Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance 3917 20170310 :

This meeting. Mme. Clerk, do you have any announcements . I think we have Catherine Mcguire from sfpd. Mme. Chair would you like me to call item number one. Yes yescall item number one. [calling item 1] ms. Mcguire welcome the floor is yours. Good morning Catherine Mcguire with sf pd. I do not have a formal presentation but this is item to one your agenda and this is that we have received or been offered a donation of a large amount of furniture and we would like to receive it. We have an immense need to replace furniture that is over 25 years old in some cases and this would be an inexpensive opportunity to do that. Great, thank you. All right lets go ahead and are there any questions . S is a pretty straight forward matter theres no legislative analyst to speak up so we will go ahead and open Public Comment. So i open Public Comment, does anyone from the public have a comment on this item . I do not see any so i will close Public Comment [gavel] mme. City clerk can you please call item number two. [calling item number two] ms. Mcguire did you want to speak one item number two . No thank you. Colleagues and you have no questions i will in Public Comment at this time. There any members of the public to have a comment at this time . Seeing none i will close Public Comment [gavel] mme. City clerk please call item number three [item number 3] thank you we have mark corso from the San Francisco Fire Department to speak on this today. Good morning supervisors my name is mark corsa and this is a item that is up on the agenda this will allow a quick dispatch and employment of the vessel on the water andi would be happy to answer any questions on this item thank you and i dont see any questions and i do also see that we do not have a legislative analyst report. We will go to Public Comment. If anyone from the public would like to speak on number three please do so. Seeing none, item number three is closed. [gavel] will take the motion without objection and the motion passes . [gavel] please read item number threemme. City clerk. [calling item number three] mr. Corso. Good morningmr. Corso from the San Francisco Fire Department. This boat will assist the department for assistance on the bay and for special events that will occur on the bay. This includes a lot of things this vessel currently does not have including biological and Nuclear Detection equipment for the port and bay protection there is a matching requirement of 256 as part of this grant and this was allocated by the Mayors Office and the board of supervisors and im happy to answer any questions. Thank you mr. Corso. What happened to the old vessel . Did we sell it . That we traded in . How does that work . This is a vessel we currently do not have. Its not replacing another vessel. Can you tell me again for the record what is the cost of this vessel . The cost of this vessel is 769,222 in funding. We produced a new firebird is does have to be designed from scratch and were working with the department for the procurement process. Do you know when we will have the vote in hand . It takes approximately six months for construction. We are hoping to take approximately nine months for this vessel to be constructed. We have a dive vessel boat. And the final location has not been determined. Thank you very much for answering my questions. Colleagues, have you had any questions for mr. Corso . Seeing none, i will go ahead and open Public Comment members of the public do you have any comments on this item . Im sorry, there is a report. The estimated total boat cost is 1,000,020 563 the funds of 246 641 were appropriated in the department in the 1617 General Fund Budget and they were appropriated by the board of supervisors in table 1 on page 3 of the report shows the proposed budget totaling that 1,000,026 to 53 we do recommend that you approve this recommendation. Thank you i appreciate that recommendation. Lets go ahead and go to Public Comment now. Seeing that there are no members of the public that want to comment on item number four, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] colleagues is there anyone that would like to make a motion. Yes i will make a motion this goes before the board. Thank you the motion passes [gavel] mme. City clerk pleaded please read the next item. Item number five is to accept and expend a grant for the federal Emergency Management agency for Fire Investigation equipment grant of 134,858. Mark corso go ahead. Good morning again mark corso again, this would include air monitors and accelerated protectors for the assistance at fire scenes and also to assist with documentation and report writing. Are be happy to answer any questions. Any questions colleagues . Seeing theres no report or bla thank you very much will go on Public Comment. Public comment for item number five is open. Seeing that there is no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] thank you. I will make a motion to move this on to the committee. Okay motion is made and without objection. Mme. City clerk, please call the next item. Item number six is the permitting process of restaurants and the implementation of the Small Business Acceleration Program and assistance in requesting various programs and assisting in reports. Excellent supervisor tang your the sponsor. Thank you very much colleagues, i know we have another hearing coming up so i will keep this as a fish and as possible. In july 2015 we had a new Restaurant Committee come in San Francisco and they have had lots of issues that they run into whether there is the simple fact that there are a lot of departments involved and since then we have asked our various departments to work on improving and streamlining the business permitting process. I know the that my upcoming hope when we do finally five figure out that new building that we can combine our City Departments and make things more efficient. I also know as part of this process we have developed the Small Business portal with the help of and her team and that has been a big help and i want to thank you for that so for todays purposes i do want you to receive a permit for the economic and Workforce Development and this has been heavily advocated for the budget process to help get businesses through this process to evaluate what are the different pickups in our permitting process for restaurants and the Program Manager has just done amazing work already summarizing what everyone has to go through in about what . 50 pages . But were hoping to get that down maybe and we moving forward will call our executive director from the economic and Workforce Development for that overview. Thank you supervisor tang. Thank you and supervisor care cohen and supervisory yee for being here today. This will make it easier to open our Small Business. This will open and we asked for support from this committee in 2014 we open this business portal as supervisor tang mentioned and this would include all the operations for a Small Business to turn to and we tried to make it less about how government talks and more about plain speech. And then Small Businesses could understand and know what they need to do to comply with the roles. You will hear from jason everly from in a moment from the department of technology to speak to the work that has been done today and the key data on what the outcomes on the program are and some Game Changing functionality in the business portal over the next year so technology can only go so far and the streaming effort that is planned would pair the business portal with a personal touch. And, through the Small Business Acceleration Program that supervisor tang you have been such a strong advocate for the project manager who we will invite up in a moment to speak to