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for fiscal year, 1,000,000,299 0illion and for , 1,000,000,499 million, increase of 348 million over the two-year share by cleanpowersf and theer oth big drivers are debt service on water bonds, on wastewater bonds, and then revenue funded capital on water and wastewater infrastructure assets. >> bring to your attention the presentation was -- >> long? >> yes, long, but supposed to be ten minutes and you are already like seven minutes over. i need you to wrap it up to get to the questions. >> sorry about that. operating budgets highlights are here. highlighted them, cleanpowersf, capital funding, slide 19, this is a picture of the authorized position changes
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from fiscal year 18 to 19. >> and authorized position chan, who authorized them? >> in the annual salary budget. and the -- >> the f.t.e., increase to help with the rollout of the program? >> yes, exactly. the large page summarizes the capital budget, two-year appropriation, $1.85 billion. you can see the lion's share relates to 60% of that relates to the wastewater enterprise and the sewer system improvement program the general manager addressed. water side, investments are, and completing the water improvement pr investing in the water transmission and distribution system, and the power side,
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about 70% of the investment in the up-country assets, and investment in distribution locally the general manager pointed out to expand the hetchy power operations. in conclusion, 24/7 services critical to public health and safety. a significant expansion of the power enterprise and cleanpowersf, long-term capital investment and fcial planning strategies, we are investing in our assets. and the activities as general ger kelly pointed out, deliver tangible benefits to the community. >> all right. thank very much. supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: could you help me understand this a little bit? increase of seven f.t.e. for the clean power and increase of 117
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million in terms of revenues for cleanpowersf. not understanding the math. >> very good question. >> i think one of the premise of cingin people to participate in clean, cleanpowersf is that, you w,e want to use clean power, bt at the same time, we knew that people to pciwod ge h rate, especially super clean power, and then so is there any attempt to lower that rate? you continue to almost punish the people that want to have clean power. >> so, the commission adopted
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last month rates for cleanpowersf that will put it on july 1, 2% lower than comparable pg&e rates, and the dollars that you point out are related to the increase is really related to the cost of purchasing and procuring power, not staffing. >> supervisor fewer: thank you for the presentation and because the general manager meets with me every six months i'm pretty up to date on everything. congratulations onhe timine, on the cleanpowersf, i think it's very exciting and then i just have one question which i have asked all of our departments ihat i understand that you have some contracts you contract out, and very few, mainly about security. and i know that those are in times of emergency as prop j has
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been, that's when it says and that, and i think 76 ordinance. do youe p incorpate thoses into your permt >> we can talk with the head of h.r. and get back tyo >> supervisor fewer: i want to commend you, we have seen presentation after presentation today and the idea that you are looking, forward looking at your retirement and planning for eating pipeline to your jobs i think is really commendable and putting resource to say that, and also the apprenticeship pr. ing t actually help to hire and train many san franciscans, and a problem of homelessness and the alth divide. thank you very . >> i think general manager deserves a lot of credit. the general manager deserves a
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lot of credit for t programs. >> a little bit louder? >> thank you general manager. >> thank you. >> ok, eric. thank you. real quick, for clarification, i don't know if i have this wrong, but when we say th the combined water, power sewer bill increase 8% over four years, do most customers have all three, are they bundled? >> no, i meant to say it's the ok.er and wastewater bill 8.5%. just the wastewater, that's what i was briefed on. and ok, thank you, that's it. thank you. anyone else, any questions? all right. benefit of being last. critical thinking skills might be dissipating. going through this since 10:00. thank you, appreciate that.
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so, i think we are going to hear from the san francisco unified school district, ben rosenfeld. >> nt nty office ofucaton appropriatf item, so, this statutory required payment from the county to the county office of education, which of course for us is the same as our school district. apopriation before you on this item. majority of these appropriations that flow to st, larger and of interest, contained in the department of children youth and families budget which you'll see in june. >> yes tright.all ght. well, thank you very much for that brief description. appreciate that. right now we are going to go to public comment. any member of the public, come on up, two minutes. public comment is open. please. someone. come to the mic.
