Congratulations to the 2013 MFAC Good Government Award Winners:
Ted Egan was a key player in the effort to reform the payroll tax system in San Francisco. His work culminated in Proposition E, the fall 2012 ballot measure that created a tiered gross receipts tax. Prop. E’s passage, which ended a decade of attempts to devise a tax structure that supports business growth, is the result of more than six months of outreach and negotiations with businesses of all shapes and sizes by the Controller’s Office. Egan has served as the chief economist for the Controller’s Office for five years, and is a trusted voice for good government in San Francisco.
Jaime Flores-Lovo was chosen for his overall vision and leadership in the development of enterprise-level technology projects for DPW, most significantly in the system migration for the department’s contract automation. This represented a major departure from the “legacy” contract processing systems due to integrated document management, collaboration, workflows and web functionality to enhance teamwork, transparency and accountability. Flores-Lovo’s leadership in building a team to realize the technological vision led to successful development of these software applications, with an end result of automating DPW’s contracts. This resulted in a cost savings of $17 million.
Lea Militello was selected for her critical leadership in building a security plan for San Francisco streets, especially during public events. Her accomplishments over the October 2012 “busiest weekend in San Francisco” — when more than 1 million people converged to stress the city’s street infrastructure to its maximum capacity with events including America’s Cup/Fleet Week, the Castro Street Fair, the Italian Heritage Parade, Giants and 49ers games, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and the Double Ten Parade — exemplify her ingenuity and creativity. Her skills in staff management and resource allocation help to create world-class venues that generate visibility and income for the city. Militello implemented the Incident Command System (ICS), which is now the model for SFMTA’s management of special events.
Michelle Ruggels is being honored for her leadership in overseeing $490 million in annual contracts to 200 community-based organizations that provide health services to San Franciscans. An employee of the Department of Public Health since 1997, Ruggels led the Mental Health Medi-Cal Revenue Enhancement Project in 2011, creating a certification process that allows local agencies to use federal funds instead of local general funds to support their services. The department expects this effort to save $550,000 in fiscal year 2014 alone.
Crime Data Warehouse Team is being honored for building a web-based, real-time, searchable database of criminal reports that police officers can access on the ground. Susan Giffin, with the support of visionary team members Rodrigo Castillo, Alan Honniball and Leo Solomon, put together a professional technical team to digitize police records, freeing up sworn personnel formerly assigned to deskwork to be in the field. This key transition for the Police Department resulted in a real-time search engine to help combat crime- and terrorism-related incidents.
Past Award Winners:
2012
Steven Castile
Recreation and Park Department
Harlan L. Kelly Jr.
SF Public Utilities Commission
Jocelyn Quintos
Department of Public Works
Darrell Ascano, Tajel Shah, Rebecca Villareal-Mayer
Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector
Ed Harrington
Lifetime Achievement Award
General Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
2011
Dr. Susan Fernyak
Department of Public Health
Dana Ketcham
Recreation and Park Department
Cheryl Nashir
San Francisco Airport Commission
Dave Curto, Tony Lugo, Leo Sauceda, Jim Whelly
Human Services Agency
Brian Benson, Fran Breeding, Brian Strong, Adam Van de Water
General Services Agency
2010
Toni Coe
Municipal Transportation Agency
Brent Dennis
Recreation and Park Department
Allison Magee
Juvenile Probation Department
Maria X. Martinez
Department of Public Health
Nadia Sesay
Controller’s Office
SPUR Infrastructure & Planning Award
Water System Improvement Program
SF Public Utilities Commission
2009
Tangerine Brigham
Department of Public Health
Dan Kelly
Human Services Agency
Kevin Kone
San Francisco Airport Commission
Edgar Lopez & Brook Mebrahtu
Department of Public Works
Julie Kirschbaum, Britt Tanner, Sally Allen & Liz Garcia
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Clare Murphy
Lifetime Achievement Award
San Francisco Employee’s Retirement System
2007
Peter Acton
Airport Commission
Derek Chu
