the state to address enca encampments. thank you. >> thank you very much. seeing the colleagues have no other remarks and seeing there is no -- there is no budget legislative analyst report, i have one question for you, miss cohen. i realize the money is not site specific but given the cost of 125 bayshore, the lease, how many additional people do you expect that this money would allow us to house? >> that's a great question. these funds will go to open additional 250 beds and assuming, sorry, i'm bad at math, turnover of 4 to 5 times a year per bed, i think, you know, we can estimate it would help us serve 800, 900 people a year. >> ok. >> while its open.

>> another question occurred to me, related to the previous item, do we have a sense about how many money fast tracking navigation centers, fast tracking beds, fast tracking shelters, how much through, how much construction dollars it's going to cost through the emergency ordinance. any kind of expectation on the cost? particularly paying attention to tenant improvements. >> melissa. >> thank you. mayor's budget director. great question, supervisor. i will have to get back to you on the difference if we had not fast tracked versus fast tracking. what i can tell you, for the two sites, the $10 million covers all the one-time costs of getting the sites ready and covers the current year, almost all the operating costs if the sites are up and running, as

fast as we are hoping, and i wanted to thank supervisor ronen's office and the supervisors for moving this forward. pleased to get state funding what otherwise would have been generalized costs. i'll get back to you on that. it's a great question. >> colleagues, no questions and no one on the roster, open up to public comment. >> y'all call it silly hall. now, i agree with whatever you talked about. i just left your office, to let them know, please don't do that to me again. i support whatever y'all are doing for right now. so therefore, let's talk about, i support it. whatever y'all are talking about. now, i could speak public comment. bottom line, this city and county by the bay, i want all y'all to hear this. policy makers and all of y'all politicians, beware, black history month is coming up in a

couple week or so, the shortest month of the year. but my sister over there, i respect, all of that, but until y'all give me my respect, you can sit there and frown all you want. i was here before you came, i'll be here before you go. you are a cute lame duck but i don't give up. now, my name is ace i'm on the case. i'm going to be talking from here on out about the black community where our population is going down. one last thing before i say this. ♪ what's going down in this town ♪ ♪ the black population is going down ♪ ♪ but i want to know who, who, who, who ♪ ♪ who's in control ♪ right here, ooh, ooh, in san francisco, y'all ♪ ♪ hee hee hee hee, the city by the bay ♪

♪ hey, hey, did you hear what i had to say ♪ >> now, 20 seconds left. now, let me tell all of y'all, i'm going to respect everyone, i'm a grown man, got kids, got -- a lot of the politicians don't have kids, they act like they are for the community. my name is ace, and i'm on this case. >> public comment is closed. item seven, please. >> make a motion to pass nine. >> motion made by supervisor yee to be passed. >> positive recommendation to the board. >> thank you. item seven. >> appropriating 1.1 million

from the airport, and police training support facility capital project. >> ok. so, we have our friend from the airport, kathy wagner back with us today. happy new year, kathy. i think you are going to be speaking also on item eight as well. so, we'll take seven first and bring you right back up immediately. the floor is yours. >> thank you, chair cohen, members of the committee. airport is speaking your approval to appropriate $1.1 million in airport asset funds, the airport collects airport forfeiture funds.

may be used for capital projects and other expenses related for narcotic -- and 776,000 in asset forfeiture funds, and new amount, for total of 1.1 million to use towards the replacement for training training facility at the airport. the airport currently maintains an existing police training facility, but it is past the successful life. it passes restrooms and in need of improvements. improvements for indoor simulator room, observation tower, shooting range extension and improved infrastructure for

nighttime police training. the airport capital improvement plan does include funding to replace the current facility, at a cost of $7.2 million. and it will be funded with general airport revenue bonds. the total project increase would be $1.6 million, including the 1.1 million in asset forfeiture funds before you and half a million in airport funding. budget analyst has recommended approval but i will be happy to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you. i see no names on the roster, we'll hear from the budget legislative analyst. >> yes, as miss wagner said, use of asset forfeiture funds for the new training facility, police training facility. the plan includes $7.2 million for the facility. the police department actually asked for additional $1.6 million in improvements, of

