President yee good morning. We have a special treat for you guys today. This im going to welcome you not to the Budget Committee, but the Budget Committee will just follow this special meeting very shortly, so i want to say that welcome to the june 20, 2019 special meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. [roll call] president yee thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, since this is considered a Board Meeting, a full Board Meeting, i would like you to please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, Lorenzo Bryant and colin cooley, who record each of the proceedings and make the transcripts available online. President yee madam clerk, colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse the five members that are not here . Do i have to name the five members . Clerk yes. President yee can you please name the five members . Clerk that would be mar, peskin, ronen, walton, and safai. President yee okay. Can we take that without objection . Okay. Madam clerk, can you please call items 1 and 2. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. President yee okay. Colleagues, these are these two items are pretty similar to the ones that we passed at our Board Meeting on tuesday. There were about 29ish, 29 to 27 of them, so this is a continuing of those many, many items in which the h. R. Did a fantastic job working with our labor leaders in coming to these m. O. U. S. So colleagues, are there any comments or questions or anything . Seeing none, then i believe i should be taking Public Comments on these two items no Public Comments on these two items, which is fantastic. Without objection, then madam clerk clerk would you like to take roll . President yee do i need a motion . Clerk just roll call. President yee how simple. Just a roll call. Clerk on item 1 [roll call] clerk there are six ayes. President yee these pass on first reading. Madam clerk, is there any other business before us today . Clerk we do need to take general Public Comment. President yee okay. Are there any general Public Comments at this point . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, are there any other business . Clerk that concludes the business of the board today. President yee okay. And colleagues, this brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk we just asked that, so this special Board Meeting is now adjourned. Its back to you. Chair fewer good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the june 20, 2019 special meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. I am joined by supervisors stefani, mandelman, ronen, and yee. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you, madam clerk. Id just like to say welcome, everybody, to the chambers and good morning and with the comto the budget and welcome to the budget and finance committee. We are on day two of our departmental presentations to hear the budget and legislative analysts. I also want to start our opening by saying that i recognize that this process of deciding the process can sometimes be adversarial. I was just speaking to supervisor mandelman. My whole family had been Public Servants, and i honor all of us who have been Public Servants. So i know when we have disagreements about budgets, we are not doing it for personal gain, we are doing it because we think we can best serve the public in this way. On behalf of all the san franciscans, i want to say thank you for serving us. I know many of you could get jobs in the private sector, that you could make a lot more money and actually have a lot less headaches, but this work of Public Service is so profound, it is so important, that we have Public Servants like you that come here into the court i mean, to this chamber today, and for all the work you do every day, and you actually serve the people of San Francisco. I think there is no greater honor, but theres also no greater responsibility, so i want to thank you all. I think, also, that the committee that is here, the five of us here are to ensure that the public dollars are being spent in the most effective way. We are the last fire wall between the taxpayer and city government. It is our responsibility as we sit here to represent all hard working san franciscans that our taxes go to to fund the services of this city. And so we hope to do them honor, too, today. And i would say to my colleagues that if you dont approach this job with a little bit of anxiety and a little bit of fear, id say youre not doing your job right. So first, a word of thanks to all the Public Servants and then, a word of thanks to all the supervisors on this committee, that they do the job of representing all the people that pay taxes. Thank you very much. So saying that, madam clerk, can you please call item 2. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you. Can i please have the department of children, youth, and families come up and present, please. Mr. B. L. A. , could i please have a report. Good morning, chair fewer, members of the committee. Dan gonchar with the budget and legislative analysts office. The department of children and families proposed budget for fiscal year 201920 is 51,441,390 or 21 more than the original fiscal year 201819 budget of 244,577,346. The departments proposed budget for fiscal year 202021 is 17,938,967 or 6. 7 less than the mayors proposed budget. Our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 150,000 in fiscal year 1920. Of the 150,000 in recommended reductions, 20,000 are ongoing savings, and 130,000 are onetime savings. In addition, we recommend closing out prior yearen expended encumbrances of 21,643 for total savings of 211,643. Our recommended reductions for the ongoing year is 20,000. My understanding is we do have full agreement from the department. Chair fewer thank you very much, and lets hear from dcof. Hi. My name is leo, and im really pleased to present the department today. Maria chiu is sorry, but she had an emergency today. Much thanks to dan and all of you on the board, and the mayors and the controllers office. Chair fewer thank you. Controllers office, will you please note that it is the intent of the committee to agree to the reductions in the budget. Now, lets have the retirement board or retirement system. So sorry. Mr. B. L. A. , could we hear a report, please. Dthe departments proposed 35,699,533 budget is 9. 