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MINUTES

Regular Meeting

April 21, 2008

2:00 p.m.

ROOM 400, CITY HALL

1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

	CALL TO ORDER

	2:03 p.m.

	ROLL CALL

	President Alicia D. Becerril		Present
	Vice President Donald A. Casper		Present
	Commissioner Morgan R. Gorrono		Present
	Commissioner Mary Y. Jung		Present (Left at 5:21 p.m. Missed Item #s 10,11,12,13,14)
	Commissioner Yu-Yee Wu		Not Present (notified absence)

	President Alicia Becerril presided.

	PUBLIC COMMENT ON MATTERS APPEARING ON THE AGENDA

	None.

	APPROVAL OF MINUTES

	Regular Meeting of March 17, 2008

	April 7, 2008:	President Becerril and Commissioner Gorrono recused (Vote of 4 to 0); Postpone to the meeting of April 21, 2008. (Three (3) votes are needed for Commission action.)

	Action:	Postpone to the meeting of May 5, 2008. (Vote of 4 to 0)

	Regular Meeting of April 7, 2008

	Action:	Approve. (Vote of 3 to 0; Commissioner Jung recused. Vote of 4 to 0)

0157-08-8	Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contracts. (Item No. 5)

PSC#	Department	Amount	Type of Service	Type of Approval	Duration
2001-07/08 *Over to 5/5/08*	Human Services	$30,400	Will manage the state designated contractor EDS who provide day-to-day management of the CalWIN comprehensive automated system, which is necessary in administering multiple health and welfare benefits and services to clients throughout the State.	Continuing	07/01/16
4120-07/08	Municipal Transportation Agency	$250,000	Will provide professional consulting assistance to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and Parking Authority (PA) in establishing requirements and specifications for a Parking Access and Revenue Control System.	Regular	06/30/09
4125-07/08	Public Utilities Commission	$3,000,000	Will provide inspection services and design upgrades for HHWAP for hydrogenation and power facilities.	Regular	06/30/11

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

2001-07/08

Over to 5/5/08

Human Services

$30,400

Will manage the state designated contractor EDS who provide day-to-day management of the CalWIN comprehensive automated system, which is necessary in administering multiple health and welfare benefits and services to clients throughout the State.

Continuing

07/01/16

4120-07/08

Municipal Transportation Agency

$250,000

Will provide professional consulting assistance to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and Parking Authority (PA) in establishing requirements and specifications for a Parking Access and Revenue Control System.

Regular

06/30/09

4125-07/08

Public Utilities Commission

$3,000,000

Will provide inspection services and design upgrades for HHWAP for hydrogenation and power facilities.

Regular

06/30/11

	April 7, 2008:	1. Postpone PSC #2001-07/08 to the meeting of April 21, 2008 for the Human Services Agency to clarify contract amount. 2. Postpone PSC #4120-07/08 to the meeting of April 21, 2008 at the request of the Municipal Transportation Agency. 3. Postpone PSC #4125-07/08 to the meeting of April 21, 2008 at the request of the Public Utilities Commission.

	Speakers:	Shanam Farhangi and Thomas Bower, Municipal Transportation Agency spoke on PSC #4120-07/08.

	Action:	(1) Postpone PSC #2001-07/08 to the meeting of May 5, 2008 at the request of the Human Services Agency. (Vote of 4 to 0) (2) Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on PSC #4120-07/08 as amended. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 4 to 0) (3) Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on PSC # 4125-07/08. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 4 to 0)

0182-08-8	Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contracts. (Item No. 6)

