. >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, october, 22, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i will be joined by supervisor john avalos and eric mar, and i want to thank the members of the sfgtv covering this meeting as well as the clerk of the committee, and do we have any announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices and completed speaker cards and copies of the documents to be part of the file should be submitted.

. >> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco budget and finance committee occurring october 29, 2014, will begin shortly. >> >> good morning, everyone, welcome to the board of supervisors, budget finance and committee meeting, for october, 29, i am joined by john amylee howcroft, and i want to thanks charles for sfgovt tv for covering this meeting and the clerk of the meeting, miss wo ng. >> silence all cell phones and any electronic devices and completed speaker cards and copies of documents should be submitted to the clerk sxit ems acted upon will be on the november 4th, board of supervisor's agenda, always otherwise state. >> could you call item one? >> item one is,resolution retroactively authorizing the public defender's office to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $75,889 from the board of state and community corrections for the purposes of implementing local juvenile justice accountability measures through the juvenile accountability block grant, for the term of july 1, 2014, through june 30, 2015. >> thank you, we have the public defender's office to

. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> combpg edge welcome to the san francisco budget & finance committee october 15, 2014s supervisor mark farrell i'll be chairing the committee i'm joined by supervisor avalos and momentary by supervisor eric mar i want to thank the clerk as well as the members of the sfgovtv covering the meeting jim smith madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. please silence all electronic devices. all files and documents to be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the october 21, 2014, board of supervisors agenda and also otherwise stated. >> thank you mr. clerk item one. >> approving the 2014 grant application for the united states department of housing and urban program not to exceed $27 million and before the board of supervisors approval process for all annual or reoccurring grant of $5 million or more. >> we have sf ta. >> i other people the crossroad we work to put together the application as well as home base important to understand this is a community process where the cb o are represented on the rank list you may have in front of you participating in a

get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come >> combpg edge welcome to the san francisco budget finance committee october 15, 2014, sniemz is supervisor mark farrell i'll be chairing the committee i'm joined by supervisor avalos and momentary by supervisor eric mar i want to thank the clerk as well as the members of the sfgovtv covering the meeting jim smith madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. please silence all electronic devices.

environmental simply the beauty of a neighborhood it makes a huge difference unfortunately san francisco through our budget priorities or lack thereof has the city has really reduced what it spend in taking care of our urban forestry and as a result san francisco has one of the lowest coop coverages of any major city in the u.s. the city as green of san francisco we don't have enough trees and isn't it a fact because of the trees in the second degree that coop is shrinking we're losing the number of overall trees in the city it is gradually shrinking so this needs to be a priority currently, the city maintenance approximately, one third of the strrts in san francisco the riermd have been the robert responsibility of the adjacent property owners when the city doesn't take care of the trees maintenance becomes consistent inconsistent so property owners do a phenomenal job or many owners do know their supposed to take care of the trees or refuse to do it or hire the cheapest service that end up mutilating the trees about three years ago, the public works after a number which budget cuts relating to try mainte

we don't know about the exact buy outs for every local 7 butte buy outs took place in san francisco moreover the budget analyst recently released a report that analyze the data from the tenants union that found that the number of tenants seeking advise increased between calendar years 2009 from 76 inclines to one hundred plus in 2013 i imagine it number has been raised the buy outs are going up the amendment is a pyritic legislation that first requires the landlord to provide laents e tenants with a disclosure of the tenants rights before the landlord commences filing and at the time the buy out agreement is reluctance to writing it requires all buy outs to be in writing and allows the tenant to resend a buy anti agreement 45 days overtime there's an imbalance between the entertainment and landlord this is especially, when the tenant is a limited english speaker i've heard many stores of tenant accepting a tiny buy out amount to vacate a unit this is 1u7b8 less than the boy out under the ellis act or the owner move in no fault eviction grounds by requiring the landlord to provide a tenant with informat

