00:00:03 SORRY ABOUT THAT. GOOD MORNING.
00:00:12 THE MEETING WILL COME TO ORDER. WELCOME TO THE JUNE 18TH, 2026
00:00:16 MEETING OF THE BUDGET AND APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE.
00:00:19 I AM SUPERVISOR CONKLIN CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE.
00:00:21 I'M JOINED BY VICE CHAIR SUPERVISOR MATT DORSEY
00:00:24 AND MEMBERS SUPERVISOR DANNY SAUDER SHARMA WALTON
00:00:27 AND SHORTLY PRESIDENT RAVI AMENDMENT.
00:00:31 OUR CLERK IS BRANT HALPER. I WANT TO THANK SUSAN AT NOURSE
00:00:35 FOR BROADCASTING THIS MEETING FROM ESSEX TV.
00:00:38 >> MR. CLERK, DO YOU HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENT?
00:00:40 THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER TO
00:00:42 THOSE IN ATTENDANCE TO PLEASE MAKE SURE TO SILENCE ALL CELL
00:00:45 PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES TO PREVENT INTERRUPTIONS TO OUR
00:00:46 PROCEEDINGS SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED AS
00:00:50 PART OF THE FILES THAT SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO MYSELF, THE
00:00:53 CLERK MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT
00:00:55 IN WRITING IN EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS EMAILING THEM TO
00:00:58 MYSELF THE BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
00:01:01 CLERK AT B R N T I JLI P HAT AS F G OF V G IF YOU SUBMIT PUBLIC
00:01:10 COMMENT VIA EMAIL IT WILL BE FORWARDED TO THE SUPERVISORS
00:01:14 AND ALSO INCLUDED AS PART OF THE OFFICIAL FILE.
00:01:15 YOU MAY ALSO SEND YOUR WRITTEN COMMENTS BY U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
00:01:18 TO OUR OFFICE IN CITY HALL AT ONE DR. CARLETON BECAUSE THE
00:01:22 PLACE ROOM 244 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94122 AND A REVISED
00:01:26 AGENDA FOR TODAY'S MEETING WAS POSTED AFTER ADJOURNING
00:01:30 YESTERDAY'S MEETING AND STATING THE COMMITTEE'S ACTIONS ITEMS
00:01:34 ON TODAY'S AGENDA THAT HAVE SATISFIED PUBLIC COMMENT BEEN
00:01:37 ACTED ON AND PROCESSED HAS COMPLETED BUSINESS OF THIS
00:01:39 COMMITTEE ARE ITEM NUMBERS FOUR THROUGH 17 AND 19 THROUGH 22
00:01:45 ITEMS ONE THROUGH THREE, 1823 AND 24 ARE STILL OPEN FOR
00:01:49 CONSIDERATION BY THIS COMMITTEE AND COMMITTEE WHEN AND MADAM
00:02:02 CHAIR THAT COMPLETES MY ANNOUNCEMENTS.
00:02:06 >> THANK YOU, MR. CLERK. AND BEFORE WE GET STARTED I
00:02:07 WANT TO EXPLAIN TO THE PUBLIC HOW TODAY'S MEETING WILL
00:02:11 PROCEED. FIRST OF ALL, LAST WEEK WE
00:02:14 QUESTIONED THE CITY DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THEIR
00:02:18 BUDGET PROPOSAL. WE LISTENED TO THE PRESENTATION
00:02:21 YESTERDAY. WE DISPENSE WITH MOST OF THE
00:02:25 BUDGET TRAWLING LEGISLATION TODAY AND NEXT MONDAY.
00:02:29 THE DEPARTMENTS ARE ACTUALLY RETURNING TO ADDRESS THE BUDGET
00:02:30 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTS PROPOSE REDUCTIONS
00:02:33 AND RECOMMENDATION TWO ARE BOTH FISCAL RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL
00:02:38 AS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS. >> THE DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE
00:02:41 SCHEDULED TO APPEAR TODAY AND MONDAY ARE LISTED ON THE
00:02:45 AGENDA. HOWEVER, IF A DEPARTMENT ANY
00:02:49 DEPARTMENT AGREES TO THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST
00:02:52 PROPOSED REDUCTIONS, THEY HAVE NOT THEY WILL NOT THEY HAVE NOT
00:02:56 BEEN REQUIRED TO RETURN AND THEY WILL UNLIKELY TO
00:03:00 RETURN THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTS WILL
00:03:03 ANNOUNCE THOSE DEPARTMENTS SHORTLY.
00:03:04 >> WE WILL NOT HAVE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS TODAY.
00:03:08 INSTEAD GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS OR ADDRESSES ANY OR ALL
00:03:12 DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET WILL BE HEARD ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24TH
00:03:18 STARTING AT TEN A M IN THESE IN THIS CHAMBER.
00:03:22 AND SO AGAIN, JUST WANTED TO REITERATE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS
00:03:26 TODAY PUBLIC COMMENTS THEY WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24TH
00:03:36 STARTING AT 10 A.M. WE WILL UNLIKE PREVIOUSLY WE WILL HAVE
00:03:42 UNLESS UNLIKE PREVIOUS YEARS WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER DAY ON MONDAY
00:03:47 THAT IS SPECIFICALLY AGAIN FOR DEPARTMENT THAT WILL HAVE TO
00:03:51 RETURN IF THEY'RE NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH THE BUDGET
00:03:56 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST REDUCTION.
00:03:57 SO WITH THAT MR. CLERK, PLEASE CALL ITEMS ONE THROUGH THREE.
00:04:02 >> I SHOULD BE REFERRING TO THAT MADAM.
00:04:03 MADAM CHAIR, JUST OUT OF PRECAUTION IF ANYBODY IS
00:04:07 IN THESE CHAMBERS AND HOUR AND ARE ACTUALLY HERE FOR THE
00:04:10 GOVERNMENT AUDIT AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE THEY ARE ACROSS THE
00:04:14 HALL JUST IN CASE. BUT OTHER THAN THAT ITEM
00:04:19 NUMBERS ONE THROUGH THREE ARE ITEMS AS IT RELATES TO THIS
00:04:20 COMMITTEE'S CONSIDERATION OF THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR
00:04:23 THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026
00:04:27 TO 2027 AND 2027 TO 2028. AND ITEM NUMBER ONE IS OUR
00:04:31 HEARING TO CONSIDER THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET ITEM NUMBER TWO
00:04:34 IS THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE
00:04:38 APPROPRIATING ALL ESTIMATED RECEIPTS AND ALL ESTIMATED
00:04:40 EXPENDITURES FOR DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY AS OF MAY
00:04:44 30TH 2026. AND ITEM NUMBER THREE HIS THE
00:04:47 PROPOSED ANNUAL SALARY ORDINANCE AND THE OPERATING
00:04:50 POSITIONS IN THE AOE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH
00:04:53 2027 AND JUNE 30TH 2028 CONTINUING CREATING OR
00:04:56 ESTABLISHING THESE POSITIONS AND ENUMERATING AND INCLUDING
00:04:59 THEIR IN ALL POSITIONS CREATED BY THE CHARTER STATE LAW FOR
00:05:03 WHICH COMPENSATIONS ARE PAID FROM CITY AND COUNTY FUNDS
00:05:04 AND APPROPRIATE IT IN THE EMAIL AUTHORIZING APPOINTMENTS OR
00:05:09 CONTINUATION OF APPOINTMENTS THERE ARE TWO SPECIFYING
00:05:11 AND FIXING THE COMPENSATIONS AND WORK SCHEDULES THEREOF
00:05:15 AND AUTHORIZING APPOINTMENTS TO TEMPORARY POSITIONS AND FIXING
00:05:16 COMPENSATIONS. >> MADAM CHAIR.
00:05:19 THANK YOU MR. CLERK AND WITH THAT MR. CONCHA FROM BUDGET
00:05:24 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTS PLEASE ANNOUNCE THAT DEPARTMENTS THAT
00:05:28 HAVE AGREED TO THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST
00:05:31 PROPOSED REDUCTIONS. >> GOOD MORNING CHAIR JAN
00:05:35 MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE DAN GONZALES WITH THE BUDGET
00:05:37 LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S OFFICE THE DEPARTMENTS THAT WE
00:05:39 UNDERSTAND HAVE WE HAVE FULL AGREEMENT WITH INCLUDE THE
00:05:43 FOLLOWING THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, THE SUPERIOR COURT, THE
00:05:48 ASSESSOR RECORDER, THE ASIAN ARTS MUSEUM, THE FINE ARTS
00:05:52 MUSEUM, THE ARTS COMMISSION, THE WAR MEMORIAL OR THE AGENCY
00:05:56 FOR HUMAN RIGHTS GENERAL CITY RESPONSIBILITY THE
00:06:00 COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE. THE DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY.
00:06:04 THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT. JUVENILE PROBATION AND THE
00:06:07 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. >> THANK YOU AND COLLEAGUES.
00:06:11 THESE ARE THE DEPARTMENT HEADS WITH THE PROPOSED REDUCTION
00:06:16 FROM THE BUDGET LEGISLATIVE ANALYST THAT WE WILL BE
00:06:18 ACCEPTING TODAY. AND SO WITH THAT THOUGH I FROM
00:06:23 WHEN I DO UNDERSTAND AND I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR MR.
00:06:27 TREASURER IS HERE BUT IF AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I
00:06:32 UNDERSTAND AND THAT WE HAVE REACHED AN AGREEMENT WITH THE
00:06:36 TREASURER AND TAX COLLECTORS OFFICE, THE COMMITTEE WILL
00:06:39 ACCEPT ALL THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATOR ENDLESS FISCAL
00:06:40 RECOMMENDATIONS ITEM ONE THROUGH FOUR BUT WE ARE
00:06:44 REJECTING WE ARE REJECTING ALL THE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
00:06:52 WHICH ARE FIVE THROUGH EIGHT. >> YES.
00:06:53 THANK YOU CHAIR. CHAIR AND THAT IS OUR REQUEST.
00:06:56 >> THANK YOU AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
00:06:59 AND WE ALSO I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE
00:07:01 RECEIVED THE LETTER FROM YOU AND YOUR TEAM AND THAT WE
00:07:04 REALLY APPRECIATE I THINK YOU MADE A SOLID ARGUMENT OF WHY WE
00:07:08 OUGHT TO REJECT THE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS TODAY.
00:07:11 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU.
00:07:14 THANK YOU. AND COLLEAGUES, I ALSO WANTED
00:07:18 TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE REACHED AN AGREEMENT WITH THE
00:07:19 DEPARTMENT OF ELECTION. THE COMMITTEE WILL ACCEPT THE
00:07:26 RECOMMENDATION ONE AND TWO AND WILL BE PLACING AMONGST
00:07:29 FOUR RECOMMENDATION THREE ALL RESERVE WHICH IS A DIRECTOR
00:07:36 0951 DIRECTOR POSITION AND THAT IS GOING TO BE PLACED ON
00:07:40 RESERVE. ANTICIPATING THAT EITHER
00:07:41 DEPARTMENT ELECTION WILL BE HIRING FOR THAT POSITION WHICH
00:07:45 HAS BEEN VACANT FOR I THINK ALMOST A DECADE NOW OR THAT
00:07:48 DOLLAR AMOUNT ON RESERVE, SHOULD THAT SHOULD THEY NOT BE
00:07:52 ABLE TO HIRE FOR THAT POSITION? THEY CAN ACTUALLY USE IT FOR
00:07:56 THE VOTER INFORMATION PAMPHLET FUNDING THAT WE DISCUSSED
00:08:00 YESTERDAY FOR ROUGHLY ABOUT $330,000 THAT THEY MAY END UP
00:08:03 NEEDING TO USE ITEMS. AND SO WITH THAT I AM ALSO
00:08:11 GOING TO SAY WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE FIRST DEPARTMENT WITH
00:08:14 BUSINESS BEFORE US TODAY IS THE OFFICE OF THE CITY
00:08:18 ADMINISTRATOR IF I MAY, IS IT OKAY IF I COULD GO THROUGH YES,
00:08:25 THE BUDGET AND I'LL JUST SAY ARE ENDLESS RECOMMENDATIONS ON
00:08:29 THIS DEPARTMENT AND THEN WE'LL GO TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR
00:08:30 RESPONSE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:08:33 AND OUR RECOMMENDATION IS FOR THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE
00:08:37 ARE SUMMARIZED ON PAGE 69 OF OUR REPORT.
00:08:40 THEY TOTAL $2,239,754 IN FISCAL YEAR 2627.
00:08:48 THE DETAILS OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS START ON PAGE
00:08:51 70 OF OUR REPORT STARTING WITH THE FISCAL RECOMMENDATION
00:08:55 AND AND I WILL WALK THROUGH WHAT MY UNDERSTANDING IS OF
00:08:56 WHERE WE HAVE AGREEMENT AND THEN SPEAK TO SPECIFICALLY
00:09:03 THE RECOMMENDATIONS WHERE I THINK WE HAVE DISAGREEMENT IF
00:09:05 THERE ARE ANY WHERE I'M MISTAKEN I'M HAPPY TO SPEAK TO
00:09:07 ANY OF THE OTHERS SO I BELIEVE WE HAVE AGREEMENT ON ONE
00:09:13 AND TWO ON PAGE 70 OF OUR REPORT WE HAVE DISAGREEMENT ON
00:09:17 ADAM THREE ON PAGE 71 OF OUR REPORT.
00:09:20 THIS IS FOR PROFESSIONAL AND SPECIALIZED SERVICES UNDER
00:09:24 CITY ADMINISTRATOR. SO WE ARE RECOMMENDING THAT THE
00:09:28 BOARD REDUCE THE BUDGETED INCREASE FOR THE DIGITAL
00:09:32 SERVICES UNIFIED DATA PLATFORM TO BRING IT BACK DOWN TO WHAT
00:09:36 THE DEPARTMENT REQUESTED LEVEL IS FOR THIS ACCOUNT AND FOR AN
00:09:43 EXPANDED SCOPE IN THE BUDGET YEAR.
00:09:46 IF YOU WERE TO TAKE THIS RECOMMENDATION IT WOULD STILL
00:09:48 ALLOW FOR A $573,000 INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR THE PROJECT
00:09:53 AND WE NOTED THAT AS OF MAY 31ST THERE WAS AN AVAILABLE
00:09:58 BALANCE OF OVER $472,000 OR NEARLY HALF OF ITS ORIGINAL
00:10:01 APPROPRIATION AND THE DEPARTMENT'S LIKELY TO CARRY
00:10:06 THIS FORWARD OR AT LEAST A PORTION OF IT INTO THE BUDGET
00:10:09 YEAR. THE NEXT REPORT RECOMMENDATION
00:10:12 WHERE WE HAVE DISAGREEMENT IS 18 FOUR ON PAGE 71 OF OUR
00:10:15 REPORT HERE WHERE RECOMMENDING THAT YOU DENY ONE FULL TIME
00:10:21 EQUIVALENT 1043 IS ENGINEER SENIOR CREATED THROUGH AN
00:10:22 UPWARD SUBSTITUTION FROM AN OFF BUDGET 1822 ADMINISTRATIVE
00:10:26 ANALYST POSITION THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO THE LIMITED TERM
00:10:30 GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT.
00:10:33 SO THIS IS AN OLDER PROJECT THAT WAS CREATED I BELIEVE TO
00:10:42 HELP THE CITY RECOVER FROM THE PANDEMIC.
00:10:45 THESE POSITIONS OUR UNDERSTANDING WAS THEY WERE
00:10:48 NEVER INTENDED TO BE SUBSUMED INTO DEPARTMENT BUDGETS AND WE
00:10:55 ALSO NOTE THAT THERE HAS BEEN RAPID GROWTH IN DIGITAL
00:11:03 SERVICES POSITIONS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
00:11:08 IT WAS 50 TO 50 YEARS LAST YEAR THAT WENT UP FROM 52 TO 55
00:11:11 IN THE CURRENT YEAR AND IS PROPOSED TO GO UP TO 61 IN THE
00:11:15 PROPOSED BUDGET YET THERE ARE CURRENTLY EIGHT VACANCIES
00:11:19 INCLUDING FOR POSITIONS IN THE SAME CLASSIFICATION AND TWO
00:11:25 THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS HOLDING OPEN FOR ATTRITION.
00:11:29 WE DO BELIEVE WE HAVE AGREEMENT ON ATM FIVE ON PAGE 71 OF OUR
00:11:34 REPORT REGARDING DEBT SERVICE SO I WILL SPEAK TO ATM SIX ON
00:11:39 PAGE 71 WHICH IS A VACANT 1824 PRINCIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE
00:11:44 ANALYST. IT'S BEEN VACANT SINCE JANUARY.
00:11:48 WE DO NOTE IN OUR RECOMMENDATION THAT THE
00:11:51 DEPARTMENT HAS A ROBUST ANALYTICAL CAPACITY THEY
00:11:55 MAINTAIN 88 FULL TIME EQUIVALENT POSITIONS IN THE
00:11:58 1820 CLASSIFICATION SERIES OF WHICH APPROXIMATELY 13 ARE
00:12:02 VACANT INCLUDING SEVEN IN THIS CLASSIFICATION THE 1824 THE
00:12:09 NEXT DISAGREEMENT IS 87 ON PAGE 72 THIS IS A VACANT 0923
00:12:17 MANAGER TWO IT'S BEEN VACANT FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS.
00:12:19 THE POSITIONS IN THE REAL ESTATE DIVISION IN THE PROPERTY
00:12:23 MANAGEMENT UNIT AGAIN IT'S BEEN VACANT FOR SINCE AUGUST OF
00:12:27 2024. WE NOTE IN OUR RECOMMENDATION
00:12:28 THAT THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT UNIT HAS 12 FTE AND THE MANAGER
00:12:32 CLASSIFICATION IN AND AS WE DO FROM SEVERAL OF THESE VACANT
00:12:40 MANAGER POSITIONS WE NOTE THE GROWTH IN MANAGER POSITIONS
00:12:44 OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS FAR OUTSTRIPPING GROWTH
00:12:48 IN NON-MANAGEMENT POSITIONS AND THAT THE BOARD OF
00:12:51 SUPERVISORS PASSED A MOTION EARLIER THIS YEAR IDENTIFYING
00:12:59 VACANT MANAGER POSITIONS AS A BUDGET PRIORITY.
00:13:00 HOW WOULD THAT WAS MOTION AM 26 DASH 20 FIVE THE NEXT
00:13:06 DISAGREEMENT I'LL SPEAK TO IS 88.
00:13:09 ALSO ON PAGE 72 WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT YOU DENY AN
00:13:13 UPWARD SUBSTITUTION OF ONE 1840 JUNIOR MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT TO
00:13:17 THAT IS PROPOSED TO UPGRADE TO 5050 502 PROJECT MANAGER ONE
00:13:21 DUE TO INADEQUATE JUSTIFICATION FOR THAT UPWARD SUBSTITUTION
00:13:25 THE DEPARTMENT IS ESTABLISHING A NEW POSITION A NEW FUNCTION
00:13:29 WITHIN THE REAL ESTATE DIVISION'S PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
00:13:30 FUNCTION DEPARTMENT REPORTS IT'S NOT A NEW ROLE BUT A
00:13:33 REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING RESOURCES AND THAT ATTRITION
00:13:40 SAVINGS WOULD BE ADJUSTED TO MAKE THE UPWARD SUBSTITUTION
00:13:44 COST NEUTRAL. BUT AGAIN GOING BACK TO THIS
00:13:45 UNIT HAVING ALREADY 12 MANAGER POSITIONS AND THE BOARD STATED
00:13:52 PRIORITY ON VACANT MANAGER POSITIONS.
00:13:55 AND FINALLY ON FISCAL RECOMMENDATIONS 89 ON PAGE 73
00:14:01 OF OUR REPORT THIS IS UNDER THE CONVENTION FACILITIES
00:14:05 MANAGEMENT WE NOTE THAT THE DEPARTMENT'S REVISED
00:14:09 PROJECTIONS FOR THE CONVENTION FACILITIES MANAGEMENT FUND FOR
00:14:13 THE CURRENT YEAR ANTICIPATES A DRAWDOWN OF FUND BALANCE OF
00:14:14 ONLY 6.7 MILLION RATHER THAN THE 14.3 MILLION OF DRAWDOWN
00:14:20 THAT WAS BUDGETED. THERE WAS A REVENUES CAME
00:14:24 IN MUCH HIGHER THAN EXPECTED WHEN THE CURRENT YEAR BUDGET
00:14:28 WAS PASSED. >> SO BASICALLY THE DEPARTMENT
00:14:32 WAS GOING TO USE THE MOSCONI SPECIAL REVENUE OPERATING FUND
00:14:36 BALANCE IN THE CURRENT YEAR BUT AGAIN THE REVENUES CAME IN MUCH
00:14:40 HIGHER THAN EXPECTED. THEY DIDN'T NEED TO USE THAT
00:14:43 FUND BALANCE. WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS THAT
00:14:46 THEY USE THAT FUND BALANCE IN THE BUDGET YEAR TO REDUCE
00:14:50 THE PROPOSED GENERAL FUND SUBSIDY AND THIS IS MONEY THAT
00:14:54 THE MOSCONI FUND DOES NOT NEED. >> SO THAT'S FISCAL
00:14:58 RECOMMENDATIONS I WILL RUN THROUGH REAL QUICK THE POLICY
00:15:02 WERE EX PARTE STARTING ON PAGE 74 OF OUR REPORT ATM TEN IS A
00:15:07 VACANT MANAGER SEVEN THAT'S BEEN VACANT SINCE FEBRUARY OF
00:15:11 LAST YEAR SO ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF.
00:15:12 ATM 11 IS THEN THAT IS UNDER A TREASURE ISLAND DEVELOPMENT
00:15:15 AUTHORITY ATM 11 IS A MANAGER FIVE THAT'S IN THE 311 CALL
00:15:21 CENTER. IT'S BEEN VACANT SINCE LAST
00:15:24 MONTH. SO OUR POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
00:15:25 TOTAL $366,135 IN THE FIRST BUDGET YEAR AND WE ARE AND THAT
00:15:32 IS MY UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE HAVE DISAGREEMENTS WITH CITY
00:15:36 MANAGER'S OFFICE. >> I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY
00:15:39 QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE. THANK YOU.
00:15:46 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THE BUDGET ANALYSTS FOR YOUR WORK.
00:15:50 >> WE ARE CONFIRMING THAT WE ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH ADAM ONE,
00:15:55 TWO AND FIVE. UNFORTUNATELY WE RESPECTFULLY
00:15:58 REMAIN IN DISAGREEMENT WITH THE BALANCE SIMILAR TO THE
00:16:02 COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE. THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
00:16:05 RESOURCES. THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR HAS A
00:16:06 SPAN OF CONTROL OVER SOME OF THE KEY BACKBONE CORE CITY
00:16:09 SERVICES THAT EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT NEEDS OR INTERACTS
00:16:13 WITH COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC AS WE'VE HAD MANY CONVERSATIONS
00:16:17 BEFORE, I'VE CHALLENGED MY TEAM TO REFOCUS AND REPRIORITIZE OUR
00:16:20 WORK ON CITYWIDE INITIATIVES THAT HELP THE ENTIRE CITY TO
00:16:24 PERFORM BETTER. AND YOU'VE SEEN US PUT THIS
00:16:25 INTO ACTION OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS IN MANY WAYS WE'VE
00:16:28 PURSUED INTERNAL REORGANIZING OPTIONS TO CREATE BETTER
00:16:32 OVERSIGHT, FILLING GAPS IN OUR CENTRAL CAPACITY WHERE WE NEED
00:16:35 IT. WE'VE CONSISTENTLY MOVED
00:16:36 DIVISIONS TO HOMES OUTSIDE OF THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR WHERE
00:16:39 THERE IS BETTER MISSION ALIGNMENT AND RESOURCE IS
00:16:43 GRANTS FOR THE ARTS MAYOR'S OFFICE ON DISABILITY THE PERMIT
00:16:47 CENTER AS WELL AS THE TRANSGENDER INITIATIVES
00:16:48 DEPARTMENT AND WE'VE ALSO MADE SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT
00:16:52 TRADEOFFS TO RESOURCE AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE BREAD
00:16:56 AND BUTTER CITYWIDE PAIN POINTS THAT WE HAVE LIKE IMPROVING
00:16:57 CONTRACT DOING CREATING A CENTRAL VIEW OF HOW WE MANAGE
00:17:01 OUR FLEET SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS THAT BUT ALSO BEING
00:17:04 PROACTIVE ON OUR REAL ESTATE STRATEGY WHICH YOU RECENTLY SAW
00:17:07 WITH OUR 1455 MOVE AS I MENTIONED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF
00:17:13 A SMALL INCREASE IN INVESTMENT IN THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR
00:17:16 COMPONENT WHERE WE ARE INVESTING IN THE CITY'S DATA
00:17:18 PLATFORM NOT THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR'S DATA PLATFORM
00:17:22 WE'RE SIMPLY ASKING TO KEEP OUR EXISTING CORE OPERATING
00:17:25 RESOURCES AND IN CONTEXT OUR TEAM HAS ALREADY GIVEN OVER $40
00:17:29 MILLION IN SAVINGS OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS TO HELP BALANCE
00:17:33 THE CITY'S BUDGET. >> I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE AREAS
00:17:37 WHERE WE DO HAVE DISAGREEMENT AND I APOLOGIZE FOR GOING TO
00:17:38 LUMPING DIFFERENT ITEMS TOGETHER BECAUSE THEY ARE
00:17:41 RELATED TO DIFFERENT DIVISIONS TOGETHER.
00:17:44 AND SO LET ME JUST SPEAK TO NUMBER ONE THE AREA AROUND
00:17:48 RESOURCING AND REPOSITIONING REAL ESTATE.
00:17:49 THIS IS ADAM SEVEN AND 88. I THINK AS MANY OF YOU KNOW
00:17:53 REAL ESTATE IS ONE OF OUR LEANEST DEPARTMENTS PROBABLY
00:17:57 CITYWIDE WHEN IT COMES TO MANAGERIAL POSITIONS.
00:18:01 WE HAVE A 4% RATIO OF MANAGERS TO LINE STAFF THERE THAT'S FAR,
00:18:05 FAR LOWER THAN MANY, MANY OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS
00:18:09 ACROSS THE CITY WITH 300 EMPLOYEES, OVER 300 EMPLOYEES,
00:18:13 77 BUILDINGS TO MAINTAIN 220 LEASES AND 50 ACTIVE SPACE
00:18:17 PLANNING REQUESTS ACROSS CITY DEPARTMENTS TO MANAGE THE WAY
00:18:20 THAT WE DO THAT PRIMARILY IS THAT OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HAS
00:18:24 TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO TRIAGE HER OWN TIME THE DIRECTOR THAT IS
00:18:28 MEANT TO ALSO MANAGE THE CITY OPERATIONS FOR 77 BUILDINGS HAS
00:18:32 TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO CARVE OUT AND BE A PROJECT MANAGER FOR
00:18:35 EACH ONE OF THESE COMPLICATED DEALS THAT WE HAVE TO ENACT.
00:18:39 SO SPEAKING TO ADAMS SEVEN, WHICH IS A CAMPUS MANAGER, THIS
00:18:43 IS A POSITION THAT THE BLR IS RECOMMENDING YOU CUT.
00:18:47 WE ARE VERY STRONGLY NOT SUPPORTIVE OF THIS.
00:18:50 THIS IS NOT A NEW POSITION. SO I WANT TO BE CLEAR THIS IS
00:18:54 NOT AN ADDITIONAL NEW RESOURCE THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR.
00:18:55 THIS IS A POSITION THAT WAS APPROVED BY THIS BOARD OF
00:18:58 SUPERVISORS LAST YEAR. WE VERY QUICKLY TURNED AROUND
00:19:01 TO TRY TO HIRE INTO THIS POSITION BUT THROUGH A NUMBER
00:19:05 OF FITS AND STARTS WITH HIRING FREEZES AND DIFFERENT
00:19:07 CHALLENGES WE HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO MOVE THIS POSITION FORWARD.
00:19:11 WE DID ALREADY IN FACT CREATE A PICKS LIST AS OF MARCH OF THIS
00:19:16 YEAR AND WHEN THE HIRING FREEZE LIFTED IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR WE
00:19:19 WERE ABLE TO SCHEDULE INTERVIEWS AND SO WE HAD
00:19:23 ACTUALLY INTERVIEWS SLATED FOR THIS POSITION COME NEXT WEEK,
00:19:27 JUNE 22ND THIS INDIVIDUAL WOULD HAVE 15 TOTAL REPORTS BUT MORE
00:19:31 IMPORTANTLY THEY WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF
00:19:34 MANAGING 40 BUILDING BUILDINGS OVER 1,000,000FT2 OF SPACE,
00:19:38 MANY OF THEM 24 SEVEN OPERATIONS LIKE POLICE STATIONS
00:19:41 LIKE OUR 1011 TURK CENTER WHICH IS OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
00:19:47 CENTER AND COMMUNITY CENTERS LIKE 66 RAYMOND AND MANY, MANY
00:19:51 OR ACROSS THE CITY. AS YOU KNOW, OUR CITY'S REAL
00:19:55 ESTATE ASSETS ACROSS THE CITY ARE NOT IN TERRIBLY GREAT SHAPE
00:19:59 . WE'VE UNDERINVESTED AS A CITY
00:20:00 IN MANY OF THESE FACILITIES AND IT IS NOT AN UNUSUAL
00:20:03 SITUATION TO HAVE PIPE BURST AND EMERGENCY REPAIRS
00:20:07 AND ISSUES AT ANY ONE OF THESE FACILITIES ON ANY GIVEN DAY 24
00:20:10 SEVEN. THIS IS NOT A POSITION THAT WE
00:20:11 WOULD RECOMMEND REDUCING. WE WOULD NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY
00:20:15 TO MANAGE THOSE RESOURCES EFFECTIVELY.
00:20:18 ATM EIGHT IS A PROJECT LEAD FOR REAL ESTATE.
00:20:22 >> I THINK AS MANY OF YOU KNOW WE HAVE THIS IS A SUBSTITUTION
00:20:26 FOR US. THIS IS ALSO NOT A TOTALLY NEW
00:20:30 POSITION. SO I ALSO WANT TO BE CLEAR THIS
00:20:31 IS NOT US ADDING AN ADDITIONAL POSITION.
00:20:34 WE TOOK AN EXISTING RESOURCE THAT WE HAD WITHIN OUR OFFICE.
00:20:37 WE SUBSTITUTED IT TO CREATE WHAT WE BELIEVE IS A HUGE GAP
00:20:42 IN OUR CITY'S REAL ESTATE OPERATIONS.
00:20:45 THIS IS NOT A MANAGER POSITION. WE ALSO MADE SURE THAT THIS
00:20:49 POSITION WAS COST NEUTRAL TO THE BUDGET AND FRANKLY IT WAS
00:20:50 THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH WE WERE ABLE TO GET THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
00:20:54 TO AGREE TO ALLOW US TO MAKE THIS CHANGE.
00:20:57 >> OUR OFFICE FOR REAL ESTATE IS PRIMARILY STRUCTURED WITH A
00:21:01 VAST MAJORITY OF OUR STAFF IN BUILDING MAINTENANCE
00:21:02 AND OPERATIONS. THINK OF OUR BUILDING
00:21:04 ENGINEERS, OUR JANITORS AND OTHERS.
00:21:06 WE ONLY HAVE ROUGHLY SIX TRANSACTION AGENTS WHO DO
00:21:09 LEASING AND SELLING AND MARKET SCANS FOR US ONE PERSON A FEW
00:21:16 FOLKS WHO ARE HELPING WITH ACCOUNTING AND THE BOOKS.
00:21:17 BUT ASIDE FROM THAT WE HAVE NOBODY WHO IS ABLE TO BE
00:21:21 SERVING ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS TO LEAD PROJECTS THAT ARE
00:21:24 COMPLICATED AND TO BE POINT ON MAKING SURE THAT THOSE PROJECTS
00:21:26 MOVE FORWARD MAJOR EFFORTS THAT WE SEE IN FRONT OF US THAT
00:21:29 WOULD HAVE NO RESOURCING TO PROPERLY WATCH AND TO MANAGE
00:21:32 AND TO PUSH FORWARD WHICH TAKES EFFORT INCLUDE EXITING THE HALL
00:21:36 OF JUSTICE AND ALL THE COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH
00:21:39 THAT. IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT MOVING
00:21:40 DEPARTMENTS TO NEW LEASED SPACES IS COORDINATING WITH THE
00:21:44 CONSTRUCTION OF THE COURTS. IT IS DECOUPLE ING THE
00:21:48 UTILITIES THAT CURRENTLY EXIST WITHIN OUR EXISTING HALL OF
00:21:49 JUSTICE TO MAKE SURE WE CAN CONTINUE TO POWER THE JAILS
00:21:53 NEXT DOOR AND THEN IT INCLUDES DEVELOPING A LONG TERM
00:21:56 DISPOSITION PLAN FOR THE SITE THAT WE'RE EMPTYING.
