Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20240712

Item. We are streaming the number across the screen and each member will be allowed two minutes to speak. Call 415 6550001. And access code 146 8286649. And then press pound twice. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussion and you will be muted and in listening mode only. Your item of interesting comes up, dial far thre star three ant practises to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment in the following way. Email to myself, the committee clerk. It will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as a part of the official files. Items acted upon are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 15th unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much, madam clerk. Can you please call item number one. Item number one, the administrative codes of the office of the chief medical examiner to include post partum Investigation Services and update these amounts. Members of the public who wish to provide comment shoul mr. Bakowork skiokski, the fs yours. The item was discussed when the city administrator came before the budget appropriations committee. At that point, we presented the fees to the office of the chief medical examiner that we needed to amend some of the fees that did not reflect the current cpi adjustments that are allowed by the controller and so, what you have before you today is that amended legislation to adjust those fees according to cpi, remove some fees for equipment we no longer use and add a few other fees. And that will be charged to outside agencies to the extent we provide testing for them. Chair any comments or questions for my colleagues . Do any of these added fees pertain to individual fees to the medical Examiners Office . Only for outside agencies. Chair thank you very much. And you have your amendments. You distributed the amendments and theyre not substantive, correct. They were provided at the last committee meeting, yes. Lets open this up for Public Comment, then. Can you please open up Public Comment for item number one. Yes, operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. If you have not done so, press star three to be added to the queue and please continue to wait if youre on hold until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Are from any callers on item number one . There are no callers. Chair i would like to move this as amended. Could i have a role call vote, please. Just to clarify, the amendment was approved at the last meeting and if we could just recommend it to the full board. Chair lets recommend it, role call. role call . Chair item number two. For the acquisition, rehabilitation of atrisk housing located at 270 turk street to the acquisition and preservation programs, including the preservation and seismic safety program, Downtown Neighborhood and Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund for a total amount not to exceed 31. 8 million. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001, meeting i. D. , 146 8286649 and press pounds twice i. Dial star three to line up to speak. Chair we have Brianna Lopez and miss chan. The floor is yours. Thank you, chair and committee members. We are asking the committee to afford indiscernible . We are asking for preservation of 270 turk street and the item was heard in committee and at the end of july, we made amendments to correctly characterize the loben as acquisition and preservation loan. And were happy to answer any questions if there are any. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, did we hear from the bail on this item . Yes, we did at the last meeting. Chair thank you. It seems like ions ago that we had that conversation. Any comments or questions for my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are any callers to comment on item number two. No callers on item number two. Chair Public Comment is closed. I wanted to give bla an opportunity to add anything. I would just comment that this reflects what miss chan had to say that the legislation before you today incorporates amendments made in committee in july to remove the Small Program as a source of funds from this loan and, also, to add an option purchase to the language in the resolution and we recommend approval of the amended legislation. Chair i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i have a role call vote, please . role call . There are three ay session. Chair madam clerk, can you please call item number three. Resolution approving the Municipal Transportation Agency contract number 201901 with Transportation System inc to implement and maintain a new realtime arrival at 88. 9 million for a term of six years with two optional fiveyear terms to cover Software Subscriptions and equipment life cycle, maintenance to commence following board approval. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. , 146 8286649 and press pound twice. If you have not done so, dial star three 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. Chair today we have with us jason lee and ramos from sfmta. The floor is yours. Im the Program Manager for the next generation custom information system. We launched a realtime launch system and by predicting when muni would arrive, weve seen a rapid increase in outbase emerging mobility modes. Though times and technology have changed, the system is reaching the end of its useful life. In our community outreach, the public told us they wanted more and so to meet these expectations, we didnt want it to simply be about continuing the functioning system that we had. The goal was to transform the way transit agencies interact with customers, using proven Core Technology and position San Francisco to be a National Leader once again. Particularly, as we navigate and cover from the covid19 crisis, better Realtime Communications and with our customers is needed now more than ever. Weve identified highlevel goals focused on the customer experience, quic equitable acce, promoting sustainable transportation, facilitating better travel decisions and rebuilding riderships after covid19. And we are proposing a nottoexceed contract of 89 million with twoway Transportation Systems, which rank the highest out of six for the Customer Information System. The duration is for six years, plus optional terms to cover Software Subscriptions. The sfmt board of directors gave approval on july 16th. If approved, we would seek additional board approval prior to exercising the fiveyear terms. Were planning to launch this systesystemsystem by the end of. This is a communitydriven project. Weve conducted qualitative outreach to shape the features of the Customer Information System. Over 5800 people responded to an online and paper survey available in multiple languages. And to ensure equity and incorporate the diverse needs of San Francisco in the design, we conducted inperson outreach to groups with students, senior citizens, people with disabilities, the business community, the chinese and spanishspeaking community and others. We will continue our outreach efforts into detail project design and we would like the publics input on how we can best communicate information intuitively. We would also like to understand