Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget FinanceBudget Appropriati

Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget FinanceBudget Appropriations Committee 20240712

S. Fewer good afternoon. Well start with the meet and i welcome our councilors and president norman yee. Id like to thank our clerk and thank you sf gov tv for board offing this. Madame clerk. Clerk the city chamber and Committee Rooms are closed and others will be participating remotely. Caution is taken various local stayed and orders and directors. Well have the meeting through Video Conference and Public Comment will be available on each item on this agenda and theyre streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed 10 minutes to speak. Opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 415655001. Access code 145 254 1827 best practices are to speak clearly and alternately you can email for Public Comment and theyll be forwarded to the supervisor and included part of the file and items are expected to appear for the agenda june 17 than otherwise stated. S. Fewer call items one, two and three together. Clerk [reading items] members of the public wishing to provide Public Comment on these items should call 415655001 access code 145 254 1827 and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3. Wait until the system indicates you have been muted and you may begin your comments. S. Fewer madame clerk are you muted . Check your microphone. You were unmuted the last 20 seconds. S. Fewer colleagues we had these items last week and there was a discussion around the increase for iahh workers and there was a difference of opinion and happy to say well have an amendment today. So we have heard the report already and also heard from the b. L. A. We have assessed and i just want to say i want to appreciate the mayors Budget Office for working with me in the last week to address our concerns regarding the mcl increase for ihss workers the board unanimously passed legislation last year to put into place legislation coauthored by supervisor romen and myself. Putting our equity principles into practice is critical. Im happy weve been able to come to an agreement for our lowest wage worker and we have an amendment to introduce today. This amendment will restore 75 of the wage increase through the minimum compensation ordnance beginning september 1. I would like to read the amendment into record. To increase the Human Service agency in fiscal year 20202021 by for increases for ihss employees and we reduce the curb rent in the project public work by the same amount and once again i want to thank so much to to the mayors Budget Office for working with us to find these funds. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Yes, president yee n. Yee i want to thank to the chair. I appreciate your addressing this issue. Youre right and correct that we need to find ways to support those that are at the bottom of the pay scale. I just want to show my appreciation. S. Fewer thank you president. Supervisor ronen. It was an honor to work with you on it and a want to appreciate you for once again championing and standing up for the lowest wage workers who do such critical work in our city and to the Mayors Office for finding this solution. I really appreciate your work on this. S. Fewer thank you for your support. Having said that are there any other comments or questions from my colleagues . I think we heard the presentation last week and heard the report. All we have to do now is listen to Public Comment. If i dont see any other comments or questions from my colleagues, madame clerk, please open up Public Comment for items one, two and three. Clerk operation is checking to see if theres anyone in the queue. I have one call i will queue them up. Hi, can you hear me . S. Fewer yes. Caller i wanted to comment on the nco for the ihss. I do appreciate this effort though 75 of the increase and i one of the reasons we are low paid workers is that because we are black jobs matter. We were excluded from regular workers legislation were still try to catch up. The president of fdr to get the wagner act passed had to sacrifice black jobs and agriculture and Domestic Workers were qualified as Domestic Workers. We do need to try to eventually get back on track with an additional 25 at some point i hope because our negotiating committee worked to do as much as we could for the lowest paid city workers though we are not technically city county workers we do the work of the city and county and frankly are a good deal for the city and council. Our disabled and seniors and keep them in their homes and weve seen with this Pandemic Group housing is not the best solution. Home care is. I hope the city will recognize this and if we cant do it now restore the additional 25 were not able to do this year in the future in the future life of the contract going another two years. Its so important that this work be compensated in a way that keeps workers able to be dedicated to their consumers and to the work of the city. My name is bradley weidmyer. Thank you. Clerk hello, next call. Clerk are there any callers that wish to comment on these items . Hello . Caller [indiscernible]. S. Fewer madam clerk is there a way to assist the caller. Theyre breaking up and we cant understand what the caller is