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>> good morning everyone pick i want to welcome me to the final budget and finance committee. the final year for 2018 and the final for me as the chair of this budget. i have enjoyed serving san francisco in the capacity as the budget chair. i want to thank sandy fewer for serving with me as a vice chair and recognize catherine stefani who stepped in as soon as she joins the board and it has been a pleasure to serve with you. i have to give so much love to linda wong. i had an opportunity to love on her every day. it has been tremendous to work with you in keeping this committee focused. i have --dash i want to thank our friends at san francisco government t.v. thank you for your assistance

with today's broadcast, and i want to recognize my legislative office. you have been tremendous in helping me stay focused on the many hairy and tricky agenda items. today i have a parting gift for you. it will be a light agenda. will be out of here soon. i want to say thank you. it has been great. you have been a tremendous asset to this entire team. the harvey rose cheat -- team is cherished at the gym. and to the mayor touch a budget and office, you have also been very instrumental in helping the ships sail in a steady and fair pace. i wanted to give you guys that. please call item one. >> yes. item number 1 is resolution approving modification of a airport contract with transportation extending the contract by four months ending increasing the contract amount

-- amount by 4.1 million. >> thank you very much. i understand that this will be continued to the january 5th meeting at the request of the sponsor. do we need to take public comment on this item cost. >> yes. >> is there any member of the public would like to speak on item two? it will be continued to january 10th. seeing then, public comment is closed. may i have a motion to continue this item to january 10th, we can take that without objection. thank you. without objection. it passes. please call item two. >> item number 2 his ordinance waving the banner fee for up to 300 banners to be placed on utility posts beginning october 10th 2018, and ending november 13th, 2018 and the walk to end alzheimer's campaign. >> his ordinance is simple. i just waive the banner fees for everyone who were flown from

city utility poles through october and november. we have calvin yan from supervisor peskin's office to make a very brief presentation. welcome. >> thank you for the introduction. to the members of the budget and finance committee, thank you for your review of this item on behalf of the ultimate association. this ordinance offers a fee waiver to the association to display banners to promote the annual walk to ends and alzheimer's events. is a leading volunteer organization. waving of the public works he will raise awareness about the events, and support their efforts about research, enhancements and care and support for all affected by this disease, and reduction in the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. we learn that the organization has a local operation. your support will be greatly

appreciated. thank you for your consideration >> thank you. this is a simple item before us. there are no names on the roster let's go to public comment. any member of the public who would like to comment on public two? seeing then, public comment is closed. let's make a motion to approve and sent to the full board. we will send this with a positive recommendation. item three. >> item number 3, consider the release of reserve funds to the office of economic and workforce development placed on budget and finance committee reserve in the amount of approximately 790,000 to fund a public space conservancy project. >> thank you. is at 790,000 or 787,245? >> we have a walking tour us from the office of workforce and economic development to discuss about this item. this project is underway. it is currently happening

outside in front of city hall with the civic centre commons initiative. my compliments. i love it. >> thank you very much. >> i will give you the floor. >> it is a big complement to our staff who have been supporting this presentation and we were told that we can be brief but we will expand on it if you would like. >> thank you very much. i would like to cue to keep it brief. >> as you can see, the office of workforce development fiscal year 2018 included new funding of 1.2 for the citywide public space initiative. in june 2018, the board of supervisors release of 500,000 and placed it on committee reserves pending the final relic -- -- finalization of the business plan. as you can see from the report, they recommended approval of the release of those reserves. we can share with you briefly an overview of the public space

initiative if you'd like. will show progress in our work to date and provide highlights of the business plan and previews of next steps, which you have heard about and many of the -- and many of the briefings the staff is provided to supervisors across the city. once the funds are released. >> i just want to remind you that we put this money on reserve back in june, and asked oewd to come back with the business plan for what the funding would be spent on. that is the purpose of this discussion today. thank you. >> to mirror some of your comments about the work that you see outside the front doors with civic centre, we really wanted to build upon this new approach. we know that public spaces are connections between our homes and places of work, and our experiences in them define how we feel about the city all around us. this proposes three new approaches to care for all kinds of public spaces. we want to improve day-to-day experience, build capacity of nonprofit organizations to

