the district attorney's budget, the leap program, and the indigent defense program. our recommendation had a absolutely nothing to do with any of those items. let me read you the recommendation which is on page 12 of our report. we say the increase attrition savings 14-15, the department is proposing to reduce attrition savings by 122,335 to hire vacant positions that has a salary surplus in 13-14. the documentation provided by the public defenders office indicates the implementation of the budget and legislative analyst recommended reduction [speaker not understood] would result in a deficit for the public defenders office. on the contrary, the analysis by the budget and legislative analyst shows that not only would our recommendation not result in a deficit, but rather the public defender would still have surplus funds available even if the implementation of the 55,160 recommended reduction. therefore the budget and legislative analyst recommendation provides sufficient funds to fill the requested positions in the public defender's budget. we would be happy to respo

of the grant program. enhancing maritime marine awareness, explosive device detection, chemical explosive pretext, response, and recovery capabilities, enhancing cybersecurity capabilities, maritime security risk, mitigation prompts, planning, training exercises, and the transportation worker identification credential implementation. right now we have a measure we're looking at building new capabilities across

rachel, you looked at the program. and are there down sides in maybe the first flush of stories that we haven't seen? >> well, i think first of all, the story that comes out really hits on the national anxiety. and the reason this made front-page news in the education world is that families and students are really concerned about the rising costs of college. now, this program does not address the cost of college. it provides a great benefit for starbucks employees, especially those employees with some credits but no degree to get that junior and senior°. >> bill harvey, if you ask the student to pay up front, they have to float that cost for some time on their own, and what we're talking about in this case, the case of baristas and putting muffins on the shelves, some fairly low waged workers. >> it can be a challenge. i know that in our case, one of the things that we do, we try up front, with the perspective students, to understand the commitment that they're making, because it's substantial. from an economic standpoi

of the grant program. enhancing maritime marine awareness, explosive device detection, chemical explosive pretext, response, and recovery capabilities, enhancing cybersecurity capabilities, maritime security risk, mitigation prompts, planning, training exercises, and the transportation worker identification credential implementation. right now we have a measure we're looking at building new capabilities across those six areas, and sustaining existing capabilities. but, again, that measure can be better. on the administrative management side, we've made progress in measuring our ability to effectively, efficiently release the funding, monitor programmatic use of the funds, monitor grantee financial management of the funds, monitor the closing of the awards and grantee draw down. we're making progress, mr. chairman, we've got an opportunity to make even more. >> thanks. >> seven? the >> yes, sir. for us, i think it's about getting good, quality information and data for us to make the right decisions on when w

i'm in the drug treatment program as well. not only is the asian design a good program for me but also impacted any community when i go back to my community they want to get involved and my grandmother raised me my grandmother is in her 60s and my grandfather is in hits 60s this impacts my community and family but impacts the environment thank you for your time >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm hillary i'm a national provider in oakland scare we've worked with the go solar from the beginning it fits our vision for the sun in need in line we've partnered with san francisco programs to complete our installation here in the city. this local solar industry supports local jobs and wages and supports san francisco economy that is a great program and it's tripled its number of program and the capacity has been for single-family home and multiple family homes this helps the workers in san francisco. it works to meet it's one hundred percent solar energy goal this gives the industry the ability to hire the c

caldwell about the twic program. so you testified about the one visit pilot and now it's going to a nationwide mailing system. so how do you assess it's going and are you able to do this without concerns about fraud? so just can you give us a quick update. you know obviously i appreciate the steps you've taken on this but just in terms of substance. then i would like to hear from mr. caldwell about how effective you think overall the twic program is in helping protect port security and what other -- gao has been quite critical in past reports about what we need to do to improve this program and its effectiveness. so that's really the issue i was hoping to get a little more insight on. >> we started the pilot for twic 1 visit last year in 2012-2013 in alaska and michigan. as we transitioned to our new technical system we started the implementation nationwide so we started implementing the one visit in may of this year, may 12th. so we planned to have a phased schedule to implement it across the nation and we should hav

