The may 5,2016 regular scheduled meeting it of the all of audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor peskin and joining me is supervisor norman yee and supervisor london breeds. Mdm. Clerk, are there any announcements . Please silence any cell phones or Electronic Devices and the items on the agenda will be discussed as stated. Can you please announce the 1st item . Marmotion directing the budget and legislative analyst to conduct a performance audit of the citys Real Estate Division in 2016. Are there any members of the ublic that would like to comment one item number 1 . Seeing none i will close Public Comment. Are there any supervisors that would like to comment . Yes supervisor breed . Whether or not we are actually helping individuals out of homelessness. Also more importantly and i think that many members of the public believe that we are spending this money only to basically serve and support Homeless Individuals when in fact, a lot of this money is actually going towards prevention including programs like Hamilton Family resources and homeless [inaudible] these help the individuals in our neighborhoods that need help paying their rent. This helps us to know where to direct or redirect additional dollars and it does make an impact and im really grateful that we are coming to a conclusion on that and i knew it would take some time but im looking forward to holding a hearing hopefully in gal and make some reports hopefully in time with our coming fiscal years budget and i want to thank you for your work on this report. Thank you supervisor breed. If there are no other comments on Committee Members is there a motion to send this motion to the pol oard without objection. Mdm. Clerk can you please read the next item . Legislation committee and city lobbyist when lobbying on behalf of the city and transmitting the citys official policy positions to external bodies and agencies; and requesting the City Attorney, the city lobbyist, and the mayors legislative liaison to report. Thank you mme. Clerk and colleagues. I call this meeting to see where we are at in respect of local policies and our state budget in the legislator. As you know every year we take lead audit on the legislation of many of these committees and as you know supervisor breed works in the City Attorneys Office as well as a treasurer in the City Attorneys Office and i thought that we should probably have a hearing to see how that committee is going to ascertain how they work to make this process transparent and as a policy body to make sure that our will is known by our city lobbyist in sacramento. We have a very good city lobbyist and as i was speaking with the representative from the Mayors Office, Nicole Elliott and i want to welcome as she is that mayors liaison to the board. One thing we can do internally to ourselves is to make sure that everyone of these resolutions actually requires the clerk to directly communicate that not only to the Mayors Office but directly to the citys lobbyist i spoke with karen lange and paul yoder i spoke with them this morning and they are unable to speakat this meeting because they are doing work for us this morning but they are able to, and meet with us this committee f or a special meeting on a friday so i would like to consider that in the future. With that i would like to introduce supervisor yee. Good morning supervisor peskin and Committee Members and members of the public. I am here [inaudible] unfortunately, they are unable to be here with us this morning but is for good reason and im happy they will be here to be able to speak with you and to answer any questions you may have and to enjoy a giants game. I would like to discuss what this does and to communicate the role of a state lobbyist. I will try to be brief but bear with me. I will start with our state Legislation Committee and 1st of all at the enabling body is found inbudget and finance supervisor. When it comes to items that are considered by the committee we require that the department bring bills to us that can demonstrate the welfare of the city and county and at the meetings we asked Department Representatives to speak to those items and answer any questions from Committee Members. A typical Legislation Committee agenda includes one to 2 bills on specific legislative areas. When i took this role in 2014 this was not a role that i was aware of or that my predecessor was aware of but thanks to your calling of this meeting supervisorl receive that for all future Legislation Committee items. As you know the Mayors Office is responsible for coordinating allatters according to the charter and he is responsible for these priorities and we use these priorities throughout the year. These are often end up as bills there is a concern that dpa highlighted in their policies. And we support the citys advocacy through a d 74 and 77 and this was referred by the board of a passage of a resolution earlier this year. Supervisor peskin, since you coordinated this meeting this year i have had the opportunity to spend some time with your secretary and i was able to come to the conclusion that you drafted these resolutions that the board could sharethese resolutions with my office. After speaking with ms we can keep the citys priorities defined by the mayor and the board and in the meantime when it is defined in some recent positions of the board i can receive to the prior to the committee on the subsequent day and share that information too. We are very proud of our dedicated team in sacramento Affordable Housing. Much of this happens out of the local spotlight but it is critical. If