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MINUTES

 

Regular Meeting

March 5, 2007

 

2:00 p.m.

ROOM 400, CITY HALL

1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

  

 

CALL TO ORDER

 

 

 

2:00 p.m.

 

 

 

ROLL CALL

 

 

 

President Thomas T. Ng

Present

 

Vice President, Alicia D. Becerril

Present

 

Commissioner Donald A. Casper

Present

 

Commissioner Morgan R. Gorrono

Present

 

Commissioner Yu-Yee Wu

Not Present

 

 

 

President Thomas Ng presided.

 

 

 

PUBLIC COMMENT ON MATTERS APPEARING ON THE AGENDA

 

 

 

Farbod Pirouzmand, IFPTE Local 21 requested to sever PSC #4127-06/07 and
Pamela Covington, IFPTE Local 21 requested to sever PSC #4103-06/07.

 

 

 

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

 

 

 

Regular Meeting of February 20, 2007

 

 

 

Action:

Approve.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

0102-07-8

Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contracts. 
(Item No. 5)

 

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4103-06/07

City Planning

$200,000

Will provide work relating to the Department’s Better Streets Program on an as-needed basis.  As planning for the Better Streets Program proceeds, staff will require specialized expertise to perform various tasks relating to design of street geometry.

Regular

04/30/08

 

 

February 20, 2007:

Postpone to the meeting of March 5, 2007 at the request of IFPTE Local 21.

 

 

 

Speakers:

Pamela Covington, IFPTE Local 21
Elaine Forbes, City Planning
Adam Barrett, City Planning
Peg Divine, Department of Public Works

 

 

 

Action:

Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report.  Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser.  (Vote of 3 to 1; Commissioner Gorrono dissents.)

 

0138-07-8

Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contracts. 
(Item No. 6)

 

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4106-06/07

Sheriff’s Department

$125,000

Will facilitate evaluation process, develop a logic model and performance indicators, conduct the evaluation and present findings, and make recommendations to all stakeholders involved in the Community Re-entry and Violence Prevention Programs.

Regular

07/19/08

4107-06/07

Economic & Workforce Development

$125,000

Will provide bio-technology training services for low-income and low skilled individuals the contractor will work closely with the MOEWD staff to conduct the assessment and will provide a written summary of its conclusions.

Regular

12/31/08

4108-06/07

Environment

$200,000

Will provide structural improvements to San Francisco’s Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility.

Regular

02/29/08

4109-06/07

Department of Children, Youth & Their Families

$591,750

Will provide production and distribution of unitized meals to the children and youth enrolled in the 2007 Mayor’s Summer Food Service Program.  This program is funded through the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families.

Regular

08/17/07

4110-06/07

Airport Commission

$300,000

Will provide design, build, install, and maintain a smart-card based automatic fare collection system for taxicab Airport trip fees.  Services will also include a transaction processing and customer assistance call center to resolve problems.

Regular

07/31/10

4111-06/07

Arts Commission

$900,000

Will provide Art Enrichment for the 525 Golden Gate Avenue Office Building Project; design, prepare cost estimates procure engineering, fabricate, transport, and installation of art work.

Regular

03/01/12

4112-06/07

Department of Human Resources

$600,000

Will provide computer software, licensing, and software support for proprietary workers’ compensation claims management system.

Regular

06/30/08

4113-06/07

 

Over to 3/19/07

Department of Human Resources

$7,500,000

Will provide services for identification, acquisition, and implementation of human resources and attendance, payroll, and benefit administration software for City Department.

Regular

06/30/10

4114-06/07

 

Over to 3/19/07

Department of Tele-
communications and Information Services

$200,000

Will provide pick-up, transport, store and return of computer backup tapes from the City’s Datacenter at Market Plaza.  Store the tapes at contractor’s storage facilities in the Sacramento area and in Colorado.

Regular

12/31/09

4115-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$350,000

Will provide assessment and strategic planning for the completion of a comprehensive assessment of the current models SUASI counties.

