the community development block grant funds where in asian neighborhood design is providing such services city-wide. we also note that asian neighborhood design has been selected for this proposed $75,000 allocation without using a separate competitive process, but the department points out that a separate rfp was not utilize for the proposed $75,000 because asian neighborhood design previously went through a process to obtain community development block grant funds, and is currently providing, as i indicated, similar services citywide. our recommendations on page 6 are, one, to approve the portion of resolution to provide $250,000 for the veterans equity center, which did go through a separate rfp process, and we state that since allocation is $75,000 to the asian neighborhood design is being made without utilizing a separate competitive process, we consider that allocation to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor kim: i was hoping that you could address one of the issues that had come up in the budget and legislative analyst's report, which is

the san francisco city coalition provide the cleaning services. we use san francisco clean city as our service provider because i have a strong job training and placement program. they train and place about 150 people every year. about 75% of those people that are placed actually retain their jobs for the full year longer or after. that was important to the neighborhood when the community benefit district was forming. the services provided -- every property gets hand swept daily. they get sidewalk scrubbing with a machine twice a month, and power washing once a month. clean city also provides graffiti abatement. the service hot spots in the neighborhood. they also help us with hazardous waste -- needles, human waste, and a large trash items. they do not, unlike other cds -- other cbd's, we do not operate on a dispatch system. in other places, someone would call in. we do not operate that way because it is a large district. we kind of schedule the district to make sure that the cleaning we provide is done uniformly, threat the whole district. -- thr

kim: could you talk about how that differs a little bit from the grant they got to provide the service city-wide? >> i may just ask steve, who is here, to talk. he is more -- he can talk better about the contract than i can. supervisor kim: actually, more than describing the contract, be specific about how the grant is different. explain why this is $75,000 just to serve one neighborhood instead of serving the city for $50,000. just the explanation for that grand amount. >> our oewd contract is city- wide, but it is vocational training. it is part of our regular 14- week cycle of training programs throughout the year. the differential here -- those services are vocational training, skills, case management, outreach, to the different neighborhoods. this contract is specific to south of market. the level ofdetail and that we have to go to in order to locate folks to be part of the program is part of one of the differences. we are very deep in south of market. not only are we located it, but we could also under stabilization fund for the past year, but providing training as part of our outreac

budget, we are potentially going to see additional cuts to public safety, child care, other services in the city. i know that the issues of government service are certainly relevant to this body, i want to put this in perspective in terms of why we took this approach and how the impact on businesses in the city is going to be felt relative to other people who are sharing the solutions of this budget. the mayor as he was developing his budget was very concerned about not trying to put a proposal in the budget that was going to inhibit the recovery of our economy and he understands that it is critical and you cannot generate a little bit of revenue at the expense of killing the businesses and the economic activity that supports our budget and that supports our economy. he is very mindful of the implications of any revenue proposal that he is making. within our current approach to the city budget, the mayor introduced the city's first five-year financial plan and as a result of this, there was an approval by the borders which requiring us to do and look at the physical condition and proposed polici

service was increased. now we have a good approach to taking care of the beneficiaries. the cityt a beneficiary of the trust. it has no business saying anything about how that money is spent. all trusties on the health services trust fund our fiduciary. that means they are devoted to seeing our money is spent well. not for the purpose of a slush fund. [tone] president chiu: thank you very much. everyone has the same amount of time. thank you very much. you are not allowed to address questions to individual members of the board of supervisors. thank you very much for your question. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm a retired city employee. i would like to start out by adding some information to what the labor representatives have said. they were never allowed to be at the table at which the pension reform was negotiated. we are a key element as far as the city is concerned. and the city's success as a city over the last 50 or 60 years, for retirees not to be allowed representation on negotiating committees, it would directly affect retirees well-being and is totally outrageous

that the number of applicants would represent the broad scope of people providing the services throughout the city. so we first reviewed the language and reviewed all of the responses to determine that the response to that did indicate that they had the greatest capacity. we compared it to other organizations that could have also been able to offer these services, and we still determined upon review when comparing the response to the proposal to what the stabilization committee wanted them to supply that actually matched sufficiently to make us feel comfortable that the procurement mess it would be able to satisfy our requirements. supervisor chu: thank you. one final question -- with regards to the stabilization fund, so far, as budget analysts pointed out, there has been deposits of about $9 million and expenditures of about $4 million. most recent years had the highest level with grant expenditures of $3.4 million. very heavy grants coming out in the last year. what is the plan overall for the usage of the remaining balance of that fund? is expected that it will be used in two years, three year

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the safety service -- city circuit, position, speed, and control of the power to the motor. >> here is a really interesting piece of historic machinery. tell us about this. >> this is one of the main safety devices of the elevator system, and the device still exists today even on modern elevators. it detects if the elevator is going into unsafe over speed conditions. it is attached to the road itself, and the car over speeds, bees fly balls would come out, and the governor jobs would come out and grab on to the governor wrote, which would hold the break or the safety on the elevator to cause it to stop. >> if you have problems, i see right here, we call garfield 7171 for service. member that is right. operators standing by. >> from here, we are going to look at those wonderful elevators that go of the outside of the high rise building that everyone wants to take a ride in. >> let's go do that. >> here we are in the most exciting elevator in the city of san francisco. this is the outside elevator that goes into the 32nd floor. tell us about this. >> we are in one of the tower elevators

