>> secretary fuller, please call the roll. >> good morning. please respond with here or present. thomas harrison. commissioner harrison isprint. kim hartwig schulman. vice chair heart will schulman isprint. maryo mogannam is present. christopher simi is absent today. with three members present we have quorum for sanitation and streets commission and just as reminder

remote participation changed. see the memo from the city attorney attached to the january meeting agenda of this commission. the sanitation and streets commission will continue to take remote public comment and commissioners may participate remotely but only under very specific circumstances. for memberoffs the public who wish to make comment on any item on today's agenda from outside the hearing room dial 1-415-655-0001. use the meeting id, 24815960488, pound, pound and then to raise your hand to speak press star 3. please note you must limit your comments to the topic of the agenda item discussed. unless you are speaking under general public comment and remind if you do not stay on topic, the chair may

interrupt and ask you to limit your comment to the agenda item. we ask public comment made in a civil respectful manner and you refrain from the use of profanity. please address your remarks to the commission as a whole, not to individual commissioners or staff. on behalf of the commission, i like to extend our thanks to the staff of sfgovtv media service and building management for helping put on this meeting. >> any questions from the commission to amend the order of the agenda? hearing no requests i have a couple announcements. good morning. good to be back here and seeing things progressing with the commission. few things, i had met with chair lauren post, pw commission and we had a great discussion. i have been invited as a

ambassador and give input in the hiring of the new director and excited to see the change and there was a great bit of enthusiasm of people applying for the job and look forward to being part of the process to get us back on track with full direction. i will miss interim director carla short but think you will be with us a little longer. look forward to the last couple months and (indiscernible) both need that direction. also, in discussion in between meetings i field the graffiti opt in option is paperwork only and wonder if we can make it automated or online, easier for everyone, whether getting the form to people or getting the people to fill out the form and them return it. they could go online and opt in it would save a lot of labor and not

have to read bad handwriting such as mine. that is it for me. commissioners--alright. that concludes my announcements. mr. filler, do you have any announcements? >> my only announcements have to do with the one contract item under the operations division that the commission-the public works commission addressed or heard and approved at the april 7 meeting,er and it was additional amendment to the trash can steam cleaning grant agreement with cyc, and you may recall from the memo from the march meeting that that was discussed in that and there is a memo within today's agenda that discusses the updated newer amendment to that grant agreement. that's my

major announcement, aside if there are commissioners who are still having any trouble completing their form 700 or others i will be following up on any training that is necessary in the next couple weeks, but thank you all for your efforts. >> thank you. mr. fuller, please call the first item. >> item 1, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on topics that are within the subject matter of the commission but are not part of this agenda. comments specific to an item on the agenda may be heard when that item is considered. members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. general public comment may be continued to the end of the agenda if speakers exceed 15 minutes of general public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment, may line up against

the wall furthest from the door in the chamber with us. if you are calling in use that public comment call in number of 415-655-0001 and today's meeting access code is 24815960488, pound, pound and press star 3. it does not appear we have any in person members of the public who want to speak on this item, and i am looking at the public comment queue and we do not have any members of the public in the queue at this time, so that concludes general public comment. >> that concludes public-sorry, concludes general public comment. please call the next item. >> item 2, the

communications and the director's report and interim director short is here to present the report. this is an informational item. >> good morning commissioners. for the record, carla short interim director, san francisco public works. we have been busy since we last met so i have a number updates this morning. first, a budget update. commissioners on march 31, the mayor the board of supervisors budget analyst and controller issued a joint report updateing the city 5 year financial plan. this report highlighted worsening trends, largely the result of lower revenue projections. higher employee benefit costs and new responding proposals adopted by the city. the short-fall for 23-24 grow to $290.9 million which is $90.1 million higher than the january projection. in the upcoming two fiscal years the

period tew dopt a balance two year budgeted projected a $779.8 million short-fall which is $51.5 million more then the previous projected deficit of 728.3 projected in january. as a result of these revised projections, mayor breed issued new budget instructions requested to propose additional cuts for the up two fiscal years. identify 5 percent reduction in general fund support each year. what that means is shaved another $3.5 million in fiscal 23-24 and again 24-25. that is on top of the 5 percent and 8 percent we previously been asked to cut. so, we have been looking at reducing our capital projects as well as other ongoing

