CALL TO ORDER

2:02 p.m.

ROLL CALL  (Item No. 1)

President Douglas S. Chan

Present

Vice President Gina M. Roccanova

Present

Commissioner Kate Favetti

Present

Commissioner Scott R. Heldfond

Present

President Douglas S. Chan presided.

REQUEST TO SPEAK ON ANY MATTER WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION BUT NOT APPEARING ON TODAY’S AGENDA  (Item No. 2)

None

APPROVAL OF MINUTES  (Item No. 3)

Regular Meeting of October 19, 2015

Action:

Adopted the minutes.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

ANNOUNCEMENTS  (Item No. 4)

Executive Officer Michael Brown announced that Sin Yee Poon, SEIU, Local 1021 Chapter President submitted an appeal to challenge his decision to conduct an inspection service.  The appeal was originally scheduled for the November 2, 2015 Agenda, however do the lack of quorum the item has been rescheduled for November 16, 2015 as a Special Order of Business starting at 5 p.m.  Mr. Brown also suggested to the Commissioner’s to review Item #11 (Department of Human Resources’ Report on the Release of the H-50 Exam and Scoring Key) and #12 (Proposed Amendment to Civil Service Commission Rules Applicable to the Uniformed Ranks of the Fire Department, Volume III Rule 311 – Examinations with the possible deletion of Rule 311.10.1) together since both items are related.

HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR’S REPORT  (Item No. 5)

None.

EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S REPORT  (Item No. 6)

Executive Officer Michael Brown made two (2) announcements: 1) There was one (1) appeal that was administratively resolved for the month of October.  Second, Mr. Brown met with Local 21and engaged in meet and greet discussions.  Mr. Brown will be conducting training sessions for Local 21 in January 2016 to address specific areas of the merit system.  In addition, he agreed to be interviewed for their next newsletter.

RATIFICATION AGENDA

0336-15-8

Review of Request for Approval of Proposed Personal Services Contracts.

(Item No. 7)

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

47451-15/16

Airport Commission

$4,000,000

Corporate Trustee and Commercial Banking Services are required in connection with the SFO On-Airport Hotel Project. The work includes bond trustee services, e.g. payment of principal and interest to bondholders, maintenance of books of registration for bonds, compliance with all tax laws, provision of notices to bondholders, investment of reserve funds, reporting of investment yields, assistance on other bond matters and other financial instruments, and representing bondholders in event of default by the Airport. The service provider will also serve as a commercial bank to collect and safeguard hotel revenues from the hotel operator on a daily basis, and will ensure hotel revenues are directed into appropriate debt service and reserve accounts relating to the hotel and the bonds. Finally, the service provider will provide credit card processing, wire transfer, and check processing services as needed.

Regular

6/30/2029

4069-11/12

Airport Commission

Current Approved Amount

$150,000

Increase Amount Requested

$525,000

New Total Amount Requested

$675,000

To perform on-going inspection, maintenance and necessary repair/replacement of San Francisco International Airport's water perimeter buoy system. The maintenance includes annual above and annual below water inspections, hardware repair and replacement, installation and/or connection of new or recovered buoys.

Modi-fication

6/30/2021

PSC#

Department

Amount

Type of Service

Type of Approval

Duration

4108-10/11

Airport Commission

Current Approved Amount

$885,000

Increase Amount Requested

$650,000

New Total Amount Requested

$1,535,000

Staffing / consulting services to the airport’s noise reduction community forum, known as the Airport / Community Roundtable. The forum is a means for residents from the surrounding communities to voice their concerns about noise from the airport. San Mateo County, as the coordinating lead for the Roundtable, provides staffing and consultants to evaluate the impact of noise on affected communities created by aircraft flying into and out of the airport and the effectiveness of noise reduction programs at the airport to mitigate or abate aircraft noise.

Modi-fication

6/30/2019

41657-13/14

Airport Commission

Current Approved Amount

$150,000

Increase Amount Requested

$150,000

New Total Amount Requested

$300,000

The consultant will perform an assessment of the San Francisco International Airport’s (SFO) 9-1-1 public safety answering point (PSAP) and communications center operations including radio communications systems and how it compares to other airport PSAPs and to PSAPs in the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties; provide expert consultative services to develop a vision of what Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) is for SFO; and provide a migration plan for SFO to move from an Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) to a NG9-1-1 system. The consultant must have knowledge of PSAP and radio services operations and systems assessment; knowledge of the specialized technology involved with operating public safety radio systems and transitioning from a time division multiplexing (TDM)-based public safety/emergency services network to an internet protocol (IP)-based network environment; knowledge of current industry technologies, standards of excellence, and the regulatory/legislative environment; and experience with the development of a NG9-1-1 migration plan in a multi-jurisdictional environment.

