i have never gotten any support from dph or dbi. i am not saying that they are bad, but we need procedures in place so that pest control operators know what we need to do when there is an infestation. we cannot just go in and sprayed. tenants need to prep, sometimes they need help. we are trying to have a collaborative so that tenants, property owners, pest control operators, has a minimum guideline. spraying is not a minimum guideline. it is more of a band-aid. you can spray three times and say that it is abated, but is there follow-up inspections? we have been doing this for 10 years now. we always follow up with a final inspection of the unit. i do not know any other pest control operator in the county that does a sign off. it has always been common procedure for us. it needs to be standardized, so that there is proof of abatement. just a letter from the past control operator to the city saying that they spray three times is not enough. in these guidelines, i think the working group could go further with the city on coming up wit

how many notices of violation total did dph issue against property owners for any violation? >> i want to separate the complete data. a complete data from the violations. supervisor kim: i want to know what percentage of complaints and violations are for bed bugs. >> 532 in apartments. supervisor kim: do you know what percentage that is in your total number of violations? >> in terms of the complaints we respond to, that would be roughly about 10% in the apartments and housing. do you want to estimate for the hotels what percent of bed bugs? in the shelters, we're estimating 50% to 60%. supervisor kim: this is a problem that comes up frequently as one of the most reported complaints that the ph --dph gets. >> many people are hearing about bed bugs. they are having a problem. they do not know what it is. they call us because they might have bed bugs. we're going in and doing a thorough inspection and finding there are none. that is one of the reasons these complaints are being abated. there is a public perception of bed bugs driving the complaints. the actual violations are mu

the mta and dph are cochairs of the interagency working group. the short term actions items are listed here. we want to enact a state law of bringing school zones coospeed limits down to 15 miles per hour. we want to work with city agencies to buy the 20-mile for our home zones. we want to use that data to target the data we have about where the fatal and serious injuries are, to target an engineering program for a long those corridors to use the injury prediction model and pedestrian environmental quality index, as well as looking the best practices. long term, developing a pedestrian safety action plan for the city. the executive directive provides quite a bit of opportunity for the agencies involved. for the first time, it elevates the importance of safety for walkers in san francisco, establishes for the first time targets for reducing pedestrian injury. it recognizes the need for the first time that city and agencies they call this can work together. for the first time in a long time, i have seen a lot of energy around the table with all of

dph or sfhot said to me, too bad, deal with it yourself. the problem is also with dph, having these master tenants and then reporting to themselves of their own infestation problems. thank you. supervisor kim: if you would not mind e-mail in me the youtube video, thank you. >> i live in a six-unit building on nob hill. about one year ago, a neighbor hill and i started getting bitten. you can imagine why. we notified our landlord three different times by three different means and he did not respond. under the wise tutelage of the housing rights committee, i wrote him a certified letter which made him very angry. i forgot to mention that we spent hundreds of dollars trying to eradicate the problem of our own because we knew our landlord would not be happy to hear about it, which was true. he got angry from the first certified letter and i wrote another one and was ultimately able to convince him -- i realize how lucky we were -- we brought in a dog to identify that there were bedbugs. he called the merely paid for the heat treatment. it did w

supervisor kim: do you believe that the dph directors rules and regulations are adequate? >> when we issued the regulations in 2006, we were the first city in the country to do so. i think they are adequate to deal with the response of component of the problem but not necessarily prevention. we can do some of the things for more proactive inspections. even if a room is inspected and found clear before a tenant occupies it, a tenant can bring in bed bugs. that makes it a difficult situation. supervisor kim: i understand that. would it be helpful to mandate a type of treatment or to mandate that complaints get resolved within a certain number of days? would it help if we were to change that? >> one of the things that changed with the december amendment to the nooses -- nuisance code is that our staff have guidelines for what is required and in what time period. we do have a standard amount of time for which the bedbug complaints must be resolved. those are regulations. they are not city law, but there are regulations. we can amend those as needed. supervisor kim: would it be

supervisor avalos: department heads, do we have a presentation from dph? >> good morning. i am with the health department. someone else was supposed to make the presentation. he thought the meeting was scuttled for 2:00. he should be here shortly. dph can go ahead and make their presentation prior to his arrival. thank you. >> good morning. i am the chief housing inspector of the housing inspection services division of the department of building inspection. bed bugs -- i have to tell you that in the 26 years i have been dealing with enforcement in san francisco that i have never seen a life and safety hazard that impacts occupants of residential buildings as much as i have seen with respect to bed bugs. i have had individuals that have suffered from infestations. there occupants particularly of residential hotels. they call me crying on the phone because the infestation has not been properly eradicated. let me move to the dbi role with respect to enforcement and eradication. the department of building inspection is a secondary agency. it is not the primary agency on bed bu

