March 07, 2011 Regular Meeting

0023-11-8

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

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4068-10/11

Municipal Transportation Agency

$3,833,760

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) requires the services of a contractor to perform all the duties pertaining to the SFMTA's red light camera enforcement system. Duties include but are not limited to the following: maintain the system (hardware and software); issue and process citations for red light violations; provide court evidence packages; provide expert witness testimony pertain-ing to the system; train SF Police Department employees on the system's functions; provide regular reports on the system to the SFMTA; and provide a secure internet site for violators to obtain information on their violation.

Regular

02/06/16

February 7, 2011:

Postpone to the meeting of March 7, 2011.

Speakers:

Leanne Nhan, Municipal Transportation Agency

Action:

Adopt the report; Approve request for PSC #4068-10/11.  Notify the Office of the Controller and the Office of Contract Administration.  (Vote of 4 to 0; Commissioner Gorrono missed vote.)

0059-11-8

Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contracts. 
(Item No. 8)

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4077-10/11

Environment

$700,000

Administer all aspects of pre-tax employee benefit program, including participant enrollment through webbased database interface, distribution of transit fare media, customer service, account management, payroll interface and reconciliation, and reporting.

Regular

06/30/15

4078-10/11

Human Services Agency

$5,336,700

Services include facilities and staffing to run various community-based adult day care centers and centers

serving seniors suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Continuing

06/30/16

4079-10/11

Human Services Agency

$8,489,075

Services include provision of legal counseling, and representation, including but not limited to naturalization application and processing, for seniors and younger disabled adults.

Continuing

06/30/16

4080-10/11

Human Services Agency

$14,260,320

Services include staffing and assistance in the form of case management. The provisions of case manage-ment include access or care coordination - including arranging services, developing and monitoring care

management plans and coordinating services among providers - serving functionally impaired seniors, adults with disabilities and their families.

Continuing

06/30/16

4081-10/11

Human Services Agency

$50,019,360

Services include facilities. and staffing to run various community based courses focused on physical health,

socialization, financial advice, elderly abuse prevention, and emergency services. The target populations served by these programs are seniors and adults with disabilities. These services include the Community Living Fund established by the Board of Supervisors Resolution #10-0832.

Continuing

06/30/16

4082-10/11

Human Services Agency

$57,500,000

Contractors will provide and distribute food to low income San Francisco residents. Food distribution services will include home delivered and congregate meals, emergency food bags, and food pantries, emergency home delivered meals, free meals, and senior grocery bags.

Continuing

06/30/16

4083-10/11

Municipal Transportation Agency

$388,145

Consulting services to conduct a three part Nexus study to support existing and proposed transportation-related development impact and mitigation fees:
a) Part I: Transit Impact Development Fee (TIDF),
b) Part II: Comprehensive Transportation Impact Development Fee (CTDIF), c) part III: Automobile Trip Mitigation Fee (ATMF).

Regular

07/31/11

4084-10/11

Recreation & Park Commission

$300,000

The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department (RPD) is in need of a third party environmental consultant to complete environmental analyses for the Minnie-Lovie Playground Athletic Fields Renovation. The objective of the environmental analysis services is to satisfy the requirements of the California Environmental Quality (CEQA), the CEQA Guidelines, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the San Francisco Administrative Code Chapter 31, and applicable local, State, and Federal regulatory requirements.

Regular

02/15/14

4114-07/08

Municipal Transportation Agency

Increase Amount

$5,000,000

New Amount

$5,000,000

Will provide transit service related to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's (SFMTA's) implementation phase of the Transit

Effectiveness Project (TEP). Proposed work includes transit best practices, service implementation, and evaluation services including transit planning,

operations, finance, communications, demand and programmatic analyses.  In an effort to promote the SFMTA's long-term financial stability, SFTMA is

seeking technical expertise in transit planning, service implementation, and evaluation services. Denial of the extension of the contract for these services

may jeopardize the implementation of TEP.

Modi-

fication

11/04/11

4028-06/07

Public Library

Increase Amount

$940,000

New Amount

$1,690,000

The San Francisco Public Library (Library) seeks a Contractor to develop a program to interpret and coordinate data, design form format, and issue

notices and forms for the Library in multiple languages. The services include transforming electronic data, via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to

generate around 1,000 library notices per day, printing text of notices onto designated forms, and mailing them to library patrons first class presorted

on the same day. Initially, the Contractor and Library

Modi-

fication

06/30/15

staff will meet to define the specifications for and design each of the required forms: reserves, overdue, billed items, holds expired, and holds cancelled. Subsequent changes and/or additions to the forms would be made as needed and, on occasion, the Library would provide additional inserts, or camera-ready copy of same, to be included in the mailings.

Speakers:

Mark Westlund, Department of the Environment spoke on PSC #4077-10/11.

Dave Curto, Human Services Agency spoke on PSC #s 4078-10/11 and 4080-10/11 through 4082-10/11.