which 1.1 the asset forfeiture funds and 500,000 other airport revenue funds. on page 16 of our report, table two, a detailing of what the additional 1.1 would be used for. these funds have been approved by the department of justice and the airport commission and we recommend approval. >> thank you very much. appreciate that recommendation. colleagues, any questions? all right. go to public comment. public comment item seven. >> i have a condition. although i'm patient, i am impatient of the city and county of the health department because of my surgery i had. i support the airport, all that, but we are going to go about what's happening out at the airport. it is discrimination out there at the airport. go back to history with the human rights commission when they had the cross out there, hanging cross. so, history is there. i'm historian. before all y'all was with the

airport out there, we had big problems with the blacks. human rights. back there when, may he rest in peace, ed lee was working with the human rights commission. my name is ace, y'all, i'm on the characters i'm not going to waste your time, all i have is a minute or some left. i support the program but the study is still pending. when i get up here and say i support it, i'm doing it for the viewers because everybody is on files. everybody, i have dosiers on everybody, you better believe that. yeah, i've been thinking i've been wrong, walking around looking like mr. magoo. but this city and county is in the brink of having a lawsuit that will stop everything out there in the southeast. out there in the mission bay. out there in everywhere. because in the fillmore, as i coin it, the feel no more, not around no more, and everybody look at me like i'm not around here. i'm alive and direct.

33 seconds, i support ya, i keep that going. just yesterday i had to have the ambulance come pick me up out of the mayor's office. i was assaulted by one of the details that are supposed to be guarding the mayor. can you believe that? ladies and gentlemen, this is a blues break, they say ace you are not a reporter, you don't have -- when i get up and speak it's for the public and giving them information they don't hear from the conservative papers that's obsolete. my name is ace, damn it, and i'm on the case. >> are there any other speakers? all right. public comments closed. is there a motion? >> i'll make a motion to send item seven forth to the full board for consideration. >> passes unanimously. >> eight, resolution improving modification of the lease with

the united states of america offices occupied by the united states transportation security administration at the international terminal and terminal two at the san francisco international airport to extend the lease term by three years and adjust the annual rent to approximately 2 million. >> thank you, kathy. >> thank you, chair cohen, members of the committee. proposed resolution before you would approve the first modification to the airport's existing lease with the transportation security administration, and extend the term for three years, through october of 2020. the lease rent is approximately $1.7 million a year for total rent over the entire term of almost $6 billion. t.s.a. is required by statute to oversee at the airport, including airline passenger and baggage screening offices and the airport is also required to

offer the t.s.a. the necessary rental space with the fair market value rent. the proposed extension would retroactively approve the first modification to our existing t.s.a. lease, starting retroactively to november 1, 2017. the budget analyst office has reviewed the lease modification and recommends approval and i would be happy to answer questions. >> thank you for being available to answer questions. we are going to hear from the b.l.a. at this time. i do have a question for the b.l.a. you have noted the city allocates free parking to the government leases. maybe you can talk about that in your analysis. >> yes, in, just sort of repeat what miss wagner said, it's retroactive to october of 2020, the first year rent is almost

$2 million and rent is set by the airport and charges. it has 52 parking permits for t.s.a. staff at no cost. our understanding, this is our policy that it's at no cost to airport employees. opportunity cost of the permits is about $1.4 million per year. but because of the revenues to the airport under the extended lease, we do recommend approval. >> thank you, appreciate that. colleagues, do you have any questions regarding item eight? seeing none, public comment is open. >> where i am, the government, i'm going to be coming up here, let me back in the press room, oh, i support whatever y'all are talking about, off the record. but public comment is mine right

