Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20240712

Associated with that multibillion Dollar Program and this geo specifically provides match and is part of that full funding plan. Capitalwise they will continue to be sustained by the citys proposition k sales tax. But we do, as tim noted, are continuing to have discussions with them longterm. Supervisor fewer okay . Thank you. Any other comments, questions, from my colleagues. Seeing none, could we have a b. L. A. Report . Yes, chair fewer, members of the committee, 4 and 5 i prove the issuance of 140 million in general Obligation Bonds for transportation improvement projects. We summarized the use of the bond funds on page 10 of our report and sort of the overall bond projects on page 11 of our report. Estimated debt service on the bond would be 9. 7 million per year as discussed. The impact on the property tax rate would be for property assessed at 600,000 would be 20 per year. This does fall within the citys capital debt limit and capital plan tax rate limit. We recommend amending the proposed ordinance to require a report on bond project and expenditures to the board of supervisors prior to december 31, 2020 and for the report to be included in the legislative file. And then we recommend approval of the resolution and the proposed ordinance as amended. Im available if you have questions. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. No comments or questions from my colleagues . And so, lets open this up for Public Comment. Can i madame clerk, can you call for Public Comment on items 4 and 5 . Yes, madame chair. Operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Please let is know if there are callers ready. If you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, continue to wait are there any callers . There are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer thank you. Public comment is closed on items 4 and 5. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair fewer. My mic on off response is very slow. I note the b. L. A. s recommendation that we get a report back at the end of the year about the expenditures. And i im curious, both from the b. L. A. And from the m. T. A. , about how best for this committee and the board to think about kind of time and costs associated with these kind of projects. Like, i think we all have in our minds some very prominent examples of projects that have taken way too long and have cost way too much. And these are much smaller projects and in some cases arent even you know, theyre sort of the mix of kind of bart projects, caltrain. I mean the money is going a lot of different places, but you know, trying to be responsible stewards of public funds, and maybe this is all to the controller. How can this committee, you know, evaluate whether things are taking too long or costing too much . Through the chair, supervisor mandelman, to clarify recommendation, i believe we would like to see a report back funded by all the bonds on prop a, not just this issuance. We received this morning, there are the bond reports to the citizens Oversight Committee, but the board supervisors have an oversight rule also. There isnt an action that would block, its simply a way for the board to stay informed of the process of the projects and to be able to ask questions of the bond program. Supervisor mandelman and normally when that report comes in, it lands in your email, correct . Correct. Supervisor mandelman i dont know. If there is a way for the b. L. A. To remind us . I would love to have this committee do a hearing on that report at the end of the year and kind of better understand have the b. L. A. And the controller take a look and see what seems noteworthy. We could inform the chair of the timing and recommend a hearing. Supervisor mandelman i think that would make sense. Thanks. Supervisors, just to speak on this quick also. As the b. L. A. Mentioned, i mean, we do go to the Oversight Committee every quarter. We do presentations to them as well as report and meet with their Committee Members via liaison meetings. In addition, we also have various controls we have in place fort bonds. That includes internally, we have various committees that look at exactly what youre talking about in terms of project spending versus the original approved budgets for the project, to make sure theyre trending on track in terms of the original cost estimates. So i think through those avenues i mean were happy to provide the reports we funnish in the bond Oversight Committee. And then were happy to do individual briefings with you guys on these to go into more detail about spending and some of the questions that youre talking about. Supervisor fewer okay. Supervisor mandelman . Any other questions . Supervisor mandelman i think it would i recognize that there are these oversight bodies, but i think it would make sense for this board to do some kind of hearing just to serve that to the public. How are we trending . Are we regularly going over . Is there a pattern of being slow . That kind of thing. Supervisor fewer year, i agree. Yeah, i agree. I think that would be helpful actually, that they come back to this board. I dont know if its to this committee or the full board. And the committee caring, but i will leave that to my colleagues too follow up on. I am out of office, so i think that so, my colleagues, im going to put this on you, that you will actually call this back and the b. L. A. Is going to send a gentle reminder to the committee that and to the board that this has been requested at the budget and finance committee. Thats great. So did we call for Public Comment on the items 4 and 5 . I think we did. That is closed. So i believe that we have actually a recommendation for an amendment that has been presented by the b. L. A. . Would we need to memolize the request of this committee to be reminded this is something we would like to come back to in this amendment also . Im going to ask that the advice of the b. L. A. Or do you think this is something that is not necessary, that you have in your own notes and that we can just amend it as you suggested . Well maintain our own records to make sure that we report back on this. Madame chair, i can also include that in our minutes for todays meeting. Supervisor fewer thank you, madame clerk. Then id like to make a motion to approve the amendment that is brought forth by the b. L. A. Could i have a roll call vote. Clerk yes on the motion, supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Chair fewer aye. You ha supervisor fewer id like to make a motion to move items 4 and 5 with positive recommendations to the full board. Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Supervisor fewer can you call item number 6. Item 6, resolution approving and authorizing the director of property on behalf of the Citys Department of Public Health to lease Real Property located at 33 valencia street for initial term of 15 years to commence on february 16, 2021, from 33 valencia owner at a base rent of 2. 1 million per year with 3 annual increases. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 408 4189388. I. D. Number 1461315200 and press pound twice. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. With us today, we have greg wagner and cathy john from the department of Public Health. You have the floor. Thank you, supervisors. Greg wagner, chief financial officer, department of Public Health. Ill describe the project a bit and then turn it over. I think hes got the slide show up if you can see it. But essentially, were requesting your approval to enter into a lease with 333 valencia. This is part of the plan for 30 van ness, which as you know in great detail is being vacated in the transition of city office space and part of it it was also the part of the department of Public Health relocation plan which we have talked in some detail and capital plans and other settings before. But essentially, this would if you could go to the next slide . So we have about 223 staff that are in various programs at d. P. H. Currently at 30 van ness. Those are maternal, child health, primary care, administrative support, Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Team and our ems regulator team. And those will be moving into 333 valencia. That will free up the space at 30 van ness to move forward with the developers plans and finalize the exit of the lease from that program. Maybe a little bit behind on my so weve been working with real estate on this for quite some time. The location is good. It will allow us to still have proximity to the Civic Center Area for these programs. Were anticipating that we will be able to move into a space around february 2021 which is an aggressive, but we think doable, time line. Its an older building, but it will have gone through a complete renovation. It will have upgraded seismic and infrastructure. And we think it will accommodate these programs quite well, so were pleased with this as an alternative space. Then ill let him take over on some of the details of the transaction. Thank you, greg. Hopefully, the screen is coming up. There looks like a bit of a lag. But basically, as greg indicated earlier, this is a transition of d. P. H. Staff from 30 van ness to 333 valencia. The reason for this transition is that 30 van ness was one of three assets that was sold and ordered to help finance the new onestop permit center at 49 south van ness, which im pleased to say move in was started last week. So were starting the process of occupying that building. D. P. H. Was one of three units that were not scheduled to go to the 49 south van ness building because theyre not permit center related. The solution then was to find new homes for those three units and new home for d. P. H. Is 333 valencia. I agree with greg. I think this is a superior solution to their current home and also serves the departments quite well. The slide that you have in front of you is meant to convey two things. One, the deal points for the current deal which you will see on your right. And second, the precovid negotiating position that you will see on your left. Consistent with the direction that we received from the board of supervisors, we have endeavored to negotiate 15 reduction in costs for any leases post covid. And we were successful in doing that in this case. Precovid, you see the term has not changed. Were at initial term of 15 years with a 10year option in both cases. The significant savings came and base rent. Were originally at 55 per square foot. Weve negotiated down to 49. 