Transcripts For SFGTV Sanitation Streets Commission 20220904

Hartwigschulman . Here. Commissioner hartwigschulman is here. Ike kwon . Here. Commissioner kwon is here. Commissioner mogannam is here. Christopher simi . Present. Commissioner simi is here. With five members present, we do have quorum for the sanitation and streets commission. Due to the on going covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and the emergency orders of the governor and the mayor concerning social distancing and lifting the restrictions on teleconference, this meeting is being held, is being held Via Teleconference and streamed by sfgov tv. Those watching the live stream being be aware theres a brief time lag between the time lag and whats shown on sfgt tv. I would love to extend our thanks to sfgov tv services and Building Management for their assistance putting on this meeting. For members of the public wishing to make Public Comment on an item outside, from outside the hearing room, you would dial 4156550001. And the meeting id is 24867157568. Followed by pound and then pound again. To raise your hand to speak and please press star three. Please note you must limit your comments to the topic of the agenda item being discussed unless youre speaking during the general Public Comment period. To remind you, if you do not stay on the topic, the chair can interrupt ask ask you to limb out your and ask you to limit your comment to the agenda item. We ask the Public Comment is made in a civil and respectful manner and you refrain from the use of profanity. Please address your remarks to the commission as a whole, not to an individual commissioners or staff. Fortunately today, we have chinese, spanish and filipino interpreters for consecutive interpretation during Public Comment only. Well now have the interpreters introduce themselves in their respective languages. Interpreter [speaking foreign language] thank you interpreter [speaking foreign language] you have been unmuted. Interpreter [speaking foreign language] thank you. Thank you to the interpreters for being here today. We will now consider item 3, the adoption of the rules of order of the sanitation and streets commission. If we could have those slides brought up, please. The rules of order were distributed to the commission and published online for the public to review and a pardon me, not an order of intent, a notice of intent was also published to notify the public of the potential adoption or the consideration of the rules today. But before speaking specifically to the rules of order, i wanted to provide the commission and the public with an overview of the plan for how agendas will be created and then an overview of how a solution is adopted since today well be taking on items 3, 5, and 6 and they will require adopting resolutions for each. From there, we will have a discussion of amendments to the rules of order and just a note to commissioners, you do have a copy of the drafted rules of order as proposed by staff in your packet today. So, if we could have the next slide, please. So, this is a rough outline of how Agenda Setting will take place. The bulk of agenda items will be for contracts for the commission to consider along with reports from, pardon me, reports by the department to fulfill the proposition b mandate. Well also add to this stream informational items the department believes are important to share as well as request by the commission for Additional Information or larger explorations of a given topic in form of a hearing and well also have organizational items, such as amendments to the rules of order, honorary resolutions and items to update how the commission operates. So, as you see on the far left, we have many streams coming together to create potential agenda item was the largest stream being contracts. And please note items coming from the report, contracts ask reports go through a multilayer of process if its a contract, that particular project manager supervisor through the Contract Administration and our finance folks as well as the City Attorneys Office is reviewing most of the or reviewing items as well. And we use a workflow tool that public works it uses to keep us organized to ensure all items have been reviewed thoroughly. This process takes approximately seven weeks, which means that request for additional reporting or deeper dives into the data likely wont be available at the next Commission Meeting. In some instances, even the meeting after that, if the response needs to be its own agenda item. However, responses to request for information that is more readily available can be available much sooner, such as a report or chart that can be included as a memo to the commission. The reports mandated by the ballot measure from 2020, essentially form the spine of our meeting calendar. Regio will show you an outline of what reports to expect. From there, well work with the Commission Chair and the Department Head to create agendas thats robust and reasonable if their number of items and the amount of information that is reasonable to digest at a time. So, i will work to ensure that a draft an agenda is available to the Commission Chair seven to ten days in advance of the meeting. The chair will review and have input on whether the agenda is reasonable and whether were getting through the material. Both those items from the department and the commission and doing it in an appropriate amount of time. This is also an opportunity to plan one of the items initiated by commissioners that should be scheduled and discussed organizational matters. This is an iterative process between the Commission Chair, the Department Head, and myself and there may be back and forth between the chair and the department and approved agenda will be published to the commission at least 72 hours prior to the meeting with every effort to publish it before then. One of the tools to help the chair and Department Head make decisions about the agenda items is an advanced calendar and ill provide staff and commissioners, which gives fair notice of reports and contracts that were expecting at the next several meetings and i request any questions or request regarding an agenda item leading up to the Commission Meeting. If theres a particular item thats particularly complex or youd like to more information about it before the Commission Meeting, please send me those questions and well while the published presentation may not be able to be changed, responses to questions raised with a fair amount of notice can be incorporated into the talking points of the staff presenting. One other note, the department will work to address any questions that couldnt be addressed during the meeting with a response that will be provided through the Commission Staff and chair, likely in the form of a memo. If its a larger topic that cant be addressed in a simple memo, well work to add it to a future agenda. My advice is that any request for new or different items, different reports should be made with support of more than one commissioner and that the chair request that the department prepare information for a future meeting and if we can turn to slide 3, please. Forgive me if im taking you back to procedure 101, but i wanted to take, to touch on the basics of adopting a resolution for your benefit and for the members of the public who may be less familiar with the resolutions. Essentially, a resolution is the document formalizing a decision made by the commission. Whether that is approving a contract, changing the rules of order or honoring a Department Staff member for outstanding service. All resolutions will be accompanied by a staff report, giving you and the public a thumbnail sketch of that item and a presentation or other attachments may accompany it if the item is being heard individually on the regular agenda. Or if it needs more explanation. As commissioners, you can request briefing on items you find complex, sensitive or you want to know more ahead of a decision that youll need to make. The department will also suggest briefings. For example, well schedule briefings ahead of your september 22nd meeting to discuss the contract delegation policy, which is im sure several members of the staff can say is not something that can just be explained in a fiveminute presentation very easily, so our agenda will have a regular item it will have a regular item calendar and consent item calendar. Regular items are heard and voted on individually while consent items are heard as a group and voted on with one vote. Please note the consent items they tend to be routine matters or low dollar contracts. Consent items will also be published for public review and distributed to commissioners. One other important thing is that consent items may be heard as a regular item at the request of commissioners, staff, or the public. I suggest making if you as a commissioner want an item heard individually, please make that request a couple of days in advance so Department Staff can prepare a presentation. Ill touch on quorum. For our commission of sanitation and streets, quorum is a majority of seats on the commission, which is three and passage of items must receive at least three yes votes except for procedural matters. So, we always, in order to do business, well need at least three of you here and in order to pass anything, at least three people will have to be in favor of it. Our general order of hearing an item is the presentation, including any clarifying questions from commissioners followed by a motion. Then, Public Comment, discussion and debate and final a vote on it. If we could turn to slide 4, please. As i mentioned earlier, commissioners receive the drafted rules of order suggested by staff in advance of this meeting and they were published for public review and a notice of intent was posted publicly, at least ten days in advance of this meeting, so this commission is able to consider the drafted rules of order having met those requirements. The commission will may discuss any amendments raised. I suggest we discuss any amendments and then make a single motion to adopt all nonsubstantive changes, nonsubstantive amendments might include changes changing dates of terms of office so the chair or vicechair or other minor procedural things. If there is a substantive amendment raised, those amendments their adoption can either be made at a later date or we can continue they can be made at a later date after we adopt the rules today or we can continue the adoption of the rules of order to a later date depending on how the Commission Wants to do this. Okay okay and any substantive changes to these rules of order would require, again, Public Notice and we have ample time before the september 22nd meeting to do so. Substantive amendments might include adding or deleting a section to an article or changing the powers of the chair. Always of course, in alignment with the city charter and administrative code and the laws of california and the constitution of the United States as well. I will take note of any nonsubstantive amendments for which theres a consensus to include in a single motion. I will take note of any substantive amendments for adoption at a later date as well. So, and i send i send this to the commission earlier this week and two amendments raised by staff and sent to commissioners in advance of this meeting, the first one is the amendment to article ii section iii, deleting july and replacing it with december so the Commission Calendar of meeting is organized on a calendar year as opposed to currently its organized on a fiscal year. Most other commissions in the city do have their regular meeting calendar organized on a calendar year. The amendment for this would also require the insertion of language along the lines of the commission will adopt the initial regular calendar for september 2022 through june 2023 as it is on the agenda today and then the commission will then adopt a calendar of regular meeting dates for july 2023 through december 2023, this december 2022. Afterwards, the regular calendar will be adopted for a 12month calendar year. This is this is a nonsubstantive amendment and can be made today on the face of the document. We can discuss this amendment and if there is consensus included in a single motion of nonsubstantive amendments. Is there any discussion of this proposed amendment . Just so you know, you can especially for the commissioner sitting behind me while im chairing, you can ask to be recognized and ill see you on here, so that the folks in front of me dont get more attention than the folks behind me. So. Hearing no comments, we can include this amendment in the full motion. It sounds like we have consensus, okay. I move to accept. Okay. We wont take a motion just yet. Well talk about each potential amendment and then well take a single motion. Thank you, commissioner. Okay. So, well include that first amendment. The Second Amendment is would be to article ii, section i and this is a very similar one. Deleting july and inserting either december or january as the month of annual officer elections. Changing to either december or january would align this commission with most other commissions that are organized on a calendar year. The amendment would also insert one of two options for the initial terms. The first option being that the initial term of officers will conclude in december 2022 or money lex of officers upon elections of 2020 and officers will be elected to serve a full 12month term. So this option would be the shortened first term with an election at the end of this year. The other option that we can discuss is a longer initial term with the next election scheduled for december 2023, so the initial officers instead would have a roughly 15month term. And the initial terms of commission of officers would end 2023 or money lexs and after this initial term, officers will serve a 12month term. This is a nonsubstantive amendment and can be made today on the face of the document. We can discuss this amendment and the options that are in it and if theres consensus included in a single motion of nonsubstantive amendments. Is there any discussion of this proposed amendment . Is this the discussion of the proposed amendment or commissioner mogannam . Im sorry. Is this the discussion of the amendment or a choice because i believe we have to make a decision here . So the choice would be and we have two choices. We could continue to have officers serve on a fiscal year calendar which would be doing nothing to the rules of order. If we amending the rules of order for the term of the chair, it would be either having the first chair and vicechair serve a very shortterm until december and then getting on to a normal schedule or the second option or i guess, it would be the third option, it would be having those initial those first officers serve a longer term until december of next year. Are there any preferences around this amendment . I have no problem with sync up with everyone elses calendar. It helps staff more than anyone and i dont have much of an opinion whether we want to do i think shortterm is great to get everybodys feet wet and well continue regardless, so i would recommend going with the shorter term. Okay. Yeah. Is there any other commissioner harrison . Yes, i would agree with that shorter term. Okay. Any other discussion of this proposed amendment . Okay. Hearing no opposition, we can add this Second Amendment with a shorter term for the first for the initial officers to serve through december 2022 and then we will hold an election at that time so that the next term of officers would be for a full 12month period. Okay, thank you. Having gone through the two amendments suggested by staff, is are there any other amendments to these rules of order that the that commissioners would like to suggest . Okay. Seeing, for those listening along, im seeing a lot of shaking heads saying no further amendments. Do i hear a motion to adopt the sanitation and streets Commission Rules of order including amendments to the calendar year and to the term of service for officers . Commissioner harrison some i would move to approve with the amendments. Ill second it. Commissioner kwon seconded it. Okay. Having a motion on the table, we will now turn to Public Comment before talking a vote on it. Before any further discussion and a vote. Okay. Thank you for that motion. We will now turn to Public Comment for these amended rules of order. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on this item no. Three, the amended rules of order, if you are here with us physically in room 408, please line up against the wall furthest from the door. And if you are calling in from outside of the hearing room, please dial 4156550001. And the meeting number access code is 24867157568. Followed by pound and pound again and in order to be recognized, please dial star 3 on your touch pad. And it appears that we do not have any members of the public present lining up who want to speak. Sfgov tv, do we have any members of the public who have called in and expressed interest in speaking . Can you hear me now . Youre now unmuted. You will have three minute to speak and ill give you a 30second warning at that time. Thank you, caller. Go ahead and begin your comments. Okay. Assuming you can hear me okay. Its david. Im in another meeting but just wanted to take a moment and say if youve got a motion to adopt an amended set of the rules, thats fine. If theres anything else that needs to be updated, im assuming well be back looking at the rule from timetotime and if i see anything, im happy to share and im sorry im out with you right now but as soon as my other meeting wraps up, youll have my full attention. I promise that. Thanks for listening. Thank you, caller. Sfgov tv, if there are any other callers, please unmute them. Okay. Hearing no other, seeing there are no other members of the public interested in speaking on this topic, is there any debate on this motion to adopt the rules of order . Amended rules of order, pardon me . Okay. Hearing no debate, i will call the roll. Please answer either yes or no. Commissioner harrison . Yes. Harrison votes yes. Commissioner hartwigschulman . Yes. Commissioner hartwigschulman votes yes. Commissioner kwon . Yes. Commissioner kwon votes yes. Commissioner mogannam . Yes. Commissioner mogannam votes yes. Commissioner simi . Yes. Commissioner simi votes yes. With five votes in the affirmative, the resolution as amended is adopted. The rules of order will be published to the Commission Website and made available to the public as well as distributed to commissioners for their use on this commission. Thank you very much. [gavel] well turn to item no. 4. The election of sanitation and streets Commission Chair and vicechair. If we can bring up the slide for this, please. Okay. So, given our amendment to the rules of order, the term of the chair and vicechair will begin after this vote and run through december 2022. For the chair, i have suggested remarks to system in leading the rest of the meeting, so youre not flying without control. The commission may elect the chair and the vicechair in a single motion or can elect them individually. Ill take questions and then we can hear all nominations for both the chair and the vicechair. Are there any questions about this election . Okay. Hearing none. Do i hear a nomination for chair of the commission . Commissioner harrison . Ill take the liberty of nominating ike kwon as chair. Do i hear a second . Oh commissioner kwon and you can second yourself if you would like. Well, i appreciate the nomination. I was going to nominate Maryo Mogannam for president or chair. To be clear, commissioner kwon, you are not accepting the nomination . Ill decline at this moment. Okay. Thank you. And making a separate nomination for maryo, commissioner Maryo Mogannam. Okay. And then it appears that commissioner harrison, did you want to respond to that . No, im sorry. Okay. And then commissioner kwon, did you also have okay, you just took yourself off of there, but commissioner mogannam, do you have any response to this nomination . I will graciously accept. Okay. [laughter] okay. Thank you. Are there any other nominations for chair or vicechair . I was going to graciously second, i think. Oh, thank you for the second. For commissioner mogannam. Okay. Okay. Thank you for that second. Are there any nominations, any other nominations for either chair or vicechair . Uh yes, i have one and i was going to nominate Thomas Harrison for chair. I would decline. Okay. Okay. And then commissioner mogannam, do you have a nomination . I have a nomination of ike kwon as vicechair, if you would graciously accept. Am i permitted to yes, please, commissioner kwon. Am i permitted to ask my fellow commissioners if im interested in vicechair . Certainly you certainly have the floor, yes. Okay. If my other commissioners no. Im fine either way. Would you like to be vicechair . Not really. [laughter] okay. Then, i accept. Okay, commissioner kwon accepts. Is there a second to this nomination . Ill second that. Harrison seconds. Okay. Are there any other nominations to either chair or vicechair . Okay. Hearing none. We can take this either as a single vote for both the election of commissioner mogannam to chair and commissioner kwon to vicechair or we can vote on them separately. Is there any preference amongst this group. Commissioner mogannam, your hand is up. I would make it that we make one single vote. One single vote. Is there any objection . Okay. Hearing no other nominations, we will now turn to Public Comment on this nomination of commissioner Maryo Mogannam as chair of this commission and commissioner ike kwon as vicechair of this commission. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item 4, the nomination of commissioner chair and vicechair, if you are present here in the hearing room, please line up against the wall furthest from the door. And if you are calling in, you can dial 4156550001. And meeting number access code is 24867157568. Followed by pound and then pound again. And then press star three to raise your hand to speak. Okay. It appears we have one caller, sf gov tv. Oh, looking in the room, we do not have any members of the public here with us today interested in speaking. And sf gov tv has let me know theres one caller who would like to speak. Please unmute them. Caller, you have three minutes to speak and i will give you a 30second notice when your time is about to elapse. David, i assume you can hear me. Im still stuck in my other thing but im supportive of the motion. Anyone willing to serve, happy to have you. Do a fine job. Thanks for listening. Thank you, caller. Sf gov tv, do we have any others . They are lesing me know theres no other callers they are letting me know theres no other callers. Thank you to the public for speaking to this. That concludes any Public Comment. Is there any debate on this motion to elect commissioner mogannam as chair and commissioner kwon as vicechair . Seeing no hands raised, i will call the roll on this nomination to elect Maryo Mogannam as the chair and ike kwon as the vicechair of the sanitation and streets commission. Please answer with a yes or no. Commissioner harrison . Yes. Harrison votes yes. Commissioner hartwigschulman . Yes. Hartwigschulman votes yes. Commissioner kwon . Yes. Commissioner kwon votes yes. Commissioner mogannam . Yes. Mogannam votes yes. Commissioner simi . Yes. Simi votes yes. With five votes in favor in the affirmative, this nomination succeeds. Congratulations, commissioner mogannam chair mogannam. Well take a moment to transfer you the gavel and provide our new chair with suggested remarks. [gavel] okay. [laughter] well just take one moment. Other duties to the side. [indistinct chatter] [laughter] thank you, everyone. Thank you for your confidence or thank you for your confidence and as chair, ill strive for clarity and brevity and this is an inaugural commission for us so we can carve out things to make this city better and cleaner. With that being said, well move to item 5, secretary fuller, please read the item. Item 5 is the adoption of the streets and Sanitation Commission regular calendar of meetings. The staff report resolution and attached calendar of regular meeting dates was distributed to the commission and published for the public to review. Meetings on this calendar can be rescheduled or cancelled and special meetings can be added with adequate notice to commissioners and the public. Following the final study and learn meeting of this commission on thursday, september 22nd, regular meetings will normally be held on the third mondays of the month, with the exception of january, february and june when a National Holiday fall on that day and meetings were scheduled to alternative monday dates. As i would like to note, as one of the newest commissions using city hall hearing room, availability was limited and i would like to thank the Department Staff and city hall Building Management for finding consensus meeting times for these meetings and at times where the public would be able to participate as well. And also, wanting to note that the i believe in the staff report for the january and february meeting that those while they will for january meeting, it would be the Budget Hearing and the february meeting would be the budget vote, those meetings will also include regular items, so those are not exclusively budget meetings but a lot of the content will contain the budget. And im happy to take questions about this calendar or suggestions. Are there any questions . I do i make a motion to adopt the calendar of regular meetings of the streets and or sanitation and streets commission. Ill second that. Okay. Chair mogannam motions to adopt and commissioner harrison seconds. A motion to adopt the regular calendar of meetings for the sanitation and streets commission. Well need to move to Public Comment given the motion, so. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item no. Five, the adoption of the regular meeting calendar, if here in person in the hearing room, line up furthest from the door. If calling from outside of the hearing room, the number is 4156550001 and the meeting access number is 24867157568. Followed by pound and then pound again. And then youll need to press star three on your touch pad to raise your hand to speak. It appears there are no members of the public who have expressed interest in speaking here in person. Sf gov tv, do we have callers in the queue . There are no members of the public who have expressed interest in speaking in the teleconference queue either. So, that concludes Public Comment on this item. If im not mistaken, is there any debate on this motion . Seeing none. Hearing no further debate, secretary fuller, please call the roll on this motion. On the motion to adopt item 5, the calendar of regular meetings of the sanitation and streets commission, please answer with yes or no. Commissioner harrison . Yes. Harrison votes yes. Commissioner hartwigschulman . Yes. Hartwigschulman votes yes. Commissioner kwon . Yes. Pardon me, vicechair kwon. Chair mogannam . Yes. Commissioner simi . Yes. Okay. And just to note that commissioners kwon, mogannam and simi all voted in the affirmative. That brings us to five votes in the affirmative. The motion to receive. Secretary fuller, please publish the calendar of the regular meetings of the Commission Website and [gavel] secretary fuller, please call the next item. Item 6 is the adoption of findings under the state urgency legislation. Consideration of action to allow hybrid inperson meetings during the covid19 emergency, adopt finding under california government code 54953 e to allow remote meetings during covid19 emergency, continue remote meetings for the next 30 days, and direct the Commission Secretary to schedule a similar resolution at a Commission Meeting within the next 30 days. This resolution was distributed to the commission and published for the public to review, adoption of it will allow hybrid meetings for the next 30 days and youll need and assume the resolution will need to be adopted regularly at this commissions monthly meeting. Im happy to take any questions about this resolution. Are there any questions about the resolution to allow for our hybrid meetings . Yes, i have one. Can this be under a regular consent calendar in the future . Thats an excellent question. I think it has been brought up as ive heard that question previously. Deputy City Attorney taylor is with us. I can double check on that but i believe it has to be its own item. Thank you. Hearing no further questions, do i hear a motion to adopt oh, wait. Oh, im so sorry. Commissioner simi. A question for the City Attorney, is there a possibility to adopt it for more than 30 days at a time. Maybe 60 or 90 . No, theres not. Hearing no further questions, do i hear a motion to adopt the resolution . So moved. Seconded by commissioner harrison. Given the motion yeah, given the motion, well hear Public Comment. Secretary fuller, please open up the Public Comment. Okay. And i apologize. I know commissioner harrison seconded it. Who made the initial motion . I believe i did. Chair mogannam, okay. Thats the way i understood it. Okay. Commissioner kwon or vicechair kwon . Okay. Commissioner mogannam made the motion and commissioner harrison seconded it the motion to adopt this resolution of findings. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item 6, the adoption of findings under state urgency legislation to allow hybrid meetings, in person or the hearing room may line up line up furthest from the door or if youre calling in, you can dial 456550001 and the access code is 24867157568 followed by pound and pound again and to raise your hand to speak, please press star 3. It appears there are no members of the public physically present who want to speak on this item. Sf gov tv, do we have callers in the queue who expressed interest . There are im getting a message there are no callers in the queue. That concludes Public Comment on this item. Is there any further debate on this motion . Hearing no further debate, secretary fuller, please call the roll on this motion. On the motion to adopt item 6, the adoption of findings under the state urgency legislation to allow hybrid meetings, please answer with yes or no. Commissioner harrison . Yes. Harrison votes yes. Commissioner hartwigschulman . Yes. Hartwigschulman votes yes. Commissioner kwon . Yes. Commissioner, vicechair kwon votes yes. Chair mogannam . Yes. Chair mogannam votes yes. Commissioner simi . Yes. Simi votes yes. There are five votes in the affirmative on this matter. The motion succeeds. Secretary fuller, please publish the resolution on the Commission Website. [gavel] secretary fuller, please call the next item. Item 7 is the adoption of minutes from the july 28, 2022, meeting held concurrently with the Public Works Commission. These minutes were distributed to the commission and were published for public review. Im happy to take questions or hear corrections to the minutes. Are there any questions about the minutes for corrections . No. Hearing no further questions or corrections, do i hear a motion to adopt the minutes . I will move to adopt. Harrison motions to adopt. Second. Harrison motions to adopt. Hartwigschulman motions to or seconds to adopt minutes from the july 28, 2022, sanitation and streets meeting held concurrently with the Public Works Commission. Given the motion, well hear Public Comment. Secretary fuller, please open up to Public Comment. Thank you. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on this item 7, the adoption of the minutes from the july 28th meeting may, if youre here in person, line up against the wall furthest from the door and if youre calling in, dial 4156550001. And the meeting access number is 24867157568. Followed by pound and pound again and you would raise your hand by dialing star three on your touch pad. There are no members, no members of the public who are present today who have expressed interest on speaking on this item. Sf gov tv, do we have callers in the queue for this item . Im getting a message that there are no callers on this item. So that concludes Public Comment on this item. Are there any further debate or any debate . Hearing no further debate, secretary fuller, please call the roll on the motion. On the motion to adopt item 7, the minutes from the july 28, 2022, meeting, please answer with yes or no. Commissioner harrison . Yes. Harrison votes yes. Commissioner hartwigschulman . Yes. Hartwigschulman votes yes. Vicechair kwon . Yes. Kwon votes yes. Chair mogannam . Yes. Mogannam votes yes. Commissioner simi . Yes. Simi votes yes. There are five votes in the affirmative. The motion succeeds. Secretary fuller, please publish the minutes to the commissions website. We will now move on to item no. 8. Mr. Fuller, please call item. Okay. So members of the public may address the commission on topics that are within the subject matter of the commission but are not part of this agenda. Comments specific to an item on the agenda may be heard when that item is considered. Members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. General Public Comment may be continued to the end of the agenda if speakers exceed 15 minutes of general Public Comment. For item 8 for general Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of general Public Comment may line up against the wall furthest from the door if youre in the chambers. If youre calling in, dial 4156550001. The meeting number access code is 24867157568. Followed by pound and pound again. And to raise your hand, please dial star three to speak. Seeing no members of the public who are physically present to and expressed interest in speaking on this item, well turn to members of the public who are calling in. Sf gov tv, do we have any callers for this item . There are no callers who have expressed interest in speaking on this item. So, with no further speakers, Public Comment has concluded. That concludes general Public Comment. [gavel] secretary fuller, please call the next item. Item 9 is the overview of sanitation and the the sanitation and Streets Department contract presented by alex burnes from the public works contracted administration. This is an informational item. Good morning, commissioners. My name is alex burn and im the manager of the Contract Administration division at public works currently. I have ten years plus experience at public work in contract Works Administration and currently we have a team of 7 professional contract analysts. Some of our main duties including taking procurement ask contracts to life cycle to ensure they meet city requirements and i think the initial goal, im trying to get to is the presentation is a broad understanding of the laws that govern or procurement in contracting in the city of San Francisco. Theres additional meetings to be set up in the future. I know theres one scheduled already for september and as desired, there can be more personalized meetings as well. Oneonone for some of the complexities of the contracting and procurement rules in San Francisco. So, just broadly, currently at public works, the legislation can govern from the creation of a new fire station or hospital down indiscernible thats needed by staff to complete their work. So San Franciscos is a charter city and it establishes its own charter and own code that governs, that has its own rules and regulations. So, today, i plan to go over some of the prevalent codes in the administrative code under the San Francisco charter thacht includes chapter 6 which governs professional services and construction related to a public works and improvement project. Chapter 21 which is the purchase of commodities and General Services and professional services not related to a public work or improvement and chapter 21g which is governance of grants and just to clarify, grants the city gives out as opposed to grants the city would receive from the state, usually those grants would be issue through chapter 6 procurement. So, currently, chapter 6 governs the renovation, alteration of a public work or improvement and any professional services which is indiscernible sanitation and architecture management agreement. Most prevalent for sanitation and streets is a new chapter 6 amendment that would give sanitation and streets some authority when it comes to chapter 6. Currently chapter 6 is only setup, the authority for chapter 6 is given to certain departments and push works is one of those public works is one of those departments and i know things can move fast but my understanding, theres still proposed amendments to chapter 6 to give sanitation streets specific authority, mostly related to tree work in the chapter 6 construction and professional Service Related to the public works. So, im talking about chapter 6, theres various procurement methods outlined in the procurement codes and well go through a few. Theres design big build where theres a design set that the department would issue publicly in advertisement allowing potential contractors to bid against tt design. The price. It will be minimum qualifications and take the requirement and it would be a past sale and the contractor who submitted the lowest price would pass all the requirements that were outlined in our specification would win the job. Design build where you would ask a contractor or a contractor and designer to team up and submit a proposal and design and build the project for the department. Construction manager, general contractor where we would employ the services of a general contractor earlier in the process to review the design with the department in the hopes of moving out issues later on. And i think emergency, is awe prevalent one. The most recent urgencies we have seen come through is rock slope slides where theres a specific set code regulation in chapter 6 on how to address emergencies, maybe with some of the rules and regulations not applying to those because of indiscernible we can get to those as quick as possible and serve the public in relation to safety and i think most commonly for the tree projects that there are currently working on a carve out for sanitation and streets, we use an asneeded pool of contractors and we have multiple tree pools and in this process, well issue a request for qualification in which well qualify potential tree contractors and when a job comes up, we will issue a scope and a bid out to the qualified pool and take the lowest price between the already qualified pool of contractors. An example of one system recently, an issue to a pool was approved for line approving for sf mta for wire work and the tree that can come up for one of the as needed pools. We have a request its hard to hear you, so maybe even using the other microphone would work better. Ill talk louder. That might work too, thank you. Beyond chapter 6, theres chapter 21. Chapter 21 governs the professional services not related to public works, General Services and commodity. So, examples in regard to xhomity and well get into how those are purchased in a later slide, but this can include door knobs and brooms and necessities of the department that it needs to complete its work. General services, commonly includes items such as Security Guard and Janitorial Services and professional services that are not related to a public works. It can include accountant and Financial Consultant and other Services Similar to that. Just to understand the city administrative structure. There are theres an office of Contract Administration that is underneath the mayor that oversees chapter 21 as a whole. There will be certain aspects of the work done by sanitation and streets that they have full authority over approving the contract. These include often times the Commodity Services thats listed. If public works knows that they need to have, lets say, a contract for painters on demand, they adopt the Contract Administration will work with public works on that scope and confirm all the necessary contracts were followed and create an overall contract, a version of an asneeded for paying services. So, some within chapter 21, there were carve outs for sanitation and streets to approve the commission. Some examples of those would include Technology Services that are not bought directly through the office of Contract Administrations already created tech marketplace pool. Currently, we are going through such a process for a Construction Management and project Management System to assist staff with moving projects and getting approvals through workloads. So finally on chapter 21, theres a Charter Amendment that allows, that delegated from the office of Contract Administration to the department, authority of small expedited items. These are commonly referred to as prop q, so these would be for under 10,000 purchases. Last year, public works issued 1,350 ever these for approximately 2 million. So these do tend to be, the math on that is around 1,500 a purchase. So, just to go through some examples looking at, that came up recently. Sheet metal to replace the libraries downspout that was stolen. Flooring for the second floor at city hall. Carpet flooring. So, then subsection of chapter 21, which public works often uses is Grant Contracting. So, the administrative code for Grant Contracting is new, prior to january 2022, the city did not have a set of rules and regulations for how to procure grant contract and now as of january 1, 2022, this 21g administrative code section is effective. Essentially grants are for are funds awarded for a public purpose, so currently public works distributes close to 15 million annually in grants to nonprofit organizations. The largest of our public purpose programs is workforce development. An example of this is the Pit Stop Program that you can see throughout the city and some currently working through some grants related to urban Forestry Community grants and this would be engaging with the community and related to the urban forest in San Francisco and finally, i just want to go through some of the social policies that public works and sanitation streets would need to comply with in the procurement of these projects. So, three of the most common ones is chapter 14b. This is the local buzz enterprise and nondiscrimination in contracts. Local businesses are the backbone of San Franciscos community and they contribute millions of dollars to the economy each year. So, often times on specific projects, well offer discount to local [off mic] fire or your prime contractors to have local businesses as part of their overall project as subcontractors. Chapter 12b which is [off mic] nondiscrimination in contracts. This is equal pay for equal work. 12f, this is a ban against discriminatory states. So, presently, San Francisco will not enter into contract with a contractor who is headquartered in around 28 states and the