augment city services and a team to coordinate all of those efforts. that is an essential component of it. as we mentioned, it builds upon what we had in the civic centre. the need for that team, the successful daily activation that you see outside and a combination of art, staffing, programming, it is pretty diligent and disciplined on a day-to-day business. we began a public space management study and identified the need for a nonprofit intermediary. at the same time we were approached by the san francisco parks alliance about playing this role, i want to thank them for being here as well and for all of their support as a san francisco parks alliance and getting us up and running with the process. we completed a strategic plan to grow into a service delivery role. similar to the one proposed by our 2017 study. here is what we've done so far. we have convened a workgroup and selected 27 signs that we shared was supervisors. we hired a team with expertise

in public space management and identified the advisory committee to inform the incubation period of this plan. we confirmed and developed a framework that they can advise us on implementing. we completed a majority of the assessments and we have about six to go. we completed a business plan and we started two pilots. one that is more in development than in the other. there are a few plazas in the lower fillmore. since july, we hired a team to finalize the pieces on the other items i just mentioned. the equity framework is something important to us. we first came to this body to improve our overall budget for the 18-19 year. oewd, they built a multifaceted equity framework to prioritize public spaces and residents in low-income communities that model will help lower income and lower resource neighborhoods not

to re-create the wheel for each of their public spaces. philanthropic funds managed by the parks alliance will help bring down costs for these neighborhoods, and a daily activation partnerships that we all want to see for these spaces can create jobs and will create jobs, opportunities for artists and free amenities for families. to help with the implementation framework, we did a comprised and collect and assemble an advisory committee which includes leaders around public space, lever representatives, business, philanthropy and community-based leaders who reflect the diverse perspectives of the community his main to serve and will help inform and implement this equity framework. briefly, a list of the 27 sites on the next slide that we have been assessing and will continue to assess. once we are able to release these reserves. and then a pilot toolkit. it can be very specific about how we assess the spaces and engage in the community in the

planning to improve them. work planning, his sight evaluations as a pilot program his progress. the alliance will measure progress in a variety of ways including data, observation on the ground, individual conversations, community based organization surveys and tracking of jobs on the opportunities that this pilot creates. specifically, the mandel plaza pilot is one of the first watch what we are working on. through the engagement with stakeholders, and ongoing through the past many months, agency partners have a three-part strategy that is based by securing the plaza with bollards to prevent illegal parking and provide dedicated police presence during adjacent businesses and nonprofit programming hours throughout the end of the fiscal year. beautification beautification with the lighting is going on this week and landscaping upgrades that we have maintenance plan for and we will institute a daily activation

program using local performers and partners in this area and we will have a daily service for mobile tables and chairs with a monitor moving onto the business plan. we perform preliminary site assessments, deeper work has begun on mandel plaza. additional engagement with all of our c.b.o., help to inform that plan we sought to confirm the demand for this new nonprofit function to provide a series of services to public spaces throughout our city. the work did confirm a different spaces share similar needs and there is an opportunity and a demand for a noncity organization to provide them. additionally, we found the end only organizations providing these services, above and beyond what the city agencies normally provide, are doing it for a single space or sometimes a couple of them. the business plan found there are public agencies, community benefit districts, developer is willing to pay for these services and there is a

philanthropic interest in subsidizing the cost for public spaces in low-income neighborhoods. and the parks alliance concluded a fee-for-service model can leverage the philanthropic support to sustain the business without capacity funds in the third year. what happens next caught between now and january, we will work with the alliance to finish the remaining assessments. i mentioned six more. we need to complete and prepared to deliver services for the first two pilots they mentioned. we will also select three more pilots in conversation with the body and the board, and finalize a capacity plan for the alliance with the next portion of the funds, will deliver services for those pilots, evaluate progress, and also secure funds to continue providing services in your two and work with the alliance to implement their plan and finalize the core components of the three years strategic plan. i want to thank you very much for the opportunity to come before you and ensure that we

look forward to continuing this with each supervisor's office to report on progress and identify additional sights for this unique, special, and a needed program. >> thank you very much for your presentation. i'm excited to see the work that you are engaging in in the bay view ends the plaza. as you know, we have been trying to -- we have been able to activate it but have not been able to sustain that activation. and what we have learned is when the space is activated, good and positive things are happening in the community. i'm excited this is part of your pilot project -- program. i have a question about the framework. i love that there it is a director of a grand fund and planning and amenities. i'm curious to know if there's any metrics that are in place to benchmark one where we are and two where we quantify our success. >> those are the discussions we are having right now with the advisory committee. this is a newly formed body. these are exact questions we are

