somewhere -- somehow that falls in the closed -- i think, that falls into the closed category. when we think of metrics and assign a dollar value, how much did the city lose from employee xyz at home for three hours, there's a dollar volume you can assign to that.

you can also measure a complaint that had merit found in wrong doing that was stopped. that's another way to measure it. and that's never reflected in the analysis of the material i have ever seen. i think it was, we don't want to put in -- first of all, they're confidential. we don't want to put in anything that would restrict participation in or reporting of information but i have never understood -- so closed does not speak to the merits of the number of complaints received. i'm wondering if there's a reason and i think there is, but if you could tell me again, i would appreciate it.

>> you are correct. because the complaint is closed doesn't mean it was substantiated. we evaluate the complaint, the investigation determines if there's a factual basis for the allegations and then if the allegations are true, if the alleged conduct would violate city criteria, policy and procedure or city code -- does that answer the first part? >> substantiated or unsubstantiated are both inside the closed category. >> and in the quarterly and annual reports it breaks down -- it breaks out by department.

there's a table in quarterly reports or chart showing which percentage of complaints closed led to department taking corrective or preventive action. >> or even it shows whether or not the department moves on the recommendation of the whistleblower controller office, somewhat outside your control. but at least you can measure accurately the number of recommendations measured against the overall complaints, you said to the department we have investigation pursuant to the authority, we recommend disciplinary action to whatever department and they can be measured. are they?

>> i think the stae tick statis you're asking for, it's by publishing in the reports which part investigated and closed resulted in a corrective and preventive action by the departments. those are published in the annual reports. >> in the annual report. >> and quarterly. >> fantastic. thank you. >> i think going forward something we can do that will help the committee and help the dialogue that we'll have across the podium is pull some of the stats in our presentation just so that we can focus attention on those in a more public form. but definitely all of that work is published on our web site annually or quarterly. >> any other comments?

any public comment? >> thank you. >> seeing none -- yes. >> good morning committee members, i'm a whistleblower. i would like to thank committee member carlson for his inquiry about complaints that linger for a year or more. i have a complaint filed with the program and it's well over 11 months, close to a year. i'd like to echo mr. flaherty's concern that when complaints linger for a long time, people tend to think they're not being taken seriously. that's true. but there's another concern. the vast majority of the complaints are sent right back to the department that the

complaint was filed against. and given human nature, there's going to be resistance and reluctance to investigate one's own colleagues. particularly when it's a high level official, which is what my complaint was about. i don't know how to resolve this, except that the program outlines certain reasons why complaints take a long time but they never mention the awkwardness and resistance that departments face when they have to investigate their own people. one thing that would be helpful, if a complaint drags on for a year or more, that the complainant would be contacted

and informed. we check on the computer and all it tells you is under investigation. under investigation. but why for a year? so anyway, i just wanted to put that out there. thank you. >> thank you dr. kerr. any other public comment? if not, call the next item. >> item seven, opportunity for committee members to comment or take action on any matters within the jurisdiction. pad am co-chair these are items fiscal year 2017/18 work initiatives, items a-g. >> i can give background on those. so brenda and i met with peg to go over some of the great ideas that have come up over the past few meetings for ways to get information out to our voters.

so we finally decided to write them down in one place and peg has agreed to give us updates on all of them at every meeting so we can understand the progress of these good ideas. probably better to do it from here. so peg stevenson from the controller's office. i'll make brief comments on each items and answer any questions you might have. the benchmarking work is well underway. we have chosen jurisdictions, a couple of them here in the city of san francisco, a couple other cities have similar functionality. we have basic information and doing interviews, we expect to issue a report before the end of the calendar year and have this available for presentation to you in your january peting.

