to go our next department is the adult probation department. -- supervisor chu: our next department is the adult probation department. >> good morning. i am the chief adult probation officer. i am pleased to report that we have worked with mr. rose, and public to thank he and his staff, and i would also like to thank the mayor's budget staff. we have come to agreement on the proposed reduction. >> and that includes the project close out? >> yes, it does. supervisor chu: thank you. but an analyst. >> the agreed upon a general fund recommendations are 100 and thousand 592. there is also -- $110,592. total recommended reductions for general fund is a $111,800. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: i have a question. i know it is hard to anticipate, but you have been one of the primary representatives in talking with the state on a prisoner realignment. in this budget that is before us, it is a little bit of an enigma as to what we can anticipate in terms of how to prepare for what might be coming down from the state, since the funding is supposed to escort the prisoners that co

>> sheriff's department? >> no. >> psychiatry, yes. >> it would be great to get some idea how much they have cited. >> but the key here and dr. leery can probably talk to you about it, they have to meet certain criteria for 5150. >> absolutely. that is what i want to hear. what is the tally of the 5150's that the department is actually issuing? how many, for example, say last year? do we know? >> i would be happy to address that. we at the hospital we see annually about 4,500 patients who are on 5150 holds. and i want to etch size that patients who are on 5150 holds are not the safety concern that we have because in those situations the sheriff's deputies are able to intervene and hold them in the hospital for their safety and other people's safety. it is the patients as dr. may was mepgsi in mentioning, the patients who don't meet 5150 and are delirious because of a drug intoxication or other medical cause that don't meet that 5150 but meet the legal requirement for emergency medical treatment. the problem i

the final departments that are left are the juvenile probation department, department of public health and the human services agency, so we'll begin with the juvenile probation department and chief zimmerman. >> thank you, madam chair, committee members. chief proa big officer. it's my pleasured to a vance before this body my seventh budget on behalf of all of our dedicated staff, particularly allison mcgee and katherine mcgwire who are here that had a lot to do with directing and preparing a very thoughtful and responsive budget. but most importantly, i am here on behalf of the youth and families who rely upon the work otojuvenile probation -- of the juvenile probation department. i have a presentation and i have provided folks with copies of the power point but i'm going to proceed with this. the work of the juvenile probation department essentially is designed to hold youth accountable while facilitating opportunity for them to develop pro-social competencies that ensure long-term safety and identify and utilize the lease restrictive placements and quite honestly, the least expensiv

, our police department, our sheriff's department, and our public health department, health and humanervices agency, department of children, youth and their families. these are the critical services that i think our residents depend on. that's what makes up the vast majority of that $1.2 billion we're looking at when we're trying to solve our budget budgt deficit. we have difficult decisions ahead of us to make over the next few weeks. and you may have heard just earlier this week the nine-month budget status update for the current year, that showed good news. there's no doubt that we're seeing some stabilizing in our economy, and our revenues are looking up, and that's a good thing. that's a good thing. we have $45 million more than in the current year we thought we had to work with, that's certainly welcome news, but it doesn't fundamentally change the picture we're facing for next year, the fact we have difficult decisions to make in balancing the budget. i want have people keep in mind that even though next year is looking a little bit better than we had thought, we also, in addit

for our department, we have a blended funding source within our department. we have something called the children's fund, which comes from property tax revenue, and we had general fund, which is what mr. wagner explained earlier. within our general fund, we are looking at a possible reduction of $5.7 million. our proposal for meeting this reduction is primarily to reduce a particular funding source that came into our department after mayor newsom last year submitted a budget. these are supplemental allocations to our budget by the board of supervisors. they came into our budget to restore funding cuts that we made to programs that had received funding from our department's previous years. right now, we are looking at reducing $5.7 million from these $7.5 million restoration or supplemental add back into our apartment. we believe back by doing this, we are preserving the intent of the policy work that we have worked with our communities over the past two years, in creating -- we were closely in creating, planning for how we allocate dollars, particularly to tw

i want to applaud the health department of the city. we have an outstanding health department. amy brownell was outstanding. in the face of public insult, public attacks, she still did her job. on one occasion, they went out to do some research on nosebleeds. it was intimidating. they had to stop their research because of the attacks and all of that. one of the things i'm concerned about, supervisors, is last summer, the shipyard's project was approved. the board of supervisors, six other city boards, and the two community advisory groups with jurisdiction over the site, and the citizen committee, the same old, and become a dead rhetoric is what we have been hearing all this time. [tone] supervisor campos: if there is any other member of the public would like to speak, please come forward. good afternoon. >> mr. campos, supervisors, real briefly, the health department may have employee issues. i don't know. i am not in the health department. but certainly, we should absolutely not allow that to be a backdoor way of undoing what the citizens of this city overwhelmingly supported

