>>speaker: depends on the rfp. my understanding is that the rfp winner would be responsible for the actually construction. it wouldn't be performed by public works or i don't think we have a contractor to do it. i think that would be part and linda is nodding her head in agreement. >> have you read the rfp draft language? >>speaker: i have not. >> wondering because it's this mythical language that's out there. >> supervisor fewer: , so you are saying with the rfp process we would contract out this work with a private company? >>speaker: oh hmm, okay thank. >>speaker: don't you hate it when people go hmm. makes you wonder what they are thinking. thank you, i know you have been here probably since 1:00. i appreciate you being with us here today. i don't have any other questions, i'm going to move on. let's go to budget legislative analyst. fred, are you with us? good to see you sir. this is fred ruoso. he is the bla that conducted the study of the municipal fiber a few years ago that had slightly different cost estim

>>speaker: i do have the rfq, the rfp process is in draft mode. >> ben have you seen the rfp process language? >>speaker: yes, we have been involved in reviewing the rfp process draft. linda has been good at including us in it. >>speaker: i think you are correct we will know more about the cost of the project and the operating model and how the risks will be shared between the city and the collected provider at the close of that process. >> based on this question and based on answers it sounds like the rfp to try contract with the vendor to help us think this through. >> i think, well and linda can speak better to it than i. >>speaker: i think we do know what we want the network to do and now we want it to be constructed. we know that we have our construction specif specificatid how it needs to be dug into the ground or on the poles, so all of that helps inform what will be bid, so then it becomes a question of how the model will play out and how we will share those costs and what we will require and what we believe the revenues will be. that is where we start to talk to them about w

we do not know what the responsibilities of the rfp would be. and that actually generally concerns me. we may have a utility tax measure coming before us. you keep your eyes peeled for that. that deadline is going to be june 19th. if there's going to be a tax measure on the november 2018 ballot, which is, quite frankly, rumoured to be the case. again this is a tax revenue. a tax measure rather than a geo- bond for which we've already missed the deadline on. but that tax, whatever the language is would be determined by the cost estimate and the term, terms of the rfp. there are more questions than answers here and it seems pretty premature to make this capital, or spending, i priority. you heard it reflected and the public comment, is this really a priority? i love the goal of this project, though. and i appreciate mike for pointing out to me the utility boxes that are predisposed already to fit themselves for a fiber. i would love to see the digital divide close but i don't think it necessarily has to do with access, but also with the costs asso

it wasn't just the type of use that we were going out with rfp's. so we realized that we needed to go out and find real world market-based information and to outreach to newcomers that we hadn't been outreaching to before. this is a list of the 250i7sty uses as we were going through what the public would like to see on the waterfront. we want to learn what types of uses people want to see on the waterfront, how much space do they need, how much rent do they pay, how much money to they typically invest in capital investment to use their space. that's the type of information that we need to know to better inform a subsequent solicitation. so what is the rfi? the rfi is a request for concepts from prospective master, so take a facility, or smaller tenants in selected embarcadero historic facility locations. it is not a -- it is not an rfp. it is not an rpf that we are going to score and rampg. wh -- rank. what we are looking for is response and information that people provide to us. subsequent to that we'll take that to better inform an rfp that would

. >> i saw him hobble to the front, and i'm hoping it wasn't a result of this rfp process. >> he didn't have to kick anybody. >> thank goodness it happened the night after the selection. >> that's fine. no details. >> so it's recommended that the health service board approve ratify and award the contract award to aon consulting to provide actuarial consulting services to the san francisco health board and the san francisco health system and authorize hssf to provide with the negotiation of the contract with aon. aon received the highest score from an evaluation panel that consisted of city managers, two of them from the office of the controller, two from the health service system, and one from the san francisco employee retirement system. in terms of the rfp, the hfp requires respondents to confirm several new conditions and contractual requirements, including the following: detailed provisions regarding consent to re assign personnel at the request of hssf, restriction on request of performing services concurrently for other city departments, comprehensive transition planning prior to

