Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171203

Tang and to my right is supervisor yee. Our clerk is mr. Victor young. At this time, id like to thank our people at sfgovtv for televising this program. Mr. Clerk, do we have any requests . Clerk please. Please silence all cell phones and tablets. Supervisor cohen all right. Thank you, i appreciate that. Well, colleagues, as i say, lets go ahead and dig in. Well start at the top of our agenda. Mr. Clerk, call item 1. Clerk item 1, resolution authorizing the exercise of an option to extend the term of a lease for a portion of the second floor and entire fourth floor at 1145 Market Street for five years, subject to citys right to terminate, for the period of july 1, 2018 to june 30, 2023. Supervisor cohen thank you so much. Do we have a representative here today . Anyone from real estate . Im also wondering if we have anyone from the law library here . Now unfortunate. I believe we continued this item under the impression that the executive director would be here. Well, mr. Updike, its good to see you. Another controversial item to talk about. Good to see you, too, chair. Supervisor cohen take it away. I believe much of the discussion today was to be around the met ribs of the law library and a resolution, so im happy to answer any questions that you have after considering the items first present presented. Supervisor cohen thank you very much. I want to recognize my colleague, supervisor tang. Supervisor tang i was under the impression someone was going to be here, so i dont know if we could delay this item until later in agenda, to see if someone was going to come, because i did have follow up questions. Supervisor cohen no problem. We will continue with the rest of the agenda, and mr. Updike and the rest of the team, well just have to revisit this. All right. Mr. Clerk, could you please call item number 2. Clerk item number 2, resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend a grant of 110,000 from the San Francisco Parks Alliance to benefit the departments Scholarship Program. Supervisor cohen nathan sinclaire . Good morning, supervisors. So im here today to request your approval of a grant from the Parks Alliance of approximately 110,000 to benefit the departments Scholarship Program. This grant was generated from the annual crab fest fundraiser event which take place each february , and flap fest was founded by former supervisor Shawn Ellsworth about a decade ago and has supported our departments chop arrestship funds each year. Last fiscal year, the Department Awarded over 1. 2 million in recreational scholarships, and we expect this number to increase this here to help even more San Francisco resident access recreation programs, and i just really cant emphasize enough how important the program is to individual folks. Each scholarship allows a resident to take sports or dance class with others in their community. Ill just say that the Scholarship Program is particularly important to the departments youth programs, and ill just close by thanking the Parks Alliance for their partnership on this important fundraiser and also just mention you to save the date for the 2018 crab fest, which is thursday, february 22nd. I know some of you have attended in the past, and were just treely grateful to have your support for this fun krisk tradition, which ensures that all residents can get out in play. Supervisor cohen all right. I have a question. Is this the 110,000 that were dealing with today, is that the total amount thats been raised . Correct. The parks and rec has a cost for services, as well, and this is the most that weve raised through the Scholarship Program through this grant. Supervisor cohen all right. Thank you so much. Colleagueses are there any questions or comments at this time . All right. Its time for Public Comment. Ladies and gentlemen, its time for Public Comment. Youll hear a soft chime. Youll also see on the dais before you, how much time you have remaining. If youd like to come on up and speak on this item, come on up and speak at this time. All right. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, lets get a motion on this item. Supervisor yee make a motion to present this item to the full board. Supervisor cohen all right. Well take that motion without objection. Item 3. Clerk item 3, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of environment to accept and expand a grant in the amount of 447,370 from the association of bay area governments to develop and test Pilot Software and perform Energy Technical assistance for deep Energy Retrofits in small commercial buildings. Good morning, supervisors, peter gallardo. These grant funds will be used by the department of environment to improve Energy Efficiency in small and medium commercial buildings in San Francisco, and as you know, supervisors, the department has been offering Energy Efficiency services and incentives to small buildings and businesses in San Francisco since 2001, and Energy Efficiency not only helps us reduce energy use and meet our Climate Action goals, but it also reduces operating cost does for Small Business employees and owners, so this will help enhance Services Offered by our energy program, and help ensure retrofits for up to 1700 small and medium sized buildings in San Francisco. It will help to develop software to identify Energy Efficiencies in the buildings and the department will conduct this work through existing positions over the threeyear life span of the grant, and were here today to ask for your support and happy to answer any questions that you have. Supervisor cohen thank you. Just for clarification, the grant supplies four positions, as well as materials and supplies, is that correct . Thats correct. Primarily staff positions and the potentials for some contract work. Supervisor cohen thank you. Colleagues, any questions or comments for mr. Gollatta . Seeing none, well open Public Comment. Any member of the public wishing to speak please come up to the podium. