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there are no caller. >> public comment for item 2 is closed. and now call agenda item 3. which is the presently everpresentation and hearing and possible action on ethic's budget priorities for the fiscal year of 23/24 and fiscal 24/25. this is a pretty sobering budget proposal. before us. if we were to follow the mayor's request for automatic budget counties for fiscal 23/24 and 24/25 long with positions sunseted after the 3 year -- funding is sunseted. we are looking at about a 30%

staff cut. for the next 2 years. so, before we have any commentsible like to call on our director director -- -- to give us the presentation. summary of the presentation. >> go ahead. >> thank you, chair lee. good afternoon, commissioners. this item is to discuss the commission's budget priorities for the upcoming 2 fiscal years 24 and 25. fiscal 24 is the period starting july first of 2023 this year. through june 30 of 2024. and fiscal 25 starts july first of 2024 through june 30 of 2025.

>> so. every year during this period city departments go through the budgeting exercise. departments that required submit proposals to the mayor's office by february 21st each year. that is the dead line and a part of the process required to conduct 2 public hearings. where public and provide input in the process. the first meeting is to receive input on the department's budget priorities. before a budget proposal is finalized. and the second hearing is for discussions on the budget proposal before it is submitted to the mayor's office. this meeting is the first hear to receive input on budget priorities. and just to briefly out line once we submit the budget

proposal to the major's office the mayor's budget office would roach out to d.s with questions and put together a proposal on behalf of the mayor by june first submitted to the board. which will be reviewed and then sent become to the mayor by august first. for signature. this is the cycle of the budgeting process. >> before i go in the budget priorities for the commission, i wanted to provide information regarding the instruction this is we received from the major's office and city departments. the city is expecting a deficit of about 722 million dollars. for the 2 fiscal years. upcoming to the years and murder to dress that the mayor asked city department its propose cuts of about 5% in the first year. which is the 24.

and additional 3% adding up to 8% in the second year for fy25 am and the way to achieve this per instructions is to prioritize reclassifying positions to focus on the core functions and the mayor's priorities. and to use vacancies to achoef the target steps. we have been told we should be prepare in the case of financial outlook during the year. so could be additional cuts if needed. >> moving on to priorities. that the mayor [inaudible] here are the priorities. recovery of local xhechl public safety. rousing homelessness and transforming mental healing saefshs accountability and service in spengdz the are the focus areas the mayor identified

for the departments to consider had putting together proposals. so, just to briefly talk about commission's priorities. these are on going priorities. strong lus that are well implemented with timely and effective oversight. heightened aware knows of the laws to improve compliance and foster public engagement through tools and information resources and public disclosure. and focus on improve. . this is manage we do on going base, look at programs to see how we can improve the manner in which we conduct core functions. these these will be priorities. moving on to a snapshot. this table gives you the current locations for fiscal years we are discussing here.

so, for upon current year fiscal 23 the approved budgetary operating budget, is 7.1 million. for the upcoming 2 fiscal years 24 and 25 the starting point per assessment is the base line budget currently we have 6.9 million for 24 and 5.4 for fiscal 25. you noticed that the reduction in the funding and that's because well is positions responding xoiring in the 2 years. in our current year we have a staff size of 34 and in fy242 positions will expire. we have the baseline number of positions 32. dp then we expecting an additional 8 positions to xoir in the following fiscal year. 5 in 25 and funning for 10

position in total. in the current setting. now had one additional thing i mention is that diameters also expected to meet saving targets. so the city expects that normal staffing changes. you know staff may move to other diameters or retire and that is sort of baked in the numbers that are allocated for departments. so, the -- city department expected to manage the staffing level to ensure that a certain amount of atrician savings can be saved. in the past we achieved this in the upcoming 2 fiscal years we will have a savings. 2.4fte's. this will be something to consider had we look at the staffing levels and impact on

