Transcripts For SFGTV BOS 20240703

So as to not interrupt our proceedings here in the chamber , the board of supervisors and its committees are convening hybrid meetings that allow inperson attendance and Public Comment while still providing Remote Access and Public Comment via telephone. Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. Those attending in person will be allowed to speak first, and then well take those who are waiting on the telephone line for those watching remotely and streaming through. Sfcv. Tv. Org. The Public Comment callin number is streaming across the screen and when connected you will hear the meeting discussions, but youll be muted and in listening mode only when your item of interest comes up in public. Comment is called. Those joining us in person should line up to speak and those on telephone should dial star three to be added to the speaker line. If youre on your telephone, please remember to turn down your tv and all listening devices may be using and each speaker will be allowed up to two minutes to speak unless otherwise stated. All alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in writing in either of the following ways he mailed them to myself. The budget and finance Committee Clerk at brant edgerly pr at sf j g overboard. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. You may also send your written comments via Us Postal Service to our office in city hall. Thats one dr. Carlton beagle place room 244, San Francisco, california. 94102. And finally, madam chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of october 3rd, unless otherwise stated. Madam chair. Thank you, mr. Clerk and before we call item number one, i would like to remind everyone that we have budget and legislative Analyst Reports for items three, ten and 11 on todays agenda for those items, we will have the Department Presentation first, followed by the budget and legislative analyst report. Then we will take questions, then Public Comment. So with that, mr. Clerk, please call item number one. Yes, item number one, is a resolution retroactive authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expand a grant increase from the National Institutes of health through Oregon Health and Science University for participation in a program entitled western states node of the National Drug abuse treatment Clinical Trials network in the amount of approximately 28,000 for the period of march 1st, 2023 through february 29th, 2024, for a total grant award amount of approximately 110,000 for the total period of june 1st, 2020 through february 29th, 2020. Four. Members of the public have joined us remotely and wish to comment. Press star three to enter the speaker line. Hey promptly indicate that you have raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, that will be your signal to begin your comments. Madam chair, thank you. And today we have philip kaufman, director of the center on Substance Use and health and this is virtual. And if its virtual and also, mr. Kaufman, please also indicate why this item is retroactive. Thank you. Hi. So this is support for my time to participate in Clinical Trials, testing medications for Substance Use disorders. The focus at this point in time is on medication trial for cocaine use disorder and it is retroactive because its been because the grant has been continued. So the ultimate amount of the grant has exceeded the 100,000 cut off. Uh, would you like to just walk us through a little bit about what the, the program is about and participation . Sure. So its the National Institute on drug abuse has a Clinical Trials network and the network has multiple nodes around the country and conducts Clinical Trials of various different medications for Substance Use disorders. And this is my participation within that Clinical Trials network right now. My participation is focused on a trial called curb to that uses two different medications for treating cocaine use disorder. And were currently running that trial in San Francisco. Thank you. Looks like this is going to be through from from march 1st, 2023 of this year. Thats the retroactive date through february 29th, 2024. Is that correct . That sounds correct to me. Thank you. I dont see any other name on the roster. Vice chair mendelman. Thank you. Chair chan. Good to see you, doctor. Id like to be added as a co sponsor. Great. Thank you. And with that, mr. Clerk, lets go to Public Comment. Yes, madam chair, members of the public wish to speak on this site are joining us in person. Should line up now for those listening remotely, press star three to enter the speaker line and for those already in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that will be your signal to begin your comments. Mr. Phil, good morning. I think i said yesterday the key is going to become too sorry about that. Uh, declare if any, conflict of interest. Thats it. Otherwise you can get transparency for anything you do. So you have to push this idea responsibly. So declare conflict of interest, if any. And there is automatically some. So thank you much for your comments. Seeing no further speakers here in the chamber. And madam chair, we have no speakers in the queue. Thank you. Seeing no, no more Public Comment. Public comment is now closed. And with that i would like to move this item to full board with recommendation and the roll call. Please and on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with a positive recommendation. Vice chair mandelman middleman. I member safai safai absent chair chan a chan. We have two eyes with member safai absent. Thank you. The motion passes and item number two. Item number two is a resolution approving the terms and conditions and authorizing the execution of the no cost project. Specific Maintenance Agreement with the state of California Department of transportation for San Francisco Public Utilities commission on a commission ongoing maintenance of its proposed improvements at 18 location within caltrans right of way along a six mile section of state road 35 south of state road 92, in San Mateo County for the southern skyline boulevard ridge trail extension project subject to board of supervisors approval. 