asking of ourselves. but how will we measure that success through the equity framework so we can, the reports back to you on how we are doing there peerk in terms of that framework and paying attention to the diversity of spaces, we need to assess it and division of these two so we can work in other neighborhoods that can help test the model make sure it is sustainable but how we can work in these very unique spaces in a very tailored way. >> thank you. i definitely appreciate that. one size does not fit all. the team understand and acknowledge that. on accomplishments to date, you hired a team with expertise in public space management. can you talk to me about that? who is paying for that clot was at an r.f.p. process class. >> it was an r.f.p. process that we recently concluded as also noted in the vla reports. we also worked worked with the existing contractor to amend that grant when we went through that process as well and i will

ask amy coen to come up and talk about the team. >> great. good morning. >> good morning. we had an existing relationship with the parks alliance, and when they came forward and said this is part of our plan and we would like to be part of this, and we agreed with you to do a business plan, we used an older grant with some and the first trench of funds to hire a team at the park's alliance. >> how much were those funds? >> we are going through the first 500 now. we are in that part is that you would approve. >> if you want to know who the team is, some of them are here today. drew becker is the president of the alliance.

>> some familiar faces, that is scheduled good. talk to me about the pilots site toolkit if you can expand on that. >> we want a consistent way to work in public spaces across neighborhoods. every time that we tend to go into a neighborhood or a department like d.p.w., we will approach a public space. we do things differently. the idea is how do we go in with a tool that helps us evaluate whatever the baseline conditions of the space are, engage the community in a consistent way back to look at what has been done in the past, and make a clear action plan for what to do , and then have metrics to measure and follow-up on the impact. while each of the spaces will have their own customized approach, we are trying to streamline how we work in the spaces, whether they are parks or plazas, or many parks or other things with different names.

the toolkit his pieces. there is an assessment tool. there is deeper planning tools that will create an action plan. there is a work plan, there is a budget tool, and there is an evaluation tool. >> it's interesting you mentioned the budget tool. usually business plans have a budget or a cost described to the itemized thing that you want to accomplish. i don't see it in the plan, but may be this is -- i know this is a summary. >> this toolkit is for the work that will be done in specific sights. the business plan was for a new business at the parks alliance that is proposing to start. and that is a document that we have shared with your staff that is looking at, as their demand for the service, how can we start to provide it and what will it cost? we have a business plan for the

business and then the budgeting tools that i am talking about are really for how do you work in a space? we have both. >> and to the folks that are in the audience in the park's alliance, i will trust you will not take the easy road out and start with the easy open spaces. >> i would hope -- i would hope that both mandel and the subtle plazas that have been very difficult to sustain to help the overall corridors in which they are in signifies to you we are very serious in taking on big challenges because they can teach us the most about how to do this work. that is one of the reasons why we began doing this in civic centre because of the complexity of issues in quite a large space it is divvied up into three spaces with very different issues throughout and how an activation in one area relates to the other. we are only interested in

delving in first because it teaches us the most about how we can be equitable and how other spaces can benefit. >> what is the total budget for the citywide public space initiative? >> the entire budget we have is 1.2 million approximately across the board. the first 500, as we mentioned is what was initially approved and there is another amount that has been recommended for release today. >> this is how to spend the 787245. do you know -- specifically how much it will cost for district one while i am looking at the list. >> the specifics of the budget have not been fully determined yet. these will be based on a review of the assessments that we are currently concluding.