there are hundreds and hundreds and thousands of applications, specifically in the context of this rfprtant about how you deal with that install base and how you move that install base into the future typically the best people to do that have modernized all that install base we think we can add an incredible amount of value to that process and as i said we'll have a lot more to say in the coming weeks about the rfp. >> mark, i want to toss you another one about data privacy and the use of database. you're into an era of database in the past, people would buy oracle database and you couldn't be responsible with what they do with it. in this age of post-cambridge analytica where people are worried about how their information is being harvested, are there rules about how people operating within the oracle cloud need to treat customer data, communicate with peopl about how their data is going to be used? >> it's both, jon. i know you know this so well it's not just privacy. it's privacy and security. one of the key issues -- i know you know this so well but you hear this term in the tech i

a final site was selected and an rfp was issued for the design and permitting. a joint venture of cali and oemm which is an lbe here in the city was a successful bidder. in october 2016, the commission authorized the contract for 3.# 7' $1 million. the commission also authorized 10% contingency of $398,000 which was not applied to the contract. design and entitlement started in february 2017. this is a picture of the architectural model of the ferry land will. one of the agencies requested the model to help them visualize the impact. the fixed pier is to the left, the float is to the right, and then, the gang way is in the middle, in between. here is a picture of the current site conditions. the ferry landing would be about where the -- the four piles are sticking up out of the water through riffraff. it would extend east ward, and the piles would eventually be demolished. i'm going to use the highlighter here, but the dredge foot print would extend out to this pile right here and be used as a navigation aid. we fine-tuned the dredge foot print. the project is c

that's how the rfp was developed and obviously the dollar amount, as well. >> okay. so it's a committee. >> well, yeah. >> what we do is we base it off of resources that we need, and then, there is a percentage that you should be within for construction management, but since we're supplying city, staff, and consultant, this number is a lot less than what you would normally have if you fully would use consultants. because if you think about the biosolids, the digesters, this project is how much total? >> $1.3 billion. >> yeah, you're spending in seven -- seven years? >> well, this contract is for seven years. >> yeah. so... >> well, the reason i ask is there was just one bidder, so i was just -- >> yeah. so that is something that in going through our program, we have certain conflicts, and so this was pretty much the last team actually some of the team members who could have bided against each other decided to form one team and pursue this rfp. so we only had one bidder, but it's actually a really, you know, team with a lot of great consultants on it. and so that's wh

where we actually engage the disability community to help us with the survey before we went out for an rfp and to actually test the equipment before we made a choice and we will use the disability community again when we're ready to deploy to have them tested at that point, as well. so i think it's just really a matter of the focus of each office across the country. i can't speak for other states, but i think it's just a matter of prioritizing the need that we have. >> so we built inhouse both our online voter registration system and the ballot delivery system that i showed you a couple of screen shots of. first, you think about them up front. you think about accessibility and security at the same time. excuse me. but i think 90%, 95% of the time it's a decision and it makes sense for both and when you have the 5% or 10% difference you just have to think what are we trading off? if we make it more secure what are we using? but most of the decisions that you make are not one or the other. it's both. you can successfully design and implement a system that is both secure and accessible. >> be

there was an rfp that one out for localize generation that is presently there with work being done to develop the best micro grid strategy. >> we don't have that strategy identified, weathers wind or solar agen generation. >> there is an rfp going out seeking the best information from providers for those strategies. will be working to evaluate the rfp submittals once they come in and utilizing that expertise. >> mr. higgins would like an update on restoring power to some of the more remote and mountainous areas when several of us on the committee went to puerto rico in october, we went out to an area that was isolated in the sense of where it was. you are left with the impression conversations you have with people in certain places. the conversation we had with the young woman who is five months pregnant and looking across this cut through the earth, this ravine that separated us. the road was taken to issue separated from the home she had just bought. she had not been able to move into it because of the damage done not to her home, but in order to access her home. i was thinking abou