where the public would most benefit from additional signs should funding become available. In our customer outreach, we wanted to find out how the availability content and presentation of realtime information could increase transit ridership. Even with no changes to the underlying Transit Service itself, so we presented a survey response with hypothetical 20minute wait scenarios with different types of realtime information. For example, we compared showing arrival on the thirdparty app and we tested showing an earlier arriving route within walking distance. So the findings gave us key insights. First, we found income has the strongest demographic influence on transportation choice and the greater the income, the more likely one would choose another form of transportation instead of muni. Second, survey finally suggests that target and contextual information can increase ridership and eliminating the influence of income all together on someones decision to ride muni. When presented with alternatives, over 80 of respondents chose muni. This was an improvement ranging from 21 Percentage Points for the lowest bracket to 53 Percentage Points for the highest income bracket. This can help to mitigate a twotier systeme system and helo bring people black t back to trs we recover from covid19. This new system will, indeed, help us to address and recover from covid19 and the new system will improve service awareness, restinreflecting changes in reae and providing multiregional transit information. It will improve Public Safety, encouraging social distancing by showing how full muni is and by having doublesided signs viewable from outside shelters and high ridership locations, as well as displaying announcements in multiple languages. It will make our planning more responsive, providing twoway outbase communications with customers, a new Analytics Platform for ridership patterns and providing more consistency vehicle spacing through a tool that our field supervisors can use to manage. And so now, lets look at the enhanced information the new system will provide. In addition to more accurate vehicle arrival predictions, we will offer dynamic maps showing vehicle positions on buses with onboard digital signs people will know how much time they will have to make their connection to another Transit Route once they arrive at a transfer point and like many other cities with networks, we have a dense system with multiple transit options. Well offer alternate routes. Well offer crowding information so that customers can decide whether they want to wait for another bus with more space. Well provide realtime information about elevator and escalator status, alzheimers as other information. We will provide detours and signs will indicate if a route has been detoured and the route planner will reflect reroutes in realtime. Well tell customers when bart and other services are coming and well ensure San Franciscos diverse population has access to information by being able to post messages in longer such as chinese, and spanish. San francisco residents and visitors will enjoy this through a systemized upgrade of transit shelters, rail platforms and underground stations. The new displays at shelters will be much larger than the current textbased signs and will show graphics and maps. Competitors who also enjoy doublesided signs up to onethird of the shelter locations. The contract will also include maintenance. This shows the future signs five times larger than the current signs. This is just a sample of what we could show here on the bottom. The new system will allow us to much more easily modify the look and feel of the displayed content. Among the transit agencies in the United States, muni has one of the dennest networks. And unlike many other alternatives, Accessible Information is built into the fabric of the new Customer Information System. For example, we will be able to provide information about accessible stops and elevator, escalator status. The new signs will have annunciation capabilities at the push of a button and will provide itineraries on user references. During the Detailed Design phase of the project, we will continue to Seek Public Input to maximize the systems accessibility. And were now going to switch over to the finances of the system. This breaks down contract expenses. The total contract duration of 16 years corresponds to the expected life span of signs where we structure the contract this way to commit the vendor to operations and Maintenance Support for the entire life span. The board of supervisors will have an opportunity to to approe the contract for the two optional extensions scheduled in the sixth and elevnith year of the contract. Contract includes warranty, covering all parts and consumables and rather than just applying signs, the contractor is committed to maintaining them for the entire contract. Approximately 7. 8 million for software and 7. 1 million for upgrading our existing signs. Back in fiscal year 2018, we started setting aside 25 million in onetime funds for the state of good repair project including 14. 8 million in Transit Impact Development Fee funds. We also have discretionary expenditures to phase in the system expansion based on cashflow and funding availability, including 4. 7 million for solar powered sign and 3. 5 million to upgrade subway arrival signs. Pout this shows a comparison of operations of Maintenance Cost for existing system and a oneforone replacement with the new system. So for only about 47,000 monthly in operating expenses incrementally or lets than 570,000 annually, were getting upgraded software and integrated mobile trip planner in payment, a new Analytics Platform and a systemwide sign upgrade. To put this in perspective, if the Customer Information System is able to recapture one of fiscal year 101 2019 ridership,t will be beneficial. We will operate on generating dynamic content while we see needs to post temporary signs. Chair comments or questions. indiscernible . The proposed resolution approves a if you contract between mta and through the Transportation Systems for the next generation customer system for muni. The contact is for additional sixyear ter term subject to the board of supervisors approval. The total contract amount over the 16year term would be 89 million and this is on page 12 of our report. Of that amount, 25. 