>> when will the assessment be concluded? >> the assessment will be concluded over the next couple of months. we have six left. it should take about 4-6 weeks at the most. >> when did they begin? >> they began when we started. about a week after the budget was approved. i would say at the end of august >> end of august. all right. >> we are off to a pretty good start in a pretty good clip. >> okay. excellent. thank you for your presentation. i see no names on the roster but we will pivot to the budgets -- budget legislative analyst. >> good morning. i'm from the budget analyst office. i want to reiterate a little bit about what he has talked about. when the board placed this $787,000 on finance reserve in the june budget process, the two criteria what the business plan would be developed for the public space initiative and there would be a competitive process to select a nonprofit to administer the program, both of

those two criteria have been met and we are recommending the release of the funds and to some of the questions about how these monies are being spent, we do have a table on page 7 of the report of the $1.3 million budget. the initial 500,000 was spent on a prior agreement with the parks alliance. they awarded a new agreement to the competitive process in august and it is our understanding with the 787,000 the initial agreement will be for 400,000, milestones and deliverables that they will have to meet and once those are met, the 787,000 may be allocated to that agreement. we do recommend approval of this release. >> all right. i appreciate that recommendation we will go to public comment. >> thank you for your presentation. public comment is open for item three.

>> let me just say first, she is one of my greatest allies and has been for years. that has nothing to do with her. i am trying to find out what the hell is going on here in my community. the plaza was one of the black director's in the redevelopment. i don't know if you all know that. and those three individuals that stood up that you all say he is overseeing things going on in my community, i have not heard one damn thing. we don't know about that. i will let them know that the rest of the community disapproves of its. so we have the city and county coming back in our community.

nobody called me. do i have to change my color or my sexual orientation? what do i have to do to have you understand you just can, lillie daily in the community. while all the black businesses are closed, while urban renewal where it came and turn us upside down and all around and now you want to spend all these millions of dollars and we don't know what is going on? so if you don't come in contact with my office, i don't have an office. if you don't get in contact with ace on the case, it will not fly and i will tell you why later. i don't have no time. i'm here to talk about all these other millions you are dropping off. you are dropping off 20 millions like you are dropping off $20 to buy a 20-dollar? on the corner. this city has money. i want the documents that you read from. do you have one of those? okay. i am with oewd.

because they know me. i am ace on the case. >> next speaker. public comment is closed. supervisor stefani? >> thank you. i want to add that i am excited about the work that oewd is doing and excited about the citywide public space initiative i'm impressed with the equity framework and have the opportunity to participate in an assessment of a space and i was very impressed with how thorough and how they're going about this i also want to say, great team at oewd, i know these funds will be spent wisely. i'm a former colleague and there is no better public servant out there. i'm very excited about seeing what we will accomplish with these funds. i want to let you know i am supportive of releasing the funds and releasing the budget. >> i think we are on -- in a unanimous agreement and excited about the team that will be

carrying this out. this is really exciting. i do have one question about the bollards. are we discussing bollards and mental plaza. >> there was a conversation about scholars that may have been more expensive and slowed on the progress. we will stay with the initial bollards that we are talking about that would require manual lifting up and down. >> )-right-parenthesis thank you very much. all right. i would like a motion to approve the release of funds and filed this as heard. we can take that without objection. thank you very much. >> i would just like to say, as chair of this body, it has been fantastic to work with you at a very excited to continue the work with your co- members here. i want to say, i do, parting is such sweet sorrow. >> thank you. next item. >> hearing -- in the amount of approximately $1.3 million to fund an independent investigation bureau. >> this item is the release of

reserve funds for the internal investigation bureau at the district attorney's office which was set up to oversee specifically officer involved shootings in may. i called for the study of this further methodology to understand the staffing levels and also understand that there is a report that was released last month and we've had a chance to review it and we can meet with the members of the presenting team for the district attorney. welcome. and we are grateful for your time and why don't you share some of your thoughts with us. >> good morning. i am very happy to be here to talk about the independent investigation's bureau. we spent the last 4-6 months working with the controller's office to understand how they compare to other work done around the country, and also to

look at comparative models as well as metrics. i think the controller did a fantastic job and i want to thank peg stevenson's team for the work they did. we were able to speak with our offices about the war report and walked through the details. i think what we learned is that it is a great model. it is definitely a trend around the country more and more. local governments are looking to ways to create independence in the way shootings and in custody deaths are handled. there's already smooth for -- room for improvement and we look forward to being good students and stewards of this work. we now have our managing attorney who is equally out in the field and learning from his peers as well as trying to being best practices back to san francisco if you're not already implementing them. we are equal or just eager to continue that dialogue. we will not be able to do that with you but with your successor and with the other officers here to make sure san francisco has