Regular

12/31/07

4116-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$350,000

Will provide assessment and strategic planning services for the completion of a multi-discipline, multi-hazard capabilities assessment, evaluation and gap analysis of the Bay Area SUASI region’s Public Information and Warning capabilities and systems.

Regular

12/31/07

4117-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$500,000

Will provide assessment and strategic planning services for the community based projects throughout the Bay Area that enhance the capability of individuals, families, communities, businesses, or large facilities.

Regular

12/31/07

4118-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$500,000

Will provide assessment and strategic planning services for the development of a volunteer management system, consistent with the State of California Disaster Services Worker program to be used in all 10 Bay Area counties.

Regular

12/31/07

4119-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$550,000

Will provide assessment and strategic planning services for the preparation of a multi-discipline/ multi-hazard needs assessment and evaluation of the San Francisco Bay Area regions.

Regular

12/31/07

4120-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$550,000

Will provide assessment and strategic planning services for the completion of a needs assessment and evaluation of the Bay Area SUASI Interoperable Communications Project.

Regular

12/31/07

4121-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$600,000

Will provide assessment of national citizen preparedness public education campaigns that incorporate the best practices of social marketing programs, effectiveness of various citizen preparedness programs in the Bay Area.

Regular

12/31/07

4122-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$600,000

Will provide assessment and strategic planning services for the development of a shelter operations tool kit consisting of policies, procedures and guidance documents that will assist individual communities, cities and communities.

Regular

12/31/07

4123-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$800,000

Will provide training and exercise assessment for the completion of a multi-discipline, multi-hazard Capabilities Assessment, evaluation and gap analysis of the Bay Area SUASI region’s training based on local, state and federal guidelines.

Regular

12/31/07

4124-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$800,000

Will provide assessment and strategic planning services for the completion of a comprehensive assessment of those traditional and non-traditional health care providers within the 10 Bay Area counties and their cities.

Regular

12/31/07

4125-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$105,000

Will provide required pre-employment psychological evaluations and provide written summary and assessment reports for all selected candidates as part of their final selection process for entry positions in the Dept. of Emergency Management’s Division.

Regular

03/15/10

4126-06/07

Office of Emergency Svc. & Homeland Security

$1,300,000

Will provide assessment and strategic planning services for the planning support for each of the 10 Bay Area Operational Areas and California OES Region II to complete Bay Area Super Urban Area Security Initiative regional planning projects.

Regular

12/31/07

4127-06/07

 

Over to 3/19/07

Public Works

$1,500,000

Will provide specialized, critical, and urgent project control tasks that include cost estimating, scheduling and claim analysis for various types of complex and unique public works projects in the form of third party peer reviews to validate these tasks.

Regular

04/30/10

4128-06/07

Municipal Transportation Agency

$300,000

Will provide comprehensive environmental review of San Francisco Bicycle Plan Update to satisfy requirements to Superior Court injunction and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Regular

02/28/09

4023-98/99

Airport Commission

Increase Amount
$900,000
New Amount
$1,760,000

Will provide bond trustee services, including payment of principal and interest to bondholders, maintenance of books of registration for bonds, compliance with all tax laws, provision of notices to bondholders, investment of reserve funds.

Regular

03/31/12

4107-97/98

Public Works

Increase Amount
$800,000
New Amount
$6,245,811

Will provide construction support services during construction phase of seismic retrofitting and rehabilitation of the 4th St. Bridge.  Work includes project coordination, responding to Requests for Information, review of working drawings submittals.