saying. Ill move on and then go back to them. Clerk can the caller come to a place where they get better reception and well come back to you. Caller hello . Staff go ahead. Caller im speaking spanish. Somebody translate for me, okay . [speaking spanish] staff i want to let you know we dont want to delay because we have on the front line. We are risking our lives to take care of our consumer and were asking please not to delay the wage increase for us. Thank you so much. Caller [speaking spanish] staff hi, my name is helen campos i want the rect of the contract with the wage increase july 1st. We are on the front line and taking care of the elderly. We are at risk all the time so we can in the wait for a they are for our wage increase. Thank you so much. Clerk thank you, next caller, please. Clerk well go to the next caller. Caller [indiscernible]. S. Fewer perhaps you can go back to the original caller. S. Fewer i dont believe they can hear us. Perhaps we can skip over them. Staff that completes the speakers. S. Fewer apologies. Are we done with Public Comment . Staff yes. S. Fewer . To those waiting to speak, my apologies. I know this is difficult im so sorry. I know it is challenging to call in to give Public Comment and i just wanted to thank you for being on the line and i again apologize i think theres difficulty to express yourself through our conference line. Apologies. Also, i believe that there was ive been told was there a consideration from the v. O. A. We didnt take up last week . Staff im from the budget and legislative analyst office. We had a recommendation in our report last week on the income budget recommending the chief privacy officer either be deleted from the interim budget or be put on reserve. I believe the committee accepted the recommendation to put the position on the reserve. S. Fewer okay. Thank you very much. So today colleagues we have an amendment i have introduced. I would like a second, please, to make a motion to accept that amendment. N. Yee seconded. S. Fewer thank you. Can we have a roll call vote please on the amendment madam clerk. Clerk its on the interim budget and appropriation ordnance item no. 1. [roll call] clerk all ayes. S. Fewer id like to move items 2 and 3 with a positive recommendation. Can have a second, please. H. Ronen second. S. Fewer roll call, please. [roll call] s. Fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk please call item 4. The recurring state grant Funds Department of Public Comment fy20202021. Those members of the public who wish to state Public Comment call 4156550001 and access code 145 254 1827 and press pound twice and star 3. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until it indicates you have been unmuted and then begin your comments. Commissioner thank you, madam clerk. We have the department of Public Comment joining us. Staff good afternoon, supervisors. You have a total of 49 grants, 12 million for your approval and review. These are all recurring state grants that support vital programming to pay for contracts and personnel. They are included as appropriations or will be included as appropriations in the upcoming budget but they require a separate board action for accepting the grant award. I can take any questions or provide details as needed. S. Fewer any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, well open it up to Public Comment. Madam clerk please call for Public Comment on item 4. Clerk operation is checking to see if theres callers in the queue. Let us know. If you have already done so, press star 3 to the added to the queue and those on hold continue to wait until it indicates you have been unmuted. This is for those who wish to comment on item no. 4. Staff we have no callers for item no. 4. S. Fewer Public Comment is now closed for item 4 and would like to move it to the board for a positive recommendation. May i have a second, please. N. Yee second. S. Fewer middleinco madam call, please. [roll call] clerk there are five ayes. S. Fewer madam clerk call item no. 5. Clerk public work budget analysis and impact on services and expenditures. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment call 4156550001 and access code 145 254 1827 then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to speak until the system prompts you have indicated you raised your hand and wait until the system indicate us have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. S. Fewer the very much. Is supervisor hanney joined uey . I wanted to welcome him if has joined us. Today we have acting director of public works. We have also support staff march the 1 is a series of hearing the budget and Appropriations Committee is holding specifically to better understand the budgets of the department. We asked the budget and legislati legislative analyst to produce a report to help the committee deepen the understanding of governmental budgets and how theyre structures and how theyve grown over time and more. The proposed budgets for the next fiscal year and rather the intent is to deepen the understanding of the current fiscal year and historical context. This will help us be more informed as we move towards august. Thanks to public works for being the First Departmental hearing. I will first be calling on the b. L. A. To present the report first and then we have a