Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20160427

Good afternoon, everybody rk welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budged and finance Committee Meeting for april 27, 2016. My name is mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. I am joupbed by our Committee Vice chair, supervisor tang tank, 94 man yee and supervisors 94 man kim. Madam clerk, any announcements. Please silence any cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Actions taken today will appear on the may 3, 2016 agenda unless otherwise stated. We have 3 items here, we will be continuing the first two so we will be hearing from dcyf if you kault items 1 and 2 together and well continue them. Item no. 1, hearing to receive a budget updot from the department of Public Health from 2016, 2017 and 2018. Item 2, hearing to receive a budget update from the Human Services agency for fiscal years 2016 to 2017 and 2017 and 2018. Anyone wish to comment on items 1 and 2 that we will be continuing. Colleagues, may i have a motion to continue items 1 and 2 to call of the chair. So moved. We can take that without objection. Item no. 3, hearing to receive a budget updot from the department of children, youth and their families and First Five Commission for fiscal years 2016 and 2017 and 2017 to 2018. Okay, thank you very much. We do have maria sue today to kick off this meeting. Thank you for being here. So good afternoon, chair farrell and members of the budget and finance committee, i am maria sue, i have the privilege of leading the department for children and their families. I will propose to you the budget we presented to the mayor aoffice in february for 2016, 2017 and 2018. Cyf brings together city government, schools, Community Based agencies to help our cities, children and youth birth to age 24 and their families lead lives full of opportunity and happiness. Back in 1991 the people of San Francisco made a unique and historic commitment to ensure that children and families have funding thats available to them on a regular basis. They passed the childrens amendment and back in november of 2014, that commitment was renewed through the children and Family First Initiative and that was passed by nearly 75 percent of our voters in the city. The revamped children and Family First Initiative included several upgrades. It included increase of the fund, it extended the eligible age for services up to age 24 and that includes services for our disconnected transitional he youth. It created a 5 year planning cycle, it established an oversite and Advisory Committee, created a Service Provider working group, and most importantly, it extended the children and youth fund for 25 years. Once again i just want to thank the members of the board, the Mayors Office and other Community Stake holders in helping to ensure we pass this very important legislation. So i want to provide you an overview of our Budget Proposal in very extensive detail here. I think most importantly i want to call your attention to the expenditure line. Sfgtv, can we cover the monitor . Most importantly, i want to call your attention to our two largest budget line items. The first one is grants to cbos and the second one is work order expenditures. All these work orders to other City Departments result to tlepl doing services to cbos. We do this primarily to leverage our sister cities expertise. We send funds over to the department of Mental Health it provide Mental Health services in our public high schools as well as violence prevention strategies. We partner with first five San Francisco and the Human Services agency. The other highlight on this slide is the children and youth fund revenues. And as ux see, the funds are growing and thats because of the scheduled growth that was written inside the charter. And i will be focusing the rest of my time on details of our grant making since that is the core of our function. Last year, fiscal year 20142015, dcyf allocated approximately 20 million to serve 20,000 individuals in the city. Thats over 450 programs. Due to the scheduled increase that i hareferenced earlier, we are looking at almost 18 million of unprogrammed funds over the next two years and we are working very closely with our stake holders, including our staff, our grantees and our oversight and Advisory Committee to determine the most appropriate ways to allocate these funds for vital childrens services. I want to note that due to timing constraints we have already moved forward in allocating additional dollars to Fund Summer Programs because as we all know, summer for our School District is going to happen next month, its going to start next month, so we wanted to work closely with our cbos to make sure they had the resources necessary to hire up, prepare and train more young people in their programs. We also awill he allocated more funds for tay services. We felt confident we would be able to quickly bring on the additional number of proposals that we receive through the rfp process. Once again last fiscal year, fiscal year 1415, dcyf allocated approximately 60 million for direct service grants. As you know, the primary areas of dcyf funding are early care and education, youth employment, youth empowerment, teen afrses, health and wellness and violence prevention. Our investments are holistic offering aefrs to enhance learns while also creating Healthy Family and environments to support our young people. Both direct grants and work orders to other City Departments including first five, office of early care and education, department of Public Health and the Human Services agency ends up resulting in grants to nonprofit agencies. The pie chart here shows age information about the youth we serve. Of note, the bulk of our Services Currently go towards school aged children, so 50 percent of our budget goes toward school aged children, but due to the new legislation changes we are going to start focusing on services for the 18 to 24. The other piece that you dont see on this chart is the birth to 5 population, and thats because we send our funds over to the office of early care and education and they are the ones who manage those funds on our behalf. Then finally i want to share with you a graph of the Race Ethnicity information that our nonprofit agencies are providing. We measured this, we measure our population served against the School Districts population and the citys overall children population and i think of note here is that although the city has 7 percent of our city children are African American and 10 percent goes to our public schools, our cbos, our nonprofit agencies are serving 16 percent of our African American young people and the same goes for our Asian Pacific islanders, 31 percent live in the city, 41 percent goes to our School Districts and we are serving 38 percent of our api young people and our latino young people, 23 percent live in the city, 30 percent goes to the School District, 29 percent are served in our programs. And you can read the rest. In closing, we strive to make San Francisco a great place to grow up and we look forward to working with all members of the board of supervisors to ensure that we will have sufficient resources to make this happen. And with that i am going to close and end my presentation and i am available for questions. Thank you, miss sue. Colleagues, any questions or comments on the budget for miss sue at all . Okay, well, thank you for being here. Appreciate it. I look forward to the continuing discussions as we get into the heart of budget season here. Thank you so much for the opportunity. Im sorry, are we having a separate first five . Okay, great. Hi, im ingrid mosquito with first five. Thank you for having our presentation done separately, although i think we could have combined it with dcyf our presentation is going to be very brief because we are, a lot of our work really is, were interdependent with the other City Departments, the department of children youth and families, the office of Early Education as well as the department of hub health. First five, which i actually provided you copies of our presentation, has just gone through a Strategic Planning process and for the next 5 years our focus is really gooing to be much more laser focused as we are driven by our values, were really honing in not only of our values but our mission and that is going to influence the impact areas that were going to be working on for the next five years. As many of you know, first five was created back in 1995 by prop 10, the tobacco tax. When it first started the collection of that revenue was considerable. The idea behind tobacco tax was that there would be actually less smokers and theres been a lot of success in that. The consequence to it is that theres less state tax revenue and so with first fives across the state are experiencing the same tax base decline. And so for, we have developed a Financial Plan that looks out into not only 5 years but 10 years out and also looking at the projections for that tax revenue as it declines. Much of our organizational strategy is going to focus around being very strategic around what we fund, not only in the near future but in the next 10, 15 years out. So we consider ourselves being a much more strategic funder and invester, really focusing on areas that we can have the most impact with and in order to make that impact we actually have to be sort of thinking partners along with the larger City Departments that can have the resources to be able to do that. So for the next few years, what we have done is leveraged other city resources and as you can see in the following chart, which is our two year budget outlook, our prop 10 allocation, as i explained earlier, is on a little bit 6 a short decline. For this year our funding was 5. Ate, we expect in 167 for it to be 5. 