>> come forward. >> i believe i was called up. >> yes, you may begin. >> thank you. members of government audit and oversight committee thanks for listen. i am a long timing san francisco resident and member climate reality project. i was astounded to find out it required electrification that was largely ignored. the departments to achieve 100% by the end of 2022 are nowhere near that goal. i fully supports supervisor melgar's hearing on fleets electrification and i appreciate the advocacy and leadership for clean transportation.

this is responsible for 40% of the greenhouse emissions. >> the board of supervisors passed it in 2019. we hear hecutions including the right vehicles are not available the renewable diesel which is $36 million worth per year is somehow achieving that goal. electric vehicles are widely available despite what i just heard from the city administrator's office. i know that the ford f-150 is available. the brand-new company is rolling out trucks on the assembly line and hercules. these are all serious pickup trucks. 100% electric. i don't buy that they are not available now. we need to start planning for more than the future. the heavy-duty trucks are about to come off the assembly line.

maybe ultaadditional work to find the right ones that is what we need. it is what an emergency means. as for the staggering amount of renewables the city is using. renewable diesel biofuel pollutes as much as petroleum. >> your time is up. thank you. next caller, please. >> hello. i am jennifer hagie district 7. thank you, supervisor melgar for the status of electrification for city and county vehicles. we are in climate emergency and have three years to make major changes to use of fossil-fuels. san francisco is far short of the goals of the 2017 ordinance.

updating the inventory of the fleets is in the right direction. it is an ongoing inventory of existing city and county charging as well as sites including availability of clean power at those charging stations. with that data further identify what is holding up the city conversion to cleaner vehicles and working to rectify the issues. city needs to accelerate transition. we need to pull together to share resources when possible. in means supporting the budget to expand interdepartmental pooling. please monitor and report the progress on electrifying the fleet and ensure the city and county of san francisco sets a good example for electrification and the planet. thank you.

>> next caller. >> the policy reminding you it is really desperate. we are way behind. we do need a comprehensive road map with timelines on the project. it is crucial for the department to do work internally and collaboration among them which we have just been hearing the difficulties. we need to be talking

specifically regular intervals in cities around the bay with all elect trifying successfully. it is obvious how we can gain from their knowledge and experience. that outreach is happening. we need to hear about it. we need to move forward on the climate action plan. i want to know how it is going with progress reports, i want to hear about the planning so far. what i heard today wasn't lightening. -- was very enlightening. what obstacles they are finding, what sources they have identified, what people can do to help them with what they need. i want to see there is real community involvement in the planning so that everything will go as smoothly as possible and

the public is educated as to what is going on. thank you for initiating this inquiry. i look forward to reading all about it. >> confirming with our team. nobody else in the queue? >> thank you, madam clerk. no more callers or members of the public comment. public comment on this item is closed. i do want to thank you, supervisor melgar for elevating this and really pushing and advocating for us to not only meet goals we set out for the city but also just really moving us forward in this discussion. i want to turn it back over to you for any further comments or

if you have any other questions for presenters. >> thank you so much, chair preston. thank you, supervisor mandelman. >> i know this won't be be the end of this. it does seem like this project called out for a revisiting and prioritization and realistic timelines. it is unnerving when the board of supervisors says need to happen all of the time and they don't happen. the board of supervisors did say this needs to happen. it is not happening. it is important to ask why is that? what additional resources are needed? who is in charge of this project?

>> i think electrification is doable. we are not talking millions of vehicles. now it is about 800 or so vehicles that are in the light fleet. it will include vehicles and vans. it is less than 3,000 vehicles. first of all, we need a road map. we need to identify which doesn't departments, space. what to do. practically creative ways to make this happen can be developed. i think i want to thank them for doing that in terms of supporting the department,

pulling together resources so that electric vehicles are available. i also want to encourage us to look at the way we use space. >> those things should be prioritized. i want to encourage us to keep up on what is going on. we were to be done with this by december 2022. we are at 13%. that seems out of proportion with the desires of this board. i do look forward to all of us pulling together and again challenging what is going on.

at the same time seeking creative solution with eye towards prioritizing the areas where our residents suffer most from exposure to toxins. thank you so much. if we could continue this to the call of the chair i would appreciate it so that we can at the future come back to it and have a check as to how we are doing. >> i was hoping you ask. absolutely. look, 2022 is not over. we are halfway through. bring it back whenever you would like. we would love to hear it again in committee especially update in the near future and progress towards these goals. thank you, supervisor. i would like to move this item to the call of the chair. >> on that motion to move this item to the call of the chair.

vice chair chan. >> aye. >> mandelman. >> aye. >> preston. >> aye. >> three ayes. >> thank you. motion passes. any further business before the committee? >> that concludes our business. >> thank you very much. we are adjourned.

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[♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> mayor breed: i am san francisco mayor london breed. welcome to the state of the city address. [applause] >> mayor breed: i am happy to have all of you here today. it is really great to be outdoors in person. the mask mandates, vaccine mandates are all gone. if you take pictures answer

post. make sure you put disclaimer we removed it in san francisco so i don't get beat up by folk on the internet. thank you and welcome. i want to start by thanking all workers who helped us navigate the latest surge. nurses, police officers, paramedics, educators, all incredible people who kept this city going. [applause] over the past two years and months, so many of them have been working over time to take care of the city. thank you, thank you, thank you. you know, sometimes the devastating impacts of the last two years of covid can be hard. this is in 1989 when freeways fell or 1906 when buildings and neighborhoods burned to the ground.

they are deep. we see it in the struggles to simply get through the day. struggles with mental health. especially in kids, we see it in their eyes. empty downtown offices and for lease signs in union square. half filled hotels. we see it in those struggling with addiction on our streets. we cannot sugar coat it. we have work to do. our recovery will not be easy. it will not be quick. it is coming. it is coming. san francisco is coming back! (applause). as we look ahead to the decisions about where to take this city, we need to listen to our residents. last month voters of the city

sent a very clear message. they sept a mess -- they sent a message we must do better by our children. they sent a message while big ideas are important. those must be built on a solid foundation. they must be built on the basics like a well-run school system that puts kids first. government that delivers on the essential services. basics like accountability and competence. during our covid response, we delivered on the basics. government, community and residents all came together to protect our collective health to save lives. we protected our hospitals, nursing homes. we quickly and efficiently popped up testing and

vaccination sites. we delivered food to seniors. i want be to acknowledge jeff lawson who privately helped to deliver food to the seniors, thank you so much, jeff, for your work. [applause]. we did the basic and we did them well. we showed we could deliver on bigger ideas. we transformed the streets to outdoor dining. we helped guaranteed income with those impacted by the pandemic. we experimented to allow people to gather outdoors. some met neighbors for the first time ever. now those covid experiments are transforming our city. we made share spaces permanent

for restaurants. we have six guaranteed income programs with more to come. in golden gate park, jfk is on the way to being a permanent car-free space. [applause]. that proofs we can work hard on the basics while pushing the big ideas. that is how we kept people healthy and safe this past two years. however, right now we are dealing with another kind of challenge. right now too many people across the city don't feel safe. asian seniors are fearful of leaving home. tenderloin families are living with random gun ideas. homeowners are fortifying garages after another break in.

sweeping up broken glass and paints up graffiti on a regular basis. these are complicated problems with twisted roots reaching well below the surface level solutions. again, we have the tools to deliver both the basics and the big ideas. first, we need law enforcement to keep people safe, to make arrests to hold people accountable and to support victims. right now police staffs is at crisis level. over 1630 police officers at 250 fewer officers fewer than three years and 540 below what we need according to independent analysis based on a growing population as you can see right here. we do not have police staffing

to meet needs of major city as we welcome back workers and visitors. fixing this starts with building the police academy classes. to those who say we don't need the police. i say listen to the residents. they are speaking louder than ever. no, not for return to the past like when i was growing up. there was a deep mistrust between the community and police. even then we needed police to protect victims of violence and help us live our lives, not undermine us in our own community. today we are in a different place. while we had more work to do, our police department has embraced reforms over the last five years. leading to fewer use of force incidents and police shootings and rapidly diversifying the

department so it reflects the community it serves. [applause]. >> we have also made progress on big ideas. providing solid alternatives to policing through street crisis response team that didn't exist two years ago. it is now out on the streets 24/7 responding to calls to help those struggling with mental illness. we have community ambassadors program consisting every tired police officers in our downtown and tourist areas. we have multi-racial community guardian teams patrolling neighborhoods. we have the private sector helping. i want to thank chris larson for the work he has done to provide a lot of support around cameras and a number of neighborhood corridors to help small

businesses. thank you so much, chris, for your work in the private sector to help make our city safe. we continue to make historic investments in our dream keeper initiative and opportunities for all. these are programs that recognize the root causes of crime. the root causes of crime are driven by poverty. decades of disinvestment, by systematic racism. these are programs that will heal our communities with housing, mental health, education. job training and economic empowerment. that is how we get back to serving the community. let's be the national model for reform, for alternatives, and for safety. we can do it all and we don't have to choose.

[applause]. you know, there is a lot of noise about what is happening in our city. you see it in the headlines, in the right wing media. they love to talk about san francisco. you see it on social media. one video takes off as if it is telling the whole truth about who we are. i know it is challenging with all of the noise to understand what is happening. it is easy to fixate on the problems. i am focused on the problems. today i want to talk about what is possible. hope. hope for a better future for our city. that is what i see right here on this water front. people all over the world. they know the story of the famous waterfront from the

golden gate bridge to fisherman's wharf, embarcadero to the ferry buildings that welcomes commuters from across the bay and visitors from all over the world. under the bay bridge to the ballpark where bonds and buster posey became legends. today it stretches south to mission bay where they play in a beautiful new home built by the manneds of the holwork force -- by the hands of the local work force. [applause]. what is happening right here as we emerge from this pandemic is a sign of hope for san francisco. now, i want to take a moment to take us back. i talk a lot about my grandmother, what she did for me, how her spirit and body what this city is capable of doing for people. today i want to talk about my grandfather, willie brown.

not that willie brown. he is not the grandfather. my grandfather was a world war ii veteran. when word got out to the south that jobs were available, he with so many others moved our families west. not because they believed that racism wouldn't follow. but because of what this city represents. a better opportunity. ny grandfather found a union job as longshoremen working alongside a generation of workers building ships and repairing machinery. they were good paying jobs that led to development of freedomnantly black working neighborhoods in bayview and filmore and lake view. the truth is this city and neighborhood where we are today

always represented an opportunity for those seeking a better future. our waterfront has been a beacon to newcomers and immigrants for nearly two centuries. that is the spirit where we stand today, a place where hope grows and hard work. look around us. today's waterfront is a beacon for jobs, housing, economic opportunity. in this area in the coming years, 7,000 homes will be built as part of three water front projects alone. here at mission rock, pier 70 and at the power station. [applause]. these will be diverse neighborhoods with new housing and all income level including 2000 affordable homes. those are coming after 6,000

homes have been built in mission bay in just the last 20 years. new neighborhoods, new parks, open spaces all along the waterfront throughout the dogpatch. new offices and storefronts. this doesn't happen in a city that is dying. it happens in a city that is growing and thriving. as we grow we are building affordable homes for people who live right here in the southeast, thanks to the neighborhood preference policy. [applause]. we are creating jobs for the people who live next door in sunnydale and the bayview. thanks to city build and local hire. i see my girls right there. in september we announced we are doubling the size of city build, training twice as many people to get the good paying union jobs

that are available. these are not just statistics. these are people. let me give you an example. right here in mission rock, thanks to women and families first initiative and partnership with the giants. thank you for being here today. we train the first all women construction class. (applause). and provide support for child care. okay? i attended the graduation at mission rock academy and seeing those women made me so proud. hearing those stories. that is why i do this job. today we have three women here from that class. they all started in different places. anna was a nanny and caregiver. militia was doing temp work.

