Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Rules Committee 20240712

For staffing this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members and the public the board of supervisors legislative Committee Room are closed. Members will participate remotely. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participate to the same extent as if physically present. Public comment is available for each item. They are streaming the number on the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes. Comments are available via phone by calling 415 6550001. Access code for the meeting is 145 1435810. Press pound and pound again. When connecting you will hear the discussion but you will will be ibe in his senning need only. Dial star three. Call from quiet location and speak slowly and turndown your television or radioia. You may submit Public Comment via email the clerk at sfgovtv. Org. If you submit via email it will be included as part of the official file. Items acted upon today are to appear on the agenda on june 30 unless otherwise stated. Thank you so much. Mr. Clerk, please call item the out of order. Charter amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of San Francisco to create Public Works Commission to oversee the department of public works to create the sanitation and Streets Department to succeed specific duties currently performed by the department of public works to create a sanitation and streets commission and to oversee the sanitation and Streets Department affirming the Planning Departments determination under the California Environmental quality act. Supervisor haney. I am excited to be able to present this Charter Amendment and discuss it to you, but not today. I am here to ask for this to be continued to next week to save you time today. I am looking forward to sharing with you this needed Charter Amendment. I will be asking for a continuance today. Thank you so much. If my colleagues dont have comments we will open this up to Public Comment anticipating motion to continue. Do we have anybody on the line . Members of the public who wish to comment on this should call 415 6550001, meeting i id1451435810. If you would like to speak at this time press star 3 to be unmuted. Do we have anybody on the line . Madam chair, no callers in the queue. Public comment is closed. I would like to make a motion to continue this item to our next rules committee meeting. On that motion. Shall we continue it to the call of the chair just in case . I would like to revise my motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. On that motion. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Chair ronen. Aye. The motion passes without objection. Thank you very much. Could you please read item 1. Ordinance amending the administrative code to include as a mandatory element in the definition of the term responsible substantiation of a record of safe performance on Construction Projects by the bidder or proposer on a public works or Improvement Project and to expressly require construction contract an weareds for all specific project delivery methods to be made only to responsible construction contractors. Wonderful. We have bill barns here from the city administrators office. Any comments or presentation . We cant hear you. So this ordinance is based on work from president yee who had a hearing in 2018 about a dangerous situation in the tunnel where an individual was killed. One of the questions asked was how do we evaluate safety in public works contracts . For the benefit of the public chapter 6 governs all Public Works Department airport, m. T. A. , rec and park and public works. Every other definition of those responsible. Abidder you have to demonstratin bonding capacity. It doesnt require a Safety Record being included as the responsibility determination. This adds to the definition of responsible that you share your Safety Record. That includes both citations and promotions as well as those pending. In an earlier case there was a pending citation because it wasnt finalized it wasnt reported. It is previous work and department would review it. It applies responsible to all different method of contractors. Design build, elevator construction, hazard mitigation. Those were inclusive of the responsible language. Working with the City Attorney this was added. This has support of the chapter 6 contracting departments based on what the p. U. C. Has already done and i am happy too answer any questions. Any questions . Okay. Thank you so much. Mr. Clerk. Is there any Public Comment on this item . I would like to state that members of the public to participate should call 415 6550001. Meeting id1455r1435 81 0 and press pound. If you are on the line and would like to make Public Comment dial star 3 at this time. Mr. Speakers on the line . There are no callers in the queue. Then Public Comment is closed. I am happy to make a motion to move this item forward with positive recommendation. On that motion. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Chair ronen. Aye. The motion passes without objection. Thank you so much. Is there any other items on the agenda . That completes th the th ther today. Fastest rules meeting ever. Have a nice day ever everyone. Meeting is adjourned. We are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally everybody is cop us right now. The people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. I didnt think we would have a location at the airport. Weve set the bar higher with the customer commerce. Telling me about the operator and how you go about finding them and they get from being in the city to being in the airport. So first, we actually find a table and once we know what we want a sitdown we go to the neighborhoods in San Francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. We have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. They are planning on extending. We that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your minds and its all good. How long for a vendor to move through the process. I would say it could take 80 up to a year from the time we go out to bid until they actually open a restaurant. I dont know what we signed up for but the airport is happy to have us here. And, you know, even taking out the track simple things theres a learning curve with once were here they are helpful. Its an awardwinning program. Were prude of your awards we have won 11 awards the latest for the best overall food address Beverage Program and. Like the oscars laughter . The professional world. Tell me about the future food. All the sb national leases are xooirz and were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what your passengers want. Well, i look forward to the future laughter air are we look fofofofofofofofo [gavel] good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I am the chair of the committee, supervisor aaron peskin joined by vice chair supervisor safai and Committee Member supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members, City Employees and the public t board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Supervisors will be participating in the Virtual Meeting to the same extent as if they are physically present. Channel 26 and sfgov tv are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak in the public are via available by phone call by calling 18882045984 and the access code is 3501008. Press pound and pound again. When you are connected, dial 1 and 0 to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lined up in the system in the order you dialled 1 and 0. While you are waiting t system will be silent. The system will notify when you are in line and waiting. All caller wills eare main on mute until will remain on mute until the line is open. Everyone must account for time delays and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streaming. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down the television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email ne at erica. Major sfgov. Org. That will be included in the legislative file if you submit via email. Or you can send to city hall 1 carlton hall. President thank you, ms. Major. I neglected to say today is may 18, 2020. Colleagues, because general manager Phil Ginsburg of the recreation and Parks Department has a tight schedule, i would like to ask with your indulgence that we call item four out of order. I know that many of the people who would like to comment on item four thought this would come later in the meeting, so what i would like to do is have the author of this emergency ordinance speak and then hear from general manager ginsburg. And then we will not make a decision or hear Public Comment until after we have heard items one through three. So madam clerk, please read item number four. Clerk item four is an emergency ordinance authorizing the park property for temporary shelter and other measures in response to the covid19 pandemic, directing the recreation and Park Department to report to the board of supervisors with a list of potential locations for such uses. Supervisor fewer, you have been doing incredible work to deal with the crisis that all of us that are members of the board or residents of San Francisco have been trying to address relative to a huge amount of homelessness on our streets that has been exacerbated by the covid19 crisis. The floor, supervisor fewer, is yours. Supervisor hello . Supervisor, you are muted. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor i would like to note that director pennick is also joining us for a comment. Thank you, chair peskin, for scheduling this item. I would like to provide some background on why i introduced this legislation. While San Francisco has shown leadership and responded quickly to covid19, the city has struggled to respond to the publics needs of the atrisk population this threatens our ability to lift the shelter in place order and jeopardizes the Public Safety of everyone. And Public Health safety of everyone. And the mayor previously stated a goal of procuring 7,000 hotel rooms and the board passed legislation to acquire even more, but the city is falling short of the goals on both counts. As of this morning only 1,991 hotel rooms have been secured for unhoused people and only 58 of those rooms were occupied. Hotel rooms should continue to be a priority for ensuring that Homeless People on San Franciscos streets are protected from the threat of the terrible virus, particularly those who are elders and have comprised immune systems. While they must continue to press forward to procure hotel room, we must address other options in a serious problem that existed before covid19 that now with the inability to move people into indoor shelter, we need a plan in place to adhere to the guidelines to stop the spread of the deadly virus. On may 5, we unanimously passed a resolution urging the city to establish safe sites for unhoused people. Safe sleeping sites at the time include space for each tent that alouse for adequate social distancing, bathrooms, hand washing stations, meals, drinking water, and Garbage Disposal consistent with the department of Public Health guidance as best practices. Each site would have a safer plan and be staffed 24 7 and include janitorial and other critical services. The resolution passed unanimously and focused largely on the exploration of public property. I introduced this legislation before you today along with supervisor moore to further explore this model we will be creating for safe sleeping sites and park property in San Francisco which includes parking lots and the Parks Department had jurisdiction over several acres of land in San Francisco. To be clear, and i i want people to hear this. This legislation would not allow people to camp freely throughout our parks. It would also not mandate the use of any particular site. This legislation leaves the decision to the general manager of the recreation and Parks Department. This legislation would simply require directing the Parks Department to createened an explore, identifying suitable locations throughout the city where it may be possible to establish these sites in accordance with Public Health specifications. Its tent was to look at sites that would not interfere with the regulation needs of san franciscans during shelter in place which is why this defers to the general manager as he knows the property best. This has been severely misinterpreted and purposely misconstrued. Having said that, i am happy to say that i have reached and agreement with general manager ginsburg from the rec and Park Department. Manager ginsburg and i agree it makes perfect sense to look at all options and is our current responsibility as sitting leaders to save lives. To this end mr. Ginsburg will provide a report for rec and park sites suitable for safe i am joined by Committee Members. Also joining us today is president yee. Our clerk is miss linda wong. Madam clerk, any announcements today . Yes, madam chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members, City Employee exposes e board, th members will be participating remotely. This is pursuant to state and local orders. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participate as if they are physically president. Present. Sfg tv. Org is streaming across the tv. Opportunitpair call 415 65500. Again 145 2541827 and then press pound twice. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions and you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practises is to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment to the budget and finance clerk at linda. Wong sof. Org. It will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as a part of the official file. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of june 23rd unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Can you please call item number one . Yes, item number one, resolution authorizing and approving Telecommunications Facilities on a portion at 260 golden date avenue with new Singular Wireless for a tenyear term at 92,000 or monthly base of 7,600 indiscernible . Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on these items call 415 6550001. And then press pound twice if please dial 3 star and that will indicate you have raised your hand. Thank you very much and today, we have with us claudia goram, the Deputy Director of real estate. Good morning. As the resolution before you is for a renewal lease, at t has been on the site since 1996. Theyve been in a holdover situation for many years. It was a first initia initiatede former director and then the building was under the jurisdiction of the Fire Department and did not know if they wanted a Telecommunications Site on top of their building. Then jurisdiction switched to department of homelessness and negotiations continued. We fine clai finally came to ant in 2016 on the cost of the lease of the base rent, which stated is 7,969 a month and thats based on their square footage, and they added three antennas and basically updated their equipment that stayed within the same footprint and you still cant see it from the ground and now they would like to enter into a new lease with the terms as stated. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, madam clerk, there is no report on this and lets open this up for Public Comment, please. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there is anybody ready. Please press star 3 to be added to the queue. Are there any callers wishing to comment on item number 1 . Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Thank you very much. Public comment for item number 1 is closed and i would like to move this item to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i have a role call vote, please. role call supervisor walton is absent. There are two ay session. Yes. Will you please call item number 2. Resolution authorizing the department of Public Health to expand monetary gift in the amount of 105,000 from an epic Charitable Fund as safety net prior for february 28th, 2020 through february 27, 2021. Members who wish to provide Public Comment call in and press pound twice. indiscernible . We have eri soup supervisor c health. Im here to represent a grant to the department of Public Health that comes to us by way of the supplier of our Electronic Health record platform epic systems. Annually, epic reviews customers who work in the safety net and makes determinations through their Charitable Fund of who might be worthy of annual gifts and in this case, we were selected. We probably were selected because we are new to the platform and were a significant safety net customer of the organization and just as a reminder, we went live on the epic platform not even a year ago, august 3, 2019 and weve actually made extensive use of that platform here in our covid19 response. I would also just like to make a note that we expect to use the funds from this gift to continue enriching the training and learning of all of the analysts and clinicians who use the epic platform. So we hope to reinvest this directly back into what were doing with regard to the use of this new information system. And i do want to make note that i believe this action is retroactive and my apologies for that. We obviously have had a lot of things going on. Im speaking to you from our covid19 Operation Center at the Mosconi Center and will be more diligent in making sure these things are attended to within the appropriate time frames. Thank you. Any questions or comments from my colleagues. Seeing none, there is no indiscernible . Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Would the queue please let us know if there are any callers wishing to speak on item 2. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue for item 2. Item number 2 is closed and i would move this to the board lin to move this to the clerk. role call . There are three ayes. Please call item number 3. Resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and extend a monetary gift in amount of 79,000 from the friends of laguna honda for the purchase of equipment, materials, supplies and services and laguna honda who are unable to obtain them through april 5, 2020 to june 30, 221. Members should call 415 6550001 and access code 145 2541827 and then press pound twice. If you have not done so, dial star 3 to speak. Thank you very much and today we have with us william frasier, Program Manager for the l laguna honda hospital. Thank you, supervisors, for allowing me to address you today and im sorry im not on camera. The friends at laguna honda is a Nonprofit Organization Whose Mission is to benefit the general wellbeing and quality of life for laguna honda residents through supporting nonmedical programs that otherwise would be unavailable. Theyve been supporting the laguna Honda Community for over 65 years and until recently, they supported our Community Via direct purchases of services, equipment and supplies and we recently changed their funding avenue to go through the laguna honda gift funds. Our friends have made a generous donation to the laguna honda gift fund and 4,553 will pay for one year of an existing contract with the arc for elders program. This provides art classes to the laguna honda residents. 36,800 has been donated for our centers of excellent wish list and this is a longstanding tradition that they have funded this program for many, many years. Program allows hospital departments, nursing units and other hospital programs acquire equipment that will directly be available to our residents and otherwise benefit them. Examples of purchasing made in the past or tech devices such as ipads, homelife furniture and additions to our animal assisted therapy program. And i can answer any questions that you may have. Thank you very much. Seeing no questions or comments for my colleagues, madam clerk, please open this up for Public Comment, please. Operation is checking to see if there are any calls in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue and for those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been muted. That dachair, there are no cs in the queue. Public item for number 3 is closed and i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk, can we have a role call vote. role call . There are three ayes. Item number 4, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expand a grant in the amount of 1 million from the California Department of health for participation in the program entitled covid19 Crisis Response of march 1, 2020 through march 15, 2021. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001, access code 145 2541827 and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, dial star 3 to line up to speak and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin comments. Thank you very much. We have mr. Douglas walsh with us and dre drew morale. Are you mr. Walsh or mr. Morale. Im mr. Walsh. The floor is yours. F. M. Ithank you. Im with the responf the Population Health division in the department of Public Health and ill be providing a brief overview of the cdc response grant. San Francisco Department of Public Health was provided two aloeallocations and the second n april 13, 20, for 270, 232. And the period of this grant award is march 5, 2020 to march 15, 2021. isdiscernable . This is the cdc and award funds for San Francisco and a larger sum passing through the state of california, department of Public Health, Emergency Preparedness office and that is awarded to our local health jurisdiction. Local Health Jurisdictions are providing apo with a spend plan and detailed work plan. The initial spend plan was provided to epo on april 17, 2020 and initial work plan was provided on april 23, 2020 and San Francisco department of Public Health is responsible for submitting quarterly expenditure reports and work plan progress reports beginning june 15, 2020 and this was this past monday. This outlines an proximate 90 of covid19 grant funds that will be devoted to personnel with the remainder, approximately 10,000 for the procurement of personal protective equipment and 50,000 for other activationrelated costs, such as lab courier services, afterhours Answering Services for Disease Control and prevention and information translation services. As stated by the cdc, this is meant to support the greatest response needs to prevent, prepare for covid19. The more covid19 work plans are comprised of 67 activities spread across six domains defined as incident management for early Crisis Response, jurisdictional recovery, counter measures, surge management and biosurveillance. So personnel includes those for activities such as emergency operations, coordination, responder safety and health, identification of vulnerable populations and information sharing, emergency Public Information and warning risk communications, nonpharmaceutical interventions, quarantine and isolation support, use of medical material, surge management, Public Health coordination, infection control, Public Health surveillance and realtime reporting and Public Health laboratory testing. It will be directed to the area of quarantine and isolation support. The public Health Emergency preparedness and Response Branch will work closely with dph finance colleagues, state, local and federal partners to ensure accurate reporting and documentation of the expenditure of the covid19 Emergency Response funds and associated workplan activities. Thank you for your time and im available for questions. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . I have one. The work plans, are they public viewing . Yes, they are. Where are they posted . We can have them posted to the public Health Emergency to the link on the it would be the Communicable Disease site under Emergency Preparedness and response and this is their website there. Thank you very much. Seeing no comments or questions, can you call for Public Comment. Operation, please let us know if there are comments ready. Please press star 3 to be added to the queue and if youre on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been muted. Please let us know if there are any callers wishing to comment on item number 4 . Madam chair, no callers in the queue for item 4. Thank you very much. Public comment is closed and madam clerk, i would like to make a motion to move this with a positive motion. Could we have a role call vote, please. Please. role call . There are three ayes. Thank you for your presentation and madam clerk, can you call item number 5. Item number 5, resolution authorizing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to expand to community indiscernible . For the coordination of assessment of the community performance. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment call 415 6550001, code 145 2541872 and press pound twice. Dial star 3 to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin comments. We have del rosario with us today. Good morning, supervisors and thank you for being here, for listening and i am representing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and supporting the Soma Community Stabilization Fund, cac for the last 14 years. So as you know, the fund was created in 2005. We didnt get any funding until the 2010 because of the recession and now we are almost at ten years and our intention is to do a comprehensive assessment of the funds to date. As you know, the soma fund was primarily funded through impact fees coming from linkcon hill and we were also added to the central soma plan and we will be receiving additional 45 million in fees from that plan and before we receive those monies, the plan is to conduct a new Strategic Plan to guide the expenditures that will be coming from the central soma plan and before we do that, we feel it is important to do a comprehensive strategic assessment of what weve done so far. Its including the investment and the role in influencing policy and also including how well weve been able to foster coordination among communitybased organizations to mitigate the impact of the development thats happened in the neighborhood and prevent the displacement of residents and small businesses. Ok, any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, there is no report on this. Madam clerk, can we open up number 5 for Public Comments. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know there are callers that are ready. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue and if youre on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Please let us know if there are any callers commenting on item number 5. Yes, i have three callers in the queue. I will queue the first caller. Thank you. Hello caller. This is dr. Rowinna from the San Francisco state university. I wanted to talk about the Stabilization Fund and support it partnershi. I think its important to document how the city, Mayors Office and cac has supported the market and its residents. The community has in the past and continues to experience destabilization and due to real estate speculization, it will be how they stabilized this expect, mostly of immigrants and it is encouraging collaboration. I believe they will gain insight from their residents. indie indiscernible . Next speaker, please. My name is Melody Hernandez and im a part of the proposed Assessment Team executive want o make myself available to answer any questions you might and provide information about the reason why im excited to become involved with this program. Ive had some involvement with the Summer Community fund through a periphery role and have developed some relationships with some of these organizations that have provided me with the opportunity to really see this is kind of the perfect time to do an assessment like this. Theres a lot of knowledge within the community that would be helpful to be shared with the Broader Community and especially when considering to continue programs like this on a Stabilization Fund. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors. Im with the united players and i am soma respect. Resident. You urge you to support this request. How could we not stop and ask how did we did. As we receive another 45 million, its important that we look at what has happened to improve upon the processes, the investments to make sure that we are getting the most impact as possible. Thank you so much. Madam chair, there are no other callers in the queue. Public comment is closed. I would like to make a motion with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk, a role call vote, please. role call . There are three ayes. Can you please call item number 6. Resolution approving modification to contracts, project Management Support Services for the San Francisco international airport, three connector projects with pgh, long and partners to increase the amount by 7. 5 million for a new indiscernible . Members of the public who wish to comment should call 415 6550001, access code and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand approximately please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Thank you very much. Today we have Kathy Weidner from the San Francisco international airport. Good morning. Good morning. Im behalf of the San Francisco international airport. Item number 6 requests approval of modification number 5 to an existing project Management Support Services contract with pgh wong and partners for the airports courtyard project to increase the contract amount by 7. 5 million. The Services Includes in this contract are design and Construction Management, project controls, Contract Administration, cost estimating, lead commissioning, yield inspections and that Materials Testing and this contract is the result of the 2017 competitive request for proposals process. The budget for the project Management Support Services has increased from the original budget amount of 11. 5 million to 17. 25 million for an additional which includes infrastructure requirements, a new elevator cap, Net Zero Energy initiatives, special systems room, infrastructure relocation and an upgrade of selected systems. This also includes the interim relocation of the Airport Security Operations Center and communions center. Communications center. As with other projects before this city, the airport has evaluated the courtyard project that it will not be suspended due to the name of this facility. The airport staff have identified 35 of the remaining Capital Improvement Program Budget and this 35 will be suspended for six months while we look to a Financial Recovery as a result of the influx from the covid19 public Health Emergency. The Budget Analyst Office has reviewed this in modification and recommends approval and i would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, could we please have a vote. Good morning, can you hear me . Yes, we can, thank you, miss campbell. Im with the Budget Office and following up on what miss weidner said, this includes an existing agreement with the airport for services for the courtyard to reconnect their project. It does not change the term but increases the amount by 7. 5 million from 9. 5 million to 17. 2 million and the reasons for the increase are co due to an increase in the overall scope of the project management services. We do summarize on page 3 of our report, the total budget over the remaining term or over the total term of the agreement of 17. 2 million is shown on page 5 and details on the increase of 7. 5 million are on page 6. Based on representations of the airport is in need, we do recommend approval. Thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added and for those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates. Please let us know if there are callers on item number 6. Madam chair, no callers in the queue for item number 6. Public comment is now closed on item number 6 and i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could we have a role call vote. role call . There are three ayes. Can you please call item number 7. Resolution of approving number one for the International Terminal and Luxury Stores between dss group and the city for the base rent under leaseforlease ending on december 31st to commend board approval. Members the public who wish to provide Public Comment call 415 6550001, access code 145215647 and if you have not done so, please press star 3 to speak. Please wait until the next has indicated you have been unmuted to begin your comments. Thank you very much. We have, again, miss Kathy Weidner. Thank you. Kathy weidner for the San Francisco international airport. This item seeks approval for the first modification to an existing lease with dfs group to suspend the minimum annual guarantee rent of 42 million and allow for payment of percentage rent equal to 33 of gross revenues for the remainder of lease year one which is through december 31st, 20. This is the result of a competitive request for proposals process and originally approved by the board of soup stores in 2018 for 12 facilities totaling 46,295 square feet with an initial term of 14 years and a minimum annual guarantee rent of 42 million a year. Dss is a partnership because the dss group and five federally federally certified airport, disadvantaged Business Enterprised owners. Dss has been operating under an initial Development Period during which stores are renovated and rent is held at 30 of gross revenues and this ended on march 31st, initiating the base year, 14year term rent with the full rent of 42 million a year. Prior to the declaration of the covid19 public Health Emergency in the united states, dss was seeing a significant decrease in passenger traffic in sales and china dealt with the financial impacts of the global pandemic. Under the proposed amendment for lease year one, dss would be temporarily suspended and would pay a percentage rent of 33 of gross revenues. At this time, we do believe that for lease year two, dss group would revert to paying the greater of the mag on gross revenues. However whe, there may be a time when a rent release payment for all airport professions is appropriate given the projected Financial Recovery timeline for some of the financial impacts. If that were to be the case, we would return to the board for the lease year two, if there was any modification. The Budget Analysts Office has reviewed this modification and recommends approval and i would be happy to any questions. I see supervisor walton in the queue. indiscernible . Are there other vendors that are looking to renegotiate the same terms with . So at this point, all airport tenants are paying a percentage rent. There is boilerplate language in all concession leases that if it falls below 80 , mags are suspended. The percentage rent included in the contract with 45 of gross revenues which we do not believe is financially feasible given the numbers that were seeing. So were coming to you because this is lowering that boiler plate language in that 33 . Thank you very much. And could we get the report please, miss campbell . Yes, members of the committee, this is the First Amendment to a concession agreement between the airport and dcs group. It suspends the minimum guaranteed rent of 42 million for the term from april 2020 to december of 2020 and as miss weidner pointed out, there is a percentage rent from 45 of gross revenues to 33 of gross revenues expect reason fo and te percentage rent are summarized on pages 11 and 12 of our report. Actual revenues anticipated by the airport during the suspension period is about 11. 