The meeting comes to order, the august 19th, rescheduled budget and appropriations meeting. Im sandra lee fewer and joined by the Committee Members, supervisors walton and mandelman and ronen and norman yee. Our clerk is miss linda wong. I thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. And also, supervisor walton will be joining us a little later. Can we have a motion to excuse him for the first beginning part of the meeting. So moved. Chair fewer thank you very much, can i have a second, please. Second. Chair fewer could i have a roll call vote please. Clerk yes, on the motion. [roll call] there are four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Clerk due to the covid19 health emergency, the City Employees and the board of supervisors legislative and the committee room, and the members will be participating in a meeting remotely. This is for the local and state and federal orders and declarations and orders. The meeting is through Video Conferencing and participate as if physically present. Public comments are available on each item on this agenda and channel 26 and fo sfgovtv. Org e streaming the number across the korean. The opportunity to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 1 415 6550001. Again, 1 415 6550001. And meeting i. D. , 146 347 6022. Again, 146 347 6022. And then press pound twice. When connected you will hear the meeting discussion but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, press star, 3, to be added to the speaker line. The best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. And alternatively, you can make Public Comment in any of the ways, the budget and finance Committee Clerk at. And if you submit Public Comment via email it will be forwarded to the supervisors and will be included as part of the official file. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 15, unless otherwise stated. Chair fewer thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. This weeks hearings are focused on the reductions that the Budget Committee would like to make to the department budgets. A few things to note before we begin before calling the departments this morning we are going to hear about the trailing legislation first and then come back to items 1 and 2 which are budget items. My office will release an updated list of requests which now totals 364 million in year one. I will also be releasing a proposed spending plan to focus on key priorities which are posted online and my office will distribute to offices. Again, what im putting out is a conservative spending plan for 20 million since we do want know how much the board will have to allocate. The hears are noted separately, but this is all one meeting. Well recess, not adjourn, at the end of every day and picking back up the following day at 10 00 a. M. This means that theres one continual meeting for wednesday, thursday and friday. For that reason there is no Public Comment this week on the budget. Which is items 1 and 2. All Public Comment on the budget will be heard on monday, august 24th beginning at 10 00 a. M. Theres no other business on monday except for hearing Public Comment. The budget and Appropriations Committee will recess at approximately 12 30 or 1 00 p. M. For a 30minute lunch. As much as possible well hear the departments in the order listed, but i want to recognize that we sometimes need to accommodate scheduling conflicts and call out of order. And today were hearing the following departments likely in the following order controller, city administrator, retirement, technology, public works, general city responsibility, human resources, library, rec and park, children, youth and families, Mayors Office, city attorney, elections, board of supervisors. With that, lets get started. Madam clerk, can you please call items 3 and 4. Clerk the resolution concurring with the controllers certification that Department Services previously approved can be performed by private contractor for a lower cost than similar work performed by the city and county employees. And item 4, resolution concurring with the controllers certification that Department Services can be performed by private contractor for a lower cost than similar work performed to the city and county employees. To call for Public Comment, 1 415 6550001, and i. D. , 146 347 6022 and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star, 3, to line up to speak. And wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you can may begin your comments. Chair fewer thank you very much. And today we have reesea sandler from the Controllers Office and she can introduce everybody else. Hi, lisa. Hi, good morning. Im reesa sandler from the Controllers Office and just back with the continued two items for previously approved prop j resolution and not previously approved prop j resolutions. There are Department Staff on hand if you have questions. I am happy to answer any questions myself. Chair fewer any comments or questions from colleagues . Seeing none, can we take Public Comment for the items. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operation, checking to see if theres callers in the queue. As a reminder this is not a general Public Comment on the budget that occurs on monday august 24th. If you have not already done so, press star 3, to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, wait until the system has you unmuted. Are there any commenters on items 3 and 4 . Madam chair, theres no callers in the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment is closed for items 3 and 4. I want to mention that i really singled out the prop j contracts just because i think that this contracting out should be really looked at. Year after year were asked to approve these prop j contracts and after next year, they should look at this and with much more scrutiny. And even more so if we are experiencing layoffs of our City Employees. With that, i would like to make a motion to send this to the full board. Could i have a second, please . Second. Presiden chair fewer can a roll call vote, please. Clerk yes, on the motion [roll call] there are four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Call items 8 and 9. Clerk yell 8, 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 not to exceed 97,500,000, to prepay certain certificates of participation that financed and refinanced various Capital Improvement projects. Item 9, the ordinance disappropriating 4. 6 million of series 2010a refunding certificates of participation prior reserve funds and appropriating 02,136,200 of refunding certificates of participation series 2020r1, including deappropriated funds and 97,500,000, one or more series of refunding certificates of participation proceeds for fy20202021. If you want wish to call, call 1 415 6550001 and i. D. 146 347 6022. Please wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Chair fewer today we have anna, and the office of public finance. Good morning, supervisors, and thank you. Im luke, with the office of public finance. And im going to share a quick little slide with you today about our upcoming proposed refunding certificates of participation. These are we have identified funding candidates here in finance which can be refunded as soon as october 2020. And we estimate that it will produce savings depending on Market Conditions, and gross savings to the fund of 13. 8 billion, based on an estimated Interest Rate of 2. 6 or approximately 1 million annually. Which on a net value basis is 11. 2 million or 12 of the total outstanding principal. We are seeking the approval of the ordinance to authorize and the supplemental ordinance appropriating the 2020 r1 funding proceeds, not to exceed 97. 5 million and the final is october 30, 2023. Are there any questions . Chair fewer yes. Any comments from my colleagues . President yee im sorry chair fewer go ahead, president yee. President yee is this refinancing simply that would be for 13 years . Or what . It would be existing certificates of participation that were looking at, the final maturity of those, the existing debt is 13 years. So we will match maturity to final maturity of the new refunding certificate. President yee any reason that you want to keep the length of time the same . So certificates of participation are a lease back structure and because of that we tend to try and to match the term of the lease closely with the term of the original asset. So the term of this being 2033, would have been 30 years from the time of the originally anticipated completion of the county jail number 5. At that time they gave it a 30year term just based on useful life, which is typically 70 years for jails. President yee and what happens to the when we say 1 million, does it go back to general funds or where are the savings . So the savings these two pieces are in that way, according to the mayors Budget Office, that we communicated, those savings are to go to the general fund. President yee okay. So is that an indiscernible back . The savings need to be realized first before they can be programmed, in case the bond Market Conditions change. The market is pretty volatile right now and were looking to get in before the election, but, you know, the rates could move quite a bit. So we dont want to program anything just in case the rates spike up and were not able to close the financing. Should the rates continue to be as low as they are now, hopefully well get even better savings than were currently estimating. President yee okay, thank you. Chair fewer any more questions or comments . Seeing none. Madam clerk, can you please call for Public Comment on these items. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operations are checking to see if theres callers in the queue. Let me know if there are any callers that are ready. If you have not already done so press star, 3, to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted. And if there are any callers who wish to comment on items 8 and 9 . Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer Public Comment is now closed. I make a motion to move items 8 and 9 to the board with a positive recommendation. The Board Meeting of september 15th. Could i have a second, please. Second. Chair fewer roll call vote, please. Clerk yes, on the motion [roll call] what are we voting on . I am sorry, i just logged in. Chair fewer on items 8 and 9. Aye. Clerk there are five ayes. Chair fewer thank you. So, colleagues, i miss that there is a b. L. A. Report for items 8 and 9, so if you would like to refer to it, i apologize that we didnt call for the b. L. A. Report. But i am assuming that you all have access to that report. Lets move on to can you call please items 5, 6 and 10. Clerk yes, madam chair. The ordare draft ordinance amending administrative code, section 8. 