the department has a number of minimum staffing requirements it must meet and the goal of the department is to do so efficiently as possible both from a financial perspective as well as an operational one. this next slide is really cramped, but we washingtonved to just do it in 10 for you. the slide on the left, as you know, is a familiar slide. we talked to you about it in april. it gives you a high level look at our budget expenditures. and as you look at the chart on the left, the department's operating budget consists of approximately 92% of operating budget costs allocated to salaries and fringe benefits. it leaves a remaining 8% to account for items such as materials and supplies, equipment, and work order services of other departments that are required to support our daily operations and core functions. the slide on the right sees the programs that our budget funds. the vast majority of our budget goes to front line fire suppression operation which includes fire and ems response as well as all specialty units and responses including our fire [speaker not understood] hazardous mate

the applicant pool for the fire department. and to me, role models are very important, but proactive recruitment strategies and anything else that we can do short of violating prop 209 or any other policies is really critical. so, i guess i want to know more of any new efforts your department is making and also what new or needed strategies you're taking to really diminish historic inequalities and existing inequalities that exist in your department, and to make you even more accessible to, you mentioned language minority communities or others, but what are new strategies that you're looking at? >> okay. the other thing i should mention is that we rely heavily and are grateful for the support of our employee organization. so, there is the main bargaining unit as you know local 798 that we have employed groups that have all stepped up and will continue to step up when it comes to recruitment. we have a very active asian firefighters association, black firefighters association, united fire service women as well as [speaker not un

department's budget. they include state, federal, criminal justice grants as well as a nutrition grant that we get from the state to fund our summer lunch initiative. the decrease from 12-13 includes an elimination of one time funding from a private foundation, and some anticipated one time reductions of a violence prevention grant. the 12-13 budget includes a large -- i'm sorry, the general fund equals $29 million or 21% of our total budget. it makes up 34% of the budget. the total childrens' fund equals $50 million which is a $7 million equal from 12-13. continue children proves has approved the department to maintain and in some instances increase funding in services. for the fiscal year 14-15 the proposed budget equals 131 million or $12 million less than the 13-14 year and this is primarily attributed to the reduction of the prop h funding. the majority of our funds are directed to grants to community based organizations, or to work orders to other departments who will then grant them out to communit

when i went to the state department 20 years later the people who are successful in the state department are those you can throw into the deep end and they will not drown but nobody ever teaches them to swim. but the best of them do not even in values swimming lessons because they didn't drown. it is a culture that makes very little of the enormous human capital it has and with a little bit of attention and basic management you could actually realigned the structure and make it as well functioning as the military. the military is great to make a lot out of very little but we just don't hold them to the same standard but to show we should not let inherently civilian responsibilities accrue in the way they have from september 11. that is bad for the country it is important to see civilians that we need to make the state department capable of doing that. >> host: is there a bias against republicans in the state department? >> i did not find that out myself. i found the culture that believes itself mainly they are the guardians of american foreign policy against all of these politicians. for

we have our planning department welcome back >> good morning john ram with the planning department. we are in agreement that there would be i think the number $360,000 in cuts. i also just wanted to mention the policy issue that was placed the budget analyst report. we're taking the steps to have you approve the numbers of positions that are not funded to allow the flexibility in the coming budget noois the money does come in. it would allow us to hire people more quickly coming presumably if the funds don't come in. that is the intent of doing that it's our experience that the hiring can take 6 months that gets us favor behind >> any questions. >> mr. rose our report please. mr. chairman and members of the committee own page 20 our recommended reductions are 229 and in fourteen, 15 our recommend reductions are 369. >> any comments? >> yes mr. chairman and members of the committee on page 20 of the report - 23 of our report we continue to make the same recommendations that the policy recommended we're have 9 new positions that are not funded. we consider that to be a policy decision

>> and that leads into envy department of health question people have no idea how long it takes the department of health to deal with those situations. it's more on the lengthy process than a very fast process. and it talks to pretty much any project would fall into this category because 50 cub it yards is little. and this parallel existence that i talk about is not reality >> i do want to point out about the 50 cub it yards i believe the truckload is about 20 cub itself yards so for about 4 truckloads whether it's foundation work or grating that's triggered. but if you're not talking about major foundation work, you know, four truckloads of dirt just below this threshold it's not big but when this was originally adopted it was intended at the time to screen out the more routine projects in the residential neighborhood and unless it was entirely a new construction project by not a typical alteration >> and if you're in the process and i do find you have to fall into the process is it appealable? >> my understanding it's not appealable that's correct. someone from the department of health wants

