restrictions on teleconference this , meeting is held via teleconference and streamed by sfgovtv. watching live, there is a time lag between the live meeting and what is shown on sfgovtv. on behalf of the commission i thank you for the staff of sfgovtv media services and building management for assistance in putting on this meeting. for members of public who wish to make comment on an item outside the room use 415-655-0001. then access code: 2488 204 0766 ##. to raise your hundred to speak press star 3. you must limit comments to the topic of the on the agenda discussed. unless you are speak under the general public comment and to reminds you if you don't stay on the topic the chair may ask you omit your comment. we ask public comment made in a civil and respectful manner and refrain from profanity. address your remarks to the commission not to individuals. madam chair? >> before calling the next item are there requests to amend the order of today's agenda? >> next item announcements by the chair. >> i have several announcements today you may want to make yourself comfortable. first is to call your attention to the december issue of the departmenty new in the works. it is a nice over view of 2022 accomplishments of the department. present in the a month low highlight. i found interesting and useful. the graphics are appealing and informative and the text is easy to read and compliments the graphics. i receive it in my e mail, you can, too. go to sfpossibleworks, click, about us and click on, in the works and sign up to receive the monthly letter. second, prior to the holiday, there was a meeting between upon the sanitation and streets chair mario and myself deputy city attorney taylor and chris topp. director short and secretary fuller to discuss the results of upon 2022's prop b and how this will affect our commissions moving forward. . taylor and tom reviewed the changes mandated by the new prop b. il sum rise my take aways from our meeting. i would say that my observation was that more language was stripped out than added. to the law. and the most significant provisions are that commissioner credentials or experience backgrounds are no longer required. so they are recommended, which i hope means we'll soon have a fifth commissioner on our commission since it is recommended be an engineer tell not be required. >> sanitation streets commission will dot following; hold public hearings and set policies for dpw regarding sanitation standards and protocols and standardses and protocols for maintaining the public right-of-way. they'll review and evaluate data regarding street conscience city conditions and dpw's work to address the conditions and the commission will establish minimum starnlsd of clean liness for the public right of way. >> a lot of the language specific to our commission was stripped out and general references to san francisco commission and board longer made. in other words. regarding contract approval, contract performance, department staffing, we don't have special called out for our commission. our commission will see all dpw contracts now. including for san station street services. given this increased work load for our commission, we agree that most of the commodities, general services and professional services contracts will be handled on our consent calendar and of course we can request something be pulld and put on the regular calendar. we discussed grant approvals. most grant approvals fall under the expertise. we will now official low approve grants. we did agree to have the sas commission review them and make recommendations for action to us. on specific grants or on expected grant boards. we may only commission that cease the final grant detailings they'll have an idea they can give guidance. to assist us with our obligations, the second fuller will provide our commission with a month low summation of the sanitation and streets meetings including link to agendas and live links to the documents they review and we can access the documents on the their commission's website. >> i will meet regular low with sanitation and streets commission chair mogannam and brain storming what each commissions are doing and how to better work together. that's in sum to me the key take aways were. secretary full are documented the new procedures that we have agreed upon in consultation with the city attorneys and with director short. and he will have that available for our commissioners if you like more detail. secretary fuller will provide us with a new org chart now the department organization has changed and there will not be 2 departments one available will present. and that will be the new temptlet we see in presentations going forward i finds to be so useful. all of that said, i will be asking rachael alonzo someone we know well, for proposal to dpw on how our 2 commissions can best work together. so we don't have to feel our way in the dark given the work her and her teach did with the 2 prop b's in 2020 and 2022. i hope she'll have a lot of suggestions to make our lives easy on our commission and the lives of the commissioners on sanitation and streets easy as we navigate forward. >> director short or department city attorney, anything you want to add i may have missed? thank you chair post. that was a helpful sum row. one caveat with respect to contract approvals. i think is helpful to note that to the extent the sas commission was previously authorized to aprudent person contracts, those contracts approved by public work commission. all subject to the delegation of contract approvals that this commission passed earlier this year. >> thank you very much. for clarifying that. >> secretary full are anything to add i may have missed? >> no, that is i think -- of good summary of what occurred during that meeting. thank you. >> thank you. >> and last of my announcements, this past week had 4 meetings i found useful. that i will quickly tell you what they were. i will not go in as much detail. the controller appointed me to this commission to update him on our commission business. and seek advice on various issues and obligations we have. i had aim budget brief with dpw finance staff a sneak peek at when we will see on our commission in the next couple of weeks. and i will quite honest, it is overwhelming. not surprisingly begin the size of dpw the second largest department in the city and myriad of objigzs. secretary fuller had comments to add-on our commission's per spektdive and role. do you have anything you like to say? >> yes. >> so, specifically to the budget review process that we'll go through in the next -- month, the -- city