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AMENDED

MINUTES

Regular Meeting

June 2, 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 5:17 p.m. Missed Item #’s 8,9,10)
Commissioner Yu-Yee Wu		Present

President Alicia D. Becerril presided.

PUBLIC COMMENT ON MATTERS APPEARING ON THE AGENDA

None.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Regular Meeting of May 19, 2008

Action:	Approve. (Vote of 5 to 0)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Executive Officer announced the omission of PSC #2000-03/04 from the Agenda. This item is postponed to the meeting of June 16, 2008.

0244-08-1	ELECTION OF OFFICERS (Item No. 5)

	Action:	Commissioner Donald A. Casper was elected President for the term of office ending May 31, 2009. (Vote of 5 to 0) Commissioner Morgan R. Gorrono was elected Vice President for the term of office ending May 31, 2009. (Vote of 5 to 0)

0240-08-8	Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contracts. (Item No. 6)

PSC#	Department	Amount	Type of Service	Type of Approval	Duration
4160-07/08 *Postpone to 6/16/08*	Department of Children, Youth & Their Families	$260,000	Will provide assistance to 100 licensed family childcare workers in San Francisco to open Medical Spending Accounts (MSA’s) and to manage health care subsidies of up to $155-190 per month per provider depending on eligibility and age.	Regular	06/30/10
4161-07/08	Human Resources	$200,000	Will provide a pre-qualified pool of two or more personnel agencies that can provide, on short notice, qualified Claims Adjusters and Claims Assistants on a temporary basis.	Regular	07/31/10
4162-07/08 *Postpone to 6/16/08*	Municipal Transportation Agency	$6,935,000	Will provide design and construction of a canopy system over 6 working tracks in SFMTA’s Geneva Yard. This canopy will provide weather protection for the most vulnerable cars in SFMTA’s historic rail fleet and minimize deterioration.	Regular	05/31/11
4163-07/08	Public Utilities Commission	$600,000	Will provide a High Efficiency Toilet (HET) Direct Install Program for Low Income Customers in the retail services area.	Regular	06/30/11
4164-07/08	Public Utilities Commission	$370,000	Will provide specialized civil engineering and laboratory services to support the Bay Division Pipeline (BDPL) 3 and 4 Upgrades design upgrades at the Hayward Fault.	Regular	05/31/09
4165-07/08	GSA/City Administrator/ Office of Labor Standards Enforcement	$344,000	Will provide a software license for their proprietary web based electronic certified payroll reporting system hosted on their secure server.	Regular	06/30/10
4166-07/08	Office of Public Finance	*$93,000*	Will provide financial advisory services for Port of San Francisco. This service will include financial and legal analyses to size, price, and market bonds effectively to achieve the lowest borrowing cost to the City.	Regular	05/01/09
4167-07/08	Public Health and CHN	$8,268,640	Will provide pick-up and processing of soiled hospital laundry seven days per week, including holidays, for Laguna Honda Hospital (LHH) and San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH).	Regular	06/30/10
4168-07/08	Public Health	$26,000,000	Will provide third party administration of the new Health Access Program recently renamed Health San Francisco.	Regular	06/30/10
4169-07/08	Public Health	$225,000	Will provide technical review and interpretation of soil and ground water assessment reports, determine adequacy of plans for corrective action; evaluate geologic and hydro-geologic data from acquifer tests and soil vapor pilot tests.	Regular	06/30/17
4170-07/08	Public Works	$104,725	Will provide set-up of the CMMS database and share the system with the Department of Real Estate (DRE) to manage maintenance services.	Regular	06/30/11
4171-07/08	Public Works	$4,000,000	Will provide professional services to assist DPW in administering job order contracting (JOC) system as provided for in San Francisco Administrative Code Section 6.62 for use in expediting the design and construction of small and/or urgent projects.	Regular	05/21/11
4172-07/08 *Postpone to 6/16/08*	Public Works	$8,000,000	Will provide construction management services associated with Laguna Honda Hospital Replacement Program. Contract includes pre-construction and construction phase services for the Program.	Regular	12/31/10
4141-06/07	Environment	Increase Amount $0.00 New Amount $0.00	Will provide conversions of hybrid electric vehicle to plug-in hybrid electric vehicle with advanced lithium batteries. This is highly specialized work done by only a few companies that are developing the technology.	Regular	03/31/10
4095-03/04	Airport Commission	Increase Amount $3,300,000 New Amount $8,800,000	Will implement various security systems and facilities for which integration and operational support are required.	Regular	06/30/10
4101-07/08 *Postpone to 6/16/08*	Telecom & Information Services	Increase Amount $2,109,912 New Amount $4,709,912	Will provide system software and special technical support services for the City’s mainframe.	Regular	11/30/10
4062-04/05	Public Health	Increase Amount $1,000,000 New Amount $5,100,000	Will provide programmatic and information systems support to various programs and related consulting/training.	Regular	06/30/15
4046-04/05	Public Health	Increase Amount $2,700,000 New Amount $5,400,000	Will provide labor, materials, and equipment necessary to package and remove hazardous wastes on an intermittent and as-needed basis from City work sites, and to transport those wastes to permitted disposal facilities.	Regular	12/30/14
4097-05/06	Public Health	Increase Amount $10,000,000 New Amount $20,000,000	Will provide health insurance to children, the families they come from, and young adults ineligible for other publicly funded health insurance programs and enroll them in the San Francisco Healthy Kids insurance program.	Regular	06/30/09
2000-07/08	Public Health and CHN	Increase Amount $700,000 New Amount $1,600,000	Will provide fiscal and programmatic services for a variety of intermittent and as-needed community health, planning, support and service projects.	Regular	06/30/13