now. and i'm using this opportunity, ladies and gentlemen, to express my views, getting close to black history month, talk about everything else. so, black history month, ladies and gentlemen, y'all are going to find out what's going on at silly hall. the black folks from the janitors up to whoever is doing what. a special that i've been trying to do for years, i'm going to do it this year. bottom line, my name is ace i'm on the case, has to be a new beginning, has to be an uproar from the ground roots and brought up. we as black folks, i'm telling y'all, i'm here at city hall, y'all, over all y'all. i created that, until you find and put some legislation together to stop me from being up here, testimony, and they are going to try it, trust me, i'm going to tell the word until i got what everybody else has. white media, asian media, we do not have black media here at city hall. what's wrong with that y'all,

discrimination, y'all, i'm trying to tell you at city hall. my name is ace, i'll give the 45 minutes back to y'all. >> public comment closed. >> motion to pass out of committee with positive recommendation to the full board. >> all right. motion unanimously accepted. thank you. >> madam clerk. item ten. >> item number ten, hearing on the overview of the budget, projections and instructions requesting the controller's office and mayor's budget office to report. >> melissa and kelly here from the mayor's budget office. be we begin, a couple remarks. so, colleagues, budget season is almost here and the budget subcommittee will be meeting soon beginning in march. we'll be trying to identify

specifics the board's highest priority budget issues. this will help us identify the greatest needs across the city and focus our budget presentations on the departments that are most directly intersecting with our policy priorities. i believe this will help us bring the budget discussion more into open. it will allow us to start conversations earlier, and generally provide for a more transparent process. i look forward to the active participation, not only of the stakeholders, but also colleagues and department heads. and that, transition over to melissa whitehouse from the mayor's budget office. >> on behalf of all three financial office, we look forward to working with this committee to implement the changes noted by the chair. mayor's budget director, and i

wanted to introduce kelly kirkpatrick, deputy budget director, and acting budget director when i'm out on maternity leave. and we are joined by others, should you have any questions. this was a joint effort putting out the joint report. so with that said, we are going to cover the joint report, in the off year of our five-year financial plan this year, that means we are doing a four-year update to last year's five-year plan. we are going to be then looking forward in some of the existing areas of concerns and future risk and uncertainty, and kelly will give a quick overview of the budget instructions we presented with mayor lee in early december. so, first before we jump in,

talk about, two summary slides, if everyone leaves today's, what do i want you to take away? short-term, the fiscal picture is similar to this time last year. the committee, here for last year's budget, very familiar. so, we had about a $287 million deficit in the march update last year that we had to balance by june 1st. this year, the upcoming two-year deficit, projected to be about $262 million for the next two years. so, not, you know, similar to where we were in the spring. but i think the thing, i did talk about with the committee last year and still on my mind, concerns in the medium to long-term. so, existing areas of concerns that show up in the joint report. and that is around a growing employee cost. the cost shift from the state around the in-home support services program and the large and growing number of baselines and set-aside. and future risk and uncertainty,

areas that i'm watching and all watching very closely, timing of the economic cycle and a lot of risk from the federal government around tax reform, affordable care act, budget shutdowns, etc. so we are going to go into a lot more detail on all these items, that's the high level, and when i think about knowing that about our fiscal picture, you know, what do we advise policy makers to do, and thinking about this, we need to continue fiscal responsibility that mayor lee had priced, and the same with this committee in last year's budget process, continuing to grow our reserves, limiting ongoing and funding strategic investment. so the capital budget, i.t., other items to flex up and down if the revenues take a fall and also things that really provide savings over the long-term if we fund them today. instructions to departments, similar to last year. 2.5% revenue or reduction targets in the first year, 5% in

the second year. no growth asking departments to absorb cost increases and strong emphasis again on no new f.t.e.s similar to last year. >> kelly kirkpatrick, deputy budget director. published a joint report in early december, and update to that, update the deficit in march. the report published in december, assumptions underlying the report, it first starts with a base case projection, stating that given current policies as they exist, projecting out expenditure and revenue based on that, should policies change, you know, that would affect the deficit projections, and from there, the revenue assumption, underlying the report, the economy is strong, there is no down turn or assumed in the deficits, that would definitely impact our projections. that revenue growth is slowing