4 million is Capital Expenditures which would be funded from the mta fund balance, the remainder would be annual operating expenditures that would be funded from mta operating revenues and we recommend approval. Thank you very much. Just to give an example, i may be standing on the platform waiting on the t and may see next t in seven minutes and you look up and it will say next t in 35 minutes. Will it do anything to give us the honest, upfront time to say next t or does it have anything to do with just kind of helping people navigate how long their wait time may be. Thank you, supervisor walton for that question, absolutely. A big focus on this is improving the accuracy of predictions. We know that the Current System has some limitations, particularly in relation to around the start of when trains begin their services or buses begin their routes. And so were focused on making sure that we have accurate predictions there. Thank you, because i think thats important if youre thinking a train is going to come in seven minutes so youre willing to wait and you look up and comes in 40 minutes. Some can say, maybe its safer and better just to walk, quicker just to walk, but if you keep getting different times, it can throw someones day off and thats important. A big focus of our signage was to make it a lot larger and to be able to display graphics so that we can show a map illustrating where the vehicle is located. So we found in our research that gives people extra confidence that the vehicle is actually there as opposed to just seeing a number, so when you see it on a map and you see it moving, you can say, its actually coming. Chair mandelman. Thank you. There is tremendous user dissatisfaction with the current nextbest system. It is i hear it about it a lot and i think we all hear about it a lot, it is unreliable and frustrating to people and this is the same contractor. And so, just wants to understand maybe a little further from the mta how a new contract or the same contractors that have delivered a product that our users have been terribly unhappy with is better this time to go around. Great question. And so. Its not a secret that the Current System is approaching two decades old. And what was Innovative Technology back then is no longer innovative. This contractor has recognised that and has completely redone its platform. So what we are getting here is fundamentally a much different approach at providing predictions. I think before you could imagine it as really startup style mentality and as the industry has matured, there is, you know, a lot more understanding about how to make things work appropriately. Your face isnt one of confidence. Supervisor, what are you thinking . I mean, i have no basis to know. I just know what we have now is bad and hoping what we will get a good and were relying on fine work for the good folks at the mta to see clearer that the problems that we may have with the Current System will not be replicated or that we can rely on this contractor to deliver a product or several orders of magnitude better than what weve had now. One other thing to note, too, is that the new system is actually owned by a Different Company when we first got it 20 years ago. Next bus was a startup organization. Company. The new company has cubic and experience in a whole variety of transitrelated applications and mostly related to fairs. But realtime information is a big part of it. And as i mentioned in my response to supervisor walton, were really focused on not just providing a number, like, observation, ititscoming in s0 minutes but showing ve visually where it is to give more confidence. A lot of the frustration comes from rerouteing services or making a change rapidly. For example, with covid19, we made four or five different changes so far. And this system gives us a lot more flexibility to show those reroutes and the Service Changes in realtime, as well as providing alternative routes. You know, where theyre feasible. And so that people arent just left stranded out there. Ok, good. I think those are good questions and i think weve all about at a munistaff where it says six minutes and then you look and its 21 minutes and youre, like, what . And so, seeing no one else in the queue, lets open this up for Public Comment. Madam clerk, ca can you please l Public Comment . 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 three to be added to the queue. I have one caller in the queue. Speaker this represents a break for muni riders as you have discussion frustration is the problem. We can dramatically improve the riders experience by giving then information about rider times and alternate routes nearby and a Minor Service change like a breakdown or traffic or bus driver absent can have a major impact on a riders day. We urge you to approve the resolution for muni riders. Thank you. Thank you, are there any other speakers . That completes the queue. Chair Public Comment is closed on item number three and i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Can i have a role call board. role call . Chair madam clerk, can you call item number four. Authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expend a great in 488,000 from the Health Resources and Services Administration for participation. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin comments. Chair we have dean goodwin from the department of Public Health. Mr. Goodwin, you have the floor. This is a repurpose slide that my director and myself put together. We are presenting to other grantees how to use this funding that we received and this is onetime funds that were approved as part of the federal appropriation for funded services to help address the needs of those impacted by covid19. Next slide, please. Thank you. This is a little snapshot of our budget. Our total programmatic budget is over 37, nearing 38 million. As you can see, about 21, 22 millions of that is local general fund dollars and the rest is funding of some kind of or another, either part a, b or c. And just a reminder that the eligible metropolitan area or ema as were often referred to, is made up of three counties, San Francisco, moran and san matteo and its appropriated by biosphere based on the number of hiv cases in each of the three counties. Next slide, please. And just an overview that Service Provision of the hivheld Services Funding programs during the covid19 pandemic, all of our providers continue providing hiv Client Services at some level during the first few months and they were via telehealth and by phone and clients with emergent issues were seen in person and dental services were only provided at an emergency level, but those amount of Emergency Services have since resumed. Residential programs, of course, continued as theyve had previous other services were provided by providers by phone or via the internet. Next slide, please. One of the things that we did at hiv Health Services was to continue to check in with our providers frequently to share information with them as we had that available frequent provide communications and updates on the ability of covid testing and anything else of interest to them or their clients. We sent out multiple surveys to check the level of services for clients and how they were provided, what the Staffing Levels were like and how they were using telehealth. So thats how we used a lot of if funding as these visuals indicate and the first three sort of indicate how we utilize funding for reimbursing of expenses that were impacted on the cbos and then for the expansion of existing Services Based on the need, we focused on meals and Emergency Assistance for the most part with money set aside for emergency housing and client incentive vouchers. Next slide, please. This is the breakout of the Funding Amount before you of 488,185 and again, for the three county amounts and the amount for San Francisco, specifically, 85 of the clients are here and its about 758. 