they all wanted something more. we got all g for the city built graduate, too. anna wanted to learn how people work together to create big things. alisha wants to make her daughter proud. twin peaks looking out wondering how to be part of that big beautiful city. all three of them are building what is behind me with good union jobs and bright futures. [applause].

someday alisha's daughter will stand here and look at these buildings and say my mom and her friends built that. we are not just building homes and offices. we are building lives that is what is happening in san francisco. [applause]. the waterfront has so many stories. it has stories about environmental justice. the power plant, once stood a mile south from here. a gas power plant polluting the air that the residents of the southeast were breathing asthma, heart are disease. we don't the history. two generations of community activists and former leaders like the city attorney and supervisor maxwell and mayor willie brown. that is power plant that was

shut down. now a new story. a whole new neighborhood is being built there with new parks, streets, homes. a stretch of water front open to the public for the first time in over 150 years. [applause]. where smoke once was all over the neighborhood, children will play. that is what is happening in san francisco. [applause]. you know, some love the chatter about businesses abandoning our city, leaving california. we have our challenges ahead. again, look around. historic investments in our city right here. just down at 16th street is the exchange. commercial office building purchased last year for over

$1 billion. large companies are renewing and expanding leases in downtown and south of market. right now this month so many companies are returning to the office. because they are invested in this city. this is not a story about commerce fleeing the city. this is a story about confidence in what lies ahead. will it be different than it was? of course. this water front today is different than it once was, too. in fact, it is better. look behind me at what is being built right here. mission rock. one of those buildings will be affordable housing. another is dedicated to life sciences. the third is a future headquarters of visa on what used to be a parking lot.

that is the nature of city. [applause]. we adore and we adapt. no, san francisco today is not san francisco 100 years ago or even 50 years ago. we maintain our values and we grow stronger by learning from the past not simply repeating it. our culture of innovation lives on the waterfront with u.c.s.f. and the world class research to help us navigate this pandemic. the reason be the first omicron case in the countries was identified in san francisco. it wasn't because we were first to get it. it is because the researchers at u.c.s.f. were the first to find it that is what is happening. tech companies making groundbreaking discoveries every

day in san francisco. waterfront is a place for families. look at the san francisco bay trail, india basin. at mission rock there will soon be a playground for kids to play. [applause]. finally, the central subway will be better connected to the waterfront and the bayview with downtown and chinatown. the beautiful new station. strengthening the connections between long divided communities. that is what i see. housing, jobs, environmental justice, technology, investments, innovation and parks and open space is what is happening in san francisco. [applause]. that is the work we need to do all over this city. right now across the state

cities are wrestling with the need for more housing. they are looking for ways to block new housing in-laws. in san francisco we should be leaders in housing. we should be the city california looks to. let's be like san francisco. two years ago i set a goal of building at least 5,000 new homes per year. 2020, 450000, 2021, we built 4600. the only housing built right now are large projects like mission rock and the pier 70. they need all houses sizes. not just south ease and soma but big neighborhoods across the

entire city. to do that we have got to breakdown the obstructionism that blocks housing at every single turn. [applause]. now you know i tried. i am not giving up. i tried inside city hall. we made incremental progress. on the big ideas like my housing charter amendment we have been blocked. we are going to the voters. change will happen to come from outside city hall. i am confident that it will. this november. because over and over i have heard from residents. they want be to cut bureaucracy and build more housing. we want future generations like alisha's daughter to live here when she is an adult.

san francisco has shown that we can lead. we do it every day with work on climate change. when united states set as goal of net zero emissions by 2050. california set the goal 2045. what do we do? we set the goal 2040. we don't play that. that is how we lead. with our climate action plan, we know how to get there. that is who we are. the climate policy isn't just about environmental programs. climate policy is also about housing policy and transportation. getting people out of their cars, creating dense walkable neighborhoods like we are believe right here -- we are building on this waterfront. that is climate action. completing bus rapid transit on van ness this month, finally. [applause]. it is going to open. as well as dozens of quick build projects to move buses faster.

to create protected bike lanes across the city over the last three years. that is climate action. san francisco can also be the economic leader our state needs us to be. we have to work at it. for too long we have taken our economic success for granted. we assumed the offices would be built. conventions would come to town and taxes with strome in. i have been talking to business leaders across the city. they love this city. they want to invest. they want to support. they want san francisco to grow and to succeed. when i put out the call to businesses about committing to bring workers back into the offices. so many answers. they are investing and they are

returning. what i have heard most from business leaders just as i have heard from residents and small business owners is that we need to continue to improve the conditions on our streets. our work in the tenderloin has attracted a lot of attention. supervisor haney was talking about the tl until we declared a state of emergency. it has fired a lot of debate. the main take away is that we cannot continue to accept things as they were. the families and the small businesses of the tenderloin deserve better. those on the streets deserve better. the people of the city deserve better. since 2018 we have added more safe shelter space in san francisco than we had at any time in the previous 20 years.

two years ago we set an ambitious goal of adding 1500 new units of permanent supportive housing. not only are we going to meet that goal. we are going to exceed it by 70%. that means 2500 new units of permanent supportive housing. that by far is the largest influx of new housing from homelessness this city has ever seen. now we must focus on doing the work to fill those homes faster we made progress to move to permanent housing with 1,000 people from the hotels not back on the streets but safely housed. to address the challenges of mental health and addiction, we are adding hundreds of treatment beds.

working with community partners we will launch an overdose prevention program and the first drug sobering center in the city's history. [applause]. but it can't just be about spending the resources. we have to balance it with accountability. i am done arguing if it is okay for people to remain on the streets when we have a place for them to go because it is not. it just isn't. to be honest, there are some folks who cannot or will not do what is safe for themselves or for others. we have to be honest about the need to deal with those struggling with mental illness. we need to make serious changes to our state law ifs. i am working with other mays across california and members of the legislature to reform mental health laws to better serve our city and entire state.

this is not just happening in san francisco. finally going back to where we started today. we have to do better for families in the city. we have to give back to putting our kids first. soon i will announce the new members of the board of education. as part of this decision which is really one of the hardest decisions i have ever had to make. i have been meeting with families to hear what they want for their children, what they need from our schools. i got to tell you. it was heart breaking to hear their stories and what they have been through. kids who once were vibrant and eager learners withdrawn.

learning loss and mental illness, challenges that they are all experiencing. our public school kids getting less behind -- left behind as private schools begin to rebound. i know no single appointment to an elected body is going to fix all of that. it is going to take years of work. that is why we recently announced our children and family recovery plan. the long-term strategy to improve access to the services we do have and expand the programs that are working to make a difference for families. it is really important that we support and protect our children because when we better serve our young people, when we invest in them, take care of them, treat all kids like they are our kids, we create a better future for all of us and for them, too.

(applause). for two years, we have had to think about our lives and our city in a totally different way. getting back won't be easy. this shift won't be immediate. we are moving forward. we lifted the indoor mask mandate. today we announced we are ending vaccine mandates for businesses. you guys all seem very enthusiasm about that. i look forward to going to a club to have a good time without my mask. [applause]. it is time. it is time to open up our eyes. it is time to open up our city. it is time to enjoy our lives after everything we have

experienced to see not just the challenges we faced but the opportunities before us. to feel pride in what our city has done and can do. the first in the country to shut down. we saw one of the lowest death rates in the country and highest vaccination rates. we did that. san francisco did that. [applause]. now it is up to each of us to harness that pride, to be motivated to make important change and decisions in city hall to take action in our communities. to tell our stories. just the other day we got an e-mail from a visitor named brittany who had a lay over at sfo and wanted to explore san francisco. her friends told her san francisco is not a safe place for you. brittany said, girl, i am going

to party in san francisco. she found out that her friends were wrong. she met two of our welcome ambassadors terrence and joel. she found out what the best cable car routes were to see lombard street. she was recommended to places to eat that were great san francisco restaurants and given directions to the golden gate bridge. they helped give her an experience that inspired her and left a lasting memory. they helped create her own story, a true story of san francisco. that is who we can be. a city that tells our own story. we are a city that reaches into our own communities to connect people to incredible opportunities. we are a city that proudly draws dreamers and seekers from everywhere. people come for love, opportunity, escape the past,

build a better future. they come to make a difference in their lives and in the world. they come even briefly for a moment of magic. they come because when voting rights are under attack across the country, we deliver ballot to every single voter that is registered. with paid postage. they come because we would never ever accept the law like don't say gay. unbelievable. in this city we not only say gay. we sing it loud and proud all year long. [applause]. they come because when abortion rights are under attack.

san francisco says we not only protect women's rights but with a woman mayor, speaker, vice president we put them in charge. [applause]. so next time when someone asks what is happening in san francisco, you tell them that. you tell them that this city will rise to meet our challenges day after day, relentless in our effort and unyielding in our values. that is who we are. we are san francisco! we are loud. we are proud. we are hopeful. we are resilient, san francisco. let's tell them that. thank you. [applause].

the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin

history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe, clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in

san francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is great. the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there. >> my background is in engineering. i am a civil engineer by training. my career has really been around government service. when the opportunity came up to serve the city of san francisco, that was just an opportunity i really needed to explore. [♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪] i think it was in junior high and really started to do well in math but i faced some really interesting challenges. many young ladies were not in math and i was the only one in some of these classes. it was tough, it was difficult to succeed when a teacher didn't have confidence in you, but i was determined and i realized that engineering really is what i was interested in. as i moved into college and took engineering, preengineering classes, once again i hit some of those same stereotypes that women are not in this field. that just challenged me more. because i was enjoying it, i was determined to be successful. now i took that drive that i

have and a couple it with public service. often we are the unsung heroes of technology in the city whether it is delivering network services internally, or for our broadband services to low income housing. >> free wi-fi for all of the residents here so that folks have access to do job searches, housing searches, or anything else that anyone else could do in our great city. >> we are putting the plant in the ground to make all of the city services available to our residents. it is difficult work, but it is also very exciting and rewarding our team is exceptional. they are very talented engineers and analysts who work to deliver the data and the services and the technology every day. >> i love working with linda because she is fun. you can tell her anything under the sun and she will listen and give you solutions or advice.

she is very generous and thoughtful and remembers all the special days that you are celebrating. >> i have seen recent employee safety and cyber security. it is always a top priority. i am always feeling proud working with her. >> what is interesting about my work and my family is my experience is not unique, but it is different. i am a single parent. so having a career that is demanding and also having a child to raise has been a challenge. i think for parents that are working and trying to balance a career that takes a lot of time, we may have some interruptions. if there is an emergency or that sort of thing then you have to be able to still take care of your family and then also do your service to your job. that is probably my take away

and a lot of lessons learned. a lot of parents have the concern of how to do the balance i like to think i did a good job for me, watching my son go through school and now enter the job market, and he is in the medical field and starting his career, he was always an intern. one of the things that we try to do here and one of my takeaways from raising him is how important internships are. and here in the department of technology, we pride ourselves on our interns. we have 20 to 25 each year. they do a terrific job contributing to our outside plant five or work or our network engineering or our finance team. this last time they took to programming our reception robot, pepper, and they added videos to it and all of these sort of things. it was fun to see their creativity and their innovation come out.

