as i joked last night commo, ths commission just heard about some flexibility for different events that could come to san francisco, while he is heading to the pga event in atlanta are, so we have something extra the gang put together. what do you get a guy who has everything and is on his way to at centinela -- atlanta? you get a pin, signed by many of the people who know and love you. congratulations, tom. >> i would like to say that tom has been an amazing person to work with. it is a difficult job to bring a course to the level harding has achieved. his incoming person i do not think is going to be a problem. i am going to miss you very much and hope to stay in touch with you. >> i did not think this day would come. i asked my boss about it, and he said, you can start to look for all home. i narrowed it down to two or three places, and he said, there has been a change. what do you think about moving to malaysia? i said, i am not interested in moving to malaysia. i just became a grandfather, and i am not interested. he said, we may need you to move to atlanta because that gentleman i

good >> i appreciate you working on this commo, because i know ts a difficult issue. is that what would help impact an increase in your control? >> in the field, yes. and we are hiring an academy class. this goes back to reorganization. we used to have far more civilians. as the civilians went down we had to staff those positions, so officers stayed, and a staff these civilian positions triggered we have these positions and -- the civilian positions. we have these positions, and someone has to do that work here again we can get them ready and get new recruits to get trained, and we can have them during desk work. good >> thank you for that answer. >> align that is a steady decline is if we have not gotten any classes, we are grateful to the mayor for his proposed plan, which is the black line but will reach us in june of 2018. the green line would have been if we compacted it all, we get to full staffing faster commo, e lag less. we will go down another 100 officers by this time next year before we go down. it is a steady uptick after that. good >>> can i ask where yo

on behalf of millions of park visitors, thousands of volunteers, a professional co- workers commo, i want to saluter for her respect for our parks. goomr. president, if you can jon us, congratulations on your retirement. did we have a number of colleagues to celebrate, and i want to add my personal notes, which is how much i have appreciated in learning from you. your historical commitment is incredible, and it has been nothing but an odd sloot pleasure. good congratulations. [applause] fax i want to say thank you. it has been an honor to serve this beautiful city. i am grateful for opening the door for meaningful work, and i want to thank the recreation and parks department and a passionate and dedicated people who have the passion for all these years. good crops we have one thing i almost forgot. -- >> we have one thing i almost forgot. we would like to allow you to bring this home. [applause] >> thank you very much, and congratulations, and since you are so young, what is your next career. >> i will be coming back to volunteer. >> i would like to conclude the general managers' rep

subcontractors, 40% of all the work force until this building and designed its are san francisco residents commohonoring our critical goal for the jobs we want. we have honored the union and labour to make sure it happened the right way, so this represents so much of the good things we have always wanted out of our public buildings and construction company, and i want to congratulate dpw, our public utilities commission and staff, contractors, community of arts programs, other agencies working in with this, and our vendors, whether they are contractors or the other businesses that help with the video and electronics and this building to make it not only modern but technologically updated so four years you're going to be able to see the whole hetch hetchy water system displayed for our kids and future families but also to use it in every day technology for communications. this is more than just a building. it is a demonstration of what we can do when we work together to put the goals of the greenest and most modern and technology in blessing with what the public utilities commission does for a ci

you are everything a city employee should be commo, so i k you for that. i know you wanted to say a few words. >> thank you very much. i am for a proud to be here to join you in recognizing the great work being done by my colleague. he is an incredibly good worker, and i am not going to steal your thunder in terms of the accomplishments he performs. just to say we are very pleased with the opportunity we get to work with him on a regular basis, but i want to recognize the good work of this commission and the role we play in the city. and we do a lot of out reach across the city. that means we talked to a lot of small businesses, including some very small businesses. it is our job to work in partnership with your commission and other partnerships to make it easy for small businesses to be successful and to be able to achieve their goals here in san francisco. we do that all the time. i look forward to working with you going forward. good thank you for this honor, and i turn it back to you, steve. >> you attended every small business week function, so thank

