Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171211

Lets just hope that people have a moral conscience and thats farfetched, i know, and well pushback on this but i think that we are i mean, its hard to see what the changes might be because everything is in flux but just looking at this i think that it could really hit a lot of San Francisco, but what were trying to do to get people middleclass folks in sa San Francisco to invest in a small piece of real estate here, its going to be detrimental to that effort. Supervisor cohen definitely. Any other tax wisdom that you want to share with us . Not at this moment. Ill turn it over to cindy comerford from the department of Public Health with an update on affordable care. Supervisor cohen okay. Okay, good afternoon supervisors, my name is cindy comerford and i manage the policy and planning at the department of Public Health and today im going to give a very brief presentation on issues that Impact Health care reform. These are not all specifically around the a. C. A. But somehow impact our ability to provide health care in San Francisco. So im going to talk about six issues that are on the slide in front of you. Im going to give a very brief update on each one and some of the funding mechanisms, theyre very complex so im happy to answer any questions at the end. So the first item michelle already talked about at length which is tax reform and tax reform could potentially impact the Health Care Landscape very significantly. As michelle said, one of the biggest issues is the repeal of the individual mandate. This is a component of the a. C. A. That requires most individuals to have Health Insurance or face a tax penalty. This is in the senate bill. There are also a couple other items within tax reform specifically, the elimination of the medical expense deduction and the elimination of the Student Interest deduction, and also the orphan drug industry deduction is eliminated. Or capped within the senate bill. And these bills are in Conference Committee right now and were not entirely clear whether the house will adopt the senates bill. It kind of goes back and forth each day. This morning it seemed more likely that they would include the individual mandate but a couple days ago that didnt seem feasible. So its still pretty fluid on whats going to happen. The potential impact of repealing the individual mandate would mean 13 Million People would have would not have insurance. And it also impacts premiums by causing them to increase. So that 13 million translates if you do a straight statistical calculation about 35,000 residents in San Francisco. In addition, since the tax cuts are so large it could potentially trigger an acrosstheboard spending cuts and this would impact medicare. And in order for it not to have impact on medicare, there would have to be federal legislation passed that would protect these Additional Health care programs. So the next item that ill talk about is the childrens Health Insurance program and also known as chip. And chip is a federal and state partnership that is designed to provide lowincome children with Health Insurance coverage. This Program Provides Health Insurance to about 1. 3 Million People in california under the age of 19. So the funding for this program expired in the end of september. And traditionally this program has enjoyed bipartisan support but, unfortunately, its kind of become a political tool. In october, the house did pass a bill that would extend this funding for another five years. It was passed primarily along party lines and mostly rejected by the democrats because of two reasons. One, it took funding from the prevention and Public Health care fund which is the only federal dedicated fund to Public Health. And it also changed the window in which people could be late on their Health Insurance premiums and so it would increase the amount of people that would get kicked off their Health Care Plan for nonpayment. And so the Senate Negotiations in the senate have stalled, right now potentially we could see a bill passed by the end of the year, although right now i think that Congress Main priority is around tax reform. So its unsure whats going to happen and the a. C. A. Has i maintenance of effort clause which requires the states to continue this program through the year 2019. So california would have to pass legislation to determine how it would move forward with funding this program in the absence of a bill being passed by the end of this year. And theres approximately 15,000 children in San Francisco that benefit from this program. So the next item is the disproportional hospital payments and its known as dish payments this makes payments to hospitals that serve large number of medicaid and underinsured individuals. So based on the assumption that with the aeca that there would be more increased coverage and less individuals uncompensated it called for a reduction in these payments. So these payments have been scheduled within d. P. H. s budget and they were to start in the year 2014 and they were delayed to 2017, but in the chip bill that we just talked about that the house passed it has a delay of another two years, but then having a really steep reduction after that. So right now we have a scheduled 11 million reduction for this fiscal year that would increase to about 39 million by the year 2024. And these payment schedules may change depending on what happened at the federal level. The next item is Community Health center funding. And Community Health centers are communitybased and patientdirected organizations that typically serve communities that have limited access to health care. So