supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: thank you. are there going to be any further sales for the clean and safe parks' bond? is this the last one that is part of the bond? >> no, there are actually going to be -- to the recreation park opponents, this will be their last issuance. that is the intent. this is the last issuance for recreation and park bonds. the board has $9 million or $10 million that they will be seeking another issuance for. this is the third issuance. the port will look for one more, but rec park should be done. supervisor avalos: ok, is there a breakdown of the play fields for $8.5 million, as i have seen on the budget analyst report in the appendix? $8.5 million for playing fields around the city. is that item broken-down further into which played fields and how much per plate field? >> i would refer to a member of rec park to answer the question. >> sorry, supervisor. i cannot hear the entire question. supervisor avalos: the question is about the section in the bond, $8.5 million being appropriated or could be a

president chiu: supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: thank you, president chiu. my questions are going to be around work force to the moment, and one of the things i heard was that we would have something that resembled the first source program, which gave me some concern, because the first source program traditionally has been one that is based on good faith efforts, and actual mandates to hire locally, so i just wanted some clarity on that to make sure that we are talking about a requirement about hiring locally or to reach these percentages that were in the presentation. and i guess that before ms. simmons. >> so this is a private project, and as i did said it -- as i did say, it does not have the language in that legislation, but it does have pieces to it. the residency requirement, and the liquidated damages are actually included in this, so there are liquidated damages. bubbles are a little different. it is by trade and not by overall project. that is a similarity, but it is not purely local. our local mandatory higher law. it is kind of a bit of a hybrid,

supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: thank you, a chair. i appreciate the public comment. a question for the mta on the discussion of around complete streets and how we are ensuring that we are incorporating our policies at around complete streets into the road resurfacing/repaving bond? >> i would ask that john thomas, the project manager for the bond, start with that. he may be able to get the best context. >> thank you. project manager for the road safety improvement fund. supervisor avalos: there was a member of the public, actually the bart director, talked about how we are moving forward on issuing the bonds and appropriating, and we're not quite clear how we're integrating on complete streets in better streets program into the bond. what steps can we make to ensure that we're doing that? >> there are several facets to the bond program, one of which is the capital renovation portion, and that is our pavement segment of the bond proceeds. overall, we will spend about $145 million over the next thr

supervisor avalos: thank you. ok, we have someone from the mayor's office of housing. >> yes, we will. brian and teresa will come up to talk about our supportive housing program and about some of the for closure programs that we have. supervisor avalos: the idea i had around the foreclosures was, last tuesday, there were about 20 families that were imminent of being evicted, and i guess there was a call for a moratorium from some of the families and community groups to see if there was a way to prevent the evictions of being carried out. i guess the options that the city might have, we can see the options we have to prevent evictions during the month of december, at least, during the holiday. >> let me back up briefly and give you a thumbnail description of our efforts in this area. briefly, on the rental side, our support for homeless families primarily exists in resources river to community-based organizations. we support about $1 million or so through a combination of community development block grant funds, sh

supervisor avalos: thank you, mr. president. i also like to thank supervisor wiener for his work in crafting legislation that did not exist out of thin air and it took a lot of effort and work in your office. you and yourself, to make that happen. and grappling with numerous interests as well as a number of dogs per walker must have been very challenging. so i want to acknowledge your work in that and also the work of the city departments to help with that effort as well. i do have a concern about the number of dogs per walker here. it's something that initially i thought should have been something that can promote business but also be something that would be manageable for the walkers and to take care of a number of dogs as well as be something that would be helpful for the dogs and their welfare as well. i considered, you know, a larger number to be somewhat more difficult to manage on both the walkers and the welfare of the dogs and also the impact to our parks a mainly consideration as well as the parks development has been

supervisor avalos: ok. you know, this past year, i have heard that there has been a lot of families with in the housing authority that actually have been evicted, and i am wondering if we're seeing now some of those families that have lost their housing in the house about 40 are now in our shelter system and coming back into the housing authority buildings. what has happened over the past year in terms of families being marginally house, being released from the housing authority, and what conditions lead to families end up being evicted? >> i would like to talk about those it the context. there are those families that week evict for cause, for some sort of lease a violation. violence, drugs, criminal activity, not abiding by their lease. then there are families that we have to structure it processes for rent payment. in those cases, we go to extraordinary lengths. we have had a call to the housing authorities of families not paying rent. what we have attempted to do over the last year is to change that cult