programs in order to make the additional funding available. we have been meeting with the mayor budget office to determine the overall impact. as a reminder in february the public works commission approved the department proposed $391.6 million operating capital budget for fiscal 23, 24 and $335.2 million operating and capital budget for fiscal 24, 25. the budget included that 5 percent reduction in our general fund allocation that the mayor previously requested and 8 percent reduction as i mentioned which was about $5.7 million for 24, 25 so these new cuts are on top of those. in a good way complicated the situation for us is the fact the board of supervisors last week-sorry, two weeks ago unanimously approved a budget supplemental appropriation of $25 million for public works to spend on additional street

cleaning and graffiti abatement. this ordinance appropriates additional funding in the current year and allows to expand the services for 18 months. we estimate that to continue this level of service once that funding expires the cost would be $17.1 million annually. it still unknown how this infusion of supplemental funding will impact the proposed cuts. we have been asked to make. this is a main issue we have been trying to work out with the mayor budget office and still finalizing our proposed reductions to send to the mayor. the mayor has to balance the city budget. it is also important to keep in mind budget forecasts can change so they could get worse or better. mayor breed mustprint her proposed budget to the board june 1 for consideration and

dlberations through the summer. as we work through the sunarios we will anticipate we will not be forced to lay off employees and working hard to minimize operational impacts that negatively effect services. we will do our best to keep you updated as the budget process evolves. on to interesting update on the third street bridge. so, the third street bridge south of the ball park sustained significant damage during the big storm march 21, with winds exceeding 70 miles a hour, three privately owned construction barges broke lose from pier 38 moved through the water and rammed into the historic span. there are pretty drut maic videos of this. luckily our structural engineers and the bridge stationary engineers immediately went on site to evaluate and found

while the east side timber sidewalk was heavily damaged and it included damage to several steel beams below it and the guardrail above, the underlying structural integrity of the bridge looks to be okay. that's the good news. also damaged were the east side concrete sidewalk and fender piles on the northern edge of the bridge. those were shoved out of place and unfortunately the historic watchman's house was hit hard and sustained considerable damage. teams from the operations division worked quickly and expertly to make the bridge safe for mostrist bikers and pedestrians to cross and to allow the bridge to reopen the next day and for now the draw bridge remains in the closed position. our crews from building and street repair, primarily steam

fitters and carpenters removed pieces. we will work with constructional engineers and bridge system to test mechanisms that lift and lower the draw bridge, navigation and lighting and safety gates to see if there is damage that impedes normal operation jz if any repairs and adjustments are needed before we can resume normal bridge lift. once the work is completed we should be able to resume lift operation for maritime use. the coast guard granted permission to keep the draw span closed till april 24. more work to get the bridge back in the condition it was before the incident will likely take mujts but the impact to public and mariners should be relatively insignificant and once the permanent restoration work is under way we will be aware of giants and warriors games to minimize impact to the public. the initial cost estimate to repair the damage is

$6.5 million. the funding is not finalized but we'll look at the barge operator insurance to cover cost and also been in contact with federal and state emergency officials since this was a storm related incident. april 19, 512 a.m. city officials of city history gather at lota founding on a pedestrian island at market geary and kearney streets to mark the anniversary of the 7.9 magnitude quake that violently shook san francisco in 1906 and every year our crews make sure the fountain is good working order. last week the staff including plumbers electricians andstrationary engineers inspected the founding to make sure lighting to water flow was up to snuff and gave a cleaning scrubbing and washing

away gunk to dislodge debris. tomorrow the cleaning crews will be out to make sure it looks great for the early morning remembrance that helps keep san francisco history alive. naerbd beautification day. this past saturday we hosted the neighborhood beautification day in the richmond. 60 community members who came to plant trees-argone elementary school hosted the kick off at the campus, that is a shared school yard site. we had engagement from the parent teacher organization. i want to thank the aragon school and the school district for continuing to partner with us on these events. and i want to recognize the many public works employees who joined on their day off to volunteer and celebrate the importance of community partnerships. a lot