so that's where we are with the benchmarking. the standardized template, comparing it to the material that was in our annual geo bond report presented on in september and the table that i included in your packet has differences between them. i guess my suggestion here are that the same information is largely in both. there isn't a substantial schedule or report that you're not getting in your quarterlies that was in our annual. i do think there are some visual and layout improvements that the quarterly would benefit from just looking at it and looking at some of the ways the

information is presented. the changes in format and that sort of thing. there are consistency improvements across the program that could be made. could be added to the quarterly and improve it, visual graphs for context like the little fuel gauge graph on completions for some of the bond program confines that i think are mostly presented in text right now. they're doing bullet points of text completion and that sort of thing. what i'm proposing to do, i'll meet with julia dawson, the finance and administration at public works and the person who

is the owner of the quarterly template, i'll see if we can go ahead with some of the improvements we're observing and fold them into the next couple of programs that come before you. there's detail in the quarterlies that is not in our wrap up program report. change orders for example you wouldn't want to not have. it's not entirely a 1 way street. let me have that meeting with julia and see where they are having updated financials and then we can report to you on improvements. >> one quick question it's two

separate reports. >> the report they do for the presentation, there's more details in the quarterlies that are present. there wasn't anything to compare it to in the geo bond. >> there's still work to be done. web site improvements, our technical people have met to talk about this, similar improvements to controllers own web site. i think what will happen next, we're probably going to get a short contract through the text

door, a web designer to do a better job for us. if there are tests formats we think you should look at before we publish them, we can do that with them. probably mostly make the improvements and report them to you. >> great. >> the satisfaction survey, we have a pool of providers that do public satisfaction. all different surveying. we'll bring you a couple of options to the january meeting. the conversation was feedback on what you want public satisfaction survey to contain. do you want to try and test the opinion of users of a facility, voters, the general public, probably a couple of different

possible constituencies you might be interested in. there are different ways to test. there are surveys you're in the facility people are using, handing them a survey and asking them, phone polls, web polls. different sampling approaches. we have some opinions about this and our providers will have opinions, too. what i'm proposing to do is bring you a couple of options in january and see if we can get some feedback from you. ben's suggestion, he has in mind, streetscape improvement project and then a facility project such as a rec center. i think i can speak to him that those would be a good scale test of opinion and we know how to survey the users of those. a voter test could be harder.

the public finance forward calendar, you got the memo which jamie prepared, that's a regular feature of the packet, already proved its usefulness i think. expenditure audits are underway and before tanya leaves the room, i don't know off the top of my head, when they are expected to be completed, certainly not january but one of the following meetings in the fiscal year. >> it will be third and fourth quarter. >> thank you. and finally geo bond report is on the list. we didn't talk about that specifically but just keep it on our calendar. >> any comments, questions?

thank you. >> other matters not in the list? >> all right. can you -- barb, i think we all got this in the mail. did you guys -- >> yes. >> go over quickly what it is we're signing here. thank you for sending it out. >> the item that co-chair, she was referring to is the harassment policy education from the city that is dube at the en of the year, for those commissioners who supervisor city staff. and so, this committee does not supervisor any city staff and so you were given instructions via

e-mail and guidelines as to how to complete and submit that form to me. >> great. >> okay. thank you. >> any other matters? great. have a good holiday. we're adjourned. ♪

>> okay. thank you very much, everyone, for being here. i'm assembly member phil ping and 57 was for

all of us who spend time driving underneath 101 or 280. you see many spots that we wonder what could we be doing with these parcels, other than seeing them. i think the city was able to envision this many, many years ago with the skate park and dog park, which the city leased for 20 years at $4.8 million. and our bill allows the city to work with caltrains at a 30% of market rate. and these are not used or not really -- >> whew! >> exactly. there is excitement everywhere. we could have the wedding move over here next. so we are very excited to work

with our cities so we can make these underutilized parcels of land into parcels of land and open space. especially these neighborhoods, the land is very underutilized. a lot of this area is highly industrialized. you don't see parks. you don't have spaces where you can go play. i know the dogpatch this district has already taken a lead with the mission creek area with their volleyball courts and they have shown how we can do this and how it's going to be much more prevalent. i'm very excited to have worked with our city and bring this to our residents. it is the district bill for san francisco. i would like to thank ca ltrains and the mayor has talked about this but there are a couple of parcels that they've already identified at some point soon they've negotiated and we can start the

