committee as well as smg tv for covering the meeting today and we have any announcements >> yes mr. chairman please sounds all cell phones and electronic devices. items acted upon today will appear on the june 28 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. colleagues, as of yesterday, we might hear some items out of order. given the fact we want to department budgets to be heard with their associated ordinance or laws. were going to recess close to 11 am for the private flag raising ceremony and then convene at 1230 after lunch. between were going to be taking public comment on legislative items however the overall budget, is going to be heard on monday this upcoming monday, june 20 by budget hearings on wednesday as well. we do hope to complete the budget process to hear the balance budget at the board of supervisors on july 12. again, as with the yesterday is no intention to make any changes to the departments that do not budget analyst reports. today yesterday that was a more extensive list of six departments. today, it's just the children and there was commission. but we will mention that at the time jerry so, mdm. clerk would you call item number one >> item number one >>[reading code] >> thanks. colleagues, this is a we held it yes i get with nothing to report auditory so will open this up to public comment real quick now ask [inaudible] to the call of the chair. any public comment on item 1? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> i make a motion to continue the hearing to the call the sheriff >> moved and seconded. we can take that can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> please call item of two and three together >> item number two and three >>[reading code] >> thank you mdm. clerk. these are core budget items for today. so first up, again with the report we have children and there was commission again is our intention not to take any action. welcome to come up and say a few words if you would like but again, unless you give us other reasons to do so you're all clear. >> just want to say thank you. i know you have a busy day could >> thanks for all your hard work. >> all right so with that we have a number of departments in agreement the on to take first-year. so, first we will do treasurer tax collector, public defender, district attorney and occ and will call them up in that order and i will take our police department] jet.. our treasurer and tax collector mr. cisneros. >> good morning supervisors was a cisneros hose eight san francisco treasure good i'm pleased to report when an agreement one express gratitude towards the budget analyst for the board of supervisors of the mayor's budget office. as you know, our office works will hard 2 billion bring in billions of dollars for the city and were excited to be real to continue to work for years to come >> great. i understand you're in agreement with a budget analyst >> that is correct >> mr. rose can you give our report please >> yes. on page 26 of our report, are recommended reductions total 155.1617- ongoing these reductions would still allow an increase of $2,964,000 .347 or 7.6% and the department 16-17 budget it also meant amending $500,000 in unexpended general fund monies which otherwise would be carried four. in 16-17 which allow the return of that 500,000 to the general fund so together these recommendations equal 655.117 in general fund savings and a recommended reduction to the proposed budget total of 15806 and 17-king which are ongoing savings as i understand it the department does concur with a recommended reduction as shown on pages 27-28 of our report >> mr. rose just because were talking your 165.117 and your two 150 60 16? >> a total six and 55.117 and 16-17, yes and one 58 and 17-18. >> okay. colleagues, any questions or comments for mr. cisneros or the budget analyst on the treasure island tax report? if not can i have a motion to accept a budget it was recommendations binding public comment on monday? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> up next we have a public defender. >> good morning. it pains me very much to >>[laughing] inform you that we are in agreement with mr. rose and ms. campbell and everyone else. i will miss my customary debate with mr. rose, but we've actually reached an agreement could >> congratulations. picking records in many ways this. mr. rose can we go to a report the public defender?'s bid >> i just have one question was the public defender smiling? >>[laughing] as i understand it, on page nine of our report are recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 152.77 and 16-17 or ongoing savings which still allow an increase of $1 million 4.9% in 16-17 budget recommended reduction and 17-18 total one on 162.453 ongoing savings and reductions still allow an increase of 386.154 or 1.1% in the department's budget and a very happy to report as i understand it, the public defender concurs with the recommendations of the budget analyst >> thank you. any questions or comments for the public budget and was a public defender? if not deny a motion to accept the motions? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> thank you. i dist. atty. is up next. >> morning members of the committee. we are in agreement so we want to thank very briefly members of the budget analyst office, jennifer nolan, then guarantor and-and in the mayor's analyst budget analyst jason cunningham and melissa would water and if you have a questions we are good to go. >> thank you mr. dist. atty. any questions for mr. gascoigne? mr. rose could we get a report on the district attorney's office, please? >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, on page 35 of our report a recommended reductions to the proposed budget total to 59.938 and 16-17 ongoing savings still allow an increase of $4 million 9.2% in the department and 16-17 budget. we also recommend closing upright or your unexpended encumbrances of 2004 $95 for total general fund savings of two and $18,000 $.43 and in 17-18 we do not recommend any reductions to the proposed budget and a scientist at that apartment concurs with a recommended reductions shown on pages 36-39 of our report. >> thank you mr. rose. colleagues, any questions for budget analyst are dist. atty. budget? mme. mdm. clerk please call item number five. >> item number five, >>[reading code] >> thank you. this is connected with your budget. you have to comment separately unless you want to >> we don't need to comments. we are good >> any questions about item number five? will open up to public comments on item number five. anyone wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> to the motion to ford item number five to the full board of supervisors? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> a motion to accept our budget and was recommendations on the dist. atty.'s attorneys budget. moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> thank you. moving right along, ms. hicks offices of citizens complaints. >> good morning supervisors farrell and members of the command joyce hicks opposite of citizen complaints good i like to think the budget analyst office for working with the office of them citizen complaints mr. hardy rose. also, the mayor's budget staff without jason cunningham and the members of the board of supervisors did we are in concurrence. >> okay, thanks. mr. roseburg 07 occ >> that is correct. no recommended reductions. >> okay get think you for being here. colleagues, any questions or comments for occ? thank you for doing all way you do. >> thank you very much >> we have a few that are actually in attendance we want to knock out a quick but also in agreement. a superior court is here. >> good morning, supervisor mike york could all make this very brief. we are in full agreement with the budget and legislative analyst so happy to take any questions you get >> okay. thank you. good to see you back. colleagues, any questions? mr. rose can we go to report on our secure court? >> yes on page 11 our recommend a reduction to the proposed budget total $100,000 and 16-17 their ongoing savings were also recommend closing upright your unexpended encumbrances 7000 or so that's total general fund savings of $107,000 and 17-recommended reduction is again total $100,000 which are ongoing savings and as understand the department does concur with a recommended reductions shown on page 13 of our report. >> okay thank you mr. rose. colleagues, any questions? if none, can i entertain a motion to accept the budget analyst recommendation for the superior court pending public comment on monday? moved and seconded. we can take that can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> just a notice of adult probation is also here and would like to go forward as they are in agreement. >> good morning. karen fletcher chief adult probation officer. we certainly are in agreement with the recommendations like to thank melissa whitehouse, jason cunningham and josh will further assistance in the process. >> okay thank you very much. colleagues, any questions for adult probation department? the rose can we go to report? >> yes. on page 15 of report a recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 682.721 and 16-17. of that amount to in the 16,000 ongoing 414 721 our one-time reductions was still allow in increase of four and $70,000 876 or 1.4% in the department 1617 budget. we also remind closing upright or your unexpended encumbrances of 136.541 so that's total general fund savings and 1617 of 18 1962. we also recommend placing 876.941 budget finance committee reserved for contacted about a new client management database and detailed plan for the database has been completed and the support is submitted to the budget and finance committee. i recommend a reductions of the proposed budget total or 71. all of which are ongoing savings as understand that apartment concurs with a recommended reductions and reserves shown on pages 16-19 of our report. >> thank you. everything in agreement? >> yes >> if no other questions can i entertain a motion to accept the budget and was recommendations for adult probation department? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> with that, why thank them for being questioned but welcome our police department up here in our new acting chief and thank you for being here with us today. >> you're welcome. good morning supervisors. >> good morning. if you have a deck anyone give us a second to load it up get sfgtv i think we have a presentation on the computer. so, sfgtv if we go to the presentation. thank you. >> a try to blow through the presentation as fast as i can. >> take your time as much as needed. >> okay the first slide is just an overview of the entire 2016-2017 budget over $577 million. it shows the general breakdown. we go deeper into it on the second slide here with salaries. the salaries being the bulk of the budget provides benefits, professional services, capital outlay, services by other departments. the general fund increases of current budget is $3.5 million to fund the final year of this one hiring plan can 3.9 million to fund police reforms 1.9 million of that is a one-time cost in current $500,000 for the crime of the dni sexual assault kids. $135,000 for one civilian physician and professor of fleet management all other increases our annual: an inflammatory cause to support existing level services. which equates to total 5% increase in the general fund operations. this is a breakdown of the positions in the police department. from the 2015, all the way through 2017-20 team projected. this year the increase is part of this one hiring plan initiative. this year's budget funds the final budget increase of the plan. it's an increase of civilian positions from the current year to include any was increase for positions added last year. this one positions, we have a plan to get to our full staffing of 1971 and this full duty plus an average of 300 and some status other than full duty. if you look at this graph, this are sworn hiring planted this accelerator plan to reach the 1971 full duty. the graphic, the charge going down shows had we not instituted this aggressive hiring plan staffing levels would be and today we stand at 1400 officers, 1480 officers but as as result of the plan we are on track to reach full staffing by june of 2017. the re-civilian as asian plan. currently we go 51 of the 53 positions. we have two positions currently in the hiring process. that's to crime scene positions on scene investigation positions that were delayed pending dhr creation and union adoption of the new job a series which is 82.52 and 82.54. the is the police that that program. last year, the common reestablish that please a program with 30 previously frozen unfunded position get the fiscal year of 2015-16 budget increase the number of cadets over 75 with new position funded for three years and a public-private partnership. all positions are filled with continued interest in the program. cadets are college students between the ages of 18-to five and live in in or attend school in san francisco extremely successful program. it's i think central piece to building trust in the community. the police reforms and 21st century policing recommendations. establishment of a new bureau professional standards and principal policing. reengineering our use of force, training, technology for transparency, which includes collecting demographic data, crime data warehouse enhancements and e-citations and body worn cameras. the reform budget overview. $3.9 million in fiscal year 16-17 budget to support please reforms of obama's birth 21st century policing. personnel $450,000. that's for new civilians that. three it analytical and one secretary for the policing bureau. evaluation, $100,000 that the one-time cost. outsourcing, the investigation of officer involved shootings and the state department of $7000 good equipment 7000 is also one-time cost and technology for transparency, $1.1 million. that's a one-time cost. the budget at $6000 for new training course object also one will get every two years and that ongoing. that is a breakdown of new courage and implicit bias. that's up $150 per officer times 1000 officers a year or each course and that's 150-1 or $50,000 and that's also the cost of cultural competency course for $300 per officer times 1000 officers per year at a cost of three and $1000. there is also implicit bias and procedural justice, cultural competency, nebuchadnezzar total $1000 to continue intervention training for all recruits in a cadets. in other words the cit courses taught to all incoming sfpd officers. the cit training, we begin training opposition crisis intervention training in 2011. beginning in april 2015 they added cit for all recruits as part of their basic academy training. this graphic shows the number of officers who of the cit training and the next two years every officer on the force will have the cit training as officers are hired before april 2015 also be retrained. budget also export the $13,000 one-time the judicial force options training simulators to teach the-escalation. when at the academy and is one of the range. the budget as ads 3000 two equipped patrol cars with a defibrillator center pilot last week the weapons. the fund projects for 2016-20 something is and he citations to officer smartphones that the 600,000 are caused. that's real-time data acquisition on e citations, stops and field interviews. the crime data warehouse is 500,000 out. that's enhancements to approve the position of data entry and tracking of the rest to add citizens enter police reports and better data will be available to provide to the department of justice and to the community. the body worn cameras. that was funded in last year's budget the police commission with a collaborative process for the policy to be considered and adopted. police it and police facilities worked with the dti has an dpw to make upgrades to the district stations to support the body worn camera systems charging and video uploading requirements. first officers begin body one cameras in august. body worn cameras we fully deployed on all officers by years end. we are applying for federal grants also to support the body worn camera program that will fund the study researcher behaviors of officers and citizens to inform and improve officers training when interacting with citizens in the field. a research at stanford is currently doing this type of study with oakland pd and they've agreed to do it for us. we want to know is dr. after a heart from stanford. with that, i will conclude this presentation. >> okay thank you very much chief. colleagues, any questions or comments before we go to our budget analyst report? supervisor avalos >> thank you, chief and thank you for your presentation and thank you for taking on a very difficult challenging job in a difficult challenging time and i really appreciate the leadership you are showing the ready and of course it's based on years of experience in the department. i just want to say thank you for taking on this difficult task. i thank you for your presentation you have a couple questions related to your presentation. the question on body worn cameras, what does the amount of force storage that were going to be per year that were going to be paying for? >> i will leave that one for my cfo. >> good morning supervised. kathryn mcguire from the cfo of the police department. i am actually grabbing the numbers here for you right now. in the first year we anticipate getting up to about $380,000 in storage. that, because storage will have to be maintained or video will have to be maintained over as we progress as we collect more video, because we keep the video, and somebody will be stored indefinitely. so, that number will continue increased each year. by the end of the second year we expect storage cost around $600,000. these are based on projections of what we anticipate to have to hold evidence and what we can actually let go. >> that's for the entire department per year? >> yes. >> that's great because i thought it was going to be a lot higher. he did it will continue to increase each year. >> as were storing more data. >> correct >> we have a sense 10 years out what we expect to be- >> not 10 years out. i think next year as we have some data and some understanding of exactly how much data were collecting person foremost, and then after that first 60 days, which data we need to hold onto, i think we'll be able to start to understand a little bit better how much storage we really will need and perhaps next year will have a better sense of that tenure outlook. >> yoga center level off at some point? not just accumulate every year? >> well, there are certain homicide for example would be retained indefinitely. there are some types of video imagine we won't have to hold indefinitely. >> think. i appreciate that. the 1971. in number, i'm very pleased to see we are going to be approaching that close to the end of this year like december were close and in june of next year. i think the last time we were there was probably like 2009,-2010 and then i don't think we were ever hit. thing in the past before that. so, i know it's been a hard push and the board has approved classes to make sure that's happened. the police department has made adjustments in the classing and scheduling to make sure we could actually accelerate this current fiscal year and i think it's really significant that were getting to that number could i first i thought i heard we were going to seven academy classes for the next fiscal year, and i was a previously wrong on that. three. is that's what's being proposed to be able to get to the. in level? >> yes >> okay, that's great. were able to have a plan that sustainable as moving photo we have enough officers and have a sense that retirements are slowing down and that we can probably 3-2 class level in successive years to be able to maintain that. in level? >> that's the goal >> that's fantastic. what i think is important as we are looking at approaching the full staffing level, there could be talked about after we had a resolution of the board that was saying that we need to add additional say 400 or 300 more officers due to population increases in the city. to me, doesn't make sense and we just base the size of her staffing on population but i really want to make sure, as were at that 1971 level, we been trying to get to for number of years, that we can really assess how we can do deployment to be effective and make sure that number can be done. as effectively as we can and find out with the new changes and appointments or deficiencies in the form and, if we are not able to make a dent in what our goals are, then i would say we can look at increasing the size of staffing but i want that out there that i know we got to this 1971 number through many challenging years, aggressive training of new officers, and real commitment from the department to make that happen should i just want to say thank you first and foremost. chief, i did hand you a sheet. a handout that talks about the reform measures that we are trying to work through the department said that the department is working on already. i just want to highlight these to you. what i wanted to do was to see if we-i think you might be leaving for a week after today, but you and your staff and the standards team can come with the controller's office and my office to be able to look at these reform measures to see what our-what there's agreement on in terms of what's achievable. i would make sure working with the department with our budget authority to make sure that the department is able to not just create a new policy but make sure policies are actually carried out throughout the staff through the lines down to the police on the street. so, i talked about putting a reserve a sizable reserve, on board of supervisors reserve or budget committee reserve, but something that i'm contemplating doing. i'm not a voting member on the budget committee, we can probably do that make that decision up to the board coming to the board the full board of supervisors for a full board of those. i will make sure we can do this were having numerous conversations about whatever form measures identity achievable, what can be done, and with your understanding of what it is. so, here the main highlights we are looking at. first, is changes in use of force. number one. we are looking at moving from moving towards de-escalation techniques, time and distance, as well as the standard of minimal force versus reasonable force but i know the department police commission is going to process to approve this policy over the next couple of weeks. so, sure we'll have many conversations about this. over all them and you can say your reaction to be like. >> if you want a line item by line item >> >> why don't i go through the whole thing because i don't want to get engaged in the discussion unless you want to respond. i just want to highlight >> i read it over already and i know what they say it's like you pulled off this right i dusted these are the things currently in process were doing already and the majority of these things were working on now. just it may help you make a decision whether not to go forward with this or not. >> that's fantastic piece of things you're working on i think there's a lot of room for us to have good conversations. i don't know the size-we talked about two and $1 million on reserve, perhaps it doesn't have to be that amount, but i think having some sense of that we can have a reserve and have conversations that come to the board work of the budget committee, to be able to talk about how we're achieving these reforms that you are totally invested in so we can release fonts. to me, that makes a lot of sense overusing a budget authority were doing it though, where agreement, an agreement about what reforms are going to be done, what are achievable. so, i propose colleagues make a reserve but if you've got a listen you talk about anything you see is-one highlight right now that might be something that will be difficult to do them a ib welcome to hear that. >> i think there's much