Since the inception, the Whistleblower Program has been plagued by minor complaints. The 20102011 civil grand jury found that 36 were true whistleblower complaints alleging fraud, waste, and abuse. Then the Whistleblower Program developed a Risk Assessment policy that was designed to triage the complaints and sort them out into low, medium, or high risk complaints. For example, the medium risk cases involved potential losses of 10,000 to 50,000 or they implicate a mid level manager. The medium and high risk cases are not represented in the whistleblower reports. Instead, we get a preponder remembers of cases of low level employees who use Work Computers for personal business, who leave work early, or show up late, who gamble or sleep on the job, or who smoke in city cars and park them inappropriately. Preventing these abuses is worthwhile, but wheres the beef . We dont hear about the big money violations or mid to high level official misconduct. Why not . If the Whistleblower Program does not receive such complaints, they should know why. If the Whistleblower Program refers such complaints elsewhere, they should know how many involve violations of criminal or ethics law. Since the Whistleblower Program already categorizes complaints according to their low, medium, or high risk, they should ask why they are not reported as such. Thank you. Thank you dr. Kerr. Any other Public Comment . Good. Can you call the next item. Item number 6, opportunity for Committee Members to comment or take action on any matters within the committees jurisdiction. 20192020cgoboc work initiates. Good morning, just to remind everybody the format of this agenda item is to have a list of administrative and Committee Functions that you are working on during the year and we can report progress on any of them as need be. I will just run down the list and stop me at any point with your questions or comments. Standardized template. This was a desire of the committee during last fiscal year to look at the variations that you get from different programs and try to move towards a format you find most useful in terms of having them be common, use the same terminology, standard views for schedules and expense reporting, and so we didnt do work on that last year just given your capacity and ours. We are prepared to do work on it during the current fiscal year. I think that chair chu has designated herself, volunteered to be the liaison on this subject, and i think probably what will happen between now and your january meeting is ill have some of my staff refresh and build on a matrix that we worked on before that shows the bond programs, the type of schedule theyre providing, what their reporting period is, so we can see the variability that exists and we can explore how useful the committee has found the reports and where we may look for improvements. So you have a period now, november and december where you dont have an inperson meeting, so i think we should be able to find time to have a liaison meeting on that subject if that sounds appropriate. One other thing. Can you ask them to go back and look at our previous meetings to you know, understand how we use it. Brian was referring back to some specific information in some of the reports, so i think we can use that as facts on how were using them, how that information is actively being used in a meeting. I know brenda also had interacted with the reports in an indepth way. Okay. The expenditure audit, this is where we have reviews of expenditures and bond programs. You will see issuances. Mark, will you update us on your schedule, any changes that may have happened . Sure. Just a quick update. So we completed expenditure audits of eight various projects. We have one ongoing, the 2016 Public Health and safety program. We will be issuing that in either december or early january, right in time for your next cgobos meeting in january. Then we have plans to touch the programs we havent touched before, including the Affordable Housing program and the sea wall safety. Those will be deferred to next fiscal year. We want to make sure theres enough expenditures to audit and that will be the case for the 2018 sea wall safety, so well put that on our work plan for next fiscal year, and definitely the 2016 Affordable Housing, we should have enough transactions to audit by the beginning of next fiscal year or end of this fiscal year. Were also planning on touchi touching or doing reaudits of the bonds we audited before. Looking at those projects within those bond programs that we did not audit in the past, just to make sure we have a full extent in coverage of the various projects within each bond program and we can attest to the fact that we audited all of the various projects within all of the bond programs. Do you have any concerns about the timing of the projects for the 2016 Affordable Housing . It sounds like i mean they dont start until next summer, a year from now or so. I have some, but i mean there werent a lot of expenditures in that one the last time i looked. I understand that theres not much to look at. I believe it only gotten started on 3 of the 30 items that are in there when i was looking at it in our report. So obviously, i love to see them as soon as possibility, but we cant audit what hasnt been spent. I understand that we have to keep an eye on that. Okay. So the port for me, its very much about black box over there, and we probably would have learned more if they come today with some information. So, it feels to me that, thats one that may creep up on us, maybe not the whole thing. Its not the whole parks bond. Right. Those have not been issued. Im talking about the 2012 parks bond. Its that. Right. A more detailed report would be key. Got it. And with the content they get from here, ill reach out and meet up and see if we can get to the bottom of it and get a report. And well talk about it in our next meeting. That will end up having some concerns, particularly as we go into the sea wall where we will have a lot more money. We certainly can do as part of our work planning for next fiscal year is to revisit the bonds we have audited and figure out which portions or projects are attributed to the port and we can use that as our way to narrow down the scope of our o g. O. Bond projects. Okay. Great, thank you. Okay, next item 1c is the schedule of upcoming bond issuances. You have a memo in your packet and our director of public fitness finance is here to answer any questions or comment. The sea wall, will that go to the board in april . It went to the board last april. It has been healthed held up a little bit, but we should have an update at the next meeting or the meeting after. Great. And im sorry if i asked this last time, but the transportation and road improvement, 258, that seems like a large number for issuance. I looked at the encumbered and unencumbered. We have 50 million thats unencumbered. Prior to determining the final bond amount, we will make sure there are projects they have planned for expenditure within the next 3 years per i. R. S. Guidelines. One note that was mentioned earlier, we are pleased to report that we did sell the last series bond for Affordable Housing last week, about 93 million and then we also sold the final series for the parks bond, which will be a port project, so thats in the amount of 3. 