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor cohen item 4. Clerk item 4, resolution approving an agreement between Epic City Government and the city and county of San Francisco acting by and through the department of Public Health for the delivery of software, services and hosting for an Electronic Health records system for a term. Yes. Dph is here to request approval from the board of supervisors to enter into contract with Epic City Government, llc for the electronic city record system. I would like to give some background to this request. The Electronic Health records system is used to digitally capture all hospital and Medical Clinic system. Currently, department of Public Health support approximately 550,000 patients encountered p peryear, with approximately 650 billion in annual revenue. It also allows us to comply with rules and regulations so we can keep our accreditations. We have a patch work of systems that this ehr will be replacing. In addition, this new system will allow us to manage our risk due to our endoflife system that will be in the supporting 220. This system, the ehr system, this contract will provide us with software, support, implementation services, maintenance services, as well as hosting. This product was selected through an rfp process. The ehr system is needed for department of Public Health of San Francisco to improve our patient care outcomes, as well as to avoid any potential financial risk due to inability to bill as our primary system is going offline supervisor cohen pardon me, mr. Kim, in what way does this increase our ability to provide better out patient care outcom. Im glad you asked, supervisor. So this slide here, if you we have a patch work of systems. What that means is we have multiple disparrate ehrs connected by a thread or you could call it integration, but at the end of the day, what would happen, when a patient shows up, the doctors ors nurses does not have a single picture of the patient, a whole picture. What this new system will allow us to do is have that in one place so we can actually apply better coordination of care across Public Health. Supervisor cohen thank you. Would you like for me to continue . Supervisor cohen yes, please. So anticipated scale of the ehr project thiis multiyear. We have a budget at the coit Communication Technology plan for five years that we submitted, but we also have a budget for ten year we project ten year is the life of the product. Okay. At the coit, we submitted 223 million for five year, however we project that ten year cost will be 337 million, including the contingency. As you note, the ask for this contract is 167 million, which is a lot less. The reason for that is theres a significant cost that we are actually estimating to do several things number one, we need to ensure we backfill our clinicians while theyre getting trained. Number two, we want to ensure we have effective change control, the change control being all the work flow at dph where it involves patient care will be retooled, and we need to make sure we train everyone, so thats where a lot of the costs are going into, so the software and everything is 167, and the remainder of implementation and support internal implementation and support and backfills. Supervisor cohen okay. Are you almost done . Actually, this is the last slide. If you have any questions, we do anticipate going life with the first phase in 2018, with the second phase going life in 2020. Supervisor cohen all right. Well, i appreciate the background, but the Budget Committee, so lets talk about the numbers in the budget and how much this is going to cost and how we are going to be saving money in the longterm, so maybe you could talk a little bit about that. I mean, the resolution is to approve 167 million, so if its okay. Greg wagner, our cfo will be taking over for the numbers. Supervisor cohen sure. Mr. Wagner, good to see you again. Good morning, supervisors. Greg wagner, chief financial officer, department of Public Health. This has been our plan to get this going for the last several years. We rely on the Public Health system to bill medical and medical and Public Health insurance, so when people are receiving services in our facilities, we document that, and then it gets sent a bill to draw do you know reimbursement, so in any given year, we are relying on this to draw or bill any direct costs that are in excess of 650 million peryear. So the biggest item is we do not want to put ourselves as risk for deterioration in our ability to draw that reimbursement. This also the new program and the integrated ehr should allow us to expand our ability to drawdown funding. The reason is it gives us tools to better capture services that were providing into the billing system and more efficient tools to monitor our billing and our financial performance, so this is definitely at the top of our list for priorities for our longterm financial sustainability. The cost is high, but the cost of not doing it is significanty higher. Supervisor cohen all right. I appreciate that. Colleagues, are there any questio questions dealing with the budget . Thank you. Well take Public Comment on item 4. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, what would you like to do with this item . Supervisor oh, excuse me. Youre absolutely right. There is a bla report. My apologies. Good morning, chair cohen, members of the committee. As mr. Wagner pointed out, the implementation of the new medical records system has been in the ict plan. The supervisors did appropriate funds in the 1718 and 1819 budget for this contract, the contract itself, the base contract is 149 million over ten years, or approximately 14. 