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look at funding streams and do soul searching around what we as the city should kick in. >> all right. supervisor kim. >> i don't have additional comments. i forgot to note that super visor cohen you came to talk about the inequity with which we treat our workers. we don't ask the labor unions to come up with additional revenue when they negotiate salary increases. that lit the fire for me that we need to make this happen before june 30th. i am committed to working with you and over the next week if we can host the meeting, get everyone at the table and let's hammer this out. >> thank you. i just want to support what
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supervisor fewer asked for in terms of being collaborative. it is important to me to be collaborative. i have heard everyone. i want to work with labor and my colleagues and everyone that spoke today. i agree the stories are heart breaking, and i want to be able to do something about it. i want to be thought full and smart and hardworking. in the next week i will deathly commit to that with my colleagues as the brown act allows. i want to say these are things we have to have conversations about. it can't be last minute. this has gone on a long time. i have been here two months. supervisor cohen did a good job. i am committed to working on this and to looking at funding
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streams and to working with my colleagues and labor. i want to be supportive. i don't know if yo you made a motion. >> i serve order the board of directors of a nonprofit for six year also, extremely incredible program. the executive director is one of my heroes. she cares about her workers. and their wages and the clients they serve. i am not going to just, you know, set aside what i heard from debbie and the hsn. it is real. i want to look at that, too. i am committed to working on this. i am committed if we have a week's continuance to figure out how to do this. thank you. >> i had a chance to look at the calendar. maybe we can make an amendment. if the committee would like a
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week, we can push things around to make it happen. i don't know if we would get all of our workers to the table at thattism time. -- at that particular time we can schedule it. >> i would like it one week. if you would like two weeks, i think the committee can discuss that. >> well, we can keep it to one week. i want to show in good faith that there is conversation. it is not stalled and games aren't played here. above all of that. i came to the committee because i wanted to push something out. i am happy to support the motion for continuance. i want to direct the city attorney to put together language and give the city attorney an opportunity to opine
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on my proposal. i want to acknowledge. i just realized the city attorney sent out a memo saying no amendments would be considered in committee if i am not mistaken. is that right? >> my colleague did advice members of the board to submit amendments by last friday. >> when was that letter sent out? >> sometimes last week i thursday or friday. >> that slipped by me. what the city attorney is saying for those in the chambers. the amendments that i am proposing today would automatically not be able to be considered because the city attorney has given advice they would not entertain the amendments. what we call on the floor. that we are to submit draft language. i didn't finish my ear reese of
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conversations until yesterday with folecks. i don't have my amendment fully drafted. i would like to read some language in the record so there is work being done. to the city attorney if we could draft language to reflect this sentiment. contingent upon sufficient general fund dollars becoming available through new revenue measures as determined by the voters. we will use that as a place to begin the conversation. of course, being sensitive to supervisor kim and fewer what they said there is no desire of a full allocation of the 15% of dollars that is 20 to $25 which again is maybe a little over half of the $44 million ask is
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what the workers are asking us today in this committee. let's get structure on this. a motion was made to tip. to continue. i want to get supervisor sheehy's voice on this. >> one question, chair, to the city attorney through the chair. i would like to know if we were to submit amendments for next week's budget and finance committee meeting, would we have to submit those amendments by this friday? >> i would need to contact my colleague to determine if he has time to do the amendments. in terms of whether the board can consider them next week, you could if it were substantive and there would need to be a hearing before the board could take the
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action on the substantive amendments. if it were not available to the public by the time the meeting was noticed. >> for clarification you are telling me you don't know if the deadline would be this friday to submit any amendments at all if they be substantive or not? >> we would prefer the earlier the better, i'm sure. friday would be better. >> the end of the week is tomorrow. wondering if the deadline was tomorrow, i think it would be near impossible for us to get something together by tomorrow. >> it would be difficult for our office to manage that as well. we would prefer two weeks if possible. >> taking the recommendation from the city attorney to submit the amendments, i would like to amend my motion for two weeks to have this item heard in two
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weeks. >> all right. let's take that motion to amend instead of one week continuance to two week continuance. that is without objection. also i would like to acknowledge i am withdrawing. we can't make amendments on the floor. i want to bring something else to the finer point to the attention of those still here. the city attorney that is here is stepping in for our regular city attorney who is absent because it is spring break. i want to recognize that our controller is not here because he is on spring break with his children. i want to recognize our budget director just delivered a beautiful baby boy. we are dealing with a wonderful team of folks that stepped up. they heeded my call to get this scheduled and moving. i didn't want to delay.