>> amazing. >> intriguing. >> the way i unwind is with my photography and taking pictures around the city. when i drive around california, i enjoy taking a lot of landscapes. the weather here changes very often, so you get a beautiful sunset or you get a big bunch of clouds. especially along the waterfront. it is spectacular. i just took some photos of big server and had a wonderful time, not only with the water photos, but also the rocks and the bushes and the landscapes. they are phenomenal. [♪♪♪] my advice to young ladies and women who would like to move into stem fields is to really look at why you are there. if you are -- if you are a problem solver, if you like to

analyse information, if you like to discover new things, if you like to come up with alternatives and invent new practice, it is such a fabulous opportunity. whether it is computer science or engineering or biology or medicine, oh, my goodness, there are so many opportunities. if you have that kind of mindset i have enjoyed working in san francisco so much because of the diversity. the diversity of the people, of this city, of the values, of the talent that is here in the city. it is stimulating and motivating and inspiring and i cannot imagine working anywhere else but in sannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

>> hi everybody. i am executive director of giffords. led by gabby gifford joining us today. we would like to welcome you to the giffords' san francisco gun violence memorial which serves as a stark reminder of gun violence that continues and

increases to plague our great state of california, bay area and, of course, the country as a whole. in 2020 this state saw 3500 gun deaths representing a shocking 41% increase in murders. there is no single cause. gun sales are up. police community trust is down. the pandemic has led to an unprecedented social dislocation. but we do know some of the answers to addressing the gun violence epidemic. two of them are simple. courage and determination. the courage of survivors like here and those from the 101 california shooting. over 25 years ago they turned grief into action, determination

of survivors to keep at it year after year passing gun law after gun law which has allowed us in california to reduce the rate of gun violence over that amount of time in half. that is not enough. california is not an island. california must do more. for example, passing the firearms industry responsibility act. we need to keep the drumbeat going in sacramento. we need to continue to invest in life saving violence prevention work. we need to shine a bright light on the inaction of washington, d.c. where despite 90% of americans who support universal background checks across the country despite the majority of

americans that support deep investment in violence intervention and policies and investments despite the need for president biden to take further action, we have seen not enough. we are surrounded here today by a elected leaders, advocates, survivors, folks on the front lines to make it day-to-day work to create change we need for a safer city, state and country. i am deeply honored to introduce san francisco mayor london breed. thank you so much for your leadership and in particular for your support for the $1.5 million investment in violence prevention services. >> mayor breed: let me say it is an honor to be here with our distinguished guests, including gabby gifford and the work she has been doing to address gun

violence in this country has been extraordinary. this is how we connected because, sadly, this is why i got into politic in the first place. it has everything to do with growing up in a community where gun violence was normal. in junior high school it was easy for anyone to get access to buy or find a gun somewhere in your home and this is in the western addition where myself and michael joining us today where we. >> up. too many funerals to count. i wasn't even 18 years old. when i think about these lives here represented in this way, 3449 people during the year of 2020 in the state of california. dying in this state, in this

very wealthy state due to gun violence. half of these people because of suicide and african-american men in particular representing 4% of the population in this state. 28% of those who died from gun violence. kids ages 1-17. second leading cause of death in the state of california. in 2020 what we saw in san francisco is that gun violence was a leading cause of death in our communities. we are seeing this happen time and time again. whether it is our synagogues or sandy hook shootings where our kids were murdered. in so many situations what is most frustrating to me is where is the compassion. where is the leadership?

where is the courage? because i am certain, sadly, everyone here in some form or another is probably impacted by gun violence in some way. you directly or a family member. people in domestic violence situations one of the leading causes of death is by a gun. how do we get rid of this? how do we stop this and make sure it is not one more? we can't give up this fight. the hurt is not just the people who are the victims directly. it is the families. it is the communities, the loss of life. heart and pain that carries on with you especially with the mothers. we are here with one of those mothers, those courageous

mothers who has taken her pain and used it to advocate for other mothers, too much loss, hurt, too much pain. that is why we are here today. it is important to shine a light another this and never to give up. gabby would say never ever give up. on the need for change. on the need for justice. on the need to make sure the kids are not continuing to grow up in these environments where this is normal because it is not normal. it is hurtful, painful and it is devastating to our city, our state, our country. we are better than this. we can do better than this. i am confident that the work that gifford does with a number of the people who are actively engaged in this fight we are going to get there. we are not going to give up and

we are going to continue to fight to end gun violence in this country. thank you all so much for being here to support these efforts. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. as you heard from the mayor, there is no greater loss than the loss of the parent. our next speaker has grievously lost and she has also courageously fought for safer gun lies. i am very sonnored and proud to introduce survivor lynnettemcelhaney. >> good morning. it is an awesome privilege to stand with this leader, our congressional leader and each of you who lifted up the cause of

ending gun violence in this country today. i havingeled to figure out what -- struggled out what to say in a political or policy context to understand the importance of now. we are surrounded by 5 -- 3500 flowers representing the lives of californiaians lost to gun violence in 2020. think about that over 10 years and go back to 2010. you will find a flower from my son, victor mcel haney. i was thinking about victor. i think about victor all of the time. he is the only son born to me. my only child, my only baby. i think about the promise that we all lost in victor. victor was born two months early but right on time.

he chose to come on april 13th, he chose because he was a decisive child. arrived when tiger was winning the masters something i could not witness. victor said pay attention to me. he came in at 3 pounds. we named him victor because he beat the odds. he would need to be in a incubator for months and it was only weeks. he came born to drums and brought music. at three he said music is medicine, mommy, don't you know that. he would drum his way to the university of southern california. where the transfer student he made teachers feel welcome in their place. we told him wherever he stepped foot it was his place to be and his place to serve. victor brought love into this

world. he drummed for deaths and births and in celebration and created music and gave so much love. if you have ever been touched by music, ever been touched by a song, ever given you comfort and a time of stress or reminded you of joy us teenage years you know the power of music. i will tell you that on march 10, 2019 that drummer was stopped from creating that memory or providing that tune or giving us that grace. victor was my sunshine. he was much more than that. he was a son of this great state, a son of his community. he chose to be a son of the world, and he wanted to share

love, to heal all of the harms that would lead to the premature death of his god brother, his cousin, his nephew. it would ultimately take his life. just 30-days before he would have been 22. now people look at me and say you are so strong. i don't know that that is true. there is not a day in these past three years that i don't weep. no a day i don't cry out. no time to rest. as marvin would say, there are too many mothers and fathers crying. now it would be one thing if we were just up against a disease we couldn't identify.

a fight for cancer, viruses, things we bring science to. this is something we can cure. we know what to do. as peter so eloquently told us. 90% of us. we can't agree on the weather or time of day. 90% of americans know that this is something we can do without and we must bring an end to. there are just a handful of wealthy people who profit on my pain. please help me stop them. please help me stop any other mother, brother, sister, cousin from living in this pain. thank you. (applause). >> thank you so much, lynnette. your courage as survivor is so

remarkable. you are somebody who has been on the front lines of gun violence prevention for so long. i want everybody to know of your role in oakland of passing measure z which helped save count less lives through the services it funded. i want to introduce somebody now who is on the front lines of stopping gun violence. the wrap around services at u.c.s.f. have comforted victims, stopped cycles of violence from continuing and saved so many lives. i am pleased to introduce our next speaker. >> i am mike. with the wraparound project over 16 years. we provide services for

individuals impacted by gun violence. our mission is to really stop the reinvolving door of the violence in our cities. we provide services as far as victim services, court advocacy, job opportunities, employment opportunities, and really to just the highlight a few individuals we have young folks who have been affected by violence now in the medical field and now they are also professors at san francisco state. thank you. (applause). >> thank you for your work and partnership. i am now pleased as mayor breed said gun violence takes many forms. from the daily community

violence which devastates so many neighborhoods, suicide, also the nexus between gun violence and domestic violence. scott shelf from stop gun violence with the domestic violence consortium. thank you, scott. [applause] >> good morning. i have been working with rsp. i started asen mate participant since 1998. i have been doing this for 24 years. it is my life work. i and honored to be here but i am sad to be here. that is how i feel. i feel sad about being here. i feel like we shouldn't be here but we need to be here. it is necessary that we are here. the impact of violence weighs heavy on me.

sometimes i want to stop. i can't stop and won't stop. i have experienced violence at all level. i have worked with men sending violent texts and taken lives. why are you still working with them? my hope is they won't take another life. that is my hope. that is my reality. our program is based in the principles of restorative justice. first about accountability. i can't help but notice the lack of accountability going on in our country. it is about time that we get accountable. my job is to hold men accountable for violence. that is my job to hold them accountable and hold myself accountable as well. we really need to step up our game because we are slipping. it is not working.

clearly not working. i told beverly when i walked up and saw all of the faces i was overcome. 3449 people in one year. that shouldn't happen. i know people talk about the second amendment and stuff. it was ratified in 1791. that was a long time ago. guns have advanced. it is time policies advance. it is long time. guns are far more advanced now. countless lives can be taken in a matter of seconds. it is like enough is enough. i work with men and challenge police systems. mr. bs. the belief system. we address gender roles and what men learn about what they are supposed to be as a man and their role and their partner's

role. my job is to challenge that ideology. it is going on for hundreds of years. there is also some ideologies to challenge around gun culture. it is a shame to me that people are so caught up with guns. it is time we start taking on those belief systems around guns, right? and around people's right to have guns. there are certain. i understand people want to have guns to protect themselves. if you are going to fight against the tyrannical government. good luck. that is not going to work out. i just want to mention some folks i have lost over the years, clients and friend.

randolph grayson was 23 years old died on march 24, 2003. he had a smile and personality. first client lost in visitation valley. richard fowler 28 years old died october 3, 2011 at home playing video games. shot in the head. dante white. 22 years old. died april 27, 2006. in class with his bigfoot filled smile on tuesday. on thursday he was gunned down at the community center. i will never see that smile again. nor will his parents or his child or any of his folks. they will not see that. shelton 10, 6, 14. we used to joke he was our son. he was 20 when i started working with him.

he sat on many occasions at my desk. i said, look, man stop hanging out on the periphery. you are going to hurt somebody or be killed. i told him that three times. he was such a baby face and had a baby on the way. baby was born and he was taken. another father less child. he just started out in life. randy armstrong, 54. coming up on a year killed. he was a peer in rsvp. he had quite an imposing presence 6-foot 9". he was a teddy bear. i loved that guy. shot and killed in potrero hill may 15, last year. >> cleveland reed client and co-worker 29. killed in potrero hill.

a former co-worker killed walking dog in oakland worked apartment sevsevwith victims of vi-- worked at u.c.s.f. he would sit in our trainings when i started out. we became close. he ended up becoming the director of the program i went through. then went to continue his education at u.c.s.f. he was out walking his dog and shot and killed for no reason other than initiation. he was not robbed. everything was in his wallet. david lewis, 54. he was killed june 9, 2010 at the hills dale shopping center. he was a giant in person and in the recovery circles. free at last in east palo alto. i wish i would have gotten to know him more.

i can't now. i lost a cousin to suicide by gun back east recently. she was a young mother two kids, happily married. just in closing briefly i want it out there whoever is listening. if you need support i am here. reach out to me. if you need support or know somebody who needs support reach out to me, please contact me. get me through the sheriff's department or community works west through the website. i am here to support anybody who wants it. you just need willingness to do some work. thank you for allowing me to be here today. it is an honor. [applause] >> thank you, scott for your courageous work and your remembrances.

robin thomas executive director of givefords law center. -- giffords law center. over 15 years after being a top expert helped produce the policy gains that have helped us in this state achieve the decline this is per capita gun violence that are so important to protecting our communities. (applause). on july 1, 1993, almost 29 years ago, a gunman walked into 101 california street in one of the buildings behind us and shot and killed eight people, left six wounded. forever changed the face of this city. the knowledge and understanding of this city of the toll of gun violence that can make any one of us acceptable to the havoc.

the predecessor to the law center was founded in that tragedy. the mission was to reduce the goal of gun violence in san francisco, california, united states. i am proud to say that 29 years later we have had tremendous success since the shooting at sandy hook we passed 500 laws at the state level. [applause]. since shooting at parkland high school we passed 250 laws at state and local level. in 27 states last year we passed 75 laws. that progress every day is very meaningful. frustrating, maddening to us that the translation of success. the laws passed to places like

california and have reduced gun violence and gun deaths in california by almost half aren't something that is taken up by the federal government. this is a problem that has solutions. we don't have to be looking at almost 3500 flower in the field behind us. it is courage shown by people partnered with us today standing behind me today, shown by our leaders in washington, d.c. we wouldn't have to be holding so many funerals and holding events to draw attention to this devastating problem. like giffords we are proud of the work we do and laws we helped pass. proud of the second amendment laws in the courts. cases right now today sitting before the supreme court of this country and decisions expected next month. this is not a problem that is going to be an immediate solution in the courts.

we will fight as long and hard as it takes until we have success. we are proud of the partnership. proud of the fact we stand with youth alive and the wrap around be project and domestic violence which people are in the trenches every day fighting this fight, supporting their communities one life at a time. we know the folks and the work they are doing. they have reduced gun deaths in oakland by almost 50% in the last decade. that is tremendous. [applause]. we are so proud to work with them every day and stand with them every day in their fight and to bring every ounce of the power we can lift voices to make sure this problem is never forgotten. this is something we are committed to as an organization, as individuals as a group to

fight for until one day we don't have to stand here in front of flowers and don't have to hear from mothers who tragically lost children. i think about that all of the time. how it would be possible to get out of bed the next day or any day after losing a child. the only thing i hope is that this fight, the fight to prevent this from happening in the future to others motivates us to never give up. we are never going to give up on this fight. i am so proud and humbled to be here representing someone who i know we all feel so strongly is not just our namesake but inspiration that shows us every day what it means to have courage, fight, believe in a future better than the one we have today. (applause).

