preservation is one component of our community stabilization strategy, which includes tenant right to counsel, rental subsidies and those spaces as well. and so, um, we realized that that there's a there's a multi legged stool and we still have a prioritization of community stabilization and anti displacement. thank you. i'm just going to say that this this so undermines like the entire exercise. and i won't belabor this point colleagues because i know you've got a lot to you know, we could spend a whole hearing on this. the entire exercise of prop. i was grew out of meetings with director sean, the department in which they say we can't do things like land trust. because we don't have the money, right? we have the tax credit programs. we have these other things as have been described. we can leverage to get money. there are other strategies that have no funding , so supervised or we can't do those things. we don't have dedicated funds to do community lunches. we dont have big head funds to do limited equity co ops all the things that are laid

out, many of them laid out in detail in the report the housing section of the reparations report, right? we don't have those funds. we went to the ballot to generate those funds. that was the whole point was to generate new funds. so we weren't drawing funds away from existing affordable housing production. and many of you if not all, i think we're behind. be behind that that effort as well as the unanimous statement for the borders to rices, and now we're at the point where not only is the mayor's proposed budget, not allocating a penny. of prop. i money to affordable housing. with no complaint from our friends at the mayor's office of housing and community development somehow, not even a request that we all agree that but now they're literally defunding. the what the super majority of the birth supervisors had previously appropriated in a conference in a controversial vote to put

those funds to good use in land trust, so this is nothing short of an abandonment of one of the biggest steps forward that we, as a city had taken toward long term, uh, affordable housing in san francisco, which was having finally a dedicated fund for community land trust, so um, we can critique the apparent disconnect between our housing element and our practices, but, you know, frankly, i just will end with this is this is about more than what's on paper, right? this is you know when we're slashing $20 million from this critical program funds already approved by the board, the mayor's office is effectively depriving hundreds of san franciscans. of if not thousands of long term housing stability they could have had under this program where they could have. if we restore these funds, it's really outrageous cut, and i hope the board sees fit to restore these funds and again, as we have previously

done, and one last question that i did have before i wrapped up which is not for most cd if that's okay, but but just more generally. for the for the mayor's office, uh, potentially for the budget budget office. what what is the current mayor's office proposed budget this year for, um for pr media and communications work? like what? how many millions of this budget is for press. thanks for the question supervisor. i don't have that number off the top of my head, but what is funded in the mayor's office for media and communications are the staff. in the mayor's office of communications. so it's a staffing budget. my understanding from pro from the hearing were held around police police communications issue was that it was over a million dollars of the mayor's budget. let's see if i can get this figure to you seven fte. great thank you would be great for i

think for the committee to know and to know if that's grown since that hearing last weekend, and just to be clear, that's in addition to the press offices of each and every department. this is this is separate from the press operations. expect the office of the mayor of san francisco has its own press office that is accurate. thank you and i will note that that's in contrast to every one of our press office budget of zero. so i understand why these departments have press offices, but i just want to suggest if we're looking for areas of excess spending and want to look at how we're spending that may be an area for the committee to look at. thank you very much, and thank you church and appreciate the time. thank you. supervisor preston just want to note for the budget and legislative analysts. it's a request that we should come through all the city departments for i would probably put in a category of 13 14 for the public information officer as well as

anything that categorized as public affairs or communications so that we can actually satisfies supervisor president's request. i'm curious myself as well. so thank you, and with that supervisor around them thank you. i'm just curious high if you have a list of what? um, what cuts happened to capacity and community building. i'm gonna have brian true. yes we, uh it affected about, um, 16 different organizations for total as director mccloskey said for just about one point 5,000,001 of those, uh, grants was for what we would call capacity building. um really like a service guide and the other 15. we're in our community building category and what that means for us, uh, we created that term to, um have a

differentiated from direct service grants, so it their grants where we support organizations that, um, they don't offer direct services, but they wanted to come together like in a collaborative, for example, or planning. um. just like one example. for example, we have is neighborhood centers together, which is a collaborative, about seven different community centers are grant did not fun any direct services but paid, for example, for a consultant to kind of bring them together and convene. ah, so when. when i looked at our grants portfolio, um no, no cut is easy to american fact that collaborative has been going on for even before i got to mohd d, but when we did have to make that decision, that's why we ended up making the reductions of that portfolio because while there valuable in terms of the collaboration. none of it actually provided direct

client services, so that's what was in those 15 or 16 grants. could you send us a list of all the grants that were happy to okay, thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you, supervisor. sephardi. thank you, um the thing that's hard to have a real informed conversation about this is that we weren't really provided the information on what your department i was intending to cut or how the breakdown goes. i mean, i talked to my staff. we didn't get briefed by your office. we weren't given the information so i can't really reacting on the only thing that we are able to react to is when we've heard from community groups that found out that their funding was cut. in the upcoming budget, and so you know, first and foremost, it would be good to know if you've reallocating the $20 million from that account that there's been a lot of conversation about. be good to know what you

re purposed it for. what was the purpose of that? um i would like to know the organizations that were cut. i'd like to know how you've made the decision on all the different areas where you've put funding um and i know, um, from my time when i was a deputy director of the department, i know there was over 220 organizations. and just so folks in the public understand and here and i know i remember the board does and but you know, capacity building work is really important in terms of if you have organizations that are partnering with the city or doing really important work on the ground and want to learn for efficiencies. expand the work that they're doing. i'm not talking about hiring a consultant to work with a collaborative what i'm talking about, like the real, um, capacity building work that's invested in helping nonprofits stabilized, grow and expand and do better work for the community. and i have to say what supervisor walton said. and

some of the other folks have said that's a core principle of how community development began in our cities. with the block grant program. it's part of that work. so i mean, before. when i first started, it was mayor's office of housing was separate from the office of community development. there was a decision made to merge the two um and so i just i feel like it would. i can't really respond other than what i've heard on the ground would have heard from community based groups that their funding has been cut and it will jeopardize their ability to thrive and survive. and so some of this work is really, really essential. so i just do wanna know first, so um, two years ago, we streamlined the capacity building grant program , um, to sort of make it easier for all types of organizations to apply, but it was one time funding to sort of augment augment something as i shared before. that should be a line item for organizations already,

so we provide some support for an executive director, serge or person strategic planning, but at their share before also being abort chair of a nonprofit my board makes decisions as a board chair and those organizations we budgeted for that kind of work, and so we what we would know on the capacity building work once again. is it made some things happen faster? but there's an understanding once again that that's a core function, um, of a board and executive director for how they advance the growth of their organizations, so we sort of made sure that it used to be a capacity building was any and all sort of special projects and we made it very court clear to be around how we can augment accelerate some work around core operations. i just want to make sure that i know that's fine. i just can you answer the first question would be good to have a detailed understanding of your budget because that's one thing where we can start conversations . we have a better understanding what decisions that were made.

