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

>> 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

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

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

one is, they were having trouble finding partnerships required in the rfp.ferent from other cities that they felt they were not able to produce those requirements. the mta board did approve this agreement am happy to answer any other questions you may have. chairperson chu: thank you. budget analyst report. >> but we point out on page 3 of our report that if you compare the existing agreement with the proposed agreement, there is an increase of $959,000 or 11.5%. however, as ms. boros stated, if you take out the additional services in the agreement, there's a slight decrease in the agreement. this agreement was made through a competitive process. mta has realized an average of $31.3 million in parking meter revenue collections between 2000 two-three and -- between 2002-03 and 2010-11. we recommend approval of this agreement. >> let's open this up for public comment. any members of the public that wish to speak? >> yes, my mother, grace murray, a check for 111. when i was little, she was a meter maid. and i used to seeing ♪ lovely recaps, meter maid ♪ ♪ where

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?

we went out to bid rfp for the probation dollars as well as the ab 109 dollars and we had to focus on how we wrote the rfp to have cultural competency be part of the proposals sent back to us in terms of how they would achieve it. as well as, we went out into the communities and communities where the population we know needs to be served, and we had two or of our correctional partnership meetings out in the committee trying to do outreach. in addition, we also -- for example, of the new officers we are hiring, we know we need bilingual, spanish-speaking additional officers for that. five of the offer serves we are hiring have special -- of the officers we are hiring a special conditions on the hiring. they will have spanish-speaking skills. in addition, we have one additional for can't sneeze. -- for cantonese. it very closely mirrors the population that we're serving. i'm very excited for when we opened our community assessment service center. the alternatives will be providing services there, but when we wrote the contract in, we wrote it so that it would include not on the cultural

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

they issue an rfp select a contract and manage the relationship. you would expect that as in europe, the airport would select the best proposal from among those companies and contract with that company and tsa would regulate it. instead, the airport asks tsa if it may opt out. if tsa approves, they assign the contract to manage the contract leaving the airport out of the loop. tsa spells out in detail the procedures and the equipment that the company must use. tsa mandates that the company pay the same benefits as tsa. contract that as in europe. tsa would certify qualified companies and the companies could design their own procedures and achieve the required outcomes. this would allow screening companies to do other security tasks there by strengthening other airport security. with all the constraints on today's contractors, the private sector is delivering more screening. the house in 2011 compared tsa screening at lax with that of sfo. they found that the screening at sfo model is more productive. this -- the reasons for this, higher productivit

. >> 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

vision is the same and we have a new winner in terms of a rfp process. where we have a significant change is the blue shield program. it has been a fully insured program or the city pays for a certain premium for each member. no matter what the cost of the benefits of people going to the hospital or to see a doctor, blue shield covers that because it is fully insured. when we first started the process this year to review the raids, the rates came in high for blue shield and we tried to look for many different options to bring that cost down for the employer and for the employee. if we were to go with the status quo and we knew our rates as is with blue shield, we would see that our increase would be about $39 million increase for the year, 13.2% increase would members can $20 million of that and the city picking up $19 million. that seemed like it was not a good situation in terms of the city having to pick up additional expenses. but also would means for migration. to the extent that we have an expensive health care options, we may see healthier individ

we have conducted an rfp to migrate our legacy system. i want to emphasize the word "legacy" when i talk about our system. we do need to update that system. it will allow us to do good work in terms of collecting revenues for the city. the other major initiative we are working on right now, we have released our banking services request for proposal. it will allow us to update and improve the types of services we provide, including banking services, cardholders, processor services, gateway services like on-line payments, and so on, including even armored car services. i am very excited to remind you that it is through the good work we have done with supervisor avalos and others on the board that we were able to include social irresponsible banking collection, which are mandatory for all the respondents. thank you very much, supervisor. i also wanted to note that we are attentive to language access -- access issues in our office. we have a line serving the public. we have budgeted $15,000 specifically to provide language access. we also hav