the planning department and department of health are proposing to update it and we want to be update. there is one codified process that deals with everything that. we want to expand the boundarys so it would be in the blue and orange and other zones. the ordinance will update the department of health procedures to recognize what's happening that there are health levels that are determined by the state. and it also recognized that was health department test the ground water in some situations. it is more likely that the health and safety is protected and provided better service to the public. and the department of health involvement will be tied in directly to issuance and we'll become more certain and provided better services to the public it could be identified at the outset and it would be more transz parent and the public would have access to this information >> the update would eliminate the need to have measures to deal with the procedures in this city. with that summary we're asking the board of supervisors adopt this owners and the owners was refused and it was recommended by

and dedicated support for the city departments to make this happen. >> is that within each departmentor one over sees every department is part of it? >> we recommend that each department has individual needs but that their needs to be a centralized compliance effort and so maybe having like an rsp process for the whole city, but then, having individualized training programs per department or if there is an rfp process for each department that would be a little bit more but i think what we would like to focus on is making sure that someone is named for checking the compliance, because if someone was responsible for insuring compliance it has not worked because of 13 years. and only dph has been working to implement which is awesome that they are working but we would like to see more city departments on board. >> thank you. >> so the youth commission priorities for implementation include expanding the youth staff trainings to address the barriers, and to receive quality services for all lgbtq youth. we also would like to push for ininclusive intake forms because we recognize that many c

what is your department, how is your department moving on? >> you know, i have a feeling that... well i don't have a feeling. most of the direct services for youth are through our contractors. and we don't really have a lot of youth who come into our administrative buildings, and they are really served out in the community. so i think that would be something that you know that i know that has been an issue, i used to be director of homeless and housing programs and i know that was an issue when we were working on developing our homeless care. and i think that is something that we need to talk about with our contractors that could be incorporated into the training and sensitivity awareness that we do. at that point i need to check back with our management teams across the agency. >> and just say that it is responsible for youth shelters as well and different areas, that where, there will be a high level of need because the youth in the shelters are lgbtq and how do we make sure that you are creating a safer environment and what kind of mechanisms you have in place to make sure tha

won't be for all departments but perhaps like the department of children and families they've gown to throw a process of allocating funding for after school programming. perhaps they can identify other gaps they'd like to aid or the modes they want address period our department of public health isn't a large department but if they've identified a great need perhaps there's a great need around health you services for african-american families with young families children. perhaps they can have more help there. i think it's important we get that opportunity to discuss that especially during the budget of report is the real one where we can match identified issues vs. where our spending is today as a city. so i look forward to that discussion afterwards. i think we're going to have to go through this fiscal year without discussing everything but it's a great place to start. my only comment is we have certain departments speaking on monday my staff can be coaching the departments and helping them to know what to question. we should talk about how formal we want to be. so we can talk about

we are investing in you, the police department.ecause we know that if we have a successful police department, one that is growing, and one that incurs faith and confidence from residents and friends and businesses. we will be that much more successful. it's my personal pleasure to join you today. i have a couple of officers i get to pin. they have sacrificed their time working with me on the security detail. they had get used to some weird things i had to do. whether it was eating chinese food and cheese cake at the same time. or trying to handle the very high levels of meetings i was required to attend. they were very forthright in their jobs and duties. and i have yet to get the pie in the face. you got to history for that one. anyway, i do enjoy working with the police department. the culture here is solid. the teamwork is no different than the best of the teams that work in san francisco. and someone, myself being a veteran of government in 23 years, i have always felt that our police department is not only the best but i am ce

the sheriff's department has not had an academy class since 2009-2010. because we have been so deficient due to attrition in our staffing, we very much look forward to the opportunity of repleting what has been a real struggle with staffing ergo why we were here not that long ago seeking a supplemental due to our reliance on overtime. so, we look forward to something that hasn't occurred in quite sometime. program expansion, while the sheriff's department has been well known on many programs dealing with behavioral issues, substance abuse issues, and other rehabilitative issues, one area that we want to inaugurate that has not been routine for the sheriff's department is a greater emphasis on vocational training, both in custody and post custody. through the sheriff's department directly and through our key charter school. through our next slide on staffing, retirements, as you can see is about 91 ftes. since fiscal year 9-10, hiring in a snapshot as of this past june 1st, for the last three years we have hired 67, but we still have a sworn vacancy of 60

i am really impressed with our city departments and the department of public health and human services agency that they have started on this journey and we would love to look at the video and determine how to support and maybe start training our staff first. i think with that, i also echo that we do need a coordinated way to administer these trainings. >> great, thank you. >> thank you. >> so, we will reach out and pull together other departments and representatives from the departments to be together and kind of go together with what we have, next up we want to call (inaudible) who is here from the department of (inaudible) provision department and who actually just is his own tracking came in on his own and i want to thank you for checking in with us today. >> thank you, supervisor. and members of the committee, as you know there are many causes of delinquency that bring the youth to the doors of the juvenile probation department. >> fractured families, peer abuse, and victimization and personal identity confusion and basic street survival are all noteworthy factors prompting some lg