supervisor we can definitely provide to all the supervisors that the list of individual organizations that made up of that $1.5 million and not just that. i would like to know what your your entire budget i want to know where you've made decisions and how you re allocated monies. there's a conversation about reallocating $20 million for site acquisition . where did that money go? so the $20 million is not directly in most seeds budget. the $20 million was essentially d appropriated, it becomes fun balance as part of the mayor's proposed budget. just like if there was fun balance of unspent funds from, uh the prior year. so it was. it was a project balance that's assumed as a starting revenue for the mayor's proposed budget, and it's not necessarily within most cd, but sorry. go ahead. go ahead, so i just want to remind you, mr uh,

makowski two weeks ago. we have a hearing here and that in that hearing clearly there was 90 something million dedicated to small sites out of which we knew that you spent roughly 40 million. we saw a roughly another 40 something million remaining. if we need to play back that video, i learned that from supervisor walton that we could actually shows that in that you mentioned at that time. not 40 minutes, something millions was actually income. like like we were having this conversation. oh you still have $40 million you haven't spent. but at that time you mentioned that. hey, you know, actually, no, they're they're actually, um , you know, project that's in the pipeline. we know where we're going to expand on. so we shouldn't think that if there's like 3 40 something million dollars that we all can fight for small sites project in our separate districts, so i just wanted to remind you what you

actually said two weeks ago at the housing hearing with this very same body. i'm happy to address that. i can understand why that would be um, confusing and potentially appear to be misleading. and i assure you that is not my intent at all. um within the housing stability fund. at the time of the hearing , there was approximately $40 million balance that was undead unallocated to specific projects. with the reduction of $20 million in the mayor's proposed budget. there's now about $11.7 million in the housing stability funds that's not committed to any known projects. and in addition definition of the housing stability fund. the housing stability fund is defined in the admin code. no, harry, i'm not trying to get into technicality . how are you intending to use that money? the small size perfect small size program. 11.7 for small sites from the housing

stability fund. but that's not the only fun source that funds this small sites program. um we also have housing trust fund inclusionary, the 2019 g o bond and a couple of other sources. you're reading off of something i would like to see that as well as a budget committee. it would be good to have numbers in front of me as well. so i'm not just furiously writing and again. this is not a gotcha. i just every other department has provided us with detailed information. and has anyone gotten that here? we haven't gotten it. so how can we have an informed? i mean, we literally the mayor has months to put her budget together. we literally have a couple of weeks to review your proposals, so i'm not trying to give you a hard time. i just we need the information to make an informed decision to see whether we agree or disagree with what's being proposed. we'd be happy to provide you. a list of unallocated small sites.

funding altogether. there's $11.7 million remaining from the housing stability fund, even after the mayor's proposed $20 million reduction, and there's approximately $31 million in these other fun sources for the small sites programs that are not currently dedicated to any particular project. 31 million that could be used for potentially site acquisition or small sites program. small sites any any side like if you wanted to build affordable housing. no sir. unfortunately a lot of these small cites sources are all small sites restricted. for example, in the inclusionary housing code in the planning code, there's a specific set aside of inclusionary housing fees to the small sites specifically, these are these are for the most part restricted to small sites. okay? so that would be 11.7 plus 31.7. so about 33 excuse me 43 million for small sites approximately beyond our current commitments.

do you have any? i'm sorry. this is my last question. do you have any money in your budget? i know you went through a no fas director sean, i have had this conversation is primarily focused on high high resourced areas, as you've defined in the state has defined it. is there any money in your budget since i don't have a in front of me that's dedicated towards side acquisition for affordable housing development. that's not an high resourced areas. i don't believe we do have any funding available for planned? no fa for beyond what we've already issued. practice, so you want to add to that and just as i shared at this committee before? we are aligning. all of our. funding at this time around of acquisitions and development. to score as high as possible based off of the state requirements right now , which is created a challenge. i think we've talked about this before. also supervisor ronan in

the sense that, um. moderate our model resource areas aren't getting this the points needed to score to get the state funding. and so we've had this challenge there. um and as we shared before, and that is the flip side of that is in line in one the other housing element goals around you and wanted to be l. a recommendations around geographic diversity as we share before in the last hearing that 25 50 irving, in particular for a 200, gary somebody's other projects and high resource areas are getting some of the fastest and highest allocations within the state. so we have one the strongest alignments. um to, um the policies and goals without the state level for state funding, which is a huge part of the housing development. personal development. if you could please provide us as quickly as possible, not just about small sites, but the entire budget for your as proposed, it would be very helpful. supervisor ronan thank

you. i got i got lost. i don't it could be that. supervisor stuff how you figured it out, but i got lost. super chair. chan asked. two weeks ago, you had told us there was $40 million left for small site acquisition that was specifically in the housing stability fund. okay contact in that conversation. we were at the time. we were only talking about the housing stability fund or as supervisor preston refers to it as a prop i dollars. um so we were talking about that universe and that universe was about $40 million available for small, additional small sites beyond our existing commitments at that time. and so you've removed 20 million of that the mayor's proposed budget removed $20 million of that 40. okay and . and what's that? is that just to meet your reduction goals, or

did you move it to something else? uh so it becomes part of the starting fund balance for the mayor's proposed budget. the 20 million that was removed, it's not necessarily within most tds budget any longer. i just want to understand where it went . yeah so as part of the budget balancing the mayor's office looked at project balances across all departments and so part of the build up of our balancing is a number of projects, including, including this project. okay okay, i think, including $20 million from this fund that's helping balance the entire general fund budget. okay, i understand that and then, you said 31.7. can you explain? so, yeah, i'm sorry. you said so were the housing stability. fun yeah, they're very close the housing stability fund when we talked last was the $31.7 million. that has been reduced by 20. so we're now at about $11.7 million in the housing stability fund. that is

not targeted to a particular site. in addition within the small sites program we have other fund sources that are not yet committed to specific projects and those total about $31 million. which includes the 11.7 know that in addition, addition sorry you said 31.55 additional dollars for small sites. yes that aren't aren't programmed yet. correct. right so that those will be part of our open small sites. nova process as project potential projects come in our staff evaluates them. and, um does the analysis around cost of acquisition and potential rehab and all of that? okay. thank you. i get it now. thank you. thank you and i don't see any name on the roster. we look forward to seeing you again.

thank you and the next up, we have our controller. and with that, with the comptroller's budget, let's also mr clerk. also let's call items 9 10 11 12 13 together. yes madam chair items nine and 10 are hearings on the administrative provisions contained in the proposed appropriations and salary ordinances. item. 11 is a resolution concurring with the controller certification. that department services previously approved can be performed by a private contractor, furry, lower cost and similar work performed by city and county employees for the following services, budget and legislative analyst's services for the board of supervisors, fleet security services, real estate division custodial and security services hang convention facilities management for the general services agency. administrative services, how food services at county jails for the sheriff's department assembly a vote by mail services for the department

of elections and security services for the department of public works, homelessness and supportive housing, human services agency mayors, office of housing and community development and department of public health item. 12 is a resolution concurring. with the controllers establishment of the consumer price index for 2023 and adjusting the line acts sorry, adjusting the access line tax and by the same rate and item, 13 is an ordinance adopting the neighborhood beautification and graffiti cleanup fund tax designation sailing for tax year. 2023 members of the public who wish to provide public comment. on the administrative provisions, hearings and the resolutions and the one ordinance should call 4156550001 the meeting ideas to 59109 to 64 5 and then press pound twice. and if you haven't already done so pleased they'll start to read lined up to speak. he promptly indicate that you have raised your hand and when the system indicates you haven't