they abandoned their project because they got rfp submissions for what they tried to commission but not all of them. they threw in the towel. we can build a vote by mail system first. i wanted to mention, as some commenters have mentioned before me, there are already open source election related systems in production in other states, new hampshire has a system called prime three they use. and colorado had a system built this last year called colorado to outsidity their elections. we already have software for voting for making ballots and we have it for auditing elections. we need the missing middle. that's what i urge san francisco to build. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is mary ryan. i'm a san francisco native and a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. i want to thank you for taking the time this morning to hear about this urgent issue, central to our democracy and he urge you to fully -- i urge you to fully fund an open source paper ballot voting system. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is amy [indiscernible] here from san fra

and post review the rfps will be available for inspection on-site in the event any of the commissioners would like to see them. we anticipate a formal recommendation to the board in n august or september depending on any additional due diligence and site visits and reference checks to the recommender. and i think that concludes my report. >> don't be surprised if it is four and not just three. don't be surprised if it is just two, ok? >> when you talk about finalists? >> semifinalists going to the committee. >> the administrative staff is here. just a question of information for service to the members, i had a member call me yesterday who said i'm going to go see a financial advisor. do you think i have all the information on the website for my benefits and is there some -- sufficient information on our investments on the deferred website? and i think -- and what -- this person has been around for a while so he referred to the blue book. remember the bluebook? i'm just going to ask you, did you think, that on our website there is sufficient information that they can just download it and

they're working with, and now would the mechanics of transition work because it says must issue an rfp, and then they'll go through the process of designating a district manager. >> supervisor ronen: sure. again, there's never been a process before delineated, so they would all look a little different. so we want -- we want there to be a point person, whether it's an executive director or administrator for every different cultural district because often without a staffer whose full-time job in the community is concentrating, then things aren't able to thrive in the same way? and so that is prescribed in the legislation. but the way in which the decision making bodies work around funding and around, you know, prioritization of projects is going to differ. in an original version of the legislation, there was a time where we thought, and i still think this somewhat, that there should be a c.a.c. for every single cultural district because we want that oversight and that responsibility and that place for public input for every single one, but not all my colleagues felt the same about that,

so we are really deeply committed to the government business we will bid on the jedi rfp when it comest will be a competitive bid i think every major technology provider will be interested in that business. and i think that there's been a lot of noise from some of the older guard suppliers worried about losing some of that business our government, especially at this time in our government, deserve the best technology with the most capability and the most innovation and the best cost structure. that's incredibly important to our national defense and our future. >> do you think that's going to be a tighter race than maybe analysts are speculating >> i think it will be very competitive and they have been very clear from the get-go that they will pick the platform and the provider that they think gives them the best chance to do what they need to do over the next number of years. >> let's talk data privacy there was the big scandal between cambridge analytica and what happened with facebook's data granted you guys aren't connected to a social network, but what is aws' responsibility to mak

so i want to ask you about a particular rfp coming up. the pentagon has announced that it intends to bring all of its computing services under one cloud in a $10 billion single award contract. and the department issued an rfi last month, which roov edreceiv 1,000 questions and comments from industry and leading technology experts who, for the most part, believe that the current proposal is deeply misguided. yet, the department seems to be rushing ahead to issue an rfp in early may and intends to issue an award as early as september. what is the rush here and why is the pentagon moving forward so quickly, despite the concerns of both congress and technology leaders? >> senator, the rush right now is that we have too many data banks that the front line commanders cannot swiftly draw information from. so, what we have been looking at now is how do we get faster access for the young folks on the front lines and displaying the information they need, not all the information in the world that clouds what they need. so, that is the driving impetu

whether it's wind, solar -- >> there's an rfp. i'm not sure if it's gone out or going out with regard to seeking the best information from providers for those strategies. we will be, the doe will be working with prepa to evaluate the rfps, once they're coming in, we'll utilize the expertise within our national labs on microgrids. >> let me ask you for an update on restoring power to some of them more remote and more mountainous areas when, when several of us on the committee went to puerto rico and in october, we went out to barranquites. pretty isolated in the sense of where it was. and i'll tell you, you, you are left with impressions of conversations that you have with people at certain places and a conversation that we had with a young woman who was five months pregnant, who was looking across this cut through the earth this ravine, that separated us, the road was taken out, but she was separated from the home that she had just bought. and had not been able to move in into, because of the damage that was done not to her home,