the most independent and transparent investigation as possible. >> appreciate that. last year here is a very difficult and contentious conversation. i want to apologize for my role in that. i'm excited to move this element forwards. i do think it will be withstanding beyond my ten year here at the board of supervisors and fingers crossed it will be withstanding of his tenure as a district attorney. hopefully this will be something that will inspire other attorneys to invest in creating such a bureau. i do not know if there's any questions, if not we can go to the budget legislative analyst. i want to thank peg stevens for her report and let's hear what they have to say. >> when the board of supervisors appropriated the funds for salaries for the investigation bureau in the june budget cat they placed half on the reserve pending the report from the

controller's office as been such as has been commented on. on page 10 of the report, table one, we show the independent fiscal year, based on that we are recommending to release money in retaining the budget of 189,000 on budget and finance committee reserve to return to the general fund budget at the end of the year. >> you are in agreement. >> yes. >> okay. here is the million-dollar question. what do we need to do to get this signed with sfpd? >> there may be more than a one million-dollar question. >> that is -- >> we would welcome any support that would be welcome at this committee and any members of the board and making sure this remains a priority for both the police department and the department of human resources as well as ourselves to make sure the scheduling happens quickly

so we can sit down and complete the discussions. we have made good progress and i am optimistic we can finish but it has taken longer to get successive meetings were the issues can be discussed and resolved. i think it is mostly an issue of scheduling that if we could have any assistance with working that out,, we would welcome it. >> may be you can briefly tell us and walk us through the process from the beginning and all the way through your decision-making process whether to charge or not to charge. >> the new system, it is with the m.o.u.,, not entirely where we would like to ultimately arrive, but the system that is in place now is if there is any type of shooting or in custody death, there is a notification that goes at automatically that's been one of the good -- big improvements.

that has been dramatically improved. we get immediate notification that goes to our on-call team. we have an on-call attorney and on-call lieutenant as well as two additional on-call individuals if they are needed. to go out to the scene of the incident and they work with the police departments. the police department is in charge of securing the crime scene, collecting the evidence because they run the crime lab and we are here to try and understand what has happened and get a very realtime sense of the incident and begin to start the investigation and our hope is with the signing we would be able to be more directed about where and how how interviews take place in the kinds of questions that are asked. there's still room for improvement there but we have been able to negotiate with the police department in the current situation and more participation and engagement in those investigations. those continue for months afterwards. the interviewing of civilians

and police and gathering of any evidence, consulting with experts and all of the work that goes into making a determination and applying those facts against the law, which i think we may have discussed with all of you, it is quite a challenge in california and across the country, but in california with very outdated laws in this area. some of them dating back to the 18 hundreds and they don't really fit our modern times or sensibilities about 14 should be used on citizens. those are the very real constraints that we have around this work. obviously as the chief law enforcement officer, they are duty bound to follow the law as it exists and we do that. as we saw in the recent shootings, the results can be quite unsatisfactory to all of us. we continue to work on those efforts in sacramento and out in the community to see if we can find better policies and better legal framework with which we can reduce the kinds of forests that are used and fatal

shootings. we will continue those efforts and we are very committed to that. we appreciated the partnership of the board and yourself in particular around the issue. it needs many champions and needs many voices. we will continue to be one of those. >> i see you have your finance met guy here. i don't know if there's anything you want to contribute to the conversation around the numbers on the budget. >> i don't have anything to add. we are in agreement with the budget analyst report, the funds are available that are sufficient to take us through the fiscal year and we are able to budget more funds for the next fiscal year. >> are rights. thank you. thank you very much. let's go to public comments item four.

>> i'm in support of that because i know the outgoing man very personally. is one of the ones that welcomed him to the western addition when he first came as chief of police and then he converted over to the city district attorney. he is doing a wonderful job. i think he did a wonderful job. and a lot of people, because of these killings here, he only did what the law wanted him to do. he came though she can't overturn the law, so i wanted to understand that. it is no mystery. all you have to do is, your history. even though --dash i think he is a very bright guy. you always have my stamp of approval. i met his wife. she is wonderful. i am here commending him and supporting that because i think

the city gave him a raw deal on the end of his career. so let me put that in your ear. my name is ace, and i am on the case. >> are there any other members of the public would like to speak on item four? seeing none, public comment is close. i will make a motion to approve the amendments and the motion to approve the release of the funds and filed this as heard. and we can take this without objection. thank you. please call item five. >> item number 5 is ordinance authorizing the installation of up to 33rd -- 34 banners on city-owned utility posts by apa family support services between january 7th and july 17th, and waving the fees for those banners. >> this is an ordinance for a fee waiver for 35 banners in the bay view and the sunnydale bayview community, as well as a visitation valley neighborhood targeting the sunnydale area. these banners promote the a.p.a.