3 and in 1718, 5. 1. We also receive grants from first five california and we expect a little bit over ar Million Dollars over the next 3 years in each fiscal year. We piloted a federal grant which was a race to the top, it was to implement a quality rating and improvement system. The state of california is now starting to fund the quality rating and improvement system as that federal grant has phased out, so the next line item is those state grants for the quality rating and improvements system. We do have to use our reserve because of the tax revenue decline. We actually set up a reserve over 10 years ago and so every year we use a little bit of that reserve with the expectation that that reserve will be depleted. Like many other departments we actually have work orders with the department of children youth and families, the Human Services agency and the Mayors Office of early care and education. So our total budget for 1617 is a little bit over 28 million versus what we have this year, 1516, of 15 million. And that variance is mostly due to our transition of the preschool for all initiative over to the Mayors Office of early care and education. And so a major expenditures, at least in 1516, have been around Early Childhood and that again because of the preschool for all initiative. In outer years that will be managed by the office of early care and education. We still are going to be the lead for the Family Resource initiative in the city and again that Partnership Includes the Human Services agency and the department of children, youth and familiarly. And just to show our just prop 10 revenue and how that is categorized, we are going to be leading well, coleading with the office of early care and education but our investments in Child Development are going to be honed in in the further development of the quality rating and improvement system. That investment is going to be over 3 Million Dollars in Early Childhood health, home visiting, inclusion for Children Special needs, house screenings and also San Franciscos own Healthy Kids Program through the department of Public Health and family support. So this actually this slide actually just highlights the prop 10 or state funding. And that is it. Okay, supervisor yee. Thank you, ingrid, for your presentation. Im curious, in terms of the Human Services Agency Funding of 4 million or so, i didnt hear what you said that was for. Thats for the Family Resource center. Okay, thank you. Okay, any further questions . Comments . Okay, thank you for being with us today, miss sue, we look forward to continuing conversations as we go forward here. With thatll open up on Public Comment on item 3. Anyone wish to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, likewise, can i receive a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. Motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. Motion byee . Oo . A item 4, resolution approving and authorizing the execution through the tax exempt revenue commercial paper certificate of participation and tax exempt and or taxable direct placement resolving certificates of participation in a combined aggregate principal of amount not to exceed 260 million to provide interim financing for phase i of the Transbay Transit Center project frplt item 5, ordinance appropriating 260 million, item 6, resolution determining that Certain Property in the future annex area namely assessors parcel block no. 3721, is annexed to the city and county of San Francisco Community Facilities district no. 20141. I just want to acknowledge the work of many different agencies to bring forward this solution. It took place over many, many months but i do want to recognize been rosenfield from the controllers office, nadia sesay as well as our staff at the transbay office, thank you for taking on the leadership during this time of transition and of course to our community director, scott lay, who is also here. I think this is a good balance and a partnership along with the metropolitan Transportation Commission to help make sure that the Transbay Joint Powers Authority is able to complete this project on time and able to solve the cash flow issues in the midst of the construction while we await future land sales that are dedicated to the construction of the terminal and of course eventually to phase ii of the downtown extension of caltrans. So i believe the presentation is with the controllers office. Mr. Rosenfield. Before we begin, i apologize, supervisor wiener is on the mic. Thank you, mr. Chair. I also want to thank everyone who was able to make this happen. Its actually, were making the best of a bad situation where we have a project that incurred substantial cost overruns and where weve really already, frankly, stepped in and taken over a lot of the project management so that we can make sure that we dont continue to have the progress problems the transbay joint powers have experienced. I dont think any of us ever wanted to be in a position where the city and county of San Francisco was acting as back stop to the tune of a quarter billion dollars for something that is basically a regional project. Thats why we created the Transbay Authority because it is a regional project but sometimes we have to step in and solve a problem that was not of the citys making and were doing that because this project, the Transbay Transit Center, is so critically important to the future of transportation of this city and this region. It is going to be at the heart of our future Transportation Network as the region grows by two Million People, the heart of our rail network. So we have to get this done. Because of the cost overruns in building the Transit Center, because of the cost overruns incurred by the tgpa, we are now having to use funds to help complete phase i that is not a good result but its a situation that we face given the management and Cost Management of the project by the tgpa, so were stepping in to fix that. This morning i was down at san jose at our monthly mtc meeting and we voted unanimously to loan a hundred Million Dollars or purchase a hundred Million Dollars worth of the cops from the city so the mtc has played its role in helping clean up this bad situation. Now its our turn as a city. Okay, thank you , supervisor wiener. I hesitate to call ben rosenfeed up. Ben rosenfield. inaudible mayor lee, supervisor kim and wiener and supervisor david compos, our office has been working on this interim breach financing package for many months now. It endeavors to solve a gap that has become apparent on this project totaling will 250 million. Were somewhat reluctant to bring this forward in the sense it is an unusual place for the city to be stepping in to effectively provide the funding solution for another governmental entity, but at the same time we do think the package that our office, working with tjpa staff and the mtc, has pulled together minimizes risks to our government and to the mtc while providing a financing vehicle frankly thats necessary to complete this project that is well underway and in construction in downtown San Francisco. With that brief introduction, though, i will turn things over to Sarah Deboard and nadia sesay that can walk through the challenge and the proposal we have for you. Good afternoon, supervisors, Sarah Deboard. I know you are all familiar with the transbay project, but just a brief refresher. We are building a multi level Transit Center in downtown. Included in phase i is building the core and shell of the train box, first and second levels with information, ticketing, retail, a bus deck level for ac transit and muni from Treasure Island to come in from the bay bridge and of course the roof top park. Sfgov tv, can we put this on the screen . This is a map of the project area. The blue highlighted parcels show the parcels that were transferred from caltrans as part of the coop agreement between the city, caltrans and tjpa transfer of this land has enabled us to, in cooperation pars3 with oc in 2010 we received a 400 million grant be that allowed us to move construction of the train box from phase ii to phase i. Previously before receipt of that grant the train box was going to be built later under a more difficult construction method. In 2013, following receipt of multiple s that were overestimate largely due to very active Construction Market in the area, we increased the budget to 1. 