the cuts. >> and another area regarding funding for our department is the election campaign fund. so this is the fund allocated to provide partial public financing for the mayor and board of supervisors. and we administer that diameter funding as well. the fund has a bvenls 3 opinion 5 million and capped at 7 million. allocation planned for 446,000 and fiscal 24 and 25. we provide estimate or projections for elections to the mayor's budget office. and then they use that information to make allocations. during the budget process may be discussions to see additional allocations are meaded this fund. >> moving on to how our budget is distributed the first pie

chart shoes the distribution by the time spending. 86% of our budget is allocated to staff saul row and benefits. and then we have allocation of 6 percent for professional services and supply. these are like tools that are staff uses, technology, laptops. maintenance and procurement of system for electronic disclosures. we have expenses with maintaining our office. separately the service other departments 8% through departments. technology, they provide service regarding for office tools. telecommunication and internet. also, to support the sfgovtv and cable casting for meetings.

we have a [inaudible] a chart human resources to help us with that in staff related needs. and the controller's office provide us with founding support. of of the contract administration. we are working on establishing a contract with exupon attorney audit tors to conduct campaign audits that is the assistance through the processes provide by the contract team. and real estate for our office. those other types of expense miss that category. if you look at staffing distribution, you see that you know about 17% of staffing allocated to execute an administrative work. about -- 12% for artists and the same for electronic disclose our and data analysis division. 12% for work team a new team we

have established. to provide train to city departments. we have about 25% for enforce am team of 80% for compliance team and 6% policy that is our current distributions of staffing. >> this gives you an idea of all positions in our department. by divisions. we identified current vacancies as the positions responding when expired in the upcoming fiscal years. we have staff thirty-four about 8 vacancies now excluding the eb and 2 expiring in 23 for [inaudible] in 24. >> moving on to our departmental priorities. in order for us to maintain a

concern level of service and capacity which is 523 level services and dpaft is essential to continue all of the funding for the positions we identified as expiring. and i will go over more detail for these positions in the upcoming slides. that will be a key prior for us to retain the position. upon so, just talking through some of the specific positions where funding will be needed. talks about one of the position in the electronic disclosure divichlgz technology division. we have a 1043 senior engineer position. for which funding expire in june. this position is the only position that is the engineering time and -- currently is

performing alegality. different functions within the team. we are asking to retain this position on going position, asking for permanent funding for this position. the position in the past expired renewed for limited terments. because of that time we were still assessing needs from the departmentful now it is clear that this is on going work needed so -- you are asking for permanent upon fund to give an idea of duties performed by the rule, the campaign finance dash board maintained by a rowel. and this these are essential tombs for public and media. they rely on data we provide for reporting. also -- open data resource. the ability to publish data out to the public through the city's

open data platform. you know through the -- position. we have. several different meter in which we make information available to the public. one is through the open data platform in data sets. well is integration with our systems and the city's open data system that requires management and support. also the online complaint form, this is the tool that public uses to report complaintses to the website. we are building out a new case management system for the team. our ability to maintain and develop the system will be impacted. we have -- several electronic filing system this we have maintained. ability to maintain and properly build out new system. new disclosure >> reporter:s that will be impacted if that is not funds.

and our. p.m. ethics website currently we have done some redesign to the website. there is work needed you know in order to meet the city's web access standards so there is work there that this will help us perform and the city's contract disclosure system for the contract contribution then. again. a different disclosure process. that requires a lot of maintenance. gives you the types of different systems that this rule will help us support which is why we are asking for on going funding. moving on some needs in the engagement and compliance division the division this provides compliance guidance, filing support, training, out

reach to city officers and employees and candidates and others. we have a year ago requested funding for a new client support specialist position. when we were working on launching the e filing system to departmental filers. and the role it play in the this launch and to provide support for the filers. we are talking about more than 5,000 filers across city departments and filing officers who assist those filers. requires a lot of technical assistance and support and reach out for guidance and filing so this roleplayed a role in stream lining that work and providing assistance to filers. they then and there is a need there is annual filing