1 million for that final port project. Right now, were just starting to do our work on vetting projects for both the Public Health and transportation bond to determine what size we will be bringing forward for issuance in the spring and were evaluating some refinancing opportunities, given the low Interest Rate environments for our g. O. Bonds. Is the market looking favorably op our bonds . Most definitely. We still have 2 of our 3 Credit Ratings are aaa and the next is aaplus. Thats a good thing. Congratulations. Thank you. Can i ask something. Sure, please. On the 22b road improvement bond, do we have a scope for that yet, a description . I know rochelle is here in the audience. Hes shaking his head. Its something that were just now selling the bonds last week for the Affordable Housing and parks. This is our next area of focus and well be determining that soon. Yeah. Were just getting started. We havent put a Financing Team together yet. Ive been in contact with project managers for both of those bond programs and theyre confident that there is a need for another to be issued. Theyre still in the process of scoping out and putting together an expenditure schedule. Once theyre ready, hopefully in the next few weeks, the plan is to meet with them and get their plans and the projects, and matrix make sure their expectations are reasonable before we move forward with any bond sales. The last conversation i had, they were hoping to have an issuance for the full balance of the program bond. I put that in there as a headsup to you that it could potentially be as large as that but well validate what theyre asking for when we go over the projects. Our next meeting is january. Yeah, by then we should have that. All right, moving on to 1d. Were going to spend a couple minut minutes on this. Again as a reminder, last year on your behalf, we had a Public Perception survey that was conducted by one of the providers in our prequalified pool, where we have a pool of providers that do Public Opinion testing, focus groups, and work of that type. We use them for a lot of different purposes in the city. They did intercept surveys and tested two sites in the bond program that you oversee. We were testing Public Knowledge about the site before and after visitor use, their perception of the use of bond funds, some of the demographics of the people using those sites and we got some interesting findings and feedback on how people perceive the bonds and the kind of improvements that rise up highest in public favor. I think you were strongly interested in that type of content, wanted to do another bond. Were interested in focusing on Affordable Housing. So, i did a little bit of work reaching out to the Affordable HousingProgram Managers and staff in the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development in the Mayors Office to discuss it and had talked about bringing back to you a lets of potential sites that we could make the subject of a Public Perception survey. So, i have those sites, but let me add a couple of qualifiers before we look at the list. You know, as you observed in the discussion with member natoli and the expenditures audit, there isnt a lot of money out the door yet in the Affordable Housing bond. There arent any completed projects yet that were completed with these bond. Thats something to keemenp in mind. You can do a Perception Survey focused on this bond. You can wait 18 to 24 months and choose another bond program to work on and by which time there would be more expenditures and hopefully completed projects in the Affordable Housing bond. Those are two options. At the same time, part of my discussion with bond Program Managers here is the public isnt all that cognisant of the difference in Funding Sources. So what youre interested in is getting more public understanding of the feeling around Affordable Housing, how the city funds those things, how the building processes goes, and the number of subjects we talked about that you can test here, you can go ahead and test some of those Public Opinion things, whether or not the Funding Source was g. O. Bonds. Thats an option. Just to again remind everybody, we talked about there are a lot of things you may want to test in Affordable Housing. Its not the same as streetscapes where youre testing users and whether there are g. O. Bonds or not and if they remember voting for it. These things are different. Do you want to test the perception of understanding of stakeholders communities, the residents of the projects, the neighbors, the businesses in the neighborhood, the housing providers, the housing managers, builders, or are you trying to actually test citizen voter understanding of how the city funds Affordable Housing and how it manages its work in that area. Any one of those things is project interesting in legitimate possibilities. Im putting those out there. Lastly, the projects themselves, there are five projects they gave me, which is a mix of funding by the city zone Housing Trust fund, federal home funds, Development Impact fees, theres a good range of geographic spread, and different target populations, which were funded with these projects. I can detail any of them if youre interested in taking that approach. Thats where i gotten to so far. Id appreciate your thoughts and feedback on how you would like to proceed. Yeah. I still think there is a lot to be learned, even if were not talking about completed projects. I think its still interesting, especially because as we look at another Affordable Housing bond going on the ballot, a lot of things i hear from people when they ask me is, i dont see anything happening with this. I dont know about it. Especially given the kind of oversight were doing, i care a lot about providers, i care about construction, all these things matter. I think from our viewpoint, what were really interested in is we require twothirds of the voters to approve this, so i think their perception is an important component in this. Their understanding of who is being served and what exactly we are accomplishing with that money because