9 and then in late 2015, as i believe you are all aware, the mtc conducted a cost review and came to a final cost estimate of 2. 59 billion, which is an increase. This slide states the reasons mtc included in their report for the recommendation of the 360 Million Dollar increase. I would like to note all of our now interim executive director, as well as the dpw staff person working with our project now both have no intention of needing to spend 360 million to finish phase i and both with state today that they believe they can finish phase i with just about 260 million of that 360 million increase, thereby saving a hundred million for phase ii. This slide shows our myriad and various Funding Sources. We have a federal grant, we have multiple fta grants, we have sales tax from San Francisco and san mateo, bridge tolls, a federal tifia loan, land sales and tax increment. This shows how we get to the 247250 million need. The difference between the 2013 budget and the mtc recommendation is the 360 million. A parcel s sale will close within the next month or two and provide approximately 160 million, which gives us a net shortfall of 200 million. However, we had previously anticipated receiving about 194 million in cfd special tax proveeds. The city has updated those projections and they have come down to 146 million thats expected to be received during the construction period, so we also have a shortfall that, 47 1 2 million, and that gives us the 247. 5. We anticipate meeting most of that in near near 17 and that would be calendar year 2017, i anticipate, before we need to draw down on any city financing and then a small remainder to the extent its needed in fiscal year 2018. And with that i will turn it over to nadia good afternoon, supervisors, nadia sesay, office of public finance. In working with the mtc, as well as the tjpa with several option it was clear that tjpa on its own would not be able to seek financing on the market so the city is proposing this structure. What the city is proposing, in partnership with mtc, is to provide short term interim financing to fund the 247. 5 million in shortfalls just talked about. That would result in a not to exceed amount of 260 million in short term financing. It would be a variable rate financing and the intent would be to draw in kind and amounts necessary to meet the funding needs of the project. Additionally mtc as a Sister Agency will be purchasing a hundred million of the 260 million in proceeds to hold as an investment through a competitive that we con did you telled in january we were able to get 7 s and wells fargo was the current low bidder, so we are working with them on getting the 160 million of the remainder amount. I think what is interesting of mtc they are willing to go for a term of 5 years, where the normal term is 3 years. The other interesting factor is mtc is willing to stay with the city for up to 10 years depending on the timing of revenues generated within the district. As a result the differential between the two facilities is 5 basis points to allow for the three sets of 5 year differential as well as mtc taking up inaudible to wells fargo. Sarah alluded to transbay is also funded by a tca loan, and that is a loan secured i think in 2012 that is secured by future increment generated by sale of parcels. Weve been working with tjpa and the idea would be the citys short term financing would be on parity. As you know we also have cfd oh proceeds. The board of supervisors approved the formation of tfd for authorization to issue up to 1. 4 billion secured by special taxes within the district, so those would be made available to pay down the outstanding loan amount as well as the tax increment being used to pay interest on the outstanding short term certificate. As you know, the fact that the city is using its general fund credit as a security for the transaction, if the revenues that are projected do not come in the city general fund will have to step in to secure that. On the next slide i will talk about some of the analysis weve done to make sure at least were covered and that we have protected the general fund from having to front the dollars up. The idea would be that this is short term, thinking it would be 5 to 10 years. Before up to 10 years the intent is that we take it up with longterm financing, most likely the tjpa tax implement within the district have matured. As part of this interim financing as well the city is proposing a Cost Review Committee and that got approve ds at the tjpa Board Meeting early this month and additionally the public works is also providing Construction Management oversight and that agreement was approved on april 22nd. And just, the budget analyst has recommended that we acknowledge that approval in our recommendation and were accepting that recommendation. The next slide is simply to demonstrate that weve done extensive analysis. As you know, the extensive, the cfd revenues, professional tax revenues as well as net tax interim revenues that are supposed to be generated within the district as well as the redevelopment plan area, what this is showing theres sufficient revenues showing theyre just not coming in the time frame needed to complete the project by 2017. So the intent would be what weve been able to demonstrate through Due Diligence if revenues come in in the time frame we anticipate, we would be able to take out the financing in 5 to 6 years. If the recession based on some analysis we did with professional, it would last an additional 3 years. At most it should not be holding the paper for longer than 10 years, hence the partnership with mtc where they have agreed to stay with us for 5 years with an renewal of an additional 5 years within the district to mature. The next slide shows just the uses. The a typical format, it shows you a not 20 exceed amount of 260 million, it also shows you while providing inaudible as well as mtcs hundred million and the 247. 5 million for the project and cost of issuance and then some reserve for market uncertainties. This is a variable rate debt, it is tied to inaudible plus a spread. We know there will be fluctuations in interest so we wanted to allow the greatest flexibility in meeting those needs. Weve done extensive analysis and Due Diligence. There is other things we should consider as were moving along. If development doesnt occur in the time frame that we anticipate, the city will be left holding on to a higher outstanding amount for a longer period of time. We know weve tried our best as a city to really get costs by all the mtc review thats wepb done to date, the public Works Partnership with the tjpa to deliver the project and we also created the cost review Oversight Committee to address and make approved change orders and so on, so those are things weve tried to address. Those are things well have to keep an eye on as we move along. Additionally we know by providing these fundings up front, over 600 hill 81 from phase ii is shall pushed to phase i, so it means the project revenues available for phase ii are reduced by that amount. The next slide is the last item. If you recall the board had approved the cfd district as part of the approval they also approved a future annexation of parcels within cfd it turns out a portion of parcel f, which is owned by tjpa now, were trying to annex that into the district and the document allows that unanimous approval inaudible annexation for the district. So tjpa has done so and this is simply acknowledging that the board acknowledging such annexation. What that means is parcel f, which is supposed to be coming in partnership with block 4, the developer that is purchasing will get the entire parcel. Im happy to answer any