the programs that we offer other of the customers and our green commissioning and design review program. and first up, the go solar, sf program. and it was established in 2008, and with a direction to have an objective of two to five million dollars of hetch hetchy not operating revenues for the program each year and what we have is the program between 3,0 to 5,000 employed and we attribute the go solar sf program to part that have success. and but the program has reduced by 4.5 million, gig, sorry... pounds, each year, the green housing gas, contribution from electric conception here in san francisco and relative to getting electricity from the pg&e portfolio and we have incentives that here, these go solar sf incentives are available to our power enterprise customers as well as to non-customers. you know the pg&e customers. and in terms of opportunities for collaboration, and improvement, with the department of environment, cal referred to the financing option, that is certainly, promising and not just beyond bill financing option, but how we can really make sure that we are leveragin

caldwell about the twic program. so you testified about the one visit pilot and now it's going to a nationwide mailing system. so how do you assess it's going and are you able to do this without concerns about fraud? so just can you give us a quick update. you know, obviously i appreciate the steps you've taken on this but just in terms of substance. then i would like to hear from mr. caldwell about how effective you think overall the twic program is in helping protect port security and what other -- gao has been quite critical in past reports about what we need to do to improve this program and its effectiveness. so that's really the issue i was hoping to get a little more insight on. >> we started the pilot for twic one visit last year, 2012-2013, in alaska and michigan. as we transitioned to our new technical system, we started the implementation nationwide, so we started implementing the one visit in may of this year, may 12th. so we planned to have a phased schedule to implement it across the nation and we should

this is a program that the mayor supports, this is a program that is growing in terms of its need and capacity. we're seeking a paralegal to also assist with the capacity and again, we want to be able to continue this service, so with that, i'll be happy to answer any questions. what we're asking is to impose the three cuts and reject the $55,000 reduction in our attrition. >> okay. thank you, mr. dochi. colleagues any questions or comments? mr. rose, why don't we go to your report. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee. just to put this budget into perspective, the public defender is requesting a budget of $30 million. the budget analyst has recommended total recommended reductions of $75,000. our recommendation to increase salary savings by $55,000 is very conservative. it has given the public defender more than what he needs. if he can provide us documentation with two other recommendations, but based upon what we've seen, our recommendations is conservative. you can't calculate the percentage of this reduction to the $30 million budget request. so the fact that the public d

first off, kind of keeping the programs flexible. whether this -- i know the coast guard is trying to make their infrastructure patrols and things like that not predictable. keeping a little bit of deterrence out there. i like what i see at cvp when they're doing -- they call it the key side or dock side scanning or a ship come in and they target a ship. it won't be based on whether the containers are high risk or not. they'll be scanning every seventh one or tenth one and things like that. maybe flexibility in csi and whether they need to shift the deck a little bit to the different countries if possible. i think cyber is the growing area. that's an area where dhs and coast guard have been monitoring the situation, and they're talking about taking action. i think they do. we'll have a report we're issuing tomorrow for senate commerce that have a lot more detail on the thoughts on that. something for the committee, i think it's starting to show up on the radar of the agencies as well is, you know, for what we have, we have to sustain

which on behalf of the board of suppose adviser was coming to you to say help us design a program that works and it's not to dictate to the utilities commission, but it's rather to say let's move on something quickly. we have successful model in two neighboring county that's are clean and cheaper and working. and i think it's time for the people of san francisco that we join in that effort and we're happy to be apart of that conversation, however you think the program is best structured, we're here to be a partner in that. thank you. >> thank you for being here today. >> i'm sorry, bare with me, please. peter laterborn. >> good afternoon, peter. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thanks for hearing this item. legislative aid of supervisor mar. i do want to move power with clean power sf. the details of the program are less of a concern. we're hoping that you who have heard this issue time and time again can give us input and give your staff input on what we can move forward with. we want to be partnered and be collaborative but we want to move forward. i'll end there and thank you for y

last year, and the alamena county to explore the program as well it is time for san francisco to do its part and so why don't we go on to the budget analyst, and i think that is. and the other parts. >> mr. president, do you want to speak first? >> we can wait for the budget and the analyst report. >> mr. rose, could

utility of the program overall. in addition, we will be coming back to the board to make some changes in terms of the inclusionary program because there is a limitation in -- there is a 10% set aside in the inclusionary program for the small sites program, but it limits the affordability to 50% median income. what we're looking at in terms of the program is that these are existing units with people of different income and that limitation may be too restrictive in terms of serving the people who are actually there. so, that may be a change that we will come back and ask of the board in the future. but we are very, very excited about it. there is a lot of interest in the program overall and we're just -- we have an open mind about how expansive that program will be based upon the need -- the demand for it from the development community as well as the demand for it from the residents overall. >> okay. and then timely, so, 2400 units over the next four years in these newly produced affordable units. over the next four ye