>> so, ma'am, with respect to the rfp, we did cancel the tsa expansion rfp back in, citing the concerns, as you pointed out. that's been replaced by the ues, which is our universal enrollment system. >> universal who? >> universal enrollment system. so, it would be across all of our vetting -- tsa precheck, hazard, hme, as well as twic. that solicitation period is over. we are in the sort of evaluating these things, and we hope to award this this fall. >> okay. do you have any idea when you all are going to be making a decision as to where to go on this? >> this fall, ma'am. >> this fall. i'm sorry, i didn't hear you. okay, thank you. so, taking you back to "the new york times" article about some kind of checklist that you all -- watchlist, secret watch list that you all are supposed to have. could you please tell me more about the list, including how many people are currently on it and what security purpose it serves? and can you please provide me with the directive that initiated it and any official communications regarding such a list? and does tsa maintain any other watch lists? so

in 1998, the authority issued an rfp to redevelop and expand the marina. in 1999, the authority entered into an exclusive agreement with treasure island enterprises. this was followed with a term sheet and layout for 400-slip arena the authority entered into a lease with treasure island sailing center and the continuation of those programs and expansion of the arena have been the subsequent planning for the cove. >> supervisor tang: director beck, you said last year the tida approved the long term leases for the sailing center. how long does that go? >> 66-year leases. there's a 66-year limit to leases on that property. the size and proposed layout of the arena did not change from the time of the 2001 term sheet through 2015. the plan was evaluated in the 2006 e.i.s./e.i.r. for the development of treasure island and development plan rejected by the board of supervisors and mayor as well as 2010 updated development plan, which was unanimously endorsed by the board. finally, in 2011, the -- the 2011e.i.s./e.i.r. assumed an expanded, 400-slip arena, but did n

we do have a basic design, but -- will be working on a final design build as part of the rfp. we have many with many neighborhood groups, community groups, and even i guess elected officials and everybody seems to be very much in favor of this needed essential facility and i think we are just fine tuning and going through the process of getting every approval as we move forward. >> the thought is that there will be prefabrications someplace else, perhaps china? >> correct. >> but assembled here in san francisco? >> that is correct. the float portion or the base of the facility is going to be built in china, which is the largest facility in the world for building this type of struck which are. it will then be shippe shipped o treasure island and peer one, and then once it reaches there, local electricians, plumbers will build the facility at treasure aland once at a substantial completion, it will be floated over to pee pier 22 d where it will reside. we will incorporate a lot of union labor to construct the new facility. >> music to my ear. more jobs for everyone. thank you ch

. >> the rfp was approved at the march board meeting. we received three responses from three qualified firms after reviewing the proposal. i am very pleased to ask the board to approve bartel associates to perform the audit. the recommendation is here, it's part of the board calendar sheet and i'm happy to answer questions. >> president stansbury: questions from the board? motion, there is second. any discussion from the board, any comments? no. ok, call for public comment. any members of the public that would like to address the commission regarding the actuari actuarial au audit. seeing none, can we take this without objection. great, this passes. item 13, discussion item, the personnel committee report. >> may 9, we approved the minutes of november 1. we met in closed session. we discussed the valuations of both the executive director and the actuarial services coordinator. there will be documents coming to you to fill out and we'll be looking at having a core section in the june board meeting will be associated with the june board me