reasons for which would include antilgbt laws, laws that prohibit abortion and voter oppression laws. And so, that concludes my presentation. Sorry. Sorry about the mic but yeah. Definitely take any questions and thank you for your patience. Any questions from fellow commissioners . Im so sorry. Commissioner harrison . Yeah. Under the General Services when you hire contractors or persons or whatever, do you take any consideration into giving as much of that work to inhouse because im sure we have janitorial and Landscaping Services in the tree crews and that . Yeah, i through most often, its a twostep process. The first step is we would authorize the work to the inhouse staff since they have the capacity. They would take it on. Secondly, when we go out with any General Service contract, we notify the union for a period of 30 days and at which time they have the opportunity to, you know, protest or request to meet us with and discuss the possibility of contracting out that work. Excellent one other question much on the commodities, do you ever meet with the field staff on purchasing of tools . In many cases, particularly with the craft unions, they folks the new invasions is coming the innovation is coming out with different tools, so do you talk to them about that like a Tool Committee and sorts . Most often, we take the representations have the staff that work in the shop for what tools should be included in the scope when we go out for those commodity purchases, so i know theres at least discussion and dialogue about what is the best tool that they would like to be purchased so they can do their job most sufficiently. Very good, thank you very much. Recognizing commissioner kwon . Thank you, so the chair. So, in the great ride along that we did last week and i think my fellow commissioners feel the same way, it was terrific, and just as a city resident, just to see the work being done and clean up on the trees and i saw someone sweep up an avalon shell and mattress. The confined spaces, they use the ravo, is that something you procure . They were talking about that earlier and later on in the day i was walking passed the civic center and i heard growling and it was one of those things that do the spaces, so is that in your area to procure the narrow machines . Yeah. It sounds like those are something procured by public works. Okay, all right. No, i just want to cover procurement of equipment thats useful in tight spaces to support the super hardworking staff. Theyre awesome, thank you. Commissioner mogannam . Commissioner [off mic] my understanding is youre going to come back, i think in a month or so to do a bit more on the contracting process . Right. I believe, we have to at least come back in september to great. Im not going too deep down rabbit hole for questions but it may be helpful for me and other commissions, and the next one you add the life cycle of a contract and there can be different pathways based on how big a contract it is, um, where it goes through gsa or if its delegated to dpw, as you have mentioned, so it will be helpful to understand how different types of contracts move through the citys process and what that means in materials of how long it takes it means in terms of how long it takes for a contract. Things like that would be helpful. Yeah, definitely. Thank you. And i just had one small general question and i believe on slide seven when youre talking about the smaller contracts, the one thousand three hundred some odd. Was that specifically for streets and sanitation or after overview for dpw in january . So, that is citywide. But looking at the purchases that public works has made in the past couple of years, the majority by far has it would go through streets and sanitation. Okay, thank you. I know with the department is changing and who knows whats going to happen in november, its nice when we get teased out and everything gets focused on streets and sanitations so it encourages us to stay in our lane as they say. Thank you. Any further questions from the commissioners . Thank you. Well now take Public Comment on this item. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item 9, the overview of street and Sanitation Department contracts and if those wanting to speak, line up furthest from the door and if calling in, please dial 4156550001. And the meeting number access code is 24867157568. Followed by pound and pound again and to raise your hand to be recognized, dial star three. It appears that we have no members of the public with us in person in the chamber wishing to make comment on this. Sf gov tv, do we have callers in the queue for this item . It appears that we do not have any callers interested in making comment on this item. That concludes Public Comment. Are there any other questions from the commissioners . Seeing none. Thank you. Hearing no further discussion, secretary fuller, please call the next item. Item 10 is the Commission Responsibilities under proposition b presented by Rachel Alonzo. The proposition b project director. This is also an inform informational item this is an informational item. Hello. Excellent. I know you can all hear me because im very proud but someone who is watching on sf gov tv, let me know they were having a hard time hearing before so thats why we bothered alex about the microphone and hes gone because it was just so difficult. My name is Rachel Alonzo as secretary fuller mentioned, and i am the prop b project director in the City Administrators Office for the past year, ive over seen the planning and implementation of prop b. After voters approved it in november 2020, the City Administrators Office was tasked with the implementation given its Oversight Authority over public works. Public works was a part of the City Administrators Offices or adm, their General Services agency for gsa, so adm is gsa. The gsa umbrella, public works was a part of it. So prop b actually removed public works from the City Administrators Office and you are playing the oversight role for the sanitation and Trees Department once it forms sanitation and streets once it forms october 1st so thats why the City Administrators Office is involved. To help set you up for success [mic is off] you hit the ground run and approximately 1 3 of my my time is dedicated to establishing you and the Public Works Commission. So, we had a dedicated oversight and Accountability Working Group and that group was charged with developing recommendations for how to best comply with your mandate. Im here today to share those recommendations with you and as secretary fuller mentioned, this is just an information item. Theres no official action for you to take today and just know youre free to modify this approach as you go, of course in consultation with director short and secretary fuller. So, my presentation has four parts. First is a reminder of the commission mandate which were shared with you last month. Second are the recommendations from the oversight and Accountability Working Group for the prop b mandate specifically. So, the working group has been meeting every two weeks for approximately a year. Members included subject Matter Experts from multiple city departments, we have alexander, the public works planning and performance manager. Natasha who is now the head of the controllers City Services audit group or csa, christine and mark, the mta and Public Policy Commission Secretary respectively and john from City Attorneys government team. And then we were later joined by your dedicated City Attorneys. Taylor as well as austin yang, chris tom and nelson. The third part of my presentation is the Program Calendar which will give you a sense of when the Department Plans to share both elective items with you and mandate. Mandate really indiscernible . And the fourth and final part of the presentation is related to the ballot measure going before voters this november which interestingly enough is also prop b. So, this slide is a summary of charter section 4. 102 regarding the powers and duties that all commissions hold across the city. So, the highlights are you shall accept policies and set policies and goals and objectives and plans and programs and to do that, you can hold hearings and investigate the departments operation. You will approve the budget prior to being submitted to the mayor and you can appoint a Commission Secretary and forward names to the mayor for director appointment and fire said director. This slide summarizes charter section 4. 139c in the specific mandate of the sanitation and streets commission under our original prop b. So first, all of your mandates take effect in five weeks on saturday, october 1st. Which is the date that you your full powers and duties and also the date that the Staff Department forms. Second, youll oversee staff performance including the evaluation of data. Specifically data about street and sidewalk conditions. And the third items has two parts so youll establish cleanliness for the public rightofway and second, youre charged with setting bay lines for Services Staff administers. Fourth, you have, you will have the power to approve contracts or to delegate said power to the department. The fifth, you are to perform an annual cost analysis regard you shall review the filing of and i renamed the hiring and dell fashion report. Ill walk you through the mandate in more details. To comply with your performance and data evaluation mandate, the recommendation is that you should receive a presentation and report every month. Those reports will rotate between three topics. One will be focused on the Street Environmental Services group which is group that oversees street cleaning and as well as the Central Operations bureau. And then second will be focused on the bureau of urban forestry and the 3 will cover street and building repair. This means that youll hear each performance report four times per year. My recommendation is that you use this to start off with, see how it goes and then adjust the frequency either up or down once youre comfortable with the measures and the available data. Maybe youll want to hear from street cleaning more frequently for instance. So we have identified 22 measures for these reports. When we socialize the recommendations with the department, people actually identify 26 additional measures that they also want to report to you. It was very clear to me that the teams are very proud of their work and excited to share it with you. The Performance Team is working on the new request and will include them in the presentation and report pending data availability, so a lot of the data could be available in individual spreadsheets but its the best practice for any Robust Program to rely oasis testimony mat i can data source. Most is operations work and Operations Division and staff, its housed within a computerized Management System. I bring that up now because you may hear that acronym in the future, stamina. How did we approve these measures and we wanted to be covered rather than cherry picking items and much of your focus is going to be on street cleaning, we decided to remy call time for all the bureaus for our quality purpose. Again, if it feels like you need to see the street cleaning performance reports more frequently, the schedule can be revisited. The other major area of consideration was identifying measures that would help align with your role in setting policies and goals verses having more detailed information thats more appropriate for daytoday operations or administration. Now, i will walk you through the 2022 plus 26 measures. So, of course, the first slide is about tree clean and the department is planning presentations for you in the coming months so you can better understand this part of the operation in particular indiscernible if it doesnt quite make sense right now, all these details. I promise it will make more sense very soon. So, the main measure of street cleanliness, the department has been using is the street cleaning request that it receives through 311. For record, just in case anyone isnt sure, 311 is the citywide customer call center. It intakes routes request from the public. Theres also apps and not just a call center. Im sure many of you use that app. The other primary measure for street cleaning is the percent of request thats responded to within a specific timeframe. Unfortunately, obviously this doesnt include proactive work initiated by the department and you will hear more about those two types of work later this fall. Addition measures include the count of Service Request related to trash cans. The number of curb miles mechanically swept and the tons ever debris collected and the Controllers Office has a San Francisco Resident Survey regarding rankings and so that data isnt available frequently but as the new surveyor released, it will be shared with you because its relevant to your mandate. Future measures will include items related to the Controllers Office cleanliness assessment which is different than the survey and ill talk more about it in a few slides. Also the departments work with bag and tagging. Bag and tag proactive work around clearing encampment and corridor work and special projects. Another important part of the bureau of Street Environmental Services which is also referred to as sef is the graffiti unit. So graffiti work is distinguished between the property owner, so public property verses private property and you will track the volume of request and the Response Rates for both types of properties. So, this slide encompasses the Central Operations bureau. For now, these will be reported along with the scf measures that the goal of the work is similar and right now, we have one measure that is ready or two measures that are ready and the addition the others are under work. If october, youll see data regarding the number of notices, citations, and outreach instances from the outreach and Enforcement Team which is also called the one team. Youll also hear about the overall number of Service Request that are handled by the radio room. The Performance Team is still working to develop stable reports for the other item s this slide, the other elements of Central Operations. That includes the number of cleanup events, volunteer hours logged and tons of garbage collected at said event. A more internal focus part