of work goes into making the neighborhood beautification days happen so i want to recognize our community engagement, urban forestry, special projects,er graffiti and street cleaning teams for making these volunteer events success. next month may 13, we will be in the haight and other district 5 neighborhood. we will host annual public works week may 21-26. we will offer tours of projects, hold employee recognition awards and years of service ceremony, hold a open house at the operation yard 9 a.m. to 1230 wednesday may 24. we have a lot of great activities building planter boxes and tool boxes, filling potholes and a lot more. please let me know if you like to join us. we would love to have you. also, after your

vote this morning we will hold the montoya awards during public works week. thank you commissioner harrison for championing this. we'll be sure to get the full calendar of events as soon as finalized. i want to acknowledge and as you may have seen in the paper several years ago our colleague germane jackson, jr. was gunned down while on the job. his death left our workforce shaken and brought heart break to loved ones. violence has no place in the community, and i just wanted to thank the san francisco police department and district attorney for not giving up on the pursuit of justice. finally, if you haven't had a chance to look at the march addition of the digital news letter in the works, i encourage you to take the time. we feature the arbor day event with great photos, video and text and

story on the project the carpenters worked on to restore the diamond heights sculptural safety wall. that is the end of my report. thank you and let me know if you have any questions. >> thank you. commissioners, questions? thank you interim director short. question about the potential for layoffs. we are so short staffed how does it work because cant imagine if it is short depending on the reports, double digits and there is a financial short-fall, assume the budgeting is designed for full staff, supposedly or is it not and can we get caught in a thing where we are stort-staff the budget is based on that and we have a financial short-fall, we could potentially lose more people? >> that's a great question thank you for that. so, budgeting is based

on-it really is a complicated situation because we have positions that are operating positions and our budget assumes those positions are filled. we also have what are called temp salraries and those positions are not permanent civil service positions so there is a little bit more flexibility in terms of those salaries. we are moving full steam ahead as you will hear from our hr team in filling the critical positions that we need to fill, so we are not slowing down on filling those key positions and i do want to emphasize the mayor told us if you have critical vacancies you should fill them. so, we are looking for other places that we can make cuts in the budget that will not effect our ability to fill these key positions. hopefully projections don't get worse. we will really be doing everything to try to insure we are not cutting even vacant positions in order to

meet budget goals. however, in the past there have been times where we have not lost the hiring authority, but we have chosen not to fill vacant positions in order to avoid layoffs of existing staff. at this point, hopefully and happily because we received this budget supplemental, we feel pretty good that we will not need to cut positions in order to-even vacant-the funding of vacant positions in order to meet the budget goals. i will say, we way need to reduce the number of temp salaries, that would be a area that we might-those are the unfortunately some of the workforce development positions, but we have a lot-we received more funding for those positions in the last two years, so we would still probably be at a higher level then we had previously carried those positions, but that would be one area of

budgeting for people that we might see reductions, but again, we are not looking at not filling any of the critical permanent positions, in fact we are working very hard to fill them very quickly, so we have to see if anything gets worse and if our approach will have to change, but at this point we shouldn't be facing what you are describing. >> thank you. big shout out to the mayor's office for understanding the importance of having our streets clean and everything. i understand someone else has to possibly take the hit for it, but keeping the streets clean and the general public that is what they see first, so big shout out to the mayor office and supervisors also for understanding the importance of that and it is our job as a commission to highlight the importance of that for the city and county of san francisco, not just job security of the staff, but it is a very valued service that is essential especially during in this time. thank you. hearing no further questions, mr. fuller,

public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 2, the director's report may line up from the wall furthest from the door. if calling in, dial 415-655-0001, use the meeting number access code, 24815960488, pound, pound and press star 3 to raise your hand to be recognized. and not seeing any member of the public approaching to speak on the item in person, it looks like we also do not have any commenters in the remote call in queue either, so we do not have public comment on this item mr. chair. >> thank you. hearing

no further discussion from the commissioners,b mr. fuller please call the next item. >> item 3 is the adoption of the minutes from the march 20, 2023 meeting. these minutes were distributesed to the commission and posted publicly last week ahead of the meeting for review, and happy to take any corrections or questions at this time. this is a action item. >> are there any corrections to the minutes or questions from the commission? (indiscernible) >> no questions. >> do i hear a motion to adopt the march minutes? >> so moved.