3 million and based on representation by the airport, we are recommending approval of the propose the resolution. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can we open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see there are any calls in queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have. Unmuted. Are there any callers on item number 7 . Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue for number 7. Thank you. I would like a motion to make this with a positive recommendation. Can we have a role call vote. role call . Thank you very much. Can you please call items 8, 9 and 10 together. Resolution approval and agreement between the San Francisco Community Health authority and the department of Public Health for thirdparty services for the San Francisco program for an amount not to exceed 35. 3, from july 5th, 2022020 through june 30, 2025 ad item number 9, agreement between the San Francisco Community Health authority and the department of Public Health of private Provider Services for the San Francisco program and for a total amount not to exceed 24. 9 million for a fiveyear term through june 30 of 2025. A resolution approving an agreement between the San Francisco Community Health authority and the department of Public Health for a thirdparty add minutthirdpartyadministrata total of five years from july 1st, 2020 through june 30, 2025. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on these items should call 415 6550001, access code 145 2541827 and press pound twice and if you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. It will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you became begin comments. Thank you. Today were have michelle wiggles with us and i think that you cannot access your video, is that right . Thats correct. That is fine. Do we have the director of dph, office of manage care . I see her on my list but maybe she isnt here. So michelle, please, the floor is yours. Thank you. And im sorry i cant make my camera work. Miss wong, are you able to pull up that one visual . If you have a copy of the memo you received yesterday, the attachment has graphic. indiscernible . The healthy San Francisco Program Allows access to comprehensive Health Services in San Francisco for enrolled participants and then the San Francisco City Option Program provides benefits to employees whose employers are subjected to the healthcare and meet their spending requirements. The healthcare ordinance allowed the department of Public Health to go out to bid im sorry, not to bid, but well, to contract out for thirdparty Administrative Services. We opted for the city program. And the reason that we did that is because they were already back since 1994, operating the sanfrancisco medicale plan and they had all infrastructure in place to to enable the operations and administration of the Third Party Administrative services. So the three contracts before you today are the these are ongoing services. Theyre new contracts the first one is a healthy San Francisco Administrative Services and in that respect, theyre doing all of the management. Theyre enrolling people into the program, checking eligibility and theres a Customer Service. Its listed here and alice c coniadi, the office for the Public Health is on the phone and can ask lots of specifics. So thats one contract. Its the thirdparty for the health San Francisco program. Within that program, enrollees have an option to have different Providers Networks and so and being served in those different provide networks that are not just in the department of Public Health and the healthy San Francisco program reimbursing the private providers, the providers of care. If youre enrolled and participating, your employer can make the ordinance which has three options well, they can buy insurance for you, just as we have through our own jobs here with the government. Also, theres three programs and they can go into a reimbursement account providing contributions into the mra, medical reimburse account that the employee uses for their eligible expenses or opt into the healthy San Francisco program and your employer would contribute to support the cost of your participation and then the third option is newer. It wamayor lee amend the ordinas a result Affordable Care act. The third contract before you do is 30 million, 357 i is for opg all managing the accounts, enrolling you and just enrolling you and employees move around, and so if you enroll or go to a new job, youll have a new enrollment, but i think the report the budget and legislative analyst did a nice job collecting all of this information and so, it essentially for the Third Party Administrator services, theyre doing enrollment, Customer Service and theres a lot of Information Technology that goes along with managing the account. And so thats the overview. I will leave it there and if you have more specific questions about how the programs work, or what the contracts are funding, ill turn that over to alice. Could we have the reports on 8, 9 and 10 . Each resolution approved three new contracts between dph and the community by Health Authority for health San Francisco and the city option. Item number 8 is for 35. 3 million over five years for thirdparty Administrator Services and item number 9 is 24. 9 million over five years to administer provider payments and then item number 10 is 49 million over five years to thirdparty Administrative Services for the city option, which is to summarize some of these programs. Tables 13 on our report on pages 17 and 18 give the budget to these contracts. Because these contracts are consistent with the healthcare ordinance, we recommend approval. Thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment for 8, 9 and 10. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready and if you have not done so, press star 3 to be added. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Please let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on items 8, 9 and 10. There are no callers in the queue. Ok, thank you very much. I just have one question and i think you can probably answer this. So are these contracts identical, pretty identical to the prior contracts and have the Health Authorities always been the thirdparty administrators . It sounds like that is so . indiscernible . So the contracts have been very similar to the past contracts and some of the activities are slightly different because every year we do Different Program initiatives, but the overall structures and the Overall Services are identical to past contracts. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions . Seeing Public Comment has been closed, lets make a motion to move items 8, 9 and 10 to the full board with a positive recommendation and madam clerk, can we please have our role call vote. role call . Any other business before us today . There is no other business . Thank you very much. We are adjourned. S. Fewer good afternoon. Well start with the meet and i welcome our councilors and president norman yee. Id like to thank our clerk and thank you sf gov tv for board offing this. Madame clerk. Clerk the city chamber and Committee Rooms are closed and others will be participating remotely. Caution is taken various local stayed and orders and directors. Well have the meeting through Video Conference and Public Comment will be available on each item on this agenda and theyre streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed 10 minutes to speak. Opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 415655001. Access code 145 254 1827 best practices are to speak clearly and alternately you can email for Public Comment and theyll be forwarded to the supervisor and included part of the file and items are expected to appear for the agenda june 17 than otherwise stated. S. Fewer call items one, two and three together. Clerk [reading items] members of the public wishing to provide Public Comment on these items should call 415655001 access code 145 254 1827 and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3. Wait until the system indicates you have been muted and you may begin your comments. S. Fewer madame clerk are you muted . Check your microphone. You were unmuted the last 20 seconds. S. Fewer colleagues we had these items last week and there was a discussion around the increase for iahh workers and there was a difference of opinion and happy to say well have an amendment today. So we have heard the report already and also heard from the b. L. A. We have assessed and i just want to say i want to appreciate the mayors Budget Office for working with me in the last week to address our concerns regarding the mcl increase for ihss workers the board unanimously passed legislation last year to put into place legislation coauthored by supervisor romen and myself. Putting our equity principles into practice is critical. Im happy weve been able to come to an agreement for our lowest wage worker and we have an amendment to introduce today. This amendment will restore 75 of the wage increase through the minimum compensation ordnance beginning september 1. I would like to read the amendment into record. To increase the Human Service agency in fiscal year 20202021 by for increases for ihss employees and we reduce the curb rent in the project public work by the same amount and once again i want to thank so much to to the mayors Budget Office for working with us to find these funds. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Yes, president yee n. Yee i want to thank to the chair. I appreciate your addressing this issue. Youre right and correct that we need to find ways to support those that are at the bottom of the pay scale. I just want to show my appreciation. S. Fewer thank you president. Supervisor ronen. It was an honor to work with you on it and a want to appreciate you for once again championing and standing up for the lowest wage workers who do such critical work in our city and to the Mayors Office for finding this solution. I really appreciate your work on this. S. Fewer thank you for your support. Having said that are there any other comments or questions from my colleagues . I think we heard the presentation last week and heard the report. All we have to do now is listen to Public Comment. If i dont see any other comments or questions from my colleagues, madame clerk, please open up Public Comment for items one, two and three. Clerk operation is checking to see if theres anyone in the queue. I have one call i will queue them up. Hi, can you hear me . S. Fewer yes. Caller i wanted to comment on the nco for the ihss. I do appreciate this effort though 75 of the increase and i one of the reasons we are low paid workers is that because we are black jobs matter. We were excluded from regular workers legislation were still try to catch up. The president of fdr to get the wagner act passed had to sacrifice black jobs and agriculture and Domestic Workers were qualified as Domestic Workers. We do need to try to eventually get back on track with an additional 25 at some point i hope because our negotiating committee worked to do as much as we could for the lowest paid city workers though we are not technically city county workers we do the work of the city and county and frankly are a good deal for the city and council. Our disabled and seniors and keep them in their homes and weve seen with this Pandemic Group housing is not the best solution. Home care is. I hope the city will recognize this and if we cant do it now restore the additional 25 were not able to do this year in the future in the future life of the contract going another two years. Its so important that this work be compensated in a way that keeps workers able to be dedicated to their consumers and to the work of the city. My name is bradley weidmyer. Thank you. Clerk hello, next call. Clerk are there any callers that wish to comment on these items . Hello . Caller [indiscernible]. S. Fewer madam clerk is there a way to assist the caller. Theyre breaking up and we cant understand what the caller is saying. Ill move on and then go back to them. Clerk can the caller come to a place where they get better reception and well come back to you. Caller hello . Staff go ahead. Caller im speaking spanish. Somebody translate for me, okay . [speaking spanish] staff i want to let you know we dont want to delay because we have on the front line. We are risking our lives to take care of our consumer and were asking please not to delay the wage increase for us. Thank you so much. Caller [speaking spanish] staff hi, my name is helen campos i want the rect of the contract with the wage increase july 1st. We are on the front line and taking care of the elderly. We are at risk all the time so we can in the wait for a they are for our wage increase. Thank you so much. Clerk thank you, next caller, please. Clerk well go to the next caller. Caller [indiscernible]. S. Fewer perhaps you can go back to the original caller. S. Fewer i dont believe they can hear us. Perhaps we can skip over them. Staff that completes the speakers. S. Fewer apologies. Are we done with Public Comment . Staff yes. S. Fewer . To those waiting to speak, my apologies. I know this is difficult im so sorry. I know it is challenging to call in to give Public Comment and i just wanted to thank you for being on the line and i again apologize i think theres difficulty to express yourself through our conference line. Apologies. Also, i believe that there was ive been told was there a consideration from the v. O. A. We didnt take up last week . Staff im from the budget and legislative analyst office. We had a recommendation in our report last week on the income budget recommending the chief privacy officer either be deleted from the interim budget or be put on reserve. I believe the committee accepted the recommendation to put the position on the reserve. S. Fewer okay. Thank you very much. So today colleagues we have an amendment i have introduced. I would like a second, please, to make a motion to accept that amendment. N. Yee seconded. S. Fewer thank you. Can we have a roll call vote please on the amendment madam clerk. Clerk its on the interim budget and appropriation ordnance item no. 1. [roll call] clerk all ayes. S. Fewer id like to move items 2 and 3 with a positive recommendation. Can have a second, please. H. Ronen second. S. Fewer roll call, please. [roll call] s. Fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk please call item 4. The recurring state grant Funds Department of Public Comment fy20202021. Those members of the public who wish to state Public Comment call 4156550001 and access code 145 254 1827 and press pound twice and star 3. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until it indicates you have been unmuted and then begin your comments. Commissioner thank you, madam clerk. We have the department of Public Comment joining us. Staff good afternoon, supervisors. You have a total of 49 grants, 12 million for your approval and review. These are all recurring state grants that support vital programming to pay for contracts and personnel. They are included as appropriations or will be included as appropriations in the upcoming budget but they require a separate board action for accepting the grant award. I can take any questions or provide details as needed. S. Fewer any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, well open it up to Public Comment. Madam clerk please call for Public Comment on item 4. Clerk operation is checking to see if theres callers in the queue. Let us know. If you have already done so, press star 3 to the added to the queue and those on hold continue to wait until it indicates you have been unmuted. This is for those who wish to comment on item no. 4. Staff we have no callers for item no. 4. S. Fewer Public Comment is now closed for item 4 and would like to move it to the board for a positive recommendation. May i have a second, please. N. Yee second. S. Fewer middleinco madam call, please. [roll call] clerk there are five ayes. S. Fewer madam clerk call item no. 5. Clerk public work budget analysis and impact on services and expenditures. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment call 4156550001 and access code 145 254 1827 then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to speak until the system prompts you have indicated you raised your hand and wait until the system indicate us have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. S. Fewer the very much. Is supervisor hanney joined uey . I wanted to welcome him if has joined us. Today we have acting director of public works. We have also support staff march the 1 is a series of hearing the budget and Appropriations Committee is holding specifically to better understand the budgets of the department. We asked the budget and legislati legislative analyst to produce a report to help the committee deepen the understanding of governmental budgets and how theyre structures and how theyve grown over time and more. The proposed budgets for the next fiscal year and rather the intent is to deepen the understanding of the current fiscal year and historical context. This will help us be more informed as we move towards august. Thanks to public works for being the First Departmental hearing. I will first be calling on the b. L. A. To present the report first and then we have a presentation from acting director of public works. So b. L. A. , could we first hear your report . Staff thank you, chair fewer. Ill pull up my slides. Just a second. Okay. Good afternoon chair fewer. Im here to provide a brief summary on the budget analysis report on public works. This is the first of five reports and presentations as part of the boards prebudget review activities. In the coming weeks well be providing similar reports to the Mayors Department of housing and development and police depend and department of Public Health and finally putting together eight public departments to be presented in late july. Chair fewers office coordinated with other board Budget Offices to request we provide a standard set of analysis for departments the ones ive mentioned. Specifically what we were asked to provide a breakdown of divisions within each of the four departments including a purview of each division and program. Second, the total current year adopted budget for each division and 10year look back to fiscal year 2011 and current fulltime equivalent positions within each division as well as a 10year look back to fiscal year 2011 and finally the total amount contracted out within each division. In addition to the standard questions we were asked to provide impact of the covid19 pandemic and policy questions for each department. The department of public works is organized into four divisions as well as a Directors Office and reports to the administrator. Theres operation, Building Design and construction, infrastructure design and construction and administration. Within each division there are multiple bureaus often referred to as programs. The Directors Office includes the Emergency Management program, policy and communications, university of public works, which is an inhouse training and education program. The Operations Division includes most of the direct municipal offices within the department and the bureaus within the Operations Division include building repair which provide professional construction and repair to cityowned facilities and Emergency Repair services 24 hours a day to ensure police, fire and other Public Safety operation fully functional. Street and sewer repair which oversees paving and work including patch paving and filling potholes as well as sewer repair on older pipes that require brick work. The Street Environmental Services clean streets and curbs using mechanical street sweepers and removes graffiti and cleans receptacles and oversees work crews. Though sidewalks maintenance remains the responsibility of Property Owners it cleans dog waste and other bio hazards and another responsibility is Tree Planting and maintenance of all street trees and median maintenance and cement shop and repair medians and curbs and design and Construction Division providers comprehensive planning, project management and Building Construction management, contract support and compliance monitoring, Hazardous Materials investigation and abatement, Materials Testing, Quality Assurance and controlled service for the development of New Buildings and the modernization of existing buildingfests in publish ush building facilities and publish urban landscapes and often referred to as vertical construction. The bureaus include architecture, landscape architecture, Construction Management, project management and project controls and services. The infrastructure design and Construction Division has similar functions to the Building Design and Construction Division and includes engineering, planning, project development Design Construction manage in the and Consulting Services for a range of capital Improvement Projects and rightofway infrastructure including street, truck structure, sidewalks, curbs and streetscapes. Most the work of this division is the department horizontal construction. Bureaus include design and engineering, Construction Management, project management and street use and mapping. Street use and mapping ensures the citys sidewalks and streets are safe and accessible by permitting and inspecting the use of the public rightofway including the installation inspection and inspection of sidewalks. Finally, the finance and Administration Division includes administrative units that provide budget, capital planning, analytical, Performance Management and Contract Administration and Information Technology support services for the department. The cost of this division are accounted for under General Administration as well as reflected as overhead charges to the other departments and the department upper division. Te adopted budget is 387 million. The total budget which is the number you see in the annual appropriation ordnance aao, includes Significant Program cost which is draw a large amount of support from Nongeneral Fund sources such as federal, state and local enterprise funds. The departments current total year General Fund Budget is 144, 075,313 and 48 is supported by general fund primarily for street resurfacing and often referred to as Capital Projects but there are other Capital Projects also in that departments budget. The total number is up about 224 million for about 138 over the last 10 years. The departments General Fund Budget is up about 118 million or almost 450 over the last so years versus 107 for the general fund city wide. Most growth is driven by the Street Resurfacing Program from the Street Safety bond to the general fund in fiscal year 20142015. The general fund support for continuing project primarily road resurfacing has increased from about 6 million at the start of the 10year period in fiscal 2011 to nearly 59 million in the fiscal year 20192020. If we look at the operating side of the departments general fund support, we see the increases are closer to the growth in the general fund. If we look at the growth in fiscal year 2008 and 2009 and make it a 12year look back wed be looking back at a similar point in the Economic Cycle. Fiscal year 2008 and 2009 was a point before most the large cuts were made in the general fund resulting from the recession that was caused by the 2008 financial crisis. If we look to that year the general Fund Operating support went up 124 versus 101 city wide for the general fund. It looks closer to the actual city wide general fund growth. The department of public works staff attribute most the growth in the departments general Fund Operating budget to the expansion of Street Cleaning Services including the initiation of the Pit Stop Program and increases in negotiated salaries and benefits. In addition, voters approved a measure in november 2016 to shift responsibility from street trees to the city. There was a significant associated increase in general fund support to the bureau of urban forestry in 20172018 to account for the shift. As shown in exhibit 2 on page 8 of our report, the departments total budgetapproved fte position are 1,761. 