related to minimum staffing. one of the things we had discussion about was over time, saving money in some ways, but personally i feel we are getting to the point where we may need to bring in more members at higher concentrations, which is a difficult discussion to have that this point. we are not budgeted to have that class coming in. at some point we may need to have that conversation and it will depend on what happens when they retire sooner than planned. if we start to see that and the count drops too much we might need to look at possibly reducing overtime, but it is something we are simply analyzing at this point. supervisor chiu: thank you. supervisor chu: 4 typical apartments it seems we would want to bring down the cost of overtime, but if we did that and substituted it with straight positions, we might have higher costs than overtime. we need to look carefully at that analysis. supervisor kim: one of the issues that the budget and legislative analyst's report brought was the topic of assigning staff du

on overtime than regular staffing. there are fringe benefits paid to employees during overtime. members do not receive those. they are well -- they are held. there are provisions during the overtime and there is straight pay for the member. in addition, there is relief paid to members where they are sick or on vacation and you have to account for those missing were periods. we have a certain number of people that must be on duty every day. in most cases an overtime shift gives us flexibility to plug in where we see fit in where staffing is needed. supervisor chu: it sounds like it is primarily the flexibility of plugging people in when they are said or not available to work while maintaining a minimum level of staffing. you would not want to staff 120%, but she would want to be able to plug in the people as needed. >> absolutely. too many people without enough vacancies, you would want to be in a position where you could plug in rather than the reverse with too many people. supervisor chu: in terms of overtime and a pe

in terms of budget staffing and benefit costs, in addition the department does have a staffing requirement which must be met. the large majority of the department's budget is dedicated for operations, which makes a lot of sense as it is fire suppression emergency medical services. this also includes the staffing of our fire station, as well as the station 49 ambulance chair that comes every day in the city. outside the budget covers administrative and support functions including training in the bureau of fire prevention and the investigation. we have gone through this with you before, but the then mayor had asked for a 2.5% reduction in the mid year. this is a breakdown of how that was met. we were able to come up with 1.3, representing 2.5% of that 10%. the next slide van goes into the proposed budget that the mayor presented to you on june 1. savings from labor concessions, i shall let you know that that is a work in progress. 1/4 i am optimistic that we will get their -- progress. i am optimistic that we will get there. i will participate this afternoon. i will keep you posted on that.

we developed a caseload analysis that determined a staffing level. it is based on felony and misdemeanor case loads that were appropriate a few years ago. we had an aberration. we had many cases dismissed as a result of the crime lab's scandal last year. later that same year, it was revealed that there were a number of police officers that had a criminal histories that have not been revealed that also required at our department to begin a review of cases. all in all, we reviewed about 2000 cases. we certainly had some cases dismissed. there are hundreds of cases, having to review those cases, contact clients, bring them back to work, read some of -- writs of habeus corpus. the there were a number of police officers that were involved in misconduct. they will be responsible for doing the review in these cases to the extent that we can get through these cases and put this behind us, it would be the best thing for the criminal justice system and the best thing for the city and the clients. the third thing that i wanted to -- the second thing i wanted to

we did acknowledge that there was an increase and a need for more staffing. we are recommending 15 of those positions. seven of them are positions that are working on a temporary capacity that will now become permanent. it limited to 1000 hours 2010 s 2011, but at permit physicians, they will be able to work more hours. -- permanent positions. the recommendations are based on what they were able to achieve based on workload in the prior fiscal year and what we anticipated in terms of their workload and staffing in the coming fiscal year. >> i just want to emphasize we are recommending a large number of new positions for this department. but our recommendation is to prune back some of the positions, and we believe we are justified in this recommendation. supervisor chu: thank you. i wonder if the assessor would like to respond to those. >> the analyst is correct that we do have very detailed information regarding how much work our staff produces. again, just to clarify, in terms of revenue, the revenue impact is squarely based on something which is out of the

