Aggregation programme was up and running. The board wanted to ensure that go solar sf funding would be available for the new customers. , these new power sf power. Clean power sf launched in early of 2016, so the go solar sf programme is currently providing Solar Incentives to clean power sf customers and hetchi power customers. The 3 million will be used to fund the programme this fiscal year. 1. 8 million is budgeted for solar alternatives. 800,000 is budgeted for the low income inverter Replacement Programme, which will provide incentives to lowincome households to replace a component of their solar system, the inverter, which has reached the end of its useful life. Finally 406,000 is budgeted for administrative costs. I would be happy to answer any questions, supervisors. Thank you very much and any questions or comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, could we have a daily report, please . Im from the analysts office. The supervisors placed 3 million on reserve for the go solar sf programme pending implementation of the clean power sf programme. Sf puc is requesting to release the funding from reserve to fund the programme through june of 2020. It originates from the hetchi power enterprise from the 20152016 budget. The solar sf is developing a Replacement Programme which would help lowincome. Reporter s replace solar lr reverters and 1. 8 million is budgeted for Solar Panel Incentives and approximately 400,000 is budgeted for administrative costs. A breakdown of the gosolar sf budget is shown on table two on page 14 of our report with a further breakdown of the go solar incentive budget on table 2, also on page 14 of our report. We recommend approving the request. Thank you very much. This opens us up for Public Comment. Any members like comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So colleagues, this is not a motion to send it to the full board. Its just requires us to approve the release for the funds forenoon reserves. I make a motion to approve the release from the budget and finance reserve. Take that without objection and thank you very much. Madam clerk . Madam chair, can we please file this hearing . Yes, please, thank you. Can you call number 5 . Item number 5, resolution to authorize the District Attorney to accept and expand a grand for total not to exceed 267,000 from the california Victim Compensation board, for the period of july 1, 2019 to june 30, 2022 to continue the criminal restitution compact, should the parties agree to a amendment under the provisions of the Grant Agreement. Thank you and we have jackie ortize from the Victim Services division. Yes, good morning. Please be advised the grant is technically not retroactive because it was budgeted in the annual budget process. This resolution is needed to meet the california Victim Compensation board requirements, which has a separate legislation authorizing the approval of the funds. Do you have any questions for me . Colleagues, any questions . Seeing none, no report on this and lets open this up for Public Comment. Anany members like to comment se seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clear, point of clarification, since the department mentioned that this resolution is not retroactively approving the grant, can we amend the resolution to strike the retroactive leads on page 1, line 2, i believe . Yes, thank you very much. We can strike retroactive from the title of it and we can talk that without objection. And then lets move it to the full board as amended. Thank you very much. Thank you. Can you please read item number 2, please . Retroactively authorizing the park departments into an internet agreement for the protect Environment Agency for the receipt of 1. 2 million in the remediation project for a term of january 1, 2018 through september 18, 2030. We have a representative from the rec and part and this is part of the indian basin project. Yes, the indian basin waterfront project is between recreation and parks, the trust for public land and San Francisco parks alliance. This is designed to honor the history and culture of the neighborhood, part of a plan by social justice communities. Currently, we are moving into our 2020 construction phase of the project and this is what we will be doing, side demolition and removal of band structures, remediation of soils containing elevated concentrations of sediments. The department was awarded a 1. 2 million Funding Grant from the United States protection agency. This was actually appropriated through 20182019 budget process and originally allocated to the Construction Cost expected to occur in 2020. In fall of 2018, the United States epa asked to build a grants fund and the administers at the federal level wanted to ensure we were spending the money,es, and epa isnt the most favorable department. In spring of 2018, there was a grant over one Million Dollars or greater approval by the board of supervisors. After learning about this additional requirement, we asked for this Grant Agreement before you today to be retroactive approval. Lets open this up for comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I would like to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation and we can take that without objection, thank you very much. Madam clerk, any other business before us today . No further business. We are adjourned. Better. San Francisco Department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. We know that we dont have all the answers. We need to support our local champions, our local community to find Creative Solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. Zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. The Grant Program is a Grant Program specifically for nonprofits in San Francisco to divert material from landfill. Its important to find the San FranciscoProduce Market because theres a lot of edible food that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. San francisco Produce Market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. I think its a basic human right to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. Its a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs, and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. Since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, weve donated over 1 Million Pounds of produce to our community partners, and thats resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which were very proud of. Carolyn at the San FranciscoProduce Market texts with old produce thats available. The produce is always excellent. We get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. Everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and its important to me to feel good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. Its helping people. Thats what its really about, and i really enjoy that. The work at the Produce Market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the here we are responsible to oversee the Drinking Water distribution system. In San Francisco changes in the fire code required anyone doing representtro fit to the home to get a new fire service this caused the need for new Water Services to spike. We used to do 200 a year. Now we are up to 600. If you are building a new house you need fire protection. You have to make application to the Water Department for that. If you go through the process we come out and install the new line and the new fire line. The project got kicked off by two of our a gms, steve and eric. They recognized the need for improving this process. They pulled together the project and selected the team members and asked me to lead the effort. On c cd there is permit and no parking signs and installing the service, having water caught at the check off and pave. It is a lengthy application process with manual tracking. For construction because we communicate with ccd we have to stay in touch with ccd to inform the customer for updates. At one time there was three separate visits to activate the fire service. Water quality and gate manment