8 more than the 201819 budget. The departments budget for fiscal year 202021 is 1,125,132 or 3. 2 more than the mayors 201920 budget of 36,467,165. Our recommended reductions for the proposed budget total 522,894 in fiscal year 201920. Of that in recommended reductions, 48,282 are ongoing savings, and 474,612 are onetime savings. These reductions would still allow a reduction of 8. 1 of the departments fiscal 1920 budget. Our recommended reductions to the proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 toting 5,602. Of that, all are ongoing saving. This would still allow an increase of 3. 2 of the departments fiscal year 202021 budget. My understanding is that we do have full agreement with the department. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Mr. Huish. Good morning, supervisors. And i, too, would like to thank the chair for acknowledgement of Public Service and the work that we do. Chair fewer thank you. The department can accept the budget analyst recommendations. A little bit different than agreeing with it, but certainly, we can live with that. Chair fewer we can take that. Teacher its a distinction without any substance, but i want to thank the b. L. A. Representative, monica, and certainly this committee for your thoughtful consideration of our budget. Chair fewer thank you. Mr. Controller, can you please note that it is the intention of this committee to accept the recommendations agreement from this department. Thank you very much. Lets have the department of Emergency Management now. Could we hear the b. L. A. Report, please. Departments proposed 96,431,631 budget for fiscal year 1920 is 1,183,266 or 1. 2 more than the original fiscal year 201819 budget of 95,248,365. The departments proposed 97,144,983 budget for fiscal year 202021 is 713,352 or 0. 7 more than the mayors proposed fiscal year 1920 budget of 96,431,631. Our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 150,926 in fiscal year 201920. Of that, 107,920 are ongoing savings, and 43,006 are one time savings. This would still allow an increase of 1. 1 of the departments fiscal year 201920 budget. In addition, we recommend closing out prior year unexpended unexpended encumbrances of 54. 96. And my understanding is that we do have full agreement with the department. Chair fewer and i believe we have ms. Mary Ellen Carroll here. Yes. Mary Ellen Carroll, department of Emergency Management. As you know, i was appointed in august. This is my first go round, and it wasnt too painful. I want to thank everyone from the board, the budget legislative analyst, and everyone on my staff who got us through this. We are in agreement, and thank you for having us. Chair fewer thank you for your service. And not everyone is on elder sf, they should get on it right now. Thank you so much. Chair fewer mr. Controller, could you note it is the intention of this committee to accept the recommendations from this department. Now could we hear from the department of accountability. Do we please have a could we please have a b. L. A. Report. The departments proposed 11,409,000 for fiscal year 1920 is 36. 3 more than the original 1819 budget of 8,363,576. The departments proposed 11,625,046 for fiscal year 2021 is 2. 2 more than the mayors original 2019 budget of 11,400,009. Our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 297,851 in fiscal year 201920, all of which are onetime savings. This would still allow an increase of 32. 7 in the departments fiscal year 201920 budget. We do not have any recommended reductions to the fiscal year 2021 budget. Our understanding is we have full agreement with the department. Chair fewer mr. Henderson . I, too, am a fairly new department head. I want to thank the budget team for a lot of work in getting us prepared and ready, and we are in agreement with the recommendation. Chair fewer thank you, mr. Henderson. Mr. Controller, can you please note that it is the intent of this committee to set the recommendations from the budget legislative analyst and this department. Thank you, director henderson. Good luck with the rest of the job and thanks for taking on this responsibility. Thank you. Chair fewer okay. Lets hear from the superior court. Could we have the b. L. A. Report, please. The departments proposed 34,614,412 budget for fiscal year 201920 is 250,985 or. 7 more than the fiscal year 201819 of 34,363,427. The departments proposed 34,934,097 budget for fiscal year 2021319,685 or. 9 more than the mayors proposed fiscal year budget. Our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 20,000 in fiscal year 201920. Of those reductions, theyre all ongoing savings. Our recommended reductions to the proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 total 20,000. All of the 20,000 in recommended reductions are ongoing savings. This would still allow an increase of. 9 in the departments fiscal year 201920 budget. Our understanding is we have full agreement with the department. Chair fewer thank you very much. Mr. Ewen . We are accepting of the cut. Were mindful of the cut that we are still seeking additional funding to bring compensation rates up to a more competitive level. That being said, though, this reduction is only 0. 3 of a reduction, and we are quite accepting of it. Chair fewer and we are quite aware of your work. Mr. Controller, can you please note it is the intention of this committee to accept the recommendations from this department. Thank you very much yes, im sorry. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman just a quick comment. I want to thank the chair for proposing that request in your proposed citywide add backs. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much for your service. Lets have adult probation oh, president yee. My apologies. President yee so some of the increase is due to the indigent defendant program. Why isnt the superior court taki taking care of this and not having the public defenders be part of that budget . So supervisor yee, this was a structure put in place several years ago, and probably that was put in place is in situations where there is an ethical conflict of interest, you want to have that separation. So the separation of removing these cases completely from the Public Defenders Office makes for a clean break to eliminate even the appearance of a conflict of interest. President yee and who determines that it would be a conflict of interest. The public defender declares a conflict. President yee so they would claim it and these independent attorneys would step . Thats correct. So at the particular court hearing, the public defender, if he has a conflict, would declare it, and at that point, the court would appoint one of the private attorneys from this panel. President yee and i guess help me a little bit or i could ask the Public Defenders Office. But once they claim that they are in conflict, how would that piece of the Indigent Program were to come out of their budget . I dont see the conflict. So in that situation, the funds would reside in the public defenders budget. So you would have a situation where the entity thats declaring a conflict in this case, this hypothetical, the public defender also carries the funding for outside counsel to represent the defendant at least the appearance of a conflict is present in that particular situation. President yee okay. Well ill probably ask the same question of the public defender. The money and the money, and theyre independent public attorneys. Since its determined by the Public Defenders Office that theres a conflict, then, it seems that theyre saying that its best that we have somebody outside of our office represent this. And part of it is like, well, if youre pay well, if were paying the public defenders to defend if there werent any conflict, they would have to do all the cases. So my question becomes and its more of a public defenders question, probably. Why are we paying additional funding or giving additional funding for something that were giving the Public Defenders Office to do. Well, i can answer that, too, president yee. In our system of justice, you want to make sure that the attorney representing you has no conflict of interest, and thats actually something thats in the ethics of practicing attorneys. Thats the only way you can have an effective representation in a situation where that conflict exists, and thats thats its a guarantee for all people. You dont want the office representing two people who are accused of the same crime. President yee okay. Thank you. Chair fewer supervisor stefani in stefani . Supervisor stefani yeah. I just wanted to follow up on president yees question. Its not the public defenders making the ethics decision. If two defendants are charged with the same crime, theyre going to need two different attorneys in the conflict. I understand that. Having been there before, its just a matter of how our ethics laws of making sure people are represented fully without any conflicts. So i dont know if thats helpful, president yee, but i think your explanation explained it. Yes. Thank you, supervisor. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any other comments of my colleagues . Okay. Seeing none, thank you, mr. Ewen. Okay. I know i just called adult probation, but id like to call the District Attorney first. Is he in the room . Oh, please come on up, if you dont mind. Could we have a b. L. A. Report, please. The departments proposed 73,731,299 budget for fiscal year 201920 is 5,286,987 or 7. 7 more than the original year fiscal 201819 budget. The departments proposed 74,411,437 budget for fiscal year 2021 is 680,130 or. 9 more than the Mayors Office proposed fiscal year budget. Our recommended reduction does to the proposed budget total 144,542 in fiscal year 201920. Of the 144,542 in recommended reductions, 26, 87 are ongoing savings, and 117,555 are onetime savings. These would still allow an increase of 5,142,445 or 7. 5 of the departments fiscal year 2019 budget. Our recommended reductions to the fiscal year 2021 budget total 28,091. All of the 28,091 are ongoing savings. These reductions would still allow an increase of. 9 of the department aways fiscal year 2021 budget. My understanding is we have full agreement with the department on our recommendations. Chair fewer mr. District attorney . Good morning, madam chair and the committee members. Thank you for the process and for your consideration. We are in full agreement. I also want to thank the Mayors Office and the budget analyst for all the work theyve done, and here to answer any questions you may have. Chair fewer thank you, sir, and thank you for your service. Mr. Wicontroller, can you plea note it is the intention of this committee to accept the recommendations of the b. L. A. And also this department. Thank you very much. Any questions for our District Attorney . Seeing none, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Chair fewer thanks for joining us today. Thank you. Chair fewer now id like to call d. B. I. Could i have a b. L. A. Report, please. Departments proposed 96,127,047 budget for 1920 is 25. 1 more than original budget. The mayors proposed budget is 8. 3 less than the mayors proposed budget. Our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 715,859, of that, 18,607 are ongoing savings, and this would still allow an increase of 24. 2 of the departments fiscal year 201920 budget. Our recommended reductions for fiscal year 2021 to the proposed budget total 19,445. All of the 19,445 in recommended