on this list we've not looked out and touching on that would be difficult. i make my just want to circumvent process. part of the use of form, i think is to try to legislate and take the power away from the people is wrong to it but allows stakeholders to the table to come up with a lot of ideas but we brought the aclu. i mean this was an historic undertaking. we got stakeholders in from people that have never been sitting at the table with regards to policy for the police department. the public defender scum office, the district attorney's office, and they took their rollback and inserted the blue ribbon panel. who was a member of the blue ribbon panel that was convened in san francisco the reported recently on their findings peer we also had the aclu. the bar association of san francisco. the coalition of homelessness. we had everybody that could ultimately from the community ultimately impact these policies sitting at the table helping craft this. there is no versions that are before the police commission for a vote and to do this now i mean kind of tells him all the work was for not. i mean this allows them input that the process we had allowed them input, and now that's before the police commission to consider what the people want. we've also several police commission meetings with public comments about what they would also like to see in a particular policy. so that pieces them. as far as the police department goes, we pushed it over to the community. they push you back. in another late, after everything was done, we send it all to the department of justice that are doing the current review of the san francisco police department. they had their input. that's all that get in our rest with the police commission so to put our budget on reserve something we have absolutely no control over with this that at this point, it does nobody any service at this point because we've lived up to what you put in this document. that you're proposing everything you asked for, we've done. >> i really appreciate that. the process you described is one that is been sorely needed. the relationship building with the community, the community input. to me as well making sure that your hearing from the community one way or another in face-to-face meeting. ideally, most difficult due to work with. would be important way to go. but come into me, it's not just that were adopting a policy. it's ensuring that the policies actually carried out down to the officers on the street. we've seen is been a lot of talk about were making reforms making changes and we've also seen that those changes aren't actually seen in the conduct of some opposite. i was eight the small minority of officers whose difficulty behavior and conduct is tearing down the faith of the community has in that apartment. so that something that needs to be bridged. it's not about the adoption but it's really about implementation. that's why i think the reserve is $200 million of just look at the budget overall, i saw that it was to an $85 a think of for wages and fringe benefits was another large chunk of money. looking at $200 million that's probably too large of a size, but i think having a reserve that can tie the payment of performance measures to money being released make a lot of sense. i want to see if we can propose that and i'm not trying to tie your hands because i know that you're doing important work to craft these policies, but if the implementation that's pretty critical. >> unfortunately, that's where million dollars would be crippling. it would. one of the issues and you talk about the use of force of implementation you talk about a policy that's been a fact that has something touching over two decades. inmate had an affect on some of the things were talking about now. it's now been changed. one of the things is that policy is what allows me to either reprimand someone or recommend termination. if they violate it. so, those safeguards are in place. everything you've talked about like this that we been doing and i wish we've had this dialogue sooner rather than now, but we didn't and unfortunately he we stand. i think >> we also have a lot of time to do that because we have this budget in our hands through, i believe, the fourth week of july. so, there's considerable time for conversation and i want to make sure that we do this together rather than-and then maybe there's other ways we can go about doing this. i do think at the very least, some reports that have some conditions on them up release of funds is a good way to go. if you have other alternatives, we want to make sure that we are seeing the actual hard work that you're doing changing policy, is getting carried out throughout your staff. >> i think we can. this this document the changes we done are probably 50 times the size of this document all right. so we sit down i hopefully i can sway you to the other side of the table on this thing get you understanding this that is not only being done but the conditional things are being dumb. there's a lot of measures that apartment across this country all looking ways of changing and for the first time it's become a truly collaborative process which is why would've to reach out to two summer hard work done by some of the stakeholders in the community. i mean they party done everything there talking about comes up in every single police commission meeting. it's been told to me in private good i was at the chief of the professional standards and principles leasing bureau is a direct liaison with the doj office oh i was in charge of pushing a lot of the stuff through the pipeline could i would definitely love to sit down with you because i think we can hash out a lot of these things but i don't think we need to put any money in reserve when the time autonomy changes as fast as we possibly can because we operate under compressed timeline with the cops doj review. they push us for that may never done in this process before. they're requesting huge volumes of information and data from us and giving assist the peak and some issues that apartment has there were trying to change as fast as we can etiquette cripples us to have to come to this body to ask for that money to make those changes when old goal is to get those changes implemented as quickly as possible. i think adding another layer of bureaucracy just damages the process and slows us down. >> thank you. i don't see it as another layer theocracy. it would be a meeting come into a budget committee or board meeting and preparing a report. when you're ready for releasing funds are you asking a letter for the funds the reason i can get schedule. so i imagine that you be reporting to the police commission on the efforts you're making around reform as well, so it might be a little bit redundant, but i can't see it being highly bureaucratic. again, were not trying to do anything that you would be doing already. it just getting a quarterly report on that and then having funds released. the seismic $2 million, could very well be a large size, we actually have a lot of times this budget committee puts funds on reserve pending conditions met by the department. so, this is just will we be considering for the police department. >> okay. >> supervisor weiner >> thank you very much mr. chairman. chief, in the current fiscal year,, the academy graduations will have occurred by june 30? >> for this fiscal year? >> how many of academy graduations will occur in the current fiscal year? >> actually- >> academy class graduations? >> okay. we've had seven classes in 15-16 get one of those classes was transferred class and i think deputy chief ali might know the number of graduates. >> yes good afternoon. this fiscal year-15-6 and walked for the that classes and five classes that will graduate. the next class to graduate in september and then one more in october. >> then, in the 16-17 fiscal year, how many classes will enter? >> we are anticipating a minimum of two dependent upon the budget >> i'm sorry, minimum of two? >> depending upon the budget. >> what does that mean dependent upon the budget? >> what were looking at his graduation rates. we can look at the number classes in the aggregate that doesn't mean every pseudo-classes going to fill be successful. also we'll start with 15 get in some instances we've ended as well as 30 and recently we been was successful having class graduates at the rate of lake 43. >> i understand you start with 50 and you can have 48 graduates or 43 were 37 depending on how people do in the academy. not talking about the number of cadets. i'm talking about the number of class., the academy classes will start in the 2016-17 this year? >> i believe we have to budgeted. three, correction to three budgeted. >> okay. we are projected with occurrence budgeting to get back up to 1971 officers by when? >> june of 2017 >> june of 2017. what happens when? >> what happens then hopefully we either maintain or we evaluate our effectiveness as a police department goal is to that 1971 and the services we provide to the city and county and a valuate whether or not that is an appropriate number or if there's a need to go beyond that number based on a number of factors >> so, that number as i understand, 1971, the magic number, was set when diane feinstein was mayor of san francisco. am i right about that? >> you are absolutely correct >> in 1980, san francisco had 650,000 people. we had 850,000 people today. work and have over 1 million people in the next few decades. when the number was set we do not have neighborhoods that we have today. in the coming years with avenue neighborhoods like the shipyard and candlestick point and treasure island, etc. etc. etc. given the growth that we are having and anticipate, do you think 1971 is actually enough to do what we need-with the expectations of the people of san francisco are in terms of having beat cops in neighborhoods and not just in cars in terms of having actual traffic enforcement and so forth? >> i do not. just when the hunters point development the estimated increase in population is i think between 80 and 100,000 people. clearly, there's a need for additional police, fire, and other infrastructure resource. in that community suggest on face value,-- >> i'm going to be real blondes. i know we've supervisor avalos have an ongoing dialogue on this issue but i think as a city, we are absolutely deluding ourselves if we think that 1000 971 officers is enough to have adequate policing in the city. we have a crime problem in this city. it's absolute explosion of also is a property crimes. i know you're well aware is your folks are doing with them every day. we see continuing violence like what we've seen in the mission in recent weeks. we have not nearly enough traffic enforcement and if were ever an individual we have vision zero we need to have more robust consistent traffic enforcement. this huge policing needs now that are going unmet because we do not have enough officers, and as the city grows, 1971 i'm sure was great. however it was set in 1980s, it is no longer operative today. i know supervisor avalos likes to suggest that somehow it doesn't count but the fact is the board of supervisors did based on an analysis by the controller's office of per capita staffing in san francisco compared to pure cities looking at population growth and so forth, and using every any metric we could use we came to the conclusion that we need at least 2200 officers and the board of supervisors passed a resolution setting 2200 as our goal. so, i will say to that apartment and to the mayor's office, that the idea that we would hit 1971 and then go into some sort of maintenance mode during the number of academy classes where we just stick at 1971, that is not point to be enough. i think even my colleagues, when we passed that resolution setting 2200 as the new staffing goal, the chief suhr was up there in that apartment and supported the resolution and i asked him, because we're colleagues we should not be increasing that staffing could i said, it is there any member of the board of supervisors doesn't ask you for more officers in his or her district and the answer was, no. it is not good enough to say, i want more officers on the streets in my district but because of these broader ideological objections, i don't want to hire more officers. because that means when you're pulling more officers into your district, but not increasing the staffing, that means they're coming from someone else's district. it becomes a push or pull about what neighborhoods gets adequately staffed. we've got a dedicated beat in the-triangle because of the crime issues there the murders that were happening the robberies. that's great. another southerner but saying what about us? we wanted dedicated beat michigan more dedicated beats and more traffic enforcement and you cannot do that without having the staffing. so i just want to express my frankly, if the two in the mayor's office, if it's two academy classes budgeted for 17-18 to the mayor's office, to the mayor's office-yes, if the two academy classes been budgeted and 17-18 is an indication that room 200 once we hit 1971 were good to go and maintain i described us my strongest disagreement with that-most people in san francisco would say the same thing. i also want to say that i completely disagree with this idea of putting a big chunk of the departments budget on budget reserve. so the board of supervisors becomes somehow the managing entity of that apartment. our job is to set the budget and people want to cut that budget, the members of this board can cast that vote and expand to their constituents whether cutting police services. that's a choice that everyone has to make but the idea that we would somehow become the oversight when we have a mayor, we have a police commission, we have a chief of police, i don't think most people would want the board of supervisors to become the managing entity for the police department. i think it would be incredibly disruptive. chief, what would happen-presumably you are making planning decisions on hiring and staffing based on the budget that approved for you. what happens if you come back to us on this budget reserve and the board says, no? >> we shut down operations projected by janitor lysate shutdown operations we just stopped working. by january. >> so i think this idea of a reserve is playing with fire. it is playing with public safety of this city and we all want to see the reform move forward. we know it is moving forward. we have various ways in terms of accountability for making sure that happens with this this is not the way to do it. >> i just want to have some comments as well. from my perspective, appreciate the intent here with this reserve discussion and it is something i would absolutely not support i do not want to jeopardize the operations of our police department on an ongoing basis here in san francisco. i know you are actively working through these reforms did i know it's a challenging task that i believe our role should be to support you in that, and in terms of the staffing levels, from my perspective, i think it is insane to think that we will be able to effectively have a police force in san francisco with staffing levels from the 1980s. i do know anybody in san francisco i would support that. in my district, residents and other districts public safety is the number one thing they talk about all the time. whether it be violent crime reports i still happens on our streets, quality-of-life crimes, or property break-ins were car break-ins, it is my inbox is flooded every single day. i completely concur with the fact that once we reach 1971, we need to have a very frank discussion about where we are going to go from there. i'm sure that will be contentious, but i want to voice my strong belief today that we need to absolutely reflect the population of san francisco today and make sure that we have a police department with staffing levels that make sure that our residents in san francisco feel safe. i'm not so sure that exist right now and were working hard to get there through staffing levels and to reforms, but i think there's a lot of work left to do into we get to that point. supervisor avalos >> i'm not the only person with an idea logical position here on the board. it's neither logical position to believe that officers are the only thing the mechanically public safety in san francisco. public safety is not a number of things. it's not numbered based on the size of the police force. it's going to be worked with the police force and many other city departments to create the conditions of public safety. the officers often are the ones who are arresting people who commit crimes. more officers we will see probably the be more people to arrest people see more people get locked up. that's another huge impact on our budget. is that the most effective weight we can create public safety? i don't know. i think it's important as a city we don't assume because our population is growing with to increase the size of the police department in accordance with the population growth. that doesn't make a lot of sense. the budget the controller's report did not conclude that we have to get 2200 officers altogether as a new standard. they show that per capita basis, that's about the average of other places around the country. they didn't conclude the city has to go forward and actually hire that many more officers. what i said earlier was that let's get to 1971 number and let's figure out how we can at the most effective deployment of those officers including beach officers and if we find that's not effective that we can go to that level but just because our population grows as a city, doesn't necessarily automatically mean we have to grow our police department in size to get that's a very inefficient wasteful way of looking at how we deploy officers what i'd like to do is i like to request the controller's office to do a long-term study about the deployment and how we can actually create greater efficiencies in deployment with the 1971 number. were going to achieve by june of next year. so we can actually go into the idea of how we can go with eyes wide open to increase the size of our police apartment if we have to do if we feel that appointment is not effective enough or efficient enough. then we can increase the size but just to base it on purely population that's an etiological point of view and that's one that i believe does not look at all the other factors that involve public safety in anywhere in the world. >> so, i appreciate those comments. i will say for my perspective this is not ideological. this is about a strong belief that one of essential functions of our city government is to keep our residents safe and i want to do whatever i can as a member of this board of supervisors whatever capacity to make sure that we normally keep our residents safe, keep them feeling safe but also make sure they know that is one of the number one priorities down at city hall. i will never ever we went from market supervisor weiner >> yes, just i want to just make very clear because my statement was missed badly characterized. i don't think i or anyone else is saying the police are the only factor in keeping communities safe. of course, there's various factors and we know that the police can't do it alone. but, please play an absolutely critical role as one of those factors keeping committee safe and we have an understaffed police department and with a growing city and please staffing isn't giving up, when we do things like a big chunk [inaudible] we don't know the monies can i get spent on staffing, i just think that is undermining public safety and it's just not something i'm going to support. >> supervisor avalos >> thank you. i will still be looking at this idea of a reserve. we can do that the budget committee can set that and the full board can set that. i would need six votes at the full board could not sure if i can get six votes but i think it's important to have a conversation about what is achievable one of the things were working on. we gave me to understand that as well could i may have several more months here but i also want make sure you can do your job. you have a difficult task and not not trying to tie your hands in any way but i do think there are given takes in terms of accountability that i think are and transparency that i think are important to the board can help with. to that end, i will, conversations. >> that's a good as i said before just leave you additional officers stayed on the seven table early, not just making arrested there for engaging the public. every building that trust. if you know the community on foot beads make people full safe i think the end result will be a decreased number of arrests not an increase because once you build that community trust that engage in peace again, that i think the visibility of having more officers on the foot beats will deter a lot of crimes. most of the times we've seen a crimes often because a lot of officer. that increase which these folks out of san francisco . that's my belief that we get to that. in and beyond the number those are the things we can do about it in here for a few weeks that is been the number one complaint from the supervisors from your colleagues, it lack of bodies in their particular districts. >> i am all for decrease arrests. much of that score to be based on more officers but i also do want to see foot beads in my district. i'm not sure if getting netiquette 2200 number before we get foot beats good luck people read disappointed in san francisco if that's the case. so, i think there has to be way of how we can be efficient with our climate at the 1971 number we don't have to wait 5-10 more years to be cable to get to the 21 or number so we can have foot beats. i think that's the a lot of work in terms of how we deploy effectively to meet crime where it happens to the work of the officers on the street that can build trust with the community that can actually have a presence that can make our neighborhoods safer along with all the other services and facilities that the city provides that enable residents to feel safety on our streets. >> okay. with that, mr. rose, go to report, please? >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, on page 59 of our report, a recommended reduction to the proposed budget total $2 million in 16-17 of that amount $1 million are ongoing. savings and 691 a one-time savings. these reductions would still allow an increase of $29 million or 5.5% in 16-17 budget. in addition, we recommend placing 1,000,004 and $10,000 on budget and finance committee reserve. discuss associate with equipment contract to incremental reforms related to that department spending use of force policy because of that apartment has neither received recommended reforms from the united states department of justice scheduled to be released in september of 2016 get these funds should be reserved until there permits use of force policy has been finalized and approved by the police commission report has been submitted to the board of supervisors. the department has requested approval of five positions interim exceptions budget and legislative analyst recommends approval of those five positions as interim exceptions. and 17--18 i recommend proposals 1 million 698 of which all ongoing savings. these reductions still allow an increase of $12 million or 2.2% to the department 17-18 budget. such eminent members i like to make a general statement before i go into the detailed recommendations in our report. as i understand it the department disagrees with all of our recommendations as shown on pages 60-64 of our report. i would note, this is the first time in my history with the city that the police department is budgeted over $577 million and includes over 3000 employees as disagreed with every single one of our recommendations. now, it goes without saying that our budget analysis is based on what the mayor has funded in the budget. so, that's what our analysis is on. it's on with the mayor has submitted to the board of supervisors just like we do every other budget. their comments total proposed budget for fiscal year 16-17 of $577 million we are recommending a reduction of $2 million. that is 4/10 of a percent, or less than one half of 1%. our review and analysis does not in any way impact the 1971 staffing position level. we are not proposing any reductions in services of the mayor's budget. it's been submitted to. not one dollar. in fact, we are recommending approval of the expansion of services including three new academies, five new civilian positions to create the new professional standards bureau, julie charged with implementation the police reforms, 700,000 in additional training for officers, this new equipment and a new investigator for the office of citizen complaints. with a smaller budget last year, and almost double the reductions recommended by the budget and legislative analyst, which were accepted by the committee, the department still have surplus salary savings after paying for the unbudgeted costs related to the super bowl overtime. yet, according to the department they cannot agree with even one dollar reduction in uniform overtime or miscellaneous attrition. despite the fact that the overtime budget has increased by $4 million from $10 million in 15-16, two $50 million 16-7. the department continues to vacancies in civilian positions, tuition savings has been reduced for both miscellaneous that is, civilian, and uniform salaries and the department and overall surplus salary savings in each of the past fiscal years. 