and it meets the department of human resources test and training needs. and our 2008 lease expires in about two months. and it does have a renewal option for another five-year term. and in lieu of pursuing that ownership asked us to reconsider relocating from the second floor down to the first floor space, it would be an improved layout but it would comprise in the location of an expansion, and additional 3320 space. we did not want to pursue this move unless given the fiscal i am fact, unless the ownership made it worth our while and in our opinion they did. we asked them to do so in providing a robust tenant improvement package, with $575,000. so, all of the improvements will be made at ownership's expense in this new space giving us a fresh, clean and far better space than what we are in today from a functionality. it allows us to host multiple events at the same time which the existing space layout which was a choral group space surrounded by offices. we are going to be looking at a different space, i want to show that to you now on the overhead. >> it

the mission of the department of human resources is to recruit and develop the city's workforce to meet the city and county san franciscans needs. we focus on leadership and implementation. looking at the high-level budget we have our finance director. you will see we have cycle changes 90 in our budget. those effect the bargaining unit. in years we have the responsibility to increase our staff. they were able to reduce staff in those areas. i can see by the pie chart the resolution is not that good. 38 percent of our staff works with workman's comp. and we have a contract with the administrator. we have 35 percent of our staff implementing the civil service. i want to highlight a couple of key initiatives. we have a community anti research program that we're piloting it's based on a model we use a couple of years ago. that was to reach anti to increase employed communities and open up training modules and ways to give people a leg up believe will increase the diversity of our applicant pool. our most recent mellowing pool for fire department and police it's fairly representative of the

departments are adhering to discrimination resolution and investigation procedures. then, of course, the commission hears appeals of decision or action made by the department of human resources. the executive officer of the civil service commission or the director of transportation if it's an mca service critical position. the commission received 64 appeals last year and they resolved 66 appeals in fiscal year 2011-2012. the commission also reviews proposed personal services contracts. that's when departments want to contract out services that arguably potentially be otherwise provided by civil service employees. and the commission determines whether or not the circumstances are unique enough to warrant such contracting out. then, of course, wage setting responsibilities, including the compensation and benefits for members of the board of supervisors and other elected officials. and then finally, the employee relations ordinance administration. so, we hear unfair labor practice charges for employee groups. they're not covered under the [speaker not understood] brown act. in addition to questions regarding bargaining unit assignments, management supervisory confidential desig

san francisco >> good afternoon supervisors arrest linda i'm the deputy director for the department of human resources i stand before you. i'd like to thank first of all, the president of the board of supervisors chu who really gifts an opportunity to review this ordinance and his aid and also other staff. because they really involved us to commit on this and i really appreciate the department appreciates the fact you listened to our feedback and incorporated some of our feedback and made some amendments to the ordinance >> you said at the beginning when was that the beginning when you were brought so what providing feedback. >> i would say it's been a couple of months. >> a months ago. >> i do not have the exact day. i think it's this kind of collaboration that leads to policymaking decisions. we want to state we requested t the "x" conclusion of classes i know you've heard you today talk about adequate staffing in the department particularly when your referring to the police departments earlier that's one why we asked for a - due to emergency situation such as a tragic situation as the airplane cras

tremendous feedback and we've worked with many city departments from the department of status of women and the department of human resources and our city attorney who's done tremendous work. so with that i'd like to if unless there's any questions start to call up some city departments with brief presentations. and as mr. egging on comes up he has a lot of work on emphasis plate and i appreciate his independent knowledge. he had an early draft that pointed out out some otherwise issues and i want to thank the gentleman. good afternoon at the time from the controllers office of economic analysis. yesterday we issued a report and i'd like to go over that report now. as supervisor chul chu has mentioned this legislation has gone through several reiterates and i want to make it clear for the record which version of the legislation it was originally introduced on june 11th and we were provided on july 2nd this was on july '89. yesterday morning we were provided with a second amendment of the version so if anyone's interested in the differences what i say today and monday we're talking about two different versions of the legisla

. >> clerk calonsag: (reading agenda) >> are you from the department of human resources? >> i am. >> wonderful. >> this amendment simply changes one wordor to and. requiring the nurses outside of per diem achieve the prerequisite hours, in order to move up in the next salary step. that's it. >> colleagues do you have anything you would like to add or questions? is there any member of the public it would like to speak to this item? public comment is open. seeing none public comment is closed. gvl is there a motion for this item? thank you supervisor campos. motion passes without objection. item two. >> clerk calonsag: (reading) >> supervisor cohen: please come up to the podium, anthony ababam (sounds like) from the controllers office. >> thank you members from the committee, my name is anthony -- from the controllers office. i do for you is issuance of tax exempt obligations to finance the town school project. the resolution acknowledges -- and allows the issues to proceed on a tax-exempt basis. there is representatives in attendance if you have questions specific to the pr

department of human services. they did the testing. once the announcement goes out, officers have a deadline. they can apply and personnel submits a list of officers to the department of human resources. they also test for the civilian side in other departments. what they're trying to do with what you cuts is say we are going to test on a certain date we have to wait for more people rather than testing four people now and two later. that slows the process down. as deputy chief beal says, we have 14 in line to take the test, in spanish, and 14 in chinese, 1 in russian. that helps. but waiting on the street waiting for an interpreter, it is great to have someone who is coming. if we can stream that it's a great call. i am not sure how the civilian part is; for officers it is scenario-based. >> commissioner chan. >> commissioner chan: i am reminded of what assistant district attorney jean rolan said, the importance of maintaining trust. from the moment an officer and an inspector encounters the victim. i think the transformation that the department has had, president chu, i want to commend you for your work that started in 1998, none of this happened by accident. the moment that someone