in the outer years due to constraints. generally the report assumes growth of benefit costs for employees. notably, health costs are exceeding the rate of inflation, by quite a clip. and pension costs are also growing at rates that we had not anticipated in previous projections. and melissa will dive more into the details of what is driving that. additionally, we do assume inflationary costs on personnel. again, these are projection assumptions. we are mandated to balance the budget by june 1st, so the deficit is, you know, showing that we must bring those in assignment. additionally, citywide costs assumed nonpersonnel, grants from nonprofits, the costs, we will look into more detail about that, about cost shifts from the state are included. and from a politic perspective,

includes funding for the hall of justice exit plan. melissa stated the upcoming two-year deficit is approximately $262 million, where we were about march of last year. but, over the four-year horizon of the report, you'll notice the top line projects out the revenue is expected to grow to about $437 million, expenditures are expected to grow to $1.1 billion, leaving a four-year deficit in that, sorry, deficit in the fourth year of 709 million, so it's driving that gap, expenditure, the largest are the assumption of salary and benefits, making up nearly half of that deficit. and further, citywide operating costs make up about a quarter of the expenditure growth, and that is again inflationary drivers related to nonpersonnel and grants. and then baseline and set aside as we talked about a lot.

you know, rapidly growing. of the 16% of the expenditure growth, nearly three-quarters are tied to the m.t.a. and children's baseline growth. and departmental costs are the smallest pieces of the pie, they are making a bigger percentage than years past. represented 5% of the expenditure growth, and now it's 11%, and that is largely driven by the massive cost from the state cost shift. >> great. drive into a couple more of those cost drivers. so, one thing i've been thinking about a lot, and talked with the committee last year, we started noticing it, about our structural deficit in the out years. this is what the financial plan has allowed us to do, to look forward into the future and see problems on the horizon. and you can see from the chart, taking the fourth year of every report since 2011 that our offices have issued.

and it's showing you that in 2011, the year for projected deficit was above 700 million, and came down several years in a row. and in 2014 when we put out the report, we had halved the structural deficit. brought revenue and expenditure closer in line with each other, which is really great. and then a period of extraordinary growth and the benefit is back over 700. so we have thought about why is that happening and figure it out. and by and large the biggest answer is around rapid employee cost growth. when you look at what's happened from when we put out the 2014 projection, you can see that pension costs are the most significant change, about 200 million plus of the change and the deficit, and that's as a result of losing the lawsuit, that says in years when we have one time better than expected

news, with he have to give an ongoing base building coa to the retire he is. and when -- assume 7.5% return every year, i know very familiar with, and in years when we do not have that, it's phased in over five years. and the reretirement system updated the mortality table, and the employees are living longer, an excellent thing. paying pensions over a longer time period. the next biggest thing is actually c.p.i. has gone up, so the assumption or report we pay c.p.i. means that it has gone up in our report as well. and the last thing which kelly noted is the health benefit. health benefits, especially due to the uncertainty in the market with the current federal administration and the affordable care act, almost double digit growth for employees in the health benefit, almost three times inflation. that's having a big impact.

a slide digging more into the pensions. a sense of looking at the budget what has changed. ten years ago, spending 2.5% of the general fund on the employer contribution on the pensions. today 7% of our general fund. even though the general fund has grown significantly over that time period, the percent of the general fund spent on employer contributions on pensions has gone up, and you can see correspondingly it has gong up a large amount. and compared to the problem -- projections a couple years ago, hit the peak and then down with the orange line, the costs are going up on the red line. so, higher, already higher than what we thought was going to be the peak in 14-15, almost 100 million above that by 2021, a really significant change from a couple years ago.