>> motion, we have a second. we got it? given the motion we will now hear public comment, mr. fuller, please open public comment. >> [providing instructions for public comment] >> and we do not have members of the public approaches to speak on this in person, and sfgovtv is indicating we do not have any callers in the remote call in queue either

so that concludes public comment. >> are thank you. hearing no discussion, secretary fuller please call the next item. >> we have a open motion to adopt the minutes so we need to vote on it. >> oh, sorry. jumping the gun. all those in favor. >> aye. >> i think you should state the outcome of- >> the motion passes. given the motion we'll hear public comment- >> we just- >> i'm off here. sorry. please stand by. motion passes. secretary fuller, please call the next item.

>> no problem. item 4 is the establishment of the annual san francisco public works and san francisco building and construction trades council montoya recognition event and awards program as introduced by commissioner harrison as the march 20 meeting of this commission. this is an action item. >> thank you. commissioner harrison, would you like to discuss the resolution? >> i would like to say-it seems we are all anxious to get to this one. [laughter] i wanted to say before i make the motion to adopt, i think that recognizing and awarding the good works of our employees is one of the most important things that management and a union can do to create

a positive and healthy atmosphere among the workers. it is for our most valued assets, which are our employees. we couldn't get the work done without them. as a example of the director mentioning about the last sweep the employees came out on their own time and helped clean up more of our streets. it is a wonderful thing when you see these things happen. anyway, they are well due to receive these recognitions and awards and i would look like to thank director short and mr. courtney from local 261 for putting this together and putting it forward, i think it was excellent and thank you both for that work. with that being said, i will move that

this motion be adopted. >> do we have-mr. fuller is the time i ask if any other-understand there are representatives from the building and trade council who would like to speak? >> i think that would be a appropriate time if they wanted to speak and i just ask any representatives who want to speak just state their name and title for the record and you can use this microphone up here. >> come on up. thank you. >> good morning commissioners. my name is vince courtney with labor union and assisting labor 261. i worked with tom harrison back in early 2000. joined by dan a

general laborer at the san francisco department of public works and also a union chief steward and bargaining the city contract with me several years over a decade and want to thank dan for joining us and thank you carla for your report. there is a lot there. one thing that interested us about the formation of this commission, just a year or two ago is the opportunity to hear not what was not going right but what was going right and carla's report highlights that. walking into this room is a privilege. i dont call san francisco my home nor do i work full time in local 261 so coming and seeing chris and karen hill and raichen gordon is a pleasure to me and getting to know you new commissioners thank you for your comment about staffing because it is always on our mind and

it would be mistake if i didn't mention carla singling out germane jackson, because that really happened. it was not just a tragied, but it remains in all our minds. so, this award, this award is named after tony montoya senior and tonea montoya, jr. both passed away-tony, jr. on the job while working as a laborer. the mayor at the time gavin newsom came out, met with all our members and understood it was a concern to them that we could just die on the job and nobody would know it. nobody would appreciate the work performed by these individuals and we felt we were in coach not first class where we believe we all belong in this department so the mayor put together a number of things for us and

also put together this event for the labors. the fact of the matter is, what we learned in covid was that it isn't just the laborers it is the plumbers, engineers, electricians so i'm proud of ramon hernandez, john dowerty, (indiscernible) the members and workers at public works and are joining us in this effort. it was the kind of thing we predicted that we would do when we had the sanitation and streets commission. that we would ask you to acknowledge these workers, to celebrate them with us and then do it on a annual basis. carla did not hesitate when i brought it up. i asked that we do it together and again she did not hesitate, so truly a partnership between public works management and organized labor, not just the laborers, but the

building trades union and sure we can go beyond that as you will public works week, so commissioner harrison, thank you always for your time, for your mentorship and not hesitating to recognize the workers to the new commissioners to talking about staffing, we have some ideas. you will be hearing about some of our ideas in light of some of what we will be confronted with whether that through a as needed workforce, hiring hall, hour by hour, whatever it is, but our union has always fought for minimum standard for laborers, for qualified skilled and trained workforce to meet the needs of the citizens we all serve. thank you so much for having me today and look forward seeing you soon. >> thank you. does the commission have further questions or comments on this item? hearing no further questions, do i hear a motion to adopt? >> so moved.