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i want to continue this so it can continue to move forward. aall of you thanks for stepping in and thank you for being available for questions. is there any other -- any open items related to items 8 and 9. >> clarification you would like to continue both items 8 and 9 to the april 26th meeting? >> yes both items 8 and 9. if there is movement within labors representing the airport workers, we can move that. givgivegive us a signal. the vendors pay the salary increase. it is a different revenue stream. we have identified the stream for the workers. there the no drawn down on the
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general fund. okay. supervisor fewer made a motion to continue items 8 and 9. it was taken without objection. could you please call item one. thank you ladies and gentlemen. we are moving with the rest of the agenda. >> clerk: resolution authorizing the department of public health to accept 30,000 grant from the state water resources control board to participate in the program public beach safety grant program. july 1, 2017 through june 30, 2018. >> he appreciate everyone's flexibility with the important conversation. this is a resolution to accept the grant to the department of public health from the state water resource board. it authorizes the granted of $30,000 to fund regular testing
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of our ocean and bay water for cleanliness and infection. we have june winthrop to speak on the item. the floor is yours. >> good afternoon. i am june winthrop. i am manager of the water programs for the san francisco defendant of public health environmental health branch. this is a grant for $30,000 to support our beach monitoring program and if you have any questions about it i am happy to answer them. >> i believe there is snow report on this item. i would like to make a motion. >> weight we have to take public comment. >> any member of the comment -- the public to comment on this. now let's take the notion. >> all right. i willmation a motion to send to
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the full board with a positive recommendation without objection. thank you. thank you very much. item two. >> clerk: hearing to consider release every served funds to adult probation department in 880,000 for the case management system. >> this concerns case management software system they have been using since 2003. this is a system they use to track criminal justice data and people in the system. i want to welcome diane limback to represent the department of adult probation. >> thank you. we are here to request the release on reserve of 8 $76,000 to fund the five year project for our new case management system. we through a rfp process to identify the most qualified
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vendor try bridge to carry out the work to the system. if you have any questions i will be happy to respond. >> it is important to point out the system was created in 2003. the vendor are no longer supporting this technology. in 2017 the contract for the software vendor try bridge was approved by the body. that leaves $876,948 on reserve. today we are hearing to release the dollars. then use it to pay for the software licensing support and implementation costs. we are going to the budget ledge laytive analysts to hear her shots. >> members of the committee these funds of $876,948 were placed on reserve in the budget spending a plan for the case
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management system in adult probation. this is an approved project. as you can see on page 3 the project budget is $3.5 million. the funding sources are 36,000 more than the project budget. therefore we recommend reducing the requested release from $876,948,000 to $840,000 that worry training 368480 reserves to be closed at the end of year. >> thank you very much. what i am going to do is public comment. any member of the public to comment? seeing none it is closed. i am making a motion to accept the amendment and i want to -- well, i make a motion to accept the amendment. second. that is without objection. thank you.
