Allegations and then if the allegations are true, if the alleged conduct would violate city criteria, policy and procedure or city code does that answer the first part . Substantiated or unsubstantiated are both inside the closed category. And in the quarterly and annual reports it breaks down it breaks out by department. Theres a table in quarterly reports or chart showing which percentage of complaints closed led to Department Taking corrective or preventive action. Or even it shows whether or not the department moves on the recommendation of the whistleblower controller office, somewhat outside your control. But at least you can measure accurately the number of recommendations measured against the overall complaints, you said to the department we have investigation pursuant to the authority, we recommend disciplinary action to whatever department and they can be measured. Are they . I think the stae tick statis youre asking for, its by publishing in the reports which part investigated and closed resulted in a corrective and preventive action by the departments. Those are published in the annual reports. In the annual report. And quarterly. Fantastic. Thank you. I think Going Forward something we can do that will help the committee and help the dialogue that well have across the podium is pull some of the stats in our presentation just so that we can focus attention on those in a more public form. But definitely all of that work is published on our web site annually or quarterly. Any other comments . Any Public Comment . Thank you. Seeing none yes. Good morning Committee Members, im a whistleblower. I would like to thank Committee Member carlson for his inquiry about complaints that linger for a year or more. I have a complaint filed with the program and its well over 11 months, close to a year. Id like to echo mr. Flahertys concern that when complaints linger for a long time, people tend to think theyre not being taken seriously. Thats true. But theres another concern. The vast majority of the complaints are sent right back to the department that the complaint was filed against. And given human nature, theres going to be resistance and reluctance to investigate ones own colleagues. Particularly when its a high level official, which is what my complaint was about. I dont know how to resolve this, except that the program outlines certain reasons why complaints take a long time but they never mention the awkwardness and resistance that departments face when they have to investigate their own people. One thing that would be helpful, if a complaint drags on for a year or more, that the complainant would be contacted and informed. We check on the computer and all it tells you is under investigation. Under investigation. But why for a year . So anyway, i just wanted to put that out there. Thank you. Thank you dr. Kerr. Any other Public Comment . If not, call the next item. Item seven, opportunity for Committee Members to comment or take action on any matters within the jurisdiction. Pad am cochair these are items fiscal year 2017 18 work initiatives, items ag. I can give background on those. So brenda and i met with peg to go over some of the great ideas that have come up over the past few meetings for ways to get information out to our voters. So we finally decided to write them down in one place and peg has agreed to give us updates on all of them at every meeting so we can understand the progress of these good ideas. Probably better to do it from here. So peg stevenson from the Controllers Office. Ill make brief comments on each items and answer any questions you might have. The benchmarking work is well underway. We have chosen jurisdictions, a couple of them here in the city of San Francisco, a couple other cities have similar functionality. We have basic information and doing interviews, we expect to issue a report before the end of the calendar year and have this available for presentation to you in your january peting. So thats where we are with the benchmarking. The standardized template, comparing it to the material that was in our annual geo bond report presented on in september and the table that i included in your packet has differences between them. I guess my suggestion here are that the same information is largely in both. There isnt a substantial schedule or report that youre not getting in your quarterlies that was in our annual. I do think there are some visual and layout improvements that the quarterly would benefit from just looking at it and looking at some of the ways the information is presented. The changes in format and that sort of thing. There are consistency improvements across the program that could be made. Could be added to the quarterly and improve it, visual graphs for context like the little fuel gauge graph on completions for some of the bond program confines that i think are mostly presented in text right now. Theyre doing bullet points of text completion and that sort of thing. What im proposing to do, ill meet with julia dawson, the finance and administration at public works and the person who is the owner of the quarterly template, ill see if we can go ahead with some of the improvements were observing and fold them into the next couple of programs that come before you. Theres detail in the quarterlies that is not in our wrap up program report. Change orders for example you wouldnt want to not have. Its not entirely a 1 way street. Let me have that meeting with julia and see where they are having updated financials and then we can report to you on improvements. One quick question its two separate reports. The report they do for the presentation, theres more details in the quarterlies that are present. There wasnt anything to compare it to in the geo bond. Theres still work to be done. Web site improvements, our technical people have met to talk about this, similar improvements to controllers own web site. I think what will happen next, were probably going to get a short contract through the text door, a web designer to do a better job for us. If there are tests formats we think you should look at before we publish them, we can do that with them. Probably mostly make the improvements and report them to you. Great. The satisfaction survey, we have a pool of providers that do Public Satisfaction. All different surveying. Well bring you a couple of options to the january meeting. The conversation was feedback on what you want Public Satisfaction survey to contain. Do you want to try and test the opinion of users of a facility, voters, the general public, probably a couple of different possible constituencies you might be interested in. There are different ways to test. There are surveys youre in the facility people are using, handing