Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Appropriations Committees 20240712

Remotely, at the same extent if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available both channel 26 andsfgovtv. Org are dreaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone, by calling 888 2045984, access 35010083501008. Code 3501008. And then press pound and pound again. When youre connected, dial one then zero to be added to the queue to speak. Youll be lined up in the system in the order you dial one and zero. While youre waiting, the system will be silent. The system will notify you when youre in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. Everyone must account for the same time delays and speaking discrepancies, coverage and streaming. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly. And turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email me at linda. Wong sfgov. Org. If you submit Public Comment esaw email, it will be included in the legislative file as part of the matter. Written comments may be sent via u. S. Postal service through 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place. Items will be forwarded to the full forward for consideration on june 2nd, unless otherwise stated. Commissioner fewer can you please call item number 1. Clerk yes, madam chair. Resolution authorizing the Human Services agency to execute a Grant Agreement between the city and county of through the Human Services agency. In the am of 144 million. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item shoulded 888 2045984, access code 3501008. And press one and then zero to line up to speak. And today we have with us our guest. Im sorry if i mispronounce your name. Director of ihhs. And then we also have mark burns, executive director of homebridge. And we have joe nielsen, h. S. A. Deputy director of programs. And david, h. S. A. Contract manager. And i believe christa is up first. Hi. Good morning, chair fewer, supervisor walton and supervisor mandelman. Im the director of inhome services, the program of disability and aging services. Today im here to present for your consideration a request from the Human Service agency to enter into a contract with homebridge for the provision of contract mode ihhsbeginning julh june 20th, 2025. Ihhs is a medical benefit, San Francisco general fund will cover 27. 5 million. Please note that we originally submitted a resolution for 144,160,580. But agree with the recommendation to amend the legislation to reduce the contracts not to exceed amount to 142,000,265. Commissioner mar ihhs is a critically important entitle program that provides home care for lowincome, older adults and individuals with disabilities. In San Francisco, our ihhs Program Assists nearly 23,000 consumers and living safely in the community. The department of disability and aging services operates this program on behalf of the state. And our department is responsible for carrying out standardized assessment with ihhs recipients to offer as program elgibility and allocate home care hours for household assistance such as laundry and meal preparation. To support all San Francisco, ihhs is utilizing the program, we operate a robust range of supports designed to meet the tiered needs of our consumer population. This is the ihhs continuum of choice and support. Contract mode is an essential part of this continuum. If the services help some of our citys most vulnerable residents to live safely in the community, specifically homebridge provides supported and supportive home care to roughly 4 of the ihss consumers, who cant direct their own home care. Consumers of contract mode often do not have any other support systems in their live. And without services from homebridge, would be a significant risk of eviction, hospitalization, and longterm institutionalization. During the covid19 emergency, homebridge has further demonstrated their value role, through the implementation of the caregiver Response Team or as they call them sert. The rapid creation of this team required great flexibility, ininnovative thinking to ensure worker and consumer safety and effective provision of services in an everevolving team. The team is operating seven days a week in emergency site tallahassee are supporting homeless residents to shelterinplace in. The duties range from supporting wellness checks, emergency oncall. I want to thank you for your time and consideration of this resolution. In addition to contracts and budget staff from the Human Service agency, as you said, mark burns is the executive director of homebridge is available to answer any questions you might have. Supervisor fewer colleagues, any questions or comments . Seeing none, well hear from the b. L. A. , please. Good morning, chair fewer, members of the committee. This the resolution would approve a new contract between homebridge and ihss for services for the fiveyear period from july 2020 to june 2025. Homebridge was selected through a competitive process, but they were the only responder to the process, as i recall. But they also have been providing these services for a number of years now. We summarized the contract expenditures on page 4 of our report. As youll see, this is a budget we were provided by the department. The expenditures are about 142. 2 million, which is less than the amount in the resolution, so we do recommend a reduction to amend the restore deuce to the amount provided in the contract budget. And we recommend approval. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, madam clerk, lets open up item number 1 for Public Comment, please. Clerk yes, madam chair, operation is checking to see if theres callers in the queue. If caller ares ready, if you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until youre prompted to begin at the beep. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. Id like to make a motion to move this item to the board with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk clerk, could i have roll call . Clerk excuse me. Supervisor fewer yes. And i can make a motion to approve the amendment brought forth by the b. L. A. Could i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion to attend item number 1. Supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . I three ayes. Roll call vote, please. Clerk on that motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Supervisor mandelman . Aye. Chair fewer . Aye. Clerk the ayes ayes are thri ayes. Colleagues, well move to item number 3 first. Clerk item number, approving and updated conditional property change agreement for property change agreement. Under the jurisdiction of the Fire Department, in exchange for a portion of the property at 425 to 439 washington street. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the 888 2045984. Also available to speak are San Francisco Fire Department communications and Outreach Coordinator olivia and mark from mohcdand jonathan. So right now were going hear from our director of real estate, mr. Endrico. Good good morning, chair few, supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton. Again my name endrico and i am the director of real estate. Im seeking your positive recommendation on the updated conditional Property Exchange agreement or cpeafor the potential exchange of cityowned property located at 530 sansom street for a privately owned parcel, which is a portion of 425 to 439 washington street. This exchange is part of the new fire station 13 project. I have a presentation, if i can share the screen . Hopefully you can see that . Supervisor fewer yes, we can. Just a bit of legislative history. In june of 2017, the board authorized the use of the air rights at 530 sansome for the development of Affordable Housing. The board authorized soliciting a proposal to develop marketrate housing and a new fire station at 530 sansome street, with the revenue dedicated to Affordable Housing at 72 pacific avenue. In may of 2019, the board conditionally approved the original cpea again conditional Property Exchange agreement, to facilitate the new highrise development and the new fire station, both at no cost to the city. Since that time, the project has been redesigned to better meet the needs of the Fire Department and the anticipated demands of the marketplace. These changes are substantive enough to warrant a new conditional approval, which we are before you today seeking. The changes from the original proposed cpa are as follows. The four station has been increased in size to 20,300 square feet. The original size was 19,266 square feet. This marks an increase of a little more than 1,000 square feet and a land partialel allocation increased by 26 . The developer is now swapping out 35 forsale condos for 40,000 square feet of office. In addition, the developer is adding a voluntary fee of 1. 6 million. The fire station delivery cost has increased to 31. 2 million. And we also added an additional apparatus bay for the fire station. And ill walk through the details of those changes. In the fee structure, the prior proposal included both the job housing linkage and inlieu fees. With the removal of the condos or office, switching to j. H. Fees would result in less fee revenue. In order to offset this decrease, the developer has agreed to add an additional fee to capture those reduced revenues of 1. 6 million. Thats making the city whole for that change. The developer is also agreed to cover the increased cost for the delivery of the firstclass, nextgeneration fire station. The cost increase was 5. 7 million. Fees allocated to 772 pacific Affordable Housing project will exceed 5. 9 million, which is sufficient to complete the financing gap of that project. Originally budgeted 4 million for this project. Now were at 5. 9 million. Again there are no fiscal impacts to the city, due to these changes. The condition of project Exchange Agreement is also subject to the board and mayors ratification post. Thats the action that youre taking today is not the final approval of this project. With you will you will have another opportunity to review and approve the project, after the process. The efficient delivery of the new fire station, be it private delivery at no cost to the city, is currently estimated at 31. 2 million, which as i said before is an increase from the original cost. Private delivery put the risk of those cost escalations on the developer and not the city. Upon completion of the project, any cost savings in the station delivery are realized by related, except that any savings below the original cost of 25. 