charter and the admin code do layout for us a process where the department has to have a public meeting on their budget and since this commission exists, that public meeting will take place part of our normal regular january 20th meeting. and then that is -- of course followed up by a vote to approve it after that public hearing. and that will be taking place on february third. i think it is important to think about -- the budget our budget manager, upon the other day made a good point of saying that the budget, once passed and approved by the mayor and the board of supervisors it is a plan. and it changes throughout the year. so, while this commission will be approving the departmental budget to then go to the controller's office and mayor's office and board of supervisors; it is important to keep in mind it is the approval of a plan and the role of this commission unlike you know when you may have seen in the house weighs and means committee, or other bodies like that; not getting in the line item details of the budget. but looking at the broad policies that the strategy of the xrnt budget and future budget planning as well. i think that is important to keep in minds. and we do have additional briefings available from staff for commissioners. i have sent out a couple of the options for late next week. and i can reminds commissioners of those options as well. it is a good opportunity for both chair post and myself had a point in our meeting with the budget team where we both realized -- this is a complicated department. and the budget reflects just the things inherrent in a broad man date the department fulfills. if you are able to upon attend a briefing that is helpful and i real think that the first round of budget review is a great opportunity for learning -- for myself but commissioners as limp because there is so much to take in. that -- and see that as in addition to providing that oversight be able to prepare yourself for future budget rounds through this learning process. >> thank you very much. secretary fuller. >> the other 2 meetings i had this week was the first kickoff meeting for finding a new head of dpw. this is a meeting with hr representative sean and in berkeley search. it was useful what we grand jury ed were biweekly meetings of the committee and this specific participateos that committee are being determined but now it is looking at a minimum like -- as we discussed in prior meetingi and vice chair zoubi will be participating from this commission and chair mogannam and will be participating with director short search firm and hr rep. and probably representatives from the mayor's office and the cao's office that was is to be determined. >> i will keep you all aprized and vice chair zoubi and i will keep you aprized. i'm optimistic and impressed upon the search firm this needs to happen quickly and the commission will not be a bottle neck. it is high priority to get this approximate suspicion filld and encouraged our search firm to let me know or anyone else know enemy commission or if i or anyone at the city is a bottle 96, let us know so key we can shake that loose and keep it going quickly as possible. >> yesterday i had a sneak peek at the capitol project performance metrics presentation that we will get at the next meeting in january. this was scheduled for december but postponed to flush it out more. it was helpful i gave feedback and learned a lot along the way and i think we will have a nice discussion in january about how to measure performance metrics at dpw now that we have that obligation as a new commission. it is a work in progress. we will see the first cut in the couple weeks the new system gets up and running that deputy director robertson told us we will track and present. so again this will not be a finished product out of the gate we are off to a good start and look forward to getting feedback on this in a couple weeks. those are my announcements now we will move on to item 1 secretary fuller call that item. >> i beg your pardon commissioner segal. >> happy new year, everybody. i had a question on your report, chairman post. on our -- our -- new organization under problem b2022. so you said rachael alonzo from the city add administrator's office will make recommendations more recommendations how we will interact. is there any target deaf that she set for when we will get those recommendations. not yet i asked her late. i will in 2 weeks i will have a target date on that. >> it will include the she will put together a new organizational structure. >> no dpw is doing that and secretary fuller will provide that. to get her ideas on how the 2 commissions can best work together. we can figure it out. she would have a lot to bring to the conversation i asked her to give us pointers. when she gives us those. they will impact our search director's search because tell impact what somewhat the directors job description i think. but will impact what our new commissioner that will not have a required job description we will get. but tell impact a lot of what we do. so -- will wee have any are we going to vote on accepting her recommendations or is she making them and that's it? i think my intention i will turn on city attorney stop that the law is what it is. the streshths are what they are. we would be nice to have guidance in this new world of what our roles and responsibilities are versus their's and how to work together more. what i'm more interested in. it is not as formal as i made it sound is my intent. nothing formal. prop b is done. the train left the station it is all upon hands on deck how can we best work together i thought rachael would be key to do that that is more what i was thinking. >> are members of the board of supervisors given us prop b in 2020 and in 2022 are they having input on this? yes, i know the prom 2022 supervisor peskin i spoke with him about this. i think i think i don't know how much input we need. what done is done. i will turn it over to deputy city attorney. worn aspect is the board of supervisors can continue to prescribe roles for the commission. so i think it is correct chair post that the upon general powerhouse of commissions in charter sections 4.102 and 3 and 4, are will the references that remain in the charter section 4.140. 