questions you may have. And we also have inaudible from mtc who is available to answer any questions. Thank you for your partnership with the city. Thank you, supervisor tang tank. I wanted to echo my colleagues comments to everyone who is involved in this difficult situation. I know on page 6 of the presentation you went over this may not be a question for nadia per se, it may be for other staff. But i know there was the list of reasons why there were the Cost Increases but i would like to drill down on that a little bit more and find out what led to all of these factors leading to the increases and how do we think that the new Oversite Committee will help address this for the future. Good afternoon, im mark daniel, interim director next week, im on probation this week. Congratulations. Thank you. I do first want to start by thanking supervisor kim for her leadership and the tjpa board for providing me with the opportunity to be interim director. I do intend to deliver this project by the end of december 2017, advanced stage 2, working collaboratively with the department of public works manager rhonda lamida there are several factors that led us to where were at right now. I cant assign any particular percentage or number to what led to what, but i can tell you in ranking overall the core estimate was the major driver of the cost overrun. Our estimate did not reflect market kpbs, was not adjusted properly to keep up with the market. The second driver is the complex design and the Construction Market itself. Our design is pretty complex, pretty unique, and the Construction Market in the transbay district, as you know, is very busy, which limited the amount of contractors willing to on the project. So we were having several s that came in with only one or two s, versus three or four s that normalize the costs and having only one or two s toward the margins, very high. In summary thats what led us to where we are now. Even with an Oversight Committee do you think those same factors many impact phase ii . I think were going to be working very closely with the cost committee. When we move on to phase ii were going to make sure our cost estimates reflect the Market Conditions and we need to continue to have a really robust Risk Management plan to see whats coming out ahead of us and be able to plan ahead and be more proactive. We were less proactive with phase i and wae need to be more proactive as we move on to phase ii. Im glad to see public works will be giving some oversite, that gives us a little bit more reassurance. Yes, they came in about six months ago and we will be working hand in hand to make sure things work out properly and we deliver on time. Thank you. I guess this might go back to either nadia or ben now in terms of financing. Nadia mentioned, i wanted to make sure i had it down on record, what would be the impact of phase ii. 600 million, is that correct . Over 600 million. Str some sort of deadline or timeline associated with the tafia loan and when we need to access it before it goes away or as long as we meet the 3 criteria were able to access it. You have until, bryant, complete me if im wrong, one year after substantial completion of the project. We would plan to access it first, well be able to draw down on that once we can demonstrateful project funding to tefia, which we can do once the financing and parcel ask are closed. Last question, because there is this impact on phase ii, what are some of your initial thoughts about how were moving 600 million from phase ii to phase i. Mark has been doing a lot of work on that. We started developing a funding plan from phase i to phase ii. Its still in rough development. We hope to share it in the next 2 or 3 months. So were looking at Funding Sources and trying to identify additional Funding Sources. Were making progress but were not ready to present yet. Thank you very much. Colleagues, any further questions right now . Okay, mr. Rose, your report, please for items 4 and 5. Mr. Chamber and members of the committee, on page twechl of our report we have a table 4 and that shows of the total not to exceed 260 million in financing, 247,500,000 would be for the interim financing of the project and up to 12. 5 million to fund the cross issuance and related costs. On page 13 of our report we state that the Transbay Joint Powers Authority is responsible for the financing, design, development, construction and operation of this project and due to numerous errors including inaccurate engineering estimates, the cost of phase i of the project has risen from 1,189,000 in 2008 to 2,259,216. Thats a rise of 190 percent. Because of the significant cost we are facing a shortfall to complete the project costs in phase i, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2017. On page 14 of our report we state that given the construction and financial history of this project, coupled with the unique request for the city to provide interim financing for the Transbay Joint Powers Authority for phase i of the project, the board of supervisors should have numerous assurances of direct construction, management and inaudible of the city and as you know the tjpa has just approved an interim agreement with the City Department of public works to provide all construction and management and Oversight Services for the project. So our recommendation, as has been stated on page 15 of our report, we recommend that you amend the proposed resolution filed 160364 of the enter governmental agreement between the city and the transbay and dpw to provide construction Oversight Services for the transbay project. We consider approval of the proposed resolution as amended and the proposed ordinance to be policy decision for the board of supervisors and wed be happy to respond to any questions. Thank you, mr. Rose. Colleagues, any questions for our project analyst . Seeing none, why dont we open this up for Public Comment. Anybody wishing to comment on items 4, 5 or 6, please step forward. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, my name is jerry kottman, im here on behalf of the bay area group. Were not going to say anything against either rangement that would help either one. When weve done it, i will say one word in defense of the existing tjpa and staff, though raised something on the order of 2 billion dollars. They have no fund raising authority of their own, no taxing authority, but they managed to bring in from the state, who is very generous with this property transfer, and the feds, who kicked in somewhere around 600 Million Dollars, a great deal of the money for this project. Im not an architect and im not going to talk about the architecture, but if the complaint that you have is related to design, its done. Its finished. Right now theres Construction Management which is in very good interim construction so i doubt the overruns once the business are in are going to be particularly horrendous. Im sure the amount you have set up would be adequate so were not opposed to that at all. Supervisor tang says something that resonates with me. It would be good since theres been so much generalization about these irresponsible overruns and Risk Management, it would be nice to drill in and see exactly what were talking about in each case. In many cases there are reasons for those overruns. And i might say one other thing. Central subway was back in 2010, its budget went from 1. 2 billion to 1. 6 billion. That is not solved by a loan, that was solved by a inaudible unless you kick in 150 million and mtc did that. Not alone, it was an allocation. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Supervisors, im tim half, i am been a cassandra about this project, since it was a 1 billion dollar bus terminal with no money for the train. I want to make a couple points. This project is not and never was a city project. The authority was artfully put together to limit the citys influence and information and in fact during may newsoms time the city was frozen out of the project for several years. To the Decision Makers until very recently were all amateurs. No one had any experience building a building or a public works project and being of the bennightd soles that sat on the board of supervisors didnt know what was going on, were not fully briefed and did not ask serious questions because they knew they would get push back. 3, this project suffers from grandiosity. 