process of turning these vacant lots into open space and parks. so, with that, let me introduce our mayor, ed lee, who really worked with me hand in hand and championed this effort. thank you. >> let me say assembly bill 857 is a winner. i want to take this opportunity to thank. phil ting who spent years here and we're not only benefiting from his life but senator weiner and david and all those who contributed to making sure this bill didn't have a cingular purpose but multiple purpose. that's what i like about our organization. when they are creating benefits, it's not just about one thing. it is multiple

things. that's why people working in parks like former supervisor julie christiansen, people are working with our bicycle coalition, people are working with our parks alliance are all assembled together to say what can we get out of space? that, for many of us, has been dead space. you know, when you look at freeway land under the freeway, you're generally talking about assemblymen -- assemblages of people who are homeless, negative activity, maybe some industrial uses. and in a city as concentrated as san francisco, how do we creatively and innovatively use space that is kind of dead and inviting of a lot of negative activity in to really opened, creative, vibe rant spaces -- vibrant spaces? and i encourage everybody to participate. walk

your dog down there. get a basketball court. get a volleyball court. maybe you even want to do a little boating, kayaking along the mission creek. if you walk down there, you'll see the best example we have today on how we turned space that was going to -- that has been very negative for all of the residents around there. and in conversations with new residents around that area created space that descamps laments what i -- that complements that park where everyone lives that is what we're doing with spaces around caltrains property and we're doing more in the much few years because of scott's leadership and scott and david chu but phil was the one that really turned the corner. because as kind of small as it might be about the

that and how it should be needs to have open space and needs to have it within a 10-minute walk, this is the most treative effort creative effort we can share. we have 10 spaces. and, by the way, they don't just get created overnight. with the partnership in the parks alliance, these are private spaces that will be taken care of 24/7. and i'd like -- more than "like." this is absolutely necessary in today's world where the housing crisis is impacting everything that we do. and we need to build more housing in areas that we've never built before. but we need to have for that

spacing the comp lap meantary open spaces. but we need to have for that spacing the complimentary open spaces. and a benefit that phil ting has allowed us to have the conversation that, if we're in a housing crisis, it is 10 times more of a crisis than those on our streets. an we need to have areas of temporary shelter to serve that. so, as can you tell, i'm excited about this for all of the right reasons. the people standing behind me informed this, these language changes to make sure that our parks, our bicycles, our way of life can continue with quality of life contributions that our open space has. and the mission creek sports complex is just one of many things that we've done through our recreation and park department in creating these opportunities for partnership was our private sector. because when you -- when you go down there, you'll see people

walking their dogs and people doing all of the things that were not done under caltrain's property for many years. and now we're getting an excitement that we are going to turn pretty dead negative spaces into really positive, vibrant open spaces and connect them up with the critical housing that we need. it's going to be, i think, a game-changer in san francisco to work at all of space under the freeway. some work and some don't, so we'll be very selective about them. but i think you're going to see a very good transformation on these dead spaces into very lively spaces. this will be i think the positive excitement we have with our delegation in san francisco that is making a difference, not just at the state level, but bringing back both the language to resources, to innovative approaches to making sure that our housing crisis is dealt with, our homeless crisis is dealt with, our open-space challenges are dealt with in a

very positive way. so i can't say enough about how 857's going to benefit from us. but you'll see the same thing happen in open. you'll see the same thing happening in san jose. because they are all suffering from negative uses of the freeways for inappropriate kind of tent cities where it's dangerous. you're going to see harm reduction because of the collaboration we have with all of the other agencies to make these spaces vibrant and useful for everyone. so phil ting, thank you for your leadership up there. and, of course, as chair of the appropriations committee, we're going to ask for more because we know we're going to get a lot out of 'ya. thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you very much, mr. mayor, and to the entire city for working with us. next i wanted to introduce senator weiner, who was a partner in this every step of the way, myself, senator weiner,