95 per square foot. Originally, we were at one months free rent and now we have six months of free rent, which basically means there will be no fiscal impact in the upcoming fiscal year. The original proposal was for one elevator for the building. We were able to negotiate two elevators. Paid for by the landlord. The tenant improvement did not change. Neither did the triple net structure of expenses nor did the Purchase Option. With these changes in savings, it represents 21 savings over the first five. That drops to 16 over the first 10. And 14 over the life of the initial term. One thing that i wanted to also add is that after the resolution was introduced, the building was remeasured by the owner and some refinements were made to the tenant improvement. As a result, the annual base rent, landlord contribution, tenants improvement number and the rentable square feet, all made slight adjustments. The b. L. A. Report and recommendation were based upon these adjusted numbers and a red line of the changes has been provided to the clerk of the board. However, with the chairs permission, i would like to read the proposed amendment into the record. Supervisor fewer yes, please. And you should be able to see in front of you a red line of the resolution and so youll be able to follow along visually as i read the proposed amendment. In the title line two of the title, the figure 2,180,116 should read 2,109,239 when referring to the annual base rent. On line 1, page 6, the figure 2,182,116, should read 2,209,239 when referring to the annual base rent. On page 2, line 11, the figure of 483,686 should read 44,229 when referring to the rentable square footage. On page 3, line 3, again, the figure 2,621,160 should read 2,653,240 when referring to tenant improvement. On that same line, it should read 6. 5 million when referring to the improvement. And lastly on page 3, line 4, the figure 2,182,116 should read 2,209,239 when referring to the annual base rent. We ask that you approve the amendment to the resolution and positively recommend the resolution to the board of supervisors as amended. This concludes my presentation. Myself, greg wagner, kathy jung, are available to answer any questions you may have. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Madame city attorney, are these amendments substantive . Good morning, chair fewer. The amendments that i saw would increase the amount payable by the city and so, yes, they are substantive. Supervisor fewer okay. So this item would have to be continued. Are we on a time line . Yes, but not a critical one. Supervisor fewer okay. So its okay to continue this item if we were to decide to do that to the next meeting of the budget and finance committee . Yes. Supervisor fewer okay, thats great. Could we please hear the b. L. A. Report. Chair fewer, members of the committee, the proposed base approve 15 year lease has been discussed already by the presenters, the lease terms are summarized on page 22 of our report. There was an appraisal that we reviewed. It shows that the initial rent of 49. 5 square foot is at or below fair market value including the cost for tenants improvement and there is a Purchase Option on the building for 56 million that would extend to 2021. We estimate that the cost to the city over the initial 15year term including 6. 5 million in tenant improvement would be 67 million. But based on information provided to us by the real estate, we recommend approval. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions . Supervisor walton thank you so much, chair fewer. Just a quick question as i listen to the b. L. A. Report and the presentation. Why not just try to purchase the building outright . That is an excellent question, supervisor walton. The citys practice has generally been to acquire sites through the use of debt instrument. There is no debt instrument that is currently available or in the pipeline for this purchase. The city could make a policy change and decide to purchase the property with cash. That would be a somewhat deviation from its Current Practice and in the current fiscal environment that we find ourselves in, that seems unlikely the board would make that change at this time. However, that would be a policy call for the board. The lease as severin indicated does have the Purchase Option and should the board choose to go in that direction, that option is available to it. Supervisor walton thank you. Following up on supervisor waltons question, if we were to decide in the future to purchase the building, if it came with some sort of [inaudible] would we be bound to the Purchase Price . Yes. The Purchase Option binds both sides. So we would be bound to that price as would the seller. Supervisor fewer and if we wanted to, we found that real estate took a huge dip and we wanted to take advantage of that, could we reopen negotiations, if the other side were actually to engage . Well, yes. I mean, obviously, we can achieve anything that both parties are willing to agree to. In the scenario that you indicated, i think what would likely happen is that the city would not exercise the option. The buyer would put it on the market, not be able to get the option price, and then we could negotiate with the seller as any other potential buyer, not bound by the contract. If we found that the market was below the option price, we would simply not exercise the option, but then bid for it on the open market same as any other potential buyer. Supervisor fewer okay. I think we may have an opportunity and wanted to see what our options were. So seeing no other comments or questions from my colleagues, id like to open this up for Public Comment. Madame clerk, can you call Public Comment for item 6. Clerk yes, operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Would you let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those already on hold continue to wait until youre prompted to begin at the beep. Please let us know if there are callers who wish to comment on item number 6. Madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer great. I mean, fine. So Public Comment on item number 6 is now closed. I have a question for you. I see that this rent, even though were getting a discount, is expensive. I think that its 5 its more like 5 above the rate, but is it like is it the rent 15 discount . Or is it 15 discount including the tenant improvements . Its a 15 reduction in the overall value of the proposed deal based upon where we first started our negotiations. So and the key differences as i was pointing out in the earlier slide. I can pull that back up if it was helpful. Supervisor fewer is it the 6 million to tenant improvements . Well, the tenant improvements actually, that went from 6. 2 million to 6. 5 million. The tenant improvements are basically the improvement that the Department Needs to make the space its own. So we the landlord is contributing 60 let me get this correct. Supervisor fewer i think what i wanted to know is that the deal that were getting is basically a reduction in the rent . Thats correct. That is the main reduction. Going from the 55 to the 49. 95. Supervisor fewer so, i just want to say, i think what this committee would like. If were going to negotiate any future lease agreements that i think 15 is admirable. I actually think in this market we should be aiming for 20 . This will be our new negotiating level. I think were able to negotiate a 15 discount on a couple of the lease options. Now lets see if we can get upwards of 20, 25 , considering were a very good tenant. These are big contracts. And also were seeing much more vacancies in San Francisco, so this could be an opportunity to lock us in at a lower rate. So anyway, that is some marching orders, i think, for you in future tenant agreements. Thank you very much. So i see that we have some amendments to actually i prove. Id like to approve. Id like to make a motion to approve those amendments. Could i have a roll call vote . On the motion, walton aye. Mandelman aye. Chair fewer aye. Your ayes are three ayes. Supervisor fewer yes. Before i make the last motion, i also have one more question. So i understand that the plans were actually made precovid and to move this back into these facilities. Considering now that we are dealing with covid, and that we will need to physically distance workers from each other, how can i mean, will these buildings be able to accommodate the staff that needs to move there . Maybe thats a question for mr. Wagner. Thank you, chair fewer. Thats a really good question. And as you can probably guess, one that is still in kind of active deliberation. And that is for this property, but also for our other workplaces in terms of what the city policy is for how well set requirements for how we use our space, including distancing, barriers, et cetera. So we definitely have made plans and our continuing to work on plans in these spaces to kind of meet those expected requirements in terms of deliverables. A big question for us departmentwide in addition to this lease is going to be what does the future of our telecommute policy look like . And how does that impact our aggregate need for space across our departmental real estate assets . And thats going to take us some time to figure out. So were anticipating well have room here to accommodate these staff. It may take some kind of rethinking and reconfiguring about what the tenant improvement looks like, so were comfortable that this will be an adequate solution for us. But more to come for us and other departments and weve started those conversations about space post covid. Supervisor fewer thats great. I just wanted to make sure to ensure when youre talking about and designing the tenant improvements, were keeping this in mind. [please stand by] [please stand by]. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call and press pound twice. If you have not done so, press star 3 to speak. And the assistant will indicate you have raised your hand. And you may begin your comments. Thank you very much. Today we have with us jackie hale from d. P. H. And Judith Martin are also available for questions. Miss hale, the floor is yours. All right. Thank you, supervisor. Just to summarize, the purpose of this item is to extend the Contract Term by one year and to add corresponding funding bringing the total contract amount not to exceed and as reflected in the report, the budget and legislative analyst has reduced the original budget not to exceed by 738,759 and to reduce unused contingency authority allocated to the t. S of prior years. And the department is in agreement. In light of the pending budget deliberations t proposed contract extension is for only one year. We do anticipate returning after october to extend the term further and reflect ongoing funding based on final budget deliberations. These are very Important Services within the Substance Abuse continuum of care and u. C. Has been providing High Quality Services in partnership with d. P. H. For years as you know. As noted in the report, the u. C. Substance abuse scored the most points in the solicitation data to continue the Opioid Addiction Services and as consistently scored well in the annual monitoring. As described in the report, there are several programs to address opioid including the use of methadone and alternatives to methadone which has had successful outcomes. Both in their own clinic sites and within d. P. H. Sights to expand availability. If you have any questions specific to program, as you said, dr. Martin and ms. Sneed are here to answer questions. Superviser fewer supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman i am curious how the provision and demand for the services have changed over the last three months. Dr. Martin . Hi, supervisor. And committee and i am honored to address you virtually this way from home. So descend, which is the department of Substance Abuse and addiction medicine is the agency at u. C. That runs this program and they have ward 93 in particular which is an Opiate Treatment Program with layers and layers of regulation that are that would not be consistent with covid safety, and they have provided a lot of leadership for the six other methadone programs as well in the city in order to prompt the state to release some of the regulations during the emergency. For example, people can take home more medication and so the time and treatment restrictions on how much unsupervised dosing means fewer visits to the clinic which means safer. They were able to delay some of the routine in person exams and lab tests yearly and the other thing they did which was very creative is, by the way, ward 93 has been a leader throughout the country in terms of addressing the preexisting epidemic overdoses and with methadone maintenance and the ban in the bayview. They adapted the use of a van to provide treatment in the parking lot so that a lot of the care can be in the open air which reduces some of the contagion, of course, and to do phone counseling and claim it at the exact same rate as in person. And in addition the people were helpful in developing protocols for delivering medication to the Containment Centers for people who were quarantined and all those things happened for the first few weeks and the shelter in place and were rearranging the waiting room and wiping down the dosing stations. And doing in effect screening at the front door for symptoms of covid and tele counseling by phone and screening people before they came into the clinic. So i was amazed all the things they did. And i have been impressed and able to do intakes. And ward 93 is in use and the rates have dropped a bit because some of the smaller clinics werent able to do a lot and had several weeks where they closed their intakes. Ward 93 did not do thatened a were able toed a just with some of the larger clinics like the bart program is able toed a just more than the smaller programs in terps of admitting people. But ward 93 is doing really well. The commitment of the staff to be sure the person is safe has been also exemplary. And they have continued things that they pay neared such as observed dosing and hepatitis c treatment for people throughout this. Great. All right. Thank you. Superviser fewer thank you very much. Lets see. There is no yes, there is a billing report. Billing report please. Item number 7 that increases the amount by 5. 1 million. We summarized the sources and uses with the agreement and we have noted the reduction to sight slightly less than 14 million and recommend approval as amended. Thank you very much. Madam city attorney, is that substantive . No, chair fewer, it is not. Thank you very much. Seeing no one else in the queue, lets open this up for Public Comment. Madam clerk, Public Comment on item number 7. Yes, madam chair. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are any callers that areready. Press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until you were prompted to begin at the peep. Please let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on item number 7. Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Public comment is now closed. I would like to make a motion to the amendment and can i have a roll call vote please. [roll call vote] there are three ayes. I submit the smoegs motion to move to the board as amended. Supervisor walton . Aye. Supervisor mandelman . Aye. Chair fewer . Aye. Thank you very much. Please call items 8, 9, 10, and 11 together. Yes, madam chair. Item 8, accept and expend grant from the office of economic and Workforce Development from the California Employment Development department a recipient of the grand awarded from the United States department of labor from april 10, 2020 to march 31, 2022. Item ninety, resolution retroactively authorizing the amount of 75,000 from the California Employment Development department for wioa25 dislocated worker support services during the grant period of march 1, 2020 through september 30, 2020. And item 10, resolution retroactively authorizing the office of economic and Workforce Development to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 452,659 from the California Employment Development department, a recipient of the grant award from the United States department of labor for the Rapid Response program during the grant period of july 1, 2019. And june 30, 2021. And am 11 resolution retroactively authorizing the office of economic and Workforce Development to accept and expent grand of 999,000 from the United States of labor for the worker emergency additional assistance during the grant period of may 1,2020 through march 31, 2022. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on these items should call 4084189388, meeting i. D. , 146 131 520 o and press pound twice. And the assistant prompt will indicate you have begun. Superviser fewer we have a serious of accept and expend grants retroactive from the department of labor. And so today we have us jen hand from oiwd. The floor is yours. Thank you, supervisor fewer, walton, and mandelman for hearing the request to accept and expand. And joined bying threes who have overseen the programs. And for context for federal work force funding and in the area of San Francisco. And all four were dislocated workers displaced by Economic Conditions related to covid19 and with the California Development to them to pass through the United States department of labor for the first grant from employment recovery. This will access reemployment and career services, job placement, training and Supportive Services. These services will include one on one job search, resume review, and resume preparation and job coaching and placement and unemployment and will provide up to 226 per client in support of services for transportation, clothing, child care and other item. Indirect costs were capped at 10 for this grant. This is another competitive grant which provides Supportive Services cash funding up to 800 per person for a minimum of 850 workers in the system who recently lost their jobs and the support services are sachtory and child kair clothing and laptops and providing internet. While the grand may fund workers and they had significant introductions and this prioritized services for english language learners and dislocated workers who are monolingual adults. For the incorrect costs and staffing were not allowed. So we needed to rate them. And with the Rapid Response and the Response Program provides services to employers and employees affected by layoffs and this is designed to provide early intersection with svss due to down sizing to insure this is as seamless as possible. And they typically give local economic boards two years to have the annual and ours was 452,659 so generally we have opportunity to correct budget if we need to pull down more and due to the increase in staff times during the pandemic and we need authorization to stand down the entire allocation. And were have the additional amount for the full grant award for two years. The indirect costs are capped at 10 . For the last grant, the dislocated worker and will provide Reemployment Services for up to 400 recently laid off Union Members specifically in the hospitality industry. And trade industry. And through the covid19 special Training Program and ard skills and job readiness, individual employment plans, with occupational stills training. And my colleagues and i are available for any questions. Superviser fewer thank you very much. There is no billing and you did address the issue of retroactive. What is the reason for that . They requested we get the money out the door as fast as possible. We submitted the accept and expend. Superviser fewer madam clerk, can you call Public Comment for items 811. Clerk operation is checking if there are callers that are in the queue. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. Please let us know if there are callers who wish to comment on item 811. I have one caller in the queue. Superviser fewer thank you very much. Caller supervisors, this item should have been advertised in the sense that those leaders, socalled labor leaders should have been listening to this explanation and about the grants. So the way it is presented is in a very convoluted manner. And if you look at how it is presented and however which name they have and with the money so that they can extend the grant to do that services first. Nobody knows about these grants. So the best way for people to know what is happening with the grants is to have a report ar on audit and with the as dit on the backside which you do not have. During this pandemic, the office of Economic Development has done a very poor job. Very poor job. And the suffering of the workers who have worked so hard is not looked at with empathy and compassion. You can see how this is presenting. In a nonchalant manner. No compassion. No empathy. So supervisors, wake up. You can look at it in a nonchalant manner. Superviser fewer thank you for your comment. And also we prefer comments that are not personal attacks on people, quite frankly. Thank you very much. Are there any other speakers in the queue . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed on items 811. I would like to make a motion there is no billing report on all the items so i would like to make a motion to move items 811 to the board with a positive recommendation. Could we please have a roll call vote . Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Supervisor mandelman . Aye. Chair few sner aye. Clerk there are three yays. Superviser fewer please call sigh tem number 12. Call item number 12. Clerk to accept and expend retroactively from public works for public works annie north plaza project for the period of october 1 , 2019 through december 31, 2019. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 40814189388, meeting 1461315200, and 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 and wait until the assistant indicates that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Superviser fewer we have Elizabeth Ramos from public works and also jerry spits and john thomas are available. You have the floor, ms. Ramos. Good morning, supervisors. I ap a Capital Finance analyst at public works. The resolution authorizes public works to accept and expend the amount in the amount of 21,993. 56 for costs associated with excavation work at the annie north plaza. Last year in march of 2019 the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District identified hazardous landscape and hazardous soil underneath the brick pavers and offered a cost share with the thorough abatement and disposal services. The abatement work had to be completed before public works could provide the ybcbd with the final costs and the total project cost is 54,983. And on april 30, 2020, they offered the gift of 21,993. 56 and public works portion is funded with the general fund. The item did not require a budget and legislative Analyst Report and john thomas is available to answer any project specific questions. Thank you. Superviser fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments or questions for ms. Ramos . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Can we have Public Comment on item number 12. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready. Press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold continue to wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. Please let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on item number 12. Madam chair, there are no callers. Superviser fewer thank you very much. Public comment on item number 12 is now closed. I would like to make a motion to move to the board with the positive recommendation. Can i have a roll call vote please . Yes. On the motion, supervisor walton . Aye. Supervisor mandelman . Aye. Chair fewer . Aye. Clerk there are three yay yays. Superviser fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, call item 13. Clerk resolution approving modification and general Airport Security services and aviation and security llc to increase the contract amount by 6,285,254 for a new contract amount not to exceed 11,785,254 through june 30, 2022. Meeting i. D. 1461315200 and 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. Wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Superviser fewer thank you very much. We have kathy from San Francisco international airport. Hi, kathy. Good morning, chair fewer and members of the committee. The item before you seeks approval for the first modification to an existing contract between the airport and covenant Aviation Security for general Airport Security services. To increase but not to exceed about by 6,285,254 and exercise the first of two twoyear options to extend the term through june 30, 2022. This t scope of the contract includes t. S. A. Mandated Security Services for commercial airports that include post security, vendor screening of goods and personnel, the guarding of passenger Security Check points at exit lanes during nontsa operating hours, random inspections at direct terminal access points, and vehicle inspections at air Operations Area access gates. This contract is the result of the 2018 request for proposal with covenant Security Services being awarded the contract as the highest scoring proposer. This is to comply with requirements of the t. S. A. Airport security approved program and t. S. A. Security directive. This contract extension is also subject to the Airport Professional Services contract 5 reduction for fiscal year 2021 as part of the airports covid19 economic recovery plan. The budget analyst has reviewed the contract and modification and has recommended approval, and i would be happy to answer questions that you may have. Superviser fewer thank you very much. Any questions for ms. Widener . Seeing none, the budget report. To approve the modification to the existing contract and Security Services at the airport to extend by two years and increases it to not to exceed amount of 11. 7 million. We show on page 434 of the report that because of increased passengers through the airport, the Actual Expenditures under the contract may be lower and beginning of the next fiscal year. So our table shows expenditures ranging from 11. 2 million to 11. 4 million total. This rebim you aresment basis, excuse me, and we recommend approval. Superviser fewer thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the comment who want to comment on item 15 . Clerk operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those already in the queue, wait until you are prompted to begin at the beep. Are there any caller who is wish to comment on item 13 . Madam chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Superviser fewer . Thank you very much. And Public Comment on item 13 is now closed. And i do have some questions for you about this contract. And i think my questions really concern around the whole staffing level of security and policing and coordination, so i understand that this contract is for t. S. A. When for security when outside of the regular t. S. A. Hours, is that correct . Partially. This contract is a contract that s. F. O. Has with covenant Aviation Security. Coincidentally, the t. S. A. Also has a contract with covenant Aviation Security to staff all of the check points as part of the federal governments role in screening passengers that come through commercial airports. This contract is a much smaller contract. It does pick up some of the requirements that the t. S. A. Has for us to secure exit lanes when check points are closed. They are not responsible for that. That is the airports responsibility. This contract also screens all of the food and beverage and Retail Products that go postsecurity. And the tenant employees that go post security as well as employee verification when we enter secure areas and vehicle access to the airfield. Superviser fewer okay. So considering that we are really looking at a severe reduction of use of our airports or people at the airports and people even working at the airports, so this contract actually gives me a little pause because are rereally looking at the reduction of air traffic and people at airports and services at airports including the concessions . Including people with food and beverage and Everything Else and also products coming in at a much lower level because there is less people there. So isnt this a little bit in excess of what we really need . As the budget Analyst Report points out, it is strictly on a reimbursement basis,sor any reduction that happened would not be would not be passed through to the contractor. That being said, the airport is open. There are quite a few members of staff here. We have a lot of the airline employees. Everything that happens post security, were going to be by the end of the summer back to almost 50 of all the concessions open, so while we have seen quite a reduction in passengers, the airport continues to operate and this contract in particular doesnt necessarily deal with passengers. Its more internal operations and staff verification. So if it were to be reduced because of the lower volume of traffic that were seeing, it just wouldnt be paid. We wouldnt spend as much on the contract as we anticipated. Superviser fewer my concern is that actually we actually dont know the full effect of air traffic and what kind of we are going to a whole another spiking phase of covid19 and not only that, many countries are not allowing us to fly into their countries. And also people who are tele commuting. So i am looking at this contract and wondering, you also have actually a lot of Law Enforcement there. I am wondering why we might need this contract when we have excess Law Enforcement there at the airport as the report just gave us in the other report and i am sure that the supervisors have reviewed that. So i wanted to ask, are we on a time ron standard state . I would like to continue this item to the next finance and budget Committee Hearing so i can get a better picture. I believe that we will investigate and ask some questions. I would like to continue this item to the next budget and finance Committee Meeting if we are not under a time constraint for this. The only time constraint would be they need to have the board consider this contract prior to budget. It is part of the budget and half of the services are longstanding prop j services so that would be the only time constraint. I just feel like i should say for the record while it is continued, we are required to have the terminal check point staff and the contract will continue until it is continued to next week. Superviser fewer and prop j and that provision is really about when it is an emergency situation. We may have layoffs of the own security guards that we hire through the city and county that might be facing layoffs and wondering if they could do these duties also and prop j shouldnt be taking jobs from city and county folk. Lets continue this item. I make the motion to continue this item until the next budget and finance committee. Can i have a roll call vote please . On the motion, supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor mandelman . Aye. Chair fewer . Yay. Thank you very much. Please call item 14. Item 14 resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 883,000 from the California Department of Public Health for participation in a program entitled sexually transmitted Disease Program management and collaboration for the period july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2024. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 4084189388. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Superviser fewer thank you very much, madam clerk. Today we have with us dr. Susan phillip from the department of Public Health. Doctor, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, chair fewer. Thank you, supervisors walton and mandelman. Thank you. I am coming today to talk about this grant which recognizes that unfortunately california has among the highest rates of s. T. D. S in the United States. Rates are going up nationwide for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. That is true in california as well. And unfortunately in San Francisco also. So this grant from the state was meant to recognize that local Health Jurisdictions such as San Francisco need Additional Resources in order to try new and innovative partnerships and approaches. The emphasis that we are using this funding for is primarily on syphilis. Syphilis has increased 11 between 2018 and 2019. It remains primarily an infection in San Francisco among men. Infections in women are increasing. And in women one of the large concerns with syphilis is the possibility of congenital syphilis transmitted from a pregnant woman to the unborn child which is one of the most devastating complications of s. T. D. S. And this has been increasing nationally and in california. And we have seen increases in women with syphilis. And had 11 pregnant women with syphilis in 2019. And of which unfortunately despite very intensive efforts by our Health Department teams to provide navigation and care for children who are impacted by congenital syphilis. And these pregnant moms were very Much Associated with people experiencing homelessness and true throughout california as well through Substance Use and Behavioral Health issues and so we want to think of innovative ways in which to partner and to try and address and reduce the impact of syphilis among women in San Francisco. So majority of the funding is going to go to partnership with the ucfs project lilly team in the obgyn and to deliver prenatal care and prevention to who have housed and women who are experiencing homelessness to reduce impact on their health and health of the children as well. This is the largest part of the grant. We also are seeking to work with the ucsf prevention and disease intervention specialists. These are the staff that are very famous now very some of the covid work that they have been doing and the core group of staff and experts with people who have syphilis and helping identify the partners and treated for presengs services as well. This would be the purpose of the dollars and we feel it is really important for the efforts overall to improve Sexual Health in San Francisco to be able to utilize them. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions for my colleagues . There is no billing report on this. I have one question which is, do you have the racial demographics for this upward trend of people who are contracting syphilis . We do. I am happy to share those data. In a rate per population, it is most impacting people of color, burglarly black africanamerican women and happy to share the exact rates with the committee. Superviser fewer i hope that the funds are really targeted to the population. And we have a high infant mortality rate among africanamerican also and this just combines even more, so i am just asking that we can be assured that these funds and these arent a lot of funds to fight this huge problem, but that funds are really geared toward our Africanamerican Community and women that we are seeing a rise in and the majority of people that are actually of this group. I just would be you are shaking your head. I am assuming, doctor, that that is true. I will work with project lily to see how they distribute the fund and see what the overall client base is, but because they are working with the most vulnerable pregnant women in San Francisco, i think that the funds will be used in how you intend to really protect the most vulnerable residents who are experiencing pregnancy and all the comorbidities at the same time. Superviser fewer and that is great because you know as you worked so much with covid19 stuff is this is a community that actually already has a lot of Health Disparities and also that outreach is much more challenging at times. I think that it requires much more resources to do it. I wanted to make clear this is a committee and the whole board that actually would like to see these funds really expended in a way that is targeted toward this population that already has such health disparity. Thank you. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Item 14 please, madam clerk. Clerk operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are caller that are ready. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, continue to wait until you are set to begin at the beep. Let us know if there are caller who is wish to comment on item 14. There are no callers. Superviser fewer i would like to move item number 14 to the board with a positive recommendation. May i have a roll call vote . On the motion, supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Chair fewer . Aye. There are three yay yays. Superviser fewer thank you very much. Do we have any other business for us today . Clerk there is no further business. Superviser fewer i would like to mention that we are starting our budget and appropriations meeting earlier today at 12 30. We are anticipating a rather long meeting and i will see you all in 45 minutes. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much. First its always the hardest and when they look back they really wont see you, but its the path that youre paving forward for the next one behind you that counts. Hi, my name is jajaida durden and im the acting superintendent for the bureau of forestry and i work for public works operations. And im over the landscaping, the shop and also the arborist crew. And some tree inspectors as well. I have been with the city and county of San Francisco for 17 years. And i was a cement mason, that was my first job. When i got here i thought that it was too easy. So i said one day ill be a supervisor. And when i run this place it will be ran different. And i i didnt think that it wod happen as fast as it did, but it did. And i came in 2002 and became a supervisor in 2006. And six months later i became the permanent supervisor over the shop. With all of those responsibilities and the staff youre also dealing with different attitudes and you have to take off one hat and put on another hat and put on another hat. And shes able shes displayed that she can carry the weight with all of these different hats and still maintain the respect of the director, the Deputy Director and all of the other people that she has to come in contact with. Shes a natural leader. I mean with her staff, her staff thinks highly of her. And the most important thing is when we have things that happen, a lot of emergencies, shes right by me and helps me out every time that i have asked. My inspiration is when i was a young adult was to become a fire woman. Well, i made some wrong decisions and i ended up being incarcerated, starting young and all the way up to an adult. When i was in jail they had a Little Program called Suppers Program and i supers program, and i met strong women in there and they introduced me to construction. I thought that the Fire Department would turn me down because i had a criminal history. So i looked into options of what kind of construction i could do. While i was in jail. And the program that i was in, they retrained us on living and how to make the right decisions and i chose construction. And cement mason didnt require a High School Diploma at that time so i figured i could do that. When i got out of jail they had a program in the philmore area and i went there. My first day out i signed up and four days later i started to work and i never looked back. I was an apprentice pouring concrete. And my first job was mount zion Emergency Hospital which is now ucsf. And every day that i drive by ucsf and i look at the old mount zion emergency, i have a sense of pride knowing that i had a part of building that place. Yeah, i did. I graduated as an apprentice and worked on a retrofit for city hall. I loved looking at that building and i take big pride in knowing that i was a part of that retrofit. My first for formen job was a 40 Story Building from the ground up. And its a predominantly male industry and most of the times people underestimate women. Im used to it though, its a challenge for me. As a female youre working with a lot of guys. So when they see a woman, first they dont think that the woman is in charge and to know that shes a person that is in charge with operations, i think that its great, because its different. Its not something i mean, not only a female but the only female of color. I was the first female finisher in the cement shop and i was the first crew supervisor, in the shop as a woman. When i became a two, the supervisors would not help me. In the middle, theyd call me a rookie, an apprentice and a female trying to get somewhere that she dont belong. Oh, it was terrible. It was terrible. I didnt have any support from the shop. The ones who said they supported me, they didnt, they talked about me behind my back. Sometimes i had some crying, a lot of crying behind doors, not in public. But i had a lot of mentors. My mentor i will call and would pick up the phone and just talk, talk, talk, please help me. What am a i going to do . Hang in there. It was frustrating and disheartening, it really was. But what they didnt understand is that because they didnt help me i had to learn it. And then probably about a year later, thats when i started to lay down the rules because i had studied them and i learned them and it made me a good supervisor and i started to run the ship the way that i wanted to. It was scary. But the more i saw women coming through the shop, i saw change coming. I knew that it was going to come, but i didnt know how long it would take. It was coming. In the beginning when i first came here and i was the first woman here as a finisher, to see the change as it progressed and for me to become a permanent assistant superintendent over the cement shop right now, thats my highlight. I can look down at my staff and see the diversity from the women to the different coaches in here and know that no one has to ever go through what i went through coming up. And i foster and help everyone instead of pushing them away. Ill talk to women and tell them they can make it and if they need any help, come talk to me. And they com knock on my door ad ask how i move up and how i get training. Im always encouraging to go to school and encourage them to take up some of the training with d. P. W. And i would tell them to hold strong and understand that things that we go through today that are tough makes you stronger for tomorrow. Although we dont like hearing it at the time that were going through all of this stuff, it helps you in the long run to become a better woman and a person we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. 