>> our lives can change so quickly. mine did when i was shot. i never gave up hope. i chose to make a new start. to not look back. i am re-learning so many things, how to walk, how to talk, and i am fighting to make the country safer. it can be so difficult. losses hurt. setbacks are hard. i tell myself move ahead. i find joy in small things, riding my bike, going to the gym, laughing with friends. we are living in challenging times, but we are up for the challenge. my own recovery has taken years. many, many people have helped me

along the way. i learned so much. i have learned when people care for each other and work together progress is possible. change doesn't happen overnight. we can't do it alone. join me. move ahead together. thank you very much. [applause]. >> it is a windy day or the fight against gun violence, gabby gifford is up for any challenge. i want to note gabby's recovery has taken years and years. her recovery is the product not of miraculous medical discovery, not particularly awesome day of

physical therapy but sheer determination and hard workday after day, hour after hour, minute after minute. she inspires us. that is fundamentally what we have to do to fight against gun violence. there is no silver bullet. the gun lobby is not going to just walk away from the field. we have rejoin the fight each and every day, push the ball forward and save as many lives as we possibly can. we know what we need to do. the nra wants us to feel hopeless that gun violence isn't preventible when we know that it is. that is why we are honored to have our partners together in this fight to work with all of you. with that we will invite you to spend some time at the memorial today and this week. happy to answer any questions

which we can do now. (applause). [♪♪] fisherman's wharf, this is a working wharf and it's part of the beauty of the san francisco area. >> before the restaurant, before the t-shirt shops. >> at first the fishermen would go out and do the harvesting.

they process the crab. >> it really is industrial. it is fish processors. >> it's a working, living, breathing place. and it's a great place to visit and there's a lot of history. >> i'm a third generation italian fisherman. we're one of the oldest fishing families at fishermen's wharf. my family's been working here since 1908. my boat's called the lovely martha. sport fishing means when you come out and catch your own fish on the boat. commercial fishermen come out, catch fish, it gets processed and they sell it to a store. they're selling crab off the boat. there's nothing more fresh than a crab. our crab are sweeter and better tasting. the meat is firmer. >> more crab. >> we love crab. we love the people out on the boats. they're awesome. >> what a good meal tonight.

>> we just barely got down here in time. we would have come earlier if we knew how much fun it was. >> this is the place to get crab if you're looking for it. >> some of these boats have salmon permits. so every boat kind of does a different thing. you can come down here and have wild caught salmon that was just caught that morning or the night before and there's nothing fresher than that. >> that's the whole thing of coming out on a party boat. you can catch your own crab, lock cod, halibut, salmon, you can't get that kind of fish. >> now the consumer can just buy here if they want to and take it home which is great. or they can buy it here and take it to one of the restaurants and they can have a glass of wine and enjoy the crab we just brought in for them. >> come on over. it's great. nice and beautiful here in san francisco and the port. definitely come. >> our fishermen are super excited. it's great to have the public come down here and interact.

>> it's a whole experience for the family, where they bring the kids and interact and say wow, the crab's alive. it's going to claw me and everything. >> they really get excited they're coming down here and posting their recipes or pictures of the food. or their kids picking up the crab. they're making a whole experience out of it. >> it is going to give the locals a part of san francisco that was taken away from them. >> now i have a reason to come back. >> i had a guy the other day come and say he hasn't been down to fisherman's wharf in 10 years. he said i'm going to come down here every weekend. i forgot

there's so much involved with becoming a firefighter. and as a component of being a woman in the field, it takes a lot of perception. it takes belief in yourself. it takes asking the right questions of people who already have the job so that you have the confidence to build it and it takes someone telling you that this job is a possibility for you. my job has given me 25 years of satisfaction. the primary thing is that i grew up here in san francisco and i'm serving in the city where i grew up. i transitioned to community training and i was able to build disaster resilient padre of volunteers and bringing us all the latest information so that we can be ready for a disaster. pride and loyalty are the heart of a firefighter. it's in the way we do our job from the very smallest thing from our everyday checks we do of our equipment. from the way that we treat each

other and the community we come in contact with every day. and loyalty is to our own families is to the pride we have in this department. it's to the other members when we're out in a dangerous situation keeping each other safe. it goes throughout every aspect of being a firefighter. i'm really proud of the way our department approaches diversity, equity, and inclusion. i was hired in a class that had 45 people and 17 women. it was an accomplishment at the time, but there were many women that came before me that laid the ground work and i had to see it to be it. someone had to recruit me into this job. i didn't know it was a possibility for myself. and so the importance of young women seeing what it takes to be a firefighter, seeing themselves when they look at me. it really brings myself a lot of pride and joy in this work.

. >> email them to myself the budget and finance committee clerk at brent jalipa @sfgov.org. it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. you may send written comments via postal service to our office in city hall that's 1 dr. carlton e. goodlatte place. >> chair: please read item number one. >> item 1 is a hearing on historicaldepartment budgets ,

how they have gone over the years and an analysis of how growth compares to spending and members of the public who wish toprovide public comment to call 415-655-0001 . the meeting id is ... that is wrong. please styleáthree to line up to speed. a systemprompt you have will indicate youhave raised your hand and wait untilthe system indicates you have been unmuted . correction, i apologize . the meeting id is 2488 607 7768 . and yes, that is the type madam chair >> we have dan from the legislative analyst office . >> dan gunter from the legislative analyst office joined by my colleague christina who is joining

remotely via teams and can, will assist mewith answering questions later . i'm here to provide a brief summary of our budget analysis report on the performance of the city's general fund budget and sources for the board amendments . this is the first of two reports as part of the boards free budget review activities. and the clerk could pull up the slides i'd appreciate it. slide number two. we are asked to conduct an analysis of the performance of the city's general fund budget including comparison to actual revenues and expenditures. changes in fund balance historicalsources of funds for the budgetamendments and details on large department salary savings and vacancies . slide three please . the city's general fund is the main funding source for government operations and it consists of property sales hotel and other tax revenues.

charges for services, rents, concessions, permits and licenses, various indoor intergovernmentalrevenues and other sources . fund actual revenues in fiscal year 2021 or 5.7 billion which was a three percent decrease from actual revenues in fiscal year 2018, 2019. actual expenditures last year were $5 billion and that was a 19 percent increasefrom general fundactual expenditures in 20 1819 . slide four please . actual general fund revenues were above budget in fiscal year 2018 19. below budget in 2019 20 and below budget in 2021. in 2019 20 revenues were 260 million budget. due to the economic downturn resulting inbusiness and hotel room taxes below budget . to hundred 8 million below budget respectively.

that's also partially offset high property revenue taxes, property tax revenues excuse me above budget by 116 million. last year actual revenues were 108 million above budget due to property tax and real property transfer taxes above budget an partially offset by business taxes and hotel room taxes below budget . due to the continued impacts of the covid-19 pandemic. next slide. general fundexpenditures will below budget in each of the three fiscal years . we reviewed by an average of three percent. in the previous budget year fiscal year 2021 expenditure savings of 186 million were driven by $43 million in savings and human welfare and neighborhood development to the broad category that includes several departments including public health and humanservices

and supportive housing . due to reduced aid and assistance in payment community-based services and salary infringement in those departments as well as mayors office of humanity development. there was savings or a $3 million in public health including 33 million in nonpersonnel services and 9 million in salary and fringe benefits and 45 million in savings for budgetary reserves and designations for self-insurance funds. the first policy option we put forward in our report is that the board could request the controller to report annually on your end general fund revenues and expenditures after publication of the annual comprehensivefinancial report this may assist the board in understanding trends and inform jittery decisions .next slide please . general fundyou're in savings and losses accrued to the general fund balance . despite the downturn associated

with the covid-19 pandemic and use of stabilization reserves the fund balance declined by about half a percent between june 30, 2019 and june 30 2021 . the federal and state emergency grant allowance reserve and fiscal cliff reserve are both components of the unassigned unbalance which is the portion of the general fund balance not restricted by the city charter or by ordinance and not assigned for specific purpose. as of june 30, 2021 the unassignedfund balance was $806 million . administrative provisions of the fiscal year 2021 22 and 2223 annual appropriation ordinance established a federal and state emergency grant disallowance reserve all hundred million dollars to manage revenue shortfalls related to reimbursement disallowance is from fema and other state and federal

agencies as well as a fiscal cliff reserve of $294 million to manage jacket budget shortfalls to spend down state stimulus funds and other one-time sources used to balance the fiscal year 2021 22 and 2022-23 budget. both were utilized with the lost contingency reserve after accountingfor the use of all hundred 13 and a half million dollars in the fiscal year 2122 and 23 budget . as of march 30 first according to the march update to the joint report the balance expected your and the balance of the federal and state emergency grant disallowance reserve was 81.3 million and the balance of the fiscal cliff reserve was 230million . a second policy option that we included in our report was to request further information in the mayor's budget office and controllers office on use of the federal and state emergency

grant is allowance reserve and fiscal cliff reserve fund understanding howthe mayor plans to manage these funds in future budget years may inform the boards budgetary decisions . slide seven please. budget and appropriation committee's review of the mayor's proposed two-year budget culminates in the submissionof the committee budget also known as add backs . the amount of budget amendments over the last three years range from $100 million 235 million in fiscal year 202022 . the committees add backs are funded by accommodation of department budget reductions for proposed by the budget and legislative analyst and accepted by thecommittee . supplementary reductions identified and accepted by the committee during budget hearings and additional sources identified by the mayor's officecontrollers office and board of supervisors . in the last three years these

additional sources have included allocations from reserves updates to the controllers forecast, closeouts and current yoursavings and other adjustments to program and department budgets . we found more than 75 percent of all sources over the last three years have been from allocations for the city's reserves and department budget reductions identified by our office. slide eight please. after comparing budgeted and actual salary spending we found salarysavings in general fund operating funds total $22 million in fiscal year 20 2021 citywide . this is equivalent to approximately one percent of the salary budget in these funds. however salary savings may have offset deficits in other areas of spending and we were not able to confirm thetrue amount of savings when considering other offsetting areas to this report . our report summarized vacancy information of seven large

departments with approximately $100 million or more in annual fund support and at least 100 funded full-time equivalent positions in the current year. we presented a snapshot and exhibit 7 in ourreport of the vacancies recorded by these departments as of june 2021 . these vacancies are reported to the budget legislative analyst office as part of our annual budget review. vacancies recorded include positions held vacant or attrition savings which are already accounted for in the budget . during our annual budget review we focus on identifying the long-term vacancies that are not being held open for budget attrition and make position specificrecommendations for the budget and appropriations committee and take into account spending in areas such as oversight .a third policy option in our report was the board could request any departments to report on projected fiscal year 2021-22

