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Addition to getting the dhs dhs that was changed and the change now to allow annex approval as long as as long as you have the salaries to cover and thats why it is important to have sufficient money in our budget if you dont youll not been able to fill the budgeted positions. Thank you, mr. Chair one other comment the gentleman when we came before i last year, he knew the rules the rules were that the Mayors Office was going to hold up he couldnt fill those positions in an expressed basis he know that at this point yet he told you he didnt absorb the attrition savings we proved were significantly more but ended up with a 400,000 surplus today, we agree he can higher those position without the Mayor Holding up the position were making a similar recommendations based on the new rules we acknowledge. So based on the new rules well not have a delay i think mr. Rose made my case. I said we considered the new rules and came up with a significant similarly savings and maybe there if im still alive weve come back to the committee replay our testimony and see who was right. Okay supervisor yee more comments. Okay supervisor mar. Thank you, thank you both of you im not concerned about who is right or wrong sir, you mentioned youre all right short a significant amount in salaries can you reiterate what that number is. Right if you here ill put it up on the screen here all right. As you can see here that we if our attrition is increased our salaries are decreased and if look at those are the 9 positions of individuals resigning retiring or leaving the department and as you can see our targeted amount of attrition is 706,000 plus the projected deficit before the budget analyst recommendation is going to be 400,000 plus so day one july 1st ive already got to begin to save that 400,000 i will but if you add again the 2 hundred 6701 to that state will increase you know is deficit in salary savings i dont want to come back weve work hard with kate howard and the Mayors Office mayors budget analyst to determine the correct amount of savings supervisor farrell was the chair of the committee and told me you better not be back here for a supplemental weve at the time e set the attrition and im here to make sure we can cover the costs. Youve already mentioned that your staff or your attorneys were at will im glad that got resolved so hiring the clerk attorneys or body camera staff a process i believe that some of the positions d h r and youve signed off on and you mentioned a lack of fairness for the City Attorney or the da and the cuts awe transmission suzettes cuts are not proposed for other departments can you elaborate. From the theory of the budget analyst if you have salary surplus at the end of the year your attrition should be increased eir represent of the needs youve shown that is not fair if you apply it to one department i dont hear mr. Rose making the argument with other law departments theyre getting a 200000 increase but the public defenders for a decrease on top of the da is getting 5. 6 percent were getting 3 percent your creating an inequality between the public defender and the City Attorney. Mr. Chairman it is so misleading on the part of a to tell you to compare the District Attorney and the City Attorney in terms of our recommendations we looked at each dependent on an individual basis and if there are salary saves with the District Attorney or the City Attorney well recommend the salary savings be achieved we give you our honest objective recommendations of each department and to make this comparison is totally unequivocal ably misleading. Thank you, thank you very much commissioner tang. Thank you i do want to concur that i from my understanding the da and the City Attorney took the cost of attrition im trying to figure out a path forward i agree what supervisor farrell i hope not to see you for a supplemental i want to give you an amount of attrition to help you chief our goals the 400,000 deficit youve predicted im assuming the assumption youre trying to hire someone by july 1st; is that correct. Lecturer with mr. Roses analyst said no way that the public defender will higher r hire those 3 attorneys despite the fact he told me told him weve started the whole process and we would have those people on july 1st so we disbelieved me they asked for letters i sent them letters that attrition argument he made disappeared and he came up with a new one. No matter what you told the Committee Last year it was on tape not out of thin air. Gentlemen thank you. Im trying to figure out a compromise here with the i guess the expedited hiring process you believe sir you, hire you can fill our staff positions by july 1st and the other side disagrees can we give you a level of attrition there maybe details in hire is there a level youll be comfortable with the 13,000. I wasnt clear the employees have been hired so theyre starting on july 1st there is no detail and ive provided the letters that are microwave mansions with the contracts my requests is that the budget analyst requests that our salaries be reduced by 26701 and be rejected in its entire outlet. Supervisor wiener. Thank you. I have first of all i agree with mr. Rose those two departments have to be looked at separately ive had disagreements with the gentleman the da has to have the same those departments are unique and they handle one percent of the criminal cases and the City Attorney doesnt handle criminal cases ive not always did with the gentleman but i agree with the gentleman it is not a Civil Services hiring process the department as significant control over the timing and so for the i will make a motion to accept the budget analyst cut recommendations with the two exceptions that the gentleman has pointed out related to the attrition savings and the manage 3 positions. Ill second and okay motion by supervisor wiener and seconded by supervisor mar colleagues any discussion do we need a roll call vote or can we