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>> president cohen: all right. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. good morning. i want to welcome you to the budget and finance committee. it's thursday, september 20. we've got a fairly light agenda ahead of us. i want to recognize matthew baltazar and michael ignatio with sfgov tv. i also want to thank linda wong, who will be today's

clerk. madam clerk, do you have any [agenda item read] >> president cohen: all right. can you -- thank you. please call item one. >> clerk: item one, item retroactively approving the item between the city and sf fuels for an initial term of september 1, 2018 through august 1, 2021 with two one year options to extend for a not to exceed amount of 40 million. >> president cohen: also. this is an item to purchase gasoline for the city fleet. pretty straightforward. again, there is no obligation to buy that much gasoline if it's not used, is that correct? >> greyes. >> president cohen: all right. great. take it away. good to see you.

good morning. >> good morning. so i'm just going to give you guys just a brief -- as background of the current contract and to kind of give you an overview of the vehicles that we have in the -- in stock right now. then, i'll go over very briefly the new contract. we bid out the new contract several years ago, in 2013. it was a $94 million contract. the main difference between the current contract that we are going to be proposing now versus the old one, when you see the difference in value, the existing contract wasn't just for the purchase of gasoline, it was four the purchase of gasoline, the biodiesel, and petroleum diesel which are used in some of our other fleet vehicles across the city. the thing we've seen is just focusing on the gasoline, we have seen that -- and despite the fact that we are moving to

a more -- as a fleet, that includes and hybrid vehicles, c.n.g. vehicles. we haven't necessarily seen a drop, will you will, a drop in the consumption of gasoline. we have seen in the last three to five years over the life of this contract, because the number of vehicles that we as a city have in stock and the number of equipment requires gasoline has and continues to climb. for example, as we hired new police officers and things like that, that often means that there is more of -- vehicles that we need to provide to the -- in the sworn officers as we buy -- to maintain the various parts and things like that. we also buy more equipment like lawn mowers and generators and things like that. some of those devices or pieces of equipment, they require

fuel. so on the next slide, you can kind of see -- i apologize. the fonts are a little bit small, but you can see we haven't increased too much in certain areas. for example, in the police vehicle, they haven't seen a large spike in the number of police vehicles. we haven't seen a large spike in the number of vehicles in general, but we're not seeing a drop in use, either. so we are maintaining, if you will, the overall size of our vehicle fleet, and we're just not seeing the decline that we would be hoping for in the gallons of fuel. so this would be fairly consistent year over year in the fuel consumption, which is arranged -- which has averaged about 1.9 million gallons in gasoline each year.

and for the current contract, we bid that out in april of this year. we were able to receive four bids. we only bid this out only for the gasoline, so this was one thing we did. we made a decision to bid out the different components of the fuel and separately this year with the intent and hoping of driving competition, and i think we were successful as a city in doing that. we did receive four bids on the current contract. and the lowest bidder on this was a firm by the name of western states oil, and now as my office is proposing that we enter into a three year contract with western states

oil with a not to exceed amount of $40 million. >> president cohen: okay. all right. have you -- are you understand -- have reviewed the budget legislative analyst's recommendations? >> yes. >> president cohen: okay. i'm going to pivot to her, i'm going to listen to her recommendations, and i hope that you'll be in agreement, but if not, we can talk about it. >> okay. >> president cohen: okay. >> good morning, chair cohen, members of the committee. severin campbell. we are estimating expenditures of 32 million, rather than 42 million under the proposed contract. and the reason is the city's policy is to actually reduce the use of fuel based vehicles and equipment and to go towards more fuel efficient or zero

emission equipment and vehicles. so our estimate is based on expenditure of increased gasoline prices. we're asking you to reduce the not to exceed amount of 32 million instead of 42 million, and other than that, we recommend approval. >> president cohen: thank you for that. so are you in agreement with that? >> well, it's not that i'm not in -- in agreement. i understand and completely the recommendation and we are recommending it from 40 million just as an administrative process. in the event that we -- this will be more in the out years, probably in the fourth and fifth year, if we would exceed 32 million, at that time, if we would exceed that, we would have to come back at that time before the board and ask that contract to be amended up. the difference between the 32 and the 40 is really as a hedge