Regular

07/31/08

 

 

Speakers:

Jean Mariani, Office of the Sheriff spoke on PSC #4106-06/07.
Amy Wallace, Mayor’s Office of Economic & Workforce Development spoke on PSC #4107-06/07.
David Assman, Department of the Environment spoke on
PSC #4108-06/07.
Libby Albert and Artina Lim, Department of Children, Youth and Their Families spoke on PSC #4109-06/07.
Jill Manton, Arts Commission spoke on PSC #4111-06/07.
Vicki Hennessy and Richard Shortall, Department of Emergency Management spoke on PSC #4115-06/07 through 4124-06/07 and 4126-06/07.
Vicki Hennessy, Department of Emergency Management spoke on PSC #4125-06/07.
Farbod Pirouzmand, IFPTE Local 21 and Pansy Lam, Department of Public Works spoke on PSC #4127-06/07.
Oliver Gajda, Municipal Transportation Agency spoke on
PSC #4128-06/07.
Galen Leung and Kevin Kone, Airport Commission spoke on PSC #4023-98/99.

 

 

Action:

(1)   Postpone PSC #4113-06/07 to the meeting of March 19, 2007 at the request of the Department of Human Resources. 
(Vote of 4 to 0)

(2)   Postpone PSC #4114-06/07 to the meeting of March 19, 2007 at the request of the Department of Telecommunications and Information Services.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

(3)   Postpone PSC #4127-06/07 to the meeting of March 19, 2007 at the request of IFPTE Local 21 and the Department of Public Works.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

(4)   Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on PSC 4107-06/07 and 4111-06/07 as amended.  Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

(5)   Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on PSC 4108-06/07.  Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser.  (Vote of 3 to 1; Commissioner Gorrono dissents.)

(6)   Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on all remaining contracts.  Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

 

Note:

Commissioner Casper stated: “By its request for Civil Service Commission approval of PSC No. 4109-06/07, the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) seeks to contract with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) for the production and distribution of unitized meals to children and youth who will be enrolled in the 2007 Mayor’s Summer Food Service Program.  Civil Service classifications are adequate to the task.  The relevant classes include 2654 Cook, 2650 Assistant Cook, 2618 Food Service Supervisor, and 2604 Food Service Worker.  DCYF does not, however, employ any person in any such classification.  SFUSD, with its network of cafeterias, does employ persons in these or analogous classifications.  Hence the proposal by DCYF to contract with SFUSD for this service.

I vote to approve DCYF’s request only for the purpose of facilitating the contract.  In my opinion, it is not necessary that DCYF seek this commission’s approval of this contract.  The Civil Service Commission’s jurisdiction to review, and to approve or deny, requests for personal services contracts does not arise simply because the proposed services are to be rendered by a person or entity other than the municipal corporation known as the City and County of San Francisco.  The reason for this commission’s jurisdiction over “contracting out” is the “implicit necessity for protecting the policy of the organic civil service mandate against dissolution and destruction.”  (California State Employees’ Assn. v. Williams (1970) 7 Cal.App.3d 390, 397).

Since 1926, SFUSD has been a government entity distinct from the municipal corporation known as the City and County of San Francisco.  (Cal. Const., Art. IX, 14.)  The separation has never been a total one, however.  Under section 45318 of the Education Code, all non-certificated employees of SFUSD are “subject to, and have all the rights granted by,” the merit system of employment established in the municipal corporation’s Charter.

The services to be performed under PSC 4109-06/07 will be performed by SFUSD employees who are at the same time members of the City’s civil service.  The civil service mandate of the City Charter will not be diluted or in any way endangered.  Therefore, it is not necessary that the Civil Service Commission apply either of the tests, whether the nature-of-the-services test or the functional test, for determining the propriety of contracting out work to persons or entities not part of the City’s merit system.  This contract is in the nature of an interdepartmental work order, which this commission has no jurisdiction to review.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

0744-06-7

Determination of future employability: provisional appointment of David Rollins, Cement Mason (Job Code 7311) Department of Public Works.  (Item No. 7) 

 

 

 

February 5, 2007:

Postpone to the meeting of March 5, 2007 at the request of the Cement Masons Local Union 300. 

 

 

 

Speakers:

None.

 

 

Action:

Postpone to the meeting of March 19, 2007 at the request of the Cement Masons Local Union 300.  (Vote of 4 to 0) 

 

 HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

 

General Update of the Department of Human Resources Activities and Issues.  (Item No. 8)

 

 

No updates.