100. The charter members of the public have joined us remotely and wish to comment. Press star three to enter speaker line hey promptly indicate that your raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, there will be a signal to begin your comments. Madam chair. Thank you. And today we have mary deacon, project manager from sfpuc. Good morning. Good morning. Board members. I am here today to advise you to recommend and approval of this Maintenance Agreement between the sfpuc and caltrans. Its a project specific no cost Maintenance Agreement between sfpuc, as i said, caltrans for the southern skyline boulevard ridge trail extension. I want to go to the next slide. This project is located in San Mateo County, t on peninsula, the watershed property. It is the Maintenance Agreement applies to a portion of the project which is east of skyline boulevard, otherwise known as route 35. That is a portion of which a portion of the project is will be constructed on the caltrans right of way. The project itself will construct six miles of multiuse trail south of route 92, as well as a universal access loop adjacent to the five field cahill trail, all north of 92. The project improvements include Road Construction of the two segment of trail, the portion north of 92, as well as the six mile south of 92, supporting infrastructure, including parking lots, bathrooms, a pedestrian bridge secured fencing say a pedestrian bridge and trailhead. Amenities some of those, thats all south of 92, north of 92. There are similar improvements, but this, as i said before, this Maintenance Agreement applies only to the approved the improvements south of 92 and adjacent to skyline boulevard. We have 18 locations within the caltrans right of way where we either have an access road or a vehicular gateway. Segments of retaining wall, little bits of fencing, little bits of trail, one end of the pedestrian bridge that fall within the caltrans right of way in order to secure a encroachment permit for construction of the project at caltrans requires that we enter into a Maintenance Agreement with them for the duration of the life of the asset. So for more than ten years, this agreement will not. It is really at no cost to the puc. We will maintain our the assets constructed under by the project as we have been for some of the existing assets like maintenance driveways that currently exist right. So the cost of maintaining those assets is, is part of the sfpuc Water Enterprises operations budget. So im here today. Next slide to ask that you recommend this item to the full board for approval. Thank you. We appreciate it. We understand that this is just this is a part of sfpuc ongoing capital improvements, Maintenance Cost inclusive in that budget, which will probably see this coming budget year. Now, supervisor saphi, thank you. So is there anyone here from caltrans . There is not. So whos going to be doing the majority of work . Is it puc or you all or caltrans . The puc will construct the project. The Vegetation Management along within the right of way will continue to be caltrans responsibility. We and the puc will maintain pieces of asphalt gates and fences that are constructed as the assets constructed as part of the project. The reason that i ask is because a significant amount of my district has close hundred 80 parts of 101 and caltrans has not been a good partner in maintaining that area. Theyve started to increase that more recently. Weve really pushed them over the last year and a half. So i just wonder what your experience has been like with caltrans and are they do you believe theyll be able to fulfill that . I mean, it seems like theres no other option for you. The other option would be for them to pay you and have puc do the maintenance. Is that something that youve considered . Um, no, no, its not. And i do have John Fournier from the Natural Resources and Land Management division here. His, his staff have have are responsible for the maintenance in that location. And hes the better person in to speak to the historic experience with caltrans and whether theyre meeting their obligations to maintain their property. That would be good. Is he in the audience . He is on the. Oh, okay, great. Lets yeah, why dont we hear from him . Yes good morning. Can you hear me okay . We can hear you loud and clear. Very good. Yes. John fournier. Im a Water Operations analyst with the puc. I support our our team on the peninsula watershed. Um, as youre as you may be aware, caltrans has significant assets on the peninsula. Watershed this particular stretch of highway 35 being one of them is and theyre theyre very active out there on their their easement on their right of way. They do perform Vegetation Management, litter erosion control, and they also work on their hardscapes out there, their guardrails. Recently in the last 5 to 6 years have been improved. So, you know, we have every every confidence theyll continue with that same that same effort and well be able to hes been i mean we just had i was actually shocked at coming into work the other morning. They had caltrans had just decided to cut down probably about ten trees along a stretch , which they said it was because of the apec conference. They said it was because of major staining, the branches falling into the bart right away. But those trees had been there for 30, 40 years. So i just want how are they dealing with tree maintenance in the area that that. Yes so we can speak to that from 90 to south to our our property boundary. They do regular our hazard inspection tree hazard inspection and they do to ameliorate and remove or alter hazardous trees in that segment of right of way that abuts our property on the peninsula watershed. Okay, great. Just its good to hear that youre having a better experience than we have here inside the