next speaker. >> supervisors, my name is benson nadel and i'm the program director of the long term budget program and i'm a member of the long term coordinating council. i'm here to talk about the need and crisis in long term care and institutions in san francisco. every time there is a closure, they have to get involved to monitor the closure. i've been going to universal mound three days a week to see if there's trauma. individuals living there are scared. they don't know where they're going. back in february, a program went into the mission bay which closed and everyone had to be removed from other counties and family members were traumatized. it's now an empty hole. everyone had to move out. we're having a crisis in long term care. most of us don't think about it until our relatives or ourselves need it. the future has many different readings, optimism, we need to have them involved in a long term integrated planning and policy services for everyone so they don't have to leave home. i'm asking you to expand the living fund to make sure that individuals aging in place in san francisco

in year, the program won the mayor's fiscal advisory award, ordered by spur, and we also won the public defender's association state wide program of the year award. these are the recommended cuts by mr. rose, and i'm going to agree with three out of four of them which i think is pretty good for the public defender. we agree with the $15,000 reduction in the medical examiner services, we agree with the 29,000 reduction in our equipment budget and again, we agree reluctantly. these are things that we very much need. and we agree with the $5,000 reduction in material and supplies. what we do not agree with is with the $55,000 reduction in attrition savings and this will explain, mr. rose, i'm sure is going to stand up and commend me and my office for delivering a $623,000 surplus this year. as you are he call, chair farrell, this is the promises i made to you when we fixed our salary saves program. salary saving is that number we've su month poesed -- we're supposed to save with employees on leave. we had an unusual large number of employees who took lead that is year, and you can see the

we plan for those folks to go to other the program, and the hechi improve program and some of those folks will be finding roles in other city departments. we recommend to continue to monitor that closely and track our plan and report in the quarterly report. now, they asked them self a question, is there an increase risk for a scheduled pension. two projects -- in answer to that, two project pensions are for projects critical meaning wsip water supply level goals and these delays expend the time and which customers are exposed to dry sources. that's true. i mentioned the ground water supply and recovery project delays. following, the recommendations with respect to schedule is to develop -- it's to make sure the water system can meet the level service goal and to provide a status report to the commission by september. so in response to this, the sspuc makes it our priority and we're investigating other options. in particular, we're current evaluating projects with oakdale and we'll continue to evaluate projects based on the need. with respect to scope, bawsca asked them self, what is the

the disabled and children. it guts food and nutrition programs, it slashes $700 billion there the base medicaid program which primarily serves these vulnerable populations. and it repeals the optional state expansion under the affordable care act. all told, two thirds of the budget cuts in the republican budget come from initiatives to help middle and lower income individuals. now by what logic do we reduce poverty for the millions of americans in poverty today by cutting programs that have helped lift about 45 million americans out of poverty? it's bad enough that the republican budget targets these programs, but it does add insult to injury to do so to protect special interest tax breaks for powerful wealthy elites at the expense of middle class families and those working to climb into the middle class. the republican budget passed this spring calls for a one-third cut in the tax rate for millionaires and refuses to close a single special interest tax break to help reduce the deficit. not one. but it doesn't just slash safety net programs designed to prevent people from hitting rock bottom. it also slashes programs

are important for us as the public programs and those are a difficult choice and lastly the operating costs the house/senate budget that's related to power a good part is people. and then the portion that's not people is the transition the distribution and electrical costs as well as the street light maintenance. so this budget comes down to difficult choices besides that it's the energy efficient programs that are important to us. so those are the key areas we've summarized as we heard requested along with the detailed binder in each of our offices. planning for the future we think all the difficulty i want to mention and i know the supervisors know that for the television audience our budget is largely only inflationary costs except for the staffing and low cost bond funding we have a good run business and the water and sewer improvements are kept down in costs and the affordable power everyone should be proud we have power for the general honda hospital and others hospital that's 63 percent less than expensive than pg&e. it allows you and policymakers at that stretch

