefly because of that difference in growth rates there is a projected growth in the city's deficit. for the upcoming two-year budget cycle that we are entering into, the projected deficits are $119 million in the coming fiscal year and $283.4 million in the second year. so significant deficits projected not on the scale of what we saw during the years of the economic downturn and the following recovery. but significant nonetheless on the order it does require corrective action on the cities behalf to bring things back into balance. looking a little bit further out, that deficit continues to grow and year five projected deficit is $848.4

million and that's what happens if you project out and say, we leave things unchecked if we let present trends continue, that is what the trajectory of the outlook is projected. of course, we don't leave things unchecked it would take corrective action and that's part of the purpose of the five-year financial plan and the instructions issued by the mayor's office to the departments but you can see there's an underlying trajectory that shows cities finances are not in a naturally stable place right now and that there is-we are in a place where action is needed to adopt-adapt. this chart in front of you on slide four, shows the growth rate of general fund revenues over time, and you can kind of see what tends to happen over time and where we are in this forecast. the city

>> great tends to go as the country goes through economic cycles and you can see how those economic cycles translate directly into the impact to the city's general fund revenue. so as ourselves taxes, property taxes, our hotel taxes, property transfer tax, all those things are directly try to economic activity in the city, the region and the nation. you can see the two big tips on this chart where the.com bust in the early 2000's and then the financial crisis in 2008-9 were you actually had negative growth in revenues and then the in between you tend to see a strong recovery and robust economic growth as the city recovers and stabilizes its economy. the projection which you can see in the dotted line on the right, is really neither of those situations. the city is forecasting that we are not

expecting a recession. we are not expecting a crash although there is the possibility as there is at any time that could happen, but that is not projected, nor is it projected we will continue to see the extraordinary levels of revenue growth though we been benefited from the last several years. you can see that since fiscal year 10-11 we been experiencing growth rates that are general fund revenues is the city's economy recovered better in the high single and even double digits. that's a remarkable rate of growth good it got a little bit used to it but it is not sustainable over the long run when you look at the data on the city's economy. so the city is projecting growth rates between 2-3% for most of the years of the plan. again, looking at the high level

bottom line for the general fund projection, the bolded numbers circled at the bottom are the projected deficits in the cities five-year financial plan. you can see as i've explained, there is growth in the sources at the top but there outpaced by growth in the uses in the bottom section and that results in deficit each year and deficits that are growing as the gap between revenues and expenditures increases. this is a graphical the direction of the same data on slide six, which is shows you how the trajectory and the percentage growth rates of our expenses and a revenues is different and because of that difference by their virgins grows over time until your five if we take no action give it very significant gap between revenues and expenditures. in terms of where we are historically, this is a table

that shows you with the projected deficits have been in each of the last five-year financial projections that have been adopted by the city. you can see where we were in 2011 get this when we were still emerging from the downturn and we were projecting deficits as a city of $800 million in the fifth year. that was again due to expenditures outpacing revenues. that has come down and got much more under control to the point where you can see in the 2014 five-year financial forecast, which is the third line, they were very modest deficits in the early years of the plan and even in the outer years the projected gap between expenditures and revenues was significantly lower than it is now. so the fundamentals of the cities budget situation have changed significantly over the last two years. there are a few big reasons for those and the three there are highlighted here

are the largest in terms of pure dollar values. the first, and this almost always is the case, rising employee cost. that's the cost of wage increases, granted by the city, but even more significantly increases in the cost of benefits. the city has a much higher burden on the general fund paid into the city's pension fund than was forecast even two years ago. there's several reasons for that including lawsuits, return on the investments in the pension fund, and demographic and actuarial changes. but that is a big contribution to the deficit. baselines and set-asides. these are the initiatives that are approved from time to time by voters that dedicate city funds to a specific use but do not dedicate a new source of funds to pay for that use. so as we carve out dollars from the general fund for a specific

use, it leaves a smaller pool of funds available to fund the rest of the general governmental functions including a lot of our services at the department of public health. lastly, and this has been a big part of this five-year planning cycle, increases in services and positions and other costs in the city government over the last several years. as we have had this high rate of economic growth in the city, and growth in the city's revenues, we have collectively spent it replacing things that were lost during the recession and then growing beyond even replacing some of those cost. as we add those cost into the city budget between new positions, because of the rate of growth in benefits and salaries got those

cost compound over time and when you have add them up in the outer years of the deficit they really make a big impact on the city's bottom line. on ftes this is a little cave table that shows you the size and the type of growth in ftes in particular over the last several years the cities added over 1000 ftes since fiscal year 11-12. part of that is again the recovery and replacing what was lost during the recession but a lot of it is expansions in various areas of the government. you can see the orange piece of that are chart on the left is us, the public health sector of government in which includes us, dph only. so that is all us. we are the second largest category we've added about 1000 ftes over that period, so we are at a historic high at her number of ftes. so in response to this outlook the mayor's office has issued instructions

to departments to help get the strategies and financial plan and implement it into the deficit back under control. for the upcoming of two fiscal years to address the deficit which is about again $400 million over the two years of the upcoming budget, the mayor's office has directed departments to propose a 3% reduction to general fund supports in the first year and an additional 3% in the second year. per dph bosoms equate to $18.4 million in the first year growing to 36.9 million in the second year. i will make a note and we did noted in the memo, this is actually instructions are not reduction to our pure amount of general fund we received. prior to making this reduction the mayors already

funded all the pension increases, but coders, a lot of inflation and the cost of government and they are saying to us, after we added that please, trim it back down by 3% and 6%. so we are asking-being asked to show some restraint in the budget but even with this reduction we will have both in our allocated fund support because of those growth in our baseline cost. the second important instruction from the mayor's office is that we are instructed to not grow budget and funded ftes. so they're basically saying we've added 5000 positions over the last five years. we are not asking you to reduce your work first. were not asking for layoffs. just asking you to pause.. work with what we have added in a propose additional new ftes. so positions over added in laster's budget cycle are exempt from that. the

initiatives that we approved last year will be allowed to continue going forward were asked not to oppose new ftes in the coming year. guidance from the mayor's office on priorities . these five areas they have identified as priorities for all the departments this came from the citywide claim process the director garcía participated in with with other department heads but residents of families that [inaudible] clean safe livable committees inclusive city, excellent city services, and a city and region prepared for the future but i think those are all consistent with the priorities of the department and the work that we have been doing. things that could change. the forecast that we are working from and the cities always aware as we are at the department of uncertainties in our forecast is federal funding is obviously a big one. if the city's policy as it is the states through the

governor's budget was introduced in january, that we are not guessing what might happen in the new federal environments. we are going to wait to see whether there are concrete policy proposals before us before we react to those. so we are not making an assumption here baseline budget about changes to federal funding but we are obviously very aware that there could be changes and there has been at least a kind of conceptual discussion at the federal level at what some of those changes might be. there is always the prospect for changes in the economy and other changes including labor issues and new budget hearing commitments that could happen in the meantime by the board of supervisors. this is a graphic you've seen in the past. it's an illustration of where those risks and the fact that we do, as we saw some of

the earlier slides move relatively predictably through economic cycles in the country and in the city. these bars are the length of time and months between a recession through the history of the united states. you can see that we fairly predictably have a period of growth and then a gap, a recession, followed by growth good the line at the top, the blue portion is the period of continuous economic expansion that we currently are experiencing. so relatively long. you orange portion shows what would happen if, as is forecasted in the five-year financial plan, we go through the next five years without a recession. that would mean we have far and away the longest period of continuous economic expansion in the countries recorded financial data. so that is a possibility but i think we and the city policymakers are very aware

that may not be the case and it is possible there could be, over the term of this planning horizon, a significant downturn. if that was to happen, they've kind of muddled out with the might look like using an average scenario of the.com recession in the housing driven recession in 2008, two kind of illustrate what that could mean for the city's budget. the black line at the top is the baseline projection is the dotted line at the bottom is what it might look like based on a typical recession if we were to experience one so the projection is, based on the history something in the order of $1 billion over three years that the city would need to deal with, in addition to what it's forecasted in the deficit if we were to experience a major economic downturn. so that is on the top of our minds as we go through planning. so

from the dph perspective, a lot of the things that we are working on are not going to be a surprise to any of the commissioners. but some of the areas of focus for us could strengthening core services, we have been working on for quite some time trajectory for the department which includes development of the health network, strengthening infrastructure in a public-health division and integration of those two divisions functionally across the department. we will continue that work and work on projects such as electronic health record. our strategy there is where we need resources for those priorities to realign them from within our existing budget we have room to do so, without asking for expansions of programs or new full-time equipment positions. we are working very closely with the mayor's office in our

other city departments on priorities including homelessness and public safety. so we expect to be part of a number of those initiatives that are in development in the mayor's office. we are planning on creating a department wide lean infrastructure. as you know, we rolled out lien at a number of divisions corrupted departments and those are loosely coordinated but we want take the next step and really build a centralized department wide gpo kpl infrastructure to prioritize and manage lean efforts across the departments, corneille goes with one another and then very importantly, for a lot of reasons focus on revenue maximization. whenever big goals as with the federal uncertainty the economic uncertainty, is let's do everything we can to solve our own problems and make ourselves self sustainable by growing our

revenues really can earn them and where we are not dependent on policy decisions to generate our revenues. so items that you are likely to see before you in some form or another on february 21 or by the point of the mayor's june 1 budget summation, our continued planning and budgeting for the electronic health record system. that we are close to having that program fully funded and should be able to have the bulk of that funded at the end of this two-year budget cycle. development of a 15 bed addiction and mental health program at the dss g campus the hummingbird navigation center. implementation of the whole person care program, which is coordinating resources around the homeless population in san francisco. after a year of experience with the us that she

new building and operation we are refining what it takes to operate that facility based on actual experience and so we will be making some adjustments , the budget for that facility. we have to transfer the ems program from the department of emergency management that was approved in last year's budget but it actually happens beginning on july 1 that we officially receive jurisdiction over that agency that will require some budget adjustments. then other programs that you've heard about including harm reduction and syringe access and cleanup efforts. so at the very highest level, the challenge that we are tasked with addressing in our budget summation to the mayor's office this spring is summarized here. you can see in the first line our general fund

reduction targets of 18.4 and 36.9 million. the city has also forecasted some revenue growth in the department of public health as folder that into its five-year financial forecasted that money has already been spent so we have to cover those dollars for four we can use any dollars to solve our challenges and then continuation of the electronic health records project and so you total that up over two years. we have $88.3 million gap that we are solving through the balancing plan that we will be bringing to you at the next hearing. so the next steps coming up again another hearing on february 21 in the interim we work closely with the mayor's office and the board of supervisors on changes

and additions to the budget submission approved by the commission. june 1, the mayor introduces balanced budget to the board of supervisors then the month of june is spent with the board making having hearings in making amendment to the mayor's budget before final approval by the board in mid july and signature by the mayor in late july or beginning of august. so that was a lot of talking and-sorry about that but i'm happy to take questions. >> commissioners, questions great commissioner pating >> thank you mr. wagner. i five little questions. first, though we heard in november you give us a plume and very status of our budget and imagine a 3% savings but since that time, other than the election is anything changed in the scenario significance since will be discussed at our dining retreat in november? >> yes. the fundamental picture looks roughly the same.

i think what we will have to do is have to once we have the final rate on employee costs growth, so wages and benefits, we will use that to adjust the projection of show you earlier this year and then we will also adjust-we had forecast of roughly 3% rate of general fund revenue growth in the presentation will adjust it to what the actual numbers that are included in the mayor's budget are and then we will update that scenario but those changes are not going to be huge. the underlying dynamics of what we talked about at our retreat a few months ago stand and so we are pursuing kind of the same path and a lot of the same strategies as we work through our budget planning as we discussed at that time. there are some changes. there

have been some changes to the dollars available to the counties through the 1115 waiver. there was a pot of money at the former safetynet care pool dollars the were in question at that time as to whether those would be awarded to counties through the waiver. it looks like they will be awarded now. so that is some revenue that will be available to us to use over and above what had been projected to balance the budget so that will be one of our solutions. get a piece of uncertainty that's out there that we won't know the time for this budget process is we are, for electronic health records project, we have put a lot of energy and effort and analysis into developing a projected budget but it is projected and will become real until we have gone through the process of selecting a vendor, developing a program, finalizing an implementation plan and at that point i could change with a projected budget is for that program.