9 million peryear. Dph has also included a 12 contingency in this contract, but in our discussions with them, the contingency of that 18 million would only be used at dphs sole discretion for unexpected increases or Service Increases that are not currently anticipated, and we recommend approval. Supervisor cohen thank you. I appreciate that. Based on that recommendation, colleagues, do we have a motion. Supervisor yee ill make a motion. Supervisor cohen and the motion is to do what . Supervisor yee pass this motion with a positive recommendation to the full board. Supervisor cohen as a full report. Mr. Cleyunk, did you get that clerk yes, to make a full recommendation with the report. Supervisor cohen yes. Item number 5. Clerk item number 5, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to enter into a performance contract between the California Department of Health Care Services and Community Behavioral health services, incorporating the Mental Health services act, projects for assistance in transition from homelessness, the Mental Health plan, and community Mental Health services grant. Supervisor cohen thank you very much. Excuse me. The floor is yours. So we are asking for approval for resolution in support of Behavioral Health Services Performance contract with the state department of Health Care Services, and theres no money attached to it. What it is, the state wraps all of our data reporting, Compliance Standards into one contract to clarify our requirements connected to these different funding streams, and we have to do this on an annual basis. Supervisor cohen is that it . Okay. Colleagues, is there any other questions . All right. Well go to Public Comment. Thank you, miss simmons. Any member of the public wishing to speak on item 5, please come up. Seeing none, comment is closed. Mr. Clerk sorry. Colleagues, is there a motion on this item . Supervisor tang ill make a motion to send forth this with a full recommendation to the board. Supervisor cohen thank you, and we will take that recommendation. Item 6. Clerk item 6, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to enter into agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services to receive federal draw dawn funding for the children enrolled in the county Childrens Health Initiative Program through the city and county of San Franciscos healthy kids program. Good morning. We are asking approval today for our resolution for the city through dph to retroactively enter into an agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services, dhcs, to receive federal reimbursement for the citys participation in San Franciscos county Childrens Health Initiative Program, which is embedded in the citys heathy kids program. Healthy kids is a Health Insurance program overseen by dph and offers health care of children 6 so 13 who do not qualify for any substanidized. It allows dph to drawdown Operations Support and management of the healthy kids program. Chcs sent this proposed city agreement to dph in late september of this year, 2017, but the agreement is actually retroactive to july 1, 2015 with an end date of september 30, 2019. Several changes in the past few years including state Level Department transitions of the managed risk medical insurance board, known as mr. Mid, that was commissioned into dhcs in 2014, legislative senate bill changes, which expanded medical eligibility for children, thus, many healthy kids members transitioned into medical, and the recently inclusion of cchip into californias covered Children Exchange resulted in the discovery of additional children qualifying for healthy kids. Prior to this proposed agreement, our last agreement with dhcs was a six month agreement to change the contracting mr. Mrmid to dhcs. That ended on june 30, 2015 and was approved through board resolution, and prior to that, the city had an agreement with mrmid through an agreement, and that agreements term was from july 1, 2005 to december 31, 2014. Thus, we are requesting your retroactive approval in order to satisfy the requirements of continued federal reimbursement for the program, and we appreciate your consideration and at this time, my colleagues with me today from the office of managed care and i are happy to address any questions you may have. Thank you. Supervisor cohen thank you. I appreciate that. Colleagues, do we have any questions for this presenter on this item . All right. Seeing none, and also seeing that we dont have a bla report, well go to Public Comment. Any member of the public that would like to speak on item 6 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor yee . Supervisor yee sure. Ill just make a motion. Supervisor cohen would you like to make a motion. Supervisor yee ill pass the motion with recommendation to the full board as a Committee Report. Supervisor cohen and well take that without objection. Next item, item 7. Clerk item number 7, resolution retroactively authorizing the office of the District Attorney of the city and county of San Francisco to renew its current agreement with the california Victim Compensation board, an agent of the state of california for a Revolving Fund in the amount of 75,000 to be used to pay for verified funeral, bunial, relocation, crime scene cleanup, and other emergency loss expenses. Good morning. My name is delia montiel, and i am with the Victim Services division of the San Francisco District Attorneys office. Before you is the resolution to renew the current agreement and the resolve fund in the amount of 75,000. Last year, the victims Services Division served over 8,500 victims in the city of San Francisco, many of whom benefited from the victim fund to assist them with immediate payment for services. The funds have helped victims in the immediate aftermath of this immediate victimization. The fund has assisted victims of Domestic Violence in relocation for their safety. It has assisted victims in crime scene cleanups, both in their home and in their cars. Family members have been able to use this Revolving Fund to be able to expend for funeral and burial expenses of their loved ones who have been victims of homicide in this city. Human trafficking victims have been assisted with temporary housing after they have left their perpetrators for temporary stays in hotels as they transition into a safe environment. Last year, the office spent 57,066. 