that allows us to -- say, if the price increases or the -- the price per-gallon were to go beyond what we think it's going to be, then he what that provides us. but at that time, our service isn't necessarily versed to come back before the board, because as you mentioned before, this is a contract that's only going to be used as a city and consumes fuel. so this doesn't really control the amount of usage in the various department. so i think there's -- the separate vehicles -- i haven't use the word vehicles. there are separate tools that the board has at its hands to control the usage, as the number of vehicles that we procure and things like that. so as our office is open to recommendations, and for 32

million, it would be our advice to go 40 mil just so we wouldn't have to come back. >> president cohen: well, we want you to come back. we love you, and we like to see you before us. i have a couple of questions. we as a city, aren't we pivoting from goss, fossil fuels cars into something more electric and better utilizing technology? i don't know if that falls under your shop, but i -- i'm under the impression that we are trying to get away from gasoline cars and going into more electric or, you know, alternative fuel sources. is that still -- are we moving in that direction? >> yes, and that's the case. under the guidance of this board and supervisor tang, we do have an electric vehicle policy where we're buying about 200 or so of those vehicles

each year, and we are working with d.p.w. and others to install charging stations across the city. and we are doing those measures and they are being incorporated in the vehicles that are being procured by the shops team and other departments across the city. but the thing that we're not seeing is unfortunately, even though we're buying more and more of those vehicles, that's not offsetting and the fuel consumption and the price of fuel overall, so we're not seeing the -- in the -- the drop, if you will. >> president cohen: okay. i see. thank you very much. colleagues, let's go to public comment on this item. this is item one. it's open. any member of the public can come in and speak on item -- on any item. >> first of all, you need checks and balances on company automobiles, okay? you've got management and city

employees using these automobiles for their personal use. when i used to work for the city, you had a manager that would drive a company car to a personal location which was outside the city, back and forth, around the city, and drive that personal car around on the weekends. i'd watch her pump gas from the woods station while i was working at the bus barn and fill up and come back and fill up the tank on the following monday. you need to do inventory and keep close track on where these automobiles are being driven to, and by the time response, when they come back, and total the mileage so you can keep track of gasoline not being used for their personal use. and as far as the electronic vehicles that's being used, and you're buying these electric automobiles and installing charging station, it's the significance of process control where you can keep the costs at

a minimum and production at a maximum, instead of building all those charging stations, you need to use solar panelled locations where you can charge these electronic cars from solar up solar panel sun light and not pay the expenses of pg&e paying those high rates. you talk about moving away from gasoline, that's a technique that you should be using. is that clear? all right. >> president cohen: any other speakers that would like to speak to item one. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, i would like to make a motion that we accept the b.l.a.'s recommendation. i don't know if you have any feelings or questions. can we take that without objection? all right. we'll take that without objection, without objection. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: we send that to the -- with a positive recommendation to the full board. item number two. >> clerk: item number two,

action retroactively authorizing the department of environment to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately 200,000 for the california energy commission alternate tiff and renewable fuel and vehicle technology program to develop an electric ready vehicle blueprint to accelerate regional vehicle electrification from july 1, 2018 to june 30, 2019. >> president cohen: okay. the sponsor is supervisor tang, and we've got a speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. peter galatta, department of environments and to your comments just before, it is part of our department ease strategy to switch away from gasoline vehicles to zero emission and electric vehicles. today i'm here to talk about how we're going to do that for private sector transportation

in the city. supervisors before you is an accept and expend from the california energy commission in the amount of $199,398. these grant funds will be used by the department of environment to develop a blueprint for accelerating greater electric vehicle adoption throughout san francisco. in alignment with our climate action strategy, our city's transit first strategy and our commitment to transitioning to renewable energy. san francisco has been a long-standing leader in electric vehicles and we're recognized as one of the 20 e.v. capitals in the world, but despite that electric vehicles currently only makeup around 1% of vehicle registrations in san francisco. and so the department of environment, we've been working with public and private sector partners to really better understand the challenges and opportunities for promoting greater market transformation

