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MINUTES

 

Regular Meeting

March 16, 2009

 

2:00 p.m.

ROOM 400, CITY HALL

1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

 

 

CALL TO ORDER

 

 

 

2:07 p.m.

 

 

 

ROLL CALL

 

 

 

President Donald A. Casper

Present

 

Vice President Morgan R. Gorrono

Not Present (Notified absence)

 

Commissioner Joy Y. Boatwright

Present

 

Commissioner Mary Y. Jung

Present (Arrived at 2:35 p.m. Missed Item #s
1 through 5)

 

Commissioner E. Dennis Normandy

Present

 

 

 

President Donald A. Casper presided.

 

 

 

PUBLIC COMMENT ON MATTERS APPEARING ON THE AGENDA

 

 

 

None.

 

 

 

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

 

 

 

Special Meeting of  March 2, 2009

 

 

 

Action:

Approve.  (Vote of 3 to 0)

 

 

 

Regular Meeting of  March 2, 2009

 

 

 

Action:

Approve.  (Vote of 3 to 0)

 

 

 

The Civil Service Commission will hold a Special Meeting on March 30, 2009 at
1:30 p.m. in Room 400, City Hall for the continuation of the Department of Human Resources Presentation on Proposals for Civil Service Reform Phase II.

 

0073-09-1

Commendation for Dorothy Yee, Equal Employment Opportunity Director, Department of Human Resources upon her retirement after more than 33 years of service to the City & County of San Francisco.  (Item No. 5)

 

 

 

Speakers:

Dorothy Yee, Recipient

 

 

 

Action:

Approve.  (Vote of 3 to 0)

 

0024-09-8

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

 

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

2002-08/09

Human Services Agency

$26,500,000

Will provide services to Community-based family resource centers that operate to serve all patients for specific parenting skills, parenting guides, crisis counseling and intervention.

Continuing

06/30/14

2003-08/09

Human Services Agency

$160,000,000

Will provide childcare services to low-income and CalWorks families through partnerships with other state licensed providers in various identified target neighborhoods.

Continuing

06/30/14

2005-08/09

Human Services Agency

$38,500,000

Will provide outreach, counseling, employment services, vocational training, work readiness, referral and placement services, job retention support and follow-up to CalWorks and PAES (Personal Assisted Employment Services) and other low-income individuals.

Continuing

06/30/14

 

 

February 2, 2009:

Postpone PSC #2000-08/09 through 2009-08/09 to the meeting of March 2, 2009 at the request of SEIU Local 1021. 

 

 

 

March 2, 2009:

Postpone PSC #2002-08/09, 2003-08/09 and 2005-08/09 to the meeting of March 16, 2009 at the request of SEIU Local 1021.  The Commission stipulated this would be the last continuance granted. 

 

 

 

Speakers:

Dave Curto, Human Services Agency

Margot Reed, SEIU Local 1021

Sin Yee Poon, SEIU Local 1021

Bob Thomas, Human Services Agency

 

 

Action:

Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report for “Continuing” approval on the following conditions: 1) Should the Human Services Agency propose to change contractors and award contracts to outside parties other than those identified in connection with this Commission’s approval of these three personal services contracts, it will notify all affected bargaining units prior to the change in contractors; 2) Should the Human Services Agency propose to amend or modify any contract awarded under these three personal services contracts, it shall notify all affected bargaining units prior to the modification or amendment being affectuated; 3) At the time the Human Services Agency publishes Requests for Proposals for any contract to be awarded under the scope of any of these three personal services contracts, it shall send a hard copy of the Request for Proposals to the affected bargaining units; and
4) If any affected bargaining unit, as a result of any such notification wishes to discuss the change, amendment, modification or award with the Human Services Agency, the Human Services Agency shall meet and discuss in good faith with the affected bargaining units .  Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

0074-09-8

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

 

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4115-08/09

Airport

$1,500,000

Will provide maintenance and repairs of specialized programmable logic controls, baggage sortation and diagnostic equipment of baggage handling systems, integrated with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening equipment.

Regular

03/31/12

4116-08/09

Airport

$4,800,000

Will provide a third-party consultant to both the Airport and the SFO Airline Airport Affairs Committee (AAAC), managing the airport/airline relationship, facilitating airline approvals required by Airline Lease and Use Agreements.

