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The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee occurring on february 11, 2016 will begin shortly. Good morning and welcome to government audit and Oversight Committee february 11, 2016. Im air chb peskin the chair. To my left is Committee Member board preddant london breed. The vice chair normal yee isnt here today and need a motion to excuse him. Move by supervisor breed without objection. Supervisor uis excused mptd the clerk is erica major and like to thank the folks at sfgtv for Live Streaming this committee hearing. Madam clerk you have announcement please silnss all cell phones and electronic devices. [inaudible] should be submit today the clerk. Items acted upon will appear the february 23 agenda unless otherwise stated thank you can you read items 13 together . Item number 1 is resolution authorizing the San Francisco Fire Department to accept 3 50,000 for the purchase of 2 new ambulances. Item 2 is the [inaudible] item 3 is resolution authorizing the fire deapartment to donate obsolete ambulnsh to Health Academy at Galileo High School, we are donating ambulance squz getting donations to purchase 2 ambulances from the oshers. Supervisor breed these are all your resolutions, the floor is yours. Thank you chairman peskin. Im ement sited about this. We moved hard to move the department in the right direction and there was a strong need to hire aadditional staff and paramedics but a need to replace equipment so this is a first step doing so. I will say Galileo High School is my alma mater and pleased this school has the opportunity to receive these and more importantly, city college has a Incredible Program and we have to make sure the folks we are training for tomorrows workforce especially potentially with the Fire Department rfx they have the equipment and support they need and we as a city have quality emergency equipment when we sponding to our constituents and have to build that capacity and excited about these items today and mark [inaudible] is hear from the fire kapartment to talk about this in more detail. Welcome good morning mr. Chair and supervisor breed. The first item is request from department for acceptance oaffjen rgz donation for purchase of 2 new ambulances from mr. And mrs. Osher. The department had difficulty replacing the ambulance fleet so this go as long way. If approved with federal grant fund{other allocation we can purchase 9 additional new ambulances this fiscal year so on behalf the Fire Department and Commission Want to thank mr. And mrs. Osher for their generous donation and happy to answer any questions. The second item is request to donate a obsolete fire inkwrn to city college for the fire academy. This is a 1998 engine no longer of use and used for training purposes for city colleges fire academy program. The Fire Department has a good working relationship with city college and believe this will be value there. The first item is donation of obsolete ambulance to Galileo High School and Health Academy of San Francisco unified school district. The Health Academy assist in the Health Science courses and also helpwise enrollment to the city College Emergency medical technician at city college. This is a 1998 ambulance that is no longer operational use to the Fire Department due to age and a variety of maintenance issues but extreme lee valuable hands on tool for students. Thank you. Supervisor breed any questions . No, i hope you will support this item and with that i would like to before we open to Public Comment i want to add words of thank you to barny and Barbara Osher for the donation of 350,000. Anyone like to comment on item 1, 2 or 3 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed i like to make a motion we forward all 3 items to full board without objection that is theordser of knhity. Committee. Imetm 4 receivelution receiving apruchbing annual reports for miracle mile for 20102015 these 3 will be the last of our catch up on annual reports for Business Improvement districts and Community Benefit districts. With that from theophilus of workforce and economic development, mr. Chris cor gg if you like to present on the Mission Miracle mile Business Improvement district. Mr. Corgp is. Good morning chair peskin and president breed. Richard [inaudible] project manager office of economic and workforce development. I assist with the Business Improvement district or [inaudible] program. I have a Powerpoint Presentation on the laptop. Please proceed. Cbd or bid are governed by 2 pieces of legislation, the first is california street and high way code, section 3600 known as the 1994 act. The second is business and tax regulation code part of article 15. Oewd is charged insureing all bids emeet the Management Plan, specifically they provide services outlined in the plans and spend assessment funds accordingly. Today i provide the findings conducted from 2010 to 2015. The findings are detailed in the mome and summarized in todays presentation knroe this came up at the last meeting but if you want to give the panel and public background why we are doing 5 years at once. I dont want