requirements and also throughout the year filers can change positions. new fierls get appointed or leave the positions there is work throughout the year to assist them temperature it is a role in the funding for the position will expire the end of this june we are asking for on going funding permanent, for the position as well. related to the same need, we currently have another 1840 junior management assistant position. am this became vac act and a staff member retired a year ago. at that time the position was designated fines collection officer. we have indicated to reclassify or pub lift this finance and administration and operation's coordinator. because there was a need for you

to handle all of the administrative work. will but wire not able to get to filling the position but now with our understanding, increased need for compliance assistance and file are support we ask to ripurpose this position as client support specialist position to work with the other role and assist in more guidance and support to our filers. across different promise. . >> for the need. now the administrative support need exists. we are prioritizing the need to support filers at this point of so, there is no budget impact on this change weepmented to call out at the same time.

and in the same division engagement and compliance reclassification. we currently have 1844 engagement and compliance officer position. this provides director support and guidance to candidates and campaign committees. gift finance program a complex program. we had a staff atrician in this position. so we are asking to reclassify up glid to a higher classification 1823. it demands more complex analysis and thinking and judgment and feel that the higher classification the allow us to -- assign that type of work to the role. so -- this is the position that fully funded. asking for funds to upgrade the position. moving on to a different

division the ethics at work program a new team we built out. the funding for this position provide starting october first of 2021. it is a little over a year we had funding. at that time we wanted build out this team to address a lot of concerns regarding corruption. you know we saw the need to provide greater support and resources for city departments. had they are working on building out trin and materials that can be sdrkted departments and provide workshops and, trainings for the departments. something that we have not had the capacity toft do. but now the team fully red and built out and working on data available. the whole team all of the positions in the team their funding will expire the end of june next year.

. we are asking to convert to permanent positions we seen the work and see this will be on going need to provide this support. so -- we are asking for on going funding for these positions. move being on to enforce am division. we were allocated 3 senior investigative positions. at the same time when the funding for ethics for them was provide october first of 2021. the approximate suspicions robbery very critical and addressing the backlog on case. to reduce case resolution times and increase proportion of severe cases that are investigated. we are asking for the positions to be on going permanent positions. and the positions funding expired on june 30 of next year. so the funding will be for

starting from fy25. we also have a position focus ordprogram performance and reporting. the bla in 2020 one of the items they recommend was audit to do better evaluation on how we performing. am and be able to report on that. we in identified the role to help. cross functionally. to do greater dast an upon driven analysis and providing insights for the department and improve our work. it was a 3 year position. we were not able to fill because of hiring backlog. so this position will expire end of next june. june upon of 24. we are asking to continue

funding for this position as 3 year. since we have not cleared we wanted if we make it limited so we assist the work and decide how to continue the work beyond. this will be critical to really vice president [inaudible] that can provide insights in how we perform our work and reporting to the public. moving on to asks on nonposition related. these are requests for technology, professional services, and also service of translations. we have a lot of materials on our website. that need to be translated to different languages. and we not had listing resource for that. this ask will include service like that.

we are also accounting for cost increases for services related to software or electronic disclosure. charges. typically, the the base flienldzing we have to support these service is not sufficient to meet our needs. every year we have been asking for funds and get allocated for that year. for one year. which is why each year we have to ask for additional funds to account for these service. this again, we are would want this to be on going funding but sometimes they get allocated one time approximate we ask for more. we look had we mead to nan tain current level of service and capacity. we are asking for 4 upon 74,000 in fy24.