5 million will be paid to the city at the close of escrow. , in other words, this risk is bracketed. The city in any event will certainly get the value and benefit of the original 25. 5 million price. However, if there are savings between 31 million and the original 25 million, those savings go to the developer. On the other hand, if there are Cost Increases over the 31. 2 million, that risk is born by the developer. All housing job linkage fees, which were estimated to be 5. 9 million, will be dedicated to the 772 pacific avenue Affordable Housing project. This project will also require Transferable Development rights, which will be purchased by the city, which will generate an additional 5 million in general Fund Revenues. The project also requires prevailing wage and other city requirements, that would apply not only to the building of the new fire station, but the hotel and office development. The developer is increasing its financial participation, while at the same time our updated appraisal shows that the citys Property Value has actually declined. The project would next proceed with entitlements. So if the approval is obtained, we anticipate permitting in 2021, 2022 after the final agreement is ratified and the ancillary documents. Construction will begin in early 2022 and a new project should be completed by the end of 2023. Just to give you a visual of what the project looks like in your orientation. What this picture is, its not a very good one, i apologize. What its intended to show is the pink box in the upper right lets go back. How do you go back . One second, please. There we go. The pink box is the Current Location of the fire station and its on the corner lot. The new fire station will be located in the block that is bordered in blackout lines. Just to give you an orientation from the neighborhood. You see that the new project will be facing sansome street, it will be bordered by washington and merchant street. This is a diagram view of the stack of the project, as currently envisioned. Youll see the fire station in the lower righthand side. The Highrise Hotel office tower sits to its left. And you can see that portion of it is over the fire station. This is a rendering of the North Elevation on sansome street, facing the project. You can see the fire station in the lower left. And the highrise tower above it. Again noting the cantilever over a portion of the fire station. Youll also note that there are four bays in the fire station, when the original proposal only had three. Next steps. The developer has made significant design changes. We believe that these changes favor the city and they produce a better project for the fire station. It is also in favor of the developer, because these changes deliver a better project, that is positioned to be successful in tomorrows marketplace. And specifically switching out the office for the condos. That concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any of your questions. I also have with me jonathan, the Senior Vice President for related california. I believe mara from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development is also on the line. And Olivia Scanlon from the Fire Department are also available to answer your questions. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Mr. Pinnic, i have one clarification. In your presentation, you mentioned about a couple of facts. You mentioned that our City Property has the value has decreased. And and i think you gave a verbally you said a some of i think it was before that. The page before that one. Yeah. You said 5 million and you have 3 million plus. So is it, indeed, 5 million . Im sorry. Could you repeat the question . Supervisor fewer on the second bullet point, when you read it out loud, were reading, resulting in additional general Fund Revenues of 3 million plus. And you gave in your verbal presentation 5 million. Chair fewer, i must have misspoken. We anticipate that the sale of t. D. R. Will generate a little more than 3 million. Supervisor fewer okay. Shucks. Okay. I thought it was the 5 million. No. The linkage fee Prime Minister 5. 9 million. Additional 3 million in t. D. R. Supervisor fewer thank you very much for the clarification. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, there is no report on this. So madam clerk, can we open up this item for Public Comment, please . Clerk yes, madam chair. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until youre promised to begin at the beep. Yes, madam clerk, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you. And thank you, mr. Pinnic, for your presentation and all of your work on this. Colleagues, id like to make ha motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Aye. Clerk three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please read item number 4. Clerk yes. To enter an agreement between the city and the county for microsoft Cloud Software and Enterprise Products for a 39month term from june 1st, 2020, through august 31st, 2023, in an amount not to exceed 40 million. Members of the public who want to provide Public Comment, should call 888 2045984, access code 3501008. And. Supervisor preston press one and then zero to line up to speak. Supervisor fewer today we have linda from the city and executive director from the department of technology. Good morning, board members. Id like to share my screen. Ready . Were ready to go. Thank you for your time this morning. And thank you also to the financial team, policy team and, of course, sfgov and the Clerks Office for the virtual meeting. Of course, this is new for all of us. But its working well. Thank you for this opportunity. D. T. Is requesting authorization and approval for a threeyear, citywide Enterprise Agreement for microsoft products. And ill talk to you a little bit about what that includes. This Enterprise Agreement is a contract with for the purchase of microsoft products, software licenses, maintenance and support and training. These products include our productivity tools, office 365, server and server for our databases, as your Cloud Storage and server processing and cybersecurity. This was a competitive solicitation. We are piggybacking on the riverside contract, which means were leveraging that contract with microsoft. And it was negotiated on behalf of the state of california. Its negotiated at a governmentlevel d. Importantly it also includes a minus 2 discount. There is no other state in the u. S. That has received a discount over and above the level d pricing, let alone the extra 2 discount. We created a pool of 10 qualified microsoft resellers and conducted an r. F. Q. For these resellers and zones was selected as the lowest responsive bidder for this procurement. A bit about Enterprise Agreements and why theyre so important to the city. This Enterprise Agreement represents basically 26 contracts for 26 departments in the city. All in one contract. The departments can order licenses immediately and pay annually. D. T. Maintains a pool of licenses available to the departments and even order, if handled separately, would have required a procurement process, as opposed to this pool of licenses, that is available to our departments. This Enterprise Agreement really helps us with transparency and visibility on the total city spend for this contract and for this technology. So we have much more efficient procurement and vendor management. And, of course, theres savings as we negotiated better discount, because we had a volume purchase. So the savings is definitely in the work that it takes to bring through procurements much more efficient. We are able to control total spend and we definitely have savings through our volume and similar terms and conditions. The term of our contract with zone is 39 months. Its a minimum commitment of 32 million. The previous contract cass was 32 million. It includes 4 million projected annual products, for additional products. So based on historical usage, we know the amount will go up or down. Were projecting 4 million. And 4 million reserved for email enhancement security. About the security enhancement. That serve is would be dedicated to the threat protection product line from microsoft. The Enterprise Mobility security suite and both of these new capabilities, with the microsoft lines, would allow us to replace some current products that we have right now. Of course, this procurement would be subject to future appropriation by the mayor and board of supervisors. So a bit about how this contract was negotiated and the savings thats in this contract. First, of course, we pooled all of the microsoft licenses to obtain that volume discount. Again each department used to purchase their licenses individually. So they have this allows us to be much more efficient in our use of licenses and minimizes that license use. We also have successfully negotiated a lower contract price. The governmentlevel d, minus the 2 , which resulted in the 700,000 contract savings. Also this includes unified support, which is the support, training, troubleshooting from microsoft, which was a 15 of Contract Value and we reduced it with negotiations to 7 . Thats a 1. 2 Million Contract savings. And also most importantly, again is this management of our licenses across the city. So we monitor the usage of the microsoft licenses, and were proactively with our departments to deactivate licenses that are not being used. We were able to reduce over 6,000 licenses, which resulted in a 1. 