>> given some of the risks out there both federally and in terms of the economy, i think 1% savings is not too hard. 2% savings, okay, we got a be a little more focus. 3% is like him and now we have to think a little bit. given some of the risks out there i'm wondering though whether we should be looking for a worst-case scenario as well of 4-5%. whether you could plan for us or he just give us a sketch in a future meeting what a worst-case scenario could look like >> if i may commissioner that's a great idea. we are starting to work on it but i want to be cautious that does cause a lot of panic within the department when we start doing that from a larger discussion that but i have asked staff to start looking at that but let's be cautious because i'm already getting those kinds of conversations within the departments. we just need to be very clear that is not a directed by the mayor but we are planning. so i've asked each of the divisions to also

do that. but let's be very cautious in the conversation only because i want to make clear that that is not part of the mayor's directive of the mayor, of this secure, but it is something about the had conversations with staff about. >> i'm very satisfied with that. i think the 3% target then is i think we discussed that. it was reasonable and achieve those five-year goals. three other short questions. reserves. i know we have each art reserves. we have other reserve parts that might help us with some seasonal fluctuations that block to dph? can mean lower savings from one year to the next? >> yes. we have three pots of reserves. we been building up the funding for eh are as you say in a pool of funds. those funds are to take a fund that

carries over year-over-year. so we are confident that we can bill could that fund until the dollars available to spend when we need and that's been a strategy that we have cleared explicitly through the mayor and the board of supervisors and the comptroller. the second is that we are built-this is also part of the strategy even through the years we've been working on a strategy for the recession, and that is, we have a revenue reserve that is through a special provision in the budget ordinance which has allowed us when we've surplus revenues to in conjunction with the controller's office deferred those revenues into a reserve so that they are available if we do have a shortfall. so please happen on perceived reduction in our revenue, we have a racer built up in our reserve is built up now to about $100 million could all have to get you the exact

figure but we have been building that methodically over the last several years and has been one of our long-term financial strategies. the third is that each year as we accrue, as we booked revenues, from the waiver and other federal sources, we do reserve on the general ledger against potential take back from the feds should so there some additional reserves purchased put on her books as a matter of course. so those reserves i think are a big part of our strategy. they are probably not enough if there is a fundamental change either in the economy or the policy environment to whether that but they will put us in a much better position than we have been in the past when we've had these big changes in economic environment >> really happy to hear that. when a matter parking meter i don't have change is very frustrating to find that extra quarter. >>[laughing] last

two questions are more operational. i know we provided lien operational enhancements to improve our system and operations. is lien applied to our financial systems as well and as lean offer any cost savings in any particular break we've does lien also mean were going to run a leaner or just more efficient in terms of operations and quality? general question but i was wondering if there's a financial aspect agreed >> a couple things visit the big aspect of lien to making sure you're getting the most out of every operational dollar that you spent and that's a big area focus. another big one for the coming couple of years is to apply lean tools to key areas where they can affect our revenue cycle. so the hospital has been very-general hospital has been very focused on applying lean to work on its patient flow issues and that is

both a care quality but also fundamentally a revenue issue because we have lost revenue due to people occupying beds that were not being paid for and if you connect celebrate that so there's a lot of revenue upside. another pieces as were going to dhr and we talked about this at budget committee today, is we are undertaking an effort to do a lot of analysis and standardization of our workflows on the revenue cycle all the way from the point at which we first encountered a patient to the point at which they cash is collected. so over the next two years we will be doing a real overhaul of those practices and using lean as a tool to approach a lot of those areas and that is one of the big efforts that we are focused

on is how do we, number one, make sure we hit the ground running with a new eight ea charts were bringing in cash for we also use this as an opportunity to make sure we changed our operating practices so that were not leaving dollars on the table. think that's a direct tie between the lien investments that were making in our financial strategies that we outlined in our forecast. >> great. class questions we have all our physician positions posted? are we-i know one awfully staff yet but i guess all the position to early think we go are going to need in the current budget or allocation? >> yes., we have as long as i've been around even in the darkest financial times, the core clinical operating positions have not been a subject of a hiring freeze. it was a point long ago when-well

not all that long ago, but a certain point time ago that was the case but we generally have an agreement on positions with the mayor's office and hr. like rns and basic operations for the hospitals that we don't try to hold those are because of you don't hire those positions when the pain for them through per diem overtime registry anyway so i'm fairly confident that we will be able to manage a lot of those positions but that the larger point is definitely folded into our planning as how do we put the right controls over hiring without sacrificing our patient clinical quality and our financial outcomes due to inadvertently freezing the wrong hires. >> thank you learn much >> commissioner loyce

>> thank you mr. wagner. on slide number four there's a note that says digestive 1% parking business, and. i'm not sure what that means. unless it's connected to what's on slide number 14 at the bottom which is a note that says some of the same things. >> let me ask the expert here. >> i would like to note mr. wagner and ms. louis for were very sick in the past week and just commend them for the work in getting this to you for today. >> that answers my question. b so we will figure that out. this is why that's pulled directly from the comptroller's office. so i don't know what the, and, is. i think we cut it off but when the comptroller's office their revenue numbers there are a whole lot of things

that they have to fold into those. so the triple flip has to do with a deal that was made to exchange various revenues between state and local governments and it affects how much you count as local general fund revenues versus state revenues. i don't know the answer we can get clarification from the comptroller's office and how they do find that and what that budget is >> is that related to slide number 14? the general fund revenue streams week because of it is that makes then that my aunt, that make some sense to me. >> i'm sorry could use it us part again? >> on slide 14 if you look at the bottom the general fund five revenues business hotel sales and parking tax if that's the same thing that's on slide number four after the and, then i make sense. it's not been okayed >> that might well be. i think might what's on slide four is the comptroller's office putting a footnote to be clear for anybody who is in the deep

weeds of state counting funding relationships to know what's included or not get on slide 14 those five general fund revenues are those our biggest general fund revenue sources and so with the comptroller's office has done in this projection where they're saying what would a recession scenario look like, is they are modeling potential drops in those five revenue sources to project what a recession might look like. so they use the former economic data and apply to those five areas. they're not modeling a reduction in state revenues. >> thank you mr. wagner. >> any other-commissioner? >>[inaudible] [off mic] >> yes. that is correct. what

were looking at as for the hold upon a public health. when you take the adopted budget from last year for fiscal year 17-18 because the total number grow or not. >>[inaudible] [off mic] >> absolutely. were doing some of that were we a priority areas that we are adding ftes over pulling from elsewhere within the department to support them so that it will remain neutral >> i do want to comment, too, all the divisions and leadership in very very supportive of acknowledging that and looking at they can seize and reprioritizing within their own and also sharing with others. so we can continue to do the great work that we do. i do want to acknowledge hospitals as well as the other divisions in the area. >> commissioner sanchez >> i think it's an excellent first presentation given the

citywide strategies rejecting his gives us [inaudible] with the strategies are and how we [inaudible] in the context of the budget. the only thought i would sure at this point as we move on, also, i really think the chart showing the years or months for recession flow tipping point and then starting up again is really very helpful but it may be think about, you know, would last four years we really have been involved in unique partnerships. some that work and some that are not worth. some better work exceptionally well. when you look at the data which we are doing and when we share the data as we've been doing with other agencies and here in the city, i think we really need to take a look at that data again especially as we look at the question of housing, homeless,

seniors, that trends. you name it. how do we maintain middle class-no question of families, schools etc. but when you look at as an example, numbers, in 1970 with 90,000 students. 95,000 students in the public schools. today we have less than 51. okay we stop school sites all over here. perhaps we need to again look at instead of building these 18-20 story condos, whatever, why not think about can we provide different services in an integrated fashion using some of these old facilities which we made into beautiful housing for seniors, for handicap for that's, for families but in different parts of the neighborhoods all over

the city instead of just concentrating on a couple of them. other cities are starting to do that because they have to rethink this whole housing problem is a real challenge. i guess what i'm saying is, i really think the way this was presented, it gives you just a unique thought pattern but as you look at the data from past and where we are in the projection for five years we have to rethink the city itself and the totality of the city. and of comments, but again i want to thank you for an excellent document and your staff and it's very informative and look forward to the next hearing and presentation. it's a real challenge but we are right on target and am glad to see were projecting the five years ahead and having the integrated models. thank you >> thank you commissioner. >> thank you. are there any

other comments? was there any public comment >> i've not received any request for this item >> okay. so if there's no further comments you look forward to the next hearing with the details of the city departments budget will be presented. >> thank you >> thank you damage >> item 12 other business >> commissioners any other business that you may wish to present to us.. we might take note of thursday's meeting with the planning commission which will be held in room 400 at city hall. >> yes. at 10 o'clock and have remained for the russia be available to prove those who are driving. it's already for you >> all right. so there's no other business to be brought up by the commissioners, then we will move on to the next item gave him 13 is a report back on the generate 24th 2017 usg

meeting >> yes the committee heard the presentation for the 2017 plan from the director from our executive director dr. relic, which included looking into the areas of the workforce care and the bauman financial stewardship care experience quality and safety as part of [inaudible] and she is compressing the targets for these down to i believe seven that was an excellent presentation. as to the use of lien and helping and two n. will be leaning this years strategic planning. to respond to the needs that were surfaced in the past year. at the same time then the committee then proceeded to take the standard reports from the quality advancement regulatory affairs,

hospital administrators reports, human resources report, showing continued vacancy but working on that of approximately 10% and the outpatient care services reports. under the chief of medical staff reports, the committee also approved the following. a new cpc service chief for a new lab service chief. it approved medicine privileging divisions. it approved also the end of life physician opt in form and the community primary care critical services will send regulations were presented for approval. so those were all approved by the point conference committee and enclosed session it also reviewed and approved the minutes and the credentials report. i'll be happy to answer any questions that anyone may have. otherwise you all cds in a more detailed report in the minutes. if not we will proceed

on for next-there's no other committee reports quick >> no., sir >> okay we will go on to the next item >> item committee agenda setting and read you review the counter so unless you've other items we can move onto consideration of adjournment >> so we are open for a motion for adjournment. all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. this meeting is now adjourned. thank you. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >>

>> good morning. all right. all right, party people, you guys ready to rock and roll? >> all right, that is what i like to hear, thank you. good morning, everyone. i would like to welcome you, this is the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee, i'm supervisor cohen chair of this committee, and to

my right is supervisor tang no to my left is tang and to my right is yee and he is going to be joining us shortly, and our clerk is linda wong and i want to thank our friends at sfgtv. for broadcasting this committee meeting, do you have any announcements. >> yes, silence all phones, and cards to be included should be submitted and items acted tonight today will be on the february, 28th, board of supervisor's agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> folks you heard that february 28leth, the matters that we are dealing with today will be at the board of supervisors that is important to know. we have madam clerk, could you call item one? resolution retroactively authorizing the office of the district attorney to accept and expend a grant in

the amount of $982,348 from the california governor's office of emergency services for the victim witness assistance program for the grant period july 1, 2016, through june 30, 2017 >> all right, great. thank you we have got dr. gina r rodreguz. here. >> i have to apologize, she actually took a spill and boek her arm a few days ago, so i will be pitch hitting this morning. so she wanted me to let the board that she apologizes for missing this, what is your name. >> my name is delia montiel. >> okay, the floor is yours. >> good morning, board members. i am with the san francisco district attorney office of victim services. thank you for having me here today. i am here to give you an overview of the services we

provide at the victim services division. this funding allows us to serve victims of crime. in the year 2016, our division served over 8,000 victims. the 40 percent increase from 5 years ago. this funding has allowed our division to meet the growing needs of the community. we have been able to expand our services outside of our offices and placed our advocates in the community in order to proviet immediate assistance to our immigrant victims, our lgbtq victims, victims of hate crimes, human trafficking victims, campus sex assault victims, our homeless victims, and our most vulnerable the elderly. with this funding, we now have two courthouse dogs that assist our victims, one of whom cleared his calendar and made it today, red is here. although i think that he is napping. he is up.

and these dogs are available to our clients in order to support and comfort them through the court process, we hope with the expanded we hope to keep expanding our services with two our clients with continued funding. thank you. does the board have any questions for me? >> thank you, let's see, any questions? >> no, supervisor yee? >> no, thank you. thank you very much. i just want to let the folks know that we do not have a budget and legislative analyst report on this particular item. and so what we are going to do is go to public comment at this time. ladies and gentlemen, it is time for public comment, you will have two minutes and you will a soft chime, please come up to the podium if you like to speak on item two. >> item number one. >> excuse me, item number one, thank you madam clerk. >> seeing none, public comment is closed at this time. thank you, colleagues any discussion or a motion? >> i will make a motion to send forth this resolution to the

full board with positive recommendation. >> thank you. could we do that without objection? all right, and without objection, that motion passes. thank you. madam clerk, next item. >> item two,resolution retroactively authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend grant funds from prospect silicon valley in the amount of $150,000 to perform stakeholder engagement and knowledge transfer for the marketzero project to bring an existing local grocery store to near net-zero energy over the term of may 17, 2016, through march 31, 2020. >> all right, and we have got mr. germo rodriguez back with us. welcome. he is representing the department of the environment and he will be making a brief presentation on this item. the floor is yours. >> good morning, supervisors i hope that you are staying dry in this weather. the department of the environment has the accept and spend the resolution to you today, it is part of a larger grant from the california energy commission. that we partnered with prospect

sil con valley, and berkeley national lab. it is the over all project is of the 2.9 million dollar grant, essentially what the department and our partners are trying to do with this project is to take an existing commercial building, in this case, a grocery store and to put together a demonstration project, to illustrate and show case the ability of reengineering an existing commercial building, into a zero net energy building by using advanced solar, solar storage, and advanced metering in order to manage or demand on this project. this grant allows the department to work as a partner, and to provide our resources to this project. we urge your support of this resolution, and happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much, let's see. colleagues, is there any discussion for mr. rodriguez? >> all right. there is no bla analyst report on this item, that is good.

let's go to public comment. >> public comment is opened on item two? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. any discussion or motion? >> go ahead and make a motion to pass this out of committee with the positive recommendation for the full board. >> without objection it passes. >> madam clerk, item three. >> item three, resolution authorizing resolution authorizing the san francisco public utilities commission (sfpuc) general manager to accept an award of up to $3,000,000 through the sfpuc's memorandum of understanding with the association of bay area governments for implementation of the lower cherry aqueduct emergency rehabilitation project funded in part by grant funds from the california department of water resources. >> we have dan wade. >> thank you, for the opportunity to speak to this item, i am here to speak to the items, and this is a facility that is part of the hech, hechy water power facilities that supplies, 2.6 million people in the san francisco bay area.

and in 2014, the city issued an executive order for the departments to reduce all water used. hard to mreefbelieve that we ar this wet year after five years of extensive drought and we did start implementation of the emergency project and to be able to take the water from these reservoirs and in case it was needed. in addition to that, we have the 2013, room, fire which burned excuse me, 250, 700 acres which damaged the critical facility. and i am showing a few photos here with the destroyed photos to the head gates of the canal, as well as the damaged prejudice

bridge and the foot trail to the head gates. as well as the debris that came off of the slope into the canal and so it needed repairs and cleaning. which were critical to be being able to supply water in case needed during the excessive drought. and so we did start work. and in phase one and phase two. it includes, temporary access to the head gates, and we did need to install some gates to keep bats out of the attic and to make sure that we met our mitigation requirements for the environmental permits as well as cleaning the debris from the tunnels that take water to the aqua duct. and so phase two. the work that is shown on the slide and i am not going to read through it all, but we had to divide the work up into two phases because we discovered a right-of-way issue with a portion of the alignment that

dates back to the early 1900s, when the facility was constructed and so we need to get that corrected with the federal government, before we can move forward with phase two. and so we need to extend the project as a result. and in terms of budget and schedule. the cost to date are 9.29 million tlarz, and we have projected the future costs of 4.7 million dollars. and you can see the schedule listed here and so our request is to authority the general manager of the sfpuc is to accept and spend a grant for up to $3 million through sfpc, with the association of the barrier governments and this will allow us to partially fund the project and we are committed to fund the rest of the project which has a total budget of 14 million dollars. >> does that conclude your presentation? >> it concludes my presentation. >> thank you, supervisor yee has a question for you. >> just a quick question, just curious, what is a bat gate?

