he was sick. the first person i saw was him. i still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected.

that is a important thing to continue to do. you talk about change and being a leader in change and not knowing whether you have successes or results. the fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of civil service. i hope that happens to continue that legacy.

>> i am paul, sheriff of san francisco. [ music ]

>> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community.

>> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on

traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security

answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this

community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is diffe from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people.

hi, sandy, how are you? >> hi, fine, thank you. how are you? >> good. i want to ask you what inspired you to be a paramedic? >> that's a good question. you know, i wanted to go into med school and after i found out how much time it took and all of that, i decided that that was going to be a little too much schooling, but i still wanted to figure out a way that i could provide medical care and doing that as an emt as well as a paramedic was a way to do that. >> can you give me a break down of a typical day for you? >> i come to work and sit at my desk and then i respond to e-mails and try to figure out what are some of the issues we need to address. can we hire more people. what kinds of policies we want to try to create that will help us do our job as ems.

>> what does it take to be a female paramedic? >> you know, it takes quite a bit of schooling, but also required somebody who's empathetic. it can be a very stressful job and so we want people to be able to hand that on a day-to-day basis. >> so what's your greatest satisfaction in your job? >> trying to make sure that the work that we provide and the services that we provide to the community is the best that we can in ems so that when we go out to see you if you call us for an emergency, that we'll be able to treat you in the best way possible and that you get the care as quickly and as effectively as possible. >> why is it important for young girls, women of color to see women in these roles? >> i think it really is important for us to be able to get into these roles because we are effective, we are able to reach out to the community. we are able to do the job in a very effective manner and to be able to relate to the community and be able to do that is one of the best things that we can

do. and people of color and as women of color, you know, we are in a great position to be able to do that.

>> good afternoon.

welcome to the april 27, 2022 meeting of the budget and appropriations committee . i have chair hillary ronen joined by desmond walton, supervisor chan, supervisor safai and i believe supervisor mar maynot be joining us today . we will find out soon. mister clark, do you have any announcements ? >> just a friendly reminder, please make sure tosilence also phones and refrain from any flash photography . the board and committees are now convening hybrid meetings that allow in person in attendance as well as providing remoteaccess and public comment by telephone . the board recognizes equitable public access is acceptable and will be taking public comment as follows.

comments will be taken on the item on this agenda and those attending in person will be allowed to speak first and then we will take those who are waiting on the telephone line for those wanting 26, 78 and 99 on sfgov.org . public comment number is streaming, the number is 1-415-655-0001. again, that's 1-415-655-0001. then enter the leading id of 2492 6071 682. you will be muted when your item of interest comes up in the public comment is called those joining us in person should line up to speak and those on the telephone to dialá3to be added to the speaker line . please remember to turn down your tv and all listening devices .

as mentioned we will take publiccomments from those attending and then go to our telephone line alternatively you may submit public comments in writing in either of the following ways . emailed them to myself at the art ent . if you submit comments it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. you may also send your written comments by the postal service to our office and city hall, that's one doctor carlton be goodlatte place, 94012. and finally if any are forwarded to the board we will be expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda may 3 unlessotherwise stated . >> thank you to our clerk and i wanted to thank matthew mcdowell from sfgov tv.

>> item 1 is hearing on the division of public works and formation of the streets and sanitation department as a result of the passage of proposition b to determine financial and budgetary needs accomplish the goals of opposition be to increase cleanliness of city streets and create overall conditions on the street. members joining us remotely and wish to comment on this hearing please call the public comment number at 1-415-655-0001. with the meeting id of 2492 607 1682. then press pound twice. to connect to the meeting you'll need to press start three. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and when thesystem indicates you have been unmuted that will be your queue . >> colleagues, i have called this hearing today to discuss the formation of the new city

department sanitation and streets as a result of proposition b which the voters passed and public works is currently charged with building, designing and attaining city infrastructure will be shuttled into two separate departments. san francisco is experiencing an unprecedented crisis when it comes to street conditions. many neighborhoods and streets are overwhelmed by people that aresuffering fromhomelessness , addiction, mental illness . many people who are even selling goods often times fencing goods as a result of extreme economic inequality and a crime rate that is definitely flourishing in the streets of the mission. it is going to take all of us and the best of us to fix this and to get our streets to i hope the place where we can all

be proud of ourneighborhoods as we once were . not only do we want to hear how the formation of these two new apartments will affect street conditions , but also how the department of sanitation and streets will be funded to adequately serve their multiple functions.recently we placed at least three if not for new initiatives at the feet of what is currently publicworks . the enforcing the rules around the shared spaces program, the street vendor legislation that i wrote to the mayor's office and supervisor safai in order to deal with the overwhelming street vending happening in manyof our neighborhoods . the tenderloin initiative as well as once again forcing

graffiti laws and yet the department has been chronically understaffed and you can see the impacts on ourstreets . so i would love to hear today how creating these new departments will impact what we see as constituents, supervisors, neighbors in our streets and what you need in terms of resources from this committee in order to properly enforce the laws that have been placed at your control as well as really make a measurable difference in our streets. anybody else have opening comments? we will hear from our city administrator carmen shafer. >> good afternoon chair ronen.