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>> start off with that first speaker from the transportation. i object to h statements about school traffic monitors, monitoring the crosswalk for kids. there was hundreds that applied jb opening a sev months ago, a i w p sonthat was passing outhe job announcements, advertise you pay $20 an hour for the work. you lead the people to believe they cane enogh money to support themselves in the city. then after the process and selection process to get the job, you only work them an hour and a half a day. it's disgusting. and about thisdallio w you are charging the arabic and people from india descent, $250,000 in order to have a license and permit to drive taxis, that's extortion. that's a criminal offense.
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and you are in violation of the rico act. racially profile those brown skin color taxi drivers in order to pressure know they want to survive and put them in potential financial bind. it's a criminal offense. violation of title 18 of the united states code service and deprive a person of a civil rights like that, pertaining to funds, you should not be fined more than $10,000 of cash money and serve a prison term fo longer than seven years. you should go to the school district and press charges against them and also t cy attorney for civil penalties and about calling that hearing torii take it intelligence of cohen, seeing how all the arabic people were coming to me and asking me to help them and i was the one hat pointed out all you have to do is explain to them like you explai to me. they didn't know they could at public comment. i'm the one that got them to
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come u and speak. don't stop there cohen, also the waye got treated in the fillmore area. time isank yo come on, nexspeake >> good afternoon, supervisors. peterfirxeculd, eve director of library users association. i want to thank you very much for the many qioou have had gal andarticularly to the library. they are not used to being in a forum where they don't control everything, and their responses were very interesting let me make some general statements about radio frequency identification, $3.4 million project they want to install and then spend about $200,000 a year for the ne years supporting.
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first of all, rf patrony, enaasf the book to be r without the knowledge or consent of the person carrying the item and it can be read through clothing and a closed container like a purse or briefcase. rfid, second of all, a huge security hole and that is it leaves the library wide open to massive and undetected losses from people who may intentiona or unintentionally have a very inexpensive and readily available material that they can basically put the books or other materials into or have the signal so that the reader has no ide what's going out the door. rfid poses potential health s radio frequency radiation. we are not talking atomic radiation, but radio frequency
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atiodi some health studies have shown that. anditivetess cog from bar code swiping is something they have no longe haai prey m bogus. let me just say the biggest whopper we heard, only one individual from acle and es electron frontier foundation and american civil liberties submit the letter. groups, not individuals. plse.ank you, next speaker, >> thank you, supervisors, mark krueger with san francisco taxi workers alliance, and some taxi drivers came to the board the other day, you heard from them. they shelled out $250,000 for taxi me driv h cing to the mta for a couple of years now asking for help and the mta has been unresponsive to them.
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most drivers have giv up the mta don b to go. there was a consultant's report put out in the last couple of weeks, completely dropped the ball, did not discuss it. re ithis is an issue not only , i sans an issue in new york and other places. last week the "new york times" wrote an editorial which entitled what will new york do about its uber problem, and i would like to read you just two sentences from that editorial. says over time the city should consider whether it owes something to drivers who sunk their savings into taxi medallions. many drivers went into debt to buy these permits because the city promised them a monopoly on picking up passengers a promise it has not been able to keep. so, the situation here in san francisco is far worse because these drivers who bought the medallio medallions were on a waiting
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list, many for 10, 15 years or more, the city pulled away the right to a medallion at a nominal price and forced them to buy these things for $250,000. so, the city needs to do something about this. these drivers need help. i don't know if it's too late in the mta's budget processut i ul board of supervisors to finda ndinger through the mta or otherwise to start compensating these medallion holders for the situation which itythe cas created. thanku. >> thank u. any members of the public that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you very much, thank you to the staff that made the presentations and the ladies and gentlemen that participated in publi comment. thank you. colleagues, we are just about done here. i would like to make motion to continue the hearings to next week. >> motion to continue the matter
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to may 24. >> that's right. second? >> second by supervisor fewer, take that without objection. please note that supervisor yee is not here. >> thank you. >> that motion passes. with chair cohen, fewer, stefani and supervisor yee absent. >> any other business before this body? >> thatetespl the morning agenda. take a 15-minute recess and then we will begin the afternoon agenda. thank you.