20 of this fund, and we hope that your support will allow us to renew this so that we can continue to serve the residents of the city and county in San Francisco, and i have a couple of questions. Supervisor cohen i have a couple of questions. In the last several years that ive been working with the District Attorneys office since ive been supervisor of district 10. Were here talking about 75,000. That doesnt sound like much money, particularly in your report as you said you served over 8,000 families. I would imagine theres a need and a demand for a little bit more money to help with this. If we were able to petition the state for more money, would that would you be able to help more people . I would imagine that always. I mean, weve expended 57,000, and were in november , almost december tomorrow, and this is for money allotted for into the next fiscal year, so at some point yes. Obviously, weve already spent more than half of that amount. Supervisor cohen what is the process to petition the state to increase this allocation for victims . Because it it goes through our Victim Compensation board, there is a mechanism for requesting that through them. Unfortunately, i am not privy to the immediate steps. Id be happy to have the chief of Victim Services, Gina Castro Rodriguez to contact the board. Supervisor cohen when was the last time for a request for more funds was made. For increase or this amount . Supervisor cohen an incorrection. I apologize. I think its been well over five to seven years. I think it was 50,000. There was an increase and our office had gone to the legislature and asking the board to increase the burial to 7,500, and so at that point, i think the increase was made to 75,000 to accommodate for the 7,500. Supervisor cohen as well as the cost of doing business. Funerals are very expensive. Correct. Supervisor cohen what criteria do you use to qualify who is going to get help and who is not going to get help . So in particular, because the california compensation board is primarily the agency that oversees and in other words, reviews the claim, for lack of a better word, they have specific criteria for how what documentation is required, so hypothetically, for a funeral and burial, obviously, its a crime, its a homicide, we we receive documentation from the inspectors in the homicide division, and then, of course, the invoice from the funeral home indicating what the cost of the expense would be, and then, it goes onto the claim support for the last checks and balances of what theyre going to issue. Supervisor cohen okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Colleagues, do you have any other questions for miss deal i cant. If not, well go to Public Comment, see if there are any members of the public like to speak on these items. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion . Supervisor tang ill make a motion to this send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Supervisor cohen well take that without objection. Mr. Clerk, could you call item 1, please. Clerk eyes 1, resolution authorizing the exercise of an option to extend the term of a lease for approximately 20,000 square feet, consisting of a portion of the second floor and entire fourth floor at 1145 Market Street for the San Francisco law library. Supervisor cohen thank you very much. Id like to call up miss marsha bell. Good morning, supervisors. Im mortified that i thought the hearing was 2 00 p. M. Today. Supervisor cohen thats okay, miss bell. We know that happens. Thank you for hustling to get down here. This is the second time weve heard this. We continued it the first time due to personal matters, you were unable to be with us. I first wanted to give you an opportunity, if you wanted to make any opening remarks or comments. Well, of course, were urging the supervisors to extend the lease for the law library. Im hoping you all received your packets this morning of information . Supervisor cohen we did. You know, i understand there were questions last time of which we had been unaware were going to be raised, so im hoping that my materials helped address them, but im happy to answer any questions you might have about any of those. Supervisor cohen thank you. I appreciate that. Im going to pivot to supervisor tang. She had a few questions. Supervisor tang . Supervisor tang thank you. Thank you, director bell, for providing us with information. Im wondering if you with just walk the committee through your answers. Specifically, i had questions about participation or usage of the law library, the collections that are in various storage facilities, and the second floor use of space, as well, so if you could just run through that. Sure. Supervisor tang of your answers with us, that would be great. Sure. If you look at the executive summary we setup there, what our usage is at this point, in 2017, over 25,000 people have been utilizing the library out of that. Over 10,000 reference questions have been fielded, and there are some 8,000 other issues that weve helped people with. We have a very vigorous Seminar Program for the public and for the members of the legal community, which is very well received, and you can see from the materials some of the wonderful examples of the speakers that weve had. We have a rigorous attendance it varies depending on the program, but so far, over the last year, its been about over 400 people have attended, and we do offer mcles, and we do make these programs known to city departments so that they may pass them along to their members. We also have other meeting rooms that are