and muted that will be your signal to be in the comments. madam chair thank you, mr clerk. colleagues uh, if i may, i was asked to quickly make an announcement in chinese about silencing cell phone, so i'm just going to do that really quickly. fascinating yum mantega. lincolnwood dot aside. ah thank you and mr controller. good afternoon supervisors. you have a long agenda still ahead of you today i will be very brief and happy to answer questions today or in the intervening week before you see me next week. next slide, please. you're familiar with our mission and our goals we served . we worked, ensure the city's financial integrity and promote efficient, effective and accountable government. we do that through achieving long established strategic goals. next slide. our budget. let's see it is here. uh our next our

budget for the coming fiscal year totals $84.2 million that shows that functionally across the different services that we provide. the top left. generally it's equal thirds about a third of our budget at the top left part portion of the pie support runs the city's systems that we use to perform our financial business, rh our work and our procurement activities. the bottom yellow portion of the slide about a third of our budget is devoted to performing audits, reviews and supporting department. other departments operations with analytical projects and technical assistance. and the last third the top right are the suite of different financial services we provide in the city accounting payroll debt budget, revenue forecasting, economic analysis and others. next slide. thank you, caitlin. at a very high level that shows a picture of how our budget is changing year over year to both total budget general fund support and then operating positions. our total

budget growth is being predominantly driven by wage wage increases that have been agreed to for all city employees that accounts for the vast majority of our wage increases the budget strategies we've adopted to meet the mayor's targets served to reduce the increase in the general fund to less than the overall increase. you can see our overall position. uh over the three years is relatively flat that two additional positions are to support. our new responsibility to regulate trash service in san francisco under prop f, which was adopted by the voters last year. um those students positions are included in the budget and are not supported by the general fund are supported by the rate base that pays into that there are other position changes in our budget. i'm happy to talk through if that's of. interestingly, the bellas reviewing. um we focused a lot of our attention and reducing our budget on preserving our staffing levels, frankly, which has been our predominant focus for the last year. um, so almost all of our budget reductions

sector to leverage. other dollars make changes to our next non salary, budget work, order budgets and everything else. they're they're highlighted on this page. just probably the most notable changes that we've worked to consolidate kind of how our real estate footprint works, given that we're on hybrid schedules and will be locating about relocating about 90 staff that were formally at least site outside of the building into city hall by optimizing our footprint. sharing cubicles going to more of a hotel in model and that will save us about $1.2 million going forward. we've made another a number of other reductions, though, to work orders non salary start to increase our support from non general fund sources and otherwise. next slide. thank you. a very high level a summary of some of our goals for the coming year, and these really in some cases continue the goals that we've been working towards in the last two years. most fundamentally re staffing our department. and i know this is a

common refrain across all departments and across the city coming out of the pandemic. i'm very pleased with our progress as a department in the last year, we've gotten to a functional vacancy rate of zero at the end of the fiscal year. um from a very high vacancy rate at the beginning of the fiscal year. that's going to allow us to restart a lot of the programs that we had to suspend during the pandemic. given our redeployment into covid, and then the vast number of vacancies we had coming out of it, so um, more ability to perform audits. reviews uh, kind of completing some of the technology improvement projects to our systems that had been deferred and others so very excited about that. very much on my mind is what comes next after filling vacancies both in our department and citywide, so just to give you a sense of how profound this changes in the comptroller's office if we look at the comptroller's office staff at the end of the year versus that started the air, given promotions and all the changes needed to bring people on board 40% of the

comptroller's office at the end of the year, is either new to the department or in a new role. promoted roll four out of 10. and that's really the experience. i think we're going to see all over the city across a lot of our professions and are part of the world. that means we have a lot of training to do. i've new folks not only in the comptroller's office, but in the crisis financial professionals across the city so very much a goal of ours for the coming year. putting putting those new training programs in place. um. secondly obviously and you're familiar with a lot of these projects which we are re engaging with, but we have almost 250 projects for the year ahead. um touching a number of different priority areas across the whole government. and you've heard a lot today from both thr and the city administrator about the government. operations recovery initiative, but we're the third partner in that and working with them to kind of implement a lot of those changes and make the system changes necessary to make our contracting, hiring and financial operations faster and smoother. and lastly, madam

chair you asked for kind of a quick four year summary of staffing levels, so i will just conclude with this. it kind of shows the picture of what i think we've been able to accomplish this last year, which is going from the vacancy rate that was about 7% at the beginning of the year. two functional zero at the end of the year. so we really are entering the coming fiscal year in a much better place than we found it, and we're excited to, um uh, utilize that more stable environment in our office to help the city improve, so i'll stop there and happy to answer any questions. a supervisor ronan. thank you, um i think you're the first department that we've heard of that is saving money through. come sharing office space. do you know for your the first department to do that? and i'm i'm just curious. there are some others. um and we've had discussions with the city administrators office who mentioned strategic planning about real estate. um so

department of technology has done things with their space. dph has done some things with ares as well. and i think we will. we will see more of that in the years ahead. um just a note about our office that makes this a little bit different for us than some, as you know, different city office functions are in different schedules, depending on the kind of work they're doing so obviously in field staff working five days, most city office workers on three i t workers on one. so i have one day a week in office and a third of our department or it professionals and these are the individuals. we had offside of the lease. so it it's much easier to kind of work that kind of a consolidation for one day functions than it is for two and threes. so i think that's part of why we've been able to do it. part of why dt has been able to do it and part of d p h s i t shop. there is more to do i think in this world and i think that's where the city administrator is hoping to focus in the years ahead is on the two and three day functions. interesting. thanks. thank you.

will you also be doing presentation from 9 to 13? item 13. michelle aller esma from our office. thank you. so this, um. this is to reset the maximum contribution cap for the neighborhood beautification fund . we come to you every year with with this legislation under local tax code taxpayers subject to the grocery seats text can elect to designate a portion of their payment to the neighborhood beautification fund, which funds the community challenge grant program administered by um edmund services. so our offices required the controllers offices were required to calculate the cap on these contributions each year to achieve it, and inflation adjusted amount. um, and we're estimating that based on last year's performance that a cap of 5.7% on contributions, but results in contributions at about what the cap is, which is

a little rug $2.6 million. for tax year 2023. great and do you want to go through also 9, 10, 11 and 12 just because we call those items and okay, let's see. okay? uh so item nine. and 10 are administrative provisions at the back of the appropriation ordinance that enable a lot of kind of the rules that allow the budget to function. they're largely unchanged year to year. the block has prepared and review those, and i believe mr gunter can report on. thank you. good afternoon chair. chan. ah items nine and 10 relate to the administrative provisions of the annual appropriation ordinance and the annual salary ordinance respectively. um we did take a look at the changes and wrote a

summary, which you can see in our report. i just want to draw your attention to two sections of our report. the first is section 14 related to departments. ah this proposed the proposed ordinance. repurpose is section d subsection d of section 14 to reflect the elimination of the department of sanitation in the streets. and add language codifying that the local agency formation commission, also known as lafco. is a separate legal entity established under state law and is not a department or agency of the city. this subsection further stipulates that well. the ordinance includes appropriations two left in the border supervisors for administrative reasons, any transfers of funds to laugh go from other appropriations in the budget, such as the board of supervisors add back are prohibited without approval by a subsequent ordinance. um. it also speaks to city staff, um performing work for lafco can be