federal grants are a key component of the funding for these Health Care Centers through the Health Center trust fund which includes both discretionary and mandatory funding. So as are the chip bill, this funding the mandatory portion of this funding sunsetted in september. And the house bill did include funding for Community Health centers for another two years. So california could potentially lose over 300 million in funds if congress does not extend this funding for over 1,200 Community Health centers in california. The San Francisco Community Clinic consortium which is a collective of the San Francisco Community Health centers, estimates that the funding loss to San Francisco would be between 5 million to 10 million with about a Million Dollar impact to d. P. H. And the next federal item that i want to talk about is the Opioid Crisis funding. This is not directly tied to the a. C. A. But there are some potential avenues to increase funding to d. P. H. So i wanted to mention it and i know that everyone here is already aware of the Opioid Crisis. In 2016, we had more than 64,000 people nationwide die of overdoses to opioids. And drug overdoses are now the leading caused of injury and death within the United States. So it was expected that our Current Administration would act on this issue and in october our current president declared the Opioid Crisis a Public Health emergency. And in november, trumps commission on the Opioid Crisis released its final report with the recommendations on how to handle this and so it had 56 different recommendations. Last week the House Committee started having hearings on this report and then the white house appointed Kellyanne Conway to lead this effort. So the Public Health Emergency Declaration doesnt provide any direct funding to d. P. H. But it does open up some avenues to increase addiction treatments and this is specifically around eliminating the i. M. D. Exclusion so that we would be able to get reimbursement for hospital stays through medicare and also it would increase the access for medical assisted treatment. And the last item that ill present on is our 340b drug discount program. This is a federal program that requires drug manufacturers to provide outpatient drugs to Eligible Health Care Organizations at reduced prices. So its a safety net hospitals such as s. F. General buy these drugs at a discount from pharmaceutical companies and then theyll reimbus for those services from medicare and extend those savings through patient care. In november, it was announced, a final rule that cut the 340b payments, a lawsuit has been filed by hospital groups to prevent this from happening and two house of representatives have introduced a bill that would also prevent this cut. This final rule would impact would reduce the programs revenue by about 28 so its 1. 6 billion nationwide and the impact to d. P. H. Would have been about half a Million Dollars. So those are some of the federal policies that are potentially impacting d. P. H. And im happy to answer any questions at this time. Supervisor cohen thank you, cynthia, i appreciate the very thorough and important update. Colleagues, any questions at this time . No . Seeing no questions. One question. Supervisor fewer seeing that this could really supervisor fewer seeing that this could effect a lot of people in San Francisco, what are our plans do we have any plans if these were to go through . And how do we intend to backfill some of these services or do we . So a lot of the federal policy changes would then impact the state so i think that our first line of defense is really working with the state legislation to see how we can mitigate the local impact. So i think that a lot of these issues are really fluid and theyre changing daybyday and so we dont have a formalized plan, but a lot of these programs go through medica well other thal, sowell see legislad on a state level to combat these issues at a federal level. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Supervisor cohen thank yo you. Heavy subject matter. Thank you. Colleagues any other questions and we can go to Public Comments on items one and two. Ladies and gentlemen, if theres anyone that like to speak on items one por or two, come on u. Hello, im dina lawn, the Vice President of internal affairs for the San Francisco clinic consortium. As cynthia mentioned were a coalition of the nonprofit coalitions and the northeast medical services, etc. I made an error in supplying information to d. P. H. And i want to correct that and to talk briefly about the impact of the Health Centers fund not being renewed. I had originally given an estimate of 5 million to 10 million and in doing that i made an error because i didnt realize that the same fund had contained funding for our health care for the Homeless Program. So the San Francisco Community Clinic consortium is the recipient for San Francisco of the health care for the homeless funds and we then subgrant those funds to several of our clinics and to several of the d. P. H. Clinics, and we also run a very effective outreach van that goes around the city to certain places and provides kind of urgent care but more importantly a connection to primary care for any Homeless People that we can convince that they want to be welcomed into one of our clinics or the d. P. H. Clinics and enroll in whatever they are eligible for and get health care. We dont usually come before you very much and the reason for that is that of all of the nonprofit Community Clinics only 4 of our funding comes from the county and the majority is from the state and the federal government. This money is critically important for our clinics and especially for our health care for the Homeless Program and it will have an impact on the entire city so we want to make sure, a, that we corrected the number which should be 14. 