7th street about 10 years ago. The environment is huge. It is stronger than willpower. Surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. You are making it safer. Push, push. That is better. When i start thinking, i see it actually sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. It is like watching something being spawned. You go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. You may have a plan that this is what i want to create. Here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. So there has to be this openness for spontaneity. Also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. It is a lot like listening. Really listening to watch what is going to emerge. I like this thing where you put your foot on his back. Lets keep it. Were your mind is is how you build your life. If you put it in steel or in failure, it works. That works. It is a commitment. For most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. There is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. If that was taken away, artists would still do their art. It is not like there is a prerequisite for these things to happen or i will not do it. How could that be . It is the relationship that you have committed to. It is the vocation. No matter how difficult it gets, you are going to need to produce your art. Whether it is a large scale or very small scale. The need to create is going to happen, and you are going to have to fulfill it because that is your life. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . I am the owner of this restaurant. We have been here in north beach over 100 years. [speaking foreign language] [ ] [speaking foreign language] [ ] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [ ] [ ] welcome to culturewire. Today we are at recology. They are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique Artist Residency programs. We are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. Welcome to the show, deborah. Tell us how this Program Began 20 years ago. The Program Began 20 years ago. Our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970s. She started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. She started with kids. They had an exhibition at city hall. City officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. We thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. Since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. How has the Program Changed over the years . How has the program what can the public has an artist engage with . For the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. Over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. Conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. That has really expanded the program out. It is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. Why would an artist when to come here . Mainly, access to the materials. We also give them a lot of support. When they start, it is an empty studio. They go out to the public area and we call it the big store. They go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. It is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. When you are talking about recology, do you have the only Sculpture Garden at the top . It is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. It is the only kind of structured, artist program. Weit is beautiful. A lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. The pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. We talk about recycling and conservation. They can meet the artists. Fantastic. Lets go meet some of your current artists. Here we are with lauren. Can you tell us how long have been here so far and what youre working on . We started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. I am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand embroidered objects from our daytoday life. Can you describe some of the things you have been making here . This is amazing. I think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. I have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. It is also very windy down here. There is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. There is a pamphlet about hearing dea nearing death. This is a dead rabbit. This is what i am working on now. This is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. It is for a very special friend. While we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. I am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. When he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. It is probably one of the least thought of compositions. People are getting rid of this stuff. It holds no real value to them, because theyre disposing of it. Were here in another recology studio with abel. What attracted you to apply for this special program . Who would not want to come to the dump . But is the first question. For me, being in a situation that youre not comfortable in has always been the best. What materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here . There are a lot of books. That is one of the thing that hits me the most. Books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. Also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. Of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. Job mr. Some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. Taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. The first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. It was actually a poster. It was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. In terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. So being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. How do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the threedimensional . Maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. Everything is in the process of becoming. Things are never said or settled. The sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. It becomes a part of something else. Theres always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. At the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. Thank you so much for allowing culturewire to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. Is there anything you like our viewers to know . We have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. Everybody is welcome to come out. We have food. Sometimes we have gains and bands. It is great time. From june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. We encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. We want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. How many artists to do your host here . 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. Very competitive. But everyone should be encouraged to apply. Thank you again for hosting us. Thank you for including us in culturewire. The goal is simple. Its to raise womens voices. Learn a little bit about what you should be thinking about in the future. We had own over 300 over 300 people who signed up for the oneonone counseling today. I think in the world of leading, people sometimes discount the ability to lead quietly and effectively. The Assessors Office is a big one. There are 58 counties in the state of california and every single county has one elected assessor in the county. Our job is to look at property taxes and make sure that we are fairly taxing every single property in San Francisco. One of the big things that we do is as a result of our work, we bring in a lot of revenue, about 2. 6 billion worth of revenue to the city. Often, people will say, what do you do with that money, and i like to share what we do with property taxes. For every dollar we collect in property taxes, about 68 cents of it goes to support public sstss, our police officers, our Fire Departments, our streets, our cleaning that happens in the city. But i think what most people dont know is 34 cents of the dollar goes to public education. So it goes to the state of california and in turn gets allocated back to our local School Districts. So this is an incredibly important part of what we do in this office. Its an interesting place to be, i have to say. My colleagues across the state have been wonderful and have been very welcoming and share their knowledge with me. In my daytoday life, i dont think about that role, being the only Asian American assessor in the state, i just focus on being the best i can be, representing my city very well, representing the county of San Francisco well. By being the only Asian American assessor, i think you have a job to try to lift up and bring as many people on board, as well. I hope by doing the best that you can as an individual, people will start to see that your assessor is your elected leaders, the people that are making important decisions can look like you, can be like you, can be from your background. I grew up with a family where most of my relatives, my aunties, my uncles, my parents, were immigrants to the United States. When my parents first came here, they came without any relatives or friends in the United States. They had very little money, and they didnt know how to speak english very well. They came to a place that was completely foreign, a place where they had absolutely nobody here to help them, and i cant imagine what that must have been like, how brave it was for them to take that step because they were doing this in order to create an opportunity for their family. So my parents had odd jobs, my dad worked in the kitchens, my mom worked as a seamstress sewing. As we grew up, we eventually had a small business. I very much grew up in a family of immigrants, where we helped to translate. We went to the restaurant every weekend helping out, rolling egg rolls, eating egg rolls, and doing whatever we need to do to help the family out. It really was an experience growing up that helped me be the person that i am and viewing Public Service the way that i do. One of the events that really stuck with me when i was growing up was actually the rodney king riots. We lived in Southern California at the time, and my parents had a restaurant in inglewood, california. I can remember smelling smoke, seeing ashes where we lived. It was incredibly scary because we didnt know if we were going to lose that restaurant, if it was going to be burned down, if it was going to be damaged, and it was our entire livelihood. And i remember there were a lot of conversations at that time around what it was that government to do to create more opportunities or help people be more successful, and that stuck with me. It stuck with me because i remain believe government has a role, government has a responsibility to change the outcomes for communities, to create opportunities, to help people go to