the state department, inspector general looked into them, the state department medical on scene looked into them, the regional security officer looked at them, and i testified before, i think, house government affairs on this as well, and i'll be glad to send you a copy of my testimony in that if you wish so we below that we can een force through those -- enforce through those methods the situation that upholds the dig dignity and standards of the united states holds dear by holding that on the prime contractor who is an american company and then looking over and across the operations on scene with the state department's contracting officers representatives insisted by our medical staff, our logistic staff, or our security staff. >> all i can say is obviously it has not worked until now by definition because if, in fact, as we know the defense department in particular put it on the primes, and the contracts out to subs who may contract out to second subs, and these things are happening, by definition, the system is failing, and that is why we made the recommendation we made, and it see

>> yes, these are recurring state grants given to several departments in the department of public health. we need these past in order to continue getting funds from these grants. supervisor chu: these are items that are recurring grants. we have had them budgeted in previous years, and they are simply continuing grants we have to support our operations, correct? and there are no significant changes in personnel or the grant levels? >> correct. supervisor chu: i know this is an item we do not have a hard report for. before we take action on the request to do the technical amendments, why don't we go to public comment? are there any members of the public who wish to comment on items seven? seeing none, public comment is closed. ok, we had a request to make an amendment to the legislation. the copies are before you. again on page one, as read into the file, it refers to referring to file 110488. on page two, slight amendment on line 15 to talk about instead of the attached document, referring fiscal year 2011-2012 state grants. can we take that motion without objection? thank you. on the un

it pays for the services of a lot of the department's sitting here. -- a lot of the departments sitting here. on the non-general fund side, we have apartments that bring in their own revenues, and a lot of those are facing financial challenges as well, but they have their own budgets to balance outside of the general fund. mta is an example of one of those departments. about $3 billion of our $6.5 billion budget is in the general fund. $300 million deficit starts to sound a little bit bigger. even within that $3 billion of general fund, we have a lot of restrictions on what options are available to us. we are legally obligated to pay our pension and benefit costs. we have voter-approved requirements that under the charter require us to spend a certain amount of money on particular types of services, and all those various requirements eat away at our flexibility within that $3 billion, and at the end of the day, we only have about $1.2 billion or $1.3 billion roughly in the neighborhood that is truly flexible, discretionary general fund that we can use to balance the budget. our $300 mil

one question for the department -- is the department in agreement with the other cuts? >> madam chair, yes, we are. supervisor chu: yes, i would be supportive of supervisor mirkarimi's position. perhaps we can make a motion or take action on the $24,900 in budget closeouts and accept all the recommendations from the budget analyst except the $10,000 for the animal control section? can we do that without objection? ok, we can do that without objection. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. supervisor chu: the department of technology. >> good morning, supervisors. john walton, director of the department of technology. i am here to give you an update on our discussions with the budget analysts office. we are in agreement with them. these 16 recommendations of the total value of approximately $800,000. unfortunately we are not in agreement with the budget analyst on several other items related to travel, training, equipment maintenance, other expenses to cover unforeseen expenses throughout the year. they add up to a total of $823,041. 16 of the 22 cuts we

but, you know, that is an area of the department of emergency management, my department, other departments, we are trying to invest more resources in that area to look for federal grants come homeland security grants, other grants like that to use to fund technology. as a caveat, having gone through this a number of times, the danger of grant-funded technology is it can lead you down a road where you spend a lot of grant money to procure technology, but if you do not build in the capability to maintain or replace that technology over time, it creates a huge asset cool that you need to find a way to either finance or replaced over time. the non-general fund -- these are the large departments that you hear from. we see spending to be rather constant in those apartments over the next five years. i'm sure you are aware mta, airport, and you see are all heavy users of technology, but the technology they use within their department is critical to their ability to provide services. the good thing about the project is their projects do not typically impact the general fund where we see the deficit

and functions from the department of technology over to your department, correct? >> that is correct. supervisor chu: primarily, it would be repro graphics. and the others the justice program, right? >> that is correct. supervisor chu: just a question for the justice program -- who in administrative services is overseeing the project? >> the deputy city administrators overseeing the day-to-day operations. supervisor chu: i know many of us have questions about the implementation of justice. i know there will be a future hearing about that in a different committee. supervisor chiu: if i could just mentioned, we are requesting a hearing for the seventh of july, and we want to mature everyone is aware of that. supervisor chu: my first question was on the justice program, so i will wait until we hold a hearing on it. the question that i had, and i could not find us in the report, was there was a reduction in neighborhood beautification. that was the one thing that i was curious about. >> that was due to a decrease in the voluntary checkoff donations through payroll and