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budget and finance committee. we have a late start, hopefully make up as we move forward. apologies,ou clerk, mr. victor sving with us today. so recognize adrian starks and michael balthazar. theensen our desks are notg the screen saver. never mind. there, we fixed it. no more technical difficties. let's get on with the party. adrian starks, michael, thank you for assisting us. recognize myues cn the committe fewer on my right, my left, supervisor stefani and supervisor yeah.
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>> silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the june 5th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. i belieuperviehyhe has noted heis unable to attend today's meeting. >> that's correct. what i would like to do, make a motion to excuse supervisor hatehy motion, seconded by supervisor yee and without objen. thank you very much. supervisor sheehy a speedy recovery. call items 1, 2, and 3 together. >> clerk: item 1, hering to consider the mayor's proposed budget for selected departments r fiscal years 18-1, and 19-20. item 2 is proposed budget and appropriation ordinance for selected departments as of may 1, 2018, for fiscal years 2018-19, and fiscal years
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2019-20. item number 3, the proposed annual salary ordinance for selected departments as of may 1, , years 18-19, and fiscal years 19-20. >> supervisor cohen: thank you mr. clerk, appreciate that. ladies and gentlemen, i would like to call, i'm going to let you know whathe rtmen, we are going to be calling, first the san francisco international airport, port of --me, por of s francisco, the . libry, s.f.m.t.a., environment, public building inspection andbl utilitiescommission. so -- we ca begin with the internatioai thank you welcome back. >> good morning. thank you, madam chair. members of the board, thank you for coming back andssi any follow-up questions you may have. i believe you are in receipt of our written response to a number
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of the questi rsed last week in the budget hearing and if it pleases the committee, i would like to walk you through the analysis we did on the -- >> yes. >> on the police department staffing. you'll see on the first page a lo t analysis wasbased, the 0 based analysis based on a number of factors and see the factors relate to the significant growth we have seen since 1997 to 2017, and probably most meaningful is the column on the right that talks about the percent change in the factors, and it's a function of the growth we have experienced and some of the impacts that it's had. you can also see it, our request as a function of the new facilities that we have opened since this time, and those are also listed on the page. many of th projects related to the airport capital improvement program of the late 1990s and early 2000, and the projects
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underway related to the $7.2 billion capital program. on page 2 of the ans,iomeook at. the first being the increase in passenger and an andh growth, the line is the budgeted officers that we have experienced since 1997 to current. and then the bars are the passenger growth we have experienced. so you can see that the officer count has not kept pace with the growth and passengers over time. and then below that, anot mes t amount of terminal space, the amount of coverage required of the officers to patrol and we have experienced significa additional square footage.