>> a bat gate? >> yeah, these are outer or keep it in? >> yeah, to keep them out. >> so that we can essentially do the work that is required that the repair work that is required inside of that structure. and not be you know, if the bats are there, we can't do the work and so we exclude them during the non-nesting period. so that they don't nest in those areas. >> just looking at the picture, it looks like it is maybe it has a screen on it on the gates? yes. >> i see the bars, but it seems like bats could go through them. >> yeah. i believe that well, the openings are designed to be able to keep them out. i vnlt haven't seen that gate myself, so i can't speak to the size of the openings, but this is the structure itself. i am sure that he keeps it out. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good work. all right, let's go to public

comment. oh, excuse me before we go to public comment, we are going to go to the budget legislative analyst who has a report, sevron? >> we actually do have a couple of recommendations on this and the resolution actually is to accept and not to spend the grant and so we need an amendment to clarify that you are approving expenditure of the 3 million, also as mr. wade said it is a 14 million, where it is a 11 million dollar, matching grant and so it needs to be amended acknowledge the 11 million matching grant. otherwise we do recommend approval as amended. >> thank you. thank you. let's go to public comment and then we will deal with the amendments all right, ladies and gentlemen it is your opportunity to weigh in, two minutes on item three, anyone? >> no. okay.

public comment is closed. thank you. >> colleagues, let's take up the issue of the amendments. >> all right, i will make a motion to accept the amendments and adopt it out with the positive recommendation to the full board. >> do that without objection, that motion passes. all right next item please? >> item four. >>resolution authorizing the san francisco public utilities commission general manager to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $404,208 from the federal emergency management agency through the california governor's office of emergency services for the hazard mitigation grant program. >> thank you very much, and again, we have dan wade presenting. >> good morning, again, supervisors and this is the second item which is the early intake switch yard slope stablization project and this map shows the regional water system extended from the national park in the east, and 167 miles across the state to the san francisco peninsula and the city of san francisco and

the early intake switch yard is near our facilities in the up country near the reservoir as shown on the map. now, in june of 2016, fema awarded the sfpuc a grant of 404,000 in federal funds for what we called the preaward and phase one studies of the early intake slopes stabilization project. this includes preparation of the hazard mitigation grant, and subapplication as well as definition of the project scope and cost benefit, and the phase one work is limited to the design and studies and so this money is for preconstruction work and then we will also apply for funds for construction on this project. now, what is the issue here, this is an arial view of the switch yard, these are critical facilities to supply the clean hydropower that comes to benefit san francisco and what you see on the lower left of the slide

is a very steep slope that comes down to the switch yard, the switchaard is that gray area and you can see the power house on the right and there are as a result of the room fire there are a number of additional slope hazards that did not exist prior to the rim fire, namely a lot of the vegetation and so there is not as much supporting roof structures in the slope and we also have a number of rock falls into the area. this shows an example of some of those where we have fallen rocks triggered by the rim fire along the edge of the switch yard and you can see that relatively flipcy fence that is no match for a large rock coming down the slope and so we have boweled boulders bouncing into the fence and threatening the viability of this facility. we also have the trainage issues as a result of the fire where the slope is really not retaining as much water arz it used to and so we need to install the drainage and control

the flood and control active mud flows and slides down the slope. and so we are looking at alternatives as part of this preaward of phase one work. our budget estimate is billion dollars 600,000 and so the grant money will go a long way to funding this phase one and free award work and then we would go forward with detailed design, and environmental review, and eventually construction measures to support the project. the kinds of things that we are looking at are vegetation, and some rock fall fences which are very strong fences that you know, that support the slope, and possibly some other alternatives. >> and so that strong fence that you are describing would >> so there are a couple of things that you can do. you can put fencing up at the source. high up on the slope to prevent the rocks from dislodging in the first place, and you can also put very strong fencing with cables that take a lot of energy mid slope and at the bottom of

the slope to prevent these rocks from bouncing in to the switch yard. and so the request here, again, is to accept and expend a grant for 404,000 from fema through the california governor's office of emergency services through the housing grant program. >> what is a switch yard? >> a switch yard is where we switch from the hydropower facilities that generate the electricity to the transmission facility that transmits the electricity to the city. >> okay. thank you very much. >> yeah. >> thank you for the presentation, colleagues any questions? all right. in our report we note that the 400,000 is actually replacing the funds that the puc allocated to the project, and through the 195,000 match and it is the money that were appropriate ated and we recommend approval. >> thank you very much. >> let's go to public comment, open it up for the public.

public comment is opened. and public comment is closed seeing no public commenters. all right, colleagues, the matter is in our hands. >> go ahead and move this with positive recommendation to the full board. >> with a recommendation, without objection that motion passes unanimously, thank you very much. madam clerk, call the next item. >> item number five,resolution authorizing the sheriff's department to submit a funding application to the board of state and community corrections pursuant to california state senate bill 844 (2016) for $70,000,000 for a proposed project to renovate county jail no. 2; outlining the matching cash contribution of $8,200,000 and additional funds of $3,800,000 for a total of $12,000,000 needed for the proposed project; and conditionally approving the form and execution of associated financing and construction documents. >> we have the sheriff joining us and making the presentation this morning, good to see you sheriff. >> good morning supervisors. thank you very much good to see you as well. so today i stand before you requesting a resolution and for you to forward that to the full board to allow the sheriff's department to apply for a $70 million grant from the board of state and community corrections

to renovate number two facility, it was designed to be a work furlough, and it was opened in 1994, i was part of that opening. this facility has always been used as a jail from day one. but it was not built to be a jail because of that it is presented constant challenges to us. >> may i interject. >> it was not built to be a jail what was it build to be. >> a full work furlough facility. >> what does that mean? >> the people with jobs would be living in it or going to school at night and they would be let out in the day to do their jobs or go to school. >> so these are not people that were, this is a vision not for people that were in custody, >> they were in constructive custody of the sheriff's department. >> thank you. >> yes. >> thank you. >> it was built to a full work furlough, since we used it as a detention facility because of the number of people we have had in custody at the time. >> so we are asking today, for a resolution to allow us to apply

for a grant for $70 million. and that will primarily provide renovation of our two dorm only podz aand d to allow us flexibility and more safety to the inmates and the ability to house the people from the county jail four which is located at the hall of j us, it will not add any beds or eliminate our need for the hall of justice. but before we start and i do have chief deputy matsut who is going to do the presentation, before i start i want to thank the controller's office and the mayor's office of budget and the department of public works, a few of you who are here today that can answer the questions for you, to all of the work they did. this rfp was released on december, 30, 2016, and the due date for the application, is february 28th, that gave us 60 days and everybody has been working very hard and cooperating with us and i can't tell you how much that i appreciate it. it has to be at the full board by next week in order to make the deadline of the dates.

so today i am asking you to forward this immediately. so here is chief deputy matt free man. >> great, thank you. good to see you. >> good to see you supervisors, always a pleasure. to come and talk with you. is someone else doing, sfgov tv could we have the powerpoint. >> you just need to put it on slide show. >> there you go. >> here, excuse me. here we go right here. okay. we are not technically gifted over here. i got it. >> great. >> no problem. >> so good morning, as always, it is a pleasure to have an opportunity to come to speak with you. and when the technology works, it is even better.

>> there is. >> we have a picture here for you, and it was opened in 1994, 245 seven street, contains two jail facilities, number one which is the intake and release center, it is for hold only, for the arrival and departures and also, houses san francisco, county number two, which is a housing jail, and rated of 392, and it is the location in the san francisco county jail system where we house our female inmates. and as a sheriff talked about it was originally designed and constructed as a minimum security work furlough, and since day number one, we have operated its a medium to high security prison that houses presentence felon, deferred maintenance in the failure of multiple critical security systems in the building and it does require significant

improvement and up gra idz in all areas, we have done extensive work with the department of public works and a complete retrofit and repair of the facility will come in at a cost of over, 220 million dollars. and that is without adding any beds to the facility. so that is not the project that we are here to talk to you about today. we are here to talk to you about today is participating in the sb844 request for proposals, where we have the potential to receive, 70 million award in the large county category, the main competitors and if we were to receive an award it would require a ten percent match from the city and county of san francisco and we have been informed that $12 million has been identified in the general fund certificate of participation program from the city's capitol planning program. there are some elbility requirements to participate in this proposal. we meet all of those requirements.

design and renovation and we must provide on site inmate visitation and when we do that, the sheriff department fully embraces on site, face-to-face loved one inmate, family visitation. the proposal must include a sdipgs of efforts to address sexual abuse in your local facility, and the sheriff's department subdescribes to a zero tolerance, to sexual abuse and harassment and we have trained all of our lines staff and staff that work in the county jail on preprotocols, and once again, zero tolerance, all of our criminal investigators are well trained at how to investigate these types of crimes i think that we do a wonderful job seeing that the prisons in our jail are free from sexual harassment and abuse. >> and it is only opened this proposal is only open to counties that have not as of yet received funding from the state of california for adult local,

detention construction. so we meet all of those requirements. we will also include language in our proposal that speaks to how this project will expand our ability to deliver program content to those who are incarcerated in our jails to include a mental health and treatment space and later on in this, i will talk a little bit about how we can do some significant improvements for our jail behavior health services. a little bit about our project budget estimate. total construction costs are estimated at approximately, 45 million, and 20 million dollars, and soft costs and these costs always kill me when i look at what we have to do in terms of these costs but they are necessary in the $16 million and you can see the total budget cost of $82 million. so, what is included? what is available within this budget of $82 million? we will upgrade housing podz aand d, to safer standards to

house and provide programs to a high security level of inmate. this is critically important when you think in terms of the inmates that are you are can ently housed in jail, number four, the old jail, located on the 7th floor of the hall of yus and by upgrading hes two podz, you will afford us the opportunity to rehouse those inmates to this pod, but not only rehouse them to this pod but to have the ability because of the improvements to offer programs to a higher security of inmate that while they are currently housed on the 7th floor, very difficult to provide programs in the facility that was built in 1958, when none of this was on noon's radar. what do we do in >> replace the open bay dorms with 12 two person rooms. in the upper levels. we will install safety and sound barriers on the level, and this will eliminate from anybody from

jumping off are being thrown from the second level but they will provide a sound buffer, so when the program people are in there doing their programs, the noise level is reduced and they can get some good work done. also put in flexible classification dividers that will allow us to subdivide the population and create individual living quadrants and also, add two ada rooms in aand d, pod which is a good thing, and then inmates that do have some sort of disability can receive the full range of programs that we offer. >> additionally, 4257 street was built with the open air atree ums and one on the east and the west side of the building. we will infill those, which will generate an extra, 1500 square feet of useable space. we will use that -- and we think that we have the ability to link those infield up to the housing pods that neighbor them and so what we will be able to do is offer an expanded array of

programs and we may be able to expand our one family program which is our inmate, child visitation program, contact, visitation program, we may be able to designation, one of these infilled to our jail behavior health so that they have confidenceal treatment spals, where they can meet wub on one on one with their patients and we could increase our ability to offer vocational training with our relationships, with sil con valley, companies, for computer literacy, and for our inmates and so there is a whole wide range of things, that we can do by infilling these atree ums and we are going to renovate a non-operational kich in number two, this is critically important because what we currently use is the kitchen on the 7th floor of the hall of justice, which is fallen into significant disrepair and it is in a delap tated condition and we spent a lot of money to maintain it and keep it operating, that feeds the 7th floor and both jails and 425, 7th street and so this 82 million will allow us to