5 and what youd see in the annual salary ordnance. This number can be broken down to better understand the growth in the departments positions by offbudget ftes for those position are project based and funded versus onbudget positions which are funded by the operating fund of the general fund. The total number of approved project based positions in the current year is 589. 3ftes. Projectbased positions have increased 65 over the last 10 years. The total number of approved operating positions in the current year is 1,172. 2 ftes. The department operating position have increased by 36 in the last 10 years but only by 7. 4 if we look back again to fiscal year 20082009 a similar point in the Economic Cycle to where we were at the beginning of the current fiscal year. Exhibit 2 on page 8 includes the details of the 12year history. One key area id like to highlight is the second column from the right which shows the total funded and offbudget ftes. The numbers include operating positions funded. Which means the number of positions the department can hire after their attrition was budgeted into their budget plus the offbudget for projectbased positions. This is probably the best number to focus on in terms of the departments budgeted position. The total onbudget funded and offbudget ftes in the current year is 1,660. 3 ftes. The departments position by this measure have increased by 44. 7 in the last 10 years and 19. 8 in the last 12 years. The Building Design and Construction Business and infrastructure design and Infrastructure Division have seen the largest increases in positions over the last 12 years. A detailed breakdown of fte growth is included in appendix a of our report. And the accident reports over the last three and a quarter years they entered into contract totalling 1. 4 billion. Construction constitute 82 of the total amount and professional services constitute 12 . Department staff note these services are mostly for specialized work that dpw doesnt have in house or when the Department Needs to supplement inhouse staff. The Services Include but are not limited to architectural and engineering for large projects, geotechnical work, training, elevator design and surveying. And on page 12 details the approved budget by division over the last 10 years. The programs with the largest budget in the current year are infrastructure, design and construction at about 134 million. Street Environmental Services at about 94. 5 million and urban forestry at about 50 million. Programs with the largest growth by dollar volume over the last 10 years are the same departments. Infrastructure, design and construction but the horizontal construction of the department is up by 77 million and street design Environmental Services is up by 58 million. Again, we discussed the services under this bureau have been scanned scanneded expanded in the last 10 years including the creation of the Pit Stop Program and the expansion of that program and the bureau of urban forestry up about 33 million which again inherited responsibilities for all the city street trees after voters passed a ballot measure shifting that responsibility. The department switched to providing only essential services. Routine maintenance was suspended. Community events were cancelled and most construction work was curtailed. Exceptions were provided in the shelter in place order that allowed public works projects relating to construction for the homeless, Pandemic Health care related budgets an essential infrastructure to continue. Public works that generates revenue through direct services suffered due to business disruption such as the bureau of street use which allows revenue with reduced activities and the mayor cut support for street projects and other Capital Projects by about 17 million as discussed two weeks ago as part of the current year rebalancing. In addition to that 2. 9 million was cut from curb ramp projects as an outside [indiscernible] the department has decreased expenditures to assist in their Pandemic Response including the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and the department of Public Health. The biggest single programmatic increase related to covid19 was for additional pit stop and hand washing stations to be opened and monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Department Projects approximately 8. 3 million million will be spent through the current year and the department will seek reimbursement from fema and cal oes for expenditures. Now i just want to turn to the final part of our report which is the policy questions that were presented to us that were specific to the department of public works. The first question was we were asked to provide some information on the departments oversight on contracting and procurement. And the city what we found was the City Attorneys office and Controllers Office are conducting ongoing investigations in relation to conflict of interests and exchange of gifts and focussing on employees and contracts and the Controllers Office is focussing on systems failures. The Systems Office in coordination with the City Attorneys office will make decisions affecting all city agency. The second question we were asked was to present summary information on the clean street programming of the department. What we found is that street remains a top concern of City Residents according to the controllerss 2018 survey of residents and infrastructure is the third most cited issue with 40 of respondents saying streets have gotten worse since 2017. Exhibit 6 on page 15 and 16 of our report detail the Street Cleaning Services provided by the department. Exhibit 7 on page 17 of our report details the bureau of Street Environmental Services budget since fiscal year 20122013. As shown in that exhibit the bureaus budget has grown from 40 million in 2013 to 94 million in fiscal year 20192020 for an increase of about 135 . Finally, we were asked to conduct the highlevel review of potential redundancies between department of public work and other departments. We conducted the highlevel review of the relationship between public works and the Public Utilities commission and with mta to determine if any potential redundancy exists. We did not find any apparent redundancies based on our review. Public works collaborated closely with the Public Utilities commission because many puc assets, water pipes, sewers and storm drains are located under roadways that are the assets that belong to the department of public works. Weve learned that sewer or pipe failures often cause roadways to crumble and public works has the ultimate responsibility for their integrity and public works is often the First Responders to these collapses. To respond effectively to these situations theyve set up annual work orders so staff can perform repairs on stew we ares smaller than 36 inches in diameter which tend to be the older sewers in the city. The work also helps with the roadways structural integrity. Public works and puc also work closely together as public works is the only department in the city other than the airport with architects or landscape architects. Additionally, public works is a key provider of Construction Management services throughout the city. Dpw provided Construction Management services for the pucs newest headquarters on golden gate avenue. And theres a discussion on how to provide the work services. Due to the limited amount of time to prepare the report we cannot provide conclusive findings on the efficiency of the work orders but we have a policy option you have probably seen in my report related to the findings. That is the board of supervisors could request the Controllers Office or direct the Analysts Office to conduct a limited audit of sewer repair through work orders between the department of public works and the Public Utilities commission. And with that my presentation is concluded and im available for questions, if there are any. Thank you very much. That was a very s. Fewer thank you that was a comprehensive report and very informative. Colleagues, any comments or questions . President lee . N. Yee can you repeat the report again . [laughter] s. Fewer supervisor walton. S. Walton i thought you said there was one other position in house and mta wouldnt have those positions as well . Staff my understanding is that mta does not have architects or landscape architects. S. Walton thank you. S. Fewer any other comments or questions, colleagues, at all . If not we will yes, supervisor . H. Ronen i want to make a recommendation of the audit theres overlap between puc and public works and theres a way to do it in a cheaper way. S. Fewer supervisor ronen, lets hold that motion until the presentation by puc, if you dont mind because we will have that report and public works, the floor is yours. Staff it sounds like theres an echo so im going change computers to try to avoid that. Clerk it wasnt you echoing. You should be find. Supervisor fewer i believe its you. Staff okay. I will share my screen. Dpublic worksdef staff good afternoon, chair fewer and supervisors. I want to say thank you for offering and providing public works the opportunity to present today. Today im going to focus mostly on the structure of public works also going over the budget as a revenue and expenditures and giving you the history of some things weve done over the last 10 years and more recently some things were going with regard to covid. I know there was a presentation so ill try to focus mostly on the areas that will be things that werent covered. One of the first things i want to talk about is who we are at public works we have the core values of respect and integrity and responsiveness and things that support that for us are our three main goals. We want to be the best place to work and we want that to be the best place to work, period. We know its a lofty goal but one of our main goals here. We also want to drive innovation