250 million was spent for a Security System that would be fuepb for Grand Central station in new york, a hundred million was committed to the public ride program that maybe could have been postponed. So you have a whole list of problems that have been listed but also the project suffered from grandiosity. The city spent all the funds put together for the extension and to quote steve heninger, we cannibalized the funds. It is time for us to control this project and figure out what we are going to do with the behemoth of a building and we should figure out what were going to do with it during the period of time where there is no train. There is no money in the future. Anybody else wishing to comment on items 4, 5 or 6 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So, colleagues, we have in front of us 3 items, budget analyst recommendation on i believe its just one of them. Mr. Rose, can you repeat that recommendation, just the item itself . Mr. Chair, members of the committee, on page 15, this is a reference to fall 160364 where we recommend that you amend the proposed resolution to reference the addition of the Intergovernmental Agreement between the city and the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and that is for dpw to provide construction and Oversight Services. Theyve done that, we believe you should just reference, codify that in writing in the resolution. Colleagues, first can i have a motion to accept the budget analysts recommendation . Through the chair id like to make a motion for send forth items 4, 5 and 6 and with amendment to the full board with a positive recommendation. Motion by supervisor tang tank, second by supervisor yee rr. Any further business . No further business. Thanks, everybody, we are adjourned. Lee. Well, good morning, everyone good morning tutor joining us at San Francisco city hall regardless of what team happy openly day with the giants laughter i would, of course, want to say thank you for all of you for coming together and talking u u talking about the clams we have and locality in the regional and nationally and we want to commend specificallycy thank you to secretary csa to hes been doing those myers weigh fortunate for him hes been here many times but to have the focus on the prosperity playbook and talk with all of us to see not only hear the fact problems but ideas we have to try to solve them i know as a mayor, i want to say thank you to all the fact mirrors mayors the room we dont have time for beater were demanded to provides the answers we seek those answers every day of ever week i know the pressure is on me and you they have to have the answers no objection i appreciate with the secretary comes out and offering not just linking bus hes got answers hes been mooeshsz merging with the mayors that dope prediction he know that not only the secretary we president obama is thinking how has been working digital with mayors to get things done thats why the country is moving forward i wanted to attaining jean and congresswoman barbara lee youre our strong advocates for the mayors when we as mayors raise up and scalding asked individually or as a group youve been there for us thank you very much and, of course, along about all the regional mayors im fortunate to work with libby schaaf and sam who have been more than architectural theyve come up with so many other ideas i compliment the ones we are pushing and even go further cover areas eave not thought about were leap year if each other and thats also a blessing i have with the other mayors weve had session to come together and deal with transportation and other things the other mayors come together with great idea plus youre all good folk you know secretary thanks for choosing San Francisco to be part of the prosperity playbook initiate the fact meeting we need and want to develop with you and with all the flexibility and support of hud and again, i thank you fire marshall regional leadership as well youve got great people that helped us to think through and cautioned us and said hes how every time ive been on the phone thats okay. Thats a problem think about this about that that and how you can do that thats the attitude that brought more success, more open attitudes and positive thinking if this great pinching so thank you. I you mentioned and i know that we deemed our naefthd all the mayors should know that the fact challenges we want to be able to produce model after model what we can do to be more sought after to the Navigation Center has been our best model thank you to interfaith counsel that provide an exceptional documents now we have the model were breaking down a kind of old shelters we had where people they were put in and kicked out and put in and kicked out it is kind of no different than American People encampment in many ways but for the fact health and Public Health challenges we want to demonstrate there is a better model and that no less committed are those models that we have to have the end result that is permanent excellence exits out the fact homeless weve helped. Veterans and responsibilities and chronic homeless for veterans and families youve backed up with appropriate funding where we demonstrated we can get something done that is appreciative the rad program as i mentioned earlier our stellar thats much more successful and independent in hair lives we did this and the voters get it as well recently last november to supplies for you will have us we passed 11 0000000 homeless bond weve not done that for two decades the people respond and say thats a good investment thats what we want to do due to the creativity of working with the fact papering that 310 million bond will be a great benefit when we do infrastructure bonds this Affordable Housing bond will be a great contribution is secretary in collaboration with i i want to make sure you know amongst all of us theres a great preparation people want to get it right there will be requests that hud be as flexible as can be with the fact rules and regulations given the fact urban density champions we we have we also will be talking about issues like stableizing neighborhood with that credible economic upturn many parts of the neighborhoods are totally upset so long term ahbp africa be about stabilizing certain be neighborhood we create and build and finally, the homelessness population you deemed our seriousness by joining us with all the fact west coast mayors came up to portland and prepared notes we agreed homelessness is a challenge to all of us we needed months a partnerships with hud to end homelessness and number of us stood up and as i said of would well end hematomas we know of the cause of homelessness but have frjsz of what does so gathering that together having the best models and hud backing up us as a models model of ending homelessness is a great game so i want to give an opportunity to marry libby schaaf shes been thinking again and demonstrating the new coverage of what is happening in oakland kind of similar challenges and also hoping refresher ways to do that. Mayor libby schaaf. Thank you, thank you i want to welcome everyone here today and today, we are signing this very important piece of legislation and let me begin by thanking supervisor wiener so far his instead of leadership the sponsoring the legislation that will raise the minimum angle for anyone purchasing Tobacco Products and e cigarettes to the average 24 and that will take effect on july 1st of this year i know that supervisor wiener along with his cosponsors supervisor mar and supervisor cowen and supervisor farrell and ultimately the entire board had a adopted this and this i know that the supervisors with working closely with our duty 0 who has been documenting why it is showing so important to continue our efforts as a city if not as a state to continue be rooiktd the access to cigarettes particularly at journeying or younger ages that is advocated by the groups like the Tobacco Free Coalition i want to thank them theyre not just here in San Francisco but the entire region and all over the country working with the Health Department making sure that supervisor wiener and not only Pay Attention it the science and data it is going on but that we do our best to end the suffering that is brought by by longterm smoking that obviously is the cause of cancer and asthma and Heart Disease we do our best to educate the public in doing so if not the industry that sells overseeing products and ultimate our kids are your family when in their 18 and 19 is shown that the coalition has shown over and over youre putting that some 95 percent of long term smokers had begun smoking at the age of 18 perhaps younger and as certain under the age of 21 those habit are so hard to end voluntarily so thats why we have to go to many other front to try to do this and thats why i think that the supervisor wiener has found a person cause and Public Health