to berate you but think it is important Everybody Knows there is normally happening on a annual basis but we are catching up yes, we are in the process of streamlines these to bring it oo the board yearly and so we have spent time coming up with procedures and streamlining the reports and make it easier to bring these to you annually so we had a few that were multiyear jz this is one of the last multiyear and well start with the 14 15 reports after this presentation so we are pretty much caught up and this is the last of the multiyears. I think there may be one more. Commission bid assesss 20 parcels on mission from 21 to 22 streets. Mission bid generates 85, 851 subject to annual cost adjustment. The bid exspired june 30, 2015. Phillip weser was the executive director. Service areas include maintenance and greening and sPublic Safety and administration. Commission bids activities include twice daily sweep ing of side walk squz curbs, [inaudible] graffiti removal, maintenance of flower baskets, bid ambassadors and installation of maintenance and Security Cameras. Before the mission bay established in 2005 graffiti and trash were a major problem. The mission bid removed graffiti from buildings rb public fixtures and side walks. Removed unauthorized posters and stickers from public and private property and grime and trash from side walks. Before pictures on the left, after pictures are on the right. Transformation was notable. Before pictures are on the top and after pictures on the bottom. All 5 members the Organization Boards of directors served on the safe committee, Clean Committee and green committee. Property owners within the bid donated office space, wall areas 23r surveillance cameras, electricity and server room space. Oewd staff reviewed the budget related benchmark, 1, current year budget versus Management Plan, confirming the mission bid raised 1 percent of [inaudible] confirming the mission bid budget to actualerize within 10 percent and 4, sur plus or deficit revenue is to be identified and [inaudible] sur plus as designated. Bench mark one is Management Plan versus annual budgets. On this chart Management Plan is on the left side. 4 to 6 years the mission bid met this requirement. For calendar year 2014 and 15 proposed to fund new surveill nss cameras under Public Safety program which made the various for the budget amount more than 10 percent than the budget identified in a Management Plan. Bench mark 2, for all 6 years the mission bid exceeded requirement of raising 1 percent from non assessment revenue. Benchmark 3, budget versus actuals, the mission bid met the requirement for 4 to 6 years. Calendar year 2010 incurs a tax penalty for late filing of tax returns in 2008 and 9. The mission bid paid the penalties in full. [inaudible] totally 21, 619 dollars which were included in Public Safety and administrative program. Bench mark 4, the mission bid did indicate carried forward amount but not in the annual report ow it is allocated among the Different Service categories. There is no Carry Forward at the end of 2015. The mission bid expired june 30, 2015 and not renew frd the following, the small size the mission bid was not representative of the community as a whole, small districts are as labor time and budget intensive as large districts for city staff, the small bid budget didnt provide enough funds for administration. The mission bid did perform well in implementing the service plan in the district. Implemented the core programs of bufiication cleaning and maintenance, greening Public Safety administration from calendar year 201015. They maintain board of director jz Free Committee and maintained and established Good Relationship with Property Owners. The mission bid will not be rerenewed beyond 2015. The corporation did wind down the operations and dissolve the current funds by the end of 2015 and the bid has seized operation. Oewd will support future effort to establish a larger district should the community and board of supervisors wish to do so. Thank you mr. [inaudible] supervisor breed, any questions or comments . Seeing none before we open to Public Comment i want to thank mr. Lesser for his long involvement with the miracle mile and Mission Street and all he did and hope at some point your and the communities efforts to create a larger cbd or bid in the area will come to fruition and with that any members of the public who would like to testify on item number 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you mr. Krillo. Supervisor breed would you like to make a motion . We move the resolution to full board with recommendation without objection. Madam clerk could you read the next item item 5 is resolution receiving and approve the annual record report for the Greater Union [inaudible] thank you mr. Majors. I will get this right this time. Im new at this mr. Corgisfrom office of work force and economic development, welcome and before you start let me just say im delighted that the union square bid is such a successful source. Thank you to [inaudible] and members and directors let me say we all notice and appreciate it. With that, mr. Corg isthe floor