CALL TO ORDER

2:00 p.m.

ROLL CALL

President Elizabeth Salveson

Present

Vice President Kate Favetti

Present

Commissioner Douglas S. Chan

Present

Commissioner F. X. Crowley

Present

Commissioner Jacqueline P. Minor

Present

President Elizabeth Salveson presided.

REQUEST TO SPEAK ON ANY MATTER WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION BUT NOT APPEARING ON TODAY’S AGENDA  (Item No. 2)

None.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES  (Item No. 3)

Special Meeting of March 16, 2020

Action:

Adopted the minutes.  (Vote of 5 to 0)

ANNOUNCEMENTS  (Item No. 4)

Sandra Eng, Acting Executive Officer announced on Agenda Item #7 (Review of Request for Approval of Proposed Personal Services Contracts), there was a clerical error.  PSC #43781-17/18 will be corrected to PSC #43871-17/18.

The following Personal Services Contracts (PSCs) will be continued to the next Civil Service Commission meeting because they were not posted on the Agenda 72 hours in advance of the meeting:  PSC #36604-19/20 and PSC #41211-14/15 with the Department of Public Works; PSC #35031-13/14, PSC #36741-19/20, PSC #39672-19/20, PSC #41074-15/16, PSC #45859-17/18 and PSC #32406-18/19 with the Treasurer & Tax Collector’s Office; and PSC #45859-17/18 with the Department of Public Health.

HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR’S REPORT  (Item No. 5)

Micki Callan, Human Resources Director announced that City employees have stepped up as Disaster Service Workers.  The people whom have no work has been called upon first for deployment.  The deployments have included many different things such as: sharing public information about safety and the pandemic, reporting to food banks, and reporting to hotel sites to assist with housing persons who are vulnerable.  The Department of Human Resources (DHR) has established massive telecommuting and will be providing an update to the policy soon.  In addition, DHR will be speaking with labor organizations with many changes that have been made under the emergency we now have to move forward upon.  Employees who are telecommuting are required to report in to work are being contacted to report in as Disaster Service Workers.  DHR is trying to be responsive while being responsible.

EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S REPORT  (Item No. 6)

Sandra Eng, Acting Executive Officer thanked Civil Service Commission staff for working on flexible scheduling and utilizing resources.  She also thanked the SFGov TV, trainers, DHR IT staff for extending their assistance with setting up and helping to prepare for the Civil Service Commission’s first virtual commission meeting.

0116-20-8

Review of Request for Approval of Proposed Personal Services Contracts.

(Item No. 8)

PCS

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

37772-19-20

Adult Probation

$125,000

It is the intent of SFAPD to obtain a fully automate, vendor-hosted, automated Telephone Reporting System (TRS) that is based on interactive voice response (IVR) technology that tracks compliance of low-risk clients on probation, provides transcription services, and manages client contact information, demographics, and system usage.  The system will have the capacity of automating the reception and dissemination of information by SFAPD officers and their clients.  It will allow SFAPD to modify client information and generate reports regarding client enrollment and compliance on programs required by the conditions of their supervision.  The system will be accessible to SFAPD and officers 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.  Probation officers will have the ability to pre-record individual and group messages for clients.  Approximately 400+ low-risk clients will need to report to their probation officer via the automated telephone reporting system in order to meet court-mandated supervision requirements.

Regular

5/31/2025

46100-19/20

Adult Probation

$3,000.000

APD is seeking to create a list of pre-qualified vendors that are able to provide different Women Gender Responsive service to its Reentry Program clients, including, but not limited to:  Peer Led Efforts; Women Gender Responsive Transitional Housing; Life Skills Training; Job Readiness and Job Placement; Education Support and Mentoring; Recovery and Addiction Support; Gender Responsive Research.  The expertise of these professionals sought is unique and greatly needed by the Adult Probation Department (APD).  Given the breadth of service areas we are targeting, we anticipate that most of the proposals we receive will be from non-profit agencies, but will also be open to receiving proposals from for-profit agencies or private consultants.

