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August 16, 1999

Room 408, City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Order of Business

2:00 p.m.

CALL TO ORDER & ROLL CALL

MINUTES

ANNOUNCEMENTS

ELECTION OF OFFICERS

COMMENDATIONS AGENDA

RATIFICATION AGENDA

CONSENT AGENDA

REGULAR AGENDA

BACKGROUND APPEALS

HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR’S REPORT

REQUESTS TO SPEAK

ADJOURNMENT

Notice of Commission Hearing Policies and Procedures

City and County of San Francisco
Civil Service Commission

Agenda for Regular Meeting
August 16, 1999
2:00 p.m.

ITEM NO.

(1) CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL

Commissioner Karen Clopton

Commissioner George Kosturos

Commissioner A. Lee Munson

Commissioner Adrienne Pon

Commissioner Rosabella Safont

(2) MINUTES

Special Meeting of August 2, 1999

Regular Meeting of August 2, 1999

(3) ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announcement of changes to agenda

Other announcements

ELECTION OF OFFICERS

June 7, 1999: Postpone to the meeting of June 21, 1999.

June 21, 1999: Postpone to the meeting of July 19, 1999.

July 19, 1999: Postpone to the meeting of August 2, 1999.

August 2, 1999: Postpone to the meeting of August 16, 1999.

COMMENDATIONS AGENDA

(5) Commendation for Gloria Martinez, Personnel Analyst, Department of Human Resources upon her retirement after 17 years of service to the City and County of San Francisco. (File No. 0560-99-1)

RATIFICATION AGENDA

The following proposed personal services contracts have been posted by the Department of Human Resources for seven calendar days. No appeals were received by the Department of Human Resources during the posting period. In the absence of an appeal, the proposed personal services contracts are placed on the Ratification Agenda for Civil Service Commission review. No departmental representatives will be present.

All matters on the Ratification Agenda are considered by the Civil Service Commission to be non-contested and will be acted upon by a single vote of the Commission. There will be no separate discussion on these items unless a request is made; in which event, the matter shall be removed from the Ratification Agenda and considered as a separate item. Each individual addressing the Commission will be limited to a maximum time limit of five minutes for all items severed from the Ratification Agenda.

(6) Review of requests for approval of proposed personal services contracts.

(File No. 0565-99-8)

PSC#	Department	Amount	Type of Service	Type of Approval	Duration
4028-99/00	Police	$112,500	To conduct individual, home, and business safety and security outreach to residents and businesses of the Oceanview, Merced Heights, and Ingleside neighborhoods through the posting of flyers, community meetings and personal contacts.	Regular	12/31/00
4029-99/00	Public Utilities Commission (Water)	$140,000	To clean-up unsightly weeds and dense underbrush at and near reservoirs, right-of-ways, roadways, and trails; conversion of firebreaks to fuel breaks, and maintenance of existing fuel breaks and other ground maintenance.	Regular	08/31/01
4030-99/00	Public Utilities Commission (Hetch Hetchy & Bureaus)	$920,000	To perform energy efficiency design review of municipal capital improvement projects in the design stage; conduct workshops to transfer knowledge to City engineers; and perform technical energy audits of existing City facilities.	Regular	09/30/03
4031-99/00	Public Utilities Commission (Hetch Hetchy & Bureaus)	$175,000	To represent the City before federal legislative, administrative and regulatory agencies on matters concerning water supply, wastewater treatment, and energy matters.	Regular	11/30/99
4032-99/00	Juvenile Probation	$202,125	To provide short-term residential care for youth awaiting long-term placement. Youth will be provided with medical, educational and mental health services.	Regular	06/30/00
4033-99/00	Juvenile Probation	$52,500	To provide intensive reality-based peer counseling for youth being detained at Juvenile Hall and Log Cabin Ranch.	Regular	06/30/00
4034-99/00	Juvenile Probation	$65,000	To 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	06/30/00
4035-99/00	Juvenile Probation	$65,000	A mentorship program for youth at risk of becoming serious juvenile offenders. Its central feature will be the use of volunteer mentors recruited from the community. These mentors will help youth in the maturation process through various interventions.	Regular	06/30/00
4036-99/00	Juvenile Probation	$138,600	To provide a court ordered home detention and supervision program for up to twenty youth, on a daily basis. The purpose is to ensure that the youth adhere to the conditions of their release.	Regular	06/30/00
4037-99/00	Juvenile Probation	$455,000	To monitor and provide intensive supervision and case management to youth on probation.	Regular	06/30/00
4038-99/00	Airport Commission	$7,000,000	To provide foundation, hydraulics, bathymetry, sedimentation, and hazardous material investigation, studies and analysis for marine structures for the Airfield Development Program.	Regular	12/31/00
4039-99/00	Airport Commission	$1,600,000	To represent the tenants’ interest and act as their representative to ensure technical review of Master Plan projects, budget, designs and construction of new tenant improvements, and coordination work is performed on a timely basis.	Regular	06/30/00
4040-99/00	Airport Commission	$196,000	To provide design development and contract documents for the procurement and installation of approximately 90 vehicular traffic directional signs to conform with sign-design standards.	Regular	12/31/00
4041-99/00	Airport Commission	$285,000	To establish a marketing and a SFO promotion-minded organization which will develop and implement a strategic marketing alliance with the Airport through opening joint offices in Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China, and in Tokyo, Japan.	Regular	06/30/00
4042-99/00	Airport Commission	$704,687	To upgrade and enhance the proprietary Computerized Parking Control System for the Central Garage and Lot D.	Regular	10/01/00
4043-99/00	Public Transportation	$172,000	To train Transit System Mechanics (Job Code 7371) to repair and maintain all municipal railway revenue vehicles. In addition, tests will be developed and administered for various levels in the Classification.	Regular	06/30/00
4044-99/00	Public Health	$175,000	To assess the worksite situation of the requesting City department or agency, recommend action, prepare materials and conduct group counseling to address workplace behavioral issues.	Regular	12/31/01
014X-94/95	Public Utilities Commission (Hetch Hetchy & Bureaus)	Increase Amount $285,000 New Amount $1,000,000	To continue negotiations with Alameda County and the City of Pleasanton on the development of the Bernal Avenue Property. The department has been working for years to develop approximately 500 acres of prime real estate in the County of Alameda.	Regular	03/31/00
4013-98/99	Emergency Communication	Increase Amount $145,000 New Amount $360,944	To warehouse 911 equipment in a temperature controlled and secure environment, asset tracking through bar-coding base and creation and maintenance of databases, staging and coordinating delivery to designated fire and police sites throughout the City.	Regular	08/31/99
4072-97/98	Airport Commission	Increase Amount $300,000 New Amount $450,000	To advise and assist the Airport in promptly submitting noise reports and noise contour maps on the status of the noise impact area and the progress in achieving full compliance with state regulations.	Regular	08/31/02
4072-98/99	Port	Increase Amount $40,371 New Amount $120,371	To prepare an interpretative signage program for the Fisherman’s Wharf area and provide the Port with approximately 30 fabricated signage panels.	Regular	12/31/00
4077-96/97	Public Utilities Commission (Hetch Hetchy & Bureaus)	Increase Amount $72,500 New Amount $472,500	To review for update of computer models and provide technical advice related to the City’s water operations and develop water supply modeling capabilities and operation interfaces for Hetch Hetchy resource management.	Regular	12/31/99
568-93/94	Public Utilities Commission (Hetch Hetchy & Bureaus)	Increase Amount $165,000 New Amount $1,788,000	Consultant support to the City Attorney in defending the City’s water rights before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB).	Regular	12/31/99