and david chiu, so it is part of a team to make this happen. >> thank you, phil. so we have -- we are lucky that we have a very cohesive delegation, myself and david chiu in this era where southern california has so much population and representation, we really need to stick together so that we can -- san francisco can continue to punch up its weight class in sacramento, which we're continuing to do. so we look out for each other and we love to partner on these bills. he he want to thank phil for his leadership on 857 and i was happy to co-author it. this has been a terrific bill. i think in recent years the theme in san francisco and other cities, we're trying to

rediscover urbanism, trying to get away from the era where it was all about housing sprawl and moving away from public transportation and focusing on the needs of cars, not people. and now we are refocused on dense, compact housing and walkable neighborhoods and bike infrastructure and better public transportation, and rediscovering urban public space and one of the things we've been doing is rededicating land that was really car focused into people-focused places. so whether it is the paving the parks program with jane warner plaza in the castro or the noey town square where we turned the city into a park or what the city did with oct avia turning it into a square.

now this the freeways caused problems in the market, and potrero hill, dogpatch and we know that anything we can do to make them usable is great. and this bill will empower the city to be able to work with caltrain, to create new parks and to really invigorate these neighborhoods. so i'm really, really excited about this step and i know that san francisco will take the next step and actually make it a realty, so thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, senator. next i want to bring up those who have been an advocate of the public land and that is around urban areas and for communities

that hasn't historically had much recreational space. mary? >> thank you so much. thank so you much, assembly member tang. i'm so excited to be here this mourn because somebody who grew up in san francisco and able to have ocean beach as my neighborhood park. this is a city of innovation. this is a city figuring out next year's, the next decade of issues and challenges. i'm super excited about your leadership. i like spending time in san francisco. and you have the cream of the crop in san francisco. you have innovative leaders who are figuring out ways to figure out these challenges and mayor lee and mr. weiner are champions of parks and open space. they know that being champions for parks and open space are being champions for climate resolution and champions for all of that.

and we have a organization that creates access to communities for access to nature for all. we do that with mayor lee on parks around the city including vodecker park a couple of miles away. and what this bill is starting to figure out is how we solve the issue of population growth, of the scarcaty of land for parks and open space, and the increase of costs for parks and open space. and this bill is solving -- it is beginning to be a piece of the puzzle to solve all of that an as we do work around the country, we are looking at this as a model in communities across the country and in communities across the state. this is an example of how your leadership in sacramento is responsible for passing impactable policies that are going to make a difference for real neighborhoods. this is something that folks in their communities are going to feel. so we're very excited to have

supported this bill, really excited about the passage and the governor's signature for ab-857 and grateful for senator ting, weiner and mayor lee's leadership on this. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, mary. next, i'd like to bring up former supervisor julie christiansen who is the executive director of the dog patch in northwest potrero green, north district. i think her district has really demonstrated how to make this a realty. they've established that in the neighborhood and they were one of the groups to reach out for this legislation to say hey, how can we help? we're very excited about this and finding ways to work together. these were neighborhoods that were historically filled with warehouses, not people. as we've torn down some of these warehouses and they've been replaced with office space and housing, they've shown the way

how we can do that responsibly. thank you. >> is it afternoon yet? good morning. so for those of you who want to follow this story a little further, i really welcome you to come to dogpatch to a place called progress park. it's between indiana and iowa between 23rd and 25th. it's ai lovely space. i have pictures of children swinging in it, people playing bocce an people working out. it was not built with the other budgets and clout with some of the other projects that senator weiner mentioned it was done with spit from the other neighborhoods who went to a chain-linked fence, a weed-choked lot where neighbors could gather and have open space. so please come down to progress park. this measure tackles two important issues that those of us involved in positive civic planning struggle with. one is how do we mitigate the negative

impact of our freeways that slights through our camping areas? the fires, the debris that collects in these spaces, especially as our residents and workplaces inch ever closer to those freeways. secondly, how do we provide open space and green space for the fastest-growing neighborhoods in san francisco, nearly all of which line those same transit cora ders. so senator ting's measure as the mayor said actually tackles two problems and puts this way ahead. we appreciate very much the heavy lifting that ca ltrain -- caltrain does and we have neighbors when they used to look out on other family residences like theirs and they now face

chain linked fence and razor wire and encampments. this is an opportunity to knit our neighborhoods back together. my common line is that these freeways severed our neighborhoods twice, once when the elevated freeways went in with their noise and their pollution and trash, but then a second time when the areas below the freeway were consigned to less optimal uses. potrero hill is cut off from vacant lots and rusted containers. this is an opportunity to get some of that back. we're very grateful for it. so my deep thanks to assembly member ting. he said he was going to do this his perseverance and determination paid off. we're grateful to all who have helped with this, mr. weiner and assemblyman ting, we're grateful to have them.