take that without objection . Okay well take that without objection. Okay. We have department of Emergency Management and the department of technology. Good afternoon supervisor farrell and members of the board of education and the director im here with the department of emergency i want to thank harvey rose and his staff weve tried to come to a consensus and agree what the budget analyst recommendation for 20152016 in the 45,000 plus allocation or reduction and 2016201732 thousand dollars plus what we cant agree to the proposed reductions in our 911 Communications Area i believe that most of ive briefed over the past three or four years our call volume has increased by 1 3rd 3 hundred thousand calls a year more than we used to have overtime budget this curiosity year was one point 20th century 1 million but weve spent more we had to came back for a supplemental to this board we thank you for that Service Standards for answering 911 calls within 90 percent need to be answered within 10 seconds last year at this time we were reaching 69 percent of the calls being answered within ten seconds thats not acceptable to the residents of San Francisco more our First Responder in fire police and sheriff were the unseen First Responders if you will, and so i think that is important for the board to understand that we very aggressively work to bring our numbers up this year in terms of the call swerz were hoover about 81 or 82 percent of our calls answered between 10 seconds were proud of that at the same time, we have created efficiency within the departments that are prosperity is about 15 percent higher than two years ago the bottom line here is that weve done that through theus use of over time we have two Academy Classes scheduled next year but the reality from the time a class is seated in this case, the 12 will be seated in september its a full year before they hit the floor we appreciate the new dispatcher classes that are planned for the coming year it will not impact our Service Levels for 20152016 so i respectfully ask you do not support those both the attrition and over times recommendations of the budget analyst for 20152016 and 20162017. Ill be happy to answer any questions. Thank you, maam. Colleagues, any questions before we go to mr. Roses report. Okay mr. Rose on dem. The recommendations total 258 in 20152016 and 191 plus in 20162017. The disagreements are page 1017 of the report we stated to reduce the over time budget by 291 and the over time job budget increase to account for higher over times to address the overtime the 20152016 budget includes 2 classes to bring up to 24 communication dispatchers those new hires will be offset by expected retirements and separation in 20152016 department is increase the temporary backfills the savings is 1 other 7 plus and the total recommended savings of 1015 plus we suggest you adjust the numbers with the surplus of 7 hundred plus the department increased the attrition savings to allow for increased hire. Thank you, mr. Rose colleagues any questions for mr. Rose. Maam, any response. One thing in the attrition savings this is a been recommended by the budget analyst is. 77 percent i believe and from our calculations that means the second class this year instead of be able or being able to hire 6 well hire 9 dpaefrnz weve worked with the players on the hiring plan as police and fire have we believe that weve made a very justified budget we didnt you couldnt ask for more than what we need but based on our past performance and spending. Thank you, maam supervisor tang. Thank you. I just wanted to thank you, director for briefing United States i us ahead of time i understand what youve said this is an unseen and upper sunk heros in Emergency Services i very much agree with all the information youve provided me i would like to make a motion to accept i believe in year one 8000 plus in terms of the cuts savings attrition as well the overtime and in year two a cut of 32,000 plus. Thank you supervisor i believe the first year cut we agree to say 45,000 plus because one of the savings was not in our one the proposed recommendations from the budget analyst was not part of communications it was in our admin area we it is 911 in terms of not having the cuts. Through the chair i rise my motion to 45,000 plus and year two 32 thousand. Motion by supervisor tang supervisor mar any further discussion well take that without objection. Thank you very much. Thank you very much supervisors. Okay. Now our department of technology. Colleagues supervisor wiener had to leave to do a vote on Land Use Commission hes able to come back well resend that vote and make it again, sir you dont why not getting to our discussion. Good afternoon. Thank you supervisor farrell and supervisors i too want to start off by changing mr. Rose and his office for all the hard work but in addition to the typical work i think weve posed a unique challenge were a department in significant transition that contributed to all the work that went on to acknowledge that as part of the budget request weve excused even at recess and received an adjusted proposal from mr. Roses office a few 340789s before this session but unfortunately, we are in disagreement. Okay sir mr. Rose. Does the Department Agree with any of our recommendations and weve suggested to mr. Roses office was to get a categorically look at additional attrition and also a reduction to current expenses line items like support contracts and Enterprise Agreement but we will have to go to smaller departments and ask them to selffund their departments. One second to that dollar amount you came to the two nebraskas numbers together are 675,000. In year one and two. Yes, sir. The additional attrition that creates challenges i can articulate but nevertheless well figure out how to work with that and the 375 contract items weve offend that number to mr. Roses office. I want to make sure we have those zucchinis what youll or comfortable with 675 those are ongoing savings i want to hear from mr. Roses office the discussion on that and well have it discussion here. Yes. Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee the totals recommended reduction in 20152016 are 2 million plus excuse me. Im sorry one Million Dollars plus i stand corrected for 20152016 and in 20162017873325 the department disagrees with all our recommendations, however i can deliver our recommendations whatever up to the committee. Colleagues, any deduction comes from mr. Rose. Supervisor tang. I guess the comment again, i spent time speaking with the director not only prior 0 this budget a hearing but him entering his new role and ill say that you know ill agree with the attrition of 300,000 every year i feel all the years as on the board of supervisors why they cant do this and i understand there are a lot of vacancies and positions id like to give the new director the opportunity to fill those positions and do all the things that are asked of him i know that is a tall order i know were quite a ways off but i feel especially with our department of Technology Year by year in terms of the cuts weve given to this department we should put the money where our ideas are and have the room to expand on ideas again, i know were quite a ways off ill side with the department on this one. Okay supervisor mar. I would support supervisor tangs suggestion i do know that as we try to expand our reach to low income communities throughout sf whiff our city has Great Potential in alledgedly the broadband to the homes to all the public sites is big task and having an adequate staff and operations for the departments is incredible and other mayors are looking at San Francisco my hope we support the gentleman and the 3 hundred plus 75 thousand ill wish supportive of that. Thank you supervisor mar and ill echo that obviously the gentleman eye i and i have worked on initiatives from whiff and other broadband into the home i know our budget analyst did a good job we have a department in transition and my colleagues had indicated i want to give you as much leeway as possible i remember coming out the board of supervisors unloading the announcements weve come a long ways so oil support this Going Forward so i know that supervisor tang i dont know if youve formally made a motion ill allow supervisor wiener up on the mike first. Thank you mr. Chairman i want to reiterate your comments ill one up you i started with cc mail if anyone remembers that i have a i really want to support the department of technology ive had krichlgz over time i dont feel it moved quickly enough to implement policies nevertheless of the structure build out of wifi and i feel like there is finally momentum happening 53 we should support that and if there is clearly a lack of urgency around hiring in the past that seems to be changing i dont think we should tar the gentlemans that you have ill consider eating the paper with mr. Rose if im wrongs but ill think about it so ill be supporting the department today. Thank you, supervisor supervisor tang you want to make the motion. Ill make the formal motion of the cut of 6 hundred and 75 thousand for the different technology. We have that motion as previously discusses a second by supervisor mar and sounds like well take that without objection. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Rose unless im mistaken. Youre correct mr. Chairman weve completed all the departments there is still a lot more work to do but thank you, mr. Rose and so colleagues 1, 2, 3 here id like to entertain a motion. Mr. Chairman can i ask for to reopen the Police Budget and ill give my reasons for why to do this so i think that is important we placed on reserve i think that was about 2 million for the cameras bending the completion of the task force id like to make a similar motion on two of the Academy Classes that police car roman theldzfields in salaries and Fringe Benefits for fiscal year 20152016 pending the completion of the plans for training all the officers for the deputy chief ali had a meeting and the chief suhr said will be in place very soon if not right away but my hope to support the Police Department to develop that anti bias train given the racism homophobic texting and to make sure we element bias from the police and the Justice System to reopen the Police Budget in other words to reinsert that motion to put 2 million plus in reserve for the two i guess fourth and fifth police Academy Classes as mentioned in Public Safety hearing on thursday and as chief suhr has noted to me in our communications to each other it is in progress. Okay supervisor mar i believe that motion technically to resend the motion on the Police Department. I move we resend the motion on the Police Department for to reopen. Mr. Rawlins field talk about that. Supervisors you continue to have the whole budget you can take months ago on this. Okay colleagues further any discussion on this motion supervisor wiener and first of all, clarification to make the motion what kind of when you say put it on reserve this is for the upcoming 20152016 the post budget is 5 Academy Classes that will put on reserve numbers four and five clarify the kind of reserve. Mr. Rawlins field we placed on Budget Reserve it comes back to the budget and finance committee. Somr. Chairman i will be voting against this i believe we need training because of the homophobic and other text messaging and the Department Needs to move aggressively in terms of anti bias training and other types of trains but to delay the hiring of Police Officers and this will have the effect of dlaif much needed Police Officers you have to ramp up to get to a Police Academy class the mayor i strongly support the mayors proposal to increase the numbers of police Academy Classes if 3 to 5 that is basically the most that the academy can handle we have a desperate shortage of Police Officers in the city even in the hearing when at land use we considered the resolution that supervisor cowen and i authorized t