this is increase of about 6.8%. approximate from current allocations for the year. and talking about 2.million for fy25 which is 37% more then and there allocated now. we evaluating needs. we will see if there is anything else this may need to be addressd and bring this in the next meeting. at this point these other areas we identified for budget proposal employs am now shifting to the target cuts. the mayor's office asked to cut 5 percent in the first year and up to 8 in the second year. what this means for us is the first year it is 329 thousand dollars and the second year 543 thousand dollars. now this will be in addition to

the 10 topicions expiring. during the 2 years. given that the instructions budget instructions mentioned we should try to achieve these cuts i wanted give you have a look what they look like currently. we have 8 positions. 3 of them in engagement and compliance area. the engage am manager the upon compliance officer. and the junior management assistant which we are look to repurpose on the team. we are going to prioritize the manager position and junior management assistant for hiring. because we want to have the capacity to provide will filer support during this especially since filing season is coming

up. the 1844 compliance recover position identified for upgrading. we want to nil until a decision was made on this request. aside from that, we have 2 position in enforce am. senior investigative position and 1822 investigative position. the senior investigative position funding will expire the end of next june. we have administrative positions that are vacant the performance program and deporting analyst and secretary position. separate low we have 1824 policy manager position vacant. am we available to make progress on hiring and had staff atrician that is the reason we have most of the vacancies. moving on to how we will need to

achieve the cuts. these other positions that will be impacted if we make the 5% and 8 percent company society first is the 1844 engagement position. which is the engage am compliance officer position. this role designed to provide support and assistance to candidates and committees this need to bes vacant for upon 2 years. we will not provide the level support needed for the 24 election. this was [inaudible] and tell not be sustainable. it is very important we are able to fill this as quickly as possible. the other position is the secretary position. this is position got add third degree fiscal year october of

22. and the commission identified that a priority as well. of currently, a lot of our commission support operations and department have been absolved across staff that means is then some of the work would not be addressed because we will do other functions. it is important for us to fill had role and centralize that work. this will have an impact on our operations. and then the 1822 investigative position. this will have impact on the enforce am team's ability to perform detail investigations, reduce case time and increase the types of cases thatting they investigate. over all, they impact will be severe. now you noticed i mentioned other positions that were identified vacant previously because funding for those

expired a couple of them expires by june of 24. approximate we will have to go finds cuts. we narrow down on these positions. so lastly to summarize gives you sum row of the different areas i talked about. in fy24 reduction of 25% of our enforce. capacity. and i talked about impact on various systems including the case management system and ability to double up and maintain the online complaint form and campaign finance dash boards. the impact on the campaign finance program if we don't fill had position we will not provide support to filers. and the form upon 700 program will be impacted if we don't continue the support service position. and various impact to all of the

system that are essential to. allow approximate provide public disclosure. all of the data systems and ability to maintain them will be impacted. in fy25, the ethics program important work we do now. that will be halted. the impact on enforce. team would be up to 50% and the campaign dash board for 20 torelection will not be able to create them and you know provide that to the public. yes. the impact will be severe if we have to take the mayor's cuts and also impact due to positions that have expires. we will continue to evaluate to see if there are other budget priorities that come up in the upcoming weeks before the next presentation. but that concludes my presentation and happy to answer

questions you may have. >> thank you. any questions or comments. commissioner? i have a couple questions from a mechanical point, i don't know that much how the budget works. understand this the 2 things happening affect us now the budget cut and positions are expiring on page 6 the number of positions that is based on expiring positions? >> that's right. >> the footnote means the staff will be less we have to meet the new budget >> 3 things. one, we have several positions expiring. 2, the mayor's target cuts. 3, atrician savings a standard process. right. that is a small are amount but all of the 3 together can have

an impact on capacity. >> i wanted ask about that. now is the commission able to meet the balanced budget based on the expiring positions and attrition or would there be cutos currently filled positions? >> don'ts anticipate that. and of the mayor an i believe the instructions says we should look at vacancies. what we are homing is that if we can provide classifications and help impact that we would not need to take that step. that would be i deal yoochl it sounds like worse case if no additional funding you would noted cut field positions you meet it based on atrician >> that is our understandings. yes. >> and last question. this is more i don't know how the budget process work when is