of our budget analyst report, i wonder if you could speak to some of the positions and brought up commo. one said that an accounting that had been vacant since 1989, and if those are positions you feel you can fill in the next year. drexel lot of them will be filled this -- >> a lot of them will be filled with temporary staff. give we are in the process of filling in a permanent staff, so our expenditures have increased. good >> i am wondering what dpw is doing in terms of the law library. i saw that was under your project. >> we are working to relocate the law library itself. >> you are helping to guide the relocation process? >> yes. >> thank you very much, and we want to thank you for coming, and we will see you next week. the next apartment is our own department, the board of supervisors. we have excellent -- angela. >> good afternoon, members of the committee. gooby my side is several landis- debra landis, who helped me present this budget. we are presenting it in the framework of the budget for 2014. goothis resources our offices to meet our mandates, and while doing so in a cost-

regulations are, because even though this part of it has changed or that part, that is going to accumulate commo, and it becomes a rubric f trying to figure out what is the regulation now, and that puts them in an awkward position. i will be honest. i find this report very unsatisfying, because they are simply numbers. we are dealing with people involved, and simply saying we opened x number of cases does not tell anything except what we process cases. four years ago i put in my complaint. i heard absolutely nothing until i got a letter saying not substantiated. goothat was the extent of it. i was asked if i wanted to partake in the arbitration. i said i have some questions here again i said what happened if the arbitration does not go well. i said what is the officer does not show. i said this before, and it seems rather odd he would ask somebody to enter into an arbitration were one of the parties can refuse to come. i really think someone being asked to enter into mediation were the other party has the option of not even participate in, and if they enter into it, that is the end of the proces

subcontractors, 40% of all the work force until this building and designed its are san francisco residents commo, so we honoring our critical goal for the jobs we want. we have honored the union and labour to make sure it happened the right way, so this represents so much of the good things we have always wanted out of our public buildings and construction company, and i want to congratulate dpw, our public utilities commission and staff, contractors, community of arts programs, other agencies working in with this, and our vendors, whether they are contractors or the other businesses thath

are being used by the departments with the contract authority, including the airport, public works commo, th, as well as the recreational and parks department. the recreational and parks department is seeking to reassure three new contracts. one is a $3 million contract valued up to $3 million to an a contractor. the other one would-be up to $3 million for a b contractor. each of them is limited, and any task force exceeding $14,000 may be issued with the approval of the general manager. they are expected to expedite a relatively small construction projects, particularly those under the city wide improvement program. the recreational and parks department advertised three contracts for competitive bidding in april. for the a license, six bids were received. for the license, eight bids were received. since this item was presented at the council committee, bidders were evaluated, and h r c has recommended the a andb contractor. for a license contract, which is valued up to $3 million, and the recommendation is to award the contract you're a good -- the contract. i am available to answer any

good we had to extend the contract for services, continuity commo, and that is we you get that number. the allocation is $750,000. in terms of year to date for the last two years in terms of units of service, and fiscal year 2011, 148 youth were served, and fiscal year 2012149 were served. for clark base sur 523 under aged -- they served 523 youth. they are currently working to provide more valuations and currently working with an independent evaluator for the portfolio. there will be abroad of valuation, and we anticipate having this ready by january of 2013. again i would like to highlight a two work groups ever going on. one being the truancy reduction of initiative, which is a collaboration between city and community partners to actually look at reducing truancy and leveraging existing partnerships and work groups. the goal is to achieve long-term sustainable reduction. some of the partners include the adult prevention department, the department of families, department of public health, the district attorney's office, community assessment referral service, sacramento police depart

the fact that we bring centers , that we putnto its commo them into where we go, there recognized anandunctional. those are the things that are important to us. we're starting to move away from platform-centric to the leverage gained fivby i.t. systems. i will never forget standing down in georgia by secretary gates. we were ready to deploy. they had new systems. they had ipads and droids. the secretary said what do you think of all this? he said he would sooner be put up his rifle -- leave without his rifle and leave without those things. the capabilities are changing. the competitive advantage on the battlefield is now founts of platforms anymore. it means that the competitive advantage today is driven by devices. it is about a 30 day cycle to try to stay up with that fight. spending 20 years and develop for a platform and building it and find out what fight is going to be in and modify it, it seems somewhat irrelevant to the battle that we are on. is staying in one place for a long time what we want? these are the things we lipper as a move toward the future. the last point i really