family support services and i want to recognize dr santiago. thank you for all of your good work. you have done great things with paying attention to dental health within our 0-5 -year-olds and we have done a lot of show off their stuff around beverage campaigns. it is been amazing to be a partner with you in the health and welfare with san franciscans >> good morning? thank you for being such a champion for children and children's health. good morning supervisors. i am with the a.p.a. family services and we serve in some neighborhoods of the city, and services city wide.

a.p.a. was selected by the department of public health to facilitate the project focused on the african-american community in district ten. this is part of the wider effort the rebranded children's oral health task force. thank you for supporting and sponsoring this ordinance that will assist us in addressing the epidemic of the most chronic disease found in children 0-5. cavities. through your leadership over the years who have all been champions for oral health funds that are set aside to start neighborhood task forces to engage the community. the problem is complex around dental provider access, insurance payments and what pediatricians do and of course, what happens in the home. with the passing of the ordinance, the district ten task force will be able to launch a social marketing campaign. baby teeth do matter.

banners will appear along third street and bayshore avenue , and we will have a poster campaign and newspaper adds, and radio spots to raise awareness of the problem and to encourage parents to prevent cavities and their children. this is a 100% preventable condition. the cavity free effort has seen success bringing rates down from the 40 and 50% range towards the thirties and the goal is 20%. remember, no child should have any cavities at all. in addition, this ordinance will allow us to place banners in the four hope s.f. sites where the vulnerable babies and families reside. thank you. i respectfully request your approval of this ordinance, and i may not have a poem, and they may not sing, but i do want to say thank you for your leadership. we look forward to your continued leadership on behalf of our community. >> thank you. i appreciate that.

we do not have a report for this item, so we will go ahead and go to public comment. if you like to comment on item five, come up. >> thank god for public comment, or people will not hear a word that i have to say. i like to commend supervisor cohen, president, you have done a wonderful job here in the city by the bay for the last seven or eight years. i want to commend you for what you've done and wish you great success. i know we will miss you. it is a good program you've got going on. when you mention african-americans, i'm a black american, i don't know to be too many people from africa we will have to change that in the 2020 centuries. if you were to judge or say african-americans are now less than 3%, but if you take the immigrants, like the ethiopians and all the other black face people and take them away from

the san francisco citizens that are here, our population would be down near 2%. god knows what it will be in ten years. and that is why i am getting ready to take the helm. newsom is a governor elect. i will knock on his store door in sacramento because he knows me, ace on the case. we need that equality and everything from 8-z-letter in the city by the bay. we will try and bring stability back in the city by the bay and we will try to bring it back here at city hall which i coined as silly hall. it doesn't have to do with being laughing all the time, it means racism, discrimination, and all those other things. i put it under the category of silly. that is why i coined the name silly hall y'all. i have not been here y'all.

i am trying to tell you all. i shed some tears. i look young, but black don't crack that much. [laughter] [please stand by] -- air quality management district, 2018, climate

protection program, pilot project october 1, 2018 to june 30, 2020. >> president cohen: what we have are two grants to the department of the environment. first is to -- $4.5 million to convert fossil fuel-burning trucks, medium to heavy, to more efficient, electric vehicles, to reduce air pollution along the freeway corridor. very good. i'm excited. and second for the pilot program expansion to improve refrinl ration maintenance and efficiency small scale food and beverage industry. why don't you make a presentation to us and nice to see you. >> nice to see you. charles sheehan, department of the environment. i will take them in order. the california resources board accept and expend for $4.5

