to make sure we have a budget in place on july one but we also have a final budget and do a final budget approval by july 1st then the second part of our roster approved and that process will be starting in october to confirm the second half of our year's budget from the department of finance prospective so this envisions that information >> so in terms of the big picture and by the way, we substituted we had minor changes since we sent out the packet but we provided new trablz to reflect the minor adjustment but i'll move along this is with the revised it is $375 million it's a $350 million there for 2013-2014 that's due to the substantial amount of a affordable housing housing it's an increasing in the affordable housing fees. we're moving forward to spend the balances down so it's it $13.8 million increase from the previous year. i'll talk about the program in excess balances we have access to. it includes a rise at our mission bay revenues by 29 million and offset by last year's budget we have other bonds this year no new bond issuance scheduled so that offset fee increase >> just in

so 3 budgets in front of us can i make a suggestion we set puc next and there's no additional budget so i suggest we move that we consider that one towards the june date the retirement system we have the recommends from our budget analyst that the director was in favor of the department of real estate what make that happen i suggest we look at the retirement budget so can i ask for the retirement budget be moved >> supervisor mar's can we take those without objection? okay. now we're left to the discussion of puc. supervisor avalos >> thank you supervisor farrell. i'd like to talk to the budget director ms. kate howard. so i really want to avoid the kind of show down we're at right now but have a show down. the show down today i'd like to actually table the puc portion of the budget. and then i want to see if we can actually talk. and communicate about our joint and different concerns about infrastructure of the puc and the programs that are basically infrastructure like green power sf that what work together i know that the public utilities commission has greatest needs around the p

there is are no new positions in this budget and the department does not have an overtime budget. the funding sources are threefold, to provide excellent in-house service to the staff and controlling impact of the operational budget. direct services now represents 93% of this budget. second, the department began working with the department of real estate a few year prior to the end of our lease to leverage the opportunity to renegotiate new terms and prepare increases in the budget. led to competitive rates and slower lease costs over time that translates into long-term lease savings. and we floon share our office space and savings with other city departments. finally the department has right-sized overhead and keeping costs in line with a small are workforce and reallocating savings to fund increases in salary cost. going forward we will continue to engage our employees to look for ways to deliver quality case management is both efficient and keeps pace with the needs of our clients. the department will carefully manage its staffing levels and reduce spending on non-salary costs.

budgets. so supervisor avalos started a conversation a number of months ago about the equity of the service delivery of muni and of transportation service generally. and out of that process he convened a number of stakeholders, we have been working with that group over the last four or five months. and have developed a new framework for analyzing the equity of our service delivery. it's a process that we actually have formalized, brought it to our board of directors a week ago. they have adopted it. and so it will now be a part of what we do on an ongoing basis. what it does is look at a neighborhood basis of certain neighborhoods in the city, and look at performance characteristics of muni service in those neighborhoods. things such as on-time performance, gaps, crowding, and customer satisfaction, travel time. things that are important to muni riders, and what it does is compare to the system-wide average. and the idea being that to the extent that in any particular neighborhood we're not de

it's not that we don't have enough budget. we do have enough budget. we do have enough budgeted ftes and we've just gotten behind in our hiring process. currently right now we have a 13.4% vacancy rate that's a little less than 90 ftes which is a large number of rn vacancies, broken them down here in the different areas. we're in the process of doing quite a bit of hiring now and it's my number one goal to provide the resources that the staff need to be able to take care of the patients. as you said, because you don't have support staff in different areas that causes nurse he he and physician and other people to do the work of other people like clerical work, or work of patient care assistants or medical assistants. right now we're working closely with hr to recruit experienced and new rns. we have -- we don't have a shortage of applicants for every position that we have vacant. so, it's really a great opportunity for us to be able to recruit experienced nurses. all hospitals have fluctuations in staffing due to just natural turnover and because of cen

so i guess where we are is just getting our budget finalized through budget and finance committee and the board of supervisors. these are some of the deadlines that are in place, that are relevant to our budget. again assumed in our budget, and with regard to the fares the ind indexing will take place on september 1, to give us outreach and changes. i am happy to take anymore questions. >> okay. colleagues any other questions for mr. ruskin? okay. we are done with our three departments for today. we will open this up to public comment. anyone that wishes to publicly comment on items 1, 2 or 3, please come forward. >> i filled out a card, mr. chair. gilbert krizwell. new district 8, where did the surplus go? i remember the last time that mr. riskin was here, they had a surplus. the mayor and mta have turned their backs on people living with disabilities and people with h.i.v. making us wait until after the november election, why wait, do it now. reject the mta budget, freeze them out until seniors and people with disabilities ride muni for free. until the mta and the mayor care about s

we now have a two-year budget. we have been just implementing a lot of good fiscal discipline in the city which is why i think there's so much investor confidence in the city that you see all over. there is a lot of construction, there is companies wanting to move in, and we're confident that we can get a budget that will effect the needs of the city. for me i'm wanting to make sure that we continue those fiscal disciplines that have kept us as a strong city so two-year budget, 5 year financial planning that we have imposed on ourselves, putting enough noipb reserves to get our credit ratings up so when we ask the public to fund special things they would be willing to because we know they will be able to complete them and complete them well just like the sf general hospital which is on schedule to be completed very soon and we're expecting to open it up. having said that, it's about an 8 billion dollar per year budget. and we are facing, surprisingly for a lot of people, and that has been surprised us that we've go