of sen ops fleet which is manages repairs and equipment across the entire department, not just said operations. So in discussions with staff about ways to improve their work and make them more efficient, a lot of people flagged how old the fleet is and how long it takes for things to be repaired. So, just a heads up. Were hoping that you can help champion this as a way to achieve cleaner streets and this came from staff in conversations with them. I want to make sure you were aware. Last but certainly not least, the Department Also wants to share data with you regarding its Pit Stop Program and apprenticeship program. Now, we move on to the second performance measure report which is for the bureau of urban forestry or indiscernible for short. Buff oversees trees and landscape medians and does sidewalk work and has a permitting group. Im sure buff does far more than and director short can speak about the rest of the things that buff does but its the high level items. So the department is already ready to go with data on tree inspections, maintenance and planting. As well as cement projects and output such as the length of curb ramps constructed or the number of curb ramps constructed. Not quite ready for buff are two other measures covering landscape sidewalk and output for medians and plants as opposed to plants planting. So, this slide covers street repaur, were on to the 3 report street repair and were on the third report. Until two months ago, this work was a part of the bureau of street and sewer repair or bssr. The sewer repair group was transferred to the puc, via the annual budget process and the department merged street repair with the bureau of building repair to form a new super bureau which i believe the acronym is dfbf or the bureau of building and street repair. Theres a lot of data ready here. Pothole request and Response Rate for said pothole request and many output items. Four feet of patch pave and avoids indiscernible paved and other work completed. This group also helps with Emergency Response and special events. Measures on its wish list include the cost per block kafshed proactive pothole sales and something to represent the regular work that takes place out on the great highway related to span removal and output for special assignments to help out other fellow bureaus and other fellow agencies. This is second to last performance measure slide and its about the building repair group which does a lot of work for other city agencies. Both minor corrective fixes as well as larger scale construction projects. So, its important for you to track the count of work request received over time by client and trade or shop. To help you understand the health of the organization, right. Another key measure is the rate at which cost estimates requested by clients become actual funding projects, so that information is ready to go for you and the Department Hopes to report additional work to you as well from traditional budget and schedule, very enthused. And the time it takes for work to begin on location or for the work to be scheduled, and how long people are waiting for the work and how are the clients responding to the work. Finally, with the other bureaus, this group helps out with other parts of the agency. Specifically related to street structures such as plazas, bridges, tunnels, and other things like tiny walls and stairs and lots of things. Okay. So this slide is a catchall for additional measures and the department has data ready regarding the loss workday rate and Motor Vehicle accidents and it is working on how to report results from the biannual city survey regarding the perception of sidewalk and more broadly, the department is working to confirming Key Performance indicators for keyser advices as well as the relevant benchmark for kpis. Okay. I promise that we will get through the other man dates much faster than that one. So this mandate is a twoparter though. The first part, you are charged with establishing minimum standards of cleanliness for the public rightofway and thats a very big task. We recommend lever anning the Controllers Office existing annual street and sidewalk survey process. Thats what alluded to earlier, the second thing they do. It is its shown at the bottom of this slide. The department would like to bring you further into the fold of this survey regarding potential methodological changes to it. We want to piggyback to something being done because the working group saw it as insufficient to see the Controllers Office to run one process and for you to set standards divorce from that process or unabled to be measured without success without a survey effort which will cost more time and money. The other part of this charter mandate is about Staff Service baseline. So the oversight and Accountability Working Group discuss a lot of ways to define a survey baseline and settled on breaking Current Service levels down for you in three different ways. The annual budget bureau, the fte or position count by bureau, as well as the list of Services Provided by bureau. You would then track that over time. I could totally imagine you wanting something much more granular. Specifying that indiscernible must provide service x in location y. I would consider that to fall on to the daytoday operations and the administrative side of departments between the department. This is how we started high level and how we saw different ways of being this look at and why we made the recommendation we did. Contracts, you just heard from alex about it a little bit. And over the next four to six weeks were going to try and make contract machines out of you. As i think commissioner simi alluded to, this is a dense and complex topic and were going to try and educate you and arm you with all the information necessary so you feel both comfortable and confident approving contracts and delegating some approvals to the department. So, when the Staff Department formed on october 1st, it will not have the authority to approve its own contract awards or modifications because you have that authority. So, the Public Works Commission assumes responsibility for contract approvals on september 1st although there are no operations, contracts or otherwise in the queue that would go to the Public Works Commission at that time. So, through the end of august, the City Administrators Office of Contract Administration akoca, i think alex talked about that, its the mayors designee. Its the role that filled since the 2021 corruption scandal. Through the month, its oca and from september 1st to end of its the Public Works Commission and beginning october 1st, you take that staff related contract, the operations contract. So, you heard alexs presentation. Im calling it intro to contracting and next month, youll receive intermediate or advanced contracting. I think both, hopefully. Youll also receive the contract approval and delegation policy that deputy City Attorney eric taylor is working to draft based on recommendations from the working group. Im not going to go into detail today about the threshold recommendations, just know we looked at what other departments are doing and the airport and rec. And part, port, mta, and puc and the Public Health department. What are they approving . What are they delegating to the department . And how many contracts do they approve on average each month . So based on that information, the working Group Delegation threshold recommendation, trying to balance competing priorities. We want your oversight to be meaningful and not da luted by too many items competing for your attention and we want you to talk about things not contract related and from the departments perspective, theyre worried about the approval process and the idea of contracts being approved in batches rather than a rolling on going basis is scary. A reminder about all recommendations but especially this one is that the delegation policy can be modified at any time you like in the future if it seems youre seeing too many or too few contracts. So, we tailored the recommendation based on average data but things change over time and the result may not end up matching our database simulation, so i think its something, you know, you need to see how it goes and then revisit it with all of these things but especially this one. For the second to last mandate, proposition b modified appendix f of the charter. You saw a part of appendix f earlier. Its the charter section that governs the Controllers Office City Services auditor and their Cleanliness Survey which they administer every year and i talked about it on a previous slide. Csa has been assigned to a new annual analysis about cost and waste looking for inefficiencies in the two departments so both public works and staff. The Public Works Commission doesnt have this mandate, when we look closer at charter section f1. 102c, which is shown on the slide for you here, it obviously pertains to both departments and the actual split itself introduced by prop b. So, con is going to look at overlapping functions systems supporting the sharing of information between the departments. The effectiveness of Services Provided and the procurement and appointment of personnel and ways to reduce resource waste. So con, the Controllers Office, sorry, have been discussing how to incorporate this into their annual work plan for the next year. The current plan is for them to present their proposal in the spring. They kept reminding me, they cant do anything until the department has existed for one year so indiscernible for this one. Okay. So, your final dedicated prop b mandate is to review data about the departments positions every year. In order to sync with budget timelines, were recommendation this presentation be scheduled in the early spring after budget is submitted. So the mandate list seven specific things to report and through working groups wrangling, we eventually realized that the weight of the data and the way its set up, these are not mutually excluded categories so rather than seeing one pie chart with seven different slices, you are going to see seven different pies and its nine pies because in addition to the mandate category, the working Group Recommended that you receive data about the gender and racial makeup of the workforce. This mandate is pretty straightforward and there werent overarching gun controls that the working group needed to establish its work. Its to exercise and data diving ask confirming which and confirming which fields would be used for which category and we were in agreement for what it means for someone to be part time and seasonable and how to calculate the vacancy rates and other boring things. Okay. So, that is it for that part of the presentation. So now well move on to the Program Calendar which is just a fancy way to tell you what we think youre going to hear and when. So, obviously, 2020 prop c mandate several reports and this is our plan for delivering the reports to you on a regular basis. And then 2022 prop b, im calling them old and new b, new b would remove the reports from the charter but its a part of your work plan, so in other words, if new b passes in november, you can rely on this content. The plan can and should be replicated in the coming years with updates along the way as necessary based on your input and request for changes. Its a living document. And the Commission Secretary will distribute an advanced calendar document to you. I believe monthly listing these items, any contract approvals that get scheduled and new items that pop up so you can keep track of the living document over time. So, next month, you will review the contract approval delegation policy. Youll receive an overview presentation on the entire Operations Division. Youll learn about the specific challenges to keeping streets clean as well as learn about the efforts to develop employee in the department through things like Racial Equity action plan, ex mroem eye survey and Strategic Plan and in october youll meet regarding the Department Head hiring in closed session because the first of that month, youre in control. The first performance mandate report is scheduled for october about street cleaning and Central Operations and then urban forestry is slate for november followed by street and building repair in december. And then that is the cadence for the rest of the fiscal year, presentations every month rotating between those three reports. To accompany the initial performance reports in this calendar year, weve also scheduled monthly bureau overview presentations for you. So next month youll hear about the entire division which is becoming the staffs department and youll hear more about each bureau before you hear their data. Finally, given the intent focus on street cleaning, we have a series of onetime focus presentations for you to cover in addition to the street calming as challenges, to cover proactive work, routine maintenance and special events and im sure as you go, you will, additional things will be identified ask additional focus and additional focus presentations will be presented. So after that, in january and february, youll hold your mandatory Budget Hearing and a vote. The additional mandate of reports are shown on this slide, so in march, its the hire and vacancy report and in april, its the Controllers Office, again, presenting their proposed methodology for the cost and waste report. To tell you the truth, ill be surprised if next summer the plan ends up looking like this since that feels so far away and it has been changing a lot but the topics that youll need to cover then or at some point are conducting the director and secretary reviews in closed sessions, continuing to receive three performance measure reports on a rotating basis and discussing your own work and plans for your next year. Now, we will move on to the final part of the presentation, which is the new b ballot measure and how it impacts your work and the rest of the implementation. So youve seen this content before much it was included in City Attorneys presentation last month but i figured its worthwhile to refresh ourselves. If new b is approved in november, it will eliminate the staffs department effective january 1st and transfer the fast functions back to public works. But those commissions would continue to exist as is. You