boundaries of San Francisco. So good to hear that you feel confident about it. Thank you. Thank you, madam chair. Thank you. Seeing no more name on the roster, lets go to Public Comment. Yes. Members of the public wish to speak on item number two and are joining us in person. Should line up now. And for those listening remotely, press star three to enter the speaker line and for those already in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and thatll be your signal to begin your comment. Mr. Phil im going to have to repeat that several times. So no matter if the project is good or not, you must declare who pays you to do that. So basically declare if a conflict of interest. Otherwise you are working in opacity, which means that you are in darkness so you cant achieve something with the vision that clear, like you know , positive. So i dont know. You must declare your conflict of interest. Thank you much for your comments. Seeing no further speakers here in the chamber. And madam chair, we have no speakers in the queue. Thank you. Seeing no more Public Comments, Public Comment is now closed and i would like to move this item to full board with recommendation. And with that, a roll call please. And on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with the positive recommendation. Vice chair mandelman mandelman i member safai. I sapphire chair chan i chan i. We have three eyes. Thank you. And the motion passes and mr. Clerk, please call item number three. Yes. Item number three is a resolution reauthorizing the Public Utilities commissions cost for clean power participation in the joint powers authority, consisting of Community Choice aggregators with a not to exceed amount of approximately 4. 7 million for a duration of 25 years from january 1st, 2024 through december 31st, 2048. Members of the public have joined us remotely and wish to comment. Press star three to enter the speaker line, he promptly indicate that you raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, there will be a signal to begin your comments. Madam chair. Thank you and today we have. Oh, hi. Michael himes from Deputy Assistant general manager for clean power from sfpuc. Thanks for being here. Thank you and good morning, supervisor myers. Mike himes. Im the deputy manager in the power enterprise of the sfpuc responsible for clean power sf thank you for the slides. Im here today to seek your support for a resolution that would authorize clean power payment of its share of the general and administrative costs of the clean of the California Community. Power agency in 2021, the commission and the board of supervisors authorized clean power to join California Community power, a new joint Powers Agency of Community Choice aggregators like clean power sf to be able to conduct joint procurement of Energy Resources and services. The resolution before you today would authorize clean power sf to pay for general and administrative costs in the not to exceed amount of 100,000 per year. It would also authorize payment for a period of 25 years with a 5 annual escalator. The sfpuc Commission Approved this proposal on june 27th. Next slide, please. California community power, known as cc power, was formed in 2021 to combined to combine Community Choice aggregators purchasing power to for Renewable Energy supply and related programs and services. Clean power became a member in april of 2021, following approval from both the commission and the board of supervisors. Cc power currently has nine member organizations representing over 3 million Electricity Customer accounts across almost 150 municipalities, spanning from humboldt county to Santa Barbara county. As a public agency. Cc power is subject to the brown act, with all of its board meetings open to the public and with agendas and Meeting Minutes posted to its website, which weve identified on the slide here. Next slide. Cc power membership provides clean power sf with the opportunity city, but not the obligation to participate in larger Clean Energy Projects that it may not otherwise be possible to procure or be Cost Effective on its own member ship also allows for broader collaboration on initiatives that might benefit from a scaled or regional approach. Membership does not commit clean power to participate in any specific projects or purchase any services from cc power. Since joining cc power in 2021, clean power has of ratepayers have benefited from the joint procurement of new long lead time Energy Resource projects to date, with the approval of the commission and the board clean power efforts participating in the purchase of energy and capacity from four projects. Sites procured by cc power through competitive solicitations, and that includes two Long Duration Energy Storage projects, rps as well as two geothermal will provide acts together. These procure amounts will support clean power compliance with california Public Utilities Commission Orders to procure certain types and volumes of Renewable Energy. Next slide the cc power board adopted a strategic Business Plan in december 2020 to focused on these key actions hiring a full time general general manager. This was completed earlier this year implementing committed projects and Building Organizational capacity for further collaboration among the membership. And for example, this includes conduct a build it right workshop with stakeholders that is scheduled for this november. Our staff will be participating in this workshop and will be advocating for principles as adopted by our commission and resolution 20 30138 in support of transparency, environmental accountability and labor standards. And lastly, the Strategic Plan also calls for adding to cc powers, a portfolio of projects, programs and services where and when beneficial to members. This includes continuing to assist members to meet current and future regulatory requirements and identifying opportunities for efficiency in providing customer programs. To implement the strategic Business Plan in the near term. Cc