197 is mostly reimbursement for covid expenses experienced by the communitybased organizations and 52 has been set aside for extending of essential services allocations for about 215,561. The next slide, thank you for use timyour time and im happy o answer any questions. Chair there is no bla report so can we open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see if there are callers that are ready. Operations, please let us know if there are callers who would like to speak. Chair i would like to make a motion to move item number four with a positive recommendation. Could i have a role call vote. role call . Chair can you please call item number six. Item number six, authorizing the office of be indiscernible . Chair we have adrienne palm with us. The floor is yours. Thank you, supervisor. Good morning. Thank you very much for your consideration of this a e for supplemental census grant from the state of california committee. We have a proo brief update foru and well be happy to answer questions afterwards. If you go to the first slide, not everyone can vote, but the census is something everyone can participate in and we started outreach efforts in july of 2019 and we were on a role. The official campaign was launched in january and we were able to execute over 339 events before covid19 hit followed by the senseless killing of george floyd and countless black and brown americans. So all of this exposed the raw, Economic Health and social inequities in our society and put a hard stop to all of these censusrelated communities and Assistance Centers that were so successful in 2010. Next slide. So, we were left with a challenge of how to overcome a double pandemic and then how to inspire hope and motivate residents to participate in the census. And so, the next slide shows a map of who is im sorry. This is an updated map and we are right now at 64 in participation and it is the state of california is at 65 im sorry, 67 and the National Rate is 65 . And then the Census Bureau started seeing nonresponse followups and these are the doorknockers that go around to all of the house holds that have not not participated. There have been continuous politicalization by the trump administration, excluding undocumented immigrants and changing the posts and in shifting the end date for the census and that was moved up to september 30th. Next slide. In the red circle, youll see, again, no surprise but just exposes the gross inequities and showing Economic Opportunities for the citys most powerful population and if you go to the next slide, so now there are overwhelming barriers to those who are at least able to participate or who need help to participate and then, of course, with covid19, theres been a lot of misplacement since the start and many people have moved out, whether its permanently or temporarily theyve moved outside of the city and so, even people who would normally, could and would participate, have not yet done so and you go to the next slide and weve had to do a full pivot after the shelterinplace order was implemented, social distancing, totally knocked out all of the wind owl of ou out of our grasss community outreach, all of the things so effective in 2010. And you go to the next slide, many parts of our sf Counts Campaign continue on digital platforms. Our Community Partners have had to pivot to conduct outreach by phone, virtual assistance over the internet and many of us are not real experienced in Virtual Conference calls and consultations. So its taking awhile for people to get used to that and the challenge, of course, is that over 25 of our households lack Internet Access and as you found with the Sf Unified School district kids, they may not have broadband or bandwidth and they may need help to participate and theres about ten of our population who could respond on their own but havent. And if you go to the next slide, the next slide is just highlighting the art and action part of our campaign. Its using art as a vehicle to include and motivate residents and so all of the images, Pretty Amazing art. The next slide was created by black, brown, indigenous and other local artists and then the next slide show shows what was d in the campaign and then communicating messages in different languages and reflecting the people of San Francisco and the different cultures. If you go to the next slide, there are more than 150,000 households that still havent participated or who may need help filling out the census questioquestionaires. If theyre not counted, the city could risk losing about 8 billion in federal funding over the next ten years and thats money that we soarly needs a with know. Needs a you know. Needs a you know. On the last two slides, theres another equally and important reason why we need every resident regardless of their status to participate. Within an administration that is continuously attempted to move the goal post, has cheated and attempted to suppress census and voter participation, residents of San Francisco need to exercise their right and responsibility to participate because all of our lives depend on it. And then the last slide, i was e by some of our youth. Thank you, supervisors and that ends the brief update and happy to answer any questions if you have any. Chair any questions or comments for my colleagues . I have to say, i love the artwork and you know, in a way, i kind of almost hope that when we have a new administration in office, federal office, that we will do a recount of the census. I just feel that with covid and everything has just its not been on peoples minds, and so to get a really and crit count, i wish that the administration could say, you know what, well do the census over and fund it really well. Looking at this appropriation, it is not a lot of money. I wish that it was at least twice as much money to really get into the households, you know, that were having a hard time with. Theres to bla report and i see no comments or questions and lets open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers that are ready. Chair i would like to make a motion to move this to the board and can we please have a role call vote . On the motion role call . There are three ayes. Chair can you please call item number seven, madam clerk. Number seven is a resolution to amending the cares act for person with aids, Coronavirus Program from the United States department of housing and urban development to expand the amount of 118,000 for the period of march 15, 2020 through june 30, 2023. Members who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001 and meeting i. D. 146 8286649 and then press pound twice. If you have not done so, dial star three. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Chair thank you very much. Today we have brian chu and gloria wu. Hi, brian. Good morning. Earlier this year in july of 2020, this committee and the full board approved the accept and expend for the housing stunthousingopportunities. Subsequent to the approval of that resolution, we were informed that the county of san matteo, for which we are the intermediary organization would like to expend their portion of this cares act retroactively which is permitted by the hud legislation. And they wanted to expend it from march 15th, through jun june 30th and we were informed that we needed to include that explicit retroactive language into the approval of that legislation. There is no change to the expenditures schedule. It simply allows us to permanena may day audi daysantamatteo to e submit this to the original resolution. Than any questions or colleagues. Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. There are no callers in the queue. Chair thank you very much and Public Comment for item number seven is now closed. I would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i please have a role call vote. role call . Chair madam clerk, can you please call number ten. Item number ten, resolution approving for purposes of Internal Revenue section 147f. please stand by . Supervisor mandelman weve seen these resolutions before. Its to refinance tax loans they used to acquire and rehabilitate School Campus on van ness street to retake that fan financeing n get our sign off here. The refinancing will allow them to spend less on Interest Payments and more on classes and Financial Aid and the other things that they do. I would say theyve been engaged with the community and in addition what they call adjusted Tuition Program that theyve done lot of outreach. They have programs for neighborhood kids other the summer. Im hopeful that well be able to move forward in this positive recommendation. Supervisor fewer we have someone from the comptroller office. Thank you for considering the resolution today. As supervisor mandelman said, this is tefra. We have Rebecca Foster from the San Francisco school. So they can speak more detail about the school and the project. For the committee and public, tefra is tax equity, fiscal responsibility act. The proposed financing is on behalf of San Francisco Friends School. The debt will be issued through the California Enterprise Development Authority or ceda. That the city and county and city of San Francisco participates in. Were bringing the resolution to you because the federal tax law requires the governing body of the jurisdiction where the project is located approves the financing of the project after providing the opportunity for public input through a public hearing so the bond can be issued on taxexempt basis. In this case, the jurisdiction, which is the city again, is not obligated for any payment on the bond. Per federal tefra regulations we published hearing notice on august 4, 2020. The public hearing was conducted by the Office Finance through teleconference on august 12, 2020. To give you little background on the school and in addition to what supervisor mandelman provided, the mission of the San Francisco Friends School is for students to learn in a community grounded in quaker values, reflection, integrity, and stewardship. Teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires, curiosity, cooperation and hard work. They encourage students to engage with the world working towards the quaker ideal of caring and just society. The purpose of the project is to the proceeds of the sale of the obligation will be loaned to the borrower for refinancing as mentioned also to finance reimburse the borrower for renovation and equipment of that property and to pay various transaction cost and other related costs. Assuming all the required approvals are obtained the authority ceda expect to issue obligation in amount of 25 million bond council this will have no fiscal impact to the city and county of San Francisco. The original project is located in district 8. Thank you supervisor mandelman for sponsoring. If there are any questions, i will be happy to take them. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Are there any questions or comments from our colleagues . Weve done couple of these before. Do you like to add anything . I want to add a thank you Committee Chair fewer and supervisor walton and supervisor mandelman for the warm introduction. We appreciate the board for the request. The original funding was used to renovate the levi straus renovation. It is strictly refinance as this shall mentioned helps to free up funds that we can put towards program and students. Our approach has been to be not. Only in the mission but of the mission and a real part of the community. We seek to educate our students through Community Engagement and service and have a number of programs. Im happy to answer questions on our horizon summer program, Friends Community Scholar Program or any other things that we do. Chair fewer any comments or questions . Supervisor mandelman, we take your word for it. Lets open up for Public Comment. Clerk just checking to see if theres calls in the queue. Let us know if there are calls already. Please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicate you have been unmuted. Please let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on item 10. There are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer Public Comment is closed on item 10. I like to make a motion to move to to the board. Can we have a roll call vote . [roll call vote] three ayes. Chair fewer call item 11. [agenda item read] chair fewer we have direct director, from department of emergency management. The floor is yours. Thank you, good morning chair and supervisor enrique penic directors of real estate. Hopefully you can see the screen. Im before you asking for positive recommendation for resolution authorizing a lease 1663 Mission Street on behalf of urban Area Security initiative. It is an initial tenure lease but fiveyear option. We are moving into 5000 square feet office space. This is a oneforone exchange. The lease term is the initial ten years with two fiveyear options. Both subject to board of supervisors approval. The basement is 41. 42 per square foot per year. Which works out to 208,551 per year. Theres a threeyear annual increase. This compares to their current rent at 711 van ness. You can see by the differential in rent, the remember is the rent going down by approximately 17 . The city only pays for janitorial at this new location. All other services are folded in the base of the lease. In addition the landlord is paying per tenant improvement. Theres a twoyear prerent allowance. Two month free rent is to allow flexibility in the completion of the tenant improvement plus moving for one location to other. There shouldnt be a situation where they will be require to pay double rent in old and new locations. The reason for this move and this relocation choice as you may recall, Assessors Office have occupied prongs approximately 9800 square feet of office space. This lease at 711 van ness expires june 31, 2021. It was one of several leases that were identified at cost safer cost saving measures with the building at 49 south van ness. This is part of a threeyear plan to build and occupy 49 south van ness and realize some cost savings by terminating this lease at 711. The 1663 mission site was determined to be best suited because of geographic proximity to the civic center. The space also allows for compliance of covid. Its lower rent plus the flexibility of starting the lease. You may or may not be familiar with uasi. When i first met them, i was not that familiar with them. Uasi is department under homeland security, they are Grant Funded Program administered by d. E. M. To prevent, protect, against respond to and recover from terrorist incidents and catastrophic events. These