and then gate man would go back. Now the gate man goes onetime, one visit and it is done. We dissected the process and looked for ways to streamline the process and use technology to make the experience smoother and what we are building is an online portal for customers to apply without coming downtown and they can get updates. With the online application everything is there. It is built in condition logic with tracking to communicate with the customer without having to take notes. We want to tell you these are 10 steps and you are on step three or four. We streamlined the process. We knocked it down to 65 days. The goal is half of that. From the time you make application to put the check on the table to the time we pave the street, we want it down to 30days. I am proud of the team for the work to get together to understand each others work and come up with solutions. I really wanted the rest of the team to understand the time and deliberation and thought so they could get the recognition that could get the recognition that good morning, everyone. Welcome to the thursday exit a fifth meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am the chair of this committee im joined by supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor vallie brown who will be joining us shortly, and we are also joined by supervisor safai. Thank you to the committees clerk. I would also like to thank San Francisco government tv staff for staffing. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Thank you. Please ensure you have silenced yourself owns an electronic devices. Your completed speaker cards a copy of documents should be cemented to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the september 19th, 2019, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Since item number one was sponsored by supervisor brown, along with supervisor safai, we will skip that one until she gets here. Lets move to item number two. Item number two is an ordinance amending the campaigning government conduct code to increase the matching ratio for Campaign Contributions raised by candidates participating in the Financing Program and the amount of public Funds Available for those candidates. Thank you. Welcome, supervisor brown. We skipped to item number two. I just wanted to make some opening remarks. I am incredibly excited to bring this ordinance before this committee today. In 2019, with our democratic norms and values under assault every day, it has never been more important for us to advance invest in strengthening our democracy. The path to a more just future is stronger democracy and a fair and more just elections. When the voters of San Francisco crated our public Financing Program in 2,000, it was cutting edge and it established San Francisco as a leader in publicly financing elections. Since then, outside spending outside campaigns has skyrocketed and we have fallen behind our peers and keeping up with the times. The ordinance before us, based on a simple idea, public official should be accountable to the public, in this accountability must start and how we are elected. Public financing of elections allows candidates to compete in campaigns increasingly flooded with private funds from super pacs. It apple flies the voices of our constituents and provides greater regulation and accountability for those who seek office. This is not a controversial idea it was the people of San Francisco who establish this program. The National Democratic party has recognized recognize the urgency in furthering them when nancy pelosi retook the gavel this year, the first piece of legislation passed by the new democratic majority was h. R. One , that we the people act. With sweeping electoral reform, including establishing Public Financing for congressional races at a 61 matching ratio, h. R. One mirrored every part of this ordinance. While these reforms are blocked on the federal level, we cannot wait for washington to start to the essential work of strengthening our democracy. It falls upon cities to lead and we can do this here and now. This ordinance represents the single greatest expression of our public Financing Program since its inception two decades ago. Modernizing and bringing the program further in its goals. It does this in a few ways, most importantly, it increases the amount of publicly public Funds Available to qualified candidates. It increases the ratio from 21 to 61, while limiting the matchable portion of a contribution to 150. This will significantly amplify the overall impact of the program while specifically amplifying the impacts of grassroots, small valard donations from individuals. Because the value of your voice in our democracy should not depend on the value of your bank account. It also increases the end of this ordinance began with Community Meetings hosted at the commission over a year ago. It went through a robust inquest process from community stakeholders, Campaign Finance reform, advocate advocates and our office. Multiple draft recommendations from the Ethics Commission staff and amendments at the Ethics Commission where the final version before us ultimately received unanimous support. We partnered with the b. L. A. For substantive policy analysis of these reforms, which is before you today. Also on record for this file are letters of support from the aclu and the Campaign Legal centre. Without further ado, i would like to welcome leanne, executive director of the Ethics Commission. Good morning. Thank you, and good morning members. I appreciate your opening comments and the Ethics Commission is really delighted to be able to be here and have the opportunity to encourage this paddle and the full board to support this ordinance. As you indicated in your opening comments, this is a process where the Ethics Commission, for the past year, is really tried to focus on how we can strengthen the public Financing Program and it has been a process with lots of stakeholder involvement. We know there is a balancing of interests and needs in any legislative package that we bring forward and we feel that this one really does move the dial forward in terms of encouraging, not just participating by candidates in communitybased individuals, to run for office, who dont have to rely as heavily on larger donors, would also really encouraging citizens to get more involved. We are increasing the value of their contribution to political campaign. As you indicated, cities have been leading this effort around the country for years. San francisco is taking that path and we are very excited to be part of this discussion of encouraging the changes that you highlighted. As you know, this is a system that is voluntary so candidates have to participate in it and opt into it. Our focus is a commission has been to look at how we can make the program attractive to candidates within existing funding levels and also encourage greater participation among the voters that candidates are seeking to be elected to represent. Over the years, the historical figure shows that the program has been opted into by roughly half or less of candidates on the ballot. So for us, that was a motivating factor to look to see how we could increase that so the candidates of real resources to run and recognize a availability his of campaigns in 2019 and update and modernize the program so it is relevant and is an incentive to candidates to want to participate. We know when they participate, the public does benefit. This is the third phase of the changes we have brought to the board of supervisors. We started with an initial change in a phase i ordinance that was a technical cleanup that the board and the mayor adopted. We had the regulatory changes that also address provisions in the public Financing Program administration. Those are now in law as of effect of july 30th. This is only the third piece and one that is the most substantive that we are very excited about. I just wanted to thank you for your leadership and support in moving forward and the focus of this committee and the time you spending to