the ethics department. this is a department we did hear from briefly last week. this is a department that we did ask the budget analyst to go back and see if they could provide some brief information on, a particular because we do have a significant pot of money in the mayor's campaign fund, a public campaign funds that are in there, so it is worthwhile to cover that and have a budget analyst report on them. >> thank you, madame chair, supervisors. we did work with the legislative analyst's office, and they did complete the review. also, you requested a breakdown of how we expect public financing expenditures in 2012 to pan out. i did forward the document to all of you with that breakdown. the only other thing i would highlights while i am here today, last week, i told you the total funds distributed under the public financing program was $1,674,000, and in the seven days since i gave you that figure, an additional $826,869 has been distributed in the last week, bringing us up, that much closer to our estimate. i do not know we will hit the $3.1 million by this t

still allowing the increase in the department. we will be happy to work with of the department. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we will see you back here next week. thank you. next we have the department of human resources. >> good morning, chairman, supervisors. if he would like i can begin with an overview of the department and high-level changes in the programs. then i would be happy to suggest the questions that came up in terms of health services and those initiatives. by way of the overview, we have in our budget nearly two-thirds of that as the payment of workers' compensation claims. medical and temporary disability benefits. basically, we are the conduit through the city's insurance program as it is paid to injured and retired former city workers. that is the largest part of our program. we have possibly 20% of our cuts in salary and benefits. professional services is 11%. tuition reimbursement programs are negotiated with labor unions to reimburse employees under the terms of their labor contract. training, workers' compensation, and additional services, examinati

>> actually, they come from our department and other city departments that have some issues regarding the rules. supervisor chu: ok, so it sounds like they come from various sources. in terms of our responsiveness to those changes and evaluation, is there ever a time line under which we have got to have action either approving or disapproving of proposals? back after a complete hearing, we are required to post our rules for 10 days before any adoption, and we are also required to meet and confer on the changes with employee organizations. on the average, i think we get through these rules within six months or so. from proposal or idea to actual adoption. supervisor chu: ok. do you think it is possible for you to provide information about some of the rules that have been enacted in the past year perhaps or some of the things we're working on or some of the things the commission will be considering in the coming year? because they have certainly a very big impact on our operations. we definitely want to see these rules considered at the commission in a timely way. given that we did not

that makes me most proud of our department. we are a patchwork of individuals who come together every day with the same goal of protecting lives and properties. our difference is are what makes our team stronger? on the outside, vince and tony teemed -- seemed pretty different. vince was more reserved and serious at least until you really got to know him. tony more outgoing and humorous. but both vince and tony shared an unrelenting at the massty and an unwillingness to give up on things in which they believed. they were dedicated public servants who shared a common goal and who ultimately sacrificed themselves for others. no measure of word will ever capture the denth of our gratitude to vince and tony nor ease the grief that we all share. but though it is certainly easier said than done, we must move forward. for it is in carrying on our faithful service that we can truly honor the lives of vince and tony. it is in every call and every response that we carry their memory and keep it alive. and we can honor them. so winston ch

next department is the planning department. >> good morning, supervisors. we have been working with the budget analyst office all weekend. we are also in agreement. i believe the number is about $113,000 that we have agreed to, so we are pleased to say that we are in agreement and we thank the budget analyst office for working with us all week. i would also said the items 6 and 7 are related to planning department fees, and you would -- you may want to hear that as well. supervisor chu: if you could, would you speak about items 6 and 7? >> sure. >> good morning. item 6, and is the administratie code. these are the ceqa fees. the legislation as correcting oversight when we amended the fis last year. we added a wireless telecommunications facility fee and payment plan feet. section 3122 allows the controller's office to adjust the ceqa fees, and that section was not amended to include those two new fees, so this proposed legislation makes that correction. additionally, it applies the cpi for next year. item seven is amending the planning code fees. primarily,

in terms of department reductions and revenues, this is a list of some of our bigger departments and what the value of their share of the balancing plan is. at the public health department, our largest department, in terms of total size, and as always, they're asked to play a significant role in helping balance the general fund budget. of this $31.7 million, a significant portion of that is revenue, federal revenue, as part of a new program associated with planning for health care reform. we have been able to leverage those revenues to offset a general fund that also includes a planned expansion. so some of that revenue is used for expenditures to expand our capacity at clinics. and to prepare for new requirements imposed as part of the waiver. additionally, within the health department, you heard last night about some expenditure reductions. those include about $3.4 million of reductions to non- residential mental health and substance abuse services. it is dramatically down from was it had been originally contemplated in the department's 20% proposal, but there are some expenditure