and we are about 27 years, into the history of the program, itself. and so if you want to maybe help with the presentation, itself. >> and so, we will start with it was established with the legislation passed in 1984 and was called the california, beverage reduction act and while the legislation itself was passed in 1986, the program did not become operational until 1987. and then there were three broad goals that were established for the program, number one, was to obtain a 80 percent beverage container recycling rate and number two, we are quoting literally from the act itself and because we think that it is important and we think that the words are important and we think that there is an important message in the convenience of the words of the act and so, make redemption and the recycling convenient to the consumers by establishing and maintaining a market place, where it is profitable to establish the sufficient recycling centers and i stress recycling centers to provide the consumers with convenient recycling opportunities and finally the reductio

or related to the lbe program as well as the local hire. and recently, we have been looking to extend the opportunities to our leases because while the port does not have a very large contracting program, we have a lot of tenants and we have the opportunities through them. and so now, we will get to the numbers and so, in the first two quauters of this year, we awarded two new construction contracts. and both were awarded to lbes and we awarded three as-needed environmental awards and so those are as-needed agreements totally 3 million and one was awarded to a microlbe and the subcontracting goal on all of those is 21 percent. and so, of these contracts awarded of a value of 4 million, almost half, will go to lbes either through the primes or the subs. and we also awarded three informal contracts, that are not and the ordinance does not trigger subconsulting goals but one was awarded to a micro, lbe and i spoke briefly about our efforts and we are look at all of the contracting opportunities, that are coming up, and tried to do out reach we

we kept up in the program and classed. to christen the secretary that brought magnificent active prowess to things 0 this is a smooth running machine and to angela wilhelm for the sxhor materials if you need someone to rake our backyard for rocks between the 3 of them we made one full-time employee that was engaged and to the other members of the advocates and the provider let me say it's been a pleasure 30 work with them i've learned a lot in the last year. major goals of the program is on your power point were to develop and provide a 40 hour coordination recognizing mental illness and that's teamwork. do you have it now >> i have to call downstairs. >> we'll expend our 3 minutes. >> boy if i knew i that had had 3 minutes i would have skipped the intro. members of the community has copies too >> it will probably catch with you. >> i'll read the slides and i don't have to read them the second was to have officers trained to deal with mental illness in crisis and deploy those officers for calls to services involving mental

but in the w.i.c. programs directly related to the health of that mother, the fetus, the newborn infants, and the young child we have to think about what a healthy meal means to the healthy development of that child. and a surplus of white potatoes in that diet is not necessarily what you want to have happen. and in that schoolroom what we want is good nutrition. we are not going to let that be dictated by the industry. the idea that somehow school districts can't comply, 90% have complied, and 90% have complied within the additional amount of money that the federal government made available so they could comply. and the secretary has been reaching out to those districts in trouble. and i suggest those districts reach out to other districts in their area that are complying and finding out this to be helpful. this isn't some big burden by the federal government. this is working in 90% of the districts. our own school nutrition association of california is against this waiver. we have very creative people. in our

and the residents of the individual service free program. and second, you earlier heard us talk about the safe medicine program and in addition to maintaining the infrastukt turf the disposal sites, we also are looking out of our scanning for the new chemicals and the new products in the environment and we have a program and a special program for used motor oil and recycling and this program is maintained through funding made available by the state, and most recently, we launched a safe medicine program that are funding from the pharmaceutical industry of pharm a and we are working with the puc and the police department to find these sites to recruit them and to train them and to maintain them. and to date, it was collected over 35,000 pounds of unwanted medicine, since the program's inception in 2012. and now, it goes to the business sector and on the business sector, as we can imagine, every business has very unique needs, based on their operations, and they use a different set of chemicals and so we have had to create customized programs

the after school program is a safe haven for all students to come in after school off the streets, there are movies daily, there are activities i can participate in, and there's mentorship. my senior year, a new program was launched called the employment work shop and i participated and the second semester. we teach students how to dress and speak in interviews so because of the resources and skills i've learned from the work shop, i'm currently an intern at bank of america. if i continue to work it bank of america, they will fund my college tuition for the next four years, so please support our funding so low income youth like myself can have more opportunities and support inspiration and encouragement. thank you. >> hello, my name is ben navaro and i'm with the same beacon program. the programs gives us empowerment as youth to go out and reach our dreams. i suffer from depression on and off because sometimes i don't eat, i know how that feels going hungry, and all that. these internships and after school programs give me a sense of empowerment to go out there and make a difference in l