renovate and remodel the kich in cj number two so that they can shut down the kitchen on the 7th floor. we will also replace dilapidated systems and repair the roof areas and there is intake handlers on the the roof of the building that we need to fix and we have a significant problem with water intrusion in the building and it is raining today and so i would imagine that we will get a call that something has shorted out due to the weather and so while it is not very sexy, it is something that we need to do. >> and we will perform targeted strengthening of the building. >> well, there are some things that while not included in phase one of the project scoping. they are identified as possible enhancements. if the budget allows, these are some additional things that we would like to do once again, if it fits, within the scope and the budget of 82 million dollars, and that is replaced the entire roof membrane on the roof of 425 seven street it is

like what they call the reverse membrane system and having a lot of problems with it and so we would like to do that, with he would like to bring the entire facility up to ada and we will install the safety and sound barriers in the other podz that don't have them, b, d and e, podz and we would like to retrofit, the cells to meet the current code, the safety cells are of critical importance because they are used for people that are suffering acute, and important, psychiatric episodes and it is to everyone's benefit to get those up to code and we would like to get up to the cpod and that is the medical observation pod. where we house very vulnerable and sick individuals. and if the budget permits as an enhancement we would like to get in there and do the work to make it better. >> so let's talk a little bit more on effects about what we will do in the a and d podz to make them better. you can see the pictures here and in the slide. and that compare and contrast the current state to what it will look like post renovation,

and you noticed that both on the upper and the lower levels on the picture on the left side it is open dorm housing. we will go in to the upper level and we will replace those open dorm beds with double occupancy rooms. you can see that on the picture on the right-hand side, what it will look like. you will see the approximately 3 and a half foot railing there on the second level, we will replace that with poly glazing that will run from the floor all the way to the ceiling, once again providing good sound buffering and so programs can go on unimpeded but also, to prevent people from jumping off to the first level. the next slide you see a more close up view of an open door bed situation. compared to a double occupancy room. the double occupancy rooms are certainly critical for facilities and security, inmate and staff safety, but what they also do is they reduce inmate

stress. inmates are less stressed when they have the personal space to retreat to as opposed to constantly living in an open environment where they have to share a rest room, with you know, 24 other individuals, as opposed to having, their own personal space, their own area to go to to decompress, and so there is real benefits there. >> we will also do in these upper a and d, we will install what we called, classification sliders, and you see a picture here of the hallway without one and then you will see the example of what it will look like post renovation, and this allows us to further subdivide these groups of populations so they are safe from one another, separated from one another and you can have a lot of programming that can go on in the day room space associated with these rooms. where they can receive services right in the housing areas. the other great thing about it is, that if we want to cross poll enate and we want to open

it up to a larger group, we can simply open the door. >> the safety barriers and aand d podwise we have a picture where we do the compare and contrast, the picture on the right-hand side is san francisco county jail number five on the grounts of the san brunhoshgs jail complex, and you can see on the second level of that pod the glading that we are talking about that serves as a barrier and a sound buffer. this goes back to the original design of number two in the late 80 and 90s when they were designing it and they didn't put in these barriers, but when you are housing presentenced overwhelmingly felony population and it does not make any sense to not have any of these barriers in the jail. and an exciting part of this proposal is the infill of the atree ums. the addition of 1500 square feet

is no small matter whatsoever. the sheriff in the san francisco county jail, in the way that we operate our jails we certainly do not subscribe to idle time. what we see is that there is a fusion between the incustody time and post release readecember lags in the community, and successful completing of probation, patrol. and the way that you do that is that you have to start that reentry process from day one when someone is incarcerated you have to determine what are the underlying factors. what is it that they need? how can they be served to be successful. but you need the facilities that will allow you to do that. so by infilling these, we significantly expand the sheriff's department ability to offer even more programs to more inmates and now that is really where the whole industry is moving. it is fantastic to offer levels

and, when you can offer the programs to a wider range of the population that is where you are hitting when it is at. there is additional views of the atree um on the next slide and you see that they are open air. we will go in and infill them and that is where we will generate the additional space. >> many of the parts and of the appliances with vn csupport, an it is in significant need of infusion to get it back up to speed. but once it is done, not only will this be a modern kitchen, capable of feeding all of the it, but allow us to increase the vocational programming in the

culinary arts and this goes a long way in the reduction of resid vichl because it allows them to get jobs. we have the pictures here of the kitchen that is in use. and then you will see, that it is in a sad state and we teep it clean. this kitchen receives, 100 percent scores from the department of public health when they come to do the inspections but keep tg clean is one thing, but keeping it operational is another. and that is a daily struggle. >> we talked about the hvac systems on the roof of the building, the targeted seismic strength and this building was designed prior, and so there may be things that we need to do to shore up there. we will achieve partial code compliance and ada, partial because we are not touching the whole building. in the parts of the building that we go in and do some

remodelling and redesign, in those areas, we certainly will achieve full ada and fire life safety compliance. and in repair and replace portions of the roof due to water intrusion, and there are pictures here and you can see where we have a lot of tarping on the roof of the building to keep the rain water out. and i can tell you that in a building such as this, where it is adult secure detention, short circuiting the electronic systems is a very bad thing because that is what you use to keep the doors opened and closed in the jail facility. >> so what will this funding result in? it is going to result in enhanced safe, and secure house and that is a good thing and it is going to provide more flexibility for housing, of some higher risk inmates outside of cj four, that is a very good thing to be able to bring some of the inmates over from cj four and additional program availability and increased opportunities for family visits. so some of these enhancements in

the infill and some of the this ingz that we can do in the multipurpose rooms of the pods could have a significant impact in our ability to offer even more visits to loved ones, family members and so forth. repairs to the roof and the hvac systems and renovation of the kitchen and that is important because it does start that divestment process, from the hall of justice. some considerations for you. when this project begins in approximately, 2019, we will need to vacate county jail number two. in order for the contractors to go in and do their work. so we will need to rehouse the inmates that are currently housed in cj two, based upon our current synthesis data, we believe that this will necessitate finding other housing for approximately, 200 other inmates and what are the couple of the ways that we can do that. well, one way that we can do that is by preparing san francisco county jail number three, which is currently vacant

and it is the sixth floor of the hall of justice and we spend, 3 million on cj number three and retrofit and it prepare it to house these inmates just for the 18 to 24 month time period of the project of cj two. and at which time we will move them back. and another consideration would be to rent beds out of county. and we have contacted some of our surrounding bay area counties. and we estimate that this will cost, $125 per inmate, per day. and at a total estimated cost of $13.5 million, for 18 months. but remember, that is just the cost that we would pay the other county. it does not take into account the transportation costs that the sheriff's department would incur to go back and forth bringing in the inmates to and from the court, which is a significant cost. due to the limited budget, there are some other things that the

project does not address and there are many remaining deficiencies in county jill number two included but not limited to the complete repair of the facility roof, the roof is actually in pretty bad shape to be frank with you, replacement of showers throughout the facility, and replacement of the bunks, and the bunks in this facility are not to ada and life safety standards, there are a lot of places where they can tie off. >> replacement with access slots and gives the sheriff the ability to engage the inmates without having to actually open the door. >> movement of our master control room to the interior of the facility, and i don't like to talk too much publicly about that other than to say the current location of our central control room is not in the best interest of anybody. and the installation of security doors, this is someone asked me recently, if the sheriff's department was ever in danger of having an shaw shank moment, i

don't think that we are in jeopardy. but the installation of the sally port doors would go a long way to prove me correct. and a significant thing that the project doesn't dow is divest us from the need to continue the use of the two hall of justice jails and more specifically county jail number four because 4257 street operates off of a life line that is supported from 850 bryant street to include the data lines, steam lines, and 425 does not have its own boiler, and emergency generator, and the 425, seven street was built without a loading dock and without redundant refridgeation and freezers for the inmate food service and a loading dock, and central store rooms and the significant thing that we will not have in order to fully divest from the hall of justice jails is court holding and inmate staging, you have to

remember, we have a sizeable facility in san bruno and we have to pans port inmates to and from on a daily basis to attend courts. wi concluded with the photos of with the jail, of county jail number four and the comparisons between the rooms, cells, conditions of confinement, the ability to deliver programs, between the hall of justice jails and the county jail number two is striking. you may have read in the paper that ve had the issues in the hall of justice with plum and flooding. we have some pictures here of some of the delap tated fluming systems in the building and we had a very large flood in county jail number four on january, 27th and we have had building engineers come in and install what they called the trapper

hooks in many of the plumbing lines that run off from the 7th floor and while that will mitigate and address not flooding the tenants on the lower floors, what it has done is it has transferred the flooding problems from the lower floors to the inmates that are housed in the jail. so neither of those solutions is going to work well for anyone. before the capitol committee on february 6th and we are here talking to you today. on february 14th, our hope is that this will be referred to the full board. for a vote authorizing us to participate in the request for proposal. i guess that is valentines day. so you know maybe i will bring in chocolates or roses or something. be nice day and everybody is going to be feeling the love that day and on february 28th, our request for proposal that is the submission deadline, our proposal must be in the board by 5:00 p.m. on that day. and i would just tell you one other thing, the team of people

from the city family that we have been working on with this are simply fantastic, a lot of professional dedicated people working on the project. it has been a pleasure to work with them. that concludes the presentation and happy to answer any questions that you have. >> i see supervisor yee? thanks for your presentation, i have a few questions, regarding the budget itself, i guess. i see that the construction contract award is at a 38 million, or 38 million, 300,000 and in total, of construction is about 65 million. so, i guess what i don't have anywhere is a break down of what

it is going to do in terms of the construction and i think that part of it was triggered because you said several times that if we had adequate or funding, you know, on what you thought that you are going to do, we would do ab& c, so it makes me think, what is the -- do we actually have a break down of what the other projects and the little projects and that we would total to 38 million? or is it just that we only have 38 million and we will do whatever we can with the 38 million. >> we actually have our project manager here from project manager here from dpw, and it may be that i will ask her to come forward and speak directly to that issue. but what i can tell you is that the sheriff spoke to the very aggressive schedule that we have been placed under to participate

in the program. so working with department of public works, some very high level cost estimating has been done, on the project. to identify i believe, which you may be referring to as sort of itemized, line by line, list of what each part of the project specifically cost and there certainly has been estimating on each of the things that i listed to you. that would be in the project cope as developed. but at this point in time in the project, these are estimates. a much more refined cost estimating process will be undertaken as the project goes forward. >> i think that part of my concern with this is everything that you presented was like very lovely and i would support getting it done and it almost feels like these are things that we are going to get done with

this money and that is why wait a minute you are saying some of these things may not get done. and if i didn't kind of catch that, i would just assume that everything is going to get done, and then part of then, the other question related to this, is then, if we have a list, and we, if we find it further in the cost and we will find out that maybe, we have too much money or not enough money and so the question becomes what is the priority? what comes first, what comes second? and i don't want you to rattle it off, but it seems like we need to have a list. >> i need to have a list. >> and we do, and we can in addition to this presentation, certainly provide that to you. the priority has been completed and that is what you see in the project scope phase one, the items that i talked about in here, that is the

prioritization, and there is a high level of confidence that everything that has been identified as phase one project scope will happen in the 82 million dollar budget. >> the things that are listed as enhancements, there may, and i use the word may, there may be room within that budget to make those things happen. the reason that they are put in the enhancement category, is that they are not, and they do not make the prioritization list. they are critical, and they are important, but they are in the second tier of the prioritization. but the things that were listed in phase one, project scope, will happen. >> okay. that is helpful, and if you, do you have a break down i don't need a presentation, just make some time before we vote on it. on the full board, i would like to see it. >> no problem.

>> the other question that i have in regards to the budget if everything works out well and we need to and you choose to upgrade jail number three, i believe. so that we could, you know, house the inmates, and these are budget for that? i mean is it some, where are we getting the money for that? is it budgeted within the 82 million? >> it, that is not included in the 82 million, there are actually funds that already exist for that process to take place. >> okay. >> and --. >> could i agree that. >> hi, supervisor budget director, the funds for that would need to come out of the city's general fund cash capitol budget each year and so we will

see the department will need to submit that request to the capitol planning program and go through the regular budget process. >> so it has not been approved. >> it has not been approved, i believe that it was not requested at this time because we are not aware of this expense. so my guess is that it will be requested this year, although i haven't see the submissions yet from the capitol planning committee, i know that brian strong is here if you want him to comment on it or the sheriff's department can let you know. you will see it this year in the two year, or possibly next year, i am not sure if the expense would hit in the up coming two budget years. but probably. >> so brian are you here? " he that i have for you is that if the request is made, the question that i have is what is the likelihood that sts going to be received with a positive sort

of reactions snchlt >> yeah, i mean that it is certainly going to depend on a lot of different factors but brian strong the director of capitol planning also the chief officer, and you know, getting folks, you know, this is related to improving a building that we know that we are going to have for a long period of time. so i think that there is, you know, i really see this as an investment in jail one and two, and the capitol planning committee sees it that way and that is a building that we will have for four or 50 years and given that it is renewing a building, it will be more likely to receive a favorable reaction. this is about taking care of assets that we own and that is one of the funding principals that we have that is at the high principals. again, i didn't expect you to make it 100 percent commitment

but that is helpful. >> yeah. >> and i just want to make sure that we are covered on all of the things that we need to make this happen. so thank you. >> yeah. >> that is my questions. >> thank you, supervisor tang. >> thank you, just to build on the questions around cj three. and soy i wanted to know if we were to be able to provide the 3 million and get that request through the capitol planning committee would it be able to house the 200 inmates that will need to be moved. >> it would. >> and then if we were to go with that option, then would that be seen as also a permanent it would be permanently remain open. >> i don't think so. i think that it would remain open for the period of time that it takes us to do the renovations and county jail number two. and at that point in time, with he will move the inmates back. >> okay. soap the three million is kind of just your bear bones to be able to put the people in there. but there is no plan to continue

to have them in there? >> i don't think so. >> you continue to have cj three vacant. >> yeah, the facility will be retrofitted and be capable of housing inplatemateinmates, but believe that it is the intent of the sheriff's department to use that facility. >> and i am sure that we will not get into the discussion about all of that right now. about you in terms of just the comparison, of potentially transporting the inmates to other counties, at a cost of 13.5 million dollars for that 18 month period, that is not including transportation. you know, i will just say that you know, my preference is to go with the 3 million option. and clearly, i think that it is a koon traft here and so i just wanted to kind of put my word in for that. >> okay. >> thank you. >> thank you for your presentation, we are going to go to public comment at this time. >> thank you. >> i have got a few. before we go to public comment we will go to sevren.