i am wondering if similar to what we're doing with the fire department and others, departments that the top 10 really take a hard luck and see if we are budgeting at appropriate levels. and where are you with the budget analyst recommendations? >> we accept the recommendations. >> we are recommending a reductions total they represent -- it would still allow increase of $13,360,577. $577 would be an increase of 3%. we are recommending a close out to the general fund to of a general fund totaling 6707 $9. total recommendations -- we are making a couple of changes at the request of the department. on page 43 of the report, whereas, as you'll notice, the cadet positions, 14 to 0. we are leaving the cut alone at the request of the department. they would like to leave these in the budget. the savings would still be achieved, but they want the flexibility of if they do receive funds in the future, they would not have to reestablished those positions. and similarly, for the principle position, instead of going from one to zero, we are recommending one to one. the recommended reduction would rem

we also have the head of the department of public works and ann from the department of aging services. we also have someone from the wrecked apartment. we also have the director of small business in the city. -- we also have someone from the recreation department. we also have the director of small business in the city. very soon, we are expecting ed harrington from the public utilities commission. we have carla johnson from the mayor's office of disability and maria from the department of children youth and families who will be coming shortly. i will hand this over to mayor lee who has been to eight other budget meetings. there will be one more after this. >> thank you, actually there ruby two more. one supervisor decided not to. been hurt everyone was going to do it and decided to added on. -- 1 supervisor was not planning to do it but then heard everyone was doing it and decided to add it on. i am enjoying these town halls. -- there are two more of these meetings. i am enjoying these town halls as a resident. i know is important to people here, raising families. i have had the priv

, rather than looking askance at it and assuming that every police department and employee in that department -- is not fair. >> mr. hanlon? >> i think one thing to keep side of -- sight of, if we're giving people the power to carry a gun and arrest citizens and put them in jail forever. we talk about how we deal with this situation, to minimize it and say it is just a few officers, the department is generally ok, that there is not a culture here, whether it is a code of silence or a code that we can do what ever we want, it is not dealing with the problem. [applause] i believe that it has to be dealt with. but it cannot be dealt with by minimizing it and saying there's too much media about this stuff, that it is not fair. it is fair because the police are given this incredible power. more than anybody else. you know, i can deal with a cop in court, but i will not mess with him on the street, because he can tell me or arrest me. there has to be a standard -- he can kill me or arrest me. there has to be a standard. ianne is talking about her clients are basically on the street. this is not a m

the next department is the fire department. we have our chief. >> good afternoon, chairperson, members of the committee. i have the chief financial officer passing out the slides that i will be presenting today regarding the fiscal year 11-12 budget. if you like we can discuss the budget analysts report. he is bringing it up now. while we are bringing it up, i want to acknowledge the work of the mayor's budget office and their partnership with us. also, the framework of the comptroller's office. i know that my chief financial officer has worked closely with mr. ian hart as well. my deputy chief in the administration, monica fields, has done a lot of work in preparing this. to get started we will take you through this. some of these slides you have seen before. first and foremost is the department summary. to remind you, we do staff 46 firehouses. including treasure island, the presidio, and the san francisco international airport. funding comes from the airport. command consists of myself, the chief of the department, two assis

police department after they've come to us? >> that's correct. they send themselves through the academy. the basic academy is 990 hours. the department gives them four hours of training per month, usually a parishable skill as in low frequency, high liability issues such as firearms, takedowns, baton training, laws of arrest or procedures. they also -- also during the summertime we try to unplug them, the availability of the police academy, to a more thorough four-hour block to two 16-hour days and depends on the availability of the police academy. >> are we actively recruiting reserves at this point especially in light of what we heard from mr. delanus' soon to be shortage. >> yes, we're constantly recruiting the reserves. we see that some departments that lay off employees, a way for those employees to keep their active post credential, standardized training credentials and is for them to volunteer their time. unfortunately, sometimes other departments steal them from us. and i don't have an explanation for that other than the department is a l

this is why the health department works with the planning department in reviewing the environmental impact report. they routinely review analysis by critiquing analysis done by others and offering litigations and alternatives. an example of this, which i am particularly proud of, was the case of the redevelopment of the trinity plaza apartments in 2003. this was the first time the department acted proactively to have a planning agency look at an issue that was not previously looked at in the process. an initial planning study concluded that the redevelopment of this and rent-controlled apartment unit would not have any adverse affects on housing or humans. we brought to the planning department evidence of the effects of the eviction and displacement, as well as alternative strategies from the scientific literature. the planning department looked at that evidence and made a change in their decision, deciding that this might have environmental impacts, and required the developer to come up with a no-displacement alternative. it was a proactive use of the public health role. it was also the f

