i'm sure you're getting hungry and tired. my name is carly. i'm from the central sunset district, and i'm a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. i think it's a profound and fundamental responsibility of every city, county, state, and our national governmental bodies to make sure that every vote cast is accurately counted. that's at risk because of new technologies, and the response is new technologies. but new means cutting edge means i don't know what's going to happen, all kind of contingency plans. the longer it takes for us to get started, the longer it will take to secure our electronic system and also the more it's going to cost. looking backward at all the public works projects, we need to do this. we need to do this now. san francisco is uniquely equipped to make this happen. >> great. thank you very much. come on down. >> hi. i'm less other -- lisa hill and

i'm a volunteer. i got involved in this because i'm concerned as long as -- along with a lot of my constituents and other friends and just about the corruption of our election system and i am worried a bit about the privacy of corporations coming into count our elections. i love the idea of the open source ballot system and he encourage and hope you'll support the full funding of the program. thank you so much. >> okay. we've got ace washington, chris hamilton and robert donaldson. i think this is amy -- i can't pronounce the last name. i'm sorry. you're going to have to announce yourself. >> i'm ann harvey. i'm a volunteer with the california clean money campaign and i've been concerned since vote counting was turned over to private for profit corporations with secret systems. i'm really glad you're considering this and please fund

it fully. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i'm pamela smith and a voter and mom from san francisco. i support funding for open source for secure and transparent elections. i very much appreciate the work that you all do here. thank you. >> next speaker. >> donna, i'm a former state mediator and we run public sector elections with pen and paper and never had interference from outside entities. so i urge you to fund this. thank you. >> next speaker. >> hi. i'm david schmidt. i'm a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. i want to say that this is really an urgent matter of ballot security, election security, and national security. so please vote to fully fund the open source paper ballot system.

thank you. >> all right. thank you, next speaker. >> don curry. i'm a california clean money volunteer. i'm up here from menlo park. this is just a great idea. go for this. >> all right. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm emily levy, the director of communications for americans united for democracy, integrity, and transparency in elections. we're a national group doing work on trying to make elections more transparent, have more integrity and with as much public oversight as pop. i'm heartenedded by the support that i hear from so many people today for open source in san francisco. i'm thrilled of that the city that i grew up in looking at taking the lead on this issue, and i want to support the idea of fully allocating the funds

for this project. thank you very much. >> great. thank you. next speaker. >> i'm jennifer haggy, a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. i urge you to support full funding of $4 million for the open source paper ballot voting systems. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is chris hamilton, i'm a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. over here this morning from the are you februarthe -- republic . >> i'm a member of the open source voting advisory committee to the elections commissions. i urge you to appropriate the $4 million we asked the election commission to ask you for. i think san francisco can be a leader in the nation here and it

can succeed where travis county failed by building this project in potions, which is what travis county did not try to do. they abandoned their project because they got rfp submissions for what they tried to commission but not all of them. they threw in the towel. we can build a vote by mail system first. i wanted to mention, as some commenters have mentioned before me, there are already open source election related systems in production in other states, new hampshire has a system called prime three they use. and colorado had a system built this last year called colorado to outsidity their elections. we already have software for voting for making ballots and we have it for auditing elections. we need the missing middle. that's what i urge san francisco to build. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is mary ryan.

i'm a san francisco native and a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. i want to thank you for taking the time this morning to hear about this urgent issue, central to our democracy and he urge you to fully -- i urge you to fully fund an open source paper ballot voting system. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is amy [indiscernible] here from san francisco. i'm here with the california clean money campaign. my heroes. we need for revolutionary san francisco to take lead to include full funding for open source voting along with paper ballots. open source voting brings the accountable transparency necessary for secure voting system. transparency and secure. our democracy is sacred, and i've seen a lot of reason for concern.

