Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

The Career Pathways is really just another way to get that same goal for some of our graduates. Keep in mind that the idea of the p. S. T. Program is not to prepare individuals for city employment, it is to prepare individuals for employment in any sector. We dont want to design a program where we are graduating 500 p. S. T. Every year with the expectation that they will be city employees, it is not realistic nor is it needed. Do you have Employment Information on the participants . We track them over many years through the use of matching, and over two thirds of our jobs now graduates still have earnings three years post jobs now, meaning in fact, not only do they have earnings, where the earnings increased. I am happy to share this information. And you have demographic information on these participants . I do. How many new positions . Twenty new pathway positions. You can call them welfare to work positions. They are not pcs, they are part of an Employment Training program that has been successful if these individuals also need assistance in language, for example, do you do that . Absolutely. What do you do . We would try to find a job placement, it might not necessarily be a p. S. T. , but jobs now is much bigger then the p. S. T. Program. We would find a placement that would match that persons skills and abilities and inability to speak english, so there are a lot of communitybased organizations that we partner with where we pay the wages to place them there, there are things like aids to care providers, theres translation, you know, we have dozens and dozens of Job Developers and job placement specialists who each have caseloads of clients who are in the jobs now program, and they try to tailor those placements to the strengths and characteristics of the candidate okay. I did meet somebody who works at the inner archive that was hired originally through jobs now. It is one of our First Partners way back in 2009. It was great. I have a question for shereen. Thank you. Tell me, what is your relationship to the Public Authority . The San Francisco i i. H. S. Public authority contracts with us. They are they do the benefits for workers, but they also have other programs. They have a registry, and they have Training Programs for supportive services, so they really work very closely with the not only was her annual growth with our general funds, there was also the addition of the eraf money that not only caused it to grow some more because of general fund growth, and then on top of that, it could be a duplicate, we were able to have agreement where that 20 million would be allocated to the office for early educators salaries, so before that additional funding, what im seeing is theres only a 1 milliondollar increase over the year, and to me, i would have thought that i would see at least 30 or 40 million. Can you explain that . I will let the actual budget person answer that. Thank you, supervisor. I am a budget director or h. S. A. What you are seeing here is the fiscal year 1819 budget reflected about 8 million of Childcare Capital developer money that we were recognizing for the first time, as well as about 5 billion of unbudgeted funds that we were recognizing for the first time. Those funds came out in 19 and 20, and then number of additional adds were made, enhancements to the budget, so those include the 7 million in eraf funding that the Mayors Office allocated for child care facilities, as well as growth of around 6 million, so that was at a high level. You are sort of taking out some one time dollars and putting in new dollars. Tell me again the 1819, the larger amounts that was taken out, the shortterm, whatever it was. It is about 8 million of one time Childcare Capital Development Fee revenue, so one of the developer fees, the impact fees that they have to pay is for child care facilities , and those come in depending on the Development Price of the city. That was a significant chunk. The other 5 million was balancing pieces that had previously not been appropriated is there a similar unknown for 2021 in terms of that you are deducting from the amount . Again, i see only a reduction of about 9 million, so what is happening with that . 7 million of what is in 1920 is one time money for child care facilities that the Mayors Office has allocated from the fiscal year funds. In addition, it does not it actually shrinks a little bit in 2021 relative to 1920 because of eraf, so it is a baseline fund that is a share of eraf, and in 1920, we are including the allocated. Can you explain what happened to the 20 million for the teacher salary . What is that. I will speak about what they are doing programmatic programmatically. They will continue to roll forward. I understand the schedule the president is looking at here. It shows the original budget for 1819 which is the board adopted the budget for the coming fiscal year, and the proposed budget for next year. Why dont i see the 20 million here . Because that occurs as a supplemental appropriation, it is in what we call the revised budget budget, what is not a column displayed on this chart. We can certainly show you a schedule that will at that column where you see the board appropriated and additional 20 million in 1819 for that purpose. The board appropriated that is a continuing appropriation. Does not need to be appropriated in the subsequent year budgets. It will just continue forward and you will not see it in future years. So it is there, but it is not reflected in these numbers . There is a column that we can display here that would show you the board adopted budget as amended, including midyear supplemental appropriations that is not displayed on this chart. Okay. We can certainly prepare it for you. That helps my anxiety. I promise it is there. That is good. President he, would you like the controller to show that on a spreadsheet as he offered . I think that would be helpful there were a lot of numbers moving around and i know that for least this department, our office will probably continue to move around for the next few years. Thank you. We want to make sure we take care of that department. Supervisor mandelman . Not to be totally dense, i know it is late, but i am a little lost on that. So the reason it is not here is it is part of eraf. The reason you dont see it here is it is by virtue of what information is reflected on this one page. This page simply reflects the original budget reported last summer for 1819. That column does not reflect adjustments that the board of supervisors might adopt subsequent to that. But the proposed 1920, there is money for Early Childhood education in 1920, but it is not in this column either, right it would be. The 1920 allocation which a portion of this by formula is in that 107. 