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MINUTES

Regular Meeting

September 16, 2002

2:00 p.m.

ROOM 400, CITY HALL

1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

 

CALL TO ORDER

   
 

2:32 p.m.

   
 

ROLL CALL

   
 

Commissioner Donald A. Casper

Present

 

Commissioner Morgan Gorrono

Present

 

Commissioner Adrienne Pon

Present

 

Commissioner Linda Richardson

Present

 

Commissioner Rosabella Safont

Present

   
 

Commissioner Casper presided.

   
 

PUBLIC COMMENT ON MATTERS APPEARING ON THE AGENDA

   
 

(1) Weston Hatch, TWU Local 250-A requested a postponement of Agenda Items 13 and 14. Request denied for Agenda Item #13

(2) Ed Warshauer, SEIU Local 790 spoke on Agenda Item #11

(3) Bill Fiore, IFPTE Local 21 and Ed Smeloff, Public Utilities Commission spoke on Agenda Item #7 (PSC #4043-02/03 and #4044-02/03).

   
 

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

   
 

Special Meeting of August 19, 2002 - 12:00 p.m. - Closed Session

   
 

Action:

Approve. (Vote of 5 to 0)

   
 

Regular Meeting of August 19, 2002

   
 

Action:

Approve. (Vote of 5 to 0)

   
 

Special Meeting of August 26, 2002 - 4:00 p.m. - Closed Session

   
 

Action:

Approve. (Vote of 5 to 0)

0664-02-8

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

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4027-02/03

Juvenile
Probation

$65,000

Will provide a delinquency prevention program for girls at risk of becoming serious juvenile offenders. Program to include the use of volunteer mentors recruited from the community.

Regular

06/30/03

 

August 19, 2002:

Postpone to the meeting of September 16, 2002.

   
 

Speakers:

None.

   
 

Action:

Adopt Human Resources Director’s report. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 5 to 0)

0743-02-8

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

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4034-02/03

Juvenile
Probation

$138,600

Will provide a court ordered home detention and supervision program for up to twenty youth, on a daily basis.

Regular

06/30/03

4035-02/03

City Planning

$250,000

Will prepare and implement specific plans for San Francisco neighborhoods, and assist staff with preparation of an environmental impact report (EIR) for the Market and Octavia; and Central Waterfront and Balboa Park neighborhood plans.

Regular

06/30/04

4036-02/03

Over to 10/7/02

Public Utilities Commission (Water)

$180,000

Will provide expert training in the areas of internal and external customer service; facilitation of conflict resolution and strategic planning; mediation and resolving disputes and conflicts; diversity training; and team building and group processes.

Regular

08/31/06

4037-02/03

Mayor’s Business & Economic
Development - TI

$75,000

Will provide consultation and support for negotiation and drafting of conveyance documents especially for issues involving environmental indemnity and risk allocation and financing plans for the conveyance of former naval station Treasure Island.

Regular

03/31/03

4038-02/03

Over to 10/7/02

Mayor’s Business & Economic
Development - TI

$130,000

Will provide economic, financial, and fiscal analysis for the preparation of application for the Economic Development Conveyance of former naval station at Treasure Island from the US Navy to the City; and to support adoption of a Redevelopment Plan.

Regular

12/31/03

4039-02/03

Adult & Aging Services

$150,000

Will develop a strategic plan to enable the Department of Aging and Adult Services to assume a lead role in a collaborative effort to build a comprehensive, consolidated system of care for vulnerable older and disabled adults.

Regular

01/31/04

4040-02/03

Adult & Aging Services

$1,121,954

Will provide development of SF-GetCare, a county-wide information system for consumers and a method to integrate community-based long-term care services.

Regular

09/30/03

4041-02/03

Arts Commission

$184,997

Will conduct creative writing classes with youth in need at 13 sites in San Francisco. Teachers will serve youth who may be incarcerated, educationally disadvantaged, recently immigrated, homeless, or in crisis.

Regular

06/30/03

4042-02/03

Civil Service Commission

Increase Amount

$100,000

New Amount $120,000

Will provide outside legal services in handling an appeal and litigation related to an appeal before the Civil Service Commission.

Regular

12/31/02

4110-99/00

Airport

Increase Amount

$95,000

New Amount $195,000

Will provide additional services for integration of the AirTrain System into printed information maps, signs for integration of BART Station, and T3 storefront redesign to assist traveling public through the airport environment.

Regular

01/01/04

 

Speakers:

(1) Lonnie Holmes, Juvenile Probation spoke on PSC #4034-02/03.

(2) Bonita Davenport, Jasper Rubin and Paul Maltzer, City Planning spoke on PSC #4035-02/03.

(3) Eila Arbuckle, Mayor’s Office of Business & Economic Development - TI spoke on PSC #4037-02/03.

(4) Bill Haskell, Adult & Aging Services spoke on PSC #4040-02/03.

(5) Anita Sanchez, Assistant Executive Officer spoke on PSC #4042-02/03.

(6) Marilyn Harding, Airport spoke on PSC #4110-99/00.

   
 

Action:

(1) Adopt Human Resources Director’s report on
PSC #4034-02/03. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 4 to 1; Commissioner
Gorrono dissents).

(2) Postpone PSC #4036-02/03 and 4038-02/03 to the meeting of October 7, 2002.

(3) Adopt Human Resources Director’s report on
PSC #4042-02/03. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 3 to 0; Commissioners Pon and Safont missed vote).

(4) Adopt Human Resources Director’s report on
PSC #4110-99/00. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 3 to 2; Commissioners Pon and Gorrono dissent).