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>> can we release the requested reserve fund and file the hearing? gluey, and make a motion to release the funds and file the hearing. thank you. we will take that without objection. thank you. >> item three to authorize the sheriff's department to enter an agreement to extend the contracted term to ma may 1, wih no change of the contract amount of 2 middle. >> we -- $2 million. >> we have a sheriff department representative with a cool name. the chair is yours. >> good i am chris pen holings. i am here to request approval to authorize the sheriff's department to enter the second amendment for the existing
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agreement for leaderrers and community alternative esfor electronic monitoring services. this extends the term of the contract one year. no change in the original not to exceed contract amount. this formally submits for review program rules and regulations unchanged since the board approved this contract four years ago. finally, i would like to draw your attention on page three of the proposed resolution. the sheriff's department is proposing amendments to lines 2, 4, 5. this revises take clause to refer to the second amendment and not the first amendment. >> we will go to public comment. item three? all right. seeing none public comment the is closed. any questions for mr. chris pen
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holings? seeing none why don't i make an amendment to approve and send to the full board and send this as a committee report, madam clerk with a positive recommendation. seeing no objection as amended to the full board as committee report without objection. thank you. items four, five six. he item four authorizing the issuissuance and sale of the gel obligation bond earthquake safety and emergency response bonds 2014 to 2018c. the issuance and sale of 146 mud principal amount of the general obligation bonds 2015 series, 2018. item six authorizing the issuance and sale not the exceed
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$52.5 million city tax ex embonds. >> these three represent general obligation bond sales from the department of public works, mayor's office of housing which were approved by voters in 2014, 2015 and -- 2015. items four was approved in 2014. five and six were in 2015. is that right? >> i will go into that. >> item six is public health and safety was approved in 2016. >> what is your name? i am from the controller's office of public finance. thank you for hearing the items this afternoon, committee members. >> quick. i have charles and joe are going to be presenting.
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they are here ready to go. >> as you made illusion to two-thirds of the voters approved prop possession a with the response bond esr to issue $400 million in genobligation bonds to improve fire, earthquake and replace unsafe facilities. of that total authorization 210,265,000 is issued leaving $189,735,000 remaining from the 2014 funds. we intend to sell those in this upcoming transaction. these bonds are to be sold on a tax-exempt basis. on november 3, 2015 the city approved the proposition a the general obligation bond authorizing up to $310 million
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bonds to fund the projects for the affordable housing for vulnerable populations including seniors and disabled. it is through the proposed bond sale acquisition and preservation to prevent eviction. the provision of home ownership down payment assistance program for educator and middle income households. $75,130,000 to date leaving the money remain anything the authorization of which we will sell not to exceed $146 million in this transaction. based on the anticipated use of funds these housing bonds are to be sold as taxable general obligation bond also. in june of 2016, th the city vos
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approved the san francisco general bond to issue $350 million in genobligation bonds to innovation and extend the fire safety and health care facilities for the more modern ambulance and fire stations and to build and improve facilities to better serve homeless individuals and families. the project funded include seismic improvements, upgrade also, in this same we are going to be using the funds to complete the ambulance facility and homeless necessary services facilities. of the total authority 1731 $20,000 to date. there is $176,880,000 remaining in the authorization. we expect to sell not to exceed
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$52,500,000. the bonds will be sold as tax ex emgeneral obligation bonds. the total anticipated amount we are asking you to approve in these three resolutions is $388,000,000.235000 we expect to sell. the using the conservativesty mated rate of 4.6% the annual debt service would be $29.3 million. over the 20 year life of the bonds that would result in a total of approximately $587,888,000,000 in debt service to create a property tax impact of approximately $12.53 per $100,000 of assessed property. $600,000 home that would be approximately $74.30.
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city has a debt limit of 3% of the total assessed value of the city. currently of that 3% the city's outstanding bonds equal .99% of the assessed valuation. in the board approves the issuance and we sell the bonds the debt ratio increases 1.6%. it would still be within the 3% limit. additionally, the board has approved the 10 year capital plan to place a constraint on the bonds to ensure the property tax rates funding the bond program would not be increased above the $12.01 per 100-dollars. the proposed sale would maintain the property tax rates for the bonds below that 200 of rate.
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bonds we have used the funding to support the hope sf program and that's if reenvisioning of the public housing site and also the sunny dale site. those are quite large, thousands of families. >> so this is across the entire public housing portfolio, not just on the east side? >> we have used other funding to support public housing and other locations. it just happening that the prop a funds are being used for these two locations. we have invested in more than 3,000 units through what we've called our rental instrumentation program and used over resources to pay for those. >> okay. >> so that's more than 3,000 units. >> my final question, how are we going about priortizing work orders? it needs to be done,
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someone has to pay for it. how do you -- i'm assuming it's some kind of an internal policy. >> we don't have our own policy. all of our publicly assisted housing is generally managed by a private non-profit or a for-profit. all of them are super highly qualified and have operations, plans in place to be able to meet the needs of residents. >> all right. thank you very much for your presentation. next we'll hear from charles higera from the department of pun works. -- public works. >> i'm not going to take too much time. in appreciation of the duration of the meeting and the very complete description of our action i'm going to refer you to our slide number 7. i wonder if i could probably put it on the over head here.