4 million and make it clear that this is absolutely crucial and we have communicated with nancy plohse and harris and finestein are all onboard and were hoping that the res liewgdz to we hope for a res liewgdz inresolution on this. Supervisor cohen thank you, i appreciate your perspective and thank you for sharing it. Any other member of the public that would like to share . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and i want to comment on a couple things, we voted recently on the release of a 9 million reserve to backfill the federal and state impacts so i thought that it was important to have this hearing to get a timely update on the overall federal budget. Specifically the proposed federal tax plan and how its going to relate and impact our local budget so thank you for your presentation, both from the Controllers Office and now from the budget Directors Office on more doom and gloom, i hope not, i dont know. Alyssa . So what were going to do now is were going to not take a vote on items one and two but were going to take a motion to hear and file items one and two and we will probably call them up again in the new year once we have a final idea of where the federal tax cuts will come. So melissa, are you just for clarification i thought that you were presenting on item 22, is that right . Okay, so let me get my motion and we will call your item, okay . So id like to make a motion that we have heard and like to file items 1 and 2. So moved. Supervisor cohen thank you, we can take that madam clerk. Clerk the motion must be made by a member of the federal select committee. Supervisor cohen thank you. So i believe that i am a member and supervisor fewer is here, perhaps you can make a motion acknowledging that we have heard this hearing. Supervisor fewer thank you, chair cohen so, yes, we have heard these two items and id make a motion to file them. Thank you. Supervisor cohen i appreciate that. Thank you, well take that without objection. So now well pivot and go back to our regular Budget Committee meeting and we still have a quorum and i want to recognize item were going to call item 22. Clerk item 22, ordinance appropriating 9. 6 million from state and federal contingency reserve to backfill the loss of state Inhome Supportive Services and revenue at 4. 5 million and fund the anticipated payment liability to the state for the ihss maintenance and the effort due to the anticipated change it is at the state level of approximately 4. 8 million. Supervisor cohen i would like to adjourn the federal select committee at this time. That meeting is adjourned and thank you, supervisor fewer, for standing in and so we called item 22 and i want to give adam cray from the Mayors Office of housing, well hear from you next. Thank you. Melissa, youre next. Item 22 is up. Great, thank you, chair cohen and im Melissa Whitehouse and the mayors director. And we released budget instructions to the departments and we talked a lot about the risks and the issues that you all just addressed and i think that similarly relate sid relate supplemental that ill talk about today and so the board and the mayor were very smart and thinking ahead to budget a 10 million state and federal unknown impacts reserve in the 20172018 and 20182019 budget and i appreciate the willingness to do that and today i will talk about a 9. 6 million appropriation of that amount, so almost the entire amount. We have representatives from the citys administrators office, and d. P. H. , tracy packer and from h. S. A. , dan caplin, so if you have additional questions on any of the uses in the supplemental let me know and ill do a walkthrough at a high level right now. So as i just stated we had 10 million reserve in the budget and at the time that we proposed the budget, the board of supervisors on june 1st we did not know if this reserve would be needed or not needed and as you can see today we are asking you to appropriate almost the entire amount right now. And so what is that going to be used for . The largest portion by far will be on the inhome support Services Program and the funding for grants and daka support. So heres a dollar value, so as you can see 8. 8 million to the inhome support Services Program, about 700,000 for the department of Public Health for h. I. V. aids cuts and about 70,000 for dhaka support through the office through the City Administrators Office for immigrant affairs. And so im going to go over these briefly and if you have detailed questions ill defer to the departments and i was remiss at the beginning and not thinking that the Budget Analyst Office thank you ar thanking the report and were in agreement with it. And so for the inhome support Services Program, this Program Provides services to 22,000 senior and disabled San Franciscoians to help them to remain their homes and we had negotiated with the state a maintenance effort Cost Increases an in about 2011 and o we anticipated them to grow from a rate of 80. 7 million in 20162017 to 95. 