is yours. My name is chris chorus and project manager with office of economic and Work Force Development and part the cbd team. Today we have a presentation on power er point for Union Square Business districts for the 14, 15 report. As mentioned in the Mission Miracle mile presentation there are two laws that guven the Business Improvement district and cbd. They are state lot known as the 1994 act and article 15 of the business and tax regulations code. The resolutions covers the annual report for 14 and 15. [inaudible] meeting requirements of the Management Plan and put on the state codes. Conducts a annual ro review and provides the board of supervisors with a summary memo in your packets. The union scare bid composes the area arounds union scare neighborhood and assess 5 88 parcels. It was established in 2009 or renewed in 2009 and expires 2019. Currently the executive director is karen flood. They have a robust staff to make sure they meet the service area jz Management Plan which include clean and safe streetscape improvements. Oewd reviews 4 benchmarks to insure cbd is meeting the goals. They are currents eurobudget. Conforming the uniier square bid raise more than 1 pofert the budget from non assessment revenue. Conform the budget to actuals within 10 percent variance spoints qu Carry Forward is identified. In the first bench mark the Management Plan the uniier square bid met this requirement within all various points. The second benchmark union square bid received more than half the operating budget from non assessment revenue due to grants and acquiring donations from private donors. Benchmark 3 met the requirements of insureing the actuals and budget were within 10 variance points. Careo over, union square gave oewd in the annual report their carry over budget and how they planned breaking it down in the coming year. Oewd find out of this years review union square exceeded the requirement, successful in acquiring grant dollars and maintaining the Management Plan and achieving the implementation goals. Now with me is karen flood from union square bid who will continue. [inaudible] welcome. Great, thank you chris for that excellent report and good morning everybody. Present chair peskin, how are you this morning . Karen flood executive director of union square bid and here to present the report for fiscal year 14 15. We did 4 years in one minute last time. I believe i have the same amount of time for one year. Just to give you a little bit of background and chris wnt through this but a overview, this is the district, the heart is Union Square Park and cover about 27 blocks around the area. We have over a thousand businesses in our district, 500 Property Owners. The assessment budget is 3. 3 million and 2. 1 is clean and safe. And then we were tibel double our budget through grant money and other Fund Raising Efforts to about 6. 6 million. Core services, clean and safe. We have 3 types of ambassadors, we call all the uniformed personnel ambassadors. We have safety ambassador squz cleaning that sweep up and keep the side walks clean and remove graffiti. We have project personnel who does a great job of fixing things, painting to keep it looking sharp. We also Police Officers 7 day as week 10 hours a day and that is key taimprove the safety the district. We are governed by a 23 member board which is representative the use in the district, hotel, theaters and arts. We have executive committees subset the board, finance, market, Public Affairs, services and streetscape and public realm. We have a actf board and very engaged in the district and care about the area. We also partner with a Organization First and foremost city of San Francisco our primary liaison with the city is oewd so work with them closely. Next is the pd and dpw, we work with them all the time and partner to keep the dist rict looking clean and maintain the safety. Mta, planning, Public Health we work with a variety of departments. We partner with a lot of business organizations especially on the advocacy side, chamber of commerce, sf travel. We have common interest to make sure the area is clean safe and welcome. We have a fiscal partner the last 2 years the Silicon Valley Community Foundation which we hope to continue to main thane that partnership going forwards. Grant and other funds, here with me today is ben horn who is the Deputy Director and handles all the number jz does a great job so if you have questions he is happy to answer the questions. Again, we raised all mostdoubled our budget and primarily with a big donor, Silicon Valley gave 3 million in the fiscal year 14 15. About 1 million went to Police Presence and that is what the donor wanted. We have a Safe Shopper Program for union square because we get incredible increase in the number of visitors so this was key to enhance the safety. We have a very successful Security Camera on private buildings in the area so 2 million of that went to increase number of cameras in the area. We did share about 700 thousand with the neighboring district, Central Market kwr tenderloin. They received 250 thousand each to bolter the safety. We received a grant from oe