used all the time by everyone from Pro Bono Legal organizations to individual lawyers who cant afford places for their depositions or to meet with clients, for colleges, and other legal matters which were happy to provide. The collections that we have, at this point, are some estimated over 100,000 or 100, 060 in brooks haul. The only other location happens to be on some of the shelves in city hall in some of the offices. While we were in the Veterans Building during the outpost there, we reached a point because it was expected that we would only be there for two years, that we had no more space on our shelves for materials, so we were able to come back to city hall and go to various offices and departments and shelf some of our books in city hall. Its a smaller number, but they still remain there. Other than that, all of the materials have been returned to our premises at the 1145 market. Supervisor tang okay. Thank you, and then, going back to the user information, this is the first time that ive ever seen it in, i think, my many years here at city hall, so im thankful that you provided to us this year. Are these the 25,000, the numbers that you cited, is that unique useers . Pardon me . Supervisor tang the 25,000 users, that you cited. Im sorry, you missed the word before users that you said. Supervisor tang unique users. How did you come up with that count . Well, somebody may come in one month and come in another month, so im not really quite sure what youre asking, but we are trying to keep tabs of the traffic that we have at the law library, so i think youre right, if i understood the question. Supervisor tang okay. And so, for example, are you counting on average each month, there might be, you know, x number of users, and so forth . No, were actually trying to take individual, you know, log in and actual numbers. Not estimates, not extrapolating, were actually keeping track of numbers. Supervisor tang okay. And again, im not questioning the value. I appreciate that. Supervisor tang of the law library. I always want to remind everybody that i think its an incredible resource, i just think that when we are talking about leases in the city and different city departments fighting for space, and we get criticized all the time for spending too much money on leases, thats why, on this committee, the arrangement again, not questioning at all the value of the law library. So i did go and visit, and i did not have to sign in or anything, so im just wondering how youre staff checks in, we have a note system. Supervisor tang so again, this 25,000 may not be unique users, then. So im glad to hear that the rare book collection has, this month, finally moved back to the law library. That is good news, and i hope that you will be utilizing the 120er7b storage down on the second floor that is currently vacant with empty shelves. So then, in terms of brooks hall, i do know that is a heavy lift to get that there, but it is my understanding that 25,000 boxes are being stored in brooks hall that no one can gain access to. I do know its difficult to get them back to the second floor, but what is the timeline for plan for getting those over there so other people can access them. All of those were stored as part of the bond auction for the 1995 retrofit, and you can see from the pictures some of the conditions there. What has to be done is each of those boxes of books has to be looked at. We know what we have there, but it has to be looked at to determine whether or not the materials are salvageable or damaged, or need to be recycled, etcetera. Here so far, the environmental controls were insufficient to do that, but we really want to be able to work with the city to accomplish this. This has been a very difficult period, but this is not something that the library can do without the assistance of the city. I have a reference staff of 4. 8 people, so we i have recently understood that maybe the Library Space has been materials have been removed. The last time we were there, they were still there, and there was no workable space there. I think our biggest concern is the environmental osha concerns that may be about going through those materials, but we need to, and we welcome working with the city to come up with a solution so these can be resolved and taken care of. Supervisor tang but how long have these books been there. Well, the city moved out of city hall in 1995 and stored them in various spaces and left them there. Supervisor tang how long have you been the director of this department . 26 years. Supervisor tang thats a long time. Im going to push back a little bit director, because i think you need to show a little bit more leadership and creativity in getting these books housed. Quite honestly, you dont interact with any of the members. Its probably some of the reason why you were mistaken with the schedule of this Committee Meeting because you as executive director of this department are engaged. How often do you meet with the mayor . Besides besides the mayoral staff during the budget process. You know, i apologize for your conception about us. Were very busy, and were doing everything that we can, and our focus had been to restore those rare books to the library. We have known that the project in the basement is very overwhelming. Were not blaming the city, but were asking them to partnership with us. Supervisor tang and how long have you been making this ask . Let me say we have not included this in our budget submission, because we are told every year you cannot add to your budget submission, and so what we have wanted to do is move forward with this and understanding now that the city wants to empty the material in the basement of brooks hall, were delighted to be able to partnership with the city about that, and you know im sorry that it appears we have been uninterested, but that isnt the case. Were working very hard to provide services to people, and