>> this is the resolution to apply for the grant and we do have a couple of recommendations based on that. and in one, is that we wanted to make it very clear that the 70 million dollars, if the grant is awarded does come back to the board for appropriation approval and the other is that we want to clarify in the resolution that this would be the city's match of 12 million dollars would initially be funded with commercial paper and financing of 12 million, and which is not clearly defined in the resolution. certificates of participation in that amount would have to come back to the board for approval, i believe that there is going to be substitute legislation? >> amended legislation? has that been submitted? >> okay. there is amended legislation that will address these two recommendations.

>> thank you. okay, i have got a few sfeeker cards, i want to invite up roma guy followed by woods ervin, brad hern. gabriela pelsinger and andrew, sito and mohammed sheik. >> so cue up when the next speaker is completed we can get to the next speaker, good to see you. >> good morning, supervisors, chair cohen, five years ago we came to you as tax payers for public safety and we had a huge struggle about not rebuilding the jail. at the hall of justice today we are in a totally different context and it does fit in to where taxpayers was coming from. five year ago. no new jail renovate cj 1 and 2,

and move all the other offices out of the hall of justice. so this could be on the right track. but we do have some concerns. so we are you know we are trying to be a little skeptical because we do have the evidence from a history of over building like at ygc, and which is great and there are fewer youth there, but we could have known that many years ago. now we are going to be spending all of this money to renovate cj2, when we had no intention, politically to use that as a work for a forlow as the sheriff mentioned from the first second that it opened it was a jail, an adequate. so we are going back and correcting these errors, but we still remain skeptical and

because this is the first day that we have actually seen any detail. so we appreciate your questions, and especially we want you to be skeptical on that this is not an expansion, we support the conference rooms, we support the renovation in general, but we are concerned about is this going to be a high security level? and what that looks like and concerned about not expanding beds. today we saw some numbers, no ex-392, but we need you to pay attention to that. >> thank you next speaker. >> my mame is woods and i am from tji justice project and the sf jail coalition. so this proposal continue to not

address the immediate need to close 850, but it continues to one rely on the hall of justice and and is part of a bigger plan that has san francisco rely on jail construction when we have been calling for city officials that other straggys should be prioritized. and so while we did get the details today about 392 beds remaining the same. we do want to make sure that as the sort of history in construction or occurs, that things like greater isolation, which can be positive as a

relief but actually, has been in some entanses like in many instances proven to actually harm prisoners, or folks who are incarcerated. when we further restrict their movement, and now the project which was a charter of the board of supervisors of which i was on. overwhelmingly, prioritized policies services and resources. and in community strategy. community, as an extra strategy. and so if the priorities is to reduce the population rapidly, we should >> thank you, next speaker please. >> brad. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is gabriella i am a member of california united for a

responsible budget and as well as the no new jail. there are several points in the sheriff's renovation plan that are deeply disturbing to me. first of all the plan to vacate vy 2 for 18 to 24 months while the renovation takes place, both of the options that have been presented today are highly irresponsible. repopulating the vacated facility at the hall of justice while we know this building is unsafe and while both prisoners held there and the city employee labor unions made it clear that the city suffers from lead paint, row dents and sewage leakage and many more unsafe situations. and this san francisco city administrator has made her position clear that they believes that the building should be empty by 201 #, which is when the renovation will begin, moving people into an unsafe and dangerous facility is

not an acceptable plan for us prelocating people, to other facilities in the bay area instead of looking into the decar ration is also not a feasible or a pro-active solution, that will address the larger issues at play here. and so last year, when the board of supervisors voted unanimously to invest in alternative to jailing, and not to spend more money on jail construction, we want to know where the programs are to take people out of incarceration and to reduce the population and to invest in bail reform and prearrest and deversion programs instead of just putting more and more money into jail construction and expansion. >> thank you. >> good morning, my name is andrew, and i am with the critical resistance and the no new sf jail coalition.

the folks have said the board of supervisors all three of you voted against funding proposals for expanding the county jail system. and for the past year the work group to reenvision the jail system alternatives to the jail met and concluded as said that funding alternatives and not pie prioritizing, and renovating cj 2 was one of the lowest votes on the proposal and received one of the lowest percentage of the votes concerns that we have is in regards to the 392 beds that the sheriff is proposing that will remain the same for the prerenovation to the post renovation, and as far as i have been informed, that 8 beds are so will be renovated and will be added to the bed capacity of the jail through ada, and renovations and it is unclear to

us whether the 392, includes the eight additional beds or that eight additional beds will be added to the 392 beds of the prerenovation jail. so some clarification on that will be helpful. additionally, the isolation that prisoners, you know, isolating prisoners in smaller, two cell, podz, and does not actually help with their safety or mental health and as was said again, isolating prisoners and the health conditions and so it is unclear to how moving the people from the bunk style to an enclosed unit will make people safe. and finally, we have a request that the board of supervisors vote on the entire 82 million dollars of when it is received from the fcc and not the 12 million. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> good morning, my name is brad

and i am with the housing rights committee of san francisco. and in addition to my work on house and against displacement i am a certificated substance abuse counselor, and experienced mental health worker with deversion programs and community based alternatives to incarceration. so i appreciate the intentions to expand services in the jail in the setting, but the problem with the intentions is that they do not line up with evidence based out come that mental health professionals have said again and again. what i don't see in the pro-he posal is recommendations or opinions from the mental health experts, and the workforce development field. who work with returning citizens. so i urge that this body as well as the board of supervisors consider rejecting the funding as a part of the proposal. and in addition from the perspective of housing, i feel that it is posht important to

say that the displacement of the vulnerable residents, many of whom end up in the jail, because 25 percent of inmates have been homeless before and will be homeless again, the displacement increases incarceration and if the over all strategy is decars ration and so we need to invest in alternatives. in light of a judge's order to evict a 100-year-old black woman with 56 of the population in the jail being black residents and that population declining in the city of san francisco, i feel that also needs to be considered and i urge continued investment and community based alternatives and recommendations from the mental health field. thank you. >> thanks. >> next speaker? >> good morning supervisors. i want to thank you for asking questions and hearing us in

public comment. many speakers have said that the supervisors last year unanimously voted to reject funding for expansion of the county jail system. and that funding is the same coming from the same source the board state and community corrections and now one that i think this i want to you consider and i want us all to remember as has been mentioned by the sheriff is that this facility, was intended to be a work furlough facility. now, here we are talking about inshrining it as a maximum security facility. that is exactly the proposal that you all rejected last year. is a new maximum security, facility. and in terms of renovations i also want you to consider the fact that currently the california department of rehab and corrections is considering a

plan to look at it. we ask you to consider what you heard when you rejected the proposal last year, is that the people going into jail. --. >> thank you.

>> thank you. >> thank you. >> final speaker come on up. >> hi there, my name is brad and i am on the board of the harvy milk democratic club and we have a letter for you. so the executive board of the harvy milk club stands with the no new jail, demanding more transparency about the 82 million jail proposal, we have serious concerns about the application for funding to renovate a facility, and anticipation of the closure of the neighboring 850 bryant facility, and the information about the criminal injustice, and san francisco, we value science and transparency as the trump administration attacks immigrants are political leaders have vowed to project the immigrants and the sanctionary city and in order to do this most effectively, we must recognize that the communities are stronger and healthier when we prioritize preventive mental

health and healthcare as well as crime mechanisms our core values as san franciscans are tested in the country with the landscape full of risk and uncertainty. while the trumle administration threatens to defund public services we must continue to be a leader, and pro-he vied care and help to lift the people out of poverty, it is critical that we invest in education and presentative resources in an era where increased funding to jails could be decreased funding and vital resources. we must prioritize the needs of vulnerable san franciscans and we are concerned about the devastating impact on incarcerated people, particularly immigrants, who may face greater levels of surveillance and isolation in this time, we are aware of the fact of prioritizing healthcare and transit and education above the jails mechanisms not only helps to prevent san franciscans from coming into contact with the criminal justice system including immigrants at increased risk of deportation

but also saves lives, consider whether spending 82 million of much needed state and city funds should be a priority for san francisco. please come up. >> thank you very much supervisors, my name is jessy, and i am a member of the new new jail, and it is really railing out there today, i live in soma near the yale and i would like to request that the board of supervisors have the jail construction project proposal from the serve come back to the board before going to the controller. first i see that the proposal has been talked about in the press and might include smaller cells than what is currently in the and second, that i understand that the proposal may

call for as many as eight more beds, and that these are going to be improved mental healthcare beds we want to see the specific standards placed on that and that the over all capacity for san francisco's jail system decreases instead of increases since we know that the jail has not been fully here, and so we would ask that the jail construction proposal come back to the board to make sure conditions improve. in eis there any other member of the public? public comment is closed. the matter is in the hands of the board, what would you like to do? >> i know that they asked about the eight potential new beds, i would like to have the sheriff's department clarify. >> the minute we touch these pods we are required to bring them up to ada, compliance, when

we talk about the eight beds and it turns out if we have room and i mreefsh that we will because we will be able to take out m of toilets because each will have thair own toilets. and with he will be able to take out the sinks that this will leave room for ada compliance and because we have to have it up to code will be to have ada cells available is important. >> we do not. >> there will be eight new. >> right, and i just want to add one thing, the cells are not going to be any smaller than any other cells. the living conditions that we have at the hall of justice which are not very appropriate.

>> and as for the adc cell, or accommodations is that only if inmates actually need ada accommodations and would go there and you would not put someone who does not need those accommodations in there? >> i can't say that, because if i have, if i have a need for an individual sell and that is the cell that is available and i don't have a requirement for an adc person in there i might have to put somebody in there. i can't say that you know, honestly, and say that deliberately. >> and one question in chatting with you, i understand that there is a lot of public demand for you know, more service and more rehabilitation, and mental health services and so forth, and you know, we had talked about deversion rates and just what that looks like in our jail system and so i am wondering if you could shed light on that, i saw that the numbers were. >> i think that it is important to remember that in san francisco, we have been ahead of

the curve on having presentenced people out of jail, today we have 45 percent of the people that would otherwise be in jail out of jail. and i realize that had we can always do better and we are going to continue to work to do better i was part of the reenvisioning process and a number of things that we can do keep the people out of jail. but as the sheriff of san francisco i am not the person who puts them in jail, but i am responsible for their safety and their had you main treatment in jail, and i think that this provides a better location for people than the 7th floor of the hall of justice and you no he if we are able to do acombination of things to reduce the population more but still have a facility, that operates effectively and safely, at county jail two, i think that is important. this money once again, is money from the state and this is not city funds for the most part, and i also believe that as we go forward with this, that it is

something that is almost like you know free money, these are things that i have said in the beginning of when it became sheriff, these are things that need tho be done to county jail two. county jail two is in need of repairs, and in need of up grades and if we want to get rid of the hall of justice, we need to renovate the kich sxn do the other things, and so it is important. and as to the transparency that i am welcome to sit down with people and talk about the plan. we have 30 days to get this ready because we had a short time line on this grant and so this and remember, that this is just asking you to forward it to the board, the full board for consideration, so that we can apply for the full grant and there will be a time down the road where we will be asking if we received the award, and that we would be asking for an accept

and spebd xend and so that you get two bites of the apple. >> thank you, and i will just say that i hear what the public is saying about obviously we don't want to have more jails built and so forth. but i do believe that you know we do have a responsibility to the people that are currently inmates, making sure that there is more room adequate space for programming i think that is incredibly important and i think that is what this renovation in particular would be able to do. and so, i think that that actually addresses many of the goals that many of us collectively share. so i think yes, i agree with the sheriff and we can always do better, on diverting more people from jail in general, but i think that it is important that we provide the service to the people who are currently housed there and i mean if you just even walk through it or look through the pictures, i moo enwe just visit it and the people have to live there every day and it is not something that i would feel good that continue to live in those conditions.