where the red line is and how we are currently staffing that, are we adequately staffing all those positions and posts based on regular time, over time -- how does it work? >> if prop j is approved, i get the officer's back that would be working at straight time. supervisor chu: that was the conversation around opening up the small jail to allow for the extra capacity, to open up 1/3 of the jail, but even if we do not talk about the small jail and opening up, and the current operations, we have capacity to house 1950 or so individuals. how are we staffing that? do we have enough sheriff's deputies on regular time to staff that? >> i see what you are asking. we do have enough people if they are all work -- of course, we have people out on disability and leave and that, so our overtime would probably go up slightly, but we would not have to hire additional people to bring the inmate capacity up to what we are running, what our capacity is, but i would like to just say professionally, you really do not want to run a jail at 100% capacity because you have what we call giveaways or people that ca

how do you wrap up your staffing to deal with those crises? >> in preparation of a storm, our artists are on the call, and we actually do have several trees that have fallen on the cars, on overhead lights, and staff goes out and clears those trees. those trees are fronting private property. supervisor avalos: currently, if we have a big storm, is it all in 11 fte's and called on that day to clear the streets? >> it all depends. the last huge storm we had was -- april -- february 17, i think. that storm had two ships, people coming in. a lot of the tree cutting and -- supervisor avalos: we go down to seven fte's, does that even a compromise our ability to respond to -- i imagine it would. >> [inaudible] better to be able to respond. we have had storms in the past several years where we have had to bring in a huge number of staff to clear streets. sometimes we are three or four days behind to remove many of the fallen trees. supervisor avalos: ok, thank you. >> the transport process itself, i'm going to take us through step-by-step what is invo

given the staffing in our organization, we would have no

three person staffing instead of four person staffing. >> reporter: as part of fire season they began conducting wildfire training. cal fire says with reduced resources it will depend on city help. the agencies are also asking homeowners to get rid of fire fuel. >> 100 feet of clearance of vegetation gives the fire department the ability to save their home and their life. >> fire agencies are launching public forums discouraging the use of fire works. reminding people all fire work is illegal. >> they jump from rooftop to rooftop. the safe and sane part of it that, i think, makes us lower our guard a little bit. >> reporter: firefighters point out the use of fire works can carry a fine up with $1,000 as well as jail time. cal fire can also issue a citation who don't clean up their properties but most people com-ply about 99%. agencies announced a new website for more information on fire season and how to make your home safer, you can get to that by going the web links on www.ktvu.com. firefighters are wondering if today's weather is an indication on what is to come. let's go to chief

certifying preposition proposals are endeavoring to remove the question of what the appropriate staffing level is from the equation and provide a comparison of if you replace a model currently providing civil servants at a certain account with a light proposal using contractors, what is the difference in salary, which is the question with prop j. the numbers i provided earlier are controlling for reduction in staffing levels that the union has discussed. i think the health department could speak most appropriately to whether they think the current level of civil service staffing is appropriate and what a reduction in the count would mean to security at the hospital. >> i think the numbers of security of the sheriffs that we have today is inappropriate. less than that would be questionable. supervisor chiu: what is that level? >> it is 84. >> one of the issues -- but director -- budget director through the chair. what the issues with regard to alternate proposals and the difference between 63 and 71 are not management staff so much as supervisory staff who are working staff. so in the mod

we're going to do on the staffing budget side. as much as i appreciate the voice of authority from the retirement board, and the retirement board has not taken the official position on this. if the retirement board hasn't taken an official position, it still comes back to us that allows us to interpret it. you look at the data, and what has motivated me is that it is incomplete. and when i called to talk to other jurisdictions like san diego or los angeles, they went through similar motions that we are going through right now. right at that same precedents, they decided to go ahead and reinstate it is based on the ways to count how the things should work better. that should also speak to us since we are not alone in this experience. the programs are not apples to apples here, we don't know what to compare it to. that is why we should extend it. i appreciate what people are saying. i don't inclusion be at this point without a thorough conversation. supervisor chu: i want to take a moment to appreciate the comments that supervisor c

