It is friday august 14th this is the appropriations and budget meeting im sandra fure. Fewer. Thank you for sf gov tv for broadcasting. Do have an announcement. In accordance with governor newsoms executive order no. N3320 declaring a state of emergency regarding the covid19 outbreak and mayor london n. Breeds proclamation declaring a local emergency issued on february 25, 2020, including the guidance for gatherings issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health officer, aggressive directives were issued to reduce the spread of covid19. On march 17, 2020, the board of supervisors authorized their board and Committee Meetings to convene remotely Via Microsoft teams and will allow remote Public Comment via teleconference. Visit the sfgovtv website at www. Sfgovtv. Org to stream the live meetings, or to watch meetings on demand. Members of the public are encouraged to participate remotely via detailed instructions on participating via you can call 14156550001 again 14156550001 meeting i. D. 1460343108. Again, 1460343108 then press pound. To will be muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line and call from a quiet location and speak clearly or slowly and turn down your television or radio and you can also email to the finance Committee Clerk at to linda. Wong sfgov. Org; all part of the essential file. And interpretations are available for those who need services during the Public Comment period and now a summary of the announcement. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking foreign language] thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the third day of this weeks departments budget hearing. Weve had a couple long days and i think today will also be long so thanks in advance for your patience and flexibility. The Budget Appropriations Committee will recess at approximately 12 30 or 1 00 for a 30minute lunch. Im asking departments to be concise in their presentations and have allotted five minutes per department with a couple exemptions. After each brief highlevel presentation the committee will have the ability to ask questions an engage in discussion but no decisions will be made this week well hear from departments in order listed and we sometimes need to be flexible and call departments out of order. Thanks in add convenience for your flexibility. We have 13 departments to get through today. Ill be moving us along during the process. I ask my colleagues keep their questions directed to a budget conversation as most will come back next week and well be able to ask more questions. Today were hearing likely in the following order. City administrator, technology, public works, superior court, department of police accountability, Sheriffs Department, Fire Department, department of emergency management, Police Department, supervisor, juvenile probase probation and public defender and well take comments at the end of the discussion. So rather at the end of the evening and a want you to know that occasionally during this conversation we will have training legislation well have to vote on however, that is not the time for Public Comment on departmental budgets. That will happen at the end of the hearing at the end of the evening, with that lets get start. Madame clerk, please call item 1 and 2 together. Budget and appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimated expenditures for departments of the city and county of San Francisco as of july 31, 2020, for the fys ending june 30, 2021, and june item 2 annual salary ordinance enumerating positions in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for the fys ending june 30, 2021, and june 30, 2022, continuing, creating, or establishing these positions; members of the public who wish to comment should call 14156550001 meeting i. D. 1460343108 and press pound twice and waited until the system s you have been unmuted. Commissioner thank you very much. At this time madame clerk please call item 3 and 4. Item 3 ordinance authorizing the execution and delivery of certificates of participation, in one or more series from time to time, evidencing and representing an aggregate Principal Amount of not to exceed 97,500,000 certificates to prepay certain certificates of participation that financed and refinanced various Capital Improvement projects. Item 4, ordinance deappropriating 4,636,200 of series 2010a refunding certificates of participation prior reserve funds and appropriating 102,136,200 of refunding certificates of participation series 2020r1 including deappropriated funds and 97,500,000 of one or more series of refunding certificates of participation proceeds for fy20202021. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on these items should call 14156550001 meeting i. D. 1460343108 then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to speak to indicate you have raised your hand and wait until youve been unmuted and may begin your comment. We ebb courage to you call in and dial in and speak. Commissioner thank you very much. Im going to make a motion to continue items 3 and 4 until wednesday 8 19 so well hear a discussion at that time. We had so many departments to go through we thought itd be best to have them next week. With that, madame clerk open up Public Comment for items 3 and 4. Are there callers in the queue . We have one in queue. Commissioner thank you very much. The caller hung up so right now there are no more callers in the queue. Commissioner thank you very much. Public comment ine item 3 and 4 is now closed. Id like to make a motion to continue both items to the meeting of august 19. Could i please have a second. Second. Commissioner thank you. Roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion to continue item 3 and 4 to the august 19 budget and Appropriations Committee meeting. [roll call] theres ayes, supervisor ronen not present. Supervisor fewer. Commissioner aye. Lets start with the City Administrators Office. We have kenneth and the floor is yours. Good morning, chair fewer and members. Im the deputy city administrator. Ill be providing the presentation for the department. And on the and the high level presentation with the department presenting city administrators and ill focus on 25 departments and programs. The city administrators have departments across the city such as the office of Contract Administration and others as well as programs serving members of the public with Community Ambassadors, county clerk, office of medical examiner and animal control. I want to take this opportunity on behalf to thank the employees who have gone above and beyond during this time to make sure we can continue providing services and more importantly i want to recognize the amazing contributions to respond to the covid19 pandemic. And programs that have the command center and homeless shelter and Convention Center our staff will help procure and manage health and coordinating and city administrator employees and programs have housed the Covid Command Center at the Convention Center. Our staff has led the ccc logistic section to help procure and manage personal protection and for all city departments and Different Community organizations. Weve coordinated donations and managed facilities and led to the development of dashboards reporting integration working in close collaboration with the department of Public Health and coordinating with department of Public Health and Human Resources and coordinating the Response Teams to improve shelter in place compliance. Our Digital Service team has done a number of Amazing Things including reduce blocks to access and updates to sfgov. Tv who has received hundreds of thousands of new logones logons and how residents can access services. Our staff has helped through programs with shelter in place hotels and the Mayors Office of disability has been working consulting with our departments and the ccc on ensuring vulnerable populations continue to have access to service. 