and then one final point on employee cost growth, and the reason i want the slides in here, i want people to understand why we are saying no new f.t.e. when we add it into the city's budget, it's not that we are not proud of and happy about the service restored after the down turn and the board and mayor lee have added to the budget, we are, but now we need to stop growing and need to maintain as best we can. because the costs of an employee is going up much faster than our revenue growth or inflation. so that's something that we are thinking a lot about. pt and then i want to thank supervisor tang and supervisor peskins for the hearings they have called and the attention to baselines and set-asides, something a big concern. slides lifted directly out of a controller's office presentation and the only two points on that are similar to pensions, if you look back, many years ago to the mid 1990s, spending about 14% of the general fund on these voter

mandated base lines and set-asides and now over 30%, almost a third of the general fund budget. makes it so the mayor and the board are not able to make policy tradeoffs and decisions on how to spend in certain areas. and particular point, how unique in san francisco. statewide, there are 19 baselines and set-asides. most have non -- i'm sorry, we have 19. across the state there are only ten. so, really very, very san francisco specific issue. and next i know this committee has heard a lot about this, and supplemental that you all supported very recently on the ihss program was the largest part of that. you can see the bottom line on this chart is showing what we projected growth to be, 80 million growing to 96 million.

and now what we are projecting is that it's going to be 175 million by the end of the four-year cost shift from the state on this program. so something that is also a very large chain from the report put out even last year. so, now i'm shifting away from things that were in the report to things that i'm, that we are all thinking about that are not reflected in the report. slide 16, to say with he have seen a lot of growth, eight years in, the third longest economic expansion since 1945, the gray line showing on average growth of about five years. so, we are overdue for, you know, some sort of shift in our economy, and no one sees one on the horizon. i'm not saying that there is one coming, just something that we are mindful of. and this next slide, 17, to really try to put that in context. so, when i say we can have a big economic shift, what would that mean and look like, and for me,

the two revenue sources i would look at to think about that most are fund balance and transfer tax. transfer tax, the blue area on this slide. transfer tax is generated 75th% is generated on $10 million and above commercial properties changing hands. so, very, very volatile revenue source. you can imagine a change in the economy and large commercial properties stop changing hands, that could dry up quickly. and similarly, fund balance, one-time generated benefit, you can see how much that fluctuates over time. it's not an ongoing, stable source of revenue like property taxes or other things. right now in the current 17-18 budget, almost $500 million assumed on these two sources. in some years, in down times, 100 to 150 million. this is where i would look if we

were seeing a shift in the economy, to see what's going on with these sources. the last item of note on this, as i said, not a lot to say in the committee. i know it's been great having a state and federal select committee i believe you will hear in february, but so much risk from the federal government. how will the tax reform play out for us, the individual mandate requirement going away in the tax reform, and then any other larger changes around affordable care impact us. will there be potential future government shutdowns. all of these items are unknown to the city and so i still feel like although we have not seen anything very drastic yet in our city's budget, related to the federal government, i am very concerned about how this year's budget might be impact the by actions taken at the federal level. >> i have a couple questions. >> please. >> you know, there's been discussions of some budget supplementals that colleagues are going to be introducing or,

and/or have introduced. and a little concerning about the level of commitment that we are committing ourselves as well as future boards. i don't know if there is any insight you would like to share with us as we continue to move forward, particularly as we go into the hearings about supplementals, and how they have an overall impact. >> that's a great question, chair cohen, and appreciate the question and share your concern. say to people and policy makers when considering supplementals, asking someone, do you like a certain thing, probably the answer is yes, but i think for me the most important and hardest thing to do is to make these tradeoffs in the largest context. so, if you want more child care spending or more street cleaning or homeless spending, all of those should be considered together when you know how much money you have and what tradeoffs you are making.

if you decide to do one thing in ice lake, you are making a choice. you are taking away authority to decide to spend that money on something else at a later date. and any money that gets generated in the current year, from one-time savings, we have assumed that money goes to balance the budget. i always encourage any policy maker that will listen to me to try to maintain making those decisions whether they can see the whole picture. that's all a better public policy outcome in my personal opinion. >> thank you, the governor was giving his state of the state address this morning, i was able to listen to a little of it, and i wanted to hear what was going to happen with health care funding. president trump has taken measures to try to restrict our federal dollars when it comes to allowing us to fund our public

health system, and the state has not really risen to the level of assisting us with backfilling or adding additional funding so state levels. so, what are we going to do with here as a city and county level, how do we address this, i think it's several million dollars, 20, $24 million, between 20 and $50 million, significant chunk of money that will have an adverse impact on children, seniors, folks with disabilities. what's -- >> i totally hear your concerns. so, i don't know off the top of my head for the children's health insurance program what would be the impact here, but i know that you have called and appreciate state and federal select committee in february, great time to get an update on that program. a couple things i would say, this board and committee in particular, along with mayor lee, were very wise to put aside

