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Something like that. Mirium. And svilen. Kimerly cross and macever and lamb bright and trailer. The first one in that Group Feel Free to come forward everyone is going to have a few minutes to speak. You know, inaudible [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] my name is maria, and i work with the organization inaudible [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] this is the very important issue. We work with women, with immigrant women that have been victims of Domestic Violence. And sexual abuse. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] the women are going through this very hard issues is the very stressed and it is very important to them to have this support and so we have a program in which you provide the businesses in their own language and we also go with them to do the things that they have to do. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] this woman, we get them and help them and support them to do the issues that they have to do and we also prepare them and help them to become the mentors for the women. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] we build partnerships and Like Alliance with this woman and we helped them to by having this relationship, with them, we help them to have study relationship and the services are permanent and it is better for them to imp ovrish the woman. Thank you very much. Next speaker please . [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] my name is Maria Hernandez and i work with inaudible . [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] and i am here as the survivor and also with my commitment to help the community and one of my commitments. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] inaudible first helped me with my situation of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. But they also trained me to help other women in my community. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] that is why for all that this is very important to keep our Sexual Assault crisis hot line and our programs of Domestic Violence. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] i just want to tell you that Domestic Violence effects all of us, and that is why we want to keep this movement, thank you. Next speaker please . Thank you very much. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ]. Good morning my name is mirian kim. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] i am a Domestic Violence survivor. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] thanks to inaudible i was able to get therapy and to have help me. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] and also my two kids have. And mental help therapy. And when i got there i was with them and i didnt want to continue with life. Thanks to inaudible i am still here. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] im now i still want to support other women, and thanks for your support. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please . Good afternoon, supervisors and im billy cross from the cooperative retraining order clinic, we assist survivors in obtaining retraining orders and child and custody support orders. The last time that i spoke when we were looking at the District Attorney supply menal and i thanked you and want to thank you again for recognizing that many survivors choose not to access the criminal legal but still have needs and want to get safety through that and whether that is retraining orders or divorce or support and i appreciate that you recognize that that need is there and looking at this augmented funding. Earlier when i heard you talking with the Planning Department and i saw these huge numbers that you were looking at and approving, it is very abstract to me. But when i look at it increase to my agency of 100,000, i get nervous, look at me i am getting red. That is so much money to my organization and to me. It is very significant. As soon as i know that this has passed, i will be able to immediately postfor a bi lingual spanish attorney to join our staff and that is going to increase services and increase our ability to provide services for that community. And i want to thank you for considering this. If you have any questions about our services i am happy to answer that whether that is now or later. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Please . Good afternoon, mary maceva with the voluntary Legal Services program. We provide legal representations to over 250 survivors of Domestic Violence each year. Our services are provided through volunteers and many of the clients are mono linguals and so therefore we maintain a interpreter panel so that we can serve the mono lingual clients. The funding that you are voting on today will help us sustain the level of services that we are currently providing and if it is annualized we look to increase the staffing for the project. And we also look to use the funding to give more resources to our volunteers who are litigating these cases. And in many of these cases, our clients are up against, opposing parties who have significant amount of money, and they like to use that money to continue to batter our clients. What they will do is they will get expert psychological evaluations involving custody matters and our clients do not have the resources to refute those evaluations. With this funding we hope to be able to fund some of those evaluations so that our clients are better prepared to fight these abusers. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, my name is stacy lambbright and i work at bay area legal aid as a staff attorney in the Domestic Violence family law unit where i help the low income survivors get retraining orders, divorces, custody orders, support orders so that they can, so that they and their children can be free from abuse. Legal Service Corporation is our pry primary funder and our lsd funds have been cut for the calendar year 2013 by 8 percent and this has resulted to a loss of legal aid of 225,000. Additionally we may lose cdbg and other government funding due to sequestration. These funds will be vital in maintaining our Current Service level and will allow us to hire an additional attorney, which is something that we would not be able to do if we do not receive these funds at this critical time. And given the current fiscal and uncertainties at the federal level, this funding will help solidify the Domestic Violence and Legal Services for low income survivors in San Francisco. On behalf of each of my clients in the bay area and legal aid i want to thank each of you thanks. Next speaker, please . Good morning, im taylor with inaudible out reach and thank you again for bringing this forward supervisor cohen and all of you for supporting this legislation. We provide a wholistic Legal Services to primarily the api community in San Francisco, but to most communities, San Francisco and we have been working in the Domestic Violence area for over 30 years and you know that lawyers are not the answer and many of you are attorneys and have chosen to be policy makers and political leaders instead, but, we are part of a Necessary Network of services and when you address the criminal