the state department inspector general has looked into them, the state department medical officer on scene has looked into them. the regional security officer has looked into them. and i testified before, i think, house government affairs on this as well. and i'd be glad to send you a copy of my testimony in that if you wish. so we believe that we can enforce through those methods the situation that upholds the dignity and can the standards of the united states -- and the standards the united states holds dear. >> well -- >> by holding that on the primary, the prime contractor who is an american company and then looking over and across the operations on scene with the state department's contracting officers, representatives. it's insisted -- assisted by our medical staff, our logistics staff or our security staff. >> all i can say is that, obviously, it hasn't worked until now by definition. because if, in fact, as we know the defense department in particular has put the onus on the primes and the primes then contract out to subs who may contract out to second-tier subs and these thi

and credit to the department. that's all i want to say. >> commissioner slaughter, i appreciate that and i attribute that to the improvement of the o.c.c., to the hard work of the entire o.c.c. staff, lawyers, investigators and our support staff. with regard to the numbers that don't appear to be adding up, i will get back to you on that. commissioner slaughter: thank you. >> commissioner -- >> commissioner marshall: commissioner, that upgrade, it would be interesting if people would believe that the department is getting better. it's a good point you raised, but -- commissioner slaughter: i raised it intentionally. we see these numbers and i think oftentimes there's a vocal minority of people who show up and speak and they aren't -- the folks who are pleased with their interactions don't show up and speak and don't come to the o.c.c. and say, boy, the department came out here and really served me well. and all we have to go on are the numbers that are presented and the people who are coming -- either the departme

it was the primary way that the police department communicated. half of the department has e- mail. many of them still do not use it. where that becomes important is, and the incident reports that police officers take at the scene of a crime are still also paper-based. so that becomes a problem, in that, if a police officer later want to go back to look at the report, they have to go to the hall of justice to check out the incident report, which is on paper. we scanned the police reports, but it is just an on-line version of the paper-based report. so what that means is, until recently, we did not have the ability to search crime information. if we have an information, a family violence situation, and the suspect has a hard-shaped tattoo on their net, you would think that we could search for that. police officers, when they take reports, are diligent about putting that information, but we do not because it is not searchable. that is an important law that we are working to address. we have other challenges which i do not have time to get into, but some things like ability to identify

, and the other department was just over time at the departments. >> yes. supervisor chu: can you explain that in context with with the budget is being proposed? i guess i am and little bit curious because the budget analyst recommendation talks about the attrition savings we are talking about. i just wonder if we end up taking that, are exacerbating the issue, and it is something that we have one too, and we have asked the office to look at across some of our largest overtime departments. back our overtime budget in the sheriff's department has gone down continuously for three years. i have a chart here -- i do not know if you can see this. i guess maybe you can read it. but you can see that our actual expenditure of overtime in 2008- 2009 was $12 million. the next year in 2009-2010, it was $7 million. in the current year, through june 15, it is $5 million. so we have continually brought our overtime down the. if you can slide over further, we break down our overtime in this chart into two categories. one is general department over time. the other is in ou

the department that i live in, i used to smoke cigarettes. i did not like smoked in my department. i would lean out the bathroom window. this was a straight shaft. this was left for me outside the window to the left. plausible deniability. if i did not tell you that i smoked cigarettes and that was left in that area, you would say, why would you do that. how would you know it? even if i told you that i smoked, how would you know that they smoked? >> they were in my apartment many times. most important, they wrote somewhere close and i scribbled a bunch of notes in the margins. as you can see, there is cocking from a piping that goes into the wall. one last stand for the plausible deniability was the claim that that was left by the construction workers by telling the pipe layer where to lay the pipe. i know that sounds bizarre but that is the mindset of the people i have been running up against. i am not trying to frame anyone for something they did not do. i asked the apartment manager if he let that note there and if he was planning on having any kind of construction work and he s

the fire departments. and then our core county functions, which are the human services agency and the health department. those are the departments, the parts of our city that have the biggest share of our general fund dollars, closely following on the list are dcyf, the rec and park department, and others. as supervisor cohen said, we have asked our departments to propose 10% reductions to their general fund support an additional 10% contingency to put ideas on the table, to think about how we are going to be able to close this deficit. we are in the process right now of looking at those ideas and thinking them through. as the mayor said, we want to hear your thoughts about these ideas as we are in our decision making process. just to kind of put the challenge in perspective, if we took the full 20% from every department and said we were going to put that in our budget, that would only save us about $180 million from this point forward. we are working on other solutions, but the point of this is to illustr