Dan Mauer, Recreation and Park Department spoke on PSC #4084-10/11.

Donna Marion and Brian Bannon, San Francisco Public Library and Joe Brenner, IFPTE Local 21 spoke on PSC #4028-06/07.

Action:

(1)      Adopt the report; Approve request for PSC #s 4077-10/11 through 4083-10/11 and 4114-07/08.  Notify the Office of the Controller and the Office of Contract Administration. 
(Vote of 4 to 0; Commissioner Gorrono missed vote.)

(2)      Adopt the report; Approve request for PSC #4028-06/07 for a period of one (1) year ending February 28, 2012 with the modified amount increased accordingly.  Notify the Office of the Controller and the Office of Contract Administration.  (Vote of 5 to 0)

(3)      Adopt the report; Approve request for PSC #4084-10/11.  Notify the Office of the Controller and the Office of Contract Administration.  (Vote of 5 to 0)   

0060-11-1

Municipal Transportation Agency’s Report on Appointments Exempt from Civil Service under Charter Section 10.104.16 through 10.104.18.  (Item No. 9)

Speakers:

None.

Action:

Adopt the report.  (Vote of 5 to 0)

0061-11-1

Municipal Transportation Agency’s Report on Provisional Appointments. 
(Item No. 10)

Speakers:

None.

Action:

Adopt the report.  (Vote of 5 to 0)

0025-11-1

Briefing and Report by the Department of Human Resources on the Development and Administration of the H-50 Assistant Chief Examination, San Francisco Fire Department.  (Item No. 11)

February 7, 2011:

By consensus the Commission directed the Executive Officer to schedule a Special Meeting and calendar for the Commission to take action on the Adequacy of the H-50 Assistant Chief Examination, San Francisco Fire Department. 

Note:

The Commission also directed that the appeal of Kevin D. Taylor be placed on calendar prior to taking its action on the
H-50 Examination.

February 25, 2011:

Postpone to the March 7, 2011 Regular Meeting with the Validation Study available to the Commission prior to the meeting.

Speakers:

Micki Callahan, Human Resources Director

Action:

Postpone to the meeting of March 21, 2011 at the request of the Department of Human Resources.  (Vote of 5 to 0)

0024-11-8

Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contracts. 
(Item No. 12)

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4076-10/11

Mayor’s Office of Business & Economic Dev.

$446,900

The contractor will provide program management for the Presidio Parkway/Doyle Drive Replacement Project’s (P3) Local Workforce Participation Program.  Those duties will include acting as the primary contact between OEWD and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority

Regular

12/30/14

February 7, 2011:

Postpone to the meeting of March 7, 2011 at the request of the Mayor’s Office of Business & Economic Development.

Speakers:

Joe Brenner, IFPTE Local 21
Guillermo Rodriguez, Mayor’s Office of Business & Economic Development

Action:

Adopt the report; Approve request for PSC #4076-10/11.  Notify the Office of the Controller and the Office of Contract Administration.  It was mutually agreed by IFPTE Local 21 and Mayor’s Office of Business and Economic Development that any future State and Federal funded project that CalTrans manages in San Francisco that CityBuild staff will be hired and utilized in lieu of outside consultants.  (Vote of 5 to 0)

0062-11-8

Review of request for approval of proposed personal services contracts. 
(Item No. 13)

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4085-10/11

Municipal Transportation Agency

$125,000

Provide oversight-monitoring assistance to the SFMTA to review designated contractor’s drug and alcohol testing policies and procedures for compliance.  Conduct an annual on-site review of selected contractor’s drug and alcohol testing policy, record keeping, testing reports, education and training attendance rosters and any other documents pertaining to compliance with Department of transportation/Federal Transportation Agency (DOT/FTA) Drug and Alcohol Testing Rules and Regulations.  Also conduct audits of service agents (Specimen Collector, Medical Review Officer, laboratory, etc.) that assist the SFMTA in maintaining compliance with the drug and alcohol testing guidelines.

Regular

02/29/16

Speakers:

William Smith, Municipal Transportation Agency

Action:

Adopt the report; Approve request for PSC #4085-10/11.  Notify the Office of the Controller and the Office of Contract Administration.  (Vote of 5 to 0)

0012-11-6

Appeal by Luann Lee of the Director of Transportation's determination of insufficient evidence to support her claim of race and gender discrimination and harassment.  (Item No. 14)

Speakers:

Penny Si, Municipal Transportation Agency

Russell Robinson, Attorney

Action:

Postpone to a meeting when Robert Wolfgang is available and submit all relevant material prior to the meeting.  (Vote of 5 to 0)

0198-09-7

Determination of future employability: permanent civil service appointment of Thomas Yerger, Communications System Technician (Job Code 7362) with the Department of Technology.  (Item No. 15) 

Speakers:

None.

Action:

Cancel any current examination and eligibility status.  No future employment with the Department of Technology.  No future employment with the City and County of San Francisco.  (Vote of 5 to 0)  Mr. Yerger failed to appear.