again i am happy to have the conversation, but it would be, the current moneys in the san francisco police department budget are allocated and it would be an additional $2.4 million to put those cameras, like everything else in technology, though, the expectation is that the cost for the data storage would go down, because right now the department of justice does not allow to us store in the cloud which would be cheaper. and so as the department of justice, the united states department of justice, catches up, and i think that the cost of the data storage will go down and i firmly believe and i would be, and i would, welcome the day when i think that the cameras are standard issue and i do think that day will come, but right now, sadly, the budget drives that issue. >> so it is ongoing. >> and it is ongoing issue that we are... >> right. the 50 cameras is the pilot program and obviously the want is from many people not only in this room but outside of the room that they, and that all police officers wear the cameras. >> thank you so much. >> and captain, mcfadden, it is impressive that you have 65 crt office

to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for >> good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budgetnd finance committee meeting, for wednesday, october first, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing and i

august 2014 this meeting is adjourned >> good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting, for wednesday, october first, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing and i am joined by avalos, and eric mar. things will be on the october 7th agenda. >> we will call item three out of order, would you call ta please? >>resolution authorizing negotiation of a joint powers agreement with the city of richmond to establish a homeownership stabilization authority to assist homeowners with troubled mortgages. >> thank you, this resolution what is sponsored by avalos, so we will turn it to him. >> thank you, chair farrell and thank you for allowing this item to go first and i appreciate that and this is a resolution to start a joint powers authority that will establish a home ownership stabilization authority, this would the joint gpa, would be with the city of oakland, and after my xhepts i will be inviting the mayor of oakland, i am sorry, the mayor of richmond, excuse me, very much. we will start at gpa with the city of richmond, california,

the city and the pga tour agreed to bring the 2015 tournament to san francisco after the department had concluded the '14-15 budget process. in order to establish appropriation authority for both the revenue and expense associate with the tournament, we need to ask the mayor and the board of supervisors to amend the 14-15 budget. the department started work to prepare for the tournament this past july. right now the crew at harding is working through a list of tasks that include rebuilding the nine bunkers at fleming, resoding the driving range at fleming and weed removal, fairway top dressing and extensive work on both harding and fleming, the harding staff is working diligently to accomplish the majority of these tasks before the rainy season, god-willing, starts in november and this compressed schedule has required staff to perform many of these tasks on overtime. the week of the tournament itself we estimate that the harding crew will work 330 hours of overtime every day, as they water the course, repair damage from the day's play and move holes on the green. after the tournaments ends staff will restore the a

budget. >> officials will meet in san francisco city hall to discuss a comprehensive earthquake early warning system. the napa earthquake in august and the 25th anniversary of loma prieta highlight the need for early wanting system. last year the governor signed a bill to develop a warning system at an estimated cost of $80 million and an experimental system sounded an alarm ten seconds before it hit. officials want a similar system for the rest of the stay. a devastating earthquake happened 25 years ago on friday. we look back at the earthquake on friday knit at 6:30 here with a special report "15 seconds, 25 years later, the loma prieta." join us for that. >> we will talk to meteorologists teaming together for the latest weather. >> we haveize drizzle. live doppler 7 hd is active. the drizzle is not everywhere but you will need rain gear early. north of santa rosa 101 is damp. heavy showers south of cloverdale. around dublin/pleasanton, getting light showers. san francisco, hit or miss showers. everyone has seen the cloud cover and everyone will see rain in the mid-morning. we will dry out

san francisco. on their u >>> blue angels, the big draw over the week in san francisco putting on their usual impressive show. federal budget cuts forced the navy's elite flying team to cancel the show last year. >>> today you can still get a tour of this, the uss america, the 844-foot long ship officially became the newest vessel in the u.s. navy this weekend. an amphibious assault ship is considered a symbol of america's naval strength. the shipbuilder talked to us about seeing the crews on board the vessel for the first time. >> it went from being a project of raw steel and pipe to the the crews on board and it becomes a floating city and they live on it. they serve our country on it. to see that at the end is just really the best part. >> you drove in this weekend and there was a lot of traffic. >> the bay bridge was packed. don't come in 2:00, or 3:00 when the blue angels are performing but if you peer over the bay bridge you can see it. impressive and huge. >> and do it before the rain came in. >>> 6:09. it's sentencing day for oscar pistorius. we'll have the latest from south africa as the former olympic star western

