nor are other futures that the board may choose to place before the voters. >> thank you. >> supervisor mendleman. >> thank you, chair. actually, sense you brought it up, my recollect ion and we would provide certainty into obviate the need and i wonder if you had an update on those those negotiations might be going. >> the mire's education adviser

is engaging with public youth and family and as well as city college to mou out the details. >> any other comments, yeses? no. ok, have you finished your presentation. >> i have. >> that's great. i wanted to comment to say that this is good news, actually, that from our january projections, that it's $117 million -- >> is 15 115 i think. >> i just have to say that is

very, very good. thank you very much. >> i think the good news is because, you know, this budget committee -- >> a budget committee. we have very little to do with that, actually. are there any members that would like to speak on this item. seeing none, public comment is now closed and this is an informational item, i believe. >> this is a resolution? >> a resolution. >> so we'll just make a motion to move this to the full board, seconded by president yi and can we take that without objection? thank you very much and madam clerk, can you call item number 5. >> ordinance appropriating 398,000 to overtime in the fire department, appropriating 5

5.7 million, mandatory fringe benefits and capital projects and appropriatating 5.7 million to overtile and professional services in the sheriff's office and overtime in fs-puc to promote overi'm. overtime. >> miss kirkpatrick is back. these three departments are seeking your approval to essentially move funding from the departmental savings in the case of the fire department's revenue to neutrally meet the need, cost new neutrally meet te

need. it's 6.$1 million. it is moving money within departmental's existing budgets. >> last year this included more departments, as well, including the department of emergency management and wealth over $14 million and two years ago, the overtime supplemental was over $25 million and included more departments. the city is making progress toward accurately budgeting over time in these departments, introducinintroducing overall vf

plummettasettlemental needs year year. the department partners have been diligent in the analysis city-wide to be the one supplemental this year before the board and that is our goal. high level, the fire department is seeking appropriation authority for about $400,000 related to 10b overtime needs for expedited and off-hour facility inspections, for coverage of special events. the public utilities commission is seeking $1.3 million for both the water and waste water enterprises to deal and cover current year staffing shortages at those two divisions and utilized to meet staffing -- needed operating staffing levels to respond to emergencies such as water main breaks and flooding during the rainy season.

finally the sheriff's office is seeking to appropriate $4.5 million to deappropriate salary savings as well as capital funding projects that have been delayed to meet operational needs related to training, as well as electronic monitoring duties, due to bail reform and progress and court cases, the volume of individuals utilizing electronic monitoring increased significantly, so the department needs to move additional funding into the electronic monitoring contract to meet that need. with that, i will end my presentation, but we'll have department answer any more specific questions should you have them and the bla has a report. i'm sorry, president yi. >> members of the committee, supervisor, the proposed amended

office, sea revenues totaling $6,149,053 is on page 1 of our report. the professional services in the sheriff's office, overtime in the san francisco p utility's commission and overtime in the fire department. approval of the proposed appropriation if the sheriff's office requires a vote from all supervisors from section 1.99c. in table 2 on page 9 of the report, the sheriff's office has a $4,450,000 surplus in -- sorry, has 4,450,000 in surplus salaries, fringe benefits, capital projects and facility's maintenance due to a staffing deficit, as well as projected excess overtime due to new

requirements established by the policing goals, proposition 63 and increase in court ordered electronic monitoring caseload. the department is requesting an additional 450,000 for professional services for an existing contract with leaders. as detailed in table 3 of page 11 of our report, the fire department has 398,561 in overtime service fee revenues that exceed budgeted revenues in the department's fiscal year '18-'19 budget as well as overtime expenditures of $398,561 due to higher anticipateanticipated level of y and inspections for permits needed to for construction. on page 4, the sanfrancisco

public utility's commission has $1,300,392 in surplus salaries due to vacant positions and projected excess overtime expenditures of $1,300,492 due to staffing shortages impacting the ability of the water prize division to meet staffing levels and response to emergencies, as well as planning and preparationests to membership myself flooding to the rainy season and we recommend approval of the proposed ordinance. >> president yi. >> yes. is anyone from puc here? >> i don't think in past i have seen this amount of money into overtime for puc and i started thinking why is that.

and it's because of a shortage of staffing and when i look at how many suppositions that could potential have, this 1.3 million, what's going on? what kind of staffing are we short in and why aren't we recruiting because i don't thins that the shortage in staffing seems to be positions that people can fill. >> right. s that a good point, president yi. one component about $650,000 of the proposed supplemental is related to flsa payments. so fair labour standard's act, the city repeatly revised the policy under which we administer overtime and there have been

retroactive payments due to that. and so, since it was recently changed, the puc budgeted as well as they thought. payments were needed but they've cost a bit more than anticipated. so that's about half of that. the puc themselves can speak to the other kind of shortage and staffing related to the other pieces of it. >> thank you. president yi, i'll divide the two enterprises requesting overtime, water and waste water and i'll start by asking the assistant general manager of water, steve ritchie about the enterprise staffing questions and then after steve, i'll ask our other waste water head. >> thank you, john. steve ritchie, assistant general manager for water at the puc. on the water side, our major staffing shortages were in water treat plant operators and the reason we're suffering shortages