$50 million reserve for the affordable care act in last year's budget, still unspent and i think that's a really nice thing to have in our back pocket to help mitigate any potential big risks in this year's budget related to health care. otherwise, you know, i really -- still so unknown. i know that this committee as well as our three financial offices are watching very closely. >> ok. colleagues, i don't know if you have any other questions for the budget director. i appreciate your thoughtful presentation and ongoing concern for the fiscal health of san francisco. thank you, miss kelly, appreciate that as well. >> apologize. >> i thought, i was on the wrong slide here. i was wondering if we could maybe at a future hearing or so hear a little bit more about what we are doing in terms of addressing the rising pension obligation. >> good idea. >> i think that would be great, as well as f.t.e.s.

i don't know how we can do this for every department, but i would like to see, i mean, i always see in budget instructions no new f.t.e.s, but yet it still does kind of continue to grow. i wonder if we could do a deeper dive with departments so that at least we have the full set of information once budget season comes. thank you. >> just to clarify, do you mean looking over the past few years who has grown where and that type of analysis? >> i would say probably the last 5 to 10 years. >> absolutely can provide that. >> thank you. supervisor yee. >> i guess to add to supervisor tang's request, might make sense to break down the additional f.t.e.s that we have added during those years. the funding sources that actually make that happen, where there is, you know, our local

dollars versus, you know -- >> we would be happy to provide that and you are definitely right, especially with the affordable care act growths and other things, nongeneral fund sources that also led to growth. and the airport and the m.t.a. are a very significant part of our growth. so, yes. >> and i guess you want to think beyond that. some of the f.t.e.s, the growth that came from outside sources eventually dried up, and we eventually let go of those positions. so, or did we just absorb them? >> are you asking have we backfilled other cuts with general fund, to clarify, i'm sorry if i don't understand. >> sometimes i know we have contracts that come in or get additional funding from somewhere, to maybe, and the staff the positions, temp positions, for five years or whatever.

the money dries up, but do we let go of those positions or do we actually backfill it with our local knowledge? >> i see what you are saying. yes, we have certainly gotten grants over the year and case by case basis whether we backfill them. it's always something i pay attention to, good question. >> i don't think we have any other questions. thank you, go to public comment. public comment is open. >> this particular issue, i have very much knowledge on and also i don't have knowledge on. so, i'm not speaking to nobody but who look like me in this room here. who has the responsibility but they weren't around with the outmigration. supervisor cohen, yourp auntie was on that committee, miss cohen, i very much respect. so you, young, good looking, don't think i'm doing -- don't

come back ten years and say i tried to assault you. bet i'll be at every section. supervisor cohen, in the ten years you talk about growth, what happened to the black, african, what happened to the outmigration, what happened to the dollar signs spent on people that look like me in your community, supervisor cohen. if linda was here, i would tell her the same thing. she was on the task force, outmigration. the city and county is going to be responsible when i file a lawsuit, talk to governor brown. i don't think he knows what's going down about our population. the lieutenant governor knows, he put together the outmigration and put in charge, i'm the czar, and you look at me like i'm looking stupid like mr. magoo. the budget, my question to the supervisor, on your head and also london breed. what about the black people that

look like you and me. what happened to us? we had 3% budget down at the bottom, but budget is 10.1 billion. with a b. but don't say anything about the looks like you and me, supervisor cohen. going to be chairing the meetings. i'm going to be there at every meeting doing what i do right now, expressing that we as a czar of outmigration, we need to be adhered to, we need some money, too. my name is ace i'm and the case. >> public comment is closed. is there a motion to file? >> yes, motion to file the hearing. >> thank you, motion to file the hearing accepted and passed unanimously. madam clerk, any other business before this body? >> no other business. >> thank you, we are adjourned.