them a survey and asking them, phone polls, web polls. Different sampling approaches. We have some opinions about this and our providers will have opinions, too. What im proposing to do is bring you a couple of options in january and see if we can get some feedback from you. Bens suggestion, he has in mind, streetscape Improvement Project and then a facility project such as a rec center. I think i can speak to him that those would be a good scale test of opinion and we know how to survey the users of those. A voter test could be harder. The Public Finance forward calendar, you got the memo which jamie prepared, thats a regular feature of the packet, already proved its usefulness i think. Expenditure audits are underway and before tanya leaves the room, i dont know off the top of my head, when they are expected to be completed, certainly not january but one of the following meetings in the fiscal year. It will be third and fourth quarter. Thank you. And finally geo bond report is on the list. We didnt talk about that specifically but just keep it on our calendar. Any comments, questions . Thank you. Other matters not in the list . All right. Can you barb, i think we all got this in the mail. Did you guys yes. Go over quickly what it is were signing here. Thank you for sending it out. The item that cochair, she was referring to is the harassment policy education from the city that is dube at the en of the year, for those commissioners who Supervisor City staff. And so, this committee does not supervisor any city staff and so you were given instructions via email and guidelines as to how to complete and submit that form to me. Great. Okay. Thank you. Any other matters . Great. Have a good holiday. Were adjourned. The office of controllers Whistle Blower Program is how City Employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in City Government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of City Government that. 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Org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that City Government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say Whistle Blower Program more information and the whistle blower protections please seek www. Food in San Francisco isn just about expensive eat but food for everyone and theres organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. More and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from well look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. So what exactly it, your honor agricultural it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally weve been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. So tell me 0 whats growing in this garden. A really at all plant. In the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. It is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. Now the dpw urban Planning Program so see how the garden community. So i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around San Francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the Department Many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. Im here with nang wong hello nang. Hello. I need to understand house this gleaning work. We come and harvest like for example, well come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. laughter . Made that good, good and ease. The trick is how not to hurt the branches. Like the thing. Im so excited about this. The people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private Property Owners give us the food theyre happy that no of a t is going to waste oh. Thank you. Thank you. Again job aura natural laughter . From backyards to back lots lets take a look at the food and Community Bonding at the free farm. My idea was to start growing food and giving it away. And getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. We were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. Whats the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. Well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away its giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you its primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. Now serving number to 49 come on down. We have the capability of producing this food and in San Francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea were capable of prougdz food in our own backyards were here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. We build time together and its the strength of any ideas of the connections well turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money thats the people power. In this episode weve seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment its truly. My name is Angela Wilson and im an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isnt that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if San Francisco that have only been one thing. Im all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of were in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay 25 for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started Affordable Housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a womens field in most of world just here in United States it is that pay a mans job im an encountered woman and raise a son and teach i am who respect woman i consider all womens who work here to be impoverished and strong in San Francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and thats a challenge in the town so many people chasing money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion. Im the ive been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up im definitely the only female here i fell in love i love setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and thats how i got here today Something Special to have a female here a male dominated field so i think that it is very special to have women and especially like it is going at it you know im a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. The sad thing the building is sold im renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business it is a constant struggle to maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something im proud of if you want to get a job at Affordable Housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer Ferry Terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to learn good morning, everyone. My name is todd rufto of the Workforce Development program. Its great to be here at the San Francisco museum of ice cream. I want to thank the entire team here for hosting us for this event. This is a special day. We are doing the Fourth Annual launch of the mayors shop and dine in the 49 local shopping campaign. This is a really big deal because it is a partne