	Speakers:	Artina Lim and September Jarrett, Department of Children, Youth and Their Families and Margot Reed, SEIU Local 1021 spoke on PSC #4160-07/08. Pauson Yun and Dana Haasz, Public Utilities Commission spoke on PSC #4163-07/08. Joe Majer, Office of Labor Standards and Enforcement spoke on PSC #4165-07/08. Nadia Sesay, Office of Public Finance spoke on PSC #4166-07/08. Jacquie Hale and Tangerine Brigham, Department of Public Health spoke on PSC #4168-07/08. Jacquie Hale and Scott Nakamura, Department of Public Health spoke on PSC #4169-07/08 and 4046-04/05.

		Jacquie Hale, Department of Public Health spoke on PSC #2000-07/08. Mark Dorian, Department of Public Works spoke on PSC #4171-07/08. John Thomas, Department of Public Works spoke on PSC #4172-07/08.

	Action:	(1) Postpone PSC #4160-07/08 to the meeting of June 16, 2008 by mutual agreement of the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families and SEIU Local 1021. (Vote of 5 to 0) (2) Postpone PSC #4162-07/08 to the meeting of June 16, 2008 at the request of the Municipal Transportation Agency. (Vote of 5 to 0) (3) Postpone PSC #4101-07/08, PSC #4172-07/08 and PSC #2000-03/04 to the meeting of June 16, 2008. (Vote of 5 to 0) (4) Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on PSC #4165-07/08 and PSC #4166-07/08 as amended. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 5 to 0) (5) Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on all remaining contracts. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 5 to 0)

Jacquie Hale, Department of Public Health spoke on
PSC #2000-07/08.
Mark Dorian, Department of Public Works spoke on
PSC #4171-07/08.

John Thomas, Department of Public Works spoke on PSC #4172-07/08.

Action:

(1) Postpone PSC #4160-07/08 to the meeting of June 16, 2008 by mutual agreement of the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families and SEIU Local 1021. (Vote of 5 to 0)

(2) Postpone PSC #4162-07/08 to the meeting of June 16, 2008 at the request of the Municipal Transportation Agency. (Vote of 5 to 0)

(3) Postpone PSC #4101-07/08, PSC #4172-07/08 and PSC #2000-03/04 to the meeting of June 16, 2008.
(Vote of 5 to 0)

(4) Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on PSC #4165-07/08 and PSC #4166-07/08 as amended. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 5 to 0)

(5) Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on all remaining contracts. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 5 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. 7)

	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.

	April 21, 2008:	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.

	Speakers:	Jennifer Johnston, Department of Human Resources Shawn Kelly, City Attorney Senior Investigator Leo McFadden, Appellant Stewart Weinberg, Attorney representing appellant Joe O’Donoghue, Former Head of the Residential Association

	Note:	Commissioner Wu stated she was not present at the April 21, 2008 meeting; however she listened to the tape of the item and reviewed the materials for that meeting.

	Action:	No future employment with the City and County of San Francisco. (Vote of 4 to 1; President Alicia Becerril dissents.)

REQUEST TO SPEAK ON ANY MATTER WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION (Item No. 8)

George Diaz, SEIU Local 1021 expressed his *concerns with* the Human Services Agency *and the examination process for* the 2907 Eligibility Worker Supervisor and the 2948 Section Manager positions. David Williams, SEIU Local 1021 spoke about the current layoffs *at Human Service Agencyare being* done to restructure the departmentbecausean entire classification (2948) was eliminated. Sin Yee Poon, SEIU Local 1021 stated thatthe department circumvents Civil Service Rules and requested the Civil Service Commission to look at how the department is doing** business. Margot Reed, SEIU Local 1021 urged the Commission to look at departments to insure they are using the merit system correctly. Micki Callahan, Human Resources Director stated that the Department of Human Resources staff would be happy to make a presentation before the Commission on layoffs.

COMMISSIONERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS/REQUESTS (Item No. 9)

Commissioner Gorrono requested a report on how the layoffs are being done and who are they going to affect. Commissioner Becerril also requested a *report on* *layoff implementation including* a brief overview.

ADJOURNMENT

5:30 p.m.

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