are the federal hub program or the different programs in the different cities, and states that have been helpful, and in maintaining our microlbes and in making and helping them to get the contracts with the cities and helping them sustain, an operation here in san francisco because we want to grow the program. and so, part of the analysis that we are doing, and that will hopefully be part of the legislation is also looking into these different programs. >> okay, and shifting to another topic around oversight, as you are aware there are 14 b requirements around the audits at least three prime contracts each fiscal year of 10 percent of joint ventures could you summarize, whether this has been done and what has been the result and what sort of lessons have you learned from these audits? >> what i am going to do is, oh, there she is, okay. >> maria. >> good morning, regarding the audits, we go through annual audits with the controller's office. and the emphasis of the audits have been taken a little bit of a interdepartmental emphasis and we would like to work with them to change

and finally, its fixed allocation capped the growth in the program as compared to the former entitlement program and induced greater budget discipline. i saw that in my own home state in wisconsin where after the program began to grow under the governor the instructions came down to redouble the effort to get people employed and manage the case load better and that occurred. my written testimony has specific examples of what tan tanif-life authority could do. i'll leave that in my written testimony. here i would like to share our proposal to the committee in which we would propose that states implement demonstrations and adaptations. >> i will have you do that in my q and a. we will try to stick to a five minute rule to get to everyone's questions. >> it is now 50 years since the call for a great society and 18 years since the welfare reform bill. we have made progress with elderly, reducing material deprivation and promoting work pay there is frustration and disappointment with the current status with the nation's war on poverty. 47 million americans are classified as poor and too many

we help fund the marine green business program. it's apart of the bay area green business program. finally i want to mention that pca create local jobs and that's something we're proud of. more than 1300 california jobs have been created through mce since we started service in 2010. i have some fliers with some in depth information about those jobs and union labor which has been a hot top he can and if you're interested, we can pass that out. we have 20 full-time employees at mce and we have venders and then we've been able to create jobs through energiy -- energy efficient program. they're creating and supporting jobs. so that's all about mce. and i'll be happy to turn it to the next speaker. >> what has been your experience with shell. >> we partnered with shell when we first offered service and that was in 2010. we did an rfe for our energy renewable supply. at that time our board made a decision we wouldn't launch and get a minimum of 25 percent of renewable energy and shell did that. our contract with them expired in 2017 which is the reason we've been on contracts for so many

station access funds available in the prop k program. and the bart facilities projects and the projects that are done and proposed over the next five years are shown on the screen and the highlights includes the daily city bart station that is proposed in the next five years and this will be for the best circulation access. and we will be funding prop k funds can be used outside of san francisco, as long as they provide benefits to the residents of san francisco, to proportional to the share that we are providing and funding and so this is also being contributor to the project. the project is the parks improvement project and this will be for another intersection, that is recommending. the bart guide ways project and this is for the guide ways category and under way as the palace street and water inclusion project and you may have seen it if you have been at the station, and the transbay tube passage doors and i have been educated and i need to read the safety sites on bart a little bit carefully to know that they actually provide access

this building is actually transitioning to the program from the job program which predated. vera haile will be 90 units of affordable senior housing. 3 units will be supported by hud 11 hundred ocean will provide 25 units for homeless. 19 will be supported by the loss program. and one third will be targeted to homeless families and one more on scott and lombard street will transform a former bed and breakfast for homeless transitional age youth. i'll just conclude by saying studies have is shown it's far it's far less costly than the cost of emergency rooms if these homeless populations remain on the street and our program seems to be bearing that out so i am happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you for your presentation. any questions from the committee? seeing none. >> good morning. the 6 contracts was 9.3 million expected to grow with the addition of these contracts. but this is an essential form of funding to be able to get these programs going. on the table 4 page 19 we actually show the 15-year amount for each contract over the 15-year term the 6 contracts

caldwell about the twic program. so you testified about the one visit pilot and now it's going to a nationwide mailing system. so how do you assess it's going and are you able to do this without concerns about fraud? so just can you give us a quick update. you know, obviously i appreciate the steps you've taken on this but just in terms of substance. then i would like to hear from mr. caldwell about how effective you think overall the twic program is in helping protect port security and what other -- gao has been quite critical in past reports about what we need to do to improve this program and its effectiveness. so that's really the issue i was hoping to get a little more insight on. >> we started the pilot for twic 1 visit last year in 2012-2013 in alaska and michigan. as we transitioned to our new technical system, we started the implementation nationwide, so we started implementing the one visit in may of this year, may 12th. so we planned to have a phased schedule to implement it across the nation and we should