00:21:59 IN ADDITION TO THAT WE HAVE OTHER WORK THAT WE HAVE TO DO
00:22:01 IN REAL ESTATE INCLUDING TAKING A LOOK AT A LOG CABIN RANCH FOR
00:22:04 THE JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENT THAT IS CURRENTLY
00:22:08 PAYING SOMETHING LIKE $500,000 EVERY YEAR TO MAIN SECURITY
00:22:11 OVER A SPACE THAT THEY'RE NOT UTILIZING IN THAT RESPECT, WE
00:22:15 HAVE MUCH WORK TO DO WITH NEIGHBORING COUNTIES WITH DEED
00:22:18 RESTRICTIONS AND USES WITH WATER RIGHTS AMONG OTHER THINGS
00:22:22 TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE CORRECT SOLUTION THERE.
00:22:23 WOODSIDE COTTAGES RIGHT IN OUR BACKYARD RIGHT NEXT TO OUR
00:22:27 JUVENILE HALL CENTER HAS BEEN STANDING VACANT FOR QUITE SOME
00:22:31 TIME. THEY ALSO HAVE UTILITIES THAT
00:22:32 NEED TO BE CAPPED BEFORE WE CAN TRANSFER THAT PROPERTY AMONG
00:22:35 MANY, MANY OTHERS PROJECTS INCLUDING THE VACATION OF ONE
00:22:42 SOUTH DENNIS ONCE WE EXIT THAT FACILITY.
00:22:43 SO JUST TO SAY THAT THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT NEED AND A
00:22:46 SIGNIFICANT GAP THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN OUR REAL
00:22:50 ESTATE DEPARTMENT AND WE BELIEVE HAVING ONE ADDITIONAL
00:22:53 PERSON REALLY JUST A SUBSTITUTION OF AN EXISTING
00:22:56 POSITION TO DO THIS WORK IS A GOOD START.
00:22:57 BUT FRANKLY IT MAY NOT EVEN BE ENOUGH BUT WE BELIEVE THAT THIS
00:23:02 IS A GOOD START TO MAKE SURE THAT WE START HEADING IN A
00:23:04 STRATEGIC DIRECTION WITH REAL ESTATE.
00:23:05 SIMILARLY ATM SIX IS NOT REALLY RELATED TO REAL ESTATE BUT IT
00:23:09 IS RELATED TO MY CENTRAL INITIATIVES IN OUR OFFICE AGAIN
00:23:15 ATM SIX IT IS NOT A NEW POSITION AND IT IS NOT A
00:23:17 MANAGER. IT IS A PROJECT LEAD THAT HAS
00:23:20 JUST RECENTLY BECOME VACANT AS OF JANUARY.
00:23:23 SIMILARLY WE HAVE A NUMBER OF WE HAD A LOT OF PAUSES TO
00:23:27 HIRING PROCESSES AS WE WERE BRINGING OUR BUDGET TO A CLOSE
00:23:30 WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. THIS IS A POSITION THAT WE
00:23:31 WOULD ABSOLUTELY NEED TO FILL TO ADDRESS MANY OF THE CITYWIDE
00:23:35 NEEDS AND GAPS THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE.
00:23:37 AS YOU KNOW WE'VE WORKED WITH CLOSELY WITH MANY OF YOU.
00:23:41 WE HAVE TO OFTENTIMES PICK UP PROJECTS THAT ARE INITIATED
00:23:43 THAT ARE CITYWIDE THAT HAVE NO OTHER HOMES.
00:23:46 AND I THINK THAT WE ARE WELL POSITIONED TO DO THAT.
00:23:50 WE HAVE A VERY GREAT CITYWIDE VIEW AND OF COURSE AND HAVE A
00:23:53 GREAT TRACK RECORD OF BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER.
00:23:54 WE WORKED WITH THIS TEAM AND THESE RESOURCES ON THE
00:23:58 IMPLEMENTATION. IF YOU CAN RECALL ON THE PUBLIC
00:24:02 WORKS B BALLOT MEASURE IN 2020 THE SUBSEQUENT PROP B BALLOT
00:24:05 MEASURE FOR PUBLIC WORKS IN 2022 WE'VE HELPED TO DEVELOP
00:24:08 CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICIES AND PRACTICE BEST PRACTICES FOR
00:24:11 ACROSS THE CITY. WE HAD TO STAFF THE PUBLIC
00:24:14 PROCESS FOR PROP D WHICH WAS HIGHLY RESOURCE INTENSIVE
00:24:18 AND WE ALSO USE IT TO AUGMENT CAPACITY WHERE WE DON'T HAVE IT
00:24:22 FOR EXAMPLE REALLY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT A TECHNOLOGY
00:24:23 SOLUTION WILL BE FOR THE COUNTY CLERK'S VINYL RECORDS LOOKING
00:24:26 INTO THE FUTURE. THIS IS THE SAME TEAM THAT IS
00:24:30 WORKING TO FIGURE OUT HOW IT IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO EXPAND
00:24:33 LANGUAGE ACCESS FOR THE ENEMIES LANGUAGE GIVEN THAT IT IS GOING
00:24:37 TO BE A CERTIFIED LANGUAGE COMING UP AND THAT WE DON'T
00:24:39 HAVE THE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR IT ACROSS THE CITY.
00:24:42 IN ADDITION TO TAKING A LOOK AT HOW THE CITY IS ADMINISTERING
00:24:45 THINGS LIKE INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING DISTRICTS THAT DON'T
00:24:48 HAVE A NATURAL HOME CURRENTLY WITHIN OUR EXISTING STRUCTURES.
00:24:50 SO THIS IS REALLY A POSITION THAT IS MEANT TO TRY TO COVER
00:24:54 THE GAPS WHERE WE NEED TO DO DISCOVERY AND TO CREATE
00:24:57 SOLUTIONS FOR AREAS WHERE THE CITY HAS OPERATING GAPS.
00:25:01 SPEAKING TO ATM THREE AND FOUR THIS IS IF I CAN CHANGE PACE TO
00:25:08 TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY AS YOU KNOW WE SPOKE A LITTLE BIT
00:25:09 ABOUT OUR LAST HEARING. I WON'T SAY TOO MUCH ABOUT IT
00:25:13 EXCEPT TO SAY THAT THIS IS RELATING TO OUR CITYWIDE DATA
00:25:16 PLATFORM. AS YOU KNOW WE HAVE MANY, MANY
00:25:20 DEPARTMENTS, LOTS OF OPERATING SYSTEMS AND EACH OF THOSE
00:25:23 SYSTEM HOLDS A WHOLE HOST OF VALUABLE DATA WITHIN IT WHETHER
00:25:28 IT'S OUR PAYMENT INFORMATION CONTRACTING DATA IN OUR
00:25:31 FINANCIAL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE DATA AND PUBLIC SAFETY OR OUR
00:25:32 HUMAN SERVICES ALL OF THAT DATA TYPICALLY IS LOCKED UP FOR
00:25:36 THOSE OPERATING DEPARTMENTS AND SOMETIMES NOT EVEN VERY
00:25:39 WELL ACCESS BY THOSE DEPARTMENTS TO TRY TO DO THEIR
00:25:42 WORK. WE HAVE REALLY WORKED HARD TO
00:25:43 TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE HELP TO POOL THAT DATA EASIER, HOW
00:25:47 WE HELP TO COMBINE THAT DATA, MATCH THAT DATA AND MAKE SURE
00:25:50 THAT THAT DATA GETS TO THE PEOPLE THAT IT NEEDS TO GET TO.
00:25:54 BUT IN ORDER TO DO THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE PRETTY SIGNIFICANT
00:25:58 INVESTMENTS IN AN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT CAN SUPPORT
00:25:59 THAT AND THAT MEANS BUILDING A SAFE PLACE FOR THAT DATA TO BE
00:26:02 PULLED TO A PLACE WHERE THAT DATA CAN BE PUT TO WORK.
00:26:05 IF I CAN GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THAT IS LIKE, WE ALL LIVE
00:26:09 IN OUR OWN HOMES AND THAT IS WHERE OUR DATA LIVES THE HOMES
00:26:12 OF DIFFERENT SYSTEMS ACROSS THE CITY BUT WE COME TO WORK
00:26:16 IN ORDER TO BE PRODUCTIVE AND HAVE OUR WORK AND TO BE PUT
00:26:18 TO USE AND SIMILARLY WE WANT TO POOL OUR DATA FROM ALL OF THOSE
00:26:21 SYSTEMS INTO A WORK PRODUCTIVITY SPACE OUR PLATFORM
00:26:24 SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY BE MORE PRODUCTIVE WITH OUR
00:26:27 INFORMATION. BUT AGAIN YOU NEED RESOURCES TO
00:26:28 DO THIS TO PROTECT IT, TO BUILD A PLATFORM TO MAKE SURE THAT
00:26:32 IT'S SECURE, TO ENGINEER WHAT OPERATIONS NEEDS TO MAKE SURE
00:26:35 WE'RE DESIGNING PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS TO TEST OUR MODELS TO
00:26:39 MAKE SURE WE'RE COLLECTING THE RIGHT DATA THAT WE HAVE THE
00:26:43 RIGHT DATA GOVERNANCE. WE HAVE OVER 70 DEPARTMENTS
00:26:45 WITH HUNDREDS OF DATA SETS THAT WE ARE NOT UNLOCKING AND ACROSS
00:26:49 THE CITY WE HAVE SIX PEOPLE TO DO IT, SIX PEOPLE TO DO ALL THE
00:26:53 TECHNICAL INTERFACES, THE WORK WITH DEPARTMENTS TO UNLOCK THAT
00:26:56 INFORMATION. IT IS NOT NEARLY ENOUGH WITH
00:26:58 WHAT WE EXPECT FROM OUR CITY AND SO THE RESOURCES THAT YOU
00:27:01 SEE COMBINE BETWEEN 3 AND 4 ADD AN ADDITIONAL FOUR PEOPLE FOR
00:27:07 PEOPLE TO DO THE WORK OF THE 70 PLUS DEPARTMENTS IN ADDITION TO
00:27:10 EXISTING MAINTAINING OUR EXISTING SYSTEM.
00:27:13 >> MOVING ON TO ADAM 11 THIS IS 4311.
00:27:17 THIS IS THE MANAGER WHO OVERSEES THE TECHNICAL
00:27:21 TECHNOLOGY FUNCTION WITHIN 311. AGAIN THIS IS NOT A NEW
00:27:25 POSITION AND IN FACT HAS BEEN A CORE POSITION SINCE 311 WAS
00:27:28 FIRST CREATED AND CRITICAL TO OUR ADAPTATION TO EMERGING
00:27:32 NEEDS FOR CUSTOMERS THROUGHOUT THE LAST FEW DECADES.
00:27:36 THIS WAS A POSITION THAT BECAME VACANT RECENTLY BECAUSE OF A
00:27:37 RETIREMENT AS OF MAY AND SO WE FULLY INTEND TO BACKFILL THAT
00:27:41 POSITION. THIS INDIVIDUAL HAS 12 TOTAL
00:27:47 REPORTS FIVE WHO ARE DIRECT. WHAT THEY DO IS THAT THEY
00:27:48 OVERSEE THE TECHNOLOGY SIDE OF 311 MANAGING OUR CRM SYSTEM
00:27:54 WHICH HOUSES 2000 DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION WHERE OUR CALL
00:27:57 TAKERS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS TO ANSWER ANY POSSIBLE QUESTION
00:27:58 THE PUBLIC MIGHT ASK THEM OF ALL OF OUR CITIES FUNCTIONS
00:28:03 THEY MANAGE THE TFR TO LEFT ANY UPGRADES THE VIRTUAL DESKTOPS
00:28:06 THAT ALLOW OUR WORKERS TO WORK REMOTELY CONNECTION TO THE
00:28:10 FIELD WORKER APPLICATION IN ADDITION TO MANAGING OUR
00:28:14 MOBILE APPLICATION BY THE WAY OUR MOBILE APPLICATION IS
00:28:15 WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE PHOTO
00:28:18 SUBMISSIONS TO EASE THE WAY FOR REPORTING AND ALSO ROLLING OUT
00:28:22 BEEN IN THESE LANGUAGE AS IT BECOMES AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
00:28:25 THAT WE WILL NEED TO TRANSLATE MOBILE APP USAGE HAS INCREASED
00:28:29 40% TO ALMOST 5000 REQUESTS THAT WE FIELD FROM THE PUBLIC
00:28:33 IN ANY GIVEN YEAR THROUGH THE MOBILE SPACE OR WEB INCREASE
00:28:36 TRAFFIC IS 125% AND OUR CALLS ACTUALLY ARE STEADY COMPARED TO
00:28:40 WHERE WE ARE A YEAR TO YEAR. >> OKAY.
00:28:43 MOVING ON TO IDIOM TEN, THIS IS THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR AT TREASURE
00:28:47 ISLAND. THIS IS ALSO NOT A NEW POSITION
00:28:51 AND IT IS ALSO NOT A GENERAL FUNDED POSITION.
00:28:54 >> WE HAVE JUST RECENTLY HIRED THE TITLE DIRECTOR.
00:28:58 YOU MET HER SHEILA JEEVAN. SHE JUST STARTED ON JUNE 8TH.
00:29:01 WE BELIEVE IT IS BEST PRACTICE TO ALLOW THE DIRECTOR TO HIRE
00:29:06 HER A DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND SO WE HAVE HELD OFF ON MAKING A
00:29:09 DECISION ON THAT DEPUTY DIRECTOR UNTIL SHE'S COME ON
00:29:10 BOARD AND SHE'S ACTIVELY LOOKING THROUGH THOSE
00:29:13 INTERVIEWS AND THROUGH THOSE THOSE RESUMES.
00:29:16 >> THIS PERSON HAS FOUR DIRECT REPORTS BUT THE WEIGHT OF THE
00:29:20 RESPONSIBILITIES ARE PRETTY SIGNIFICANT IN TERMS OF MOVING
00:29:24 THE DEVELOPMENT FORWARD ON TREASURE ISLAND.
00:29:25 THIS PERSON IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOR THE PLANNER WHO
00:29:28 OVERSEES THE HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT BASICALLY THE
00:29:31 PEOPLE WHO ACCEPT THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE CITY.
00:29:32 SO ONCE THE DEVELOPER BILL IS ARE UTILITIES ON OUR ROADS WE
00:29:36 MAKE SURE IT'S UP TO OUR SPECIFICATIONS BEFORE WE ACCEPT
00:29:39 IT SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE ADDITIONAL LIABILITIES.
00:29:42 >> THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR COORDINATING ALL THE VERTICAL
00:29:44 DEVELOPMENT ON TREASURE ISLAND INCLUDING ALL THE HOUSING
00:29:46 PROJECTS THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE GOING FORWARD IN ADDITION TO
00:29:50 MAKING SURE THAT WE FILL ANY GAPS THAT WE HAVEN'T YET
00:29:51 FLESHED OUT, FOR EXAMPLE THE ADDITIONAL CONVERSION OF SPACE
00:29:57 FROM THE NAVY TO SAN FRANCISCO, THE JOB CORPS SITE THAT IS
00:30:02 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ISLAND THAT HAVE HAS YET TO BE
00:30:03 DETERMINED WHAT WILL THE FUNCTIONS BE ADDITIONAL
00:30:06 REMEDIATION WORK ON THE ISLAND AMONG OTHER THINGS.
00:30:09 SO IT IS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT POSITION TO NOT HAVE SOMEONE
00:30:12 OVERSEE. FINALLY ON THE LAST ONE WE
00:30:16 DISAGREE WITH 8989 SPEAKS TO THE MOSCONI FUND BALANCE.
00:30:19 AS YOU KNOW MOSCONI IS ONE OF OUR CORE CORE LOSS LEADER
00:30:26 FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE CITY. WE RUN CONVENTION CENTERS
00:30:27 AND WE OFTENTIMES AS YOU SEE IN MANY OTHER JURISDICTIONS
00:30:31 LOSE MONEY ON OUR CONVENTION CENTER IN ORDER TO BRING
00:30:34 VISITORS INTO THE CITY. AND THIS HAS A HUGE, HUGE
00:30:38 EFFECT ON SAN FRANCISCO AS WE KNOW THE TOURISM INDUSTRY
00:30:41 BRINGS IN ROUGHLY $9.9 BILLION IN VISITOR SPENDING AS OF 2026.
00:30:46 IT SUPPORTS OVER 6000 LOCAL JOBS BOTH IN OUR FACILITY
00:30:49 AND AROUND THE CITY AND GENERATES 655 MILLION
00:30:53 IN TAX ANNUAL TAX REVENUE ANNUALLY.
00:30:57 WE EXPECT THE MOSCONI CENTER AND ITS FUND BALANCE TO PAY FOR
00:31:01 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN IN THAT FACILITY SO
00:31:04 WE DON'T GO TO THE GENERAL FUND TO ASK FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING
00:31:08 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP THAT FACILITY IN A COMPETITIVE
00:31:09 STATE. WE ACTUALLY USE OUR FUND
00:31:11 BALANCE TO PAY FOR IT. CURRENTLY WE HAVE OVER $30
00:31:15 MILLION IN IDENTIFIED NEEDS AT THE FACILITY AND I WILL JUST
00:31:19 SAY WE HAVE HAD SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT FAILURES AT MOSCONI
00:31:22 WHERE WE'VE HAD TO QUICKLY TURN AROUND OUR CAPITAL DOLLARS TO
00:31:26 FIX IT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAD A LOSS OF
00:31:27 ELECTRICITY DURING A MAJOR CONVENTION AND HAD TO WORK TO
00:31:31 NOT ONLY RESTORE ELECTRICITY BUT THEN MAKE SURE THAT IT WAS
00:31:35 TIED TO THE GENERATORS SO THAT THERE COULD BE A POWERING.
00:31:38 NOT TYING IT TO THE GENERATOR ORIGINALLY WAS A COST CUTTING
00:31:40 MEASURE THAT THE CITY HAD MADE A DECISION ON MANY, MANY YEARS
00:31:45 AGO WHEN WE FIRST BUILT IT. WE ALSO RECENTLY HAD AN ISSUE
00:31:48 WHERE OVER A THOUSAND STUDENTS CAME TO TAKE A TEST FOR SATS
00:31:53 BUT THE POWER OR THE INTERNET WENT OUT AND WE HAVE BEEN
00:31:56 BUSILY MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE CREATING MORE ROBUST INTERNET
00:31:58 CONNECTIVITY SO THAT WE DON'T EVER SEE THAT KIND OF A FAILURE
00:32:02 AGAIN. THESE ARE KINDS OF THINGS THAT
00:32:04 REALLY HAVE A REPUTATIONAL IMPACT ON US IF WE DON'T MAKE
00:32:06 SURE THOSE THINGS HAPPEN NOT NOT TO MENTION THE IMPACT ON
00:32:09 OUR TOURISM INDUSTRY. WE ALSO KNOW THAT WE HAVE MANY,
00:32:13 MANY OF OUR COMPETITORS WHO ARE CURRENTLY MAKING SIGNIFICANT
00:32:17 INVESTMENTS IN THEIR CONVENTION CENTERS TO STAY COMPETITIVE.
00:32:20 FOR EXAMPLE, THERE ARE 13 CONVENTION CENTERS THAT
00:32:23 RECENTLY COMPLETED ARE ACTIVELY WORKING ON OR PLAN TO START
00:32:27 MAJOR RENOVATIONS IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS REPRESENTING OVER $14
00:32:31 BILLION OF INVESTMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND SOME IN OUR
00:32:35 COMPETITOR MARKETS LIKE LOS ANGELES, LIKE AUSTIN.
00:32:38 SO WE DO NEED TO MAKE SURE WE CONTINUE TO BE A COMPETITIVE
00:32:40 ENTITY INCLUDING MAKING SURE WE HAVE THE HIGH PERFORMANCE
00:32:43 TECHNOLOGY PEOPLE WANT THE IMMERSIVE AUDIO VISUALS THAT WE
00:32:47 NEED TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE SUSTAINABLE CITY FEATURES TO
00:32:51 LOWER OUR COSTS AND THEN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE
00:32:52 INTEGRATION INTO OUR URBAN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS WHICH
00:32:55 MANY FOLKS WANT. NOW IN TERMS OF THE ACTUAL
00:32:59 CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED.
00:33:02 SO AGAIN I MENTIONED WE HAVE OVER $3 MILLION WORTH OF
00:33:03 CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WE INTEND TO WORK THROUGH.
00:33:07 THEY ARE THINGS LIKE REBUILDING OUR FREIGHT ELEVATOR IN THE
00:33:11 NORTH SOUTH MOSCONI CENTER, SOMETHING THAT WAS BUILT BACK
00:33:15 IN THE 19 80S. IT INCLUDES REPLACING THE END
00:33:18 OF LIFE GENERATORS WITHIN OUR FACILITIES WORTH $303 MILLION
00:33:25 MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE FIXING IN THE WEST OH BY THE WAY, WEST
00:33:29 TOWER THE MOSCONI WEST WAS BUILT 23 YEARS AGO AND HAS NOT
00:33:33 HAD A MAJOR SIGNIFICANT UPGRADE SINCE THAT TIME.
00:33:37 THEY HAVE ORIGINAL FANS AND DRIVES THAT ARE FACING
00:33:40 CORROSION THAT WE NEED TO FIX AT THE MOSCONI NORTH AND SOUTH
00:33:45 WE HAVE $3 MILLION IN ROOFING NEEDS THAT WE NEED TO FIX
00:33:46 BECAUSE OUR SOLAR PANELS ARE CREATING COMPLICATIONS ON THE
00:33:49 ROOFS. WE HAVE ACCESS SWITCHES THAT
00:33:52 NEED TO BE FIXED AT OUR NORTH AND SOUTH BECAUSE THEY'RE
00:33:56 HITTING THE END OF LIFE SOON ESCALATOR AT MOSCONI WEST THAT
00:34:00 NEEDS TO BE REPLACED ANOTHER $8 MILLION PROJECT AIR HANDLERS
00:34:03 THAT ARE AT END OF LIFE WHERE OUR COILS ARE FAILING
00:34:07 AND FIREWALLS THAT ARE ALSO IN NEED OF REPLACEMENT.
00:34:10 SO WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH NEED FOR THAT FUND BALANCE THAT
00:34:14 IS ULTIMATELY A POLICY CALL BUT TAKING THAT FUNDING AWAY MAKES
00:34:18 IT SUCH THAT WE WON'T BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH SOME OF THESE
00:34:19 CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WE KNOW WE NEED IN THAT FACILITY.
00:34:22 AND SO WITH THAT WE'RE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS
00:34:25 AND MY DIRECTORS ARE HERE AS WELL TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS
00:34:27 YOU MIGHT HAVE. >> THANK YOU.
00:34:29 CITY MANAGER CHU VICE CHAIR DORSEY THANK YOU CHAIR CHEN
00:34:36 AND I WILL SAY THAT I AM UNPERSUADED BY MANY OF YOUR MA.
00:34:40 I MEAN MOST OF THE OBJECTIONS THERE'S A FEW THAT I WANT I
00:34:44 WANT TO HIGHLIGHT BECAUSE THEY'RE IMPORTANT TO ME JUST OR
00:34:48 MY DISTRICT ARE BOTH ON THREE AND FOUR PERTAIN TO THE UNIFIED
00:34:55 DATA PLATFORM. >> I WILL JUST SAY THAT I HAVE
00:34:59 BEEN IN CITY GOVERNMENT LONG ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE THE MYRIAD
00:35:02 FRUSTRATIONS THAT COME WITH SILOED DATA IN MANY WAYS BEING
00:35:10 A CITY THAT HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN AN EARLY ADOPTER
00:35:11 TECHNOLOGY NOW BEDEVILS US BECAUSE WE'RE OFTEN DEALING
00:35:15 WITH LEGACY SYSTEMS AND DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THAT
00:35:18 HAVE DONE DIFFERENT THINGS AND THERE REALLY AREN'T
00:35:19 DEPARTMENTS THAT CAN OVERCOME THOSE SILOS BESIDES YOURS AND I
00:35:26 MOST OF MY CAREER I WAS IN ONE DEPARTMENT THE CITY ATTORNEY'S
00:35:29 OFFICE AND I THINK LIKE THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE THERE ARE
00:35:31 THERE ARE A HANDFUL OF DEPARTMENTS THAT SORT OF SEE
00:35:34 WORK ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY AND YOURS IS UNIQUELY
00:35:37 POSITIONED TO DO THIS. I THINK THIS IS REALLY AN
00:35:39 IMPORTANT INVESTMENT AND IT'S MONEY WELL SPENT.
00:35:42 SO ON THREE AND FOUR I AGREE AND I THINK THIS IS GETTING TO
00:35:46 A UNIFIED DATA PLATFORM IS IMPORTANT AND I DON'T KNOW IF
00:35:49 IT WOULD BE WORTHWHILE TO EVEN HAVE SORT OF A PRESENTATION OR
00:35:53 EXPLANATION OF IT OF OF WHAT THAT IS AND AND WHY IT'S
00:35:57 IMPORTANT SEPARATE FROM THAT I WOULD SAY ON SEVEN AND EIGHT
00:36:04 ABOUT THE CITYWIDE CAMPUS MANAGER AND PROPERTY MANAGER I
00:36:10 ,I KNOW THAT THE KNOCK ON THE CITY SOMETIMES IS THAT WE DON'T
00:36:14 DO A GREAT JOB OF MAINTAINING OUR REAL ESTATE ASSETS AND THIS
00:36:18 HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT IS A PRIORITY FOR ME AS A SUPERVISOR
00:36:23 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE BEING STRATEGIC WITH OUR REAL ESTATE
00:36:26 ASSETS. I THINK THIS IS ESPECIALLY
00:36:27 IMPORTANT TO THE MID-MARKET PORTION OF MY DISTRICT BUT ALSO
00:36:30 DISTRICT FIVE. I THINK DISTRICT THREE YOU KNOW
00:36:33 THERE THERE'S PORTIONS OF THE CITY THAT REALLY DEPEND ON
00:36:37 HAVING A STRATEGIC USE OF OUR REAL ESTATE ASSETS AND ONE OF
00:36:41 THEM THAT I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT OBVIOUSLY WAS THE ONE OF
00:36:45 THE LARGER REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS THAT HAS TAKEN
00:36:46 PLACE AT 1455 MARKET STREET. I THINK THIS IS THE KIND OF
00:36:53 INVESTMENT WITH THE CITY'S REAL ESTATE ASSETS THAT CAN BE A
00:36:56 GAME CHANGER FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND REALLY
00:36:58 INVIGORATE A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT REALLY HAS SUFFERED I THINK
00:37:01 DISPROPORTIONATELY DURING COVID .
00:37:05 YOU'LL HEAR FROM I CERTAINLY HEAR FROM MANY OF MY NEIGHBORS
00:37:09 AND RESIDENTS IN MID-MARKET THAT THEY BLAME THE CITY FOR
00:37:12 THINGS LIKE SHELTER IN PLACE, HOTELS THAT REALLY DIMINISHED
00:37:14 THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND LEFT IT A KIND OF HOLLOWED OUT SHELL OF
00:37:17 WHAT IT WAS BEFORE COVID. SO I THINK HAVING THAT KIND OF
00:37:21 SUPPORT IS IMPORTANT. ON ITEM NUMBER NINE I WILL SAY
00:37:27 ON MAKING SURE THAT WHERE WE ARE OUR CONVENTION CENTER
00:37:31 AND FACILITIES ARE WELL SUPPORTED IS TO ME MONEY WELL
00:37:34 SPENT NOT JUST BECAUSE MOSCONI IS IN MY DISTRICT BUT I ALSO
00:37:38 YOU KNOW DURING MY TIME IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT I WAS ON A
00:37:43 LOT OF CALLS ABOUT SEEING HOW COMPETITIVE IT WAS WHEN WE HAD
00:37:49 LAS VEGAS WAS EATING OUR LUNCH, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CONVENTION
00:37:50 BUSINESSES THAT WE WERE LOSING. AND THE GOOD NEWS IS I THINK
00:37:54 WE'RE COMING BACK BUT WE HAVE WORK TO DO ON THAT AND I WOULD
00:37:58 LIKE TO THINK THAT AS A CITY WHERE WE KNOW THAT WHAT IT'S
00:38:02 LIKE TO BE LOSING SOME OF THOSE SOME OF THAT COMPETITION, I
00:38:05 THINK WE'RE STARTING TO WIN IT. SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
00:38:08 WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING TO SUPPORT THAT AND THEN OBVIOUSLY
00:38:12 ON THE ONE THAT IS GOING TO BE VERY IMPORTANT TO ME IS NUMBER
00:38:15 TEN FOR THE TREASURE ISLAND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.
00:38:19 TREASURE ISLAND IS ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS HOUSING
00:38:23 DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN OUR CITY'S HISTORY RIGHT NOW IT IS
00:38:30 I BELIEVE WE'RE WORKING ON 8000 NEW HOMES, 27% AFFORDABLE.
00:38:34 BUT WE'RE ALSO CONSIDERING EXPANDING THAT TO MORE THAN I
00:38:37 THINK IT'S I THINK IT WILL ACTUALLY MAKE IT EVEN BIGGER
00:38:41 THAN HUNTER'S POINT. IT WOULD BE 10,800 NEW HOMES.
00:38:45 SO THIS WOULD THAT WOULD YOU KNOW IF WE WERE TO MOVE FORWARD
00:38:49 WITH THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE
00:38:56 CITY. WE DID A LOT OF WORK TO MAKE
00:38:57 SURE THAT WE, YOU KNOW, REIMAGINE THE DEVELOPMENT
00:38:59 AGREEMENT SO THAT WE DIDN'T PUT A SINGLE HAMMER DOWN
00:39:03 AND EVERYTHING. THIS IS SO IMPORTANT AND I WILL
00:39:06 SAY THIS HAS BEEN 30 YEARS IN THE MAKING AND NOW IS NOT
00:39:07 THE TIME TO UNDERFUND TIGER. SO I AM VERY PERSUADED BY THAT
00:39:13 . I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
00:39:14 I JUST WANTED TO SORT OF ADD MY THOUGHTS ON THIS.
00:39:18 >> SO THANKS FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
00:39:19 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR SUPERVISORS ORDER.
00:39:22 THANK YOU CHAIR AND I HAVE A NUMBER THAT I'D LIKE TO SPEAK
00:39:23 TO AS WELL BUT FIRST A QUESTION ON FOR NUMBER FOUR.
00:39:28 >> I GUESS TWO QUESTIONS HERE. THE FIRST IF YOU CAN SHARE HOW
00:39:32 HOW YOU GOT TO CONVERTING THE LIMITED ROLE INTO INTO THIS
00:39:36 SORRY CONVERTING A LIMITED ROLE INTO THE FULL TIME BUDGET ROLE.
00:39:41 THAT'S THE FIRST PIECE AND THEN THE SECOND WE HEARD ABOUT THE
00:39:42 GROWTH IN DIGITAL SERVICES. IF YOU CAN SPEAK TO WHAT SORT
00:39:49 OF ROLES THOSE ARE AND WHAT'S ACCOUNTING FOR THAT GROWTH,
00:39:54 SURE WE CAN DO THAT. >> JUST JUST A NOTE THAT WHEN
00:39:57 THE BLR IS SPEAKING TO THE GROWTH THAT THEY'RE SEEING
00:39:59 IN THAT IT'S ACTUALLY A FUND THAT INCLUDES BOTH DIGITAL
00:40:02 SERVICES BUT ALSO DATA SRF AND SO JUST TO BE CLEAR THE
00:40:05 POSITIONS THAT ARE AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE
00:40:09 INCLUDED IN HERE ARE PERTAINING TO DATA ASSETS.
00:40:10 SO I THINK THERE'S A BIT OF ROLLING UP THE GROWTH FOR BOTH
00:40:13 OF THOSE THOSE FUNCTIONS WHICH ARE REALLY VERY SEPARATE
00:40:17 FUNCTIONS DATA. >> S.F. SO MIA IS HERE WHO CAN
00:40:20 SPEAK TO THE WORK THAT IS THERE BUT I WILL SAY THAT DIGITAL
00:40:24 SERVICES WORK IS PRIMARILY TAKING A LOOK AT OUR KIND OF
00:40:27 OUR ONLINE INTERFACE AND SO BOTH OUR WEBSITE BUT ALSO
00:40:28 MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE MAINTAINING PRETTY SIGNIFICANT
00:40:32 SYSTEMS LIKE OUR DOLLAR SYSTEM FOR HOUSING AMONG OTHER THINGS.
00:40:35 AND SO THEIR WORK IS PRIMARILY AROUND HOW IT IS THAT WE'RE
00:40:38 CREATING THOSE INTERNET FUNCTIONS AND INTERNET
00:40:40 INTERFACES BETWEEN OUR CUSTOMERS DATA S.F. IS STRICTLY
00:40:43 ABOUT HOW WE'RE ACTUALLY PULLING OF DATA FROM THOSE
00:40:46 DIFFERENT SYSTEMS INTO A UNIFIED DATA PLATFORM TO ENABLE
00:40:47 US TO UTILIZE IT SO PERHAPS I CAN HAVE SOPHIA COME UP
00:40:51 AND SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE WORK THAT IS THERE AT
00:40:54 DATA S.F. AND JUST TO SPEAK SPECIFICALLY ON ATM FOR WE HAD
00:40:58 A DIFFERENT POSITION KNOWING THAT THIS WAS A VITAL POSITION
00:41:02 TO BE ABLE TO PUT FORWARD. WE TOOK A LOOK AT A POSITION
00:41:05 THAT WE HAD EXISTING IN OUR BUDGET AND WE REPURPOSED IT FOR
00:41:07 THIS THIS USAGE. >> HI, I'M SIMON COLERA I'M THE
00:41:16 CHIEF DEBT OFFICER FOR THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO AND I MANAGE
00:41:20 AT S.F. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE QUESTIONS AS FAR AS WHAT THIS
00:41:23 TEAM DOES WE ACTUALLY KEEP THE CITY'S PLATFORM RUNNING WITH
00:41:27 SECURE GOVERNANCE DATA FOR ABOUT 20 PLUS DEPARTMENTS.