would hold hearings, do the data evaluation and Performance Measurement work and set policies about street cleaning while the Public Works Commission would have the authority to remove the Department Director. This slide shows the planning and implementation work done to date for original b. I wont go into any details now but im happy to answer questions about items on this list later if you would like. As mentioned previously, last spring, we had we establish a governance structure to oversee this work. It included a Steering Committee ask three working groups and the working groups were to over sight and accountability and the others were finance and sustainability and operation sufficiencies and we had numerous meetings with working groups and steering members and Union Members and we met deadlines for the two pieces of legislation identified connection points and improvement opportunities within ops and the budget was correlated and submitted. You and your website exist and a new it system was built for Department Staff and managers to review and approve items that will be coming before you. This is a slide of the charter requirement for the sas department. So the first bullet says that staff exist on october 1st which is three months after you formed. This date was set by the board of supervisors in december and it cannot be revised. The board is not allowed to pass another motion to delay the formation of staff. Second, naturally, staff will have its own director. Third, the Staff Department is responsible for 8 specific duties, all of which are housed within the Operations Division at the Public Works Department currently. The final bullet is the longest but basically it says that until the Staff Commission recommends names to the mayor and the mayor appoints one of the recommended people, the public works director shall serve as the acting sas director. For my final slide, ill show you with the implementation work that was on track for october 1st, but which is now on pause. So i know some people think that the city wasnt ready to implement prop b, but its not true. indiscernible towards the october 1st date and deadline. So, this was developed in consultation with City Attorneys Office and the controller. Realizing that the city only has so many people and staff hours to go around. We didnt want to spend a lot of time or money on backend changes only to have to turn around and undo it all two months later which would be wasting more time and money. So, its roller coaster to be changing but it feels like the most responsible thing to do. So if the ballot measure does not pass on november 8th, we will pick these things back up for implementation with something happening in november and other things happening in december much were still working through the tiny details, so what exactly are we talking about . Basically, its all of the backend work to prop up a department. The charter doesnt say anything about any of this. Im going to walk through it quickly or run through it quickly but i can answer any questions at the end of the presentation if you have any or do you want to know more about the topics so the thing i was most worried about was the financial component. Its a lot of work to move eight hundred positions and Funding Sources and indiscernible and recreate over one thousand active purchase orders so im grateful that the controller was willing to pause this work until we know the outcome of the election. The 311 Call Center Workers will be briefed on the staff spinoff so they know how to take request but the backend will label things as public works. The employee emails wont change yet. You got sf gov dot org email addresses and thats the plan for the employee emails to the sf gov dot org domain but temporarily for now, theyll retain their sf gov organize domain. Hiring for the staff specific management position is on hold and so is the tentative improvement work to meet the Office Space Ready for them. None of the rebranding work will go forward until the Election Results are known and neither will there be new staff, social media accounts established. The Department Planning and Performance Group will also not begin untangling the Strategic Plan until the voters have spoken. Finally, the 207 code cleanup ordinance which has been submitted to the board of supervisors will not be scheduled for committee until after the election. And that concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer any questions you might have. I dont know why youre laughing. Thank you, rachel for that presentation and thank you for the clarity and brevity. I thought it was going to go much longer. It could have, but and i thank you for that. Commissioner kwon . Thank you to the chair. Great presentation. Thank you very much. I just have two questions. When you talked about the fleet, when you talked about delayed repair time, is that repair of the e ifrting older vehicles or existing older vehicles or replacement of new vehicles that require support . Repair. Repair. Who repairs them . Is there a separate repair yard or within the department. Its in the Central Department and known as central shop referred to as shop. So theres two types of shops which is confusing because the bureau of building repair has shops and then shops is also central shops which it refers to the Equipment Repair place. What is the challenge here . Is it that obviously theres a bag log. Is there not enough people and resources to repair them quickly or is it the process by which its done . I met with shops to find out more and they shared with me that they have a challenge filling positions. Not because of course, city processes impact all city departments but they mentioned that, like, in the industry, automotive fixing, i dont know what exactly its called, car mechanics, theres not as many people, theres not a great pipeline of workers. Director direct director short, do you have anything to add. You know more about aging fleet and repairs. Thank you. I do think one of the primary things we hear from central shops is that they are short staffed. They also have to prioritize safety, so they do the repairs for the Fire Department, the Police Department as well as other city agencies and so if the police have a couple of vehicles that go down right when we have a critical repair thats needed, were going to have to wait. We have worked with them particularly on our specialized equipment to try and line up contracts in advance in the event we might need the contracts to address the issues, so we have tried to facilitate that at times but its a challenge when they have to prioritize understandably, public needs before our needs. Okay, thank you. I have one other question and kind of a dumb question but when it comes to potholes, does that apply to sinkholes . Does the Department Address those . Or fill those . Well do repairs but its more like well place a plate over the sinkhole and Public Utilities commission is responsible and sinkholes are caused by a void due to a sewer break or water break and so, in the past, we actually did do spot repairs for them. Theyve taken that function and so we will make it safe by, as i said, putting a plate over it but we dont do the repair of the sinkhole. Okay, thank you. Commissioner simi . Thank you and thank you rachel for the incredibly detailed presentation. I had all sorts of questions, so im trying to organize them a little bit in my head and keep them brief. We talked about the let me start with two clarifying questions and one, so the just confirming that this whole hiring a director and Commission Secretary is on hold until prop b, the sequel is sort of decided . [laughter] because theres some other stuff earlier that implied that were looking for one. Right. That is my understanding but you should discuss it in far greater detail in your october meeting in closed session to talk about it further. Okay. And then great. Also the contract approval powers that we have on 10. 1 could go back to dpw commission on january 1st if prop b were to pass . That is correct. Okay. Ill just offer that deputy City Attorney taylor and i were actually talking yesterday a lot about the contract approval delegation policy for both departments and i think it is possible to have you, to have the for operations contracts, have it be delegated to you by the Public Works Commission, we need to delegate operations contracts entirely to the department and the Department Director could delegate to the Staff Commission so its just an idea right now. It feels like the right thing to do if prop b, the sequel continues. Okay. And you know, i was looking at the calendar you had and theres so many on Performance Measures and some other commissioners had questions and i have certainly, i think, thoughts and feelings about some of the Performance Measures which i dont want to get into now but i think i was looking for clarification for that and also for this sort of the minimum cleanliness standards for both of those, what the thinking was in terms of the commission sort of understanding them maybe in a little bit more detail, sort of reviews them, commenting on them potentially suggesting changes and omissions and additions and adopting them. Was that at each quarterly meeting you had . I was lost on that. Theres no formal action scheduled for you to formally adopt and certify the Performance Measures but i think if thats something you felt strongly about as a commission and wanted to do, you could certainly take that on as an action item. But again, my recommendation would be to start out seeing what is available and then adjust maybe an early 2023 to modify and formally adopt if you want to, the list ever measures or frequency of reports. Yeah. I was looking for the ability to sit with these a little bit more and have some opportunity to comment on them. Yeah. This is just a high level overview, the first time youre hearing it, right. Got it. My hope is it will be a conversation and conversation that youll engage in over the next three to six to 12 months really, right. Before you settle on what feels right in the long run. Okay. Sorry, one more. The last one i had, i was looking at the calendar and it looks like you had this annual vacancy report, sort of queued up for march and i think thats a good time of year to be thinking about that but also it also seems like something that may be worth discussing previous before the budget submission goes in because i think when youre developing a budget, its useful to know how many new positions have been filled, how many positions are filled . All those things are helpful when because you can keep budgeting new positions until the end of time but if you cant fill them, they dont have any impact so i think it would maybe maybe a request to do if its not ready, i get it in the first year but some type of some look at that before we actually see the budget, i think it would be very helpful to us. Yeah. That makes sense. And seems reasonable. I think Deputy Director robertson could better speak to timing or availability but perhaps in the Bureau Presentations that you receive in fall, those include some preliminary stats about employee counts and vacancy rate so you have some of that preliminary information prior to the budget. And its an additional option to have the hiring and vacancy report shared with you in the fall as well. And those are the two options that come to my mind. That would be nice. Thank you. Thats all. And i just and thank you again, rachel for the presentation and my question was, when you were talking about the fleet getting old and about the contract review, if we could get a snapshot of, you know, i dont know whats old and i dont have a Reference Point so if we can get benchmarks compared to other departments or whats the shelf life of the vehicle, is it a five year or ten year. If you can give us information on where the vehicles are and how they compare to other vehicles figuratively speaking. Yes. Thank you. We did analysis from that with data from central shops earlier in the year and i have findings ready and i believe that will be a part of Deputy Director gordon street cleanliness challenges presentation which i believe is scheduled for next month. So yes, youll learn more about it. You should learn more about it. Thank you. Can i just, one more thing, sorry. On that, you know, it has been a few years since i have been in this world but the, it might be helpful on context like fleet and equipment, provide just context in terms of how the city especially for general fund funded agency and how the city allocates money for those things because its not always within the departments purview. You are absolutely correct, commissioner simi and thats why youre commissioner. [laughter] and i think im going to request Deputy Director robertson include that. I see him hovering and maybe he would like to get up. I dont think we need a full response but discuss it. Absolutely, thank you. Good question. Lets see. Thank you and well take it to Public Comment on this item. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item 10, the Commission Responsibilities under proposition b, may line up against the wall furthest from the door if youre present in the chamber or if youre calling in, dial 4156550001 and the meeting number access code is 24867157568 followed by pound and pound again and to raise your hand, dial or press star three. It appears we do not have any members of the public here in the chamber. And im seeing that we have at least one caller on the Public Comment line, sf gov tv, please unmute them. And caller, you have three minutes to speak. Ill give you a 30second warning. Great. David fill pell again and you have my attention. I dont have much to offer. That was a comprehensive report from Rachel Alonzo. I looked at the slides before hand, it seemed incredibly detailed and well thought through on the metrics and the various implementation issues. Anyone who thinks that setting up a department or commissions or putting off functions and dealing with all this is easy has had nothing to do with it ever before. This is complicated stuff. And not reinventing the wheel and not creating new standards that differ from how the controller City Services auditor, all of that is incredibly thoughtful and i heard a couple of your questions and discussions just now. Also, very helpful and as this continues to move forward, i think were in very good hands with you as a commission and with staff the and with rachel. Thats all i have at this time. indiscernible , thanks for listening. Thank you, caller. And sf gov tv, do we have any other callers . There are no more callers. That concludes Public Comment on this item. Are there any further questions from the commission on this presentation . Thank you, ms. Alonzo. Before we go to the next item, commissioners okay with a short break . Yes. I second that motion. [laughter] i dont know if thats a thing. Five, ten . Ten minutes, please. Okay. This commission will recess for ten minutes thank you, everyone. Welcome back. Hearing no further discussion, secretary fuller, please call the next item. Item 11 is the sanitation and Streets Department budget overview present by devon, budget manager for the department of public works. This is an informational item. Good afternoon, commissioners. Its great to be with you. Im budget director of public works, Devon Mcculley. To begin, i would like to provide you with an overview of the focus areas and Capital Planning session. The budget development, this is the public worksy owe this includes forecasting revenues, and expenditures, budget and labor and nonlabor and interdepartmental costs. As well as establishing mous and Work Authorizations with city departments and next is the capital budget. This is the development and monitoring of the public works and sanitation and Streets Department alan youll capital budget. We coordinate with city, our city colleagues in the City Administrators Office and the Capital Planning committee in development of the tenyear capital plan. Third is budget monitoring. So we review and analyze budgetary compliance. We provide a variety of analysis and reports to our program teams, that includes spending and revenue performance, we also provide Financial Information for various policy budget and legislative reports. Last but certainly not least, we manage the departmental indirect Cost Recovery plan and in support of the Administrative Team and paid off functions and well go into more detail on the indirect cost plan and components of that later in the presentation. Flex is the budget snapshot by bureau and i do want to point out that on the left turn hand side, the first column, fiscal 2122, that was budgeted in San Francisco public works, of course. And in fiscal 23, the second column, approximately 25 of the bureau budgets is in public works and approximately 75 of the budget is in sanitation and streets, of course, thats due to the october 1st start date of sanitation and streets. So 1 is Street Environmental Services. The fiscal 23 budget of 112. 6 million represents a 10 million increase from fiscal 22. This increase is due to the 5. 4 million street cleaning enhancement for cleaning citywide, a 2 million graffiti abatementen meansment, 1. 1 million increase in fleet repair and fuel cost. 800,000 increase in Community Based organization grants. The grant increase is due to a 240,000 grant for citywide pressure washing, 250,000 for partnership with bart for three pit stop locations and 350,000 for the cost of doing business. I want to point out the partnership with bart is not new. Weve been doing that for over five years and were putting that in the annual budget so its appearing now in the annual budget rather than going back to the board of supervisors during the year. Next is urban forestry. The fiscal 23 budget of 51. 2 million represents a 5. 3 million increase from fiscal 22. This increase is due to labor cost, including a 1. 2 million nighttime Maintenance Crew initiative which is new. About 300,000 for sell what street tree nursery position. And about half a Million Dollars for sunset boulevard support enhancement as well. In addition, theres about a half a million for tree maintenance contract and 1. 1 many for equipment purchases. Next is building repair. The fiscal 23 budget of 26. 1 million represents a half a million decline from fiscal 22. The decline is due to reduction in year over year funding for facilities maintenance. In about 50,000 of reduction in temp salaries. I do want to note the building repair and street repair merged. This merger will be reflected in the upcoming fiscal 24 budget. Next is street repair. The fiscal 23 budget of 26 million represents about 100,000 increase from fiscal 22. This is largely due to offsetting actions. The bureau did reassign about 11 Staff Members related to sewer repair to the public works, Public Utilities commission, puc. But did receive an increase of 300,000 for great highway sand removal and about 600,000 for paving, pothole and pavement crack filling equipment. Next is the General Administration budget. So during our last hearing in late july, you may remember public works Bruce Robertson stating that public works is the most complex budget citywide. This is primarily due to how the public Works Administration functions are funded. Through the indirect Cost Recovery plan, the source of virtually all administrative cost are recovered through the overhead recoveries which is which in a budget and accounting perspective is a negative expenditure. This recovery offsets the Budget Expenditures which are the actual spending so due to the spend off and required shared admin services, part of the sanitation and streets expense will be recovered from public works via a work order. That work order recovery is treated as revenue. So unlike [mic is off] the recovery which is a negative expenditure including recovery and the total sas budget is 32. 5 million and however, 15. 5 million of that is really the payment [mic is off] [no audio] expenditures for the department of technology and other work orders. This Grant Program is 9. 2 million or 4 this report programs provided by Community Based organizations including the Pit Stop Programs, citywide pressure washing, giant sweep and the trashcan pressure washing. Next is the facilities maintenance, about a half a Million Dollars, funding for facilities at the operations yard at 2323 cesar chavez [mic is off] next is equipment. 3. 7 million or about 2 and this includes funding for replacement trucks, steamer trucks, aerial lift trucks, packer trucks and flusher trucks. Next is Capital Projects, about 7. 8 million and or 3. 5 . This includes 2. 4 million indiscernible . [mic is off] 1. 8 million for the hvac upgrades. Prior to under recovers, its 1. 8 million or about [mic is off] [no audio] interdepartmental includes those transfers preventions. Nonpercent null materials and supplies, about 11. 6 million or 5 for professional service contracts, system consulting and Software License and other materials and supplies. Programmatic projects, 21. 9 million or 10 . Including dedicated funding for [mic is off] and add back appropriations. [audio difficulties] i want to highlight a couple of main we have two types of positions and we have operating positions and project funded positions for public works and sanitation and streets. The first column are operating positions and for sanitation, that is operating. Theres salary and benefit dollars included in the budget. Project funded positions do not have a salary infringe included in the budget. The dollar was supported by Capital Projects or funds in other locations where the positions were charged to. I apologize to interrupt, mr. Mcculley. Maybe you can come to the clerks table. The other microphones are not broadcasting to the public. How is this . Okay. So, operating positions and project funded positions will both sum up to a total authorized position count which you see there in the third column about 851 fte. And then of course we have attrition included in our budget which is negative salary and benefit dollars. Limiting our taking away the ability to hire these positions and thats 39 fte worth of positions so total funded project positions about 803 positions are those that we have with the dollars to fund in our budget. We did receive new positions in the fiscal 23 budget. About 28 new pcs positions or permanent Civic Service positions and that represented the five commissioner positions, two new commissioner management and support positions and nine new positions for citywide cleaning, nine new positions for nighttime median maintenance and sunset boulevard support and one new position for selma and new two positions for the street, sanitation and streets director office. Next slide, please. Now i want the positions and vacancies so as you can see, at the end of fiscal 22, at the end of june, we had an alltime high of 21. 7 of our positions were vacant. As you can see prepandemic in 2019, we were at 10. 9 . So i think the reason for this increase is really three fold. One, increase in separations because of circumstances facing public works over the last go and a half years. Two, there were delays related to covid and testing requirements were delayed and interview requirements were delayed and third the city administrator staff who of course were, our hr team were also facing short time and vacancies of their own, ask all of that contributed to our increase in vacancies. I do want to point out that there is over 11 million included in our budget for attrition. This is concentrated in one particular bureau or doesnt apply to one particular job class but these positions are while needed, we dont have the dollars to support hiring them in fiscal 23. So for corrective actions and public works has a new hr team coming onboard and we believe with the new hr team inhouse, well be able to expedite that hiring process. Next slide, please. Major programs. So as mentioned, street cleaning, we have a new 4. 8 million for the Community Corridor program which includes 100 staff dedicated to manually sweeping in the commercial corridor citywide. 14 million for the Pit Stop Program. About 2 million for the graffiti abatement pilot program. 3. 9 million for the enhanced in the tenderloin neighborhood and that was a new initiative. Tree maintenance and establishment, we have 22. 3 million from the street tree maintenance. 2. 4 million for street tree plant and establishment in our capital program. And again, another new initiative and enhancement this year, the 1. 2 million for nighttime median maintenance. In the rightofway, we have 1. 4 million for pothole repairs, 700,000 for fence repairs and facilities maintenance. Other projects, 3. 5 million for one hundred curb ramps, repair and expansion and a 3. 6 million grant for construction of the selma street tree nursy and that grant is coming from two agencies, caltrans as well as cal fire. Next slide, please. Now to the indirect cost plan components. And theres three main components of the indirect cost plan. Paid time off, so all city staff take paid time off. Those in sis will take time off. This is all the 12 paid holidays, this is the vacation and all sick time. All of that needs to be recovered through the inter cost plan and overhead recovery rates. Secondly, bureau overhead, so each bureau has its own smaller Administration Team management positions for sis and this is the superintendent of each bureau. Materials ask supplies, copier, leases, other equipment and work orders such as the fuel and vehicle Maintenance Work order from central shops would be bureau overhead. Third of course is the department overhead. So this is the department overhead for instance the Directors Office or the Community Affairs Public Communications and public affairs, all Deputy Directors, fleet and storeroom, the finance and accounting functions, other work orders for instance workers compensation, thats department overhead and that needs to be recovered through the overhead rates. Next slide, please. This is a snapshot of the new department initiatives, so every year we of course, dont get everything we ask for but in this particular budget process, i think we did really really well and these new department initiatives and enhancements. So, we have got a cleaning expansion for 5. 4 million that is funding to expand public works regular cleaning operations citywide. It includes nine new positions and it funds 55 new temporary positions. As mentioned the selma tree nursery, 300,000 and that supports a volunteer coordinator position. 1. 2 for immediatance maintenance so staff will work through the nighttime hours and that is six new positions and the 2 million for the graffiti abatement pilot. So this is a pilot to abate graffiti on private property. Other add backs totaling 2. 2 million. So 11. 1 million of new department initiatives new to our fiscal 23 budget. With that, thank you for your time and i really look forward to working with each of you to build an even better sanitation and streets budget, thank you. Thank you, mr. Mcculley. I apologize. Thank you, mr. Mcculley. Questions for commissioners . Im sorry, i cant help myself. Its awkward being the only one asking questions. Thank you for the presentation, devon. Just it looks like youve got 39 positions that you sort of have attrition savings basically, so is owe on does that work as an assumed vacancy rate for, like, you defund those positions because youre assuming its like four to five percent, i think, off the top of my head, so its youre kind of assuming at any given time that many positions are vacant. Is that the thinking behind it . Commissioner, thats a great question. Yes, so in every year, there is going to be assumed level of staff vacancies and this will be due to delays in hiring or possible retirements or staff taking other city employment so theres an expected level of attrition that would be more typical, so that level of that attrition is to account for that. Thank you. I was noticing its significantly lower than the actual vacancy rate and i think thats kind of interesting dynamic. I know, my employer is up at those levels too, and its a struggle but its worth noting, youre probably going to accrue vacancy savings over the course of the year, im projecting. They do a good job at repriortizing their salary dollars so often times what the division will do is hire more temporary staff to onboard quickly so they dont expect to have a significant amount of salary savings overall. Its a manual cleaning operation and hands and boots on the ground that makes the difference so while it may take longer than optimal to hire fulltime positions, we would like to of course, use those dollars to support staff, onboard temporary staff whenever possible. Thank you, everyone. We will now take Public Comment on this item. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item 10, pardon me, members of the public who wish to speak on item 11, the sanitation and Streets Department budget, pardon me, i got a little mixed up here, may line up against the wall furthest from the door if youre in the hearing room with us or if youre calling in, please dial 4156550001. And the meeting number access code is 24867157568. Followed by pound and pound again. And to raise your hand, dial star three on your touch pad. It appears we do not have any members of the public who are in the room wishing to make Public Comment. Sf gov tv, do we have callers in the queue . And it appears they we have one caller. Please unmute the caller and caller, you have three minutes to speak. I will give you a 30second warning when your time is about to be up. Great. David pillpell on the phone this time. Hopefully you can hear me okay. A few thoughts on the budget, thank you for the presentation. As i look through the slides yesterday, although the numbers seem right, no issue with that. I did not see in the slide deck an org chart and i think its helpful not to just to see the pie chart for the sources and uses but also to see an org chart for how the bureaus come together in the proposed organization. I also didnt see in the bureau breakouts what i thought i saw last time that was called bureau support or Central Services or community program, whatever the thing was that includes the radio room and other things that kind of support the ddo generally, but arent specifically under one of the operating bureaus, so a little clarification on that, i think would help. I guess im sort of evolving my thinking that regardless of the outcome of prop b that the yard will functionally be even if the yard is under dpw, thats really where the heart of the sas operation would be and im struggling to think of what, if any, core dpw funks would still be at the yard or if the new dpw is really housed at that 49 south van ness period. So im just thinking about how this is kind of evolving in read estate and how the bureau team will continue to exist and have those kind of centralized support functions for all of the operating bureaus and just one other thought on vacant positions, although i think we all understand that there are more hiring challenges now, postcovid at the economy, et cetera, my sense is that there was an existing, i wouldnt say a problem but that most people [timer] you have 30 seconds. Thank you. That most people would not remain as a general laborer or truck driver for an entire 30year career and i would expect turnover was higher in sas classification historically and so comparing kind of precovid turnover in those classifications verses now might be interesting as you look to vacancy reporting in the future. I hope thats helpful. Thanks for listening. Thank you, caller. Looking at the queue, it does not appear we have any other callers. Public comment is concluded for this item. [mic is off] any further questions for the commissioners in this presentation . We thank you Devon Mcculley for your presentation, thank you. If there were still, okay. Secretary fuller, how its confusing here. Sorry. So, if theres still okay. Read it out loud i would so we did not have any other Public Commenters during general Public Comment who werent able to speak so we dont have to do the final item and can, you can ask the second question, hearing no further discussion so if all Public Commenters were able to speak, hearing no other discussions, secretary fuller, do you have any other business on the calendar . All general Public Commenters were able to speak during item 8 and we have no further business on the item. Hearing no objection. Oh commissioner harrison . Yeah. [mic is off] give me a few minutes here. I think all of us went on our tour and commissioner kim and i went on one and ill tell you, i was truly impressed with the hotspot crew. I dont know how they do it dayin and dayout out. Its difficult. They treated, you will, the clients with the greatest of compassion and wellbeing. I just it was enlightening and a wonder of experience. Not that the our clients, if you will, suffer any good will but they received it from the department of public works employees. Britney brandon, what a wonderful person. She is knowledgeable. Shes got, like, you say, commissioner, work ethic. All of them do and its amazing. Just, i guess, it shouldnt be amazing because they are here and they do what they do and its a wonderful thing. I never did see that sort of thing in my neighborhood or around San Francisco. And so i needed to Say Something to them about this. Our mention their names. It was how nice they treated people. This tour was a gamut of emotions where the next thing we saw was the pitstop and thats great. I wish there was a way to find out if the numbers of human waste have gone down with these. I understand some charge of it from our director here that in the areas where these porta potties are is has seen that waste go down, the numbers of complaints go down. Thats very positive. Thank you for that. The other was the bay view where, as i say, a gamut of emotions and it was Illegal Dumping and its infuriating to see the massive amount of dumping that private contractors or homeowners doing remodeling or whatever just dump their stuff all over our property. They have no respect for our city or anyone else and who may live in those neighborhoods. The last operation was the yard. I just love those shops. [laughter] i mean, theres some very qualified people out there doing great and wonderful work. One fellow said that during the covid, they went they had a place they went to and they build 90 replacement beds for people who were suffering an overflow from the hospitals. This is phenomenal work that the average person does not hear about and these folks are just great. You know, there was robert milton, fernando mendosa and edgar, im sorry, thats a different. Im not following my own script here. Chris and antonio and chris catera who i talked to and they are amazing people and were lucky to have them and theyre doing what they do, you know. I had to say this and complimenting them because they dont get enough recognition for some of the things they do and so, anyway. Thank you for the time. Thank you, commissioner. Vicechair kwon . Yeah, i really want to echo commissioner harrisons comments and thank you to the staff for the ride along and taing us to see it and as a resident i was amazed at how hard the crew works and how they got it done. I struggle and unless we can find people to be off the streets, streets will never persistently be clean but they keep coming back, the crews, and they get it done and the stuff they have to do is extremely hard work but its really wrapped in compassion. They generally care. They have dialogue with folks on the street and you know, i think most residents in the city are saying, just tell me what i can do to help and you know, also representing an employer, its hard, we always talk about how hard it is to work and these folks come to work everyday and they work extremely hard so i was impressed and touched to see the humility and the work ethic that goes into caring for the city, so my appreciation to the teams doing this, thank you. I have one other item. I forgot to mention our host who i think were extraordinary people. Very knowledgeable and thats Daryl Dilworth and he was our driver and hes a supervisor on the hotspot crew and rachel gordon, our policy communication person, i mean, she just, she knew where to go and show us things. One thing we saw is as an aside was the new nursery. We drove past and you could just see in, and what was going on there and im very interested in that. Thats a good thing. Anyway, so thank you again for your patience. Thank you, commissioners. And i would like to say too, i was inspired by the work and ethic and impression and i feel like dpw got shortchanged and the people on the floor and whoever is in charge of the social media once we get that roll, we need to be on the offensive and get the optics out there because theres a lot of good people doing good work and they are under appreciated and they are admired in the politics and drama that happens that doesnt involve them but this will encourage people to get their lift on the street so we can be proactive in our work. Yes, i wouldnt mind doing it again. I subscribed to management by do going on my own so ill do it on my own every once in a while, so yes thank you. Thank you. Also, mr. Fuller, keeping us all together even when you had covid, so you were on all the ridealongs too but thank you for being with us. Just to note, i tested negative by the time the tours started. Got it. I personally apologize in advance for chair as the extra work im going to be giving you guiding me around by the nose until i figure it out. But with that being said, hearing no objection, i adjourn this meeting. We will meet again on thursday, september 22nd, 2022, at 10 00 a. M. , i believe in this room again. Thats correct. [gavel] meeting adjourned. Thank you, everyone. Happy pride. Everyone. [applause] [crowd noise]. [music] amazing. Incredible for the city. For the citizens. For our visitors and the Fire Department and our Public Safety partners to come together today and to celebrate pride weekend. I came because this is my first, year of pride and i wanted to experience with my mom. Im most excited for everything i will see. Celebrities just surrounded by so many fun people. My besties. Well have a great time. Im most excited about the expression of freedom and things which have to be this way well is no other way to do it. Everybody is wrong and we should all be like the pride people and proud to be who we are we are here to celebrate pride San Francisco pride. It is my first one experiencing the new atmosphere and learning. My first one, too. So close we could not pass it up. It is San Francisco it is the biggest ones can you pass it up. [crowd noise] [music] [crowd noise] it means everything that we have a common goal a Common Operating Picture and a common mission. It is great to be together and walk together and show that. [crowd noise] [sirens]. The message is the lbgtq community is reflect in the our Police Department in San Francisco. It sends a message that there are members of the department the Police Department, sheriffs department, Fire Department that are just like the people that we encounter in San Francisco. And i think it sends a message of hope the more we honor the lbgtq community now, the stronger we can be in standing up against those that dont want our representation. [crowd noise] [music] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish]. [crowd noise] [music] [music] [drums] [crowd noise] this is my first time at the San Francisco pride even though i have been here a couple years, i felt like now was the time to go. Um really just coming to show my support and love for the whole community out here. Um, im really excited to be here today. I think i am most excited be such an arc mazing Community Come together. Just the love and support i think that especially in San Francisco, um, people bring together it is this such a deep feeling. And im excited feel that today. [crowd noise] [music] [music] [sirens] [music] [crowd noise] whoa [music] [cars honking] [sirens] [music] [horns] we never been to a parade or Something Like that. Im excited for the parade never been to an actual pride parade. Pretty pumped. [crowd noise] [music] im excited celebrate with all of my queer people and to stand together in a hard time like we affirm each other and support each other. Same, ditto. [laughter]. [music] [crowd noise]. You love who you want to love happy pride. Happy pride go San Francisco happy pride happy pride. Happy frigin pride, everybody. [music] [music] happy pride of [laughter] [music] my name is holly doudiet. H2 firefighter with the San Franciscowired. What inspired me to be a firefighter was in 2008 i graduated college. The recession had happened so there werent any jobs. I was having troublefinding a job. And i was kind of looking around. My dad was a firefighter and i thought what a great career he had. So i asked my dad, never thinking about it at first before. I said dad, what you think about me being afirefighter and he goes yeah, thatwould be a good idea. I took some classes, i ended up loving it. I grew up and actually and i think it was a good fit for me because its a physical job and its enjoyable. You never know whatyoure going to get and its a team effort. I first realized i was part of the Lgbt Community in sixth grade. I looked on the other side of the classroom and i sawthis girl i thought was really attractive and i thought i want to be her boyfriend. Though my experiences in the city growing up in the city and countyof San Francisco were always verypositive. I came out in high school. I actually ended up being prom king my senior year in high school and a lot of peoplewere very supportive. Myparents were very supportive. They just let me do my thing and my dad knew of a lot of lesbian women in the Fire Departmentthe time because he was a San Francisco firefighter. For me its very important to be part of a community and organization and an agency that supports my lgbtq status because if youre not yourself, how can you perform to the best of your abilities . Youre always holding back in some way whether its your personality or your abilities or your overall skills and with agency that supports me being a lesbian i can truly be myself. I can be happy. I can be social with other people. It makes me want to work as a team and we all work Better Together when we are happier and we can be ourselves. [music] call the meeting to orders welcome to the tuesday, august 16th, 2022 hybrid in person and Virtual Meeting of the Entertainment Commission im ben bleiman the commission president. This meeting is in hybrid format in city hall room 416 broadcasts on sfgov. Org and can call in 6699006