million. the grant funds will be used for 29 medium and 9 heavy-duty trucks that deliver produce from the sacramento, central valley and san francisco bay area. also to employ level 2 and current fast chargers. and it will be used to install 246 kilowatt solar array at one of the two participating produce markets in san francisco. in san francisco, this grant will produce a demonstration district for medium and heavy duty electric vehicles, an area with higher rates of air pollution. i do want to point out that medium and heavy duty diesel vehicles are harder vehicles to electrify. and it will be one of the first zero and low emission vehicles on the market. so we're pushing the envelope a little bit with this grant. and we're always excited to do

that. and it will improve air quality, not only in bayview, but our highly trafficked corridors within san francisco and regionally and will result, we estimate, in about 1,150 metric tons of co2 emission reductions per year. the department will conduct the work through existing staff positions and $400,000 will come to the department for over three years for us to work and administer the grant. the other $4 million goes to buy equipment, infrastructure upgrades, charging infrastructure, etc. i'll pause. we're asking for your support, but i will see if you have any questions. >> president cohen: i think it's pretty straightforward. i don't have any questions. i don't see that my colleagues have any questions. budget legislative analyst doesn't have any questions. let's see if the public has anything that they would like to raise. let's go to public comment at this time. may i or are you going to

continue? >> do you want me to do the next because you called them together? >> president cohen: yes, i'm sorry. please continue. >> the other grant before you is in the amount of $166,000. to give you context, small corner stores, restaurants, often don't have the bandwidth or resources to focus on the maintenance of their equipment, especially refrigeration units, only fixing them when they're broken. the grant funds will be used to help these small businesses main 10 and upkeep their old refrigeration units, reducing the environmental impact of the refrigeration units. our grants will provide training, monitoring, compressor replacement, refrig rant itself and other equipment buydown. we'll deliver 25 upgrades through the grant and the department will conduct this work through existing staff positions through the end of the

grant and we're happy to answer any questions on this one, too. >> president cohen: no questions here. any members of the public that would like to speak on items 6 and 7 on the grants from california resource board. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. i will move to approve these items 6 and 7 and send to the full board with a positive recommendation. without objection. thank you. please call items 8-26 together. 19 items. >> clerk: 8-26 resolutions authorizing contract agreements between the city and following companies. california creative solutions, c.d.w. government, central computers, cct technologies, cornerstone, dynamite system

inner vision, dynamic systems, enpointe, intervision, presidio, robert half and sialom, softnet and stellar, not to exceed $20 million, with options to extend. >> president cohen: we have daniel sanchez to present on the 19 items. it represents technology marketplace 2.0, which is a list of technology companies from which companies can contract with or buy services from. before you get started, i want you to know that each contract has a maximum of $20 million. my first and foremost question is, do any of these businesses recognize our commitment to

l.b.e.s, minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses? could you speak to that? >> good morning. and, yes, we do have l.b.e. sub contracting goals under these contracts. they must have contracted 15% of the work to local business enterprises and also as part of the overall technology marketplace, we have a tier 3, the set-aside program, reserved for l.b.e.s and 43 companies in this pool. 21 of them are l.b.e.s. >> president cohen: great. thank you. i'm glad i asked that question. you can go into your presentation. >> i'm accompanied by our director as well. so what i'm going to talk about today is history of the contracts. what the technology marketplace is. the goals of the technology

marketplace. i will give you an overview of the selection process for the current 19 contracts and talk about the proposed awards. really briefly, the history of the contracts -- these contracts have -- are one of the avenues by which city departments are able to purchase services and products and they've been in place since the mid 1990s. it started off as a computer store. they've been as-needed contracts. every new version has come with improvements looking to help departments keep up with the quickly changing technology industry. each version has grown in side and made several improvements to the process. first off, computer store. and then technology store. and then marketplace. and then toward technology

marketplace 2.0. what is the technology marketplace? i know you are familiar with it, but it really is, an avenue by which departments can produce their i.t. and service needs. prequalified i.t. vendors, who have gone through a preliminary competitive process and have been awarded a contract, an as-needed contract, specifically for technology products and services, meaning there is no guarantee for money to contractors. they must go through competitive processes for each process or purchase they wish to be awarded and these are also maintained and established by our office, contract administration. once they come to the pool, they issue competitive processes and solicitations and require a competitive solicitation for

