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Francisco Public Utilities commission at a5 25 golden gate avenue is more than just a 13story building and office ablation. Instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest Office Buildings in america. Thats more than a building. Thats a living system. When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was...

When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadnt done anything there and the mayor thought the same. If an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. It sat there vacant for quite a while. The city decided to buy the building in 1999 for 2. We worked and looked at ways that we can utilize the building f...

Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. Good morning. I am here today to support the sheriff and his effort to reduce the cost of these collect calls. We provide the representation to 23,000 people a year and 83 percent of the people that are charged are below the federal Poverty Level in San Francisco and the reality is, as the sheriff said, it is if the families that are getting gouged because the inmates for the most part have no money and no resources when they are in custody. And so it is the families who are getting these bills. And it is heart breaking to see. And i have seen this over th...

Reason it was mostly medical calls, and that was the person in every instance that had to deal with the situation. Constantly, and i just see that it clearly from my perspective, it seems like it is something that we should begin to look at. And whether, and analyze, and determine whether or not that is a good route for the department to take. Because, it definitely as you know, from your experience, i mean the need is definitely out there, and it may cost money on the front end, but could it be a real cost savings on the back end, and could it be, you know, a savings of efficiency, on the bac...

30 to 40,000 dollars per employee to have fully cross trained workforce. And so that would be one of our main objections or concerns. But do you think that ultimately there could be a cost savings long term with the department in general . I think, that to the requirement to have all of the new hires being trained as a paramedic is something that is not necessary in terms of being able to meet or appropriately staffed and once being able to meet our response requirements and so forth, there are initial costs and ten there are additional training costs with having all paramedics in the departme...