for electric vehicles. private sector remains the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in san francisco and private cars and trucks represent over 90% of these emissions. so we know that in order to reach our climate action goals, we will need to shift folks out of cars and into sustainable modes of transportation like biking, walking, and transit, but we will need to shift the primary focus on our roads to be electric and zero he mission. this will reduce tail pipe emissions and improve air fault in areas across the city -- air quality in areas across the city. this grant before you today will help us identify the actions we need to take to move forward. this trap significance to -- transition to cleaner vehicles

and work to facilitate the adoption citywide through existing staff positions over the one-year life of the grant. and i just want to take a moment to just thank supervisor katey tang for sponsoring this item and for all of her leadership and partnership with us to promote zero emission vehicles. and with that, we are here to ask for your support and answer any questions. >> president cohen: thank you. and again this is to help the city build a strategic plan to address the electric vehicle adoption? >> that's correct. >> however, it comes after item one. >> yes. >> president cohen: okay. i don't know, colleagues, did you have any questions? we don't have a b.l.a. report on this, and i think this is pretty straightforward. let's go to public comment. public comment on item 2 is open. >> this demonstration just furthers my demonstration how you're switching to electricity to be the source of all these

fleets of electric automobiles. the location lot where all these automobiles are kept, overhead roof, instead of being exposed to the sun light, should be a grid as a housing roof of nothing but solar panels located at each parking stall of the electronic vehicles to recharge them. whereas if you keep doing like you're doing them, and recharging them from electricity from pg&e, you're wasting money. pg&e is scandalous. even though the fires are not taking place here, you'll be feeling the blunt of it. you're looking at a multibillion-dollar expense account, and you could cut that if not in half, to a quarter of

all public expenses. >> president cohen: all right. seeing no further if you believe comment, public comment is closed. i'll make a motion to send that to the full board with a positive recommendation, and it looks like i can do that together. madam clerk call items three, four, and five. >> item three, authorizing the office of the district attorney to expend an increase of 560,000 from the california governor's office of emergency services for the grant period of july 1, 2016 through december 31, 2019. item number four, resolution retroactively authorizing the office of the district attorney to accept and expend an inkind gift estimate of 50,000 from urban institute for data analytic and research support from january 1, 2017 through june 15, 2018. item number five, resolution retroactively authorizing the office of the district attorney to accept an inkind gift

estimate of 150,000 to pilot a new program for criminal record expungement for eligible convictions under proposition 64. >> president cohen: thank you very much. so these three items are acceptances of grants from the district attorney's office. we've got tara anderson from the d.a.'s office here to present. >> thank you so much, president cohen and supervisors, and in addition supervisor brown who sponsored all three of these items. this grant is for local and regional mass casualty response. it includes planning coordination in response to a mass casualty event. we've been asked to convene leaders from around the state to replicate this work throughout california. item four, is technical assistance that was provided to

the district attorney's office under the san francisco commission. a fellow was contracted by the urban institute to support the recidivism work group and ultimately develop a dashboard prototype. item five it the as a result of an announcement made in january 2018 to proactively provide conviction relief to thousands of individuals with san francisco marijuana convictions those dating back as far back as the 1970's. we took the step to level the playing field for those convicted before marijuana legislation by reducing barriers to housing and employment. through a pilot project with the district attorney's office code for america is creating technology that automatically clears eligible prop 64 convictions, providing people with a real second chance. our office is the first jurisdiction to partn the

sentencing guidelines per se? >> it's key department heads, decision makers around criminal justice system to understand what policy trot gees both from prevention to intervention are going to be most -- strategies both from prevention to intervention wi intervention are going to be most effective. -- [inaudible] >> -- to see their subsequent contact with the criminal justice system. >> president cohen: okay. question about code for america. has their pilot program been completed? >> it's still currently in process. >> president cohen: so has it been successful? is there any updates or what have you learned about it? >> we've learned quite a bit and some of it is advocacy that needs to take place at the state level. california department of justice needs additional resources to ensure, especially if we want other jurisdictions

to replicate the great work we're doing here, e rap sheet review which is a key feature of what code for america's is applied onto that work. >> president cohen: so what's the process to -- what is the process for record expungement in san francisco currently, and based on the recommendations from the pilot with code for america, how -- what recommendations or preliminary data do you have that would change how we -- how we deal with expungement. >> with this technology tool, it automates the process quite significantly. currently someone who wants to feel relief needs to go through getting legal counsel, calendaring and going through quite a process. this proactive action taken by the district attorney eliminates that step, and this technology solution enhances the ability to do that,