Regular

2/28/2025

46006-19/20

City Administrator

$2,000,000

Catering and related services for small, medium and large sized events on an as-needed basis.  Caterers will provide food services and catering staff for single events or under contracts for multiple events.  Service packages include but are not limited to meal preparation, distribution and cleanup services.

Regular

2/28/2025

PCS

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

49526-19/20

City Administrator

$800,000

Proposed work is to provide equipment and a technician to assist Department of Public Health (SPH) programs to remove tattoos from under resourced young people 13-25 years of age.  Sixty sessions are provided annually to help young people have tattoos removed that they no longer want and/or that may pose a threat to their personal safety or prevent them from gaining employment and other negative outcomes.  Tattoos are removed free of charge.  Young people must have a San Francisco residence.

This procurement is being performed by the Office of Contract Administration.  Contractor selected will be charged with providing one Medlite C6 laser and a technician to input system settings at the direction of DPH licensed physicians.  Among other requirements, a contractor selected pursuant to this RFB must:

1) Deliver and set up the laser system for each session as indicated and scheduled by the ZSFG Tattoo Removal Program Medical Director.

2) Perform all required preventative maintenance to the laser system to ensure the equipment operates at optimal condition during periods of use and in the event of a system malfunction the contractor will provide a backup system

Regular

6/30/2025

49582-19/20

City Administrator

$1,125,000

Work to be performed is to dry dock the City’s Fire Department (SFFD) boats for repairs and maintenance services.  The immediate need for these services is for SFFD’s three boats.  All three boats are in rotation but Fire Boat #1 (the Phoenix) has not been out of the water for five years and is overdue for repairs and maintenance.  In addition, having the City’s fleet of vessels dry docked and out of water will give the City full access to repairs that cannot easily be identified and services when boats are in the water.

Regular

3/31/2025

41640-19/20

Airport

$400,000,000

Project Management Support Services (PMSS) and Design Build (DB) teams will manage and complete the design and construction of the West Field Cargo Development at the San Francisco International Airport (Airport).  Services include project controls, scheduling, document control, design management, contracts management, architectural and engineering design services, and construction of the project.  This project includes design and construction a 300,00 square foot double deck multi-tenant cargo facility included airside apron and landside truck delivery/pick-up and parking.  The construction cost is estimated to be 85% of the requested PSC amount.

Regular

1/31/2027

42256-19/20

Airport

$17,000,000

Contractor will provide financial and investment advisory services to the Airport in the capacity of municipal advisers or licensed investment advisers to support the management of the Airport’s debt program, outstanding interest rate swaps, arbitrage rebate calculations and investment bonds.

Regular

4/30/2027

PCS

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

46268-19/20

Human Services

$200,000

A. Survey

Develop an electronic survey instrument in collaboration with Family and Children’s Services (FCS) leadership to be used with community partners and stakeholders.  The survey should be simple and brief in order to fully engage the target audiences without being an administrative burden.

B. Targeted Interviews

FCS employs approximately 400 with approximately 75 staff in the early intervention units, which include hotline, intake and non-court family maintenance (NCFM).  The successful Respondent will develop an outline with FCS leadership for targeted questions to be used to guide interviews and will complete interviews with approximately 50% of the staff from the targeted units, along with selected staff from the remaining units and management.  Contractor will also conduct 30 to 50 interviews with stakeholders.  The interview format will include identified, research-based factors known to shape organizational climates including but not limited to messaging from supervisors, clear protocols and support from leadership.

C. Focus Groups

The successful Respondent will complete up to 10 focus groups of stakeholders and staff with no more than 10 participants in each focus group.  These groups should provide stakeholders and staff the opportunity to offer solutions and constructive feedback in shaping the climate that guides the practice of San Francisco public child welfare.  A focus group format will be developed and approved in collaboration with FCS leadership.  The format will promote both verbal discussion and responses and the opportunity to be thoughtful before responding in the group setting.  Allowing Respondents to think independently before having to be a part of a group response will be included as a best practice in capturing meaningful input.