as part of our budget as part of in the record or is our budget separate from the cities. >> i've not done the budget process but for the rest of the city it's a adapted by ordinance it may be a similar process as well. >> from my experience the old agency was adapted by resolution. >> so, yeah it's an ordinance yeah. this is not an action item it will be an action in

wept to talk about the key fy 2015- 2016 budget for the 2015- 2016 budget and the next budget is represents an increase of 11 ftes from the current number of ftes at the 652 to 663 immediately other ftes for the following yes, sir. the key drivers are the emphasis on walking safety we want to toward the safe environment and the increases you see in the budget are driven by enhanced capacity the building of the proposals area we were e.r. we're looking at 3 additional custodians and officers. we're having the capacity to help our in house social workings and providing work order help for additional help in the area we are reviving in technology whether web band we feel it's important for the library the roll it plays we have the corrections and enhancements we want to discuss the possibility of relocating the facilities requiring lease space for the operations that's built into the budget. let me move on to the key initiatives it begins with the expanded hours i can't help to say how proud we are in san francisco to have additional hours this month we've got 56 additional branch hours 19 of

also this budget if we were to approve a budget of this size we basically and we fund cca work but we don't have other work that will be budgeted or this budget would allow us to do other non cca related work including research or researching other issues, possible municipal w fior banking. could you respond to that. >> yeah. if you take the assumption we will continue with the pattern of returning the money we would have 300,000 less in the act so we spend 100,000 to 125,000 and make it easy and make it 150 that would leave 150,000 in the reserves for other projects and things in the course of the year but that spends down the reserve if we spend the entire 150 but we have room to do side projects as needed if requested by this commission to do so. >> great. thank you. and so are you recommending any particular action? >> well, you need to approve the budget and the question that comes in and discussion at the last meeting and i yield to the commissioners themselves to determine if we give back the money, or one of the things we could do is we're reserving our right and instead of gi

from our budget. we wanted a closer skill match. so we are bringing back the management assistant. we have money in our budget that includes an allocation for the mayor's summer youth program. we have an overtime budget of $5,000, and generally speaking we manage it very well. we have never exceeded that in any budget year in the last 15 years. and also thanks in part to supervisor avalos's effort, we are confident that we will bring the monthly retirement board meetings to a chamber here in city hall so they will be televised live. and we have money in the budget to support that. and we conduct committee me meetings and we have the money in the budget for televising those meetings. i will be happy to answer questions. >> thank you, any questions? move on to the next report, please. >> members of the committee, does the department have comments? >> will you come up the budget analyst has made a few recommendations to your budget. why don't we

the mayors budget director thank you for your question and authenticity on the puc budget and cca. you know, we've worked closely with the puc to put this proposal together we've spent a lot of time thinking it through i can't tell you we'll come back with a new proposal when the mayor submits the budget on june 1st >> i was told that the mayor's office told the puc bucket for the deappropriation of the 19. million on reserve so when you say we've worked closely with the puc that's not been indicated to me. >> i can't tell you what you've heard we've worked closely with the puc to put together a financially responsible budget for hetch hetchy enterprise. i want to say i can't tell you what do i if you table the budget today. of course, i'm happy to a talk with you and the mayor will work with you on this issue if there's further discussion to be had my sense it there are many of you who want to talk about this with him. i'm encourage you to continue the budget rather than tabling it the reason is it gives an opportunity for that the discussion to happen before june 1st budget will

it's coming to you as part of the budget. >> right, if you don't like the fare, i could vote the budget down, but not the fare down? >> you can vote the whole thing down. >> got it. so what is the 25 cents index or increase, called increase, how much does that bring in this terms of revenue overall? >> the fare revenues overall is $200 million, 20-25% of the budget. in terms of what that quarter, what percentage of those fares come through the cash fare. >> so the incremental 25 cents in the fare can bring in more cash than years ago. >> okay, what was the cost of the metering? >> the gross cost was $11 million. >> so we eliminated sunday metering but raised fares on riders? >> there are a lot of things that are happening in this budget and those two are two of those things, that's correct. i mentioned we are currently in the final stages of our labor negotiations. and don't know the outcome of those. and point of reference regarding salary, for every 1% across the board salary increase, it costs us $5.5 million. once those negotiations are done, we will have to incorporate whatever cos

will have an opportunity to re-evaluate and look at the budget you right now the budget is not in front of them so that's one of the disadvantages of tabling our budget if they continued our budget they can bring it up at the next supervisor meeting >> what was the reason for adapting our budget a was it the energy or - >> ii think the major concern based on the supervisors i've talked to was the lack of communication around is reprogramming of the cca funds. and i'm just concerned with so many shuksz i've heard in the press all i have which i expect in this commissioner are not accurate it's clear how i voted i'm an adult and made a decision based on my life experience not by someone else telling me how to vote i find this is insulting >> one of the things we've made clear and every opportunity that when we had our budget when we presented to the commission we had after two years we'll be in a situation for our reservoirs been zero so there's a lot of challenges person addressing the mountain tunnel the i a the discussions with p&g and the requirement for nert and the general funds rat

