ms. campbell to briefly give you an overview of that that and i want to add supervisors that we were e we believe our report as president chiu has requested an overall analysts of the budget. we believe that report about be issued probably late tonight or tomorrow morning. and it goods into debt about the vehicles >> and it's confusing we're making decisions about vehicles in other departments so if you want to be careful about how you've made our recommendations it b will be important for us to know. >> actually a that's why i mentioned this reports. it will give you the overall - the committee can take whatever action it wants and can you please explain the context >> when we looked at it across the mayors proposed budget there's about $3 million in reduction and we want so say there's opportunities for further reductions. our two major concerns with one is we're receiving a lot of requests for new - to replace vehicles would low mileage. i think that 50 percent of them have lower than 50 thousand miles and so the department is requesting to replace the years that are 12-year-old. so we

ms. campbell first. >> i'll respond to the supplemental appropriation. we based our numbers on the reasonably expected increases over the end of the year. >> based on minimum staffing requirements? >> looking at supplemental we were looking at the average spending per pay period per overtime, accounting for the fact that there were holidays coming up between that day and the end of the year. >> supervisor breed: i want to be clear. you don't take into account minimum staffing requirement so that over time does not exceed the minimum staffing requirement? >> yes we did. we looked at the number of ftes the expositions they have to staff the fire stations as of that date and how it compared as of that data prior years, and how it compares to overtime spending as of that date and how it extends out to the end of the year. >> supervisor breed: how do we account for the discrepancy? >> they were spending at that pace through the pay period ending on may 24, the last pay period for which the data is not in yet, they were projecting significantly higher overtime

ms. campbell. wednesdays is also a day when we scheduled things like this summer it will be midnight asked about. we take full advantage of the fact that we have additional housing officers on those days and the officers well into the evening utilizing some of the overtime to do just that, to try to engage folks that would otherwise be engaged in less productive activity. >> supervisor breed: from a community perspective, i didn't really understand the details of exactly why one point the san francisco housing authority was paying this additional fee in order to have the same support in terms of what i believe everyone else should have in the city. i was concerned also that because initially this money was coming from public housing that with the challenges that we will be facing in the next couple of years we need to save every dollar which is why i think it is appropriate for the city to reserve this particular expense. and this expense being reserved by the city definitely helps alleviate the bu

ms. campbell first. >> i'll respond to the supplemental appropriation. we based our numbers on the reasonably expected increases over the end of the year.

ms. severin campbell from the budgets office to present on this item. >> good morning supervisor cohen, supervisor campos and supervisor tang. i have a summary about these three items and i can go through it in more detail if you would like. i would like to clarify that we are looking at a period between now and december 31st. it is unlikely that we would perform all three during this timeframe, so the motions are in priority order. that is how i listed them, in that order. the first one is the fire department; the second one is the use of the children's fund by dcyf, and the third is the confidentiality of patient medical records at san francisco's laguna honda. if you want more discussion on this i can talk about it more. that's it. >> supervisor cohen: are there any questions for severn? >> (off mic) >> supervisor tang:can you shed light of some of the items up in the queue? >> we have no pending audits. >> excuse me, there is something in the motion. since the motion was passed the stage brought changes. we thought it was appropriate to (indiscernible). >> supervisor cohen: seeing that there a

ms. campbell you are with the governmengovernmen t accountability office and not homeland security, right >> i'm with the government accountability office. >> i hope that is obvious for the information being sought from you and i think you are doing an excellent job and i just wanted to clarify that. the other thing i'm going to ask the gentleman that he would produce the study you mentioned at the beginning of your questions. and make that available for the committee. >> the chair now recognizes the general woman from new york mrs. maloney. >> good evening and thank you for your hard work and your testimony today before the committee. i am concerned about commerce. not only do we need to keep bad products out and homeland security and all of that focus but mexico is a very important trading partner with america and it's our largest, it's really our third largest trading partner and our relationship has grown tremendously since nafta and significantly in the past years. mexico has grown to be roughly 500 alien bilateral trade and that's important to the economy of america. it's also susta