you commit requests do you prioritize it saying we like, x, if we get half here is where we put it. where does the major's office figure out how to priority ayesize if they gave you less than you requested. >> we try to provide as much information to justify our ask. sometimes in the past, priors they have [inaudible] asked for priorities in the last year that did not happen. i don't know what process will come up this time. so it it is a mix. >> got temperature thank you. these are sobering cuts. but thank you very much for the presentation and answering the questions. why may be before we have questions for the director if you can kindly walk us tloument the budget review and approval process. of submitting to the major's office as well as other

opportunity for the public to comment when the board of supervisors get that budget. >> yes. so -- after this public hearing we will. receive feedback and then a proposed budget for the february 10 meeting the budget submission deadline is february 21. we'll submit requests in the system and a memo to the mayor's budget office. typically, once they receive the requests the mayor's budget analyst will roach out for questions or priorities. and then typically we learn about what has been allocated. only00 autoday before the ends of may. and -- we would also have an opportunity top present to the board. what the budget that is allocated by the mayor and may

be questions at that point you know from the board. and then you know we'll -- learn about hahas been approved. but other than i think along the way we will provide that information through our meetings but over all that is the process. ninety-seven a presentation to the board of supervisors. >> it happens in june. second week of june. several departments will present dependses on the date they are assigned our department. >> i have one follow up question i'm not sure if the chair has other ways to direct the conversation. i echo everything everybody said i think these are tough cuts. it it is difficult on navigate

given needs we have and the money allocated. i wonder if there is the team is functioning now in a way that would make sure we get done everything we need everyone if there are cuts not in our favor. is that something like are we reorganizing our agenda in the meantime? because i know there is a lot of positions that affect the campaign finance dash board and a lot of other data. yes. i think if we if we get feedback or understanding when is expected off. departments we will have to plan ahead. as you mentioned to prioritize our work. yea. >> thank you.

commissioner bush? >> thank you. i can speak generally i don't know the specifics of this budget year. as a general rule, the mayor's budget and what departments respond to does not include savings from the courts. it is considered in the past to be poor form for the mayor to have cut on the course budgetful that is well to the board of supervisors. had they do that, it it is a number of millions of dollars they did reallocate to the project they finds most important. that can be an allocation back for ethics. so i would keep this in minds as

boinlt. secondly, the mayor's suggestion we look at revenue. in the just cuts. i locked at issues of revenue there seem to be areas that -- we could explore with happy upon ruts. a hundreds dollars for not filing after a year or something like that. is certainly a lot less than a parking. and so you can understand why the public thinks that we treat our own officials more gent low than we treat the general public involved and trying to voice concerns.

so -- i would suggest that we consider seeing if there are members of the commission who will be willing to serve as upon an exfish i don't fan on places where we can increase revenues for the commission. that would include late fee and fines as well as potential low a surcharge for obvious. so we couldan lied whether or not the lobbyist report are done completely and accurately. all are -- subject in part to review by the ftc and indicated in the behalf.

local governments decide to do on that. another issue is that we have a variety and vacancies that are extended over a period of months yndz the normal. when harvey rose did his analysis 2 years ago. found that ethic's commission thing to contract out positions. it is not with onerous duty to identify positions to be filled with the assistance of local --

departments. the controller has indicated a willingness to make staff available on a contract basis. to do audits. and as you know, we are very far behind and obviously -- filings with ethics. another is a system for posting campaign literature for review of whether or not there are violations. that's a constant irtans to people in the political process. people take fast and loose with literature and knows we are done. so i think that taking a look at a relationship with the fttc which is also adopted a policy

now that they will actively enforce local ethic's lus and state laws. if that is when we chose to go. so, in other words, when i'm trying to suggest is, if we cast our eyes around look at where there is funding or resources that can be put to use we may come close to motesing our obligation to the voters. thank you. these are great long-term solutions i would like to have us look into the revenue increase option number one who has the authority, can we increase the penalty and more

important low the very function of this commission through enforce. and ethics the work and engagement. we would lieshg to see no penalties everybody in compliance with their reporting and --arctivities. of to raise the -- penaltieses >> 100 dollars to 200 those are peanuts come paired had we are facing with now.