we need to protect our democracy. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> ace on the case washington here. i just happened to indirectly fall into city hall and i seen the agenda. i'm here to support open source voting because we -- everybody is getting up here saying this is the city that knows how, a city that's the first and all that. i'm saying this as a parallel. i'm supporting it, but i'm also going to be here at the budget skatole find out if the city knows how, about what a person that looks like me, a black man in this $10.1 billion budget. you all ask for a little bit. where is it on the budget item anybody that's on the finance committee and that is my primary objective this year is to show a parallel where the city that knows how, but it don't care about people that look like me. you supervisor, although you're the president, i mean, not the president, but you're on that finance committee. my primary objective this year,

y'all, is find an item line because may you rest and peace and we've got mark in there. he's smart, but his term is very, very short. i want to know who is in control right here in the city by the bay in san francisco because pretty soon you're going to have to hear what i've got to say was transparency is my objective. when i do my tv shows, it's all about transparency from the room 200 down to the janitor's room here in city hall, y'all, where i call it silly hall. let this be a message to everybody. ace, i'm going to be there, and i'm supporting this because they need to have transparency on elections. see, i go ba way, way back when they had general elections and the district elections and who else know what they're going to do next. but this is a city that is gone without be being accountable.

who is in control of the city that's watching everything? there's nobody. my name is ace, and i -- >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, my name is roger donaldson i'm here as myself, but i'm also on the san francisco election commission. i think that you've heard a lot of things and i don't want to repeat them, but i want to highlight certain things. one is the slalom report raised issues and i think that raised the prospect of risk whereas buying this as a proprietary system may reduce the risk, but the risk is to democracy. what we -- so getting the system is something that will improve democracy and the integrity of the election and give us more control and transparency. it's very much worth the investment. furthermore, we heard from the

director and that we -- that other such projects have shown -- they're similar projects. furthermore, things like this kind of open source project happened all the time in silicon valley. san francisco is a place this should happen. also, in addition, i want to point out that in 2015, there were rfis put out by the department department of electi. we got many responses from interested vendors. there's a lot of interest behind this, but there needs to be a commitment to getting it done. there need to be enough of a financial commitment to make sure we maintain momentum. this is fiscally responsible. it is in the long run. this will pay back to san francisco as well as to our democracy. the biggest threat is delay. simply, committing to another $300,000 is a commitment to that

delay and that will make this unsuccessful. i would ask you, supervisors, please, what we need is courage and leadership. this is something that may not pay back in the immediate time or in your next election, but it shows your commitment to voting -- >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm a resident of the city, member of clean money campaign as well as invisible sf. i want to call and thank the supervisors for approving in 2014 the $300,000 in supporting the initial study on the open source ballot. this is incredibly important. first meeting i went to, the clean money campaign, they talked about ohio and ohio had

debold do the machines. the ceo promised to deliver the 2004 election to the republican party in the state of ohio. there's some rumors that, you know, voters came out of the voting booth voting democrat, and they looked at their battle- ballot and it said republican. they had to go back and change t it's a question of how many voters didn't notice that of. there hasn't been any convictions because the issue is the system is closed source. so there's nowhere where anybody can check the code. this open source is incredibly important because we can have any programmer check the back code and see that the system is honest, fair, and integral. so, again, i urge the supervisors to approve the $4

million so this is a no-brainer. for $4 million, we're getting $12 million of product. so i would do that any day if somebody came up to me. so i appreciate your time. thank you, supervisors. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that would like to speak? i'm going to close public comment. all right. public comment is closed. colleagues, i don't know if there's any remarks. supervisor, stefani. >> thank you, chair. i want to thank everyone for coming out today and for their advocacy on this extremely important issue and for the e-mails i received as well. i agree this is essential to protect our democracy. a learned a great deal from this hearing today and i want to thank you supervisor cohen for shedding light on this issue of how we can make this a reality. i look forward to taking a deeper dive on this and looking how we can partner with our regional -- with counties as

well. so i think there's a lot to be learned, a lot more to be learned. it's very complex. so i will be following up with our departments and like i said, this is an extremely important topic, and i do thank everyone for their advocacy on it. it's very necessary. thank you. >> thank you very much. i want to thank everyone that came out to participate in this hearing and thank you for turning out support to the clean money campaign. i think it was very thoughtful and informative. i think this was a good first step for us to continue the momentum and continue to move forward. so with that colleagues, i'm going to make a motion to file this hearing as heard and as more debate and discussion comes up, we will schedule follow-ups to this particular discussion. all right? thank you very much. is there any other business before this body. >> no further business. >> all right. thank you. okay. don't go too far. i want to gavel down for the