>> thank you supervisor yee. there were public comments about the original intent of jail number two, in regards to the furlough, and i remember that we had a discussion and nyes. >> could you shed some light to you know, why it didn't happen? >> well, we had, we had a huge amount of jail overcrowding at that time. that was in the early 90s and the late 80s and the people may remember that we had a consent decree for is 14 years and we are required to move people to alamena county which i don't like to do, but we had over, 400. and over time, it became clear that people for most misdemeanors now are not coming to jail and so at the time that the jail was opened by the time that it opened we didn't have the people for work furlough any

more. and mostly, those people were put on electronic monitoring which we also do. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay, colleagues, how would you like to handle this matter now? i think that there is some amendments that were suggested. from the beginning. and also i believe td sheriff or the controller's office. >> i would like to make a motion to adopt these amendments. >> all right. thank you, would you mind reading the amendments? >> okay. the changes just in --. >> let's see here. >> so the folks that are here can hear it. >> on page 2, whereas if the county receives verses received in the past tense.

and that was on-line 16. on page 2, line 21, basically just says that if the county received a conditional intent to award sb 844 finance and then the amendment and elects to perform the proposed renovation project and then the county staff will cause the issuance of not more than the 12 million. and so it is a lot of i think just wording changes here. and nothing >> yes. >> all right. >> and then that in addition to here, such commercial paper to be refunded with cash or the issuance of the county's long term bonds. on page 3, it just references on lines, 13, 14, public resource code sections 21000. and talks about if there is an issue ans of an exemption and on-line 17 it references that the board a2k079s such

determination as its own. also on page 3, it talks about the board of supervisors accept and appropriate ating sb, 844 financing. >> okay, page 4. talks about on-line eleven through 12, the counties commercial paper to fund on an interim basis and the cost for the proposed renovation pro-y ekt and security documents that will be submitted to the board of surp supervisors and so those are the major changes. >> thank you very much. and thank you for reading those into the record. supervisor tang. i believe that you were going to make the motion. >> yes, so i made a motion to adopt the amendments. and as i mentioned earlier, i do think that it is really important that we account for the people who are currently in our inmate population and so i will be supporting this grant application and want to also

send it forward to the board as amended with the positive recommendation. >> i too am supportive and take that without objection. >> the amendments that you are talking about also includes the la amendments? >> yes. >> would you like to send it to the full board. >> yes, i would like to send it out to the positive recommendation. >> and i will amend as a committee report. >> thank you. >> without objection, thank you. >> could you please call item six? >>hearing to consider the annual review and adoption of the proposed draft budget for fys 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 for the board of supervisors/office of the clerk of the board; and requesting the office of the clerk of the board to report. >> thank you. and welcome miss angelo it is good to see you, and she will be

making a presentation on this item, the floor is yours. >> members of the xh itty chair cohen clerk of the board. i am also joined by department budget manager miss juga, and i came before the committee in december with the plan changes. to seek your guidance on how to craft the department's fiscal year 2017, through 18, and fiscal year, 18 through 19 budgets. as you know, the department crafts its budgets internally from november to december, and then with the board, from december until june. in december this committee discussed in more detail the plan changes and directed the inclusion of all the changes to be included into the proposed budget. and for us to return today for a final review of this phase of the budget today. and of course i will be back in june to talk about the budget in depth. today i will provide the reviewing of those changes made in december and one additional

change for your consideration and direction to submit the proposed budget to the mayor and the controller. >> thank you. >> slide two summarizes those proposed changes in the expenditures prenlted in this budget. here is a quick overview. in review of the department's generic fte and human resources capacity, i am proposing to change the existing project manager one to a manager two. this position will perform a broader dreadth and a scope of duties including operational oversight and support for me. and this change will add approximately, 6,000 dollars to the department's budget in salary and benefits, the next two position changes are initiated by dhr reclassification efforts and will add, 22,000 to the department's budget. >> both for salary and benefits. there are other initiatives included in this proposed

budget. the budget and leg legislative analyst has formally requested 2.25 percent and this will add, approximately, $4 # 9,000 to the contract for fiscal year, 2017, 18, with this, the new contract amount for the fiscal year, 2017 through 18, will be 2.23 million. on to the lafco included in the draft budget is 144,000, for fiscal year, 2017 to 18 only. and lafco director jason freed should be in the audience if you have any questions about that budget. the last item is annual tered proposal from the december presentation. at that time, i had 20,000 dollars placed in this proposed budget for safe and healthy workplace initiatives specifically to fund the demand for eurgonomic furniture

requests and i am modifying and in sfed i am interesting an increase to the legislative account, which will add, 33,000 to the board's budget. the department after hearing from more than a majority of the board is increasing this, and each account by 3,000. and expanding our current policy to include new uses such as urgonomic furniture, and travel and training, parking, and membership dues. and if this budget is submitted to the mayor and the controller, for the budget year, i will implement those changes specifically to the board's legislative account immediately. on slide three, for the proposed changes in revenue. specifically of note, the assessment appeals board is continuing a downward trend, as a result of sustained real property values in san francisco, and generating less fees from assessment appeals.

and the aab is projecting a decrease of about 68,000, and 51,000 in fiscal years, 2017 through 18. and 2018, through 19, respectively, as you can see the slide depicts the other two resources of revenue are remaining the same. and on the slide four, the summary table of proposed budget adjustments, this summarizes allpro posed budget adjustments together from the previous slides. if the committee submits the proposed budget as is, the adjustments would add, 254,000, and 111,000 to the department's expenditure budget for fiscal years, 17, 18, and 18, 19, respectfully, and combined, with the reduction in revenue, they would increase the department's general fund support request by 322,000 and 162,000 in fiscal years, 2017, 18, and fiscal

years, 18 to 19, respectively, slide five, reviews the summary of changes by category, and another way to look at what we just reviewed. and these are the proposed changes by category as compared to the fiscal year, 2016, 17, and all of the aforementioned items are approved, and the department's fiscal year budget will increase by a total of 792,000 or 5.4 percent from the current year budget. of 538,000 of which is mostly due to the natural base wage increases in salary and benefits. and on the final slide, looking ahead, the legislative management system project, with he have submitted a funding request of 390,000 for the management system project this past january, in june when i return i will up date the

committee, and on the rfp negotiations at that point, thank you for your consideration of this request, to submit to the player and the controller and i will be back in june to discuss more detail and any changes that occur between today and june, that concludes my presentation, and i am available for your questions. >> thank you very much for your presentation, we have one short question for you. >> one smoert? >> a couple of quick. >> but. >> okay. >> so, just since we just ended on the leg layive management and could you for the public purpose let us know what is going into this project. >> yes, thank you for the question. our current system is not stable. i will be honest with you. we do spend a lot of time touching a file multiple times to make sure that all of the details that the board approved have not changed since the board approval. so we work really hard with the current system. the new system will allow not just my clerk's office to enter the value into the system, but

it will allow every single of 56 departments to enter their own legislation into the legislative management system, and it will also allow us to when creating the elbility for these individual items allow them, and the individual offices when they are putting that information in to let them know in advance, what is necessary and in order to meet that elbility. and that also creates a lot of delay, and not only for our clerks and having to do a huge amount of work in a mat irof 24 hours, but also will minimize the rejection of sicertain item that have entered into the legislative process. we will also have better searching capabilities and we have heard that many departments from many outside members of the public who utilize our system to search for a certain subject matter. and they can't save searchs and so we will have a better search function and so this will also allow us to connect both the

legislative drafting tool with the legislative management system and our digitization from the last 100 years, which is currently stored in warehouses off site. we will also in several forward phases be able to connect, mobile technologies and be able to have certain public records requests, and our appointments system to be built in to the system as many appointments actually come through the legislative process and are maintained in our current system. >> and right now, those systems are a part and not enter connected. >> and their legacy systems which are not reliable except without a lot of attention from my staff. >> thank you for that overview. i really do look forward to those improvements. second question, has to do with slide two on the position changes. i know that you know, i had a briefing where i saw the numbers mind equilibrium behind the position and what is going on here. and one of the thoughts that i

had actually was just how it is that we can create more of a kind of gradual increase in steps or positions so that there is not a huge jump between you know, positions and a salary, to whatever the next available opportunity is for a person. and so i am just wondering if there could be any more thoughts around belt better structuring the position types. >> i very much appreciate that kwi, because i have been the clerk for ten years. and every year i have brought to this committee something that i am cleaning up that is exactly what you are talking about, in our department we have many classes, that there are no stepping stones up to leadership and management positions and so over the years i have worked really hard with this body and

to be able to once that person leaves to have someone who has been in training to accept into that role. and i have, i have that has been the purpose of any position changes that i have made and asked from this committee. so for example, for this particular request, i don't want to point any one out, but just, when i was looking at the 1454, executive secretary going to the 1823, senior analyst it is a large jump in terms of salary, not saying that person may not deserve it, i am just saying that it is a large jump and so even in this approval, i just feel like there might need to be a way before the budget is submitted to think about how there might be an intermediatary somewhere. >> if i am not mistaken, i

mreefsh that when we worked with the department of resources we worked on them on an appropriate step to train someone to get into the o92, 3, position and looked at that as an appropriate class. i know that it just so happens that i will review this with you, afterwards. okay. >> great, thank you. >> and then the last question, the lafco general fund appropriation, we have $144,000 for fiscal year, 17, 18, and i know that mr. freed is here as well. in terms of the work product i will leave that to mr. freed to

answer, i do know that this board approved one member of the board to sit on lafco and i heard last night that there was one other member who was interested in sitting on lafco which will create a quorum, and i will also add that in speaking with the general council of lafco, and the city and council of san francisco can't shutter lafco but if the funding is not there to fupd lafco, the item is essentially moth balled and the members can still be appointed to lafco and can meet if necessary, but the reason why we would moth ball it rather than shut tering it, is because the municipal, a municipal utility application and a joint powers application, has to be filed with an lafco, and at the board of supervisors could appoint me as the executive director when

those applications are filed we could receive them and provide them to the board of supervisor and if the board wanted to meet with their lafco they could do it that way, as an option. and but, to answer your question, that is how the structure of lafco can continue to exist without shut tering it or if there is not a quorum. >> if you wanted to hear from jason freed? >> sure that will be great just to kind of know what is up on deck. >> jason, freed, executive officer, of lafco we have been working and the thing that it has been launched but not fully launched yet and ber continuing to work with them to make sure that we get the city wide launch and when it was first thought about and to work on cc, and asked to by the board of supervisors, and it was in the vision of the city wide launch and so we have not quite completed the full launch of clean power sf yet, sf puc is working toward the original plans that they have put out in

december of 2015, this three or four more years of it and you know, working with them and their own, you know, learning it from the launch of the program now. and they are revitalizing that and trying to go to a launch next year or if not all by next year, by 2019 rngs so we are continuing to work with them on that. and on those activities, and then there are, you know, occasional side activity and right now we are kind of in this weird position as to how all of the commissioners were termed out with the board of supervisors la of the year, we lost a bunch of our commissioner and so now i am waiting for the new speaker: commissioners to get appointed as she just mentioned we had one appointed earlier this weekend and another one that is interested and so that we can get back to doing the work as a functioning body with a quorum. >> so, i mean, i understand you are saying that clean power sf is not fully launched i guess what i am wondering about is whoo aspects does it need a handle verses a puc staff. >> we are helping them with the various activity and for

example, last year, at the end of last year, we helped to put together, after it had launched to a portion of the city, we had helped them do a jobs analysis and you might remember that we did the extra report a while back and so one of the things that we did was kelley asked me to help do an extension of that jobs analysis, and based on what had actually occurred and the new information, and so instead of going to outside vendors to do it, i learned enough to be able to do that report in house and so that is what i worked and one example of something that i worked ho, and just this week, there was referred to a curing at the cpuc and i attended that hearing and i was able to give the comments from an outside perspective and outside of the cca and so i continued to work with the sfpuc on, and the proceedings and there is a lot of various, and nuts and bolts that go into the process and help to assist them, and while they are now getting more fully staffed, they still need that outside person or an extra body to help them with the activity and continue to assist them

as-needed on those areas as well. >> okay, thank you, and i think that supervisor yee has questions. >> yes, supervisor yee, please? >> so, you talked about coyt system, and i think that one of the things that is missing for my office is related and some what related in the sense that we want to be a little more efficient and track our things. and one of the difficulties that we have in the office is that we have a lot of con stit you ent issues on the constant basis, on a daily basis, you know, and some of them are very easy to take care of, and this is done, and others is like my pg& e, and puc, and everybody else is work together to get this project done, and after three years, we

all know what happened. and we have a lot of those types of projects so we lose track as really it is easy to us to lose track and no matter and we have tried to develop our own system, but there is nothing that we can develop that can beat an outside vendor to actually figure this out. and i don't know about the other supervisors and maybe they don't have as many con stit you ents and demands, that demands, that. and we have asked your office, whether that we can have more of an un-i formed system for system for all of us to use so that we don't all waste a lot of energy trying figure this out. >> through the chair, supervisor yee. 20 year ago, i will give you my personal experience when i was an aid for supervisor. the clerk's office and the board of supervisors did purchase a

system they spent a lot of money on that system and, it was implemented with every office and within three months, no one was using that system. it was too unweildy, that was 20 years ago and i am more than happy to work with all offices if this is a service that they are interested in and would like us to utilize or capacity and work on, happy to do so. and i imagine with all of the new technology today, that these past problems will not still hasn't that service area. so more than happy to continue to work with you on that and your staff. and all offices. >> i would really appreciate that. we will look into it and a little more depth. yeah, 20 years ago. i mean the computers everything was different. and many of the current technology, was not in anybody's

vision at the time. so hopefully you know, whatever we could come up with, would not be a system that is so unweildy that nobody will use. >> thank you, i don't have any questions supervisor tang? asked them. as related to lafco. we don't have a budget legislative analyst report. so let's take public comment on this item. >> any public member of the public please come up. >> seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. colleagues is there a motion for this item. >> so a question, do you want to continue this hearing or do we just call a new hearing. >> we will be calling a new hearing for the june budget, but today you would take an action to submit to the mayor and the controller. >> so we would not hear it in file you want us to submit to the mayor? >> you would submit this item to the mayor's office and then afterwards, linda would just close the file.

and then in june, we will open up a new hearing file on that phase of the budget. >> all right thank you. >> through the cherry guess if we still had kind of issues or questions through the proposals we would just take that up during the regular budget process. >> happy to work with you on that. >> thank you. >> supervisor tang? >> so i will make a motion to file the hearing then. >> thank you. >> can we take that without objection? >> i think that we had to forward this to -- >> taking action to forward to the mayor and the controller for their review. >> okay. >> no problem. >> supervisor tang is going to restate the motion. >> okay. sorry. i will make a motion to file the hearing and submit the proposal to the mayor's budget office and the controller's office. >> all right, without objection, that motion passes. >> thank you, madam clerk, is there any other business before this body. >> no madam chair. >> thank you, this meeting is adjourned. >> thank you.