D. Reports

The successful Respondent will use the results from the survey, targeted interviews, and focus groups to inform a description of the climate at the Early Intervention units and make recommendations for improving the organizational context within Early Intervention.  The report will be submitted to FCS leadership in draft form for review.  Once feedback from SF leadership has been gathered, revisions will be completed, and a final report will be submitted.

Regular

6/30/2021

47428-19/20

Municipal Transportation Agency

$200,000

The contractor will provide complete veterinary services for five (5) or more police services dogs (K-9 unit) assigned to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).  These services include routine procedures and treatment, as well as, full-service emergency veterinarian care on a 24-hour/7days per week basis.

Regular

1/31/2025

48515-19/20

Municipal Transportation Agency

$17,000,000

The consultant will provide proprietary software and hardware for the Advanced Train Control System (ATCS) to automatically control the movements of the trains within Central Subway.  This system is similar to the existing ATCS currently used in the Muni Metro Subway.  The consultant will configure, program, upgrade, and expand the system so that the new train control systems computerized the automatic movement of the trains with the Central Subway to work with the existing Muni Metro System.

Regular

12/31/2023

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

45232-19/20

Municipal Transportation Agency

$1,000,000

Seeking access to planning and transportation demand management specialists to provide intermittent as-needed services related to planning and implementing transportation demand management projects, programs, services, and policies.  The specialists may also procure commute management technologies & services, preparation and graphic design of materials, printing, procurement of incentives, meeting facilitation, event scheduling, translation services, etc.

Request for Proposal (RFP) under development.

Regular

6/30/2025

47223-19/20

Police

$610,000

The contractor will provide software license and equipment maintenance on MAGUS, the City’s Message Switch Computer System.  MAGUS allows San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers to instantly query suspect information from police vehicles, workstations and other electronic devices in seconds.  When an officer enters suspect information, MAGUS processes the request by confirming requestor and device are authorized and provides access to confidential information from many sources including;

1. Computer Assisted Bay Area Law Enforcement (CABLE)
2. Local Criminal History Database
3. Alameda Warrants System (AWS)
4. Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
5. California Law Enforcement Telecommunications (CLETS)
6. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) databases

Regular

3/9/2024

41915-19/20

Public Utilities Commission

$170,000

SFPUC Peninsula watershed has an integrated roads system of over 90 miles, dam faces and fuel breaks that need to be maintained annually to reduce flashy fuels and ignition sources to reduce fire risk within the watershed and along its Wildland Urban Interface.

This contract is to maintain 40 miles of the northern section of the watershed roads.  This work incorporates mowing the roadsides to reduce brush encroachment and flashy fuels along the roadside, maintains pullouts for safety vehicles and passings for emergency vehicles.

Regular

8/2/2020

46091-19/20

Public Utilities Commission

$900,000

Fish scree cleaning and Division of Safety of Dams-required valve exercising at raw water supplies including:  San Antonio Reservoir, Calaveras Reservoir, Crystal Springs Reservoir, and San Andreas Reservoir.

Perform required treated water tanks and reservoir inspections and cleanings as required.  Tanks and reservoirs to be inspected and cleaned are:  Castlewood Reservoir, Tesla Treatment Facility domestic water tanks, Sunol Town Tanks, SVWTP Chlorine Contact Tank, SVWTP Treated Water Reservoir, the Balancing Reservoir, HTWTP Chlorine Contact Chamber, and HTWTP Treated Water Reservoir.

Regular

5/31/2025

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

46406-19/20

Public Utilities Commission

$4,000,000

The selected Proposers will receive and screen 811 USA tickets from USA North (USAN) directly.

The selected Proposers will handle all communications with the original excavator that submitted the ticket.

The selected Proposers will be responsible for responding to 811 USA notifications on behalf of the Power Enterprise.  Response must be given between two (2) working days to fourteen (14) calendar days when the notice has been issued.