a lot of people say nothing. They dont feel like anything is happening. So, i guess to that one part of timing, i think there is still some valuable things to be gained from this. As to some of the other points, happy to follow up more. I definitely have some thoughts, but i want to think on it a little bit more about some of the other aspects you brought up, for sure. I have a different point of view. I think we should stay within our jurisdiction, which is to ensure bond funded projects are carried out to the expectations as much as possible by the voters who approve them. It is not our job to start digging into what people think of Affordable Housing in the city. I would rather postpone pegs suggestion when there are projects to pull on and look at Something Else the next couple of years. Really, im interested in everything that you listed of course, and that peg listed, but thats not our job. Our job is to evaluate bond funded projects and while it is important of course to make sure theyre bond funded projects that the city needs, its again, we are reactive. That is this committees role, to look at projects after the bonds have been approved by voters, not to start getting into issues of parks or Affordable Housing or transit. Its not our jobs. I would actually prefer to wait on a perception study for Affordable Housing and perhaps look at one of our jurisdictional areas. I think lauren makes a valid point. There is a lot of Affordable Housing going on and i dont know where the funding is. Its so complex and meshed in a lot of different things. For example, one of the ones off the top of my head was ping young, one of the things funned by a bond. Clementine towers, there is a lot of confusion there. I think thats a valid point. Its after the fact for us. If we were to poll or to get a perspective, you know, accommodation of the residents in the project, the surrounding area, and yeah, the shops and owners in the area, does it bring business . Does it bring economics and keep it here . The and gave me some edits and the clean copy with all those edits that was included in your packet today. If you have further comments or edits or suggestions, we can make them now and then you can approve it on that basis. The only thing i left blank on purpose was the date on the front, which we usually put the publication date when we push things out on the Controllers Office website. Just to remind you, an attachment to this report is my offices g. O. Bond report. So you dont need to worry that your report needs to include detailed content on scope, schedule, and budget because all of that is here in that format. So just to remind you, that is how it will look. It will get posted. Great. I think were going to have to vote on this one. Does anyone have any addition changes you like to see in the document . I had a question. There were edits that you made to my report and i read this. I dont see that there were any changes. It was just small things like tense or punctuation. Oh, i probably needed that. [laughter] nothing material. We tried to preserve the original voice of each speaker. Great to know. Is there a proposal to vote on this . Move. Second. I guess i move to approve this. Just for the record, there is no member of the public present. Great. Great, thank you for your work on this. We will get it posted on the website and congratulations. Thank you. Item 2b, your work plan. The only change that i am noting is that you ask the port park Program Manager to be present at your january meeting. The slides they provided in the current packet didnt have details that you want to see, so you would like a bond Program Style report from them. Am i understanding that correctly . I believe so. Part is bart will meet with them so he can give direct feedback on what were looking for. A bond style report would be great. They werent here. Were they here the last time . I dont remember if they were. I dont remember myself. We will reach out to them and add them to your agenda for january. Thank you. Thats the only change to the work plan im aware of. Great. Yeah, the only flag i would say is that there seems to be quite a bit in january. Thats life. What do we have in january . Im also interested in hearing from the port since i dont think i seen them since ive been on this committee. Technically theyre done with most of their stuff, so it should be a short report. That is our hope. So january 27th meeting would have bond program report, Affordable Housing bond report, liaison report for the Public Health and safety, and the liaison report for my program, and we hope to finish our fiscal year 1819 summary report and present on that, and then the autd dit report for the public report for the expenditure that mark mentioned and you will be adding the port. Do with want to do a paper report and not have them . No, i like charles to attend. I like the staff to attend. They only come once a year. I think its important that they come. Okay. Okay, well try to manage the schedule and well tell everybody to be tight and well look at the timing. That will be great. Thanks. Any other business . Yeah, i had a couple of items. When i made the liaison report in our last meeting, i brought up seven questions that i asked of m. T. A. Staff and i got an email answer to all of them, both peg and mary were copied on that email. If youre interested in seeing it, im sure mary can forward it to you. I think what i like to do is when we next hear from them, or when we have our next liaison meeting is to sit down and discuss them with the staff in more detail. They answered the questions that would be a follow up question. It bares further discussion. On the 2008sfgh rebuild bond, i think my last report on that since we closed out any event, there was an outstanding claim passed through from one of the subcontractors from webcore to the city. The last i reported is that they looked like they were going to settle. I checked with the City Attorneys Office and they said in fact they had. There is a subsequent lawsuit by the city against the designer, claiming there is an omission. There is an omission insurance coverage, so there is a source of money to get that paid. In other words, they are not going to bankrupt an architect. The architect had to get this insurance in order to get the contract from the city. The city always pays for it through the price they pay the designer. That isnt scheduled for trial until next year and even at that, its an early date, no doubt the architect and its attorneys, which consist of the bond company will ask for a postponement. Im going to predict right now its going to settle short of going to court. But we dont know that yet. Further, i dont know what effect that has on the bond, and how they reconcile the bond because its money that was spent to settle the claim with the general contractor came from the bond as they recover any of that money from the Insurance Company for the designer, i dont know what happens. Does that come back . Does that reconcile in completing the bond process reconciliation . I dont know. Now you know all that i know. Thank you for following up on those things. Anything else . I think were adjourned. Thank you. The office of controllers Whistle Blower Program is how City Employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in City Government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of City Government that. 