Good afternoon.

The meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the April 30th of 2025 meeting of the Budget and Appropriation Committee.

I am Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee.

I am joined by Vice Chair, Supervisor Matt Dorsey, and members Supervisor Joe Ingario, Shaman Walton, and shortly President Raphael Mendelman.

And I would like to acknowledge Supervisor Jackie Filder in the Chamber and our clerk, it's Brent Haliba.

And I would like to thank Eugene Labadia from SFGAF TV for broadcasting this meeting.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcement?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

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Madam Chair.

Thank you.

And uh with that, um Mr.

Clerk, uh, could you please call item one and two together?

Yes, items one and two.

Item number one is a hearing on the budget and legislative analysts performance audit of the police department's overtime, and item number two is an ordinance appropriating approximately 5.4 million from the General Reserve, deappropriating approximately 86.6 million from salaries, mandatory French benefits, equipment and materials and supplies, and appropriating $61 million to overtime in the police department and $30 million to overtime in the Sheriff's Department in order to support the department's projected increases in overtime has required but per the administrative code, and approximately 1 million to building uh maintenance services and building and structure improvement projects in the Sheriff's Department in fiscal year 2024 to 2025.

Madam Chair.

Thank you.

And uh I want to acknowledge that this is a hearing introduced by um Supervisor Walton and Supervisor Walton.

The floor is yours.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you so much, Chair Chan.

And first of all, I just want to thank uh my co-sponsor of this hearing, Supervisor Fielder, and also want to thank former Supervisor Preston for calling attention to this overtime issue.

The budget and legislative analysts performed an audit of San Francisco Police Department, which was requested by former Supervisor Dean Preston, which raised serious concerns about accountability, oversight, and financial management within SFPD.

In fiscal year 2223, SFPD's overtime expenditures totaled 108.4 million, yet just 12 percent of officers were responsible for 30 percent, 32 percent of all overtime hours.

At the same time, sick leave and injury-related leave among sworn staff increased by 77 percent over five years, with troubling patterns suggesting potential abuse.

The audit also found that SFPD failed to enforce absenteeism policies, did not adequately monitor attendance, and violated key provisions of its MOU with the police officers association, resulting in 51,000 ineligible 10B overtime hours between 2020 and 2023.

Additionally, 13 percent of overtime cards were improperly approved with missing or duplicate signatures, and even officers approving their own overtime.

Perhaps most concerning, SFPD spent over $30.8 million in general fund dollars on $319,094 overtime hours for special initiatives without clear performance metrics or oversight.

This and a time where everyone is complaining about government oversight and accountability.

Safety has been named as a major concern for residents in the city.

And whether you believe or not that more police presence is necessary, we do know and understand the astronomical deficit this city is facing as a whole over the next few years.

And we understand that any waste or abuse of city resources negatively affects the city and public safety.

There's absolutely no reason an officer or any city employee in general should be able to call in sick to work and then go to work on another assignment, therefore negatively affecting public safety with the absence of an officer who is capable of performing their duties.

These findings demand answers.

Today we're going to hear from the budget and legislative analysts as well as the SF police department on these issues, and I hope that we learn how they plan to correct these systemic failures.

San Franciscans deserve transparency and accountability and how our public safety dollars were spent.

And then before we go to any presentation, I don't know if Supervisor Fielder, you have anything you want to add.

Thank you.

With that, we will start with the budget legislative analyst office with Nicholas Menard, and then we will hear from SFPD from Deanna Oliva Arroche and Assistant Chief Lazar.

So Nicholas, you have the floor.

Thank you.

So I'm going to Brent, is this slide show?

Okay, great.

Thank you.

So I have a short presentation for you about our audit.