done but has to be under a memorandum of understanding between the city and left go. subject to any required approvals. the other. section that i'd like to draw your attention to is section 7.2 that's related to equipment purchases. and the proposed, uh , admin provisions of the proposed ordinance increases the value. from $5000 to $20,000 for items of equipment that must be purchased from appropriation specifically provided for equipment or least purchase equipment. including equipment from capital projects. and so what? that means is currently any equipment that any department wants to purchase. that's over. $5000 must be. have its own light item with an equipment number. and so that threshold now will go up to $20,000. so anything under $20,000 still goes into the budget, but it would go into it

could be multiple. items of equipment that each cost less than $20,000 would all be in the same line item of some kind of equipment. and then anything over that $20,000 thresholds such as like passenger vehicles would have to have each vehicle would have its own line in the in the budget, its own line item. um so the comptroller's office provided us with, um, analysis showing that if this threshold were to be raised for the current year, it's being proposed for the budget year, but if it will be proposed for the current year, it would have affected 21% of the equipment counts and 4% of the total equipment. budget citywide, so that means that 79% of the equipment units and 96% of the dollars which have been unaffected by the change in the current year. um so our takeaway from that is that really we're still the board is still going to get to see the vast majority

of the equipment that's being proposed to be purchased by departments but that there will still be some time efficiencies , perhaps gained by not having to enter these small dollar value equipment into the budget. um and we also noted that the $5000 threshold while it is a fairly standard threshold in public sector, it has not been raised in at least 15 years. um and so i think there could be some efficiency gain there. we do have one recommendation. there appears to be a technical error in the proposed wording of that section. um which would impose greater controls and equipment less than $20,000 and less controls on greater than $20,000. so you'll see in a recommendation that we recommend amending section 7.2 the pros, administrative provisions of the a o to change the control from under $20,000 to over $20,000, and we're available for any questions if you have any thank you. ah i just want to thank our

mr controller for all your hard work and your team's hard work thanks to your team and lead your leadership, leading a team of auditor that are ratepayer we're able to actually reimburse of over $100 million from the recall ology investigation of for right increases. so for that, even though the $100 million in it or 90 something million dollars didn't come back to the city's general fund. but he actually went back to ratepayers. so with that, i want to say that our, um constituents or are resident should feel ah, good that we support your budget and i do want to colleagues of flag for you. you know just quickly while i support the items before us today from 9 to 13 and will be also supporting the amendment, uh to a man the item of 92 shows. um uh, the to

change the equipment. dollar amount to over $20,000. i do want to flag for you, um, particularly the change that our budget and legislative analyst's has mentioned specifically on laugh go, local agency information commission. that um , this change? uh lago has been around for a long time. this change will change. uh that relationship between last goal and the boss, supervisors and our clerk's office. and i think that you know, through some thinking as a chair of laugh, go that i actually am not opposed to this change. um lafco has his own independent general counsel and legal advice. it is an independent agency has oversight authority actually municipal service oversight authority. so i think that this really, uh

bring on a more clear role in clear relationship and clear definition and you know between the between the two bodies, the board supervisors and laugh go and by having both mou so that it's clarified the staffing and what they do. um and as well as ah! uh just a specific appropriation for dollar amount that needs to be spent and for the purpose so that we all can come to an agreement. i think it's fine. um i do want to point to those i think that we face these challenges for a couple of things that some of, uh, you colleagues on the board. support it was like public bank public bank is now under last goal for that. it's continuing work, and it actually has a staff from, uh , the clerk's office. uh supporting laugh, go in moving

forward public bank work. um and it's what i would call on loan or or just a share of staff from the court's office to laugh go. to support this bodies. um work on public bank and then um, separately. there are also funding that allocated for a request for proposals specifically for midtown terrace, um in supervisor precedents district who was also a member of laugh go, and that is for an oversight of for the property. uh the rfp has go out to identify someone to provide oversight to that property. so those are i think the reason being that this change, but i think that mr controller can actually, um correct me if i'm wrong or anybody wants to. i can speak generally in the city attorney can speak to this. probably more specifically, i think the goal here is just to state that that lafco is a

separate legal entity from the city and county, which it is and that we're displaying it as a portion of the board of supervisors budget for budgetary convenience. but the growing that budget should require an act of the board of supervisors sitting over this body to appropriate money. to a different government. and so i think that's the hope. they're just to bring clarity regarding how much how money should move. and how the board of supervisors should approve money moving into and out of left goes budget. ah no. okay uh and then one more last, but not least, thanks to all your work during the pandemic colleagues, you just be . i think this actually happened before i came on board, um, that the board had decided to zero out all journal fund support for travel costs for the fiscal year, 2021. and with this administrative culture change, it's now. basically removing that subsection and that, um, once again that we are now able

to fund travel costs through general fund, but i think that's what the budget process is about that will work continue to be able to make some of those decisions and conversation about china travel expenses. that's correct. that's correct. thank you, supervisor ronan. i just wanted to make sure that we're going to briefly mentioned items 11 and 12. i can. i can briefly touch on those items if that's helpful. so item level, as you know, under the charter of the city can contract out for certain services provided that the controller certifies that it can be performed at a lesser cost, and that subsequently that's approved by the board of supervisors on an annual basis. so what's in front of you on 11 ? is your authority to continue contracting out certain services that have been longstanding contract it out here in the city and county? we would flag for you if there were any new services being proposed for contracting out in this package. there are not so these are continuing ones. you may have questions about specific um, contracting out proposals. i

would suggest raising those as these departments come up. um, and if you wish, we can always continue this item until next week and pass it out later. it doesn't. there's no rush to get it out today, frankly, but that's a general description of item number 11. um. item number 12, so the city has an access line tax, which is established as a flat dollar value. um the co. the voter initiative that established that flat dollar value tax, which is charged on telephone bills can grow by c p i and a given year. with your permission. and so this is authorizing us to increase that line item by cp for the coming fiscal year on this otherwise flat dollar value tax, and i believe it generates just under a million dollars annually, so it's not an insignificant cp. i increase. and it is assumed in the budget that's in front of you. thank you supervise

yourself. i know he he answered my question. i would like to continue the proper j so we can ask some of the additional departments some of those questions because we have some concerns. coming up, so we wanted to ask him that thank you and, uh, let's go to public comment. on item nine through 13. thank you, madam chair members of the public who wish to speak on items nine and 10, which are the hearings and the ministry of provisions item 11, which which deals with the controls certification that department services can be performed by a private contractor at a lower cost of the resolution also, uh concurring with the controllers , establishment of the consumer price index and the ordinance adopting the neighborhood beautification and graffiti cleanup fund. uh. if any members of the public would like to comment on those items. please line up now and for those who have joined us remotely and

haven't already done so press star three for which to enter the speaker line, and for those already in the queue, please continue. the windows system indicates you have and then muted and that'll be your signal to begin your comments, saying that one person speakers here in the chamber we do have one person on the line. mistaken. laugh. if you can meet her color, please. once again david pimples, so, as i indicated on friday, i did review the administrative provisions of the o. and the a s so friday was with respect to the interim budget today is with respect to the full budget. i have no issues with the administrative provisions or the changes. i appreciate the catch that that the l. a had on the over. or under 20,000. i did want to take a quick second and i apologize for taking up people's time on page 13 of the a s o section 2.5 this stipend for planning commissioners that just suggests to me a broader discussion at

another meeting about how members of boards and commissions are compensated and the opportunity that we have where the charter doesn't specify or doesn't limit compensation or stipends that we should consider that for other boards and commissions so as to allow those that have considerations about the amount of time that they might spend serving on a city board and commission to be compensated or depended for and their service another discussion for another day, but that section of the admin provisions of the so reminded me of that, um, it doesn't get much better for me than the admin provisions of the law and the esso as opposed to cost allocation for refuse collection and other things. thanks for listening. thanks for comin. steve bill pill. yeah, and the second left. do we have any more speakers in the queue?