i can just run through some examples of work that they accomplished in sacramento so that you guys are more wellaware of that. They have advocated for state efforts for affordable funding for appeals on the governors veto for the budget and bond financing that allowed preapproved bond financing in the hunters bay and shipyard in that area and this allowed nearly 3300 units of Affordable Housing in the city. This was instrumental in the bill of success for the timeline and passage of this implementation. As you guys are well aware they haveadvocated very hard in sacramento. They have worked with legislative leaders looking to reef purpose legislative housing funds. They have helped San Francisco to secure millions of dollars in affordable hhousing and finally they have helped the city to develop and secure more housing for k12 teachers for the senators a p 13 and 14 and this is one of the reasons that they are not able to join us today because they are in current legislation between the Mayors Office and the district to ensure smooth passage through the appropriations committee. They have advocated on the citys behalf to increase the citys minimum wage by 2021. They have advocated a license to help support Small Businesses and vacancies and supervisor yee i believe your district is benefiting from that bill. On behalf of the city county they are working on a bill ab 2180 ab 2182 release surplus of caltrans 10 of the current market rate and if that space can be used for open space, green space or recreational purposes. In addition San Francisco would have 1st right of refusal over those spaces. Supporting life saving safety issues on our public roads and under our direction they are assuring ordination with securing a sponsor for the next legislative session. They have also worked closely with the fat lobbyist on this priority there continue to working with the chc while these bills are pending passage and signature. In the interest of time i will stop there but i would be happy to provide your office with reports of all documents regarding this and since i took the position in the office in sacramento. We are proud of our efforts and we hope that the mayor and the board of supervisors have brought about by this hearing. Thank you supervisor peskin we will make our work even stronger. Thank you for your time supervisors. Thank you miss elliott. I agree that this is doing a great job for the city but how does the contract process between the city and the outer city lobbyistin terms of the competitive bid, how does that work . Excuse me, im looking for the overall review of the contract but i know it was competitively bid and it was in 2012. It was a contract that was competitively bid in 2012 with 4 separate additional options for renewal each with one year and it has been renewed 3 times through. This year. So, this is the end of that contract. . I believe it is eligible for one extension. And that contract does not come before the boardbecause its not eligible for an additional extension . Correct. I am in no way trying to assert that they have a conflict but in as much as they have many clients the Treasury Association in the state of california is one of their clients and i believe that is correct and the reason that i raise that is for instance that you mentioned that the required bill and we also discussed abe 2521 and ab 2522, how do we resolve those issues or how does the state legislative committee look at that . Are you asking me in relation to the contract with our lobbyist . Yes. I would say as far as the particular mechanics i would say that we have a primary lobbyist and that is paul yoder and i believe you said you spoke to, and i believe that they go to Great Lengths to avoid conflict by creating walls within their office so there is not conflicts with in the legislation here. Now are these meetings publicly noticed . Can the public attend these meetings . Yes. In the height of legislative session do you meet more often . We could and that has been done in the past but what we have seen in the past is there is an enormous number of bills that come to state legislation in the legislation season and that tapers off. And then internally lets say there is a piece of legislation that is near and dear to a department but less so to an administration how do you administrate theres things . Are you asking how we prioritize those advocacys . That is something that guides our lobbyists throughout the year and we do flag bills that we believe that departments would be interested in viewing and we do it send them back to those departments to do a review and they send them back to us. Are there any members of the public that would like to testify on this item . I see mr. Planteholt i if there are no others i know mr. Planteholt that you have a lot to say and you have been looking at this for many years so we will give you a little bit of extra time. Go ahead. I am bob planteholt part of my black ground that had may be helpful is that i have had 7 1 2 years on the Sunshine Task force and i was 2 years on as an officer on the ethics committee. I am using all that background but in addition, my advocacy at a state level i was cochair of a group that got 2 bills vetoed after being passed by 2 separate departments. Take a look at the Legislation Committee. Look at the website. You will look at 0 posting of minutes for months and months and months and months it is clear violation of the sunshine ordinance. At the same time i had to remind you folks as well as informed the public that there is a requirement that Public Officials and city staff take