Good morning.

The meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the December 13, 2023 meeting of the budget and finance committee.

I'm Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee.

I'm joined by Vice Chair Rafael Mendelman and Supervisor Asha Safayi.

Our clerk is Brent Talipa and would like to thank uh SFGov TV for broadcasting this meeting.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcement?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

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And uh finally, Madam Chair, items acted upon today, are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda of January 9th, 2024, unless otherwise stated.

Madam Chair.

Thank you.

And um before we call the item number one, I would like to just remind everyone that um we have budget and legislative analyst reports for items two through sixteen on today's agenda.

Uh and for those items, we will have the department presentation first, followed by um the budget and legislative analyst report report, then we will take questions and public comment.

Mr.

Clerk, please call item number one.

Yes, item number one is a hearing to consider the citywide uh project labor agreement or PLA that was executed, uh, the annual reports for fiscal years 2020 to 2021, 21 to 22, and 22 to 23 that highlight the efforts, accomplishments, and challenges encountered and the preliminary high-level methodology developed to evaluate whether the PLA has promoted the efficient economical and timely completion of PLA covered projects, the cost of covered projects and the PLA's impact on local business enterprises and the local workforce.

Madam Chair.

Thank you.

And this item uh this hearing item is uh leading by Supervisor Safayi, and the floor is yours.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh thank you uh to everyone that joined us here today uh from organized labor and the departments.

Um thank you, Chair Chan for scheduling this also before the end of the year.

I know there's a lot going on.

Really appreciate, but we wanted to get this in.

Um as there are projects in the pipelines and there needs to be some clarification on the city side and understanding where we are and what we've accomplished to date.

Um I was very proud to be part of this uh negotiations to lead the effort to pass a citywide project labor agreement uh back in 2019.

Uh there were a lot of people that talked about getting this done, and there was not a lot of progress for a few years.

Um but I really want to thank uh folks from the building trades that that engaged with us, stepped up and allowed us to really move the conversation forward.

Uh there were a lot of long hours.

Uh there was some heated disagreements, but at the end of the day, we ended up getting to the finish line, and I think we set the tone for something special in San Francisco.

Now the question is, is that being fully implemented?

Is the law being followed?

And is the city fully uh fulfilling the goals that were set out in the original legislation?

So that's why I called this hearing.

I think it's important to have a check-in uh to check on the progress of implementation.

Uh so we're going to uh look at what was required and we're gonna ask the controller's office and the Office of Labor Standard Enforcement to report back on this progress of implementation.

So I'm not gonna say much more uh so we can get into the presentations, but just so we know the run of show, we have uh Mark Delarosa from the controller's office, he's the director of audits that's going to present.

He's the director of audits that's going to present.

Uh Hunter Wang also from the controller's office.

Uh Pat Mulligan from the Office of Labor Standards and Enforcement will also uh speak, and then we're gonna provide some time from Rudy Gonzalez from the building trades, and then we'll have questions from committee members, and and then we'll move forward.

So we what we really want to get into, and we have more, as I said, Mark Delarosa, uh Pat Mulligan from OLSE and controller's office is which projects are currently in the pipeline that will be covered by the PLA, and we'll kind of look at that and get into that.

So I'm gonna hand this over now to Mark and Hunter from the controller's office to present.

Thank you, Supervisors, uh Chair Chen, Supervisors Mendelman, and Safai, Mark DeLosa from the Controller's Office.

I'm joined today by Hunter Wang, as well as our uh staff who worked on this uh report, um uh Oscar Ramos and Singhua Huen.

Uh before we turn it over to uh Hunter, just a few quick introductory um slides on slide two, I believe, from the presentation that we have.