PSC#	Department	Amount	Type of Service	Type of Approval	Duration
1003-08/09	District Attorney’s Office	$90,000	Will provide services to women and transgender individuals who have experienced sexual exploitation and violence.	Regular	06/30/09
4132-07/08	Airport	$84,000	Will provide pre-employment drug testing services and drug & alcohol testing for reasonable suspicion, random, post-accident, return-to-duty and follow-up testing.	Regular	08/31/16
4133-07/08	Airport	$120,000	Will provide services to assess business, management, infrastructure, construction safety, supply logistics, community relationship and stakeholder risks and to propose mitigation measures to improve the Airport’s risk profile.	Regular	04/30/10
4134-07/08 *Over to 5/19/08*	Department of Human Resources	$7,500,000	Will provide complete workers’ compensation adjusting services, including investigation and adjudication of claims, data recording, payment processing, support of both litigation and rehabilitation processes, case estimate evaluation and preparation of reports.	Regular	07/31/11
4135-07/08	Municipal Transportation Agency	$150,000	Will provide an off-site facility to collect pre-employment, post-accident, return-to-duty, reasonable suspicion breath and urine samples during normal working hours and/or after hours for MTA employees and contractors in compliance with DOT/FTA.	Regular	06/30/11
4136-07/08	Municipal Transportation Agency	$239,470	Will provide 110 Muni diesel and electric coaches with Automatic Passenger Counting (APC) equipment. This equipment will count boardings and alighting to determine accurate ridership numbers.	Regular	12/31/08
4137-07/08	Municipal Transportation Agency	$19,000,000	Will provide a 27-month fare box refurbishment project, which includes 15 months installation of refurbished fare boxes on all revenue vehicles and back-end system and 12 months post-installation system support, for a total amount not to exceed $19 million.	Regular	09/30/10
4138-07/08	Police	$600,000	Will provide Phlebotomy services 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, to conduct blood draws at various locations on suspected drunk drivers for law enforcement agencies in the City and County of San Francisco.	Regular	06/30/12
4139-07/08	Police	$850,000	Will provide the San Francisco Police Department with psychological evaluations of final entry level police officer candidates and refinement of predictive validity assessment procedures.	Regular	06/30/12
4140-07/08	Police	$2,720,000	Will provide Crime Prevention Education Services as follows: Neighborhood watch organizing, residential and commercial security services, presentations on personal safety, robbery and burglary prevention, and violence in the work place.	Regular	06/30/12
4141-07/08	Public Utilities	$28,000,000	Will provide Bay Division Regional Construction Management (CM) Services to oversee a specific WSIP construction project, the Bay Division, on behalf of the SFPUC.	Regular	02/01/14
4142-07/08	Public Utilities	$27,700,000	Will provide San Joaquin Regional Construction Management (CM) Services to oversee a specific WSIP constructing project, the San Joaquin, on behalf of the SFPUC.	Regular	02/01/14
4143-07/08	Public Utilities	$17,700,000	Will provide Sunol Valley Regional Construction Management (CM) Services to oversee a specific WSIP construction project, the Sunol Valley, on behalf of the SFPUC.	Regular	02/01/14
4144-07/08	Public Utilities	$65,000	Will provide monitoring of federally-endangered San Francisco garter snake (SFGS) and federally threatened Californian red-legged frog (CRLF) at three locations on the Peninsula Watershed.	Regular	12/31/08
4145-07/08	Public Utilities	$405,000	Will provide independent technical review to ensure that the Master Plan incorporates not only proven best technologies, but also cost effective, environmentally sensitive and community responsive solutions.	Regular	07/31/10
4146-07/08	Risk Management/ GSA-City Administrator	$9,500,000	Will create a pre-qualified list of insurance brokers and risk mgmt. services firms for as-needed support in the areas of broker services, risk analysis and Enterprise Risk Management consultant services, insurance services and claims support service.	Regular	06/30/15
4147-07/08	Department of Telecommunications and Information Services	$0.00	Will provide an audit to the City’s telecommunication bills to identify any potential billing errors by the carriers and prepare documentation for the City to request refunds for overcharges; make recommendations to minimize risk of overbilling.	Regular	04/21/09
4148-07/08	Department of Telecommunications and Information Services	$500,000	Will provide at the approval of in house staff, as-needed printing and bindery services to include two color printing, collating, folding and binding.	Regular	04/14/13
4149-07/08	Public Works	$4,000,000	Will provide resident engineers, field engineers, inspectors, specialty engineers, office engineers, scheduling engineers, public outreach staff, construction management support, field office administrative staff, and supplemental construction services.	Regular	06/16/13
4131-07/08	Mayor’s Office of Economic and Work- force Development	Increase Amount $23,500 New Amount $73,000	Will provide strategic planning, curriculum development, program implementation, support, grant writing and other fund development activities for the CityBuild program.	Regular	01/31/08

Speakers:

Galen Leung, San Francisco International Airport, Adrian Moy, Municipal Transportation Agency and Kerry Ko, Department of Human Resources spoke on PSC #s 4132-07/08 and 4135-07/07.

Galen Leung and Michael Warren, San Francisco International Airport and Joan Lubamersky and Matt Hansen, Office of the City Administrator spoke on PSC #s 4133-07/07 and 4146-07/08.

Sgt. Dennis Callahan, San Francisco Police Department spoke on PSC #4139-07/08.

Capt. Paul Chignell, San Francisco Police Department spoke on PSC #4140-07/08.

Valerie O’Donnell and Larry Chatmon, Mayor’s Office of Economic & Workforce Development spoke on PSC #4131-07/08.

Harlan Kelly, Kofo Domingo, Harvey Elwin and Carol Isen, Public Utilities Commission and Ging Louie, IFPTE Local 21 spoke on PSC #s 4141-07/08, 4142-07/08 and 4143-07/08.

Pauson Yun, Public Utilities Commission spoke on PSC #4144-07/08.

David Scott and Melissa Moehle, Public Utilities Commission spoke on PSC #4145-07/08.