2013-14, $4.5 million salary surplus, 2014-15 $3 million, 50-16 $2 million and supervisors, that surplus salary of two main dollars is even without $3 million extra overtime for the super bowl which was not specifically funded in that budget. in prior years, the department has stated to the committee that there would be a reduction were no change in overtime spending if the mayor and the board of supervisors approved a hiring plan to increase the number of full deputies warning employees two 1971. in this 16-17 budget now before you, the department is not only increasing uniform overtime, but is also increasing its full duties on staff. the department is proposing $15.4 million in uniform overtime for increases as i stated a $4.6 million. uniform surplus salary savings and 15-16 is $13.3 million. supervisors, this was the reason why the department be appropriated surplus salaries with your approval to obtain additional additionalovertime inmate inmate. basically cannot spend the money and they had the money to user for additional overtime with the board of supervisors approved. regarding the civilian position of attrition and contrast the uniform salaries, the department has reduce miscellaneous attrition from a reduced it am a bite $1 million and 16-17 and $1 million and 17-8. that apartment has 17 current vacancies as requesting five new positions. this is the billions. our recommended attrition increase for civilian salaries is based on hiring information provided by the department itself. not by us that apartment gave us the precise schedule. because related that to the dollar. miscellaneous salary savings in 2015-16 is $500,000 and that's according to the comptroller's office. the other was that surplus of 501.907. the department reports savings of 536-three and 56.498 in the body camera for him for 2015-16. the department now reports additional costs not previously budgeted for electrical upgrades. that cost is 242 point 232. at the very least, the programmatic budget should be reduced by that difference between the 356.493 and the 242.432 for total one hour $14,000. the apartment has a history of caring for funds from year-to-year. and 16-something there's $983,000 still holding aside for unidentified furniture fixtures and equipment for the new public service building. going to the specific recommendations, on page 60,supervisors, i can respond to questions on each one of the pages. you've got our recommendations. i think they're pretty clear and again, there based upon the funding of the mayor's office. what we are emphasizing to you, were not reducing service. we are a recommendations increase service that we are just telling you what money will be left over in this budget. we proven it to you each and every year including this year as you know, you just appropriated millions of dollars for overtime that was left over. how the police department can state that they cannot absorb one dollar of the budget that was submitted by the mayor, to me, is unbelievable. >> supervisor avalos >> thank you good i'm additional question to add to harvey's reported earlier this year i have requested that the budget legislative analyst assessed population-based staffing for the police department and i just want to get a summary of that report with the inclusion what the conclusion of the report was based on the assessment of population-based staffing. >> thank you supervisor avalos. i'm from the budget analyst office. the overall conclusion from our analysis is that population-based analyses to determine police staffing levels is not the best practice that the past practice is workload based analysis to determine proper police staffing levels for cities, and it's our understanding that at the time the department did concur with that conclusion. >> enqueue very much. >> to her visor tang >> i was actually one of the police department staff the response to the recommended cuts for the budget analyst office regarding overtime, tuition, electrical work needed for the body camera program and more attrition. if you could just for the record state door justification for why you were not accepting of that? >> thank you supervisor. starting with overtime, first of all were happy to work the budget and legislative analyst little bit longer should we should the committee see fit. but for overtime i do want to stress that when we made the request to increase over time it was in addition to a decrease in premium paid and holiday pay. in our budget commission. so this is a no net gain in our budgets and so this is really specific to a payroll code change that happened two fiscal years ago. when we switched when the entire city switch to a new payroll system am a coating having differently and court page got coded instead of being paid as a premium in prior years, it got coded as overtime in the budget was never adjusted to reflect that. so the $3.6 million increase in overtime is really reflected of a shift that we needed to make as a technical adjustment, really, to our budget. >> so, to take that $1.7 million away from overtime means you're defining court page. so, that is the overtime issue. then, the other two major issues really are with respect to the body camera program. the body camera program we are projected about $114,000 in this fiscal year that we expect to need to pay for storage or next fiscal year. as you all know, we've had to negotiate our policy with both the community with both the police commission, having committee meetings and talking with the public about what the body camera policy should look like in the sfp away as well. so that process has completed. we are now able to start deploying cameras in august and so we have not had any need for storage it. that needs arts in august. we really need those funds to carry forward into 16-17 to be able to pay for things like that. >> then, finally with respect to our miscellaneous attrition adjustment, we are-we are concerned that right now, it's minor standing be of about 37 positions vacant and miscellaneous civilian and staff and we have 38 budgeted vacancies. our budgets increases that number by about increasing our staffing level, but this increase would then increase the attrition to about 41 physicians going to old vacant and so we would not be able to will hire those positions we would be getting in our budget. >> mr. rose >> i'm sorry, one follow-up question. >> how many those vacant positions are you anticipating to be able to fill in the upcoming fiscal year? >> without the attrition adjustment? >> yes. we would be >> we will be able to follow all of them. >> members of the committee, little surprised because this is the first time we heard the department states they would be willing to work with the budget analyst indicating that maybe they can take at least one dollar cut in their budget. we have not heard that before but that apartment is on record they just stated they would be willing to further work with a budget analyst to see if there could be some reductions. i am happy to hear that. we will submit work with that apartment because right now, they are saying they can't absorb one dollar. that's what they have told us that they disagree with every single rock mentation we've made. but on record now saying they want to work with a budget analyst and we will be happy to do that. >> that is the magic of budget committee and were here to facilitate a productive dialogue. so we hope we can all work together on a. >> okay, so anymore comments or questions? >> thank you i appreciate the budget analyst support and i could be looking at pursuing some of those recommendations when the budget gets to the full board as well and i'll reserve that for other recommendations the press on taken by the budget committee. >> okay. so, we will see you back next wednesday. i asked that the department works with a budget analyst. i think seeing no cuts is--produces of standard results of budget committee. were saying not even a dollar. so, look forward to having a discussion. my office in this committee will commit to work with >>[gavel] >> good afternoon everybody welcome back to the regular scheduled board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for friday, june 17, 2016. we are coming back from our recess. we are continuing with item number two and three. real quick if the office of probation was here earlier. i want have you come up. >> thank u supervisor farrell. the juvenile probation department is pleased to state were in agreement with a budget and legislative analyst office. we want to thank the players mayor's budget office in the budget site of analyst further assistance. we are greatly appreciative of the opportunity to discuss the priorities of the juvenile probation department and rapid to take any questions you may have this afternoon >> okay. colleagues, any questions i know? okay. this arose, we go to your report? >> yes, as are chairman and members of the committee, on page 21 of the report are recommended reductions to the budget total 370 and 16-17. of that amount to 89 our ongoing savings. 83,000 are one-time savings. we also recommend closing out prior your unexpended encumbrances of $972 for total general fund savings of three and $74,000 for fiscal year 17-18 we do not recommend any reductions in the proposed budget designers in the department concurs with our recommended reductions on pages 22-24 of our report. >> okay thank you mr. rose. colleagues, any questions? if not deny entertain a motion to accept our budget analyst recommendation for the juvenile department. 's moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> thank you for being good up next we have oewd. >> we have more memorial arts commission dc why you. >> thank you. office of workforce development could not happy to say were enough agreement with budget analysts aggregations and happy to take questions. >> colleagues, any questions for our department oewd? mr. rosen the we go to a report, please? >> yes. member's of the committee, on page 39 of the report recommended reductions to the proposed budget total $1 million and 1617. those are one-time savings to the general fund. these reductions would still allow an increase of $17 million or 42 4.3% in the department 16-17 but that we also been closing out encumbrances so the total general fund savings of 416-17 would be $1 million for 17-18. are recommended reductions total $300,000 which are one-time savings. as i understand it the department does concur with our recommended reductions joe shown on pages 40-42 of our report >> okay. colleagues, any questions for budget analyst on oewd budget or staff? with that, can i entertain a motion to accept our recommendations for oewd any public comment on monday? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> thanks very much. war memorial is up next. >> good afternoon supervise. that read the director of the war memorial and performing arts center. thanks to the mayor's budget office, and the budget and legislative eight we are in agreement with the budget analyst reports. i didn't pass out a copy about this presentation gives you can look at the pictures. they are beautiful. if you have any questions let me know >> it's been a big year for you guys could thank you for that. alex, any questions or comments? mr. rose, do we go to your report? >> yes. i'm as of the committee, on page 6 of our report the recommended reductions of the budget total $57,000 in 16-17 ongoing tenant that these reductions was to allow an increase of $1 million for 5% of the department 16-17 but. our recommended reductions to the 17-19 budget total $48,000 which are ongoing savings, would still allow an increase of $1 million or 4.7% to of the department 17-18 budget. as i understand that the budget concurs with our the department concurs with our budget on page 7 of our report we did thank you. any questions for budget analyst or war memorial? seeing none,, can i entertain a motion to except our budget and was recommendation for the war memorial but budget pending public, not muddy? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> we have our arts commission your? dc dc why a. >> so good afternoon chairman farrell i'm director of the department of youth and families it is my pleasure to be here and i do want to thank the budget analyst legislative analyst's office particularly, jan and julia for working with us over the last several weeks. then, special things over to the mayors budget office, laura bush and melissa white house. these two are very hard-working dedicated and brilliant women. so, thank you. >> are you in agreement? >> we are in agreement. i'm sorry. we are i miss that. in my desire to call out really phenomenal people i forgot that. >> no worries could well deserved. mr. rose can we go to your report, please? >> yes. on page 47 of our report recommended reductions of the budget total $214,000 in 16-17. $150,000 on ongoing savings and 64 are one-time savings. these reductions would still allow an increase of $18.8 million or 11% in the department 16-17 budget are recommend reduction to the budget total is two and $17,000 and 17-19. ongoing savings they would still allow an increase of $6.39 or 3.3% to the province 17-18 budget and the zionist and the other does concur with the recommend a reduction and shown on page 48 of our report >> thank you. any questions for budget analyst? supervisor yee >> thank you for your work at dc why have. i'm just curious in term of the budget, i know that there's a substantial money that was put into the early education, but i would personally was a little disappointed in the amount knowing that needs which was well articulated two years ago trying to get a bump in the funding for children and their families. what is your thinking behind that? i just a little surprised how-i don't say how little, but that the requested amount that was pretty large wasn't even halfway filled. >> thank you for the question supervisor yee. if you want i can put that section. our budget naturally grows because of the passage of proposition c back in 2014. with that growth, we are proposing over the next two years to allocate $18.4 million towards the children youth and family services. of the $18.4 million, we, after talking to our community, talking to our oversight and advisory body and talking to the mayor's office, and other advocates, we right off the bat i located a third of that growth towards early care and education. we know that it is not at the level that was advocated for, but we feel that with the $6 million that were allocating towards early care and education, we will be able to at least need some of the needs that we are hearing, which are prior guys also by the mayor. who wanted us to increase opportunities for our high-risk high needs families. >> thank you for your expiration. i hope we can work closer together to try to strengthen the funds for early could >> yes i look forward to working with. i know supervisor yee you're a true champion fred ebbers five populations. >> colleagues, any further questions or analysts? can i entertain a motion to accept the budget and was recommendation? gibby go? >> yes >> motion accepted for dc why you pending public comment on monday. moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> our arts commission, i believe has arrived. let's take them next. >> good afternoon supervise. rebecca crawled deputy director and ceo of the arts commission. so, no presentation or >> are you in agreement with the budget analyst >> we are. >> it up to you. we offer people the opportunity. some people have come up and just said if there agreement and were happy to answer dubai question but it's up to you can we one make sure you give people the opportunity to get things for the opportunity. were happy to answer the questions lasted >> all right, colleagues any questions for the department? mr. rose, can we go to your report, please? >> yes. i'm as of the committee, on page 2 the recommend reduction to close budget total $106,000 in 1670 and that's one-time savings. the reduction would still allow an increase of 214-1.4% in the province budget. we also recommend placing $62,000 on budget finance reserve pending cost estimates of acoustic mitigation improvements. the department has requested one 1823 senior administrator analyst position to be an interim exception to continue strategic and analytical work. we recommend approval deposition as an interim exception. in 17-18, we have recommended a reduction of $70 million excuse me-to the proposed budget-excuse me-wwe have no recommendations for 17-19. >> thank you mr. is good colleagues, any questions for mr. rose were arts commission? seeing none,, can i entertain a motion to accept our budget analyst recommendations on our arts commission budget pending public comment? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> thank you. so, we have a few departmentsi tell you what but when we go into a two-minute recess and i think were going quicker than we >> we are back from recess. for our budget and finance committee meeting for friday, june 17, 2016. we're in the middle of items two and three are core budget items. up next in terms of department we have our fire department has come in so you will let them so much catch the bus and come on up. >> good afternoon. fire department. happy to report we are in agreement with a budget analyst happy to answer any questions you may have >> thank you. colleagues from any questions are to fire department under budget? seeing none,, sorry supervisor yee >> i'm just curious. there was some discussion of question was asked of the about potentially in the future were currently to bring back a battalion. >> correct >> i guess it's battalion number five or whatever is. other any thoughts on that? >> i'll defer to our chief of operations, but in general i believe the department that was funded a was and is a bout 7-8 years ago. with the growth of the city the department is in favor of restoring the battalion and a let the chief talk about. >> good afternoon supervise the deputy chief operations mark gonzales. i agree. i'd like to reimplement that i've had a focus right now is what we implemented my the fleet is definitely our first priority. as part of the budget. this is something that we definitely our department is extended we planning workstations and the hunters point area and the canada points that area. we would need up italian sometime in the future. the near future. >> my office would be more than happy to discuss it with you. >> thank you. >> colleagues, any further questions for the fire department? this arose can we go to your part of our department, please? >> yes. members of the committee on page 56 of our report recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 5.8916-17. there one-time savings can you would still allow an increase of $17.2 million or 4.8% in the department 16-17 budget. the mayor's budget office has requested approval of 40-20 new age 3 emt paramedic firefighter positions in the 16-17 budget as interim exceptions. we do recommend approval of those 20 new positions as interim exceptions. i recommend reductions for 70-18 total 259 496 which are one-time savings, would still allow an increase of 6 million 577 of 1.8% to the apartments 17-18 bytes. as i understand that obama does concur with the recommended reductions shown on page 57 of her report. >> thank you mr. rose. colleagues from any questions are budget analyst or fire department? seeing none,, and i entertain a motion to except that budget analyst recommendations on the fire department and in public on on monday? moved and seconded.can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> we have our department of public health. i know is here. ms. garcia, please come on up. >>supervisors we are in agreement with our analysts and so if there's any questions about the budget will be happy to answer them. >> okay. colleagues, if the department of public health. any questions, comments, specifically on the budget itself. this arose can we go to report for dph >> yes. members of the committee on page 66 of our report recommend reductions to the proposed budget total $3 million and 16-17. of that amount, 2 million dollars our ongoing savings and it $1 million one-time savings. these reductions would still allow an increase of $6.2 million were 3/10 of 1% independent 16-17 budget. the mayor's office has proposed interim exceptions to the annual salary 438 positions in the department of public health coming including 35 new aqua jet limited term 2320 registered nurses at sfgh, two 9924, public servant eight health services positions and one 1657 accountant position. we do recommend approval of those interim exceptions. we also recommend that you carry forward reductions are the proposed budget totaling 33,000 dollars. those are ongoing savings in addition we recommend closing out prior year i spent a general fund encumbrances which would allow for the return of $847,000 to the general fund. so together, recommendations total $3 million in general fund savings and 16-17 can in 17-18, recommend reductions total $2 million all of which are ongoing savings. these reductions was still allow an increase approximately $36 million or 1.8% in the department 17-18 budget and as i understand it, the but department does concur with our recommend reductions on shown on pages 67-74 of our report. >> thank you mr. rose. colleagues, any questions for our budget analyst on our department of public health budget? agreement. okay, colleagues can i entertain a motion to accept the budget analyst recommendations for our department of public health pending public comments on monday? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> would you like me to call item number six and nine with the public of budget >> thank you. could you do that >> item number six >>[reading code]item number seven >>[reading code] item number eight, >>[reading code] item number nine, >>[reading code]. >> thank you very much. greg wagner is here former cfo of the department of public health >> thank you supervisors. the items before you i will discuss them briefly and then happy to answer the questions. item 6 is an update to an ordinance that this board approved a little over a year ago which gives us authority to negotiate contracts that bring in revenue to the department from managed-care payors. have that time, we committed to come back with updates to this ordinance, so we are proposing those in the budget. it's largely administer your changes including changing some references to data sources that have changed since the ordinance was adopted. item 7 is our patient rates ordinance of the comes before you and only. this is our rates that are formal charges that we post for medical services. very few of our patients actually pay these rates. these are largely used to drive maximum reimbursement through medi-cal for behavioral health services, and also reimbursement commercial payers. commercially insured patients that end up in our healthcare system predominately at san francisco general hospital. the vast majority of our patients including our safety net patients, will either have medi-cal, medicare, or will have to the sliding scale fee paid to them so this allows us to maximize the revenue that we can capture from the commercial payers. item 8 is also an annual item that we bring before this board. we were large number of grants that require approval each year. so, rather than doing them individually as resolutions, before the committee, we combine them into a list and request your approval once at budget hearing time so that we don't have have a large number of separate items on the calendar. then, lastly, number nine is an individual grant 1.4 million dollars from the san francisco foundation that will help offset the cost of establishing wellness centers and programs in the whole sf sites. some happy to answer any questions if you have them. i'm sorry. i declined to-i have for item number seven, i have eight requested amendment at the request and consultation with the clerk to delete section number two. i have that copies and that is simply a reference to items that are on file with the board of clerk of the board of supervisors. they're actually on file at san francisco general hospital. so we are deleting that reference. >> okay thank you. colleagues, any questions on items six-i'm? we will take public comment on items six-i could does anyone wish to publicly comment on these items? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> can i entertain a motion to accept the minutes for item number seven and then poured out 6-9. number seven is amended to the full board of somebody supervisors on july 12? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> thank you to our dph staff. we have hsa so mdm. clerk would you call items 10, 11, and 15 please >> item number 10, >>[reading code]. item number 11 >>[reading code]. item number 15, >>[reading code]. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon. mems of the committee executive director of human resources agency i'm pleased to say with great interaction with a budget analyst that come in full agreement on the report. >> okay. thank you. colleagues, any questions for mr. rourke? i think we've all been briefed on the legislative items. any additional comments you want make on this >> no. >> okay. mr. rose can we go to report on hsa, please? >> yes, mr. chairman and members of the committee on page 76 of our report, recommended reductions to the proposed budget total $7 million in 16-17. and supervisors, i would note if you look on page 84 of our report, of that amount of the $7.2 million, 3,000,004 our general fund savings. let me just check that figure again for you. the general fund amount. >> could you clearly articulate: >> 3 million 427.11 is the general fund amount included in that several $7.2 million. of that $7.2 million, seven and $70,000 ongoing savings and 6 million are one-time savings. we also recommend placing 423 562 a budget and finance committee reserved pending approval by the voters in proposed dignity fund on the november 2016 ballot and submission of budget egos. recommended reductions of the proposed budget total $1 million and 17-18 all the jar ongoing savings. these reductions would allow an increase of pipe five point 6,000,006 and 7% (17-18 budget. we recommend placing $6 million on budget and finance committee reserved pending approval by voters of the proposed dignity fund on the november 2016 ballot and submission of budget details to the budget and finance committee and board of supervisors. as i understand it, that department concurs with the recommended reductions, reserves, which are shown on pages 85-77 other report >> thank you. could you just clarification on your two, the general fund savings? >> yes. the general fund savings of the million is 776 .873 and that is shown on page 84 of our report. that's and 76.873 >> great. thank you. colleagues from any questions or comments? so, first look take the budget itself. can i answered in a motion to accept a budget analyst recommendations for human services budget moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? san diego >> does anyone wish to publicly comment on these items ? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> can i that i motion to send items 10, 11, and 15 to the full board of supervisors on july 12? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection?- >> i believe hfa has amendment to item . >> okay i did not know that will bring them back up. >> we do have a amendment superbike. the city attorney was to afford them to your opposite could mine has not seen him that something initial working on them. >> to our city attorney. >> i believe your office is in possession of them but we can grab them and bring them down. you can vote on the amendment in 10 min. or so. >> okay. why we hold off on the legislative package right now. we'll do it in a few minutes once we get them. if you would let us know what they do come through. okay. thanks. we have four departments (we are going to take i don't believe there here is working to take i know the department of emergency management is here with go through your budget and talk about also the areas of disagreement still. >> thank you so much chairman farrell and members of the budget and finance committee. it's a pleasure to be here today. i want to start out by just thanking mr. rose and his staff, jennifer, we work very closely with the odyssey, melissa whitehouse and anthony -whose our budget analyst in our mayor's office and always been then goes into great partners we have. so, we have just a couple of slides and the width through them. i think you all know this. first slide, department of emergency management is made up of three divisions. emergency communications which is 911, emergency services and administration. we also are the fiscal agent to the bay area-for the 12 county in the region. our total budget request for 16-17 is $93.88 million. this slide reflects the breakdown per divisions could i won't go to into everything but just in general, emergency communications is 100% general fund supported. emergency services is 33% tied to the general fund. 28% from revenues and work order recovery, and the remaining 39% from homeland security grants. administration and support division is 90% general fund and the bay area is one i've percent grant fund. we have some major projects coming up this year. there are three critical information technology projects could i've spoken to you before about the public safety radio replacement project. $14.5 million is lighted budget for 16-7. another $7.8 million has been approved for 17-18. we thank you for your support on this very critical project. $180,000 is budgeted for 16-17 to my great des environment to microsoft active directory. $160,000 to implement a work that much-needed workforce scheduling system to replace our current manual paper process for 911 operations. we also have three approved capital projects. $2.63 million for the radio site improvement which is tied to the public safety radio project. $750,000 over two years to add eight dispatching workstations to our existing 911 for operations four, and $500,000 in 17-18 to design and plan for expansion of the main dem facility. i always like to come to you each year in agreement with a budget analyst. unfortunately, this year we are not able to good there's a number of personnel changes that i want to highlight and this slide actually is-i will be speaking to the differences we have a budget analyst. so, to address the increase 911 call volume dem six aggressively hiring as many dispatchers as possible. working with the dhr, and with the mayor's office, we have three academy classes plan for this upcoming fiscal year. and three for this fiscal year following that. this will help us with the attrition of our dispatchers in it also will quickly get us to a level where we are able to spawn two calls in a more timely fashion. we've really been struggling with this. it's a huge issue for us. that's why we do not agree with a budget analysts propose cut up $755,000 in for operations. dem has also requested adding one new iis engineer senior to the public safety radio replacement project. we were approved through the process and to dhr for a 1043 position to dhr felt this would be appropriate level for the radio replacement project. the budget analyst is recommending that we change that classification to attend 42 and we believe 1043 is the appropriate class. dem also requested a new iis engineer senior position for our cat. this is very important to us. while was approved in the budget analyst reports were recommended, it was recommended to start in december or january. i think was .5 position. we had anticipated starting in october we've had conversations with the department of human resources who assures us we will be able to hire in october and so we would like to stick to our original budget request. lastly, we are also adding one new manager to the bay area team and this position primary responsibility will be developing regional in our programs. in 00 verse one atomic senators that all associate with emergency communication for overtime or budgeting we point 2 million per 16 having something and 2.4 million 417-18. the current level of overtime expended is needed to not only address staffing shortages but also improve our call response times in fact we recently received approval for an overtime supplemental from you to reflect the current usage of $3.56 million. in comparing the calendar year to the new two-year budget come we anticipate spending less than the current year given we will have new hires from recent academies who will be fully released for training. that concludes my report. i do have my deputy director in charge of administration and finance to answer any specific questions and also rob smut whose might director the director of the medication to them happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. colleagues from any questions i know? mr. rose chemically go to your report? >> yes mr. chairman and members of the committee. on page 44 report recommended action to the rose budget total 826 in 16-17 of that amount, 6204 ongoing savings and $20,000 of one-time savings. these reductions was to allow an increase of 10 million 186 12.3% in the apartments six 1117 buzz. i recommend reduction to those budget totals $17,000 and 17-18 which ongoing savings. i would know, supervisors, besides the police department and the department of technology, emergency management is the only department of the 32 department which we reviewed that that disagrees with all of our recommendations. the recommendations are shown on page 45 of our report. i will go with him briefly. on the top recommendation, the first recommendation, equipment purchase, we say can i request for one of two new replacement vehicles due to the low mileage of decommissioned vehicles and pursuant to the city policy to reduce the vehicle fleet. the 07 averaging approximately 5000 miles per year. they have a total of approximately 80,000 miles good second recommendation, we are-this is to adjust 8.77 fte, 1043 engineer senior embedded in the program budgets 2.77 1042 iis engineer. this is, we believe that latter classification is more appropriate. i would note, that apartments sent us multiple descriptions to justify this level, so we received at least 2-3 different descriptions our analysis, which raised the question in our mind, to begin with why would we get different descriptions from the department. so, the bottom line is we believe it should be a slightly lower class position and that is our recommendation. on the next two recommendations, the-we say to reduce of .77 senior position of .5. this is strictly to reflect starting date. we are recommending total approval of these positions. these last two recommendations. it's strictly a starting date. according to the comptroller's office, the analysis of higher time, the medium had time for these engineers is five months in that apartment just testified they can hire in three months that were based on the five months. the last one, the reduce 7.69 public safety communications dispatchers to 2.25 to reflect anticipated started again, it is a starting center were recommended approval all the positions to we note that the department's ability to higher for this job class is limited to 15 ftes due to the economy class capacity. this reduction still allows the department to increment its plan for three academies and 16-17. i would also note that apartment plans to hire its 15 in october 10, 2016. 15 ftes on january 2 and 10 on april 10 of 2017. or for a total 40 new new hires in 16 having subject i recommend reduction would still allow the department to hire all three academy classes four and 1670 so that it we would approve the 40 new positions. those are our recommendation to >> that you mr. rose. any additional comments of those? i think the differences are pretty clear. >> if you wanted excavation specifically on the last one, i would be happy to have come up and explain why we believe we cannot have that third academy class. >> sure. >> the doctrine. willie cfo for department of emergency management regarding the last recommendation, we've not received information for the budget analyst inspires a project it we provided projections on houses to budget analyst we also detailed the specific classes. we identified that the attrition amount they were focusing on was not specific to any particular class. was to increase the annual salary ordinance count so we can hire 40 new positions next year. that we also indicated to the mayor's office, working with them adjusted the salary attrition so those costs are not there. the cut that mr. rose is proposing would in fact impact our schedule for hiring classes. >> supervisor yee >> so, let me ask a question. the budget analyst, i think he said that the date of hiring is april 10 >> correct >> are you saying that you are issued [inaudible] >> the dates are the same, supervisors >> before you hire you train them? >> they merely go into training. >> they go into training >> right >> i'm not quite understanding then if you're hiring in april, then the the 2.25 make some sense. can you explain why there's some does make sense? >> sure. the 7.69 fte value basically the way it's written here the budget analyst has indicated he will need a .25 410 positions in april. we try to convey to the budget analyst is the 7.69 is for the entire call center and we party accounted for the overall salary projection for our three classes in the next fiscal year. so, the cuts for this particular line item reflecting to one class would be a dollar cut against the entire operation salary and i would impact her ability to hire the classes. >> okay. >> mr. rose >> 2.1, the department estate we have not provided them with our calculation. we will be glad to work with that apartment if the committee wants us to do that. to see if we can reconcile the differences. also, it should be noted earlier the province 02 about there are 28 vacant positions in that apartments could i did hear anything from the apartment about that >> okay. tell you what. i think this is one person when disagreement. when i pointed him to agreement today to let me suggest what you back next wednesday. i would ask that you work actively with the budget analyst to find agreement. if not will make a decision next wednesday. we'll see back next wednesday and will leave it there for today. supervisor weiner >> i do just want to say, this department is chronically understaffed for variety of reasons. it has on the ground repercussions in terms of the time it takes to answer a call. there's many times when people are calling the police nonemergency number and literally, there's no one to answer the call. it is goes into an infinite loop. i think it is critically important that department of emergency management be able to stay on track and we staffing its dispatchers in particular. so, i would have the budget and legislative analyst to be very very conscious of that as you're having these discussions. if there are efficiencies to get, great but i really don't want to do anything that will in any way jeopardize the ability of dem to answer calls both emergency and nonemergency in a very timely manner. >> we appreciate your comments supervisor, and it's absolutely our multilingual work with the department to-- >> i know you will but i also hear from escrow number is done a good job looking at the department saying that these cuts will actually jeopardize the department's ability so ensure you have a good conversation. thank you. >> okay. we'll see you next wednesday. we have three departments selected the sure visit or so and they earn agreements we will take them first. sheriff. >> hello. how are you? thank you for having me here today i just want to thank first of all the budget committee members could as well as by department staff, the mayor staff, the budget analyst apted i think we work well together. we are in agreement. >> okay. colleagues, >> i spent some questions? >> thank you. thank you for being here happy to see your budget is in agreement today. my questions are really our office has been working the sheriffs department on the accommodations for inmates that arrested and [inaudible] that identify transgender. so, i know that this is been dragging on for a few months now good we were hoping that the program and accommodation will be implemented by now. so, i would love to get a sense of the upcoming, and for implementation as is been discussed with the community and one recognize we do have a member inside the gel that is on hunger strike currently that's transgender that is refusing food until accommodations are measured we would like to see this move as quickly as possible. my position if you identified as a specific gender you should be placed in that area and so, teresa-future implementation is and also, within the budget, the training around transgender sensitivity awareness is currently and how that will be implement it as well? >> okay. first of all, when i took over in january and i been there five months now, the transgender population and all the gmc population was housed the county jail on the seventh floor of the hall adjusted in our old jail in the back of the joke. by april i was able to move the transgender population over to county jail to where they're their own housing. they are getting all the programming and they are available to go to classes with women if they please. however, everything is based on eligibility. you realize we at transgender population cycles. so right now, today we have a 11 trans identify transgender people in a population. we've been working on it. it's one of the things i worked on since my first day in office me with the transgender community. but it's much more complicated and difficult than i imagined. supervisor kim, un supervisor campos semiologic i answer that letter i pointed out to you other than chances of challenges we've had on this issue. it is my determined policy the working to go forward and we are going to provide preference by gender identity, not by physical sex. that's where we are headed. for on the way there. if something though, that needs a lot of pending and a lot of careful consideration and training. we have about 800 deputies. we have not sworn staff. we have inmates women inmates than not expect transgender people in with them. so we need to do all this training and we've been working and putting together a policy. i realize that we have not been moving fast enough for some people. i appreciate that because i understand the frustration. it's a frustration i share. but it's a frustration that i have to work with the reality of working with people and making sure we have all the t's crossed and all the i dr. guy conflict policy on people without making sure we're doing everything we can to make sure there's going to be a smooth transition. that's where i'm headed. >> my question was specifically the timeline. now that you've identify the challenges i actually don't-understand is a need for training a lot of people about. what is this the challenges him and after you've identified them with that, today? what you expect for implementation? >> i hate to give a timeline and not be able to stick to it. that's one of those things that is movable. i bet with chorizo spots a number of times you are met with other speak on the transgender community. i now have the support of theresa sparks and her new role. i've gotten out the budget where i'm going to be doing gender awareness training grant the money behind it to do the train. >> when will the training be taking place? >> it will probably would begin at the end of july beginning of august. given that i just got the money and hopefully in this budget by budget passes completely >> is the main barrier then awareness training for your staff to ensure that when it's fully implement it that everyone >> is also making sure every also our policy are gender identity frontage at this is not one pause. this policy affects a number of positive effects housing policy surgeon policy good effexor number policies along the way. it affects transportation policy for people. it affects making sure we're doing what we need to do to make sure our staff knows- >> tenuously met because if you added additional women to the women zero, 90 women came and you would have specific housing policies and just notation policies for those new nine women. so, i guess i'm trying to understand why there needs to be a rewriting of policy when you're simply, dating the preference identified by the innate >> because the policies need to be changed or were basing anything were doing our gender identity instead of actual biological sex. >> to me that sounds-i know i so naïve i apologize for that because i'm not in your position and i'm not trying to simplify this, but for me, if the rewriting of policy simply the windows were based on gender preference, and not based on physical, then i don't understand what the delay has been. is it simply that then >> i did my two over some of like a lead on letter i did tell you >> for the sake of the public i think it's important for this to be on the record. >> that's fine supervisor. i will say when the main policies we have to do we have to do a preference through gender identity through who searches people. that's union issued working with a union on that actively. that means somebody who expresses a gender identity as a woman can has to be searched by a female deputy. that is something we need to work through and make sure people are trained as well. i'm very optimistic that were going to get past this and were going to get through it. it's going to be something that's groundbreaking for san francisco and for the san francisco sheriff's department. but i have to say that i have the obligation to keep people safe and orderly sure that the kept safe and make sure the deputies are trained properly as well as the non-sworn staff as well are the women are educated so there's not a problem with mixing population. so part of that is started with the education of our transgender women being allowed to go to education with--once again, you understand it's a transient population did so some of the transgender women started to go to education may not be there any long. some of the women who may be working with that are not there. were going to get the. >> in response to that, does that union in agreement? is that one looks? >> i think the union is in agreement but they're so concerned and they're very concerned about the training. they're very concerned about making sure that union members are not held accountable