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MINUTES

Regular Meeting

April 7, 2008

2:00 p.m.

ROOM 400, CITY HALL

1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

CALL TO ORDER

2:04 p.m.

ROLL CALL

President Alicia D. Becerril		Present
Vice President Donald A. Casper		Present
Commissioner Morgan R. Gorrono		Present
Commissioner Mary Y. Jung		Not Present (Notified absence)
Commissioner Yu-Yee Wu		Present

President Alicia Becerril presided.

PUBLIC COMMENT ON MATTERS APPEARING ON THE AGENDA

None.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Regular Meeting of March 17, 2008

Action:	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.)

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
1000-08/09	Airport	$125,000	Will provide consulting services to the airport’s noise reduction community forum, known as the Airport/Community Roundtable.	Annual	06/30/09
1001-08/09	Airport	$220,000	Will provide owl bus service between SFO and San Francisco to the north and Palo Alto to the south.	Annual	06/30/09
1002-08/09	Arts Commission	$1,633,039	Will perform a free concert in the park. These concerts will take place at the San Francisco Davies Symphony Hall in July-August, 2008. This is the 57^th year for Summer POPs concerts.	Annual	03/31/09
2001-07/08 *Postpone to meeting of 4/21/08*	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
2002-07/08	Human Services	$11,100,000	Will provide and distribute food to low income San Francisco residents. Food distribution services will include congregate meals, emergency food bags, brown bags, emergency home delivered meals, free meals, and senior grocery bags.	Continuing	06/30/11
2003-07/08	Human Services	$450,000	Will provide community-wide strategic system improvements to create a well-coordinated system of community-based long-term care (LTC) service delivery for vulnerable older adults.	Continuing	06/30/11
4117-07/08	Fire	$91,100	Will review and approve phases of the development and administration of the examination for H-20 Lieutenant, Fire Department.	Regular	12/31/08
4118-07/08	Municipal Transportation Agency	$250,000	Will provide Workers’ Compensation Medical Bill Review/Managed Care program evaluation services for all MTA worker’s compensation claims.	Regular	09/30/10
4119-07/08	Port	$500,000	Will investigate environmental conditions in soil, groundwater and building materials at the Port’s Pier 70 facility, including approximately 65 acres of land and approximately 416,000 square feet of building area.	Regular	06/30/10
4120-07/08 *Postpone to meeting of 4/21/08*	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
4121-07/08	Municipal Transportation Agency	$378,000	Will provide support for the Partnership Structure/Meeting Facilitation, forming subject matter expert work groups, interviews and jobsite observations, etc.; skill gap analysis and conduct needs assessment surveys with incumbent work groups.	Regular	06/30/10
4122-07/08	Municipal Transportation Agency	$330,696	Will perform maintenance on traffic signal cabinet/ controller testing software to minimize malfunction in the field; maintain and upgrade D4 Traffic Signal Software to provide transit priority throughout the City, including cable car locations.	Regular	03/30/11
4123-07/08	Public Utilities Commission	$325,000	Will implement the High Efficiency Toilet (HET) Low-Income Direct Install Program. SFPUC will work with a local nonprofit to implement the program and create long-lasting benefits associated with community education and training in water conservation.	Regular	12/31/10
4124-07/08	Public Utilities Commission	$90,000,000	Will provide design-build services for Tesla Treatment Facility consisting of designing, building, installing, and commissioning a new 315-MGD treatment facility utilizing ultraviolet (UV) disinfection (advanced disinfection).	Regular	12/30/12
4125-07/08 *Postpone to meeting of 4/21/08*	Public Utilities Commission	$3,000,000	Will provide inspection services and design upgrades for HHWAP for hydrogenation and power facilities.	Regular	06/30/11
4126-07/08 *Postpone to meeting of 5/19/08*	Public Utilities Commission	$2,500,000	Will provide scope of work to assist and support Program Controls staff in project scheduling, cost controls, cost estimating, CPM scheduling and systems integration.	Regular	07/01/11
4127-07/08	Public Utilities Commission	$100,000	Will provide proprietary software technology migration to enable the SFPUC Power Enterprise to develop balanced power schedules and communicate with its Scheduling Coordinator, the Calif. Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) and other trade entities.	Regular	12/31/08
4128-07/08	Public Works	$750,000	Will perform an independent and objective engineering design review of the seismic base isolation structural system that is proposed for the new San Francisco General Hospital.	Regular	12/31/16
4129-07/08	Mayor’s Office of Economic & Workforce Development	Increase Amount $50,000 New Amount $75,000	Will provide continued consulting expertise to assist the City with its strategic planning efforts to encourage the San Francisco 49ers to remain in San Francisco.	Regular	03/31/09
4051-07/08	Airport Commission	Increase Amount $4,000,000 New Amount $4,800,000	Will provide design, acquisition, installation and testing of Phase II of aircraft noise mgmt. system, enabling the Airport to produce noise contour maps after each airplane arrival or departure.	Regular	06/30/17
4012-06/07	Public Health and CHN	Increase Amount $350,000 New Amount $850,000	Will provide as-needed and after-hours security guard services and as-needed guard/driver services for the Community Health Network.	Regular	06/30/10

Speakers:

Galen Leung, SF International Airport spoke on PSC #1000-08/09, PSC #1001-08/09 and PSC #4051-07/08.
Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, SF Fire Department spoke on PSC #4117-07/08.
Dave Curto, Human Services Agency spoke on PSC #2001-07/08 and PSC #2002-07/08.
Dave Curto, Human Services Agency and Anne Hinton, Department of Aging & Adult Services spoke on PSC #2003-07/08.
Martha Johnson, Municipal Transportation Agency spoke on PSC 4118-07/08.
Adrian Moy, Municipal Transportation Agency spoke on PSC #4121-07/08.
Jack Fleck, Municipal Transportation Agency spoke on PSC #4122-07/08.
Pauson Yun & Dana Haasz, Public Utilities Commission spoke on PSC #4123-07/08.
Joe Chin, Department of Public Works spoke on PSC #4128-07/08.

