as quickly as possible. >> for this program, it is a work experience program. young people are paid a wage. we cannot get around federal labor laws. there are other program designs that could be looked at, paying a stipend or looking at a day labor program model. this model is set up as a work experience program. we have no way of working around that. commissioner maufas: i would like to encourage you to take that back to the table. >> there is a large group that i think would be happy to speak to you about that. commissioner maufas: if they can answer questions, i would be happy. supervisor cohen: if we have a representative who would like to speak? >> good afternoon, madam chair and the committee. first of all, my name is carl alexander. i served as the pastor of technology for the true love church. i am honored to address the fact that san francisco is a world- class city. that makes the board of supervisors a world-class body of supervisors. i would like to personally thank the chair for this opportunity to speak briefly about this historical moment. i woul

and other fine quality programs.in terms of services for teenagers, we of 53 programs throughout the city that will provide enrichment, leadership services, and in one thing we have heard over and over again and all of our community meetings -- youth employment opportunities. we will continue that the summer. we will continue three of our largest youth employment programs in the city. one is called the mayor's youth and education program. with allocated approximately 450 slots for youth the summer. youth works, a department -- and we have allocated 150 slots this summer. and then, finally, work creation, which is a partnership with our rec and park department in which we will allocate 120 slots, through partnership of course, to have people in our park facilities this summer. and paul henderson has already touched on violence prevention. we will continue our programs in service of violence prevention services. these are full year programs for our community. but very important -- we want to make sure everybody knows t

we will be large program. that is a 30 megawatt program offering. it is about twice the size of -- in megawatts' -- as the program offered by others. it is substantially more than that in terms of customer accounts. on the third rat issue of redesign and targeting, our target has been early 2012. supervisor mirkarimi brought up the flat generation rate proposal that pg&e has before the california public utilities commission. rate changes like that, changes in the marketplace, those can have an impact on our program and the understand ability of our program to our customers. given the anticipated rate changes on the pg&e side, we expect good timing to probably be in the early summer or mid- summer of 2012. that is because the rate proposal before the california public utilities commission is to adopt a decision that says yes to a flat generation rate but does not implement it for some time. it looks most likely to be one year from now. if we want our program and began an hour off out notifications -- began an in our opt out program, the understanding

you can see the key dates in our program this year. this is the most oversubscribe to the program has been. in part, that shows the need for local match funds. the next slide shows how we screen projects for eligibility to ensure they meet the air district cost effectiveness threshold. project types, zero emissions, anything related to bike and transportation. the second tier are shuttle operations project. the third tier are vehicles operations. the fourth is anything else unintelligible. of the things that we look at our past product delivery by sponsors, pass property valuation. we take a look at that when applicants come and year to year. we want to strengthen those kinds of evaluation measures each year as well. this is a broad overview of our funding recommendations this year. these printers are presented in more detail in the packet. that starts on page 31. you can see the projects we are recommending for funding this year. we are recommending funding 6 projects and three we are recommending for partial funding. they have asteri

what would be the participation rate in a 100% clean program -- green program? i would assume if 100% of the people wanted to sign up, we would not be able to provide power at 100% agreement -- green. i am hoping there is room to grow in that. i am wondering what the target is. >> we are preparing to target at launch 75,000 account holders. the survey information and the slide i set up earlier is indicative. it is not definitive. the question of a program that is 100% renewable and greenhouse gas free as an opt out program was not opposed. the questions posed in the survey was for an opt -- the opportunity to opt out of a program at 40% renewable and 100% clean house free. it is not a perfect fit. it would indicate the numbers we have from the survey are conservative. the general manager is pointing out that perhaps you are asking if there is enough capacity in the marketplace to offer 100% renewable products to 75,000 residential customers. yes, there is. that is with room to grow. >> i am looking for the slide with the numbers of customers. slide 5. i assume t

i am the program manager of the community arts program, part of central city hospitality house. completely understand the complexities of balancing a budget, ask you to take into consideration all those intangible factors and the impacts that cutting human services would have to the community. there are so many aspects that cannot be factored into numbers. we do ask that you do trim the fat to make the government functioned at a more efficient capacity but do not stab the heart in the process. this is the part of the community, the people. we have been every year facing budget cuts, and we are operating nearly at our capacity. right now, if this cut goes through, we would be closing programs, laying people off, and putting those people out on the street without a place to go. we are happy to work to come up with creative solutions. we want to be part of it. thank you again. >> i am @ participant at central city hospitality house in the tenderloin. i wanted to talk to you about -- we realize that there is a shortage of money. i am asking you to go ahead and invest in the tenderlo