00:41:31 >> WE ALSO SET DATA CITYWIDE DATA POLICIES ON HOW TO PROTECT
00:41:35 HOW THIS DATA IS ACTUALLY HANDLED.
00:41:38 OUR PLATFORM WE ACTUALLY ARE ARE DOING THIS FOR THE ENTIRE
00:41:40 CITY ACTUALLY BUILDING SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE NOT ONLY POLICY
00:41:43 BUT ALSO THE TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION.
00:41:46 A LOT OF THE ROLES THAT DO THIS WORK ARE ACTUALLY ENGINEERS
00:41:48 AND REALLY WHAT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT IS WE ARE TRYING TO
00:41:51 BUILD THIS CAPACITY WITHIN THE CITY RATHER THAN YOU KNOW,
00:41:54 RELYING ON OTHER SERVICES ETC. WE'RE ACTUALLY BUILDING THIS
00:41:58 IN-HOUSE SO THIS IS WHY WE ARE CONTINUING TO DO THIS AND WANT
00:42:02 TO CONTINUE TO GROW THIS TEAM. WE HAVE A SIX PERSON TEAM RIGHT
00:42:05 NOW THAT ACTUALLY MANAGES THE PLATFORM THE OPEN DATA PORTAL
00:42:09 WHERE WE PROVIDE DATA TO THE PUBLIC.
00:42:12 IN ADDITION WE ALSO HELP DO A LOT OF SPECIFIC WORK
00:42:16 IN INITIATIVES LIKE BREAKING THE CYCLE WHICH IS TO ACTUALLY
00:42:19 HELP BUILD DATA MODELS SO STREET TEAMS CAN REACH STREET
00:42:23 TEAMS, REACH HIGH EMERGENCY PATIENTS SOONER SO WE CAN
00:42:25 ACTUALLY SOLVE THAT. AND SECOND, WE ALSO ARE VERY
00:42:28 DEEPLY INVOLVED IN OTHER INITIATIVES LIKE TO REDUCE HIGH
00:42:31 IMPACT TRAFFIC COLLISIONS. >> SO AGAIN, ALL OF THIS DATA
00:42:35 STUFF CONNECTS DATA THAT IS USED TO SIT IN SEPARATE
00:42:37 DEPARTMENTS SILOS INTO ONE GOVERNANCE PLACE.
00:42:40 >> ALL OF THIS DONE IS DONE WITH A VERY SMALL TEAM OF
00:42:43 ENGINEERS TODAY AND WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR IS SUPPORT TO
00:42:46 CONTINUE TO GROW THAT TEAM FURTHER WITH THE TECHNICAL
00:42:50 PIECE IN THE CITY. >> THANK YOU.
00:42:51 THANK YOU. I THINK THAT MAKES COMPLETE
00:42:52 SENSE. THE GROWTH IN THAT DEPARTMENT
00:42:54 GIVEN HOW OFTEN WE USE THE DATA AND GIVEN THE WAY THE WORLD IS
00:42:58 GOING. >> SO THANK YOU.
00:42:59 I JUST WANTED TO HEAR THAT EXPLAINED AND SEPARATE FROM
00:43:02 THAT I WANTED TO JUST BRIEFLY YOU KNOW, SHARE SUPPORT ON ITEM
00:43:06 NUMBER SIX. YOU KNOW, I'VE COME TO SEE THAT
00:43:10 WHENEVER WE'RE FACING A COMPLEX PROBLEM WE TURN TO THE CITY
00:43:15 ADMINISTRATOR OFTEN WE DO WHETHER IT'S PROPERTY OR
00:43:19 COMMISSION WITH COMMISSION STREAMLINING CHARTER REFORM.
00:43:22 AND SO I THINK THIS IS A REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT ROLE.
00:43:23 I ALSO WANT TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT ON SEVEN AND EIGHT.
00:43:28 I THINK THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR ARTICULATED A VISION WHICH I
00:43:32 SHARE WHICH IS THAT WITH REAL ESTATE WE NEED TO BE MORE
00:43:36 STRATEGIC, WE NEED TO BE MORE PROACTIVE AND YOU KNOW AT THE
00:43:41 MOMENT I'M CURRENTLY WORKING WITH THE BLR ON AN AUDIT OF OUR
00:43:44 UNDERUTILIZED LAND IN SAN FRANCISCO AND I THINK THIS THIS
00:43:47 SORT OF ORIENTATION AROUND BEING MORE PROACTIVE WITH OUR
00:43:51 LAND AND REAL ESTATE IS HAND-IN-HAND WITH THAT.
00:43:52 SO CERTAINLY WILL BE SUPPORTING THOSE THINGS.
00:43:55 >> THANK YOU SUPERVISOR. >> PRESENT AMENDMENT.
00:44:02 >> CHAIR CHEN YOU'RE A LITTLE SNIFFLY TODAY.
00:44:04 >> SORRY. >> UH, I WANT TO WELL START BY
00:44:12 THANKING OUR CITY ADMINISTRATOR JUST FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY WORK
00:44:15 THAT YOU AND YOUR TEAM DO EACH AND EVERY DAY.
00:44:17 BUT I HAVE ESPECIALLY OVER THIS LAST YEAR AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT
00:44:21 THINGS LIKE CHARTER REFORM AND STREAM OF COMMISSIONS
00:44:27 STREAMLINING YOU KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN CARRYING A HEAVY LOAD.
00:44:31 >> YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT THAT HAS COME UP
00:44:35 IN CHARTER REFORM AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHETHER CHARTER
00:44:37 REFORM PASSES OR NOT IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK THE CITY
00:44:40 SHOULD MOVE TOWARD AND THAT I THINK THE ADMINISTRATION IS
00:44:43 COMMITTED TO MOVING FOR FOR TOWARD IS THE IDEA OF USING THE
00:44:47 CITY ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE TO THE EXTENT WE CAN TO REDUCE THE
00:44:51 SILO IZATION OF OUR VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS WHERE WE HAVE
00:44:57 SOMETHING LIKE 17 SALESFORCE CONTRACTS AND YOU KNOW JUST A
00:45:01 LEVEL OF KIND OF DUPLICATION AND INCONSISTENT C AND NON
00:45:05 COORDINATION ACROSS DEPARTMENTS THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE THAT
00:45:09 OUR CONSTITUENTS EXPERIENCE THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO
00:45:12 GET SERVICES OUT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO
00:45:14 EXPERIENCE AND I THINK A NUMBER OF US FEEL LIKE THERE'S
00:45:17 POTENTIAL THERE FOR THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE TO
00:45:21 ADDRESS ADDRESS THAT BUT IT WON'T WORK IF YOU DON'T HAVE
00:45:25 THE RESOURCES TO DO THAT WORK. YOU PROBABLY DON'T HAVE THE
00:45:29 RESOURCES TO DO THAT WORK IN THE WAY THAT IS YOU KNOW,
00:45:32 WE'RE THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW. IN FACT THERE'S GOING TO NEED
00:45:33 TO BE NOT THIS YEAR BUT GOING FORWARD SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT
00:45:39 ABOUT HOW TO BEEF UP THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE TO
00:45:42 EXERCISE THAT COORDINATION FUNCTION FOR ANYONE WHO HAS
00:45:47 BEEN FRUSTRATED WITH CAPITAL PROJECT DELIVERY IN THE CITY
00:45:50 AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO BE IT VENICE BRT CENTRAL SUBWAY
00:45:54 SORRY IT WASN'T IT WASN'T ON YOUR WATCH MIDDLE THE BETTER
00:45:58 MARKET STREETS PROJECT WHICH WHO KNOWS WHERE THE THAT IS
00:46:03 YOU KNOW THAT IS ANOTHER ASPECT WHERE POTENTIALLY YOU KNOW,
00:46:09 THERE'S THERE'S A COORDINATING FUNCTION DEVELOPMENT OF
00:46:13 EXPERTISE THAT THAT COULD BENEFIT THE CITY, YOU KNOW, NOT
00:46:18 NEXT YEAR BUT OVER THE YEARS GOING FORWARD.
00:46:22 SO ALL OF WHICH IS TO SAY I'M A LITTLE WORRIED ABOUT THE
00:46:25 UNDER-RESOURCING OF YOUR DEPARTMENTS THAT'S IN THE OF
00:46:28 YOUR DEPARTMENT THAT'S IN THE MAYOR'S BUDGET IN THE SECOND
00:46:31 YEAR. I AM CONCERNED ABOUT YOU BEING
00:46:32 ASKED TO MAKE FURTHER CUTS THAT ARE HAVE BEEN UNSPECIFIED
00:46:36 AND COULD LEAVE YOU IN A POSITION WHERE YOU'RE NOT
00:46:40 ACTUALLY ABLE TO DO THE THINGS THAT WE'RE ALL EXPECTING YOU TO
00:46:41 DO. AND I AM CONCERNED ABOUT AREAS
00:46:46 WHERE I AND I AM CONCERNED THAT THE BILAS RECOMMENDATIONS WOULD
00:46:50 UNDERMINE YOUR CAPACITY TO FULFILL THE VISION THAT I HAVE
00:46:51 FOR YOU AND THAT I THINK THE MAYOR'S OFFICE HAS FOR YOU.
00:46:55 AND I GUESS AT THIS POINT THAT IS SPECIFICALLY RECOMMENDATIONS
00:46:58 THREE AND FOUR VERY MUCH RECOMMENDATIONS SIX
00:47:02 RECOMMENDATIONS SEVEN AND EIGHT AND I'M A LITTLE LOST.
00:47:03 >> OH SEVEN, EIGHT AND NINE AND THEN I'M A LITTLE LOST ON
00:47:06 TEN AND 11. CAN YOU RUN THROUGH ONE MORE
00:47:10 TIME BECAUSE I'M JUST CONFUSED. >> YES.
00:47:11 WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH TEN AND 11?
00:47:14 >> YES. YES.
00:47:17 RECOMMENDATION TEN IS A DEPUTY DIRECTOR POSITION AT TREASURE
00:47:21 ISLAND. IT IS A POSITION THAT IS NOT
00:47:22 GENERAL FUNDED. WE DECLINED TO MOVE THAT
00:47:26 POSITION FORWARD UNTIL WE HIRED THE DIRECTOR AND NOW THAT WE
00:47:29 HAVE WE WANT TO MOVE THAT POSITION FORWARD.
00:47:31 THIS PERSON OVERSEES FOUR INDIVIDUALS AND THAT THOSE
00:47:34 INDIVIDUALS HAVE VARIOUS FUNCTIONS INCLUDING OVERSEEING
00:47:37 THE ACCEPTANCE OF HORIZONTAL INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH IS PRETTY
00:47:38 IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO MOVE DEVELOPMENT FORWARD
00:47:42 COORDINATING ALL OF THE VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT WHICH
00:47:44 INCLUDES LIKE HOUSING AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE GOING UP IN IN
00:47:46 THE SPACE IN ADDITION TO RECONCILING A MANY, MANY OTHER
00:47:49 ISSUES THAT WE HAVE SO WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF AN UNFINISHED
00:47:53 BUSINESS WHEN IT COMES TO TAKING A LOOK AT MAYBE LANDS
00:47:56 THAT HAVEN'T BEEN TRANSFERRED YET, HAVEN'T BEEN REMEDIATED
00:47:57 YET THE JOB CORPS SITES THAT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ISLAND
00:48:01 AMONG OTHER THINGS. >> OKAY.
00:48:04 AND THEN SORRY I AM 11 IS THE 311 MANAGER THAT OVERSEES THE
00:48:11 TECHNOLOGY FUNCTION OF THE OPERATIONS AND SO THIS HAS BEEN
00:48:12 A POSITION THAT HAS BEEN PART OF THE 311 BUDGETS SINCE ITS
00:48:16 INCEPTION AND ITS MAIN CHARGE IS TO TAKE TO MAKE SURE THAT
00:48:20 THE TECHNOLOGY THAT SUPPORTS THAT 311 CALL CENTER AND ALL OF
00:48:22 THAT FUNCTION CONTINUES AND SO THAT MEANS MAINTAINING THE CRM,
00:48:25 THE CUSTOMER RELATIONS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE
00:48:29 THAT HAS OVER 2000 DIFFERENT VARIOUS DOCUMENTS FROM
00:48:33 DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS ABOUT EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE THING
00:48:34 THAT THEY DO SO THAT OUR AGENTS CAN ANSWER ANY CALL THAT COMES
00:48:37 THROUGH. IT INCLUDES UPGRADING OUR
00:48:38 TELEPHONY, IT INCLUDES OUR MOBILE APP, IT INCLUDES
00:48:42 CONNECTING OUR FIELD WORKER APPLICATIONS TO 311 AND MAKING
00:48:45 SURE THOSE RESOLUTIONS COME THROUGH AND MAKING UPGRADES TO
00:48:49 OUR SYSTEMS AS WE NEED TO TO RUN OPERATIONS.
00:48:50 >> OKAY. ALL RIGHT.
00:48:51 WELL THOSE BOTH SOUND IMPORTANT AND AT THIS MOMENT I DON'T
00:48:54 THINK I WOULD BE COMFORTABLE MOVING FORWARD WITH THOSE
00:48:57 EITHER. >> SO THANK YOU.
00:48:58 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
00:49:02 >> AND SUPERVISOR WALTON. THANK YOU, CHAIR CHANIN.
00:49:03 THANK YOU SO MUCH CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO ONE ALWAYS
00:49:08 APPRECIATE HOW THOROUGH AND THOUGHTFUL YOUR
00:49:12 EXPLANATIONS ARE AND THE WORK THAT YOU DO IN THE DEPARTMENT.
00:49:16 I DIDN'T PLAN ON HAVING A MAJOR POLICY DISCUSSION AT THIS
00:49:20 MEETING BUT I WILL SAY I AGREE WITH A LOT OF WHAT PRESIDENT
00:49:24 MENDELSOHN SAID WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE FACT THAT LACK
00:49:28 OF COORDINATION AMONG CITY DEPARTMENTS ISSUES AND CONCERNS
00:49:31 THAT CAUSED DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN CITY DEPARTMENTS
00:49:38 FOLLOWING THE MAYOR'S LAP THE MAYOR IS THE EXECUTIVE OF THE
00:49:39 CITY AND HIS DEPARTMENTS ARE NOT COORDINATING.
00:49:43 I FIND THAT THE PROBLEM OF THE PERSON WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE
00:49:46 CITY. WITH THAT SAID, I DO UNDERSTAND
00:49:50 THAT THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR DOES HAVE A LARGE ROLE
00:49:54 IN ADDRESSING A LOT OF WORK THAT HAPPENS ACROSS VARIOUS
00:49:58 CITY DEPARTMENTS. BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT WE ARE
00:50:02 IN A BUDGET CRISIS AND EVERYONE HAS BEEN ASKED TO STEP UP
00:50:09 AND PUT SOME SKIN IN THE GAME AND IT IS NOT EASY FOR ALL OF
00:50:14 OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS. SO MY COMMENTS ARE NOT
00:50:17 NECESSARILY DIRECTED AT THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE BUT
00:50:21 I DO THINK THAT WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT SEVERAL CITY
00:50:24 DEPARTMENTS ARE GOING TO HAVE VACANCIES AND HAVE EXPLANATIONS
00:50:29 AS TO WHY THEY'VE HAD THEM. IN SOME CASES SOME OF THESE
00:50:33 VACANCIES HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR YEARS OR AT LEAST SEVERAL
00:50:39 MONTHS AND NOT SAYING THAT THIS IS THE THE THIS APPLIES TO THE
00:50:44 CITY ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE. BUT I JUST DO WANT TO SAY THIS
00:50:47 FOR THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OVER THESE
00:50:49 NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WITH CITY DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE EVERYBODY
00:50:52 HAS BEEN ASKED TO PUT SOME SKIN IN THE GAME AND EVERYBODY OF
00:50:58 COURSE IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE REDUCTIONS PROPOSED REDUCTIONS
00:51:03 OR SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE BEING ASKED TO DO
00:51:07 AND SO THAT MAKES OUR DECISIONS HARDER BECAUSE I DO AGREE WITH
00:51:08 MY COLLEAGUES THAT CITY ADMINISTRATOR PLAYS A BIG ROLE
00:51:11 IN MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN OPERATE AS A CITY HERE.
00:51:16 BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT WE HAVE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE
00:51:19 GOING TO HAVE THE SAME CONCERNS AND BY ALL ACCOUNTS WE HAVE
00:51:27 MAJOR BUDGET ISSUES HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
00:51:30 SO I JUST I WANT TO SAY THAT FOR THE TONE OF EVERY CITY
00:51:34 DEPARTMENT THAT THIS IS NOT A GOOD BUDGET YEAR AND WE'RE NOT
00:51:39 HAPPY AND EXCITED ABOUT ANY OF THE REDUCTIONS THAT ARE ARE
00:51:42 BEING PROPOSED FOR ANY DEPARTMENT BUT ALSO KNOWING
00:51:46 THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN ASKED TO TO PLAY A ROLE IN AND
00:51:50 SUPPORTING US IN GETTING A BALANCED BUDGET AND MAKING SURE
00:51:54 THAT WE CAN HANDLE TAKE CARE OF THE SERVICES THAT ARE NEEDED
00:51:58 IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE CITY. >> THANK YOU TO YOUR CHAIR.
00:52:02 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR THANK YOU.
00:52:04 >> SUPERVISOR WALTON THANKS FOR THAT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE
00:52:16 PUBLIC AS IT WERE. >> SO WE DO HAVE A STANDING
00:52:19 RULE IN THE CHAMBER THAT PROHIBITS AUDIBLE FORMS OF
00:52:23 EXPRESSION EITHER IN SUPPORT OR OPPOSITION.
00:52:24 SO IF YOU LIKE SOMETHING YOU HEAR HANDS UP, IF YOU DON'T
00:52:28 LIKE SOMETHING YOU HEAR THUMBS DOWN BUT YOU ARE INTERFERING
00:52:32 WITH OUR CONVERSATIONS IF WE HAVE TO PAUSE FOR PAUSE BREAKS
00:52:36 THANK YOU MUCH. >> CITY ADMINISTRATOR CHU I
00:52:39 JUST WANTED TO CONFIRM AGAIN WHAT ARE THE AGREEMENTS THAT
00:52:40 YOU HAVE COME WITH WITH BUDGET LEGISLATIVE ANALYST IT IS ONE,
00:52:44 TWO AND FIVE ONE TWO AND FIVE UNDERSTOOD AND I WANTED TO
00:52:50 AGAIN PUT IN CONTEXT AND I ALWAYS KIND OF SAY THIS FOR THE
00:52:56 LAST THREE FISCAL YEARS CITY ADMINISTRATOR CHU YOU ALWAYS
00:52:58 COME THE FIRST CITY DEPARTMENTS I COME AND I WOULD SAY THAT IS
00:53:01 SOMEWHAT SET THE TONE FOR THE REMAINING OF WHAT THESE
00:53:04 CONVERSATION AS WELL WHILE I AS YOU ALWAYS KNOW THAT I HAVE
00:53:08 GREAT RESPECT FOR YOU AND THE WORK THAT NOT ONLY THAT YOU DO
00:53:12 BUT REALLY THE ENTIRE TEAM, I CONCUR WITH THE SENTIMENTS OF
00:53:16 MY COLLEAGUES ACTUALLY COLLECTIVELY HERE I THINK WE
00:53:17 HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
00:53:20 BUT IF I MAY I WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO JUST KIND
00:53:24 OF WALK ALL OF US THROUGH. IT'S ALSO THE REASON WHY I AM
00:53:25 SO PLEASE THAT THIS IS MY LAST BUDGET THAT I WILL BE
00:53:28 SUSPECTING STEPPING DOWN IN AUGUST AS I HAVE NOT BEEN AS
00:53:32 IF I HAVE NOT BEEN REMINDING EVERYBODY ENOUGH TO SORT OF
00:53:36 LIKE SET THE REASON WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO AND IN THIS SPACE.
00:53:40 >> AND IF I MAY I'M GOING TO DO THIS IN A WAY THAT PLEASE BE
00:53:43 PATIENT WITH ME. >> I'M GOING TO WALK ALL OF US
00:53:47 THROUGH IN THIS PROCESS OF WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO HERE.
00:53:50 SO FIRST AND FOREMOST THAT WE HAD THE LAST WEEK CITY
00:53:52 DEPARTMENTS HEARING EVERYBODY CAME AND ACTUALLY PROVIDE A
00:53:55 CONTEXT OF WHAT THEIR CITY DEPARTMENTS BUDGET IS ABOUT
00:53:58 AND THEN OUT OF WHICH NOW WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN INDEPENDENT
00:54:02 UNIT WHICH IS THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST TO GO
00:54:05 THROUGH DEPARTMENT BY DEPARTMENT TO REALLY HELP US TO
00:54:09 FURTHER UNDERSTAND THE REDUCTION AND THERE'S TWO
00:54:12 CATEGORY ONE IS A FISCAL RECOMMENDATION OR FISCAL
00:54:13 REDUCTION AND THEN THE OTHER ONE IS A POLICY REDUCTION
00:54:20 IN POLICY RECOMMENDATION. IT IS FOR THIS BODY TO CONSIDER
00:54:21 THOSE BOTH RECOMMENDATION IN A VERY SPECIFIC CATEGORY WITH THE
00:54:25 UNDERSTANDING THAT IN THE CATEGORY OF POLICY
00:54:28 RECOMMENDATION AND TYPICALLY AGAIN REDUCTION IT'S ALMOST
00:54:32 RARE AND I WAS LIKE YOU GOT A FUNDS IN THAT'S REALLY THE JOB
00:54:39 OF THE BUDGET AND WHAT YOU SAY TO ANALYSTS AND TO SAY YOU THIS
00:54:40 IS A POLICY DIRECTION THAT THIS BODY SUPPORTS IN TERMS OF THE
00:54:46 MAYOR AND THE CITY DEPARTMENT THEN WE SHOULD REJECT THE
00:54:50 RECOMMENDATION FOR THE BUDGET A LEGISLATIVE ANALYST AND AFFIRM
00:54:53 WHAT THE MAYOR AND THE CITY DEPARTMENT HAS PROPOSED
00:54:57 AND WHEN IT COMES TO THE FISCAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND AGAIN
00:54:58 TYPICALLY IT IS ACTUALLY A REDUCTION AND WITH THAT FOR
00:55:06 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT SOME THAT WAS MY ANNOUNCEMENT AT THE
00:55:10 BEGINNING PLEASE SILENCE ALL CELL PHONES AND ONE ELECTRONIC
00:55:14 DEVICES THANK YOU MUCH. >> THANK YOU MR. CLERK AND WHEN
00:55:18 IT COMES TO THE FISCAL RECOMMENDATION AND TYPICALLY
00:55:19 THE REDUCTION IS REALLY WHAT THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE
00:55:22 ANALYST INDEPENDENTLY IS RECOMMEND AND SAY IS IS THE
00:55:26 TIME TO SPEND THIS MONEY AND HOW MUCH SHOULD WE SPEND
00:55:30 AND WHAT DOES THAT ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE.
00:55:31 CITY DEPARTMENTS ABSOLUTELY. >> IN THE SECOND WE COME BACK
00:55:34 AND SAY BUDGET COMMITTEE THIS IS WHAT WE REALLY NEED.
00:55:40 THEY GOT TO MAKE THEIR ARGUMENT.
00:55:41 THEY GOT TO MAKE THEIR PROPOSAL WHY THEY ARE WE WHY WE SHOULD
00:55:45 REJECT THIS NOW AGAIN, I WOULD SAY THIS THAT THESE ARE THE
00:55:52 MOMENT TO WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WHEN WE
00:55:57 ACCEPT WHAT WHEN WE REJECT THE RECOMMENDATIONS PHYSICAL OR
00:56:01 POLICY REDUCTION FROM THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST
00:56:05 AND WHICH WHAT I'M ABOUT TO TO ASK AGAIN IS SORT OF LIKE THE
00:56:09 SUMMARY OF THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT WE'RE IN DISCUSSION TO
00:56:13 GIVE ALL OF US A CONTEXT OF THE KIND OF CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE
00:56:19 HAVING. THE MAYOR HAS PROPOSED ALMOST A
00:56:20 ACTUALLY A $17 BILLION OF BUDGET OUT OF WHICH ALMOST $8
00:56:27 MILLION EIGHT I WISH IS ONLY 8 MILLION $8 BILLION AND MORE IS
00:56:31 REALLY WHAT WE CALL ENTERPRISE AGENCY WHICH WE ALREADY HAD
00:56:36 THIS DISCUSSION IN MAY. TYPICALLY WE DON'T REALLY TOUCH
00:56:37 THOSE BECAUSE YOU KNOW AS A POLICY IT'S LIKE RATEPAYER IT
00:56:43 IS ROUGHLY ABOUT YOU KNOW 6 TO $7 BILLION THAT IS GENERAL
00:56:47 FUNDS THAT THIS BODY WILL HAVE THOSE CONVERSATION IN A SENSE
00:56:51 WHERE YOU KNOW WHAT WE SHOULD DO, HOW WE SHOULD SHIFT
00:56:54 ALLOCATION BUT OUT OF WHICH MAJORITY AGAIN IT'S ACTUALLY
00:56:58 WHAT WE CALL A BASELINE FOR EXAMPLE PUBLIC EDUCATION
00:57:01 ENHANCEMENT ENRICHMENT FUNDS WE HAVE TO SPEND YOU KNOW, BECAUSE
00:57:06 THEY'RE SET ASIDE SO IT USUALLY ROUGHLY ABOUT 2 TO $3 BILLION
00:57:12 IS WHAT REALLY THIS BODY CAN ACTUALLY HAVE A CONVERSATION
00:57:16 ABOUT. BUT EVEN THEN WE ALSO KNOW, FOR
00:57:19 EXAMPLE, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE FIRE AND POLICE
00:57:23 DEPARTMENTS, MORE THAN 85% OF IT IS ACTUALLY PERSONNEL.
00:57:27 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO CUT THEM. AND SO THEN WHAT DO WE DO WITH
00:57:30 THE REMAINING? SO HERE WE ARE THE CITY
00:57:31 ADMINISTRATOR TO WHAT SHE HAS PRESENTED TO IS THE HER VISION
00:57:35 UNDER HER LEADERSHIP WHAT THE CITY ADMINISTRATORS OFFICE
00:57:39 REQUIRED TO RUN AN EFFICIENT DEPARTMENT AND WITH ALL DUE
00:57:43 RESPECT TO ALSO TO THE BUDGET LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTS AND SAYING
00:57:46 HERE'S THE THINGS THAT YOU MAY NOT NEED AT THIS MOMENT.
00:57:50 >> COULD YOU PLEASE WALK US THROUGH BUDGET LEGISLATIVE
00:57:53 ANALYSTS MR. CONTRA WALK US THROUGH THE TOTAL OF FISCAL
00:57:57 RECOMMENDATION OF DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT YOU'RE RECOMMENDING FOR
00:58:01 SAVING AND THEN ALSO PROSPECTIVELY FOR POLICY
00:58:04 RECOMMENDATION? >> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:58:05 JUST OVERALL OUR FISCAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE
00:58:09 DEPARTMENT NOW THE DEPARTMENT'S PROPOSED BUDGET IS JUST SHY OF
00:58:15 $600 MILLION IN THE FIRST YEAR OUT OF ALMOST $600 MILLION.
00:58:19 OUR FISCAL RECOMMENDATIONS ARE 2.2 MILLION AND THEN WE ALSO
00:58:23 HAVE A CURRENT YEAR EXISTING SURPLUS THAT WE RECOMMENDED OF
00:58:29 JUST SHY OF 2 MILLION WHICH I BELIEVE THE DEPARTMENT AGREES
00:58:33 WITH WITH THAT CURRENT YEAR SAVINGS TOTAL GENERAL FUND WILL
00:58:37 BE $4 MILLION IN FISCAL AND POLICY WOULD BE 366,000
00:58:42 AND THAT'S FOR BOTH FISCAL YEAR JUST FOR THE FIRST YEAR FOR THE
00:58:47 SECOND YEAR WE HAVE ONE POINT ABOUT 1.5 MILLION IN FISCAL
00:58:54 AND 385,000 IN POLICY AND COULD YOU ACTUALLY WALK US THROUGH A
00:58:59 LITTLE BIT WHAT IS YOUR PARTICULAR RECOMMENDATION ON
00:59:01 SEVEN FOR THE FACILITY? >> YES.
00:59:05 SO WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS THAT THE DEPARTMENT WAS PLANNING TO
00:59:13 USE THAT 7.5 MILLION IN THE CURRENT YEAR.
00:59:14 IT'S IN THE FUND BALANCE. IT'S STILL GOING TO SIT IN THE
00:59:18 FUND BALANCE MOVING FORWARD UNLESS THE BOARD TAKES ACTION.
00:59:21 >> THE REASON WHY THEY DIDN'T USE THAT MY APOLOGIES SO
00:59:23 CORRUPT YOU WHAT IS A FUND BALANCE FUND BALANCE IS MONIES
00:59:28 THAT HAVE BEEN BUDGETED BUT NOT SPENT AND SO THE OVER THE
00:59:33 COURSE OF THE YEAR THE DEPARTMENT PULLS DOWN DRAWS
00:59:36 DOWN THAT FUND BALANCE. BUT OFTENTIMES AT THE END OF
00:59:41 THE YEAR THERE AREN'T THERE ARE MONEYS LEFT OVER THAT WERE
00:59:43 BUDGETED AND DEPENDING ON THE FUND THOSE MONEYS CAN BE JUST
00:59:48 CARRIED FORWARD. >> SO IT JUST KEEPS PILING UP
00:59:49 UNLESS IT'S MOVED. BUT WHY WOULD YOU THEN YOU
00:59:52 KNOW, CLEARLY THEN IT SEEMS LIKE CITY ADMINISTRATOR CHU HAS
00:59:56 DEDICATED THAT MONEY AND VISION OF HOW THAT WAS SPENT.
01:00:00 SO WHY WOULD YOU ACTUALLY PUT IT ON AS A RECOMMENDATION?
01:00:03 WELL, WE BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE EXISTING FUND BALANCE WITHOUT
01:00:10 THE 7.5 MILLION TO COVER ALL OF THE COSTS IN THE BUDGET.
01:00:11 >> I'M LIKE JUST THAT. DO WE HAVE THE EXISTING FUND
01:00:14 BALANCE? >> SORRY TO PUT YOU ON THE
01:00:18 SPOT. IT WAS AT THE 14.5 MILLION I
01:00:24 YEAH IT WAS 14.3 MILLION BUDGET IN THE CURRENT YEAR.
01:00:28 I'M SORRY WE CAN GET THAT FOR YOU IN A MOMENT BUT THANK YOU.
01:00:32 >> SORRY AND SO AND SO I THINK THAT THIS IS A CONVERSATION
01:00:39 ABOUT IT AND YOU KNOW, AS WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT DIFFERENT CUTS
01:00:44 THAT THE MAYOR HAS PROPOSED, WE IN FACT ON TUESDAY HAS A
01:00:47 BALANCE AND HEARING THAT IS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
01:00:51 HEALTH I'M I'M TAKING A STEP BACK IF I MAY.
01:00:54 >> I'M TAKING A STEP BACK ABOUT THE HOLISTICALLY LOOKING AT THE
01:00:55 BUDGET AS A WHOLE AT THIS MOMENT AND IS THAT WE ALSO HAD
01:01:02 A BALANCE AND HEARING ON LAST TUESDAY THAT IS A PROPOSED
01:01:06 ALMOST $20 MILLION OF CUTS OF MEDICAL SERVICES CLEARLY THERE
01:01:12 ARE MANY DEMANDS IT DEMANDS AND NEEDS THROUGHOUT THE CITY
01:01:16 ENTIRE BUDGET. IT'S A VERY DIFFICULT TIME.
01:01:20 HATS OFF TO DIRECTOR SOPHIA KETTLER FOR BALANCING THIS
01:01:24 BUDGET. >> I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DID IT
01:01:25 BUT YOU DID IT. I APPRECIATE YOU.
01:01:28 BUT HERE IS NOW WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO MAKE SOME TOUGH
01:01:29 CHOICES BECAUSE IT IS NOT DONE TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE
01:01:35 THINGS THAT WE HAVE COMMITTED COLLEAGUES OUTSIDE OF THIS
01:01:40 CHAMBER TOO MANY DIFFERENT ADVOCATES AND DIFFERENT MANY
01:01:41 COMMUNITY GROUPS AND ORGANIZATION AND SAY WE
01:01:45 WANT TO SUPPORT YOU, WANT TO FUND YOU.
01:01:48 THIS IS WHAT TOUGH CHOICES ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE.
01:01:52 >> THE TOUGH CHOICES IS YES, WE HAVE $7 MILLION OF FACILITY
01:01:57 NEEDS THAT OR ACTUALLY MORE IN TO SAY THAT THESE ARE
01:02:03 POTENTIAL SAVING AND SHOULD WE GO FORWARD WITH IT OR THAT
01:02:07 THERE'S OTHER NEEDS THAT WE NEED?