and we want to work with partners in the community and business to improve Public Safety in the city. Whether things weve done recently in response to economic recovery partnering with the Mayors Office, Planning Department and nta to use our sidewalks to try to find ways to spring back revenues in the city. Thats finding ways to make our Public Safety better. Again, this is a quick summary of our flow chart. This is covered before so i wont spend too much time on it. Again the main thing to takeaway is were structured in four different departments or divisions here within public works. Infrastructure, building, operations and admin. Each of those divisions has a Deputy Director that reports to me and the things we address under these as divisions will be under eight bureaus. This is something you heard in the presentation just before mine regarding what each of the bureaus do so im not going to spend too much time going over what each of the bureaus do but the one thing i do want to emphasize and talk about a bit is really the level of the coordination and discussions and the work that takes place within each of these divisions. Obviously theyre all very different as the building and design and Construction Division we refer to as bdc and as mentioned before they do a lot of the vertical work but some of the things we dont think about is that that division works a lot with the bureau working with the building and repair bureau. Thats a Different Division within public works and in partnership and collaboration that goes on there. For example, if there is a problem with one of our buildings and we have to look at it, we may have in the building and repair bureau go and fix it. The same could be said for the infrastructure and design and construction bureau. They do a lot of the design work where it relates to street ste we are and repair or sewer and whether it relate to medians. We see employees doing design work to reach out to industry and sewer repair or urban forestry to talk about if it makes sense from a maintenance standpoint. Theyll reach out to the street and Environmental Services bureau to talk about the angle to make sure its not too steep or not too wide and the street sweepers wont be able to get into crevasses. I want to emphasize theres a lot of coordination that does take place within these bureaus and the value in that has a useful impact to us here in the city. This to summarize to give you an idea of the extreme amount of work the 1600 people here at public works do for the city every year. Were looking at just under 1900 perha programs constructed. In fiscal year 1819 we were able to maintain trees at a growing number. 15,564. And street sweeping goes up as the population of San Francisco goes up and as the use of the 311 app goes up we get more requests and day in and day out were painting over graffiti and planting trees and building repairs. This is just a snapshot of the work thats done by the men and women of public works and again something that takes place 24 7. This is a chart thats kind of showing the expenditures of public works for the fiscal year 1819 echoing what you heard from the budget analysis that both the expenditures from public works comes from outside the general fund on the chart before you. The first column in the general fund and then the column four or five over regarding the general fund and the capital work that we do adds up to about is 23 and it results and general fund is a mix. And if were doing work on behalf of others we have other bonds sources and things like that and the department gets funding from a lot of different sources but the main one we can see in the goldcolored columns are through every Capital Project and that is any number of flavors whether in the building which is referred to as the vertical work. Also horizontal work we do on behalf of the city work on sewers and designing things of that nature. And then we also see as a smaller portion but we also see it on the Operations Side of the house as well. To summarize it matches up with the previous chart showing you we talked about the expenditures. This summarizes where people are working within the department. We have three of our bureaus make up of 61 of the total head count in the department in the bureau of infrastructure and Environmental Services work. Of that work looking at the top two, the bulk is funded through offbudget meaning its coming from operating funds. Those are usually funded through the project itself meaning as a Capital Project. It can also be funded as a work order or a nonoperating source. Going down through the bureaus below that, thats where you do see more of the Funding Sources that are relying on operating funds to fund those positions mostly on the Operations Side of the house. Again, ill go over this quickly, as discussed before, talking about the number of contracts that public works has over the past few years. In the 1718 fiscal year we had 1. 4 billion worth of contracting. The bulk of that falls under construction. I want to highlight one thing very important, we do some big projects here well in the hundreds of millions but in large part though that number youre looking at at 198, there are a lot of projects that would be considered within the city and Construction Contracting to be small. I can tell you public works ly has the highest participation of the local Business Enterprise department in our contract. Which means we have smaller, local contractor actively participating at the prime level or sub level of our contracts. This is something vitally important and more important in the next few years as the country and state and San Francisco, to be more specific, goes through some tough times. Thats where youll see public works will have a big role in helping local contractors get business and work. Theyll help to work with department of Public Health to make sure or local Construction Contracts were able to continue during the shelter in place as it leads to employment for the same groups. Over the years as weve seen the population grow in San Francisco weve seen the demand grow. It starts to show what the population has done in the city and county of San Francisco in the 12 years or so and see during that time the number of the Service Requests that have come to public works have grown over the numbers grow through unhoused residents grow resulting in more demand for the work for us to do here at the Public Works Department. This is a chart that individualizes some information you heard previously from the Budget Analyst Office when we were in the 2007 fiscal year we were at the peak of our staffing and this was also the peak of the economy and then we kind of moved into a recession and we started to see and we took the general fund and resulted in us having to reduce some of the staffing in the street cleaning bureau. Thats what youre seeing here. In the last 10 years or so weve been trying to grow that number because referring back to the previous slide weve seen demand for Services Grow and the main demands weve seen as it relates to street cleaning. As much as possible you have public works trying to meet that demand. The last slide summarizes what public works has done to respond to the covid crisis. Weve worked on something that we take pride in in public works. It goes back to something i was referring to before about the level of team work that happens within public works. Within the bureau of building, design and construction, they basically went out and did a design of these sites and went out to the tenderloin and are currently in the Mission Middle School and got an idea of the number of tents we can put in an area with an architect and shared that with the Operations Team and you can see in the picture we paint the squares. We installed water access and had electricians out to make sure there was power. These are all things public works was able to do. We would not be able to have the efficiencies needed if it was done with different groups and we were also able to do during the covid crisis expand the Pit Stop Program. Since the onset of the covid crisis weve added 33 different locations across the city most in the tenderloin area but i want to emphasize we have added those throughout the city. We are operating those around the clock because we realize the need to provide the services and hand washing stations. We worked with umi to board up the station to keep them safe and secure. We worked to help set up drive through Testing Centers for covid and provided assistance in the streets. Weve done a number of things to support the city and community in our response to covid. As was referred to before but again these are things in public works is proud to do and proud to be a goto department in the time of public crisis. With that, that concludes the presentation and id be happy to answer any questions. S. Fewer colleagues, any comments or questions . Supervisor mandelman . R. Mandelman for stepping into what was already a challenging position. More challenging than you could have possibly imagined. I think the folks that work in your department are heroes. And sheroes and ill start by saying that. Staff thank you. R. Mandelman i have been perplexed and troubled an confused with the Street Management budget for the time ive been on this budget committee. As you know its more than doubled since 2012, i think. Yet the outcomes as measured by the response of residents are not good. People are not happy about the conditions of our streets. We are gaining an International Representation for having dirty streets and this is particularly true during covid but even before covid just massive collections of stuff out on sidewalks and Public Places pretty much is driving a lot of folks up a wall. You dont have to answer the question because its a hard question but im wondering if theres amount of money we can pour into street cleaning that will cause us to have street streets as long as were chasing around people camping in our neighborhoods. I feel its a potentially infinite budget. Were cutting where ever but the marginal dollar for street cleaning and others things are decisions we have to make without detracting from doing what keeps the city looking like it does and raises the question whether the additional tens of millions of dollars we put into street cleaning over the last several years have gone to the right place and how we think about impacting this and whether street cleaning is the way to do it. Staff thank you for the kind words. Its ever challenging but i would not want to be and public works is trying to solve the problem were all dealing with. To answer your question specifically, its probably not the best thing to say but throwing tons of money at the issue of street cleaning is necessarily the answer. Its more of a policy decision. I think to direct it to behaviors that call people to throw their trash on the street or the way our cans work, thats what we need to solve. When i go around with my crews and see the streets whether it be in your district or capitol or ten den tenderloins and see our streets at 6 30 streets are fine and two hours later theres trash every. The trash doesnt magically show up. Theres something causing it and we collectively need to figure that out. Whether that be helping to support additional funding with mental Health Services to address it, it may be the answer. Those are more policy decisions. Certainly though id say cutting budgets in half isnt going to help. We all agree its not one for one for every dollar you put for street cleaning will lead to one less piece of