school, to help people open businesses and be successful. Make sure to be safe, and of course to have fun. And then, i think as you continue to serve in government, you realize that those convictions and the persons that you are really help to inform you, and so long as you go back to your core, and you remember why youre doing what youre doing, you know, i think you cant go wrong. Its funny, because, you know, i never had thought i would do this. I became a supervisor first for the city under very unusual circumstances, and i can remember one day, im shopping with friends and really not having a care in the world about politics or running for office or being in a public position, and the next day, im sworn in and serving on the board of supervisors. For many of us who are going through our Public Service, its very interesting, i think, what people view as a leader. Sometimes people say, well, maybe the person who is most outspoken, the person who yells the loudest or who speaks the loudest is going to be the best leader. And i think how i was raised, i like to listen first, and i like to try to figure outweighs to work with out ways to work with people to get things done. I hope that time goes on, you can see that you can have all sorts of different leaders whether at the top of City Government or leading organizations or leading teams, that there are really different kinds of leadership styles that we should really foster because it makes us stronger as organizations. Take advantage of all the wonderful information that you have here, at the vendor booth, at our seminars and also the oneonone counseling. I wouldnt be where i was if i didnt have very strong people who believed in me. And even at times when i didnt believe in my own abilities or my own skills, i had a lot of people who trusted and believed i either had the passion or skills to accomplish and do what i did. If there was one thing that i can tell young women, girls, who are thinking about and dreaming about the things they want to be, whether its being a doctor or being in politics, running an organization, being in business, whatever it is, i think its really to just trust yourself and believe that who you are is enough, that you are enough to make it work and to make things successful. What were trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. Its not just the old european style food. We are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. All we ask is make it flavorful. [ ] we are the first twoyear Culinary Hospitality School in the United States. The first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. Im a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. So students can expect to learn under the three degrees. Culinary Arts Management degree, Food Service Management degree, and Hotel Management degree. Were not a cooking school. Even though were not teaching you how to cook, were teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus youre getting an associate of science degree. My name is vince, and im a faculty member of the hospitality arts and Culinary School here in San Francisco. This is my 11th year. The policemrogram is very, ver in what this industry demands. Cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. Its quite a complete program to prepare them for whats happening out in the real world. The first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. He was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. This program, its awesome. Its another world when youre here. Its another world. You get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. You get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. Ive been in the program for about a year. Twoyear program, and im about halfway through. Before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. I had few injuries, and i couldnt pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. When i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. The good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to we have kids from every area. Facebook and google. Kids from everywhere. They are all over the bay area, and theyre thriving. My name is jeff, and im a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in San Francisco. I attended city college of San Francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90s. Nopalito on broderick street, its based on no specific region in mexico. All our masa is hand made. We cook our own corn in house. Everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, were making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. A lot of love put into this. [ ] used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. Now, its shades of gray, and were trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. Fine dining calls into white table cloths. The cafeteria is Large Production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those kitypes of kitchens. And the ideas that change every year, again, its the notion and the venue. One of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. Its been a pizzeria, a taco bar. Its been a mediterranean bar, its been a noodle bar. People choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. We, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. Were open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. The menus always interesting. They change it every semester, maybe more. Theres always a good variety of foods. The preparation is always beautiful. The students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and theyre so proud of their work. Ive had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so its more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. When i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90 of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. We do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of San Francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. We hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. My partner is also a graduate of city college. So my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. I actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. Im thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. Yeah, i want to go back to china. I want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. So we want them to have a full toolkit. Were trying to make them ready for the world out there. Supervisor fewer the meeting will come to order. This is the july 8, 2020, rescheduled budget and appropriations Committee Meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and appropriations committee. Our clerk is assisted today. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting the meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 health emergency, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors and committee room, however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution was taken pursuant to the local state directives. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. Each will be allowed two minutes to speak. Opportunities to speaker is available by calling 408 4189388. Access code, 1461315200. Then press pound twice. Then connected, you will hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted an in listening mode only. Best practices are to call from a quiet location. Speak clearly and slowly and turn down our television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. When you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and be included as part of the official file. Finally, spanish and chinese interpretation are available for those who need services during Public Comment period. Im pass on to the interpreters to provide a summary of this announcement. Speaking in spanish. [speaking spanish]. [speaking spanish]. Thank you, madame clerk. [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] thank you. Clerk madame chair, this completes our announcements. Supervisor fewer oh. I thought we had another interpreter. Okay. I just want to also mention weve secured interpretation for all the budget appropriations meeting moving forward. I want to thank them for assisting us. Madame clerk, can you call item number 1. Item number 1, budget process and updates related to fiscal years 20202021 and 20212022 and requesting the Controllers Office, Mayors Office of Public Policy and finance and budget and legislative analyst to report. People wanting to comment please call the number on your screen, enter the i. D. Number. Then dial star 3 to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Today, we have ashley from the mayors budget office. Hi, supervisors. Thank you, chair fewer. Today, im going to walk you through a few brief slides on the state budget. We have a lot to get to today in committee, so ill be brief. Ill share my screen. Okay. So excuse me. Too far. So the govern assigned over 2 billion budget at the end of last month with a couple of highlights here and ill talk through notable local impacts. In his may revise, the governor had proposed cuts to education. So the final budget did not include those reductions, but rather deferred 12 billion worth of funding which means that School Districts can borrow against future funding. It identified 11 billion of other reductions and deferrals that would be restored if the state were to receive additional federal revenue, like the revenue proposed. And so the state has a plan how those cuts and deferrals would be restored, but notably, it would restore half of the 12 billion of education deferrals. It would restore about 3 billion of reduction to state employees wages and it would also backfill additional state realignment funding. The budget was 54 billion shortfall. In addition to the reductions, it balances through the use of reserves, other revenues and borrowing. So for us locally, couple notable things here. The governors budget had included reduced realignment revenue and these are revenue that we get as a result of sales tax collection. As sales Tax Collections go down, our realignment revenue was reduced as well. This is revenue that we use for health and Human Services and some Public Safety services. So the final state budget restores 750 million of that lost revenue, but locally for us, that means 28 million impact compared to what we were expecting as part of the governors may revise. It also increases funding for homelessness by 300 million. And also includes the funding for project room key that helps cities and counties secure hotel rooms for Homeless Individuals as part of covid. The local impact of those two programs is t. B. D. And well report back as we get confirmation. And then lastly, i think as i noted in my last update related to the governorss budget, it distributes money to cities and counties and here in San Francisco, were expecting 20 million. Cares act money is eligible to be used for covid response. And this will help offset some of the costs were incurring and will continue to incur in the next fiscal year as it relates to covid. Lastly, dont believe the controller is with us today, but i would be remiss if i didnt provide an update on eraf. There is a lot of discussion over excess eraf. I wanted to provide an update of where things stand. So the final state budget does not include an immediate clawback of eraf. You recall the issue, they had been proposing to clawback two years of prior year eraf. The process gets kind of kicked to the state controller to come up with an appropriate allocation or calculation by the end of this calendar year. So what that means to us, you know, there is still some risk that they could claw back 1920 money, but that second year of retroactivetivity was dropped in the final budget deal. The process that will be led by the state controller will resolve about 60 million of excess eraf that is tied to Charter Schools and redevelopment. So well hopefully have resolution by the end of the year. But what that means ultimately, the bottom line is that leaves 150 million of excess eraf we feel is not in question. The Controller Office is working on those final calculations and well know what those are in the coming weeks. That is my update on the state budget. Happy to answer questions you might have. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions or comments . Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. Thank you so much for this. Its very helpful. A couple questions. One, with all of the state budget updates that you just gave us, does that in any way shape or form alter or most recent 1. 7 billion deficit projection . So the 1. 7 billion was created before we had the govern put it out maybe a day before the governors may revise. So, no. Not in any meaningful way. There might be some tinkering to a couple of sources, but we still were still facing that 1. 5 billion shortfall for the upcoming two years. Supervisor ronen and then the 150 million in excess eraf annually Going Forward that you say is no longer in question, meaning they can count on it from this point forward Going Forward . That is the hope. I think the thinking around excess eraf, were facing the largest budget shortfall. We had an opportunity to claw back the whole thing and there was discussion around the margins, calculationsnd and a few key issues. They didnt eliminate it as part of the state budget, so we believe its a safe reliable source. At least for next year. Of course, anything can change, but we believe at this stage its a safe source. Supervisor ronen has that 150 million been calculated as part of our projected deficit. Sure, yeah. As you know, were working on closing that now. Its all were gathering all of our sources, all of the uses that we are anticipating. As you know, the mayor and the board has signed an ordinance back last year how that would be allocated, so its all part of the budgetbalancing exercise. Supervisor ronen in terms of the protected deficit, youve given that so far it hasnt been assumed in that . No. Supervisor ronen okay, thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you. President yee . President yee thank you, chair fewer. So ill start with the eraf. 150 million annually in question and does that take into consideration there might be a clawback on the fiscal year 1920. Yes, yes. Thats a great question. Like i said, the Controllers Office is finalizing the calculation, but i think it would be a choice for us to assume that we hold kind of hold back on that 30 million should the state claw it back. So that will be part of well have clarity on that as we release our budget. President yee so its a possibility it might be only 120 . I think the soo 150, the 150 could be taking into account that piece being held back, so yes. Its like the minimum. President yee it could be 180 . Thats right. President yee okay. I had a question, maybe i just dont understand the terminology. Deferral . Yeah. President yee the top, the beginning. So i just want to get clarification, make sure i dont misinterpret. Yeah, its an interesting concept. So the way i understand it is that the state is proposing to defer its payments to the School District for the upcoming year of i think i said 12 billion. So in the absence of state funding, schools are able to dip into reserves or borrow against the receipt of that future state funding. President yee and borrow borrow where . Where do they borrow the money . Take out i dont know the exact debt instrument, but it would be some sort of loan that the School District would take out pending, you know, against future state funding. I dont know the exact mechanism. President yee okay. It doesnt sound like a shell game. District doesnt really have the money. Yeah, its a risky assumption. And there is a lot of assumption in the state budget around the receipt of state revenue. If they refuse federal revenue, they cut that deferral in half. And so they would backfill that state funding that theyve deferred, but, yes, its definitely a risky assumption. President yee i assume if the School District wants to take the risk based on assumptions and borrow the money and the money doesnt come in, that the School District itself would be liable for paying it back. Yeah. President yee okay, well. Thank you, governor newsome. [laughter]. Supervisor walton thank you, chair fewer. Just a quick question. On slide 3, when we talk about the increased the funding for the 750 million for project room key. Are any of those resources able to be used for purchase of hotels or any type of building . Yes, i believe its able to be used for purchase of hotels. Supervisor walton thank you. Supervisor fewer okay. Any other questions or comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, could we have the b. L. A. Report, please . Chair fewer, this is dan with the budget legislative and analyst office. We do not have a report on this item. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. So lets open up for Public Comment. Id like to remind people, callers, that this is not Public Comment for the Police Department budget hearing. That will be the next item. We are now on the budget process and updates and this is on the state budget. Madame clerk, can you please open up Public Comment. Yes, madame chair. Operation is checking to see if there are any calls in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there are calls ready. If you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, the system indicates youve been unmuted. If you wish to comment on the Police Department hearing, please press star 3 to lower your hand now. This is on item number 1. There are currently 10 callers in the queue. I will queue the first caller. Supervisor fewer thank you. Hello, caller . Hello, caller . Caller, go ahead. Could we please come back to this caller . Hello . Clerk we can skip this caller for now and come back to this caller. Caller, go ahead. Caller, go ahead. Its for the defunding of the police. This is Public Comment for item number 1. We have not called Public Comment for item number 2 yet. Just press star 3 to lower your hand and wait in the queue. [please stand by] [please stand by]. Caller, go ahead. Caller hello . Yes, you can speak. Caller yes, i have a question about the School District and the loan they would be getting. I know everyone said that was risky but it doesnt really make sense on how they would pay that back. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Caller, go ahead. Hello, caller . Please begin your comments. Caller supervisors, you can see that you are not stating that during the Public Comment you are not supposed to ask a question. There is to be no back and forth. You are just wasting our time and you dont understand that this 408 number that you are using now, we have to pay for it. And you just waste our time because nobody is paying any attention to the process. So this item number one basically is not allowing us to say much. Public comment is Public Comment. There is not going to be a question and answer so theres clarity. I know there is experience in what you are doing, but again and again, somebody with more experience has to point this out to you. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker . Hello, caller. Caller hi. Excuse me. Hello . Are we on item two yet . We are on item number one. Caller sorry. Okay. Madam chair, that completes the queue. Thank you very much. Anymore comments or questions on the state budget from my colleagues . If not, i would like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. Could i have a second please . Second. Could i have a roll call vote please . [roll call vote] that is five ayes. Superviser fewer madam clerk, please call item number two. Hearing on the budget for the Police Department including analysis of changes over the last decade, structure if the department, and covid19 related impacts on services, revenues and expenditures and requesting the Police Department and the budget and legislative analyst to prort. Call 4084189388, meeting i. D. 146 131, 5200, press pound twice. And you have been unmuted. This is the the third of the budgets prior to budget process in the process. The Police Department has been of interest to the boards Budget Committee and this year the third year on the budget i push to find reductions and efficiencies and removing funding for tazeers. This has obviously heightened interest this year given the moment that we are in. This moment has pushed the public conversation about Police Departments, Police Unions and the role of policing and the desire to explore alternative model of public safe for our community. Public safety is defined by more than Law Enforcement. Law enforcement is one part of Public Safety. Police respond to crime and in order to prevent crimes, we must look at the root cause of the crime and what we as a society are doing to invest in strategies while working to strengthen communities, family, people, and to close gaps. In San Francisco we know that the work to address Racial Disparities and the use of force is ongoing for years and that will continue after this budget process. That said, this years budget is an opportunity to explore the implementation of key changes and align wment this public conversation in an effort that must extend beyond the budget crisis. We are investing so that we are investing and reimagining a public