>> mr. fuller, please open up public comment. [providing instructions for public comment] and we do not have any members of the public who have approached to speak on this item in person, and i'm looking-sfgovtv is indicating we also do not have members of

the public in the queue wishing to speak on this item either, so that concludes public comment. >> thank you. last call for further discussion? all those in favor state aye. >> aye. >> hearing 3 ayes and 3 commissioners present, the motion passes. mr. fuller, please publish this resolution to the commission website. commissioner harrison, thank you for being a part of this and getting this going. >> thank you. >> mr. fuller, please call the next item. >> item 5 is the department of public works hiring and vacancy report. the director of human resources for public works is here with us today, karen hill. she will present this item and this report is an informational item. >> good morning commissioners. my name is karen hill,

hr director for sf public works. nice to meet you all. i'll be presenting a short presentation overview of hiring and vacancies for public works. hr introduction, we have a overview where we fit. human resources, we currently report up to the deputy director of financial management and administration, currently held by bruce robertson. our human resources org chart, glad to say it is full. all our vacancies are filled. to date we made our last four offers last week, so we are-will be fully staffed probably within the next 6 weeks of our last 4 vacancies hired.

total filled positions to date, we have 1408 positions, filled to date as of april 2023. all most 75 percent of those are permanent civil service, 1053 of those positions, close to 25 percent of the positions are exempt positions, and .4 percent are provisional. we will look to increase our provisional hiring over the next probably 6 months to a year to expedite hiring. our current vacancies, we have overall vacancy of 18.6 percent for the department, and 11.7 percent currently for operations. we have unmodified vacancy rate of 23 percent, which totals up to-which is actually the vacancies that don't include the

selections pending that we haven't on-boarded and also have reconciling to do so the actual vacancies is 18.6 percent for the department. our action plan to fill these current vacancies is to hire all our hr positions, which i just reported out that we are currently fully staffed up to 45 positions. our goal is 250 positions by june 30. to date we hired 118 positions of the 250. as i shared earlier, we will use provisional appointments to speed up the hiring where exams process would pretty much slow down the process and delay our ability to meet that goal of 250 by june 30. we are

streamlining and standardizing the process to speed up the hiring, which included us training all our hr staff as well as our hiring managers for the department, and january between january and february we trained 122 hire managers for public works so excited about that so this new standardized processing. we are working with it to improve our tracking and our hiring to track our hiring vacancies to create transparency. we should have a system up and running by june 30 between june 30 and july 1. so, we are looking to provide a report to you annually to provide you updates on hr. so, that concludes my presentation, and so i will open it up for

questions for you. >> thank you very much. commissioners, questions? commissioner harrison. >> i have two questions. one, these hires are the spectrum of all the classifications that we have? >> yes. they are across the board. we have a total of about 400 vacancies so we identified 250 vacancy key positions we will be filling by june 30 so they are across the board and non ops positions and different classifications. >> great. great. how is the cuts going to effect this process? >> as director short mentioned earlier, that we have green light to move forward so we haven't slowed down the hiring and moving forward and filling the positions and reaching a goal of 250. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. thank you for highlighting about the vacancies and the

graph as we develop as a commission and everyone is doing all the new reports, we like to benchmark progress-we trimmed so many trees but with this many staff. we see production downfalls and as a commission we are here to show the people what great work you do and how we provide the services to the city and this is a very important to have these numbers just like you clarified because when i first saw the 21.3 to 23 percent vacancy and see the 18 and 17, it is nice to have the clarifications. we know it is a constantly moving target so i commend you on the work and look forward seeing more report like this and letting people know all the things we do for them in the public realm. i think the public deserves it and it to our benefit to let them know how much we do for them so thank you for that. >> thank you. >> thank you. no further questions? mr.

fuller. public comment. >> [providing instructions for public comment] we do not have members of the public who approached to speak on this item, and sfgovtv is indicating we do not have any callers in the queue either, so that concludes public comment on the hiring and vacancy report. >> thank you.

assuming no further discussion, secretary fuller, please call the next item. >> item 6 is the bureau of street and building repair performance measure report and presenting this report is bureau superintendent matt and this is an informational item. >> sometimes takes a moment.