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you can see the numbers there and the number of atr square p officer, we were at 20,000 square feet per officer in 1997, and today we are at about 36,000 square feet the next page we talk about what we are trying to achieve with the increase in staffing. and first of all,t is that visible presence that i spoke of last time, we are also adding five new functions and you can see the list there. bicycle patrol, to get to some of the outlying areas is an important new initiative. and then also coverage of the new facilities hotel response, as well as homeless, we are seeing an increase in the number of homeless coming to the airport, and also i would point out the perimeter security and additional patrols around our
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perimeter. if you flip that over to page four, also traffic enforcement is becoming a more important aspect of our business so we are proposing an increase in motorcycle we are also proposing to double the size of the ground hat's driving that around, just the increase in commercial, the commercl ground transportation, largely a function of uber, lyft and the t.n.c. operations. and then if you flip over to the next page, we have some enhanced special services we are looking at to again irease po of the airport and be prepared for additional vulnerabilities and be able to respond as the ever changing world of terrorist
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threats and our ability to respond. it's important we are prepared for any type of event that may happen. then on the last page, you can seeow we -- what the 0 based sgin approach has done, and i'll just point out that with this two-year budget, we are proposing 229 officer staffing, so it does not get us to the full complement of what the 0 based staffing, but it gets us quite a long way towards what the 0 based staffing numbers would indicate. so 0 based staffing would show a number of 278, we are getting to 229 with this budget. and with that, i would be glad to answer any questions. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much for the presentation. colleagues, as reminder, the airport is one of those unique departments. the budget is entirely based off
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its revenue and thank you. because you also give a portion of its revenue to the general fund. i believe 12.7% of the budget is increased in year 1 and 10% increase in year two. does that sound right? >> yes. >> supervisor cohen: and then we have a -- increasing the number of full-time employees by 12.75, which will bring you, correct me if i'm wrong, bring you up to almost0 employees. 1585.95. i don't know how you account the.95, but that's good. so, are last week we asked questions about why there were so many police officers designated or allocated, and i just want to also acknowledge that you have answered the questionsnd in the answer to the question is, is that the airport -- the airport has just been understaffed for several years, and that you are proposing 72 full-time police,
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which is about 42% of the officer pool already in existence. excuse me, 42% are officers, meaning that you are not going to be too top heavy, i think that'sim and recognize thau are paying for two work orders, two academy classes to help fund and pay for the officers that were going to be at allocating to the airport. i do have one final question. also want to recognize the b.l.a. has indicated that their requests are reasonable. but my question for you, what changes would you be able for the pick-up an specifically about uber and lyft at the corner. how will that be reconciled moving forward at the airport? >> try a couple initiatives in an incremental way, both the traffic congestion and the curb side congestion. >> supervisor cohen: are you actively working to solve the congestion problem? >> we are, we are.
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we are working -- with uber and lyft currently around a premium pricing model for curb side access, and so try to h a incentive tose t garage, a premium fee a dollar, up to $2 if they use the curb. we have more dramatic initiatives as well to make sure we solve the issue, which is at some point we may move all of th pick-ups into the garage. right now we have a project underway that is resurfacing the fifth floor of the garage, that would be the dedicated area for staging. we will be preds to make that move if need b w prepare for the summer season to see how much congestion remains after we try the incentive approach to use of the garage. >> supervisor cohen: when do you plan to roll this program out? working with them on any changes we need to make to their app, to make this happen and help
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designate where other pick-up opportunities are, so another initiative, can we spread people ro the doors, they congregate at certain doors, and so we are doing that right now. premium pricing into effect july 1st, and then by late summer we'll be ready to make that more substantial move of pick-ups into the garage. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. recognize supervisor yeah. >> supervisor yee: thankyou, chair cohen. can u clarify, the numbers, i have different numbers here. on the slide, it talks about 229, and then i'm looking, this slide says 229showed. and i'm looking at the report on
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page three, and this is 255. proposed f.t.e.s, 255. can you tell me -- >> on page three of that, let's see -- >> supervisor yee: b.l.a. m sorr secnesupervisor. apologies, supervisor. >> supervisor yee: even before you get to that, in your mind, you are trying to increase the number of staffing for policing
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by how many? >> trying to go from 142 officers to 229 over the next two years. those are the key numbers. and then our baseline report says the appropriate number is 278, but we are trying to get to 229 over the next two years. >> supervisor yee: include other positions, would it be more than that? >> those are just the officers, patrols and traffic management folks. >> supervisor yee: so that's -- and of about 70, 60, 70, 80, 80 or so. ok. >> yes, sir. >> supervisor yee: the question i have is in regards to gearing up to increase those numbers, is
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over a two-year period. >> that's correct. that happens in the second year, essentially happens in the second year. >> supervisor yee: and you are offering to pay for ma training classes? >> a total of four. i believe there are two that are allocated costs where we will get not all of the academy class and then two dedicated airport s s. >> supervisor yee: ok. that's fine. just want to make sure that we are covering what we need to cover so thatt does not deplete the existing police e or in the city of san francisco. >> thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much for answering those questions. i wanted to know, what are the number of motorcycle officers that you hope to have at the airport? >> i'm going to have to ask the deputy chief.
