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Budget committee advances DPH contracts, lease amendment and environmental grants
Summary
The Budget & Finance Subcommittee advanced multiple Department of Public Health contract amendments, a lease renewal for counseling services at 720 Sacramento Street, federal- and corporate-funded environmental grants, and a procurement recommendation for budget-analyst services. Actions were forwarded to the full Board, mostly without opposition.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Subcommittee on July 17 advanced a series of contract and procurement items from city departments, sending the measures to the full Board for final action.
Department of Public Health asked the committee to approve several amendments: emergency Public Utilities Commission repairs for digesters and biosolid storage at the Southeast Wastewater Pollution Control Plant (Item 1, not to exceed about $10 million) and an emergency repair for leaks on the North Shore Force Main (Item 2, not to exceed about $7.5 million). DPH also sought amendments to existing provider contracts for mental-health and reentry services in the County Jail (Item 3), scattered-site housing and rental-subsidy services with West Bay Housing Corporation (Item 4), pharmacy benefit management services with MediImpact (Item 5), an EMR and professional services amendment with Siemens (Item 6), and contract amendments for long-term mental-health providers Crestwood and Canyon Manor (Item 7). Budget analyst Mr. Rose reviewed projected expenditures and recommended specific reductions and retroactive effective dates in several files; the committee accepted analyst recommendations and moved the items forward to the full Board.
Real estate staff presented a five-year lease amendment for DPH's mental-health counseling services at 720 Sacramento Street. Director John Updike explained the negotiated monthly rate of $26,980 and acknowledged a missed renewal-notice opportunity in 2011; staff said they have implemented a two-system calendaring and tracking approach to prevent recurrence. The budget analyst recommended retroactive approval to July 1, 2013; the committee forwarded the lease amendment without objection.
The Department of the Environment presented three items: a $12,500 gift from Citibank supporting the mayor's Earth Day breakfast, gifts totaling roughly $114,600 to build out the department's EcoCenter at 1455 Market Street, and a $300,000 California Energy Commission grant to study community-scale renewable energy integration in the Central Corridor. The committee moved those items forward without opposition.
On procurement, the Clerk of the Board described a competitive RFP for budget and legislative analyst services. The selection panel recommended entering negotiations with Harvey M. Rose and Associates for an initial four-year term at $2,000,000 per year (with possible renewals and a full potential contract value of up to $16 million). The committee tabled the hearing on the RFP (Item 14), amended Item 15 to strike Management Partners from the resolution language, and forwarded the amended Item 15 with recommendation to the full Board.
The Department of Public Works presented an ordinance to allow early hiring of trade contractors during the Moscone expansion design phase to provide constructability input; DPW said the approach mirrors prior hospital work that reduced schedule and cost risk. The committee moved that ordinance forward without opposition.
Next steps: these items will appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda; several contain analyst-recommended reductions and retroactive effective dates that will be memorialized in the resolution language.
