about the lengthy rfp process. in terms of transparency, i think that -- and i hope to make later this point that the commission is isolated, that we need time to find out what would be a good fit. we need these lengthy processes. all a sudden, a 10-year lease? i do not think that is the way to do things. secondly, the appellate process, not only is it constitutional but it is a little more human. we need a chance to say, i do not think him and his hot dogs belong. we need a chance to get in there and fight for it. remember, we are the ones bringing our children and our dogs to your parts. thank you. >> is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i do have one observation. we are talking about construction contracts and expediting it to save taxpayer'' money. not rfp's for the use of facilities. we are mixing apples and oranges if we were to perceive it that way. seeing no other comments, i would like to entertain a momentary we opted to item eight and nine separately s

. >> the rfp's are open. >> they have posted a couple of rfp's. on the business side. >> did you review any rfp's? >> no. >> they are not really small- business friendly. >> hopefully we will begin to engage with that kind of feedback and input. >> the catering and security rfp is due today. that is the deadline. i just sent it over the weekend. >> and then the business tax exclusion, the payroll tax exclusion that passed on its first reading. we will have a second reading tomorrow. just one minor adjustment amendment was made to that legislation from when you heard it. that was if there are any businesses that are not in good standing with osle, they are not able to benefit from the tax exclusion. that was the one modification, and we have heard supervisor comoran hu that it will be befoe the planning commission on thursday. there are some changes. they are all within the framework you would recommend and approve. i think they are refining and developing its own little further, so it is also taking catering out of the trade job and making its own

the last rfp was issued last october. prior to issue a -- prior to issuance, the department reached out to the surrounding community. they also contacted over 5000 businesses and every single merchant organization listed as a small business. we received three timely responses. the current vendor did not submit a proposal. the key terms associated with this or that the respondent would pay a minimum annual guarantee or the percentage of gross revenue, whichever was higher. no less than $540,000 per year. the percentage of rent on each revenue stream -- extreme, with the exception of the elevator, which the department has the 90% gross revenue of. the lease term should be no longer than five years in length with a three-year option to extend. the minimum qualifications associated with this are that the respondent had to have five years of experience in fully managing a business of this nature. sufficient financial capacity to undertake the concession capacity, including the ability to upgrade the gift shop and deal effectiv

>> that is the office that issued the rfp. excuse me, the rfp for o has not been issued. commissioner sugaya: is it conceivable that it could not be 100% affordable? >> there is a very remote chance, but since we acquired the land with redevelopment tax increment funds from the city, the board put a requirement that if you use 100% for affordable housing, that is a requirement that still remains. there is a very remote possibility that the board would change its mind. but at this point, it is dedicated for affordable housing and that is the intent of the mayor's office that it be affordable housing. commissioner sugaya: thank you. >> there is a motion and a second to approve with conditions as amended, correct? >> [inaudible] >> that was read into the record by staff. on that motion? [roll call vote] so moved. that the motion passes unanimously. president fong: we will take a

i think she is referring to the timing of the rfp cycles. we will work with the department to make sure there is not a gap in funding. supervisor cohen: thank you for clarifying. supervisor chu: in terms of the full year, there is $1 million placed in the budget for jri funding. in the redevelopment budget, the results of $1 million funding for the full year. >> correct. supervisor chu: the rfp issue is that now the city is taking on responsibility for administering these contracts, we as the city have to reissue an rfp to figure out who the vendors are that will be providing the service. >> correct. supervisor kim: -- supervisor cohen: understand you said this is just for one year. have there been any thoughts on what will happen next year for jri funding? >> there is $1 million of funding in the first year of the budget. there's $800,000 in the second year. we have asked the director of work-force development to take those funds and look at those in conjunction with the larger portfolio of jobs readiness funding we have on the city side wh