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i would like to say that the go solar sf program is a wonderful program. it has already set in place a lot of installations and already established that it is successful. cutting down a successful program is saying ok, you are doing a good job, but not good enough, so we are going to take what we have given you and take it back. i feel like that's not right. if it is successful, may be more funds should be allocated because it is successful, instead of being cut. i understand there are a lot of financial issues and separate entities that determine whether or not it should get the funding, but you should look at the success rate and also what it could do for the city as far as housing and energy efficiency and the whole green movement. it would be a wonderful opportunity for other communities and cities to look at us as an example. look, they were not doing so good in the beginning, but they kept with it and did a phenomenal job. i just want to say please keep in mind that it is a successful program. just because it is not as successful as you would like it

program. dcyf and sfusc staff are here to present and speak to the academic program, and we also have the office of work force development that will be able to speak to the employment component. i would like to bring up staff from dcyf and the san francisco unified school district to make a presentation. thank you for being with us today. >> hello. i am with the department of children, youth, and families. i am a program officer there, and i'm going to have the executive director talk about the academic summer program, since we have now shifted the entire work load and work plan over. >> good afternoon, commissioners. executive director, young community developers. thank you for giving me this time to discuss the program. as ms. dorsey just explained, we entitled the program summer academic program. it is for ninth graders and incoming 10th graders who are in danger of failing and has the possibility of not receiving the high school diploma if we did not intervene right away. the program is cu

connie over here has our program guide for both our summer programs and our camp cycle.as we like to say at rec and park, get out and play. thank you very much. >> we have a lot that is going on the summer. i want to acknowledge any alvarez -- henry alvarez from the housing authority. i also want to and knowledgeluis hererra, our city librarian. thank you for joining us, partnering with us, and making sure our students are safe and continuing with learning to read the summer. thank you.

>> with the program design, yes. this, like all of our pension plans in san francisco, is in defined in the charter. the changes that kind of get to the mechanics of how the program works would have to go back. supervisor mirkarimi: that is why i said, could the language have done a disservice by not giving it that pliability on the back end? ultimately, i think that part of this conversation rests on this. what we're up against is inconclusive data, no matter who you are talking to, and the fact that the language in the charter limits our ability to be able to modify much of anything on the fly without having to go back to the voters themselves. >> i think that is true. if we could go back in time, perhaps a caveat should have been added into the language to say we have the ability to make changes to the program at the conclusion of the three years. what we have tried to point out today is that nobody in this room, including ben or cheiron or anyone else, knows if there is a cost to this program. i do not think anyb

there's a lot of great programs. i noticed these programs are sporadic. there's a couple at this school and this school. maybe a year, 2 years. there's maybe one program. not that many programs that we invest in long term. i was looking at this the other day with the contents. if you look at the back. there's a charter of the usfd. violence prevention chart. the most important part for me is the school wide behavior program. what's been found to be the best way to prevent violence is have a school wide program. it has to be embedded in your curriculum. the different ways you create different rules in class and how do deal with that. there's an entire school investment that has to be involved in this. there are tribes chants. is one method. but you notice. it's some schools. 3 or 4. maybe they had it for a year. it's not a consistent thing across the school district. it's frustrating. the elementary schools have some sort of program, which is an entire positive school climate that includes curriculum. what i would suggest or advocate for. for everyone inve

program. now, we as members of congress, who are facing $1.2 trillion or $1.3 trillion more in spending every year than we take in and are racking up $14 trillion, soon to be more, in debt, this year we have now exceeded in our national debt the entire g.d.p. of this country for one year. we cannot go on like this. we're destroying the country with spending. that's the moral imperative we're discussing today. consequently, let's keep our eye on the ball, we're not destroying spending for people in need, we're actually increasing it $6 billion for snap and almost $.5 billion for child nutrition. -- almost $1357b9 billion for child nutrition. we've -- almost $1.5 billion for child nutrition. we're saving it in other areas like research, animal plant health and conservation, nutrition, food, and safety, rural development, the food and drug administration and the commodities future trading commission. spreading funding across this spectrum is a balancing act and i'd like to thank chairman kingston