13th my may i have this authorization to grant an alternative to deny the san francisco charter may i have a report from the budget and curriculum please. if you don't mind thank you for . >> for the new school we had deep conversations in the curriculum meeting there were plenty of questions we needed answered i appreciate the petitioners have sent sunset documents all of the commissioners through the packet in their mailboxs from the several questions that came 11 pages of responses to the questions that we brought up in curriculum i wanted to appreciate emily and ryan for getting those to us as quickly as possible and being thorough and i apologize. i can't i have to remember what the recommendations was from the curriculum meeting so maybe the budget committee can respond. >> sure while you're checking our file the budget committee heard this petition on october 1st staff review found insufficiencies including an overrefines on what they call soft revenues for the operating costs loans for that insufficient allowances for contributions to the teacher retirement system and also flag extremely low cash balances

budget issues. >> we in the san francisco fire chiefs association have seen how the police department has been able to go and get more recruit classes while we're also understaffed. we weren't able to accomplish the same thing. >> reporter: today the mayor said he hadn't changed his support for his fire chief, but he will take the new letter up with the fire commission. >> you know, personnel matters are what they are. so i'm not going to speak than in public. but i will take everybody's opinion and work with that. >> reporter: well, today the chief responded with a statement from her office saying that the fire chiefs association's letter may have been prompted by disciplinary action that the chief had the take against some of the chief association's members that is similar to what she said about the rank and file letter. she also says the fire chiefs may not have been entirely polled before that letter was sent out. coming up at 6:00, we'll look at how the back and forth has played out over the past couple of weeks. reporting from the fire department's headquarters here in san francisco, mark mat

many champions and there are many there's ways to improve our budget and how we spend money we in a number of different areas san francisco is so far ahead of a lot of cities whether or not the capital planning process or the reserve policies or policies around issuing bonds or not raising property tax but one of the ways we're incredible strong is the controller's office i think that most people don't understand what a crucial rule the controller's office plays in keeping us on track in terms of our the fiscal sustainability of the city and the many ways we've worked with the controller's office and just it's a safety net in a lot of ways and monique you've been obviously an essential element of that success and we're going to miss you, we know you're going to be here some nonprofit is going to be having you on their board and you're going to be able to- you're not capita of anything but working hard congratulations we're going to miss you we have a couple of other individuals for a few comments including our clerk. >> thank you mr. president, ma'am, deputy controller i grew up that you meridian in 2005 what were at the

the san francisco court has had years of budget cuts that have closed courtrooms and reduced the numberof hours those courts are open. the clerks are saying the court has $16 million in a reserve fund but they are refusing to offer them a raise. we'll keep an eye on that. >>> it's been almost a year since the sonoma county sheriff's deputy shot and killed 13-year-old andy lopez. the teenager was holding a bb gun at the time of that deadly shooting in santa rosa. deputy eric gelhaus thought it was an assault rifle. that shooting has prompted a series of angry protests in the santa rosa area over the past year. this approaching anniversary has community members there demanding more oversight of local police agencies. >> the community must have and deserves to play a critical role in the formlation of policies, funding and oversight. >> we have to believe in the people who are protecting us. we can't be afraid of them. >> just three months ago, the district attorney's office said it would not file charges against the deputy. however, a special task force has asked the sheriff to rethink th