levelsduring the june budget hearings. this data is sometimes difficult to pin down but could beinformative to the boards budget area . on slide nine i just had a summary of the policy options which i previously mentioned . in our report and withthat that concludes my presentation and i am happy to answer any questions that you have . quite a few. i have a question for my colleagues. supervisor chan. >> thank you chair ronen and it's a quick question for slide 4. and for the general fund revenue for the budget years of those three , is there anyway you could help me understand the actual budget proposed with those three years and i think the last year was 13 point 4 billion and if you could have

the numbers for those three years sure . let me seeif i have that . off the top of my head i think the budget ... budgeted, i have the general fund budgeted expenditures. in fiscal year 20 1819 it was 4.3million . and 2019 20 sorry, 1 billion. that's a big difference. in 2019 20 we had, it went up to 4.7 billion and then in 20 2021 of two 4.14 billion dollars. that's it, supervisor mar. >> i had a few questions. first one is on the general fund balance slide where you

showed the projected remaining balance of the reserve funds that were created from the reserves. so you're showing on projected balance of that federal and state emergency grant disallowance, 81.3 million for the larger fiscalcliff reserve , about 230 million. i had a question why is that projected for the end of the fiscal year and 2122? >> i will answer your question and then happily give the mayor's budget office a chance to weigh in. those i believe are being held in case for future potential use and the five-year financial forecast does not assume use of that. i think just it's a cautionary

sort of reserve that's being held onto depending on how those revenues may change in the future. i'm happy to allow the controllersoffice to weigh in . >> i can speak a bit to the fiscal and state emergency allowance balance reserve. 81.3 million. the reason we were holding this is because we have an unprecedented amount of claims. over $650 million. to date we have cashed less than200 million . this is an emergency of scope, duration and scale thatwe've never managed before and it's going to take a long time to get through audits . i don't even think fema knows how they're going to audit this in the future we are holding

some of this revenue in reserve to allow for those in the future. by way of example you may recall the 2014 fire that damagedthe assets, that is not closed yet . so if you're dealing with an allocation of $650 million they expect to be working on this 5 to 10 years from now and we don't know what the policy is at that time and what might be disallowed. that is the main reason we created. and it's not just fema revenue at that risk. there's also continuous funds that we have to the best of ou ability use for eligible purposes but that will be audited by the treasury in years to come . >> good afternoon, ashley grab a burger and i think to answer your direct question to provide about why we're showing a

balance in fiscal year 23 as opposed to 22 our projections are based on our previously adopted budget and there's no assumed usage of those reserves in our previously adopted budget sowe wouldn't reflect any assumed usage .so without thatthe balances would remain the same the end of next fiscal year . >> that's helpful. so to these figures reflect light, these two reserve funds in the next 23 fiscal year. >>that's correct . >> got it. and then i also just had a question around the vacancies . i guess slide eight. it's helpful to see that broken down by the majordepartments . i guess the question is has there been an analysis of what the cost savings inthe budget

has been for these vacancies ? some of these it actually ends up becoming a net increase in cost for those departments where there is a minimum staffing level thatwe have to rely over time . >> yes supervisor. we conducted a deep dive during the annual budget review process and look at what the savings may be from salary and benefits also have to look at how those costs may be made up for or the savings may be made up for in other costs such as overtime and contracting outof certain positions . so we don't have a hard number for you. we were able to identify there was 22 million citywide last year in salary savings but we weren't able to fully drill down and see departments by

department where worthy overspending like overtime or contracted positions . >> i would also just note that often we purposefully hold positions vacant to achieve savings to offset revenue shortfalls. one example would be department of cityplanning which has not recovered . it has balanced its expenditures but balanced its revenue shortfall by keeping additionalpositions on . i think to the bla!, there are otherexpenditure categories . all this to say why in our six and nine month report we look

at the net for each department versus uses combined. >> supervisor, it's a very painstaking process of going through with eachof our departments to try to identify okay . these are the vacancies they're going to open for an extended time and for each of these especially for the larger departments which ones are we holding open for attrition and to try to narrow down the actual long-term vacancies that are not being held open for budget savings but then miss alersma mentioned there are othercountervailing issues owing on in the budget . >> just obviously there's this unprecedentednumber of vacancies in key departments . it's something that we had a lot of discussion about i think it would be helpful to understand what the budget

issues are so these vacancies but that's going to take years . >> i want to continue on supervisor mar's line of questioning. this habit that we have as a city of using budgeted positions as a cash cow for departments is a problem. we say departments come here and they fight tooth and nail for each position. when we say you don't need that many positions april up their hands and say their entire working department is goingto fail . when the budget legislative analyst suggests there over budgeted on physicians they

fight the budget and legislative analyst to the nail and at the end of the year we find out they kept that many open purposefully to diver that money to other uses intheir apartment which the board has oversight over . and then there are a number of overall vacancies justcontinues to rise and rise . we use money in an efficient way because we're quitting time and a half for overtime and exhausting our workforces and they're getting injured so we just had to put a ton of extra money for worker's comp. . this is a systemic problem in our budgeting and it means that really it keeps the board in the dark aboutwhat's really going on here . i'm going to hone in on this throughout the entire budget. i want to call departments right now to expect to answer detailed questions to the budget and legislative analyst about the vacancies.

my understanding is when the analyst asks questions about vacancies for this report because they were not given much information onthe department . that's not going to cut it through thebudget process . information on historic bases inthe department , why they think they can. what the money has been used forinstead of filling those vacancies . and i'm going to cut vacancies in the budget unless there's a clear plan to hire those positions this fiscal year. this will be a cash cow for departments to do what they want is problematic and it's a crisis levels now and it's a way of i feel a way of hiding what's going on with spending from the board of supervisors . that's not going to happen this

budget year. i'm getting a warning loud" departments need to come prepared to the budget and legislative analyst with detailed information. not just for next year. why budgeted positions and why budgeted positions have been held vacant and what that money in their budget impact years putting that out there number one . i want to make surei'm understanding this correctly . so on page ... i'm sorry it's ironic i'm the budget chair because numbers are very confusing to me . let me see where it is the page? the page that has the general

fund balance at the end of the year meeting the money we didn't spend that we budgeted to spend but we didn't spend at the end of the fiscal year. is that ... >> on page 8. >> page 8, thank you. okay. these are the vacancies. >> sorry, on the report. >> did you not have a slide on? >> i didhave a slide on . is this slide five?>> i think it was slide six thattalked about the general fund balance . >> this is it. what this means is that at the

end of fiscal year june 30th 2019 and 2020, 2021 that both of those years we didn't spend $2.8 billion that we had appropriated and budgeted to spend ?>> chair ronen, i direct you to the discussion of the unassigned fund balance which is sort of a residual classification of the general fund to include amounts not committed for other classifications. i believe that there are other more restricted funds which make up the majority of the general fund balance better things for like paying bond funds. and other money that's been set aside maybe for capital projects and other things that are in the fund balance but

they haven't been spent because they've been set aside. the unassigned fund balance was 800 and $6 million i think in 2021. that does include money set aside for things like the fiscal cliff reserve and the federal and state disallowance reserve . the general reserve which was a requirement to be set up every year as well as budget stabilization on reserves . >> that includes the reserves. if you keep all the reserves out how much was it? >> i think that i would say about 78 million set aside in thegeneral reserve . >> i guess the number i'm looking for is because i would like to be a little tighter with the budget this year . i feel like every single year

we are told we have no money to spend and wherein a deficit and all of a sudden we get way more revenues than we ever expected that fall from the sky at the last minute and then the next year we look andwe're like lo and behold we didn't spend 800 of the million dollars we had appropriated . it feels as if thisgame needs of board in the dark . and leave the board unable to fund priorities that the board has because we're told if god for bid we move one dollar around in the budget that the house of cards will fall. and that's why i asked for this report. what it shows is it feels like almost a shell game that there are tons of vacant positions that are never filled and that the department head gets to use that money savings to do

whatever theywant . the board has no oversight over that process and there is these massive amounts of money at the end of the year that are just words everspent and they just go into the next year's budget . so it's great that the mayor is toalways assign those monies and decide where they are but the board is kept out of that completely . and it's time to end that i will be asking the budgetand legislative analyst we're going to be much stricter than we've been in the past . about how this money is going to be spent and we're going to compare it to the past because we're not just going to take anyone's word for it. i'm done taking everyone's word for it becausethis happens every single year. i've been here long enough to see it happen every year. that's the kind of detailed information . a lot of it is in the reserves,

supervisor safaihas a hearing about reserves so we will go into detail about that hearing . that makes me feel better if that's the majority of the money but i have $78 million and a $13 billion budget even if however much the general fund is. 8million or whatever . it's not too huge of a number but i really feel as you can tell a little bitof frustration in general . i feel like this board doesn't get enough informationabout what's really happening . i wanted to give the controller's office and the budget director just respond in any way. >> i think it's a great thing to look at historical trends. just note that the past two years have been unlike anything i've ever experienced in budget and fiscal reporting.

the midyear swings that we dealt with in 1819 as well have been beyond anybody's expectations. i just wrote myself a note for those three years. the contribution of excess which we discovered at the end of 1819 drove $548 million of budget versusrevenue variance in that year . so next year it drove 53 million and in fiscal year 21 183 million of the variance and as we report they were constantly trying to bring information forward on changes that we know about in themiddle of the year . if they are substantive and th board can choose to appropriate that money and i have . as that information becomes available .it's all detailed in our report or anybody who's inclined .

i would just say that so far access in particular what's happened in fiscal year 21. as we reported the state changed, made twodecisions in our favor that added up to over $180 million difference . this was the state comptroller's office coming up with guidance on how to calculate the amount that the school districts should tack on to charter schools . that's about $60 million a year and they also made end of your corrections two years later. they will close fiscal year 20 and of 2022. so i would like to figure out the big things that we know about that changed it and get a little more detail is a totally

good idea. look beyond that and see where the variances come from. another $62 million in fiscal year 21 was driven by real property taxes . transfer tax is notoriously hard to project which is exactly why we have written. the board has approved the financial policy that attempts to addressthat revenue volatility . and make our projections slightly less important frankly because nobody can know if the headquarters is going to sell on june 29 and that's a $50 million transaction. about reserves i would say the way that you set reserves and we will discuss thismore next week . you set them in response to the risk you have to manage and so that is what i think we should talk about. what is the rest we're trying to address by having reserves

available to ensure fiscal resiliency ? i think we'll get to that point next week. in more detail and i look forward to that but i would caution you on using the past two years asrepresentatives . because as we know as you for this morning going through a process to just kind of get back on track on contracting and hiring so i think that pattern the last two years i don't know, not to be misleading but we need to understand what was abnormal versus more operational and typical. i think it would be challenging . i think it's going to be the demise. >> i appreciate that. it's just hard to give us like

a tenure look. if you tookslide for could we go back 10 years ? i don't want to give you the kind of extra work. i know how busy you all are but i would love to see a longer data. >> the general fund revenues between budget and actual. i think we hold that from the comprehensive financial report . those go pretty far back its year end from our projections so you can look at, we do projections many times. the budget is itself a projection and every more often than not we re-project and report on it . soto us , the number that we

hold ourselves to is the variance from the nine-month report because that report is what gave you the fund balance that was immediately sent in the following year. that's kind of what happens betweenwhen you prepare the budget and you close the book how much better or worse off were you ? and i think that's the number that we focus on and it's actually in the report on the reserve page. it's the number before the summit the very bottom of the page. i'm looking at page a1. which shows you the components of fundbalance . you look at the column for 202 . $31.78 million. that is the difference between what was appropriated in the

fiscal year 22 budget to report all the expenditures and what actually ended up being available when the city's financial statements were finally prepared andreviewed by external auditors .>> so the question i asked about the money that was in part of reserves that's thenumber . >> yes. >> so it was 8.9 million in 18.2 million and 31.7 million. okay. that's a much better. i saw those 2.8 million in my head. >> we be happy to talkabout the components of fund balance . this is what we live and breathe. it could feel like inside baseball if youdon't look at it all the time . we be happy to go through what

is the fund balance and just give a rundown of this at any time. i guess the other thing i would say is constantly in all of our reports the thing we are trying to do in all of our six-month report, nine-month report is we do a five-year financial plan joint report. the single number we are focused on is projecting the ending fund balance for the current period and that immediately subsumed as a source for the nextyears budget . >> thank you. i just had a couple more questions and then i'll turn it overto my colleagues . sorry. and the fiscal cliff reserve, wait for reserves next week .