. >> i want to slavery that one of the minutes we made at the request of our department of human resources wanted to talk about the legislation for the hospital and other folks who represented private hospitals asked for similar consideration for them. so i proposed that would the similar process that potentially no non-city employers bans operational resources such criteria to promote efficiency in vans public health that there be a exception for those categories. i'll say that the employees working in those situations i want to make sure their exemption interest if you have cafe workings are health care workers not gaenldz in those situations they be able to take advantage of the right to request >> thank you for briveng that up. we in san francisco look at all the hospitals as together serving all the hospitals. which one hospital is filled we move toefsh the next one. we have to promote that attitude we're one family trying to care for all our residents. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm the new director of women's policy on the status of women. thank

the model with blue shield to reduce the growth in blue shield cost and working with the department of human resources to establish a rate structure to reduce migration of the blue shield plan into kaiser plan. it is catherine's position and hhf position to reduce the growth in long-term care cost to have the two programs available for hhf members. hhf has focused on blue shield for the last 2 years. now that that part of the puzzle is in place, hhf is turning it's attention to kaiser. kaiser has indicated a willingness for the plan next year, but for the reasons hhf described, it's not in the plan for next year. she recommends the approval of this plan and with hhf to work with kaiser next year and look with coming meaningful alternatives. >> earlier you mentioned that we are federally mandated to open enrollment in october 1st. what are the implications if we don't? >> i'm not at this point to prepared to provide advice on litigation or liability of the city if we don't meet the charter obligation or obligations under federal and state law. >> i assume is exposed to by members who are not exposed to

, ben rosenfield our controller, mickey callahan and [speaker not understood] from the department of human resources, [speaker not understood], and myself. and although we haven't been in discussions about program decision making and those types of things, we're fully aware that departments can be helpful and supportive. and you know that our work in the city is deeply affected by what happens to city college. more recently, we came together with several of the department heads that will be deeply impacted to city college not remain, which is what's driving our desire to keep accreditation in place in addition to the students and families. so, our office of economic and work force development has work force training classes [speaker not understood] tech s.f., the health care academy and the hospitality initiative line. our office of [speaker not understood] education and first five, preschool for all, metro academy metro -- excuse me, [speaker not understood], subsidized care and special development. our department of youth and families have our college readiness housed there with our bridge to succ

was all about the money, said sarah redding wilson, director of the state of virginia department of human resource management. health laws and intended impact on part-timers, hurting the middle class. another thing middle class americans are worried about his health insurance premiums and they have a right to worry. the mcclatchy news service ran this headline saying, quote, america -- obama quotes health care savings that costs likely to rise for many. the article went on to say experts predict the premiums on individual plants will increase in most states because of the new consumer protections, on a sweeping legislation requires. consumer protections is the white house's way of saying more red tape. >> debate from the senate floor yesterday. live now to the senate as lawmakers continued deliberations on the transportation, housing and urban developers appropriations bill, a vote on final passage that happen to the. live to the u.s. senate on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. ou

$110 million per year. , says all about the money the director of the state of virginia's department of human resourceagement. health laws unintended impact on part-timers. hurting the middle class. another thing middle-class americans are worried about are the health insurance premiums. they have a right to worry. in a headline last week -- obama boasts of health care savings, but costs are likely to rise for many. the article went on to say experts predict that the premium on individual plans will increase in most states because of the new consumer protections the sweeping legislation requires. consumer protections is just the white house's way of saying more red tape. that includes all of the newly required services that people have to happen the washington mandated, washington approved health insurance. all of the healthcare services people have to pay for in advance whether they need them or not or want them and whether they will use them. those requirements are a big part of the reason and another reason the health insurance costs are still going up. even the washington democrats promised that t

services including 24-7 maintenance of our 911 system infrastructure, administering vendor service agreements and supporting our public safety departments. human resource functions include recruitment, lead management, labor relations and payroll, and then, of course, the facility management for the 911 center and the eoc. i wanted to touch on the bay area uasi. as i mentioned to you, the management team is governed by a regional approval authority. but because san francisco is the fiscal agent, i chair the approval authority. the approval authority is made up of representatives from the three core cities, san francisco, san jose, and oakland, and the surrounding 12 counties. alameda, contra costa, marin, napa, san francisco, san mateo, santa clara, santa cruz, solana, san benito, and we have a representative from cal ema who is a nonvoting member. the approval authority provides the policy and direction for the decisions that are made regionally for funding for the uasi. so, while san francisco is the fiscal agent and this year we are getting about $22.9 million, 77% of that money goes out to the region for regional projects. it's subgranted to the ot