0157-08-8 (continued)

Action:

Postpone to the meeting of April 21, 2008 PSC #2001-07/08 for Human Services Agency to clarify contract amount; PSC #4120-07/08 at the request of the Municipal Transportation Agency; and PSC #4125-07/08 at the request of Public Utilities Commission. (Vote of 4 to 0)
Postpone PSC #4126-07/08 to the meeting of May 19, 2008 at the request of the Public Utilities Commission. (Vote of 4 to 0)
Adopt Human Resources Director’s report on PSC #4118-07/08. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 3 to 0; Commissioner Wu recused.)
Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on PSC #2002-07/08 and PSC #4117-07/08 as verbally amended. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 4 to 0)
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)

0115-08-4	Appeal by Lois H. Scott of the Position-Based Testing job announcement for 0932 Manager VI CIP Program Services Manager (PBT-0941-53190). (Item No. 6)

	March 17, 2008:	Postpone to the meeting of April 7, 2008 by mutual agreement of the Department of Human Resources and IFPTE Local 21.

	Speakers:	Jennifer Johnston, Department of Human Resources Lois H. Scott, IFPTE Local 21, Appellant Karen Taylor, Department of Human Resources Pat Pendergast, Public Utilities Commission

	Action:	Deny the appeal by Lois H. Scott; uphold the Human Resources Director’s decision of the minimum qualifications stated in the job announcement. (Vote of 4 to 0)

0099-08-1	Secondary Criteria for Q – 60 Police Lieutenant, San Francisco Police Department. (Item No. 7)

	March 3, 2008:	Postpone to the meeting of March 17, 2008. (Vote of 2 to 1; Commissioner Casper dissents.) (2) Accept the recommendation of the Human Resources Director and approve the proposed secondary criteria for Q – 60 Police Lieutenant. (Vote of 2 to 1; Commissioner Gorrono dissents.) (3) Three votes are needed for Commission action; therefore, the item is continued to the meeting of March 17, 2008.

	March 17, 2008:	Postpone to the meeting of April 7, 2008.

	Speakers:	Saru Cownan, Department of Human Resources Alice Villagomez, San Francisco Police Department Bruce Topp, Department of Human Resources

0099-08-1 (continued)

	Action:	Accept the recommendation of the Human Resources Director and approve the proposed secondary criteria for Q – 60 Police Lieutenant. (Vote of 4 to 0)

0158-08-8	Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contract. (Item No. 8)

PSC#	Department	Amount	Type of Service	Type of Approval	Duration
4130-07/08	Municipal Transportation Agency	$164,000	Will provide assistance to the Parking Authority in management consulting in the areas of potential restructuring of its management and operations, the hiring of a new Parking Authority Director and the review of garage operation contracts.	Regular	04/30/09

	Action:	Off calendar.

0540-07-4	Appeal by Carolyn Iezza regarding the rejection of her application for the 3634 Librarian III examination. (Item No. 9)

	Speakers:	Gerry Redmond, Department of Human Resources Cathy Bremer, Shop Steward, Local 1021 Carolyn Iezza, Appellant Margo Reed, Local 21 Andrea Grimes, Witness for Appellant Karen Taylor, Department of Human Resources Donna Marion, San Francisco Public Library

	Action:	Grant the appeal by Carolyn Iezza; accept her supervisory experience in her application for the 3634 Librarian III examination. (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. 10)

	Speakers:	Stephanie Mayorga-Tipton, Department of Human Resources Rodel Rodis, Representative for Eriberto Nacion Karen Taylor, Department of Human Resources Viola Slocum Hubbard, Appellant

	Action:	Continue to the meeting of April 21, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. (Vote of 4 to 0)

0514-07-7	Determination of future employability: permanent civil service appointment of Richard Ravella, Gardener (Job Code 3417) with the Recreation and Park Department. (Item No. 11)

	February 19, 2008:	Postpone to the meeting of April 7, 2008 at the request of Richard Ravella.

Speakers:

Kin Gee, Recreation and Park Department

Stan Curtis, Representative for Richard Ravella
Richard Ravella, Appellant

Action:

Cancel any current examination and eligibility status; Future employment subject to the review and approval of the Human Resources Director after satisfactory completion of one (1) year work experience outside the City and County service; No future employment with the Recreation and Park Department.
(Vote of 4 to 0)

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

Frank Kelly, Fire Fighters Local 798 spoke of their discussions with the department regarding the use of seniority in the promotional process. He indicated the proposal was denied; the reason given is it would be inconsistent with merit system principles. He also suggested that the use of secondary criteria be more transparent and closely monitored.

COMMISSIONERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS/REQUESTS (Item No. 13)

Human Resources Director Micki Callahan reported that the Government Audit and Oversight Committee of the Board of Supervisors approved the contract for the police testing facility. It goes to the full Board tomorrow and the Budget Analyst’s recommendation stated the facility will greatly improve public safety testing. Commissioner Wu requested an update on the report on policies and procedures governing the timelines for hearing appeals after they are received. Commissioner Gorrono inquired about a proclamation for Commissioner Ng.

ADJOURNMENT (Item No. 14)

6:40 p.m.

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