paper. Its a behavioral issue we as a city need to help try and resolve. R. Mandelman thank you for that. I want to express the incredible gratitude, again, i have for your folks who are out at 5 00 and 6 00 and 7 00 in the morning and who every day are confronting incredible conditions they shunt have to. Shouldnt have to. I do have tremendous respect for that. But thank you for engaging in this conversation with me. Staff yep. S. Fewer president yee. N. Yee thank you, chair fewer. I guess i have two questions. One is in regards to what you pick up in the streets do you have a sense of volume of garbage we are picking up as a city . I dont know that number off the top of my head but we take debris to the dump and theres a dump fee or a big scale you drive on to and that can assess the weight. I can give it to you within the next day or so the average volume. N. Yee thats helpful but youve been with the department how long now . Staff five months next week. N. Yee dont you know everything yet . [laughter] is there a comparison whether 10 years ago we were picking up the same amount of garbage. Staff i cant say from the volume standpoint but i can say from the number of Service Calls were getting and i can send it to you if you dont have a hard copy but we have seen the number of Service Calls rising. Theres more debris and things youre seeing on the streets. N. Yee okay. Just trying to figure out if the budget is increasing. Staff as the budget is increasing and something supervisor mandelman mentioned and the Pit Stop Program didnt exist 10 years ago and its a costly program but a little needed right now and added in services right now. I can probably go back with my staff and show you pieces on apples to apples and street sweeping budget and what thats done and incremental adds in the other programs. N. Yee the next question is for clarification, you end up doing some work and a lot of it is contracted out. Youre acting almost as a middle department. Staff it only allows six departments to did construction. One of those puc, airport, parks and the port and those are the only departments that are allowed to do construction work. Police and fire cant do their own work. And in the sense we are performing work on behalf of the Police Department on behalf of the hospital, its kind of a passthough but then at the same time you wouldnt presumptively doing te work themselves because they dont have enough volume to just tie doing their own justify doing their own work to hire persons and then fire them the next year because they built their building and renovated whatever the structure is. Im assuming the rationale is some departments have enough work theyre always doing it, puc, airport and others, fine, you guys can do your own work without coming to public works. Everybody else, what were going to do is try to maximize economies of scale and have one department do construction whether its the design and engineering and all this for everybody else. Theres a large amount for contracting on the construction side. For the engineering, we do a lot of our own Engineering Work unless tea attempt to do all the more complex work ourselves. If the dollars youre seeing being contracted out, thats actually construction work. Nor same reason why and its cyclical you have all the trades. We contract out what looks like is a passthrough but really were bringing on board contractors to build things on behalf of the city and then public works manages that work. N. Yee okay. Thats clarification i needed. You do still have a role in those contracts out. Staff yes, sir. N. Yee thank you. S. Fewer any other questions or comments . I have a question. Can you tell me a little bit about your University Program is this a new program, when did it start, how much of your funds sit and is it government grants or state grants . Tell me about that program and are the participants and that type of thing. Staff sure. The Public Works Department provides information on the city and how it works. Employees and we provide training and be specific on job duties and things like that. We provide ongoing training in education through our employees through that. S. Fewer so this isnt a Training Program you entrylevel jobs people are entering into. This is more of like for your employee come to public works you do an overall and your organization, is that correct . And id also say that its more than just training about who we are but also about getting them the skills they need in order to success in their own careers whether with engineers we have and we have programs that are in the workforce and development program. We partner with various groups within the city to provide opportunities and things like that. And we may provide training as a trainer over from the university to talk to someone within the public works workforce groups and trainees we bring onboard but arent tied together. S. Fewer would you say in your university how many employees do you have that are assigned to the university . Staff three. At the university we have massive numbers of people, theres only three people. S. Fewer do you use the university as an investment into your Management Team . For example, growing talent within public works . Staff absolutely. We see it as an investment to the folks in public works. We have courses whether its negotiating, public speaking. If youre a public works employee we provide the tools and to recognize we have a large number of the public works employees that dont work additional hours. Were trying to design tools so a person can pick up courses offline and pick it up. Were also working with the same group to provide economic training and public works employees struggle month to month to make ends meet and were expanding training to employees not only to help them directly with their job but provide life skills as well. S. Fewer is not a resource for your employees . They dont have anything like this . Staff its similar but not quite that. S. Fewer whats the budget for that . Staff approximately 640,000. Commissioner okay. How many participants on an annual basis may go through your university . Staff probably 1500, 1600 people each year. Well, i said people but some people go through multiple classes. It could be,000 and thousands of classes. S. Fewer employees do these classes on their own time or given time to do it . Staff both. Some classes they do on their own and others they do other times. If its a class specifically job related something regarding the safety and the way youre performing your work, that is obviously something they are getting paid to do. But if its something less related to their work like i was saying before were trying to expand some offerings regarding life skills and budgeting your own finances and that its something they did on their own time. We offer the classes during the day so they can take it during lunch but thats not something were able to pay them for. S. Fewer thank you very much. Others dont invest in their workers and there are some departments that do invest in their workers. Its interesting how public works has chosen to create their own resource for their own employees and help them with skills they need. Its super interesting. I also want to thank you for all the work youve done. Up my neighborhood we have a fairly large one so thank you so much for the pit stop and washing station. I think its really helpful. Supervisor ronen did you want to circle back on questions to concerning a policy recommendation . H. Ronen sure. I wanted to hear a little more in person but it would be good to here from about your thoughts or from v. L. A. On the different points of view between puc and dpw on the question. I didnt read it in the report itself. I may not have gotten to it yet. Staff it was at the end of the report. H. Ronen i was halfway through it when the meeting started. Staff its okay. And the puc was was previously part of the department and in the mid to late 90s that function was moved out and moved to puc but not 100 shifted over to puc. Some of it stayed at dpw. A couple things that stayed, hydraulic engineers stayed behind at dpw and they have skilled brick layers and the smaller constructed pipe is made of this and thats why they contract for bricks instead of hydraulic engineering. And move over to puc. I believe dpw staff and they can speak for themselves but the work theyre doing through a work order is sufficient. And theres rates on work orders from dpw to puc. We werent able to completely flush that out but something that came up. H. Ronen is the work more stream lined . Staff i believe its more than a million a year and i can dig that up for you if you give me a minute. H. Ronen good to know. Thats all the questions i have for right now. S. Fewer great. I see no ones in the queue. In the meantime why dont we take Public Comment on this item. Madam clerk please call Public Comment for the item. Operations see if theres callers in the queue. If you have not already done so, please press star 3. For those already on hold please continue to wait until the system indicates have you been unmuted. Let us know if theres any callers who wish to comment on item number 5. Staff there are no callers in the queue. S. Fewer thank you very much. So lets begin Public Comment, please. Staff there are no callers. Commissioner s. Fewer Public Comment on item no. 5 is closed. I had one question about city bills. I was wondering do you hire directly from city bills . Staff we have our own apprenticeship programs. City hires are on the won tra tract contract side for apprentices. We also have programs that we manage internally. S. Fewer i am wondering about your apprenticeship program. Do they feed to all four different departments on your org chart . Staff no, primarily into two divisions. Mostly operations an one into infrastructure and design. S. Fewer assuming a large part of your budget is hiring subcontracting out for example, is that correct . S. Fewer how many participants do you have on an annual basis . Staff it varies every year. S. Fewer about jobs. Staff too 50 staff 50 of the graduates get apprenticeships. S. Fewer any other comments or questions from my colleagues . We have employees through the programs and they had transitioned into other positions throughout public works we had street inspectors as well. When they come to the public works family theyre not forever tied to that one position. Theyre exposed to have the opportunity to grow their careers throughout the organization and thats where things like the public Works University plays a big role. As larry was talking about our total grants and every 2 goes into this but its not a large role. S. Fewer any more comments or questions . Seeing none i would then like to make a motion to file this. We will hear from public works again during the budget but thank you for being here and giving us an overdue and thanks to the vla for their extensive report we can refer back to when were deliberating during the budget cycle. Thank you to your team for participating today and giving that summary information about the appointment and thank you to your workers for a great job you guys are doing and also nor hard work you do every day to keep us clean and for helping to us build San Francisco. Id like to mation motion to file this item. Can i have a second. N. Yee second. S. Fewer great. Roll call vote, please. [roll call]. You have five ayes. Commissioner madam clerk is there any further Business Today . Clerk no further business. S. Fewer we are adjourned. Thank you, everyone. [ captioner standing by ] [ captioner standing by ]