has been a long delay in getting a list developed for both those classifications. there were issues between dar and the unions and so they delayed for about two years the actual recruitment process in terms of the establishing lists. the exams were finally given late last fall and we started to fill vacancies now but they existed for quite a period of time. >> so are these positions still vacant? >> we started filling them for the water treatment plan operators and filled half of the positions. >> what's the total number of positions? >> i don't have the total number of positions. but the total number of vacancies in the division, i believe, was about 12 positions of water treatment operators. we've filled six now and so we have six more left to fill. for the plumber positions, those were primarily plumbers working in the city distribution division, the folks who respond to main breaks and things like

that. and so i believe we've filled two-third of those positions. >> and how many? >> those numbers i don't have off the top of my head, but the bebest of my recollection, we hd 12 to 15 vacancies. for the waste water positions, are they blue collar positions or what are they? >> i'll turn that over to our assistant general manager for waste water. for a quick background on the waste water enterprise, it's not that different than the water. it basically boils down to two groups for the waste water enterprise, roughly speaking, and that's operation's staff that actually run the plants 24/7 and then the maintenance staff that does the maintenance

on those facilities. those two areas make up approximately 250 employees and we're averaging about a 25 to 30% shortage in terms of plans staffing levels versus actual. now that situation has developed over many years for a number of situations or a number of factors, i should say. so the correlation, if you want to call it that, was a match between the staffing gap and the unplanned overtime are actually quite close. the unplanned overtime is asking existing staff to fill the gaps for sort of the structural short-fall in the operations and maintenance. so that's the answer to your questions about the nature of the jobs. these are both frontline operational jobs. near not clerical or lab or anything like that. these would be the staff that

are operating the plants 24/7 and doing the preventive and main omaintenance on facilitiess well. >> i'm asking this line of questions because i think probably i made the assumption that positions are good -- better than middle income or at least middle income blue collar type jobs in which there seems to be plenty of people that we could find in those positions. and considering we're losing our blue collar-type jobs and middle-income jobs in sanfrancisco, it seems like we should do a better job than that. i don't know how to expedite it. do you have any plans? >> others can speak to that as well, but there's quite an

extensive bit of work. and steve can speak to the water end of things, but generally speaking for both waste water and water industry utility workers were just in a severe chronic shortage across the industry because of some long-term dem grap demographics. there's a huge amount of outflow and contrary to the examination, they don't have the highest entry, we have an incredibly difficult time recruiting people into these positions and that's not unique to sanfrancisco. this is a workforce shortage that the industry sees across california and at varying degrees across the country. so we're competing for very much the same set of skillsets as other major private industries in terms of heavy instruments on

control, mechanical systems and so forth, so we're this an extremely competitive labour market and for some of the reasons steve mentioned, which are structural to our hiring process, we're at a severe disadvantage this the hiring environment when it comes to trying to retap retain and recrt people in these areas. >> you may already have this system, but if just a severe shortage in which these are not the highest entry level positions, do you have internships for-up people to foo have a pathway into these positions and if you do, can you build a capacity to increase the number of young people that can enter this? >> the answer to that is yes. we're working hard to

essentially improve the on-ramps or ways people can come into this area. as i think you're aware, there's a somewhat complicated consideration i won't comment on that has do with the city-wide apprentice programme and that apprentice programme does impact one of our primary entry level career paths, which is the stationary engineer's programme. separate from that, there's a number of avenues from that, but those are all in flux right now. i think primarily the apprentice programme and i won't comment because that's labour negotiations. i think there's -- i'm not the only one that probably feels this way, that with lik i wouldo see how puc -- not just puc -- i don't want to just pick on puc, but certainly there's an

opportunity here to really support some of the young people coming up and would fit right into this type of position where they work with their hands or whatever. so i hope that the puc could actually a number of resources into developing this programme. >> thank you very pitch. much. any other questions or comments from colleagues? i have one question. i have a question for the sheriff's department.

last year we had an issue and i see you have nearly filled all of your vacancies. could you give us a two-sentence update, basically, about where you are in the hiring? >> well, since fiscal '15-'16 within the year sheriff came in, we have hired 236 sworn officers. we're back up to the staffing levels ha we had in fiscal yea year '12-13. we are giving new security and training requir requirements any to balance that out with overtime while keeping our budget at the level that was authorized by this body. >> so what is your optimum staffing level? >> well, in terms of overtime, really, think the optimum level would be to be working roughly 10% overtime. i think that's a level that is manageable operationally.