>> good morning commissioners my name is matt-let me take this off. the superintenedant for bureau of building and street repair, and i presented to you back in january, so back again just with a update on our performances. so, as interim director short mentioned, the storms and the havoc the storms wreaked created quite a lot of work for the bureau and happy to share the work we did with you. the first slide-- shows the changes in service orders we received over the last 5 years. you can see that with covid and i mentioned

this at the last presentation, the amount of service request we received dropped dramatically, but for this fiscal year, you can see there is a projection that we will exceed over 3 thousand service orders which is back to the 2020 work that we received. in fact, we noticed a significant increase in service requests since december, where we got over 300 service requests in that month, and each month since then we had over 300, so we are well on our way to addressing these concerns. i think the reason for that and you can see that in the next bar graph below, as people are coming back from covid and getting more comfortable with their environment and with the buildings which may or may not have been well used, things are starting to need to be have preventative maintenance, so that is what is happening and why we are getting

these requests so not surprisingly plumbing is our number 1 service order we are receiving, fallowed by locksmith for security, appellanting -paint and glass and sheet metal. sheet metal i should mention did do work on the third street bridge. also installing fencing which is what we just did friday, but also fencing throughout the city and so we can make areas harder to get, but also we are finding that a lot of the corporation yard is getting broken into so a lot of work is done to secure those and other city facilities. the good news is the work is increasing, coming close to pre-covid and we are well prepared to address those concerns. the next

slide we shared this last time too, just how does it break down and the different departments that request and require our services. so, as i mentioned, the top 5, they may change positions, but always the top 5. police, public works, library, real estate and fire always seem to be the departments that are requesting the most service requests or work orders and that hasn't changed. police at this point requested the most. the next slide is looking at request for estimates, so you can see that estimates have sort of decreased. a lot of the work we are doing as i mentioned on the very first slide is correct what we consider corrected so it is pr ventative

maintenance. these are estimates looking at projects, so larger projects where estimates are required because departments are asking that they need to know if they have the funding based on the budget. you can see what we are trying to track here is also of the estimates that we provide, how many of those are actually turning into projects, so the gray is showing those estimates that we prepared that just do not turn into projects, and could be because the department doesn't have the funding. could also be-and we do see this especially at the end of each fiscal year, request for estimates because they need to be putting in estimates for the capital improvement program, for the following fiscal year. we do expect that some of those will not be converted. and then, very faintly you see there is a orange and actually a darker gray, which is

actually showing revised estimates so those are estimates that while being approved one of the approvers asked the estimate be revised. could be that they felt it was a little too high. could be they felt the scope wasn't quite complete and similarly the orange is where the client themselves has requested there be a revision. if you had a magnifying glass you can see two service orders asking for estimates to be revised and 4 service orders where the client asked we do a revision. >> for clarity, those are all in the 2023 column? >> yes. >> i won't squent on the other years. thank you. >> so that was basically the statistics for the bureau building repair facility repair part of what bsr does.

the next series of slides focus on street repair. with the rain there are lots of request and lot of potholes that popped up, so the bureau has a standard where for 311 calls we like to meet 90 percent of the 311 calls that come in. we like those two completed within 72 hours, so the graph on the top sthat shows 90, 92, that is tracking that and happy to report even with all the increases in requests and all the potholes that have been popping up, we are still for this fiscal year at 90 percent, so 90 percent of the 311 requests that come into the bureau of building and street repair are being addressed within 72 hours. that's to the very good work of our staff. it has required that in order to keep up that we

have had to work extrahours. we have authorized over-time, but otherwise we wouldn't be able to keep up it with and if we dont address some of the major potholes it becomes a huge safety concern and liability also for the city. you can see that projection for this fiscal year is that we will get to about 2,000 service orders which is slightly lower then last year, but i do want to highlight that service orders is not synonymous with potholes, so there are multiple potholes in one service order, and if we go to the next slide, you will actually see what the number of potholes completed are. not surprisingly with the heavy rains have come lots of potholes. you can clearly see that in the graph. since january, when the heavy storms started, we have seen

significant increase. over a thousand in january, over 1500 in february, and it doesn't show up here, march we had over 1700 potholes that have been repaired. what shis slide is also showing is the public response so those coming in through 311 and the proactive sweep which i talked about last time. we are continuing the proactive sweep, their are focused on one district while the other work we do for public responses are on the remaining districts so it is reasonably that those would see significant increases. the next slide is-not only does street repair work on potholes and patch paving and also other special projects we do, one of