okay, one more on the ethics now. this is not public. i'm sorry, mr decosta. if he could, the biggest part your comments, please. i said may i speak on the ethics commission now? not yet, mr d'costa. so when will this come in the year 1 2025. i like i said, mr decosta, we are now on items. nine through 13. and as soon as the departments have completed their budget presentations, we will open comment on the good. okay, good . i have other things to do. thank you very much. thank you much. mistaken love. do we have any more colors? madam chair that completes our cute thank you seeing no more public comments. public common is now

closed and colleagues. i would like to make the motion to move them 11 to next week. uh, 2nd 2nd by supervisor staff i e and roll call on that continuance for item number 11. on that motion, seconded by member safa that the resolution an item 11 be continued to the ah! june 21st meeting of this committee. vice chairmen tillman madeleine, i member staff. i self remember ronin. run, and i remember walton. walton i church and i we have five days. thank you. the motion passes and with that i would like to make the motion to move item 9, 10, 12 and 13 to full bore with recommendation and. second by supervisor ronan and with that would like to move

that to full bore with rock. oh, my apologies. i know what he's about to say. we need to make the amendment to item number 92 , according to the budget and legislative analyst recommendation to correct to over $20,000 even even better, madam chair i believe i believe these are both hearings on the administrative provisions, which are actually technically in the appropriation ordinance, so you will make the bellas recommended amendment here. later when you have the full a up in your acting on it, so this is just a call out the administrative positions so you can see them, but you'll be at you'll be making this amendment on another item another day. we will. we will track it for you. if that makes sense. yes and does that mean i can still mode like move them to football recommendation. because i'm not amending the item, though. deputy city attorney and pearson. the item actually is a hearing on the provisions. um and so you can

close the hearing and because they are a component of the larger ordinance. you can make that change later. we're just trying to get through the agenda, man. ah, so i'm gonna make the motion to file item nine and 10 hearing heard and filed second by vice chairman delman and roll call on death on the item nine and 10 on that motion that the hearings as items nine and 10 are to be seconded by vice chair mandolin that those hearings are to be heard and filed. vice chairman. gentlemen, i remember stuff i suffer. remember on it. run and i remember walton walton, i chair champ and i we have five ice. thank you. the motion passes and then i would like to make the motion to move items 12 and 13 to full bar recommendation. second by vice chairman delman and roll call, please on that motion, seconded

by vice chair madeline. that the items. that the resolution and the ordinance an item 12 and 13 , and before it did to the july 11th meeting of the full board of the positive recommendation, vice chair mental men, gentlemen, i member stuff i suffer. you remember running running. i remember walton. walton. i chair chan chan, i we have five eyes. thank you. the motion passes and, uh, next, uh , department is our general city responsibility. general city responsibility. oh, michelle. i think it's. for you right, like wait, who is presenting sorry, miss. alerts, mma yes, very

much. thank you very much. chair chan. michelle always smith from the comptroller's office. we manage this kind of non department. mm. in many of the divisions across our department . so um, general city responsibility can contains revenues and expenditures that are allocated for use across many departments. it's not an operating department so it doesn't have salary, travel materials and supplies, budgets or things like that. um the main revenues and expenditures are the ones that carol lu talked about this morning discussing the revenue letter. there are basic tax revenues and the biggest single type of expenditure is all about baselines. um it's also where we budget our general obligation bond debt service dollars and you will, we will bring to you in september, the tax rate that will be necessary to add to the tax bills to collect the amount of property tax to pay those geo bond debt services. um. i would also just add very briefly it includes and the general fund

portion of citywide costs for retiree health. and things like real estate. it audits utilities , and it's also where we maintain our reserves. um and you've probably heard enough about jen today, but if you have questions, i'd be happy to take them. thank you and let's go to the next city department because that one that's really technical. um i appreciate it. and then we will have planning department. thank you. ready good afternoon. it's always a hard act to follow. general city responsibility. i will do my best. um so thank you. we've got a brief slide presentation and happy to answer any questions. i see. i think you'll see our budget is relatively consistent with last year, one big changes were facing significant reductions in our fee revenue, which we've had. um consistently kind of since covid. so we're

kind of dealing with that and grappling with that through reductions in vacant positions. so the first slide kind of shows some good news in that our permit volume is increasing. um from the from the low kind of that we hit post pandemic in and we were even decreasing in permit volume prepare endemic or bar peak was in fy 17 18. i think the bad news that goes with this is these tend to be smaller projects, additions to homes or buildings in not a lot of kind of larger new construction projects. so it's resulting in continued reduction in our revenues. next slide, please. and we see that here in this slide um are budgeted fee revenue is being reduced by $4 million on top of that were absorbing the cb increase through our fees, so that feels more like a $5.8 million

reduction to our budget, which is about 10% of our budget, so it's significant. some other revenues that we should note in our budget is we do get a significant number of grants. they're primarily from regional and state agencies. mtc a bag, for instance, is providing us with $2 million next year for housing element implementation work. um. we also received general fund this year. 20% of our budget is being funded by the general fund. which is being reduced because we're removing someone time additions from last year related to the tenderloin. on the next slide is our expenditure budget. and as all always kind of salary and fringe, make up the bulk of our budget. 60% of our total expenditures are salary infringe. again, we did delete reduced 24 positions out of our budget. this year they were vacant. um positions that adjusted attrition, so that shows an overall decrease. of approximately $2 million to our

our salary budget, and obviously that's the to reflect the reduction in revenues. on the next slide. i chair janu asked for some specific specific information related to our budget that i'll cover in the next few slides. uh you did ask to kind of highlight some of our priorities and challenges. as we discussed kind of fee revenue coming in has been a significant challenge for us and how we balance but luckily we did keep positions vacant in anticipation of these produced revenues. but at the same time we are prioritizing major planning efforts. as you know, implementation of our housing element is underway. uh that consists of rezoning and trying to build equitably throughout the city. as you heard from from most widespread presentation addressing how we can fund or affordable housing needs and obligations. process changes. so projects that meet our code can meet move quickly through the process in community led

planning efforts in priority equity, uh, geography is to address issues around displacement and gentrification. the next slide. shows the overall structure of our department. i think you we submitted more detailed information. there's two primary functions in our department. there's kind of the regulatory project review side that shown in current planning in our viral mental planning division, and then the long range. kind of planning functions that we do through our city wide and community equity division. us. some specific questions are manager to supervisor ratio is about 5 to 1. ah after reducing the positions we did resist reduced. the 24 vacant positions were left with nine. um vacant positions and then finally, just a summary of our position. history were at a low point over the last four years of 219 they funded pillar budgeted position

again a low where we you see, we've peaked at at a point over the last five years over 250 positions. so that's a quick snapshot of our budget. happy to answer any questions you have. if any. any questions colleagues , i think just for the, um before your return, i think this week would be great to make sure that this body has the list of projects that is on your slide. that is for the expenditure, and that too, just seeing the reduction from 10 something million dollars all the way through. 27 million and then 4 million. i understand part of it . it's the one time formula in dollars investment tenderloin. that will be great to, um, have understanding the reduction continue on. yeah. if you have a list of projects are are reduced , we can do that correlates to the funding reduction.