those are really great questions and those will help the department by department discussions i think really address balancing the needs of those with the most need and those kind of he better being currently served. supervisor avalos and i sit on the committee and their needs to be formalized equity. i hope we can develop good systems >> supervisor. >> i wanted to do add that i have some concerns about particularly of youth and families. how we can coordinate some areas. i know it maybe challenging to do this with all the departments by the department of youth and families this is a 3 year grant cycle for them. this is significant for many departments that receive the funding and our district district 5 received over a half of million dollars cut which is really devastating to our community. and i think that is data that that was actually used in making a lot of donations around funding was not appropriate to use in the instance of making decisions. i need to have is a clear data understanding of how we're going to make the necessary challenges in order to deal with the dollars that

department of alcoholic beverage control. it is no opposition from the mission three station to the applicant and agrees to the recommended condition, and the alu recommendation is approval. and the condition is the service and conception of alcoholic beverage shall be permitted between the hours of 12 noon to two a.m. daily. two the sales of alcoholic beverage for the off sale consumption is prohibited. the petitioner shall be responsible for the letter and the area and adjacent to the premises over which they have the control. and loitering is prohibited for the licensed premises and the control. the licensee that is depicted on the abc form 257. >> and number five. and shall be removed from the premises and all parking lot under the control of licensee within 72 hours of application. if the graffiti occurs on a friday, weekend day or on a holiday, the licensee shall remove it within 72 hours following the beginning of the next weekday. >> (inaudible) shall be equipped with lighting to illuminate and make easily decertainab

what is your department, how is your department moving on? >> you know, i have a feeling that... well i don't have a feeling. most of the direct services for youth are through our contractors. and we don't really have a lot of youth who come into our administrative buildings, and they are really served out in the community. so i think that would be something that you know that i know that has been an issue,

despite this, the planning department feels otherwise. what other departments do we look at? the san francisco and water department says this is a three unit building, the assessors believe this is a three unit building, pg & e installed three unit meters and gas meters, there is two effects of this roen us recording. one is the practical effect. my clients have been tragically denied the value of their purchase and their tents are going to be severely impacted bass somebody has to go if this finding of the planning department is upheld. this is contrary to the san francisco's pledge to try to reduce unit reduction in the city. the legal effect of recorded of notice of special description with a wrong legal description is the notice is void. after a legal description which is so vague that the document could apply to multiple properties as a matter of law of void because you can't tell which property it pertains to. no one knows who this which property this special restriction applies to. accordingly it was erroneous part of the planning department to base their letter of det

the mission of the department of human resources is to recruit and develop the city's workforce to meet the city and county san franciscans needs. we focus on leadership and implementation. looking at the high-level budget we have our finance director. you will see we have cycle changes 90 in our budget. those effect the bargaining unit. in years we have the responsibility to increase our staff. they were able to reduce staff in those areas. i can see by the pie chart the resolution is not that good. 38 percent of our staff works with workman's comp. and we have a contract with the administrator. we have 35 percent of our staff implementing the civil service. i want to highlight a couple of key initiatives. we have a community anti research program that we're piloting it's based on a model we use a couple of years ago. that was to reach anti to increase employed communities and open up training modules and ways to give people a leg up believe will increase the diversity of our applicant pool. our most recent mellowing pool for fire department and police it's fairly representative of the

department, the department of emergency management, the san francisco housing authority, and the department of economic and work force development. so, we have a lot of folks here to listen to your ideas and concerns. and also people who you can talk to after the conversation today as well. we also have a standing audience, our office of small business here. so, thank you all for being here. i wanted to share just a few things briefly about san francisco's budget before we get started. i think the supervisors and the mayor are correct, we're really here to hear your thoughts and concerns and ideas. but before we begin, i want to make sure we're all starting from the same page. so, when we think about a budget, i always think about the first question. what is a budget? and for me a budget is a plan, it's the plan for how we're going to spend the resources that we have available to us. it is a document and a spending plan that reflects the priorities of our city. and finally, in san francisco and in the government situation, it's a law. so, every year we have to legally balance the budget and