Justice System and you go down with the District Attorney, it is also important to remember that the aftermath of the criminal Justice System whether it be prosecution or defense are the families, the women and children that we serve. And we are the ones that are out there on the ground, in the community, serving those needs that probably are more hidden from the public than most. And it is a tough time for all of us. Budget wise, but for, those of us who represent survivors in court, if you have noticed that the courts are substantially reduced in the capacities it is particularly difficult for those women or survivors who are not English Speaking and are low income, there are no court reporters, so that we are constantly waiting to get into court and there are no translators so that the resources, our resources are called on by the court and so in closing, let me just tell you our appreciation for renewing the commitment of San Francisco to eliminating Domestic Violence, this is a progressive and enlightened city and there is no room in this city for violence against women, thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please . Good afternoon, supervisors Beverly Upton San Francisco Domestic Violence, and i would like to thank supervisor cohen for her leadership and supervisor chiu and everybody on the committee for ending all violence against women. I want to thank the department and the status of women and the commission on the status of women, i think that under the leadership of dr. Murase we have seen unprecedented healing and moving forward on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault policies, this is all part of this package to move San Francisco in the direction that it needs to go. We all know that we are headed in the right directions, and i really just want to thank my colleagues for their fine work . You know, it is very rare that we can get, a representative from every legal agency that does this work at the table. But they made time today because how important it is. And inaudible voluntary Legal Services, proc, and inaudible bay legal aid form the safety net to all of the constituents that you have in your districts to every survivor in every zip code. So we are here to thank you. And we know San Francisco cares. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Any other members of the public that wish to speak on item number 9 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor cohen do you have any other comments . Yes, thank you, i wanted to say thank you to the advocates that have come out and also Community Members that have speak to such an important item. As a mentioned in the program of the full board a couple of weeks ago when this item was discussed. I think that these funds are needed to insure that we have a Robust Community network of providers that can work with victims of Domestic Violence and their families to get the appropriate legal representation they need and as well as have culturally competent resources afforded to them. So colleagues, please, consider this. Thank you. Comments . Questions . I will just say that im going to be supportive here, absolutely. You know, i do think that especially that we have in the budget season in earnest and a lot of supplementals are also coming forward. It is something that we need to be cautious about and i think that for the Domestic Community we need to do a lot of things in the healing and i need to be supportive here. The motion to move approval . Item number 9 . I will second it and i want to thank the mayors budget staff for expressing what the mayors interest is and analyzing these services for the next year. Okay. Thank you very much and we can do that without opposition. Mr. Clerk, could you call item number 8 . Item 8. Ordinance amending the San Francisco administrative code to reskend the sunset clause in the San Francisco bonding and financing Assistance Program, making technical amendment and environmental findings. Thank you we have mr. Hansen here from the administrators office. Thank you, before i begin with a short presentation, i would like to request a technical acommendment to the description of the item. It appears that a few extra words made it on the end. It should end with make technical amendments and there are two statements make environmentals and findings of consistentcy with general plan that should be removed. I appreciate that amendment to the description. Okay. So thank you. We are here today to talk about the city wide surty bond and financial guarantee Assistance Program and i will start with a brief history of the program. It was formally established in 1997 to provide small contractors vying for City Construction contracts assistance in abstaining the guarantees required to compete for those contracts. The eligibility is based upon several factors and has caught a 5 in the 14 d ordinance and it is for local Business Enterprises that are citybased contractors. This program was adopted and amended in 2008 to create a selfinsurance fund for the citys portion of the guarantees, that we back on behalf of these contracting partners for the surty companies that they do business with. And that has provided some administrative stream lining to the program. And the structure is such that there is a Program Administrator who does work with the contractors and their brokers directly. There is a support component and a monitoring component to it as well. And you can see these various bullet points here. There are Financial Assistance with getting certified Financial Statements and there is assess ans with the cloteral for the bond guarantees and funds and program wide assistance through the term of the contracted bond amount. And so that is the operational component of it. The pending legislation before you provides a technical clean up to 14 b, basically acknowledging the transfer of function for the City Administrator Office from the Human Rights Commission of the program and also removes the sunset data of the program. The operational effect to remove the sunset date would help us in the administrative and operational process by taking additional costs out of the process. And processes. By performing duplicative letters of credit transactions where we cannot extend a contract or a bond for an overlapping term of either the letter of credit, sunset or the program sunset. So it creates an operational hurtle by having those dates in there and additional costs. What we will continue to do, post transfer of function is to take a look at the program further, take a look at what other stream lining options we have in the process. We will be working with Controllers Office in the City Attorneys Office to take a look at what we can do under the current code and perhaps come back with future recommendations. But this one was some what of a no brainer in the beginning. We just wanted to make sure that this was done since the sunset is coming up in june and that right now, is hindering transactions with that date in the ordinance. So with that i will take questions. Colleagues any questions on item number 8 . Great. Seeing none, we will go to the budget and Analyst Report. Mr. Chair, i do have one question. Supervisor mar . I just wanted to ask what