That concludes my presentation. Im available for questions. Thank you, ms. Covy. Supervisors, any questions . Yes, please. Thank you for the presentation and your work on the guidelines for the clerks budget. A question about premium pay. Could you go into a little deeper describing what that is . What are the changes that youre proposing, what is currently the status of premium pay for yes, specifically, if were talking about the legislative premium pay for longevity, the legislative aide is working for the same supervisor for a period of four years and the fifth year they are working at the top step and they are entitled to an additional percentage based upon the mou for retention and any special skill the supervisor may feel that they have. The bilingual premium pay, i understand that it is the supervisor who is working with the legislative staff. If the supervisor feels that the number of hours per day the legislative aide is utilizing of the extra language or languages, in some ca
Negotiations. Mr. Roses group has proposed a contract hourly rate increase as the contract rates did not increase from 2010 to 2013. At the committees direction in january, i will make a recommendation for a cola increase in the draft budget and will work with chair farrell on that proposal. Third, i propose increase funding for bilingual premium pay and legislative assistant premium pay as required through ifpte local 21s mou. Some of the legislative aides regularly provide stern says of english use [speaker not understood]. They are entitled to bilingual premium pay in addition. The department expects that more legislative aides will become eligible for the legislative assistant premium in fiscal year 1415 and 1516. This will add approximately 25,000 to the departments budget. The job class changes in the clerks office. As the committee may recall, i have made several changes throughout the years. Some positions weve downgraded as weve seen high profile retirements and as weve hired
Landmarks in Historic Districts and others, to enter into a maintenance contract with the city, basically agreeing to specific forms of improvements and maintenance to maintain and improve the historic integrity of these Historic Properties in exchange, the Property Owner receives a tax abatement. The contract is a 10year contract and it can be renewed over time. In San Francisco, we have had very, very few mills act contracts and almost none in terms of smaller properties because that process was so cumbersome and expensive and unpredictable and so forth. So, last year i authored legislation that this board passed unanimously to streamline our mills act contract process to set clear timetables with the Planning Department and with the Assessors Office and to make it easier process for people to participate in. We passed that earlier this year. So, we now have what i believe is our first grouping of smaller properties coming forward with mills act contracts as part of our annual mills
Very exciting because for the first time, maybe ever, were starting to see Small Properties being able to participate in the Mills Act Program. The mills act is a state law that allows certain Historic Properties, particularly landmarks in Historic Districts and others, to enter into a maintenance contract with the city, basically agreeing to specific forms of improvements and maintenance to maintain and improve the historic integrity of these Historic Properties in exchange, the Property Owner receives a tax abatement. The contract is a 10year contract and it can be renewed over time. In San Francisco, we have had very, very few mills act contracts and almost none in terms of smaller properties because that process was so cumbersome and expensive and unpredictable and so forth. So, last year i authored legislation that this board passed unanimously to streamline our mills act contract process to set clear timetables with the Planning Department and with the Assessors Office and to mak
Thank you very much. We have the clerk of our board, ms. Angela covy here to report on the item. Thank you [speaker not understood]. Allowing our item to be placed on this agenda today for review. I am before you today to receive the committees budget guidelines for the board of supervisors budget. The department will provide the draft budget to the committee in january. ~ where we will propose recommendations that youll hear today as well as any others that i may hear from the committee. Ill take a moment. I have six quick slides that we can review. The first slide is the expenditures by category for the current year 1314. As you can see, the largest expenditure area is staff, making up 75 of this years budget at 9. 7 million. The breakdown by nonpersonnel serve as at 21 of the budget which is allocated primarily to the budget and legislative Analyst Services in addition to the citys cafr. The next slide is the expenditures by division. Its a relatively small department, so, its based