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>> we have one in six and hoping to go to 2 and 10, a broader coverage across the week and also hours of the day. >> do you also pay for the equipment, motorcycles, the vehicles? >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: airport pays for the vehicles dispatched out there. and if you ever explored whether or not there would be cost savings if you had the san francisco sheriff's department take over some of the duties. such as the curb management or iooked on your thing.rveillance, so, have you ever thought about having, you know, i think that in the city and county of san francisco, in the city of san francisco, is that we would all like to have more police officers at our district
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stations and out in the streets in san francisco. and so when i see that you are beefing it up to 229 offi, swornchat sheriff's are also peace officers in the state of california. wondering if they could be taking over some of the duties at a lower cost and also relieve some of the uniformed folks out to our district stations. >> one of the issues that we have with that is we actually are in san mateo county and law enforcement services to see that authority to us. we have to start that conversation with the san mateo county sheriff. >> supervisor fewer: would there be a cost saving? >> it's a math question. >> i'm horrible at math actually, also. ok. that's just a question. and then please explain to me again a little bit more in-depth about starting january 1st,
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july 1st you are hoping you are going to be introducing premium pricing for just t.n.c.s or also for taxi drivers? just the t.n. the low occupancy vehicles of the t. n.c. so, we would not subject the high occupancy vehicles like charter busses and other, those fees. so, just then.c.s with the 1 or 2 riders, typically. >> supervisor fewer: have we ever looked into maybe a partnership with m.t.a. around bart service out to the airport and some sort of incentive to, for people to take part out there? >> we do offer an employee incentive through thoney that we give them every month, if they give up their parking spot. and we have see great, really uptick in migration of people taking bart, particularly employees. we have not looked at other options with the m.t.a. that i'm
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aware . we would be glad to explore that. >> supervisor fewer: i think you said 800,000 trips out to th airport, t.n.c.s. and seems as though webably ld behinking about some incentives to get people to take public transportation out there. and then i just wanted to know, when you say that we are thinking about png all the pick-ups in the garage, does that include tax also, or just the t.n.c.s? >> the taxi operation would stay where it is, at the lower level, at the med curb. so, we arelly talking about uber and lyft. we would also offer that to the passengers as an express pick-up and dropoff and probably will increase the length of free access, so right now it's ten minutes free access for the public. we would probably look at increasing that to 20 minutes or so. to try to move some of that traffic as well. >> supervisor fewer: thanks. and you see in the one, you have
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12.7% increase and in your 2, 10% increase. would you ever think about eliminating the pick-up fees for taxis? >> you know, we are unable to do that because of the model of the allocation model and the cost recovery that we need to achieve through our financial analysis. so what we do, we spread it around and make a fair base for everyone to pay their fair share. unable to offer free access. >> supervisor fewer: any other deas for incentive fle to take public transportation taxis versus t.n.c.s out to the airport? >> you know, i think we have a good partnership with bart and there are some avenues to explore there, potentially. and so i'll reach out to the bart folks and what are those opportunities. i can't think of any off the top of my head, but that's something that we could explore.
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>> yeah, i said -- i meant bart. i think if there was a financial incentive to take bart out to the airport, that maybe more paoge that instead of t.n.c.s. those are the mrity of them, single occupancy probably going there, too. ok. thank you very much. >> ok, thank you. >> supervisor cohen: anything else? >> no, thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. the next department we will hear from is the san francisco port. >> supervisor cohen: i'm sorry, turn on your mic. ok, they are on now. yes, i do want to hear from the b.l.a. i read your mind. yes. >> you did read my mind.