>> i want to thank dr. ehrlich. i also want to thank

san francisco general hospital for hosting this event and for start by saying we are here because at this facility one out of two patients is the victim of a traffic crash. as we often do at gatherings of survivors and families of crash victims, i asked that we begin by observing a moment of silence in memory of the 88 people who lost their lives to traffic incidents on the streets of san francisco and san jose this past year. and the hundreds who died in recent years. a moment of silence. >>[moment of silence] >> every 18 hours a child, a parent, a grandparent, a husband, a wife, or a friend is severely injured or killed on our city streets. these are tragedies that are completely

preventable candidate you will hear from family members of these victims. now we are here because san francisco has the highest number of collisions per capita in california. speed is the leading cause of fatal and serious traffic crashes. speed kills. if you are hit by a car at 20 miles an hour, 1190% chance of surviving. if that car is going 40 mi./h were chance drops to 10%. san francisco and san jose have both adopted a policy of vision zero. which i strongly supported was on the board of supervisors. a policy that reflects our collective commitment to bringing traffic fidelity's down to exactly 0. not 20, not 10, but zero. the work is not done. for years

we've known about one solution that is proven. automatic-automated speed enforcement or ase. automated speed enforcement is given city to pluto to magically reduce speeding and fatal traffic incident in over 140 communities around our country the facts are the facts the numbers are the numbers. portland, new york, denver, a 30% drop in speeding. maryland, it 59% drop. in washington dc, a city with similar density as ours, an 82% drop in speeding. a 70% reduction in fatalities per but despite these dramatic results california has not yet allowed ase. today, i am announcing with our community the introduction of the safe streets act of 2017, 80 342. to them, and a five-year pilot program for the two cities of

san francisco and san jose. to bring proven safety improvements to our streets, to address drivers who disregard safety, by driving over 10 mi./h above a speed limits. speed grotto [inaudible] due to speeding since the data shows that 70% of fatal and severe traffic collisions occur on the handle of streets often in neighborhoods with many low income senior disabled and minority residents. i want to take a moment and think everyone who is here today of public officials, or pedestrian advocates, transportation experts, law enforcement and public health advocates, community members and families. for helping us to get here. working with us to address privacy, equity, and due process concerns and for the future work we must do together.

i also want to thank our bills first co-authors, state sen. scott weiner, san jose state sen. jim built and that some women are filled think it is one take a moment and first thank nicole frerotte from wok san francisco and were incredible leadership over many years. brian we matter of the san francisco by coalition. and the over 40 member organizations of the vision zero coalition who are here. that may just end my remarks by saying that this legislation will not be easy. it will not be easy. we've a long road to go. but we don't have a choice. we over to the families of victims for those kids who are going to school. those cyclists were heading to work, those seniors who are going home. we over to them until the vision of zero victims is actually a reality. thank you. >>[applause] >> our first speaker today is someone who is been committed to vision zero here in san francisco from the beginning. who has been willing to put our

cities dollars where we need to. someone who is been fighting to get these numbers down to zero, the 43rd mayor of the city of san francisco aer edwin lee. >>[applause] >> thank you. some women david chiu and thank you for your leadership because as you have said, we've got to do the right thing. it's never easy to do the right thing for the right reason. all of the people standing here beside me have been in hours and hours of deliberation around how to best fill our toolbox with things that would make our streets safer. and the vision zero is not just about automated enforcement systems. they are part of invaluable tools. in san francisco, with the vision zero, we are-as you can see readily, even right outside, redesigning our streets to make them safer, slow down traffic.

we are working with all of our communities particularly with a very strong education program, and in partnership with her educational leaders to slow down traffic, to make sure that people using cars are understanding the consequences could the consequences that literally end up right here at zuckerberg general hospital costing the city some $35 million a year to respond to car crashes and victims of them. we are working very intentionally with our police officers and i want to note and thank the police officers from the san francisco police department, as well as the san jose police department because they know what happens on the street has in large part to do with speed. and enforcing our laws are police department has been focused on the five top things that cause pedestrian

safety to be less safe. so we're doing a lot of enforcement but they need help. they certainly need the help of technology tools that this legislation will offer the cities like san jose and san francisco. i'm going to have a special thanks to a mayor who is cosponsoring this with me, mayor sam ricardo for not only coming up here from being a stalwart transportation in general and for also being a stalwart on making sure his streets, my street, and our streets are safer for pedestrians i want to thank our board of supervisors and i know norman yee are not getting any younger. were faster in our walking of our streets but we do do a lot of walking and we have personal experiences that we do see speed is going to be of great help in this toolbox. but enforcement and education redesigning our streets are all about the collaboration that

mta and the county transit authority along with all of our partners in the community and community advocates, work with our police department's our large enforcement officers, traffic experts, to make sure we do our best to vision zero is about all of those things but it's also about adding new tools but it's also about educating ourselves to make sure anyone who is driving, whether they are big rigs, or muni buses were cars of every sort, slow down. we need to enforce that make it a big deal. this will help. as a some women chiu has quoted, it is held in other cities did in fact 142 other cities have automated speed enforcement and it is working to reduce collisions, particularly, pedestrians by very serious percentages. i've-we need to

have those percentages down to zero in san francisco. so we are going to commit to supporting this. we will work with other colleagues brought the state. we will have that dialogue, that is difficult in the face of opposition but again, it is always going to be hard to do the right thing for the right reason and having automated speed enforcement is the right thing to do especially with the speeds that we are experiencing good so thank you to everybody for continuing to work hard on this and to also continue to make that toolbox as large as it is because that's how we are going to eventually get to vision zero. thank you. >>[applause] >> thank you mayor lee for your leadership. i'm honored to introduce our next speaker in the following way. i'm going to out him very briefly. about 20

years ago he was a former resident of san francisco and he bike and walk in our cities. he knows the challenges of our city. but in more recent years he has been leading efforts in his hometown of san jose on transportation issues as well as in particularly, but it comes to safety on our streets. the mayor of the largest city in the bay area, mayor of san jose, sam ricardo. >>[applause] >> thank you some remember chiu. he did mention that the reason why he knows that i used to live in san francisco is that he's a former housemate of mine. so don't get me started about outing anybody with stories. >>[laughing] here in san francisco and in san jose and throughout silicon valley we know too well the expression that the future is already here. it is simply not well distributed. unfortunately, as we know the future of keeping our pedestrians safe on the streets of our cities

necessarily involves automated speed enforcement and other critical technologies. we have the future distributor to 142 cities throughout this country but not the cities of san jose were san francisco. how ironic here in the heart of silicon valley, because the laws of the state of california do not allow us to utilize this very vertical technology to keep more pedestrians from having to enter the doors of this hospital. i want to acknowledge our team from san jose who came out to join us. we are all in on this pic is critically important to us is a chance provisioned jim--lieut. steve payne from san jose police department as well as capt. kings were the good we have got our whole time managing laura

wells from the department of transportation because we know how critically important this legislation is and we know how courageous the something number two is for leading this effort. there are powerful forces aligned against this bill. we can only hope that the voices of the families of all too many victims will be heard by the rest of the assembly and the senate as they consider this critical legislation for keeping our residents safe. between 40 and 60 fatalities occur every year in the city of san jose and so many unnecessarily because of our inability to regulate the speed on the roads. as assembly member chu indicated, that speed is the critical predictive indicator for whether or not individual will survive or not. we can do far more. and we look forward to partnering with that san francisco on this and many other important innovations and improvements in our test rotation infrastructure. i feel very blessed to have an

extraordinary colleague in mayor lee who has been both innovative and collaborative and we look forward to many more partnerships like this. i certainly want to thank assembly member to his leadership as well send her belt and so many others who jumped on top of this bill yet this is important. we need to bring it home. thank you. >>[applause] >> now that i saw the microphone to start sharing some stories about sam ricardo. we have with us the most important boys is in this discussion that is the family members of the victims and survivors of traffic crashes. i would like to actually-because i know they're walking about here a little late if you could these, join us at the podium. like to invite up to introduce the bay area news for safe streets organization julie mitchell. >>[applause] >> hi. my name is julie

mitchell and i'm here because on may 23 2013, my families life was changed forever when a garbage truck ran over and killed my 21-year-old son, dylan. while he was riding his bike to work. his death has devastated our lives. dylan was the oldest of my four sons and such a ray of sunshine and positive role model to his younger brothers and so many friends that knew him. he was just starting out his adult life as an electrician, apprentice for ibew could do is making everyone proud following in his father's footsteps and four generations of electricians in our family. he was deeply loved by so many. it's a daily struggle knowing i'll never see my precious son again. no parent should have to bury their child. all hopes

and dreams for his future were destroyed because of a crash that could have been prevented. this is why i decided that i would do whatever i possibly could to prevent any other family from having to face the same devastation. i know i needed to do something positive in my son's memory and i wanted to make-i want to help change the culture of driving so our roads don't just move traffic as fast as possible without consideration of the safety of everyone on those roads. so i turned my grief into action and together with other people have faced similar tragedies, we started the san francisco bay area chapter of families for safe streets. we are part of a growing national movement of families affected by traffic violence who are want to put an end to these needless deaths. we will share our stories and fight for policy changes to

prevent future families from suffering as we do. since the launch of our group, the number one thing that we've committed to as a group is getting speed ab - past. that's why being sold being here today so important to me and i'd like to thank assembly member chu for introducing the legislation for automated speed enforcement. i like to also thank everyone from the families that took the time to be her date to show their support for asc. thank you. >>[applause] >> julie, thank you for your voice. and your courage and we we hearing from other family members shortly. our next speaker is someone who's been an advocate in her days during the board of supervisors and in the state legislature now with the chairwoman of our state board of equalizers and fiona monk. >>[applause]

>> thank you very much. when i first got elected to the board of supervisors representing the sunset district, we have a number of fatalities along 19th ave. that will be prompted our need to do something along the state highways especially. the senator and i worked on a number of pieces of legislation. one was the double fine zone along 19th ave. a second was working with caltrans and chp officers to install 35 countdown signals along the most dangerous intersection, along 19th ave. and it worked. fatalities have decreased. but, as we all know, they have not increased in other parts of the city. we need to do our part to be vigilant to slow down, to look around, to work with the advocate groups were here, were raising the awareness and to

support legislators and good legislation like a summary member david chiu. it is not easy being in the legislature as i know. on these important life-saving legislation but it impacts all of us. impacts all of us standing here in the room, everybody who is on the streets. i do want to commend our law enforcement officers by the men and women were out there everyday protecting our lives, saving our lives, and this will give them an additional tool to help them do their business better. for the community. sauna thank everyone for being here did thank you assembly member chu for your leadership in the two matters as always for doing the best that you can to protect our citizens. thank you. >>[applause] >> thank you fiona. those of you from san francisco know that our san francisco board of supervisors has unanimously not

always supported vision zero but the idea of moving forward automatic speed enforcement did i want to invite up representative from the board of supervisors, someone said not just a personal experience in this issue has been the leading voice on the board on this issue. norman yee. >>[applause] >> thank you a summary member assembly manchu. and thank you mayor ricardo and mayor lee for being here and being not only supportive but our champions on this issue. i am norman yee supervisor in san francisco and this issue of traffic fatalities and collisions is a real important issue to me. i was one of the co-authors of vision zero policy in san francisco. i am the chairman of the vision zero committee in san francisco and, you know we are going to throw-i'll give

you data and galore about why we should do this but what you need to do is listen to these family members who have been impacted by these coalitions. i am one of those victims. a little over 10 years ago i was hit by a car that i was in the middle of an intersection. i looked down the street and was no vehicles for almost a block. so the car that rammed into me must've been fine down the street because by the time you need to turn breaking and everything, it's recorded that he had hit me at 25 miles an hour. on a turn. so i'm actually one of those lucky people, lucky victims, that i'm not on the data that says i am dead. so if you were not for this hospital, i probably would be dead. so i think it's

important that-and am very supportive of families for safe streets. i know that there are stories that will convince others that assemblyman chu is trying to convince to pass this very important piece of legislation. we know it works. we don't know why we don't have it in california. we need to have it. lives are important and it's really up to us to shout out loud enough to say, get this thing passed so that we can be one under 43 and one or 44 cities that will have this. i want to also thank our partners in the city. we are united on this effort. so we have the department heads, ed reiskin from mta. chief scott from the police department and also to leachate from our key