>> that is for our existing summer youth and program -- youth employment program. with the new program, it will focus on people 18 to 25. supervisor cohen: and what is the -- >> 18225 with these moneys. -- 18 to 25 with these moneys. supervisor cohen: what of the requirements? do they have to have high school? do they have to have some college? >> right now, we are working with members of 8010 to finalize the selection criteria. they are looking for different populations, ensuring equal access to the program. for the program we run, we already have a central criteria in case. it was low income and specific priority populations. for this program, it is really looking at equal access, low to moderate income levels. there is no specific requirement in terms of education. but looking at other barriers to employment, such as possibly involvement with the justice system and public housing location, it is primarily focusing on youth who have lived at this. supervisor cohen: think you very much. -- thank you very much. commissioner fewer: this is for young adults 18 to 25

i just wanted to, if you guys do not know, to tell you about how important this program for our programs are to the community, being on sixth street. there are a lot of changes going on, and i know for a fact that the services that we have and the services we provide are vital for the development of sixth street. we are a safe haven. i was at a meeting last night, and that is one of the things we talked about, places that are safe havens for the community, and it is so needed for the community to have us there. we're the only place in the neighborhood where people can actually use the bathroom. and when you take a car ride some place and cannot use the bathroom, imagine that being your everyday dilemma. we are a place where people can come in and have their humanity restored. be a place where people can socialize. we are a place that has case management, and we are trying our best to work with the mental health issues in the community. i know for a fact that without that kind of help for the community, that the violence is not going to go anywhere. especially when we are in a time when e

this is a regional program, especially for the water system improvement program. if you recall, last year, we added a substantial amount of money, so the budget now puts the mayor's office of economic workforce development at 15 $5 million. they were not able to spend all that the first year because of startup time in terms of hiring people, so we have taken advantage of that and recently signed mou's with three job training organizations in the area for $100,000 each to get more training and more jobs. we are now working with our partners on the project and providing money so that they can additionally help us hire people and work on jobs. finally, in terms of a pilot work force program, there are programs that we do and projects that we do that it is often difficult to hire people. one of those tends to be tunneling. there is not normally in a tunneling work in the bay area to sustain the local work force, but we're doing a lot of tunneling in the next few years. we had a class three months ago, but we brought in by people from alameda, five from san francisco,

communities with fsa programs. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you for your time. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. in the use of leadership coordinator -- i am the youth leadership coordinator, and we want to take this opportunity to share a little bit about the program. we have some of our members with us today. first -- >> good afternoon. thank you for listening to us today. i just want you to know, we are from the juvenile advisory council within the probation department. basically, our goal is to come in and use our experience, taking this time and opportunity to help other young people and their families. we do that by conducting monthly workshops for families and the young persons to come in. we translate that language so they can better understand the conditions of probation. we offer that one-on-one support. i just want to take the time to say, thank you for planning the programs for the young people and the community. we know what it's like to be in their shoes. >> hello. i a

we continued to grow the program. we sent out information about this program through our community benefits ordinance. every april, we get an increase in the number of applications because employers who offer commuter benefits also enroll in this program for their employees. commissioner avalos: so as more employers are using this program, there is a greater usage, the demand is increasing? >> the demand for alternative transportation? it is up understanding that if they use alternative transportation, they can still get home in an emergency situation, take care of their children, things like that. we see a correlation between the growth of alternative transportati

one of the programs i am concerned about is the justice project. this may not be that tied to do about i would like to bring folks afford to give us an update about what is happening. this has been with the city for a long time and i think it is about time we get a debate about what is happening. supervisor chiu: i have a hearing request that has been with the mayor's office for quite some time. i know there has been some transition in leadership but i have been told that the justice group, the newly formed justice team is ready to present. if we can have that with public safety. supervisor mirkarimi: we also had a preliminary with public safety. supervisor chu: why don't we go to public comment on this item? are there any members of the public who wish to speak on an item #8? seeing the, public, it is closed. -- the seeing none, public comment is closed. why don't we move this item. do we have a motion? supervisor chiu: motion to move it with recommendations. supervisor chu: can we do that without recommendation? item #9. >> a motion extending the

programs. there have been a real underutilization of workforce development strategies city- wide, citybuild, academies. if you could say bit about that. >> hello, everyone. i am from poder. i am also part of smac, students making a change. that is also in district 11. at poder, we're working with immigrant families. many times, these communities are left out of the conversation, conversations that includes affordable housing and jobs. as many of you know, driving in the state of california, you need a driver's license. in order to bget a driver's license, you have to prove that you are a legal resident of california. we are left out. we depend on cars and vehicles to make a living. it would greatly benefit our community, the immigrant community, if the city of san francisco extended that great theory that when you are stopped by a police you can call someone with a driver's license to pick up your car and take it to your destination. it would benefit us if they extend and that time period from