i'm grateful to the economic workforce and robin abhod is here and all of those who have worked with us and who will continue to work with us. i want to acknowledge jean and allahson from the green benefit district. the gbd is an amazing, amazing construct. neighbors who voted to assess themselves in order to spend extra funds to clean and green their neighborhood. and dogpatch is the first one that we know is the first to exist, dogpatch and potrero hill. so i'm happy to represent them. this is a great day. hopefully, we'll be having some of these in these parks before very long. thank you all for your interest. >> thank you. thank you, julie, again. it is proud to author 857, ab-857, which now allows the city to transform some of our freeway underpasses into parks. again, i think julie put it very well. there are not always positive things that are happening under

these underpasses. again, it's our opportunity for the neighborhoods, the neighborhoods of dogpatch, potrero hill to take over this land. so i want to thank everybody for coming today. i appreciate it. i know people will be available for individual questions on the side if you have any interest, but again, thanks so much for coming out today. i appreciate it. [ applause ]

>> good morning, everybody. we're here for the antibiotics and meet signing ceremony. thank you, mayor lee. in the simplest of terms, this asks large grocery chains to disclose the antibiotics in the meat and poultry products that are sold. families and consumers should have the right to know about how their meat is produced. prior to joining the board of supervisors i worked in health care at ussf. it was there that i spend time studying health trends and antibiotic resistance. antibiotic resistance infections are a public health emergency, as they kill thousands of americans each year. and most troublesome is that, in a recent report by the world hem organization, they found out that the world is running out of antibiotics to fight anti-resistant infections. this

ordinance will help stem the tide of anti-resistant infections -- antibiotic-resistant infections about meat sold in the san francisco stores. the response at the federal and state levels is inadequate. in san francisco when we see a public health challenge or problem, we seek to respond to it. this ordinance is about doing what we can as a city to respond to a growing issue and keep more san franciscans safe and healthy. families and consumers should have the right to know about how the meat they are producing -- that they are purchasing was produced. with this legislation, we are doing our part to reduce antibiotic-resistant infections here in san francisco and protect public health. i want to share my sincere gratitude to individuals, city departments, and individuals who have helped in this legislative effort. particularly, i want to thank the national resources defense council for all of their work in

tracking this issue and bringing it to the attention of the city, especially avi karr. special thanks to the department of environment, the department of public health for their collaboration on this ordinance and recognizing not only the environmental health issues, but the public health implications as well, especially for those with immune deficiency. i would also like to thank and introduce someone who has provided enormous support for environmental and public health issues. mayor ed lee consistently works to protect the health of san franciscans and have been great in the fight for antibiotic-resistant infections. please join me in welcoming mayor lee. >> thank you, supervisor

first of all, i like to eat. what am i eating these days? i think that is interesting. certainly, supervisor sheehy has done his homework if not becoming the resident expert on our board of supervisors, i want to thank supervisor sheehy -- safai for being here as well and the other board members who joined in jeff's leadership to focus on a growing problem that he's identified. there are literally thousands of people who are consuming meats and poultry in the food products in the growing inspections that we uncover that are having antibiotics through their evolution grow through misuse and through overuse. and so this is a modest first step, jeff, until we have more

information. it is a proven approach. it is a right-to-know approach. it is i approach that the board, the mayor, we all agree we simply need more information to really find out with a the evolution of this bacteria is doing in the market, in the supply chain, and when our kids and our families and ourselves eat these products what is happening with this bacteria? so if we have that information, if we know where it is coming from, we can then hook it up to abuse and misuse that might be happening in the market. we don't know. but we are asking the grocery store to comply with this ordinance and is formed by our medical doctors, our department of public health, our environmental department, natural resources and deep fence council has been working very closely. but it wouldn't come to this point unless we had people doing the research. i want to thank the opportunity to thank supervisor sheehy but his own staff that has worked