. >> the rfp's are open. >> they have posted a couple of rfp's. on the business side. >> did you review any rfp's? >> no. >> they are not really small- business friendly. >> hopefully we will begin to engage with that kind of feedback and input. >> the catering and security rfp is due today. that is the deadline. i just sent it over the weekend. >> and then the business tax exclusion, the payroll tax exclusion that passed on its first reading. we will have a second reading tomorrow. just one minor adjustment just one minor adjustment amendment was made to that

it has taken five years to get to a rfp. there was a lot of community involvement, including the telegraph hill dwellers. outreach for solicitation of bids. a diverse selection committee. i think the process leading up to the selection was fair and reasonable. additionally, what i am focused on is was the selection correct? he outscored the other bidders over 2-to-1 in some cases. i do not hear from any testimony that the selection was somehow an abuse of discretion. i think i would support that the department sit down and authorize the department to begin lease negotiations. the only question before us, questions about whether there can be a coexistence with the community, i think that will be fleshed out in a lease negotiation, together with a mural protection plan. i like the suggestion of more of an art history approach. in addition to engaging in a program on local, sustainable businesses. i do think that his business proposal is not before us. authorizing the department to sit down and commence lease negotiations, enga

for 13-14, dcyf proposes to meet the target reductions in the rfp. this is another graph of different funding sources. as you can see, 60% of our budget, two-thirds of our budget is comprised of the children's fund. approximately a third is comprised of the general fund. in terms of budget categories, of notes in this particular slide is the majority of $4 go straight out to grants to nonprofits. 60% of for dollars go straight to grants to our nonprofits. 30% of our funds goes to work orders to other departments, which will eventually go to grants to nonprofit. for example, since we have limited expertise in overseeing mental health services, we work order funds to the department of public health and day grant those funds to mental health providers and manage and monitor those grants. it works because we help in ensuring -- i want to highlight three major budget initiatives that are in this particular budget. dcyf will continue to function as a funder for programs. in doing this, we require a staff that will be able to perform high-level grants manag

during that time, the rfp for the debit card terminals that are now in the calves was constantly front and center, constantly being worked on. everybody was giving input to what the nuances should be to best serve the disabled public. paratransit put those terminals in there. if they did not serve the paratransit-using public, that is one of the reasons it took so long for the rfp. is this something that needs fixing? i hear the fare at the end audibly, and it is loud enough for the person in the back seat to hear. do we need to reinvent this? or make it so upon request that can be rattled out each time the meter clicks? i do not even begin to think what kind of complaints you would get about that from drivers. if it can be done, it can be done. >> mary mcguire, a cabdriver, 474 with medallion. i had a regular customer last year who was blind. he never minded giving me his credit card. numerous times, i took him home. the back seat is redundant. i do not want it in my cab. if it is going to have audio, i am not going to be able to drive that have any more. there is so much gadgetry as

we just put out and rfp and made our award going forward. we were able to

new data for the rfp. supervisor elsbernd: any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we send us the word as a committee report? that will be the order. we're going to skip ahead on item -- of items 2 and 3 and move to item no. 4. >> and designating the examiner to be the official newspaper of the city and county of san francisco. item #5, resolution designating the san francisco bayview and small business exchange to be outreach newspaper for the city. the western addition to be the neighborhood outreach newspaper ad provide outreach to advertising in fiscal year 2012 and 2013. >> i believe we have jennifer brown here? >> the first resolution as for the official advertising contract. the estimated annual value of the contract is $50,000. this contract is for fiscal year 2012-2013 and would expire on june 20, 2013. per the requirements, we have to conduct a solicitation, i evaluate and score the bidders for the contract award. this year, we received bids from "the examiner" and the " ch

we proceeded on an rfp process outside of the developer. president chiu: i'm not sure if you were involved in the communications here, but from what i have been able to tell, it covers parking studies, easements and rights of ways, construction cost estimates, the types of information that would be relevant for an rfp. we have been advised in the past of the city attorney's offices of instances where contracts are entered into, but because of the undue influence, contracts have been declared void. i don't think it's necessary for us to get into. but from my perspective, what i learned this, it was troubling. >> that concludes my presentation and taught me and ports that are available for any further questions. supervisor chu: thank you. if there are no further questions, i would like to proceed to the budget analyst report. >> good morning. what is before you today in terms of decisions are the purchase and sale agreement of the sea wall lot three under 51, the trust's exchange that would remain seawall lot 351, a 66- year lease for the pub