anything over $10,000 and oversees for c.f.o. the goals in the current marketplace and they will continue to be in 2.0. these are not in any order. there is no hierarchy. i will start off with city and technology providers. it's our goal to harness relationships, help companies harness relationships with vendors. and to meet their needs related to i.t. we want to have levels of services in the area of i.t. we want to help departments be able to complete their mission-critical projects. we want to provide a variety of options to them in terms of the vendors' skills, expertise, offerings. the next is the third one, we

want it generate the best technology. departments are going to hire these companies, so we want to be sure that they're able to maintain the best value. and by the best value, we're talking about the best combination of price, quality and efficiency. the final one, is what i mentioned, we want to increase vendor diversity and we want to increase the participation. we've want to make sure that l.b.e.s are part of it. and 21 out of 43 are, as i mentioned. and we want to make sure that there is competition, so departments will have the best quality, best prices. it will be very current to how it's split up now. it's organized into three tiers. tier one, these are the contracts before you today. they're the large contracts, not

to exceed $20 million as-needed contracts. and it can propose the product lines and the service categories. tier two can be modified $2 million to $10 million. >> president cohen: let me ask a question about the tierings. it looks like what you're able to do -- i want to make sure that i understand this correctly -- you are breaking it up into smaller, more digestible pieces that would allow l.b.e.s to bid on the projects. is that correct? >> yes. and the purpose of tier two is to help companies grow and join tier one, the bigger contracts. >> supervisor fewer: do you have a list of measurable goals or is there equity framework that you are holding yourselves accountable to and the companies accountable to?

>> we do have a -- let me see if i can find -- in terms of the goals, this is what our goals are. this is our overarching desire for what it will provide to departments. we use this three tier approach to help departments find the correct vendors that provide what it is they're looking for. they all have different skills and expertise and offer different product lines. we have organized it in a way for departments to come and find what it is they're looking for on a case-by-case basis. >> supervisor fewer: how do departments know that these are companies that hire locally or hire people of color or women? we know this is the divide in the tech industry. >> we do have -- like i mentioned, we have 21 local companies out of a total of 43. and we also require that all these companies keep a local

presence in san francisco, within the boundaries of san francisco. they have to have an office here, but we don't have a specific requirement as to where they hire from. other than our standard city terms, there is no specific requirement. >> supervisor fewer: if we don't use this as a lever to integrate and diversity and meet some of our city's needs of employment for the people that live here and high-paying jobs. i held a hearing on tech-sf about who they're hiring and gender-wise and also by race. i think when we're talking about a $20 million contract or above, that this is essential that we look at this. that we use this as a carrot of something they want.

i'm just saying that i -- i understand what you are telling me. i'm just saying that i actually think that we need to hold ourselves accountable to a framework of what we'd like to see and hold businesses accountable to our goals. they are getting money for this. we should be getting -- not just a service, but also a social good with it. and i get about the l.b.e.s, but when we're looking at small businesses in tech, looking at businesses hiring people of color or talking about hiring local people when we're talking about hiring women, l.b.e. is very broad. and it doesn't really get to it. so i understand what you're trying to do. i just think that if we're not more direct about it or more specific and intentional, that

the contracts of $20 million, again and again and again, i think, before us today, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 contracts that are not to the exceed $20 million. when i think about the money invested, we could be talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts. and i don't think that it has to be they hire 100% local folks or 100% of these people, but i do think that there should be a pathway for these individuals, that we're also trying to put to work, to oewds.

they have a whole tech program that there could be a connection for us to work together on it. if i'm wrong, educate me on it. i'm with the work force council. i just think that -- you know, we talk about hotel jobs. we talk about entry level jobs at $15 an hour, but the question is always at the table, what's tech's role in this? are we pushing them to do more or at least guiding them to do more? so maybe it's not in your presentation, but if you could explain that to me, i think it would be really valuable for our listening public to hear, too. >> i'm director of the office of

contracted minnesota -- contract administration. i can tell you that our office supports what you are talking about. however, we're bound currently of proposition 209 that prohibits us from awarding a contract or providing any incentives or benefits based on rates and gender. so we are prohibited from putting in our contract incentives as a bonus structure that would award a contract to someone that would hire more women or based on race, things like that. so what we've done as a city, is try to partner with monitoring and developed the l.b.e. program, which was once a