5 Million Contract savings. Key benefits of the microsoft product line. Of course, were all familiar with the productivity tool, the use of power b. I. For our dashboards and visualization, teams, which has been so critical to our telecommuting for filesharing, chat, video conferencing, share point for document management. I just looked at some new statistics. And for over the last nine weeks, as we have been in our emergency, we have saved over 1 million documents into over 200 new 200,000 new sharepoint sites. So weve been very busy. And, of course, accessibility. The microsoft product line provides closed captioning, speechtotext, dictation, and various integrations with pointing devices. I would like to point out microsofts role, as we have partnered with them in our Covid Response. Definitely our Virtual Meetings are all possible because of microsoft teams. It has been used in the department of technology for our the vision meetings, every meeting, keeping in touch with our clients, as well as our staff. They were very helpful when we had a security problem that needed to be resolved quickly, like in 24 hours. And they put their very best engineers on it immediately to work with sysco and oracle, which enabled our Virtual Private Network to over 15,000 remote workers. So we appreciated that support. They have been providing free training workshops and webinars on microsoft teams, sharepoint and one drive. And that has helped all of our workforce come up to speed quickly on these tools. And other initiatives such as security a security application that we built with power apps at the e. O. C. D. P. H. Covid dashboard was built with power b. I. A shared application for inmate exposure tracking has 100 users and was built with power app. So all of these tools help us be very effective and efficient and serve our community during this crisis. Sop im ready for any questions and i also have on the line mike, who is our chief information cybersecurity officer. Brian roberts is our senior policy advisory analyst. Our d. P. Contracts manager is on the phone and our soft contract leads is on the line. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, could we have the b. L. A. Report, please . Yes. Good morning, members of the committee. This contract this resolution approves the 39month contract between d. P. And zone l. L. C. , as was said. It was selected through a process. Because of timing, this would not actually go to the board until the after june 1st. The amount of the contract is 40 million. We summarized spending by department over the 39 months in page 9 of our report. Youll see that the amount is 32 million. And theres a 15 toolup for changes in the number of licenses required by City Departments. All of this spending is subject to board of supervisors approval and the city budget. Theres also an additional more than 3 million set aside in the contract for enhanceed cybersecurity, that is discretionary and would be subject to board approval. We recommend approval of the resolution. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, ms. Campbell. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, madam clerk, can we open this up for Public Comment, please . Clerk yes, madam chair. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, mr. Cue. I wanted to say i think this is good work. It is much more efficient, it is much more effective and also saves us money. So thank you. And thank you very much to your team for this good work on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco. Having said that, id like to make a motion to move this to the board for a positive recommendation. Madam clerk, can we have a roll call vote . Clerk supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Aye. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, lets go back to item number 2. Madam clerk, can you please call item number 2. Clerk resolution retroactively to accept and expends a grant in the amount of 190,000 from the California Department of Public Health and participate in a program, for the period of december 1st, 2019, to june 30th, 2020. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the 888 2045984, access code 3501008. And press one and then zero to line up to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, madam clerk. Today we have with us katie from the department of Public Health. Ms. Berg. Hi. Thank you very much. My name is katie berg, im the Viral Hepatitis coordinator with San Francisco department of Public Health and the Population Health savings. Although im currently activated for the Covid Response in the Community Engagement and mitigation branch. Wed like to ask for the approval to accept and expend the total 190,406 budget from the California Department of Public Health. This is to support our hepatitis c activities. Weve made significant progress in hepatitis c in treatment, hepatitis c testing and Treatment Access efforts in San Francisco. These additional funds were awarded by a noncompetitive grant from the California Department of Public Health, based on a formula that was at several different epidemiological points. Wed like to allocate money going to a communitybased organization that will support microelimination of hepatitis c, among People Living with h. I. V. , by doing care and navigation and support. Wed also like to allocate 38,753 to l health for a temporary research project, that assesses perry natal hepatitis c and vulnerability in San Francisco. And an additional 86,223 that will help support both our hepatitis c surveillance infrastructure shift to be able to collect negatives, hepatitis c r. N. A. Results and supporting planning with our communitybased initiative on adapting our models to the covid era. Thanks very much for your consideration. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, ms. Berg. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Seeing none, there is no b. L. A. At the moment. Madam clerk, item number 2 for Public Comment. Clerk madam chair, operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if callers are ready. If you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please wait to be prompted at the beep. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, mr. Cue. And id like to make a motion to move to the board with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk, can we please have a roll call vote. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk their fewer . Aye. There are three ayes. Thanks very much. Supervisor fewer madam clerk, can you please caller item number . [reading agenda item] members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call the 888 2045984, access code 3501008. And press one and then zero to line up to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Today we are kimberly from mohcd. Good morning, supervisors. Im kim, a Development Specialist with the office of Community Investment and infrastructure. The resolution will authorize the issuance of up to 449,132,841. This project is located within the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan area, administered by oci. The project sponsors are Bridge Housing and Community Housing partnerships, block 9 will provide 141 units, including one dedicated managers unit of affordable rental housing for formerly homeless households and onsite supportive services. Units will be studios and resident amenities will include a large Central Court yard, community garden, bicycle parking and a Community Room with kitchen. The project will receive operating support through the citys local operating subsidy program. And this bond transaction is conduit financing, which does not require the city to pledge repayment of the bond. Additional financing sources include both state and federal lowincome housing tax credits and award from the Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing program and a loan from oci. The boards approval of this bond issuance will keep us on track for a close of Construction Financing and a construction start this july. The project would be ready for occupancy in december of 2021. That concludes the staff presentation. And im happy to answer any questions that you might have. We also have sarina callaway, representative from Community Housing partnerships on the line and available to speak. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . There is no b. L. Report on this. Madam clerk, can we open up Public Comment for item number 5. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operations is checking to see if callers are in the queue. If you have not already done so, please press one and then zero to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you. I just want to say hurry up and build this, because we need it. [laughter] id like to make a motion. A positive recommendation. Could i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk on that motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Chair fewer . Aye. Clerk three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Clerk item number 6, resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of a multif. M. Housing revenue note in one or more series in an aggregate principle amount not to exceed 67 million. 104unit m Housing Project at 1049 golden gate avenue, known as the Frederick Douglas haynes. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call the 888 2045984, access 3501008. And press one and then zero to line up to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. We have christina with us today from mohcd. Hi, good morning. Im christina moon. Im with mohcd. Before you is the proposed bond, to fund the rehab of Frederick Douglas haynes apartments. Its an existing 104unit family Affordable Apartment complex, located at 1049 golden gate avenue in the fillmore. The project, since youve seen it last fall, has not fundamentally changed. We presented you the inducement in september. Its a conduit financing with no recourse to the city. 95 of the units currently serve households earning less than 80 of s. F. A. M. I. Serving households less than 150 a. M. I. The substantial renovation includes replacement of roof, structural and dry rot repair, windows, a little replacing the heating and Plumbing Systems and provide new finishes for tenants. No residents will be displaced. However, there will be temporary relocation for up to seven months. And considering the current conditions, the sponsors are preparing relocation plans, that incorporate safety precautions for tenants under covid19, including protocols for the moving company, pre, and postoccupancy moving, extends the move schedules to reduce risk of exposure. Relocation team is actively working with d. P. H. On best practices to ensure residents are safe. The sponsors secured the allocation from the state for 47,760,000. The project expects to close in late june, with construction starting in july and running through december of 2021. And the financing and legal team have prepared the final documents you see before you. The project will also continue to comply with all of our city requirements, including paying prevailing wages. With me i have the sponsor representative Michael Simmons on the line for any questions. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Therapy is no b. L. A. Report on this. Madam clerk, well open this up for Public Comment on item number 6, please. Clerk yes, madam clerk. Operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Please let us know if callers are ready if you have not done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until youre prompted to begin at the beep. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Id like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could we have a roll call vote, please. Clerk yes. On that motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Aye. Clerk there are three ayes. Madam clerk, can you please call items 7, 8, 9 and 10 together. Clerk item number 7, approving the fiscal year 2020 to 2021 housing opportunities for persons with aideses hopwa program and authorizing the mayor to apply and expand the fiscal year 20202021 hopwa program from the United States department of housing and urban development in the amount of 7 million and to expend Program Income and reprogram funds in the amount of 3. 2 million for a combined total of 10. 2 million. Item number 8, resolution approving the fiscal year 2020 to 2021 Emergency Solutions grant program, and authorizing the mayor to apply for, accept and expend the citys fiscal year 2020to 2021e. S. G. Program entitlement from the United States department of housing and urban development, in the amount of 1. 5348. Item number 9, resolution approving the fiscal year 20202021 Community Development block grant program. In an amount of 18. 6 million and to expends Program Income and reprogrammed funds in the amount of 6. 9 million for a combined total of approximately 25. 6 million. And item number 10, resolution approving the fiscal year 2021 to 2021 Home Investment Partnership program and the extend the citys home program from the United States department of housing and urban development in the amount of 5. 4 million and to expended Program Income in the am of 2. 4 million for a combined total of 7. 8 million. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Supervisor walton, would you like to make a comment after we have the presentation from mr. Brian chu . Yes, chair fewer. I just wanted to state ill have specific questions for item number 9. Supervisor fewer thats great. Thank you very much, supervisor. So mr. Brian chu is here from the hes the director of mohcd. Good morning, chair fewer and committee members. Brian chu, director of Community Development for the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. So i will take you through the four accept and expand resolutions we have before us. The first is our h. U. D. Resolution, accept and expend our hopwa dollars. These are dollars that come to us on a formula basis. Again we are now asking for permission to expend approximately 10 million of hopwa. The hopwa program has been a consistent program, which focuses on providing longterm rental subsidies to individuals living with h. I. V. We wish to maintain that ongoing obligation to those individuals. We have about 180 individuals that receive these permanent subsidies. We also provide ongoing support to our five Residential Care facilities for the chronically ill. That is peter house, leyland house, the richard cohen, marketplace. We also provide support for san mateo county. Our formula allocation covers both San Francisco and san mateo county. So we then give a portion of our dollars to san mateo county, based on the percentage of People Living with h. I. V. , both here in San Francisco and in san mateo. So that is that continuing hopwa program, that is largely maintained from what weve done last year. On the Emergency Solutions grant program, we have a spend of approximately 1. 6 million. Those emergency solution grant funds are actually administered now through the department of homelessness and supportive housing. They will be maintaining their support for emergency shelters essential services. And a small amount towards homeless prevention services. Again that totals about 1. 6 million. Focusing again primarily on homeless shelters from Domestic Violence shelters, from rapid rehousing services, and then small amount of homeless prevention services. On item number 10, which is the home dollars. Home dollars are federal dollars that are allowed to be used for the construction of new housing. Thats what weve asked for in total. The Community Development block grant funds can only be used for rehab and not for new construction. So we put all of our home dollars into a pool, that we can then use for future new construction for projects. Lastly on item number 9, we have our Community Development block grant dollars, the combined total of about 25 million. These dollars are allocated between our department mohcd and the office of economic and Workforce Development. As you see on the expenditure schedule, a portion of the funds goes specifically to a variety of Workforce Development projects, occupational skills training, Sector Training that are selected through economic Workforce Development. A separate portion is set aside for Economic Development purposes, Small Business assistance, and commercial corridor work. You can see that listed there under the different priorities. And then the majority of the grants, that go through the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development, are focused in the areas of primarily the eviction prevention and housing it placebased services. So this might look a little bit different from cdbg schedules that we have presented to you in the past, where we have block grant funds spread out across a broader vate of variety of agencies. As we look forward to how we best wanted to manage these funds, we had realized and were responsive to a number of organizations about the heavier reporting requirements attached to the Community Development block grant program. So we chose to consolidate those grants with a smaller number of groups that had the administrative capacity to oversee these funds. And then instead allocate our general fund dollars, that have less onerous reporting requirements, to a number of those smaller communitybased organizations. Thats why you can see on our expenditure schedule, we have approximately 3. 7 million going out specifically towards our eviction prevention work, trying to keep people from being displaced. And then we also allocated about 900,000 under our housing placebased services. Those go largely to organizations that are serving people in sunnydale, Alex Griffith and hunters view and some of our work in the s. R. O. Areas. We also needed to make sure that our cdbg funding qualified for services under the h. U. D. Neighborhood revitalization strategy area. Thats why we needed to make sure that their clientele, fit within the six priority neighborhoods, which are bay view, midvalley, chinatown, mission, soma and tenderloin. Those are the strategy areas. So thats a quick overview of our funding strategies. This would allow us to move forward and have it approved by the board and submitted with our initial action plan submission. The plan is due to h. U. D. By june 15th. It would have been initially due by april 15th and we asked for a short extension, in view of covid and some of the challenges with the budgeting process. But the actual plan will now be due on june 15th. So those are the four resolutions were asking for proposal and happy to answer any questions you might have. Supervisor fewer thank you, mr. Chu. Id like to call my on my colleague, shamann walton. Supervisor walton thank you so much, chair fewer. I just have a few questions. And this is in regards to item number 9. Can you share with the committee the process for selecting and distributing resources under this pot of money . Sure. So the procurement for these Community Development block grant dollars was part of a larger request for proposals that was put out in the fall of 2019. That included both Community Development block grant dollars, as well as general fund dollars and Housing Trust fund dollars. Its part of that comprehensive process. We put it out, you know, in august. It went through a review and evaluation process. The initial recommendations were issued i would want to say perhaps back in february. And while we are moving forward now with the federal portion, because those dollars were not necessarily affected by the citys own budgeting process, we have another set of recommendations that will be coming out at a later date, with the federal fund dollars. So although it was all one large procurement, we are moving this forward, based on the federal deadlines. And then the other general fund recommendations that were part of that same procurement will be finalized later on in this year. Supervisor walton is it true the r. F. P. Yet only 20 of 2 of the 4 42 million went to organizations. There was a focus on equity and wheres the equity in that . I think the r. F. P. , as we designed, included a number of targeted communities that were in alignment with our overall consolidated plan. That did include africanamerican communities, as well as immigrant communities, limited englishspeaking populations, the transgender communities. So, yes, africanamericans were a part of that target population we did receive, during we have a public hearing after we issue our preliminary recommendations. And as youre aware and your colleagues may also be aware, we did hear from a significant number of organizations, including a large number of blackled organizations, did feel as if the investment in their organizations was insufficient. Separately from this request for proposals, and in discussions with the mayors Budget Office and with that coalition, we agreed to identify an additional 2 million that we would have that would have been part of next years investment strategy. And we realigned those 2 million in a specific supplemental r. F. P. , focused entirely on organizations that primarily serve the Africanamerican Community and or are led by africanamericans. We issued the first r. F. P. For that about a month ago. Those proposals for that first 1 million were received just this past friday. And we hope to make our final decision on those proposals at the end of june. We also have an additional 1 million that is going to be focusing on Capacity Building within the Africanamerican