health cause if the violation kriebs the department of health to make sure that we do what we can to end our these diseases as much as we can to make sure that we also reflect as the mayor of the city if we can save a lot of money if we are able the medical systems we have to have in place it treat cancer and asthma with smoking is an incredible experience to the Public Safety the cleaner air with the Coalition Work on families that Secondhand Smoke impacts this has another critical reason why we want to do as much as we can and i think were on the overview we know that supervisor wiener is already in contact with the Governors Office as we are and with his the 1184 particularly senator leno and senator henrys to insure that the state which maybe hopefully in our minds the second to join hawaii to end the sales of Tobacco Products and less people under 9 age of 21 it doesnt make it right because your 21 you buy Tobacco Products wild to end it. Everyone hopefully with the adult level of age 21 that people make Better Health decision tore themselves and their family so i take this opportunity to thank the coalition i know that in looking at the data as they have done in working with us this year was a strong sense interest the data it the smoking rates are higher amongst people of closer and amongst the let the record reflect community and other xhucht we rank it with a hard impact sales work that is done by Tobacco Industry the may or may not Lgbt Community thats where we really have good data to show that the more we do to educate your communities be about this the better off well be so with all that background i want to say to supervisor wiener you have again showing the good leadership im going to give the pen avenue we sign this your accumulate more pens than anyone but thank you for your leadership and also working with such important groups like the Tobacco Free Coalition supervisor wiener id like to invite you up here to say a few words thank you, mayor ed lee ill give that pen to the advocates and the district for theyre really horroric work tutor sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; 24 legislation in a way that highlights this critically important issue San Francisco for many years has been on the cuttingedge of Public Safety whether around hiv or led pant and sugar sweetened beverage whatever the case weave been from the forefront and once again we are in the fire hydrant of what i hope will be a tile waive of proving Health Legislation that eliminates tobacco use in this country this is a huge problem weve been involved in a 50year struggle but with the tobacco city that produces a product with no benefit whatsoever that kills a half a Million People every year 34 is a serious issue and serious punting kiss im proud we live in a city where we can be on the cuttingedge where the politics of this city allows us at city hall to make good progressive policy i also want to say we know were up against a very well financed component the tobacco destroy for decades has fought ever effort to try to control tobacco use and enemy linkage between their pursuit and the health we know that hillsborough tried to do that they have spent their legislation after an expensive lawsuit by the Tobacco Industry we in San Francisco are willing to fight that fight that is amount about our city thank you to the department of Public Health we sometimes dont roles e releases how lucky with the best putting department that supports our efforts to make good laws that vascular critical exercise an Amazing Agency and our advocates for give us the political spouse space to to be able to do this and as the mayor adu u. You allowed we passed that legislation a week and a half good and the law jam the state assembly broke we that republicans willing to raise the tobacco age to 21 to pass senator lenos forwardlooking bill to make sure that cigarettes are tobacco are still a way to get addicted to nicotine and will you the tobacco tax it is a huge step forward i hope goes to the governors desk thank you, everyone clapping. so are we ready to safe so far lives ill add one mount reason not in my notes or the legislation but it is about my history about 10 years ago a mayor asked me to pick up cigarette butts as a public works decorator i say to all the public works staff that work hard if there was less settings thats another reason to sign on the legislation; right . Yes all right. clapping. laughter . Todays date is 16. Thats it all right. Good morning. Welcome to San Francisco city hall. I name is naomi kelly, the city administrator for the city and county of San Francisco. I am thrilled to be standing here today with not only mayor lee but mayor libby jack. [applause] i am thrilled that we are here to announce that on june 21, at the mosconi center, there will be the bay area womens summit. Posted by mayor lee and mayor shaft. We got [applause] this summit will be an allday event that will bring together dynamic leaders mull over the region and country, as well as the community to discuss and address the challenges to bay area women as they navigate the local economy. I like to say, we are focusing on beat every one. As a working mom of 2 wonderful boys, age 9 and 6, i know firsthand the hurdles that we work in women and all women face. Not only just as moms of kids, but also as we related to the other side of life in helping our aging parents. I am particularly proud that this event will address many of these challenges including workforceworkplace policies and benefits, pay equity, child care, leadership, mentorship, education, and entrepreneurship. Im very excited to announce we will be joined by National Broadcast broadcast journalist Chris Jasmine from nbc. Keynote speaker and reslaughter and and many other local and National Leaders who can speak to the ones of equity in power and, opportunity, for women including epa director lisa jackson, Angela Weber Blackwell and many others. Im incredibly proud of us mayor ed lee and mayor shaft. Leadership and groundbreaking work on key efforts that help our community thrive. Because of their work as cochairs in the initiative to raise the minimum wage, the state Legislature Passed a 15 minimum wage. [applause] that is tremendous work, considering that two thirds of lowwage workers are women. Their efforts movetheir efforts have gone beyond just our 2 cities of oakland and San Francisco is the entire state and i think the rest of the nation that is watching these 2 mayors. Now, i like to introduce my boss, my mentor of many years, my friend, mayor ed lee. [applause] mayor lee thank you city administrator namely kelly for that introduction and for your hard work and am kicking off this event and seeing it through. Everybody, welcome to the peoples palace. [applause] mayor lee thank you all for joining us on this kicking off of our 80 area womans summit emma and i know mayor jack just whispered in my year, when we were together things will get done. You watch. You watch when oakland and San Francisco and san jose were already working behind the scenes to make sure that were collaborating on so many issues that affect the modernday cities across the country. We are going to come up with some really wonderful solutions and one of those solutions is to get together the Women Leaders of our communities, our commissions, are nonprofits, are onto the new worse, to come together and forge this summit to guide us on the best forward thinking legislation and policies we can have happen to have to make sure that were doing all the right things. I want to begin by saying, thank you, to the staff, to the commission, to the friends of the commission, on the status of women here in San Francisco. For being such a great partner in this advancing our city well beyond the borders. You know, were living in a very special time in our city. Special opportunities allow us to make sure were doing even more for women and for families that are in need and to make sure they succeed. I just happen to come back, literally, 30 min. Ago from the signing ceremony of our parental leave legislation, sponsored by supervisor scott weiner. [applause] mayor lee hes made our city very proud and very proud to sign that because i saw in the families we met today that they are eager to make sure that when they have children, this city, and perhaps many other cities very soon, under the governors signing of that legislation to increase family leave across the state, that we will do well to make sure we cover the entire gap. Well see our city and hopefully the entire region become even more familyfriendly. This legislation will bring muchneeded