for things that they don't know or maybe have not been trained on. so that's part of the training issue. >> the training, which will take place this summer? >> we will begin this summer naturally, mena tried to target and spotted to county to jail to specifically because that's where the people are, but the women inmates as well as the transgender women inmates are housed there. >> my next question is, you said that currently, if you identify transgender it is available to you to send any of the classes opportunities available to the female >> i do not say any of the krasnodar classes specifically they are being offered at this time to them in the transgender area. they are available >> without being able to then everything, the housing i understand it was a holdup with not being able to attend- >> some of those trainings take place in the actual vase with the women are living and that's the train they haven't been to yet and that forward as the sleepy jensen. >> so we do have inmates currently in county that are being denied access to programming. if they choose not to attend those that are open to men then they are denied access to those [inaudible] >> i would say that's not exactly true. but getting this training separately but they're getting education and training separately. >> they get all the training available to any every other inmate in county jail currently? >> demands. >> they either are or aren't >> no, that's not to supervise. there's lots of training that fit specific populations based on their other classifications. so, trans women, if we and we are going to be treating them just like other women, but all the women have it to go to all the training that's available to women because certain classifications. >> if there's concerted concerns, of course but i mean other than those concerns, are they able to access all of the programs that we offer female inmate? that they would like to and they are eligible to be for mexican 00 >> one third housing away with directors like assistance program in the meantime they are receiving programs and they are allowed to go to the five keys charter school with the women inmates which is in the education we may not. >> okay. i know there are concerns that that was one once i heard is that they are denied services could there are not able to access all the services of able to other female inmates. so, again we just want to make sure that are doing everything we can to support you to expedite the process. do you believe that we will be able to full implementation by the end of this calendar year? >> yes, i do. >> okay that is good looking for. do you think there'll be any type of agreement anytime soon. i know that again we have an inmate that's on hunger strike today inside your county prison. i know she is unwilling to eat until there's some form of agreement. do you believe will get an agreement? in the coming two weeks? >> i can't say we can do that in the coming two weeks because the union part is a big part of this. i don't want to over promise and under deliver. toronto: to do on ghana to save. she's in jail medical record i can't discuss her hippa interpersonal issues in front of you weren't public because those are >> i'm not asking about that. i'm very concerned about her health >> as i might. >> i understand her reasoning for protest like to see this move forward as quickly as possible because i understand that. believe me, want to see you it move it forward as possible as fast as well >> thank you very much >> any other question >> >> colleagues from any further questions. mr. rose your report? >> yes that members of the committee cup on page 50 report recommend reductions to those budget totals $700,000 and 16-7. which of one-time savings reduction would still out and increase of $50 million 7.3% upon 1600s of the budget we also recommend closing out prior year unexpected, dissolve $52,000 for total general fund savings of 754.77. we recommend placing $135,000 on budget and finance committee reserve for the purchase of 90 body worn cameras to be used in the jails. pending commission report to the board of supervisors regarding approval of final plan for the use of the body worn cameras. the mayor's office is requesting approval of 38.5 ftes and 16-7 budget as interim exceptions to the opening of san francisco general hospital security and public utilities commission headquarters, and fingerprint technicians. we do recommend approval of those 38.5 ftes as interim exceptions in 1718, recommended reductions to the proposed budget totals $75,000. of that amount, nine ongoing savings. there'll one-time savings. these reductions would allow increased $11 million or 551% in the department 17-18 birds. as i understand the department does concur with the recommended reductions it on pages 51-54 of our report >> thank you mr. rose. colleagues from any questions for budget analyst on her just apartment budget? seeing none,, can i entertain a motion to accept the budget analyst liquidations of shares, and budget pending public comment on monday? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >> >>[gavel] >> thank you. two departments leftward drifting planning first. because of the hearing live to homelessness. so director raymond thank you event mdm. clerk can you call item 4, please >> item number four, >>[reading code] >> thank you. good afternoon supervise. i will go the presentation it was a given how quickly this hearing is moving along wish you give lessons to the planning commission we talk about that in my budget as well? base of the budget office. for the work today. we are as you know experiencing continued to experience substantial growth in our budget. we had double-digit growth for the last three years. we are projecting a bit of a slowdown in that growth but still more growth next year. to the tune of about 4%. we are proposing a number of new positions. there's about 90 new positions, 14 next year annualized 19 the following year. we are largely in agreement the budget analyst with one exception. which is a position that planner three position, that would be used to implement the worker doing in the mission district of omission action plan 2020. his work we've been doing for the community for quite some time and were moving into the implementation phase about work. he very much would like to have additional bodies to actually implement that were. in the next couple of years. there's also a piece of legislation related to the admin and planning code that would simply take a fee schedule out of the code itself. refer to it by reference in the code because it does change every year. the respective cpi. that is a piece of trailing legislation with a budget as well. >> thank you director. colleagues from any questions before we go to mr. rose? i think we do have i'm inclined to awfully take action today since there's only one disagreement here but we can have that discussion and a second mr. rose, can we go to report for planning department? >> mr. chairman, numbers of the committee, on planning, page 30 of our report, recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 713 .596. of that amount 313.244 ongoing and 4000 one-time savings. these reductions would still allow an increase of $9 million or 23.3% in the department 16-17 budget. i want to make sure that, yes, that's all general fund. the mayor's office is proposing interim exceptions to authorize the department for a planned 3.58 and 16-17 and 17-19 we recommend approving the interim exceptions and incident-18 recommend reductions of the proposed budget total six and $35,000 in 17-18 all of which are ongoing. as i understand it, the except for one position the department concurs with the recommended reductions which are shown on page 31 and 33 of our the board. let me comment that the apartments requesting 19 new positions. we are recommending approval of 18 must 17 of the 19 and the disagreement is the position we are recommending against on page 32, that's in the bottom of the page. this approved a new 9774 committee senior development special. one, that apartment has existed up working on the project in a foreign 50,000 are consulting contract requested in the budget year citywide planning currently has four existing to majordomo specialists a total of 31 positions in the program. existing resources are sufficient in our judgment to complete the final phase of the project. again, i would emphasize were recommending 17 of 19 new positions. >> right. my inner cynic the debate is over planner on the bottom of page 31 >> i think i misspoke i gave the committee developing specialist >> so that the one not the planning code >> yes. >> supervisor treat tang >> i think i budget chair into the avenue be there to take action today. i think given all that's occurring in the mission district never think we been talking about policy wise making sure preserving the heritage and culture there despite all the growing change in san francisco, i would want to keep this position. also, based on our briefing prior to this hearing by understanding is also that i've only would this person be working on issues in the mission district, but in the future there will be other opportunities to look at other corridor as well. again, be supportive of keeping that position in the budget. >> with happy emotion? >> yes, i would make a motion to reject that the deletion of the senior community development specialist one positions at >> but except budget analyst clinicians otherwise >> but except budget analyst reparations of life >> pending comments on monday, moved and seconded. colleagues any questions? can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> thank you. item number four can we have public comments. anybody wish to publicly comment on item for? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> can i entertain a motion to move item number four for a positive recommendation for july 12? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> okay. last but not least, and our new department, what will bob jeff-kaczynski the mr. director on the permit of homelessness and supportive services. >> supportive housing, sorry. >>i'm not seen the powerpoint on the screen, but i believe that the supervisors are the copy of the powerpoint presentation. so i would just walk through it what were trying to figure this out technically. thank you very much for giving us opportunity to speak about the new department of homelessness and supportive housing. i want to give a brief overview of the department and its goals and structure. as of sure you're all curious as how this new department is going to be world out. as you'll see in the first slide, our goals are to house 8000 people during the next four years to reduce the number of people become homeless,, to reduce the month of time that people spend homeless, and certainly, to focus on reducing street homelessness particularly being cameras are we are seeing growing throughout the city. as far as our priorities, the department will certainly continue to take a housing first approach to addressing homelessness ensuring that we are solving the problem. were not very focused on solving the problems where people sleep. we are really going to be focus on solving the problem homelessness which means helping folks exit into housing whether permanent housing, supportive housing, affordable housing, rapid rehousing, the home workout program, etc. we want to focus on building a culture of customer service within the new department to ensure that not only individuals who answer is expensing homelessness is a high level of customer service but also the general public to address any concerns they need to bring forward a long run homelessness and cameras or other related issues. i think the biggest charge for us during the first year besides just getting department up off the ground is moving towards coordinated entry and assessment system, where individuals experiencing homelessness be assessed once but that assessment will be shared across all city workers and providers who work with homeless individuals should it will allow us to track movement through the system. it will allow us to where individuals based on acuity to understand what's the best resource for them and will allow us to drive resources more efficiently better more expensive interventions by permanent supportive housing are guaranteed to go to individuals who have the highest and greatest need. we also are going to focus on people who been homeless along. i would amend this a bit. to actually say we need to focus on people at the highest level of acuity, length of homelessness is certainly an aspect of acuity and when we want to look at very carefully but we also need to look at making sure that individuals who are suffering from mental illness were struggling with substance abuse don't have eight path toward self-sufficiency without some real intervention from us, that those are the individuals get priority. i would also add to that people who are high users of our public health system and individuals were we've invested resources into including people who have a graduating from substance abuse treatment programs. so, it's a little more complicated than just length of homelessness. we also need to engage in a strategic planning process which is not going to be a long drawn out process. i believe that we already know what needs to be done over point to spend the next five months really look at data and understand with the gaps in the system are and figuring out a plan b fix that. on the next slide, you'll see an overview of a budget. you'll see the proposed budget of $220.5 million. because the vast majority 175 no dollars going to direct contracts and grants to nonprofit organizations. the department will have 110 staff. there's approximately 10 new positions and some of them are those are new positions from our department, they are positions that are being transferred over from ages they were dph. so were not adding a large number of positions. i believe the total investment of new positions and infrastructures about $1.5 million. the repeat some of what i just said. again, to sort of keep in and over you with the services of burnaby provided to this department, we street outreach, including a hot team. emergency shelter, navigation centers, rapid rehousing programs, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, adding to this is also the homeward bound program. as well as, were working to create an acumen response team which beat part of the hot team but will work separately in stronger partnership with other city departments to address the issue of and cameras. also want to be clear in this department, homeless people like all citizens in san francisco have needs for a variety of services. our department are not going to provide every one of those services to homeless individuals were going to stay in one of three lanes. we are working on preventing homelessness, we are working on providing services to people were living on the streets, and we are working to get folks into permanent supportive housing or some other type of housing exits did were working in close partnership with many other departments, and of course the department of public health will be a critical part of good will serve in many ways is our clinical arm. with continue work with ages eight, dph, the police department, dpw excuse me, police department and others. our mission and charges very clear. we really want to stick in those three lanes. lastly, one of the new initiatives were pretty rolling out and 16-17 odyssey the main one is starting a new department from scratch, which is quite a left. we will be working on the strategic planning and capacity building project. will be working on building the coordinated entry system. developing a navigation centers. as will be demanded by the legislation of these were passed by the board of supervisors. and expanding both housing and rental subsidy opportunities for variety of populations are currently experiencing homelessness. that is the overview of the department. if you have any questions, will be happy to take them. >> thank you. colleagues from any questions right now? maybe will wait to hear about the budget analyst recommendations and then you can respond to them after. mr. rose when we go to your report for homeless and supportive housing department >> resident breed on page 87 of the report recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 593.6 and in 16-17. of that amount [inaudible] 432 are one-time savings. we consider approval of 9 million to the purchase of foreign foray took street to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors is the board of supervisors approves that 9 million we recommend placing 4 million on tenant approved and pennington mission budget details. the also recommend placing 11 nine dollars on budget and finance committee reserve pending approval by the voters of an increase in the sales tax oh .75% and submission of expenditure details of the budget and finance committee for the $11.5 million. the mayor's office has requested approval of six new positions in the 16-17 budget as interim exceptions including one department head when deputy director three, two manager-21 personnel clerk and one management assistant. we do recommend approval of all six positions as interim exceptions. recommend reductions to the proposed budget total 484 in 17-18. all which ongoing savings. we recommend placing $31 million on budget and finance committee reserve pending approval by the voters of an increase to the sales tax .75 cents and submission of expenditure details and budget and finance committee. on that recommendation, supervisors on the comments. as i understand it the department disagrees and wants a controllers resort. it would seem to me that the board of supervisors would want to know how 30 women dollars is going to be expended after the voters approved it and that is why we recommend a budget and finance committee reserve. on page-let me comment also, the department has various agreements and disagreements which i will briefly describe on pages 88-92. page 88, we say the department disagrees with the first recommendation and 16-17. were recommending a downward subsidy. when deputy director, three position with a salary of $180,000 to a manager five position with a salary of $168,000. the mayor's office has requested three deputy director positions in the new department of homelessness and supportive services. we are recommending two of those three new positions. of which one of those positions is a new position or substitution from existing positions. the proposed downward substitutions consistent with the functions of the proposed position which oversees the communications and external affairs unit and supervisors seven staff. on the recommendation 416-17, they agree-on 17-18, they agree with that get on the bottom of page 80. as i understand. my understanding is that they disagree with our recommendation for attrition savings excuse me, for the administrative analyst position on the top of page 89. that's a total savings of $100,000. however, the department is proposing attrition savings instead of recommended deleting deposition. so our recommendation to you is delete the position. if you disagree with us then you should take with the department has suggested dollar for dollar or specifically, $100,000 in savings from attrition savings. that's on the top of page 89. >> mr. rose real quick, high level here, before we go into detail, you say were close were massive disagreement out it for massive disagreement that's fine. it is what it is. i suggest we come back wednesday and spent some time working on it. not work on it right now but i just want to get a quick check >> we are in disagreement for fiscal year 17 of two and $48,000. and in year two, $188,000. >> one to keep going to >> i don't think. >> keep going, sorry >> that's totally okay, mr. chairman. on the bottom of page 89 they agree with the attrition savings of 281 .618. on the top of page 90, we are as we are recommending on the professionals specialized services, a reduction of 163.326, they are suggesting that you only cut $63,000. so, our recommendation is $163,000. they want $100,000 more than that would make the reduction $63,000 if you except that. on the balance i would also note the mayor's office is proposed three and $13,000-i think that covers what i just stated about the $163,000 purchase the $63,000. then on the latter half of that scene recommendation, additionally the mayor's office has proposed one new 0923 manager to position as a technical adjustment to strategic planning needs. assessment process. we consider managing that assessment process to be responsibility of a manager five position for which the budget and legislative analyst is recommending approval to support this or teach it planning process. we recommend downward substitution of one new 923 manager thomas to position, to one new 9029 programs support analyst and provide technical in elliptical and which is to go support to the strategy plan needs assessment process. they does agree with that part of the recommendation again to summarize they disagree with that. did you agree with $63,000 of the 163 on page 91, this which i've already referred to as this office building we are we are recommending a reserve if we consider this to be a policy matter to purchase this facility on turk street. but we do recommend that you reserve the tenant approves portion taken to the budget details. then, the last on page 92, of cover that. that is the-that refers to the reserve on the sales tax which we think the board of supervisors should have the budgetary details before releasing 30+ million dollars worth of funds >> okay. thank you mr. is much appreciated. first of all, mdm. clerk would you call items 12-14 >> item number 12 >>[reading code] item number 13 >>[reading code]. item number 14, >>[reading code]. >> thank you. before you go week of the department has been waiting here due to my error, colleagues, the amendment for item 10 they were technical amendment. i would requested so can i entered in a motion to accept the minutes for item 10 at five and 10, 11 and 15 to the full board on july 12? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> sorry, if you would you want to respond to mr. roses comments? >> yes, thank you very much for the opportunity. i would just talk through some of the things that we've agreed upon there were some disagreements a lot. we've agreed to reduce in your to staff training by $15,000 could have agreed also to increase the budget for attrition by 280,000 hours to approximately this go your 17 and 18 and a partial reduction in professional services 2 x 60 $3000. where we disagree, and deleting the 1822 policy analyst position, we feel that it is important that the new department has planning staff who are available to look at the data that were generating to help make good decisions on how we want to use our resources to learn about invest practices in the organization. we are essentially losing that planning capacity by creating a new department. hsa planning division did a really excellent job on some of these areas and we need to have that capacity in the new department if we are going to be a true data-driven smart department that's using our resources in the best possible manner. the downgrading of the deputy position, we also feel like this is-will be harmful to their comments in order to we believe having deputy for external affairs is very very important. they will be the face vista, to the general public many of whom have great concerns about this issue. this is not just about educating the public. on the issue it's also about working to address concerns the public may have truly serving the front door of this department to the general public. we feel it requires a highly skilled position and we believe it once deputy director level. the reduction to professional services, were also very concerned about. we are hoping to engage in nationally recognized nonprofit organization who has helped develop department like this in great core dated entry systems around the country that work in places like houston, salt lake city, and around the country 12 cities and counties improve the way they do this work. i feel this is impregnable incredibly critical component and really it's a one-time investment that you not that we should not get exactly the services we need as were try to figure out the direction for the department. finally, moving from a 0923282917, that is a communications position. who will really be working closely with not only the media with the general public. there are a number of highly skilled individuals with think would be wonderful in his position that as you know, it's challenging to attract talent in the city at times and i think it's important that we really put this position at the level where it should be so we can attract individuals who can help advance the organizations goals. and as far as 440 turk goes, were strongly believe that's an important having a one building's very important part of creating this new department. if we are spread throughout the city, it really is going to be difficult to achieve the goals laid out of that is of having one unified system will end up with multiple systems. i fear it will take much longer to bring the various departments together and lastly, if i could comment on the reserve for the first year, you have the details of how the funding is going to be sent. i agree the second year make sense for that to be held in reserve adding further details. >> thank you. we will direct a few people. i just want to say to building on turk, i think it's will be important that this upon hat gets off to its inaugural year. the often right foot. working in separate buildings never produces good results and i think is a critical department for cities with some government supported mr. rose, one question i've have read before we go to supervisor kim. total your one report i have 838, is that right? >> mr. chairman, we handed out a revised reports today. it's dated today we just handed out just before the committee started. i believe the clerk passed it out. i should've referenced that. >> thanks. can you repeat the new numbers? >> yes. this is on page 87 is a recommended reductions is 593.610. let's see. that would be the bottom line. >> your to? >> year two, it would be for 84.873. >> 484 >> 44.873. >> sorry, supervisor kim >> thank you. my question is in reference to the six navigation sites that referred to but the board passed. this is the second time our office has learned navigation center locations via the press before we heard it from your office immediate speakers are not going to be navigation centers sites but we read yesterday at three locations, to which the district i represent. the national hotel site in the tenderloin meta-site on valencia street. i want to confirm whether this is the case or not? >> i have not read that article and the only decision that is been made around the navigation center is the civic center hotel. early operate like community housing partnership and of course the existing navigation or and 1950 mission at no other decisions have been made as to the exact locations >> do you have proposed sites? >> were looking at a number of different sites. we are thinking about the site in the dogpatch area that's sam dodge is been working closely with the community on and with supervisor as well. we are have budgeted for the-allowed for in the legislation, the conversion of an existing shelter into a navigation center. that would need to be rfp out about the location will be determined by the results of that rfp. as far as other sites, we don't have any particular sights in mind at this time. >> thank you for that. just to reiterate, it would be great for us to be able to work with you in advance. in this case it looks like the press just put that location out there. without confirming with your office which is in the future we love people to work with your office on proposals proposed sites. >> okay. mr. rosen >> one but me make one other comments. the designers in the department concurs with our recommendation in 17-18 but that apartment is stating the $11 million is already included , spelled out in the budget in the first year. we could not figure it out. there are funds in there but we cannot link specific positions to specific dollars, so we see no harm in having that apartment just come back to the board and tell us specifically how new funding $11 million in new funding is going to be precisely expanded. i mean that's what you're doing right now in the budget and we think the budget analyst could not figure it out. it should be some further details coming back to the board. >> okay. so, to be clear, director, [inaudible] because you're objecting to. do you have a dollar amount on that? >> yes. it's two and $48,000 in the first fiscal year 16-17 could 181 in fiscal year 18. >> okay, because there's a lot of recommendations you. objecting to the 11 nine dollars in reserve? >> correct. >> we will amend that to accepting the la recommendation all that into reserve until we can provide more detailed and connect sources. >> okay. you're okay with everything except those,, the reserve amount, odyssey were putting forward the swim objections to the turk amendment. can we get clarity-if we ask our make sure were very articulate about what we are doing. >> you want specific-. so, were not agreeing to the 095320933 at $14,000. the additional reduction to professional services of $100,000 and the 0923 to the 2917 $32,000. we agree to the 1822, as long as we maintain a position of authority and the savings will come through attrition. >> okay. i tell you what i think there's a lot of complexity of it when we have you come back next wednesday. continue to work with our budget analyst. my office as well as certainly all the committee members here and everyone on the board of lubricant to give them get what will do is lobby back next wednesday. i look for to seeing you at that point. >> thank you >> then, colleagues, one of that is the just as well as it relates to narrow the remaining legislative items, i think we should hold them until next wednesday as well. i'm trying to think here. actually, i don't think there's any-does anyone have any questions on turk? that's one of the items. comments? mr. city attorney >> on item 12, following public comment, you are probably forwarded back to the full board is a committee report said department can be formally formed this group is possible. >> do we have a amendment two item 12? >> yes. the clerk's office got an error in the table contents on page 2. it doesn't matter for the section titles on page 4. so we provided a corrective copy to the clerk and would ask after public comment you make a motion to amend >> after public comment >> following public comment yes. >> we can to an out? >> right >> let's open this up to public comment. does anyone wish to comment on items 12-14? items 12-14, sir? >> bill quick my name is--i can solve the homeless problem with storage lockers in less than a year. know the way you do that is you fabricate storage lockers like they do in japan all over the world and you start stacking them up and you can solve the homeless problem in less than a good i promise you. all they need to be is fabricated with a little work you can have a [inaudible] i was either going and you can seconds up to the moon. people use them for offices already. that's the way get started now and you don't even have to build a building. i'm serious as a heart attack. you can take oh storage lockers and make unique homes and you don't have to build a single golding. all you have to do is get property from the city, get permission from the city to let you use that property and you don't does a single thing. all you do is start stacking up these incredible little homes made out of beautiful little storage lockers. i was in the navy. we lived in submarines much like that. but all you do is build a nice little beginning fabricate them, and you don't have to spend a penny on building a single mother building in san francisco and by the way, some places wailed by the beach need homes also. that's way out by the beach. anyway you have a great weekend supervisors. i think we can solve it. go for it. have a great weekend. my name is read and you have a good we can get. thank you. anybody wish to comment on items 12, 13 and 14 seeing none, public comment is closed. speedo >> collects bits take these one way on item 12, this accretion of their prominent subject can have a motion to accept the amendment as administered by gibner and four to our board of supervisors next week? >> you don't need public comment on items well because just took it for you can afford it out >> just forwarded out as a committee report. cannot a motion? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? speedo >> items 13 and 14, mr. rose, do you have a potential amendment on 13 >> yes only go to the recommendation. our suggestion recommendation to the board of supervisors, on page 4, item 13, we recommend human the proposed resolution to require the director of property to provide the clerk of the board of supervisors the copy of the executed purchase and sale agreement the results of a complete appraisal within five days of the execution and notify the board of supervisors immediately upon the close of the escrow with the san francisco housing authority. we consider approval of the proposed resolution as amended be a policy matter for the board of supervisors because the board of supervisors night approved the creation of the new department of homelessness and supportive housing in the 16-7 budget for the new bond which is now before judge >> thank you. this update if that's reasonable ask i think it seems that weight >> chairman farrell it is. >> thanks. so colleagues, if there's no discussion or comment i like to entertain a motion to accept mr. rose's recommendation on item number 13 and then at the same motion for item 13 as amended and item 14 to the full board on july 12. moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> with that, mdm. clerk >> item number 14 is still open. that was included in the previous-that was 13 importantly for that out. >> thanks. >> with that, colleagues, could i entered in a motion to continue items number two and three to our next budget and finance committee meeting? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? speedo >> mdm. clerk would you please call item 16 >> item 16 >>[reading code] >> thank you mdm. clerk. this is our last item city. it's a hearing called by supervisor for president breed good i want to thank her for doing so. critically important lower look at here so we'll turn it over to president breed >> thank you chairman farrell. thank you to the budget and finance committee for hosting this hearing today. this very important hearing. we all know that the homeless situation in the city and county is san francisco is out of control. please see it every day when we walk on the streets. it's heartbreaking to witness and frustrating to feel it's not getting six. san francisco spends anywhere between 240-2 and her $50 million on homeless services each year. yet, we are not seeing significant improvements. but animals homeless individuals on the street or in the feeling that things are getting better for them and for the city. that is why in december i requested this report, a full performance audits of all homeless services in san francisco. we asked the hard questions that people often don't want to answer. what are we spending this money on? what is working and what is not?, think supervisor farrell for joining me in the request and my colleagues for supporting it. specifically, we asked for an inventory of all homeless services offered in san francisco with provider level precision, a review of the city's homeless population data and needs assessment, and evaluation of the contracting procedures for homeless services, including how contracted services are meeting the community needs no contractors are monitored for quality performance. an assessment of the existing service mix and funds to support the homeless, and a best practices survey to identify strategies for homeless services that are succeeding in other cities. after months of diligent work, the budget and legislative analyst has put together a detailed report. thank you to amanda-for all of your work and two-campbell and of course mr. harvey rose. for me, the biggest takeaways from your report that we need a comprehensive citywide needs assessment to specifically identify what types of services each homeless individual needs, connect him or her with those services, and to track the outcomes of those connections. and, to hold everyone involved accountable to actually improve those outcomes among both for the homeless and the city. i plan to take this opportunity to follow through on the recommendations in this audit and work with colleagues to legislate improvements where they are needed. we are spending nearly a quarter of $1 billion each year, yet still, over 6500 people remain homeless in san francisco and thousands are forced to sleep on our streets every day. i met with the incoming director, jeff--i'm going get that name right one ticket yesterday, not to speak for jeff, but he clearly seems fully aware and supportive of these efforts. so i look for to working with jeff in the new department to make it happen could similarly, the report points out we are not maximizing wraparound services for those who need them, nor using our homeless dollars as efficiently as we should. having police officers serve as the first line of outreach is not a cost-effective were particularly helpful for the folks they connect with. for many individuals short-term rental assistance is often both more effective and far cheaper than permanent supportive housing. using rental assistance for those individuals opens up more supporting-supportive housing for those who truly need it. we have an opportunity with this new list apartment to bring our efforts under one roof, to compress a fully assess the needs we face and to allocate our resources more efficiently. ultimately, as i said, our goal is to hold everyone accountable to providing the kinds of services that we know this population needs. now, we know there are a lot of service providers. we know there's a lot of programs but ultimately, we have to do a better job at not only connecting the dots between all of these different programs and services we provide, but making sure that their outcomes and that we are tracking those outcomes and were doing everything we can to not only help get folks off of our streets and into housing, but to keep them house. it takes a lot of work, we know. we do and already spending a lot of money and it's definitely time that we look at this and address this in a more conference of way. before i open it up for review of the report, i just want to say, i'm really proud of a lot of the things that the city and county does to address this particular issue. but i often times see kind of the gujarat receipt of the city gets in the way of real progress. i think one of the frustrating things i continue to experience is how we build more affordable housing but the reality is there's no connection from sometimes to the homeless population in the world for the housing with oh. there's very little connection but we think that i mean, we basically need to make better connections again, to the folks that need this housing the most and more specifically in this report them i really appreciate the fact that we want to make sure that we prevent individuals from becoming homeless in the first place through many of our great assistance programs. we know there are some things working. more recently, about two years ago, the city and county of san francisco for the first time gave the housing authority $2 million to rehabilitate-andrew a coalition of homelessness made this recommendation to me early on in office,-that we rehabilitate nt public housing units. units that were empty for several years. we have so far rehabilitated and now have 179 families because of that effort over two years ago. those are the kinds of things that we need to do. these families are housed. they are getting support. hamilton family services, which jeff used to work for along with homeless prenatal and other services provided the necessary support around some of the sick needs of these families, we have programs that cannot work. we need to make sure those programs have the resources they need to be affected. we need to make a hard decisions to cut the programs that are not changing and saving the lives expect them to safe with the money they are getting. so this is a hard conversation to have, but i think that we are in a good place to begin the process of having it. yes, these are good economic times for the city and county of san francisco. but some of us when we work when i worked in nonprofit world, remember, when the cuts continue to happen when the layoffs were happening , and we have to be prepared for that. that's where the value of any dollar we spend is so critical because it makes a difference between someone sleeping in a home or sleeping on our streets. this is why this pulling together this report understanding it, and working with jeff and his department to try and move towards the direction of doing something that's going to make a difference is so important to me. i want to think again my colleagues for being here today and with that, i think of data turn it over to i think seven campbell is going to do the presentation on the budget and legislative analyst reports on this particular issue. i'm looking forward to a really good dialogue about this and hopefully outcomes that will definitely make a noticeable difference in our city. thank you. >> good afternoon pres. breed and members of the budget and finance committee. from the budget and windows lives within us. will give a presentation. i do want to introduce the team who worked on this is jennifer millman and jd-would to the analyst on this. also we have here today,--who walked those that report that came out a few weeks ago and helps inform this audits. as was julian metcalfe who worked on the cost of quality of life report which also informed this audit. the other thing i would like to say is that the department the director of the new department, homelessness and supportive housing is not yet on board to review not have an opportunity to talk to him about the audit. we did work with the agc eight and dph but repetitions are directed to his new department and i think he will be addressing some of those recommendations. >> thank you and thank you pres. breed and members of the committee. i am amanda-the budget analyst office and we appreciate the opportunity to present on our audits of homeless services in the city. supervisor breed, you actually gave a really great summary of the reports so i will probably skip through some of these slides for the sake of time. to reiterate, when we were directed to conduct this audit, it was prior to the announcement of the new department. so, just generally, the city's homeless services at the time of our fieldwork, primarily administered by two agencies, the human services agency and dph. hsa primarily runs the shelter system. the city supportive housing master lease program, homeward bound, and manages the resource centers. dph runs permanent supportive housing, the hero healthcare outreach and case management the city's homeless population. major policy document that in guiding city policy, most specifically, the city's 10 year plan to end chronic homelessness which was created in 2004. the homeless population of supervisor breed mentioned, is currently about 7539 according to the most recent biennial point in time count, which is the major count that the city uses for the homeless population. as the chart on the bottom of the slide shows, over time since 2011, the number of sheltered -on sheltered homeless in the city has exceeded the number of -let me say that again the number on sheltered homeless has exceeded the number of sheltered living in san francisco. to summarize the cities expenditures on homeless services, we categorize the services according to the eight categories shown on this slide. to chart them over time and we looked at programs serving 50% or more of homeless population. so, you can see that total expenditures over the past three fiscal years have grown and that the major expenditure areas are in permanent supportive housing and substance abuse and mental health care. to break those numbers down, were explicitly for you, the chart on this table shows the budgeted amount for all those programs. those highlighted in yellow are the largest publication by the city. again, for permanent and supportive housing, substance abuse and mental health, and also outreach and case management. our report produced five major findings of the first finding is on needs assessment. the supervisor breed tension, that was one of the areas that we were directed to look at in the scope of the audit. we couldn't really look at it because the city actually doesn't conduct currently a formal needs assessment could the value of a needs assessment is to identify gaps in services and help target city spending concludes that the city has been relying on outdated policy document to identify homeless service needs. in conjunction with a point in time count. the major policy document again being the 2004 10 year plan to end chronic homelessness. we also found that the city actually has existing data systems that would be quite useful in assessing the needs of the homeless population, but those systems are currently underutilized. her second finding bookkeeper at this issue of data management. as mentioned, there is an existing system in the city was created by the department of public health. his color-coordinated care management system and it actually offers data on homeless population that has not been fully utilized to track the homeless. instead, dph and hsa are operating multiple decentralized data systems across programs for service tracking and porting reporting. we also find as we looked at data as mentioned by jeff and his presentation, the city is going to be expanding its coordinated entry program that will require better integration particularly data management. we looked at the cities rfp was just released for the new system that will run that. which is called a homeless management information system. we found that it actually did not capture some of the key functionalities that score the really necessary for sexual coordinated entry program. our third finding is on outreach and access. supervisor breed also mention this. in her remarks. the city is currently spending $37.7 million annually on homeless outreach and response. about half of that amount little over that i think, is spent through the police department and they are providing the most response to 911 calls in calendar year 2015 they responded to about 57,000 quality-of-life violations related to the homeless population, but they're not able to offer services were connect the homeless with any assistance. our fourth finding is on the city's emergency and transitional shelter system. we have some charts on here to just kind of run through some of the numbers for you that we found the existing shelters are near full occupancy could it's a very low vacancy rate in them. the shelter waitlist request have been increasing over the years and in 2015 the monthly average for shelters was on the waitlist 706. the average number of days the people wait on the waitlist is 26. in general, despite the city's policy, which is actually to phase out shelters, as related to the city's housing first policy, the city is moving forward to expand shoulder capacity including the navigation center, including other emergency shelters like pier 80. we break out some numbers of the capacity of the chart at the bottom of that slide. the final section in our audit is related to housing placement options and the process. as you all