The selected Proposers will use existing as built drawings and GIS information from the Power Enterprise to locate and mark utilities utilizing current industry standard locator equipment.  A positive response includes marking or staking the horizontal path of their facility with the appropriate color code (electric = red), providing information about the location of the Power Enterprise’s facility, or advising the excavator of clearance.

The selected Proposer will update and redline any incorrect utility locations shown on existing as built drawings and provide updated CAD drawings.

After completion of the ticket response, the contractor shall close out the ticket and notify the Utility Field Services (UFS) group within the Power Enterprise of completion.

The contractor shall provide a monthly report containing overall number of tickets, quantity of tickets cancelled, quantity of tickets without a remark, and quantity of tickets with markings needed.  Immediate access maybe needed to verify emergency USAN tickets.

Regular

5/31/2024

47839-19/20

Public Utilities Commission

$1,050,000

The work is calibrating and maintaining important water meters of the Hetch Hetchy regional water transmission system.  The purpose of the work is to maintain accurate and reliable meter reads used for water accounting purposes.  The work includes calibrating, inspecting, cleaning, and maintaining the system meters and related instruments used.

The primary objective of all calibration activities is to ensure meter-signal accuracy and consistency carries through from the field located secondary metering equipment, through all remote transmitting units and field programmable logic controllers, through the SFPUC SCADA system, to the final remote operations display.

The work often includes entering confined spaces to use special testing equipment to certify instrument accuracy.  Work on each meter is documented and calibration certificates presented.  Reporting includes site fields notes, calibration notes and metering site instrument inventories.  As needed, the work will involve diagnosing problems, identifying failed instruments, and performing parts replacement.

Regular

4/1/2022

49813-19/20

Public Utilities Commission

$170,000

SFPUC maintains a extensive fuel break system within the Peninsula watershed for the protection of water quality, infrastructure and natural resources.  This system is supported and monitored by CalFire with the premise that in the event of a large wildland fire access and defensible space will allow CalFire to effectively contain a fire prior to a rapid spread outside of the watershed.  Mastication is also done as part of a vegetation management program for the SFPUC power line maintenance.

Mastication is used to maintain the brush and fuels levels within the fuel breaks.  A masticator changes the composition of the fuels from high brush that will decomposes on the ground.  In areas that are masticated fire will pass through at a low intensity allowing CalFire to extinguish the fire prior to further spread.

Regular

8/2/2020

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

49947-19/20

Public Utilities Commission

$3,000,000

Assist San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) personnel in providing corrosion control engineering support which includes: performing corrosion investigations and testing; write studies and reports; prepare corrosion control performance criteria; design plans, specifications, cost estimates; corrosion condition assessment surveys of pipelines; cathodic protection interference mitigation; leak investigations; coating inspections; construction support; and other corrosion engineering tasks.  Structures needing corrosion control engineering services include pipeline segments, tanks and storage vessels within the various facilities operated by the Water Supply and Treatment Division (WSTD), City Distribution Division (CDD) and the wastewater Enterprise (WWE).

Regular

7/5/2025

45115-19/20

Public Works

$600,000

Consultants will perform highly specialized acoustical engineering services, such as measuring noise and vibration levels, calculating and designing engineering noise controls, engineering architectural acoustics to achieve good speech intelligibility and or precise and accurate sound, preparing environmental noise report, and other related services to support Public Works Building Design and Construction design staff on an as-needed basis.

Regular

12/31/2026

43402-18/19

Technology

$5,000,000

This enterprise agreement allows the City to purchase equipment, parts, materials, radios, software and as needed incidental services from the radio system vendor at a discounted rate.

Regular

6/30/2030

44025-19/20

Technology

$5,000,000

The San Francisco Department of Technology operates a Lights Out Data Center located at 200 Paul Street and a remote tape processing site at One South Van Ness Avenue.  The remote site supports an automated tape library utilized by a mainframe and electronic mail server.  One South Van Ness Avenue is the remote location.  This remote location also houses the System and Networking Control Center.  The Department of Technology seeks proposals from contractors that can perform all systems programming works, tasks, and projects that are necessary to support a non-stop mainframe operation in the environments describe above.  The contractor’s duties will encompass many different disciplines that are presently performed by a consulting firm.  That firm employs several system programmers.  The contractor’s duties will include routine system changes, responding to service requests, software installation, customization, migration, configuration changes, problem analysis and resolution, disaster recovery, and new technology exploration and implementation.