Community, that will be issuing once we get through this first initial process. So the fashioning of that first 1 1 million was done in close collaboration with a coalition of blackled organizations that had initially approached us and working with the director of the Human Rights Commission and we anticipate working with those organizations again, as we issue r. F. P. For the second 1 million. The other portion of our general fund dollars have not yet deny weve not made a final decision on that. The committee is aware that our Department Just received our budget instructions on tuesday. And we were asked to not finalize any decisions regarding our general fund portfolio, until we receive those budget instructions. We just received those yesterday. So we will be working with the mayors Budget Office to determine how do we best implement those budget instructions, as we move forward with finalizing that other set of recommendations. Supervisor walton and i know you say you heard me say this before, i think its an absolute disgrace the way your Department Works to allocate resources, specifically because you prioritize certain populations in your r. F. P. And stated this is what you wanted to prioritize. Yet very small percentages of resources went to the organizations that you stated you actually wanted to see as a priority. And now were in the middle of a Health Crisis. A major pandemic, which is going to affect us economically. And even according to what you just said, organizations may be even impacted at a higher disproportionate level, because they didnt receive resources on the front Enterprise Agreement. Now organizations of color, because were in the middle of a crisis, theyre going to be more isolated and disenfranchised. I have to say this on record again that the racism that exists from the funding allocation is something that we cannot let continue. And i am aware of the Additional Resources that are being allocated, that are coming from the general fund, by the way. But i havent heard from your department and i have talked to you about this. I have talked to gordon when he was there. I havent heard anything about from your department thats going to tell us how youre going to address the systemic racism that exists. And continues to exist at o. C. D. , particularly in regards to how its in your funding allocation. Were the budget committee. Were going to approve were being asked to approve resources that are not going to be distributed equitably. And were going for know that as we approve this. So what are you doing to address the systemic racism . You dont necessarily have to answer that now. We do know that its been a problem for a long time. Yet theres been nothing that ive seen or heard that is going to address the systemic racism. All youve done is allocate more resources to populations that you disregarded on the front end. The last thing ill say, and thank you for the time, chair fewer, if we look at the area of Community Development. We know we have an obligation to support a smaller organizations, our organizations of color. And we just cannot have this department continue to ignore the equity focus of our city, the proposed priorities of its own of its own department and looking at crisis like this, the inequity of our priority really rises to the top. We cant perpetuate the gaps, the dont impact of our community and organizations of color. The inequitable of resources can never, ever happen again in San Francisco. And they should be ashamed as a City Department to allow this to continuously happen from r. F. P. To r. F. P. Thank you for the time, chair fewer. Thank you, chair walton. Supervisor mandelman. I would simply ask like i would simply like to ask to be out of the cosponsor to item number 7. Thank you very much. Theres no b. L. A. Report on this. Lets, madam clerk, lets open these items up items 7, 8, 9 and 10 for Public Comment. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operation is checking for see if any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press one and zero to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. Madam chair, i do have one caller in the queue. I will queue him now. Supervisor fewer thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Caller good morning, chair fewer and supervisors. Dr. Mow nobody, executive director. A member of the executive leadership of the s. F. Black, the San Francisco blackled organizations. We fully support supervisor waltons comments and join in demanding accountability. And equity for africanamericans and how they get funding and how mocd and ask the question of how theyre going to address systemic racism. Additionally, we believe that blackorganizations and the black Africanamerican Community, its unconscionable that on an equity platform, less than 2 of the funding went to blackled organizations. We are still waiting to learn about funding for our communities and that theyve continued to keep us waiting, even while promising to address the need is unconscionable. We are here, we are watching and we will not be silenced. Our communities are in crisis. And we demand action and response and thank you so much, supervisor walton. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk hello, caller . Hello, caller . Operator you have zero questions remaining. Madam chair, that completes the queue. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, lets take these items separately. And so id like to make a motion to move item 7 to the board with a positive recommendation, could i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk yes. That motion, supervisor walton . Yes. Supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk supervisor fewer . Aye. Clerk three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Id like to make a motion to move item 8 to the board with a positive recommendation, could i have a roll call vote please. Clerk supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Supervisor fewer aye. Clerk three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Supervisor walton, would you like to make a motion on item number 9 . Id like to move item number 9 without recommendation. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. A roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Supervisor fewer aye. Clerk there are three ayes. Neuroid like to make a motion to move item 10 forward to the board with a positive recommendation. A roll call vote, please. Clerk on that motion, supervisor walton. Aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman. Aye. Clerk chair fewer . Supervisor fewer aye. Clerk there are three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, is there any any more business before us today . Clerk there is no further business. Supervisor fewer thank you, madam clerk, we are adjourned. Please prepare to take us back to take us into the budget and appropriatations meeting. Good afternoon, everyone. The meet willing come to order. This is the may 20, 2020 regular budget and appropriatations committee meeting. I am sandra fewer and hillary roanen and rafael mandelman, norman yee and shamanne wallon. Madame clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, madame chair. Due to covid19, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors, legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. The number is streaming across the screen. Comments are opportunity to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 8882045984 access code, 3501008 and then press 1 and then 0. You will be lined up in the system in the order you dialed 1 and 0. While youre waiting, the system will be silent. The system will notify you when youre in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. Everyone must account for this time delays and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streaming. Preferences are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email me at linda. Wong sfgov. Org. If you submit Public Comments via email it will be included as part of the legislative file as part of the matter. Comments may be sent to city hall 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodman place room 244, San Francisco, california, 94102. Madame chair, this concludes my announcements. Thank you very much, madame clerk. Can you please call item number one . Yes. Item number one, hearing budget process and updates for fiscal years 20202021 and 20212022, hearing to review the budget process and related updates and requesting the Controllers Office, Mayors Office of Public Policy and finance and budget and legislative analysis to report. Public comment should call the number and then press 1 and 0 to line up to speak. Thank you very much. And today we have ashley from the Mayors Office. Kelly kirkpatrick is also available to answer any questions. Also, mr. Ben rosenfield, our controller, can join us for a short period of time. As reminder, the focus of todays meeting is to hear the mayors budget instructions and process for departmental budgets and then mr. Rosenfeld will share Historical Context of past recessions in our next meeting. Ms. Grockenberger. Thank you, chair fewer. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im the deputy budget director in the mayors Budget Office. Today im going to walk you through the revised budget instructions for the upcoming fiscal year 2021 and 2022 budget. With that, kelly if you could share the slides. I hit shared. Its just a little slow. Yep. Thats ok. We see it. There we go. Its just in presentation mode. Ok. Great. So, as you recall, the mayor initially offered these instructions to departments back in december and at the time we were projecting a 420 million shortfall. With the change financial land secretary of defense due to covid has led to not only a delay in our budget process, but revised set of instructions to help balance the budget. Last week, kelly and ben walked you through the details underlieing the revised instructions, but this is a quick reminder. Were facing a 1. 75 billion shortfall in the current year and upcoming budget years. That is made up of a shortfall of 250 million in the current year. And a 1. 