we have a teensy staff to do that, and you know, i apologize for the lack of visiblity. Supervisor tang no apology is needed. I think what im trying to do is impress upon the importance of demonstrating leadership and building leaderships. I, too, have a very small staff. I only have three people, and im also expected to perform and be in multiple places and doing multiple things, as well, but i dont have the ability to blame anyone else. Im not blaming the city. Supervisor tang all right. Well, this is my interpretation of what youre saying. No. I gave you the history of how we ended up there, and im asking that we can Work Together with the city about resolving this. At this point, the materials have been there, and it was something that we could not tackle yet, and were ready to do that if we can have some cooperation and Work Together with the city, but this is not this is not we are not finding fault with the city about this. Supervisor tang i think whats hard to hear what youre presenting is saying hey, weve been open and were ready to work with the city. The point is those are the words youre saying, but what your actions have shown me is the exact opposite. Well, i really regret that and i must disagree, frankly. Supervisor tang supervisor cohen. Supervisor cohen i think that could you recall Budget Committee members, i have never heard of an ask to begin moving money if i supervisor cohen if i could just continue. Supervisor tang what were saying to you is please do ask us during the budget process. Its one thing to ask and then deny the request, but weve never heard it. I want you to ask, and i want to plan for how youre going to move all those books out from the 20,000 square feet of space in brooks hall, because at the end of the day, those books are supposed to provide a service to people, and theyre not providing any services to people sitting in boxes in a basement, so im going to ask that we make an amendment today to this resolution, basically, to that effect to say that the law Library Shall pop late the currently vacant shelves on the second floor of the premises by no later than july 1st 2018 or the city will repurpose the use of said second space for city staff operational needs as permitted under the lease. Supervisor, with all due respect, it cannot be done in less than a year. This is a really complicated process. Supervisor tang again, i havent seen a plan for plan of action, if this was even a thought about moving the boxes away, i havent seen anything, so im happy to work with you on that, but that is what i would like to pass out at committee today, and if between now and tuesday, you have a plan that shows me something that is reasonable, i think that i would entertain that at that time, but for now, i just feel that we can go on and on, year after year, and those books are never be moved. I mean, its been there since 1995. Which is also not the law librarys fault, i have to submit. Supervisor tang leadership, miss bell, leadership. Im going to take a moment. I would like to look to Melissa Whitehouse and the Mayors Office. I dont know if you have any comments to add on the budgetary process or if the mayors given any kind of direction to the law library. Do you have any ideas . Thank you, chair tang. Melissa kahy, mayors budget director. We budget all the known increases at the time of the budget. Supervisor tang are you aware of any requests from the law library for any additional increases to help with the move securing the books skm then helping to move them into a safe location . Thats okay. You dont have to answer. I dont believe so, but i would have to go back and check with the analysts. Thats correct, and what we did do is we talked to mr. Updike a few weeks ago and together, we talked about working together to come up with funds and appropriatation to be able to come up with a solution. Supervisor tang but to be fair, thats not the correct department you should be directing that conversation to. The conversation should be directed to the budget and finance committee and the budget director. I apologize for my misunderstanding, and i apologize if we dont have the funds that were not going to rearrange with our budget, were not going to be able to move forward with this project, so i look forward to taking the next step. Supervisor cohen all right. Supervisor tang, i appreciate your remarks. Lets go to Public Comment and see if theres anyone here that would like to comment. All right. Seeing that there is no Public Comment, we will then go to the bla for their comments. Good morning, supervisor. We actually reported on this at the last meeting, we dont have anything to add. We do consider this to be a policy matter because there is pending legislation by the law library against the city. Supervisor cohen all right. I appreciate that. Mr. Updike, i dont know if you have any remarks mr. Updike, mr. Updike, i dont know if you have any lastminute remarks that you wanted to share. Thank you, chair cohen. John updike, director of real estate. I think the only things i would add would be we are certainly willing to cooperate with the law library and provide a clean, healthy environment in a modular facility within brooks hall so that the work of culling through this collection and determining what can move to the new location, what may need to be destroyed or otherwise addressed can be done in a safe environment for their staff. Supervisor cohen okay. So we stand ready to do that, but we do not have, as you accurately noted, the resources and the expertise to make those decisions, so we have simply made sure that the boxes are safe where they are, but thats the best, unfortunately, we can do in a nonclimate controlled environment that brooks hall is. The only other thing i would add is the lease does permit General Office use, in addition to the current law library use, so if there was a desire to repurpose the