2 million in the proposed budget. So for the coming fiscal year, you see a portion of that reflected in the 1920 proposed budget. What page am i looking at . 246 of the budget book is a schedule. So we think and the number is, we are saying it is 107 107 million . We see there is 107 million appropriated for early care and education at the bottom of the page, and the use is by division that number includes a lot of things, but among that is their share of 1920 eraf. It is weird, maybe, is the decline. I think i would expect the 106 million and another 20 million and went up to 126 million, but we dont see that, but then this proposal for next year is 107 million, so it feels like it is going down. It is going down in terms of what the board has adopted because in the current fiscal year, you adopted a very significant one Time Allocation intended to be spent over the next several years, so there is a very large allocation. It was above and beyond their share of it, what a discretionary choice of the board adopted as part of the formula. I can prepare a simple summary of this that will show the president and any other members of the committee where i think it will bring clarity. I think it would be super helpful to have a simple fired forum that actually explains it in a very lucid and concise manner. We can absolutely do that. Okay. , that would be super helpful for me. I am kind of lost now. This is a huge budget. I think it is over a billion dollars. It is. Does anyone have any questions or comments for this department at all . Seeing none, thank you so much for being here and being next to last. It has been a long day, i know. Thank you for your service. Thank you very much. We have another item which is the board of supervisors budget, and we have angela here. Madame clerk, i have an item here that is item number 7 that should be called as part of this budget. Would you mind you know what, i am so sorry. Should i take this item number 7 needs to be heard as part of the board of supervisors budget. Shall i take Public Comment first for items three and four, or should, because we are now going onto item number 7 . Angela has not presented the board of supervisors budget yet. We suggest we do Public Comment after. Thank you very much. Thank you. Im here today with the departments administrative deputy. It is our honour to present to you the board of supervisors proposed budget for the budget year, a big thank you to the Budgets Office and jennifer from the boards budget and legislative analyst office. We appreciate your guidance. In february, the committee all prize authorize the proposed budget will for you. As a result, i will only provide a highlevel summary and focus on ranges and one extra item. Since before supplement number 1 of the consolidation that was approved in 1857, it has the doorway to local government. This exercises the boards power of audit and funding programs, the work in the Clerks Office is also tied to the mid1800 where the residents are entitled to the date, time and place to be part of the creative legislative process. We keep the history for San Francisco, and between the clerk s office and all of your offices. We ask bands to the needs of the residents and information legislation and your creation of policy. But unlike a mosquito in a nudist colony, our 32 professional clerk staff know what to do and know what to start. They can prioritize issues. Our stuff take pride to fulfil the mission and we are grateful for their attentiveness to the public inquiry. One out create outreach statute strategy that i like to highlight is the Management System which has had the deployment phase. We have had positive feedback. Were going to circle back to all of your offices to obtain your ideas to grow this robust system. Your office or better are there is a longterm vision, a comprehensive integrated system. That is what i would like to see come out of this customer Management System. It would incorporate the entire legislative process from the drafting of legislation, the maintaining of all of your constituents comments on what they feel you should be voting on matters, and we will come to you at a later date to talk about building something out. Before the budget overview, the clerk, i think the clerk has read item seven. Okay. Can we integrate it right now okay. Lets do it. Item number 7 is a resolution authorizing the clerk of the board to amend the budget to enact a threepoint 2 costofliving adjustment and to exercise the final option to extend the term for two years, increasing the total contract amount by 5 million including the estimated furniture future for a total amount not to exceed 17. 9 million for a period of january first 2014, through december 31st, 2021. Thank you. This resolution does three things as you heard. It essentially, there is a request for he went to costofliving adjustment. The item exercises the final two year option on the contract, so we will be competitively bidding with the budget and legislative Analyst Services over the next year or two years. It also increases the total not to exceed an amount to approximately 17. 