14, to adjust the office of the chief medical examiners fees to add postmortem investigation services, remove obsolete services, and update to all amounts to fy20202021. And item 6, ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the department of Administrative Services to impose a fee for reproduction and Notary Services provided to the public. And item 7, ordinance amending the administrative code to update county clerk fees to current amounts and to authorize the county clerk to impose a Digital Signature fee. And item number 10, hearing to consider the release of reserved funds to the office of the city administrator, placed on the budget and finance committee reserve by ordinance number 16919. The public that wishes to comment on these, call 1 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. , 146 347 6022 and press pound twice. And if you have already done so, press star, 3, and line up to comment. And wait until the system indicates that you may begin your comments. Chair fewer thank you very much. I think that there are representatives from the city administrators. Are you here . I am. Chair fewer great. Lets take item 5 first, please. Good morning, chair fewer and the members of the budget and Appropriations Committees. The deputy city initiate your. And amending the fees charged by the chief medical examiner. Its primarily deleting fees that we no longer need for doing this, and as well as updating a number of these and adding some new fews from our Forensic Laboratory who is who are now able to do some outside testing as needed. And so one of the hopes that when the new office of the chief medical examiner was built a couple years ago, and we now have a Forensic Laboratory, is that the lab, once it developed full capacity, would be able to provide services and potentially provide additional income into the city to support its operations. By providing the services to outside agencies. And so the keys established here allow for the outside entities to be charged for that work if its developed in the future. Its that work that were currently doing but were just allowing for it to happen in the future. And then finally, the fees are adjusted by the c. T. I. Increases that are allowed. And before you today is actually the amended version of what was originally noticed and advertised and that was due to the fact that the version in the original packit and part of the original notice does not reflect the c. T. I. Increases that were allowed. And that were authorizing in legislation. And so with that, i will take any questions. Chair fewer thank you very much. There is no b. L. A. Report on this item. Is there any comments or questions from my colleagues at all . Seeing none. Could we take Public Comment on item number 5, please. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operation is checking to see if theres any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, press star, 3, to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted. And operations, let us know if there are any callers to comment on item number 5. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment for item number 5 is now closed. And there is an amendment i believe, madam clerk, that we need to approve, is that correct . I make a motion to approve the amendment. Could i have a second, please. Second. Chair fewer roll call vote please on the amendment. Clerk yes. On the motion [roll call] there are five ayes. Chair fewer i would like to make a motion to move this as amended to the budget and finance Committee Meeting on september 2nd. Could i have a second, please . Second. Chair fewer roll call vote, please. Clerk yes, on the motion [roll call] there are five ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk oh, now lets hear item 6 and 7. Yes, item 6 is to provide new fees for Reproduction Services through repromill. Its an internal Services Department and it provides reproduction and Mailing Services for other city departments as part of the new feature, we are creating with the new permit center at 49 south van ness, we want a center for the members of the public if they brought in items and they needed updated versions of their plans or other things printed there, as well as any signage they would normally to have to go to the department. And so this through legislation establishes fees to award those services for the public. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions . There is no b. L. A. Report on these two items. Any comments or questions . Seeing no one in the queue, can you open up Public Comment for items 6 and 7. Clerk yes, madam chair. Operations are checking to see if theres callers in the queue. Operations, let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, press star, 3, to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, wait until you have been unmuted. Can the clerk let us know if there are callers to comment on items 6 and 7 . Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment on item 6 and 7 7 are now closed. I make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation, to the meeting of september 15th. A second, please. Second. Chair fewer roll call vote please, madam clerk. Clerk on the motion [roll call] there are five ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. And now item number 10, mr. Bor cowski and we do have a b. L. A. Report. And first hear from you, and then from the b. L. A. . So item 10 is a request to release the funding that was placed on budget and finance committee reserve during the 1920 budget discussions and so at that point in time because the b. L. A. Agreement had not been finalized, the Labor Agreement was not finalized, it was not clear when to have enforcement of that agreement. And that agreement was it was finalized and went into effect on july 14th of this year. And so we are now requesting that two of those positions and the funding