vision is the same and we have a new winner in terms of a rfp process. where we have a significant change is the blue shield program. it has been a fully insured program or the city pays for a certain premium for each member. no matter what the cost of the benefits of people going to the hospital or to see a doctor, blue shield covers that because it is fully insured. when we first started the

the rest is to run the rfp process. it is with and compliance with their rules and so i would suggest or urge everybody here to support item 38. thank you. president chiu: do you want to do this item same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. >> amending the administrative campaign and government to conduct code regarding allegations of landlord and small business tenants for disability access improvements. president chiu: each of you are where we have had a tremendous rate of lawsuits against local small-business owners related to our ada laws. we have seen thousands of these lawsuits in san francisco. there have been hundreds of these lawsuits. a number of our colleagues and others have been focused on what we can do to move this forward. i want to thank the land use committee for their support as well as the different stakeholders that have worked for my office including the small business commission and small-business advocates cannot advocate from the disabled community and advocates for

another solution the staff came up with was 4 dph to issue an rfp for organization working directly with those impacted with ptsd. a lot of times, nonprofits like us are not funded at a high level. as a result, we do not have the capacity to have a mfw on staff. if we were able to access mental health services for a long term period, it would be impeccable in the long run. they also said, in 2002, supervisor avalos, there was a boxing program at one of the gyms. we know that boxing is something of a pre -- antidote for dealing with anger or other problems with young people. we encourage you to see if there is any way to bring the program back or access the old equipment. lastly, perpetrators of violence are also victims of violence. as we look into that, when we are talking about doing trauma work that is so necessary, we need to look at going into our jails and prisons and hospitals to make sure the cycle of violence does not continue and we can have a long-term solution. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. before the next speaker, i will call some more names. the ness sa

we will be releasing an rfp, which is really exciting, because we want to keep people engaged. we have to push for more. need to pass another affordable housing bond. it has come up two more times, and i hope we have the political will to support that again. >> what are your ideas about dealing with the issue of homelessness? supervisor kim: homelessness is a tough issue. we have amazing organizations that run incredible centers and services, and also supports the board of housing for the formerly homeless. not just providing housing, but safe housing and services -- whether it is job training for drug rehab or mental health. there are two categories of homelessness. this is on the end of been able to afford to live in san francisco. that live paycheck to paycheck. when they do not get that next paycheck, they could be homeless the next week on that level, we need to continue to support economic development, support job creation, small businesses, the act would create 60% to 70% of the jobs in san francisco. we need to push legislation white -- like local hire, which is supervi

the second thing i wanted to note before i close is the ng-- that nga also release a rfp to governors this week looking to create a policy on prescription drug abuse, which talks to many of the issues. -- tops of many of the issues we discussed today. with that, i will close. >> thank you. questions? >> real quick question -- you said you were doing fund-raising in beside the security area. for what purpose and how are you doing that? >> we are working with private corporations, looking at the program, and the purposes is thenga --the nga center, as you know, is self-funded. our objective is to put together and national policy council on cyber security, and that would be a 30 or 40-person policy group of folks, and the objective is to identify what are those core elements that governors can do now. the second phase would to do a paul -- would be to do a policy count, and we will work with states to implement the policy. and that any other questions -- >> any other questions? i understand we will be merged after this meeting into a larger group, but i would say work on the funding issu

so you'd expect that as in europe the airport would issue the rfp to companies that tsa had certified, the airport would select the best proposal from among those companies and then contract with that company, and tsa would regulate the overall situation. but that's not how sbp works. instead, the airport asks tsa if it may opt out. if tsa approves, then tsa selects a contractor and assigns it to the airport. tsa signs the contract to manage the contract leaving the airport out of the loop. tsa also spells out in detail the procedures and the equipment that the company must use and mandates that they must pay the same benefits as tsa. if we had that approach, tsa would certify qualified companies, would define the outcome measures that are supposed to be achieved for airport screening. the companies could design their own procedures and use various approved technologies to achieve the required outcomes. this would allow screening companies to innovate. for example, screeners could be cross-trained to do other airport security tasks, thereby strengthening other aspects of airport secur