the police department, the department of public health, and the sheriff.ng else that the report from the controller showed is that about 858 employees are on track to exceed the requirements of section 18.13-1b of chapter 18 of the administrative code, which actually prohibits departments from allowing employees to work overtime hours in excess of 25% of their regularly scheduled hours. the last thing i will notice that we do also want to know more about the issue of how as- needed employees are being used and exactly the extent to which departments are relying on as- needed employees. the use of as-needed employees may be appropriate at times, but it also raises some concerns about the use of those employees. it is not only an issue of saving money, but it is an issue of making sure we're treating employees fairly and that they are accorded the rights that they are entitled to under the civil service system. thank you very much, madam chair. supervisor chu: thank you very much, supervisor campos. perhaps we can begin by asking the controller to briefly sp

that is the police department. >> good afternoon. i am from the police department. in comparing the controller's recommendation, the estimate, we agree with the recommendation based on the nine months of data. supervisor chu: ok. do you want to speak to the overtime, sort of generally what you're seeing in the department? >> right, i referred to the numbers earlier in the presentation of the estimated $1.4 million for the occupy demonstration and operations that we saw in the latter part of last year and earlier this year. as well as dignitary visits and other unexpected operations that we had to staff with overtime rather than on-duty personnel. supervisor chu: ok. if there are no questions, why don't we go to the budget analyst report? >> as shown on page 6 of our report, we are making a recommended production for your consideration of $474,532. that would provide an additional $2,525,468, instead of the $3 million that was requested. supervisor chu: thank you. the department we have not yet heard from, public utilities. >> good afternoon. assistant general manage

department of common security. san francisco is going to get approximately $9.5 million out of this grant based on a formula that considers a risky and threat in san francisco, based on our population and population and density and likely targets. this will fund one new civilian 1824 analyst at the police department. their responsibilities will be to purchase and maintain equipment, perform threat analysis, identify gaps in the police department did abilities, and manage various common security projects. i was asked to provide information about some of the other grants. this entire regional grant funds approximately 65 positions all over the bay area at the denver public safety agencies. slightly less than half of those are in san francisco to their positions at police, fire, sheriff, and the department of emergency management, as well as staff that to the management and administration at the bay area uasi. the balance of the positions are a public safety agencies at the places i mentioned earlier. these positions

as i look at the department's budget, almost 1/3 of the department's money is going into federal prisons. the amount is now $6 billion, and it is rapidly approaching almost what the fbi budget is, which is $8 billion. now, my question is, what's going on with federal prisons? now, if people are incarcerated. first of all, we want the bad guys and gals off the street. so we want you to prosecute and incarcerate particularly where there are people who constitute a danger to our country or to our communities. but i don't know if we can sustain this growth. once we gt them in, it's a revolving door. they keep come back. could you elap rate on your department's needs? but is there any recommendations you would have to begin to contain the crimes? is recidivism the problem? again, safe streets, but this is really an ever increasing part of our appropriations. >> i think there's a variety of reasons we see the fop lags population increasing. i think there are a variety of reasons. there are some cases that violate both federal law and state law, and if there are very serious criminals we bring

the state department has a prominent role to play on the strategic side. let me now speak about capacity building. when states have the political will, law enforcement and good governance. our key capacity building programs are the anti-terrorism assistance program lessons learned from the ongoing capacity efforts and sizeable investments makes a difference. let me talk about counter and b bionic extremism. we must undercut the rhetorical underpinnings that makes the world view attractive while also addressing local drivers of extremism. to delegitimatize al qaeda and interagency body that works with communicators in the field and misinformation. it draws on the full range of intelligence information and analysis to provide context and feedback for communicators. the cesc on forums, blogs, and social networking sites produces and disseminates targeted, attributed videos. successful involves more than messages. there are alternatives for at-risk youth and constructive local initiatives and supporting skill building and mentoring efforts. let me turn finally

i've got the fallujah water waste treatment system in which was a state department, defense department joint project. is there any argument or pushback from any of you on the sustainability front that this has been a failure and that even going as we speak we're building things in afghanistan, that will not and cannot be sustained? >> clearly at least from the defense department perspective, we have not always covered ourselves with glory in this area. you've listed those examples. in august we did create the afghanistan resource oversight council. i think we're in our fourth or fifth meeting of that. it has been chaired by alan estevez, the assistant secretary of defense and basically filling in as principal deputy. mike mccord is the principal depp si and cfo. and by jim miller who is in his current acting role has continued to be the chair. and sustainability has clearly been on the topic and the agenda in each of those meetings for what we can do or not do. i think when mr. kendall testified before the senate before with general bash, talked about what to do particularly in the cor