>> let me begin by saying good afternoon to everyone. i am mohammed nuru, the director of public works. i want to thank everyone for joining us today to celebrate this construction milestone of station number five. it brings me great joy to honor the progress made on this

tremendous project located here in the west end neighborhood. this will deliver a crucial piece of city infrastructure to thousands of nearby businesses, residents and visitors. our agency, public works, is proud to have designed a modern fire station that is expected to exceed national accreditation standards and serve the essential needs of our first responders. it may not look like it yet, in less than a year's time, a seismically sound fire station will be standing in this very place. it is true public works fashion, the project team has been working hard to ensure this facility will be delivered in

timely and fiscally responsible manner. on time and on budget. with that said, it's important that i think the entire public works staff, our project team led by our city architect, project managers and i want to thank all the staff from public works who worked on this project. but most importantly i want to thank our construction partner in this, alton construction, leading the project and getting it this far. you'll hear from a lot of speakers about the station itself. it will be the most resillent station of all the fire stations here in san francisco because it is a very well designed facility and will meet all the standards as i said earlier. we have quite a number of speakers. i'll start by introducing the

president of the board of supervisors and supervisor of the district london breed. please welcome her. (applause) >> good afternoon everybody. thank you all so much for being here today. you know, i have a special love for this fire station because i grew up just a couple of blocks from here. every year, every time i look at this fire station, all i can think about when i was a kid is toys. this is where i actually came on the door that was located on turk street, that's where we went to pick up our toys during the christmas holiday because of the firefighters toy program. and so i know tom o'connor who is the president of local 798 is here, thank you for continuing that program and your leadership in this city. you know, there's another reason i love this place is because many of the men and women behind me, this is where they work

every single day and my aunt, who was mentally disabled, she would come here all the time. sometimes she would be in a good mood and compliment the guys especially and talk about how handsome they were, but sometimes she had difficult times and the people at station five treated her like family, they took care of her, and i know who is our deputy chief was a captain here during that time, they love michel so very much and i want to thank you for taking care of my aunt and being there for her. this is really a family, and the folks here, they save lives every single day and take care of this community and love this community. so this station is really not just a gift to our city, it's to demonstrate to the men and women of this department, we want to make sure they have a great station, a station that works for them. a station that is state of the

art so they can do the job they're doing for our citizens and city and county of san francisco. i want to say thank you to all the folks working on this, to alton for their work on the construction project, moving on time and on budget thus far. and thank you mohammed nuru for leading construction projects all over the city, i know they're not always on time and budget but that's okay, we'll get to that another day. and our chief will be saying a few words later and our commissioners. this station is going to be a jewel in the city, it's the station we deserve for our residents. i look forward to being here and cutting the ribbon when we open in one year. take care. (applause) >> thank you supervisor breed. and also i have to say from the bottom of my heart, the last few

weeks have been very difficult for all of us. london woke up in the middle of the night and took over the city and really did an excellent job. let's give her a hand for that. (applause) now i want to introduce our partner who has worked with us from the beginning all over our city, whether it's trying to work on systems, whether it's remodelling fire stations or building new fire stations, leading the effort of going through the whole effort to make sure we have resillant structures and the correct tools that the fire department needs to do its job, welcome chief hayes-white. >> good afternoon everyone. the job is looking great. first and foremost, i want to acknowledge four of our five

fire commissioners that are here. the fire commission is under the direction of president cleveland. thank you for your support every step of the way. (applause) as director nuru eluded to, there's been a lot of change and difficulty in the past several weeks and i would like to also acknowledge the great vision and support always of public safety that mayor ed lee had, if not for mayor lee we would most likely not be standing here. i want to acknowledge mayor lee and certainly president breed, this is near and dear to her heart. this is a vital part of this neighborhood and community. we are all very excited about