the health service system trust fund was depleted in prior acts of the city. if you give the control back to the city and the mayor's office , or it will not be influenced by the mayor's office, when and how it will be a 4-3 majority and retirees will have to pay for it. please don't allow this to happen. [applause] >> i am a retired lieutenant of san francisco police, a 20-year veteran. i am one of those natives, too. i support everything larry said. a request you don't change this part of the health service board. gosh i am president of the san francisco veteran who police officers association hyperion i asked this board to change the makeup of the health service system as proposed in the new charter proposal. when we retired, and we were guaranteed and told him that we would have affordable health care for the rest of our lives. with this proposal, we have no voice. i ask you to turn down this proposal. >> had the city's pension obligations are set to explode in the next four years. a hundred and $29 million. it demands a serious solution. i am leading a ci

please remove the provisions in the city retirement and health- care benefits charter amendment. that would change the composition of the health service and reduce the supermajority vote of 5 to a simple majority of 4 to approve yours and my health care plan rate benefits and other major decisions. if the city administration is allowed to appoint four members, they would have the majority on the board. all majority decisions would be made by this majority of four. it would eliminate the voice of the employees, you, and the retirees, us. it would take us back to willie brown's administration when they could not even find the funds to pay the doctors that submitted bills. patients would call in for assistance and they would not have an answer on the other end because there was not enough staffing. doctors did not want to have patience with this plan because they did not know if they would get paid. i hope we do not return to 2004. thank you. >> i worked -- i worked for the city for 34 years. i'm also the vice president of the retired employees of the city of san francisco. i am speaking against the motion related to the health service b

secondly, probably more importantly, this non-profit has already received $50,000 to provide the same service city- wide that they will be providing now to residents for an additional $75,000. that makes no sense to me. if they are already providing the service, which is basically filling out, i guess, applications for a building that may be completed in the next few years. they have already received funding for that. $50,000 on a community development grant. it does not make any sense to me why they are entitled to another $75,000. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other speakers who wish to speak on this item? >> good morning. i have been working in the south of market for 10 years and actually grew up in the soma until i was 10 years old. i have seen a lot of changes from growing up in the neighborhood and also from working in the neighborhood. with this opportunity to actually help residents and really help them with case management and help them through the process that applies to this affordable housing, we thank you for the opportunity for our program to grow, and we know

and we saw the riot police shooting at protesters since it is still a service city if. that is so it was weird it was like watching a big movie screen. because if the significance of that was very upsetting it was a feeling of hate. hate. plus a polynesian people rose up together and said you know mr chirac please stop. again just brushed it away and said something my decision is final. it one person one person decided the entire future of my children. my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. it's in c. and. january nine hundred ninety six france proceeds with this last nuclear test in polynesia what turns out to be the starting point for a long term research. tests justified an enormous investment to build new equipment new missiles new bombs the laser megajoules and you aircraft so everything is being updated between now twenty and twenty. only interesting results from countries like the united states. some of their worst during their shins in developing new nuclear weapons that it excites the interest in countries like korea and their round who want to draw in th

these troubles are regulated, how do we keep them safe, how do we coordinate with the city's public transit service? i would also like to take the opportunity to thank the ta board for the earlier item that included the safer speed zones around the city schools. we are excited about this. it has been a big campaign for what san francisco. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this is an action item. roll-call. >> [roll call] 10 ayes. commissioner mirkarimi: item passes. next item. >> introduction of new items. commissioner mirkarimi: introduction of new items? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will take this same house, same call. any public comments? >> any public comments? supervisor mirkarimi: item number 11, public comment. public comment is closed. >> have a great rest of the day. -- >> item number 11, adjournment. supervisor mirkarimi: have a great day, everyone.

county -- strategic vision for the city and county and modernizing and we're happy to be on this journey together in terms of leveraging technology, improve the services that the city provides to its citizens. so with this opportunity to work together on this innovation in terms of the benefits of cloud computing to over 23,000 municipal city employees migrating from its on-premise solution currently to a cloud-based exchange online solution that will deliver better functionality, agility as well as effectiveness for the city and county. so we're really excited to be entering into this partnership with san francisco. thank you, john. so with that i'll hand it over to john mccarthy from i.d.c. >> hi, thank you very much. they just asked me to weigh in a little bit of what's going on in government with cloud computing right now. basically, i'm sure that most of the people on this call have heard of cloud computing and the directions it's taking government, private industry, etc., and a lot of the talk has been on the potential for reducing cost, effort. what i see in cloud services is that it gives government the potential to kind of relieve government

they show to retire, and lo and behold, they had no idea when they left city service -- they are not going to get that when fall -- windfall? >> this is true. this is particularly in the area of the pending coverage. supervisor elsbernd: the changes we need to adopt today. >> by way of disclosure. i have already mentioned the so- called best thing retirement, which i think is the most significant. -- vesting retirement. they had 50,100 thousand control points, and we believed those would go up. not to exceed 3.5% a year, but to accord with the cost of living. it has roughly tracked what has happened with wages. these are affected distinctions that now exist. we also reject is so it -- i am trying to find some that are not corrections'. we deleted some language that we determined was not necessary, regarding medicare and retiree health-care. we believe that was an option to deal with those in light of health care reform. the proposed bargaining units would only become members of the retirement system upon mutual agreement. labour requested language to be more specific on that point. i

>> i think we have to start by looking at the most critical city services that we cannot do without. what are the ones that if they deteriorated, we will pay the price on? public safety falls into that category as a basic critical service. transportation, making sure we have the functional muni is critical. core public health services like dealing with mental on this on our streets -- with mental illness on our streets. if we do not provide services, we will pay the price. it works out from there in terms of budget priorities. >> with your plans on dealing with homelessness? >> it is homelessness in general and behavior on the streets. we need to make sure people have access to services. i was a supporter of putting the money we taking the money we're putting into the system to provide housing. we need to make sure people have access to services. we need to make sure that we have standards of behavior on our streets. most homeless people did not cause any problems on our streets. they are a small group the causing problems. we need to make sure we have the standards of behavior. ther