fund muni and the department -- police department from a separate pot of money as well. >> to the first part of the question with regard to what happened after prop a passed, like understanding is there were a number of different things happening. a big one is the economy crashed. one thing that happens, some of the formulas for how the work orders were allocated at changed to minimize the impact on the general fund or to directly allocate costs, that was a result of some of the increase to the mta's work order. there were other things that happened. mta started paying for its real estate once it moved into one south van ness to work order to real-estate versus a rent line item. all the sudden we went up by something like $5 million for the real estate. our real estate costs went down. they shifted into the work order line item. i think there are other examples like that. i think at one point, the proposed work order budget was something up around $80 million. there were reductions made to get it down to the old level it is today. the one exception to what i have been talking about is t

department to have the staff. what is always not clear to me is -- when it comes down to the things we have to do, like canvassing, you get a list and you have to go down at and canvas whether the people meet the criteria. you have to contact people and give them time to respond. i believe that these kinds of things could be done by dhr, but those are the things that take time. to get help from them we have an agreement from them on how much help will be given.

, 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

services of other departments. this is in there. >> ok. >> the funding expenditures, as expected, over 55% of that is patrol. this is not to be overstated that this is the backbone of the police department and the other units support patrol, and the officers within those districts. the budget is -- although this is going to grow from where was last year, this is basically because all of the concessions made over the life of the labor contract came to this year, so the furlough days and the postponement of the salary increases and all of that, that will become due in 2013. the big issue for us is staffing. we are down about 200 officers, 200 officers -- and this goes up and down a little bit but will keep going down in the succeeding charts. we lost 68 officers in 2012 to the drop and the option program and will lose another 111 or more in 2013, and we will lose the balance of the 265 total before the end of fiscal year 2013-2014. this will be exacerbated when the current contract expires -- and there are things wit

the planning department since information to the police department, and they plan for utilities, parking, traffic in new areas. the question i have is, do they plan for safety? do they plan for the increase in safety in these areas were the high rises are coming up? if anyone saw the news recently, i think we're number two for population density. as our safety, keeping a with a population in san francisco, as well as the influx coming in. we keep saying 1.5 million per day. but in the summer, there was an article saying that the greater bay area is expanding all the way out to reno. i will let this sit down and see, how are we planning the five-year plan? how are we keeping up with the growth of the city in terms of population, in terms of the influx of population daily? how we got that 1971 number. we're not even at that. but if that is really the realistic number or not, is there a formula that planning or other departments use in terms of population and department, and how are we going to implement a five-year plan? at the that would help us, because we could then maybe do a because w

michael smith, planning department staff. you have before you a mandatory request for discretionary review pursuant to section 317 of the planning code for a project proposing to construct a front and rear horizontal addition to a one-story vertical family dwelling. it would significantly alter the building's front facade and the department has deemed the project to be a demolition. the property located at 1622 11th ave. the product sponsor submitted a permit for a similar project was opposed by both adjacent neighbors. they have concerns about building scale and the modern vernacular. the project was subsequently withdrawn by the sponsor before coming to the hearing. the project before you reflexed negotiations his sponsors had with his neighbors prior to submitting the latest project. it reflects a traditional vernacular that the neighbors want and the height of the rear building was reduced to appease neighbors. that change is most evident on a sheet a7, which shows existing grade. you can see how much the building has sun

what was it that we funded within the department? this is the web-based system that the chief was talking about. >> we have $2 million from the uwaji grant, the oracle warehouse, which is now the server, if you will, the platform that we use. the nice thing about this is that because this is not a plan server, we have our own engineers that of did this, and to the software. san francisco city is helping us create an application that would be mobile-based, to keep the officers out in the field. we have the help desk and the officers have the email. >> madam chair and members of the community, in this current fiscal year, the department received about $570,000 of general-fund money for the enhancements to these projects, and the data warehouses -- they are really the core application that will feed into everything that goes beyond that. the email was a very important thing, and this was another important aspect of it, with the $2 million from the grant fund, and in the coming fiscal year there are a lot of requests that will be evaluat

by the california department of boating and waterways. this was an important consideration since they fund the loans for the west basin renovation and the loan conditions. lastly, the department secured the services of an independent consulting firm as an alternative to engage the public and stakeholders and a constructive policy dialogue to explore the issues and this still conflicting viewpoints. the intended outcome was for the rules and regulations irresponsive and consider all stakeholders. at this time, i would like to ask the lead consultant to join me in continuing to describe the stakeholder feedback process which is one of six milestones toward the new marine operation. >> a good afternoon. i'm mark murphy. i am an independent consultant their recreation and parks department hired to stand between the state court communities and recreation and parks to collect feedback over the progress that has been going on for some time. in defining these takeover community, i want to lay them out so that you understand the stakeholders or th