hard on it. because i'm sure you had to answer a lot of questions before we begin imposing a lot more responsibilities on our -- on our businesses. but we are doing it for good purpose. and this purpose is a serious one. it's a health-related one we don't mess with our health. we have to have better health outcomes for our people, and if we find data that suggests to us 23,000 people a year in this country are dying and hundreds of thousands are infected by these antibiotic-resistant infections or things that are evolving by overuse and misuse, we have to do something about it. but it begins with informing ourselves. and i know supervisor sheehy has done this before when it came to h.i.v. and aids. he informed us. he informed the public. he informed his friends. and then we became that much martyr about our legislation and

the about the things we had to do. then came the resources in order to do something on that disease. on this one, we have to do the same thing. we have to be as preventive as possible so it doesn't pro live rate. and that's the work of all of these agencies coming together. so it's my privilege to, again, sign legislation that strikes at the beginning of something before it really happens in epidemic proportions. but when it comes to health challenges to be smart about it and to do it early. so thank you, jeff, for your leadership. appreciate it. [ applause ] >> thank you, mayor lee. next i would like to introduce barbara garcia from the department of public health and a natural leader in public health, both our department and director garcia. >> thank you. thank you, mr. lee, mayor lee and supervisor sheehy. the department of public health is responsible for consumer and

food safety in the city. so this hard finance really supports our ability to protect the food that people eat. the right to know if your food has antibiotics is really part of an essential consumer right. overuse of antibiotics we know causes emto stay in the hospital longer. it also impacts their ability to heal from diseases. so our ability to really manage the amount of antibiotics that people use really helps them. there are many medications that they can't use because of that and they have to have the ability to heal and get better from the diseases. so what is in our food, they're food is a protection we can provide to the people of the city of san francisco. i want to thank our director, deborah

rafael who is not here today. she's been one of the leaders in san francisco with this, so i want to thank her, and all of the leaders here and those that are here today. thank you, mayor lee, for signing this ordinance. the city of san francisco and its residents will benefit from this ordinance, so thank you very much. >> thank you. did you want to say? no. we wouldn't have gotten this through. it's unanimous. i want to thank my colleagues and my friend, supervisor safai and thank you, barbara. lastly, we have jonathan kapplan from the resources council, which has been a great partner. there you are. >> thank you, supervisor sheehy. hi. i think this is switched off. can you hear me all right? there you go. so every once in a while a local government stands up and provides leadership for the entire nation. this is one of those moments. the city ordinance that is being

signed today would turn a light on in the darkness that has shrouded the industrial livestock industry. for the first time, san san san francisl have access to those companies using meat safely and responsibly and move away from those who don't. the ordinance, i want to point out, is unique in the nation. there's really no other federal law today that requires livestock producers to disclose this information. there's a new state law in california that's going to require some data of reporting but it's not expected to require individual companies to disclose their own individual antibiotic use. until today, there has been no reporting of antibiotic use by individual companies anywhere in the country. for decades, that that use has

been operated in secrecy and that stops here. i want to point out that this need for legislation is more urgent than ever. rising rates of antibiotic resistant bacteria has threadenned people as we know it. when antibiotics are used again and again, some antibiotic-resistant comes and we have to curb the unnecessary use of antibiotics wherever we can. that's our best hope for preserving modern medicine. the legislation being passed today or signed today will give consumers an important new tool for leverages marketplace forces to drive change in the industry. and, you know, the bottom line, this is a really big deal. so we are really proud to be here. we really appreciate the leadership from the people standing behind me. i want to thank mayor lee, supervisor she, and the directors and staff of the departments of environment and public health. congratulations to all of us.

[ applause ] >> thank you, jonathan, and i think we're ready to do the signing. >> okay. there you go. [ applause ] >> thank you.

>> thank you.