next meeting. i would like to call the budget and finance committee, the full committee. if you could exit the chamber quietly, we have more business to take care of. thank you for coming. madam clerk, can you make announcements for this committee meeting? >> please silence cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included as part of the file submitted to the clerk. thank you. >> thank you very much for powering through. this should be a simple committee meeting. we just have one item. i want to recognize supervisor sheehy has joined us and supervisor yee will you joining us shortly. >> item one, resolution concurring with the controller's

certification that services previously approved can be performed a private contractor for a lower cost than similar worked performed by city and county employees. >> excellent. we've got michelle from the controller's office to present to us today. >> good afternoon. i'm from the controller's office. i'm going to speak briefly to the proposition j before you. they were as stated previously approveapproved and performed by contractors, continued to be more cost effective than at the same services were provided by city workers. in the resolution before you, there are services for contracts related to the san francisco municipal transportation agency, the airport, the port, and the public utilities commission.

i'd be happy to answer any questions. >> well, thank you. okay. well, this is a certification that identifies a number of areas where private contractors can do some of our city work for a lower cost than city and county employees. this needless to say is always an ongoing annual controversial issue. this year's prop j certifications include contracts at the airport, at mta, the port, and the puc. is there anymore detail that you could give us? >> there's no change in the services as approved by this committee in prior years. it's the same on going services and contracts. there are six different kinds of services for the sfmta, four for the airport, two for the port, and one for the puc. >> i'm sorry. just let me interject here.

can you talk about the cost savings? >> sure. >> thank you. >> so the analysis shows -- compares the services that are provided through the contract with what it would cost to have similar city staff provide the same service, do the same work. in all of these prop js you'll see there's a certification letter from the controller showing the savings to perform these as contracted services in each of these cases. >> all right. thank you very much. i just want to also -- the record to reflect that we haven't heard from anyone of our labor partners or labor leaders that would be against or speaking against this certification. so colleagues, i think i just want the record to reflect that. if there are no questions from my colleagues -- thank you very much for your presentation. there's no analyst report on this item. let's go to public comment if there's a member of the public that would like to comment on item 1. seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor fewer. >> yes.

i just have one question. i notice in the report that, in this report here, it says that there is an emergency, i guess, situation justifying purchase of award of a contract. so what constitutes an emergency, we always have a deficit. i just want a brief explanation. >> i can tell you that the language is standard in the resolution. it's been this way for many years. i don't know exactly when it started. i believe that -- well, i can get you more information if you would like about when that started in this particular language came into being in the resolution. i don't want to speculate about that. >> oh, okay. then next question was, did you ever have a discussion about if we might -- if these departments might look at not contracting this work out, and what it might take for us to actually employ

these people into these jobs as the majority of these jobs are entry level positions. >> that, as far as this analysis goes, the controller's office does not look at that. we just compare the contract cost -- what it would cast for the city. the mayor's office might want to speak with that. that's not within the scope of what we provide in our analysis. >> all right. colleagues, seeing that there are no other questions and members on the roster, may i make a recommendation that we approve this with a positive recommendation? >> madam chair, can we -- excuse me. can we have public comment. >> i did take public comment. >> my apologize. >> i took and there was none. that's why you missed it. i need a second to approve this motion. seconded by supervisor yee. is there any other business before us. >> there's no other business.

>> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. we are adjourned.

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>> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong and arts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever

you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪ >> neighborhoods in san francisco are as diverse and fascinating as the people who inhabit them. today we're in the sunset, where we'll join supervisor tang for the

inspiration of this show, where we explore san francisco, one neighborhood at a time. hi i'm katy tang the district 4 supervisor in san francisco, which is comprise of sunset and parkside neighborhoods. i think what makes district 4 unique is that we have so many different cultures here. we have so many different generations of people. different experiences and that makes it a vibrant neighborhood. for example, which you go down urban street you can do to a japanese restaurant, chinese restaurant, american restaurant, and the cultural diversity is just what makes it so amazing my name is ching le, and i'm the owner of the kingdom of bounty. 17th san francisco, 94116. we make the most authentic and different kinds of dumplings