the health department has images like this to before. much like a realtor that stage is a house showing, it is sort of a facades of sanitation. it will the carrier rate again back to the conditions we have seen before. recidivism is not a matter of if, but how soon. he plays an endless game of cat and mouse with the department and with public safety at risk. the department has a due process system intentionally designed to give owners assistance. this owner has long exhausted these resources to no avail. on the fourteenth of march this year, the permit was revoked. i would humbly ask this committee, this board, to uphold the directors' decision of permanent revocation. >> any public comment on this item? >> i know you're coming back to give him a card, but you can do that later. what is the normal threshold for revocation? how many instances of what you observed, it would of been tolerated before it would of been revoked. >> i was going to address those issues in rebuttal, but i will address those specifically. the photos you have in fro

department. he agrees with all the findings of the public health apartment. >> [foreign language] >> he asks to give him another chance in cleaning up the pl ace, which he has been doing constantly. his restaurant is a construction of the city college on the corner of washington street. for the last four years, his business has been dropped because of the construction he . he continued to open his business for the last four years. he realized that there is a health problem. he just asked for that we open this business and continue cleaning up. i will pay lots of attention to the health hazards. president garcia: would you ask your friend to comment on the fact that he now says when he is faced with revocation -- let me start it over. he talks about cleaning up when he is faced with revocation by dph, but how about all the other years when they were over and over and over again, pointing out what the problems were and ask him to take their problems and show a great deal of leniency. why didn't he

it requires the department of defense, the state department, and usaid to improve their training and planning for contract support. and support. the legislation reduces reliance on noncompetitive contracting practices and risks of contracting practices that have resulted in a lack of transparency and visibility. the legislation requires agencies to conduct risk analyses before relying on private security contracts and to terminate unsustainable reconstruction and development projects. it also strengthens tools to combat a human trafficking. this approach is pragmatic and will reduce the potential for waste, fraud, and abuse in future wars. many of the witnesses today have already testified numerous times before this committee about lessons learned in iraq and afghanistan. i commend the department, particularly the defense department, for recognizing they have shortcomings in implementing changes. however, the commission concluded in its final report that, a " meaningful progress, meeting ltd. -- will be limited as long as agencies of exist major reform that would elevate the importan

we have a breakdown by department. we might have from that information that is here available for the public as well. i'm not sure we have enough copies for everyone but there will be on the screen. we will hear from the budget director. on going discussions around c.o.l.a.'s in the budget. i have several names i will be calling up and asking questions to extend their public comment time so we can make it clear -- a clear presentation on what they're facing in the can provide testimony about what they are facing. that will be the main focus from the non-profit side. we will have general public comment for folks to come in as well. just so folks know. we have a lot of people here and we want to hear from all of you. we will have that in two minutes. so we can have more time for people to come through and not have to leave early because the had to wait a long time. with that we can go to leo levinson. mr l. levinson? >> thank you. i am the director of budget and analysis for the city comptroller's office. i well -- will

one of the things a new chief and parents is the department culture -- inherits is the department culture, which chief suhr is working with, whether you come from internally or externally. sometimes cultures change. what bothers me is when we see evidence like we saw, we can tell the numbers of officers who were allegedly involved in that and put that against the numbers of officers there are in this bay area region or nationally. but it makes good press. and so, what we do is -- including me -- we paid with that broad a brush. i understand what. it is perception, and truth is only 10% fat and 90% perception. -- fact and 90% perception. what do we do to prevent it? we start teaching what our expectations are in the academy. we reinforce those expectations, not just to the academy, but throughout every single daily -- every day, every hour, every minute. this is what we expect of you as our employees, whether you are a sworn officer or not. i really feel that one needs to be more loyal to the integrity than the people. [applause] i came from a background for my parents were holocaust survi

of public health. >> fire department. >> deputy chief from the san francisco fire department. >> housing authority. >> recreation and park department. >> public libraries. >> human services agency. >> department of aging and adult services. >> mayors house -- mayor's office of housing. >> mayor's office of disability. supervisor chu: we have a number of different presentations and our department heads are here to answer presentations -- to answer questions. thank you for coming. we do have a number of presentations today. each of the presentations are from respectively district for and district 7. a few folks we wanted to come up and say some words on behalf of the neighborhood. first, we will begin with district 4 and a founding member of the friends of west sunset and has a lot of thoughts around family and recreation services. mayor lee: if anyone needs translation services, raise your hand and we will get to you. channel 2 is cantonese and channel one is russian. if anybody need to rethink our raise your hand and we will get to you. >> , longtime president of district 4, the sunset d