(5) Adopt Human Resources Director’s report on all remaining contracts. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 5 to 0)

0763-02-8

Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contracts.
(File No. 7)

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4003-99/00

Airport

Increase Amount $5,291,558 New Amount $19,741,558

Will continue to conduct biological and hydrological analysis of environmental affects of potential runway reconfiguration in San Francisco Bay. Prepare draft of Environmental Impact Report and Environmental Impact Statement.

Regular

12/31/03

4043-02/03

Public Utilities Commission (Hetch Hetchy & Bureaus)

$5,700,000

Will perform Research and Development and technical program management work in the field of renewable energy technologies that may be used and benefit the energy usage within the City and County of San Francisco and promote environmentally safe forms of energy.

Regular

09/15/005

4044-02/03

Over to 10/7/02

Public Utilities Commission (Hetch Hetchy & Bureaus)

$6,000,000

Will provide a broad range of energy resource planning, development, and analysis services.

Regular

09/16/05

 

Speakers:

Kevin Kone, Airport spoke on PSC #4003-99/00

Ed Smeloff, Public Utilities Commission spoke on
PSC #4043-02/03.

Bill Fiore, IFPTE Local 21 spoke on PSC #4044-02/03.

   
 

Action:

Postpone PSC #4044-02/03 to the meeting of October 7, 2002 at the request of IFPTE Local 21 and the Public Utilities Commission. Adopt Human Resources Director’s report on PSC #4003-99/00 and PSC #4043-02/03. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser. (Vote of 5 to 0)

0742-02-1

Municipal Transportation Agency Provisional Appointment Report.
(Item No. 8)

   
 

Speakers:

None.

   
 

Action:

Adopt report. (Vote of 5 to 0)

0351-02-6

Appeal by Michael Ho of the Human Resources Director’s decision on his discrimination complaint. (Item No. 9)

   
 

June 17, 2002:

Postpone to the meeting of July 15, 2002 at the request of
Michael Ho.

   
 

July 15, 2002:

Postpone to the meeting of September 16, 2002 at the request of Michael Ho. The Commission stipulated this would be the last continuance granted.

   
 

Speakers:

None.

   
 

Action:

Postpone to the meeting of October 7, 2002 at the request of IFPTE Local 21 in honor of Yom Kippur. (Vote of 5 to 0)

   

0675-02-1

Certification of the highest prevailing rate of wages of the various crafts and kinds of labor paid in private employment in the City and County of San Francisco. (Item No. 10)

   
 

Speakers:

None.

   
 

Action:

Adopt report; Forward to the Board of Supervisors.
(Vote of 5 to 0)

0329-02-3

Reconsideration of Salary Survey for Registered Nurse Classifications (Charter Section A8.403), 2002-2003. (Item No. 11)

   
 

April 15, 2002:

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, 2002.

   
 

May 6, 2002:

Grant request for reconsideration of Civil Service Commission action on April 15, 2002, on Salary Survey for Registered Nurse Classifications (Charter Section A8.403).

   
   

The Commission requests the City Attorney’s opinion on the application of Charter Section A8.403 with reference to
retirement benefits.

Postpone to the meeting of May 20, 2002.

 

May 20, 2002:

The Commission directed representatives of the Department of Human Resources and Service Employees International Union Local 790 to meet and report back to the Civil Service Commission at its June 3, 2002 meeting; Instructed the Executive Officer to notify the Board of Supervisors that discussions are ongoing.

   
 

June 3, 2002:

Postpone to the meeting of June 17, 2002 at the request of the Department of Human Resources.

   
 

June 17, 2002:

Postpone to the meeting of July 15, 2002.

   
 

July 15, 2002:

Postpone to the meeting of September 16, 2002.

   
 

Speakers:

None.

   
 

Action:

Off calendar. (Vote of 5 to 0)

0405-02-7

Determination of future employability: Disciplinary release of entrance probationary appointment of Kenneth McElroy, Transit Operator (Job Code 9163) Municipal Transportation Agency. (Item No. 12)

   
 

Speakers:

Weston Hatch, TWU Local 250-A

   
 

Action:

Cancel any current examination and eligibility status in Class 9163 Transit Operator; Future employment subject to the
review and approval of the Human Resources Director after satisfactory completion of two (2) years work experience outside the City and County service; No future employment with the Municipal Transportation Agency. (Vote of 5 to 0)
Mr. McElroy failed to appear.

0431-02-7

Determination of future employability: Resignation unsatisfactory of permanent civil service appointment of Bennie Williams, Transit Operator (Job Code 9163) Municipal Transportation Agency. (Item No. 13)

   
 

Speakers:

None.

   
 

Action:

Accept resignation as certified; Cancel any current examination and eligibility status; Future employment subject to the
review and approval of the Human Resources Director after satisfactory completion of two (2) years work experience outside the City and County service; Must participate in an appropriate substance abuse program and receive a release to work from a DHR-designated professional in substance abuse; No future employment with the Municipal Transportation Agency. (Vote of 5 to 0) Mr. Williams failed to appear.

   

0430-02-7

Determination of future employability: Disciplinary release of entrance probationary appointment of Yovanda Dixon, Transit Operator (Job Code 9163) Municipal Transportation Agency. (Item No. 14)

   
 

Speakers:

Weston Hatch, TWU Local 250-A

   
 

Action:

Postpone to the meeting of October 7, 2002 at the request of TWU Local 250-A. (Vote of 5 to 0)

   

0756-02-1

Supplemental Budget Request - Fiscal Year 2002/2003. (Item No. 15)

   
 

Speakers:

Anita Sanchez, Assistant Executive Officer

   
 

Action:

Authorize Executive Officer to request Budget Supplemental in the amount of $150,000 and for the Executive Officer to obtain from Littler Mendelson details of future costs; Approve report. (Vote of 5 to 0)

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

 

None.

 

ADJOURNMENT

 

4:42 p.m.