department of health and human services. [music playing] bridging resources in communities, bric, is the acronym. we, as the name implies, we bridge resources in communities with a prevention focus. our primary role is to partner with great organizations like the far southeast family strengthening collaborative. the mission of the far southeast family strengthening collaborative is to be a catalyst for the ward 8 community, really helping the community coalesce around issues of families and children and the issues that they deal with. i think that anytime there is an issue within the family, the entire family is impacted. whether it is mental health, substance abuse, hiv, whatever it is. if one family member is impacted, then it impacts the entire family. family really is anybody that you can rely on. any resource that you have at your disposal to build your own strengths. you do have to look at the whole picture because if you're constantly just focusing on the children or the youth and not their parents or other caregivers, then when they go home there's go

of not spending on hotels, because we don't need those testing rooms. >> thank you. >> yes, supervisor, avalos, to the chair, for the budget analyst office. i do want to say that the department and the human resource and mr. updike had lengthy conversations with me and so it was not like there was not a lot of discussion. i think that the two concerns and one is this $30,000 in hotel space, the final e-mail i got was that there would be no savings in terms of that $30,000 a year. and there was an e-mail after the one that was just referenced and i just think that would have made a difference if we felt there were some other cost savings that would have been incurred by the space. i think that the other things is that a number and i know that a lot of the discussion was about recruitment for fire and police and exams for those recruitments. and the promotional exams. my understanding was there was going to be two promotional exams in the coming year and maybe 19 over the following four years. and it did not seem like a very large number for us to justify the space. so some of it was simply how we looked at the numbers and there needs to be clarification because i did receive an e-mail saying that t

collaboration, i know our human rights commission, theresa, is here, i know commissioner is here as well and all of the bay area to work together to utilize the resources that our justice department is offering. their guidance and leadership as well, and to note that it can happen to any group. if you've heard what we're trying to do here, i know other mayors across this bay area are trying to do, we're trying to unleash the talent and creativeness of all of our communities not to succumb to things that will suppress that talent and in order to do that, you've got to really erase these barriers that are created sometimes by our own ignorance and sometimes by what people think are playful things and yet they are very, very hurtful and they become worse and worse. so that's what lee hirsch's film was really all about. he's taken 5 families and he's documented it and yesterday over 3,000 of our students had a chance to view and many of them i think cried because they know it's happening in their own school site. and just because we get a label sometimes in san francisco that we're progressive or that we know better, it's happening also on our own turf to unacceptable levels. i wante

now your helpmates in all of this you will be shocked to find if you have coverage from your employer is the human resources departments battle. they want you to be reimbursed too. they want to be reimbursed. sometimes they hire a health care advocate will actually get on the telephone, make the phones calls to make sure that mistake, that mistake is remedied or fixed. another world about deductibles here. i think a lot of people think, my deductible went up. it is not that high. i meet that with a couple doctors visits. now they are medicare plus 10% what they're crediting to your account. so, it may cost you 250 bucks to see your doctor. but at the end of the day you're not getting credit for that $250. only a works of it. not just deductibles forgoing to the doctor's office. deductibles for your drugs. deductibles forgoing to the hospital. this really adds up and adds more you have to pay out-of-pocket. so bottom line you absolutely need to know what you're on the hook for by understanding what's in your policy by talking to hr. if you run up against a problem, a lot of mistakes out there to get mixed. ashley: shou

every manageable federal agency dispatched personnel and resources and on the emergency management side, fema and the department of health and human services had senior people in our command center in boston only hours after the bombings, including deputy serino. local and state public safety agencies effectively communicated with the public through social media, reverse 911 systems, press releases, press conferences, emergency alerting small phone apps and for the first time in massachusetts we utilized the new wireless emergency alert service. and the response by the public to the bombings and the ensuing hunt for the suspected terrorisms -- terrorists was nothing short of incredible. the public heeded requests and directions from governor patrick, mayor in a knitow and their public safety leaders, including the unresidented request on april 19 that residents of boston, watertown and four other communities remain indoors. in closing, as previously mentioned, we are in the process of conducting a comprehensive local, regional and state after-action review. at the end of this process an after-action report and correction plans wil

every imaginable federal agency dispatch personnel and resources and only emergency management side come fema and the department of health and human services had senior people in the command center in boston only hours after the bombing including the deputy serino did they communicated through social media, press conferences coming emergency alert, smartphone applications and for the first time in massachusetts we utilize to the wireless emergency alert service and the response by the public to the bombings and the hunt for the suspected terrorists was nothing short of incredible. the public he did requests and requests from the governor patrick and the public safety leaders including the unprecedented request on april 19th residents of boston watertown and for other communities remain indoors. in closing as previously mentioned we are in the process of conducting a comprehensive after action review. at the end of the process and after action report and action plan will be published. we will continue to identify what worked well, where there is need for improvement in the gaps that need to be addressed through training exercises a