absolutely thank you with that. um thank you. thank you, um, public works. hmm. and while you're getting ready, um mr clerk, please also called item number 14 along with this thank you, madam. chair item number 14 allow me a second. this scroll. item number. 14 is an ordinance amending the public works and administrative code to eliminate permit fees for curbside shared spaces and increase the gross receipts threshold from 2 million to 2.5 million for reductions to annual curbside shared spaces. license fees are throwing the planet department's determination under sequel and making findings of consistency with the general plan. and they

had priority policies of planning code section one on one how members of the public who wish to provide comment on this ordinance should call for 156550001 meeting idea of 259109 to 6 to 45, then press pound twice. and if you haven't already done so, please, they'll start three lined up to speak. he promptly indicated your raise your hand and wait until system indicates you haven't been muted. and you may begin your comments. madam chair. thank you, mr clerk. and we have director carla shorts here with us. thank you so much. good afternoon church hands. supervisors. carla short, interim director for san francisco public works. i want to just start by thinking the mayor's office and the board of supervisors for their continued support. i also want to thank the mayor's budget office, the comptroller's office and the budget and legislative analyst as well as my budget team in developing our budget during this difficult year. i know you're all familiar with public works. we are a 24 7 operation at the forefront of some of the city's biggest challenges. we know this is a tough year

financially and some difficult trade offs will have to be made. so we really want to thank you for your time and thoughtful consideration. i wanted to start with this slide as an introduction to our budget. our current fiscal year budget is 450.9 million. but our overall budget for capital projects which sources come from grants, bonds and similar funds and funds from other departments. total 1.5 billion. so our overall budget we work on totals over 1.9 billion okay. on this side, we have two pie charts. the left represents fiscal year 24 funding sources and the right pipe chart is fiscal year 25 funding sources. the department's total proposed budget is 452.9 million for fy 24, which is a 0.4% increase over the current year and 407.6 million in fy 25. to do all of the work that you know, we try

to perform regularly. we rely on multiple funding sources in our annual budget, and this slide shows the nine main sources. so the largest piece of the pie are inter departmental funds. it's about 35% these are funds that come from other city departments to us as payment for services that we perform. the second largest sources. capital funds at about 22.3% most of which is state funds, primarily from the road maintenance and rehabilitation. sb one certificates of participation dedicated to our paving program. general fund, which is basically all of our street cleaning is at 22.1% at about 100 million general fund continuing is our capital projects like paving program. then we have our gas tax, which is the city's gas tax allocation for street cleaning and maintenance and the road fund, which is the county gas tax allocation for pothole repair. our tree maintenance fund is the set aside for tree maintenance. the solid waste fund is the impound account from

the refuse ratepayers for our outreach and enforcement and litter patrol cleaning staff. and finally, we have a small special revenue funds, which are basically when we recover costs from property owners through our sidewalk repair programs. in terms of our department uses. we have again. the two pie charts for fy 24 on the left and 25 on the right are top three. ah uses our labor, which is 48% it's the largest expense and we have over 1800 fte public works. the second is 24% for capital and equipment. these expenditures are for equipment like packer trucks or steamer units, as well as capital projects like curb ramps, paving pothole repair and our earliest creek bridge that you'll hear about in a minute, and then we have interdepartmental services that we pay other departments for their services. primary expenditures here are rent for

the building at 40/9 south van ness, our expenditures to central shops and d. t. for example. chair you asked us about our language access. these funds support our translation services, which we make available at public meetings. we also do outreach, including our construction outreach in multiple languages. we translate all our flyers, posters and brochures into multiple languages as well. these funds are also support our poverty alleviation efforts primarily through our workforce development programs. um we also have really a model racial equity initiative, and that focuses on opportunities. um job opportunities. for communities of color, primarily, we also support hsh through the development of navigation centers and then our pit stop program, which is one of our flagship programs, which both provides workforce development as well as clean and safe access to bathrooms for everyone, including people experiencing

homelessness. we also try to provide all of our projects through an equity lens. our major capital programs that we're proposing include street resurfacing. uh, this this is a goal to maintain, uh, pavement condition index, or pc score of 75 or currently at 74. by resurfacing 500 blocks each fiscal year. the program really focuses on providing the right treatment at the right time to prevent unnecessary and significantly larger costs. in future years. we also have our curb ramp and right of way renewal programs and then i did want to highlight a new program this year that was recommended by the capital planning committee, which is really to consolidate. roof and elevator projects so that rather than having those divided amongst seven different client departments, public works will consolidate them which we hope will allow for greater efficiency in our project

delivery and streamline administration of the projects we will not spend as much time transferring money back and forth between departments. a couple other highlights the islamist creek bridge. we have 2.1 million in the budget. this will leverage about 85 million from the federal bridge grant program. we have our soma street tree nursery, which is actually 0.6 million is the match for a probably over $6 million project once we're done, and then the ns avenue catchment fence, leverages existing prop a grant , and this creates basically a pedestrian safety catchment fence along in a street. okay departmental reductions. so our primary goals were to prioritize funding for our core services, minimize any service reductions and to have no layoffs, and our budget proposal achieves all three of these. we do also

project a reduction in revenue from our street use permits, with anticipated reduction in construction activity. we, um. created some budget savings by cutting project balance and ongoing projects. so that's 6.7 million. that's a large part of our reductions. um we were also able to reduce our overhead expenditures by using fund balance and by adjusting our indirect cost plan. we are a cheap 3.1 million in debt service savings, thanks to the efforts of the comptroller's office and the mayor's office. additionally 2.3 million and prop b, uh, position deletions once the sanitation industry department was eliminated. and then 1.9 million eliminated previously approved equipment. these are primarily pickup trucks and cleaning equipment. and then we had 1.1 million that we reduced our building maintenance for office space for

public works staff. alright as you all know, and thank you very much. the board appropriated 25 million supplemental to us for additional cleaning and graffiti abatement. it was subsequently reduced as part of the city wide project close out, um at the supplemental appropriation was reduced by 8.3 million to 16.7 million. i will try to wrap up quickly and then it was then included in the public works budget. the 16.7 million pays for about 20 fte as well as about 20 temporary block cleaning staff, and then we have some non labor, um, in terms of our graffiti contractor, steam cleaning, rental and purchase and, um, three packer trucks as well as additional illegal dumping cameras. chair. you asked us specifically about how we measure our performance. so this slide shows you some of the sample data we collect and the report that we generate to track