supervisor avalos: thank you. if there are no other persons to present -- >> we did have a couple folks from the school district if you had questions about the families in transition program, and we are available to answer any questions. we're also interested in hearing from families. supervisor avalos: i think that would be best if we can go to public comment. and then if you're still available for questions, i would be delighted to have them. so let's go ahead and open it up for public comment. i do not have cards, but if folks who would like to speak and line up along the windows here, we will do two minutes per person. again, i want to thank a lot of the folks in the community, families who are homeless, and the coalition of homelessness for your advocacy in raising this issue, raising awareness of it, and being able to get a response in court in nation from the city, which is a great thing. also to get folks from the private sector as well, the benioff family. please come forward. two minutes per person. >> h

president chiu: supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: thanks to my colleagues and i would like to thank supervisor wiener. i would like to be a co-sponsor is well. i also want to acknowledge the work of the janitors. i used to be an organizer with janitors in san jose and in san francisco. one of the things we noticed was organizing non-union janitors. when they are nonunion, they get paid by the foot illegally. it is hard to have the tools to bring these labor standards up to bear in the nonunion sector. things like prevailing wage provides a tool to lift up the standard across the industry. i welcome the change and i would like to co-sponsor. thanks president chiu:. president chiu: supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: this was not easy legislation to put together to move forward. in fact, it was incredibly difficult and required a lot of balls. i want to acknowledge my aide who did unending work on this legislation. it took on -- it took a talented person to put this all together and make it happen. i want to acknow

supervisor avalos: ok, thank you. please call the first item. >> hearing on the city's response to the surge in homelessness, and families and for various city agencies, including the her -- human services agency in the housing authority to outline the response to the crisis, including any plans to expand the rental subsidy programs, and he plans to address the loss in federal homeless prevention and rapid re-housing funds, any plans to increase, is prevention efforts, any plans to expedite the filling a vacant san francisco housing authority units, and moving homeless families into them, and ways we can protect households from for closure evictions. supervisor avalos: thank you, madam clerk. i call this hearing just last week, but it is an issue that has been on my mind for a number of months, especially with the advocacy of the coalition on homelessness, and a lot of the families are related to the coalition, and they work with a lot of homeless families. it was first brought to my attention about our crisis in a sh

supervisor avalos: thank you. if you could please call the first item. >> item 1, hearing to discuss public safety policies and programs implemented by state departments such as the san francisco municipal transportation agency in san francisco police department on city-wide muni lines, including the enforcement of fair collection -- fare collection. supervisor avalos: thank you. the item is brought to us by supervisor cohen, who is here. supervisor cohen: thank you for hearing this item. this past year, there were a number of violent incidents on muni, the giggling happening in district 10, one of which dealt with an officer-involved shooting of an individual who was originally stopped by a fare inspector. in the wake of this event, this incident, i have been working with the mta and sfpd to better understand the policies and programs they have in place currently and to obviously offer a public voice. this request is in direct response to any particular the harding shooting. the request has come from the communit

supervisor avalos: we are adjourned. thank you.

supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: thank you. i appreciate your comments. in the stand having a controllers reserve in the field it is neutral and it can report back, but i feel that this committee has a role to play in doing oversight, and i like the idea of having a budget committee reserve and have the rec and park department come back to us. they come to is probably once a month, at least, to talk about items that concern the department, and we weigh in on those. i do not see it as cumbersome for them to present to us what their plans are, not just about the ceqa process but also about how come overall, the play fields money and how it will be programmed and itemized. that is the essential role we can play, to make sure that is being done effectively, with our oversight. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor avalos. any other comments from the committee? supervisor kim? supervisor kim: thank you. honestly, this is not something i have strong feelings about either way, whether we put it on reserve with the controller's office or with the budget committee

supervisor avalos: thank yo cam. i appreciate the guiding principles your office created last year with respect to the 2011-2012 budget procter -- process. my question is, will you and your office abide by the principles that you articulated in the prior fiscal year in terms of your decisions as you try to close this projected budget deficit of $262 million? would you applied to the principles for the coming fiscal year, and if you would, can you explain how you would put those principles into practice as we're going forward with a budget this year? >> thank you for that question. last year we started a new process of engagement with our community based partners from across the city. last spring, i worked with a nonprofit leadership from across the city to review the budget proposals of the department of public health and human services and the department of children, youth, and families. during our work together, the cbo's drafted principles the city should keep in mind when facing budget deficits and making difficu