department of justice, department of agriculture, department of defense, this is a team. this war require as team concept, and we're trying to reach out to the islamic world and create partnerships with lawyers and attorney generals and judges in the islamic world so we can understand them better and they can understand us. i'm excited about it and appreciate your support. now, justice scalia came out yesterday or the day before talking about, he thought it would be wise if we looked at our federal criminal code. particularly in the drug area. and see if we could reform it. i think he's right. i think we've federalized way too many crimes creating work for our judiciary that could probably be handled better at the state level. what do you think of the idea of revamping the federal criminal code and looking at maybe undoing some of the overfederalization? >> i've asked -- when i came into office, i've set in place a number of working groups to look at that problem. that issue. are we bringing the right people into the federal system? are the sentences that we have for the

the planning department and not ask for that. more importantly, she ignored her own original reason for that the revocation, which that no work had been performed. this fact never change. the permit sheet issued was blamed on incorrect information supplied by the applicant who describe all work complete. this fact alone is sufficient not to reinstate the permit. director day has failed to acknowledge many errors in the processing of the february application, including the failure to ensure the proposed work reforms the requirement of the 2010 building code issuance of two almost identical valid permits come a failure to identify who is currently the property owner, and failure to require the original permit be transferred to the new owner must agree to the conditions of the original permit. the risk of failures is detailed in exhibit 2 of the brief. ms. butler will continue the presentation. thank you for mentioning all of the code enforcement issues that you plan to be looking into. >> president mccarthy, the morning. my name is

these are things that we can work with the supervisor on, the police department, and fire department. thank you for convening a town hall. i think that they are great and i applaud the city leadership for doing this. thank you. [applause] >> my name is bernard. i have prepared a brief statement. the budget process that is taking place now is quite necessary, but not sufficient. as the mayor pointed out in his opening remarks, we are going to be faced, as the years,, with diminishing expectations from outside. local sustainability and self- reliance are going to be critical for our long-term survival. it is important that we not simply played the game of annual implementation and the fight of 4000 self interests. we need to determine what kind of this city we want to have in the future and what the absolute scale of the requirement would be to sustain that city without expectation in outside support. then making it clear that the citizens of this city have an obligation to see to it that the skeleton is sustained. anything else that comes on top of that should be viewed as gravy. but y

department to have the staff. what is always not clear to me is -- when it comes down to the things we have to do, like canvassing, you get a list and you have to go down at and canvas whether the people meet the criteria. you have to contact people and give them time to respond. i believe that these kinds of things could be done by dhr, but those are the things that take time. to get help from them we have an agreement from them on how much help will be given. it would make things go quicker. i do know that we have been told, by the mayor's office, that this is a priority to the city, to provide and keep up, keeping the development moving along. the economy moving along. we have expressed that to human- resources. the mayor's department has expressed that to human resources. i think there is recognition, it is just whether or not we can have the follow-up. >> do you think that a special hearing on this would be something to reinforce dhr? >> i do not think so. i think that this is an internal sort of issue. we wo

we work across federal departments. the department of defense, department of energy and so on. so i think that is a way to reduce the bureaucracy, to be more productive, to be more efficient. with regard to the point about epa and regulation, i can't address specifically the epa issues, but if i could, i'll just touch generally on regulation. and that is -- i don't know the specifics of the epa regulation very well, but what the president has done and what i strongly believe in, and i hear it all the time and i work with manufacturers a lot is we have to reduce regulation to the maximum extent we possibly can. and what the president is repeatedly said is we will allow regulation only to the extent. it is essential to our economy, the growth in the economy, to national security and to education. so those are the criteria. and as a consequence, for example, i think it's pretty widely known that the level of regulation and new regulation is less than the first three years of this administration and the comparable three years in the prior administration. but we have to keep working

for the state department the state department continues to say that it doesn't need the structural or organizational changes envisioned by this legislation. and they've also said that they can meet any demands that arise by relying on the working capital fund. do you believe that they're correct, that they don't need any organizational or structural changes from your position as the inspector general for the department? >> i definitely feel that they need tweaking. one point that came out here that i'd like to speak to them more about is, for example, whether they need a separate suspension and debarment official. what they have now, i agree now with what secretary kennedy said, the current person who is in charge of suspension and debarment does not have a role in the acquisition except in the most general way. but i think anything we can do to encourage the department to focus on suspension and debarment is good. and we've seen progress. i think i'd give the department the benefit of the doubt, but i'd hold them accountable. >> okay. you all mentioned this in your statements, and i