presentation from acting director of public works. So infrastructure design and construction and administration. Within each division there are multiple bureaus often referred to as programs. The Directors Office includes the Emergency Management program, policy and communications, university of public works, which is an inhouse training and education program. The Operations Division includes most of the direct municipal offices within the department and the bureaus within the Operations Division include building repair which provide professional construction and repair to cityowned facilities and Emergency Repair services 24 hours a day to ensure police, fire and other Public Safety operation fully functional. Street and sewer repair which oversees paving and work including patch paving and filling potholes as well as sewer repair on older pipes that require brick work. The Street Environmental Services clean streets and curbs using mechanical street sweeper receptacles and oversees work crews. Though sidewalks maintenance remains the responsibility of Property Owners it cleans dog waste and other bio hazards and another responsibility is Tree Planting and maintenance of all street trees and median maintenance and cement shop and repair medians and curbs and design and Construction Division providers comprehensive planning, project management and Building Construction management, contract support and compliance monitoring, Hazardous Materials investigation and abatement, materials testing, Quality Assurance and controlled service for the development of New Buildings and the modernization of existing buildingfests in publish ush building facilities and publish urban landscapes and often referred to as vertical construction. The bureaus include architecture, landscape architecture, Construction Management, project management and project controls and services. The infrastructure design and Construction Division has similar functions to the Building Design and Construction Division and includes engineering, planning, project development Design Construction manage in the and Consulting Services for a range of Capital Improvement projects and rightofway infrastructure including street, truck structure, sidewalks, curbs and streetscapes. Most the work of this division is the department horizontal construction. Bureaus include design and engineering, Construction Management, project management and street use and mapping. Street use and mapping ensures the citys sidewalks and streets are safe and accessible by permitting and inspecting the use of the public rightofway including the installation inspection and inspection of sidewalks. Finally, the finance and Administration Division includes administrative units that provide budget, capital planning, analytical, Performance Management and Contract Administration and Information Technology support services for the department. The cost of this division are accounted for under General Administration as well as reflected as overhead charges to the other departments and the department upper division. Te adopted budget is 387 million. The total budget which is the number you see in the annual appropriation ordnance aao, includes Significant Program cost which is draw a large amount of support from Nongeneral Fund sources such as federal, state and local enterprise funds. The departments current total year General Fund Budget is 144, 075,313 and 48 is supported by general fund primarily for street resurfacing and often referred to as Capital Projects but there are other Capital Projects also in that departments budget. The total number is up about 224 million for about 138 over the last 10 years. The departments General Fund Budget is up about 118 million or almost 450 over the last so years versus 107 for the general fund city wide. Most growth is driven by the Street Resurfacing Program from the Street Safety bond to the general fund in fiscal year 20142015. The general fund support for continuing project primarily road resurfacing has increased from about 6 million at the start of the 10year period in fiscal 2011 to nearly 59 million in the fiscal year 20192020. If we look at the operating side of the departments general fund support, we see the increases are closer to the growth in the general fund. If we look at the growth in fiscal year 2008 and 2009 and make it a 12year look back wed be looking back at a similar point in the Economic Cycle. Fiscal year 2008 and 2009 was a point before most the large cuts were made in the general fund resulting from the recession that was caused by the 2008 financial crisis. If we look to that year the general Fund Operating support went up 124 versus 101 city wide for the general fund. It looks closer to the actual city wide general fund growth. The department of public works staff attribute most the growth in the departments general Fund Operating budget to the expansion of Street Cleaning Services including the initiation of the Pit Stop Program and increases in negotiated salaries and benefits. In addition, voters approved a measure in november 2016 to shift responsibility from street trees to the city. There was a significant associated increase in general fund support to the bureau of urban forestry in 20172018 to account for th

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