and dim sum. recently more and more popular because they are vegetables and meats that we use fresh vegetables and meats in the business. it's really inspired to start discover your district series, because i wanted to find a way for neighbors to come and get to know our small businesses and our neighborhoods. get to know each other, get know our office, and do so in a setting that was unintimidating and fun. so i launched this idea call the "discover your district," where we go every month to one or two small businesss in district 4 and we have done things such as learning how to make dumplings that we're learning today and there are so many different activities that we have exposed our residents to. >> today is the very special day, because the city of san francisco hosting this for san

francisco city. learning how to make dumplings and knowledge of dumplings. they love to do it and all enjoy it. >> this is definitely not my first time making it, so i have definitely improved a lot. the first couple of time s i tried to make dumplelings they looks inedible. they have definitely improved. there is a special dumpling eating contest, which is amazing. everyone those eat the dumplings that they made and see how many they can do. i'm curious as to how many they going to be able to down today? >> don't forget to write down what you are eating today. >> we make all different kinds of dumplings and enjoy what they made. so after that, we'll have contact how

many pieces of dumplings they can eat and announce the winner today.

>> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪

♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food

perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪

>> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you

want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪ ♪ by the power

♪ of your name >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe

maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food,

you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situation.

>> third thursdays at the commons is a monthly event series to really activate krisk centkrisk -- civic center, fulton mall, and other locations through social operation. >> in 2016, an initiative called the civic center progress initiative was launched, it was launched by a bunch of city agencies and community partners, so they really had to figure out how to program these places on a more frequent basis. i'm with the civic center community benefit district, and i'm program manager for the civic center commons. also, third thursdays will have music. that was really important in the planning of

these events. >> we wanted to have an artist that appeals to a wide range of tastes. >> i'm the venue manager. good music, good music systems, and real bands with guitar players and drummers. >> we turned uc center and fulton street into a place where people want to be to meet, to laugh, and it's just an amazing place to be. there's a number of different exhibits. there's food, wine, cocktails, and the idea, again, is to give people an opportunity to enjoy what really is, you know, one of the great civic faces in america. when you look from the polk street steps, and you look all the way down the plaza, down

market street, daniel burns' design, this was meant to be this way. it's really special. >> the city approached us off the grid to provide food and beverages at the event as kind of the core anchor to encourage people who leave a reason to stay. >> it's really vibrant. it's really great, just people walking around having a good time. >> this formula is great food, interesting music, and then, we wanted to have something a little more, so we partnered with noise pop, and they brought in some really fun games. we have skeeball, we also have roller skating lessons, and we've got a roller skating rink. >> if you're a passion jail

skeeball player like me, and you're deciding whether you're just going to roll the ball up the middle or take a bank shot. >> our goal is to come out and have fun with their neighbors, but our goal is to really see in the comments that it's a place where people want to hold their own public event. >> i think this is a perfect example of all these people working together. everybody's kind of come together to provide this support and services that they can to activate this area. >> there's no one agency or organization that really can make this space come alive on its own, and it's really through the collective will, not just of the public sector, but both the public and our business partnerships, our nonprofits partnerships, you know, neighborhood activists.

>> i really like it. it's, like, a great way to get people to find out about local things, cuisine, like, it's really great. >> it's a really good environment, really welcoming. like, we're having a great time. >> we want to inspire other people to do this, just using a part of the plaza, and it's also a good way to introduce people if they're having a large scale event or small scale event, we'll direct you to the right people at the commons so you can get your event planned. >> being a san francisco based company, it was really important to connect and engage with san franciscans. >> how great is it to come out from city hall and enjoy great music, and be able to enjoy a

comtail, maybe throw a bocci ball or skee ball. i find third thursdays to be really reinrig rat reinriggating for me. >> whether you're in the city hall or financial district or anywhere, just come on down on third thursdays and enjoy the music, enjoy an adult beverage, enjoy the skee ball; enjoy an adult playground, if you a rol

call. director kim is absent. with that dr. armistead? >> director armistead: here. >> harper? >> director harper: present. >> reiskin >> director reiskin: here. >> sesay? >>is present. >> vice chair gee? >> vice chair gee: present. >> director davis just walked in and joined us. with that mr. chairman you have a quorum. the next item is item 3, board of communications. i'm not aware of any. >> chair nuru: i would just like to say over the weekend i saw a light security at some of the job fairs and they were out trying to hire guards for the transbay so it was really great