this the goal is to have a partner for the Small Business as they go through this permit process from beginning to end. And on the department side greater efficiencyhopefully is a go through the process. The other thing i would like to highlight supervisor tang is this is one of the greatest cooperation that ive ever seen from the city and i just want to thank the staff and the agencies involved in this including the office of Small Business and the planning Inspection Department the Health Department the Fire Department the Controllers Office and the mayors budget office. Finally, i do want to thank the Community Partners in the Business Partners who have helped us to develop this. And we have the Golden Gate Business Association and many others that have been critical in developing this program. I will hand it over to katie shopping who help to develop this program. Thank you. Good morning supervisors i am katie shopping with oh a oawd Small Business Acceleration Program i want to thank you very much for the opportunity to him that launch the Small Business Acceleration Program. Today i will share with you some of the outcomes that we have seenfor this program and to see where we are going next. If we could have the slide please. If we could point out that this is mapping the permitting process and the report as well as the discussion in this committee as well as this topic focused on restaurants and Small Business and going through the process and leading into the launch of the program the first step was identifying all of the needs in that report and the recommendations of that report. The next step was a really indepth collaborative effort which included meeting with over 30 Department Staff in different agencies and as well as meeting with over 20 different Business Owners and stakeholders to help us understand the intricacies of the process and i want to thank city Staff Members to spend time with us launching this Program Partner agencies to help with the program. So the objective services of the program, as i mentioned, really came out of the controllers report as well as the work we did collaboratively with the city agencies. The first key objective was to provide a primary point of contact for our Business Centers throughout the entire projects are really providing a liaison role someone who would be available to the Business Owner and work through that collaborative process. The next would be to work in an interdepartmental collaboration process. And very critically this works to more efficiently address issues should they come up in the process for business and finally continuing to promote and work in conjunction with the business portal is our with the business portal is our key online resources. Since our november lunch we have already assisted a total of over her70 businesses and each month the businesses were serving is steadily increasing and were currently assisting businesses in every supervisor of district and businesses have been referred to us from a variety of sources including Planning Department, dbi, Health Department, the office of Small Business, and some of our Partner Organizations and so we are excited to see that spread geographically and in terms of referrals as an indication that more more people are learning about the Services Available to them. I want to quickly share a few case studies that exemplify the services that are offered to our business. The first would be the noe valley bakery which is in our west portal area and they have been receiving ongoing assistance and in terms of their needs for assessing space and evaluating what this permitting process will look like and working with them with their permitting processes and currently we are expecting the permitting process to be come to an end soon. Secondly we have hook fish company. And they are located in the outer sunset district and we are helping them with Introductory Services to use that proactive process. Finally we have bayview pasta and shea bobo which is a Street Vendor whose opening to open up in the market. They know what theyre looking for and they will know what the permitting process will look like before they go into a space. And help them to understand the differences depending on the characteristics that they and up in. Ultimately whether they are using the upfront and services or just use the services up frontfor what they need to participate in the services s finally i will share the next steps in the program. We are continuing to grow our client base. We are expanding offering such as workshops in our program and we are looking forward to expanding offerings such as workshops in the city permitting 101 introductory sessions for Small Business owners at a time and we are also working on opening a Business Resource Center which will be located at 1650 missing between planning and building. This will be a small office to provide Business Services and Business Assistance in counseling and Technical Assistance and the Small Business Acceleration Program can be located. We are excited about that space in the midst of our permitting agencies and db i am planning receive applicants that could benefit from additional assistant can refer them to us right nextdoor. Finally and most importantly we are looking forward to continuing the interdepartmental collaboration to continue to identify ways that this program can improve for restaurants and businesses. Finally im happy to answer any questions or comments and i will hand it over. Supervisor yee has some questions for you thank you. Just a quick question, in regards to the people that you can help. Yetah do you have language capacity to help i realize the examples you gave probably didnt reflect that. Thati have seen how this business acceleration process is working and even if we were just to bring on just one more or two more it would be i mean we would exponentially improve the Customer Service experience for businesses. And so, what are some of the plans for the department in terms of expanding the steam . So, one of the things we were really focused on as ms. Sherpa mentioned is we want to start small and mid manned out from they are and because the process was so complicated and intensive i think that what were learning as we go through the process is that there are a lot of efficiencies that we have already been able to gain and a lot of benefits from the scale of owdand i think it is our goal as we start today to add capacity and expand that is our goal today supervisor to expand beyond restaurants with the resources we have today and im fairly confident something we need to work on it a little bit more but im fairly confident that we can do that expansion with the resources we have today. And so we do have ms. Sherpa to help with some of these processes along but when we were developing the business portal there was an indication of redundancies or inefficiencies or whatever it was but can you speak to some of things that we have now either eliminated or im sure we can hear this from the departments will bring this up as well but what were some the kinks that we were able to sort out through this experience . I will leave that to ms. Sherpa. I would say that the focus of the program again is to make sure that Everybody Knows what the information is upfront and accelerated that way and in the last few months since the november lunch we have been talking with some of our Department Agencies and our goal is to really work with them to meet with additional efficiencies and so we are looking forward to continuing that in the program. Okay. And i hope youre cutting down your list every day. Through the permitting process. Thank you so much ms. Chirping. We are going to bring up next j said not [inaudible] from our business portal and i will bring up first