if the program is successful, jobsnow2 is a bit of a pilot program. we wanted to see what we could do. the idea would be to maximize the number of placements. as you increase the subsidy, he will impact your clients. we are trying to find that balance. -- as you increase the subsidy, you impact fewer clients. we hope to continue this and maybe see another restructure. >> can you talk about -- [unintelligible] are the people who got jobs on an jobsnow1, for those people still employed? what happened to them? >> on the private sector side, private businesses had to decide whether to keep the employees or not. we think we are running at 65%? tony? about 65% retention on the private side. on the public and non-profit side, because of the limited budget authority, that subsidy ended and the attentive to transition those employees into other jobs, either into -- and we attempted to transition as employees and to other jobs, either into the private sector or to find jobs on the rump. >> another question. [unintelligible] what is going to happen to people? [u

the cultural equity grants program is a program that helps, with the historical and underserved communities to really expand their reach and fill their cultural programming. the proposed budget will be reduced by $88,000, and this means that we will probably see seven fewer grants, we will see about 75 different cultural activities, less than the year before. there will be 400 artists that will not be helped, and about 51,000 participants or audience members that will not be able to see. this is the anticipated impact and i wanted to highlight a number for you there, and this is the leverage number. the arts commission is not the only sponsor of many of these grants that are given. they get the grants from the city and they will leverage other funding, and so, it is very important to note that -- for instance, with the 2 million that the city has invested, there have been at least 7 million that have been leveraged on the part of the different grant recipients. in wrapping up, we receive a modest increase to the collections and the maintenance. for a long time, the arts commission has been

we see that there are so many programs, whether it is after- school programs, programs that do work throughout the day and weekends, summer programs -- they are keeping kids busy doing things to help the committee. how do we keep those programs going? we have fiphil ginsberg, from parks and recreation. >> i encourage all families to please participate in our recreation programs, facilities, and summer camps. we have a tremendous amount of programs. even in tough budget times, we have been working with agencies to figure out how to continue to provide programming for our kids. even though summer school programs have been cut short, we have expanded our summer camps. they are available to anybody regardless of ability to pay. i am the father of two young daughters. we're very focused on girls' sports and recreational activities. come play with us. it is safe and fun. thank you. supervisor campos: next speakers. please come on up. i would ask the speakers to slow down oncso that proper translatn can take place. >> [speaking spanish] >> good evening. i am a mother of the latino community in distri

we are from the summer program. [unintelligible] it is funny to me that they needed four hours to prepare for this meeting. >> the money should be saved for student education. i agree with that statement because i feel the same. >> school budgeting. [unintelligible] and thank you for your time. [applause] >> just quickly, thank you again, supervisor mirkarimi, supervisor avalos, and supervisor mar for putting forward this resolution. over the last few years we have focused on learning projects throughout the city, learning over the summer. that is a huge impact over the long haul. just today, if anybody had the opportunity to look beyond the stairs into the front door, we had a thousand kids from all over the city out celebrating and doing things for summer. we appreciate you doing this and we look forward to many more years of celebrating learning during the summertime. [applause] supervisor mirkarimi: mr. president, related to this particular item, it might be opportunity to take a roll call on this. president chi

with the design of the retirement program make it necessary to look at each individual program separately. supervisor mirkarimi: it would probably be instructive to us to get a better idea of how they are laid out. one of the promises that i think any one of us are prepared to speak to is that if this is exceeding our expectations with regard to the lack of savings for this program, any member of this board of supervisors is likely not to support it because you do not want to be supporting something that double dips taxpayers. was there any scenarios presented that eliminates that problem with regard to the question of age, increasing the age or length of service or maybe the fact that we ask those participants to contribute more into the pension system? any of those particular variables, i did not see that in the data. >> we did not examine any potential changes to the system that might control those costs. we just looked at ranges of behavior at how those affect cost. >> to your question, fundamentally u.s. are their trade -- are there changes that can be introduced to achieve cost cont

we continued to grow the program. we sent out information about this program through our community benefits ordinance. every april, we get an increase in the number of applications because employers who offer commuter benefits also enroll in this program for their employees. commissioner avalos: so as more employers are using this program, there is a greater usage, the demand is increasing? >> the demand for alternative transportation? it is up understanding that if they use alternative transportation, they can still get home in an emergency situation, take care of their children, things like that. we see a correlation between the growth of alternative transportation modes used, with this program. commissioner avalos: we have gone from 100 employers up to 400. does that mean that the employers of those businesses, are we seeing a huge increase in usage? does that mean that we will look at this program increasing in future years? >> it is an excellent question. it is kind of like having insurance. having insurance enco