we do not see anything getting rosier in terms of staffing. it is a challenge for us. >> the department is getting 36 new officers this year, a factor we have considered in this recommendation. we believe that over time can be reduced. supervisor chu: i do appreciate the conversation regarding the overtime component. there is a desire to work that out of hand with the help of the comptroller's office and the chief, i think we will come to a conclusion that we can all live with. one thing that i will say is that i am also concerned, if we are seeing in the current year budget a revised budget of $21 million in overtime dollars, we spend $26.9 million. it is a concern that even if we have an additional #people, what does that mean? i am concerned about that a bit. if i could ask mr. rose to take a look at perhaps other alternatives for budget reduction in addition to the comptroller's office taking a look that over time? >> absolutely. supervisor chu: chief, thank you for keeping us abreast of the changes on mou. >> thank you very much. supervis

you can see our staffing levels today are the lowest they have been in decades. numbers in the red bars are those suggested by the mayor's office. if we follow the numbers suggested by the budget analyst, we would go down to 238 as opposed to 240. that's from a height of to hundred 70 to 10 years ago. next is a table that shows a workload by the various parties that work in the criminal justice system. this comes from the board management system. you can see the number of appearances each of the various entities makes, the district attorney, the public defender, a public bar and the defense. you can tell the district attorney by far has the largest workload. part of the reason is we have to appear in every case and we do not have the benefit of other parties appearing on our behalf. you can see our workload is considerably larger. here are some of the other areas we are working on. these are issues we have to deal with and one of them is a homicide backlog. if you look at our homicide backlog, 50% of our cases are two years or older. this is a question of justice

also, if dpw has the ability to touch upon what the actual staffing changes have been over the years in the street tree program. that would be great to hear. i expect we will hear a lot from people around the city who have concerns about the potential loss of staffing and maintenance of the street tree program. the alternative that has been proposed is that property owners will have greater responsibility for maintaining trees on the sidewalks in front of their homes. that is also not something that i think is realistic in terms of being on top of that and the city being on top of homeowners and perhaps having a program that will work. also, since it will not work, i worry we will not have an ability to maintain our trees whatsoever. i will let dpw present. we will have questions, and then we will go on to more questions from the public as well. >> good morning, supervisors. joining me today, we have quite a number of staff. i do have a presentation that i would like to share with the board that will explain the situation we have facing us at this time. and why we have put forth this

staffing -- would not increase any increase in staffing here last year, we had a reduction of 1 from 37 to 36, and we have been working closely with the budget analyst office and are in full agreement with the budget analyst recommendation on reductions in a surety bond fund, which translates into reduction of the general fund by approximately -- i not know the exact number -- 114,000, i believe, somewhere in the round numbers. i would be happy to answer any questions. supervisor chu: thank you very much. to be clear, the department is in agreement with the budget analyst recommendation? >> we are. yes, ma'am. >> madam chair, members of the committee, a lawyer recommended reduction is detailed on pages 97 to 98, totaling 140,574, which includes general fund reductions of $122,322. supervisor chu: thank you. we do not have any other questions or comments from the committee, given that the department is in agreement with our budget analyst, i request that we did take the recommendations. can we do that without objection? thank you. >> and we will be coming back next week or not? superv

with somebody coming in and trying to argue their staffing plan from the board. that would be my one thought on that. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i appreciate that the mayor's office did come in to chat with me on this. i understand the $300,000 for the fund. i would still like to hold off on the final decision until we see the full budget or where we are at in a couple days. we have tremendous services that i know many of us are fighting for for our city. i would not want us to be put on reserve to the budget committee 's position, because i think this would be an awkward position, and i and trust that the controller's office would make sure the mayor's office is appropriately extending the fund's. i would like to back a couple more days to evaluate it in relation to other things. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisors. actually, i would agree with you. i would not want to put that on reserve pending approval of how the gets spent. i think it would be wise to hold off on taking action on this. perhaps we can pass through this gener