are the people that you want close by in the event of an emergency. Were pleased that were able to find the location that met their needs of price point thats reflective of the current market. This concludes my presentation. Tristan from uasi is available and im also available to answer any questions that you might have. Chair fewer can we hear from the b. L. A. . Item number 11 approve resolution for new lease between city of tenant at landlord for 1663 Mission Street. The initial lease term is ten years with two fiveyear options to expand they are subject board of supervisors approval. We summarize cost on page 30 of the report. The lease cost are paid by the uasi grant. In addition as stated in his presentation. The rent under the proposed lease is less than the current rent paid under the existing lease 711 van ness. We recommend approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues. Supervisor walton thank you so much chair fewer. Thank you so much director penic. I have two questions. One just out of curiosity. Whats the Purchase Price of the building . The building is not currently for sale. We did not explore that. It was recently purchased and it is a multitenant building. The landlord provides this space. Mostly to nonprofit. Its a recent acquisition by the buyer. We did not pursue a purchase of this site. Supervisor walton does uasi have anything to do or work with i. C. E. . I would let tristan answer that question. It goes to their mission. Good morning everyone. No, we dont have any business with i. C. E. Supervisor walton thank you. Chair fewer thank goodness for that. Any other comments or questions . Weve heard from the b. L. A. Lets open up for Public Comment. Clerk operations please let us know if there are callers ready. There are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer Public Comment for item 11 is closed. I like to make what motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Can i have a roll call vote. [roll call vote] there are three ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, please call item 8 and 9 together. [agenda item read] members of the public who wish to provide comment should call number on your screen. Chair fewer today we have Tiffany Kearney from h. H. A. Good morning chair fewer, supervisor mandelman and walton. Im lead nutritionist and Program Analyst for the department of disability and aging services. Policy came at a crucial time when Nutrition Services were needed more than ever and still are. The amendment allows for the provision of Nutrition Services for older adults and adults with disability starting in july 2020. Selfhelp is one of 13 nonprofit communitybased organizations that have grants with d. A. S. To provide Nutrition Services. Selfhelp provides congregate and home delivered nutrition Meal Services. This includes providing meals that meet nutritional standards, nutrition education, nutrition risk screening and client assessment. D. A. S. Meal providers have experienced an increase demand and Meal Services and had to change how they operate to provide meals since covid19. Our nutrition partners have been steadfast in meeting the increase demand and changing Food Service Operations to ensure the health and safety of clients and staff. When the mayor declared the Health Emergency in march selfhelp was quick to modify their services to meet the needs of their clients. They continue to be flexible in their provision of meals and services. Currently, they are providing take away meals at eight meal sites located in six different districts. The meals at their site are chinese cuisine and hot and frozen. In their Home Delivered Meal Program, selfhelp offers chinese and american cuisine and the meal also come in hot and frozen. They are delivering meals in eight districts. Selfhelp meals are heart healthy and meet current dietary guidelines. They offer a low sodium meal option. This amendment to selfhelp Grant Agreement will allow them to continue providing meals to consumers enrolled in their Nutrition Services program and serve additional clients who are eligible and need services. Thank you and thats it for selfhelp. Chair fewer thank you very much. Are you one of them was for selfhelp and other one was for meals on wheels. Are you speaking to meals on wheels also . Yes. We are requesting approval for resolution to also amend the meals on wheels Grant Agreement that will increase funding and extend the term of their grant until december 31, 2020. As with selfhelps grant, our department was able to extend the meals on wheel grant up to six months without requiring Commission Approval because of the declared Health Emergency this past march. The amendment will allow for the provision of meals and services for older adults and adults with disabilities starting in july 2020. Meals on wheels is one of eight nonprofit communitybased organizations that produce and deliver meals to older adults and adults with disabilities living in the city. In addition to delivering meals, meals on wheels conducts inhome nutrition assessment, and nutrition risk screening. They provide nutrition education. Meals on wheels is our departments largest home delivered meals partner and serves clients in every district. They have three Home Delivered Meal Programs. One provides meals to older adults. The second provides meals to adults with disabilities and the third is emergency Home Delivered Meal Program that provides both older adults and adults with disabilities in urgent need of nutrition support within a few days of contacting d. A. S. Intake. Modify their Food Service Operations to allow for social distancing for staff during food production. They increase frequency cleaning delivery vehicle and implemented appropriate p. P. E. Use for all staff. The amendment will enable to continue providing meals to consumers enrolled in their program and also serve more clients to who are eligible and need home lived meal service, delivered Meal Services. Thank you. I cant hear you. Chair fewer could we hear from the b. L. A. Please . Yes, chair fewer members of the committee, items number 8 and 9 approved expedited amendments and selfhelp for the elderly. Item number 8 is the contract agreement with selfhelp to the elderly summarize expenditures on page 17 of our report. Actual expenditures are not to exceed amount recommending the resolution to reduce the amount by 246,591,000 from 11. 6 million to 11. 3 million. We recommend approval of the resolution has amended. On the meals on wheels contract, expedited amendment extending it to december 2020 and we summarize expenditures on this contract on pages 23 and 24 of our report. Again, the contract math exceed the actual expenditure. Were recommending amending the proposed resolution and for clarification, were recommending reducing it by 499,288. We recommend approval of the proposed resolution as amended. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions to my colleagues . Lets open up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public like to comment. Clerk operations checking to see if theres callers in the queue. There are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comments on items 8 and 9 is closed. I would like to make a motion to approve amendment. Lets take item 8 and 9 separately on a vote. Can we take it together . Clerk yes, you can take it together. Chair fewer i can take it both together . Thats great. I like to approve amendments brought forth by the b. L. A. Items 8 and 9. Can i have the roll call vote on the amendment. [roll call vote] chair fewer i want to thank h. H. A. To selfhelp for the elderly. [please stand by] were here because theres a penal code requirement that be presented to you annually, as well as evidence of financial responsibility and thats why were here today. The rules and regulations are defined by the scope of services and theres been no change since contract approval last year. And, also, in your package, theres evidence of the financial responsibility essentially liability insurance. Just a brief program history. It was established to provide alternatives to incarceration, participation is ordered by the courts and we administer is as awarded by the cores. There wacourts. There was a fee d that has been done away with. In 2018, they ruled courts had the ability to pay and at the same time, the Sheriffs Office waived fees for sentence. And so there are no fees. The current contract for which you have scope of services was awarded to sentinel in 2018 by a bid process. And it is there are a lot of people that the courts send to us as evidenced by the last slide i have and we had been averaging about 100 participants a month, 100 individual names a month and now were up to somewhere in the 300 to 400s. And thats all i have. I also have lieutenant Jonathan Kuntz and he can talk about the program if you have any questions there. Thank you very much. And any comments or questions from my colleagues . Sorry, i cant see folks in the queue. Im here. Supervisor walton. Thank you so much, chair fewer and thank you mr. Holland. I have a few questions. With all of the transformation going on with reform, et cetera, is this programme going to be modified at all to address any of the tran transformations . How do you mean . In a sense, as i understand it, although im just a finance person, but i as it is, this program was provided to keep people out of custody and so it provides an alternative and we have been working with the courts to keep people out of custody and we have about twothirds, if not more of the total justiceinvolved population out of custody and the courts often like to be able to point to something to alleviate concerns about the Public Safety. And so they often order electronic monitoring and then we applied electronic monitoring as ordered by the courts. Out does that answer your question at all. To a degree. I have a series of questions that will be programmatic and financial. Is there somebody who will be able to assist with answering the programmatic questions . Lieutenant johnson is on the line and he may be able to answer. Whats the cost of the contract and how many sheriffs staff are assigned to implement the program . The annual cost is about 1. 1 million and we have probably about 20 or so staff who are focused on alternative programs, monitoring people to manage them out of custody, 20 to 25 people. Probably 18, 19. I would have to reach out. I dont have that in front of me. Do we have data showing the audit of the Electronic Program . We do have some data but we dont have it here today. So right now, we dont know what the recidivism rate . I dont have that information now, no. Can you tell me what charges are referred to the Electronic Program and what there is for candidates of this program and for pretrial . So this program is mostly pretrial. Pretty much every charge can be reffereferred to us up to homicy the courts. Its the courts that are decides who is or will not be put on the program pretrial and 90 something percent of the people we have are pretrial. So its determined by the courts in conjunction with the public defender in the d. A. And i can add detail to that. In july of 2020, there were a total of 474 individuals who participated in this program and of those, 403 were pretrial. How are we ensuring were not keeping folks in custody who are unhoused . Its up to the judge to release him or not to electronic monitoring. We at the Community Programs allow people that are up housed to chargin our building 24 hour. They go over in or ye orientati. If they have nowhere to charge, they can come back to us and charge, daily, if they want, but the devices are lasting three, four, five days and so they need to charge, they can come back to us and well help them charge. I also believe the pretrial has data that shows what pretrials recommendation is versus what the Court Decides to do and i know there is some demographic information that goes with this data. But, again, we dont have that today, but we could get that. Yeah, because that was my next question. Do we have the racial demographic breakdown . There is that data and so theres the recommendation and then the action by the court. And so i would love to know the data that shows effectiveness, any information about audit that, you know, what would let us know recidivism and how successful the program is and also a racial breakdown and how does that compare to the rest of our criminal Justice System . Chair supervisor, if i may, we could continue this item and ask him to come back with more information and maybe invite pretile, also, if you would like. I just wanted to put that option on the table, if thats something youre interested in, supervisor. Thank you so much, chair fewer. Noim excited about that option. Chair thank you. And do you have any more questions, supervisor walton . No, i would love for us to continue this. Thank you very much. I see supervisor mamdelman in the queue. Thank you. You are anecdotally about people cutting the monitors off. How often does that happen . It happens often. The straps are made of rubber and people that dont want to be on the program, they do cut it off. We try to go to the location where the device was cut off and try to find the device and locate the person if we can. But generally, once the device is off, we generally dont know where theyre at and arent able to locate them. I would love more data on how often its happening and what the crimes are that people are accused of. We can put that together. Chair it sounds like theres a data point that you want included for our continuation and we can continue this not to next week but the week after. And so, i think that brings us to the 16th of september. Are there any members that would like to comment . 