and monitor our performance. so public works. we measure our performance based on key delivery metrics. and as you all know, our work touches every neighborhood. our performance measures, data evaluation and minimum cleaning standards are all evaluated by public works, sanitation and streets commissions. and also internally through a program we call public works, stat. so this, um i also wanted to highlight the top right is the report from the comptroller's office. so we also use any information that we gather from the comptroller's office as well as well as feedback from our commissions, all of which combines to monitor our efficiency and performance. you also asked us to provide our organizational chart. we have a prop. um public works is has over 1800 fte. so if we were to include the entire order chart on the side, you would not be able to read it. i can see the summary on the slide, and i'll

just quickly outline that we have almost 800 staff and are non operations, which includes building design and construction , infrastructure design and construction and streets and mapping. additionally we have 834 operations staff, including our street cleaners are urban forestry, team buildings and street repair and the deputy director of operations office and then we have about 187 admin support staff across the entire organization. so our grand total is about 1814 ft. you. the next slide shows are historical staffing levels, so i did want to note that we have made really good progress since we last presented to you on filling our vacancies. um and we did. our current vacancies do stand at 22.1% but if you adjust for positions where we have offered someone a job, so they are well

on their way, but they do not yet have a start date. we can bring our vacancy right down to 17.9% so our new hr team has done a great job of, um really trying to fill those positions and then i did also just want to note that we have on budget positions versus off budget positions and our vacancy rate for on budget positions is only 13.3% so it's pretty manageable . the off budget positions are these project based positions where we only fill them when we have a project need. okay and then we're almost done. last slide. you had asked us chair for our budget and operational challenges as you've heard from some other departments re staffing are critical support staff is one of our challenges. um we've made great progress. we hope to continue. we have over 300 people who are currently going through the final vetting process as well. so we'll have a lot more staff on board shortly.

um i do want to note we have far less support staff than other similar departments. um and they do a lot of contracting work. um, we provide key services for that they provide key services for our department success, including budget, accounting and procurement. we also have our language, access and constituent services and then are really trying to reduce permit processing delays. so filling those key positions in our permit center staff is really, really critical. as you know, we have challenging working environments, um, for our frontline staff, and that makes it difficult at times to fill these positions. they have experienced safety concerns as well as, um new time consuming documentation of some of our encampment related activities. and then lastly, i just wanted to highlight that you know, there are some impacts from new legislation that were very supportive of like the electric vehicle mandate. but um, having the charging infrastructure for

the for those vehicles is something that we, um i had not anticipated and are now struggling to figure out so with that i am here for any questions, and i want to recognize my cfo chris robertson , who's here as well. thank you. thank you and supervisor walton. thank you. chair chanin. thank you, director short, i just have two questions one uh, you mentioned illegal camera, illegal dumping cameras. thank you. where are we going to have those? i anticipated that question supervisor walton and i was hoping to be able to give you a time. uh definitive answer today, but i cannot. we are close that we are in the procurement process. the good news is once we get this can't procurement completed, we can add to it with the additional funding that we received in the supplemental, so we do expect to have them out. soon but i don't have a date for you. got you and well, i guess the other one is

just a statement there. um. there are a lot of there's a lot of space in d 10. where we when we talk about infrastructure for charging stations, so i'm just wondering, have you already done some searching? or or what? was. what's the plan for that? so we were we were specifically talking about, uh, infrastructure for charging for our own vehicles. and so, um, we it's more. i think we have areas to park them in our operations yard, although we certainly could use more space, so we should be looking outside of that. it was really about how could we, um, fund the installation of those charging stations within our operations yard. thank you. thank you. i just want to add a note, though. i actually clearly remember civil visor water and actually asked this question, if not last budget cycle, just like it's been a while. for the cameras

for the cameras for illegal dumping. so i just certainly has been we without going into too much detail. we had entered into a contract or we're in the process of entering into a contract and our vendor was purchased by another. company and they eliminated this product we were planning to use so well, it has taken far too long, and we would not debate that. that was really beyond our control. okay i mean, just even. i am not a district supervisor. and i remember that, like clearly, it's been a while, um, supervisor and cardio. thank you, um. i just want to ask a few questions, more detail about the reductions. so last week as with dpw staff out at sunset boulevard, and we learned that you're down a front loader and that front loaders important, um to do work both on the great highway and at sunset boulevard , but they couldn't one couldn't be both places at the same time

, obviously, uh, so, you know, given that there are reductions in elimination of previously approved equipment, what approved equipment purchases have been eliminated. and how and of those like, how are they going to affect operations? give give, and we just have that one front loader. yeah thank you. surprise, er for that question. i do not have the list of equipment in front of me, but i can. certainly i don't know if my cfo can respond to that. supervising guardian. bruce robertson, cfo for public works rather than speculate. allow me to when i returned to my office send you that detailed list if not later this afternoon. first thing in the morning. um i just don't want to give inaccurate information in the public setting, but, well, absolutely return that, um, and send that to you right away. okay. could you send it to all of us? thanks. thank you. sorry supervisor send it to all of us are absolutely provided. we'll send it to everyone. great and so last fall, you hired a new 40

person hr team and which is great, because that was you needed that to do hire some. i'm curious. what's the current time to hire? is it trending up or down? what is it right now? um i don't have the current time to hire but it's definitely trending down. as i noted, we have over 300 people who are in the final. letting process. we also, um, have already hired 100 and over 100 and 45 people and have another i don't know if i have the number in front of me, but it was reduced our vacancy. ah another 50 people roughly, um , who have been offered a job and if accepted the job, but we don't yet have a start date, so the time to hire is definitely trending down. and do you know the vacancy rate at your operations division? i can get you that but i can tell you that our street cleaning vacancy rate was down to something like 14% after this big effort, 12, we think it it's probably closer to

12. got it. how about gardens? gardeners? we've just we've hired to whole new crews of gardeners recently. i think we have, um, something like three additional people were still needing to hire. um, but we did successfully hire two new cruise. okay i want to ask about, uh, great highway requires sand removal. um, so it's accessible. drivers of course, but also pedestrians like sand is sand. it's covering the highway and that's that's a baseline service that your department has provided for decades. um last fiscal year you received about 611,004 sand removal, um to 50 from our mayor. 3 30 k from puc, 30 k from rec and park. um but you requested you had a range you said we need, uh, 800,000 up to 1.8 million for sand removal and different versions. you know that, um so my question is, do

we have cost actuals for great highway sweeping in sand clearing because without the cost actuals, it's hard. to understand why you're asking for those additional funds versus just using it in your baseline, which you know as part of your your job. sure we certainly can provide the cost actuals for sand removal. what we have seen is that there's been an increase in sand accumulation along the great highway, and, um, some of the work that was done, um by the federal government, we think may have actually created more sand accumulation, so the range is partly because we don't know if we're going to have another epic storm year like we did this year where we had very high winds which blow sand onto the great highway or if we're going to have a quieter year, so we do have a range because we can't predict how the weather is going to behave, but we're happy to get you the actuals, okay? and you had mentioned that some fun balances are zeroed are zero out, so to speak. what's the current fund balance for great

highway sand removal? will provide that. yeah supervisor will provide that number one. we provide you the act you and the rest of the committee. the actual numbers, which again will that should be an easy pull. we can do that tomorrow. okay thank you. and ah, so data sf shows that we have hundreds of thousands in nonprofit grants and contracts have been paid out past few years for sunset boulevard. now, folks, drive down sunset boulevard or jog or walk. i mean, 2.5 miles of parkland. um it doesn't seem like we've gotten a lot for our investment. you know, things are looking to be dead and dying and weeds. 4 ft high and, uh, because i was just out there last week with dpw staff and a lot of concerned residents. um so i guess my you know, i know. last year, dpw made commitments to bring the state of sunset boulevard on par with park presidio, which is run by rec and park. so i'm just wondering