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>> okay. >> we got it slide number 7. >> this is awesome. this is my final slide. to call attention to our bond components which i'm sure you're very familiar with, a new relocation of the police forensic services division and their traffic company to a new location. that's the largest sum within the context of our cash flow. we have the police facilities, the fire stations and emergency fire finding water service. those are the major components. four of five under east 2014. it was fully funded and completed in november of last year. again, with regard to our first responder facilities we are doing seeking to improve them so they are most ready and capable of responding in the event of a major seismic
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event. we are strengthening our facilities and making them more suited for the purpose that they're intended to serve. so with that said i'm certainly responsible for your questions. >> question for you, where is fire station 35? where is that? >> fire station 35. that is the new fire station at peer -- pier 22.5. it's the largest sum within the neighborhood fire station's cash flow. >> okay. colleagues, i don't want to hog charles but if there's any questions. >> thank you very much, chair. i'm seeing that this bond actually did not address the aw assess system; is that correct? >> i'm sure, in regards to? >> well, i'm looking at emergency fire fighting water system but there was no allocation for the aux water
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system. >> it is one of the major components of our bond program. it is managed as you probably know by the public utilities commission. for the sake of this particular bond sale, they have already received all their funds, supervisor. it's why they are not represented here. >> thank you for that clarification. thank you. we appreciate your presentation. next we will hear from mr. joe shen from public works. >> good afternoon, members of -- good afternoon supervisors. john for the public safety health and bond program. i'm here to answer any questions you may have regarding this slide if you would like. i did want to point out this is the second bond issuance for this public health and safety bond program. the first issuance was back in february of 2017 in the amount of $176 million and the second
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bond issuance we are requesting for funding for two components of the six on this bond program. it's on page 7 if you are looking for the number. it's for the ambulance facility which is for the fire department as well as the homeless service sites. so these are two components we are requesting funding in the second bond issuance with the total amount of $52.5 million. >> i'm noticing that zuckerberg has zero allocations on slide 7. this is a projected plan for current bond sale. >> yes, that's correct, supervisor. we have funder -- funding from the first bond so there's no need to allocate additional funding for zuckerberg or neighborhood fire component. >> the southeast health center, we've been talking about that
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for years, certainly the 8 years that i've been on the body. is that dollars allocated in the first bond? >> yeah. so i can refer you back to page 6, the slide before that and give you a summary of what the allocation was for the first bond sale. we had the amount to zuckerberg $118 million. we have $16.2 and the neighborhood fire station $6.7 million. so the funding that was allocated in the first bond sale is currently sufficient so there's no need for additional funding but we are needing additional funding for the ambulance facility as well as for the homeless service site components. >> any questions? nope. thank you mr. chen, we appreciate. we are going to take public comment on items 4, 5 and 6 at this time. public comment is open for items 4, 5 and 6. anyone?