it's so confusing. we have positions in the budget that exist but that are not funded. then we have positions that exist and are funded. and then we have positions that exist, are funded and built. and then so this budgeted attrition, that is the second category. funded positions that are not filled. >>. [please stand by]

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>> can departments use budgeted attrition for other things besides hiring? >> no. budgeted attrition is a negative number. so if your salary is 100, your budgeted attrition is -10. your net salary appropriations are 90. what you can spend are 90. >> supervisor ronen: i'm sorry. i'm not following that. so of these 707 positions in public health, so one of those positions of salary is $100,000. if they're not hiring that person, then they save 112 of that person's salary every month and they can use it for something else. >> only if they're meeting their budgeted attrition target. >> supervisor ronen: i see what you're saying. so you budget attrition.

i see. >> sorry. chair ronen, the $22 million that we cited city wide, that's after attrition savings. so it's above and beyond what's budgeted and anticipated attrition. >> supervisor ronen: basically the attrition is we're funding this position for the entire year, but we expect that you won't hire that position until mid years. so we're going to assume that you're going to have that much savings in your budget. i see. okay. >> i might just add theoretically, attrition savings are supposed to account for the fact that you might, the board might authorize 100 positions, but at any given time, they won't all be full because people will leave, it will take time to hire. there will be turn over. you might have 100 positions, but at any given time, there will only be five vacant on average. >> supervisor ronen: so taking

public health of this 1,008 positions in june 2021, you had assumed 7 of those positions would never have been filled. >> i'm sorry. i'm just looking back. >> supervisor ronen: this is on slide eight of your presentation. >> yes. so, exactly. the 707, that's 707 full-time equivalent positions that were assumed to not be filled overthe course of the year. >> supervisor ronen: got it. so the actual money that departments have to play with is in the remaining 300 or so vacancies that they've never filled. you know what i'm saying. so, for example, the fire department came to us for a

budget supplemental the other day and said we're saying how do you need so much money, you have -- what do they have, 268 unfilled positions. oh, we used all that money for overtime. that's what they told us. so now we need all this other money, right. so the departments use the savings from those unfilled positions for whatever they want to use it for. they don't have to come get authority from the board of supervisors. we don't see that.

>> supervisor ronen: so they couldn't use moneys from vacancies to buy supplies. they could only use it for personal related expenses. >> it depends. in an account-controlled fund, there is a small amount of authority to move things through a surplus transfer rule assuming it was not cut in the budget which i don't know. they may move up to 10% of the destination amount. so if you had $100 budgeted in

contracts, you could move $10 from dollars to contracts. >> supervisor ronen: okay. and then, sorry. the last question so the reason there's a number of vacancies even though these positions have been budgeted for and funded, the department still has to get permission from the mayor is it the mayor or the controller? i'm not sure to actually post and hire for that position and often times that permission is not granted; is that correct? >> i don't think generally. i will speak to one position which our office will insert

ourselves. we do it when we determine especially this early on in the year that if we're looking at the three or four month mark and it looks like from our reporting, you are likely to overspend your salary budget and we don't know if the board will approve a. >> supervisor ronen: that's usually because of overtime so that makes sense for the controllers office. we're not allowing to release, there's the jargain, r.t.f., request to fill. so we do not approve every single position right now. departments if they have a budgeted funded personal innocent civil service position, they're able to go

through that process without coming to our office for approval. exempt positions. so any temporary we would have to review and approve those. we also review and approve and we do that just as a budgetary control. we are planning to change some of those rules going forward so that fewer things come to our office and that we are not a log jam in the approval process. great. thank you. >> clerk: supervisor chan, is it okay if i go to president walton since he hasn't spoken yet? thank you. >> president walton: thank you so much, chair ronen. just a couple of questions about just the concerns about so many vacancies and this

budget process really we're going to be looking at that with a closer eye, most definitely. if we look at slide eight and same chart on page 13 of the b.l.a. report, are we going to have these positions filled by july 1st or a good amount of them? that would be for the mayor's office. i'm sorry. >> so those would be good questions for you all to ask the department. i think it's important that it's representative of just a snapshot on one particular day. so these numbers change day-to-day. so i think it would be a good question like the budget chair indicated to be asking about vacancies and plans to fill them since that will be good for your june process.

>> president walton: of course, i can induce we're not going to hire positions, we're not going to hire 268 our 229 by that date. so with that said, and to your point, i know this is not on you, but you are here right now. if there's no plans in place to hire across city departments, that's going to continue to be a problem and i brought that up in hearing over three years ago about how each department needs to have a specific plan on how they're going to hire and make sure they can do everything in their ability. but this continues to be a concern. >> thank you for that. i just want to note one thing. my team is going through that

as well asking similar questions to what you all are asking. so we ask very similar questions and one other thing i just want to know about vacancies, when covid hit us in march 2020 and the financial impact was so uncertain, we put a hard hiring freeze throughout the city. so i think there's an element of this in addition to many other factors as a, you know, representative of us having to play catch-up from being on a hard hiring freeze for about a year. >> president walton: and i definitely understand that, but the hearings i'm referring to go back before the pandemic. >> absolutely. >> president walton: thank you. >> i don't know if this is a useful connection, but i think supervisor ronen, to your point is what happens with all the salary money. the salary, if they agree there are savings in salarieses or any other expenditure type, we're trying to capture that and reflect that in the

quarterly reports to say, look, we're projecting that until the end of the year, this department has some vacancies and they're going to save some in salaries and contracts. the net effect of all of that is going to be x-dollars and so it doesn't stay with the departments. unless they are an enterprise and they have their own funds. it falls to the general fund fund balance and is used as a source next year. >> supervisor ronen: yeah. i know, and that's why i asked for this report because we make night mayor decisions, you know, sophie's choice every period. we all do, you know, the board

does, we all do and if it just so happens there's this huge balance this year that we are putting over to the next budget year then what that tells me is we didn't have to make that sophie's and the mayor's letter to us. i was frustrated she said we had a budget surplus in that i think it was very confusing because i have been told we're going to be in a budget deficit. so i feel like you're sending very opposite messages that is including, that is really confusing the public and the board. like don't tell me as the budget chair that we're going to be in a massive deficit and then write a public letter

saying we've got this surplus. what i've been telling everybody i'm meeting with is that we have a huge budget deficit and they come and hold this letter and say, no we don't. we have a huge surplus. look what the mayor is saying here. very unhelpful. extremely unhelpful. >> i would just if i may that letter was reflective of the latest report. so it was our last published financial report. >> supervisor ronen: and you know that's going away in two days and we're going to be in a $50 million deficit. >> yes. >> supervisor ronen: okay. >> supervisor chan: i think i want to add to what chair

roanen is talking about trying to understand the department's plans and addressing vacancy. the what i would love to see and specifically a request for each department coming through and that should be presenting this information to both the b.l.a. as well as just when they come before us is to prepare a chart of each department and i would like to see a list of like where the vacant positions fall under within the city department. so i think that really is going to help the board to really decide. like i think some of the ideas because i don't think this committee is a body that should just say, if you don't feel these positions we want you to just eliminate and cut away.

we want you to make some how do we hold on to them and how do we then perhaps we can wait a year or two. i think there's an o.r. chart for each city department where the vacancy positions are and a number of vacancy positions. i would really appreciate that. thank you. >> supervisor ronen: great idea. supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you. one of the other not to add to any more of the confusion, but one of the other things that is frustrating and we will go over that with the departments is

that the office will have a whole slew of vacancies and they still might come in and ask for new positions and some of those positions overlap with the be exact but sometimes there's overlap. >> was that question for me? >> supervisor safai: you can answer that, question. >> those are the exact types of positions that we try to cut when we do our budget review. we do a rigorous and we put

them on our list of recommended reductions. often times, there's a lot of pushback from departments. a lot of times, we continue to put forward those recommendations anyway. and allow the committee to make a decision on it. often times, there's a compromise made that allows the position authority, but gives them the flexibility to make those decisions. >> supervisor safai: okay. we can talk more about it when the departments come in. thank you for clarifying that for the public. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. there are no more questions. so we will open this item up for public comment. >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this item joining us in person should line up

now. for those listening remotely, call (415) 655-0001. the meeting id is 24886077768 press pound twice once connected and for already in the queue, please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. and that will begin your cue to begin your comments. we are working with our partners at the department of technology jim smith. can you unmute the first caller, please. >> caller: once again, david pillpell. so i wasn't entirely sure about what this item was about. i support realistic counts understanding the departments need some latitude to hire and

that's fine, but i think they should have less latitude and not have inflated position counts and high attrition savings which just did i starts budgets and counts. i think it's good to define some of these terms including appropriate and expend the difference between budget basis and a.a.o. basis and how positions are controlled in the city. the -- i went back and looked at the current year, 21-22 final a.i.o. that shows $32,180.. i'm not sure that either one is correct, but clearly, they're using different definitions and

0 perhaps the a.s.o. doesn't have the offsetting attritions and both of those did i start the position counts. when the board writes up budget priority, i would definitely include having a more accurate position count as being an important goal for the budget this year. i think this was definitely an enlightening discussion you just had. you might also ask the controller to prepare a written summary of the various budget controls that we spoke to earlier. it's fairly complicated to the average person and i would like to think i have some understanding of it but it is incredibly complicated at the speaker level. >> clerk: next speakerer. >> caller: hi.

regarding supervisor ronen's sophie's choice example. who says the progressives aren't fiscally prudent here. supervisor ronen is being so strong and responsible, i mean, the budget as we all know is a moral document so when you have to decide at the end, you know, sophie's choice, it's actually helpful to know there are untold dollars spent via vacant positions. so i got to see a retroactive analysis of how the unspent dollars have actually been spent. over what time frame, i'm not sure perhaps going back 10 years. thank you very much, folks. >> clerk: thank you so much for your comments. last call for any callers.

>> supervisor ronen: thank you. i would like to make a motion to file this item? we could have a roll call vote. >> clerk: madam chair, we will need a second. >> chairman: sorry. can i have a second? >> president walton: second. >> chairman: seconded by president walton. >> clerk: on that motion, [roll call] we have five ayes. >> chairman: thank you so much, can you please read item two. >> clerk: yes, madam chair. item number two. hold on just one second. kind of waiting for the noise to die down a little.

item number two is a hearing to review the budget recommendations submitted by the housing stability fund oversight board for use of proposition i funds in fiscal year 2022-2023 to pursue strategies and solutions to target unmet needs and gaps in existing affordable housing programs with special attention to advancing racial, social, and geographic equity. members of the public who wish to provide comment call (415) 655-0001. the underneathing id is 2488677768. if you haven't done so press star 3 to line up to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and then you may begin your comments. madam chair.