my question is, even though the mayor has issued the director -- this is 85% or higher of our budget. we are a small department. we cannot ford this -- proposed cut automatic cut on top of the fact that went last couple of years we have been asked to do a lot more through the past few months we had public hearings in terms of enforcement if, and other findings. we will get a lot more.

of those cases coming before us. so -- i would i would suggest that -- before last year we did not submit a budget with the proposed cuts. unlike others could not afford the cut and ultimately we were able to make a dice have additional staff to carry the work. it it is unfortunate had very, very slow moving. filling the spachls ethics froutful 2 year and we are starting to get it off upon grounds. so -- other than continuing to work with the hr and i don't know how we can fill these

positions. as soon as we need them that is another conversation for another day with hr. but colleagues, i would suggest that because of the unique position we are in, just like previously, we did submit a budget statement. along with our budget proposal to the mayor's office. the unique circumstances we have, so that when they look at the budget that we have it is not just automatic across the board cut they will realize that you know to be cut -- the

function of this commission meets the top priority the mayor set out. because after the pandemic there was a lot of since the major's top 4 budget priorities i would say we meet one and 4. we help with the local economy.

because there would be questions and there would be occurrence whether these support done out in a fair, clean ethical manner. so -- by continuing -- ethics work and enforcement and education and out reach we are making sure the city's precious dollars are well spent. so i think we can make a forceful push we meet the local economy priority. and of course, you know, number 40 government work. so i think that we can make a strong case to meet the mayor's budget priorities as well as the

realistic -- view of where we stand in terms of this department's small but mighty operations. i oppose finds and fees as a source of revenue for this commission they should for future are violation and ensuring compliance. budget needs to be increased that up to the board not we should fine people because of wrong doing not meet our fiscal responsible. >> that's why we have these programs to make sure we don't need to fine them. >> we fine them because people violated the law and nothing to do with our budget.

my position at least. >> open up for public comment. please. i wanted say that the fines for example, 100 dollars for filing a mont lay on a statement of economic [inaudible]. that's a gift to the people hor latest in filing not in the public's interest. you can't have a library book checked out and over due at that price. so who in up with the numbers was not taking a serious look at -- the. deence of setting a fine.

if it it is we are given the authority to charge people for missing deadline and what have you i'm open to -- looking at increasing those penaltieses. i don't think we should be expanding our authority to penalize people. but if the current rules 78 miss 700 you are charged i don't know 10 dollars a day. it was low. right. . >> yes >> 10 dollars a day to a mack of

100 dollars. >> city attorney, the penalty amount for late filing is set by state law. >> okay. >> okay. thank you very much. >> state law the state says that local governments have the authority to alter that if they chose. >> a cap >> regardless my point this is not an appropriate conversation for budget it for enforce am that might be taken out at a later date. >> yea. can i upon one i agree. whether a deterrent is separate. at our regular report the staff

does provide part of the budget. the the -- expected revenue and actual ref mou and there are times when there are irrelevant huge difference. i forgot had it was. sometimes like you expected 20,000. gooet a thousand. which is great. monies everybody complies. we do have that budget we have that part of -- -- penalties and registration fees and everything else. that is part of our revenue budget. that we receive every year. >> the collect from fee and fines they don't go toward this operating budgetfulmented clarify that that does not help currently. why good. >> okay. upon a question on the prior conversation.