is the effectiveness of this program in supporting local Business Enterprises and this small guy contractors . Yeah, thank you for that. It has been significantly effective and i believe that the budget Analyst Report actually has cotified that in real dollars and while there is a net cost to the city there is documented contracting and savings by having the ldes participate in the contracting process. Are there like members of the local firms that have been supported and that this program can point to of success besides being financially successful for the city and how has it impacted the small contractors . Yes, thank you for that as well. The success of the program is not only in the dollars, it really is not a money maker if you will. It is not something that we have set out to gain savings but that is a nice operational effect. Of having this program. What it does, is it really educates the small contracting community. Whether or not they actually wind up getting bonded through the program t provides the assistance to the contractor, to get certified financially and to make sure that they understand the process of bonding that they understand the process of contracting with governmental agencies and really gives them the program wherewithal to participate in the process. Thank you very much. We will go to the Analyst Report. I am in page 38 of our report, we report that the in table five shows that the city administrator projected fiscal year, 1314 year budget which approximates the cost of the city in this program is 740,000 dollars, and that would be the cost or the estimated cost of it making this program permanent. And with respect to the committees questions regarding the savings, we point out on page 39, of our report, that this is in table six. That based on information provided by meryweather and williams, the surety bond generated 1. 3 million in city awarded contracts savings between 0809 and 1112, that is based on the difference between the low bid submitted by participating lbes and the Second Lowest bid. So that would partially offset, the estimated 2. 6 Million Dollar cost to the city of operating this program over the period from fiscal year 0809 to 1112. We will consider the approval of this ordinance to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors. Thank you. Colleagues any questions . Okay. At this point i like to open up to Public Comment. Is there any member of the public to comment on item 8 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. City attorney, i am sorry, we are going to reopen Public Comment. You know what . I did have that. Is this miss tan . Thank you very much. You did spell it, you filled out a card. Great opportunity to speak her, i have inaudible my name is nina tan, a San Francisco resident and a inaudible of management, a small, woman owned construction business. inaudible is my to present my district and thank you all for your great work. And five years ago when the economy start to slow down, all funding comes, job, or small contractors like me, and we are too high of a risk. As you all know in all of the contractors to be a government construction project you need to have a inaudible . And when the Bonding Companies deny us a bonding, we had nowhere to go only one action, close the door for our business. And i have known inaudible and williams for four years. And they have worked with me and other small inaudible like us to inaudible coaching and sustainability that inaudible bonding guarantees for the Bonding Companies and end the wider and issue bonds to us. Also inaudible banker, cpa to conduct inaudible for us so that we can become more business savvy. They also inaudible representative from the city organizations such as office of labor stand of enforcement and Human Rights Commission to talk to us about the city regularization and requirements, we meet inaudible and williams to help us go without them, my company and many other small contractors will have to be closed by many other business throughout the united states. And closed in the inaudible . Because of inaudible we not only close our business we expanded and go from no employee to 5 employee now. Who are all local high, San Francisco residents, we also inaudible program for new hire. Mary weather and williams helped us and many others like us, by providing the services that they only unique to this great city. We need mary weather and williams to stay on board so other new Small Construction Company can benefit from that expanse and knowledge. I report fully across the board to extend the current contract with mary weather and williams for another three years. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Any other speakers in okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues i have a technical amendment requested by the City Attorney, mr. Gibner . Deputy City Attorney john gibner. Just a clarification that the amepdment to the title should remove the words and finding with consistency of general plans but you could leave in the difference to the Environmental Planning which are in section one of the ordinance. Okay. Colleagues this is technical amendment could you do that without opposition . Yes. That is so moved. And could we have a motion to approve number eight as amended . So moved. And we can do that without opposition. Thank you very much. Could you call item number ten. Resolution to authorize the Mayors Office of housing to submit an application to the California Department of housing and Community Development for funding under Cal Home Program, the execution of a standard agreement as selected for such fund and any amendments there to. Thank you, welcome. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is ryan chiu for the director of development and housing. Over the last few years the state has authorized funding for the Cal Home Program which allowed them to apply for money for Single Family home we have and for the assistance targeted to families earning at 80 percent ami or lower, the city has been successful in the last four or five. The last offering of the state was in 2011, and they are offering this program in 2013 as a condition of our application. We are required to submit a resolution from the board authorizing us to apply. The limit is 1. 5 million and that is what we are applying for and we are successful in receiving the full amount over the past four years, we split the amount so that 750,000 goes to down payment assistance for the owners who are purchasing the below market rate units and 750,000 goes toward Single Family home owners primarily senior and family whose need those dollars for their Single Family we have and it has been an excellent source of Additional Support for these programs. And each year, the state says that it may be the last year, and we thought last time around might be the last one but we have one more round and so we would like your permission and approval to submit the attached resolution, and i understand that speaking with the legislative Clerks Office and the language in this resolution not only includes apply for, but also includes language authorizing the exexcusing of the agreements and i know that that is a

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