01:02:08 >> SORRY, MR. GONZALES THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:02:11 IT'S OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT THE MOSCONI FUND WOULD HAVE A
01:02:18 UNUSED BALANCE OF ABOUT 24 MILLION GOING INTO NEXT YEAR
01:02:23 THAT JUST WITH SOME SIDEBAR DISCUSSIONS THE COMPTROLLER'S
01:02:26 OFFICE I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
01:02:29 BUT THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING. >> I'M SORRY.
01:02:30 AND SO MAYBE THIS IS A QUESTION WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR 24
01:02:36 MILLIONS FOR ONE FISCAL YEAR THAT IS UNUSED AND YET YOU'RE
01:02:40 RECOMMENDING 7.5 MILLION? SO THEN THERE WOULD BE I THINK
01:02:49 17 MILLION REMAINING IF YOU TAKE THE SEVEN AND A HALF OR
01:02:54 6.5 MILLION REMAINING, IF YOU TAKE THE SEVEN AND A HALF OUT.
01:02:57 >> SO WHAT WHAT TECHNICALLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW
01:03:01 WHAT YOUR RECOMMENDATION IS THAT IF WE WERE TO TAKE THE
01:03:07 $7.5 MILLION OUT OF THIS THAT THE CITY ADMINISTRATORS STILL
01:03:08 HAVE A REMAINING OF ROUGHLY ABOUT $17 MILLION PER FISCAL
01:03:14 YEAR FOR THE ENTIRE MOSCONI I THINK THAT'S MOVING FORWARD FOR
01:03:19 THE TWO YEARS FOR THE TWO. SO IT'S ABOUT SO THE $7.5
01:03:23 MILLION IS THE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS.
01:03:26 YEAH IT'S JUST RECOMMENDING YOU TAKE IT OUT NOW THEY WON'T HAVE
01:03:30 IT MOVING FORWARD INTO THE TWO BUDGET YEARS UNDERSTOOD
01:03:32 AND THEN BUT THEN THEY WILL STILL HAVE REMAINING ABOUT 17
01:03:35 ROUGHLY $17 MILLION. >> THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING
01:03:39 YEARS. >> GREAT THANK YOU.
01:03:39 PRESENT AMENDMENT. >> I JUST WANTED TO OFFER THE
01:03:46 CITY ADMINISTRATOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO WHY DO YOU NEED
01:03:47 THIS MONEY? >> YEAH, THANK YOU.
01:03:50 AND I THINK THE THE BUDGET ANALYSTS FOR THEIR WORK I THINK
01:03:53 AS AS I UNDERSTAND IT THE $7.5 MILLION COMES FROM THE AMOUNT
01:03:58 OF REVENUES THAT EXCEEDED OUR EXPECTATION IN THE CURRENT YEAR
01:04:04 AND SO THAT WAS REPORTED IN THE NINE MONTH REPORT IS MY
01:04:06 UNDERSTANDING OF IT IN OUR CURRENT YEAR WE UTILIZE SOME
01:04:09 LEVEL OF FUND BALANCE AS WE OFTEN DO TO AUGMENT OPERATIONS
01:04:13 TO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE AS MUCH FUND BELT OR AS
01:04:16 MUCH GENERAL FUND THAT IS PUT INTO THE BUDGET AND IN THE
01:04:20 UPCOMING BUDGET WE ARE ALSO ASSUMING WE'RE GOING TO DRAW
01:04:24 DOWN A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF FUND BALANCE TO PAY FOR REGULAR
01:04:25 OPERATING LINES AND SO THAT IS ALL FACTORED IN AS WE WERE
01:04:29 THINKING ABOUT OUR BUDGET BECAUSE WE ALREADY KNEW THAT
01:04:32 REVENUE NUMBER BACK IN OUR NINE MONTH MARK.
01:04:35 SO WE HAVE ALREADY FACTOR THAT IN OUR INTENDED USE FOR THE
01:04:39 FUND BALANCE IS CAPITAL. IT IS A SUPER HEAVY CAPITAL
01:04:42 INVESTMENT TO MAINTAIN MOSCONI NORTH AND SOUTH AND WEST WEST
01:04:47 IS A FACILITY THAT WAS BUILT IN 2003 FOR 23 YEARS HASN'T HAD
01:04:50 ANY MAJOR UPGRADES. WE KNOW THAT IT'S A FACILITY
01:04:54 THAT NEEDS PRETTY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES AND UPGRADES AS IT
01:04:58 RELATES TO OUR ESCALATOR THAT YOU ALL HAVE NO DOUBT GONE UP
01:05:02 IN IS A HUGE ESCALATOR THAT IS TOWARDS ITS END OF LIFE
01:05:06 AND NEEDS REPAIR AND FIXING IN ADDITION TO OTHER UPGRADES
01:05:08 THAT HAPPEN IN THAT BUILDING WE HAVE IDENTIFIED ROUGHLY $30
01:05:12 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL NEED. OUR FUND BALANCE DOESN'T COVER
01:05:14 THAT AND THOSE THINGS ARE THINGS THAT WILL HELP US TO
01:05:17 STAY COMPETITIVE AND FRANKLY TO STAY OPEN.
01:05:20 AND SO THERE ARE THINGS LIKE A FREIGHT ELEVATOR THAT IS REALLY
01:05:21 IMPORTANT TO MOVE DIFFERENT DISPLAYS UP AND DOWN OUR
01:05:24 FACILITY FANS THAT HELP TO COOL THE FACILITY AS OUR
01:05:28 CONVENTIONEERS ARE IN IT A ROOF THAT HELPS TO PROTECT THE
01:05:32 BUILDING AS A WHOLE INCLUDING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM THAT HELPS TO
01:05:35 POWER OUR FACILITY SWITCHES FOR THE INTERNET THAT ARE PRETTY
01:05:40 CRITICAL TO HOW WE RUN OUR DIFFERENT OPERATIONS.
01:05:41 MANY OF OUR CONVENTION ACTIVITIES ARE PRETTY HIGHLY
01:05:43 INTENSIVE WHEN IT COMES TO INTERNET ELECTRONICS, AUDIO
01:05:47 VISUAL AND SO ON AND SO THIS IS THE INTENDED USES AND WE DO
01:05:51 HAVE A LIST OF THAT AND AND I DO WANT TO PLAY DEVIL'S
01:05:54 ADVOCATE HERE TOO FOR CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO ACTUALLY
01:05:58 MOSCONI CENTER ALSO DOES NOT TAKE ANY OF THE PUBLIC BOND
01:06:02 DOLLARS SO THERE'S NO LIKE PUBLIC BOND DOLLARS THAT
01:06:06 CORRECT HELP MAINTAIN THE SPACE AND IT HAS NOT BEEN RENOVATED
01:06:10 YET FOR THE MOSCONI NORTH AND SOUTH WERE RENOVATED
01:06:16 IN 2019 I WANT TO SAY AND THAT WAS THE EXPANSION CENTER RIGHT?
01:06:20 SO THAT WAS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT UPGRADE.
01:06:22 HOWEVER THERE ARE STILL MANY KIND OF LIKE COMPONENT PARTS
01:06:25 THAT WE DID NOT FIX DURING THAT RENOVATION.
01:06:27 WES IS THE ONE THAT IS REALLY OLD AND IS THE BIG FACILITY WE
01:06:29 DO NOT TAKE GENERAL FUND DOLLARS WHEN IT COMES TO
01:06:32 CAPITAL INVESTMENTS RIGHT NOW AND THE FACT THAT LIKE MOSCONI
01:06:35 CENTER TRULY IS AND HAS BEEN ONE OF THE KEY STRATEGY FOR THE
01:06:39 ENTIRE CITY FOR ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION CLEARLY OUR
01:06:46 HOTEL WORKERS, OUR HOSPITALITY WORKERS AND MANY, MANY OTHER
01:06:50 WORKERS ACTUALLY THAT'S REALLY WHERE THEIR JOB COMES IN AND
01:06:54 THAT'S INCLUDING OUR SECURITY SO MANY ACTUALLY WORK WORK
01:06:59 OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORKERS THROUGHOUT A CITY.
01:07:02 >> I AM ONLY SIMPLY DOING THIS AS A DEMONSTRATION OF LIKE HOW
01:07:07 DIFFICULT IT IS LIKE WE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD THINK ABOUT
01:07:10 HOW TO HOW DO WE SUPPORT MOSCONI CENTER TO UNDERSTAND
01:07:16 FIRST OF ALL IT DOES NOT COUNT ON PUBLIC BOND DOLLARS.
01:07:17 THERE IS NO CAPITAL OR PUBLIC DOLLARS FOR CAPITAL
01:07:21 IMPROVEMENTS. THIS IS REALLY THE ONLY SOURCE
01:07:24 THAT THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR CAN REALLY DRAW ON TO MAINTAIN
01:07:28 AND RENOVATE THIS SPACE AND THAT WHEN WE DO THAT WE
01:07:32 WILL CREATE WORK OPPORTUNITIES AND TRULY IMPORTANT ECONOMIC
01:07:36 REVITALIZATION. BUT I ALSO WANT TO CONCUR WITH
01:07:40 SUPERVISOR WHARTON HATCHER SET THAT IT IS A VERY DIFFICULT
01:07:44 BUDGETARY TIME. YOU KNOW MANY CITY DEPARTMENTS
01:07:48 ARE TAKING A LOT OF CUTS. THERE ARE MANY NEEDS
01:07:51 AND DEMANDS ARE COMING OUR WAYS IN THE NEXT TWO DAYS.
01:07:54 THANK YOU SO MUCH CITY ADMINISTRATOR CHU WHO ACTUALLY
01:07:57 ALSO HAS BEEN A BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIR BEFORE AND ON
01:08:00 THE BOARD AND ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TRYING TO
01:08:02 SAY HERE WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS AS SUPERVISOR
01:08:05 WALTON HAS DEMONSTRATED, IT'S NOT ABOUT CITY ADMINISTRATOR
01:08:09 CHU YOUR ABILITY AND YOUR LEADERSHIP BUT OR YOURS YOUR
01:08:16 DEPARTMENTS BUT REALLY AS A CITY AS A WHOLE.
01:08:17 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP TO HELP US DEMONSTRATE IS FOR
01:08:20 THE PUBLIC AND EVERYBODY TO GET ON THE SAME PAGE ABOUT WHY
01:08:24 WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS NOW I APPRECIATE YOUR
01:08:27 THE HARD WORK AND POSITION THAT YOU ARE ALL IN FOR THE
01:08:31 DECISIONS YOU HAVE TO MAKE AND WE DO BELIEVE THAT THESE
01:08:32 ARE INVESTMENTS THAT ARE WORTH MAKING TO MAKE SURE THAT SAN
01:08:36 FRANCISCO STAYS COMPETITIVE. WE DO LOSE CONVENTION BUSINESS
01:08:39 ALL THE TIME TO OTHER PLACES THAT OFFER BETTER DEAL IS LOWER
01:08:43 COST. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
01:08:44 OFFER THE PREMIUM EXPERIENCE THAT PEOPLE EXPECT.
01:08:47 SO THEY COME HERE TO SAN FRANCISCO AND WE KNOW WE'RE
01:08:48 STILL NOT THERE YET. WE'RE STILL AT 60% OCCUPANCY OF
01:08:52 OUR HOTEL AS COMPARED TO WHERE WE WERE BEFORE PANDEMIC
01:08:55 AND OVER 80%. SO STILL A LOT OF ROOM TO MOVE
01:08:58 AND I THINK WE NEED TO STAY AS COMPETITIVE AS WE CAN AND THIS
01:09:00 MAJOR DRIVER FOR THE CITY AND SO I DO THANK YOU AND ARE
01:09:03 ALWAYS HAPPY TO BE YOUR GUINEA PIG IN CONVERSATION.
01:09:06 >> THANK YOU. I SO APPRECIATE YOU.
01:09:10 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SAYING THAT OUT LOUD FOR US OR FOR ME
01:09:12 AT LEAST. AND AND I DO WANT TO CONCUR
01:09:14 WITH ALSO MY COLLEAGUE'S SENTIMENT TO SPECIFICALLY ABOUT
01:09:18 311 AND TREASURE ISLAND POSITION.
01:09:19 I THINK THOSE ARE CRITICAL INCLUSIVE ALSO THE CIVIC CENTER
01:09:23 PLAZA AGAIN, YOU KNOW WE HAD THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR IN A
01:09:26 ROW THAT WE HAVE A CONVERSATION.
01:09:30 I THINK LAST YEAR WE DID SUPPORT THE RESTORATION OF IT
01:09:33 AND REJECTING THE BE A REPORT OR BE A RECOMMENDATION.
01:09:37 SO I JUST AGAIN LIKE I THINK THAT COLLEAGUES THIS IS AN
01:09:38 ONGOING CONVERSATION IF I MAY CONCLUDE FOR THIS PART THAT
01:09:44 LET'S IF LET'S CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION SOUNDS GREAT.
01:09:48 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU.
01:09:51 >> WITH THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ETHICS COMMISSION AND THEN
01:09:58 WE'LL START WITH MY CORRECT THAT WE HAVE ETHICS COMMISSION
01:10:03 HERE. THANK.
01:10:13 >> SORRY CONTROLLER YES, THANK YOU CHAIR CHAN.
01:10:17 I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY FOR OUR RECORD KEEPING WERE ARE WE
01:10:23 DEFERRING DECISIONS ON ALL OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CITY
01:10:27 ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE FOR THE MOMENT IF I MAY SAY YES FOR NOW
01:10:37 AND THEN MAYBE LATER AT THE END OF THIS MEETING WE CAN COME
01:10:41 INTO MORE CONCLUSION OR PERHAPS ON MONDAY.
01:10:44 >> GREAT. THANK YOU.
01:10:48 THANK YOU. TO HAVE ETHICS COMMISSION HERE
01:10:52 . IF WE DON'T I'M GOING TO GO TO
01:10:53 GO TO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS BECAUSE IF THE ETHICS
01:10:56 COMMISSION DID NOT SHOW UP TODAY MY ASSUMPTION IS THEY ARE
01:11:00 IN AGREEMENT WITH THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST
01:11:03 RECOMMENDATIONS. >> BUT SHOULD THEY DECIDE TO
01:11:11 SHOW UP AT THE END OF THIS I WILL ABSOLUTELY ENTERTAIN SO
01:11:15 RUN FAST. >> WELCOME DIRECTOR SHORT THANK
01:11:26 YOU. >> GOOD MORNING CHAIR CHAN
01:11:27 AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE CARLA SHORT PUBLIC WORKS
01:11:30 DIRECTOR. >> THANK YOU FOR THE
01:11:33 OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO THE PROPOSED CUTS TO OUR DEPARTMENT
01:11:37 AND BEFORE YOU START THOUGH WOULD YOU LIKE WOULD YOU LIKE
01:11:41 THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST
01:11:45 TO GO THROUGH WHAT YOU HAVE IN AGREEMENT AND THEN MAYBE
01:11:49 THEN THEY CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE NOT AGREE UPON
01:11:53 AND THEN YOU CAN SORT OF REBUTTAL OR RESPOND?
01:11:56 >> SURE. OKAY.
01:11:57 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
01:12:00 SUMMARY OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
01:12:04 WORKS IS ON PAGE 98 OF OUR REPORT.
01:12:05 OUR FISCAL RECOMMENDATIONS TOTAL $4,262,629 IN FISCAL YEAR
01:12:13 2627 WE HAVE RECOMMEND CLOSING OUT UNEXPENDED ENCUMBRANCE AS
01:12:21 WELL OF $47,865 AND THEN WE HAVE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
01:12:24 RECOMMENDATIONS OF $1,224,431 IN FISCAL YEAR 2627 IN THE
01:12:31 SECOND BUDGET YEAR OUR FISCAL RECOMMENDATIONS TOTAL
01:12:37 $4,131,293 AND WE HAVE A POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE SECOND
01:12:44 BUDGET YEAR TOTALING $1,288,882.
01:12:48 >> THE DETAILS OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS START ON PAGE
01:12:51 99 OF OUR REPORT AND I WILL WALK THROUGH STARTING WITH AT
01:12:55 THE TOP AND WITH OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE AGREE
01:12:59 AND DON'T AGREE IF I AM MISTAKENLY SAY WE AGREE AND WE
01:13:03 DON'T AGREE I WILL HAPPILY DISCUSS ANY OF THOSE.
01:13:07 >> THANK YOU. OKAY SO THE FIRST ONE IS DPW
01:13:09 ONE ON PAGE 99 OF OUR REPORT THIS IS A VACANT MANAGER'S
01:13:13 SEVEN POSITION IN THE FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION.
01:13:16 IT'S BEEN VACANT FOR FOUR YEARS SINCE MAY OF 2022 AND IT IS
01:13:23 IN AGAIN THE FINANCE ADMINISTRATION DIVISION WE
01:13:25 HEARD EARLIER SPOKE ABOUT THE GROWTH OF MANAGEMENT VERSUS NON
01:13:30 MANAGEMENT POSITIONS AND THAT VACANT MANAGER POSITIONS ARE AN
01:13:32 ARTICULATE AD BUDGET PRIORITY BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
01:13:36 THROUGH MOTION TO M 26 DASH 25 AND DPW TWO I BELIEVE WE ALSO
01:13:42 HAVE DISAGREEMENT THAT'S AT 1070 IS PROJECT DIRECTOR WE
01:13:45 RECOMMEND DELETING IT ON IT'S VACANT AGAIN IN THE FINANCE
01:13:52 AND ADMINISTRATION DIVISION IT'S BEEN VACANT FOR ABOUT A
01:13:56 YEAR AND A HALF SINCE DECEMBER OF 2024.
01:13:57 OVERALL THE DEPARTMENT MAINTAINS SIX FULL TIME
01:14:01 EQUIVALENT POSITIONS IN THIS CLASS IFICATION OF WHICH TWO
01:14:04 ARE VACANT. >> I BELIEVE WE HAVE AGREEMENT
01:14:10 ON DPW THREE WHICH IS THE PURCHASE OF PICKUP TRUCKS.
01:14:13 I BELIEVE WE HAVE AGREEMENT ON DPW FOUR ON PAGE 100 OF OUR
01:14:18 REPORT WHICH IS GRAFFITI ABATEMENT PILOT PROJECT THAT WE
01:14:25 FOUND THE DEPARTMENT CAN DRAW UPON CARRY FORWARD FUNDS TO
01:14:29 SUPPORT FUTURE INCREASES IN COSTS.
01:14:30 IT'S A ONE TIME REDUCTION. WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE
01:14:36 AGREEMENT ON DPW FIVE ON DPW SIX THIS IS DPW SIX AND SEVEN
01:14:42 ARE RELATED TO EACH OTHER. THIS IS IN THE OPERATIONS
01:14:46 DIVISION. >> SO DPW SIX WE'RE
01:14:51 RECOMMENDING THAT THE BOARD DELETE TWO 7514 GENERAL LABOR
01:14:57 POSITIONS AND STREET ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES THAT
01:15:01 HAVE BEEN VACANT FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
01:15:02 ONE HAS BEEN VACANT SINCE MARCH OF 2019, THE OTHER SINCE
01:15:04 FEBRUARY OF 2023 AND THE DEPARTMENT MAINTAINS 100
01:15:11 AND 68.5 FULL TIME EQUIVALENT GENERAL LABORER POSITIONS
01:15:16 AND THE GENERAL FUND OF WHICH THERE ARE CURRENTLY 44
01:15:19 VACANCIES A VACANCY RATE OF 26% DEPARTMENT WIDE AND AND
01:15:29 RELATEDLY THE DPW SEVEN IS A 7215 GENERAL LABOR SUPERVISOR.
01:15:35 IT'S BEEN VACANT SINCE APRIL AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE
01:15:40 DEPARTMENT OBVIOUSLY IS IS DISAGREES WITH OUR
01:15:44 RECOMMENDATION ON THIS. I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT
01:15:48 YESTERDAY WE TOOK A MORE LONGER HISTORICAL LOOK BACK AT THE
01:15:52 VACANCY RATES FOR GENERAL LABORERS GOING BACK NINE YEARS
01:15:59 TO 2018 AND SAW THAT THE DEPARTMENT CONSISTENTLY HAS A
01:16:03 HIGH VACANCY RATE FOR THIS CLASSIFICATION IN ALL NINE
01:16:06 YEARS WE LOOKED AT THE VACANCY RATE IS ABOVE 15% AND THAT IS
01:16:13 CONTINUING TO THE PRESENT DAY. MOVING ON TO DPW EIGHT ON PAGE
01:16:19 101 OF OUR REPORT THAT IS WE RECOMMEND DELETING A VACANT
01:16:23 MANAGER SIX POSITION. IT'S BEEN VACANT SINCE OCTOBER
01:16:27 OF 2022 SO NEARLY FOUR YEARS. THIS IS IN OUR OPERATIONS
01:16:31 DIVISION. WE BELIEVE WE ALSO HAVE
01:16:38 DISAGREEMENT WITH DPW NINE ON PAGE 102 OF OUR REPORT WE ARE
01:16:41 RECOMMENDING REDUCING THE CAPITAL APPROPRIATION FOR
01:16:45 STREET RESURFACING IN FISCAL YEAR 2627 AND 2728 BUT BOTH
01:16:51 BEING ONE TIME WE NOTED THAT THERE IS A VERY LARGE CAPITAL
01:16:54 IN OUR INFUSION OF GENERAL FUND DOLLARS FOR STREET RESURFACING
01:16:58 INCREASING FROM ABOUT 67 MILLION IN THE CURRENT YEAR TO
01:17:05 ABOUT 97 MILLION IN THE FISCAL YEAR 2627 PROPOSED BUDGET WE
01:17:12 TOOK A LOOK AT THE CURRENT SCORE FOR THE CITY STREETS
01:17:16 AND THEY ARE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE ESPECIALLY AS YOU COMPARE
01:17:20 THEM TO OTHER CITIES IN THE BAY AREA AND GIVEN THE TIGHT
01:17:24 FINANCIAL CONDITION WITH THE THE BUDGET DEFICIT, THE ONGOING
01:17:30 BUDGET DEFICIT THAT THE CITY HAS, IT DOES SEEM LIKE IT'S A
01:17:35 BIT MUCH TO BE ADDING INTO THE STREET RESURFACING THIS YEAR.
01:17:38 >> I BELIEVE WE HAVE AGREEMENT ON DPW TEN BUT OKAY CARLA'S GOT
01:17:46 A YES OKAY TEN AND 11 I BELIEVE WE HAVE AGREEMENT WITH AND 12
01:17:53 AND 13 AND THAT'S IT FOR FISCAL RECOMMENDATIONS POLICY
01:17:57 RECOMMENDATIONS START ON PAGE 104 OF OUR REPORT.
01:18:01 DPW 14 IS A VACANT MANAGER SEVEN POSITION.
01:18:05 IT'S BEEN VACANT SINCE NOVEMBER OF 2021 IN THE STREET
01:18:08 ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DIVISION .
01:18:11 THIS IS THIS POSITION IT DOES ACTUALLY OVERSEE A LARGE GROUP
01:18:15 AND IT IS PART OF A REORGANIZATION.
01:18:18 DPW 15 IS A VACANT MANAGER FOR POSITION.
01:18:23 IT'S BEEN VACANT FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS AND IT OVERSEES THE
01:18:26 DEPARTMENT'S IN-HOUSE PAVING PROGRAM DPW 16 ON PAGE 105 OF
01:18:32 OUR REPORT AS A MANAGER, A VACANT MANAGER ONE POSITION
01:18:37 THAT IS IN THE URBAN FORESTRY DIVISION IT'S BEEN VACANT FOR
01:18:40 ABOUT SIX MONTHS AND DPW 17 IS A VACANT MANAGER SEVEN POSITION
01:18:46 IN THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION AND IS OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT
01:18:50 THIS BECAME VACANT A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO.
01:18:51 THIS IS THE DEPARTMENT'S H.R. DIRECTOR WHICH PERHAPS THE
01:18:54 INCUMBENT I THINK RETIRED AND THAT'S THERE AND THAT
01:19:02 CONCLUDES OUR POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS.
01:19:05 WE DO BELIEVE THAT THAT THE DEPARTMENT AGREES WITH THE
01:19:09 CLOSE OUT RECOMMENDATION OF ENCUMBRANCES OF ABOUT $47,865
01:19:14 AS WELL AS OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CURRENT YEAR SAVINGS FROM
01:19:19 CURRENT YEAR SURPLUSES TOTALING $2,453,075.
01:19:25 THANK YOU OUR AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
01:19:30 >> THANK YOU AND DIRECTOR SHORT TO HELP US ORGANIZE THINGS A
01:19:35 LITTLE BIT AND I WOULD LOVED TO GET MY COLLEAGUES LIKE A BIT
01:19:39 MORE ENGAGED ON YOURS SPECIFICALLY COULD YOU ACTUALLY
01:19:40 HIGHLIGHT THE NUMBERS OF DISAGREEMENTS FIRST AND THAT WE
01:19:47 ALL CAN THEN START TRACKING AND THEN WE GO BACK TO GO ONE
01:19:50 BY ONE OF YOUR DISAGREEMENT IF THAT'S OKAY.
01:19:54 SO LET'S START WITH THE FISCAL DISAGREEMENT.
01:19:57 SURE. SO ON THE FISCAL
01:20:01 RECOMMENDATIONS WE DISAGREE WITH DPW ONE AND DPW TWO DPW
01:20:08 SIX AND DPW SEVEN DPW EIGHT AND DPW NINE AND THAT THOSE ARE
01:20:18 THE FISCAL RECOMMENDATIONS WE DISAGREE WITH.
01:20:21 >> AND THEN ARE AND COULD YOU ALSO THEN QUICKLY JUST WALK US
01:20:25 THROUGH WHAT ARE THE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU
01:20:30 DISAGREE WITH? >> YES.
01:20:30 THANK YOU, CHAIR. JAN, THE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
01:20:32 WE DISAGREE WITH OUR DPW 14 DPW 15 DPW 16 AND DPW 17 THANK YOU
01:20:43 . >> AND SO COLLEAGUES, IF I MAY
01:20:44 JUST KIND OF THIS IS WHAT I WOULD TYPICALLY THINK ABOUT
01:20:51 AND IF I MAY TO JUST KIND OF DO THIS AGAIN NOT TO EXPERIMENT ON
01:20:55 YOU A LITTLE BIT BUT THERE ARE OTHER TWO BUT CITY DEPARTMENTS
01:20:58 WILL COME THROUGH BUT I THINK THIS IS A TYPICALLY THE
01:21:01 CONVERSATION THAT WENT IN THIS AGREEMENT AS SUCH TO KIND OF
01:21:04 THE WAY THAT I WOULD APPROACH THIS IS TO THANK YOU FOR THE
01:21:09 ONES THAT YOU'RE ALREADY IN AGREEMENT AND WE CAN
01:21:12 ACTUALLY SEE THAT THERE ARE CLOSE OUTS OF LIKE DOLLAR
01:21:14 AMOUNTS INCLUSIVE OF WHAT WE JUST WHAT BUDGET
01:21:17 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST HAS INDICATED WHICH IS LIKE $47,000
01:21:22 AND ROUGHLY $2 MILLION THAT WE'RE ALREADY IN AGREEMENT
01:21:24 THOSE ARE THE COST TO GENERAL FUND COST SAVING THAT NOW WE
01:21:27 HAVE GENERATED THROUGH THE COLLABORATION FROM THE
01:21:30 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. SO SO JUST PIN THAT VASE AND OF
01:21:34 COURSE THERE ARE OTHER ONES THAT ALREADY IN AGREEMENT
01:21:36 AND SO IN COLLEAGUES TYPICALLY THE WAY THAT I WILL LOOK AT IT
01:21:39 IS THAT YOU KNOW WHEN THERE ARE ONES THAT IN THIS AGREEMENT
01:21:43 AND AS YOU CAN SEE IT'S REALLY WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT A
01:21:46 CLEARLY ESPECIALLY FOR THE FISCAL RECOMMENDATION I'M NOW
01:21:50 LOOKING AT THE TOTAL SAVINGS I'M LOOKING AT THE TOTAL
01:21:54 SAVINGS DOLLAR AMOUNT AND THAT THEY ALSO GIVE US A GOOD
01:21:56 UNDERSTANDING AS TO THEN TYPICALLY ALSO WILL BREAK DOWN
01:21:59 TO WHETHER IT'S ACTUALLY A GENERAL FUND COST SAVING OR IS
01:22:03 IT A A NON GENERAL FUND COST SAVING AND JUST AS A REMINDER
01:22:09 FOR ALL OF US AND PLEASE ANYBODY JUMP IN AND CORRECT ME
01:22:11 IF I'M WRONG FOR ALL WE ONLY HAVE THE AUTHORITY SHOULD THERE
01:22:17 BE GENERAL FUND SAVING WE IT'S WE WILL ONLY HAVE THE AUTHORITY
01:22:22 TO REALLOCATE ANY GENERAL FUND SAVINGS FOR THE NON GENERAL
01:22:26 FUND SAVINGS. WE DO NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO
01:22:30 REALLOCATE. HOWEVER I STILL BELIEVE THAT IT
01:22:33 IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO THINK ABOUT CALL SAVING THAT REALLY
01:22:37 IT'S GO BACK TO THE POT WALL TO THE TO THE BUDGET AND ALLOWING
01:22:40 US TO HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSION THINKING ABOUT POTENTIALLY
01:22:45 RESERVE OR SOME OTHER WAYS TO ALLOWING THE MAYOR TO SPEND IT
01:22:51 IN SOME OTHER WAYS IN OTHERS AGENCIES TO SPEND IT SOME OTHER
01:22:55 WAY THAT IS WHEN NECESSARY. SO AGAIN I JUST WANTED TO WALK
01:22:59 US THROUGH MY APPROACH AND THINKING ABOUT IT AS A
01:23:00 BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIR THINKING ABOUT LIKE HOW DO WE THEN GO
01:23:06 ABOUT AT THIS CONVERSATION IN THE MOST INTELLECTUALLY
01:23:07 HONEST WAY POSSIBLE AND THEN TO ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT AT TIMES
01:23:13 WHILE I LEAN ALWAYS TOWARDS THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST
01:23:18 RECOMMENDATIONS AND I THINK THIS IS A MOMENT WE HEAR OUT
01:23:22 THE CITY DEPARTMENTS MAKING THEIR ARGUMENT OF WHY WE SHOULD
01:23:26 REJECT THAT IN BECAUSE SOMETIMES ONLY THE PEOPLE WHO
01:23:29 MANAGE THE CITY DEPARTMENTS KNOW BEST AND WHAT IS
01:23:31 NECESSARY. SO THE FLOOR IS YOURS.
01:23:34 >> DIRECTOR SHORT THANK YOU AGAIN CHAIR CHAN AND GOOD
01:23:37 MORNING AGAIN COMMITTEE MEMBERS CARLA SHORT PUBLIC WORKS
01:23:41 DIRECTOR THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO THESE
01:23:42 PROPOSED CUTS. I DO WANT TO THANK OUR BUDGET
01:23:45 TEAM LED BY OUR CFO BRUCE ROBERTSON AS WELL AS THE BALLET
01:23:49 AND OUR ANALYST CHRISTINE MARTIN FOR THE COLLABORATION
01:23:52 THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS. AS YOU NOTED, CHAIR CHAN, WE
01:23:54 HAVE REACHED AGREEMENT ON A NUMBER OF ITEMS.
01:23:56 THERE ARE SEVERAL THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS AS THEY HAVE
01:24:00 HUGE IMPLICATIONS ON DIRECT SERVICE DELIVERY RELATED TO
01:24:04 STREET CLEANING PROGRAM COORDINATION AND PROJECT
01:24:07 DELIVERY. SO BEFORE DISCUSSING THE
01:24:11 SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS I DID JUST WANT TO START WITH WHAT
01:24:15 PUBLIC WORKS HAS ALREADY DONE OVER THE PAST TWO BUDGET
01:24:18 CYCLES. PUBLIC WORKS HAS REORGANIZED
01:24:19 THE DEPARTMENT, REDUCED MANAGEMENT POSITIONS, EXPANDED
01:24:22 SPANS OF CONTROL, LOWERED OVERHEAD COSTS AND ELIMINATED
01:24:26 PROGRAMS TO HELP ADDRESS THE CITY'S STRUCTURAL DEFICIT.
01:24:30 THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET ALREADY INCLUDES 24 FTE
01:24:34 REDUCTIONS AS A RESULT. >> THE DISCUSSION TODAY IS NOT
01:24:41 ABOUT WHETHER PUBLIC WORKS HAS CONTRIBUTED TO SOLVING THE
01:24:42 BUDGET CHALLENGE WE HAVE THE QUESTION BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
01:24:45 IS WHETHER THE ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED REDUCTIONS CAN BE
01:24:49 ACHIEVED WITHOUT MATERIALLY IMPACTING CORE SERVICES THAT
01:24:53 RESIDENTS RELY ON EVERY DAY. AGAIN PUBLIC WORKS WORKED
01:24:57 COLLABORATIVELY WITH BLR STAFF THROUGHOUT THE REVIEW PROCESS
01:25:00 AND AGREES WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS TOTALING
01:25:03 APPROXIMATELY 4.7 MILLION. I DO WANT TO EMPHASIZE IN PAST
01:25:07 YEARS OUR TOTAL HAS BEEN APPROXIMATELY A MILLION SO
01:25:10 WE'VE ALREADY FAR EXCEEDED PREVIOUS YEARS.