of our annual fiscal budget process typically we'd bring a narrative budget outlook to you in april so may we present a draft budget we'll take, comments any questions and the fiscal year budget is just our estimate for the upcoming fiscal year slice of the overall program budget as you heard extensively this morning managing the project to the overall budget so this is an estimate of what is spent in the upcoming year starting july 1st it's approximately 321 million there will be some changes in the final budget that we bring to you. the concept of operations rfq contract rfp contract that's on your agenda later this morning the cash flow information for that contract was not available at the time of contract preparation so that's in addition to the final budget that you will see and we're also working with our partners at the sfcpa to keep the downtown extension engineering team under contract for on call work they are continuing to support the supplemental and environmental working with high speed rail and cal train so has agreed to accelerate and specifically as well you will se

budget our capital budget and what it means for san franciscans for the power and sewer needs as well as the select programs and so commissioner dooley's. excuse me. todd i need before you start i need to express great concerns i have about the puc budget and thank you for coming to my office the other day and talking about the policies we could have around our reserve and avoid a train wreck i communicated with the mayor of this city trying to avoid a train wreck i'm not ready to approve the puc budget we don't have conversation back from the mayor's office about providing statement that we can't be made and options that's not been provided i feel like we're heading towards the cliff we want the puc to deliver its power and water to customers all over 0 the bay area but if we not working out in a consensus way this administration is known for a way to create a pathway where we can all meet our objectives i'm ready to table this budget today. so maybe we need time to figure out how to pause today or have this budget come back later today and hear the leadership of the mayor's office t

i was wondering where it is coming from is it budgeted if the current budget. i'm going try to get clarity open where the fund how are they budgeted >> mr. chair. >> mr. rose. mr. chairman supervisor breed on page 4 of our report we point out that a million 5 hundred thousand plus is generally to be proposed by mayor this is according to the fire department and in the fire departments 2014-2015 budget with our appropriation budget and another $1 million plus in not identified grants or fund is to be obtained by the fire department 2015- 2016 and the mayor's office has pledged to fund the balance in the fire departments 2015- 2016 budget but again that is subject to the board of supervisors you approval and this will be in fiscal year 2015- 2016 >> so is the language appropriate based on the fund not being yet approved? >> mr. city attorney correct me if i am wrong but we're voting on to accept this amount. >> correct. >> right. >> and so the question from supervisor breed is whether the whereas clause in the contract approval correct me if i am wrong supervisor

[speaker not understood], deputy budget director in the mayor's budget office. we're still working with dpw and all the departments on enhancement. first there is the balance and see if we can do enhancements. at the moment we're not balanced. >> okay. >> we're really supportive of all the things mohammed is proposing and if we have the money, i'm sure we'd want to do all of them. >> i think we'll be able to find the money and i will say if it doesn't come from the mayor's office -- it is my intention to try to seek it at the board level. i think it's hard to overstate the shackleses that we've placed on dpw in maintaining a huge amount of public space. it's hard to visualize. what's 200,000 square feet, new plot of landscape, do you know how many acres of public space dpw is responsible pour maintaining? >> i can get that amount. it's in acres. ~ for >> it's more than acres. >> 30 or 40 acres. >> i would be interested in knowing that. i know in every neighborhood across the city, there are all of these things people might identify as parks, but they're really n

do their budgeting. you will see an increase in the clerk of board salaris and benefits, because the contracts that the city and county has with the clerk staff last year did not have any increases. this upcoming fiscal year will have increases and so we'll have to increase our budget for that line item to pay for the great work that we get from the clerk of the board's office and all of the services that they provide for us in this purpose. so you have seen an increase there. we did decrease the department of technology quite a bit. as it turned out we had a line item a lot higher than what we have spent on that in quite some time and what we'll need to spend on it next year. so we lowered that amount to mainly offset the increase in costs to that. so that is the thing that we have in front of you. we have been living our reserve budget for the past seven years or this is the 7th year that we have lived off our reserve budget. we had a hefty reserve with the mou with the sf puc and that is the bill that

rose for the budget analyst for round one. the operating budget is growing over the next 2 years approximately $140 million and it recommended to capital on slide 6 you'll see that $53 million is related to capital investment and in each case water, power and sewer it's one hundred-year-old facility that we have the stewardship responsibility that includes the general reserve to curb on the facilities like the rim fire we're actually recovering from the third largest wide fire no california and doing the lower cherry aqueduct and thank you for looking at those recovery projects. the budget is going up because of capital regulatory electrical costs in particular the subsection agreement and pg&e has proposed to do very significant rate increases for transition distribution as well as the street lights of all san francisco. personnel covets and other costs are largely increasing the majority of our budget is in capital related. the next couple of charts summarize the important things like 90 percent plus gets paid for by service