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madam chair, members of the committee, referring to the airport's physicians as shown on pages 3 and 4 of our report, and supervisor yee's numbers, provided by the airport to our office. we know that the number of sworn officers in the airport would increase from about 39%, from 184 to 255.69, that's full-time largest ireases among the police officers specifically, the lieutenants were increased by 1.54tsan 10.77, and police officers 59.38 for a 71.69% increase. we also report that in 18-19 and 19-20, the airport proposed
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budget includes 11.7 million and 12.2 million respectively to fund 120 slots in three police academies and ten lateral officer hires for 133 new police ofr positions. page four of the report we note in 19-20, the airport plans for acad of classes for new recruits and lateral police officer hires, but the dates of the academy classes are not yet known. supervisors, i would report that we will do furtr analysis of this matter in the june budget and that's related to the police department's budget. as you know, these positions are included in the police department's budget. now,egardg the overall budget of the airport, on page five of our report, our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 3,416,184,
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in 18-19, of that amount, 2,407,158, ongoing saving, and there are one-time savings, st allow increase of 121,620,000, or 12.3% and the year 18-19 budget. and i've already gone over the ce department item, we would say at this time it's a policy matter for the board of suorsn item. and, but io mentioned that we will do further analysis in june. for fiscal year 19-20, recommended reductions to the total, 2,672,299, of that amount, 2,438,049, ongoing savings. and the ree-time savings, reductions would allow increase
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of 108,256,596, or 9.7% in the department's 19-20 budget. as i understand it, the department concurs with our recommended reductions which are shown on pages 6-16, and happy ohen:ne nd anytion question for you. alrffdy in t e impression there academy, two academy classes were already underway, and that these officers would be allocated to the airport in september. >> yes, i think that's correct. i think that's in the report. i believe there are 20 that are underway that would be allocated. this is an enhanct, to look bac in the repor i think we give the numbers in our report. >> ok. thank you very much. thank you, mr. rose, appreciate your presentation. colleagues, any questions? supervisor yee? >>viso:o him
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not to mr. rosenberg. but a genal question. maybe trying to get to this earlier in terms of my concerns, i think last time we -- >> supervisor cohen: he -- whoever is representing the airp come forward. >> supervisor yee: i'm a little propriate to the police e department. but as, because i heard somebody say the last time we had this discussion that many of the police officers that get assigned to the airport, because seniority, many of them are not your people that are coming out off the academies, meaning, i'm a little concerned, because what we are doing is all of a sudden we are having a big drain on possibly a big drain on the
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seasoned police officers in the city of francco and having a lot more rookies percentageise in san francisco. if it's true that many of the seasoned police officers want to just transfer over to the airport, it may not be true, but if it is, it's a big concern of mine. >> supervisor cohen: ok. so, any time an officer moves. >> a sergeant or officer, after probation, it is because they ha thutr name on a list to request to be moved. officers do it all the time, sign up to go to richmond, or wherever they are going to go. one of those ls t airport. thehief ofpolice, with however many officers that person has, has to decide eratopnally where they are going to send officers from the pool they have. the airport is one of those places that needs officers. but to make sure that the city
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does not fall behind in officers by filling the obligation to staff the airport, t reundins will be officers in the city. and it is true that when the officers tnsfer ton the airport, that they are coming from the more senior ranks. but that's true for any officer that transfers anywhere in the city, if they move from northern to the richmond, they are coming off a seniority list. so you are always moving the senior officers around. but in th case, you are establishing a pool that supports that movement. >> supervisor yee: and thank you for that explanation. i guess is the nuances of this, you are asking the airport is asking for basically in two years 70 new assigned people, meaning richmond district station is not going to ask for
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70 more new officers. it may be they increase it by 5 or 10 or whatever. so, my concern is we are taking 70 senior officers off the streets of san francisco to the airport. no fault of the airport. so, i don't have a solution, but maybe the police department is aware of that already. >> right. i mean, we do -- what we do is, that's an excellent question. what we do is we look at, so, myself as the deputy chief of the airport and the deputy chief of operations, who oversees patrol and investigations, when we are timing out the transfer, we are looking across the year so we say all right, let's move these people in these groupings so that we don't create a sudden drain up in the district stations and what events are going on during, throughout the time of the year, so we time it into the airport becausenm u as you know, it takes a little