9 million for the period through december 31 st 2021. On slide four, we have two quick updates for you. The first is a onetime request of 90,000 and funding before the committee in february, for digitization of specific dvds and vhs tapes. We collaborated with emeriti budget office. They identified files available in our budget in the current year, and we were able to remove 90,000 from our budget request before you. The second item, is the last code placeholder, that is 297 dollars. The last code did approve their budget. We are just confirming that is what theyre amount request is, and it is included in the departments proposed budget. Slide five is the departments proposed budget. The committee saw this slide in february. It depicts our revenue and expenditure by category for the current year, the budget year, and the changes from prior years we receive our revenue from the assessment appeals board, which is expected to remain at a low level for both the budget and the out here, on the expenditure side, the Department Budget will increase by 126 million, or sevenpoint 9 in fiscal year 2019 through 20, and a lower amount by 285,000 or 1. 6 in fiscal year 2321. These increases are mostly from the salary and benefit we negotiated in the m. O. U. And now to the one item that is not included in our budget, a member of the board requested that we look into the cost of adding a fourth position in each Board Members office, and present that information today. We identified and an appropriate class four and administrative position, at a 1364 special assistant number 5, in fact, 23 years ago, after volunteering for that, we offered up that this was the class that i was hired into before he hired me into the 1835 legislative aide position. This slide shows the salary and benefits of step one, and as a top step. Each position requires some incidentals that will be associated with costs to bring them into the offices. With these expenses, the total cost would be 120,558 per office at the top step, and 1. 3 million approximately for all 11 offices. When the committee believes it is appropriate, the last slide depicts our request to approve the budget as presented, and approve item seven, and we are very happy to answer any questions that you might have during the discussion of the Administrative Assistant position. Thank you. Thank you very much. Supervisor ronen . Thank you. I know you are all on the edges of your seats. I was the supervisor that asked angela to prepare this accounting of what it would cost or take in order to put an Administrative Assistant position in all 11 supervisor offices. I wanted to just talk a little bit about why i made that request. First of all, i wanted to say that if angela was hired into this position, and that was how she was recruited to begin her career in city hall in the board of supervisors, i think i have already made my case. I dont know that i need to say anything more, but i will elaborate. I know that is amazing history. I thank you said it best when you talked about the fact that the board of supervisors is the doorway to the public, to local government. I think that we do a great job. The reason that i know that is because the number of constituents that my office talks to, helps resolve problems , interacts with on a weekly basis, is extraordinary, and if it is what you want to local government to be. That you have this elected representative who you know, who lives amongst you, who is close to you, who is accessible to you , you know where to go, you know how to find them, you know how to reach them, then you get Excellent Service and response, and that is what our district offices are. I think that is something that my colleagues and i take great pride in. We have a staff of three. We serve over 88,000 residents, each of us, and we all know what is happening in the city in terms of the crises that the people deal with on a daily basis, and we feel that very strongly in our offices because we really are amongst the front line who attend to those crises. I want to talk about, you know, i really put a lot of thought into this. In different ways, district nine , is one of the busiest districts in the city. We have the most 311 calls, we have, you know, along with district six and seven, the most Homeless People living there. We have the most low performing schools, we have the most shootings, we have the most police shootings, we have the most development, i mean, six, nine, and ten have a lot going on. For a staff or four, what we accomplished on a daily basis, i think is extraordinary, and we worked pretty much around the aroundtheclock to make things happen. But it is not just those three districts. I have tried, in many ways to say, we are not serving our constituents well enough. This is our job and we need to be there for them, and four people serving 88,000 people is just not enough. I want to go through the different reasoning on why i made this request to angela, and why i am hoping that all of us will be united and realize this request. As you all know, i am speaking to people who live this every day, but we are running our front office, most of us, with interns, with unpaid College Graduate students, with volunteers, we have volunteers who are front line in our office engaging with constituents on every single day, and this work can be incredibly challenging. As i was saying, every single day in district nine, and i dont know if this is true in every office, we get calls of life and death situations, domestic abuse, sexual assault, facing eviction, concerns about police treatments, people who are homeless who are seeking shelter and dont know what to do, people who are housed with dont know how to deal with people who are homeless or mentally ill who are in crisis for arranging around them, these are not simple issues that we deal with on a daily basis. While i am lucky to have an Incredible Team of student interns and volunteers, there are unpaid positions and students are moving along in their educational careers. So we are not always equipped to handle with volunteers, these very complex issues, and since non

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