>> chairman: thank you so much. and i would like to turn this over to supervisor preston who is the lead sponsor on this item. >> supervisor preston: thank you, chair ronen. appreciate being on your agenda today so, colleagues, by now, you are all familiar with proposition i the november 2020 ballot measure that raised taxes on the highest value real estate transactions which is projected to raise $170 million annually for each of the next five yearses. the measure made its way to the ballot thanks to you, chair ronen, president walton, supervisor mar, former supervisor haney and myself signing to get that on the ballot and also appreciate

supervisor chan's strong support before she took office of that ballot measure. i want to recall that at the time, we recalled anything from radical to unrealistic to naive for thinking that a ballot measure to double the tax on property sales of value over $10 million to pass on the ballot and despite being outspent 20-1, the measure passed by a large margin along with the companion measure prop k calling for the creation of thousandses more units of social housing in san francisco. this was a mandate from voters and i want to note prop i has already had a major and now it is our obligation to make sure

the funds were used as they were intended. before prop i passed the board that the funds would be used for social housing, the board also unanimously direct bid ordinance that an oversight board be created to make budget recommendations and policy recommendations for the use of prop i funds. consistent with this board of supervisors form, the housing stability fund oversight board, a policy that provides guidance to create social housing in san francisco. the oversight board is prized of a truly remarkable group and i want to thank you colleagues for unanimously appointing these folks to the board. on march 30th of this year after receiving submissions from a range of community

groups and also from some members of the board of supervisors, the oversight board issued its set of recommendations for this am copping fiscal year. the recommendations include a land acquisition program to create permanently affordable housing sites, funds for educator housing, and funding for emergency repairs to existing public housing among others that you will hear about today. we will hear from a number of the housing stability fund oversight board members and before turning the floor over to members of the oversight board and presenters. i want to underscore an important point. what you are about to hear in the remainder of this hearing is the product of a truly community led process. it is plainly put, the progressive housing agenda and

i don't mean that in the progressive political divide that through prop i voters overwhelmingly approved a progressive tax. voters intended and they expect that the money from prop i will go to social housing and we are now about to so this is a progressive plan in terms of the progressive taxation and also in terms of the housing goals that we seek to achieve to make sure that everyone has affordable housing in san francisco. i think we do well as policy makers to take heed of the recommendation of the community expertses on the housing stability fund oversight board because what's clear is that

our affordable housing efforts to date have really come up painfully short. and the ideas have come up through the back rooms of city hall. our regional housing goals for the period are 2015 to 2022 are coming to a close. they paint a stark picture as you all know while the city is surpassing our market rate production. we've not even produced half of our targets for affordable housing in san francisco. so what we are doing has not been working at least not at the scale needed. prop i offers us revenue and which could offer a new path to

aand others who have come together, considered proposals and provided a set of recommendations and adopted those unanimously for how these funds can best be deployed. this is what community planning looks like and i'm eager to hear from our presenters on their recommendation and so looking forward to the discussion we do have a number of i do want to remind our presenters that we have quite a number of presenters which is necessary because of the

various strategies that the housing stability oversite board wanted to brief the committee on. of but if everyone can be short and mindful of the time. >> supervisor ronen: sorry to ask this, but we have some committee members that have to leave. i'm wondering if we can be time certain. and maybe three minutes per. >> clerk: pardon the interruption, but with supervisor preston seemingly spontaneous arrival, i don't know how you got by me. we are now convening the special meeting as the board of supervisors. >> supervisor ronen: we saw him walk in. brent's been here too long. >> supervisor preston: the invisibility cloak was pointed in mr. clerk's direction. first off the chair of the

housing stability fund oversight board. welcome, chair singh, and thank you for your work. >> hi, thank you, chair ronen, and the committee and supervisor preston. my name is shanti singh, she/her. that's a bit of a mouthful. i will be joined by my vice chair to discuss our recommendations in more detail. i just wanted to say i'm very excited to be here today to discuss what we've been trying to do as a body via the 2022 budget recommendation which is to really create an open and transparent public process for communities across the city to articulate a collective vision for social housing in san francisco. i think social housing is becoming a lot more than a buzz word. we're seeing major initiatives to support and build and acquire public, municipal, and

cooperatively owned housing. through federal proposals like the green new deal and a bill in our very own state legislature. so, over the past several monthses, we've reefed dozens of proposals from individual community members, from tenant organizations, from affordable housing developers and organizations, for members of the board of supervisors and many more, many of whom will be speaking after me today. we really wanted to synthesize these recommendations which is there are a lot of them into a plan that has combined both immediate and short-it term and concrete budget actions, but also points to the need to have a bolder vision for social housing in the future. we went through several iterations of meetings including some special meetings to account for public input before finalizing our recommendations and submitting them to the board and the mayor on march 31st. many of the proposals we've received have not been part of

a traditional budget process which makes us all the more grateful for you chair ronen and everyone here. >> good afternoon supervisors. good to see new the chambers. it's the first time i get to come in here in awhile. my name is the prop i revenues were to be $76 million with $136 million that would be available for housing purposes. as shanty said, we received a

dozen proposals. some from community organizations such as community tenants association who is here in force in the house from senior and disability action from self-help for the elderly. we heard from labor and we also heard in supervisors who collected ideas. large buckets based on all of that feedback and i'll name those buckets and hand it over to the next speaker. the largest was for $60 million for land acquisition and in position in particular looking at geographic equity, looking

at the kinds of sites that have not been done before and that are not the traditional sites that the mayor's office has been able to do with the funds they have. this is new funds, what can we do that's different and in particular looking at geographic equity, looking at lands owned by the san francisco unified school district that have been declared surplus. looking at private sites with entitlement the second part was funding for new affordable housing construction. so first we talked about the land, then we talked about what we could actually. we allocated $15 million for a notice of funds available to cover construction costs for nontax credit projects, looking at what are the kinds of

innovations we can do with these funds. and we specifically look at our existing stock for accessibility upgrade for our limited equity co-ops for public housing, those places that have not had funding. and $10 million for upgrades in our residential hotels. there is a continuing conversation about the $64 million that this board of supervisors allocated for preservation based on the recommendations of the housing stability fund. last summer, in this round, we allocated $11.5 million in hard costs in preservation costs to supplement the $4 million but in addition to that the half million dollars in the organizations buildings, those organizations who are doing preservation projects, but don't have the huge fees that

large developers have and need that constant upkeep of their sustainability and their capacity in order to move forward. and the last piece of it was really about innovating new ideas. so $3 million in city staffing including feasibility for municipal study and $6 million to innovate new solutions such as this real estate cooperative that we talked about such as new land trust etc. and that is the $136 million. hopefully it adds up to that. >> supervisor preston: thank you. and next up is kim tabaloni.

>> clerk: to supervisor preston through the chair, i do not see kim signed in. >> supervisor preston: all right. we'll circle back. of after that was keen with jobs with justice. >> good afternoon. recently i read budget and legislative analyst report from january this year that said there were 40,000 vacant homes in the city of san francisco. that same report says in terms of meeting the state generated housing needs the housing market is steaming ahead having built 148% of the initial goal.

hour, in terms of affordable housing which includes very low, low income, moderate housing, the city is lagging behind with 35% of the experiences of people living and working in the city of san francisco. among many thing, we found that people have various income levels were experiencing pretty severe struggles in terms of accessing affordable housing in the city. and many commuting from places like san mateo, the east bay, and central valley to jobs that they hold within the city. and i know it's definitely outside of the purview of this body but i do think we should take a moment to talk or consider the impacts of this displacement. i'm sure we've all read reports about things where they're dealing with the speed of the

demographic change. and, you know, these things aren't likely and what it means for the families who are no longer able to live in san francisco. of so this all sheds light on the fact that the housing crisis is a deeply felt issue. there's clearly a severe shortage of affordable housing and san francisco residents remaining in the city. or are forced to leave for good. and while the individual experiences and income levels may vary, there's broad demand for solutions and so i just want to because san francisco

really calls into question what kind of community we are e. >> supervisor preston: thank you. next up careline fang. >> good afternoon. on this type of housing as part of this larger ask. -- as we have heard and will continue to hear our work force is being priced out of san francisco. okay. >> clerk: actually, if i can take this time to remind the members of the audience to please silence all cellphoneses as it is disrupting our

proceedings for now. >> supervisor ronen: if you want to start, they'll be up in a second. >> in particular, the state's growing i'm on to the first slide about the need for future housing. the teachers are being priced out and has an impact on our disadvantaged students knowing that attracting and retaining teachers has a direct impact on our california students. next slide, the housing burden in particular is something we have been tracking and they report a 10% attrition rate due to the housing costs. 64% of our teachers are spending more than a third of their income on rent the today,

those dollars are mainly locked up in developing excess lands on school sites. so what are the alternatives to sfusd land? one alternative is projects are affordable and build well, home ownership. home ownership is an investment and permanently housing teachers and building intergenerational wealth. the particular opportunities are also that h.o.h.s are controlled by teachers and we have permanent teacher community facilities for teachers to be able to support a system. an example is something that meta is developing. these are required with meta's funds to respond to by pock

families. we have support from this educator home ownership project. we hope with the housing stability oversites, we can either require or fund housing in the 2022-2023 fiscal year and we appreciate your consideration of this package of recommendations. thank you. that educator housing relates to that first bucket for educator housing. next, hope williams, chair of the san francisco community land trust. >> thank you, supervisors. and another thank you to you and all of your colleagues for voting unanimously to approve the ordinance creating the

housing stability fund for the acquisition, creation, and opposition of affordable housing. my name is hope williams and i am the san francisco community land trust board president i'm here to advocate for the proposal brought by the housing oversight containing board put forth by so many of us. san francisco needs to begin incubating and fostering our affordable housing future. to do so, we need funding. we're going to call it innovation funds for now. we need these funds to support new and current housing solutions. current being our nonprofits like the san francisco community land trust and new like the permanent real estate cooperative that something that actually is taking place in oakland that specifically engages their communities of color and gives them the power to collectively stabilize and steer their own neighborhoods. i don't have nearly enough time to go into details, but i will

be following up with your staff. so any of the legislative aids listening in, i'm so sorry. so just to end on a personal note, the people who are being forceded out of our city are the people that look like me and i know that these housing models work. they can and do work. so we need the funding to strengthen the capacity of both our organizations and our communities to create truly affordable social housing. a lot of folks like to say that all housing matters, but we need to get more specific. the housing of the most vulnerable matters too. so please vote to support. thank you so much. >> supervisor preston: thank you, ms. williams.

next, jessica layman. directortor seniors ability and action. i would just note that recommendation five and. >> can you hear me, supervisors? >> supervisor preston: yes. >> sorry. i'm outside and i don't feel safe inside without masks. thank you for making this meeting hybrid today. one in four san franciscan are seniors. and that our communities can

afford. this stands now the majority of seniors of people with disabilities are unable to afford most senior and nonsenior affordable housing. i just want to repeat that, most affordable housing is not affordable to the majority of seniors and people with disabilities in san francisco. more than half the seniors in our city make less than what's required for a unit at 50% a.m.i. and half those people with disabilities make only half of what's needed. we have a huge problem on our hands, right. what do people do if they can't afford the rent? they live in a place that's total e unacceptable for them. they are forced out of san francisco and away from their community or they're evicted and they end up on the streets. the good news is we have solutions. a few years ago we all create

aid impeachment prom program that has lowered rate to 15% and 25% and has enabled 40 extremely a.l.i.'s in household. the city only plans to expand it a little bit to reach 17% of planned senior housing. it is not nearly enough. we must expand this program. we have the funds to do it. we know how it works. we know it will keep people safe. we also need to create disability operating subsidies that will reach very low income people with disabilities who need a similar program because they cannot afford affordable housing. we also know that many seniors with disabilities fled in

s.r.o.s, but most are so old and many are falling apart and we certainly need to not only fix, but we need to replace elevators in places like chinatown and the mission. we need to put in newell creators. so it's really time to put in new and investing in elevators. affordable housing is a critical piece of our city's social housing agenda. thank you. >> supervisor preston: thank you. and i believe we are now joined by kim tavaloni remotely.