staffing. facilities and yet they died on the vine. you know why? because they couldn't collaborate. that's the elephant in the living room. they came from different paradigms. let me conclude with this. i talk about hope. growing up. seeing some of the things i saw. i learned a very important lesson and that was this. streets around here. selling newspapers on the border town. i saw things a young person shouldn't see. i learned an important lesson and it's this. in order not to get beat up. i am speaking to you the way my father talked to me. he was a doctorate from the field. you can tell i really value of the elders. he taught me a lesson. all the things i put up with. have hope. because i remember, coming home sometimes and i said, look what i bought you on special. people were making fun of me. do you know what color the shirt was? a bright yellow shirt. i looked like a light bulb. the role of the elders is important. when you talk about hope, ladies and gentlemen. i want to remember the works of victor franco. he looked, he was one of the sur

and the extent to get to this right level of staffing, those areas are the way to go.

for the city to provide staffing support. we estimate that about 80% of these costs are america's cup related. 20% are related to the cruise terminal. the other federal agencies that would be reimbursed through this effort include the know and national fisheries, who are doing an endangered species act consultation. in addition to pulling the mark, construction by peers will play a role in processing the national environmental protection act. we are requesting that the port enter into this memorandum of agreement on behalf of the city. and that when the office of economic or workforce development gets appropriate authority, we either transfer the memorandum of agreement to wewd, or we transfer it to the air -- to their budget billing code. that is something that elaine has negotiated with cfo for owe d. off we are confident that we will not be paying these expenses on behalf of the america's cup. i think that i lost a couple of people in the process. kelly, whom i had mentioned before, is a superstar. we have a dream team for

and the staffing costs are included, but we did not include any capital. supervisor chiu: that seems troubling to me. if this is just based on operating expenses -- the asian- american community only gets 6% of your total funding. i'm still trying to understand why is it -- how do you and at justifying that given the community that we serve and wanting to make sure we are fairly funding the various diverse communities we have in the city? >> i think it is a fair question. the pattern of the allocation is a historical pattern of allocation. i think it's within the purview of both the mayor's office and the supervisors to look at the city's policy at the way these funds are allocated. that's a fair question. the arts commission has launched two studies to look at the needs of the asian american cultural community and the need of the latino cultural community. the studies were launched in response to the demographic information the census has given us. we anticipate being able to provide the supervisors and other public officials with the results of these stu

also, staffing impact. you see us at the shelters. we employ 25% of our staff are formerly homeless. we are employing formerly homeless at $12.13 an hour. we will lay off -- we will have to lay off some of our staff. again, these are the working poor, and we ask that they not be penalized by these cuts. finally, the neighborhood impact. again, i say that having the shelter opened, having a place for them to watch tv, to rest, to be with each other instead of being on the street is going to save on police calls, save on emergency calls, and in the long run, save money for the city. again, i plead that we consider these cuts and not make them on the backs of the homeless. thank you. >> good evening. my name is connie ford, and i happen to live in district 5, but many of the members that are represented by union works in soma. i am also vice-president of the labor council, and i just wanted to let you know if you do not already that many of the workers who provide the services that are continually on the chopping block here are represent

staffing, overtime and set asides. why is it that certain departments, whether they're big or small, seem to manage their staffing and anticipate turnover in staff and house traping so they minimize the amount of overtime whereas other departments, fire, police, sheriff and m.t.a. in particular, seem to continue to use overtime even when they know that people are going to retire or trade out and they can anticipate those hiring and training needs? and the other concern was about with set asides. this is in particular to mayor lee and the supervisors. are you willing to consider a charter amendment for november, to look at our set asides, even though we've all voted for those things to cut back at least to some degree on all of those things like libraries, children's fund, city services auditor, there are a lot of funds that we've set aside which, as you talked about, reduce our budget flexibility in these difficult times. are you willing to take those issues on? thank you. >> i'm the mayor's budget director. as you kno