9 million to 2021202 and after the governors billion came out last january with a large cut to counties on this Entitlement Program and then the may revised showed reductions that we budgeted of about 7 million and 14 million in 20172018 and 20182019 respectively but the detailed regulations had not come out and that came out after the adopted budget by the mayor and the board and it turned out that the specific recommendations made this program a much larger cost shift than we had originally anticipated and in the current year it went from a 7 million impact sorry the impact increased by almost 9 million that is included in the supplemental that you see today and i think that well come to see you in january to talk about the updated joint report which is a report that our office does with the Controllers Office and the budget analyst which is going to show that these costs are going up almost 80 million annually by the fifth year of this cost shift from the state so thats what this chart is showing you. And here is a detailed cost breakdown of the impacts that i mentioned. So i apologize, the 11 million that we assumed of the hit in 20172018 is closer to 20 million and the difference is the 9 million that is in the supplemental today. So this is a great concern for us and something that well be highlighting a lot in the mayors budget instructions and in the joint report. Next we found out in november that the c. D. C. Notified us that wed receive a 1. 4 million for h. I. V. aids around surveillance and prevention and so this starts in january 2018 which is why we brought the supplemental at the end of 2017 for your consideration. And this is just backfilling, and well have to deal with the ongoing cut in next years twoyear budget. And lastly i was approached by adrian pond and several supervisors this year after the announcement from the federal government around daka and about the need to really streamline and to speed up the waiver of the 495 application fee for recipients that were applying before the october 5th deadline and we did agree to move forward with this and we really didnt have time to wait and i am really proud of the department and all of the good work they did. To make sure that we got 142 people additionally to have their fees waiverred and apply for daka before the october 5th deadline and thats included in this supplemental. And because we got asked a couple questions about other funding provided in the budget around Immigration Services over the past couple years championed by the mayor and this board we wanted to include a slide on that and all of the money that could have been used to fund those fee waivers had been exhausted which is why we authorized the department to move forward with additional funding. And that concludes my presentation and im happy to take any questions and thank you for your time today. Supervisor cohen thank you for your presentation and an incredibly thoughtful and high level. I dont know if theres any other level of detail that you want well, thank you. Im glad that we had the foresight to set aside the 9 million. Billion dollars. So thank you for that. Colleagues, supervisor tang i see that you have a question . Thank you so much. So i know that the item before us today is regarding a 9. 9. 5 million funding that we would have to backfill all of these cuts, but im just wondering if you could speak a little bit more towards kind of the ongoing impact that all of this will have on our citys budget . I mean, this is 9. 6 million fill right now but i do anticipate that it will be a lot more down the line . Absolutely, supervisor tang, thank you for your question. So one of the things that could impact our current year budget and that were unclear on is on our sanctuary city status and we get about 1. 5 million to 1. 6 million that supports staff positions on this area so this is something that were watching in the current year and for the budget year that youre totally right that this committee is going to be grappling along with the mayor of absorbing the ongoing costs. So right now in this supplemental the ihss cost impacts of almost 9 million in the current year on top of what we had budgeted is just onetime Revenue Source supporting an ongoing cost increase and it gets even worse in the outyears as the chart shows and well have to figure out how to include that in the mayors budget that we will propose on june 1st so thats something that were actively thinking about and also same thing with the aids cuts and thats an ongoing cut that we are using a onetime reserve to fill about half of the year and thats something that well have to figure out by june 1st how to address these cuts before we propose a balanced budget t to u all on june 1st. The daca funding was a onetime sorry, onetime source for onetime use and just stepping back you just all heard from the Controllers Office and the department of Package Health and i think that theres much more risk also around federal budget and tax reform and Health Care Changes that were watching actively and well report back to you whenever you call the committee and then also when we do the joint report update in march 2018. But its definitely something to watch. Thank you very much for that. And, you know, this is two members of the board right now, me and chair cohen, but, certainly, i do hope that this message, you know, gets through to the rest of our colleagues because although there are generally about five members on the Budget Committee this is a real problem that we have coming down from our state and federal governments, unfortunately. So i hope that well keep all of this in mind as we move forward in the budget process in the spring. Supervisor cohen thank you, supervisor. Before we commence to Public Comment id like to hear from the budget legislative analyst, i believe that theres some thoughts over there. Yes, i am echoing some of what miss whitehouse is saying and on page 37 37, of our reporn the 9. 6 million, 8. 