Modi-fication

6/30/2019

46827-14/15

Airport Commission

Current Approved Amount

$50,000,000

Increase Amount Requested

$210,000,000

New Total Amount Requested

$260,000,000

The project requires Design-Build (D/B) and Project Management Support Services (PMSS) for design and construction of the new Long Term Parking Garage No. 2 facility at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The project involves one or more multi-level above-ground parking structure(s) to be constructed within the SFO's landside Lot DD. Work will include ground improvement and/or subsurface preparation within Lot DD required for the new parking facility; relocation of and/or modifications to existing utilities such as sewer, water, electrical/power, natural gas, telecommunications and data etc.; rerouting of traffic access/egress and existing traffic thoroughfares as required; and implementation of Mitigation Measures and best management practices specific to the Project.

Modi-fication

12/31/2019

45401-13/14

Public Utilities Commission

Current Approved Amount

$5,000,000

Increase Amount Requested

$100,000,000

New Total Amount Requested

$105,000,000

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) requires schedule coordination through the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), for power trading services to optimize the SFPUC’s short-term resource utilization and service to its loads, including but not limited to submittal of Day Ahead and Real Time interchange schedules, submitting bids, submitting energy trades, managing communications between CAISO and SFPUC schedulers and operators, handling settlements, and other related services. The CAISO high and low voltage wheeling charges are required to be paid through SFPUC’s contracted Scheduling Coordinator (SC) such that these charges can be paid to support our energy transmission from Hetch Hetchy system to San Francisco customers. CAISO’s tariffs define these charges as a type of “pass-through charge” that SC will pay the charge to CAISO on the behalf of the SC client (e.g. SFPUC) without any additional fee for the pass-through charge.

Modi-fication

6/16/2020

Speakers:

None.

Recommendation:

Adopted the report and approved all Personal Services Contracts.  Notified the Office of the Controller and the Office of Contract Administration.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

CONSENT AGENDA

0337-15-1

Proposed Civil Service Commission Meeting Schedule for Calendar Year 2016.

(Item No. 8)

Action:

Adopted the report.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

REGULAR AGENDA

0294-15-4

Appeal by John Gee on the Rejection of his Application for the Class 7430 Assistant Electronic Maintenance Examination.  (Item No. 9)

Speakers:

Regina Tharayil, Municipal Transportation Agency

Clare Leung, Municipal Transportation Agency

Action:

Postponed John Gee’s appeal to the next meeting of November 16, 2015 so that Municipal Transportation Agency can explain the relationship between the job analysis and education requirement and specifically address why work experience is not considered as a possible substitution for the two (2) years of education requirement.  John Gee failed to appear.  (Vote for 3 to 1; Commissioner Heldfond dissented)

0331-15-4

Appeal by William Storti of the Rejection of his Application for the H-50 Assistant Chief Examination.  (Item No. 10)

Speakers:

Dave Johnson, Department of Human Resources

John Kraus, Department of Human Resources

Ray Guzman, San Francisco Fire Department

William Storti, Appellant

Action:

Adopted the report and denied the appeal of William Storti.

(Vote of 4 to 0)

0339-15-5

Department of Human Resources’ Report on the Release of the H-50 Exam and Scoring Key.  (Item No. 11)

Speakers:

John Kraus, Department of Human Resources

Action:

Postponed this item to the next meeting of November 16, 2015.

(Vote of 4 to 0)

0340-15-5

Proposed Amendment to Civil Service Commission Rules Applicable to the Uniformed Ranks of the Fire Department, Volume III Rule 311 – Examinations with possible deletion of Rule 311.10.1.  (Item No. 12)

The proposed rule would expressly authorize the Civil Service Commission and/or the Director of Human Resources to disclose examination questions and scoring keys and related examination information.  The proposed rule may be phrased in general terms, or may contain one or more limitations, including (but not limited to) such issues as the timing of authorized disclosures, the examinations as to which the rule would apply (for example, it could be limited to a particular exam such as the upcoming H-50 Assistant Chief exam), and the duration of the rule.

Speakers:

Michael Brown, Executive Officer, Civil Service Commission

Sandra Eng, Civil Service Commission

Action:

Accepted the Executive Officer’s staff report and approved the new language to read as, “Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Rule 300 Series, the test questions, rating keys, and similar information pertaining to the H-50 Assistant Chief examination administered in 2010 may be disclosed by the Director of Human Resources subject to Civil Service Commission approval on a nondiscriminatory basis to persons scheduled to take a subsequent H-50 Assistant Chief examination to be administered following adoption of this provision.”  The Commission directed the Executive Officer to post the proposed Rule 311 for immediate adoption following the meet and discuss with the affected labor union(s) and interested stakeholders.  (Vote of 4 to 0)

COMMISSIONERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS/REQUESTS  (Item No. 13)

Executive Officer Michael Brown announced that the next Commission meeting of November 16, 2015 will begin at 3 p.m.

ADJOURNMENT  (Item No. 14)

3:03 p.m.

MINUTES

                                                                   Regular Meeting

November 2, 2015

2:00 p.m.

ROOM 400, CITY HALL

1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place