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no one. all right. we'll close public comment and go to the budget legislative analyst. >> i actually wasn't going to add anything to what mr. treveti said. i do want to point out there's three appreciation members that will be calendared before this committee that will go into details on how the bond funds will be spent on the bonds before you today. >> excellent. thank you very much. thank you. item -- if we could take these items to the full board with a positive recommendation. we'll take that without objection. thank you. clerk, please call item 7. >> resolution of revenue bonds by the california municipal finance authority not to exceed $40 million and up to note school. >> we have michelle back. good
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afternoon, again. >> thank you for considering this item. also in attendance i believe we have dave lesing and anthony such. >> we also want to recognize moses corsette from supervisor kim's office. >> the act allows for tax exemption on interest for certain kind of debts issued through joint power authorities. that would be issued through the california authority to which is city is a participating mender. they can issue bonds, notes and other forms of debt. the resolution before you today, because federal tax law requiring that the governoring
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body provide this before the bonds can be issued on a tax exempt basis. the city of san francisco is not obligated for any payment on the bonds. a hearing notice was published in the san francisco chronicle. no comments from any members oh of -- of the public were heard or received. the csa expects to issue tax exempt obligations in an amount not to exceed $40 million. prior loans for projects for pre-k through 8 educational facilities located at 1415 howard street and 10th street in san francisco as well
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as a current project which is located at the main campus. i believe that's at the 10th street location. so just for a little background on the school, they opened as a preschool in 2008 near the presidio and known for a model and mandarin program. they have about 320 students from 2.5 years old through 5th grade as of the 2017/18 school year. the legislature is being sponsored by supervisor kim in district 6. if there's any other questions i
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will refer you to the representatives from the school. >> thank you very much for the presentation. any other folks that want to present? you want to speak? thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm from supervisor kim's office. i just wanted to quickly note that the school is looking to close the funding in time to begin a construction project that's set to begin on june 18th this year. the timing is critical for this school with the construction projects. if the project were to be delayed by a month over all then the school would need to find an alternative solution to house about 150 san francisco students for the school year. just as an entity into itself, the school has been a very good neighbor in south of market going above and beyond what they're required to
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do in improving public safety and the cleanliness of the streets at their own expense. we want to thank them for being a great neighbor and fully support this project. thank you. >> thank you very much for the presentation. on behalf of supervisor kim. let's go to public comment. if there's anyone who wants to comment on public item number 7 please do so. seeing none it's closed. thank you very much. i'll make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. we'll take that without objection. thank you. clerk, any other business before this body? >> no, there's not further business. >> all right. thank you. ladies and gentlemen, i just want the record to reflect that the 10:00 budget the committee meeting has ended. i will be gravelling down for the 1:00
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budget meeting. just give us one second. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i would like to call the budget and finance committee to order. this is the extended committee. i want to recognize jessie larson and jennifer low for assisting us with today's broadcast for sfgov.tv. our clerk is linda wong and victor young. we are waiting on two other of our board members to get down here. clerk, could you
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please call the first item? >> item number 1, hearing on street cleaning in the city budget, identifying historical funding levels and opportunities for a future spending priority and requesting the budget analyst to report. >> thank you very much. i'll give you a second to get set up. when you're ready. please begin. welcome supervisor yee. we are going to continue to go forward. you ready? >> i am. >> take it away. >> good afternoon, supervisors.
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finance manager from san francisco public works. joining me today is our deputy director of operations and our budget manager devin mccully. we have a short presentation and after the presentation we will be ready to answer any questions you may v. -- may have. >> thank you. >> so starting out i want to highlight our strategic plans. it ties back to our five-year plan of which we have three high level goals. once to be the best place to work, goal 2 to drive innovation and exceptional service and goal three, which is most important for the hearing today is improve and inspire stewardship of public spaces. so i know this is about street cleaning but i want to give you a quick flavor of what our over all budget submission looks like. we have 1,600 full time equivalent positions throughout all of our boroughs and a budget of $344 million. of which about $35 million of that is unrestricted general fund money that is almost entirely for our
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bureau of street environment services which is the bureau that's responsible for cleaning the streets. so next i want to spend some time going through some of our data to show you what is going on out there as we clean the streets. really i think it paints a good picture of what we are experiencing that's consistent in the budget and analyst report. the first slide i'm showing here is all street cleaning service orders from july 2009 to february. so what really is striking about this is really two items. one is in fiscal year '18 through february we have already surpassed the over all number of street cleaning requests that we had for all of last year. so if we project that out we are looking to have over 150,000 requests for street cleaning in this current fiscal year. there's one other item want to point out because this is really important, for the first time if you look in the lower right you