The contractor must be able to provide the day-to-day operational support that is necessary to ensure the continuous operation of the Department of Technology Data Center, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week; 365 days per year.  The contractor must be able to provide onsite and on-call staff to ensure that system problems are addressed in an efficient and timely manner.  In addition, the contractor must be able to provide system software and special technical support services for the mainframe in the following areas: Operating System (OS) upgrades and customization, Customer Information Control System (CICS) transaction server migration, Web-to-Host implementation, exploration of Unix System Services (USS) features and technical Operating System support for Financial Accounting Management Information System (FAMIS) (a software product maintained by COGSDALE).

Regular

12/31/2025

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

44846-19/20

Treasurer/Tax Collector

$2,500,000

The Treasurer-Tax Collector is requesting proposals to provide investment advisory services to the City.  Proposers should provide technical & strategic advice that will supplement the investment staff’s duties to manage the Pooled Fund.  This is not a solicitation for the management of any of the City’s funds.  Specifically, the advice shall pertain to the areas of:

*portfolio optimization techniques,

*regulatory changes,

*global and macroeconomic events,

*benchmarking/performance measurement,

*cash flow forecasting, and

*compliance

In addition, the selected Contractor must be ab le to provide daily and monthly accounting and compliance reports, which include analyses of projected income from maturities and callable securities for a prolonged time period.

Regular

2/14/2030

48274-19/20

Treasurer/Tax Collector

$5,000,000

The Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector is seeking to procure licensed armored car and secure safe services to serve all departments citywide.  Suppliers must have experience offering high-security, high-volume armored transport, currency processing, smart vault and change order services.  These services will be used to assist City departments with the movement of currency, coins and checks to designated vaults and cash processing centers.  These services include:

1) secure and efficient transportation of Citywide cash and check collections and deposits to bank.

2) deposit pickup from various citywide cash collection points, change order service and delivery, and emergency cash services.

3) providing secured vaults or safes in various department locations which departments can use to deposit their collections and when it is most advantageous.

Regular

2/14/2030

44886-19/20

Treasurer/Tax Collector

$270,000

The Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector. Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE) is seeking to expand its on-on-one financial coaching program, Smart Money Coaching (SMC), to reach more residents in low-income communities and in communities with inequitable economic opportunity.  The financial coaching service provider would have opportunities to support coaching across the City at City department sites, community-based organizations (CBOs) and other locations identified by the financial coaching service provider in partnership with OFE.

Regular

6/30/2022

46104-19/20

Public Utilities Commission

$14,000,000

Consultants will perform highly specialized engineering tasks that include conducting geotechnical field explorations, investigations, and laboratory testing; hydraulic modeling, corrosion testing and evaluation, condition inspection and assessment of existing transmission pipelines, seismic vulnerabilities of transmission pipelines crossing earthquake faults, site surveying in remote locations, hydraulic bypass and energy dissipation design for powerhouses,  preparing reports for new and existing transmission pipelines; the SFPUC intends to award two (2) contracts, each not to exceed $7,000,000/

Regular

6/30/2028

3561-15/16

City Administrator

Current Approved Amount

$0

Increase Amount Requested

$650,000

New Total Amount Requested

$650,000

Contractor will provide as-needed surgeries for animals that are placed for adoption at the City’s animal shelter.  This is a reimbursement program.  The City only reimburses the San Francisco SPCA after collecting funds from the customer.  There is no cost to the City.  Therefore the dollar value of this request is $0.  We have been advised that a contract is the way to create that process.