supervisor avalos: do you know what the allocation is for this? >> of the top of my head, i did not come prepared with those figures. i apologize. the second set of resources is the muni task force. these are officers funded by a fema tsa grant. their primary duty is they target the most problematic lines. they work in plain clothes, and they work a variety of not only decoy operations, robert operations, but they also conduct investigations regarding incidents that occur on muni. one thing i did not include in my slide because it is information that i just got, that i am incredibly proud of is that in 2011, this team of officers were assigned 130 cases. of those, they sold 127 -- they solve the 127. of those, 120 were solved via a rest -- arrest. that was collaborative between the group of officers and the mta partnership we have. our onboard camera system is working tremendously to assist us in bringing people to justice that commit crime on muni. i am very proud of the results and things they have been doing. they start work at 11:00 in the mor

supervisor avalos: just a follow-up question on that -- when officers are engaged in fare inspection, would an officer go on to the vehicle and ask every person on that line for a fare, or do they choose who they go to? >> at our officers' conduct fare evasion operations, the need to ask every patron for their proof of payment. we are not doing targeted enforcement or selective enforcement. the idea in proof of payment operations is to ask of everybody whether they can provide their proof of payment. so that is correct. they do not single out individuals in these operations. a lot of the captains had taken it upon themselves, which i really like, to work very closely with robert wolfgang, our head of our transit fare inspectors and work with them. i would rather have the people who are most comfortable with the fare inspection doing the inspection, and our officers are doing that. to answer your question, no, they ask everybody. this slide is a typical picture of our fare evasion -- one of our saturatio

supervisor avalos: thank you very much. hello. excuse me for being emotional because of my condition. my name is and that,sa and i -- is annette. in nine months pregnant. i have been waiting on the housing list for three years. i finally get my -- what did you call that? appointment. they say that i will get a unit in six weeks to eight weeks. then they give you the run around with paperwork. then they say that i am ineligible because of a misdemeanor charge. now, i go to legal aid and they changed their tune. they did not -- now they say that they did not say that i wasn't eligible. it has been six months, waiting for unit. i have been in a shelter. in this shelter, there are more and more families and no beds. it is sad. they do not have enough for the families who are homeless. a lot more pregnant women have become homeless. and i think it is because of the same problem that i thought would happen. i hear stories about this city worker giving them problems getting their housing units. [tone] i think it would be good that maybe

supervisor avalos: we are adjourned. thank you. >> i tried to think about this room as the dream room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31 years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. there is a circus company that i have been fortunate enough to work with the last couple of years. i use elements of dance and choreography and combine that with theater techniques. a lot of the work is content- based, has a strong narrative. the dancers have more of a theatrical feel. i think we are best known for our specific work. in the last 15 years, spending a lot of time focusing on issues that affect us and are related to the african-american experience, here in the united states. i had heard of marcus shelby and had been in join his work but never had the opportunity to meet h

supervisor avalos: we are adjourned. thank you. >> there has been an acknowledgement of the special places around san francisco bay. well, there is something sort of innate in human beings, i think, that tend to recognize a good spot when you see it, a spot that takes your breath away. this is one of them. >> an icon of the new deal. >> we stood here a week ago and we heard all of these dignitaries talk about the symbol that coit tower is for san francisco. it's interesting for those of us in the pioneer park project is trying to make the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they

avalos. aye. campos. aye. pimentel. aye. supervisor campos: i want to stake my colleagues for their nomination and for their confidence. i think it has been a very exciting year for the local agency formation commission. the year has maybe been more exciting in 2012, and i look forward to continuing the work with the members of this commission, and i know that we will be gaining another member on the commission soon. my understanding is that supervisor olague is interested in serving on the lafco, and i look forward to welcoming her when that appointment is finalized. the last thing that i will say is to simply think the public utilities commission and the advocate community for all the work that has been done on this important issue. it really has been a team effort, and i think that the fact that we have made it this far is only because of that collaborative approach, and that will continue. ultimately, that will ensure the success of community choice aggregation and any other endeavor that lafco undertakes. with that, mad

supervisor avalos: i think that is great to hear. it is an important change for a lot of people in the bayview- hunters point area, who felt that there t line was really concentrated heavily by the fare inspection program, felt that they were being targeted, and i think that that alleviates some concern. i am glad to hear that change was made. supervisor olague: along the lines of what supervisor avalos just said, it seems to me that there is a concerted effort to avoid the profiling of youth, and i am heartened by that because that has always been a concern of mine. i am glad to hear that you are committed to it. >> absolutely, supervisor. like i said, it is important for us to be everywhere in our system and no single demographic should ever be targeted or have the perception that they are being targeted. a lot of times, perception is 9/10. it seems to be working well, and like mr. mason said, moving them really stops the sort of piling on of the t line. in order to go anywhere in the course of their workday, they had to get on the