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training to then convert to san mateo county protocols, we map out how the transfers happen to mitigate that effect on the districts. and they are pulling from ten areas of they and also from investigations and also from special operations, so that the impact can be spread out across the board, across the year and across the -- >> supervisor cohen: reality, it's not a decision you necessarily make, it's a decision the chief of police makes. we heaesterdy in the rules committee hearing, we talked aboutcess and we did haom conversations around senior members of sfpd. heck, when i come off the board of supervisors i'm joining the team, who does not want to go to the airport. so i completely understand. i think i have -- kathy, carry
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my message. oh, there he is, ok.so, but, so, i echo the concerns, too. we don't want all of our rich resource knowledase going out to the airport and i'm not implying that they are hanging out, the airport is ve high stress area as well, they are not going to chill, right? >> that is quite true. they are not there to chill. >> supervisor cohen: but you do understand our concern, we represent different neighborhoods, different environm a also want the benefit of the senior members of the police department to be out on the streets, to be patrolling, in my mind, senior members would know how to handle tense situati in more efficient manner than some of the new rookies, naturally, like the rookies on my board. and a rookie over here. theyoo us veterans to show them how to hold it dow a to do it, it's just natal. i was a rookie once were rookie once, and you just keep
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at it. i'm sure you can understand our concern. i understand completely what you are saying supervisor yee, but unfortunately, i don't know if we can address it in the budget but probably can begin to address it in our discussions with the chief as well as mbe through the police commission which is the poll at this authority for the commission. thank you. >> and if you could keep in mind the same process that brings officers down to the airport also returns officers back to the city. so, our ocers get notified that their opportunity to transfer back up to the city ge a movek work me take in the city. so, there is an ebb and flow of experience that comes back and forth. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. any other questions? all right. >> supervifeyouknow, i -- so, deputy chief, not about you, personally, but i do have
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sort of this question about why a deputy chief is needed out at the airport when you have a commander. i just think that why would we have a, you know, a deputy chief tat theairport. i just thi the command staff is pretty heavy out there, and i know that you are the deputy chief out there, so i know this is ary awkward conversation. but just why would depuy chief out ther seems you already have a commander, you have captain, you have a lot of lieutenants and you are adding lieutenants on and also a lot of sergeants. so, why would we need a deputy chief out there? >> so, the deputy chief meets first with the airport director operations and security facilities and also the senior staff to make sure the mission is carried out but the three
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separate bureau also meets with the sheriff and the policessociation members larlyo make sure the county policies we meet obligations, that they don't infringe on san francisco policies and police department policies specifically. we, we serve to ensure that the the keep, that the police out department operates in the guidelines of how the federal agencies operate, that the -- coth up against each other follows the policies of the city and county of san heolice depa. ivery, very busy place, you know. 65 million budget to manage, all the materials, the training, the management of personnel. the commander position meets regularly with the captain, and reports up. the dutyeets with the etirector and the fiscal
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side of the airport to make sure 's a lo of funions ine. the technology division of the airport, pretty much falls directly under the deputy chief and we meet with the airport technology side. so, there is l of administrative function that goes into the task, and there's a lot of investigative patrol and traffic investigation and special operations that falls ns.tlyndethrough >> supervisor fewer: ok. you are telling me it's more of a high level administrative coordination and oversight of the airport and something that a commander can't >> it's the -- it's the 3, 5, 10-year planning position for the police department at the airport. how do the changes at the airport industries, having to carry out all the projects they have going, the capital improvement projects, building
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of the airport hotel, the expansion of the air train, all of these long-term capital improvemen orro constron pretai, projec h those are going to impact the demandsn thee rtmepa and t m p t cono chief of the police through my assistant chief and make sure the chief of police is aware of what the priorities are down at the airport. and what opportunities there are to partner with the airport to make sure the city does not bear an unfair share of that expense. >> supervisor fewer: ok. thank you. >> you are welcome. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. deputy chief, i have a question for you. just over here, though. over here, a side bar. so, at this time we have heard the b.l.a.resen uld like to mak to -- wae have to takepub mmec . public comment on items 1, 2, and 3? public comment is closed. thank you. i would like to make a motion to