the chair mentioned a budget statementful i wanted get clarity. assume the requests is a budget statement. are you envisioning separate with the commissioners. write a letter saying, mayor, increase the budget? >> i was not clear on what you were referring to. you think we started to issue budget statements a couple years ago to explain why we did not submit a budget per mayor's request or oomph 3% reduction. and we were going to -- it was necessary for us to mitt this and another purpose of this budget statement was for us to present it to the public to explain why we -- proceeding this way. i think it started off with -- matter and we have been doing that every year just to let the public as well as the leaders

know this we are not complying but there is a reason why we cannot. >> that make sense. is that part of your conversation with the mayor's office. >> so typically when we submit a budget request. if the mayor's office asks a cut. they the be expecting our department to enter this in the system. this time again we'll need to deflect this in the system. but what we have been doing is provide a detailed memo out lining all of our asks with justifications. and chair lee you are talking about that in addition to the memo if the commission issues a statement we attach that as a part of the submission. a separate statement from the

commissioners? >> right. >> to support -- the staff's submission. >> got it. moderator yoochlt and sometimes have more detame for example. in thes proposal that we are looking at we are talking about a percentage cut in enforce am. but if you were in [inaudible]. what does this mean? it means you would not enforce cases more than 3 years old or cases that -- carry a potential 5100 thousand dollars but not those more than that? you want to spell it out so the public know about what this all meant. moerator can you check? >> madam chair we are checking

to see if there are callers who wish to comment on item 3. stand by. we have one caller in the queue. stand by. . >> welcome. caller your 3 minutes begins now. >> can you hear me, now. >> before you start my time i say it is doyle hear chair lee if she account speak close to the mic that will be great. everyone else i hear well. david pilpel. the rent board supervisors resolution on audit system important it highlights the backlog adding from staff is not

the best way. being be must have pardon enforcement to audits for flexible base on the needs at the time. besides audits i have concerns about the website accessibility. translation, staff and other issues. over all great to mrs. the operating budget from the election campaign funds fist this is done it was not clear from the presentation slide on that. the funding and staffing are right to me. i think the issue is about priorities and like the comment you should have i separate discussion about enforcement priors and things like that. it is time to do that again. i think that all programs should emphasize education and compliance. with enforce am as the last resort. on the website, some elements there should be more intuitive with few are clicks with the

combination of more static and dynamic content. it is accessible over all only key documents should be translated inform had multiple languages like complaint and things like that not all documents. all documents should be posted as a pdf there are some now in html it is doyle fullpull or print them. it is a thing. further on staffing i understand a language time staff person separated from the commission staff. i think that was avoidable. and going forward i think would be great to retain staff that know the commission and how it works. i would try to address the issue of a commission secretary. and general administrative support again there are ways to do that i'm not sure a full time commission secretary makes sense

but clustered with other work to support the commission and the staff. returning to in person meetings will bring back old challenges and create new ones, too, i happen to like hybrid meeting its is allowed for greater public participation and to end i follow up with staff regarding details comments today. thank you very much for listening. >> thank you. please. stand by. there are no further callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> public comment for agenda item 3 is closed. >> we now go to agenda item number 4 which is additional opportunity for public comment on matters not appearing on the

agenda. can you please check? no audio. be i'm sorry i'm here talking to myself i'm muted. i apologize. we are checking to see if there are callers. members online and who wish to provide comment under matters not appearing on the agenda should dial star 3 to be added

to the line. there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you. public ment is closed. now adjournment. thank you very much, and we will continue this discussion on february 10 commission meeting.

>> (music). >> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one

has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town

in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed

something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully

operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had

to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city

to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the

busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and

rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about

over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who

was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we

were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so

the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for

a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to

surface. >>

all right. good afternoon san franciscoian, fellow commissioners and staff and welcome to the health commission meeting of tuesday january 17, 2023. i hope the new year is finding you all well and staying dry and healthy and safe after this very wet weather. secretary morewitz would you please call the roll. >> commissioner green yes. >> commissioner commissioner giraudo yes. >> commissioner chung. >> yes. >> how chow. >> yes. >> and commissioner bernal. >> yes. >> good afternoon and welcome to the january 17, 2023 health commission meeting. the meeting is held in hybrid format and occurring on here in person. broadcast life on sf govtv. available to view via webex or listen by calling the number on the screen. i would lik