it shall be reviewed by other departments. planchette, structural, you can submit after the fact calculations that demonstrate in a meet the 2010 building code, but that is supposed to happen in february and march. and this is not an over-the- counter permit. it is a major operation to a historic building. when the planning department decided not to require a 311 notice, we ask for several other things as well. similarly, they glossed over the things they could not fall, solved a couple of the problems they could come and tell everyone would let this go. >> public comment. is there any public comment on item 6? >> my name is dr. derek kerr. after 20 years at laguna honda hospital, i became a whistle- blower. the repeals to help commission were ignored. the repeals to the ethics commission very. two years later we have recovered $250,000 for the parent gift fund in 430,000 from attainted public health contract. this took immediate attention and community action and a loss to to get attention. none of this what had happened and

this is something i have to work with the department of planning and the department of public works and get together and see if there is some kind of solution we can come up with for these property owners that will meet the federal laws. in other cities, it has been done before. i sent an e-mail yesterday on this very subject that we are willing to chair the committee and to get going. it does help i am on the building access committee, so i get access legislation as it comes through. unfortunately, it is not enough right now. we just do not have enough to go after the brunt of the property and sometimes you are dealing with historical buildings and they have to change part of the facade and make the door wider because a wheelchair won't go through the door. some businesses have 28 inch front doors. you cannot change the whole front of a building, but there are some people who believe that you definitely have to and we have seen property owners try to help people into their buildings with wheelchair's. we want to help, but it is trying to get all of the entities together now that this h

a health inspector, department of public health. the reason why i disagree with the request because this is why we're here today. this is a repeated pattern of not preparing papers. that is why his permit was revoked. he applied for this appeal on february 29. he has had over a month and half to prepare his papers. i feel that should be adequate. this is why i am requesting we do not continue this. president garcia: go ahead. >> is the establishment close? -- closed? >> it is complicated but according to the health department it is still open. he is not open for other reasons. according to the health department, he is still open. if we will continue, i will explain. a department of public health revoked a permit and then he filed for an appeal which allows him to continue to stay open. in the interim between february 29 and today he has had other inspections by the council who has found violations, labor law violations. they issued a stop work citation so he is not able to operate with the help of employees. my -- the office of labo

the planning department works with the police department and gives them copies of their plans. i know the planning department looks at population density in the neighborhood. this have to be approved for those high rises, they look at utilities, they look at traffic lanes and maybe it is with the traffic department the work with the police department. does anyone talked-about security? what i am thinking about is we are going to develop treasure island. there is discussion about hunters point. there is high rises that continue to go up. there it is a new su -- a new subway coming to town. with new density and a higher attrition rate, we have one class, maybe more. there is no real commitment to that. there is an article recently about the density of san francisco, it is a high-density city. we have a daily rise in our population. i query whether that has gone up. what i was wondering, is there a formula that they use for safety i am planning, with all this development in high rises and subways and the influx. they talk about the bay area, as far away as reno in the future. i am

. >> anything from the department? >> scott sanchez, planning department. just a few notes. no neighborhood notification is required to remove and a legal unit. records indicate that this is a two-family dwellings. the map indicates it is a two- family dwellings. i am not aware of any information that establishes it legally as three units. a third unit could not be legalized at this time. maybe mr. duffy has additional information about the past records, but that is what we have. additionally, the permit holders briefed there was some mention of the use as an office. just to be clear, the use of this office independent of a dwelling unit would be illegal. it would be a separate commercial use. you are about to have a home office as part of an accessory to a dwelling unit, but not separate from a dwelling unit. i am available for any questions. >> i do not know that you can straighten this out for me, but in exhibit b, i assume this would be the permit holders brief, it appears as though there are six units in this building? and the tenant has the right of first refusal? i do

the police department does not have the funds in their department to continue that service. that is a direct service provided to muni. i've also been seeking their assistance in the form of loring the traffic come -- lowering -- to make room for us to be able to find this direct service. i know that is a long answer. i think there is an arguable policy call in terms of where the funding comes from. it is a decision that needs to be made by city hall. >> i very much appreciate that answer. i am not suggesting that this money is falling into a sewer hole somewhere. it is being used for our police officers. the question is where it comes from. i have a little bit of tissue with the notion that this is a city hall decision. -- issue with the notion that this is a city hall decision. not to have funds allocated for transit purposes used for other city hall purposes. again, i am not suggesting this is an el purpose. we need to support our police officers and we need traffic enforcement. the question is where this money comes from. i think we could make a unilateral decision to str