Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 10516

SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 10516 October 8, 2016

Supervisor katie tang want to change clerk linda wong and Jennifer Lowe and leo from sfgovtv so for covering the meeting items acted upon today will appear on the october 18th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you very much madam clerk number one. Authorizing the department of health a continue to receive funding for the emergency relief from the Health Administration and to request approximately 16. 5 million in hiv emergency podium relieve funding for a period of march 2017 to february 2018. Okay. Thank you madam clerk so do we have shawn from dph please come on up and speak. Good morning any questions for you at all. You want to give a quick overview but for the members of the public. Over 16 million. If you would sorry about that to hiv positive folks in the city and county of San Francisco for medical care transitional emergency housing and so forth. Thank you thank you for all you do on this topic seeing no questions and no budget analyst for anything mr. Rose thank you for being here today open up for Public Comment anyone wish to comment on item number one . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We are joined by supervisor yee so all right. Through the chair i know this is just a resolution to submit an application so. It is. Yes. Im happy to motion i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. Okay motion by supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor cowen and take it without objection. Thank you very much. Thanks madam clerk item 2. Resolution retroactively the shefrz to enter into a 3 month contract with global tel link for Telephone Services to reduce the phone calls to modify the paid sheriffs this will result in anticipate revenue to the cadet welfare fund of 34,000 per month. Thank you very much i saw sheriff Vicki Hennessey so whoever wants to do a good morning. Im christopher the cfo for the sheriffs started last week and here to talk about the fourteenth amendment for Telephone Services been through a Second Amendment to the contract was just the cost of calls by about 38 percent and this Fourth Amendment resolution a call by 4 percent and also sets up for a new contract to be signed in late 2016 that will maintain the current rates which are 20 which are 34 percent less than what we were this proposed contract establishes the reduced rates and eliminates surcharges and reduces the cost of an average call by 34 this is 68 percent of our toll call volumes and reduces the regional in state calls by 41 percent thats another 24 percent of our call volumes the fcc has recently taken action this amendment shows the Sheriffs Department in support of reform for calling rates and as i mentioned it lowers the in state rates that is 92 percent of volume the announcements the third amendment we were operating up in june the cost of an average local calls 2 plus that come down to 1. 54 for the regional interlot calls the average was 37 now, 1. 98 and likewise our Fourth Street sets the interstate rates what is blow on this slide so for interstate collect calls caps at 250 our rates 1. 10 and interstate prepaid fcc rate is one 10 and now, 1 this next slide shows quite a bit of data weve get rid of the surcharges and now have a permanent rate which reduces the cost of average calls and with lower costs we have increased volumes it allows people to be able to connect their loved ones with less cost and as a result of increased volume we executive the less cost the budget analyst has reflected that. Thank you very much colleagues, any questions. Supervisor tang. Thank you i dont know if this came up during another contract amendment previously but i know that some other supervisors had spoken to their concerns about charging the cadets for calls i wonder if you can speak to that what the fcc released in terms of calling reform. There are a couple series sheriff Vicki Hennessey i think there are different kinds of calls made when cadets are arrested they have a free phone number and calling rates historically have been very high pause of the private destroy and we get a percentage that that comes into our use for the Cadet Program but and the fcc has traditionally as recently begun lowering it were lower than any other county in the areas in terms of our phone calls and cadets we have credentially reduced those we need an infusion into the general fund money if we want to see this money recovered i want to talk about were in the process of doing working on providing free phone numbers to parents to their children while theyre no our custody through our one Child Program we have that and provide calls also cadets pro per get a number of free phone numbers provided through the court through are Different Things that happen. And then on average i dont know if you have this kind of data but i guess how often are calls made every year and. We have aggregate numbers but really what happens generally is cadets when in their out of their cells are allowed to use the phones at most of fats only the old sterile jail we dont have the ability and cadets are limited to 15 minutes each pause of the number of people so at the get 1 minutes and if more time they get back in line with another 15 minutes and sometimes theres none using the phones they can use the phone as much as and want. Supervisor yee. Im glad were changing the rates because weve heard about the rate and how it is actually stopping inmates from making calls im glad were reducing that i think you answered any question that is since we were going to get fewer revenues from this it would impact somewhere and the answer you need more general funds to offset the impact. At some point if the we move to continue to reduce calls yes, well be looking at that were okay now we budgeted for this we knew we know doing this in june so we so i believe that it is not a big problem but if we reduce it further well are look at it in terms of supplementing. Whats the impact less revenues for the general programming . Yeah. Were getting one half a Million Dollars annually from this program. Thanks. It goes into our Inmate Welfare Fund can only be used for the penalty code. My preference is going into this direction where inmates actually can make phone numbers for less and not just have these inmates making phone calls offset. I understand i understand the desire to continue to move downward in the costs i understand that thats why when we came in january i started to look at it and made the decision to continue to reduce as we go along. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Thank you sheriff. Supervisor katie tang. One more question so this will be a month long contract or i couldnt tell based on the document. It was month to month we were waiting for additional fcc rulings so we wait until we chiu knew what overseeing were and began this in june of this year we reduced the ratesthanasia then so at the rates that were asking for in the coming contract i believe this is are a 3 Year Contract to are you new a 3 year extract. Im going to let christen talk. The item before you to approve the Fourth Amendment on a month to month it will be riding with that so we get the new contract in question expect to be signed by the ends of this year well be coming back with a new contract to reflect the same rates. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Colleagues any questions or comments okay move on to Public Comment anyone wish to comment on item number 2 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Ill make a motion to pass this out of the committee with a positive recommendation to the full board. Motion by supervisor yee and seconded by supervisor tang without objection madam clerk call item 3. Resolution approving the Second Amendment to the revenue agreements for the automatic Public Toilet and public Kiosk Program for a term of august 2nd, 1994, through october 2017. Okay thanks we have dph here to speak. Good morning julia from Public Health department we are asking for an approval the Second Amendment that expends the term to one year and have a few other kind of technical changes that adds the prohibition on tobacco and alcohol advertising that was passed after the original contract was negotiated and approved updated insurance language and updated language i thought the board will be interested to know we have issued a proposal request and have supplementals and in negotiations of what will be a new agreement we dont believe we need is another year but in the case the negotiations take longer. Supervisor yee. So how long proposals were submitted. Just one. Same company i suppose. Yes. Colleagues, any further questions. Comments . Okay move on to Public Comment wish to comment on item number 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Go ahead and i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. Motion by kneeing seconded by supervisor tang without objection madam clerk madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body . Theres no further business. Thank you, everybody were adjourned good afternoon it is 1 09 p. M. This did regular meeting of over the Community Investment and infrastructure the successor to the Redevelopment Agency for tuesday, october 4, 2016, welcome to members of the public mr. Secretary call the first item. The the first order of business is item one roll call commissioners, please respond when your name is called commissioner pimentel

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