5 billion shortfall in the budget years. With deficits exceeding 1 billion projected in the out year. Next slide, please. Meanwhile, were tracking a number of risks and uncertainties that could have a Significant Impact on these projections. These include the duration emergency, a slower later economic recovery than the one we are projecting. Unknown levels of city spending related to covid in the coming years and, of course, risks around state and federal revenue. Next slide. And so now im get into the specifics of the budget instructions that the mayor issued. Next slide, please. Next sly. Ive advanced it, but apparently there is a lag. [laughter] maybe ill stop sharing and try again. Give me one second. I have reshared. Its not coming up. Yes. Were not seeing it. Ok. I have sent the presentation to the clerk has it. I can try again to get a p. D. F. And see if that works. Or if there is any other i. T. Suggestions, please let me know. I do have a copiful y copy. Would you like me to try sharing it . That would be great. Let me unshare. Ok. I stofped sharing. There we go. Oh, great. Ok. I believe were on slide number five. Oh, wonderful. Thank you so much. Ok. So, the given the significant shortfall that were projecting, the upcoming budget is going to require a mix of tough decisions and reevaluating the city does business. And we are asking departments to make significant reductions to help close our significant shortfalls. And, quite frankly, we need to reevaluate the way we do business in a covid landscape while not losing sight of needing to preserve vulnerable and underserved residents in communitis that are facing steeper obstacles in light of this Health Crisis. Next slide, please. Thank you. So, unlike in prior recessions, these shortfalls are coming late in our budget process and were asking departments to provide concrete and Actionable Solutions to help close the shortfall. So, all general departments must propose 10 reductions in adjusted general Fund Supports in 2021, that grows to 15 in fiscal year 2022. And given all the uncertaintis that were tracking in our revenue picture, we are asking that departments provide us with an additional 5 contingency in fiscal year 21, the first year of the budget should the fiscal picture worsen. Every department will need to make reductions and it is not a matter of if, its a matter of where. Of course your Nongeneral Fund departments will balance costs within their own revenue projections. Next slide, please. Slide seven, please. Thank you. We recognize that 10 to 15 reductions will come with incredibly difficult tradeoffs and weve advised departments that those reduction plans can include contract savings, reductions in personnel costs, either through the elimination of vacant positions, continued salary savings due to hiring freeze or project suspensions. We have also asked departments to consider streamlining operations and consolidation of units and service, given revised business operations. Of course maximizing any outside revenue sources. Next slide, please. So its extremely tight time turn around and we asked all departments to submit their revised budgetses to us by june 12. It is going to require departments to do a quick analysis in order for us to meet our august 1 budget as the middle deadline. Next slide. Thank you. As the city moves toward reopening, we know that we will need to do business differently and revised budgets from departments should reflect that and so for planning purposes, weve asked departments to identify Core Services and those Critical Services that they performed for the public. But that cant be everything. And we need departments to really work hard to prioritize and think about how their work and services are going to shift, given Public Health guidelines or reduced budget resources. While also maintaining equity in their services when planning for those changes. And were asking since this is all going to require, frankly, a citywide approach and that will be coming over the coming weeks, were asking departments to not communicate or get ahead of changes that are happening and that will come as a result of citywide guidance. And to wait until that guidance is issued. But to be thinking about those things in the meantime. Next slide, please. In terms of managing and making decisions around reopening, were asking departments to think about the shipping workforce landscape, which could mean that City Employees who can work from home should remain working from home and also that essential Public Services that must be delivered in person, how those are going to change, given the new Health Guidelines that will be issued and what services do they provide could be moved online and what equity considerations are there in doing so. Next slide, please. Some additional guidelines we issued to departments. Our hiring freeze will continue through this fiscal year and the next fiscal year, except for direct Covid Response and other essential workforce. In march, we paused cashfortunated Capital Projects and new programs that had not started and we will be releasing our current year balancing plan in the next week to solve for that 250 million shortfall that i spoke of earlier. But for the remainder of the fiscal year, were asking that only those cash funded general funds supported Capital Projects that are necessary to address legal or life safety issues or other essential needs continue and that that work is done in consultation with Capital Planning and the public works department. And then given our delayed budget process, we recognize that there is there will be some continuity issues in considerations for new r. F. P. S and contracts and the Controllers Office is working to provide central guidance in the next week about the procedures for contracts and r. F. P. S that cross fiscal years and we asked departments until the current rebalancing plan has been issued and communicated with all stakeholders. Quite frankly, even if we dont pull back funding in the current year, we still have a long way to go to sthaol . 5 billion shortfall and we need to know what options we have available to do so. Next slide. In order to continue operations from july until the budget is signed in october, we will be introducing an interim budget to the board on june 1. This will largely be a status quo budget to allow baseline appropriations and operations to continue until the final budget is adopted. It will include the wage delay that was triggered as par of the march joint report, but largely the big policy choices that we need to make to close the shortfall will be will be discussed in august. No new funding commitments will be made with an expectation of the july 1 start. Were saving those conversations for the august 1 budget process. Next slide, please. Despite the tight turnaround, we understand that public input and process is very important and it is our expectation that departments with commissions and advisory bodies will provide updates about their reduction plans to those bodies before they submit to our office. Well also be engaging with our labor partners and c. V. O. Partners in the coming week to share this information with them as well. Another big takeaway from this presentation is that the upcoming budget is going require tough and painful choices while also requiring us to reevaluate the way we do business as a city. Were asking departments to make significant reduction proposals to deal with these significant shortfalls, all while keeping equity at top of mind as we move through the budget process. Ok. Some key dates that you are likely all familiar with kind of goes back in time a little bit. But last week, we released what we called our megareport, talking about projections for the upcoming years and the current year as well as covid spending. Theres impacts on us that were still sorting through. As i mentioned, we will be releasing the interim budget on june 1 and then our mayors proposed budget on august 1. With that, im happy to take any questions that you have. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Yes. Yes, supervisor yee . Thank you, kelly, for the presentation. I guess the question i have is, yes, we really have to look at a possible reduction in services, tighten up the belt and everything else. And second, youre having a hiring freeze, means that similar sources will be [inaudible] other than others. At the same time, how do we have this discussion knowing that prior to the pandemic, i was there was a lo of support from the board of supervisors and the mayor herself to be dealing with or to improve our system in regards to Mental Health services. How do we balance that, knowing that no one hand cut or dont expand or start any programs knowing what we know. But this is such a big need. That is a great question, president yee. I think particularly with Mental Health. Its not so much about kitsing about cutting but changing the way services will be provided. They wont be provided in a traditional setting. They might be provided to those in hotels. And these are services that they already have in place to make sure that theyre getting to the people who need them and just new and creative ways given our covid landscape. This could constraints harter and i want to remind supervisors that any additional costs related to covid spending are not included in the shortfall. Anything thats not fema or state or reimbursable next year will add a layer of costs as well to this difficult conversation. Ok, well, hopefully we move forward with more solid thinking around this. Thank you, president yee. Supervisor walton . Thank you, chair fewer. Im trying to figure out the best way to say this. I know that its talked about controlling guidance will be forthcoming, looking at couple of months of the gap with continuing operations through. I guess my question is we should be under the impression that those additional months of july, august and september will probably Fund Services at some kind of reduced rate. Did i make sense . Yeah. I totally i was i was trying to figure out who wanted to take this one. Our intention is to maintain services at the current level. But not add new. In prior year budgets, you know, we had done a twoyear budget last year. And anticipated in that potentially was additional funding above baseline funding. So, our goal is to maintain services and that will all be subject to kind of our rebalancing plan that well be introducing but thats the goal to make the tough tradeoffs about potential Service Reductions in the upcoming fiscal year. Some controls that will be in place to help tide us through the three months is that there wont be any new Capital Spending that will be on reserve, equipment spending and, of course, we triggered the wage delays and so that will also, as well as reduce hiring, will help keep down spending until we can make those tougher tradeoffs that will likely have service or other staffing implications in august. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor walton. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you, chair fewer. I want to echo president yees expression of [inaudible] in this upcoming budge budget and i talked about the [inaudible] with the mayor and the mayors staff as well. I am keenly aware that the last time we went through this exercise, i was not in city government. I was just a protester outside s. F. General as the city was eliminating beds, hospital beds from general on the with the argument that we could do it a different way. We would create beds or we would acquire beds in less expensive ways and have [inaudible] than operating the bubble beds. I dont know if what has happened on our streets in the last 10 years is related to those choices. But you could create a narrative that, you know, the elimination of the psych beds in 20082009 was related to how far things deteriorated there after and that we never really made good on the acquisition of alternative locked and not locked beds for people who needed them. And got us to where we were. And i think, you know, a lot of the work that was done the good work that has been done over the last year, year and a half by the mayors director of Mental Health reform and the folks who worked at Mental Health s. F. And the task force all identified the desperate need for more places for people. So, t not a matter of just delivering services in a different way, but there are, you know a lot of folks out on the street who did not have a place to be, who have enormous Behavior Health needs. As i was saying is yesterday in the board meeting, covid has certainly made this worse. There are more people in psychosis and certainly intoxicated from the substances theyre using out on the street now than, you know, we had seen. And it was horrible before and now it is awful. And so, you know, i think there may actually be an argument that there is some Covid Response, that in the time of covid, we needed to completely rethink how we provide Psychiatric Emergency Services to people because providing them to only 18 people at a time at s. F. General is not acceptable and is not going to work for the next year or two. So i dont know if that means more spending for v. P. H. In behavioral health, but we cant just retrench, like there i really want to encourage the Mayors Office and the departments of Public Health to figure out ways to either through all of this cutting unlock some Additional Resources for placements or think about how to do placements differently. But ideally not in the same way that we thought about has new placements differently in 2008 and 2009 because im not sure how well that worked or if we go down a similar path, we need to understand how it will be different. I think those are my points that i really think this is critical and key and something that i care a lot about in this budget process. Supervisor mandelman, has there been an analysis done about the closing or removal of those beds and have you seen any reports or any data around that . I havent. But it would be a very interesting thing for us to do. If it has not been done. Ok. Thank you. Supervisor ronen. Yes. Thank you so much. I wanted to appreciate this discussion and so that you all know that im working, you know, Mental Health s. F. Is our road map to how were going to fix our broken Mental Health system in San Francisco so im looking at whether or not we do sort of an interim version of it, given that budget realities both budget realities and care different realities. Like they do a first phase of it and second phase of it as we come out of this recession. So thats something that im just starting to look at. But it would be great if we could collectively work on that together and use that as a guide for these budget discussions. I think we can think about the policy in relation to the budget deficit. But not let the budget deficit totally control the policy right. We can have an informant. We create a Mental Health s. F. , imagining we were going to bring 100 million more of regular revenue into the discussions so not only are we expecting not to have that 100, 100 million of additional revenue and going only to Mental Health s. F. , but that we even have a bigger deficit than that. So, we need to reenvision this. So, perhaps we can go about doing that. But just a question for you, kelly, about how have we ever required our Department Heads to start from scratch . Like they often just, you know, say im going to take away this. Its easiest to take away this position and this position and this position because theyre because i dont like this person or whatever they do. I guess if i cut my materials in half, ill figure out a way to make it happen or use any own money to buy materials or whatever they do. But just sort of because were in such a grave budget situation, certainly the worst that this group has ever seen. Im wondering if now is a good time to say start over. What do you do . What do you need for it to function . If there is if theres been any instructions in that regard . That is a great question. That is what us budget wonks call zerobased budgeting and and, you know, i think interesting despite all of the difficulties that the Health Crisis present us, what part of our budget instructions are getting at was reevaluating not om the way your department does business, but what are those core functions. I dont imagine if theyll start from kind of brandnew building blocks, but i think those are all really critical questions that departments need to be asking of their own options. So we given departments four weeks to reset and i think many of them have already started. They know that the fiscal picture is bad. There is lots of planning under way and this is an interim process as we go through the next year, how will and we posed them in the covid context to that department. Just expanding on one of those points from my perspective. I think one of the really real challenge this is year, as ms. Kirkpatrick has said, is simply going to be the timeframe over which these choices will be made. Departments will now have four weeks to prepare the hardest budget cuts that they have prepared for in the last decade. The mayor will then have four weeks to make choices. It typically takes us about seven months. I think that kind of completely understand and i do think a lot of departments will start with, as you suggested, what are my essential functions and what arent more fundamental questions. But simply the pace at which this all needs to move will be a limiting factor for all of us in kind of more nuanced analysis, frankly. Yeah. That makes sense. Has the mayor considered eliminating any departments and combining them . I dont know of any specific kind of proposals. However, i do know that efficiencies in the option and thats something we would be looking to, even if its just space to, right. What are the real estate need changes so theres Operational Efficiency consolidation, but i also think that there is space consolidation and kind of turning to some of those ideas as well. Well definitely be on the table. Are the mayors so for like, for example, the board of supervisors. Are the instructions that we work from home for the next fiscal year. Im thinking of the departments that can actually work from home pretty effectively. Weve andly angela might kill me for saying this, but i know were doing pretty good from home. And the city attorneys. Those kind of departments. Is it we can empty fox plaza for a year and save all that money or i guess im a little confused by this. Those instructions. Yeah. At this point in time, were asking departments to do the evaluation. Which of your staff who are successfully working remotely can continue to work remotely and what would that mean . There is going to be City Administrators Office is working on as well as c. H. R. , with more specific guidance that will be coming out in the next week or two about duration, and aligned with Public Health guidance and how should people plan to work remotely and in the next week or two, we might have some departments and agencies. I forgot my question. If i remember it, ill come back. Thank you. Ill ask a question first and supervisor ronen, if it comes to you, then feel free to join in. I wanted to clarify. So, for next year, the 2021 is 10 reduction. 5 contingency, is that right . And it is going on in the prior year reduction . It is a total of 15 ongoing, not total. 10 growing to 15 total. So an additional 5. That additional 5 might have to be moved forward if the fiscal picture worsens. Got it. And this is a question very similar to supervisor ronen is that there arent any City Departments considering moving their staffing model to working from home on a more permanent basis. The reason i ask is also in this committee, we have actually authorized many leases and also but these leases were for places like moving out of hall of justice, for example. Or outgrowing the city facility as the government has grown. And now were seeing how those configurations need to be reconfigured and that these leases that were kind of tied into are also will not actually served for our purposes. I asked the citys Attorneys Office to make those choices can operationally and budgetarily over the coming weeks to help inform the budget. Ive thought of all the same questions and i think theyre really important in this, especially upcoming year. I think also that contract negotiations to look back at, for example, when we, at budget, when we asked the director to go back and renegotiate a lease, he was able to negotiate it at 15 discount, saving the city 2. 