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will notice that we are tracking encampment service orders. that's a new data element that we are tracking in this fiscal year. those are the service orders where there's a request to clean or do some removal of debris around an encampment. what is really important about that, those are the service orders where we needed assistance from the police department. you can see that's already through february at 12,000. so next is a break down of that data by supervisory district. district 6 is where the predominant orders are coming from but there's a lot in 9, 3 and 10. one item i want to point out as we talk about the pit shop program is if you look at the brown numbers near the bottom those are steaming requests for feces on the sidewalk or the streets. if you look at really a few districts in particular, five of them, so
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districts 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9 that have the overwhelming majority of them with district 6 having more than the other districts. that's something that our data shows continues to increase. that's how we have taken a proactive approach to adjust those over all requests. moving on we want to show something else because we are not perfect. it's been a challenge for us to meet all of the demand that we are currently experiencing. so this is data we are showing by zone. we have six zones to clean the entire city. the three boxes on the slide are basically shows that the day shift and the swing shift our numbers are about the same in terms of over all service orders that we are getting. we are getting less at night. as the value has increased so much over time we are able to do pretty well in meeting our 48 hour service level agreement. that's our goal, especially for a day
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shift. you're seeing zone b at 84%, zone e at 82%. in other zones such as d in the mission we are well over 90%. if you look to the swing and night shift you will see that's where we are having troubles meeting the demand. the number of calls we've gotten during the afternoons, the evenings and the over night hours has really increased. so that's where our staffing challenge is, finding the resources available to work during those shifts. it's been a big challenge. if you look, for instance, at the night shift you will see our response rates are below 50%. so that's where we are really experiencing and having some difficulties. we are picking up a lot of stuff at public works, a lot of garage. this is the over all cleaning waste collected in tons. so, again, that 13,000 ton number is through december. so if you
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just take that number and double it, again, fiscal year '18 will surpass what we've seen in fiscal year '17. that's a trend that you will see throughout this presentation. fiscal year '18 continues to set records on everything we are doing at public works in terms of keeping the streets clean. abandoned waste. so several years ago we had partnered through our garbage rate process, a program where we are addressing the abandoned waste and illegal dumping. so what the orange on this chart shows is the number of tons of abandoned waste and illegal dumping throughout the city picked up. you can see it's also gone up. again, this data is through march and we project this to be well above 90,000 tons between both public works and recology. the blue is public works where we are still picking up waste and material. we are working with our partner
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on this. that's part of the garage rate process. needles. there's been a lot of talk about the increased needles on the streets. there's been a lot of reports on the topic. this data shows that we are getting an increa increase in our over all need request. this data requests the number of requests we are seeing at public works for needles. you can see, again, in fiscal year '18 again through february we are already over 5,000 service orders and requests that we've gotten last year to put it in some context we were at 4,300. we are going to come close to nearly doubling what we saw in fiscal year '17. hot spot crews. in some ways how we decided to respond hot spot crews are a proactive crew of street cleaners that go out there and try to address and identify issues in advance and try to make things clean in a more proactive manner. the number is consistent with what
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we've shown throughout the presentation, just the hot spot crews more than 121,000 needles and 700 tons of debris was collected by just this one single crew. again, i highlighted this crew because it's proactive, an effort by public works to ensure that we are getting in front of the street cleaning before we receive calling. the needle numbers are high as well as the over all tonnage. so with all of that happened, all of our numbers continue to go up. so has our budget. what this chart shows is the over all increase in our fte account for street and environmental services and the dollar amount. so basically it's almost in a proposal that was submitted to the mayor in february at $58 million. this number is just for the direct services. so there's no over head, there's no managers in
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this number, this reflect people on the street out there doing the work. so this is general laborers, truck drivers, our apprenticeship program out there. you can see as the report will highlight as well later on we have had an increase but the increase has come direct will i -- directly in line with the over all work we needed to do in the city. with the increase we have had some challenges. some is on the alternative workforce. the alternative workforce was a strong staffing component for public works. this is the swa program, project ga and 20. these were people providing critical manual street cleaning. while we had an increase in account and dollar amounts and we have been innovative we've had our own challenges. we