space on the second floor, even if its for a shortterm, i am sure we could find a number of departments who would benefit, whether it be swing space or other office needs met in that space, and perhaps thats an interim accommodation until were ready to execute on this phase of moving additional books into the facility. Supervisor cohen all right. So well work collaboratively with the law library to affect the motion as amended. Supervisor cohen thank you. I appreciate that. I believe supervisor tang, i see your name on the roster. Supervisor tang thank you. I will go over to deputy City Attorney because im not sure we can do this amendment. Deputy City Attorney jon givner. The boards authority on this contract is to approve or reject, so you can vote up or down on the contract, but you cant approve the contract with conditions. You could continue the item or decide not to pass it until the parties come back with a revised lease that has new terms that include those conditions if the parties agree to them. Supervisor cohen mr. Updike. For clarity, the amendment proposed is consistent with the current lease. I believe its simply direction about how we use the space under the lease, so it would not require amendment to the lease. Its not an amendment to the contract, i think its an amendment to the direction that was submitted, so if that if that helps with the legal opinion. Supervisor cohen it sounds like we might need to continue this item so we can figure it out and were not on the spot and making rash decisions. I think we can certainly do that. If we could return in one week and bring it forward as a Committee Report just to meet some deadlines we have with ownership so this would get included out of the board process before the recess, that would be greatly appreciated. Supervisor cohen all right. So lets take a motion to continue this item. Supervisor tang. Supervisor tang all right. Ill make a motion to continue this item for one week. Supervisor cohen all right. Thank you. Weve taken Public Comment already, so can we take that motion without objection . Well take it without objection. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, i believe we left off at was it item 8 . Clerk yes. Supervisor cohen mr. Clerk, please call that item. Clerk item 8, hearing to consider the release of reserve does fund to the office of economic and Workforce Development placed on budget and finances committee reserve by ordinance 15617, in the amount of 225,000 for chinatown Economic Development activities. Supervisor cohen so weve got mr. Joaquin torres from the office of Workforce Development oh, mr. Peskin, ill acknowledge you before i acknowledge mr. Torres. Supervisor peskin thank you, supervisor cohen. I want to thank you for putting this 25,000 for office of Workforce Development on reserve. My office expressed a desire for the Community Outreach to determine the best use of these funds to further meet the needs of the chinatown community. I also directed the Controllers Office to development a study on the impact this on the chinatown corridor, and we found that the delays to the construction at the chinatown station site have caused a clear decline in the profitablity of this praj will merchant community. Im now confident that the Community Outreach has taken place, and im also quite pleased and want to thank the Mayors Office and the mta or identifying an additional 225,000 to provide grants to merchants most impacted by the construction of the central chinatown subway station. I really want to thank mr. Torres for his work around this issue, and i appreciate that. The eligible uses of these additional funds has been expanded to meet the actual needs of these chinatown merchants, which include basic things like rent, utility, and wages. The additional 225,000 is not before this body today for approval, but im informed that eowd is soliciting applications and determining the extent of direct and indirect impacts to adjacent businesses in furtherance of distributing these funds by the end of this calendar year. Im also looking forward to identifying funds within the larger central subway mitigation package for the installation of security cameras along this part of stockton street which has been plagued by graffiti and crime since the outset of construction. In the meantime, colleagues, i respectfully request your support for the release of the 225,000 that is before you today, which im informed will Fund Additional Corridor Management staff, as well as a pilot program, to substanceidize parking fees at the port square garage by will also be helpful to the Economic Vitality of chinatown, and thank you mr. Torres. Thank you very much, supervisor peskin. To the chair, if i may, i believe supervisor addressed both the issues that are before us today as well as the comprehensive challenges that weve been addresses quite closely on the ground with a variety of Community Groups and business stakeholders. We are moving forward with that, and in addition to what supervisor peskin mentioned here, there will be additional marketing both for the marking validation program, in addition for stockton street merchants who have been impacting by that construction, so well be looking forward to aligning those resources against each other for the benefit of stockton street as well as the greater chinatown area. Supervisor cohen thank you. Is that it. Supervisor peskin thats it. Supervisor cohen wow, short and sweet and to the point. Supervisor tang, i see your name on the roster. Supervisor tang thank you very much, and i policyize if i missed your comments as you were talking over there, but you mentioned there was 100,000 going to parking. I was just wondering what the details of that were. Theyre going to be dwand in the partnership with the mta in the weeks ahead. We wanted to wait until the funds were formally released so we could get working with the mta. What