. it doesn't look comparable, so i'm wondering why that's not the case. the commitment that we made was that if we received equal funding to the funding that the funding level that rec park had for park presidio, we would be able to have some type boulevard looking like park presidio. we received about half of what would have been that equivalency. um but we did. as i noted, we did just make great strides in hiring some additional gardeners, some of whom will be dedicated to sunset boulevard. um as you know, we had a very rainy winter. and so we are catching up on weeds all over the city. every supervisor up here has areas that are weedy that they're frustrated by. but our crews have been working overtime to try to catch up on weeds. so and then, as you know, we are also working on a recycled water project for sunset boulevard, which will allow us to irrigate responsibly using recycled water, which will then allow. you know those plants that may not look great now to come back and look very green. so that is a long process

to get that project finalized. we're happy to give you another briefing on that, but in a couple of years we would expect that we can have recycled water all along the two miles so that we can responsibly irrigate that landscape. and last week when i was out there since the boulevard, we learned that the current gardeners only spent about 10 hours a week on the greenway, so it's 10. i mean, only 10 hours, so like that's not very much so you're saying there's going to be many more coming because it's not working right now. yeah, we're we have more coming for sensible of rds . okay and the last question is, uh, you have a, uh you're offering $2 million of workforce development. the tree planting and watering for a nonprofit group. apparently only one group has applied for that money. um are we expecting? i mean, you know, 2% nonprofit crew is, are they really going to be able to

do the job that we need? it would be better to use that money and put it into your own staff. hiring more gardeners, you know, putting it into your own maintenance services. i think there's a lot of value in the workforce development programs because we really view them as a pipeline to then enter our apprenticeship programs who can then potentially become gardeners or our breasts. so um , it's both getting the trees planted and watered and also developing that pipeline, um and contributing to job opportunities. low barrier job opportunities for san franciscans, so i think there's value in both one of the challenges that we do have is that our tree planting and watering funding has not been consistent over time. so if we were to hire staff, and then we see a reduction in the funding that we get um, because a lot of it is grant funded that we're seeking. then we would have to lay off those staff so by using workforce development grant we

can avoid, you know, hiring someone and then having to lay them off the following year. okay last question. what are your property standards for sunset boulevard? i don't believe we have perhaps the standards specifically for sunset boulevard. okay. all right. thank you. all right. i just want to quickly understand cropsey reference supervisor and cardio. you're meaning the open space fund. that was okay. i think that was like cropsey is actually for open space and for parks. um specifically, uh, because i think i know which one you're talking about. and it's an audit between park and the controllers. and they can you know, audit parks, public parks specifically the park system. i'm not so sure it actually is inclusive public works public space under the public work jurisdiction if i understand correctly, but with that said, i'm going to go to supervisor selfie first. sorry, it was my mistake in his name. um, thank you, um to the department of

public works. i know just from the slide. on page. i don't know what page 10 just to be able to do what you've done. and still be 300 plus staff short. says a lot about the work hard work. the men and women of your department do and i have the utmost respect and gratitude for public works one of my favorite department in the city. i know that they are out there every day. making san francisco as best as it can be. um, i will say, and i appreciate you know the just even last year current year and then adjusted. i mean, still over 22% they can see so i think that has to be one of the top priorities for the department. i know when you adjust it down. um, you're still . 3/300 position short, which inhibits your ability to even do better. in the city. so i just

wanted to highlight that because that is a that is a structural problem. and when we get the calls that we get about certain areas of city not being clean or your ability, you clean them and then they get dirty again and the inability to defend those spaces better. i know that having the additional staff will make a significant difference, but i appreciate, uh acting director, short or interim, or what's the right interim interim interim director? sure. i appreciate all the hard work on doing that. additional service. my additional additional question is so we did a supplemental budget appropriation back to the beginning of the year specifically because of the issue of additional the level of in the condition of the streets. and i guess the way i'm looking at it is and maybe this is for the it says mayor's proposed budget and then your office. and has to implement it. so am i reading this correctly that only 16.7 million out of the 25 million was utilized. and then

where is the additional money? that was appropriated to do that work. so you're reading it correctly. there was a reduction of that appropriation by 8.3 million. so 16.7 million was appropriated to us over the next two years for use over the next two years. what happened? what happened to the 8.3 million. i would rather selfie. so we reduced the $25 million project to re invested 16.7 of that over the two year budget, and the rest are part of general fund savings using to balance the larger budget. so okay. so the mayor chose to disregard. what we put forward and then re allocated that money. do you know where it was re allocated towards it is part of general

fund is part of the general fund savings that are balancing the budget, so it's not tied to anything specific. reason i ask that question is because when we have a conversation later about baby see you're going to say that the reduction of some of that money was re allocated specifically to food security. i mean, you've made a very general statement about that, even though it goes into the general fund. so in this instance, there's no purpose for the money other than to go into the general fund. it wasn't a specific reallocation instance. that's correct. tween um, discussed with dpw what it would mean to fund this at 25 million what it would mean to find it at 20 at 15 knowing we're facing a deficit and that the $25 million figure, um, was maybe a little arbitrary at the time. perhaps not. so we worked with them to figure out how can we achieve the work that was proposed by the board of supervisors and signed by the mayor and fund that over a two year period to achieve some of the same goals that you would set out and that's how we arrived at what is

proposed in the budget. okay? um don't necessarily have any other questions. supervisor ronan. thank you. um i just wanna thank you so much for all your work. um yesterday we got we had the pleasure of honoring your street vendor permanent enforcers. it was so nice to recognize their extraordinary work, and i'm just wondering for the next couple of years. are you hiring anymore? street vendor enforcers, or is the number of enforcers stay in the same. we we have filled all of those vacant positions. so we are, um, unless we receive unexpected positions for that program. we are fully staffed on that. and i do want to thank you, supervisor. it was a really lovely recognition and the team really appreciated that. so thank you so much. they're amazing. they're really are. um and then the second question i have is about the new equipment that so what supervisor safayev

was talking about? we were all very excited about the new equipment that was included in the budget, supplemental that we all passed. are you still planning on purchasing all of that equipment? and where is that in the process. yes we are planning to purchase that equipment. we are planning to rent. we included in that budget rental of equipment until we're able to purchase because, as you probably know, it takes a long time to get equipment. but in the in the city, so yes, we did not cut that we're still planning to get new steam seems to be more trucks for every zone as well as three new packer trucks, which will allow us to be much more efficient in terms of transferring garbage and not having to go all the way to rick ology. so that is still in the budget. we plan to rent the steamer units. we can't rent packer trucks, but we're hoping that we can, um i forget the term, i think piggyback on our current purchases for packer trucks so that we might be able to get them more quickly. thanks and just thank you so much for youror