Recommendation: Adopt Human Resources Director’s report. Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser.

CONSENT AGENDA

Proposed amendments to Civil Service Commission Rule 11 - Examinations.
(File No. 0561-99-5)

February 1, 1999: Post proposed Rule amendments; notify employee organizations.

Recommendation: Adopt proposed Rule amendment.

Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contract.
(File No. 0570-99-8)

PSC#	Department	Amount	Type of Service	Type of Approval	Duration
4045-99/00	Board of Supervisors	$100,000	To perform management audit to advise Board of Supervisors/Clerk of the Board on specific opportunities for improvement in the area of identification of changes that will improve organizational effectiveness and use of technology to improve systems and meet changing support requirements.	Regular	12/31/99

Recommendation: Adopt Human Resources Director’s report. Notify the offices of
the Controller and the Purchaser.

REGULAR AGENDA

Approval of exempt appointments under Charter Section 10.104-1 through
10.104-12 which exceed the Charter imposed "Cap". (File No. 0541-99-1)

August 2, 1999: Continue to August 16, 1999.
Vote of 2 to 1; Commissioner Kosturos dissents;

Recommendation: Adopt Human Resources Director’s report. Approve the
exemption from civil service of those positions identified in the report as authorized by Charter Section 10.104-1 through
10.104-12.

Request by Mr. David Novogrodsky, Local 21 for an investigation in the creation of Special Assistant XIV/Reimbursement Manager (Job Code 1373) Department of Public Health. (File No. 0555-99-1)

Recommendation: Open for discussion.

Appeal by Mr. David Dinslage on the Administration of the Examination for Assistant Recreation Supervisor (Job Code 3287) Recreation and Park Department. (File No. 0506-99-4)

Recommendation: Deny appeal; Uphold Human Resources Director’s decision.

Appeal of the Human Resources Director’s decision to deny the request of the Sheriff’s Department to exclude provisional experience when determining minimum experience requirement for appointments resulting from examinations for
Sheriff’s Lieutenant (Job Code 8310) and Sheriff’s Captain (Job Code 8312).
(File No. 0559-99-4)

Recommendation: Deny request; allow employees with current permanent appointment in qualifying classes who meet minimum experience requirement, regardless of previous appointment type in those classes, to be available for promotional appointment if successful in the examination process.

BACKGROUND APPEALS

As soon after 2:30 p.m. as practical, a roll call will be held of the names of persons appearing on the Background Rejections Agenda to ascertain who is present for hearing. Please respond as your name is called. Your case will be heard by the Commission in the order it appears on the Agenda unless the President grants a request to be heard out of order. The Commission will take immediate action during the roll call for those persons not in attendance.

Appeal by Ms. Anita Barron of background rejection for Transit Operator
(Job Code 9163) Public Transportation Department. (File No. 0155-99-4)