the other major functions is block paving, so we work with our engineering of pureo and we pave different city blocks. the goal changes each year, so you can see that last fiscal year the goal for us was 100 blocks and we did meet that goal. the goal this fiscal year is 120 blocks, and it shows as of february we are at 84, i just found they were at 104 as of last week and you can see that if we were to prorate the work that we have done to date, we are being prorated to 127 blocks, so we are well on our way to achieving that goal. we will achieve that 120 blocks. and my last slide is just looking at some

of the other functions that the street repair division performs. there is the work we do, so if you were to look at the voids and depressions that is the red graph on the bottom, you can see that relatively flat. that is actually sink holes that may be created from utilities. most likely from sewers that are failing and we work closely with the puc to get those repaired and they do fund that work separately. then there is the patch paving that is shown in orange. again, that is staying relatively flat. and that's larger potholes so if we can't get to the potholes in time, what ends up happening is the base underneath it continues to deteriorate and with that the pavement above that will then start to collapse and what was a pothole becomes a patch paving, which is why it it is so

essential to get to the potholes as fast we can. the last is square footage of block paving we did. it is projected we will significantly increase over last year, because we went from-there is 20percent increase basically from hundred blocks to 120blocks so it is natural to see increase in the square footage. and that concludes my presentation and i'm available for any questions. >> thank you. commissioners-- >> sort of a comment. very grateful to see this is happening, because i just got my car went into a cavernous pothole and did some damage to the front of my car- >> must have been a different city. [laughter] >> i didn't want to

remember where it was. in any case, i see online a lot of negative comments about the city not fixing things. i dont think they are aware of this. probably would behoove us if we got this out to the general public in some way to let them know that these are the things that are happening here for your good works. >> i appreciate that and apologize for the damage to the car. we do work with rachel gordon on getting this information out. with all the good work we do to up front, there is still a large back-log and we are working on it and we do need to continue to have staff working on and we need to continue to work over-time, but we are doing good work, we are getting to get the 90 percent within 72 hours, but these rains have just been historic and there is a back-log and but we are working on getting to

them all. >> i see that you are. thank you for that. >> thank you i love data and like to browse through it and see what-glad to see the roofing was low. i would think with all the rains we had that roofing would be a lot higher, but one small question and don't know if you can answer it. with all of the rains and the federal declaration of emergency and all the extra work, whether potholes, sink holes or damage because of the storm, is the city able to tap into of the federal agency funds and hopefully that will help off-set our operation. looking for opportunity here? >> absolutely. we are working with the controller's office to try to identify a lot of the damage and to request federal assistance. that is as i understand it a long

process, so we still basically have to pay for everything up front and then try to get reimbursed, but the city is definitely pursuing that and we have been working closely with folks and controller's office and mayor office to hopefully capture our need as soon as possible and see what we are able to get. >> good to know. i have seen what the storms have done to private property so imagine with the city. no further questions. >> thank you. mr. fuller, public comment. >> [providing instructions for public comment]

and we are not seeing any members of the public approach to speak on this item. sfgovtv, is also indicating there are no callers in the queue to speak on this item either, so that concludes public comment. >> hearing no further discussion, mr. fuller, please call the next item. >> item 7 is new business initiated by commissioners. this is an informational item and a opportunity for commissioners to bring up agenda items for future commission meetings. >> thank you. do commissioners have any new business to raise for a future meeting?

alrighty, i tell you, we are running like a small business here, efficient and fast, i like this. my mantra for the year is clarity and brevity with candor and levity. on that note, hearing no further questions, mr. fuller, please open up to public comment. >> [providing instructions for public comment] and we have no members of the public approaching to speak on this item, and sfgovtv

no members of the public on the call in queue as well so no public comment on this item. >> thank you. hearing no further discussion, we don't need item number 8. >> that's correct. >> mr. fuller, any further business? >> there is no further business on this agenda. >> commissioners, last call. hearing no objections i adjourn this meeting. the time is 1101. this commission will meet again, may 15, 2023. thank you everyone for your time. [meeting adjourned]

>> we're going to call this meeting to order. >> hello the refuse board is now called to record, today is april 13, 2023.