eight transportation authority, good we have partnered to make these things happen. engineering, education, and enforcement. thank you very much. >>[applause] >> thank you norman for your leadership and yes, it is about the voices of our family members. her recent resident of the bayview and not too long ago in the bayview at the corner of third and cargo, stood armand leser. here to speak about him is his father alvin leser. >>[applause] >> thanks for everyone coming out could i appreciate your concern on this issue. it's a grave issue. it's about saving lives and i don't think there's nothing else that is higher, a higher calling especially for me. about my son, he was eight-my son, to go right into

my son with him on was my only child. he was a child i thought it would never would have. he became dear to me when i discovered that his mother was pregnant. at his birth i witnessed his first breath into the world. the doctors allowed me to cut his umbilical cord right before he was weighed. kaman had the most wavy curly silky jet black hair. when he-when he turned one eyewitnesses for steps. as he stumbled towards me, as he grew into a young man, i was overjoyed with many of his first. i'm on change my life and i learned how to sacrifice for him as a father. by thinking about among the first. he taught me how to provide as a father could kaman tommy how to love as a father. he gave me a future to look forward to. as a father, had to learn to take care of my-of a life other than

my own could kaman came to live with me at the age of eight and up until he graduated from skyline high school in oakland. he began his adulthood. amongst personality was jubilant. he was my little warrior. when the situation was tough, he never quits. he worked hard until the problem was solved and he got the results he wanted. my son was very respectful to others. willing to up anyone he came across his back. kaman loves his family, his friends, and his gigantic smile from ear to ear was pleasant to see. all the time i spent teaching him on how to become a man and how to navigate through life as a productive adult. he took the responsibility working hard seriously he held three jobs, one full-time job, two-part times, along with being a part-time student at san francisco city college. up until his death among future

was bright. i was excited for him as a father. since my son's death i have vowed to dedicate my life in honor of oman no parent or loved one feels the pain and suffering that i and my family have to endure daily. every year in san francisco about 30 people lose their lives in over 500 people are seriously injured while traveling on the city streets. on november 1 2014 my son among leser was one of those killed. that's why i'm committed to putting a stop to preventable crashes. we are a car culture nation with more than 30,000 deaths a year have been accepted far too long. but i know-but i along with the other families, were part of the san francisco families for safe streets don't accept this. cities have to be shared and have to be safe for everyone.

one of the best tools to slow cars down and put an end to the deaths of people walking and biking skateboarding and driving is automated speed enforcement asc. there are numerous states around the country that already have ase programs in effect and have proven that safety cameras work. ase saves lives. they can help change the culture of speeding in san francisco across the state and the nation. in the mons-in a month memory, and as a member of the san francisco bay area family for safe streets, i'm proud to stand with assembly member chu, mayor lee mayor ricardo. and so many others who support ase legislation to save lives. i invite you,-i invite you in

ending this carnage on our streets by signing a petition today or online at sf be a families for safe streets.org. to demand that our state leaders adopt ase legislation. thank you. >>[applause] >> thank you, allen and we are doing this or kaman. automatic automated speed enforcement is obviously a public safety approach. i very much appreciate the work we've done with law enforcement here in san francisco and in san jose and sacramento to really ensure that this is a policy that will work. i'm also proud that we have had a strong line of police in the city and county of san francisco who have been 1% behind ase and with that i

like to introduce the newest police chief of san francisco chief liam scott. >>[applause] >> good morning and thank you a summary number two for your leadership on this important legislation and thank you mayor sweet and mayor regard up for your leadership in making this happen. in october of 2016 the san francisco police department in partnership with the san francisco metro transportation agency and the department of public health wants a citywide effort to reduce speeding in support of vision zero. on sunset speed is one the leading cause of the spirit and david traffic collisions in san francisco. as a component of the san francisco safe speeds campaign, we have implemented regular high visibility enforcement on high-end corridor and all 10 of our police district. our officers are equipped with lidar and honor streets to change on safe driving habits. automated speed

enforcement were ase will be another tool we as a city can use to help reduce speed in san francisco and save lives. ase has been a success-has been successful in other cities across the country such as chicago, denver and new york city look for to working with a summary number two and mayor lee to bring that hereto san francisco. this new tool will build on the san francisco police department's focus on the five campaign to issue half of our citations for the five most common causes of injury collisions and those five are speeding, violating a pedestrians right away, running red lights, running stop signs, and failing to yield while turning. let's be clear. speeding is going over the posted speed limits. this new enforcement campaign is an effort to simply save lives good our goal is not to write tickets as a police department. it is to get drivers to slow down. that's why we are talking about it now and we will keep

the public informed as these tools are installed in san francisco. we hope that the public knowing more enforcement will happen. speeding change behaviors under most collision prone streets. if our drivers [inaudible] opposite across every police district will enforce the law. so these, join me and him and women of the san francisco police department to make our city safe for all users of the road by slowing down. thank you very much. >>[applause] >> thank you, ticket i just want to thank you and him and women of the law-enforcement or your support on this as we move forward. to speak about another facet of why we are here today in a hospital, to talk about the tremendous impact on medical and economic costs of crashes on our streets that are preventable if dr. lucy kornbluth from the san francisco general hospital trauma center. >>[applause] >> thank you. i am dr. lucy

kornbluth. i may trauma surgery and critical care fellow here at zuckerberg san francisco general and additionally i completed my seven years of general surgery training in the ucsf system where i spent a significant amount of time on the trauma team at zuckerberg san francisco general. from this experience i can really speak firsthand to the impact traffic collision has on patients and families and the community overall. we are the city's only level i trauma ctr. which means that all the most seriously injured people are transported directly here for the highest level of care by the team of specialty trauma providers. we treat approximately 4000 patients a year here solely for trauma and nearly half of those people are injured in a traffic collision.

that that over the course of your that means that the pager of the trauma surgeon on call goes off approximately five times a day, every day, to respond assess and treat a person who was injured in a traffic collision. the trauma surgeons here truly understand an attitude of this public health crisis. we are seeing on our streets as a witness it every day. particularly, tragic to be the head and neck injuries which are spirits by a third of people walking and biking. we see the friends and families mourn the promising futures of young patients whose lives are often asked extended but not fully recovered, and on a frequent basis we have to inform loved ones of the inability to save their family member were their friend despite extraordinary efforts.

a recent analysis estimated the medical costs of traffic injuries treated at zsfg to be $35 million in direct costs. a year. and these are solely the medical cost. this does not come close to even capturing the immeasurable cost two people were injured or killed or to their families and friends who we have heard from today and we will hear from some more. this is why zuckerberg san francisco general, surgeons and staff having actively and very centrally involved in the vision zero initiative since it began providing both expertise and collaborating with public health epidemiologist to better understand both the problem as well as solution. as you have heard, we know that vehicle speeds are a main factor in predicting whether someone survives a crash and how injured they are in a crash. that there is very strong

scientific evidence that policy that slows speed does save lives and it keeps patients out of our operating room. that is why we all stand here today with our elected officials, our city partners including sfmta eight and the sfpd, and the families of the victims to support this very important moments. thank you. >>[applause] >> thank you dr. we have a few final speakers could i would like to invite up jenny you was a daughter of jenny-who was seriously injured in san francisco at the corner of hands-on park presidio. >> hello. my name is jenny you

and i'm here today because of the not only my mom was severely injured by a driver who was speeding. i am also we are representing by family members, friends and the people around us both impacted by the responsible action by a driver in one of the city's most dangerous intersections. this reckless action cause my mom to suffer many physical injuries. including a fractured spleen waves and the damage for brain severely. my mom's brain is missing many pieces and parts and she is of your cognitive impairments. this crash took away my mom's ability to live a life. she no longer has ability to do what she has loved and has no real purpose in life. my mom now is a person who goes from multiple different personalities within her within a given our. sometimes she is someone with a severe all timers disease that sometimes she someone with a severe suicidal depression. sometimes she is someone was like an eight-year-old and sometimes she suffers from severe posttraumatic stress disorder. my siblings lots of altered since our day on february 22, 2011. the past six years we still wake up every day wishing

this crash speed was just a portal nightmare. but we are reminded and face a daily struggle of not knowing who my mom will be that day. and how she will be throughout the day day in and day out. emotional pain and frustration are indescribable. we physically adjust our schedules monthly, weekly, daily sometimes even hourly, to see how we can do what we think is best and do what we can do to try to take care of our mom. things haven't given up to our health has taken a toll. the list is and was. but why i stand in front of all you guys today and relive this painful story is to urge our leaders to support families like mine with what is needed to stop these preventable crashes from happening. our streets should not be dissuaded and we have to take an action to to stop it. we also need to share our stories as families and individuals will experience such a tragedy so policymakers

realize the impact on us when they don't take action to improve safety. the tragedy of the tornado [inaudible] how overwhelming frustrating painful and stressful days can be. san francisco bay area families for safe streets is here to put an end to these preventable tragedies by advocating for policy that save lives. on behalf of my family, i want to trust my gratitude to assembly member to and mayor lee and mayor ricardo and many others for taking a critical step towards achieving the vision zero by introducing automated speed enforcement legislation today. if afc had been in place my mother might not have been hit or her injuries may not been as severe with a reduction in the speed of the driver was going at. we cannot allow these preventable crashes to continue. ase is proven to tackle that speed of

the and save lives. i urge everyone was listening today to take a step towards saving lives and stopping these crashes. we all need to play her part to change it. you can take that step by signing the ase petition here today were going on on sf va families for safe streets.org. >>[applause] >> >>[non-english speaker] >> sign the petition.

>>[non-english speaker] >>[applause] >> thank you jenny. our second

and final speaker is representing the san francisco missile transportation agency that is in leading our citywide efforts in this area and if we were to receive state approval will be responsible for carrying out ase. the chairman of the board shall bring them. >>[applause] >> thank you all very much. thank you for coming out to support this joint effort for automated speed enforcement. one particularly thank our director of transportation edit reiskin and are sfmta board of directors for their unwavering support for this. this feels like it's been a long road to get here advocates and agencies in san francisco have been talking about this for over 10 years to be here at this point is a big milestone. but we've all heard the numbers. we've all heard the emotions and we felt the emotions and we know what an impact speed has on safety under city streets. so i just want to talk for a brief moment about how we are going to get this bill passed and who's going to sport this bill. if you ask any parent in the

bay area, any parent in the state what it is that are most frightened for their children when the kids leave the house by themselves those parents are going to tell you it is traffic violence. i talk to coworkers live out in the lovely suburbs of the bay area don't let the children bike or walk alone because they are so worried about the idea of traffic violence nurse so worried becoming a member of that club that none of us want to belong to. they are so worried about having to see the effects on their family of traffic violence. safely we have a way to change this. thank you so much assembly member to berkeley this-dissolution in front of us did so now i just want to make sure we all know were going to work very hard to get this bill passed but i think listening to all this today we understand what the benefits are good so we know that we can do this and if we all work very hard together we

are actually quite to make our streets so much safer than when we make the streets of san jose and san francisco sabre other cities in the state are going to look at us and say, we want that. we want to stop the senseless loss of life that comes from cars and drivers speeding to our streets. so we are ready for this and we are going to go ahead and work very hard to pass this i thank you all so much for your support on this. >>[applause] >> thank you cheryl and i also want to thank a moment and thank director reiskin giggling paul rosen katie mccarty the team it sfmta eight been working on this for years. our final speaker is the mother of her daughter and she will tell the story of what happened at school crosswalk in san jose could elizabeth chavez. >> hello everyone. i will begin by introducing myself. my name is elizabeth and i represent [inaudible] who

would've thought on may 14, 2013 our lives would've changed? on the afternoon of may 14 received a phone call from my oldest daughter. despite her innocence in a weak voice, she tells me, mommy, my sister is on the floor. she is dead. write them before she said coolly it was, i don't know if there was a mother's instinct i close my eyes and the first image that popped into my mind was eileen. i don't know how i got to the scene of the crash but once i arrived, i could see from a couple feet away her favorite pink converse sneakers and my daughter's body laying on the floor covered with yellow sheets. my five-year-old daughter was cut short. an inattentive driver struck my sister-in-law and two youngest daughters. eileen was pronounced dead at the time of the crash. despite the laws

here in california, if you have a clean driving record you can get away with almost anything. as for the young gentleman he was only sentenced for 30 days in county jail and three years probation. i have no examined against this young gentleman. on the contrary. i thank you for calling 911. someone else in his use of hit and run. but it is that young gentleman was not speeding maybe my daughter would still be here. there is not a day that goes by and doesn't bring me back to that afternoon when i receive that phone call. i'm here today sharing my story pain that no other family goes through this when my family and i have gone through. if i could have-if we had automated speed enforcement in 2013 my daughter eileen could have been spared. she would have been in school today like every other child and i would have been working. i'm here to fight for ase that will

prevent people from reckless speeding in our streets. thank you. >>[applause] >> thank you. that concludes today's press conference that i want to thank the members of the media were here good i think rather than taking questions i like to give all you view an opportunity to individual interviews with all of the many voices who are here and what effect are two great mayors. why think all the community and elected officials who are here vertically think our families and just and with one thought. from numbers of the public were wondering if this is the right policy, think about your family members. think about what you would do if you came home and one of them wasn't home. and that was something we could do to prevent it. we are here for alvin son, for julie sun, for jenny's mother, and for elizabeth's daughter. we have to get this done. thank you. [a