Modification

6/30/2021

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

46663-17/18

Homelessness and Supportive Housing

Current Approved Amount

$1,065,191

Increase Amount Requested

$1,555,770

New Total Amount Requested

$2,620,961

Technical assistance to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) to support the implementation of HSH’s Five-Year STRATEGIC Framework, and the Department’s work to drive systems transformation and culture change.  Includes assessment to Department’s approach to addressing homelessness, family homelessness, youth homelessness, street homelessness, coordinated entry systems for all populations, problem solving strategies, data and performance measurement.

Modification

6/30/2022

45799-15/16

Municipal Transportation Agency

Current Approved Amount

$4,000,000

Increase Amount Requested

$2,000,000

New Total Amount Requested

$6,000,000

The Contractor will develop a campaign strategy and messaging for roadway safety campaigns.  The contractor will research and develop strategies, creative work and social media campaigns based on best-practices for safety campaigns that have shown actual reductions in collision rates and changes in people’s behavior.

Modification

12/31/2024

40113-14/15

Public Health

Current Approved Amount

$85,000

Increase Amount Requested

$100,000

New Total Amount Requested

$185,000

Medical record copying services, year-round, five days-a-week (excluding holidays), for San Francisco General Hospital and Medical Center (SFGHMC) and Laguna Honda Hospital (LHH).

Modification

6/30/2025

44755-15/16

Public Health

Current Approved Amount

$12,000,000

Increase Amount Requested

$12,000,000

New Total Amount Requested

24,000,000

Integrated, culturally relevant array of community wide health and wellness programs and services focused on disease prevention and mental health promotion for the broad range of San Francisco’s Black/African American populations and HOPE SF residents in the targeted HOPE SF communities.  The focus is to improve health outcomes through policy, systems and environmental change, and the implementation and evaluation of collaborative, integrated programs.  Specific strategies include peer leadership development and support, coalition building, individual community capacity building, and community level support for healthy eating/active living and stress reduction and community clinical linkages.

Modification

6/30/2026

46791-19/20

Public Health

Current Approved Amount

$99,000

Increase Amount Requested

$500,000

New Total Amount Requested

$599,000

Contractor will provide multi-lingual telephone answering services for several programs with the Department of Public Health, including the Behavioral Health Services, Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Health Bureau, Health at Home, Laguna Honda Hospital, Primary Care, and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.  Services include hearing impaired, telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) services/equipment and sufficient staff to handle call times with details, while maintaining records of information for monthly reports for volume and call statistics.

Modification

6/30/2025

4124-09/10

Public Utilities Commission

Current Approved Amount

$8,700,000

Increase Amount Requested

$1,300,000

New Total Amount Requested

$10,000,000

Specialized and technical services in the areas of recycled water treatment, storage, distribution, operations, water quality, regulatory permitting, and other additional services related to the overall development and implementation of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) recycled water projects.

Modification

11/30/2024

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

33836-18/19

Public Works

Current Approved Amount

$200,000

Increase Amount Requested

$300,000

New Total Amount Requested

$500,000

This is for design development, documentation, and installation of furnishings for new homeless shelter capital projects.  This involves development of a furniture plan for dormitories, offices, and community spaces and furniture specifications to procure the furnishings, and overseeing the installations and completion of punch list items prior to occupancy.

Modification

1/3/2022

34958-17/18

Public Works

Current Approved Amount

$95,000

Increase Amount Requested

$47,500

New Total Amount Requested

$142,500

Professional consulting services for strategic planning, organizational development and coaching for management and supervisorial staff on the Baldrige Excellence Framework through the goal of improving our organizational development and performance management.

Modification

3/1/2022

43482-19/20

City Administrator

$2,000,000

Parking garage operation and management, maintenance of facility, valet parking and collection of parking fees at five parking garages and lots owned by the Real Estate Division.  The locations consist of transient and monthly parking for vehicles.  The locations are used by the  public and City staff.

Regular

5/31/2025

43712-19/20

Human Services

$823,350

CitySpan technologies Inc. will grant an enterprise access licenses for City Staff and City Vendors to CARBON, its proprietary software product allowing for Contract/Grant management, tracking, invoicing, and reporting application.