01:25:14 TOTAL RECOMMENDATIONS HE'S SORRY TO INTERRUPT THE 4.7
01:25:18 MILLION IS TWO FISCAL YEARS. >> YES.
01:25:20 YES. THESE ACCEPTED RECOMMENDATIONS
01:25:25 INCLUDE EQUIPMENT REDUCTIONS, POSITION CUTS, POSITION
01:25:29 SUBSTITUTIONS AND DEBT SERVICE REDUCTIONS.
01:25:32 THE REMAINING RECOMMENDATIONS AFFECT POSITIONS
01:25:34 AND INVESTMENTS THAT DIRECTLY SUPPORT SERVICE DELIVERY
01:25:37 INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE AND MODERNIZATION EFFORTS.
01:25:40 SPECIFICALLY, WE DO NOT SUPPORT THE RECOMMENDED REDUCTIONS TO
01:25:44 STREET PAVING PROGRAM INVESTMENTS STREET CLEANING
01:25:47 OPERATIONS AND CRITICAL OPERATIONAL AND TECHNICAL
01:25:49 POSITIONS. >> AGAIN, ONE OF THE THEMES
01:25:54 THAT THE BALLET OF THE BALLET RECOMMENDATIONS IS REDUCING
01:25:58 MANAGEMENT POSITIONS. >> AS WE'VE NOTED, PUBLIC WORKS
01:26:02 HAS ALREADY TAKEN SIGNIFICANT STEPS TO STREAMLINE MANAGEMENT
01:26:05 AND MAXIMIZE RESOURCES DEDICATED TO FRONTLINE SERVICES
01:26:09 SUCH AS BANANAS TODAY MANAGERS SAY CONSIDER WE WOULD
01:26:21 APPRECIATE IF INDIVIDUAL COULD SILENCE YOUR DEVICES THANK YOU
01:26:25 OR TAKE IT OUTSIDE ONE OF THE TWO.
01:26:28 >> THANK YOU MUCH. PLEASE GO AHEAD.
01:26:32 OKAY. >> SO ONE OF THE THEMES IN THE
01:26:36 OVERALL RECOMMENDATIONS IS REDUCING MANAGEMENT POSITIONS.
01:26:40 PUBLIC WORKS HAS ALREADY TAKEN SIGNIFICANT STEPS TO STREAMLINE
01:26:43 MANAGEMENT AND MAXIMIZE RESOURCES DEDICATED TO
01:26:47 FRONTLINE SERVICES. TODAY MANAGERS REPRESENT ONLY
01:26:50 3.5% OF OUR WORKFORCE. THIS IS DOWN FROM 5.4% OF OUR
01:26:54 WORKFORCE WHILE WHILE THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SOME GENERAL GROWTH
01:26:58 IN THE CITY IN TERMS OF MANAGEMENT THAT HAS NOT BEEN
01:27:01 THE CASE AT PUBLIC WORKS MORE THAN 96% OF PUBLIC WORKS
01:27:05 EMPLOYEES ARE DIRECTLY SUPPORTING OUR SERVICE DELIVERY
01:27:08 MAINTAINING INFRASTRUCTURE, DELIVERING CAPITAL PROJECTS,
01:27:12 CONDUCTING INSPECTIONS OR PROVIDING TECHNICAL SUPPORT
01:27:14 NECESSARY TO KEEP CITY OPERATIONS RUNNING.
01:27:18 OVER THE LAST TWO BUDGET CYCLES, PUBLIC WORKS HAS
01:27:21 ELIMINATED SEVEN MANAGEMENT POSITIONS AND CONVERTED SEVEN
01:27:23 ADDITIONAL MANAGEMENT POSITIONS INTO TECHNICAL CLASSIFICATIONS
01:27:27 WHERE WORK WAS MORE APPROPRIATELY ALIGNED WITH
01:27:30 ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, ACCOUNTING AND PROJECT DELIVERY
01:27:31 FUNCTIONS. AS A RESULT, THE POSITIONS THAT
01:27:34 REMAIN ARE NOT LAYERS OF ADMINISTRATION.
01:27:38 THEY ARE OPERATIONAL LEADERS RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERSEEING
01:27:39 LARGE SERVICE DELIVERY PROGRAMS, MANAGING PUBLIC
01:27:42 SAFETY RISKS, SUPERVISING TECHNICAL STAFF AND ENSURING
01:27:46 ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC INVESTMENTS.
01:27:50 ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS TO THESE POSITIONS WOULD HAVE A
01:27:51 DISPROPORTION NET IMPACT ON THE DEPARTMENT'S ABILITY TO DELIVER
01:27:55 SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS THAT SAN FRANCISCANS
01:27:58 RELY ON EVERY DAY. >> ALL RIGHT.
01:28:01 WITH THAT OVERVIEW I WILL DIVE INTO THE INDIVIDUAL
01:28:05 RECOMMENDATIONS DPW ONE AND TWO HAVING ALREADY REDUCED
01:28:08 MANAGEMENT POSITIONS AND CONVERTED OTHERS TO
01:28:12 TECHNICAL CLASSIFICATIONS. THESE REMAINING RECOMMENDATIONS
01:28:15 INCLUDE POSITIONS THAT SUPPORT MODERNIZATION, PROCESS
01:28:17 IMPROVEMENT AND PERMITTING REFORM INITIATIVES.
01:28:20 THE INNOVATION MANAGER LEADS PROCESS IMPROVE IMPROVEMENT
01:28:24 TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION, OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
01:28:28 INITIATIVES AND CUSTOMER SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS RELATED TO
01:28:32 CAPITAL PROJECT DELIVERY. ELIMINATING THIS POSITION WOULD
01:28:33 REDUCE THE DEPARTMENT'S CAPACITY TO ADVANCE EFFICIENCY
01:28:36 MODERNIZATION AND CUSTOMER SERVICE IMPROVEMENT
01:28:40 INITIATIVES. I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT WHILE
01:28:43 SOME OF THE POSITIONS MAY HAVE APPEARED VACANT FOR A LONG
01:28:47 TIME, WE UNDERWENT A MAJOR REORGANIZATION IN DECEMBER OF
01:28:53 2024 AND WE TOOK POSITIONS THAT HAD BEEN VACANT FOR A LONG TIME
01:28:57 SOME OF WHICH WE ELIMINATED, OTHERS OF WHICH WE REPURPOSED.
01:29:01 AND SO FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN VACANT A
01:29:02 LONG TIME. SO I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT.
01:29:06 >> ALL RIGHT. AND THEN IN TERMS OF THE 1070
01:29:09 POSITION, THIS IS REALLY THE PERMIT S.F. PROJECT MANAGER
01:29:13 PUBLIC WORKS HAS 16 NEW PERMITS THAT NEED TO GET INTO A
01:29:17 MODERNIZED PERMITTING SYSTEM. THESE RANGE FROM CONSTRUCTION
01:29:20 PERMITS TO MODERNIZING OUR TABLES AND CHAIRS REGISTRATION
01:29:27 PROCESS. WE NEED TO HAVE THE TECHNICAL
01:29:29 EXPERTISE TO IMPLEMENT THIS NEW PERMITTING REFORM AND GET INTO
01:29:35 A NEW PERMITTING SOFTWARE THAT WILL ALLOW US TO PROVIDE BETTER
01:29:40 SERVICE MORE QUICKLY TO THE PUBLIC.
01:29:44 >> I WILL NOTE THAT OUR CURRENT PERMITTING SYSTEM IS IN THE YOU
01:29:48 TALKED ABOUT LEGACY TECHNOLOGIES SUPERVISOR DORSEY
01:29:51 OUR CURRENT PERMITTING SYSTEM IS IS BREAKING DOWN ON THE
01:29:55 DAILY SO WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE THE TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TO GET
01:29:58 THIS SYSTEM UP AND RUNNING. >> OKAY DPW SIX AND SEVEN THESE
01:30:05 ARE STREET CLEANING POSITIONS PROPOSED TO BE CUT.
01:30:09 >> I DO WANT TO NOTE WHILE WE HAVE HAD VACANCIES IN OUR
01:30:12 GENERAL LABORER POSITIONS WE HAVE SPENT EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR
01:30:17 OF STREET CLEANING FUNDING WHEN WE ARE UNABLE TO HIRE THE
01:30:20 LABORER POSITIONS BECAUSE WE HAVE EXHAUSTED THE LIST
01:30:24 AND WE'RE WAITING FOR A NEW CITYWIDE EXAM PROCESS WE HIRE
01:30:31 TEMP 90 NINE SIXTEEN'S THIS IS A A ENTRY LEVEL POSITION.
01:30:35 THERE ARE BLOCK SWEEPERS. THEY ARE THEN IDENTIFIED TO GO
01:30:39 INTO ANY NUMBER OF OUR APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS.
01:30:43 SO IT'S REALLY AN ENTRY LEVEL POSITION THAT'S DESIGNED TO GET
01:30:47 PEOPLE INTO LONG TERM CITY EMPLOYMENT IF THEY PERFORM
01:30:48 SUCCESSFULLY. >> SO WHILE THERE HAVE BEEN
01:30:51 VACANCIES IN OUR GENERAL LABOR CLASSIFICATIONS AS I SAID, WE
01:30:59 HAVE SPENT EVERY PENNY OF OUR STREET CLEANING DOLLARS AND WE
01:31:01 STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS RECOMMENDATION.
01:31:07 >> SIMILARLY DPW SEVEN IS OUR GENERAL LABORER SUPERVISOR
01:31:10 POSITION. I FEEL LIKE IT'S JUST LIKE A
01:31:15 SOUNDTRACK TO MY LIFE HERE. >> THIS IS A GENERAL LABORER
01:31:18 SUPERVISOR SUPERVISOR POSITION. WE ARE WAITING FOR A NEW LIST
01:31:22 BUT THE THE LAST CITYWIDE LIST HAS BEEN EXHAUSTED.
01:31:29 >> AS SOON AS WE HAVE A LIST TO HIRE FROM WE WOULD LIKE TO HIRE
01:31:33 THIS POSITION. >> I HOPE FOR A MINUTE.
01:31:34 SURE. ARE WE ARE WE DOING THIS AS A
01:31:44 AS A WAY TO INTERRUPT THE MEANING?
01:31:45 I'M NOT TOO SURE HERE IF I COULD ASK THE INDIVIDUAL TO
01:31:52 TAKE IT OUTSIDE AND FIGURE IT OUT THEN YOU CAN COME BACK.
01:31:58 I WOULD GET OKAY. >> APOLOGIES DIRECTOR SHORT
01:32:03 THROUGH THE CHAIR. >> THANK YOU.
01:32:08 SO I'LL JUST REITERATE FOR DPW SEVEN THIS IS A GENERAL LABORER
01:32:12 SUPERVISOR POSITION. I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THIS IS A
01:32:13 WORKING SUPERVISOR POSITION. THEY ARE OUT IN THE FIELD EVERY
01:32:16 DAY CHECKING ON THEIR CREWS, WORKING ALONGSIDE THEIR CREWS.
01:32:20 THE REASON THIS POSITION HASN'T BEEN FILLED IS BECAUSE WE ARE
01:32:23 AWAITING A NEW CITYWIDE HIRING LIST.
01:32:27 >> AGAIN, WE SPEND ALL THE STREET CLEANING THE STREET
01:32:28 CLEANING RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO US AND IF WE'RE NOT ABLE TO
01:32:32 FILL THESE POSITIONS THEN WE TURN TO OUR OUR TEMPORARY
01:32:35 POSITIONS AS A WAY TO ENSURE THE WORK IS GETTING DONE.
01:32:39 >> DPW EIGHT THIS IS A POSITION THAT WAS ACTIVELY BEING
01:32:43 RECRUITED AND INTERVIEWS WERE COMPLETED BEFORE THE HIRING
01:32:47 FREEZE PAUSED THE PROCESS WE HAVE A CANDIDATE SELECTED
01:32:50 FOLLOWING OUR REORGANIZATION AGAIN WHEN WE UNDERTOOK A MAJOR
01:32:57 REORGANIZATION IN DECEMBER OF 2024 WE ADDED A SIGNIFICANT
01:33:01 NUMBER OF STAFF TO THIS POSITION.
01:33:04 SO THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 33 STAFF AND SIX DIRECT REPORTS TO
01:33:11 THIS POSITION OVERSEES STAFF RESPONSIBLE FOR ILLEGAL
01:33:15 DUMPING, OUTREACH AND ENFORCEMENT CONSTRUCTION
01:33:18 OUTREACH FOR OUR MAJOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
01:33:19 CONSTITUENT SERVICES, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, OUR
01:33:24 NEIGHBORHOOD BEAUTIFICATION PROGRAMS AS WELL AS PUBLIC
01:33:27 COMMUNICATIONS. ELIMINATING THIS POSITION WOULD
01:33:29 SIGNIFICANT REDUCE OUR ABILITY TO ENGAGE COMMUNITIES, RESPOND
01:33:32 TO CONSTITUENT CONCERNS AND SUPPORT NEIGHBORHOOD
01:33:36 QUALITY OF LIFE INITIATIVES. THIS JOB WAS POSTED IN JANUARY
01:33:40 OF THIS YEAR AND AS I MENTIONED A SELECTION WAS MADE IT WAS
01:33:44 REAPPROVED ON JUNE 5TH BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND WE HAVE AN
01:33:48 OFFER PENDING DPW NINE OUR STREET RESURFACING PROGRAM.
01:33:55 I'M DELIGHTED TO HEAR THAT THE BLA AGREES THAT OUR ROADS ARE
01:33:58 IN GOOD CONDITION WITH A PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX SCORE
01:34:01 OF 75 HOWEVER I AM HOWEVER WE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO
01:34:09 INCREASE THE QUALITY OF OUR ROADS AS I THINK I'VE TOLD ALL
01:34:12 OF YOU HERE AND I WILL JUST LIKE TO REITERATE TO REPAIR A
01:34:16 ROAD THAT IS IN GOOD CONDITION IT COSTS ABOUT 50,000 DOLLARS
01:34:20 PER BLOCK TO REBUILD A ROAD THAT IS IN POOR CONDITION.
01:34:25 >> IT COSTS UPWARDS OF $600,000 PER BLOCK.
01:34:32 >> SO EVERY ADDITIONAL BLOCK THAT WE CAN BRING INTO GOOD
01:34:33 CONDITION ALLOWS US TO MAINTAIN THAT BLOCK FOR TEN TIMES LESS
01:34:40 EXPENSIVE THAT WAS A WEIRD WAY TO SAY IT MUCH MORE COST
01:34:44 EFFECTIVELY THAN WHEN WE HAVE TO REBUILD THESE BLOCKS AND I
01:34:51 DO WANT TO NOTE THAT THE ALLOCATION FROM THE PROPOSED
01:34:55 ALLOCATION FROM CAPITAL PLANNING JUST BRINGS THIS
01:34:56 PROGRAM UP TO THE LEVEL THAT WE NEED TO MAINTAIN OUR SCORE OF
01:35:05 75 AND PUT PEOPLE IN HERE. >> MY APOLOGIES DIRECTOR SHORT
01:35:14 THANK YOU. >> THE CITY'S CAPITAL PLAN
01:35:17 STATES THE NEED FOR ROUGHLY 1.1 BILLION OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS
01:35:21 TO ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN THE PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX SCORE
01:35:25 OF 75 WHICH AS NOTED IS THE BEST AMONG LARGE BAY AREA
01:35:28 CITIES. >> THIS PROPOSED BUDGET IS ONLY
01:35:32 LIMITED TO A RANGE OF TWO YEARS IN THE LONG TERM FUNDING
01:35:33 STRATEGY AND AS I SAID ONLY BEGINS TO ADDRESS THE
01:35:36 UNDERINVESTMENT DURING THE PANDEMIC YEARS.
01:35:39 >> ANY FURTHER REDUCTION TO THE PROPOSED BUDGET UNDERMINES THE
01:35:43 PROGRESS TOWARDS OUR SHARED OBJECTIVE OF STABLE STABILIZING
01:35:46 THE CURRENT PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX.
01:35:54 >> I'M SORRY TO DO THIS BUT IF I HEAR ANY MORE DEVICES I WILL
01:35:58 RECESS THIS MEETING UNTIL WE CLEAR THOSE OUT SO IT'S
01:36:11 PROBABLY WHAT I KNOW BUT IT'S NOT HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
01:36:16 >> PLEASE GO AHEAD. THANK YOU.
01:36:19 >> SO MOVING INTO THE. THAT CONCLUDES OUR REBUTTALS TO
01:36:23 THE PROPOSED FISCAL CUTS MOVING INTO THE PROPOSED POLICY
01:36:27 DECISIONS AS DPW 14 IS THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STREET
01:36:35 AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES. >> THIS IS THE THE HEAD OF OUR
01:36:39 STREET CLEANING OPERATION. UM THE WHILE THE BLAZE NOTES
01:36:43 INDICATE THAT THIS POSITION HAS BEEN VACANT SINCE NOVEMBER OF
01:36:48 2021, I WANT TO STRONGLY EMPHASIZE THAT IN FACT IT HAD
01:36:51 BEEN FILLED WITH AN EXEMPT POSITION FOR THE FOR THREE
01:36:58 YEARS AND THEN THAT INDIVIDUAL RETIRED AND WE HAVE SOMEONE
01:37:01 ACTING IN THIS POSITION CURRENTLY.
01:37:02 SO LOSS OF THIS POSITION WOULD IN FACT RESULT IN THE THE LOSS
01:37:05 OF THE JOB NOT TO MENTION THAT THIS IS PROBABLY OUR SINGLE
01:37:12 MOST PUBLIC FACING ROLE THAT WE PLAY FOR THE CITY.
01:37:14 >> IT IS THE TOPIC I SPEAK TO ALL OF YOU ABOUT THE MOST IN MY
01:37:21 JOB WE COULD NOT HAVE ACHIEVED THE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS
01:37:24 THAT WE'VE MADE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS WITHOUT THE
01:37:26 PERSON WHO HAS BEEN ACTING IN THIS JOB AND FRANKLY
01:37:29 KNOCKING IT OUT OF THE PARK. WE WE CANNOT LOSE THIS POSITION
01:37:33 WITHOUT FACING VERY REAL IMPACTS TO OUR ABILITY TO KEEP
01:37:37 THE STREETS AS CLEAN AS WE CAN. >> SO WE STRONGLY OPPOSE
01:37:40 ACCEPTANCE OF THIS RECOMMENDATION OR >> POLICY
01:37:44 RECOMMENDATION ON DPW 15 THIS IS OUR PAVING PROGRAM MANAGER
01:37:52 MANAGER FOR OUR INTERNAL PAVING CREWS WE PAVE APPROXIMATELY 120
01:38:00 BLOCKS ANNUALLY WITH OUR IN-HOUSE CREWS AND RESPOND TO
01:38:04 MORE THAN 11,000 POTHOLES ANNUALLY.
01:38:07 >> ALL OF THAT WORK HELPS SUPPORT OUR PAVEMENT CONDITION
01:38:09 INDEX. THE VACANCY ONLY OCCURRED
01:38:12 IN DECEMBER OF 2025. >> THE RECRUITMENT WAS PAUSED
01:38:15 BY THE HIRING FREEZE AND ELIMINATING THIS LEADERSHIP
01:38:18 WHILE REDUCING PAVING FUNDING COMPOUNDS THE IMPACT ON SERVICE
01:38:25 DELIVERY. THIS POSITION IS RESPONSIBLE
01:38:26 FOR A SECTION OF MORE THAN 60 EMPLOYEES AND IF WE LOST THIS
01:38:33 POSITION NOT ONLY WOULD IT AFFECT OUR PAVING OPERATIONS
01:38:37 AND OUR ABILITY TO DELIVER 120 BLOCKS AND OVER 11,000 POTHOLES
01:38:41 BUT WE ALSO PERFORM WORK FOR OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS
01:38:45 INSTALLING SPEED HUMPS ON BEHALF OF THE S.F. MTA,
01:38:46 INSTALLING PROTECTED BIKE LANES ON BEHALF OF THE S.F. MTA
01:38:52 AND THE ELIMINATION OF THIS POSITION WOULD PUT THAT WORK AT
01:38:55 RISK AS WELL. POLICY PLEASE GO HAVE CONTINUE
01:39:02 POLICY DPW 16 AND POST 13 AND IF YOU KNOW THAT NECESSARY
01:39:17 WE CAN CONTINUE AS INDIVIDUALS OUT OF ORDER POLICY DPW 16 IS
01:39:24 OUR URBAN FORESTER POSITION AND IT'S CRAZY THAT THE
01:39:29 INDIVIDUALS OUT OF ORDER WE'RE SEEING THE BUDGET WE ALLOWED
01:39:38 THE PUBLIC I GUESS I MEAN AGAIN YOU WANT US TO GO ON RECESS
01:39:42 AND TO DO THIS BUT LET'S ACTUALLY FINISH THIS FOR THE
01:39:43 LAST PRESIDENT REPRESENT LIKE PRESENTATION AND THEN WE'LL GO
01:39:46 I GOT IT. >> THIS IS NOT PUBLIC COMMENT.
01:39:50 THE INDIVIDUALS OUT OF ORDER KINDLY SIT DOWN HERE NOW YOU
01:39:55 KNOW IF WE GO ON RECESS WE DON'T COME BACK UNTIL MONDAY.
01:39:58 YOU KNOW WE GO ON RECESS. >> WE DON'T COME BACK UNTIL
01:40:02 MONDAY DECIDE IT IS NOT PUBLIC COMMENT.
01:40:08 PUBLIC COMMENT IS AFFORDED TO THE PUBLIC ON WEDNESDAY.
01:40:12 >> THE GENTLEMAN IS OUT OF ORDER FROM THE FIRST DO THE
01:40:19 INDIVIDUALS NOT BEING HELPFUL PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THE
01:40:24 INDIVIDUAL IS NOT BEING HELPFUL AND YOU KNOW I THINK THE
01:40:31 INDIVIDUAL IS NOT PART OF THIS DISCUSSION.
01:40:34 THIS IS ARE THERE TO WE'LL GO ON RECESS.
01:40:46 >> OH WAIT, WE'LL GO TO RECESS. I'M HUNGRY.
01:40:53 >> THIS IS HOUSING PROGRAMS ALL RIGHT.
01:40:57 >> SO WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO RECESS RIGHT NOW
01:41:39 AS S.F. GOV TV SAN FRANCISCO GOVERNMENT TELEVISION
01:52:16 AND MY APOLOGIES DIRECTOR SHORT, YOU WERE ON YOUR SLIDES
01:52:21 FOR RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU ARE REJECTING FOR FOR POLICY
01:52:27 RECOMMENDATION 15 THANK YOU. CHAIR CHAN CARLA SHORT DIRECTOR
01:52:32 OF PUBLIC WORKS YEAH. >> JUST QUICKLY DPW 15 IS OUR
01:52:38 INTERNAL PAVING PROGRAM MANAGER THIS POSITION OVERSEES A PAVING
01:52:42 OPERATION WITH 64 EMPLOYEES. THEY HAVE FOUR DIRECT REPORTS.
01:52:45 THEY LEAD OUR INTERNAL STREET RESURFACING PROGRAM.
01:52:50 THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR PAVING 120 BLOCKS AND OVER 11,000
01:52:53 POTHOLES ANNUALLY. THIS ALL SUPPORTS OUR PAVEMENT
01:52:57 PRESERVATION AND REDUCES FUTURE MAINTENANCE COSTS.
01:53:00 THIS VACANCY ONLY OCCURRED IN DECEMBER OF 2025 AND THE
01:53:03 RECRUITMENT WAS PAUSED BY THE HIRING FREEZE.
01:53:06 >> WE STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT ELIMINATING THIS LEADERSHIP
01:53:08 WHILE REDUCING PAVING FUNDING WOULD ONLY COMPOUND OUR SERVICE
01:53:11 DELIVERY POLICY RECOMMENDATION .
01:53:18 DPW 16 IS OUR URBAN FORESTER POSITION THIS OVERSEES 11
01:53:24 PERSON TREE INSPECTION TEAM ALL DIRECT REPORTS AS THEY OVERSEE
01:53:28 INSPECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF OVER 125,000 STREET TREES
01:53:32 EVALUATING HAZARDOUS TREES AND PUBLIC SAFETY RISKS.
01:53:36 THEY ADMINISTER OUR $12 MILLION INFLATION REDUCTION ACT URBAN
01:53:40 AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY GRANT. ELIMINATING THIS POSITION WOULD
01:53:44 INCREASE PUBLIC SAFETY RISKS, DELAY PERMIT PROCESSING
01:53:47 AND JEOPARDIZE THE CITY'S ABILITY ABILITY TO DELIVER
01:53:51 FEDERALLY FUNDED URBAN FORESTRY INVEST MENTS AND POLICY
01:53:57 RECOMMENDATION DPW 17 IS OUR EMPLOYMENT SERVICES AND TALENT
01:54:01 ACQUISITION DIRECTOR. >> THIS EMPLOYEE RETIRED
01:54:04 IN APRIL. WE THIS IS THE POSITION THAT'S
01:54:12 RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING OUR HIRING AND RECRUITMENT
01:54:16 OPERATIONS FOR A DEPARTMENT APPROXIMATELY 19 POSITIONS
01:54:19 AND OVERSEES A TEAM OF 18 HUMAN RESOURCES PROFESSIONALS.
01:54:23 WE'VE HEARD A LOT TODAY ABOUT OUR VACANCY RATES.
01:54:27 >> WE NEED AN H.R. PERSON TO BE ABLE TO FILL THOSE
01:54:30 VACANT POSITIONS AGAIN THIS HAS ONLY BEEN VACANT FOR 45 DAYS
01:54:34 WHEN THE EMPLOYEE RETIRED. WE ALSO STRONGLY OPPOSE THE
01:54:41 PROPOSED ELIMINATION OF THIS POSITION.
01:54:42 I WANT TO JUST EMPHASIZE THE SUPERVISORS THAT WITH THE
01:54:45 EXCEPTION OF THE PAVING PROGRAM AND THE THREE STREET CLEANING
01:54:49 POSITIONS, NONE OF THESE OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS ARE GENERAL
01:54:53 FUND FUNDED. >> SO FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE IT
01:54:57 DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO REALLOCATE ANY RESOURCES FOR
01:55:01 OTHER PROGRAMS AND I UNDERSTAND YOUR AND YOUR POINT ABOUT YOU
01:55:06 KNOW, THE GENERAL HEALTH OF THE CITY'S BUDGET BUT WE FEEL VERY
01:55:13 ,VERY STRONGLY THAT THESE POSITIONS ARE CRUCIAL TO
01:55:14 PERFORMING OUR WORK. AS I SAID, WE ALREADY ARE ONE
01:55:18 OF THE LEANEST DEPARTMENTS WHEN IT COMES TO MANAGEMENT.
01:55:21 OVER 97% OF OUR STAFF ARE FRONTLINE WORKERS.
01:55:24 WE CANNOT TAKE ANOTHER HIT TO MANAGEMENT POSITIONS.
01:55:28 I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY
01:55:32 QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU AND MADAM CHAIR,
01:55:35 THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO RESPOND TO ONE
01:55:38 POINT ABOUT THE GENERAL FUND NON GENERAL FUND OR A COUPLE OF
01:55:40 POINTS. ONE WE DON'T LIMIT OUR REVIEW
01:55:43 JUST TO THE GENERAL FUND ALTHOUGH THE GENERAL FUND
01:55:47 PROVIDES THE BOARD AND THE MAYOR WITH THE MOST DISCRETION
01:55:50 OF WHERE TO APPROPRIATE SECOND THESE POSITIONS ARE AND A LOT
01:55:54 OF THESE CUTS ARE IN THE OVERHEAD FUND WHICH DRAWS FROM
01:55:57 BOTH GENERAL FUND AND NON GENERAL FUND.
01:55:58 SO THERE IS A TRICKLE DOWN EFFECT OF SAVINGS TO THE
01:56:05 GENERAL FUND IF THE OVERHEAD COSTS ARE LOWERED.
01:56:08 MR. PRESIDENT AMENDMENT THANK YOU CHAIR CHAN AND I APOLOGIZE
01:56:16 BUT IS THERE SOMETHING IS THERE A BREAKDOWN OF I MEAN IT
01:56:20 PROBABLY IS HELP HELPFUL TO KNOW HOW MUCH OF THE FUND OF
01:56:27 THE SAVINGS FROM THESE POSITIONS WOULD AT SOME LEVEL
01:56:32 ACCRUE TO THE GENERAL FUND THAT THE BOARD COULD CONSIDER
01:56:35 REALLOCATING $300 A DAY? I JUST OH GENERAL IN THE NEXT
01:56:40 YOU KNOW AS THIS AS WE GO FORWARD I MEAN UNLESS YEAH
01:56:44 THROUGH THE CHAIR THANK YOU PRESIDENT MANAGEMENT FOR THAT
01:56:47 QUESTION THE GENERAL FUND TURNOVER BREAKDOWN IS
01:56:50 INCORPORATED INTO THE SUMMARY TABLES IN OUR RECOMMENDATION
01:56:51 LIST. YEAH I, I COULD NOTE THAT
01:56:58 AND SORRY WE DID SEND AT YOUR REQUEST PRESIDENT MANAGEMENT.
01:57:03 I THINK YOUR STAFF REQUESTED THE RECOMMENDATION SPREADSHEETS
01:57:07 WHICH HAS A BREAKDOWN AND THAT DOESN'T SHOW UP IN OUR REPORT
01:57:11 BECAUSE IT WON'T FIT ON THE PAGE BUT WE COULD FOLLOW UP
01:57:15 WITH YOUR OFFICE AND WITH OH, OKAY.
01:57:18 >> SO JUST I MEAN SORRY I'M A BUT OH VERY WELL.
01:57:22 >> SO THERE'S A CHECK ACTUALLY CAN SOMEONE HELP ME?
01:57:29 >> LET'S TAKE DPW ONE. THIS IS JUST CATCHING GRANDPA
01:57:33 MANAGEMENT UP AND HOW TO READ A CHART A GOOD JIMINY SO SO WE
01:57:52 HAVE A0942 MANAGER SIC MANAGER SEVEN THAT'S ONE POSITION
01:57:56 AND THEN IT GOES FROM $277,944 TO ZERO AND TO THE SAVINGS
01:58:05 THERE ARE 277,944 WHICH RECOMMENDATION SORRY THIS IS
01:58:11 DPW ONE IS THE FIRST JUST ONE. >> OKAY SO MAY I ADD THROUGH
01:58:15 THE CHAIR CHRISTINE MARTIN WITH THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE
01:58:18 ANALYST'S OFFICE. YEAH.
01:58:19 JUST TO CLARIFY WE DID NOT CHECK THAT AS GENERAL FUND
01:58:23 BECAUSE IT IS IN THE OVERHEAD FUND AND WE DIDN'T DO THE
01:58:27 ALLOCATION ON THIS PARTICULAR RECOMMENDATIONS SHEET.
01:58:33 THAT SAID I WOULD DEFER TO DPW WHAT THAT GENERAL FUND ON
01:58:37 GENERAL FUND SPLIT IS. >> BUT TO THE EXTENT THAT
01:58:41 THERE'S SAVINGS IT WOULD REDUCE YOU KNOW, COSTS IN THEIR RATES
01:58:45 WHICH ON THEIR WORK ORDERS I DON'T KNOW WE NEED TO GO BACK
01:58:49 AND FORTH ALL OF IT ALTHOUGH THE DIRECTOR HAS SOMETHING TO
01:58:51 SAY. >> I JUST THINK IF THE RESPONSE
01:58:54 OF THE BLR IS YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THESE CUTS
01:58:57 AND POTENTIALLY IT IS A BENEFIT TO THE GENERAL FUND IT WOULD BE
01:59:00 GOOD TO KNOW LIKE I MEAN HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT WITH SOMEHOW A
01:59:04 NUMBER APPEARS OR IT DOESN'T APPEAR IN OUR YOU KNOW IN A
01:59:08 WEEK AND A HALF AN HOUR A WEEK WITH REGARD TO THE MONEY THAT'S
01:59:09 AVAILABLE FOR REALLOCATION AND I'M JUST CURIOUS IF YEAH, I
01:59:15 MEAN I THINK IF I MAY THE WAY THAT I WOULD READ IT IS FIRST
01:59:19 OF ALL ON PAGE 99 I'LL DO RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DPW
01:59:25 RECOMMENDATION ONE THE TOTAL SAVING FOR THE FIRST FISCAL
01:59:28 YEAR IS 366 THOUSANDS AND $135 AND THEN THE SECOND YEAR THE
01:59:32 TOTAL SAVING IS $385,162 BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST FOR THE
01:59:38 SALARY BUT ALSO FOR THE FRINGE BENEFITS.