at the time of the submission for this rfp, they refused to provide services city wide, a right which we have under our operating agreement with the city and county of san francisco, section 4.9.c. we also have been allows ucf city wide to operate without a current valid mou between ourselves and the city. chs terminated for cause the mou in september of last year. no one reached out to us in september to resolve this issue. it was radio silence. it stated that any agency applying for funds under rfp8 had to demonstrate site control to be considered. it was a threshold criteria. city wide does not have site control, mou, pay rent or a lease and they remain on site providing services at the generosity in service to our residents. i'm asking the commission today to instruct director garcia to not to enter into this new contract with city wide at this time. since chp does not consent to service which again is a right we have under the operating agreement with the city and county of san francisco we are asking that the award be reviewed and if necessary only to ensure that our residents h

estimated cost of the project by over $12 million last year, so those documents were issued with the rfp to bring on the cmgc team. clark and their team delivered this estimate in mid-january with an unpleasant surprise of a $30 million overbudget scenario, which we have taken on since then through cost reduction and value engineering to reconcile the budget. on april 30, i presented to the capital planning committee the work that we've accomplished which reduced that $30 million overbudget scenario to just under $7 million, and that led to -- with some escalation added to that to buffer some of the value engineering exercises that we still have to go through with a request for additional funding coming from the capital planning for just under $9 million, which would be -- was met with support. we have value engineered the building twice now, and part of the presentation was that to close that last gap would only be done through program reduction from the facility, and it's -- that is not something that was supported by the police department and the capital planning committee agreed that

of course this really kicked off with rfp's that we issued in the summer and fall of 2017, but we beganigning contracts after obtaining authority from the board and from this body in the early -- or the winter of 17-18. so this chart shows cleanpowersf's annual projected demand and contracted supply over the next 12 years. the back line on this chart represents our projected annual energy demand given our citywide enrollment plan today. this line's plotted against the left side y objection i say in megawatt hours of energy. you can see we're projecting about 1.2 million megawatt hours in 2018, jumping up to about 3 million in 2019 and 3.7 million in 2020. the bars on this chart at the bottom represent contracted energy supply in megawatt hours, which is also plotted against that left side axis. the orange dotted line represents the percentage of our projected demand that's now under contract, and that we've identified the percent for each year, and that's against the right side, y axis. you can see from this chart when we started our contracting effort, we were 37% contracted for our pl

from local small businesses from around the city and the region, then, we'll be able to go out with rfp's for our historic district, so we're hoping to see some major investment in these piers and a new life for them. of course, you know about the seawall program. i will not go into it in detail. many of you have already been briefed, but of course our seawall was constructed over a century ago. it has seismic and sea level rise risks. we are working hard with all of you, with our state and federal partners, to plan for a project that provides a safer waterfront in the near term and to prepare for sea level rise in the long term. the budget includes funding for the seawall program to keep it going, and i'm very pleased to say working with the city, we have identified sources not in the bank yet, but identified sources for our first phase which will tackle life safety issues. >> supervisor cohen: good. >> yes, chair cohen? >> supervisor cohen: i said that's good. >> okay. thank you. onward to the ferries, and other maritime improvements. i do want to let you know that we're working on the

applicants are getting hit with request for evidence or rfps at an unprecedented rate, historically u.s customs and immigration services seeks proof that an american cannot be found for the job from around 20% of the applicants. and it proves more than 90%. but since october, they have doubled and approvals are down. immigration attorney say that it is cooling interest in the h1b program. speak of the companies they do represent, doing legitimate applications and spending more money, whether they can obtain the talent that they have, because of artificial standards. >> the government taps the h1 bs at 85,000 per year, but the applications are down each of the last two years. the head of the u.s. eis says that it is the integrity of the immigration systems. increasing the confidence in who receives benefits as a hallmark of the administration. h1 b critics say that it cuts u.s. workers and they want to even bigger barriers. >> there trump administration has had the right things, but they have not followed through with reelections. so i think that we have seen really very marginal changes