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 three to be added to the queue. There are five people in the queue. Speaker as you know, many clients are placed on electronic monitoring and we are also concerned with how Little Information we have about the actual effectiveness and positive impact of the current electronic monitoring contract and the system in general. And clearly, you know, we contracted private companies to provide this service and they have a financial false interest in keeping people shackled with electronic monitors longer. So we would like more information about how these contracts support both Public Safety and criminal Justice Reform goals of San Francisco. Just like we want the least number of people in jail for the shortest time possible. I know we collectively would like to see the least number of people shackled to the ankle monitors for the least amount of time. Just to follow up on supervisor waltons question. We woul, we would like to hearh. We hear about those put in jail because they were unable to find a place to plug their device in on time. So thank you, appreciate the time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Speaker im from the public defenders office, Law Enforcement integrity unit. And its unclear how this Program Costs so much money, if in july there were 474 people. Thats the most thats ever been on it. It costs around ten dollars a person a month, and that accounts for 56,000 a year. Is it mostly the 18 and 1 19 deputies on the program . Does the 1. 1 million come out of the sheriffs budget or is it a separate item. It seems the company has and an interest on keeping people on the program. I appreciate the board and the sheriff are considering the vocations of this Program Going forward and not just rubberstamping it another fiscal year. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Speaker im me he melissa hernandez. Im asking to please mark this unfavorable as far as this resolution. It creates hardships for our communities. Quadrupleleing pequadrupleing sr alarm. Approving this resolution as is and the usual is not an answer to the peoples call to rethink Public Safety. Were already seeing an uptick in Police Surveillance and we should recognise signing off on electronic monitoring is effectively signing away selfdetermination and agency for members of our communities. Before the pandemic, San Franciscos jail population continued to grow even as more people were being placed on electronic monitoring. This is not the mark of a system that is designed to help people succeed. We dont even know who is forced to accept ankle shackles in exchange for getting out of jail. Ive been waiting for this from the sheriff and im here to say that electronic monitoring is not an alternative to monitoring. It would mean more power and control are spent on the prison industrial complex, specifically jailing, policing and surveillance. Those resources, power and control should be reinvested in the communities themselves where they belong. Thank you. Thank you, networks speaker. Next speaker. Speaker im calling to impose the electronic monitoring, electronic monitoring is not an alternative to jailing. From 2018 to early 2020, the number of people with ankle monitors tripled in San Francisco but the jail population mostly grew, showing that monitors were used as an expansion. The reduction in ththis is privh draws into question where that money is going and we are also wanting to get more answers on who is put on these programs and further surveilled and as we know, sfpd is furthering surveillance by getting into the surveillancsurveillance camerast the city. Thank you. We would like to not approve the resolution and we would like to get more of our questions answered, as well. Have a great day. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Speaker im Edward Hernandez and im a d7 resident and a volunteer member of the acl view of the San Francisco chapter. Im here today to state that electronic monitoring is not an alternative to prison and it is an expansion of surveillance. Electronic monitoring is financially irresponsible and not effective. Please tell us why you want to invest in electronic monitoring and other forms of prison and why youre actively choosing to decline black and brown communities. Youre perpetuating a system and policies. Its easy to see policing, prisons and policies as necessary for Public Safety. Speaker the number of em has tripled and that has not meant a reduction in the jail population. They are going along with more folks locked up and specifically spent on private corporations on the ankle shackles for the longest period of time possible. The expansion em lead to an increase in the sheriffs budget to compensate for overtime costs for supervision on em. We saw in the controllers report last year, this is one of the heaviest places for overtime. We should be investing in support networks in the very communities that actually help folks heal and ask about the needed jobs, healthcare and Mental Wellbeing and we do this through our own recognizance release program where folks are released to show up after completing a safety assessment. Speaker i cant believe San Francisco could spend over a Million Dollars to punish people further when theres no evidence presented to show that electric monitoring would make anyone safer in San Francisco. I would prefer for this committee to reject this contract and instead of continuing this paid for hurting people in this manner, simply allow everyone to go about their business while awaiting their court date. We can put people on their own recognizance release as we do for some people already and allow people to be here in San Francisco, living, breathing and working while we wait to resolve their court case. Remember, people are to be treated as innocent until Proven Guilty and people should be given the benefit of the doubt and we should treat people able to afford bail. I vote to reject this contract today. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Are there any other callers in the queue . That completes the queue. Chair public item on this item is now closed. And so i believe that there is interest in continuing this item until the next meeting of the budget and finance committee and i believe that supervisors have given direction to the Sheriffs Department and also, perhaps, supervisor walton, we may want to call in pretrial also. And so, i make a motion to continue this item until the next meeting of the budget and finance committee. Could i have a role call vote . Just for clarification, this is september 16th meet. Chair , yes anyes. role call . There are three ayes. Chair is there any other business before us today . No other business before us today. Thank you. We are adjourned. 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There are 6 Grilled Cheese grilled to the crisp on the outside outstanding salsa and a lot of things to dip it knocks you out and its spicecy and delicious i was the first person that came here and we were not prepared for this every year were prepared everybody thinks what theyre doing and we can cookout of our home and so the festivals were part of the group we shove what we do and we w we tried to capture the spirit of xrifs. And there from there to sales and the hard part of the sales is 250 assess our market and creating a Market Opportunity giving limited risks and sales experience to our guys and chair ronen good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the september 14, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. I am chair hill roe then. With me is supervisor kathrin stefani and victor mar. Our clerk today is victor young. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, to protect the supervisors staff, and public, city hall is closed to all members and staff, however, members of the committee will be participating