David German, Department of Telecommunications and Information Services spoke on PSC #4148-07/08.

Action:

(1) Postpone PSC #4134-07/08 to the meeting of May 19, 2008 at the request of the Department of Human Resources. (Vote of 4 to 0)

(2) Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on PSC #s 4141-07/08, 4142-07/08 and 4143-07/08. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 4 to 0) Note: The Public Utilities Commission to submit a report in 30 days to the Commission on their discussions with IFPTE Local 21.

(3) 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)

0159-08-4	Appeals by Eriberto Nacion and Viola Slocum Hubbard regarding the rejection of their applications for the 1844 Senior Management Assistant examination. (Item No. 7)

	April 7, 2008:	Continue to the meeting of April 21, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.

	Speakers:	None.

	Action:	Postpone to the meeting of May 5, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. (Vote of 4 to 0)

0179-08-3	Salary Survey for Registered Nurse Classifications (Charter Section A8.403), 2008-2009. (Item No. 8)

	Speakers:	None.

	Action:	Adopt report; Certify to the Board of Supervisors for the Acute Care Nursing Classifications the Highest Prevailing Salary Schedules in the six Bay Area Counties (Public & Private) in effect on April 15, 2008. (Vote of 4 to 0)

0829-06-7	Determination of future employability: permanent appointment of Leo McFadden, Senior Building Inspector (Job Code 6333) Department of Building Inspection. (Item No. 9)

	March 17, 2008:	Postpone to the meeting of April 21, 2008 at the request of Stewart Weinberg, Attorney for Leo McFadden.

	Note:	Commissioner Casper disclosed that he has been socially acquainted with the appellant’s brother and his father in a political campaign in past years. Neither acquaintance would affect his ability to be fair.

		President Becerril also disclosed that because of her position on the Board of Appeals as well as the Board of Supervisors, she came into social contact with many of the people from the Department of Building Inspection. None would affect her ability to be fair.

	Speakers:	Tess Bobila, Department of Human Resources Shawn Kelly, City Attorney Senior Investigator Sean McNulty, Department of Building Inspection Stewart Weinberg, Attorney for Appellant Leo McFadden, Appellant Jennifer Johnston, Department of Human Resources Kerry Ko, Department of Human Resources

	Action:	Continue to a meeting when the four Commissioners (Becerril, Casper, Gorrono and Jung) are present. The Commission requests that Ken Harrington, Carla Johnson and Amy Lee, former employees of the Department of Building Inspection appear as witnesses. (Vote of 4 to 0)

0183-08-11	Inspection Service Report on Promotional Opportunities for 7355 Truck Drivers. (Item No. 10)

	July 17, 2007:	Adopt the report. Sustain the decision of the Human Resources Director; deny the appeal by James Long on the grounds that there have been no showing that the Human Resources Director has abused his discretion with respect to the minimum qualifications in the job announcement for Class 7281, Street Environmental Services Operations Supervisor. (Vote of 5 to 0) Note: The Commission requested that an inspection service inquiry be undertaken to explore promotional opportunities afforded to 7355 Truck Drivers that are merit-based and reasonable; the history of the 7355 Truck Drivers performing supervisory tasks, what their traditional promotional paths have been and what they are now. The Commission also requested a report on whether regular performance evaluations are being conducted for the 7355 Truck Drivers.

	Speakers:	Anita Sanchez, Executive Officer Karen Taylor, Department of Human Resources

	Action:	Accept the report. (Vote of 3 to 0)

0184-08-5	Report on Requests for Hearing by Eligibles on the Q-35 Assistant Inspector List ID 21055. (Item No. 11)

	Speakers:	Anita Sanchez, Executive Officer Bruce Topp, Department of Human Resources Julian Hill, Officers for Justice Michelle Rodriques, Public Advocates Juanita Stockwell Nikolaus Borthne Terrye Ivy Michael Lewis Robert Ford Robert Leung Nash Balinton Guilermo Amigo Savero Flores Tom O’Connell Silvia David Bud Massey George Fogarty Sgt. Judith Riggle Anthony Johnson

	Action:	The Commission directed the Executive Officer to schedule a hearing on the requests for hearing filed. (Vote of 3 to 0)

REQUEST TO SPEAK ON ANY MATTER WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION (Item No. 12)

Julian Hill asked for clarification on the preparation for hearing and filing of appeals. Juanita Stockwell stated that had they known about the hearing they could have been better prepared. Michael Lewis asked if the people who are not present would have the opportunity to file or re-file an appeal.

COMMISSIONERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS/REQUESTS (Item No. 13)

Commissioner Gorrono inquired on the status of a commendation for Commissioner Thomas Ng.

ADJOURNMENT (Item No. 14)

6:52p.m.

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