currently, we thought we were going to use it -- we responded an rfp. hsa rescinded the rfp. they will reinstate it next year. it means i dismantle the program with the hopes of rebuilding it next year. i think it is very inefficient and a lot of people suffered. i am going to be left with $35,000. i can spend that in six weeks. as for all of next year to prevent homelessness. >> [speaking spanish] >> mar and isgarita alaman, i'm a direct member of the coalition of homelessness. -- my name is margarita alaman, of a direct member of the coalition of, as this. of homelessness. >> [speaking spanish] >> she said i am here today to ask you to replace the $5 million, $3 million for the shelters and supplies that are needed like diapers, toiletries, and other important things. $2 million to replace the losses from the stimulus from the obama

subject the department to dealing with an appeal process with regards to the decision made through an rfp by the commission. it has those positives that i really like about this. also, we have established precedent for doing this type of contract in -- contracting. i have seen it on several occasions during my term here on the commission that we have done this. >> i have a question. looking at the job order reports, many of them are very low numbers. there is the occasional one that is $100,000-$200,000. only one was over $600,000. i wonder about the $3 million number. what is our practical experience there?

other cities that have required the technology have an rfp out.the direction of the industry across the country is to require credit-card transactions in the car in a way that is safe and secure to the passengers were drivers and passengers can have the best interaction. from our perspective, the driver needs to get his money as quickly as he can. part of the cost incurred in the transaction, that 5% that you were debating, if you went out and opened a merchant account and got merchant rates, you cannot get money funded to use seven days per week. a transaction done on a friday, saturday, or sunday, american express he will munsey until thursday of that week. the equipment says you have to use the transaction. >> thank you, sir. >> jim templeton. >> good afternoon. my name is nick nicoli. i work for veriphone. i wanted to add my two cents. i think that probably changing the program midstream is not a good idea. there are a bunch of other things that you guys need to think of. to some of these other points, the transactions and installation, how yo

they recently, through an rfp process were selected to take on sites that were able to provide services in coming due to the organizational capacity. again, because they won the rfp, they were selected for the contract, even though it is $19 million still in excess of the amount needed to go to the board. supervisor chu: ok. items 14 and 15. >> episcopal community services and st. vincent de paul. it will provide services in our emergency shelters. episcopal has two emergency shelters, totaling over 500 beds. st. vincent de paul has msc south, which has over 300 beds. we are seeing approval of those contracts. supervisor chu: bank appeared for and saul, 14, 15, mr. rose, i believe your recommendation is just to include not to exceed amount. >> that is correct. supervisor chu: the department has requested we continue this to the call of the chair. >> that is correct. supervisor chu: thank you. given that we have gone through the department presentation, we thank you for your presentation and look forward to seeing you next week. ok, let's move on to the next department, which i believe i

but the health benefit exchange module is also part of this rfp. we have zeroed in and will likely recommend to the general assembly an essential benefit package based on the small group package in havevirginia and whee have meetings set up dealing with the exchange and so forth. we've done a lot of planning and in some ways i think we probably are ahead of states that even are more in favor which puts us in a weird position. suppose this thing ultimately falls apart and the technology isn't there and virginia's done it when we don't want to, what do you do? >> at this stage, you know, say the supreme court comes back and the law is upheld and the elections don't really change anything, would virginia actually be ready to run your own exchange completely in 2014 based on where you are now? >> there are some -- that's complex. i think if you saw the articles yesterday in "the journal" you saw that people are worried about the i.t. and been in on a number of meetings and everything has to go right to get there. we are probably one of many of that han

they put an rfp out for contract this spring that changed the scope of services for something we were not even doing and then give the contract to something else or did someone else. obviously, it was too late. we got word from the rfp the last week of may, so we could not go to the mayor's budget and ask to be included in the budget. all of you know about the problems we face in the tenderloin. i'm down here all the time. supervisor cohen, i know you are aware with the struggles at the bayview hunters point. big steps backwards are heartbreaking. they are heartbreaking because progress is so difficult, so arduous in places like the tenderloin, that when we see the progress that la voce latina has made to make our neighborhoods safer, to involve youth, and we thing that could be eliminated, that is why you saw all those families here today. it is a frightening thought and it is a depressing thought, and it is psychologically debilitating to think that we keep struggling, pushing the rock up the hill, and it gets rolled back down on us in the tenderloin. i know supervisor kim will figh