expedites it. >> president cohen: all right. i don't know, colleagues, do you have any other questions? no? okay. that's it for me. we'll go to public comment on these three items. thank you. thanks for your presentation. any member of the public, come on up, public comment is open. >> yeah, you talked about grants and funds and running analysis whi analysis. while you're using that technique, i move you run that technique on that executive director, barbara garcia who was embezzling state grants and funds of $100,000 a year for seven years. that's $700,000 that was taken out of benefits that was not claimed and pocketed by her between her and her married female companion. is that clear? that's called embezzlement,

okay? i object to her being retired with city benefits and she'd be prosecuted by your district attorney's office instead of being commended as somebody that did an outstanding job and provided services here. that's an insult on everybody's intelligence with the amount of economically disadvantaged people that need help in these mental and physical disabilities programs, and people out in wheelchairs. and you give her millions of dollars worth of benefits when she's supposed to be prosecuted to the full operating procedure of the law. if any of you embezzled and filled out forms once a year, when you got that question on form 700, to report your income, and you know it's $100,000, and you fail to do it, do you think would not be get prosecuted or do you think you would get away with it like barbara garcia? it's disgusting. so while you've got the district attorney here, talking about the electronic way and

tracking these violations of the law and keeping track of people, use it to pinpoint how much money approximately she got away with, and claw back that money back to the city funds and give it to the people that's economically disadvantaged. >> president cohen: any other member of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: thank you. all right, colleagues, i'll make a motion to send items three, four, and five to the full board with a positive recommendation, and we'll do that without objection. thank you. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: item six. [agenda item read] >> president cohen: all right. we've got supervisor stefani as a sponsor of this. would you like to make a few remarks? >> supervisor stefani: sure. thank you, president cohen.

this is the extension of the film rebait program. it started quite sometime ago when i was a legislative aide to supervisor alioto peer. we are here today to set the sunset date in 2028 and increase the program account not to exceed $14 million. we continue to bring this program back and which is good because it shows that this program is actually effective and it works, it's vital to keeping san francisco competitive in the film and television industry and retaining good union paying jobs. it's an incredible program. susana robins is here to speak to this, and i urge you to continue it. >> president cohen: thank you. we've got susana robins. i think this is the third time we've been a part of this. i heard an interesting interview that you did on the success of the program.

so i'm proud of this program, and look forward to seeing it continue to grow. is there anything else you would like to present on today? >> well, i was going to give you a lot of statistics about it. should i -- i have something i'd like to -- >> president cohen: i think we're pretty all on this committee knowledgeable about the statistics. we don't need any convincing. >> can i read you one wonderful quote? >> president cohen: please do. >> we had a user of the program. it's called "the last black man in san francisco," a small indy film. the producer asked to write a comment in support of the program, and what she said was the rebait program is a vital cornerstone of the local film community. it creates jobs in the city and it actively keeps productions in san francisco which otherwise would move to vancouver or l.a. as a resident of san francisco,

i see a widening gap between the haves and have nots, which is larger than any city i've lived in. supporting the rebait program means supporting the middle class. people don't realize that film is mostly a blue collar industry, requiring no degree and no pedigree, just on the job training at work. this program supports every job. it's increasingly important in a city that fewer and fewer can afford. so i just thought that was a really perfect quote that sums up how important this program is to local jobs and keep people actively employed here and local spending here. >> president cohen: all right. i appreciate that. we will take public comment -- or actually, excuse me, we're going to go to the budget

legislative analyst, and then, we will go to public comment. >> yes. this proposed ordinance would actually -- the film rebait program is currently for a pow year program ending in june of 2019. the cap is $4 million. the legislation would extend it over the next nine years to 2028. our understanding is the request is for $1 million a year, so it was our understanding that the cap being requested was 13 million, not 14 million, so our recommendation is to set the cap at 13 million, otherwise, we recommend approval. >> president cohen: so i'm seeing the director, she's agreeing. so she's in agreement with the budget legislative analyst. supervisor stefani, are you in agreement with that? we'll go to public comment, any member of the public like to comment on these items, come on down. claudine chang? >> thank you, supervisors.