bonding and security to our new mothers to my fathers, samesex couples that set up our children for success from the very beginning. The bay area has also been at the forefront for progress for women because we know when women succeed the world moves forward. Gender equity, empowerment, opportunity is personal for me. I am reminded every day for my mother, my wife, my 2 daughters who are now women in their own right, to make sure that i do every day my personal response ability to keep the San Francisco at the forefront of gender equity. We have made great progress. Half of our citys workforce are women and they are equal to men in management positions outstanding women running major City Departments like our city administrator, our fire chief, our emergency management, Public Health them up our ports, our environment, our Human Resources and the status of women directors. We lead the nation on familyfriendly policy paid leave, health insurance, Retirement Benefits for working parents and family family work policies, like fully paid family leave. In recent times, we have come to join together as cities to make sure that we increase our minimum wage and boost paid family leave. Oakland and San Francisco are also exploring how to further advance families financial literacy, boost college savings, and supports women onto the doors. But mayor shaft and i know full well as mayors of cities around the nation know, that our urban areas are facing and affordability crisis. Thats why we will focus on reducing the pay gap and create policies that create even more inclusive and more affordable policies that better serve the region for women. Thats why were holding the bay area womens summit. Thats why were holding the bay area womens summit on june 21 and focusing on the every woman. Workingclass and middleclass, working poor, those that need fair and inclusive policies to make sure that we have inclusive policies and legislation in our region. The summit will also engage men as allies. I hope to be an ally and a coldproblem solver just like jack baer, just like john kilroy, just the people at comcast, just like all the other men. Weve got to be coproblem solvers with our women. Right . [applause] mayor lee but, at this summit, at the summit i look forward to hearing from inspiring nationally recognized local women get the summit will also have very intensive women and men as speakers and were signing on more every day. We are also recognizing that we are home to a lot of women entrepreneurs, and thats going to be reflected in many ways at this mayors summit. Just small examples of this, the summit will be one of our sponsors among the bus was the founder of task rabbit it should be very prominently there. Also, a woman lead company like urban centers is going to be there because theyre going to be helping us with guaranteeing at least 200 a babysitting, or the babysitting or the entire day for working mothers and families who attend this womens summit. Isnt that a great contribution . [applause] mayor lee we have achieved a lot. Were very proud of it. But we are not here just to sit on the laurels of what weve done just yesterday. Going to come and Work Together and work even more. Im excited about that. Im excited about the partnership i have with mayor libby shaft good when she and i and mayor gordo go together come come together on all these policies, whether its housing, transportation, supporting our families, you know working to get stuff done. We will not waddle in debate. Within the get a lot of this done because when the country looks at mayors, we dont have time to endless debates. We have to support our families right away and making sure theyre included in everything that we do and with that, let me introduce to you not only partner, but she inspires me to do even more and were going to cocelebrate the wedding of our warriors very soon, mayor libby shaft. [applause] well, im very excited to be here. Im excited about our team and i wasnt talking about the warriors. I was talking about the Regional Team because we know that the problems that are most pressing do not respect municipal boundaries. Just last night elves on a panel with sam ricardo about climate change. The issues around affordability. Criminal justice reform. The building for people to have income security, housing security,. We understand these are regional issues. They were not caused in isolation within any of our cities, nor will they be solved. Thats why im so excited to be joiningand let me just be clearthis actually was his idea. The womens summit was actually the guys idea. Okay . [applause] now, in case you didnt notice i am a woman and i am in a profession that women are very underrepresented in. That is being a mayor of a big city. I think roughly 18 of big cities have women as mayors. I will say just like naomi share a little bit of her personal stories, i too am a mother of young children, 8 and 10 years old. Unless you have had to bring a breast pump to work you just dont know what its like. These are these Little Things that a lot of people dont talk about. Because they are uncomfortable. There are barriers that we need to bring up to the light and break down. Now, our 2 cities, oakland and San Francisco, are truly proud of our record of our leadership in fighting for equity and fighting against discrimination. But just like our golden state warriors, we came into the season knowing that we were champions and yet, being fully committed and focused on working hard every day to get better. That is what we are committed to doing, even when we may be the best but we know theres still so much work to do. In oakland, we are proud that 45 of our businesses are women owned in open. [applause] thats the good news. The bad news is that while they contribute one and a half billion dollars in revenues to our economy, that is only one 9th the revenues of male owned businesses, their counterparts. That does not make sense. One 9th. So, we need innovation. We need disruption and im looking out at some of the leaders in this region, in those 2 arenas, innovation and disruption. [laughing] alright so, we need to bring you that creative problemsolving to figuring out how to break down these barriers. One great example that mayor lee and i both our partnership with kiva zip that we know that one of the reasons that women ownedand frankly, businesses owned by low income people of color have trouble growing and realizing the Great Potential its because they cant get loans. Traditional loans from banks. Access to capital is a barrier. This is used a very innovative webbased platform as well as outsourcing to give businesses like that access to capital. Thats the type of creative problemsolving that we need to break down the barriers so that we can realize the incredible potential, power, and leadership of half of our population that is women. We also recognize that women play critical roles in taking care of our families and our children. Mayor lee and i were so happy to step forward as the cochairs of the minimum Wage Campaign because we know that two thirds of the minimum wage earners in california are women struggling to support their families. We are excited that when we Work Together we can uncover scrapings, but we cannot do that alone. We want you to get engaged. We want you to get energized. We want you to join us in our commitment that this is not going to be another networking event. All rights. Are we altogether on that . [applause] we can do some networking. That is fine. But there has got to be some tangible action, some real problemsolving among some Creative Ideas and some true tangible movements that come out of that summit. Thats why were putting our energy into this. Thats why we want you to put your energy into this. Rick so excited to see you on june 21 year in San Francisco for our womens summit [applause] thank you. Mayor shaft, and mayor lee, both, said to me when we first started this endeavor, exactly what you just told you that this is not just another womens summit. We need of actual items coming out of this womens summit on an ongoing basis. So i nearly turned around and asked the Womens Foundation of california to come help us come up with a strategy and an agenda for our mayors, and from a regional perspective, and help us work and partner with us in putting this womens summit together and i the honor of meeting serena khan was the head of the Womens Foundation of california is helping us with exactly that. Im very proud to introduce her. Shes a career leader in the philanthropic and nonprofit social Justice Sector spanning 2 decades and shes the leading