5 million over the term of the lease. So, these time of things, i think, are knowing that theyre going through recession and that other businesses and services are going into recession and were looking at renegotiating our contracts with these private entities, actually. And weve spent a lot of money on leases, too. I think this will help. And then i have to ask you. I know that the fiveyear r. F. T. Is on hold. Is the Mayors Office considering pulling back on some of that funding . Are there open cycles that are being looked at that will Impact Services . We are looking at open r. F. P. S that have not been issued yet to understand if there is commitment to additional funding for the upcoming fiscal year and wanting to evaluate the additional growth of the contracts. Were working with [inaudible] to make decisions in the next week or so on their baseline allocations and why we had been speaking to them was, is there additional growth expected . I dont know if we can be committing to growing our funding in the upcoming year. We want to do our best to ensure continuity of existing services, however. So, that is the conversation weve been having, working with the Controllers Office right now to understand which grantbased r. F. P. S that were slated to add funding for 202122 are in the pipeline and wondering you know, the controllers guidance that were working with our granting departments on is to understand perhaps do you need some continuity of your existing grant allocations to ensure continuing services can be maintained through the august budget process. But lets pause on the reup you know, increasing or perhaps reallocating the whole r. F. P. Process when the total budget for next year is up in the air. But wanting to maintain Core Services Baseline Services to the extent possible. Ok. Its not coming to me. But this has been really helpful. Thank you. [laughter] i see no one else in the queue. Madame clerk, can you please call for Public Comment on item number 1 . Yes, madame chair. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers already. If you have not already done so, press 1 and then 0 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, continue to wait until youre prompted to begin at the beep. Madame caller, madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speed speak. There is no meeting next week. Happy holidays to everyone. June 3 will focus on the mayors rebalancing plan for the current fiscal year and the controller will be providing a look at prior sessions and [inaudible] on noft profit sustainability. June 10 will be when this Committee Hears the interim project which will keep the lights on in the city for the month of july, august and september. Colleagues, anymore comments or questions . Seeing none, id like to make a motion to continue this item to the [inaudible]. Also Kelly Kirkpatrick and the controller for being with us today and madame clerk, i make a motion to move this item to the [inaudible]. Could i have a second, please . Second, ronen. Could i have a roll call vote, please . Yes. On the motion . [roll call] there are five ayes. Thank you very much. Madame clerk, anymore business before us today . Theres no further business. Thank you very much, everyone. We spoke with people regardless of what they are. That is when you see change. That is a lead vannin advantage. So Law Enforcement assistance diversion to work with individuals with nonviolent related of offenses to offer an alternative to an arrest and the county jail. We are seeing reduction in drugrelated crimes in the pilot area. They have done the program for quite a while. They are successful in reducing the going to the county jail. This was a state grant that we applied for. The department is the main administrator. It requires we work with multiple agencies. We have a community that includes the da, Rapid Transit police and San Francisco Sheriffs Department and Law Enforcement agencies, Public Defenders Office and adult probation to Work Together to look at the population that ends up in criminal justice and how they will not end up in jail. Having partners in the nonprofit world and the public defender are critical to the success. We are beginning to succeed because we have that cooperation. Agencies with very little connection are brought together at the same table. Collaboration is good for the department. It gets us all working in the same direction. These are complex issues we are dealing with. When you have systems as complicated as police and health and proation and jails and nonprofits it requires people to come to Work Together so everybody has to put their egos at the door. We have done it very, very well. The model of care where police, district attorney, public defenders are communitybased organizations are all involved to worked towards the common goal. Nobody wants to see drug users in jail. They want them to get the correct treatment they need. We are piloting lead in San Francisco. Close to civic center along market street, union plaza, powell street and in the mission, 16th and mission. Our goal in San Francisco and in seattle is to work with individuals who are cycling in and out of criminal justice and are falling through the cracks and using this as intervention to address that population and the Racial Disparity we see. We want to focus on the mission in tender loan district. It goes to the partners that hired case managers to deal directly with the clients. Case managers with referrals from the police or city agencies connect with the person to determine what their needs are and how we can best meet those needs. I have nobody, no friends, no resources, i am flatout on my own. I witnessed women getting beat, men getting beat. Transgenders getting beat up. I saw people shot, stabbed. These are people that have had many visits to the county jail in San Francisco or other institutions. We are trying to connect them with the resources they need in the community to break out of that cycle. All of the referrals are coming from the Law Enforcement agency. Officers observe an offense. Say you are using. It is found out you are in possession of drugs, that constituted a lead eligible defense. The officer would talk to the individual about participating in the program instead of being booked into the county jail. Are you ever heard of the leads program. Yes. Are you part of the leads program . Do you have a case worker . Yes, i have a case manager. When they have a contact with a possible lead referral, they give us a call. Ideally we can meet them at the scene where the ticket is being issued. Primarily what you are talking to are people under the influence of drugs but they will all be nonviolent. If they were violent they wouldnt qualify for lead. You think i am going to get arrested or maybe i will go to jail for something i just did because of the Substance Abuse issues i am dealing with. They would contact with the outreach worker. Then glide shows up, you are not going to jail. We can take you. Lets meet you where you are without telling you exactly what that is going to look like, let us help you and help you help yourself. Bring them to the Community Assessment and Services Center run by adult probation to have assessment with the department of Public Health staff to assess the treatment needs. It provides meals, groups, there are things happening that make it an open space they can access. They go through detailed assessment about their needs and how we can meet those needs. Someone who would have entered the jail system or would have been arrested and book order the charge is diverted to social services. Then from there instead of them going through that system, which hasnt shown itself to be an effective way to deal with people suffering from suable stance abuse issues they can be connected with case management. They can offer Services Based on their needs as individuals. One of the key things is our approach is client centered. Hall reduction is based around helping the client and meeting them where they are at in terms of what steps are you ready to take . We are not asking individuals to do anything specific at any point in time. It is a Program Based on whatever it takes and wherever it takes. We are going to them and working with them where they feel most comfortable in the community. It opens doors and they get access they wouldnt have had otherwise. Supports them on their goals. We are not assigning goals working to come up with a plan what success looks like to them. Because i have been in the field a lot i can offer different choices and let them decide which one they want to go down and help them on that path. It is all on you. We are here to guide you. We are not trying to force you to do what you want to do or change your mind. It is you telling us how you want us to help you. It means a lot to the clients to know there is someone creative in the way we can assist them. They pick up the phone. It was a blessing to have them when i was on the streets. No matter what situation, what pay phone, cell phone, somebody elses phone by calling them they always answered. In officebased setting somebody at the reception desk and the clinician will not work for this population of drug users on the street. This has been helpful to see the outcome. We will pick you up, take you to the appointment, get you food on the way and make sure your needs are taken care of so you are not out in the cold. First to push me so i will not be afraid to ask for help with the lead team. Can we get you to use less and less so you can function and have a normal life, job, place to stay, be a functioning part of the community. It is all part of the home reduction model. You are using less and you are allowed to be a viable member of the society. This is an important question where lead will go from here. Looking at the data so far and seeing the successes and we can build on that and as the department based on that where the investments need to go. If it is for five months. Hopefully as final we will come up with a model that may help with all of the communities in the california. I want to go back to school to start my ged and go to community clean. It can be somebody scaled out. That is the hope anyway. Is a huge need in the city. Depending on the need and the data we are getting we can definitely see an expansion. We all hope, obviously, the program is successful and we can implement it city wide. I think it will save the county millions of dollars in emergency services, police services, prosecuting services. More importantly, it will save lives. Business. This is the special meeting of the Small Business submission on wednesday, may 27th. The meeting is called to order at 1 01 p. M. Phowe thank Media Services and sf gov tv which can be viewed on sf gov tv or livestream. Members of the public is