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Its a Real Community gathering place. What makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, its a great pedestrian street. Theres people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. The businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. It harkens back to supporting local. Polk street doesnt look like anywhere u. S. A. It has its own businesses and personality. We have Clothing Stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. Theres a music studio across the street. Its raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. I think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. Again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, its very important that you do so. Welcome back to 49 hang on , have you seen our first video . If not, click on the link before in the description and watch before you watch this one. Welcome back to 49 south van ness. We are excited to show you around today as we have now topped out and we are well underway for construction. Early in june this year, we had a topping out ceremony. It was the very last steel beam that was placed at the roof penthouse level. We had a number of speakers who came to join us. It was a great event and we cant wait to show you what is going on inside. [ ] what has happened in the last year is Steel Construction is now topped out at the top. Down below us, as you can see, as a full foundation. The basement is almost complete. We have concrete, we have steel, we have framing, we have a little bit of everything. To get started, i would love to walk you through what we call the form. It is a really exciting new way to get from here into 49 south then ness. It is a new Public Open Space that cuts through the walking allows people to walk through there and gives the civic Building Three or more ways to be connected to this really big block. [ ] we are in the pavilion gallery. Right behind me as south van ness. It is very close to the street. You will see a curved wall with an l. E. D. Screen. This space will be used for a number of different purposes. It will be also one of the most prominent spaces in this building. We are here in the main atrium lobby. Behind me here, there are the grand stairs that will eventually be fully finished with wood and this will go to the level to permit center. Welcome to the permit center. We are now on the second floor of the building. The permit center is the driver for this project. Picture this. I am a plan checker and im sitting on the inside of the permitting counter. And i am a member of the public, and i get to come in here and enjoy this big, open, beautiful space as well as tables and chairs behind to open up my plans, review them. The terrace is just outside. Tons of windows, daylight views. It is very exciting upgrades and improvements. [ ] now were on level three, which has a really great building amenity, the childcare center. In fact, we are standing at the terrace, or the outdoor space that is connected to the childcare center. The kids will have access to a huge area for playspace, as well as a really nice interior space for three classrooms. When the kids are out here playing, they will get a very close up view of the historical clock tower. A some of you may have seen, we have preserved a historic clock tower that one point was the cocacola bottling plant, so we have tried to integrate this into our building and thoughtful and meaningful ways, and preserve some of the character of the site. [ ] the two have so the tower joined in the center. The idea was to create a scene where all of the collaboration spaces can rise vertically to the architecture is a public as the public comes to the Office Building, they are physically within a public realm, but visually connected to the inner workings. The theme is going to be a Collaborative Center that includes an atrium nested by a series of stairs. This is the bottom of the threestory stack. At the bottom of this, would be a collaborative breakout space where you can have meetings, have lunches, just talk to your coworkers. [ ] we have Conference Rooms throughout the building, including the Coffee Center and the Training Center which will be used by staff and potentially for things like city hearings. There are a lot of amenities in the building that make it really be unique really unique and special. [ ] one of the unique aspects of the building is it is clad in eight and a system that will adjust the intensity of the tent of the glass as the sun moves around it and is whether patinas weather patterns change. Everything from the glazing that covers the glazing, to the water system, were really excited to bring this tower to San Francisco. [ ] it is a pretty exciting project. A civic Office Building for the city of San Francisco. It is pretty unique. I dont believe the city has built a new building of this type in at least 50 years. Were really excited to partner with the city to create a new experience for you and for all of us. Thank you so much for joining us today. We hope you really enjoyed the tour inside the construction of 49 south of then ness. Watch our next episode when we give you another update on the projects being that see next time. [ ] [laughter] once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask twice. You can always find me on the court. [ ] we have been able to participate in 12 athletics wheelchairs. They provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a National Paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. We are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i im looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs that these people are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied, to be able to see and to try different sports, and to appreciate trying different things. People can come and check out this chairs and use them. But then also friday evening, from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. [ ]