01:59:41 AND THEN IF WE GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO ALL THE WAY TO THE PAGE
01:59:46 103 AND THEN THERE'S ACTUALLY A TOTAL RECOMMENDATION REDUCTION
01:59:50 AND THEN THERE'S THE ONE TIME IT MEANS THAT JUST THE ONE TIME
01:59:53 AND THEN YOU ACTUALLY SEE THE TWO CATEGORIES OF GENERAL FUND
01:59:57 AND NON GENERAL FUND AND THAT'S THE ONGOING THE NON GENERAL
02:00:03 FUND SAVING IS MORE THAN $1 MILLION OR 1.0 YEAH AND THEN
02:00:07 AND THEN YOU SEE THE SECOND YEAR AND THAT'S I THAT'S HOW I
02:00:10 NORMALLY READ THEM IN TERMS OF LIKE TOTAL RECOMMENDATION
02:00:15 REDUCTION FOR THE FISCAL REDUCTION IN THAT THEN
02:00:19 REFERENCING BACK TO THE SUMMARY PAGE BUT I DO KNOW WHAT YOU
02:00:26 MEANT PRESENT AMENDMENT THAT IS NOT THEM BREAK DOWN IN A
02:00:30 CATEGORY LIKE THAT THE RECOMMENDATION BY
02:00:33 RECOMMENDATION LIKE WHICH ONE HOW DO WE PARSE OUT A TOTAL
02:00:36 REDUCTION INTO THE GENERAL AND NON GENERAL BY
02:00:43 RECOMMENDATION? >> WELL MAYBE I'M WRONG.
02:00:44 I MEAN I THINK THAT IS AN ADDITION OF ALL OF THE ITEMS
02:00:50 THAT HAVE G.F. CHECKETTS AND THE DIRECTOR IS SAYING MOST
02:00:55 OF THESE THINGS WE'RE ARGUING ABOUT DO NOT HAVE JEFF CHECKED
02:00:58 AND THE BLR IS SAYING WELL YOU STILL SHOULD CARE ABOUT THEM
02:01:03 BECAUSE YOU GET GENERAL FUND DOLLARS BACK FROM THE THINGS
02:01:06 THAT ARE NOT CHECKED WHICH IS NEWS TO ME.
02:01:09 >> DIRECTOR SHORT IF I MAY THANK YOU PRESIDENT RANDLEMAN
02:01:13 THE GENERAL FUND COMPONENT OF OUR OVERHEAD IS APPROXIMATELY
02:01:20 20% 2,020%. IT ALSO GOES FLUCTUATES A
02:01:25 LITTLE BIT. >> I WILL ALSO NOTE WE'VE GOT
02:01:26 POSITIONS WE'VE SIGNIFICANTLY BROUGHT DOWN OUR OVERHEAD RATES
02:01:29 AND JUST A REMINDER THAT EVERY TIME WE ADD EMPLOYEES THAT
02:01:33 FURTHER BRINGS DOWN OUR GENERAL FUND RATES.
02:01:37 SO FOR EXAMPLE CUTTING THE THREE STREET CLEANING POSITIONS
02:01:41 WOULD ACTUALLY COULD INCREASE OUR ARE OVER SORRY OVERHEAD
02:01:45 RATES NOT GENERAL FUND RATE SO IT'S REALLY ABOUT 73,000
02:01:47 IN SAVINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND IF YOU WERE TO CUT THIS
02:01:52 POSITION TALKING ABOUT ONE DPW ONE USING YOUR EXAMPLE.
02:01:54 GOT IT GOT IT. >> THANK YOU.
02:01:57 AND THEN I GUESS I HAVE A BROAD BROAD QUESTION OBSERVATION
02:02:04 AND THEN MAYBE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS AND I SEE MY
02:02:08 COLLEAGUES QUEUING UP SO I'LL TRY TO BE QUICK BUT THE BROAD
02:02:12 OBSERVATION IS WE'RE MULTIPLE YEARS NOW INTO THE CUTS AND SO
02:02:24 IT SHOULD BE ONE WOULD EXPECT THAT THE CUTTING IS GOING TO
02:02:26 GET HARDER AND HARDER AND THAT THE IMPACTS OF MOVING FORWARD
02:02:32 WITH ADDITIONAL CUTS BEYOND WHAT ARE WHAT ARE RECOMMENDED
02:02:33 BY THE MAYOR ARE GOING TO BE MORE AND MORE SERIOUS IF WE IF
02:02:37 WE PURSUE THEM. BUT I THINK WE ALL STILL HAVE
02:02:41 THE OBLIGATION OF MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE KICKING
02:02:47 THE TIRES ON, YOU KNOW, ANY POTENTIAL SAVINGS FOR BOTH ONE
02:02:59 AND TWO THESE SEEM PRETTY IMPORTANT TO AND PARTICULARLY
02:03:06 TO I MEAN WE HAVE THE THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO FIX
02:03:08 PERMITTING IN SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC WORKS SORRY IS ONE OF
02:03:15 THE MAJOR PAIN POINTS AROUND PERMITTING GETTING PROJECTS
02:03:19 MOVING FORWARD IN A TIMELY WAY AND I ASSUME DPW ONE IS KIND OF
02:03:26 YOU KNOW ALSO IN THAT CATEGORY OF TRYING TO GET YOUR
02:03:29 DEPARTMENT FUNCTIONING, YOU KNOW, IN THE WAY THAT OUR
02:03:30 PUBLIC EXPECTS. SO THOSE IF YOU WANT BETTER
02:03:33 PERMITTING YOU KIND OF NEED ONE AND TWO BUT YOU COULD FUND ONE
02:03:38 AND TWO AND NOT GET BETTER PERMITTING.
02:03:39 THAT'S THE CHALLENGE FOR THIS FOR THIS COMMITTEE.
02:03:43 SO I GUESS YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF CONVERSATIONS THAT MAY GO
02:03:47 FORWARD AFTER TODAY LIKE ARE WE REALLY SURE THIS IS GOING TO
02:03:50 GET FILLED IN THE YOU KNOW, IN THE ON THE TIMELINE THAT WE
02:03:54 THINK AND AND YOU KNOW, SORT OF EXPLAINING TO THE MEMBERS OF
02:03:57 THE COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, HOW THIS ACTUALLY GETS TO THE TO
02:04:01 THE OUTCOMES THAT I KNOW I THINK WE ALL WANT WHICH IS, YOU
02:04:06 KNOW, PERMITTING HAPPENING IN A LESS PAINFUL WAY FOR THE PEOPLE
02:04:09 WHO ARE TRYING TO BUILD HOUSING OR DO THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE
02:04:13 WANT DONE. YOU CAN RESPOND TO THAT YOU
02:04:14 DON'T HAVE TO GENERALLY I THINK I AGREE WITH YOUR ASSESSMENT
02:04:24 PRESIDENT MAN. I MEAN YOU KNOW I WOULD JUST
02:04:25 NOTE THAT WE HAVE BEEN ALREADY MAKING HUGE STRIDES IN TERMS OF
02:04:28 BECOMING LESS OF A PAIN POINT ON PERMITTING WHICH WE BEGAN
02:04:32 EVEN BEFORE THE MAYOR'S PERMIT US OFF INITIATIVE BUT WE HAVE
02:04:35 FULLY EMBRACED THAT. SO I THINK TO REALLY BE ABLE TO
02:04:37 MAXIMIZE THOSE EFFICIENCIES WE DO FEEL THAT WE NEED THESE
02:04:42 POSITIONS IN ORDER TO DO THAT. >> WITH REGARD TO SEVEN I MEAN
02:04:47 IT SEEMS HARD TO BE DOING ANYTHING THAT WOULD UNDERMINE
02:04:53 PUBLIC WORKS THE ABILITY TO DELIVER CLEAN STREETS IN THIS
02:04:55 TIME AND MOMENT IN SAN FRANCISCO THAT'S AMONG THE
02:04:58 BASIC FRONT LINE CORE SERVICES THAT I THINK WE'RE TRYING TO
02:05:02 PROTECT. BUT THERE IS AND I KNOW YOU
02:05:06 TALKED ABOUT THIS BUT I DIDN'T QUITE CATCH IT AGAIN.
02:05:07 GRANDPA MANDOLIN MIGHT BE MISSING SOME THINGS BUT THIS IS
02:05:13 A POSITION BUT IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THERE'S ALL
02:05:15 THESE VACANCIES SO WHY DOES THIS POSITION NEED TO CONTINUE
02:05:18 TO EXIST WHEN YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE VACANCIES?
02:05:22 >> BECAUSE WE NEED THE FUNDING ASSOCIATED WITH THIS POSITION
02:05:25 TO PAY FOR THE PEOPLE WE'RE HIRING ON A TEMPORARY
02:05:27 AND INTERIM BASIS WHILE WE WORK TO FILL THESE POSITIONS
02:05:30 PERMANENTLY. SO WE USE EVERY LAST PENNY OF
02:05:33 OUR STREET CLEANING BUDGET AND WHEN WE CANNOT FILL A LABOR
02:05:38 POSITION BECAUSE AGAIN FOR OTHER STREET CLEANING WE USE IT
02:05:42 FOR OTHER STREET CORNERS, WE USE IT TO COVER OUR BLOCK
02:05:43 CLEANERS STREET CLEANING THAT'S RIGHT.
02:05:47 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT I WANT TO SAY MORE ABOUT WHY THAT IS
02:05:53 COMPLETELY ESSENTIAL TO FUND IN THIS IN THIS MOMENT.
02:05:56 >> SURE. >> I MEAN SUPERVISOR WE GET A
02:06:00 LOT OF CALLS FROM ALL OF YOUR OFFICES ABOUT CHALLENGES THAT
02:06:04 THE COMMUNITY HAS THIS POSITION OVERSEES OUR OUTREACH
02:06:11 AND ENFORCEMENT TEAM THEY'RE THE SO-CALLED TRASH DETECTIVES.
02:06:12 THEY ARE THE ONES WHO GO OUT AND HELP ADDRESS ILLEGAL
02:06:16 DUMPING AROUND THE CITY. THEY ALSO OVERSEE OUR
02:06:20 NEIGHBORHOOD BEAUTIFICATION DAYS.
02:06:23 >> MOST OF YOU HAVE JOINED US AT THESE EVENTS AND YOU SEE WE
02:06:25 GET HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE GOING OUT AND CLEANING UP
02:06:30 YOUR COMMUNITIES FOR THE DAY. >> SO HOW HAS THIS BEEN WORKING
02:06:33 SINCE OCTOBER 2022? >> SO WE HAVE A WE HAVE A
02:06:35 PERSON IN THE JOB WHO PREVIOUSLY ONLY OVERSAW A MUCH
02:06:42 SMALLER TEAM OF PEOPLE. >> SO AS A PART OF OUR
02:06:43 REORGANIZATION WE INCREASED THE SPAN OF CONTROL SIGNIFICANT
02:06:49 ONLY. AND SO WE HAVE TO WE HAVE TO
02:06:50 HAVE AN APPROPRIATE MANAGER LEVEL FOR THAT FOR A POSITION
02:06:54 ESSENTIALLY ALREADY DOING THE JOB.
02:06:56 >> YES, THEY ARE ACTING IN THE POSITION.
02:07:04 CAN I ADD ONE OTHER THING AND THAT POSITION OVERSEES OUR
02:07:08 CONSTRUCTION OUTREACH TEAM WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST
02:07:09 IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS THAT WE HAVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATING
02:07:12 WITH IMPACTED COMMUNITIES WHEN WE HAVE A MAJOR CONSTRUCTION
02:07:16 PROGRAM AND IN FACT WE WE NEED MORE OF THAT, NOT LESS OF THAT
02:07:20 THAT'S WHAT WE HEAR. AND SO YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE
02:07:24 PERSON THAT TROUBLESHOOT. SO IF THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING
02:07:28 WE DIDN'T GET ACCURATE INFORMATION OR WE DIDN'T KNOW
02:07:31 THIS WAS HAPPENING, THIS MANAGER IS HANDS ON SOLVING
02:07:32 THOSE PROBLEMS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE REALLY EFFECTIVELY
02:07:36 COMMUNITY COMMUNICATING WITH IMPACTED BUSINESSES
02:07:39 AND NEIGHBORHOODS TO WITH REGARD TO NINE IT'S A LARGE
02:07:44 AMOUNT THAT THE MAYOR HAS MADE AVAILABLE FOR STREET
02:07:47 RESURFACING. I SUPPORT THAT.
02:07:50 I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY REALLY IMPORTANT AND I THINK THE FACT
02:07:54 THAT OUR YOU KNOW, SCORES AT THIS POINT ARE PRETTY GOOD ARE
02:07:56 THE RESULT OF A NUMBER OF YEARS OF ACTUALLY BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
02:07:59 FINDING FUNDS TO INVEST IN STREET PAVING TO GET THOSE
02:08:05 SCORES UP. AND I AM CONCERNED THAT THE
02:08:09 SOURCES OF FUNDS THAT WE HAVE BEEN USING HISTORICALLY FOR
02:08:10 STREET REPAVING ARE MOSTLY NOT AVAILABLE.
02:08:13 AND SO THAT IS WHY THE MAYOR HAD TO MAKE THIS LARGE
02:08:17 CHUNK OF FUNDS AVAILABLE AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S A I GUESS
02:08:24 QUESTION FOR THE COMMITTEE GOING FORWARD IS LIKE DOES THAT
02:08:27 $2 MILLION MATTER? BUT I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE
02:08:28 SEEING THE FUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE AVAILABLE FOR STREET
02:08:31 PAVING, YOU KNOW, AS A PIGGYBACK BECAUSE I DO THINK
02:08:35 THAT IS A THING THAT IS PRETTY CORE TO WHAT OUR PUBLIC
02:08:38 EXPECTS. >> SO THANK YOU, PRESIDENT
02:08:41 MANUELIAN, IF I CAN ALSO CHIME IN YOU KNOW WE'VE SYSTEM
02:08:44 RADICALLY INVESTED IN OUR ROAD NETWORK OVER THE LAST 15 YEARS
02:08:46 WHICH HAS ALLOWED OUR PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX SCORE TO RISE
02:08:49 FROM THE LOW 60S TO WHERE IT IS NOW AT 75.
02:08:55 >> AND SO IF WE LOSE EVEN A COUPLE OF YEARS OF CONSISTENT
02:08:59 FUNDING, THERE'S A PRECIPITOUS DROP IN THAT PCI SCORE AS MORE
02:09:03 ROADS FALL INTO THAT POOR CONDITION AND THEN THEY BECOME
02:09:07 TEN OR MORE TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE TO BRING INTO GOOD
02:09:10 CONDITION TO AND NONE OF THE NONE OF THE POLICY
02:09:17 RECOMMENDATIONS RESULT IN DIRECT GENERAL FUND SAVINGS
02:09:25 . SO TO GET SAVINGS OUT OF THE
02:09:26 POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS YOU HAVE TO ADD THEM ALL UP MULTIPLIED
02:09:29 BY 20% AND THAT'S YOUR TOTAL. >> THAT'S RIGHT.
02:09:32 >> SO IT'S LIKE $200,000 MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE AND THOSE
02:09:37 SOME OF THOSE ARE MANAGERIAL POSITIONS THAT YOU THINK ARE
02:09:41 PRETTY I MEAN STRONGLY OPPOSED 14 I UNDERSTAND PRESIDENT
02:09:44 RANDLEMAN THAT WAS THE JOB I HAD WHEN WE FIRST MET WHEN YOU
02:09:47 WERE ON THE BOARD OF APPEALS AND I WAS THE CITY'S URBAN
02:09:48 FORESTER. >> SO YEAH, I REALLY OPPOSE THE
02:09:51 TREES SAVE THE TREES DISTRICT LOVES THE TREES, ALSO LOVES
02:09:54 HAVING THE TREES TRIMMED FOR A PRUNE TO APPROPRIATELY THAT'S
02:09:58 RIGHT POTHOLES AND PAVING AGAIN PRETTY BASIC IN TERMS OF WHAT
02:10:05 OUR PUBLIC EXPECTS TALK TO US ABOUT TREE INSPECTION I MEAN
02:10:09 THAT GOES TO LIKE MY FREQUENT REQUESTS FOR YOU KNOW CAN YOU
02:10:14 TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THIS TREE THAT'S INVADING SOMEBODY'S
02:10:17 HOUSE AND THIS IS THE PERSON THAT TAKES THAT OTHER LOOK.
02:10:18 >> SO IF ONE OF OUR INSPECTORS MAKES A DETERMINATION
02:10:21 AND PEOPLE AREN'T SURE IT'S THE RIGHT DETERMINATION, THE URBAN
02:10:25 FORESTER GOES OUT WITH THEIR EXPERTISE AND MAKES THE FINAL
02:10:28 DECISION FOR THAT TEAM. >> OKAY.
02:10:29 AND HOW LONG HAS 17 BEEN VACANT FOR JUST A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF
02:10:36 TIME, YES. THE INCUMBENT JUST OR THE
02:10:39 INCUMBENT RECENTLY RETIRED AND THAT IS BASICALLY YOUR
02:10:43 DIRECTOR OF H.R. >> IT'S OUR DIRECTOR OF HIRING.
02:10:47 >> SO WE ALSO HAVE A LABOR RELATIONS TEAM AND WE HAVE AN
02:10:48 H.R. DIRECTOR THAT OVERSEES ALL OF
02:10:51 H.R. BUT THIS IS THE PERSON WHO IS
02:10:52 RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE EMPLOYEE SERVICES AND TALENT
02:10:58 ACQUISITION. YEAH.
02:10:59 AND JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY FOR THE BLA HOW WOULD HIRING WORK
02:11:02 IF THERE'S NOT SOMEONE TO OVERSEE HIRING?
02:11:09 I THREW THE CHAIR PRESIDENT RANDLEMAN THESE ARE LISTED AS
02:11:14 POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THE DIRECTION OF LOOKING AT
02:11:21 MANAGER POSITIONS. >> GOT IT.
02:11:25 >> FIND ALL THE MANAGER POSITIONS.
02:11:26 MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS. WE'LL FIGURE OUT WHETHER WE
02:11:29 THINK THAT'S WISE OR NOT. >> IF WE BELIEVE THE MANAGER
02:11:31 POSITION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A FISCAL POLICY RECOMMENDATION
02:11:37 AND IT WOULD BE IN THE FISCAL POLICY.
02:11:38 >> YEAH GOT IT AREA RIGHT. I UNDERSTAND.
02:11:41 ALL RIGHT. WELL ART I TRUST OUR CHAIR TO
02:11:45 CAN CONTINUE TO POUND YOU AND TRY TO EXTRACT EVERY DOLLAR
02:11:49 THAT WE CAN REASONABLY EXTRACT AND I THINK WE'RE GETTING KIND
02:11:52 OF CLOSE TO LIKE THE POINT WHERE IT'S IT'S GOING TO BE
02:11:53 HARD. I, I AGREE WITH PRESIDENT
02:11:56 BURNHAM AND THERE'S NO DOUBT BEFORE I CALL HIM VICE CHAIR
02:12:00 DORSEY I MEAN EVEN CARL DIRECTOR SHAW AND I WERE JUST
02:12:03 TALKING ABOUT LAST YEAR WE WERE JUST BACK AND FORTH ABOUT
02:12:08 WHETHER WHETHER DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS ANY ADDITIONAL
02:12:12 TRUCKS LIKE THAT. WE WERE ALREADY GETTING TO THAT
02:12:15 SPACE. >> I THINK THAT WE'RE WE'RE
02:12:18 WE'RE KIND OF COMING TO THAT SPACE AGAIN IF NOT WORSE.
02:12:23 >> VICE CHAIR DORSEY THANK YOU CHAIR.
02:12:24 CHAIR AND I WANT TO WALK THROUGH A FEW IT'S GOING TO BE
02:12:29 JUST ONE AND TO EIGHT, NINE AND 14 BUT ON ON ONE AND TWO
02:12:33 THIS IS THESE ARE INVESTMENTS I'M TAKING IT TO IMPROVE
02:12:37 EFFICIENCIES WHICH I UNDERSTAND THERE'S BENEFITS TO PEOPLE WHO
02:12:41 SEEK PERMITS. IS THERE A CASE TO MAKE THAT BY
02:12:45 IMPROVING EFFICIENCIES WERE ALSO ACHIEVING COST SAVINGS FOR
02:12:48 THE DEPARTMENT ULTIMATELY IS THIS MONEY WELL SPENT THAT'S
02:12:54 GOING TO PAY FOR ITSELF IN SOME WAY?
02:12:56 >> WELL, CERTAINLY I THINK WE FOR THE CITY'S GOALS AS A WHOLE
02:13:00 IN TERMS OF HOUSING DELIVERY AND MAKING PERMITTING FASTER
02:13:01 AND EASIER FOR PEOPLE. ABSOLUTELY.
02:13:04 BUT OUR OUR INNOVATION MANAGER TO YOUR POINT SUPERVISOR DORSEY
02:13:08 IS REALLY LOOKING AT WAYS THAT WE CAN DO OUR JOBS MORE
02:13:12 EFFECTIVELY. >> WE HAVE A NUMBER OF
02:13:13 INITIATIVES ALREADY ONGOING IN THE DEPARTMENT LEAN SIX
02:13:19 SIGMA PROCESSES WHERE WE HAVE THE PEOPLE DOING THE WORK
02:13:21 REALLY LOOK AT THEIR PAIN POINTS AND TRY TO CUT OUT
02:13:24 WASTE. SO I THINK IT'S A POINT WELL
02:13:26 MADE THAT IF WE CAN ACHIEVE THOSE EFFICIENCIES THEN WE
02:13:30 WOULD ACHIEVE SOME COST SAVINGS IN THE LONG RUN ON DPW EIGHT
02:13:37 THIS IS THE MANAGER SIX POSITION I WILL SAY THIS THIS
02:13:44 WAS ONE THE POLICY AND COMMUNICATION DIRECTOR THIS
02:13:48 WOULD BEFORE I WAS A SUPERVISOR I MIGHT HAVE THIS IS ONE I
02:13:51 MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT UP BEEN SUSPICIOUS ABOUT BUT NOW THAT
02:13:54 I'M A SUPERVISOR AND EXPERIENCING AND HEARING
02:13:56 FROM SMALL BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS ABOUT ISSUES THAT
02:13:59 THEY'RE HAVING IN MY DISTRICT IT'S THE FOLSOM AND HOWARD
02:14:02 STREETSCAPE. AND WHAT I'VE COME TO REALIZE
02:14:03 IS THAT THERE THERE REALLY IS VALUE.
02:14:06 WHAT IT MEANS TO A BUSINESS WHEN WE PUT CONSTRUCTION
02:14:11 EQUIPMENT AND A CONTAINER IN FRONT OF EXTREME PIZZA WHICH
02:14:17 IS ONE EXAMPLE OF THAT HAPPENED IT WAS JUST THIS NEEDED TO BE
02:14:19 RESOLVED IN THIS WAS REALLY COSTING THIS BUSINESS MONEY IT
02:14:22 WAS WE WERE BLOCKING YOU KNOW, THE VISIBILITY OF OF IT
02:14:26 AND THERE'S WE'RE AS AN OFFICE EXPERIENCING A LOT OF THIS
02:14:30 AND I KNOW I DO WE DO ASK A LOT OF YOU TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE
02:14:34 MANAGING THAT AS WELL AS WE CAN .
02:14:37 >> IT'S DISRUPTIVE AND IT'S PART OF LIFE AND I WILL DEFEND
02:14:41 THAT WE HAVE TO RUN A CITY HERE AND SOMETIMES IT'S GOING TO BE
02:14:42 DISRUPTIVE WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS BUT BEING
02:14:46 ABLE TO BE RESPONSIVE IS SOMETHING THAT I'M SENSITIVE
02:14:49 TO. IS THAT AM I THINKING ABOUT
02:14:52 THAT THE RIGHT WAY? >> AND I DON'T KNOW IF FOLSOM
02:14:56 AND HOWARD IS A PARTICULARLY RELEVANT ONE BUT I'D LOVE TO
02:14:57 ASK YOUR YOU TO EXPAND ON THAT. >> YEAH.
02:15:00 THANK YOU SUPERVISOR DORSEY FOR THAT QUESTION AND YOU AND I
02:15:04 TALKED ABOUT HOW COULD WE TAKE THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM FOLSOM
02:15:07 STREETSCAPE OF COURSE IT'S A IT'S A MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE
02:15:09 PROJECT SO AS YOU NOTE IT WILL BE DISRUPTIVE BUT HOW CAN WE
02:15:13 TAKE SOME OF THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM THOSE AREAS WHERE
02:15:16 WE COULD HAVE DONE BETTER IN TERMS OF EITHER THE
02:15:20 COORDINATION WITH THE BUSINESSES, COMMUNICATION WITH
02:15:23 THE BUSINESSES AND SO THE PERSON ACTING IN THIS ROLE IS
02:15:27 ACTUALLY HAVING THOSE LESSONS LEARNED CONVERSATIONS WITH THE
02:15:30 TEAM IDENTIFYING I COMMITTED TO YOU THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE
02:15:33 REALLY STRONG CONSTRUCTION OUTREACH TEAM ON HOWARD STREET
02:15:37 SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE THAT WE DON'T REPEAT THE MISTAKES THAT
02:15:41 WE'VE MADE IN THE PAST. BUT SOMEONE NEEDS TO OVERSEE
02:15:43 THAT TEAM AND HAVE THE VIEW TO DO THE LESSONS LEARNED
02:15:50 IDENTIFIED WHAT YOU KNOW THE EMPLOYEES FEEL LIKE THEY'RE
02:15:51 DOING THEIR BEST AND IN MANY CASES THEY'RE DOING WELL BUT
02:15:54 THEY COULD BE DOING BETTER IF YOU DON'T HAVE A MANAGER
02:15:57 CHALLENGING THOSE EMPLOYEES, ASKING THEM HOW CAN WE DO
02:15:58 BETTER LOOKING AT THE OVERALL PROGRAM WHERE DID WE FALL
02:16:05 SHORT? WHERE DID WE SUCCEED AND THEN
02:16:06 HOW CAN WE TAKE THOSE LESSONS LEARNED FORWARD?
02:16:08 >> WE JUST SIMPLY WON'T BE ABLE TO APPLY THOSE LESSONS LEARNED
02:16:11 ON DPW NINE THIS IS THE STREET RESURFACING PROGRAM.
02:16:16 I MEAN I'M DEFINITELY SYMPATHETIC TO THE FACT THAT
02:16:20 THIS IS AN EXPENDITURE THAT WOULD ACCOUNT FOR, YOU KNOW, A
02:16:23 10TH OF WHAT WE WOULD ULTIMATELY SPEND IF WE LET IT
02:16:28 FALL INTO CONTINUED DISREPAIR OCCASIONALLY I WILL REACH OUT
02:16:32 TO YOUR DEPARTMENT AS YOU KNOW, ON THINGS THAT WERE DISREPAIR
02:16:33 THAT IN MY VIEW AND MAYBE THIS IS JUST BECAUSE YOU KNOW,
02:16:36 HAVING SPENT MUCH OF MY CAREER IN THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE,
02:16:39 SOME OF THE DISREPAIR RISES TO THE LEVEL OF DANGEROUS
02:16:43 CONDITIONS. >> AND I'M WONDERING IS THE TEN
02:16:46 X YOU KNOW, THE THE HOW MUCH MORE IT IS TO NOT DO IS THAT
02:16:50 YOU KNOW, IS OUR LIABILITIES FACTORED INTO THAT OR IS IS
02:16:54 LIABILITIES ON TOP OF THAT? >> THAT'S A GREAT POINT TO
02:16:58 RESIDENCY LIABILITY WOULD BE ON TOP OF THAT SO THAT IS PURE
02:17:01 COST TO REPAIR VERSUS RECONSTRUCT OR TO MAINTAIN
02:17:05 VERSUS RECONSTRUCT. >> OKAY.
02:17:08 AND I'LL JUST SAY THAT THIS IS ONE I SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON
02:17:12 BICYCLES ON THE BIKE, SHARE IT .
02:17:15 MY DISTRICT AND I OFTEN TAKE PHOTOS OF THINGS THAT I JUST
02:17:19 THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE IF SOMEBODY DOESN'T SEE THIS IT'S
02:17:23 GOING TO BE A TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
02:17:25 THERE IS SOME STUFF OUT THERE THAT CAN HAPPEN THAT I, I DO
02:17:28 THINK IS HIGH PRIORITY AS A BICYCLIST AND WE WANT PEOPLE TO
02:17:32 GET OUT OF THEIR CARS AND RIDE BIKES AND ALL OF THAT.
02:17:35 SO I'M SYMPATHETIC TO IT THEN I THINK I KNOW IS THERE ANY
02:17:42 THOUGHT OTHER I THINK YOU MADE A GREAT POINT THAT I FAILED TO
02:17:46 MAKE WHICH IS THIS OUR STREET RESURFACING PROGRAM DOESN'T
02:17:52 JUST SERVE BUSSES AND CARS. IT IT IS MULTI-MODAL ALSO ALL
02:17:57 THE FOLKS WHO ARE OUT ON BICYCLES, PEDESTRIANS CROSSING
02:18:00 CROSSWALKS ANY MODE OF TRANSPORTATION IS IMPROVED BY
02:18:05 THE IMPROVED CONDITIONS OF THE ROAD.
02:18:06 SO I THINK THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT THAT I FAILED
02:18:09 TO MAKE. >> SO THANK YOU.
02:18:10 OKAY. >> AND THEN ON FINALLY ON ON 14
02:18:13 I WANTED TO JUST ASK IT'S YOU REFERENCED UNSUCCESSFUL
02:18:16 RECRUITMENTS. >> CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT?
02:18:19 WHAT'S SURE WELL, OFTEN PEOPLE SAY TO ME WOW, YOU HAVE ONE OF
02:18:27 THE TOUGHEST JOBS IN THE CITY. >> AND I SAY ACTUALLY OUR
02:18:31 STREET CLEANING SUPERINTENDENT HAS THE TOUGHEST JOB IN THE
02:18:32 CITY. THIS IS A JOB THAT IS REQUIRED
02:18:38 IS ALMOST 24 SEVEN WORK. IT CERTAINLY REQUIRES AFTER
02:18:44 HOURS RESPONSE REGULARLY OVERSEEING A HUGE TEAM OF
02:18:49 PEOPLE OVER 650 EMPLOYEES ALMOST 800 IF YOU CONSIDER ALL
02:18:51 OF THOSE TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES I MENTIONED AND IT'S REALLY HARD
02:18:59 TO GET THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB.
02:19:02 SO WE'VE HAD RECRUITMENTS WHERE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE APPLYING FOR
02:19:06 THIS JOB HAVE NO SIGNIFICANT OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE.
02:19:10 >> IT'S NOT IT'S NOT AN EASY JOB TO DO AND THEREFORE IT'S
02:19:14 NOT EASY TO FIND THE RIGHT PERSON TO DO IT.
02:19:17 WE WE DO HAVE SOMEONE ACTING IN THE JOB WHO'S DOING A
02:19:19 FANTASTIC JOB BUT AND WE HAD HIS PREDECESSOR ALSO DID A
02:19:25 GREAT JOB BUT BUT RETIRED SO THAT'S WHY IT SHOWS VACANT FROM
02:19:28 2021 BUT HIS PREDECESSOR WAS IN THE JOB FOR THREE YEARS FROM
02:19:31 2021 UNTIL WHATEVER THE MATH IS 2024 AND THEN WE'VE HAD THE
02:19:38 EMPLOYEE ACTING IN THIS ROLE BUT WE HAVE HAD MULTIPLE
02:19:42 RECRUITMENTS WHERE THE CANDIDATES MEET THE MINIMUM
02:19:46 QUALIFICATIONS FOR A MANAGER LEVEL ON PAPER BUT THEY DO NOT
02:19:50 HAVE THE OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE THAT IT TAKES TO MANAGE FIELD
02:19:54 WORKERS RUNNING A 24 SEVEN OPERATION THAT INCLUDES
02:19:58 RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ADDRESSING HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS
02:20:02 AND ENSURING THAT WE'RE PROPERLY BAGGING AND TAGGING
02:20:05 ANY ITEMS THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND WERE UNDER SETTLEMENT WITH
02:20:09 LAWSUIT. THESE ARE YOU NEED THE RIGHT
02:20:12 COMBINATION OF OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE SOMEONE WHO CAN
02:20:16 MOTIVATE FIELD CREWS AS WELL AS SOMEONE WHO HAS THAT LEVEL OF
02:20:20 ATTENTION TO DETAIL TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT VIOLATING
02:20:23 THE CITY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. >> IT'S NOT AN EASY POSITION TO
02:20:25 FILL. >> OKAY.
02:20:28 OKAY. THANKS.
02:20:29 SUPERVISOR'S ORDER. >> THANK YOU CHAIR.
02:20:32 I THINK I'M VERY MUCH IN AGREEMENT WITH YOU DIRECTOR
02:20:35 ON THE VAST MAJORITY OF THESE PERSONNEL POSITIONS
02:20:38 AND DECISIONS. THE ONLY ONE I WANT TO ASK YOU
02:20:39 A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT IS NUMBER ONE, THE INNOVATION ROLE
02:20:43 IS THAT FILLED CURRENTLY AND CAN YOU JUST TELL US MORE
02:20:47 ABOUT THAT ROLE? >> SURE.