311 has responded to requests whether how to get testing, services for residents and Housing Needs as departments have turned to them more and more as a resource for helping make sure residents know about their services. We have help cleaning services and supported private sector businesses as they continue planning for reopening safely in the current pandemic. Our employees have truly stepped up during this time and i want to express our appreciation on behalf of the city. Next i want to address one of the items requested as part of the presentations how budget reflects our efforts to advance Racial Equity and disparities for communities in our most vulnerable residents. 29 of the city administrator budget is for a broad array of Services Including public facilities through Mayors Office and disability and Training Programs through the office transgender initiatives. Helping minority and womenowned businesses and other Small Business businesses as well as equal benefits through contract monitoring division. Providing immigrant and language businesses through the office of Civic Engagement and affairs and Community Engagement through the Community Ambassadors program. Working to issue equity permits through the office of cannabis. And Worker Protections through local ordnances such as Health Care Security and others and providing grants throughout our various neighborhoods through the Community Challenge grant. Working together with the boards for justice and providing animal care and sheltering for our most vulnerable residents. Responding to information requests and social service through 311 and awarding grants to diverse local artists through grants for the arts and giving voice to communities through citizen advisory committees. Now id like to turn to an overview of our budget with a comparison of year to year funding in changes and a summary of reductions made. The top portion of this slide shows the total budget in fte for public works and well be presenting after this presentation. The lower half of this slide showed a breakout of the city administrator and 25 programs and departments make up adm. Our budget is expected to increase by 58 million for fiscal year 2021 and ill note on this slide our fte count for going into the city administrators budget has changes that we made and additional changes which reflect the end of onetime changes for Capital Projects. We decreased Services Mostly did i a decrease in the operating agreement given the cause on Convention Activities at Mosconi Center and offset by an increase of 6. 1 million and we have increased need of driving and fuel costs. And funding of 2 million and the other significant portion and the drop in revenue is reflected with a decrease in grants and finally we decreased mosconi Maintenance Center for the coming year resulting in a 2 million savings. That was a brief overview of our budget wanting to keep in the time limit and a brief overview of changes and happy to answer any questions you have. Commissioner thank you very much. Mr. Bubowski. Any questions for the deputy city administrator . Raise your hand if you have any i have just a couple questions. I notice that you have 148 vacancies. And could you please just expand on that and i wanted to know do you have any hires any positions youre currently hiring for that are in the hiring process that have not yet been hired . That is correct chair fewer. 200 have been filled since the report was provided to the committee. Approximately 48 are held have a can for attrition services. And 70 are in some stage of hiring. We noted that there are significant number of positions where we are going through as part of the hiring process a singleservice examine process so in the meantime because theyre critical positions such as stationary engineers or similar positions we hire them with temporary employees were allowed to do pending the completion of the Civil Service someone and a portion of those vacancies are filled with individuals at this point not excuse me, i lost you for a minute. Of the 148 vacancies how many are filled with temporary positions . 28 currently. Commissioner and youre keeping 48 vacant for attrition and the rest are in the hiring process but not yet been hired but your budgeting for them, is that correct . Correct. Commissioner okay. Thank you very much. I also wanted to give a comment and wanted to appreciate your slide on your equity and vulnerable populations. I think what we are looking for in the conversation is really about a Racial Equity lens. I notice on your support for vulnerable populations we can understand that and i think what we are looking for is teasing out the Racial Equity within your budget and external facing. What i notice is that you did not supply us anything with an internalfacing plan around Racial Equity or a look at Racial Equity to examine within your department. And so i just want to say that i know that the report the plan is not due until the end of the year. Youre such a Large Department a lot of it of course is external facing but because you are in such a Large Department with so many employees we are asking departments to actually look intro spectively at your internal operations around promotions, around hiring and opportunities, around Work Environment and were trying to look at it through a Racial Equity lens. Many times were looking at equity were not looking at Racial Equity and i think the importance of this is we are now trying to focus more on a Racial Equity lens. I just wanted to make that comment. I know that i know your plan is not due until the end of the year but i am assuming youre work very closely with the office of Racial Equity to get guidance on this. Is that correct, mr. Bubowski . The slides presented were trying to be reflective of what appeared to be a broader view talking about vulnerable populations. We are actively working with Human Rights Commission and internally in our organization on the Racial Equity plan. Im one of the Department Equity leaders and convened just the other day discussing that. As you noted, a big part of this first year and the development is focussed on the intro inspection and what were doing around hiring and doing around making sure that employees have promotional opportunities and how are we supporting it through training and making sure our hiring process and promotion processes are all equitable and provide fair opportunities for a broad lens and recognizing are we reflective of the communities we are serve. Were doing that work now and actively working on our plan. Commissioner thank you. Thats refreshing to hear. Were also looking at the departments we spoke to the other day and the day before, the opportunity for selfreflection that things we have not thought about before, i think how the status quo is not serving to be racially equitable. Digging deeper about selfreflection in our own department i think it is what weve heard from other administrators is that it is really broadening their view about what they can do within their own departments how they handle complaints, what are they hearing, also, just is it an inclusive workplace and also looking at promotionals, looking at opportunities, looking at who they hire, what are the barriers to hiring. Thank you very much. I see president yee has a question or comment. President yee. Commissioner thank you. Just some budget questions. Can you could have explained it already but looking at the bigger numbers that changed, one in terms of the revenue side, the inappropriated fund balance. Is this money been left over from previous budgets or something where did the money come from . President yee tell me if youre referring to a particular document so i answer correctly. Page 118. Inappropriates fund unappropriated fund balance. And increased by 21 million. Commissioner yes. That is largely driven by and year over year different revenue amounts come in there and what we had to do given the significant decline in revenue over the next year in particular and going in the second