4.141. so i think, too, the -- board of supervisors will continue to provide input i'm certain and i think it is a helpful policy approach to speak to people with subject matter expertise such as rape and he will working with director short and her leadership to help determine how the roles and responsibilities between the commissions allocated to the most result. thank you. >> thank you. >> item 1 is the secretary's report and i -- my report is brief. and remindser we'll need to take public comment after since it is not an agendaized item. is that we include in your agenda in the attachment to it are the logs and so that includes both public comment we have not received any for this agenda or the previous one. and also any memorandums from the department to the commission following up on outstanding questions -- so. as those questions and the outstanding questions are addressed i will be distributing those to the commission and making sure they are part of the logs so the commission has easy access and the public has it as well. on a logistic's matter we have a couple of meeting in march i will pull commissioners in the next week to see about potential alternative dates that since we vasome -- we have some danger of not making quorum for the 2 meetings until we explore the other possibilities. and then, this will be the last part of my report is my first discussion of the sanitation and streets commission and work in the month of december. they had a regular meeting scheduled for the 19th of december where they had both a number of program items they were going to look at. >> and last grant item contract with service provider provide ing not -- professional development but workforce development as well as supportive service for cleaning the streets in china town. they needed to consider that for that grant by the end of the year. unfortunately, there were a number of conflicts that caused that commission to lose quorum. ahead of the december 19th meeting. we held a special meeting on the 28th of december to consider that grant item and it pass and continued the good service the grantee is providing in the china town community. so -- the minutes for that meeting and for the november 2022 meeting will be available and i will send them out to this commission once they are prepared for the next sanitation and streets commission on january 23rd. that concludes my report i'm happy to take questions on those 3 announcements. >> >> thank you. open public comment on this item >> okay. >> for members of the public wish to make comment on item one the secretary's report. if you are present with us in the hearing chamber lineup against the wall further from the door if you mean are calling in -- to call 415-655-0001 and access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press star 3 to raise your hands. look next the hearing chamber does not appear we have any in person public comment. sfgovtv, do we have callers who wish to speak on this report. >> they indicate that there is no public comment on this. and so this public comment concluded. >> thank you. secretary full are call the next item, general public comment. item 2. >> item 2 is general public comment. members may address the commission on topics in the subject matter of the commission but not part of the agenda. comments specific to an item on the agenda may be heard when that item is considered. members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes and general public comment may be continued to the end of the agenda upon if we exceed 15 minutes for general public comment. members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of upon general public comment may lineup against the wall. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ## then star 3 to enter the queue. looking in the hearing room we don't have members wish to speak on this item of sfgovtv, do we have callers who raised their hand wish to speak in general public comment? >> sfgovtv indicating that we do not. we have no public comment. general public comment on this. >> thank you. we will move on to item number 3 secretary fuller call that item. >> item 3 is the director's report. interim public works director carla short is here to present and this it is an informational item. >> good morning, commissioners. carla short interim director i'm coming to you from the other side of the dias this morning. because i want to give a presentation as part of the director's report today. but first i want to wish everyone a happy new year. we will talk about storms. but i have a couple other topics i wanted to touch on. we had a brief conversation about prop b. you know, we were official low reunited on january 1. so our operation side is part of the public works department again. thanks to san francisco voters. i'm really excited start the new year as a unified department. we are committed to building on our strengths. working together to address the challenges and make sure we remain focused on meaningful service for the people of san francisco. another update i wanted share before i ghet our storm response is a bit of information about the court ruling on emcampments. i'm not sure if you heard but the u.s. district court ruleod december 23rd by federal magistrate judge donna rue that with few exceptions, that ruling blocks san francisco from removing unhoused residents from encampments as long as the city lacks shelter house them. point include the acl sxushgs coalition on homelessness the ruling means the city cannot remove anyone from the street until everyone has been provided housing. our city attorney is seeking a court clarification. we are correspond the ruling is in direct conflict with an earlier federal order by a different judge that mandated san francisco needed to have enhanced enforcement in the tenderloin. so our city attorney said that the new ruling defies logic requiring the city to offer shelter for all persons experiencing homelessness before one person is adequately sheltered. it would take years and 1.45 billion to build the beds and homeless services and many beds go unused people refuse shelter. i'm bringing this to your attention we are involved in encampment resolutions. these resolutions are lead by services, before public works goes in at all they have been out reach from the department of homelessness and supportive housing from the department of public health. so there has been an out reach effort. many days sometimes weeks before we go to clean an encampment. our job is to clean once the people have been offered the services. a big part of the role we play in addition to cleaning is bagging and tagging. many items removed we will collect. we catalog and store them at the operation's yard until ordinance come to retrieve them later. i'm sure we'll hear more about this as the case moves throughout courts and get clear direction if the judge and do our best to feel keep you updated on that. >> okay. this morning we feel we ar