a recurring training in sunshine and ethics and certify that they have done it. One member of the state Legislation Committee has been on there for years. Years and years and years and years and nobody has called attention to the lack of the posting of minutes. You may think it is minor but when you look at the agenda you also see there is no report back from the formal major city lobbyist. Now, contrast that to the metropolitan Transportation Commission has a state Legislation Committee and there are constant reports back from their state lobbyist. Here you do not see anything so we will not see how well they did for advocating for the citys legislative agenda after the session ends. I went back to look at the agenda going back a far distance and there is no report back and the you have no report back and you do not know what they did other than specifically push a billdid the lobbyist have an agenda. Is there a bill on the automated Speed Enforcement committee. What information are they giving the lobbyists nd are they supposed to address broad topics that arent specifically addressed by the specific legislation or are they too got and amend the process of the state legislature. There often times i discussed bills and they say to talk to lobbyists and i say will who are they and they do not know. Apart from the city lobbyists i will tell you there is a separate lobbyist hired for some technical stuff and i raised questions with the City Department because i see a potential conflict for that lobbyist for that area and nobody seems to follow up and nobody bothered to ask about that possibility. So, there is a lack of accountability. Thank you. [timer dings] thank you mr. Planteholt. Next speaker please. There seems to be no advocate for the people for example low Income Housing in proposition a. In the city of San Francisco you actually provide 12,536 apartment housing for people that are above the Income Housing. Whereas you are providing only 4000 for those in low income brackets. What this means is that you are provide a more opportunities for people that are not in the low income bracket when it is supposed to be designed to help those that are in the low income bracket. You deliberately set the median rate of 55 and call that Affordable Housing when in reality that income is 49,300 per year. That is not low Income Housing. You people that are veterans or on Social Security benefits your people that have Retirement Benefits and their incomes range from 17 18,000 per year to 30,000 per year. It is not fair. And then about these project developers, you claim they have to make a profit will why dont you use what mercy housing is using where you they nonprofit to build these were not backed in a corner and then also another example is the building downtown where you have 60 million of [timer dings] thank you. Seeing no other Public CommentPublic Comment is closed [gavel] im seeing this is already bringing forth some issues thati was hoping that it would. I would like to bring forth some issues where the lobbyists can come and have an open session where my colleagues can, and members of the public can see and meet these lobbyists in a formal or an informal setting because i think its important that the lobbyists have a direct relationship with the lobbyists in sacramento as well. And i will see that this is on the roster. Thank you supervisor. Peskin i think its important to have an opportunity to listen to our lobbyists. Myself being the chair of this particular committee i never thought of this and i should have so i give you a lot of credit for bringing this topic to our attention. As mr. Plantehold mentioned today we would meet with the lobbyists so often and they would tell us what the priorities were and that was on the school board a these would be set on the school board annually and this could help us understand what the legislation is putting forth and how we could impact that so i would love to see the type of things that our lobbyists and the cities lobbyists especially are fighting for. So, i will support your motion. Thank you supervisor yee. Supervisor breed. Thank you supervisor peskin. I know that when things come the list for things that we need to lobby that is not always brought to our attention. I know in the Transportation Department they do thisopenly and i think that we should find some ways to do that so that the members of the board are aware of the legislation that is on the horizon and we can take positions and what we can keep an eye on him a board level in addition to other responsibilities. The other thing that i wanted to bring up that i thought was interesting in Public Comment was the fact that there are requirements of all members to take certain classes to keep them in compliance and i do think that we have a responsibility to make sure that that happens and we should followthrough on that as well. With that, i am happy to move nd colleagues for our next meeting i think that we should follow up on these as well to make sure that this meets any update at the dawn of the 21st century. What that we will continue this item number 2 to the call of the chair and we look forward to getting our city lobbyists to come down from sacramento to San Francisco to meet with this body. [gavel] mdm. Clerk can you please call the next item . Item 3 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to require the city to open and operate no fewer than Six Navigation Centers within twelve months of the Effective Date of offering comprehensive health, Mental Health, and other services to Homeless People, and moving Homeless People