Regular

6/30/2025

47416-19/20

Human Services

$818,747

JUMP Technology Services will grant Client Access License (CAL) to LEAPS, its proprietary software product allowing for complete Adult Protective Services (APS) case management, tracking and reporting application, from initial intake through case closure.

Regular

6/30/2025

46308-19/20

Municipal Transportation Agency

$450,000

The consultant will install and test 109 security card readers at thirteen (13) San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) facilities implementing state of the art security proprietary hardware and software into an existing  proprietary security system of 163 card readers.

Regular

7/15/2024

43238-19/20

Public Health

$850,000

The contractor(s) will provide interpretation in various languages as needed for on-site interpreting, back-fill for civil service staff on extended leave, and other unanticipated absences.  Service will be provided for both DPH staff and patients/clients.  Interpreter(s) must be available Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Regular

2/29/2024

42643-19/20

Municipal Transportation Agency

$25,000,000

The consultant will provide engineering services for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) Capital Programs and Construction Division (CP&C) including design/review of Muni’s special trackwork, design/review of overhead contact system work, and preparing special procurement documents for long-lead items.  In addition, the scope of services will cover constructions management support, including providing field survey and independent Special Inspections as required by the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection.  The scope will cover also specialized tunnel structure inspections, and project claims analysis.

Regular

8/1/2026

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4113-11/12

Public Health

Current Approved Amount

$151,397,887

Increase Amount Requested

$107,650,785

New Total Amount Requested

$259,048,672

In July 2006, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted the Health Care Security Ordinance, which charged DPH with the responsibility for developing a new health access program called Health San Francisco.  This ordinance requires DPH to “coordinate with a third party vendor to administer program operations, including basic customer services, enrollment, tracking service utilization, billing and communication with the participants.”  (SF Administrative Code Sec. 14.2) DPH selected the San Francisco Plan (SFHP) as third party vendor.  SFHP, operated by the San Francisco Community Health Authority, is a governmental entity created by the City in 1994 solely to serve as a health maintenance organization to increase access to health care for low and moderate income San Franciscans.  As the third part vendor for HSF, SFHP:  (1) assists in eligibility and enrollment functions, (2) manages participant fee billing and collection,  (3) receives utilization data and develops utilization reports, (continued on attachment)

Modification

6/30/2025

43871-17/18

Public Health

Current Approved Amount

$96,817,600

Increase Amount Requested

$92,624,400

New Total Amount Requested

$189,442,000

Contractor(s) will provide psychiatric care to adults and/or older adults, in a locked licensed facility, Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) and/or Mental Health Rehabilitation Center (MHRC) within San Francisco Bay Area and/or non-mandatory psychiatric respite services, with one-on-one support in an appropriate environment.  Most admissions for psychiatric care will primarily come from Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES), acute inpatient psychiatric units, community mental health/dual diagnosis treatment programs, the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team (SF HOT) and intensive case management programs.  The SNF will provide care to individuals with psychiatric problems, medical problems and behavior problems, individuals with neurobehavioral diagnosis with a primary diagnosis of dementia.  Individuals also may be admitted with physical impairments requiring special needs that may include the use of a wheelchair, walker, or cane; they may also have vision and or hearing loss or speech impediments.  The MHRC will provide care to individuals who have a psychiatric diagnosis with behaviors too severe to live independently or in an unlocked unstructured community program.  Respite services will provide a place for people who are not yet accepting of the need to manage their mental health symptoms/issues in a more productive and healthy manner and who would benefit from a supervised setting to monitor medication changes after an inpatient stay.

Modification

6/30/2028

Speakers:

Tajel Shah from the Treasurer & Tax Collector’s Office spoke on PSC #44816-19/20 and PSC #48274-19/20.

Bill Irwin from the Public Utilities Commission spoke on PSC #41915-19/20 & PSC #49813-19/20.

Elisa Baeza and Victoria Westbrook from Adult Probation spoke on PSC #46100-19/20.