 

HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR’S REPORT

0105-07-1

Department of Human Resources’ Report on Provisional Appointments and Position Based Testing Program Implementation.  (Item No. 9)

 

 

 

February 20, 2007:

Postpone to the meeting of March 5, 2007.

 

 

 

Speakers:

Robert Pritchard, Acting Deputy Director-RAS

 

 

 

Action:

Accept and file the report.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S REPORT

 

0842-06-1

Implementation of Proposition C – Amendment to Charter Section A8.409-1 – Salary of Elected Officials – Progress Report for Fiscal Year 2007-08. 
(Item No. 10)

 

 

 

January 2, 2007:

Accept the report.

 

 

 

February 5, 2007:

Postpone to the meeting of February 20, 2007.

 

 

 

February 20, 2007:

Postpone to the meeting of March 5, 2007.

 

 

 

Speakers:

Sandra Eng, Civil Service Commission

 

 

 

Action:

Accept the report.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

0009-07-1

Report on Commissioner Request: Awards Program for Police Officers Nominated for Meritorious Service.  (Item No. 11)

 

 

 

January 16, 2007:

Postpone to the meeting of February 20, 2007

 

 

 

February 20, 2007:

Postpone to the meeting of March 5, 2007.

 

 

 

Speakers:

Kate Favetti, Executive Officer

 

 

 

Action:

Accept the report.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

0840-06-1

Fiscal Year 2007-08 Civil Service Commission Budget Request.  (Item No. 12)

 

 

 

January 2, 2007:

Accept the report.

 

 

 

February 5, 2007:

Accept the report.  Direct Commission staff to continue to negotiate amounts, finalize the Fiscal Year 2007-08 Budget Request, incorporate changes, approve to submit the Fiscal Year 2007-08 Budget Request to the Mayor and the Controller by February 21, 2007.  Commissioner Casper directed staff to request an increase in General Fund support for the Budget.

 

 

 

February 20, 2007:

Postpone to the meeting of March 5, 2007.

 

 

 

Speakers:

Kate Favetti, Executive Officer

 

 

 

Action:

Approve budget.  (Vote of 4 to 0) 

 

0841-06-1

Filling the vacancy of the position of Human Resources Director – Personnel Matter.  (Item No. 13)

 

 

A)

Public Comment on all matters pertaining to the Agenda item and the potential closed session.  None.

 

 

 

 

 

 

B)

Vote on whether to hold closed session pursuant to San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10 (b) and California Government Code Section 54957 (b) (1) –Personnel Matter.  Public Employee Appointment – Human Resources Director.   (Action Item)

 

 

 

The Commission voted to hold a closed session.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

 

 

Closed session convened at 4:35 p.m. with the following present:

 

 

 

President Thomas Ng
Vice President Alicia Becerril
Commissioner Donald Casper
Commissioner Morgan Gorrono

Kate Favetti, Executive Officer
Paul Zarefsky, Deputy City Attorney
Sandra Eng, Civil Service Commission
Gloria Sheppard, Civil Service Commission

 

 

 

1)

PERSONNEL MATTER - Public Employee Appointment – Human Resources Director (Discussion and Possible Action Item)

California Government Code Section 54957 (b) (1) and San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10 (b)

 

 

 

Closed session ended at 4:55 p.m.

 

 

C)

Reconvened in open session at 4:55 p.m.:

 

 

 

1)

Vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session. 
(San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.12(a).  (Action Item)

 

 

2)

Disclosure of action taken in closed session pursuant to California Government Code Section 54957.1 (a) (5) and San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.12(b) (4).

 

 

The Commission voted not to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

January 2, 2007:

Accept the report. 

 

 

 

 

 

February 20, 2007:

Accept the report.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Action:

Postpone to the meeting of March 19, 2007.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

 

REQUEST TO SPEAK ON ANY MATTER WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

 

None.

 

COMMISSIONERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS/REQUESTS

 

None.

 

ADJOURNMENT

4:55 p.m.