it was a benefit to the program. it has been a good start ship of the program by the san francisco puc. supervisor chu: if i can ask you to wrap up. >> yes. ia while ago, earlier this year, there was less than $1.4 million in the pot. i anders and there was about $1 million that was earmarked for low-income projects that were going to go forward. in those projects, the san francisco puc was notified and it they were told that the project would not go forward. net absent that amount of money going back into the pot, the sf puc did a really good job of estimating how much money and at what clip it would be used. here we are at six weeks to the end of the fiscal year and we have $400,000 left in the pot. now, $300,000. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is david, community advocate. i am asking the board of supervisors to keep full funding of the go solar san francisco program. i'm convinced it has done a lot of benefits for our neighborhood and did much to attract foreign technologiegree. i've

where we're not able to match the program dollars. this also requires that we expand access to primary care and specialty care and i will talk more about that with the federal dollars we're receiving as well as we are going to be required to invest in information systems to achieve meaningful use for electronic medical records and qualify for medicaid and incentive programs. we are moving from a billing system to electronic health records which will require an additional investment. and as well in the future and already this is beginning now that we are transferring medi-cal eligible seniors and persons through the san francisco health plan to managed care. we are completing and building san francisco general hospital and san francisco general hospital will be looking at needs of equipping the hospital and the debt service cost and principal interest on debt and depreciation. many of the items we have included in our 11-12 budget. to give an overview, we're one of the largest departments in the city with the largest budget reduction a

this program, the jobsnow2 program, it is funded through june 30 this year. there will be approximately 250 to 300 jobs that could be subsidized by this time. we are here to announce we have still got money. we still that enthusiasm and an opportunity. we are focused on local small businesses. we have done well with the public sector and non-profit sector. today, we are announcing the availability of these funds to entice our small local businesses to take advantage of this program. with that, i want to introduce trent rhorer, our head of the human services agency. and he will in see the rest of the speakers. >> thank you, mr. mayor. good morning, everyone. i am trent rhorer, director of the human resources agency. as the mayor said, we've had tremendous success with jobsnow. we employed over 4100 low- income, unemployed job seekers, as well as folks who were receiving unemployment. this was underwritten by more than $60 million in federal funds. unfortunately, expired september of last year. we revive the program using more than $9 million of state, local, a

programs. therefore they approve the programs for fiscal year 2011 until 2012 was permitted by section 326 05, and therefore be it resolved the board of education's those approved the proposed funding to attach the categorical funding and has made explicit the categories for which the funds will be used. on page 8 it basically was the initial categorical programs -- it basically with the initial categorical programs. we keep these in the same sequence as the original programs that were restricted, and we have shown the projected revenue is $58 million. we are also showing the expenditure budget is $42 million being used in a similar method of a worth -- that they were being used prior to being flexible, and in the last column you see they reflect the $60 million is part of the budget and basically is to offset the general fund, which includes across -- the cost of the formula and other items. if it was not for that, we would have to cut more money for other areas of our budget. the next one exc

this is about a half with point in that program. it is the last major project in san francisco that has been completed. there are a few more projects to be done. this is the last major one. san francisco is more safe than before these projects were done. there are a lot of projects that happened in district 11. the first was a tank replacement project that started a number of years ago. it is fitting we are in district 11 because we're finishing the major work on our program in district 11. we're happy to be joined by supervisor john avalos. he has been supportive of all of our programs and was a leader on having local jobs for people who need them. the work is happening to provide those jobs. in fact, at the end of this week, we will have six kids out worth $18 million that will help the new local hire ordinance legislation. we are certain the pilots for how to expand local hire. supervisor avalos? [applause] >> thank you. i want to congratulate you and the public utility commission, san francisco water, power, so were for your gre

even the after-school program. i still think there needs to be a broader city-wide or school district wide effort that really uses models that make sense for the different sites under the conditions and different communities. i was also going to ask about, from the pre-k or first to 5, are nutrition programs and through a key part of this? i know that as budget cuts impacted some key child centers, they were cutting out more of the nutritious food. are those issues for these two different age groups? >> they were issues that rose to the forefront to our soliciting input about what needs are. in terms of the child-care programs and after-school programs, we know our partners fund, nutrition and providing healthy food and healthy snacks is typically a requirement. there are some federal, state, and local and federal funding streams to help support the in a lot of after-school and child- care programs, so it is something that is always at the forefront. it was not something that grows as a particular need in this proc