Power Projects a total fiscal year 2324 budget of approximately 760,000. This budget is comprised of Staffing Services and operations of. 585,000 and contribution to operating reserves. Of 175,000. A clean power. Have share of this years 760,000 budget is about 85,000. The 100,000 not to exceed amount provides a little headroom for unexpected costs that may come up during the year. So the sfpuc is asking for your support to set clean power ups, not to exceed general and administrative payment to California Community power at 100,000 per year with a 5 per year escalation for 25 years. The 25 year duration of this request is intended to align with clean power efforts excuse me, with clean power sfs commitments, project commitments that have already been made with cc power. The projects that i referred to earlier. Next slide please. That concludes my prepared remarks. Im happy to take any questions you may have. Okay. Thank you. Director hine. Morning supervisors nick menard from the bla. Item three is a resolution that approves clean power participation, participation costs with the california choice. Sorry, the California Community power joint powers authority. Those costs are not to exceed approximately 4. 8 million over 25 years, starting in january 2024, when the board approved that clean power is participation in the jpa in 2020. It also approved an underlying participation agreement which provided for the equal sharing of all the members of the administrative costs and also allowed approved approximately 50,000 per year as encounters 21, 22 and 23 for those administrative costs. So this is essentially approving an increase in the annual spending from 50,000 to 100,000, plus an inflation escalator of 5 Going Forward for the next 25 years. We recommend approval. Thank you, vice chair mendelman. Thank you, chair chan, and thank you to all the folks at puc and on successive generations of board boards of supervisors who worked on clean power sf. I think it is something the city can be proud of. I think Community Choice aggregation is something that california can be proud of. I dont think this should be an orphan item, so im happy to put my name on as a as a sponsor. Great. Thank you. I do have a question. I both at the local Agency Formation commission as well as a puc commission, had a resolution particularly about the participation of Community Choice aggregation for clean power sf to make sure that, you know, we encourage other counties to, to consider and adopt the labor and Environmental Justice framework for their procurement process. Will we be continuing as we participating with with this conversation and be part of this coalition, which i appreciate and i think i am supportive of, but will we be continuing to make sure that time and time again we really bring this up with with the labor and Environmental Justice framework, with these procurement . Yes. Thank you for your question. Chair chan and the answer is absolutely staff will be following the direction of our commission in the resolution i referred to before in all discussions we have at cc power and were looking forward to a fruitful conversation with a variety of stakeholders at the november workshop i referred to that will be very much focused on those issues. Great. I look forward to hearing back and see how the progress is being made and which again i concur with. Vice chair mandelman, thank you so much for all the work that youre doing. I look forward to seeing this up and down the state. And with that, i dont see any other names on the roster. Lets go to Public Comment. Yes, members of the public wish to speak on this resolution are joining us in person. Should line up now. And for those listening remotely, press star three to enter the speaker line and please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted, thatll be your signal to begin your comments. Mr. Phil thank you. You know, my mission, generally speaking, because ive been speaking to the board for many times, again, okay, no clean power. Hsf comes with a clean record first to have a clean, clean record, you need transparency. You need to define your objectives that is transparency means you need to declare if any conflict of interest. Im going to lock the situation, guys, so you wont get away with it. I mean, nobody you declare your conflict of interest. Otherwise you dont want transparency. C it means that you a continue and promote the mess we are in today because of that, right . Thats it. Transparency means you declare if where are your conflicts of interest . Thats it. Thank you much for comments. Seeing no further speakers here in the chamber. And madam chair, we have no speakers in the queue. Thank you. Seeing no more Public Comments, Public Comment is now closed and with that, colleagues, i would like to move this item to full board with recommendation. And with that a roll call please. And on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with the positive recommendation. Vice chair mandelman mandelman i member safai suffi church and i chan we have three eyes. Thank you. The motion passes and next please, mr. Clerk, call item four, five and six together. Yes items four through six horror resolutions retroactively authorizing the office of the District Attorney for the following. Item four is to accept and expand the grant in the amount of approximately 1 million from the California Department of insurance for the Workers Compensation Insurance Fraud program for the grant period of july 1st, 2023 through june 30th, 2024. Item five is to renew a current agreement with the california Victim Compensation board for a Revolving Fund in the amount of 75,000 to establish a process to pay expenses on an emergency basis when the claimant would suffer a substantial hardship if the payment was not made and when the payment would help the claimant with an immediate need for the period of july first, 2023, through june 30th, 2026, and item number six is to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately 92,000 for each of separate three annual periods of july. First 2023 through june 30th, 2024, 2024 to 2025, and 2025 through 2026 for a total not to exceed amount of approximately 275,000 from the california Victim Compensation board for the grant period of july 1st, 2023 through june 30th, 2026, to continue the criminal restitution compact should the parties agree to an amendment as allowed under the provisions of the grant agreement. Members of the public who have joined us remotely and wish to comment on these resolutions press star three to enter the speaker line. A prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, that will be your signal to begin your comments. Madam chair. Thank you, mr. Clerk. And today we have verbal presentation by tina nunez for item four. And then i think Monifa Willis for item five and six. And both are from the District Attorneys office. Welcome. The floor is yours. Thank you. Good morning. And thank you for the opportunity to address the committee. My name is tina nunez ober and i am the managing attorney for the Economic Crimes unit at the das office. My team specializes in the investigation and prosecution of various types of fraud. Every year we apply for and ■we receive for our workers comp Insurance Fraud program, a grant from the California Department of insurance, part of our grant process is that we obtain this resolution from the board. The grant funds primarily fund our salaries and benefits for da investigators and prosecutors assigned to these very often complex and litigation intensive cases. Through this grant, were able to fund two da investigators and partially fund the salaries of three days Insurance Fraud impacts every person who lives, works or owns a business in San Francisco. As weve seen for consumers, the cost of products rise, the cost of premiums go up for employers, and Insurance Fraud. It affects the city because the city is selfinsured. So we handle many workers. Comp fraud refers from the city in addition, workers comp fraud also creates an unfair and unlevel Playing Field for the honest Business Owners of San Francisco who are paying their true premiums as it also hurts injured workers who unfortunately may not be receiving the medical care that they are entitled to under the workers comp system and that the system is intended to provide them. In addition to paying salaries and benefit outs for our staff, the fraud grants, also the grants go to pay for necessary training for us. Without that money, we would not be able to attend the training that we that we attend throughout the year. Fraud schemes. As anyone knows, who watches netflix and watches tv, these scams are constantly evolving and we need training throughout our calendar year to keep us informed of the Current Trends and with the goal of staying ahead of the fraudsters , which is always very hard because they quickly adapt to our tactics and our methods of detecting their fraud. And with that, i welcome any questions and i thank the supervisors. Thank you. Quick question. What is the average workload per per deputy District Attorney involving this case . And on my team, our caseloads actually are smaller because our cases are so complex. And so labor intensive. Right now, i dont have the exact statistics on how many cases is my team members have because well have cases at various stages. They take their cases. We do whats called vertical prosecution. So we keep our cases from the very beginning. Our investigators will investigate. The attorneys will work with the investigators , and well file our cases. And then they keep them all the way through to the very end till theyre sentenced. So we can have cases at various stages. Sure. Look forward to learning more about that in terms of caseload, just averaging how many cases that actually happening in San Francisco about Worker Compensation and fraud on an annual basis. So either like the cases overall all just reported or perhaps caseload, but probably focused more on just reported cases. So much is going on. So we really appreciate all your work and we do have. Thank you. And we do have all of those statistics. We report to the California Department of insurance three times a year on our statistics. Theres an internal audit that happens all the time in every 2 to 3 years. Were thoroughly audited by the department of insurance. And if the if the committee would like any of our stats, those will be available and we can make them available to madam chair, if you would like them. We would love it. Assembly again. Its typically when things come through, we would have budget and legislative analysts to help us sort some of the information out. And in this case, just love to learn more about how it works. So so thank you so much. Next, we have Monifa Willis. Good morning, everybody. Thanks for giving me the time and space to address the floor. My name is Monifa Willis. Im the chief of Victim Services with the District Attorneys office. I will start by addressing item number five, which is the Revolving Fund agreement. Victim services. We respond to every victim of Violent Crime in San Francisco, whether the case is charged or uncharged, whether it has been reported to the police or not. We receive our cases by way of Police Departments sending referrals, walk ins from individuals and Just Community based organizations that may have learned of a victimization in respects to Revolving Funds. And it is a grant funded project that Victim Services division has held for 20 years. Our division uses these funds to expedite emergency funds that otherwise would be covered by calvcb. Thats the california compensation board. These directly support the urgent financial needs of victims of Violent Crime. For example, all funeral and burial expenses is urgent. Relocation needs and crime scene cleanups and medical care advocates assist victims with filling out the calvcb application while simultaneously requesting Revolving Funds from our office if needed. This speeds up the funds