02:20:48 THAT THAT IS A VACANT POSITION CURRENTLY AS I MENTIONED WHEN
02:20:51 WHEN WE WHEN WE UNDERTOOK OUR REORGANIZATION WELL PRIOR TO
02:20:59 OUR REORGANIZATION WE DEVELOPED OUR NEW STRATEGIC PLAN AND ONE
02:21:02 OF OUR GOALS IN OUR NEW STRATEGIC PLAN IS TO BOTH GAIN
02:21:09 EFFICIENCIES AND ALSO ENSURE THAT WE ARE DELIVERING THE BEST
02:21:13 QUALITY SERVICES. AND SO WE HAVE A NUMBER OF
02:21:14 DIFFERENT PROGRAMS TO TRY TO EITHER GAIN EFFICIENCIES OR
02:21:21 IMPROVE QUALITY OF SERVICE. AND SO THIS MANAGER POSITION
02:21:25 WOULD OVERSEE THOSE PROJECT MANAGERS WHO ARE HELPING US
02:21:29 WITH OUR ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND SO WE REALLY
02:21:36 WE HAVE WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS GOING AT THE
02:21:37 SAME TIME THAT WE NEED TO BE SURE THAT WE ARE REALLY GAINING
02:21:43 THOSE EFFICIENCIES AND NOT TAPPING INTO THE SAME STAFF ALL
02:21:45 THE TIME TO DO THIS WORK. >> THAT MANAGER REALLY NEEDS TO
02:21:48 OVERSEE THE THE MULTIPLE DIFFERENT EFFORTS THAT WE HAVE
02:21:51 ONGOING AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE IN FACT RESULTING
02:21:55 IN EFFICIENCIES. OTHERWISE WE'RE SPINNING OUR
02:21:56 WHEELS. SO IT IS A VACANT POSITION BUT
02:21:59 THAT WAS THE INTENT BEHIND IT. THANK YOU.
02:22:02 I THINK YOU KNOW THE ILLEGAL DUMPING OR TREES STREET
02:22:06 CLEANING I MEAN THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT I HEAR FROM
02:22:10 CONSTITUENTS MOST. SO WE'VE I THINK ABSOLUTELY GOT
02:22:13 TO GO TO BAT FOR THOSE POSITIONS.
02:22:14 THAT BEING SAID, I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS AROUND JUST THE THE
02:22:17 THE HIRING PACE I CAN YOU CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT MORE
02:22:24 JUST FROM MY EDUCATION WHEN YOU SAY YOU'RE WAITING TO BE
02:22:27 AWARDED A NEW CITYWIDE HIRING LIST, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
02:22:31 >> SO WHEN YOU'RE HIRING FOR A PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE
02:22:35 POSITION YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN EXAM AND THEN YOU HAVE TO ADOPT
02:22:39 A LIST OF QUALIFIED CANDIDATES AND THEN YOU CAN BEGIN TO HIRE
02:22:43 FROM THAT LIST OF QUALIFIED CANDIDATES.
02:22:45 AND SO THERE ARE CERTAIN LISTS THAT THE DEPARTMENT CAN DEVELOP
02:22:50 THROUGH OUR OWN H.R. IF WE HAVE A GOOD STRONG H.R.
02:22:54 HIRING MANAGER TO SUPPORT THAT EFFORT.
02:22:57 >> BUT THEN THERE ARE OTHER POSITIONS WHERE THE EITHER THE
02:23:02 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES OR ANOTHER CITY DEPARTMENT
02:23:05 ADOPTS A CITYWIDE LIST AND IN SOME CASES WE ALSO ADOPT A
02:23:10 CITYWIDE LIST OF MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS ARE GOING TO HIRE
02:23:13 THE SAME CLASSIFICATION THEN IT'S A CITYWIDE LIST AND THOSE
02:23:14 PROCESSES TAKE TIME BECAUSE MULTIPLE CITY DEPARTMENTS ARE
02:23:18 INVOLVED AND SO IF WE EXHAUST THE LIST AND WE DON'T HAVE
02:23:21 ANOTHER CITYWIDE LIST READY TO GO, WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THAT
02:23:25 NEW CITYWIDE LIST TO BE DEVELOPED.
02:23:28 SO A LOT OF THIS IS IN ESSENCE OUT OF YOUR CONTROL AND IT YOU
02:23:32 KNOW, MAYBE THERE'S IMPROVEMENTS YOU NEED TO MAKE
02:23:33 PARTICULARLY WITH THIS H.R. HIRE BUT THERE'S ALSO
02:23:36 IMPROVEMENTS THAT NEED TO BE MADE WITH YOUR PARTNERSHIP WITH
02:23:39 THE CITY. THAT'S RIGHT.
02:23:40 OKAY. AND THEN I THINK THE POSITIONS
02:23:47 OR THE RECOMMENDATIONS ON SIX AND SEVEN YOU'RE SAYING THAT
02:23:50 THEY'RE ACTUALLY FILLED IN A TEMPORARY SENSE AND IT SEEMS
02:23:57 LIKE MAYBE THAT'S THE CASE FOR A LOT OF THE THE VACANCIES
02:24:00 IN IT. IS THERE A WAY TO LOOK AT THIS?
02:24:01 YOU KNOW THE STREET WITHIN THE STREET CLEANING OR WITHIN THE
02:24:05 GENERAL LABOR POSITION MAYBE A VACANCY OF 26% BUT WHAT WOULD
02:24:08 THE VACANCY RATE MORE MORE TRULY BE IF YOU IF YOU EXCLUDED
02:24:15 TEMPORARY POSITIONS? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE IF YOU
02:24:16 LOOK AT IT THAT WAY LIKE HOW MANY OF THESE ARE TRULY VACANT
02:24:20 VERSUS THEY'RE FILLED JUST UNDER A DIFFERENT
02:24:21 CLASSIFICATION IF I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION, SUPERVISOR
02:24:25 SOUDER THANK YOU FOR THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE THAT.
02:24:28 I DO KNOW THAT AS I SAID, WE WE SPEND EVERY LAST PENNY IN OUR
02:24:32 LABOR ALLOCATION FOR STREET CLEANING AND IT MAY BE A LITTLE
02:24:39 BIT TRICKY TO QUANTIFY BECAUSE WHEN WE HIRE IN TEMPORARY
02:24:43 POSITIONS THERE IS A HIGHER LEVEL OF TURNOVER IN THOSE
02:24:46 POSITIONS. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S
02:24:50 SOMETHING WE CAN EASILY TRY TO GET FOR YOU BUT WE CAN
02:24:51 CERTAINLY TRY TO GET FOR YOU. >> GO AHEAD, MR. ROBERSON
02:24:57 SUPERVISOR CHRIS ROBERTSON, CFO AT PUBLIC WORKS.
02:24:59 I THINK THE ONE THING WE CAN TRY TO PULL THOSE NUMBERS BUT I
02:25:03 THINK THE ONE THING WE DO AND THE NATURE OF THESE
02:25:04 RECOMMENDATIONS ARE LOSING THE POSITION OF AUTHORITY BUT
02:25:07 KEEPING THE CASH. SO I THINK THE BUDGET
02:25:10 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST REALIZES THAT WE ARE STRUGGLING
02:25:11 TO FILL SOME OF THE POSITIONS BECAUSE WE'RE EXHAUSTING THE
02:25:14 LIST. WE HAVE MORE VACANCIES THAN WE
02:25:17 DO CANDIDATES. SO WHAT WE ARE DOING IS BEING
02:25:18 CREATIVE AND THINKING OF SOME INGENUITY TO FILL THE POSITIONS
02:25:21 USING TEMP SALARIES. SO AGAIN COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE
02:25:25 BE ALL I CAN SAY WE SPEND ALL THE DOLLARS BUT WE JUST WE
02:25:28 WOULD HAVE TO DO A LITTLE ANALYSIS THAT I THINK WE CAN DO
02:25:32 TO SHOW WHAT THE IMPACT WOULD BE.
02:25:33 SO THE NATURE OF THE RECOMMENDATION REALLY ON SIX
02:25:37 AND SEVEN IS TO KEEP THE MONEY BUT LOSE THE POSITION AUTHORITY
02:25:41 AND OBVIOUSLY I THINK OUR PREFERENCE WOULD BE KNOWING
02:25:44 THAT THEY'VE BEEN VACANT FOR QUITE A WHILE IS TO TRY TO HAVE
02:25:46 LONG TERM PICKS EMPLOYEES IN THOSE POSITIONS THAT CAN
02:25:52 GAIN THE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN CLEANING THE CITY.
02:25:53 >> THANK YOU AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD CHRISTINE MARTIN WITH
02:25:56 THE BALLET. WE DID DO THAT ANALYSIS.
02:26:03 SO FOR THE GENERAL LABOR POSITIONS WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE
02:26:07 TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES KIND OF BACKFILLING, THE AVERAGE NUMBER
02:26:11 OF VACANCIES HAS BEEN APPROXIMATELY 35 AND A RATE OF
02:26:17 18.5% OVER NINE YEARS. SO WHAT THIS RECOMMENDATION
02:26:21 DOES IS KEEPS THE DEPARTMENT INTACT IN TERMS OF FUNDING BUT
02:26:26 IT REDUCES ESSENTIALLY THAT FLEXIBILITY AND BRINGS THAT IT
02:26:30 STARTS TO BRING IT DOWN BECAUSE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT POSITION
02:26:34 CONTROL YOU WANT TO BALANCE POSITION CONTROL WITH
02:26:38 FLEXIBILITY. RIGHT.
02:26:40 AND RIGHT NOW WHAT WE'RE BASICALLY SAYING IS IT'S
02:26:41 TIPPING A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH TOWARDS FLEXIBILITY.
02:26:44 SO WE'RE WE'RE BRINGING IT DOWN WHILE HOLDING THE DEPARTMENT
02:26:48 HARMLESS FOR LACK OF A BETTER SAY IN THANK YOU.
02:26:52 >> I MEAN 18% IS BETTER THAN 25 BUT STILL TOO HIGH AND I THINK
02:26:57 SOMETHING WE NEED TO WORK ON ON NUMBER NINE WITH THE EXPANSION
02:27:02 IN STREET REPAVING, I THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT
02:27:06 IN PARTICULAR I'M EXCITED ABOUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THERE'S A
02:27:10 LOT OF THIS FUNDING ACTUALLY GOES TOWARDS CURB CUTS.
02:27:13 >> IS THAT ACCURATE? YES THIS THIS ARE PAVING
02:27:17 PROGRAM ALSO DELIVERS ACCESSIBILITY UPGRADES
02:27:18 THROUGHOUT ANY OF THE CORRIDORS THAT THEY PAVE I MEAN THAT
02:27:22 BEING SAID IT IS A SIGNIFICANT EXPANSION AND SO YOU KNOW A $30
02:27:28 MILLION EXPANSION TO CUT THAT DOWN TO 28 INSTEAD STILL SEEMS
02:27:30 REASONABLE. BUT I WONDER YOU KNOW, I THINK
02:27:35 THE PRESIDENT SHARE THAT THERE MAYBE THE SOURCE OF FUNDS ARE
02:27:38 NOT AVAILABLE THAT WOULD TYPICALLY BE RELIED UPON FOR
02:27:42 THIS. >> CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT?
02:27:43 YEAH SO WE'VE SEEN STATE AND FEDERAL DOLLARS HAVE
02:27:46 DROPPED. SO ALTHOUGH WE WERE AT 67
02:27:49 MILLION THIS YEAR AND IT LOOKS LIKE 30 MILLION INCREASE WE'VE
02:27:52 BEEN AT ROUGHLY 80 MILLION IN PRIOR YEARS AND WE KNOW THAT
02:27:55 WE NEED TO BE AT 80 MILLION ESCALATING FOR COST TO MAINTAIN
02:27:59 THE PCI SCORE OF 75. SO THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST
02:28:02 BACKFILLING A GAP THAT'S BEEN CREATED FROM SOME OF THOSE
02:28:06 OTHER FUNDING SOURCES LIKE STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS.
02:28:10 >> OKAY. THANK YOU.
02:28:10 IT'S HELPFUL AND THE LAST ITEM I KNOW THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT
02:28:14 REACHED ON ON ITEM THREE BUT WITH YOUR BLESSING I ACTUALLY
02:28:21 WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE REOPEN THAT THE REASON BEING IS THAT
02:28:25 THOSE PARTICULAR VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT THAT WERE
02:28:29 RECOMMENDED TO BE REDUCED. SO I THINK THAT'S FINE BUT
02:28:34 IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT
02:28:36 THERE'S BEEN AWARENESS THAT FOR THE POWER WASHING VEHICLES THAT
02:28:40 THERE'S ACTUALLY A EXEMPTION FOR THOSE VEHICLES FROM THE
02:28:45 CALIFORNIA CARB REQUIREMENTS. THIS IS AN AREA THAT I THINK WE
02:28:49 NEED MORE OF THESE POWER WASHING VEHICLES.
02:28:52 I THINK WE HAD AT ONE POINT THOUGHT THAT WE WERE NOT ABLE
02:28:55 TO GET THOSE BECAUSE OF THIS REQUIREMENT.
02:28:58 BUT THESE THESE UTILITY VEHICLES WOULD ACTUALLY BE
02:29:00 EXEMPT. SO GIVEN THAT IT'S MY
02:29:03 UNDERSTANDING THAT A NEW POWER WASHING TRUCK WOULD BE
02:29:09 APPROXIMATELY $260,000, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ACCEPT A
02:29:12 PARTIAL CUT ON ITEM THREE AND STILL RETAIN THAT 262 TO
02:29:19 STEER TOWARDS THAT POWER WASHING VEHICLE.
02:29:20 SO MADAM CHAIR, I DON'T KNOW IF YOUR ENTERTAINING MOTIONS TODAY
02:29:24 ON THIS OR IF WE MIGHT WANT TO TAKE THAT UP NEXT WEEK BUT THAT
02:29:27 WOULD BE MY INTENT. >> I THINK WE SHOULD I THINK
02:29:30 THAT WHAT I'M GOING TO DO TODAY WHICH IS AGAIN COLLEAGUES I
02:29:31 THINK OFTENTIME IF I MAY MY APOLOGIES AND MY APOLOGIES TO
02:29:35 ISAIAH WALTON. I KNOW HE'S ON THE ROSTER RIGHT
02:29:39 NOW. I, I WOULD SAY THIS AND AGAIN
02:29:42 IT THIS IS AN APPROACH THAT WE ALL CAN DEPLOY IN A DIFFERENT
02:29:49 WAY AND AS WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED WITH THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR
02:29:53 CHOOSE CONVERSATION WE SAY LET'S CONTINUE IN THAT
02:29:54 CONVERSATION AND TO FIGURE OUT AND HAVE SOME OF THESE
02:29:57 CONVERSATION ONGOING AND TO CONTINUE INTO MONDAY.
02:30:01 I THINK THAT THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER WAY TO DO THIS
02:30:06 AND OTHER TWO WAYS TO DO THIS IT'S A LITTLE BIT PAINFUL BUT I
02:30:08 DON'T MIND IT IT'S THAT LIKE WE ACTUALLY THEN WHAT WE SHOULD DO
02:30:11 IS GO BY ONE RECOMMENDATION TO ANOTHER AND TO HAVE EVERYBODY
02:30:18 TO KIND OF ARTICULATE WHETHER WE SUPPORT OR REJECT THE BUDGET
02:30:22 AND LEGISLATIVE RECOMMENDATION AND THEN OUT OF WHICH THEN WE
02:30:26 WILL THEN REACH CONSENSUS ONE BY ONE AND THEN WE WILL THEN
02:30:30 COLLECTIVELY KNOW HOW THIS IS GOING TO LIKE THE ACTUAL
02:30:36 SPECIFIC REDUCTION THAT WE WILL CONCLUDE IN REAL TIME.
02:30:40 AND THEN JUST TO KNOW THE REASON WHY I TYPICALLY SAY
02:30:44 LET'S CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION IS COLLEAGUES I ALSO KNOW THAT
02:30:48 THERE ARE MANY DEMANDS THAT YOU ALL HAVE TO FACE AS YOU WALKING
02:30:51 DOWN THE HALL PEOPLE WILL SAY PLEASE SUPPORT US ON THIS
02:30:55 AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY'RE SAYING TO YOU AND WHEN YOU SAY
02:30:56 YES IT MEANS THAT YOU HAVE TO FIND FUNDING TO OFFSET AND FUND
02:31:00 THEM IN SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS THAT ARE FACING CUTS SO I
02:31:07 PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO ADD MY APPROACH OFTENTIMES IS TO LIKE
02:31:12 TO SEE ALL THE MATH AND THEN WE DECIDE WHAT WE DO WITH CERTAIN
02:31:15 ITEMS BUT I'M ALSO HAPPY TO LAY THIS OUT AT THIS MOMENT
02:31:22 AND HAVE I KNOW PRESIDENT DORMAN IS LIKE ARE YOU SURE
02:31:24 ABOUT THIS? >> WELL, I AM I AM ACTUALLY
02:31:27 VERY SURE ABOUT THIS BECAUSE AGAIN, THIS IS AN EXERCISE OF
02:31:30 MAKING SURE THAT THIS BODY ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS.
02:31:38 I HAVE MY APPROACH BECAUSE I I THINK THAT I'M VERY FORTUNATE I
02:31:42 HAVE 20 SOMETHING YEARS IN CITY GOVERNMENT BOTH AS A
02:31:45 LEGISLATIVE AIDE AND NOW AS A SUPERVISOR.
02:31:48 I HAVE A GOOD FORTUNE OF BEING ABLE TO DO WITH THIS BUDGET
02:31:50 IN THIS PROCESS ON ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT WAY UNDER ALL SORTS
02:31:53 OF DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP. I HAVE INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE
02:31:57 AND MEMORY OF HOW THIS SHOULD BE DONE AND CAN BE DONE AND I
02:32:00 THINK THAT A LOT OF TIMES I TAKE IT FOR GRANTED AND I MAKE
02:32:04 A LOT OF ASSUMPTION COLLEAGUES THAT YOU WOULD ACTUALLY SHARE
02:32:08 THE SAME INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY AND AND KNOWLEDGE AND BEING
02:32:09 ABLE TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THESE APPROACH AND BE ABLE TO
02:32:12 STRATEGICALLY THINK THROUGH. BUT I RECOGNIZE THAT THE FACT
02:32:16 THAT IS WE SHOULD JUST LAY IT ALL OUT SOMETIMES AND HAVE IT
02:32:23 HAVE THE DISCUSSION AND SEE HOW THIS IS SHOULD BE DONE AND THEN
02:32:27 SHOULD THERE BE CONSEQUENCES AND THERE ARE GOING TO BE
02:32:30 CONSEQUENCES. >> SORRY I'M JUST YOU KNOW, I'M
02:32:37 AND SO AS WE ARE CONTINUING TO DISCUSSION, I WANT TO CALL ON
02:32:41 TO REVISE WALTON FIRST IF I MAY TO TO CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION
02:32:45 AND TO BE ABLE TO BRING US BACK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHETHER
02:32:47 WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THE MOTION ON SPECIFIC ITEM OR NOT.
02:32:50 >> SURPRISE WALTON THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAD.
02:32:53 I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF SAY SOME MORE TO JUST DISCUSS WITH
02:33:01 EVERYONE IN TERMS OF AS WE MAKE THESE DECISIONS THESE RESOURCES
02:33:05 GET REINVESTED TO ACTUAL AT LEAST SOLVE SOME OTHER PROBLEMS
02:33:10 AND ADDRESS SOME OF THE SERVICES THAT WE ALL THINK ARE
02:33:14 IMPORTANT TO THE CITY. I DON'T KNOW.
02:33:17 DIRECTOR SURE. WHAT YOU HEAR FROM MY COMMENTS
02:33:21 WITH THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR YES.
02:33:22 >> SO I WON'T REPEAT MYSELF. OKAY.
02:33:25 >> EXCEPT FOR JUST SAYING THAT THIS IS OBVIOUSLY HARD FOR ALL
02:33:29 OF US AS WE ARE IN A BUDGET CRISIS AND GOING AFTER
02:33:33 VACANCIES IS NOT JUST AN ATTACK ON THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
02:33:41 WORKS. >> LET ME JUST SAY THAT THANK
02:33:42 YOU TO YOUR CHAIR. THANK YOU SUPERVISOR WALTON
02:33:44 AND PRESENT AMENDMENT THANK YOU CHAIR CHAN AND THERE MAY COME A
02:33:49 POINT WHERE YOU KNOW I MEAN THE DYNAMIC HERE IS AND EACH YEAR
02:33:56 IS THE THE BALLET IS TRYING TO FIND FUNDS FOR THE BOARD OF
02:34:04 SUPERVISORS TO REALLOCATE TO OUR PRIORITIES AND THAT GETS
02:34:11 HARDER AND HARDER TO DO AS WE GET DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THE
02:34:18 ERA OF CUTS AND LIKE I THINK MAYBE ALL OF US OR AT LEAST
02:34:26 SEVERAL OF US I AM UNCOMFORTABLE WITH A LOT OF
02:34:29 WITH SOME OF THE CUTS THAT HAVE BEEN RECOMMENDED BY THE BALLET
02:34:33 AND IF YOU KNOW, PUSH COMES TO SHOVE I'M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT
02:34:34 ALL OF THEM. I ALSO DO THINK THAT THERE IS
02:34:38 VALUE IN THE PROCESS OF ALLOWING THE CHAIR A BIT OF
02:34:45 SPACE TO YOU KNOW, PUSH AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE
02:34:49 GETTING KIND OF YOU KNOW, JUST JUST PUSHING ON EACH OF THE
02:34:53 AREAS WHERE WE MIGHT BE SKITTISH AND OR WHERE THE
02:34:57 DEPARTMENTS REALLY FEEL LIKE THEY CAN'T YOU KNOW, THEY'RE
02:35:00 NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DELIVER IN THE WAY THAT WE WILL EXPECT
02:35:04 THAT OUR CONSTITUENTS WILL WILL EXPECT EXPECT.
02:35:07 >> SO I MEAN IT MAY COME TO A POINT WHERE THERE'S
02:35:09 DISAGREEMENT ON THIS BOARD ABOUT HOW AGGRESSIVE OR ON THIS
02:35:12 COMMITTEE ABOUT HOW AGGRESSIVE WE WANT TO BE IN TERMS OF
02:35:15 SHIFTING FUNDS FROM MAYORAL PRIORITIES TO BOARD PRIORITIES.
02:35:19 I KIND OF DON'T FEEL LIKE WE'RE EXACTLY THERE YET SO I WOULD BE
02:35:24 INCLINED NOT TO BE, YOU KNOW, TAKING VOTES, YOU KNOW, THIS
02:35:28 WEEK ALTHOUGH THAT NEXT WEEK IF IT COMES TO IT IT MAY BE THAT
02:35:31 SOME OF US ARE OF THE PERSPECTIVE THAT MORE MONEY
02:35:34 SHOULD YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT PRIORITIES AND SO
02:35:38 THERE MAY BE VOTES NEXT WEEK I WOULDN'T BE I WOULD BE INCLINED
02:35:41 NOT TO DO THAT TODAY I WOULD SAY I MEAN TO TO SUPERVISOR
02:35:46 SAUNDERS REOPENING OF A SETTLEMENT ISSUE I YOU KNOW,
02:35:50 I'M INCLINED TO AT LEAST REOPEN THAT AS AN ISSUE AND EVALUATE
02:35:54 WHETHER THAT IS YOU KNOW, SOME THERE SHOULD BE A PARTIAL
02:35:58 RESTORATION OF THAT ITEM. BUT I THINK AGAIN THAT CAN BE
02:36:02 TAKEN UP IF THERE'S DISAGREEMENT ON THE COMMITTEE,
02:36:05 WE CAN HASH IT OUT NEXT YOU KNOW NEXT WEEK ALTHOUGH THERE
02:36:09 IS NOT LIKE A TON OF TIME. BUT BUT I THINK YOU KNOW,
02:36:11 MONDAY OR YOU KNOW IF THERE ARE DISAGREEMENTS ON THE COMMITTEE
02:36:16 THERE'S TIME TO THERE'S TIME TO WORK THEM OUT.
02:36:17 AND MEANWHILE I DO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, I AM VERY
02:36:20 APPRECIATIVE OF THE WORK THAT THE CHAIR AND HER STAFF DO TO
02:36:24 KIND OF FIGURE OUT WHAT THE BELLA IS RECOMMENDING.
02:36:29 WHAT ARE THE DEPARTMENTS SAYING AND WHERE IS THERE YOU KNOW,
02:36:31 WHERE DO WE WANT TO KEEP PUSHING AND MAKING SURE THAT
02:36:35 WE'RE REALLY GETTING EVERY BIT OF SAVINGS THAT THAT WE CAN FOR
02:36:37 OUR BOARD PRIORITIES? >> THANK YOU AND SUPERVISOR
02:36:40 WALTON THANK YOU CHAIR CHEN AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I
02:36:44 AM ALREADY UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE REDUCTIONS THAT THE
02:36:47 DEPARTMENTS WERE FORCED TO MAKE WITH THE DIRECTIONS THAT THEY
02:36:51 WERE GIVEN MONTHS AGO AND BEING UNCOMFORTABLE.
02:36:55 I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THESE TOUGH CALLS HAD TO BE MADE
02:37:02 AND THERE MAY HAVE TO BE SOME MORE TOUGH CALLS THAT GET MADE
02:37:04 AS WE GO THROUGH THIS BUDGET PROCESS.
02:37:07 BUT I DO THINK IF WE GET TO A POINT WHERE THIS BODY HAS TO
02:37:14 VOTE ON WHETHER OR NOT WE AGREE WITH WHAT THIS COMMITTEE IS
02:37:18 TRYING TO DO, I THINK THAT IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT THIS BOARD
02:37:25 AND THIS BODY BECAUSE NEVER IN MY SEVEN YEARS ON ON THIS
02:37:28 COMMITTEE HAVE WE HAD TO DO THAT.
02:37:31 SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT EMBARRASSING IF WE
02:37:35 CAN'T WORK WITH OUR COMMITTEE CHAIR TO COME UP WITH AN
02:37:40 AGREEMENT AROUND THIS BUDGET WITHOUT HAVING TO SIT HERE
02:37:46 AND VOTE LINE BY LINE. BUT THAT'S JUST HOW I FEEL.
02:37:52 THANK YOU. I MEAN I'M SUGGESTING IT ONLY
02:37:56 BECAUSE I WANT TO SAY IT IS WITHIN THE AUTHORITY OF THIS
02:38:01 COMMITTEE. HOWEVER, WE WE APPROACH IT
02:38:07 AND IF I MAY THIS IS COLLEAGUES THIS IS THE WAY I APPROACHED
02:38:12 THIS BUDGET AND AND ALSO THROUGH MY DIRECTION THAT I
02:38:16 GAVE TO BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTS IN TERMS OF LIKE
02:38:19 OVERALL SEEING IT'S A IT'S A CUMULATIVE REPORT COMING FROM
02:38:27 THE BUDGET LEGISLATOR ENDLESS CUMULATIVE DISCUSSION THAT WE
02:38:31 HAVE TO REALLY NOT DURING THE BUDGET TIME THAT THE BUDGET
02:38:34 PROCESS BUT OUTSIDE OF THE BUDGET PROCESS THAT DURING THE
02:38:39 FISCAL YEAR YOU KNOW BUDGET THROUGH CONTRACT GRANT
02:38:42 AGREEMENT AND ALL SORTS OF SPENDING THAT WE HAVE THOSE
02:38:46 DISCUSSION NOT WE COME TO THE CONCLUSION TO SAY WHAT IS IT
02:38:50 THAT THE CITY CAN AFFORD TO LIVE WITHOUT DURING A BUDGET
02:38:54 DEFICIT TIME IN IT'S ACTUALLY THE MOST DIFFICULT CONVERSATION
02:38:58 NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE BUDGET DEFICITS BUT LET ALONE THE FACT
02:39:01 THAT LET ALONE THE FACT THAT WE HAD WE ARE HAVING A $643
02:39:05 MILLION OF DEFICITS THAT WE HAVE TO TACKLE FOR THE NEXT TWO
02:39:10 FISCAL YEARS AND IT IS NO SMALL FEAT AND AND THEREFORE AT TIMES
02:39:14 TO COME DOWN TO SAY WELL, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOW DEBATING
02:39:18 POTENTIALLY SAY FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, A POSITION POSITION
02:39:24 RECOMMENDATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS EIGHT THAT IS
02:39:28 300 AND 44,000 AND $623 OF ANNUAL SAVING AND THAT'S ALSO
02:39:35 ONGOING AND THAT IS A MANAGEMENT POSITION THAT'S BEEN
02:39:39 VACANT FOR FOUR YEARS. AND I'M JUST GIVING AN EXAMPLE
02:39:42 PLEASE DON'T PANIC AND IN AND SO AND SO IT SEEMS
02:39:49 SEEMINGLY IT'S IRRELEVANT TO THINK ABOUT HOW DO WE BALANCE A
02:39:55 $643 MILLION BUT CUMULATIVELY BIT BY BIT IT DOES MATTER.
02:39:59 AND SO I JUST KIND OF WANT US TO THINK ABOUT A BIG PICTURE.
02:40:04 I AM FINE AS I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
02:40:11 THAT IT IS I CONCUR. I CONCUR WITH YOU KNOW AS
02:40:14 REPAVING AS A PRIORITY IS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT.
02:40:18 IN FACT I ALSO CONCUR WITH SUPERVISOR WALTON'S AND I THINK
02:40:22 REALLY THIS ENTIRE COMMITTEE'S SENTIMENT IS THAT IT WAS
02:40:25 ALREADY HARD LIKE IT'S NOT LIKE WE SUPPORT THE CUTS THAT THE
02:40:30 MAYOR HAS PROPOSED EITHER THAT INCLUSIVE TO DEPARTMENT OF
02:40:33 PUBLIC WORKS AND BECAUSE IF I MAY SAY YOU KNOW I'M LOOKING AT
02:40:37 THIS IS HOW I'M ALSO LOOKING AT IT TOO IS THAT I'M LOOKING AT
02:40:41 THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS BUDGET OVERALL AND THEN ALONG
02:40:44 WITH THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST RECOMMENDATION BUT ALSO
02:40:48 THE MAYOR'S CUTS AND THE MAYOR'S CUTS THAT IS INCLUSIVE
02:40:49 OF WHAT WE JUST DISCUSSED YESTERDAY PROPOSITION G
02:40:53 AND THAT'S FOR THE MATERIAL TESTING CONTRACT.
02:40:57 AND SO WE SAW THAT WE MAY WANT TO RESTORE THOSE POSITIONS SO
02:41:03 IF I MAY RIGHT NOW I'M GOING TO PUT THIS AS AN EXAMPLE ON THE
02:41:06 FLOOR IF I COULD EITHER AS DIRECTOR SHAW OR DIRECTOR
02:41:11 CUTLER TO HELP US UNDERSTAND SHOULD WE SAY WE REJECT
02:41:15 PROPOSITION J CONTRACT FROM YESTERDAY AND SAY THAT WE WANT
02:41:20 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS TO RESTORE THOSE FTE THAT WE CUT
02:41:26 TO OFFSET HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD THAT BE?
02:41:30 >> HOW MUCH WAS THE COST INCURRED?
02:41:34 SOUNDS GOOD MR. ROBINSON GO AHEAD.
02:41:40 GOOD AFTERNOON. VERSUS PIERCE ROBINSON, CFO FOR
02:41:44 PUBLIC WORKS. >> THE TENOR POSITION IS THAT
02:41:49 ARE DELETED AND THE MAYOR'S BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR THE
02:41:50 MATERIALS TESTING LAB NINE OF WHICH ARE FILLED THE FUNDING
02:41:54 FOR THOSE POSITIONS COMES FROM CAPITAL PROJECTS SO I HAVE MY
02:42:00 FOLDER THERE THAT I DIDN'T GRAB WHEN I WHEN I STOOD UP
02:42:04 APPROXIMATELY $1 MILLION IN SAVINGS FOR THOSE PROJECTS
02:42:09 IS ALLOCATED AS IDENTIFIED BY THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE IS
02:42:13 ALLOCATED TO BE A FOR 116 PROJECTS RANGING FROM PUBLIC
02:42:19 WORKS PUC MTA REC PARK AND IN FACT PUC PUBLIC WORKS AND REC
02:42:25 PARK ARE THE THREE LARGEST CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MATERIALS
02:42:30 TESTING LAB. SO IN TERMS OF COST THERE WOULD
02:42:34 BE REALLY TWO ITEMS THE LAB ITSELF SAW A 25% RENTAL
02:42:38 INCREASE AND THAT IS ABOUT $45,000 PER FISCAL YEAR.
02:42:42 THAT'S THAT'S PENDING YOUR APPROVAL TODAY THERE IS AN
02:42:46 ADDITIONAL ITEM OF ABOUT A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS FOR
02:42:50 SOME UPGRADES FOR THE FOG ROOM IN THE TESTING LAB THAT WOULD
02:42:54 PROBABLY NEED TO HAVE TO HAPPEN IN THE SECOND YEAR.
02:42:57 SO IN TERMS OF ACTUALLY FINDING FUNDING FOR THOSE POSITIONS
02:43:01 ZERO BECAUSE THEY'RE FUNDED BY CAPITAL PROJECTS, WHAT WOULD
02:43:05 NEED TO BE ADDED IN THIS WOULD COME FROM WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE
02:43:09 BIT ABOUT OVERHEAD BUDGET. IT WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE
02:43:10 OVERHEAD BUDGET WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL INCREASE OF ABOUT
02:43:15 $45,000 OF WHICH THAT INCREASE APPROXIMATELY 20% GENERAL FUND
02:43:18 AND IF THERE ARE SOME OTHER REDUCTIONS WHICH WE'VE AGREED
02:43:20 TO WITH THE BOE WE CAN PROBABLY ABSORB THAT WITH NO ADDITIONAL
02:43:23 ADD BACK FUNDS NEEDED THE $250,000 FOR THE FOG ROOM I
02:43:26 WOULD NEED TO JUST SEE WHERE THE COST CUTS WERE.