>> clerk: supervisor preston, through the chair, we do see kim tavaloni logged in and she is unmuted, but it appears we can't hear her. >> supervisor preston: as the technical issues are resolved, we'll move on to the next speaker, next present her of the community tenants association, president of c.t.a., welcome. >> caller: [speaking foreign language]

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>> translator: hello. to be a senior to enjoy a stable and secure life. their homes relief and essential can enjoy the o.h. but many of our city members do not live in stable and secure housing. for example, if they're living in s.r.o. can barely climb up the stairs they can only worry about the future. therefore, many of city members have tried from the moment they become 62 to apply for senior housing. they keep applying for every opportunity. now they're in their 70s and 80s and still living in an s.r.o. some seniors consider themselves a lucky person, but i want to tell these seniors, the problem is not that you're unlucky, the problem is that the city is broken. >> [speaking foreign language].

>> translator: for many years, organized for senior housing to be built near chinatown. the city agreed to build 755 near the bay.

but only 13 units in the building were affordable for extremely low income seniors. there were more than 3,000 applications for david street. one of our senior members want the position of 35. she thought she would move in her dream house, but then she was hold the minimum income for her to qualify was $2,095 a month. her dream cannot come true because her income was much lower than this and she could not afford. so her hope is now gone. >> [speaking foreign language]

. >> translator: this is the truth about the current housing system. affordable housing and we cannot imagine a positive for most of our seniors. therefore, we urge the community to adopt this recommendation to fix the system. the city should be building more housing that is truly affordable and accessible for seniors and all working people. thank you. >> supervisor preston: thank you. and finally, fred sherman zimmer, san francisco anti-displacement coalition. >> hello, my name is fred sherman zimmer i'm the director of housing rights committee in san francisco. today i'm speaking for the housing rights committee and the anti-displacement coalition

of san francisco made up of over 24 tenants rights groups across the city. as we know, speculation is destroying our communities in every neighborhood of this city. here we have money to invest for a different outcome. [please stand by]

if those issues have been resolved. >> speaker: i'm here, can you hear me? >> welcome, you have three minutes . >> speaker: sorry, i'm technologically challenged

sometimes. thank you allfor having me sorry i can't be there in person right now . i really wanted to address two important points. one in a past lifei was involved in real estate management . for those who believe that if you build enough market rate housing it will become affordable, that's not the way the industry works. for someone who rented out some really nice apartments. i would hope tokeep them vacant until someone came into afforded . so that's doesn't work. thing i want to address, our housing crisis is at an all-time high and i'm sure you heard how bad it is the worst crisis is workers not being able to live in the city will lead to a further dysfunctional

city.in so many ways. if employers can't recruit workers they're going to. they're going tomove elsewhere. to open up their businesses . just the way it is and afford to live here so i think it's about time that we try something new. k and i it's really important that we follow what the voters intended when they passedthis . i think it's important to follow these initiatives and trysomething new . tomake the city affordable . the city will collapse on itself if workers continueto get gentrified out of our city . we can't continue to go down the route we've been going so we need to desperately try some of the new things that havecome up through the committee . i think there are good ideas

and we really need to give it all to try to see what will work and different modes of housing. we know employers desperately need workers and if we can't solve the housing crisis that will never come tofruition . so please do whatever you can to follow the recommendations. i think it will lead to a more affordable city and i thank you allfor your time . >> thank you kim. and just i really want to thank all the presenters for laying out the needs, the unmet needs of various groups in the city and also some of the strategies in really flushing out some of thestrategies contained in the funding recommendations . so chair ronen with that back over to you and the community.

i should know we asked mohcd to be available as wellas their presenters . >> chair: thank you so much. supervisor walton. >> thank you chair ronen and supervisor preston for bringing thisto committee and also to everyone who presented . i want to reiterate the fact that the voters did speak and said this tax was to be prioritized for these reasons that the committee is presenting today. so i want to make sure that the rest of the leadership of the city understands that . we know that there were folks who bought this wouldn't be successful at the ballot but the voters have spoken and the one thing we need to make sure we do of course is build more affordable housing.provide housing for folks who are struggling and suffering in the

city. i just want to say that somebody mentioned in public comments before that social housingis now not just a buzzword . that is a reality so we need to make sure that the resources that were voted on by the constituents of the city go towards what they were intended. i want you to know that i support you fully in this work andwill continue to stay committed to that . >> supervisor mar. >> thanks and i just want to start by thanking supervisor preston for all of your leadership on the housing stability fund and of course you to all of the affordable housing anti-displacement and community activists that have led the movement and really pushed us as a city to address the urgent unmet housing needs of our communities. and thanks to the housing stability fund board for bringing forward this, such a

comprehensive and thoughtful set of recommendations.it's as to how the city can best use funds to address the most urgent unless unmet housing needs. this is one of the most impressive set of recommendations and really the process that led to this i've seen as a supervisor and i appreciate the board and how it reached out to the entire community and movement in the city to request proposals on innovative new ways to create socialhousing and address unmet housing needs . as vice chair martin mentioned i submitted a proposal myself to create what we're calling a tigb that would support churches to create affordable

housing on on it underutilized sites. i'm glad tosee some of that was included in the recommendation . also i appreciate the focus on educator housing as a top priority in these recommendations and i appreciate mehta and ucsf and others that focused in on the needs of our teachers to be ableto . i think as keen from justice mentioned there is a much broader need for us to create housing for our entire essential workforce and all essential members across industries and our city . the labor council and jobs of justice produced and we had a hearing on that in the land use and transportation committee being highlighted the urgent need for us to create affordable housing for all service workers in the city from healthcare to hospitality

to public-sector workers. in addition to housing our educators so this is something that i think is extremely important and i appreciate the focus not just on teacher housing and the recommendations but also workforce housing with affordability and partnership with jobs to justice. i'm in full support of all these recommendations. i think everyone for all your work on this and lookforward to advocating for this to be included in our new budget . >> thank you. i want to go all three of you. there's no more important priority in our city than affordable housing and we are not going to continue to be a functional city if we can't house our workforce and this is a fight that you have all put in so much time and energy and brilliance and your creativity and we stand with you on the board ofsupervisors . so with that i will item up for

public comment members of the public who wish to speak on thishearing and line up now . for those listening remotely please call 415-655-0001 with a meeting idea of 2488 607 7768. for those that you continue to make a system indicates you have beenunmuted . the first speaker of the left or the.>> in afternoon supervisors. thank you supervisor for all your work. my name is frank i'm executive vice resident of you esf. i want to send our solidarity statements to our seniors or seniors with disabilities, the vote to raise the need for housing for everybody .

this is a wealthy city and its right that we should be housing all our workers, all our folks who are in need now but i am speaking in support of some funds especially the ones for educators to the housing stability fundrecommendation . in order to have 100 percent affordable housingfor educators . i think there's a need and this will be a huge win for educators as we go forward to project that house us tobuild a strong coalition we can continue fighting for more . as you know there are a lot of changes in sf usd and some of those you unfortunately will hear more of them so summer i think for us is a big moment to reflect on what the future of our publicschools and public workforce is going to be in. i was here in 2014 . in 2000/ big layoffs we had the

massive influx of folks leaving due to the high cost and extend that issue was the major pay increases but those weren't something solid and solid footing. once the pandemic hit we saw the effects of the household were not leaving. we have to look at housing as a solution of five, 10 years becausefolks are coming . i'm here 10 years. we want to stay.the only way to dothat you can't just keep raising wages . it can't match the crazy amount ofcost . it needs to improve housing and we need to build the strong coalitions. educators are one section of that we should use that power to then build also housing for others so pleasesupport that . >> next speaker please. >> my name is denise dory.

i'm here senior and disability action revenue, i lived in sro since reaganoutsourced us jobs in the 1980s . i've seen very little to sro infrastructure since then and the 40 years since jobs were outsourced. i've conducted over 150 sro elevator surveys. and found living conditions as they are dilapidated that elevators break down quite often. even one elevator where i used to live in the 90s where if you lost your balance your arm could get caught between the elevator and the wall as you'r going up and rip your arm off . it happens before . that's just the tip of the iceberg and we should subsidize

elevator repairs. withoutelevators residents are stuck like prisoners except in san quentin the fee you . these peoplethere in a wheelchair, they can't get downstairs to eat .some of them have no friends, familyto help them. they're isolated . they can't access medicine. theirmail, their food . also i like to see an oversight board for management of these sros becausethey're getting away with stuff . i could go on andon . we have tohold them accountable . themanagement , the mail is being stolen. they have an opportunity to steal all the mail when the post man brings it to the desk and when people don't have their own mailboxes with a lot so we need funds for that so these people can have their own mailboxes so they don't get ripped off . they deserve a walk inmailbox . thank you for your time.

>> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is jordan davis and i'd like to thank supervisor preston for actually engaging the community. it's good when supervisors engage the community. we need more of that. anyway i used to live in a place andi still live in a place right now where the elevators are busted . i remember having to deal with a form of elevator outage. i'm relatively able-bodied although i do get kind of pooped when i tried to get up the stairs but it's just really really hard and there are people with wheelchairs who live in these busted sros that goes to show how much of a problem this is. we have people in wheelchairs live in these sros and not only do we need to make your money funding goes to fix these

elevators make more capital improvements so that way people don't trip in the bathtub or end up like having shit steel out of their toilet like the old fucking faithful. hell, we should get rid deductions for each day we have to deal with these broken elevators and we need senior operating subsidies and subsidies for seniors and disabled people so they cannot get put into randy shaw's happy housing. not only do we need the funding but we need accountability especially when it comes to hsa and how it relates to the issues around capital needs and prop i could do that. to relate this to the item that was introduced just recently, we're never going to get accountability for this funding.

were going to have seniors stuck in elevators. each commission is mayoral appointees so you're going to get stuck in the elevators, thank you . >> thank you jordan davis for your comments . next speaker. >> madam chair, fellow committee members. my name is connie ford and i'm retired. i'm still the treasurer of jobs for justice and i wanted to say that we support all of the recommendations for prop i and in fact the rebel labor council submitted a report with a couple of supervisors so all those are good but one thing it shows is that workers cannot afford to stay here, to move here, to live here. housing our workers reflexively substantiates that.we all personally know that.

the other thing i want to say isabout housing our workers and this is what's new and we've seen it here today . there's a new alliance now with community groups and labor. let me say that again. community groups and labor working together to try to change how we look at affordable housing and the importance of building affordable housing for all of us. we have some principles that w all agree on now . i forgot to put my glasses on. we deemphasize land. we want to support housing production that about needs and not markets and we want to reduce the incentive for speculation. it's really changing the nature of how we look at it. it'snot just a subsidized based on market rates it's a whole new way of talkin about affordable housing . we don't need much more market

or luxury housing today . we need a lot moreworking-class housing . so i support the prop i.we could put this really to work and let's start ittoday . >> thank you for your comments . nextspeaker . >> welcome back supervisor . >> it's been a longtime madam chair. john oculus with council of community housing .last week an investigation into san francisco system of supportive housing revealed what many of us already knew that the supportive housing system is broken and lacks transparency , public oversight and accountability. in a weeks time city hall is scrambling to create public oversight over the department of homelessness and supportive housing . yet the broken hsa system is notthe only department that is in need of fixing and change . we all know that our system of affordable housing is in crisis. the mayor's office of housing

and communitydevelopment suffers from the same lack of public input , transparency, oversight andaccountability . today's hearing however shows outside the mayor's office of housing and community development there is a movement of communities directly impacted by the affordable housing crisis that is providing practical and robust pro housing solutions to address the housingcrisis . community labor working together. our communities are offering solutions to address the housing insecurity for which is most pressing issues, behavioral health andworkforce crisis that are directly related . our public institutions need to change and change who they must serve. to this day the mayor's office of housing has been impervious to public input on i funding and oversight for prop i. mohcd has lacked transparency and showed little regard for the use of revenue and