expert both nationally and internationally, many of the social justice issues. She and her team have been instrumental in ensuring the success of the summit which is partnering with us in every way and i would like to introduce you to serena khan. [applause] thank you so much for the administrator kelly, and thank you mayor lee and mayor shaft for your leadership on this issue. We cannot be more delighted to be partnering with the city of San Francisco and open on the summit. We the Womens Foundation of california are partnering along with the leading edge womens Rights Movement and the state along with our partners really across the country and the world. We are part of a movement of hundreds of organizations advocates, Community Good foundations and philanthropists who been working together for decades divided by problems and solutions to challenges facing the women and our families. In every county of california. Over the last halfcentury ever since women started entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers, weve adopted many important aggressive laws here in the bay area and in california. We should be really proud of that. Because these laws have improved wages. Theyve improved working conditions, the livelihoods of women and inspired other states and the federal government to follow in our footsteps. Yet, there are so many women that are being left behind. By the 8th largest economy in the world here in california. Yet, almost 3. 5 million women and girls are living in poverty could just put some context around that, originally grew up in connecticut and thats almost the entire population of women and girls to live in connecticut, rhode island, vermont and massachusetts. The entire population of women and girls could so, we have been tractable problems here in california and they area is leading. Women here are red winners were cobreadwinners in 60 of our families which means that theyre responsible for their families wellbeing. But women are also two thirds of minimum wage workers, two thirds of parttime workers, and two thirds of its workers. The reality is, california women are trying to win bread for their families, but the size of the loaf is shrinking. For some its disappearing altogether. Today, 40 of single mothers in our state are living in poverty and we know that has to change. At the Womens Foundation of california, we been working for more than 3 decades for more than 35 years, strengthening womens economic security, removing barriers to womens economic wellbeing and expanding opportunities for our economic mobility. Weve never done this alone. Nor can we. Real change happens in community and it happens in partnership. Thats why were so excited to be partnering with the city of San Francisco, the city of oakland and to bring our communities together to learn and to develop good Effective Policy Solutions for the challenges that women in the bay area are experiencing and facing. As mayor shaft said, this is not anthis is an action summit. Not a think summit is not a networking summit. Its an action summit. Our ultimate goal is to come up with policy recommendations and clear next steps very clear next ups to improve womens wellbeing and to inspire other cities in california to start actively thinking about womens economic wellbeing and developing and implementing solutions. There is no magic solution. It takes hard work. What we need to do is a combination of solutions and put our Heads Together and think about Solutions Across issue areas and across stakeholders. Higher wages. Affordable childcare. Sick and family leave. Flexible and predictable work schedule. Overtime pay. Healthcare benefits. And tighter Legal Protections are just some of the solutions that we are going to talk about. We are all responsible and were all call to action. We believe in a california that, where the women of california are both, they are resource will, wheres we are smart and were given an opportunity we will find allusions to the challenges that we are facing. I cant wait to start the conversation at the bay area womens summit. I cant wait for all of you to join us, and a giveaway to give women the platform to share our ideas and collectively take action this year and in the coming future. They area we all know has long been at the forefront of gender and Economic Justice issues come and we are so proud of again to partner with the city of oakland and the city of San Francisco to continue advancing gender equity. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you, serena. So before concluding i need to give a special thanks to some of our sponsors the womens summit. John kilroy from kilroy realty. Kaiser permanente, microsoft, cisco, comcast, at t, uber etc. Google an urban center. So, we want everyone to join the conversation we are in the process of getting more speakers were in the process of getting more the program. I dont talk to some you about we want you to participate in this. So, join the movement. Visit our website at www. Visit our website at www. Bayareawomen. Org for more information and ongoing updates. We are adding more speakers by the day. And we look forward to seeing you. Thank you. [applause] you know ive always wanted to do this job that drives my parents crazy we want to help people i wasnt i did not think twice about that. I currently work as cadet inform the San Francisco Sheriffs Department ive been surprised 0 work within criminal Justice System field i had an opportunity to grow within that career path. As i got into the department and through the years of problems and Everything Else that means a lot i can represent women and in order to make that change how people view us as a very important part of the Vice President you have topanga you have to the first foot chase through the fight are you cable of getting that person whether large or small into captivity that is the test at times. As an agent worked undercover and prevent external and internal loss to the company it was basically like detective work but through the company from that experience and the people that i worked around Law Enforcement that gave me an action when i came to be a cadet i saw i was exploded to more people and the security he was able to build on that. Unfortunately, we have a lot of women retire to recruiting right now is critical for us we gotten too low faster the percentage of women in the department and us connecting with the community trying to get people to realize this job is definitely for them our Community Relations group is out attempt all the time. In other words, to grow in the fields he capitalized any education and got my bachelors degree so i can current work at city hall i provide security for the front of the building and people are entering entering but within any security or control within the building and checking personal bags is having a awareness of the surrounded. There is so month people the brunet of breaking into this career that was every for easier for me had an on the with an before he cleared the path for laugh us. My people he actually looking at lucid up to poem like he joe and kim and merit made theyre on the streets working redondo hard their cable of doing this job and textbook took the time to bring us along. Women have going after their goals and departments line the San Francisco Sheriffs Department provide a lot of training tools and inspiring you to go into the department. They gave me any work ethics she spider me to do whatever he wanted to do and work hard at the intersection. If youre going to make change you have to be part of change and becoming Law Enforcement i wanted to show women could do this job it is hard not easy. Finds something our compassion about and follow roll models and the gets the necessary skeletals to get to that goal with education and sprirmz whatever gets you there. If this is what you want to do dream big and actually do what you desire to do and you can go vertebrae far it is a fast job i wouldnt do anything else. 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Who i secretary please call the roll. Commissioner buell. Here. Commissioner low. Here. Commissioner bonilla here. Commissioner harrison. Here. Commissioner levitan here. And commissioner mcdonnell. Here. A new few announcements this is the april 21st of the recreation and Park Commission and we welcome everyone here today, but ask that you turn off any soundproducing devices that could go off during the meeting. We also ask that you take any secondary conversations outside, in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. If you would like to speak on an item today, please