Regular

06/30/17

4117-08/09

 

Postpone to meeting of 4/6/09

 

Airport

$750,000

Will modernize SFO’s network architecture to improve security, reliability and the delivery of new Shard Tenant Service (STS) offerings.

Regular

03/31/14

4118-08/09

 

Postpone to meeting of 4/6/09

 

Fire Department

$500,000

Will perform physical fitness evaluations on uniformed Fire Department personnel, including coronary risk factor evaluations, cardiovascular examinations, and laboratory testing.

Regular

12/31/11

4119-08/09

 

Postpone to meeting of 4/6/09

 

Municipal Transportation Agency

$500,000

Will provide specialized professional and technical transportation planning, engineering and environmental services.

Regular

05/30/11

4120-08/09

Public Utilities Commission

$350,000

Will perform a comprehensive update to SFPUC’s FY 2005-2006 sustainability performance profile, and by evaluating progress on SFPUC’s strategies for improving performance.

Regular

06/30/11

4121-08/09

 

Postpone to meeting of 4/6/09

 

Recreation & Parks

$1,500,000

Will provide full Architectural and Engineering services for the Palega Playground, including schematic phase, design development, construction documents, cost estimating, construction administration and project closeout.

Regular

06/30/11

4125-07/08

Public Utilities Commission

Increase Amount

$1,500,000

New Amount

$4,500,000

Will provide design of Hetch Hetchy Water & Power (HHWP) rehabilitation work of Power Infrastructure (PI) for reliability and the design of rehabilitation work of Power Infrastructure to meet Western Electricity Coordination Council regulatory compliance.

Modi-

fication

07/31/11

 

 

Speakers:

Cynthia Avakian and Gary Franzella, Airport Commission spoke on PSC #4116-08/09.
Jared Blumenfeld and Rhoda Parham, Recreation and Parks, Ging Louie and Joe Brenner, IFPTE Local 21 spoke on PSC #4121-08/09.

Pauson Yun and Ellen Levin, Public Utilities Commission spoke on PSC #4125-07/08.

 

 

 

Action:

(1)      Postpone PSC #4117-08/09 to the meeting of April 6, 2009 at the request of the Airport Commission.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

(2)      Postpone PSC #4118-08/09 to the meeting of April 6, 2009 at the request of the San Francisco Fire Department. 
(Vote of 4 to 0)

(3)      Postpone PSC #4119-08/09 to the meeting of April 6, 2009 at the request of the Municipal Transportation Agency.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

(4)      Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report on PSC #4121-08/09.  Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser.  (Vote of 2 to 2; Commissioners Casper and Boatwright dissent.)  Continue to the meeting of April 6, 2009. (Three (3) votes are needed for Commission action.)

(5)      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)

 

0075-09-1

Department of Human Resources 2008 Equal Employment Opportunity Workforce Utilization Analysis Report.  (Item No. 8)

 

 

 

Speakers:

Dorothy Yee, Department of Human Resources

 

 

 

Action:

Accept the report.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

0025-09-5

Proposed Amendments to Civil Service Commission Rule Series 018 - Conflict of Interest.  (Item No. 9)

 

 

 

February 2, 2009:

Post as amended for meet and confer. 

 

 

 

Speakers:

Anita Sanchez, Executive Officer

 

 

 

Action:

Adopt as posted.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

 

0030-09-5

Proposed amendments to Return Omitted Language to Civil Service Commission Rules 110.9.1 and 410.9.1 – Qualifications of Applicants. 
(Item No. 10)

 

 

 

February 2, 2009:

Post for adoption. 

 

 

 

Speakers:

Anita Sanchez, Executive Officer

 

 

 

Action:

Adopt as posted.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

0078-09-8

Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contracts. 
(Item No. 11)

 

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4122-08/09

Municipal Transportation Agency

$9,000,000

Will provide leasing, servicing and disposal of all tires used by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) on all rubber-tire revenue vehicles.  Muni’s rubber-tire revenue fleet comprises 842 buses and trolleys.

Regular

03/15/14

 

 

Speakers:

David Hill, Municipal Transportation Agency

 

 

 

Action:

Adopt the Human Resources Director’s report.  Notify the offices of the Controller and the Purchaser.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

 

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

 

None.

 

COMMISSIONERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS/REQUESTS  (Item No. 13)

 

Commissioner Normandy inquired if a computer program called E-Verify is available in the City.

 

ADJOURNMENT  (Item No. 14)

5:18 p.m.