when i started, which was just about three years ago, we were averaging around 30% in the jails. we have brought that down to 20% and still have a ways go and have made significant progress. >> thank you very much. i think last year when you came before us, there were many of your labour partners that were complaining about mandatory overtime. so i want to say congratulations for filling your vacancies. last year you had a significant amount of vacancies in your department. >> the department has done a lot of work and the sheriff has been very supportive of that. >> thank you to the sheriff. thank you. any more questions? none. would someone like to make a motion? public comment? michael, so sorry. any speakers. mr. wright? >> that's ok, dear. you talk about waste water. you should be talking about wasting money.

you got well over a thousand city employees that's been working five, ten, 15, 20 and 25 years and you violate their constitutional right, claiming your equal opportunity employer but you categorize their jobs and exempt, so you don't have to give them full medical benefits and contribute no money into their pension plan. i'm going to back you up before you start giving money for expenditures to overtime for employees that's getting the type of benefits that's people that are exempt that's not getting pagetting paid. they should be taken care of first before you provide billions of dollars to employees on the receiving end of full benefits pertaining to healthcare and a retirement plan after this retire and stop working that job. because what you're doing, you're 100% pure as peein beingp crit and two-faced because you

looked at the executive director for the director of health, embezzle the $700,000, $100,000 a year and when she get caught, you make her retire and lose her job and she retire and get her benefits as far as pension plans. that's i gues disgusting. she should be in jail for misappropriations of funds, tax evase, money laundering and bank fraud just like those poor little rich kids whose parents is paying money to get into college and people are going the right way to get in can't get in and people not getting paid working 15, 20 years for the city. and about these vouchers and you not taking responsibilities for those housing authority. you took over that position and you can't leave those people in limbo without that voucher.

>> thank you. thank you, mr. wright. wright. any other speakers. public comment is now closed. >> i think we can entertain a motion now. >> i'll move we forward this to the full board for recommendation. >> i second that. and we can take that without objection. thank you very much. madam clerk, do you have any other items before us today? >> there are no other items? >> we are journed. are adjourned. .

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it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco. sixty% of the residents are of chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. not only for san francisco but for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries.

they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise café. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [♪] >> it was formed in 2014. we had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. we worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the

neighborhood. so the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. >> in the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the mission district have been displaced from their community. we all know that the rising cost of living in san francisco has led to many people being displaced. lower and middle income all over the city. because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. >> it's a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. there is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. there are some things that we do

to try to slow it down so it doesn't completely erase the communities. we try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more equitable development in the area. >> you need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. the people on the businesses that came before you. you need to dialogue and show respect. and then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [♪] >> i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. so we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and working-class. >> back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. this is the last stand of the

latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. we created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. that is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. we have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [♪] >> i'm warren corn field and we are doing a series called stay safe, we are going to talk about staying in your home after an earthquake and taking care of your pet's needs. ♪

>> here we are at the spur urban ken center and we are in this little house that was built to show what it is like in san francisco after an earthquake. we are very pleased to have with us today, pat brown from the department of animal care and control and her friend oreo. >> hi. >> lauren. >> could you tell us what it would take after an earthquake or some other emergency when you are in your home and maybe no power or water for a little while. what it would take for you and oreo to be comfortable and safe at home. >> just as you would prepare for your own needs should an earthquake or a disaster event occur, you need to prepare for your pets. and i have brought with me today, some of the things that i have put in my disaster kit to prepare for my animal's needs to make sure that i am

ready should something happen and i need to shelter at home. >> what are some of the things that people should have in their home after an earthquake or other emergency to help take care of their tasks and take care of themselves. >> i took the liberty of bringing you some examples. it includes a first aid kit for your pet and you can also use it for yourself and extra meds for your pets. and water container that will not tip over. we have got both food, wet food and dry food for your pet. and disposable food container. and water, and your vet records. in addition, we have a collar and some toys. >> yeah. to keep oreo busy. >> he needs toys and this is san francisco being a fruity

city and come on oreo. this is your dinner, it is patte style chicken dinner with our foody seen here. >> what they say now is that you should have at least a gallon of water and i think that a gallon of water is small amount, i think that maybe more like two gallons of water would be good for you and your pet. >> does the city of animal control or any other agency help you with your pet after an emergency. >> there is a coalition of ngos, non-governmental organizations led by the department of animal care and control to do disaster planning for pets and that includes the san francisco spca. the paws group, the vet sos, pets unlimited. and we all have gotten together and have been getting together for over four or five years now to talk about how we can educate the public about being

prepared for a disaster as it involves your pets. >> a lot of services. i understand that if you have to leave your home, we are encouraging people to take their pets with them. >> absolutely. we think that that is a lesson that we concerned from karina, if you are being evacuated you should take your pet with you. i have a carrier, and you need to have a carrier that you can fit your pet in comfortably and you need to take your pet with you when you were evacuated. >> i am going to thank you very much for joining us and bringing oreo today. and i am go >> good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> all right. let me thank everyone for coming up today -- coming out today. it is a wonderful day for our city. okay. and we are all here because we are going to celebrate