of course our president ofthe board , president walton. members of the committee, than you for having us today . iq for acknowledging thegood work that department has done whether it's around the street vending work in partnership with you on , the shared spaces partnership with our businesses andworking on some of the other challenges we see whether it's graffiti or some of the challenges we see in the tenderloin . big thanks to the apartment because they have a can-do attitude aboutaddressing those challenges along with us and i want to thank staff for all their work . i serve as city administrator and as you know when proposition be passed in 2020 i became city administrator shortly thereafter in february 2021 and was tasked with helping to create plans in the process for the implementation of proposition b. i want to thank rachel alonso and douglas from my team as

well as the entire public works team for helping to put this plan together.i'm joined by my colleagues director carla short, deputy director of finance bruce robinson. my deputy city administrator candace who is joined by remote as well as our prop b project director rachel alonso and i think with the complement of people here we will be able to answer all the questions you have.the work of implementing thedivision of thedepartment is not an easy one . it's complicated . we started to put together a team headed by rachel alonso and my team to think through all the different pieces that would need to come together to createthe division . as you all know proposition b contemplated a few things. but it didwas focused on oversight and the creation of two new departments . it did not add additional

resources or a direct services so when we started to approach proposition b we truly took a look at it from the perspective of how do we create two departments. how do we create a commission to help to create performance measures the commission to consider bylaws and other structures that would help a commission form.

. >> thanks for that new technologicalworld, hybrid meeting . if we could go to the next slide please .next slide. that'sthe agenda. it will dive right in . city administrators, already covered some of the itemson the slide. it's a recap of the progress the prop b team has me to date . so (governance structure was established over the prop b work including a theory committee and works is on one finance and administration, 2,

operationalefficiencies and three, oversight and accountability.these groups have held a total of 60 meetings combined. thank you to supervisor ronen for sitting on the steering committee to help with the implementation . we've had dozens of meetings both with public works employees and union representatives to keep them informed as well as invite your feedback and in response to the palpable fear from people i've actually started referring to proposition b as a spinoff rather than a split . there's a friendlier connotation for people. we've done work to set the commission up for success. we've hired the commission secretary who for public works who is helping launch those commissions and we've developed recommendations to present to the commissions for how to comply with their mandates and we've logged over 40 connection points between the two departments as well as improvement opportunity ideas. a partners from public works will be speaking about the budgetsubmission wehelped coordinate but first i want to

share a bit about the commission mandates and our recommendations for compliance . next slide please . great. this is a preview of the recommendations being made to meet the performance monitoring and transparency goals of establishing thetwo commissions this work was done so the commissions can hit the ground running once they are seeded and they will have discretion to accept, reject or modify these . thewords on the slide mandates are for proposition the talk through our recommendations for compliance . the public works commission has a mandate to oversee the department's performance including the evaluation of data while the sas commission specifically refers to monitoring data regarding street and sidewalk conditions. we prioritizeapproximately 20 key performance measures each department . examples for sas include service requests and response time to cleaning, trash cans, treat infections while public

works and the rate of construction contract awards within the target range of the original designers cost estimate. we're expecting sas to present data monthly while public works will present quarterly which reflects the differing nature and speed of operations compared to capital project delivery. and then speaking of capital project delivery, while both commissions are empowered and mandated to improve contract awards and modificationspublic works as an average of 13 awards per month compared to sas which has a monthly average of only one and a half contract actions to keep meeting agendas and durationsmanageable their

recommending thresholds based on contract type , dollar amount andchapter 6 requirements for which contracts go to the commission and whether they are on the consent agenda or the regular agenda . knowing of course the commissioners will always have the discretion to pull something off consent and place it on the regular agenda . the charter mandates annual reporting ofboth commissions regarding seven attributes around hr positions such as seasonal and provisional status as well as the vacancy rate which i know we will be talking about further today we are working with it who is helping to ensure all the required fields are available and developing new standard performance dashboards can be reproduced on that annual basis . the next two boxes onthe lower left are lower middle and lower left are specific sas. the commission is responsible for establishing among standards of cleanliness for thepublic right of way .

rather than building something new while the commissioners are still getting up to speed and learning about the department we are recommending they leverage the controller's office annual street and sidewalk standards program with modifications to the methodology when possible . the sas commission is tasked with setting baseline for services to be administered by the department . to get them going where recommending the services he broken down for each of the bureaus based on budget and the services provided. finally proposition b and powers the controller's office to conduct an annual cost analysis regardingefficiencies andwaste . so the controller's office is currently developing a work plan for the coming year and expect to be ready next spring to present a proposed analytical framework . next slide please . all right. we are working to recruit a commission secretary for the new department and are reminding the board and mayor's office and controllers office that the commissioner