some of that good news is driven by what dph is doing to generate more revenue for the city. that leaves about $61 million remaining from the first 10%. it the contingency figures remain the same in both cases, but the bottom line, as i told you a few weeks ago, another previous deficit, if we were to take all of the ideas that have been contemplated by departments, that would leave us what the remaining $118 million dap. it with the new news from the joint report, if we take all of those ideas, it is better, but we still have a remaining $65 million gap. the second thing i want to point out is, i want to be clear because i have heard from a couple of people who have looked at this slide or some version. they have said, well, this is good, our deficit is $118 million. our deficit is not down to $118 million, or $65 million. at the point of this is if we take all of those proposed cuts for cutting police officers, if we're cutting drop-in centers, if we are producing contracts at dcyf, if we are taking out nutrition programs, if we take all of those proposals, we still have a

the wait time at dph for a new patient's appointment shows a lot of variability. 30 days compared to 13 in december, 25 a year ago. complaints are down from a year ago. you will be happy to know the value of construction products for which permits were issued is up quite a bit from the prior year. supervisor avalos: a question on the first ones. serious crimes declined by 90.7%, and we had a spike in homicides. so every other type of violent crime is down? >> i do not have the breakdown with me, but that includes all sorts of violent crimes, homicide being among them, although it is probably the most infrequent. it would also include rape, aggravated robbery, homicid. we will look at some of the data in a second. when we discussed this hearing with organizers, we decided we would not drill down super deep into anything because this was sort of a clearing house. to illustrate the amount of data and the types of things captured in the barometer, i have a handful of slides. supervisor avalos: it is also important for the public to know that this exists and is pretty easy to find under w

dph is a provider of last resort. this takes up about 100 million of general fund. but we cannot leverage those for revenue. there is a majority of remaining, about 70 million that is contract it. that basically leaves 70 million to prioritize our reduction. most of this is contacted services and community programs. another part of that is that of the community programs, almost 2/3 is contract it out to the cbo. question as to clarification on the difference between the hundred million and a 70 million? >> this is 375. we spent 100 million in the areas of jail supportive housing. these are not matched, not not leverage. >> this is where he would not any finding anywhere else. >> for the individuals and the jails, for supportive services. >> we have no reductions in children's services, prevention services, hiv health services, long-term care services, and medication support. we did try to preserve some of the services that we felt where our highest priorities. >> this is the 13 million contingency. why would we accept the efficiency measures? >> one is the reallocat

i would like to thank you dpi an d dph for being here this morning.an do to tighten language around bedbug enforcement. i would like to work with both departments on your proposals and some of your thoughts on how we can improve debt and improve coordination. -- how we can prove that and improve coordination. this is a strong list of recommendations that ranges from strong -- involving an casement covers for mattresses and box springs to figuring out minimum standards for what constitutes a bed bug infestation and what is a violation and even mandating a resolution and looking at types of treatments. as in new york city, requiring owners and operators to documents and an abatement history to tenants. we can look to other cities to have been dealing with bedbugs for a little longer and learn from them as well. i don't know if there are any other comments, thank you for your time and thank you to the department and members of the public. supervisor avalos: this item we can file? without objection. thank you, and thank you to members of the public for co

chair chu: and then, just a question for dph, on like the other proposal, where they laid out where the cuts would occur, what is the plan here? is it going to be a targeted approach to rid the cuts are made? or is it a percentage, across the board -- is it going to be a targeted approach to where the cuts are made? >> , chief non matched general fund we have, and it will be a 15% -- it would be how much non- matched general fund we have. we would work with each of those organizations in determining how they would want to realize those. chair chu: do you think you will be able to share some of those details with us? >> sure can. we're happy to share those with you. chair chu: ok, if there are no further -- oh, supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: i have a question about the security and the contract out. i know this is an annual political event. significant cost savings. the effectiveness of these, i would ask you to comment on that. i know that at sf general, there are security needs, and i know that from various positions and others who have commented to me, again, not in the context

dph is a provider of last resort. this takes up about 100 million of general fund. but we cannot leverage those for revenue. there is a majority of remaining, about 70 million that is contract it. that basically leaves 70 million to prioritize our reduction. most of this is contacted services and community programs.