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talked the other day about some of the challenges in our corridor program which i'll talk about in a little bit. we've also had some challenges here with these three critical programs that were alternative workforce that provided a critical service. you can see the decrease 41% is pretty significant. it is an impact on our ability to keep the city clean. so here's an over view of just street environmental services to give you an impact of what the budget number looks like. again, about $58 million is what we submitted for our fiscal year 18/19 budget to the mayor's office. really our goal in this budget submittal is to shorten the response time during the night and swing shifts. all of our enhancements always correspond to data. i talked about our slower response times for the swing shift and the night shift. our budget submit
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dlz -- submittal is trying to address that. you can see the cleaning for encampments is $9 million annually. it represents 15% of our over all street cleaning budget. there was a new initiative in january of this year called healthy streets. basically what the impact of that is we are seeing almost 1,000 additional requests per week as a result of that initiative. that's further straining our resources. so what we are having to do is borrow from our zone d crew that's in the castro area as well as some of our hot spot crews. the reason why is because there's an over view. now i thought it would be interesting to show you some of the initiatives that we are doing. we are doing a lot of
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initiatives. as we have gotten more funding through the budget process we have been able to try on and do some new initiatives. so one of them is the neat streets crew. that's a neighborhood enhancement action team. this shows this is a bravo street sweeper that's much smaller than our larger mechanical street sweeper. our director saw this idea in barcelona and it was a success there. he imlated -- brought it here. we implemented this in 2016. we currently have 4 bra sow street sweepers and they continue to prove to be effective. as you can see, it allows us to have people steaming the sidewalks and the streets concurrent with the street sweeper in the alleyway. i think you're all aware of this. we are currently up to 16 pit stops throughout the city. this is a list of the 18 ranging
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from the tenderloin to the castro to the mission to the bay view throughout the city. nine of them are portable. we've purchased nine as well as the rest are permanent location with a combination primarily being jc deco and then we are staffing one recreation and park in soma. i'm going to show you how we identi identified those. this is a high level chart that shows the trend and the over all increase of our service orders from 311 for steamer requests related to feces and urine. you can just see that trend line is pretty steep. i'm guessing maybe 50 degree, 45 degree angle. the numbers just continue to go up. even as we expanded the pit shop
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program we'll show you where we have some s improvement and why adding some pit stops may not be a bad idea. this shows our city wide steamer map. this is steamer related requests throughout the city. you can absolutely see where they are bunched. they're in the tenderloin, in the mission, in the castro a little bit, in district 3, they are downtown, they are in soma. so we use this data to identify as one means to where we should potentially put pit stop locations. this some areas oh of the -- of the city we may not get the 311 calls even if those areas warrant those calls. so here's just a further map of where a lot of the steamer related service orders and the
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calls from us have come in and where we have some pit spots. so, again, it just further cements where we have put the pit stops is directly related to where the call is comes in for feces and urine on the sidewalk. we used this data and worked with community partners and some of the neighborhood organizations to identify location. then i want to show this slide that really shows the impacts. this is a really important slide. not only do we use data to identify where the pit stops should go and where our resources should go we track to see if we are having the impact we thought we would have. so i've just chosen two pit stop locations, one at 99 golden gate avenue and one at 200 hyde street. if you look at the over all request for steamers before the pit stop versuses after the pit stop you see a dramatic improvement. so looking at golden gate avenue we were
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averaging about 447 a month with a high of 567. then it went down. at 200 hyde street we are averaging 453. after the pit stop we were at a 265% reduction. these numbers are consistent throughout all 18 locations. we identified the need to clean public trash cans as something that needed to happen. trash cans in many ways are not as clean as they could be as we decided to implement a program that could clean approximately 3200 of the public trash cans throughout the city.
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this costs us about $1.4 million annually. we have part perk -- partnered with a non-profit community member to do this work. you can see that we are cleaning this biweekly or monthly. so basically what that means is all 3200 trash cans in the city will be cleaned, steam cleaned at least monthly. many of them will be cleaned biweekly. again we did an analysis on this based on youth where we were receiving the most 311 requests for dirty or defaced or broken trash cans. we also have used our data identify these. it's pretty consistent throughout the city. as this program goes forward at the end of this fiscal year we are doing evaluations to see if we need to switch from monthly
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to biweekly or biweekly to monthly. one of the other initiatives that we've done to try to address the problem is our tenderloin clean program. we had some significant issues with keeping it clean. we've developed a workforce development program and a non-profit partnership for staff to come and clean the sidewalks early in the morning from i think it's from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. so four hours a day, monday through friday. really they are doing manuel street cleaning; sweeping up litter, collecting large debris items and if they are identifying areas where they need to call in public work staff that's what they are doing. if they say urine or feces on the street they will reach out and call the public works staff and then we'll come in and our staff will come in and do the steaming as
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