but evenhanded i believe this is a powerful tool to be added to the san francisco police department i urge you to make room in our budget for general fund to facilitate this thank you very much. >> next speaker >> thank you, mr. president, victims of ca bottle i'm christopher and live at 6th and howard 14 meters and blocks from seawall and i rise today to recapitulate my reasons for presenting those little talks that's politics entertainment design we all must expect that seawall rise will rise up to two hundred feet within the next 2 hundred years we must understand that we need a carbon counting regime to facilitate charging the economic intits entities that create those causes with the request of sgrairth it and the distribution over the desert will allow mother and a half to capture the carbon and store it i apologize for the confusion here i've a new feedback page called cash balance you're welcome to review it to find out how we deal that this issue thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please good afternoon from san francisco i'm john this is sdiementd let clean up our act years ago when we studied how to build

deal with each year, and how much it is costing you when you get stuck >>> san francisco supervisors will meet to consider a budgetequest to make sure h.i.v. medicine is available to high risk residents with the budget request providing funding to educate people at high risk for h.i.v. about the medicine. it woulden sure that anyone what wants the medicine has access to it. >> the berkeley city council postponed a hearing on an ordinary fans that requires all landlords to accept poets -- pets. the legislations with pulled at the last effort for adjustments, otherwise it would be voted down. the berkeley property associations says it goes too far. they could take it up as early at november 18. >> tub war at golden gate bridge is heating up when aup announces legal action for artificial turf was used on soccer field saying it is toxic. the concern is over the turf east of ocean beach on a field which has been contentious for years. voters will decide whether to install art official turf if competing for propositions. proposition h is $14 million plan to renovate the site by adding lighting and fencing. another measu

. >>> after a one-year hiatus because of federal budget cuts, fleet week is back in san francisco. this morning the "uss kidd" arrived in the bay, to be berthed at pier 35. the public will be able to tour it starting this saturday. tours got under way at the "uss america" at pier 32. sailors and marines are out and about doing sight-seeing in the city. if you spot one of them, pull out your smart phone. fleet week organizers are encouraging people to take selfies with service members and posting them to social media. also nice to thank them for their service. i try to do that whenever i can. >>> the air show also returns this weekend with the blue angels. for a complete list of fleet week events, visit abc7news.com. >>> still ahead, a perfect night's sleep. scientists figure out exactly how much we need. >>> plus what some babies are doing when they thought no one was watching. how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to

in fact, about one in four san francisco an are at risk of food insecurity, according to our budget analyst. also vital food safety and antihunger programs are constantly under attack in washington from snack perhaps to other programs. and many food and farm workers -- food system worker and farm workers [speaker not understood] animal welfare is often ignored. a recent study from ucsf has over the past few days found a new link between sugar sweetened soda consumption and cell aging. i think the researchers [speaker not understood] from ucsf show if you drink a 20 ounce coke every day it will limit your life by about 4.6 years. and they scientifically have looked at a sample of people over a many year period, but i'm hoping that that study gets us to think about not only what we eat but what we're drinking and putting into our body and how it advances the aging process to take 4.6 years off your life, for example. for more information on food day you can go to www.food day.org. i wanted to just give a shout out to one of my favorite authors, anna la pay the daughter of fran is more la pay,

you have 58 students from san francisco currently combroltd isn't that correct. >> that's correct. >> and the threshold is 80, and, secondly, staff raised a flag about the budget credits issued by k 12 the company that sells the curriculum that is used by the flexion academy every year via mia k 12 issues a credit back if there's an operating deficit so every year this revenue does not meet the revenue cost their issued for the cost of the kroirm. >> cumulative credit valued at $5.7 million under june 20, 2015, we recommend denial of this reauthorization. >> if i may through the chair the committee review committee heard this and september it to the full board with no recommendation the committee members wanted to have an opportunity if at all possible to visit the school before we came to the board so no recommendation. >> thank you very much may we have a reading of the resolution mr. davis. >> authorization to grant are in the alternative ever deny the renewal petition for the flexion academy charter school the action was that the board of eduction shall grant or deny the 0 requirement subject to law. >> thank you mr. davis with you very have public speaker