release by approximately two weeks to ensure that victims after a horrible, tragic event are then not further harmed financially. We calvcb then reimburses our office for funds paid out through the Funding Source within 30 days at just a small data within this fiscal year, weve paid out a little bit over 3,000 from our Revolving Fund to date. Ill pause for questions on that item and then ill move to number six. I dont see any name on the roster. Im were ready for the restitution. Great. So item number six, the criminal restitution compact. Our restitution efforts are a state required contract that currently spans three years. It covers the staff supporting restitution collection efforts pertaining nearly one fte staff member who solely works on restitution matters as its currently budgeted, and our annual budget process and the way it actually works is that staff member looks at any calvcb claims that have been paid out and then he is dedicated to recuperating the funds paid out to victims by calvcb. So what that means is he ensures restitution hearings are calendared. He notifies the defense, he completes the legal forms along with the ada and any follow up tracking thats required on restitution matters related to calvcb. In addition, we use him in our office as a huge resource around restitution marsys rights in other words, the victims rights around restitution for Training Staff and currently we per 2023 calendar year, he has. 117,000 in calvcb rest stitution orders. At some point in the stage of recuperation. Thank you. We see earlier this year we submitted a letter of inquiry to both the Police Department and also District Attorneys office. We really appreciate all the responses that we receive from both the pd and the District Attorneys and noted that the District Attorneys office in. 2022 alone serve almost 10,000 victims across board. And this seems like different categories as we will have a very specific hearing tomorrow. The Public Safety committee. I look forward to seeing you. Hopefully you or someone from the District Attorneys office to help us walk us through about again, Victims Compensation and restitution in but specifically for victims of gun violence. So in this case that like this when we are talking about just in general restitution in compact does that mean its just like all crimes and all categories and just right here and thats what were discussing . Or is this like very specific . Like. Yeah, this is very specific. Like these are crimes that qualify for calvcb compensation in calvcb compensation requirements are Violent Crimes only. Yeah. And thats what it stands for, right . Violent crime. Okay, great. Thank you. With that, i dont see any other name on the roster. Lets go to Public Comment. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Members of the public wish to speak on these three items and are joining us in person. Should line up now. And for those listening remotely, press star three to enter the speaker line and please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and theyll be signaled to begin your comments. Mr. Phillips i hope its im no, i believe you are honest like you are really intend to do good. But again, you must declare if you have a conflict of interest, you cant avoid it if you dont look, its a mess. I mean, come on, whatever. Here you are dealing with something, but its a mess. So thats because the thing is, in opacity, you have to be clear, transparent. You cant have an evolution. You cant see the end of the tunnel here. If you are not clear, it starts with declaring for anything. I declare not having any conflict of interest. My mission is to make everybody happy. I just follow the orders from something that cant be stopped. So please, now join the party here because its going to be beautiful after. But we must work step by step. We declare for whatever we do or conflict of interest because they are there, no question. Otherwise we wouldnt be in such a mess. That forced me to have this mission. Have a good day. I mean, ill be back. Thank you much for your comments. Seeing no further speakers here in the chamber. And madam chair, we have no speakers in the queue. Thank you. Seeing no more Public Comments, Public Comment is now closed and vice chair mendelman. Thank you, madam chair. Thanks to the folks in the das office, id like to be added as a cosponsor. Fourth of six. Great. All three items cosponsored by vice chairman lowman and with that, wed like to move all three items to full board with recommendation. A roll call, please. And on that motion to forward all three resolutions to the full board with a positive recommendation. Vice chair mandelman a mandelman i member safai safai church and i tonight we have three eyes. Thank you. And the motion passes. Thank you. And mr. Clerk, please call item seven and eight and nine together. Yes. Item number seven through nine are resolutions authorizing the department of adult probation to accept and expand the following grants. Both item number seven and nine is in the amount of 100,000 from the california emergency manager agency for probation specialized supervision program. Federally funded through the violence against women act. Item nine, retroactive for the period of october first, 2022 through september 30th, 2023, and item seven for the period of october first, 2023 through september 30th, 2024. Item number eight is in the amount of approximately 500 and 7500 dollars from the board of state and Community Corrections for the mobile Probation Service centers Grant Program funded through the budget act of 2022 for the period of may 1st, 2023 through september 30th, 2027. Members of the public have joined us remotely and wish to comment. Press star three to entered speaker line. A prompt will indicate that your raise your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, there will be a signal to begin your comments. Madam chair, thank you, mr. Clerk. And today we have a verbal presenter by taras madison, Deputy Director of finance and administration. Thank you so much for being here. And the floor is yours. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. Taras madison Deputy Director for the adult probation department. And we respectfully request your approval of these three resolutions. Item seven and nine are similar resolutions, both are for the Domestic Violence grant funds, and its about 100,000. It covers a portion of a deputy probation officer officers salary about it depends, but about 30 or so. These funds are used to enhance field supervision and also to do outreach to the Domestic Violence victims. This this is actually federally funded from the violence against women act. However its administered through the california Emergency Management agency. So it comes through the state. It is actually already included in our the appropriation for this year for 23, 24, 24, 25, and also item nine, it was included in the appropriation at 22, 23 and 2324. However our cal, the emergency the state has recent notified us that they are now requesting separate board resolution. So it isnt enough just to be included in the aau anymore. And then the third resolution is a new grant in the amount of 507,000. This is a new program by the board of state and Community Corrections and this program is to establish mobile Probation Service centers in different counties. The goal of this new grant is to make sure that we can assist probationers, particularly those that are unhoused, by bringing the services to them and then working, particularly with those who are unable to meet current probation requirements. And im happy to answer any questions. Thank you. I do. And this is actually somewhat exciting to see that theres the new aspect of probation and with the mobile Probation Service that i see that with this grant, youre able to purchase vehicles and equipment and to allow you to have telecommunication lines. Could you elaborate a little bit more about, you know, what what does that look like . Is it just mobile, like just allowing probation officer driving around . Or what would that how would that mobile or the vehicles be equipped, equipped with . Yes, thank you for the question. So the goal is to purchase two vans and theyre actually going to be mobile Probation Service centers. So basically what we would do in the office, were bringing it out to the community and to those neighborhoods to actually work with probationers. So well set up a van. The technology or the it requester to have laptops so they can do everything that we would normally do. We have a request for supplies because it will be set up as an office. So it isnt necessarily driving around, but we will drive to the location. But its actually to establish a Probation Center in different neighborhoods. And we will focus on those neighborhoods where our clients are primarily housed or unhoused. Yeah, in the different area. I think it is the, the thing that im seeing the pandemic is bringing us is the reconcile recognition that we must embrace the technology of telecommunications and recognizing that with this Technology Allows us to actually go to where people are and what they need. And be able to support them and bring along with the services with us. And instead of tracking them down and bringing them back in into the Probation Center and have them be seated or have them reported back in person. But this way were able to find them and identify them where where theyre located and making services a lot more accessible to the people who really need them. So i appreciate it. Its very excited to hear about this and look forward to learning more about individuals served with this new service and efficiency. Hopefully that also ease the burden for the probation officers in terms of their caseload and tracking individuals. So thank you with that. Thank you. And i dont see any other name on the roster so lets go to Public Comment. Yes madam chair, members of the public wish to speak on these three item and theyre joining us in person to line up now. And for those listening remotely, press star three to enter the speaker line, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and thatll be your signal to begin your comments. Okay, so thats going to be the last one. Maybe its education what im talking about. Basically it looks like very presumptuous from me to say its education. So how to do Good Business and to produce positive, positive society, you need to declare why you do it. You need to declare if you have a conflict of interest. How can i make it more easy to understand otherwise you go nowhere. So it starts for you to take process slowly, but at some point push it because its in your own best interest at the end of the day. Otherwise youre going to be unhappy and now, you know, because i just told you that it will be so. So stop. You are in darkness here. We are in dark ness, so we must rise. The declare your conflicts of interest. But thats it. Thank you much for your comments. Seeing no further speakers here in the chamber. And madam chair, we have no speakers in the queue. Thank you. Seeing no more Public Comments, Public Comment is now closed and colleagues, i would like to move item seven, eight and nine to full board with recommends action and with that mr. Clark a roll call, please. Yes. On that motion to forward items seven, eight and nine to the full board with the positive recommendation of vice chair mandelman. Madam an i member safai safai church. I chan i we have three eyes. Thank you. And the motion passes. To us to all three. Okay okay. Noted members, i thank you. And with that and mr. Clerk, please call item ten and 11 together. Yes item numbers ten and 11. Her resolutions determining and declaring that the Public Interest and necessity demand the following and that a related costs are necessary or convenient for the foregoing purposes to be financed through the bonded indebtedness in an amount not exceed 300 million. Hawthorne ising landlords to pass through 50 of the resulting property