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accept the recommendations from the budget legislative analysts. is there a motion? motion made by supervisor yee, take that without objection. em 1k you.excu i would lik and continue items 2 and 3 to the of the chair, my apols. >> supervisor yee: are we going to call other departments before performing that function? >> supervisor cohen: good idea, absolutely. my notes are hard for me to understand this morning. yes. we need to hear from the port. rescind the vote. we'll do that unanimously. thank you. port of san francisco. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is katy patricione, deputy director of finance for port, here on behalf of our executive director, elaine forbes. i would like to say that the port is in agreement with the
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budget and leglative ys recommendations about our budget. i would like to thank mr. se ms. campbell mr.n hulliber for their time and attention to the budget thi year. happy to answer questions. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. colleagues, do you have any questions? we have one. before you ask that question, i wan to give some port highlights. 30% of the budget, 30% buet increase in year 1 and 15% decrease in year two, minimal f.t.e. growth, like what, .87, and that has to do with -- >>nnn ofrior year positions. >> supervisor cohen: the budget is really driven by the seawall and ferrapts. both very important infrastructures that our city needs. go ahead, supervisor, and then hear from the b.l.a. shortly.
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>> supervisor fewer: i want to know if you have plans for expansion in work force progra >> work force development progra in particular, we are very conscious of the fact the seawall program, knock on wood, isg launch with i hopeapoval oo bond this november. and that that is going to be a very large opportunity for us in terms of work force development. we are very committed to developing a program, probably in partnership with the office of economic and work force development that really does, i hope, focusn locatingnd training folks from low income communities in the city and really funneling them into what are going to be a good number of high paying construction jobs when that program really does launch. >> supervisor fewer: ok.
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thanks. because actually, i am looking in the fiscal budgetut force development a how we can get more people actually to d they deptment. so, thank you very much. >> supervisor cohen: seeing there are no other questions at this time, katy, we are going to go ahead and hear from the b.l.a. >> yes, chair and memrs of the committee. on page 29 of our report, recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 581,336 i8 9, and of that amount, 270228 are ongoing savings and 311108 are one- savings. stillllow aa 40.5 million, 40,571,055, or 30.5% in the 18-19 budget.
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recommended reductionsotal 19-20, and that amount, ongoing savings, and 1831350 are savings, and does concur with the recommended reduction, shown on pages 30 through 33. >> supervisor cohen: i have a question about the procugrma what was thes that y wenthrough to dmhich programs youe to be takg from? >> collat with the port, tanding where they had exccapa. >>cohen: and done to control growth? >> that's -- yes. >> supervisor cohen: ok, all right. >> also, supervisor, we base it on prior experience as well. and projected exptu >> supsoknow, that's whatesu r ndexpe you are the t.
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all right. that's good. so, i appreciate that. colleagues, do you have any questions, anything about the problematic cuts or the port budget? all right, thank you. we will continue mforwg d. san francisco library. >> madam chair, may i call the associated item? >> supervisor cohen: yes, you may. calltem4. >> clerk: resolution authorizing the san franciscubibra to accept t grant in the amount of $813,350 of in-kind gifts, services and cash monies, from direct support for a variety of public programs and services in fiscalear 2018-19. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. welcome. yes. s.>>morning, chair cohen, rvis k yoan again for the opportunity to present the library's fy-19-20 budget last week na the reductions with the board's analysts and in full agreement with their recommendations.
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i wonk the board's analyst, hampton smith, sen camndpbellthe time and lp. and jillian johnson and kelly kirkpatrick from the mayor's budget office for your guidance, and special thanks to the controller's office for your singleton and i are here today and more than happy to answer any questions youay have. [please stand by for captioner change].
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-- ongoing savings. $300,000 one-time savings. reductions would further reduce the planned decrease of its 1920 budget to the a decrease of ,737 o in the 19-20 budget. as i understand it, the department does concur with our reductions shown on pages 37 and 38 ofur report. >> supervisor cohen: so the savings include capital
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