Action:

1. Approved PSC #46100-19/20 with the condition the Adult Probation revise PSC Form 1, Scope of Work and remove “including, but not limited to” language and limit the categories specifically identified by the department.  (Vote 5 to 0)

2. Adopted the report and approved the remaining requests for proposed Personal Services Contracts; Notify the Office of the Controller and the Office of Contract Administration.  (Vote 5 to 0)

0117-20-3

Annual Salary Wage Adjustment for Members of the Board of Supervisors (2^nd year of 5 – year cycle) and Elected Officials (4^th year of 5 – year cycle) for Fiscal Year 2020-21 Budget.  (Item No. 8)

Speakers:

Luz Morganti, Civil Service Commission

Action:

Accepted the recommendation to delay the determination of any wage increases for the Members of the Board of Supervisors and Elected Officials from July 1, 2020 to December 26, 2020.  This will be reconsidered by the Civil Service Commission at the meeting of

November 16, 2020.  Transmitted the determination of no wage

increases that will go in effect as anticipated for July 1, 2020 to the Controller’s Office.  (Vote 5 to 0)

0118-20-1

Annual Certification of Benefits for Elected Officials and Members of the Board of Supervisors for Fiscal Year 2020-2021.  (Item No. 9)

Speaker:

Luz Morganti, Civil Service Commission

Action:

Accepted the report; certify the benefits of elected officials (including
Members of the Board of Supervisors) for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 in
accordance with Charter Section A8.409-1 at the same level of
benefits as those provided to covered employees of the Municipal Executive’s Association (MEA) in effect on July 1, 2020.

Public comment on all matters pertaining to Items #11 and 12.  (Item No. 10)

None.

Vote on whether to hold Item #12 in Closed Session.  (Item No. 11)

Action:

The Commission voted to conduct Item #12 in Closed Session. 

(Vote of 5 to 0)

Basis for closed session:  Personnel Exception (Gov. Code §54957(b)(1), Admin Code §67.10(b)); California Constitution Art. I, sec. 1.

NOTE: The Commission may hold Item #12 in open session, closed session, or partial open/partial closed session.  It has been agendized as a closed session item to preserve the Commission’s ability to go into closed session if the Commission so decides.

0029-20-1

Closed Session – PUBLIC EMPLOYEE APPOINTMENT.  Possible Action Item - Title: Executive Officer  (Item No. 12)

February 3, 2020:

The Commission made no disclosure regarding the Closed Session.

February 11, 2020:

The Commission did not select candidates to interview and voted to make that determination at a closed session meeting to be held on March 2, 2020.  In addition, an attempt will be made to determine interview questions.

March 2, 2020:

The Commission disclosed that it made further progress with the employee appointment and will continue the item to the Special Meeting held on March 6, 2020.

March 6, 2020:

The Commission conducted interviews of potential candidates and narrowed the pool.  The Commission will now proceed to the next step of the selection process which is to receive written work from the candidates.

March 16, 2020:

The Commission made no disclosure regarding the Closed Session.

The Closed Session started at 3:24 p.m. and ended at 4:10 p.m. via teleconference using Microsoft Teams.  The following individuals were present:

Elizabeth Salveson, President, CSC

Kate Favetti, Vice President, CSC

Jacqueline Minor, Commissioner, CSC

F.X. Crowley, Commissioner, CSC

Douglas Chan, Commissioner, CSC

Lisa Powell, Deputy City Attorney

Reconvene in Open Session.  Vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussions on
Item #12 in closed session (S.F. Admin. Code §67.12 (a)) – Action Item

Action:

The Commission voted not to disclose the discussions held in Closed Session for Item #12 (Vote of 5 to 0)

Action:

The Commission voted to appoint Sandra Eng as the new Executive Officer of the Civil Service Commission.  (Vote of 5 to 0)

COMMISSIONERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS/REQUESTS  (Item No. 13)

President Salveson thanked her follow Commissioners and staff for preparing and participating in their first virtual meeting.  Vice President Favetti shared similar sentiments.

ADJOURNMENT  (Item No. 14)

The Commission adjourned the meeting at 4:14 p.m.