Going to do exactly that anyway, because were not really having those funds for the coming weeks until the First Quarter is ending. Were not scheduling 10bs for the main library. And i dont know, our chief operating officer is here and she can also speak to this. Good morning, committee members. I am maureen single ton witton e library. We have not received the billing from the Police Department and we imagine that the costs would be minimal at this point, given the activities for the current year. But i would be hesitant to eliminate the work order completely without having that billing information. So, chair fewer, is this a department to call back to see if we can eliminate the entire work order in the first year . Chair fewer sure. So i think that, mr. Librarian, we can have you come back next week after we have a discussion and also to give us a bit of time, but the rest of the recommendations, i think that we just received this one recommendation today. I think that it will give us some time to read it. But in the meantime i think that you are in agreement with all of the other cuts. So can the Controllers Office take note of the committees intention to accept the recommendations for this department and have you come back next week. Thank you very much. Chair fewer thank you for your service. And now we have the department of billin building inspections. Good morning, supervisors, taurice madison. And thank you to the board of supervisors. And we accept the budget Analyst Recommendations. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . So, mr. Controller, please take note of the committees intention to accept the recommendations for this department. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Rec and park is next. Good afternoon, supervisors. Or good morning, i think. Chair fewer hello general manager. How are you . Chair fewer im good. What do you got to say . We are prepared to accept the budget Analyst Recommendations and i appreciate working with the budget analyst and the controller and the mayors Budget Office and certainly all of you. Chair fewer thank you very much. President yee there must be something wrong with the b. L. A. Report with this indiscernible . Chair fewer what did we miss . [talking over each other] so we understand from the controller that these moneys can be used to shift the general Fund Expenditures at rec and park up to the baseline funding level. And so it shows that the estimated fund balance would be 17 million, i think. And yet when we heard back from your department it says that how much is predicted funding for the space next year, theres no open budget estimates for next year. And it is likely that the fund balance is comprised of, one, underspending and the open space fund during the year, and given the pressing needs with the tight budget. And number two, anything above the controllers estimate that is not likely to occur, given the economy. So were hearing from you that there is no predicted funding for this next year and no balance and the controller is saying that its 17. 4 million. That is not correct. I think that is a mistake in the processing, and communicating the information to you. We do have a fund balance and it constitutes approximately 10 of our overall budget which is well within sort of our recommended, you know, its what were supposed to be doing. But the challenge that we face this year, supervisors, and we did use some of our fund balance in balancing. When we submitted our budget to you in into the mayor in june it was based on the best available information that we had regarding covid. And almost a third of our budget is earned revenue. And, you know, we predicted a pretty substantial cut in revenues from 53 million a year to approximately 38 million. Were lucky if were going to make 20 million or 21 million and well use all of that fund balance to just continue to provide the essential services that were providing, theres no question about it. A lot of the programs and the activities that we thought that we would begin to do starting late spring, early summer, we may not get to do until next you know, late winter and next year at all. And, chair fewer, as you know as well as anyone, a lot of our revenue comes in during the summer and fall season, such as outside lands. And Tourist Spending is down over twothirds city wide and we havent had a visit to the tower and we havent any marathons or races. And, unfortunately, the duration of this is going to be much longer than we expected. We have some profound concerns because our budget is really premised on so much on earned revenue. So we anticipate using every penny of that to continue to provide emergency child care and our programs and to have our park rangers and custodians continuing to do the work, you know, as we all know and discussed last week, we have been taking on additional responsibilities that we otherwise wouldnt be doing to support the citys public response. Chair fewer so youre using the open space fund to balance your budget for the next two fiscal years and you wont have any balance left . Well, it is very hard to predict with 100 certainty where the revenues will come in. But right now we are projecting an additional 17 million or 18 million reduction in our revenue just this fiscal year and thats our fund balance in a nutshell right there. You know, look, you know, i wish i had a crystal ball. Wed love nothing more than to run adult programs and for concerts to start and races to start. Our parking garages are only a third to a half full, wed love to see more activity in our garages. Wed love to see our restaurants open, none of that has happened. And all of our numbers were premised on and the budget was submitted as you recall around the time that we were starting this cycle of reopening, and we expected to benefit a little bit from some Economic Activity late