we wanted to do was both promote additional activity for customers to be further attracted to stockton street in particular, but then, also enhance additional activity for additional hours of operation and customer activity and attraction during other hours in chinatown to facilitate greater vitality in the neighborhood, so well be working with the mta in regards to those pieces, who gets enos enhanced and how. Essentially, it allows them a validation sticker as a reduced value, so for example, that they would pay 1 for two hours of parking, which a customer would receive upon purchase of a certain minimum amount during a time in chinatown at their business, and the next step for us would be to determine, well, what next step makes that better for the mta. Supervisor tang and then, how will you measure this effectiveness of this pilot. Certainly. One of the pieces that well be looking at, supervisor, is the amount of utilization, what businesses are benefiting from the utilization of that, and then, we will be reviewing that about eight to ten weeks after its implementation, to see if we need to tweak it, who any further we should open it up to, in addition to the merchants on stockton and the chinatown areas. Supervisor cohen excuse me. Lets go to the b 34rd a report, before we go to mr. Torres. Yes, the purpose of the reserve and the use of the funds has been discussed by supervisor peskin and the representative from oewd. We do show the use of funds on page 13. 100,000 would go to the chinatown resources, another 125,000 would go towards parking and promotion of businesses in chinatown, and we recommend the release of these reserves. Supervisor cohen all right. I appreciate that recommendation, and we will take it under advisement. All right. Ladies and gentlemen is there any one that would like to comment on item number 8. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor yee . Supervisor yee yes. I make a motion to. Clerk i believe the motion is to release 225,000. Supervisor cohen supervisor, would you. Supervisor yee i make a motion that we. Supervisor cohen that we release 225,000. Supervisor yee yes. Supervisor cohen all right. Well take that without objection. Mr. Clerk, item 9, please. Clerk item number 9 ordinary naens amending the business and tax regulations and heath codes to require the director of the office of khanna disso collect permit applications fees of 2,000 and annual license fees of 5,000 for the cannabis business permits, authorize the department of Public Health to impose fees relating to the inspection of cannabis businesses, and establish annual license fees for cannabis construction permits. Supervisor cohen ladies and gentlemen, im introducing a simple amendment that waives application and first year fees for equity operator applicants. As you may recall, we had a very long discussion tuesday evening with several amendments that were ultimately accepted. Of the amendments that were made, includes an Equity Program that weve created and now has been voted on, and the ordinance before us today supports the typical and necessary infrastructure for evaluating the legal permitting requirements for the cannabis relates updates to the planning code. This also enables us to Cost Recovery to the office of cannabis and the department of Public Health for this regulatory investigations. So my amendment simply waives those foes in the first year, so they include a couple of things. Ill read them into the record. First, the up front any objection flee of 2,000, second, the hourly consulting fee of 110 perhour for processing. The department of Public Health inspection fees, which vary from 750,000 to 3,700 based on the type and the size of the business. The first year operational license of 3,000, and and so that concludes the the suggested fee waivers. As the Equity Program is designed to give a competitive equity to those who are disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs, we must also take every step to ensure that the program is not ham strung by errors that attacks broader entrepreneurship in low income communities. The equity report published by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission found significant barriers to the cannabis industry along with a few well worn lines access to real estate, access to capital, and access to affordable legal guidance and business acumen. So we encouraged, on tuesday evening, community and industry wide support of the Equity Program through businessmen orring, through incubation, and economic and Workforce Development, weve ended the traditional businessmen operators until weve established and permitted our pipeline of qualified equity operators, and a and through these amendments that we as a city are doing our part to support entrepreneurs that have a limited access to capital and specifically those who find themselves with limited resources for various for various reasons. All ongoing permitting fees will be reinstated after the first year of operation, and with that, id like to turn to miss Nicole Elliott for the second portion of the presentation on item 9. Chair cohen, supervisors, nicole el jot, director of the office of cannabis. Thank you for having me here today. As you remember, in september, when you created this office, you directed us to deliver to you three things. The first, the fee schedule is what you have before you today. What it includes is a couple of things. It sets a onetime nonrefundable application fee in year one of 2,000 with a 3,000 permit fee. It sets a cannabis business license fee at 5,000 every year therefore, it sets a legal fee of 115 perhour with a minimum of two hours, and it sets a new fee schedule for the department of Public Health, their costs of initial and ongoing inspections, which the department is here to speak to today. All other departments will assess their fees separately, depending on the inspections and