tax increase to residential tenants under the administrative code, providing for the levy and collection of taxes to pay both principal and interest on such bonds. Affirm the determination under the California Environmental quality act in finding that the proposed bonds are consistent with the general plan in the eight priority policies of the planning code. Item number ten determines and declares that the Public Interest and necessity demand the construction reconstruction, development, acquisition improvement, rehabilitation, preservation and repair of rental Affordable Housing projects and the expansion of homeownership opportunities through the down payment assistance loan program. And item 11 determines and declares that the Public Interest and necessity demand only the construction development, acquisition and or rehabilitation of rental Affordable Housing projects and the amount to be financed not to exceed 300 million is subject to independent citizen oversight and regular audits. As members of the public who have joined us remotely and wish to comment on these two resolutions, press star three to enter the speaker line. A prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, that will be your signal to begin your comments. Madam chair. Thank you, mr. Clark and colleagues, i just wanted to and i see that my apologies. I see that mr. Tom paulino from the Mayors Office is here. And so without any objection from him that it is my understanding, you know, the conversation is gone going around this housing bond. As we can see, there are two different items involving the very same 300 million housing bond that we are going to continue these conversations nations and im going to continue these two items to you. October 25th. So that we can continue with with these different ideas and hopefully we can find an amicable solution that we can bring all different elements and together in one bond. So with that said, seeing no objection from mister paulo, no from me, from the Mayors Office, and i would like to open this to Public Comment. Yes, madam chair, members of the public who wish to speak on the continuance of these resolutions and are joining us in person to line up now for those listening remotely, press star three to enter the speaker line and for those already in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that will be your cue to begin your comments. Mr. Felt yes, this this seems like a big, big project, right . Its like 300 million, even though it doesnt really matter. But. Conflict of interest. So whats the goal . You get it, right . Yeah but take your time. Yeah. Come on. Its just there is a need, i think, to sort of freeze stuff for now because mistakes are keep being made. So just slow down on and thats it. But think about that. Please share the information. Conflict of interest. Promote responsibility. That is right. Thank you much for your comments. Seeing no further speakers here in the chamber. And madam chair, we have no speakers in the queue. Thank you. Seeing no more Public Comments, Public Comment is now closed. And colleagues, i would like to move these two items to continue these two items till october 25th, which is. Is that the correct date, mr. Clerk . Just want to make sure. Yes, madam chair. That is correct. Thank you. To october 25th, our october 25th budget and finance committee. And with that, a roll call, please, on that motion to continue both these resolutions as to the october 25th meeting of this committee. Vice chair mandelman i mandelman i member safai. Sapphire chair chan and i, we have three eyes. Thank you. And the motion passes. And with that, do we have any other business before us today . Mr. Clerk. Madam chair, that concludes our business. Thank you so much. And with that, the meeting is adjourned. Long it was in fashion, oshaughnessy water system has been sustainable. In addition to providing water for the bay area, it also generates clean hydroelectric power to run city buildings and services. And more recently, some San Francisco homes and businesses. Satellite electricity is Greenhouse Gas free, so we see a tremendous benefit from that. We really are proud of the fact that, weve put our water to work. Even with the system as well coon received as hetch hetchy, Climate Change has made the supply of water from the sierra vulnerable. 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Also monitor the sanitary sewer and Collection System for maintenance purposes, and also respond to a sanitary sewer overflows, as well as blockages, odor complaints. We work in an industry that the public looks at us, and they look at us hard in time. So we try to do our best, we try to cut down on incidents, the loss of power, cut down on the complaints, provide a Vital Service to the community, and we try to uphold that at all times. Going above and beyond is default mode. He knows his duties, and he doesnt need to be prompts. He fulfills them. He looks for what needs to be done and just does it. He wants this place to be a nice place to live and work. Hes not just thinking customer service, this is from a place of empathy. He genuinely wants things to work for everyone and that kind of caring, i admire that. I want to emulate that myself. That, to me is a leader. I strive not to be a success but more of being a valued person to the community. The key is no man is an island. When anything actually happens, they dont look at one individual, they look at p. U. C. Stepping in and getting the job done, and thats what we do. My name is dalton johnson, im the acting supervisor here at Treasure Island treatment plant. Call this meeting to order. Madam secretary, call the roll. President ajami. Here Vice President maxwell. Here. Commissioner paulson excused. Commissioner revera. We have quorum. Members make up to 2 minutes of remote comment dialing upon 4156550001. Meeting id access code 2599 928 6349. Press star 3. Speakers will hear a choim had there are 3 seconds and another when 2 minutes expired. Limit your