8 million is for the increased county share and city share for the ihss program and we do detail what those details are in terms of the costs and it includes not only the cost share with the state but also increases for the citys minimum wage and other city costs. And then on page 38, we detail sort of the changes, the d. P. H. Budget had estimated 6. 4 mill dwromillion for surveillance ane grant award was only 5 million and this grant begins on january 1st, the revised amount. So the request for approximately 700,000 from the supplemental is about six months backfill reduction in the grant. And then the remainder, of course, is the 72,000 allocated for fee waivers for the daca program. And we do recommend approval. Supervisor cohen thank you for the recommendation. Lets go to the Public Comment section. Any member of the public to come and speak come up to the podium and well give you two minutes. Hi. Im good morning, everybody. My name is mr. Coryand, the staff from the local 2015 and we represent the workers in San Francisco county and we have our members going to speak in spanish and going to use translation. Supervisor cohen well allow four minutes for translation. [speaking spanish] fly maimy name is claudia ana member of the local 2016. [speaking spanish] supervisor cohen theres an additional mike for you so you dont have to share the mike. I just wanted to point that out. Thank you. [speaking spanish] im here today to ask you please to approve the funds for the program as assessed and to pass the m. C. O. , the minimum compensation ordinance, because im living here in San Francisco and i want to stay living in San Francisco and working in San Francisco. [speaking spanish] that is very important because our clients, the consumer, the people with the elderly people cannot stay living in their own houses, they dont need to go to a nursing home that is going to be more expensive for the city and the county. [speaking spanish] and i hope that youre going to pass this and thank you very much. Supervisor cohen thank you very much and just for clarification, the agenda item that were discussing today is a 9 billion supplemental and not the m. C. O. Is not calendared but were working to get this calendared as soon as possible and thank you for your testimony. Any other members of the public to speak, come on and do so. This is for item 22. Please come on up. You can speak from any microphone. Welcome. Hi, so my name is crystal wa and im the staff board at the local 2015 for San Francisco county and im here for helping her to translate. Hello. [speaking spanish] [speaking Foreign Language]. Hi, everyone, good afternoon, i am anita lau and im coming here to ask the mayor and the board of supervisors to continue to support the San Francisco living wage bill which is also called m. C. O. [speaking Foreign Language language]. So the current hour that we have paid right now is already its already with the reason why we set up this m. C. O. Like 15 years ago. So it also cannot compare with the minimum wage that we have in San Francisco right now. [speaking Foreign Language language]. So we appreciate the support of the supervisors here and to also bring other ideas to add to m. C. O. , so to raise the pay centers in San Francisco. [speaking Foreign Language language]. So were going to represent as the 19,000 Homecare Workers in San Francisco and we hope that all of the supervisors can support us so we can live we can survive in this city. Thank you. Supervisor cohen thank yo you. Anyone else that would like to speak on these items . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor tang. So ill make a motion then to approve item 22. And send it to the full board for a positive recommendation. As a committee report. Supervisor cohen thank you, well take that without objection. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen we need to take a twominute recess. Thankittee back to order. All right, thank you. This meeting is called into order. Item 21. Clerk item 21, authorizing the issueance and sale of multifamily housing Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount to not exceed 110 million for financing for the Acquisition Development and construction of a multirental Housing Project located at 2675 fulton street and 973 housing. Supervisor cohen 2456r7bg, we have mr. Cray here to speak to the motion. So good afternoon, chair cohen and supervisor tang. And as you mentioned im adam cray for the housing come Community Development and here to have a fund Bond Development for and the conduit funding and the city is not providing any gap funding or subsidy to this particular project. And 2675 fulsome is a 117 mixed unit income building between 22nd and 23rd streets in the Mission District and 20 of the units serve households and the proper amenities include 5100 square feet of art gallery use and courtyard and large rooftop space and underground parking area where folks will be able to charge their electric cars and park bicycles and things of that nature. And as the site is a vacant lot no tenants are displaced by the development. In terms of what has changed since the resolution a few months ago the Development Team has made a lot of progress since i presented that resolution for the project to the Committee Just two months ago and theres tax Credit Investors and bond council and other attorneys and the citys municipal advisor and the Financing Team has met several times and developed the find bond documents before you. And barring any unforeseen problems the developer is a week away from securing an allocation from the California Debt Allocation Committee as well. And as for a timeline on this project w anticipate it to close in two weeks and its trying to avoid the negative consequences of the proposed repeal of private activity bonds in h. R. 