it. so thank you president breed for being here. and certainly it is a partnership. i have a lot of respect and admiration to my colleague, director of public works, there's a phenomenal team, all those standing here. thank you for what you do. and i want to acknowledge tom o'connor, vigilant making sure we have healthy safe work places and the men and women standing behind me, members of this very station looking forward -- many drive by each day to look at the progress of the station. hat's off to alton construction. these are the men and women who will be working out of the station, led by the assistant chief here at this division house. we only have two division houses in the city, one at 19th and the other right here. it's a vital part of our

operation. assistant chief is with us and the members assigned to engine five, truck five and battalion five, who by the way are still at work, reassigned to local stations. i just wanted to say thank you, great job and we look forward to cutting the ribbon as president breed said. appreciate it. (applause) >> we all know no project happens without the partnership of the actual contractor. so we're going to ask the contractor from alton construction to come up and say a few words. i will tell you, i have made quite a number of visits to the site during constructions and some of the beams and bolts are the largest and strongest i have seen in construction. being built, i know this is not going anywhere.

welcome. come say a few words. (applause) >> they don't usually let us talk at these things. rolling the dice with that one. i'm the vice president of operations for alton construction. we are the general contractor on this project obviously. for the last 20 plus years we have operated almost exclusively in the public sector, schools, police stations and obviously fire stations. when our group -- when i said i was going to say a few things, i thought about the common stuff, site constraints like working in a big city and it occurred to me that the aspects of this project are not particularly unique at least for me. this is what we do every day. we work in this environment. and the truth is, the materials that go into a building like this are not often the reason a

project like this is successful. it's much more often due to the personalities and work ethic of the people on the ground working on this every day. so you know -- sorry -- i'm happy to have the opportunity to say that the group of architects, engineers and project managers i work with every day out here, sort of lower level are of the highest caliber. you know, the architects who are here, the engineers are here. shawn o'brien, the engineers, i'm not sure if they're here. and captain mcfarland, the fire department representation at our

weekly meetings. so to say that i have been impressed with this group's professionalism would be a dramatic understatement. we operate in the nine bay area counties and have hit every corner of every county and i can say without uncertainty this group is exceptional without question. they're workers, they're not delegators. they get into the problem and get us what we need every day to keep going. we haven't always agreed on everything. this isn't a fairy tail but the group has been fair and direct with us every single time and it's not as common as you might think. i for one am excited to be part of this team and on behalf of our small team, the superintendent, project engineer without whom i would be under water on this job. bob and shannon alton, disappointed they can't be here

today and on behalf of our entire alton construction family, congratulations to all stakeholders on the milestone and a special thanks to the people i work with every day. it's been a real pleasure so far and i'm looking forward to a strong finish. (applause) >> thank you andrew. and all those guys you name are from public works. this project was from a scratch to getting out to contract was done in-house and speaks to the capability of what the public works department can do, it wasn't like that many years ago. now we have healthy projects and we're proud of that. the next part of the event, we're going to sign a beam. we do have markers that all of the guests can sign. but before i do that, on behalf of public works i want to say thank you to all the men and women of the fire department who protect us and make sure our city runs smooth every day.

(applause) thank you, thank you all of you. supervisor breed, commissioners, we have pens over there, if you can start the signing process on the beam. we will sign the beam and allow everybody to go back to work. yes, sign. ♪ ♪

>> they tend to come up here and drive right up to the vehicle and in and out of their car and into the victim's vehicle, i would say from 10-15 seconds is all it takes to break into a car and they're gone. yeah, we get a lot of break-ins in the area. we try to -- >> i just want to say goodbye. thank you. >> sometimes that's all it takes. >> i never leave anything in my car. >> we let them know there's been a lot of vehicle break-ins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. >> this is just warning about vehicle break-ins. take a look at it. >> if we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the cars, it helps.

>> good afternoon, everyone. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the january 24, 2018 regular meeting of the rules committee. our clerk is alyssa summerall and i'd also like to thank samuel williamses and high