02:43:30 THE RECOMMENDATIONS BY THIS COMMITTEE MAY OR MAY NOT LAND
02:43:33 AND WHERE WE'VE AGREED UPON WITH THE BOY.
02:43:35 SO I GUESS A VERY LONG WINDED ANSWER TO SAY THE ADDITIONAL
02:43:38 REQUIREMENTS THAT WOULD NEED TO BE FOUND BY THIS COMMITTEE
02:43:41 WOULD BE NOMINAL AND IN SO THANK YOU SO FOR EXAMPLE THAT
02:43:45 IT'S EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE LIKE IF WE WERE TO REJECT A CONTRACT
02:43:52 YESTERDAY LIKE RIGHT OFF THE BACK WE COULD THEN YOU KNOW
02:43:56 BECAUSE WHY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS HAS ACTUALLY
02:44:00 ALLOCATED FUNDING FOR THE CONTRACT SO IF WE WERE TO
02:44:04 REJECT A CONTRACT OUTRIGHT THAT MONEY IS STILL GOING TO BE
02:44:08 WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND THEN YOU CAN USE THAT
02:44:12 VERY SAME FUNDING TO REHIRE HIRED STAFF SUPERVISOR FOR ME
02:44:19 PROBABLY NOT BECAUSE THE FUNDING FOR THE LAB COMES FROM
02:44:23 CAPITAL PROJECTS AND A MAJORITY OF IT COMES FROM EITHER BOND
02:44:27 PROCEEDS OR PUC REVENUE BONDS. SO THAT RESTRICTED USE WOULD
02:44:31 ONLY BE THERE FOR IT WOULD HAVE TO BE USED FOR CAPITAL PROJECT
02:44:36 PURCHASE PURPOSES BECAUSE OF THE RESTRICTED NATURE OF THE
02:44:39 FUNDING SOURCES FOR THE LAB. >> YEAH, BUT MR. RAMOS AND THEN
02:44:40 YOU DID NOT ANSWER MY QUESTION THEN HOW DO WE THEN RESTORE IF
02:44:43 WE WANTED TO RESTORE THOSE FTE FEES WHERE IS THAT MONEY GOING
02:44:47 TO COME FROM? >> SO THOSE ARE CONSIDERED OFF
02:44:51 BUDGET POSITIONS. SO IF YOU LOOK IN THE BUDGET
02:44:54 THERE IS NO DOLLAR AMOUNT ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE
02:44:55 POSITIONS. THEIR FUNDING COMES FROM
02:44:58 DELIVERY OF CAPITAL PROJECTS. SO WHAT HAPPENS IS WE GET
02:45:02 CAPITAL PROJECT MONEY WHETHER IT'S FROM THE ETHER BOND
02:45:05 PROGRAM. >> SORRY TO INTERRUPT.
02:45:06 I GET WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IF THIS BODY IF THIS BODY WANTS TO
02:45:10 RESTORE THOSE POSITIONS, WHERE WOULD THAT MONEY COME FROM?
02:45:19 YOU DON'T HAVE THAT MONEY. SO WHAT THE WHERE THE MONEY
02:45:24 WOULD COME FROM IS IF I LOOK AT THE ANALYSIS ON THE PROPOSITION
02:45:30 J DONE BY THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE AND THE HIGHER LOW IT'S
02:45:33 ABOUT $1 MILLION. SO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS BY NOT
02:45:37 APPROVING THE PROPOSITION J THE SAVINGS FROM CONTRACTING OUT
02:45:41 WOULD NOT BE REALIZED IN THOSE CAPITAL PROJECTS.
02:45:45 SO THAT'S WHAT WOULD BE SO A PROJECT IF A PROJECT COST $10
02:45:51 AND $2 OF IT WAS THE MATERIAL TESTING LAB AND BY
02:45:55 APPROVING AND GOING FORWARD WITH THE PROPERTY IT'S A DOLLAR
02:45:58 . THAT $10 PROJECT WOULD GO FROM
02:46:01 $10 TO $9. YOU WOULD NOT REALIZE THE
02:46:02 SAVINGS ON CAPITAL PROJECTS. THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY WOULD
02:46:05 COME FROM. SO IT REALLY IT'S I'M NO I'M
02:46:09 NOT I CAN TELL BY THE REACTIONS I'M NOT EXPLAINING IT BUT IT'S
02:46:12 ALL ON THE CAPITAL PROJECT FROM CLIENT AND OR PUBLIC WORKS
02:46:16 FUNDING DIRECTOR KETTLER THANK YOU SOPHIA KETTLER FOR THE
02:46:23 MAYOR'S OFFICE. >> I DON'T GET IT.
02:46:24 YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK A DIFFERENT WAY AND HOPEFULLY NOT
02:46:27 INCORRECTLY THE GENERAL FUNDS COST DIRECTLY TO RESTORING
02:46:34 THESE POSITIONS IS $0. WHERE THE COST SHOWS UP IS THAT
02:46:38 IT WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE FOR US TO DELIVER CAPITAL PROJECTS
02:46:39 WHICH AS YOU KNOW ARE VERY EXPENSIVE FOR US TO DELIVER.
02:46:43 >> AND SO WE HAD KIND OF BEEN BANKING THOSE SAVINGS IN THINGS
02:46:46 LIKE OUR BOND PROJECT AND SO WE'LL MAKE THOSE IT WILL MEAN
02:46:50 THAT OUR BONDS DOLLARS DON'T GO AS FAR.
02:46:53 >> FOR EXAMPLE THE OTHER PLACE WHERE THERE IS A COST IS THINGS
02:46:57 THAT WE DECIDED NOT TO FUND IN THIS BUDGET BECAUSE OF THE
02:47:01 PROP J SO THAT THAT IS THE FOG ROOM AND THE RENT INCREASE
02:47:04 AND THOSE TWO WE CANNOT PUT ON THE CONSTRUCTION COST ON THE
02:47:12 CAPITAL DELIVERY COST AND SO THAT THAT WOULD BE A GENERAL
02:47:13 FUND COST THAT WE DO NEED TO BACKFILL.
02:47:16 >> AM I EXPLAINING MYSELF? YES, I AGREE AND THEREFORE WE
02:47:19 HAVE TO SOMEHOW THAT'S BODY IF WE WERE TO REJECT.
02:47:23 >> YES. THANK YOU.
02:47:26 >> IF WE WERE TO REJECT YESTERDAY'S PROP JAY CONTRACT
02:47:30 BY THIS BODY AND WE WANT BECAUSE THE GOAL IS SOMEHOW
02:47:34 WILL RESTORE THOSE FEES EVEN THOUGH IS NOT A DIRECT
02:47:38 CORRELATION AT SOME POINT THIS BODY WILL STILL HAVE TO FIGURE
02:47:42 OUT ROUGHLY ABOUT QUARTER MILLION $250,000 TO BACKFILL
02:47:45 THAT COST TO OFFSET B AND SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO THANK YOU I
02:47:54 KNOW IT'S A REALLY WRONG ABOUT WAY BECAUSE THAT THIS IS WHY
02:47:57 PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THE BUDGET IS COMPLICATED AND IT'S DIFFICULT
02:48:01 AND THAT LIKE EVERY YEAR THAT WE HAVE MADE IT SEEM EASY THAT
02:48:04 WE JUST SOMEHOW MAGICALLY COME UP WITH SOME FUNDING AND THAT
02:48:08 WE JUST BE ABLE TO HAVE APP LIKE SO CALLED APP BAGS AND WE
02:48:12 SHIFTING LIKE SOME OF THE FUNDING AND NOT RECOGNIZING
02:48:15 THAT THE CUTS HAVE TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE TO OFFSET THE THE
02:48:19 FUNDING OF THOSE POSITION. >> SO IF I MAY I'M JUST GOING
02:48:24 TO ZOOM IN TO WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS I'M
02:48:28 NOT TALKING ABOUT SORT OF ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL LIGHT
02:48:34 YOU KNOW, APPROACH WHICH SOME BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIRS DO
02:48:38 OFTEN AND I MYSELF INCLUDED AT TIMES.
02:48:42 BUT IN THIS MOMENT LET'S JUST LOOK AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
02:48:43 PUBLIC WORKS AND ONLY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
02:48:46 >> SO COLLEAGUES, IT MEANS THAT IF WE REJECT THE PROP JAY FROM
02:48:50 YESTERDAY THAT CONTRACT AND SAY HEY PUBLIC WORKS WE WANT YOU TO
02:48:54 RESTORE THOSE POSITIONS AT SOME POINT THAT HERE YOU HAVE TO
02:48:57 HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE TWO AT LEAST 250 THOUSAND
02:49:00 DOLLARS OF GENERAL FUND THAT WE CAN PUT BACK IN TO DEPARTMENT
02:49:08 OF PUBLIC WORKS TO BE ABLE TO TO FULFILL THAT OBLIGATION THAT
02:49:11 WE ARE COMMITTING. >> AM I SOMEBODY PLEASE
02:49:16 VALIDATE ME AND OF COURSE I'LL I SEE NODDING SO IS A REASON
02:49:22 WHY IT IS A PAINFUL CONVERSATION.
02:49:26 IT IS A REASON WHY LIKE GOING LINE BY LINE BUT DIRECTOR SHORT
02:49:29 ,CLEARLY YOU HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS ON THIS.
02:49:31 >> WELL THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHIME IN CHURCH
02:49:34 AND I THINK WE'VE ALREADY AGREED TO $4.7 MILLION
02:49:37 IN SAVINGS. SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO
02:49:41 TAKE THE $250,000 AND HAPPILY ACCEPT THE RESTORATION OF OUR
02:49:45 COLLEAGUES AND THAT FOGG ROOM FROM THE 4.7 MILLION THAT WE'VE
02:49:49 THAT WE'VE AGREED IN. >> AND I THINK THAT IS A
02:49:53 CHOICE. I AM NOT SAYING THAT THAT'S NOT
02:49:56 A CHOICE THAT I AM GOING TO RECOMMEND OUR COLLEAGUES TO
02:49:58 MAKE. I AM ONLY SIMPLY WALKING
02:50:01 THROUGH THIS REALLY PAINFUL PROCESS OF LIKE WELL
02:50:05 COLLEAGUES, IF YOU THINK IF WE THINK THAT WE'RE TAKING $4.7
02:50:08 MILLION OF COST SAVING ALREADY FROM DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
02:50:12 THEREFORE WE DO NOT NEED TO TAKE IN ANY MORE BECAUSE WE'RE
02:50:13 GOING TO BUT BUT I'M JUST A TAKE AGAIN THE OFFSETS OF WHAT
02:50:19 THAT ACTUALLY MEANS AND IN THAT IS $250,000 TO CHANGE YOU KNOW
02:50:23 IT IN THEY'RE GOING TO BE MORE OF THOSE DISCUSSION LIKE THIS
02:50:27 IS JUST A STARTING POINT AND BUT IF I MAY ALSO PUT
02:50:34 ANOTHER OUT THERE TO JUST BE TRANSPARENT BECAUSE I KNOW THAT
02:50:37 THERE'S REQUESTS OUT THERE STANDING RIGHT NOW IS THAT
02:50:41 THERE'S LIKE I THINK FOUR OF FIVE REQUESTS FOR 9976 WHICH IS
02:50:44 THE ENTRY LEVEL POSITIONS 1690 NINE 699 1699 16 THEY ARE ENTRY
02:50:53 LEVEL POSITIONS SPECIFICALLY FOR THOSE WHO WERE FORMALLY
02:50:58 INCARCERATED UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPUTY
02:50:59 UNDER THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND THAT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S
02:51:03 A INCLINATION OF HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT THESE 4 OR 5 A
02:51:08 9916 CAN BE PART OF THE DPW BUDGET AND WHICH I THINK
02:51:14 ROUGHLY ABOUT $300,000 AS WELL. >> AGAIN, I KNOW THAT'S ON
02:51:19 SOMEBODY'S LIST. >> IT'S NOT ON MINE BUT I KNOW
02:51:22 IT'S ON SOMEBODIES LIST. >> I'M GOING TO PUT IT OUT
02:51:24 THERE AND AGAIN I WANT TO URGE ALL OF US TO EVALUATE EIGHT
02:51:31 WHAT IS WHAT ARE YOUR PRIORITIES AND WHAT YOUR
02:51:34 THINKING ARE. >> BUT I ALSO WANT TO CLARIFY
02:51:38 SO SO WE WILL COME TO THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
02:51:42 I DO WANT TO CLARIFY ONE THING ABOUT THE ROLE OF BUDGET
02:51:43 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST AND THAT'S FOR ALL OF US TO
02:51:46 THINK ABOUT BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I THINK ABOUT THE BUDGET
02:51:49 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTS. >> I DO NOT VIEW THE BUDGET.
02:51:53 >> IT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE
02:51:54 ANALYST TO SOMEHOW LIKE HACKEL THE CITY DEPARTMENTS TO GIVE US
02:52:00 AS MUCH MONEY AS WE COULD SO THEN THE BOARD CAN SPEND
02:52:01 HOWEVER WAY WE WANT. THAT'S NOT REALLY HOW I VIEW
02:52:05 THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST THE WAY THE IDEAL
02:52:08 BUDGETS LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTS JOB IS THAT IN THEIR BEST LIGHT
02:52:12 OPINION WHAT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST FISCAL INTEREST OF THE
02:52:20 CITY AND HOW WE CAN RUN THE CITY IN THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY?
02:52:24 >> SOMETIMES WE CAN AND IT'S THE REASON WHY I BELIEVE
02:52:28 SOMETIMES WE CAN BE IN DISAGREEMENT WITH THE BUDGET
02:52:32 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST AND THAT YOU KNOW I DON'T THINK
02:52:33 THEY'RE DOING OUR BIDDING. WE CAN DISAGREE WITH THE BUDGET
02:52:39 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTS SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY HOW I ALSO
02:52:41 FEEL ABOUT THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST TO THAT
02:52:44 NOT TO ME. I'M ALWAYS EVEN THOUGH I LEAN
02:52:47 TOWARDS THEM IS BECAUSE THEIR OBJECTIVITY IT'S BECAUSE I
02:52:51 BELIEVE THEY'RE THEY'RE IMPARTIAL AND THEY'RE
02:52:55 BIPARTISAN SO TO SPEAK. IF WE'RE PARTIZAN IN ANY WAY I
02:52:56 GUESS WE DO YOU KNOW IN TERMS OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
02:52:59 AND EXECUTIVE BRANCH I AM REALLY ON MY SOAPBOX WHICH IS
02:53:03 RARE BUT IT'S JUST BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I AM
02:53:07 BEING TRANSPARENT THE WAY THAT I APPROACH IT.
02:53:10 I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT COLLEAGUES AS YOU APPROACH THIS
02:53:13 BUDGET YOU CAN ASK ANY QUESTIONS YOU WANT.
02:53:15 YOU CAN APPROACH ANY WAY YOU WANT.
02:53:18 THERE IS NO LIMIT IN MY OPINION BUT THERE CERTAINLY IS MY
02:53:22 INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY AND KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO BEST
02:53:25 APPROACH IT AND MY MY I WANT TO RECOMMEND AND I WANT TO OPEN
02:53:30 THE FLOOR FOR CONVERSATION WITH THIS COMMITTEE IS THAT IS A
02:53:34 REASON WHY I CONSTANTLY SAY LET'S CONTINUE THESE
02:53:37 CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE MAYBE THERE'S STILL A SECOND HALF OF
02:53:41 THE CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT'S GOING TO COME BEFORE US.
02:53:44 WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE BUDGET
02:53:47 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S REPORT.
02:53:48 COULD YOU LET US KNOW WHEN YOU WILL COME OUT WITH THAT REPORT
02:53:51 SOMETIME TODAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT AND AND DO YOU MIND GOING
02:53:56 THROUGH JUST QUICKLY I THINK WHAT OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS
02:54:00 ACTUALLY STILL FOR THE PUBLIC LIKE WHAT ARE TWO STILL THE
02:54:04 DEPARTMENTS THAT WE STILL HAVE TO EVALUATE?
02:54:07 >> MY APOLOGIES. I PUT YOU ON THE SPOT LIKE THAT
02:54:10 AND IT'S YES. >> SO THE REPORTS THAT WILL BE
02:54:19 COMING OUT TONIGHT INCLUDE THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, THE OFFICE OF
02:54:23 ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, THE DEPARTMENT
02:54:27 HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY, THE DEPARTMENT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD,
02:54:31 THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND THEIR FAMILIES THE
02:54:32 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELESSNESS AND SUPPORT OF HOUSING, THE
02:54:35 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. THE RECREATION AND PARKS
02:54:39 DEPARTMENT. POLICE.
02:54:39 FIRE AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
02:54:47 DEPARTMENT OF SHERIFF ACCOUNTABILITY.
02:54:48 THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY.
02:54:51 THE PUBLIC DEFENDER. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND ADULT
02:54:52 PROBATION AND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
02:54:55 >> THANK YOU AND COLLEAGUES I FOR MY EXPERIENCE I WANT TO
02:54:59 SHARE WITH YOU IS THAT KNOWING THE SECOND ROUND TYPICALLY AS
02:55:02 YOU CAN ACTUALLY IMAGINE WHAT WE CALL THE BIG SIX WHICH IS
02:55:06 POLICE, FIRE SHERIFF'S AND SOME OF THESE INCLUSIVE OF THAT IS
02:55:10 THAT LIGHT. THESE ARE THE CITY DEPARTMENTS
02:55:14 ARE VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE MORE THAN 85% OF THE CITY
02:55:17 DEPARTMENTS OPERATION IS REALLY PERSONNEL.
02:55:20 THIS IS NOT A LOT OF ROOM FOR US TO KIND OF THINK ABOUT
02:55:24 POTENTIAL REDUCTION. SO AGAIN, I JUST WANTED TO WALK
02:55:27 US THROUGH SO WITH THAT I WANT TO OPEN UP FOR DISCUSSION HOW
02:55:35 WE WOULD LIKE TO APPROACH NEXT .
02:55:45 >> SUPERVISOR WALTON THANK YOU CHAIR JANET WELL I KNOW I THINK
02:55:49 WE ALL HAVE VOICED OUR OPINIONS ALREADY.
02:55:53 I THINK SUPERVISOR PRESIDENT MELAMED AND I IF I'M NOT
02:55:57 MISTAKEN DON'T WANT TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
02:56:00 AND I THINK SUPERVISOR SOUDER RECOMMENDED MAYBE DOING THAT
02:56:04 RIGHT NOW. BUT I THINK WE HAD A DISCUSSION
02:56:05 ABOUT IT ALREADY. >> SO AS A STARTER THANK YOU.
02:56:13 I'M HAPPY TO DEFER TO THE CHAIR AND THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR
02:56:17 ALL THE INFORMATION AND EXPLANATION I STATED MY
02:56:18 INTENT ON ONE PARTICULAR ITEM AND AND BUT I'M HAPPY TO DEFER
02:56:24 THE PROCESS TO YOU. >> THANK YOU.
02:56:28 BUT I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT. LIKE I STILL THINK THAT IT IS
02:56:31 IMPORTANT TO ARTICULATE LIKE WHAT OUR PRIORITIES I'M NOT
02:56:35 SAYING WE SHOULD NOT EXPRESS THAT AT ALL AND OKAY SO IT
02:56:43 SOUNDS LIKE WE WILL NOT BE GOING LINE BY LINE SO THAT WE
02:56:46 DON'T HAVE TO PUT YOU THROUGH. BUT IT SOUNDS TO ME THAT THERE
02:56:51 IS ACTUALLY EXPRESS LIKE INTERESTS AND PRIORITIZATION
02:56:57 AND I THINK THAT WE HEARD IT LOUD AND CLEAR AND I THINK
02:56:58 THOSE ARE IMPORTANT FOR THE DEPARTMENT PUBLIC HERE AT HOME
02:57:02 AND PUBLIC WORKS TO KNOW AND FOR ME TO TO KNOW AND FOR
02:57:05 ALL OF US TO NOTE AND INCLUDING FOR THE COMPTROLLER AS WELL AS
02:57:09 THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST BECAUSE AT SOME POINT
02:57:10 COLLEAGUES THE TECHNICAL PARTS ABOUT IT IS THE COMPTROLLER
02:57:13 WILL ACTUALLY HAVE TO UNDERSTAND LINE BY LINE WHAT
02:57:16 ARE WE REJECTING AND WHAT ARE WE ARE ACCEPTING SO SIMILARLY
02:57:21 OF WHAT WE HAVE READ ON WEDNESDAY ON IS IT YESTERDAY OR
02:57:27 I FORGOT THAT WE WENT THROUGH LINE BY LINE OF WHICH ONE WE
02:57:32 ACCEPT FOR THE ENTERPRISE AGENCY.
02:57:33 YOU KNOW THE NUMBERS OF IT WE WILL DO ACTUALLY WE HAVE TO DO
02:57:36 ALL OF IT AND THERE WILL BE A SHEET FOR ALL OF YOU TO
02:57:40 EVALUATE AND AT WHICH POINT YOU CAN DECIDE AND SAY HEY CHURCH
02:57:44 AND THIS IS WHAT I HAVE SAID I WANT TO REJECT.
02:57:47 AND SO THERE'S STILL CONVERSATION THAT WE CAN
02:57:50 ACTUALLY HAVE. I JUST WANT TO SAY WE CAN DO
02:57:51 THAT. PRESIDENT BENJAMIN YEAH,
02:57:56 AND I'M SURE YOUR OFFICE HAS ALREADY CLARIFIED ALL OF THIS
02:58:00 AND I'M JUST BEHIND BEHIND ON THE CURVE BUT SO MONDAY WE DO
02:58:03 THIS EXERCISE WITH THE REMAINING DEPARTMENTS.
02:58:04 >> YEAH. TUESDAY IS BOARD YES WEDNESDAY
02:58:08 IS PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY. >> RIGHT.
02:58:12 AND THURSDAY TO THE EXTENT THAT THERE ARE REMAINING AREAS WE
02:58:16 MAY BE BRINGING DEPARTMENTS BACK WE ARE ALSO GOING TO SPEND
02:58:20 THE DAY I THINK YOU KNOW WE WILL HAVE A CLEARER VIEW OF
02:58:23 WHAT WHAT'S LEFT HOW MUCH MONEY HAS HAS BEEN SAVED AND AND
02:58:31 THAT'S THE DAY WHERE WE MIGHT BE VOTING ON THINGS.
02:58:35 >> THAT'S RIGHT. AND THEN I THINK THAT ON THAT
02:58:36 DAY THEN WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE LIKE IF NECESSARY WE THEN CAN
02:58:40 HAVE A LINE BY LINE DEBATE TO IF NECESSARY SO IT'S NOT SAID
02:58:43 AND DONE. SO THAT'S WHY I THINK THAT BOTH
02:58:47 SUPERVISOR WALTON AND PRESENT AMENDMENT ARE SAYING THAT WE
02:58:51 CAN CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATION.
02:58:52 SO WITH THAT SAID, I KNOW THAT DIRECTOR CUTLER HAS A TECHNICAL
02:58:55 ADJUSTMENT FOR US WHICH IS SPECIFIC AND AND SO I EMPHASIZE
02:59:02 TO KETTLER IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY QUICKLY ALSO WALK US THROUGH
02:59:05 WHAT THE TECHNICAL ADJUSTMENTS MEANT FOR THE BUDGET.
02:59:09 >> ABSOLUTELY SO IF YOU KETTLER FOR THE MAYOR'S BUDGET OFFICE
02:59:11 THIS IS OUR SECOND ROUND OF TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS AND SO AS
02:59:14 YOU CAN IMAGINE WHEN WE ARE TRYING TO BALANCE $1 BILLION
02:59:18 DEFICIT WE MOVE A LOT OF MONEY AROUND INTO VERY SPECIFIC CODES
02:59:21 AND WE MAKE ERRORS WHERE YOU KNOW WE WILL GO BACK AND SAY WE
02:59:28 ADDED REVENUE BUT NOT EXPENDITURE.
02:59:30 WE ADDED EXPENDITURE NOT REVENUE OR WE PUT IT IN THE
02:59:33 WRONG CATEGORY. SO THIS IS OUR NEXT ROUND OF
02:59:37 THESE YOU CAN SEE THE CODES ON PAGES THREE AND FOUR OF THE
02:59:43 PACKET. >> I WILL READ THROUGH THE
02:59:44 LETTER AND THEN TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF HIGHLIGHTS THAT I
02:59:47 REALLY WANT TO POINT OUT THAT ARE KIND OF CLOSER TO POLICY
02:59:50 DECISIONS. >> TECHNICAL ADJUSTMENTS
02:59:51 INCLUDE CORRECTING NON PERSONNEL EXPENSE SERVICES
02:59:55 EXPENDITURES AT THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, CORRECTING
02:59:58 EXPENDITURES IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE DEPARTMENT
03:00:01 OF PUBLIC WORKS ALIGNING REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES AT
03:00:03 THE MTA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF
03:00:06 ENVIRONMENT, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND MAYOR'S OFFICE
03:00:09 OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALIGNING REVENUES
03:00:10 AND EXPENDITURES FOR CITY BASELINES AT THE MUNICIPAL
03:00:14 TRANSPORTATION AGENCY PUBLIC LIBRARY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
03:00:17 WORKS HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY. THE DEPARTMENT OF EARLY
03:00:21 CHILDHOOD. THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN,
03:00:22 YOUTH AND THEIR FAMILIES. THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING
03:00:24 AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DUE TO DECREASED REVENUE DUE TO A
03:00:28 REDUCTION IN EXCESS ERAP REVENUE IN FISCAL 28 CORRECTING
03:00:32 CODES THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH CORRECTING AND UPDATING
03:00:36 POSITIONS IN HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENTS AND THE DEPARTMENT
03:00:40 OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THEN ALIGNING EXPENDITURES TO MATCH
03:00:44 FEDERAL REVENUES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
03:00:45 >> SO THERE ARE IN ALL OF THOSE WORDS TWO THINGS THAT I REALLY
03:00:49 WANTS TO HIGHLIGHT FOR YOU. THE FIRST IS A POLICY CHOICE
03:00:55 THAT WILL COME UP ON MONDAY IN THE BUDGET WE HAD PROPOSED
03:01:00 FUNDING NEW TURN OUT COATS FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OVER TWO
03:01:09 YEARS AND WE ARE AT THE SUGGESTION KIND OF
03:01:13 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CHAIR CHAN MOVING THE THE ASSUMPTION OF
03:01:17 WHEN WE WILL BUY ALL OF THOSE INTO THE FIRST YEAR AND SO
03:01:20 RATHER SO THAT IS REQUIRES BOTH MOVING MONEY FORWARD ON FUND
03:01:24 BALANCE WHERE WE DO HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY ON THE YEARS
03:01:27 AND THEN MOVING THE EXPENDITURE FORWARD SO THAT GROWS THE FIRE
03:01:31 DEPARTMENT BUDGET IN YEAR ONE AND REDUCES IT IN YEAR TWO.
03:01:33 >> THE OTHER THING IS IN THE FIRST ROUND OF TECHNICAL
03:01:36 ADJUSTMENTS WE FOUND AN ERROR IN HOW WE HAD BUDGETED THE MCO
03:01:42 RESERVE AND HAD MOVED IN YEAR TWO.
03:01:43 >> WE HAD MOVED THAT TO OFFSET SOME LOSS AS EXCESS ERAP FUNDS.
03:01:48 WE HAVE ABOUT 25 TO $30 MILLION IN REDUCED EXCESS IRF REVENUE
03:01:54 FROM THE STATE BUDGET SO WE ARE USING THAT ERROR IN MCO FUNDS
03:01:58 TO OFFSET THE LOSS OF EXCESS ERAP FUNDS AND SO ONE THING
03:02:05 THAT THAT DOES IS BECAUSE OUR REVENUES COME DOWN AND OUR
03:02:09 GENERAL FUND REVENUES COME DOWN THAT UNFORTUNATELY MEANS THAT
03:02:13 OUR BASELINES ASSUMPTIONS ALSO COME DOWN.
03:02:17 >> BUT BECAUSE WE HAVE GONE THROUGH A A GREAT DEAL OF WORK
03:02:20 WITH DEPARTMENTS AND WITH THIS BODY AND WITH THE THE PUBLIC ON
03:02:24 THINKING ABOUT WHERE WE WANT TO ALLOCATE BASELINE ALLOCATIONS.
03:02:28 >> WE ARE BACKFILLING USING OUR TIME TO JUST RESERVE
03:02:33 BACKFILLING THE DOLLARS THAT USED TO BE BASELINE TAGGED
03:02:36 AND KEEPING THE SPENDING LEVELS THE SAME IN THOSE DEPARTMENTS
03:02:40 SO THAT WE DO NOT NEED TO AT THIS POINT GO THROUGH AND CUT A
03:02:43 NUMBER OF DEPARTMENTS BACK DOWN TO THEIR BASELINES WITHOUT A
03:02:47 GOOD PROCESS ON HOW WE WOULD DECIDE WHAT THOSE CUTS ARE.
03:02:51 >> SO WE ARE NOW OVER FUNDING A NUMBER OF BASELINES RELATIVE TO
03:02:55 OUR EXPECTED ADR IN YEAR TWO BECAUSE OF THE REDUCED ACCESS
03:02:59 EVEREST REVENUE AND SO WE ARE BACKFILLING THAT WITH REGULAR
03:03:03 GENERAL FUND. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY OH SO
03:03:04 THIS SET OF TECHNICAL ADJUSTMENTS WILL INCREASE THE
03:03:07 PROPOSED FISCAL 27 BUDGET BY $494,288 AND IT WILL DECREASE
03:03:14 THE FISCAL 28 BUDGET BY 6,005,083 583,500 AND $80
03:03:22 IN FISCAL 28 AND RESULTS IN A COST OF 3,000,687 THOUSAND $860
03:03:30 IN FISCAL 27 AND A SAVINGS OF 1,654,479 IN FISCAL 28 AND OVER
03:03:37 THE TWO YEARS THE NET IMPACT WILL BE A GENERAL FUND COST OF
03:03:43 $2,033,381 I I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS EITHER IN THE
03:03:48 CHAMBERS OR OUTSIDE. THANK YOU SUPERVISOR WALTON
03:03:51 THANK YOU CHAIR AND THANK YOU SO MUCH TO OUR BUDGET DIRECTOR.
03:03:55 I JUST WANTED TO CORRECT SOMETHING THAT I THINK YOU SAID
03:03:59 MANAGING OR TRYING TO ADDRESS $1 BILLION DEFICIT IS A HANDFUL
03:04:04 BUT WE DO NOT HAVE $1 BILLION DEFICIT HERE.
03:04:06 >> NOT ANYMORE. YOU ARE CORRECT.
03:04:08 THANK YOU FOR NEXT YEAR OR THIS YEAR'S BUDGET CYCLE.
03:04:11 >> BUT WE DID SAY WE STARTED THIS BUDGET CYCLE BACK
03:04:14 IN DECEMBER WITH A NEAR BILLION DOLLAR EXPECTED DEFICIT.
03:04:17 >> SO AND WE'VE ALL DONE AMAZING WORK TO ENSURE THAT
03:04:18 THANK YOU FOR YOUR VACATION. APPRECIATE IT.
03:04:22 THANK YOU. AND I JUST TO IN SUMMARY THOUGH
03:04:25 AND TO CONFIRM IT DOES MEANS THAT THE BUDGET TECHNICALLY NOW
03:04:30 HAS GROWN BY TO ROUGHLY $2 BILLION.
03:04:33 >> YES. THANK YOU.
03:04:36 THANK YOU. AND SO WITH THAT MR. CLERK, DO
03:04:40 YOU HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR US?
03:04:44 MADAM CHAIR, IF IF IT IS OUR INTENTION TO TO CLOSE THE
03:04:49 MEETING TODAY THEN WE ARE I WILL MEET A MOTION THAT THE
03:04:55 UNDECIDED ITEMS LEFT ON OUR AGENDA WHICH IS ONE THROUGH
03:04:59 THREE ARE ITEMS ONE THROUGH 318 AND 23 AND 24 BE CARRIED TO OUR
03:05:06 JUNE 22ND MEETING AND THAT THIS MEETING BE RECESSED UNTIL THEN
03:05:10 SO MOVE SECOND. >> AND ON THAT MOTION BY CHAIR
03:05:13 CHAN SECONDED BY VICE CHAIR DORSEY AND VICE CHAIR DORSEY
03:05:17 DORSEY MEMBER SAUTER SAUTER I MEMBER WALTON WALTON I REMEMBER
03:05:24 OH SORRY MEMBER MIDDLEMAN MIDDLEMAN I CHURCH IN HIGH
03:05:30 CHENNAI WE HAVE FIVE EYES THE MOTION PASSES AND MR. CLERK DO
03:05:32 WE HAVE ANY OTHER BUSINESS BEFORE US TODAY?
03:05:35 MADAM CHAIR CONCLUDES HER BUSINESS THE MEETING IS
03:05:38 ADJOURNED. OH, SORRY.
03:05:39 NOT ADJOURNED. RECESS.
03:05:40 SORRY. RESENT THAT.
03:05:41 THE MEETING IS IN RECESS. THANK YOU.
03:05:44 >> WE WILL RETURN ON MONDAY