1 so its pushing to close before the end of the year to preserve the tax exempt status of the bonds and the tax credits that result. And construction is expected to be complete by march 2020. The last thing to mention before closing is that in your packet the bond Purchase Agreement has been amended to include the name of the bond purchaser as Deutsche Bank incorporated and it was the New York Branch previous and its been clarified that Deutsche Bank incorporated. And on behalf of the Mayors Office of Community Development i thank you for your consideration today and i look forward to your support for this project and i will answer any questions that you may have. Supervisor cohen thank you very much, i appreciate it. Supervisor tang, any questions. Lets go to Public Comment. Seeing no Public Comment Public Comment is closed. All right to send it to the full board as a committee report. Supervisor cohen without objection. Okay, next item please. I believe this is the last item, item 23. Clerk item 23 hearing to consider the review and approval of the budget guidelines for the board of supervisors and the clerk of the board annual budget years, 20182019 and 20192020. Supervisor cohen thank you. Welcome to the chamber. Thank you, chair cohen and supervisor tang, and i am angela calvillo, the clerk of the board and im here with my colleague who prepared our presentations. The board needs to provide budget instructions to assist the department of the board of supervisors in developing its proposed budget during the month of december and today i will present a high level recap of the current year budget and brief updates for projects that are in progress or nearing completion. I will continue to meet with the members of the board to learn about their suggested initiatives and return by february with the draft budget for your review. And i have just a very quick couple slides. And the next three provide brief updates for the projects coming to fruition in the next couple weeks and the first i will point out is the High Resolution touch panel system that has one bug to be worked out by january and it will be complete and you can view the departmentations with more clarity. And im pleased to inform you that the fourth phase of the assessment process and the antiquated support supports the Business Operations and work flow and on slide 3 the Management System and the records repository systems are concurrent and we will create a customized system to implement the state charter of local laws and board rules that make up our legislative process and that project will have citywide implication as it impacts every department. And it should be rolled out by august 2015. And this is a project, and in february or june we may return with the new costs to be associated with the second and third phases. And our data should be integrated into the new l. M. S. System as well. And theres the constituent Management System and it was conducted of all offices to meet the management demands of the district offices and the city currently has an Enterprise Agreement with the sales source and were hoping to jump on to that, for the solution, and we have been vetting the solution to ensure that its configurable to the needs of the district offices and by february or june the proposed budget will have the new plugged in numbers and the costs associated with that important project. Slide five, these graphics show that the departments current year budget 15. 7 million and the chart on the left shows expenditures by divisions and these are rea relatively unchand year to year and the table on the right shows expenditures by category and provides detail within each category and the largest cost for the department is salary and benefits at 74 of the total budget and growth is attributed to the natural wage base growth and benefits by the m. O. U. Increases yeartoyear and the committee and the board as a whole has kept our fulltime employee or f. T. E. Count the same over the last 20 years and the next largest category is nonpersonnel services at 23 of which budget and legislative Analyst Services makes up the majority and the costs is at 2. 2 million currently and material and supplies makes up the remainder of that line item. And, finally, our policy direction for your consideration, the general Fund Appropriation for lavco currently because the budget process is on a different timeline than ours they have yet to make their request, if theyre making one, and currently they have yet to make that. A maximum amount that lavco is entitled to is approximately 300,000 and if theres a request it should be reflected in the february or the june budget and were modernizing the policy and were in the process of updating it to include meals for official business consistent with the controllers city policy to cover trainers for Office Retreats and strategic planning. There is no budgetary impact for these proposed changes and im just being transparent with those changes for the public. And a new issue that will also not have a budgetary impact is that the assessment appeals Board Members are reviewing their stipend based upon a survey of other jurisdictions and they may propose a slight increase to the board which i will move via an ordinance through the board come the new year. And as mentioned earlier by june or if not earlier and well have the next phase funding request for the constituent management project in the l. M. S. And at this point if these items are agreeable to you i will come back in february with the proposed budget and im available for your questions or that concludes our presentation. Thank you. Supervisor cohen thank you, thank you for your thoughtfulness and transparency. Supervisor tang you have any remarks . Miss calvillo we will go to Public Comment. Any member of the public that would like to comment on the item . Item 23. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. And thank you. May i get a motion. Thank you, so ill make a motion to file the hearing then . Supervisor cohen thank you. All right, well accept that motion unanimously. Thank you. Madam clerk, any other business before this body . Clerk no further business. Supervisor cohen thank you, we are adjourned. My name is Angela Wilson and im an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isnt that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if San Francisco that have only been one thing. Im all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of were in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay 25 for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started Affordable Housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a womens field in most of world just here in United States it is that pay a mans job im an encountered woman and raise a son and teach i am who respect woman i consider all womens who work here to be impoverished and strong in San Francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and thats a challenge in the town so many people chasing money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion. Im the ive been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up im definitely the only female here i fell in love i love setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and thats how i got here today Something Special to have a female here a male dominated field so i think that it is very special to have women and especially like it is going at it you know im a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. The sad thing the building is sold im renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business it is a constant struggle to maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something im proud of if you want to get a job at Affordable Housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer Ferry Terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to lea job. My name is heather im an society engineer start as an interim about the knowing that and after completed my certificates i received my professional engineering licenses and became a an social engineer i work on a chain of multi engineering we work on a plan through conduct and take ownership and are involved from the beginning to the he said end i take a lot of pride. Where you, you planning on uss this. At the top. At the top of interference. Its regarding ive been given more challenging projects working as a designer on smaller projects to tuvenl managing project im a huge go property of getting revolved in jerry, it is a field that month women dont know about the more educated theyll apply for college i love the professionals and the projects i work with its very one of the major tasks i was asked to do is Water System Improvement Program and one thing i looked at is about the 4. 8 billion dollars wurthd of work and a lot of the work was regional. We looked at how can we make sure that we provide opportunities for san franciscans and people in the region and so we looked at ways we can expand our local San Francisco lb program. So, we thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. I was on the First Committee back about 10 years ago and the job changed over time. In the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. We wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. Our second job was to help the sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. I like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to Small Businesses and lots of creative ways. Help the community as well. There is so much infrastructure going on and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. My faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many Small Businesses. [inaudible] Women Owned Business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. It is a great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. Everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc. He got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. Pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one. It completely changed his business. My name is nancy [inaudible] the Office Manager and bid coordinator for [inaudible] construction. Worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. Today we are doing Site Maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. In order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. This is a Successful Program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. The sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of Capital Program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. That is what warms my heart. My name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. Bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. Small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of San Francisco we can also perform services. This program had tremendous impact to the region. In fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. This has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded 50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. And, i significantly helped the business. It is one of the major contributors to. [gavel] the meeting will come to order. This is november 30, 2017 regulr meeting of the commission. I am sandra lee fewer joined bye chair cynthia pollock on my rigd Hillary Ronen on my left