know, given the affordable housing crisis, facing the city, there's a limited number of placement options available for the homeless population. currently, the process for placing people is uncoordinated across programs. not made with regard to vulnerability and there's a heavy focus in the housing options for the homeless population on permanent supportive housing. which is the most expensive way to house the population. other alternatives like rapid rehousing and rental assistance would offer more cost-effective than for some populations more appropriate solutions to move them from homelessness. our report included i think a total of 12 recommendations. major themes of those recommendations are that the city should take immediate steps to update its policy on homelessness and define it. the city should make better use of existing data and ensure greater data centralization. we should conduct a needs assessment to determine proper alignment of services and programs for the population. the city should expand housing placement options to include cost-effective short-term solutions like rental assistance. in general, the city should really bring a sense of urgency to the issue to introduce more solutions quickly. we understand that the-some of these issues have been identified, but have been identified in our report are being considered by the leadership of the new department and we hope that the recommendations that we have put forward can provide some guidance as they move forward in their effort and we would like to thank the staff and management at hsa and dph for all their assistance throughout this process. we are able to answer any questions that you might have. >> thank you. i just want to ask a few brief questions and mature just wanted to make some comments about the reports, but just quickly, do you think that there are cost savings toward --if we were to move towards a rapid rehousing first model, would be potentially any cost savings? >> as a relates to what we spend on all these departments in our region all the money that's going towards all these measures, would that be the better approach? >> i think will be more cost-effective per person for sure good in the short term, there would not be cost savings to expand those programs. it would be an additional cost to the city because were not recommending in our report that we reduce funding for permanent supportive housing. but, probably in the long-term, the city would realize savings from expanding things like rapid rehousing and rental assistance. those programs are designed to promote self sustainability, so the idea is to help people with short-term financial assistance so that they can sport themselves in the long-term. >> okay, thanks. i'll have some other questions later but i want to get the director an opportunity to respond to the report and make comments. mr. kaczynski. >> thank you president breed and supervisors. first, i like to begin by offering praise and congratulations to the team who worked on this report. i don't disagree with any of the recommendations and for those of you who know me know that's a pretty rare occurrence. i think they captured perfectly what the new department needs to focus on. i think they also did a good job at the end of the report listing the questions that we should all be very proud of and before i go into my comments in the report i just want to knowledge that whereas these are important recommendations, we don't they build upon the amazing work that is been done by trent-at ages eight and barbara garcia at the heart of public health to make us really one of the premier i think one of the best cities in the country that's addressing homelessness. i know that sometimes hard to believe in people look around the streets. i would argue with you they will were seen on the streets has much more to do with the prevalence of and an increase in issues on heroin addiction and the strength of street drugs that's been increasing at an alarming rate for the past few years if not the past decade. but it's important to note group san francisco has .8% of our population is almost, la is 2.2% and many other major cities in the united states over 1%. as many cities that double-digit increases in homelessness, in the past two years event has had a 3.9 percent increase i don't think that's good enough and i'm not saying we should say, we've not got too bad, but i think it's important to note some amazing work has been done and it's a great platform for the department to build off of. i do want to comment on a few issues that came up in the reports just to clarify some viewpoints. but one thing is amazing to been able to capture so well, the homeless services ecosystem. however, there are some gaps in the information that's available it's very confusing and difficult to understand. even for those of us who work in the field for 20 years i think a point in time count in the data collection we currently do is very flawed. i think there's no clear network map that shows all the services that actually exist in the city because i think if you are missing and it is hard to understand the funding and actually i think we overstate how much funding is actually going towards homeless services in the city and overinflated especially in the areas of mental services and substance abuse. although these things need to get worked out by the new department but i think given the information that they had available to them was really a great report and one of the best i've seen have seen many. a couple just random points that are in the work when is the issue that's come up and also in the report requested by supervisor mar run the police spending $20 million on quality of life crimes have inherent folks speaking about the new department should be the first responder on issues of homelessness on the street. i want to say while i agree that a lot of qualifications around that. i think that there is a strong difference between people are living on the street and engage in criminal behavior that i should do not want the assistance or need the assistance of our department that is a very small small percentage of the population but it's very visible and i don't want to give the public the impression that our department sort of the first responder run criminal activity that's occurring. that would be both wise and unsafe and either be very counterproductive. we need our outreach seems to be in the fields not enforcing quality of life crimes but actually building relationships with people were on the streets and working with them to get them into services. this a very very challenging task in our hot team deserves all kinds of praise from everybody in the city for the difficult work they do but there has to go out and say you need to move along or no, you can't do that here is going to be very difficult for them to build these relationships wonders individuals who are due to mental health or other reasons are resistant to initially resistant to services. having it's also they make a recommendation around a 10 year plan. i believe that a five-year plan is more appropriate. i think we need a agile plan is based on data. the music teacher trained not a book that nobody ever reads. i believe that there's been legislation introduced around a five-year plan and i strongly support that over a 10 year plan. those recommendations over improving the chances and i think we should get rid of the changes the subject is the shelter reservation system and it should be part of a single data system that coordinates also mrs. for homeless individuals and families in the city. i agree it's broken but don't believe it should be improved. it should really be scrapped. as far as-the rp that's out around the age of minus system, i cannot agree more with you around that did not capture the full needs of the system and in fact a meeting with esther steve, and the mayor before taking the position, one of the things we discussed was that i was going to need to be involved in the process and to have a say in what gets developed and we will be negotiating with the vendor that is selected in order to make sure that the full functionality that you've identified as being so important is included in the system. the last thing i want to just talk about was the shelter versus on sheltered in the city and the growth of shelters versus growth of housing. the reason why we have many more on sheltered homeless individuals than other cities is because we made a decision to invest in housing as opposed to investing in shelters and worse i think that's an important and we should continue with that policy of housing first policy, it's clear our shelter system is close to capacity and needs to be expanded in or to address the issues of encampment did i think the navigation centers and some of the work were considering right now going to be responses but shouldn't minimize both the capital and long-term investments and anything that's temporary only solves-and will find creative ways that we hope to share with you in the future. i also want to point out that yes, shelters have been growing in the city but permit housing and housing subsidies have been growing at a much much faster pace. if you were still firmly rooted in the housing first approach. however, having some these recent changes reflect the growing problem was street homelessness and encampment spirit we need to try to solve those but minimize our costs to not invest in a lot more board shelters are challenging to manage an ineffective in terms of producing outcomes were hoping for. i thank you very much and happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you very much. all right. i think i'm good with questions for now if you don't want. so, supervisor-in my leaving this hearing? >> you are >> supervisor farrell >> thank you president breed and no one at my real quick thanks to mr. kaczynski particulars position not going to entail going for. i know it's not an easy task. but mr. kaczynski has been when the most i think thoughtful and amazing people on this topic that worked with over the last few years and certainly look forward to the future ahead and working together but thanks for being here and i know it's a long road but were all in it together so thank you. >> thank you. my question would be i know that were talked about your budget. i know that there are some disagreements on the budget. i look forward to seeing a very robust discussion next week between you and the budget and legislative analyst, what do you think the cost savings will be moving many of the services from hsa and dph from those specific departments to your department under your management? >> i don't believe there's actually going to be significant cost savings. i think what we are going to see his improved outcomes for the money that were currently spending as i mentioned before, i'm frustrated well in my position as a former director of two different nonprofits that the system doesn't necessarily drive people towards the resources that they need the most. so we may be spending a lot of money putting somebody in a permanent supportive housing really does not need it and that's really $20,000 a year investment that is forever essentially. i think by making sure that we aligned our peoples needs up with a proper investment that were going to make were going to have a real increase in outcomes and a reduction in the street population. >> okay. can you tell me and i know again, there's a lot that's expected. you just started. i definitely appreciate the fact that you have dug in, feet first to try and get this issue resolved quickly so that it's managed well, that there's a system so that is effective, and one of the things that i hear often times from folks who talk about this issue is who are these people. we are are they coming from? i know from my experience of spending some time in the haight and talking to people but yet to meet one person who's actually was from san francisco. this is just specific to the haight pursue the tenderloin which i've run into a lot of people that i know who are unfortunately now homeless and i guess i'm trying to understand the population and the challenges with a population, and how we can make sure that we do a better job of making it clear, especially to members of the public, who may not understand that a diversity of the population what the population is, who we have been able to help our homeward bound program and rejecting people with their families, i guess what i'm trying to understand is, how do you think your department is going to be able to communicate to the public what this population is and how there are different levels of services clearly needed the different kinds of people? >> i think that's really important question because i think that the public discourse and erika brown homelessness is often based on misinformation or sensationalism were voices from extreme with extreme viewpoints on the position. but i think it honestly is going to take at least a year for us to really have a strong understanding of the population. the data that exists now is very very difficult to understand. for example, the point in time counter tells us there's 587 people and families currently homeless, but the school district tells us that there are over 2000 students in the san francisco unified school district better homeless. we really need to get a better understanding of this to do exactly what you recommended and we spoke about >> families have had several kids visit but the numbers in the point in time counters 596 people my families. >> got it. dick there's a difference. something is wrong. we need to figure out who is and get the data correct and really break out by population type single-dose, people are chronically homeless youth and really understand the numbers, the demographics, what their needs are and where the gaps are. i believe gore calls for gas analysis, which are already beginning the process of doing, but it's important we not conflate all these issues together and we speak about homelessness, really understand is a complex problem that affects different populations very differently the resources needed to address those populations are very different that figure will go a long way towards helping answer and expensive public some of the questions you have but honestly, given the state of our data systems is good to take some time. >> okay. the other thing i know you and i talked yesterday a little bit about this and this is where my biggest concerns,. for me, as a supervisor, when i first became supervisor, was a big issue around jobs and individuals needing jobs. for me, it was important that we not only got people employment opportunities, we make sure they held onto those opportunities. the same with housing. our goal is to make sure that we transition individuals, of course, and hopefully i'll them to hold onto that housing and help them to hopefully become self-sufficient and oftentimes we know support is needed and you're going to be working on some issues to try and make sure there were connecting people the right services but ultimately, realistically, once we house people what can we do to make sure that they don't lose their housing?'s then, and how can we continue to track that in order to make sure that we don't disconnect from that particular individual? >> with tracking piece i think is incredibly important again will be the major one of the major pushes during our first years. this department is to create a system that will allow us to do this because the reports that we get often have different metrics nonprofits report them differently what's in affection and what's a negative move out with a positive move out. we need to set standards as a city and come to a decision around what is a positive move out when is a negative move out make sure everybody reports on it the same way. as far as how do we prevent people from becoming ejected from city programs or and then the other question was around let me address that one first. well, i think we need to look at the different types of supportive housing have available because there's very different. roughly right now broken into pier tears. there are people in supportive housing that their path toward self-sufficiency is going to be a very long one if not impossible to achieve its helping those folks thinking that housing to live a healthy and safe life i think is an excellent goal for those individuals that we need to accept that and understand that's really the case. but i think we also need to understand that some people living in supportive housing the need to be connected to jobs that need to be encouraged to become self sufficient than he to think about their economic lives baby in a different way so they can plan somewhere whether not relying on publicly subsidized units so that unit can be made available for the next person, but it's really not black and white. there's many different variations of this and i think we need to again break this down into understanding the population well i will tell you from my experience, and the acuity of the individuals were coming into committee housing partnership in hamilton family center's got worse and worse. over the years. people often homeless longer. their substance abuse problems are more challenging. we need to really address that issue and understand the depth housing that's available for people who have pretty complex needs. because having them on the street is certainly not going to work but for those who do have a pathway towards economic social efficiency, our department is can work closely with hsa and with emily wg on making sure we can find pathways for people i've not will help him get up homelessness we also want them to get a poverty and its partnerships with the other departments that help make that happen >> i appreciate you saying that because i think oftentimes i see department operate on their own and even operate their own job placement and training programs. when, in fact, for example the western addition deferred axis point, which is doing an incredible job not only helping people gain the skills they need to get employed but to stay employed, they keep a watchful eye over individuals who they know may be in their 20s or 30s and they've never worked a job and this is the first opportunity, they need someone to help facilitate that process and were to make sure they're able to keep that job could i want to make sure that there are other services that were somehow connecting the dots with the different services and were making sure that people are able to eventually maybe. her own rent and the challenge we have of course, is san francisco rent and if we have a situation where there is supportive housing, and someone become self-sufficient, what happens then? there off drugs. they're back on their feet. they are working or what have you and then they are wondering, wait a minute what's my next move because i can't find a place to stay, plus i'm not making a decent amount of money to pay what is market rate in san francisco. so, i think part of what i'm saying i don't want to him to get discouraged the more poorly, i don't want us to shut them out the door actually rehabilitated only to put them right back on the street. so, i just see that happening as well which is why am really excited about taking it to the streets really organic program that started and they pay for housing and they hopefully there's two individuals we know that have got permanent jobs and are now paying their own way and still a part of the program, still have to keep the streets clean and do with graffiti abatement to be part of the community but i think we have to really look at look at long-term and not just the immediate see of getting someone house and that's a goal and we walk away. we need to do a little bit more to expand on that and i'm hoping this department will take that approach won't necessarily probably require additional dollars as much as it will require partnerships with other departments that already possess the resources necessary to open this positive >> we are currently working with already the mayor's office of housing in the san francisco housing authority on this idea of separate housing or housing ladders so folks in permanent supportive housing, which is quite expensive to operate, have opportunities to housing they can afford it may be due payable over more of their income to rent,, but will be in a place where they can be more so sufficient, not be bound by the rules that exist in permanent supportive housing be able to have a be on the path from homelessness to true self-sufficiency and independence. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> i bring up one more point that i forgot, we spoke about but i want to go on the record as saying, this is very relevant given currently budget season. one of the things i think it's going to be important to do is look at the nonprofit contracts should is the best the jury of funding that exists in my budget, $175 million. i just wanted to general comments about this. one is that were oftentimes not paying those organizations were they really need to be able to do their jobs effectively. we don't give them a escalator's in their contracts so they can predict what's going to happen from year-to-year. they can get people raises. it makes it harder to retain and recruit staff. i think it's very important that we look at improving the way we conduct with these nonprofits because they're the ones out on the front lines doing the work but the flip side to that is, and i think it's very important particularly now, when we find nonprofits to do things we need to make sure that lines up with the city strategy. too often, the funding programs that don't necessary line up with a clear strategy around addressing homelessness and how were they to save money over going to more wisely invest money is not just related to have it corrugated interests entry system is also having a single strategy and making sure that the contractors are doing what needs to get done, that was not what they feel need to be done i feel they should be part of the process of deciding what the strategy is what the city locked in on a strategy that funny needs to be directed only towards that strategy and not towards an organization and would've insane to nonprofits is, you should have to do fundraising for work that were contacting you to do. you should be able to have a should we be she paying you a failed price for the work you do just liquidate palmers or electricians or any other vendor does work for the city, but you should not ask us to do things that are not within our strategic mission. that's what you should be fundraising for. getting that kind of alignment this can be critically important and as you hear from members of the nonprofit community, by former colleagues, run the budget, i hope that your discussions with them are within that frame around the sponsor we spending money towards a clear vision that the city has decided upon. that they should use their opportunities as 501(c)(3) organizations to raise money to do the things that the filter mission to fund the secret sauce that makes them special and different but we need to make sure our funding is spent on the city strategy >> rates. thank you i look forward to. i see barbara garcia is here. would you like to make any comments about the report as well? excuse me supervisor yee had a question. >> no, come on up. i just want to say to jeff, that was very refreshing what i just heard. i just don't hear that from our city department heads often enough that the work that people do on the ground and the support they need so thank you very much for making that statement. >> thank you >> thank you >> they do supervisor barbara garcia director of health. i just want to also thank the report. i think did you read a good job. also, the fact that i'll be working very closely to the new director to ensure that the wraparound services, including clear about what our job is what their job is. also, really working closely to ensure summary comes to residential treatment summary comes out of hospital somebody comes out of our jail, conversations they also i would to get stabilizing services that the homeless department will have. so, we'll be working closely both sides i think this will be the piece is currently really important as of the last several weeks we've been working on a really important schedule federal grant that will allow us to spend some those dollars on a data collection and so i just want to make sure that you understood we are very committed to this department and making sure that you have the required services they need to ensure the supportive housing and people are stabilized in their homes. >> thank you for being here. with that, i would like to open it up to public comment. if there's any members of the public-supervisor kim i apologize >> thank you president breed. this is a question for director garcia will be talked about this. i want to understand better our budget request samir haddad were included last year at this time for expanded medical respite shelter in the south of market which am very excited for because we know there's many people live on our streets but incredibly sick and not currently served by her existing single dull day shoulders and so i want to get a better understanding of the timeline the opening, work on the scope of the services will look like and how this will fit in my car the overall strategy run your addressing homelessness over the next year? >> thank you. barbara garcia director of health. the medical respite was set up originally to individuals were homeless even hospital to continue the healing process. as you have worked together with the shelter system defenders also people in the shelter system that i believe to sit to be in the shelter system. so, this new respite extension which will open in january, one of things we had to do is-it's owned by st. anthony's we have several lease and that we had to work out the contractor will be coming on in the next few weeks to start construction. they'll be completed in january i know you have great concerns to make sure we work on that as fast as possible and we will. we watching a very close. better be additional 33 beds and be working with the shelter system and as you know we both worked on ensuring that nurses in the shelter to identify clients were being transferred there were who are there for me to be transferred into the medical respite. so, those services include nursing, medical oversight, as well as if they do need ongoing support of the hospital and clinics are transported there as well. so that's the update supervisor and a work closely with your office to make sure you get monthly updates on where we are in the construction and the hiring of the staff. >> thank you, director. tommy nurses and health professionals do we have now in our shelter system since last february when i first visited? >> i believe we have three nurses an additional three health workers but i will finalize out with you and give you those numbers. >> i did get an opportunity to visit with the camera separate at we want to thank you for supporting that within your budget. they are just doing tremendous, as you know, tremendous amount of work and it's great to talk to the shelter staff who two weeks after that come forward so they could not imagine the shelter without him that even though they've only been there for brief period attempted just on the data went which was a random day, was extraordinary the line waiting to see your staff members and how acute the care needs are for folks that live on our streets on a daily basis that also want to thank your staff for the work because it's very very difficult work out really really appreciate that commitment. >> i have the same thoughts for my staff and their so excited e work they're doing you really want to work closely with our new director to ensure that what we did an assessment of the health status of those are shelter system very chronically ill and so i really believed in the program. i finished extended to others and so medical respite will help because will be putting those individuals who are the sickest into the medical respite. people get better and they come back into the shelter system hopefully to supportive housing. so thank you and we will keep you updated on the program >> thank you. now, i like to open this up to public comment. there's any members of the public comment like to comment on this item, please come forward to. >> i am calling the work of st. anthony's foundation. i just want to make a comment. i was excited to see the reports. i've been poring over it for the past i guess since monday. i think that one of the things that struck me in reading the report was the repeated reference to housing the first and that being used as reasoning for why during the previous 10 year plan shelters and resource centers were phased-were thought of as being phased out and in fact we did lose beds and reduce resource centers. this sort of idea of housing first i think is something that we as a city need to figure out what the definition of it is because it's different in every city and locality, but what we see now is that if you look at the definition nationally of what housing first means, it means you don't have to go to a shelter system or temporary housing program if you're homeless and on the street. you go right into housing. in san francisco don't have housing first right now. we don't you have shelter first. there's 800 people on the waiting list for shelter and are waiting on the streets. so i think this concept of housing first and the reality of what it would take to actually implement that according to the standard definition are different and perhaps the city needs to come up with its own definition of housing first so we can understand what that really means and what you would need to take to actually enact that. thanks >> thank you. next speaker, please. are public defender mr. jeff-well, >> i want to come and listen to the >> on down, calm down >> i want to listen to the presentation i support for the housing first policy and for the report. approximate 10-15% of the clients we represent and individuals in the county jail are homeless. many times were not released simply because they don't have an address. we do have a specific program for homeless individuals in that program is very limited. so, respecting the directors focus on ensuring housing first, we hope that includes individuals who are in the county jail. it's very expensive to house people in the county jail and what i would like to see is a reallocation of the tens of millions of dollars that were spending particularly citing individuals. i spoke to the federal homeless czar was visiting russia. one thing he would suggest is to stop arresting and citing people for crimes where there's really no action that occurs as a result of that. so, that certainly is something where i would like to see the city we allocate its focus on housing. thank you >> thank you. either any other members of the public there would like to provide public comment on this item at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> i just want to thank i colleagues for sitting through this hearing. we all on this board of supervisors, have stepped forward and tried to make changes, try to allocate resources, tried to work with different city departments to address this issue over the years and as i said earlier in my remarks, the frustrating part is we still see that there is an issue and we want to make sure that with all the money that were spending, with all the resources were allocating, were actually effective. part of being effective is having data and understanding what we are doing right, what we are doing wrong and how we can make it better and move in the right direction. i think one of the things that probably most frustrates me sometimes about the city is how we build affordable housing and how that of former housing often times does not make the connection between the people we know we need to house and that is something i hope will change with the neighborhood legislation, but the situation involving the 179 units were not formally homeless families living in these public housing units, there was a real challenge. it's a challenge because the san francisco housing authority is managed under certain federal guidelines, which makes it almost impossible to try and provide housing for individuals on the street without making sure when the waitlist is opened may apply to get on the waitlist and get into this housing. so, i think the system is broken. the system to access housing in general is broken because were still stuck to a number of federal laws that make it difficult for us to transition people from our streets into this housing is a priority because of waitlist and other kinds of things that impede our ability to make these individuals a priority for that affordable housing. i think, as i said the neighborhood preference legislation, we pass that legislation is no guarantee that the federal government on occasion will let us actually use neighborhood preference in some of the new affordable housing we build. we are continuing to fight to make that a reality, but i would like the city to make more connections between folks who are living in our shelters into the former housing we build. figuring out better ways to give them priorities so that they don't get stock in the lottery without thousands of other people and end up not getting the housing that we know we want them to have because they so desperately need it. there's just a lot to do and i think this is a step in the right direction in am committed to continuing to work on this issue and to also hold our different agencies and nonprofit organizations especially accountable for the dollars that are being invested in trying to help address this particular issue. again, thank you to the budget and legislative analyst office for all of your work. even working i know tirelessly for months on this report and i was getting excited out every time i got an update on where we were. it basically the report says what we all know is the case in the city and i definitely want to work with jeff to dig deeper into some of the nonprofit agencies in the work they're doing to have a clearer understanding of what they're providing and whether or not it's effective and how we can basically shift resources in order to make sure it's going to be most effective agencies that are helping to address this issue. i also want to make sure if there is a need to provide some sort of preference for our homeless families, for homeless individuals, sweeping on our streets, we can do it. we've done it with richardson. the property that's located on across the street from the boys and girls club, unfolds and an golf i think, a place where we have a large number of unfortunately, chronically homeless individuals costing the city millions of dollars, we were able to creatively working with kenny housing partnerships provide permanent housing and support services for those individuals regardless of the challenges with federal laws and federal tax credits and other things that make it difficult to do so. so am looking forward to us developing more creative policies that help us to get to where we want to be and that is to serve the population that we know needs services and homes the most in the city and county of san francisco. again, thank you to my colleagues. thank you to the budget and legislative analyst. thank you to barbara garcia and to jeff kosinski. do i get right? yes. trent at hsa. coalition on homelessness, together i know we will try, and we will continue to work towards addressing this issue is sitting county of the san francisco. thank you. >> thank you president breed good colleagues any questions or comments? with that, colleagues can enter their motion to file item number 16? moved and seconded. can we take that without objection? >>[gavel] >> mdm. clerk any other business in front of us today. no further business >> 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to did people's palace i want to welcome someone that served the governor and the council executive of king couldn't my friend gasping lock is here thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> first, i want to acknowledge that our city is going into the pride month with a heavy heart we're all shockedcy the tragic shootings in orlando and our thoughts remain with the that is my understanding and frames by this senseless act that violation against how or our lgbt community we stand in solidarity with them although the recent event cause us to pause gives us a renewed sense ever purchase for uniting with unity towards a better future for the entire community during the pride celebration we'll be having a heightened security for you with our police department and other public safety agencies i encourage everyone to say something if you see something happen this is how we work with our community to make sure that everyone is safe in our city has a proud history of inclusiveness and leading the fight against hiv and ada we've congresswoman come a long way since the dark days of aids country's we're getting closer to this because of the people in the room we've got closer to zero thank you to europe of you for all our participation your input, your gowns and leadership >> (clapping.) >> yeah. as you may know san francisco's aiming become the first city to get to zero this means zero new hiv enacts and zero death from hiv and zero stigma and discriminates we're on the right track last year fewer than 200 infections we'll going get closer and closer advertised go we can do better i'll consist we focus on preservation getting people the care immediately slopt and making sure they're in treatment and have many, many strength to build only one of the strengths i've that and always say that a strong community participation we owe much of our second, second to the practices of that diverse is community to tell the truth and listening to the community and collaborating for progress this is the only way to get to zero we want to commend permanent thank all the members of the hiv planning council for their hard work and their continued work say commitment in the future your participation in the two predecessor counsels that have shaped noble how our city cares forces those living with hiv and aid but presenting new infections that's a long road for the merging of the councils together thank you director gary's and the public health department on this front is it so exist as one of the first of its kind in the nation the council will take on a unit front on accident fight against ada hiv thank you >> (clapping.) >> your work will allow san francisco to better coordinate and strengthen our history infrastructure to do planning for the continuum from preservation to wrap around services in council can help us going get to zero and end sdriems we know i think we can make an impact about the discussion that or on blood that's the real stigma in our in addition, we have prioritized fidget against hiv and aids my budget has back filled because of our supervisors hero today supervisor wiener and, of course, supervisor campos and others we had to backfill the unfortunate back cuts from the federal government since nevada no matter what the challenge we did it. >> (clapping.) >> and we remain committed to providing comprehensive care and focus on care - on the preservation side kept is a preservation strategy san francisco started in 2010 our prep income tax program connects people to the resources and there are new now 6 thousand people on the prep in san francisco and i'd like to thank supervisor wiener for his leadership in making prep widely available and informed. >> (clapping.) >> >> so today in addition to swearing in our 0 planning council we want to narrow we're launching the new prep campaign for an uptick of prevention of history let me innovative bearing and supervisor wiener 0 say a few few words about prep. >> (clapping.) >> thank you mr. mayor i'm very proud to serve for mayor ed lee he's had every time the budget the first question what are redoing around the hiv dollars so take note of his leadership. >> (clapping.) >> and strong support but i want to make sure we acknowledge the charitable incidents against. >> latino and lgbt community especially the that concludes my report. renals and the other communities we'll hear more and more community the resolve and the currently you've seen from latino and latino lgbt community is incredible and i'm so proud of resolve and the responses and you think many times government loaders and other leaders we forgot the strength of people of color the fortitude we have as native and immigrant community so it is this strength we should count on and look to when they are thinking about our services new opportunity and medications like preparing that can survive i've been arena long enough to watch the urban pounceable names and new names of medications and many campaigns for hiv and aids that have satisfied so many lives in the past as for those new sxiefk games what is important at times what is more important how we tried treat our community of color and respect them and this honor will get us to zero transition and death and stigma i want to acknowledge all our dpw employees that do the work for us i can't do this alone i want to acknowledge folks can you stand for a second. >> (clapping.) >> we have researchers standing, department of human resources standing and activists standing they've been the construction of our department but today, i want to honor our leaders on the hiv planning council it has seen me come to those meetings mid-market some days we disagree but many times agree but your role is announced by federal, state, and local government and i'm proud you have found a way to come together i ask is that mayor four or five years ago is it takes time to come together i'm proud of you so i want to thank you, very much. thank you. >> (clapping.) >> i'm also proud today to announce that starting today, we'll see a new prep campaign that will celebrate prep as a way to reduce the risk of hiv by more than 90 terrace to working closely to make sure we eliminate contribution and remember the stigma is the code word for description and homophobia so thank you, thank you and thank you. >> (clapping.) >> help us get to zero thank you so much thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you barbara for really those moving words about orlando i think for a lot of us we woke up and saw those headlines it was like just an absolute punch to the gut to i think we can all remember for those who don't go out as much what it means to be in a gay bar or number those are our community sacrifices and ways that it is not outside of lgbt community for generations of our community members those are at times the only places where you can guess and be who you are and build community and in fact as we're hearing from the extraordinarily hearing stories about the people that were killed in the club and their family members not knowing they were lgbt our lgbt night life no one's in 2016 to play that community building and community strengthening role and have that scared space stloiltd this go unbelievably horrible massacre is a violation i can't articulate and i think that we owe it to the people that were killed and the people injured to the family families the influence that we should continue to fight to end violation or violence with what is happening every single day and commit to that in terms of the matter at hand i want to thank the mayor for his continued support of the people living with history and people at risked for the advisory we took office the same month we were hit with the first federal ryan white and the mayor didn't blink my colleagues didn't bring we continued year after year to really backfill the failure of the federal government >> (clapping.) >> and you know, i came of age as a gay man in 1987 when we were living in the era of fear an association of death and sickness with sex when we didn't no effective treatment the terror of getting tested to wait two weeks will i be positive or dead in a few months and going through that and generations of lgbt people you know having that trauma and the progress we've made over the years is incredible and this cause of san francisco the because of our community-based organizations our community advocates this city as time and g time again set the standards created the template and nooshd and the rest of the country and world has followed we need to continue to do that and we are continuing to do that with our getting to zero effort i've been proud to work with the department on the getting to zero and again, a template that others replicate and those infections to make sure that people living with the advisor are healthy and eliminating them and ii know we'll be successful about a year and a half ago in december of 2014 i announced that i am on preparing that was it was a little bit scary i want to thank the san francisco aids foundation and uflg for helping me through that process it was a positive response i think that people fundamentally get it we have a tool that so dramatically reduces the risk of infection we need to promote and invest and make sure that people can assess no matter how wealthy i didn't or poor and should have insurance access to powerful prevention tool one our consultant communities are are voices including loud voices that are trying stigma its prep and we have to continue to push back and make sure that the word is out there this matters and will safe lives thank you to everyone and let's keep on fighting to i understand hiv infections. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, supervisor and let me say again, all of you who are i'm about the to swear in letting me give a personal thank you this is not easy work i know that when our faced with the need to change people's behavior when our faced with discriminates with stigma when our trying to get informed about the facts it is not easy to do all of that in the faced of things that are going on that sometimes we don't have control over i want to first thank everyone that is stepping up to be on the hiv council without you, we couldn't find a way to get to zero on infections and prevent this deadly disease from increasing the disaster reduce effect please they're your jobs seriously and also live proudly talk to people continue giving them the encouragement that they need to have in order to do the right thing to save their own lives or their friends or families lives with that, if i can ask all the members of hiv planning council to please stand up and raise your hand and yell your names out i >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> foreign and domestic. >> (repeated.) >> and that i will bear true faith and allegiance. >> and to the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> that i take this oath freely. >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. >> (repeated.) >> and during such time as i hold office of as he member of the hiv planning council repeated for the city and county of san francisco members thank you very much thank you congratulations >> (clapping.) >> all right. we get do go to woto go to work >> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free, and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. theses san francisco public library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. >> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers. they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk, she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ the room and please rise for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> commissioner president loftus i'd like to call roll. >> commissioner president loftus commissioner vice president turman is in route commissioner marshall in route important commissioner dejesus and commissioner mazzucco commissioner wong commissioner melara commissioner president loftus

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