summer, early fall. Well not get any of it and we doubt to get anything throughout the fiscal year. As i stand here right now today, i actually have some pretty serious concerns. No one knows when well be up and running full speed again but its a lot slower than we anticipated. Presiden chair fewer pres, do you have any questions . I thought that your hand was up. You have 35 people that youre adding to your staff . No, we are not adding 35 people to our staff. President koppel thats what c. F. O. Said last week. No, i dont think president koppel chair 5 people in the process now . Were not adding people to our staff. Were in a pretty profound hiring freeze. We have dramatically reduced our temp salary line, which is a big part of our work. We have upped our attrition savings. In fact, we updated more after our discussions with the boards budget analyst. We do have some positions that are in a constant cycle and such as our apprentic apprenticeships that we have a workforce employment cycle. So these are active vacancies, but we have actually significant reduced or increased the number of vacancies that well carry throughout the year, supervisors. So what i think that we said last week is that we have of the 175 position positions thate currently vacant, i dont have the numbers chair fewer i have it from last week. So what you said is that you have 130 vacancies and that yo you you have 175 vacancies and holding 140 vacancies and that youre hiring 35 people. We have 35 people 35 positions that are in an active spot. Some are commission critical, minimum staffing positions. But our department and this is how we balance you know, i have over 2,000 people that work for us between temporary and fulltime Public Service employees. We are essentially in a very strict hiring freeze. Some of the ones that we are filling are either absolutely critical and essential positions, or theyre already weve already made offers and theyre far enough long in the hiring process. But thats a small percentage of the overall number of openings that we are carrying. And so the net of that, between that and the reduction to our temp salary line, there are fewer hours of work for the rec and Park Department this year, no question about it. Chair fewer supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen i am wondering if im correct on this number, theres 150 spaces for the children of essential workers in your program, is that correct . Its actually going to be a little higher. Its good news, supervisor ronen. I thank well now, remember that were running eight of our sites to be Community Learning hub sites. And then another site, including one for children with special needs, will be emergency child and youth care sites. Because Health Guidance has allowed us to increase the size of the pods of kids that we can serve in a single space. We think that were going to be closer to 200 children in our ecey sites. Supervisor ronen those are going to be run by rec and park staff . Yes. And so too will the eight Community Learning hubs, eight of the 40 or it might be higher we might be up to 60 or 70. But any of the sites will be rec and park run as well. Supervisor ronen i see. I didnt know about that. Okay, that was my question. Thats fine. Chair fewer theyre staffed by nonprofits, right . Some are staffed by nonprofits but the eight Community Hub sites that we operate are staffed by our own team. Chair fewer and is that normally the rec and park site . Yeah. Chair fewer okay. Except we sometimes have in normal times we partner with nonprofits, and like the boys and girls club and the y, to operate some of our smaller single room clubhouses but we have over 85 buildings throughout our system. 27 plus rec centers which are staffed extraordinarily well by our represented team. Chair fewer okay. Any comments or questions for general manager ginsburg. Supervisor ronen just one more quick question. The vacancies that chair fewer was talking about, what are you hiring those vacancies for . A lot of them are apprentice clauses, we have Workforce Development programs with local 261, to, you know, our parks are fixed assets and we need a bare minimum of people to kind of manage them. As people retire, and for other reasons they leave, we do occasionally have vacancies and its an excellent Workforce Development model, were in our 11th or 12th year with local 261 where we bring in new apprentices. As they complete training they fill gardener spots. So of those 35, there are about permanent civil spots and apprentice spots. Supervisor ronen im sorry, i lost you for a minute. Its okay. So you are saying the gardeners supervisor ronen the positions that youre currently hiring for are apprentice programs . I would need to see a list from derek, i dont have them all. I think we might have a couple cucustodial vaccut oldvacancies. And apprenticeship gardeners. All people who are providing essential services and were not filling vacancies of anybody not providing a Frontline Service to our organization. People who do our tree Maintenance Programs chair fewer everything is essential. Im hearing from so many departments that every position is sort of essential. Not in our organization, though many, many, many are, and i think that as you know, supervisor fewer, its because our parks have been open during this pandemic. Without our staff and rec staff running our emergency child care or the park rangers or the park facilities could not be open for the purposes which they serve. And, you know, only 5 of our staff is administrative. Most of our staff are actually frontline workers. Chair fewer any comments or questions for the general manager . I see general agreement. So the Controllers Office take note for the committee to accept the recommendations from this department. Thank you, general manager, ginsburg. Thank you. Is the director here hi, good morning, supervisors. Thank you so much for having me. I want to just say thank you to the Mayors Office as well as the Controllers Office and the budget legislative analyst office. We accept the b. L. A. s recommendation. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues. President yee, did you have a question . President yee just one. I think we asked this question last week whether or not it was a reduction or a cut of the of the cut of contracts to nonprofits . And i think that you said that they werent . Thats correct, president yee. We have we are not making cuts to our nonprofit agencies. We are grateful for the redirecting and reallocation of funds, but th juvenile departmet has allocated to our department. And as a result we were able to use those dollars to make sure that all of our c. B. O. S were kept whole. President yee i was just i was notified by one it was the parents of Public Schools recently oversight. I would love to have a conversation with you because that particular grant, we do not hold that grant. That is not a c. B. O. That we fund. But i can have a conversation with you separately because thats a joint funded contract. President yee joint funded by who . It is a grant that the School District holds with parents for Public Schools. And so in previous years, what we have done is allocated funds to the School District to provide a grant to parents for Public Schools. And for the last two years theres been no draw down on that contract. And as a result, there was a joint agreement that we should not continue that grant with parents for Public Schools and, instead, to get those dollars to support other needs in our system. President yee thats kind of odd. Yeah, maybe its very odd. President yee kind of odd. We have worked very closely with our School District. Back then it was under chief i dont remember the chief of student families and support services, kevin truett, and has consistently asked him to talk to the parents of Public Schools to ensure funding and build out and the draw down of that particular grant. And for whatever reason that has not been the case. So we have secured those dollars for the past two years and to send over to the School District to provide funding for that grant. Chair fewer i think that i recall during the budget cycle president yee might remember this that there was a new practice of really looking at Racial Equity in their funding cycles. And it was during that subject year, and i believe that supervisor sheehee was there joining us also because he asked questions about it. But i remember this was the transition year, because they are now using a different metric and measure in which to fund and primarily targeting a population of students. And so parents of Public Schools was not funded in that cycle, the firs cycle that we had on te budget with cohen as the chair. I recall that conversation that it was during the time that bcif decided to actually use a different measure and metric to serve the most immediate students . President yee yeah, but that explains it doesnt explain the numbers. The School District indiscernible . Its a joint decision. please stand by we have not talked specifically about the cost for testing. We have started the conversation, which is how do all family and staff in the learning hubs have access to testing before they start and then figure out a mechanic mitchell f mechanism for us to figure out how thats going to be a part of the learning hub. Supervisor ronen but thats a little bit different. Not that theres a path to testing, but that theres proactive, weekly testing to make sure whether or not theres an outbreak in any of those hubs and that we can keep the safety of children and adults in these hubs a priority. Is it not moving in that direction . I can have a conversation with you. D. P. H. Set up a team to address this. They hear your concerns loud and clear, supervisor, so we can follow up with you to share the plan and how we are proposing to move forward. Supervisor ronen okay. Because chair fewer had asked us to give her our citywide priority list. This is among my top two priorities, and we need to figure out if this is a need, and then, if it is a need, what that amount is very quickly, so if we could work with my half to figure out how to do that, that would be great. Chair fewer president yee . President yee director, last week, i talked to you about Early Childhood education and do you have those numbers . I do. It took us a little bit longer than expected to run the numbers, and i can share that with you. Actually, im having problems with my screen, but i can reach out to you. Unfortunately, moving into the next two years, which is fiscal year 2021 and 2122, we had [inaudible] but over the previous years, we have made increases in funding from the Childrens Fund to the zero to five providers. President yee probably everything got increased, but proportionately, did the increase match up with the other age brackets . We did not do a comparison by age brackets. We just did a comparison of funds in the zero to five system. I can follow up with a comparison by age in terms of comparison of funding by age and the comparison of that allegation. President yee yeah, im not saying that those are the numbers, but [inaudible]. Yes, but in general, there has been significant increases from our department to the zero to five system, but i can definitely share with you and your office, president yee, a more detailed breakdown of what that increase looks like. President yee thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Supervisor haney . Supervisor haney sorry. Thank you, chair fewer, and thank you, budget committee, for allowing me to ask a question. So i know we had a very long conversation at the joint committee about the Community Learning hub so i wont go into the model there, but i want to have a little more under