>> thank you, carla short department of public works. i will define that root trim shooting be done carefully and judiciously with acknowledging the species. generally we try to avoid it if we can entirely, but in a case like this if there is roots that are adjacent to the foundation of the house when we made this repair, we can sever the roots at that point. >> so, typically there is a discussion about replacement trees. so smaller trees that is being removed is it being replaced by the city with another tree? >> yes. >> has there ever been a discussion about a replacement tree to be some resolution around this particular one? in the past when you have presented and people have had different opinions about whether trees stay or go, is there a discussion about what a replacement tree should look like, has there been discussion about that? >> there has not. >> the other question i had about the canopy, it did look more balanced on the picture you showed us. has there been pruning done? >> there has not been any pruning. we'll remove the t

from the department of emergency management along with other people from the department of emergency management and i'm introducing all of these people because it wasn't just the fire department alone. it took a lot of work from the department of technology to the department of city planning, i saw brian strong here early and ken rich from the mayor's office. a whole host of people, and we have john green who is our department captain, who earlier this morning gave a very special blessing upstairs in the dining facility to all the members at station 1 and for blessing this building and all the work done here. few other folks that i would like to acknowledge, local 798, the men and women presented by tom o'connor behind me, thank you, tom. as well as some of his members of the executive board here, thanks very much to local 798. there is two retired deputies here. i have seen this happen. i'm grateful they came back because it's this early phase, he got us where we are at today. thank you very much. [ applause ] and also retired deputy chief of operation patrick guard who was a member

department of emergency management. department of public works. office of small business and mayor's office of disability. we have a number of officials from the san francisco police department who are here as well. that's all i have. we look forward to hear from you. >> okay. if you have comment cards and they are ready, can you just hold them up. we have our team that will grab your cards. please hold them up. at this time we will have representatives from two district 10 organizations, daphne mcnowel and stacy bartnet and the asian community center, david chan. if you could come to the microphone. >> hi-- okay. good evening, my name ir daphne mcnowle, and this is stacy barltlet. we are parents at daniel webster and petrillo hill. we are here to talk to you about supporting efforts to keep families in san francisco. it's well documented that one of the san francisco's greatest challenges is retaining middle-class families. the two reasons for family flight is affordable housing and public schools. i would like start by telling you the story of o

within the department as a whole regardless of additional revenues or not to be that kind of department. i know that chief -- has been that kind of police officer his entire career. i know he has a desired to try to make sure that new officers, current officers, bring that same level of commitment to the people of san francisco. we definitely need to do more work around making sure that there is more of a connection, more of a community policing model. our entire city, we need to work on that. this is really challenging decision for me because i think about of course ways to utilize these resources. i definitely don't want to change what we have in our district; unfortunately i believe that if we do not move the funds forward that it will have an impact on district 5 for certain. my biggest concern is the visitation valley and baby hunter's point, in those areas where they are needed more. that is what i wanted to say, and i will be supporting the chief's recommendation. >> supervisor farrell: supervisor avalos. >> supervisor avalos: i will be voting with the budget analyst recommendati

so while the focus on the first 72 hours after a earthquake where the fire department and police department needs to be that are we're worried about the 72 hours and our need to pay vendor and city employees process good days potentially without electricity and that's what this site to intended to provided for all city departments. our budget contains a single position and then d ts budget has the balance of the fund for the year ahead. we continue to roll out new functionality. with the human resources system that could go live this year. about 20 million pay checks we turned it off. and we're going to roll out the new functionality. we're turning off the way that departments report time on payroll and we hope to have the features that employees benefit the ability to go online and change your own address or ultimately open enrollment on line. and the fourth enhancement we're calling the sf open book which is a set of online transparency tools that we're building on the controllers site and other that allows increasely the public policymakers and others to inquiry about financial, economic

>> carla short, department of public works. generally we don't take away those other factors because larger trees provide more benefit to the city in terms of their environmental services. so when we are looking at, it's true we have limited resources and obviously, repairing a sidewalk more than once may seem as though it's not worth it with the cost, but if you look at that means maturization of a tree and then with community concerns which was the deciding fact or in this case. >> okay. good answer. >> all right. the commissioners who have already spoken. >> i just want to say for the record that this is very difficult. i don't live close enough to require a recusal but i am in that neighborhood and i do appreciate those trees. so that tree in particular, i don't have any particular relationship to it. but the way it an appears on that block and it does create the types of benefits that miss short just described that is hard to put a price tag on. in looking at the challenges that are faced by the property owner, the appella

works department and the fire department and sometimes others. now this legislation does not in any way effect how projects come into confines in terms of the ideas and the community ideas. this legislation is not about the planning or selection of projects or the prioritization of funding. instead this legislation focuses on a part of the street process that month people know little about. it's the process that happens after planning where agencies who may not have participated in the community in moving the project forward where the staff dissects the proposal or end the project entirely or waters it down. today theres not enough coordination among the agencies so that we can insure that rather than ending the project or immediately reducing its scope the agency can fully cooperate and do everything they can to work towards a solution. this is really about the engineering of the project and making sure we're doing that in a comprehensive way in which their dialog among departments and between departments and the community. the next item is a re