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. >> one thing i did learn about the outreach program is when we issued an rfp for a nonprofit organization for our reach. >> great. gregg's i'm curious to know from your perspective as commissioner for the last 10 years, what are some of the competing priorities that would prevent these from being a priority within a department? >> sometimes it is favoritism toward the people running the buildings, or owning the buildings? we have a tendency not to take building inspection seriously. i do not know of any other department that takes housing codes so seriously, as jamie said. it is not necessarily supported within the department. i think code enforcement authority would do a lot for our department. doing out reached to the managers and owners of the hotel will go a long way. increasing the fines when there is a serial offender. these building owners understand that, if we take it seriously. >> >> maybe you can describe to me the relationship as you have come to understand it between dbi and the training process. >> we have as one of the committee's underneath the commission, the litigation c

ortiz: having to be the lowest bidder for small businesses -- do you find that when you're soliciting rfp's the small businesses, because of their size, have a difficult time being the lowest bidder compared to a bigger company? >> there are two phases. the answer to your question is, some of the contracts, the really small contracts, there is no problem. the larger ones, they really have to be -- for a small business to take on a very large contract, getting bonding for really big contract is difficult, which is why we split it up. the next item will help answer your question. vice chair ortiz: this was just in general. >> in general, we have managed to reach the targets or have been setting. and we have been getting good local firms. but there are only a limited number. chair kim: just for clarification on this item, i noticed that there were two sub tear contractors is a part of this bid. it says they will have a minimum of 40% sbe participation. >> actually, when this bid was put together, they actually named three lower tiered. but in that commission construction and gerald avenue was

we just put out and rfp and made our award going forward. we were able to we have a new provider in the valley and we are finding them, as we intended to do. we are excited about that. we also have a new provider and we are moving forward on that. what i don't have down here that i want to include it is one the other initiative we are working hard on it is our pre k to third grade strategy. ok, so the next slide is our p rop 10 outlook and are sustainability plan. our reserves are being used by a program such as current revenue decreases. you can see as our revenue declines, the use of our system ability and our reserves increases. we do have a plan to take us through fiscal year 20-21. that is because the state is projecting our revenue to be. every year, we will be using more and more of your fund balance. in 2020, we will use almost all of our fund balance, except for $6.8 million. but we wanted to do -- what we wanted to do -- this really is going to -- this funds our major initiative of family resource centers. on the next page, you wil

when we went through an rfp several months ago, we ended up not finding that particular proposal. we funded another proposal of the agency. supervisor cohen: is there comparable services being executed? is it completely eliminated? >> i would have to go back and look more to understand those two very specific programs. i do have to say that in terms of ged services, we do need services for our youth in the city. having ga ged or a high- school diploma helps our young people separate themselves from the justice system. i see a need for that. the committee services program, i also agree that we need to have young people understand that they need to give back to the community and they need to have a civic responsibility for their surroundings. i would love to sit down and have further conversations with you when i go back to my office and figure out more how these budget reductions happened. supervisor cohen: thank you. >> i do have one more slide and then i can finish. in terms of language access, i want to say that the language access ordinance identifies dcyf as a tier 2 departmen

i have not gone over this but this copies of correspondence before the rfp that went out which indicates the developer may have played a key role in drafting this. >> i am familiar with the process and there were unusual circumstances in this case where the developer had already approached the port in 2006 and 2007 about combining the property. we told them we could not do this directly. at which time, to create -- we went back to our advisory group and we created a subcommittee to come up with policies and procedures

i have not gone over this but this copies of correspondence before the rfp that went out which indicates the developer may have played a key role in drafting this. >> i am familiar with the