Human Services Agency
Brad Benson
Port of San Francisco
Judith Klain
Project Homeless Connect
Nancy Alfaro, Kevin Dyer, Jay Nath, Diana Nguyen & Heidi Sieck
311 Customer Service Center Project
2006
Sue Currin
San Francisco General Hospital
Jeff Gary
Municipal Transportation Authority
Chris Iglesias
Mayor’s Office of Economic & Workforce Development
Todd Rydstrom
Office of the Controller
Michelle Allersma, Denise Cannonier-Craig, Jennifer Johnston, Kerry Ko, Julian Low, Karen Taylor, Bruce Topp, Ted Yamasaki
Department of Human Resources
2005
Leo O’Farrell
Human Services Agency
Diana Guevara
Department of Public Health
Kathy Bull, DeMarris Evans & Louise Winterstein
Office of the Public Defender
Kerstin Magary
Municipal Transportation Agency
Jackson Wong
San Francisco International Airport
2004
Michael Cohen
Office of Economic & Workforce Development
Dorothy Enisman & Dariush Kayhan
Department of Human Services
Gary Franzella
San Francisco International Airport
Robert Kuzma
San Francisco Fire Department
Florence Mar
Office of the Treasurer
2003
Dr. Rajiv Bhatia
Department of Public Health
Philip Ginsburg
City Attorney’s Office
Olson Lee
Redevelopment Agency
Pacifico Paculba
Municipal Transportation Agency
Bridget Smith
Municipal Transportation Agency
2002
Gigi Harrington
San Francisco Municipal Railway
Wanda Jung
Department of Human Services
Bill Lehew
San Francisco International Airport
Monique Moyer
Mayor’s Office of Public Finance
Peg Stevenson
Controller’s Office
2001
Bond Yee
Department of Parking & Traffic
Marc Trotz
Department of Public Health
George Nichols
Public Library
Jay Banfield
Treasurer & Tax Collector’s Office
Pamela David, Richard Newirth & Kary Schulman
Mayor’s Office of Community Development, Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts
2000
Jeffrey G. Adachi
Public Defenders Office
Susan Hildreth
San Francisco Public Library
Janice Anderson-Santos & Jimmie Gilyard
Department of Human Services
Sam A. Mehta
San Francisco Airport Commission
Rick Ruvolo
Department of Administrative Services
1999
Carol Bach
Port of San Francisco
Fernando Cisneros
Department of Public Works
Mary Counihan
Department of Human Services
Barbara A. Garcia
Department of Public Health
Anthony Irons
Department of Administrative Services
1998
Jonathan Chow
Public Utilities Commission
Hillary Gitelman
Planning Department
Dolores Heaven
Department of Human Services
Monique Zmuda
Department of Public Health
Marcia deVaughn & Alex Mamak
Department of Public Works
1997
Adrienne Frazier
Department of Parking & Traffic
Sandra Jo Gartzman
San Francisco Rent Board
Nelly Lee
Department of Public Health
Jill Manton
San Francisco Art Commission
Severin Rizzo
San Francisco Art Commission
1996
Sai-Ling Chan-Sew
Department of Public Health
Matthew Gass
Hetch Hetchy Water & Power
Sharon Kotabe, Pharm D.
Laguna Honda Hospital
Johnny Miller
Juvenile Probation Department
Kathy Page
San Francisco Public Library
1995
Hugo Aguilera, Cheryl Austin, Sheila Kenny, Dennis Sato, Anna Suttmann & Nancy Wong
Laguna Honda Hospital
Evangeline H. Bruce
Controller’s Office
Jim Buick
Department of Social Services
Judith Griffin
Juvenile Probation Department
Mitchell H. Katz, M.D.
Department of Public Health
1994
James Bowen
Hetch Hetchy Water & Power
Teresa Chow
Controller’s Office
Emilio Cruz
Office of the CAO
Gene O’Connell, R.N.
San Francisco General Hospital
Robert Prentice, Ph.D.
Department of Public Health
1993
Donna Burchard
Laguna Honda Hospital
Daniel Patrick Daly
Treasurer’s Office
Rebecca Kohlstrand
Planning Department
Diarmuid Philpott
Police Department
Germaine Q. Wong
Office of the CAO
1992
Phil W. Arnold, Ph.D.
Recreation & Park Department
Dorothy Chen
Department of Social Services
Ricardo Hernandez
Office of the CAO
Judy Johnston
Controller’s Office
Anthony G. Wagner
Laguna Honda Hospital
1991
Alec S. Bash
Planning Department
Patric Duterte, Anthony Nicco &
Michelle Rutherford
Department of Social Services
Robert Gamble
Redevelopment Agency
Roger L. Peters
Port of San Francisco
Charles Saunders, M.D.
San Francisco General Hospital
1990
Cheryl Austin
Laguna Honda Hospital
Rich Cunningham
Public Works Department
Joseph Johnson
Office of the CAO
Bill Lee
Department of Public Health
Mary Smith
Department of Social Services
1989
Dorothy Enisman
Department of Social Services
Steven Koneffklatt
Laguna Honda Hospital
Brenda Lauer
San Francisco General Hospital
Sara Pickus
Public Works Department
Edwina Young
District Attorney’s Office
1988
Chief Ronald Driscoll
San Francisco International Airport
Mary Anne Johnson, M.D.
Laguna Honda Hospital
Joel Robinson
Recreation & Park Department
Reiko Homma True, Ph.D.
Department of Public Health
1987
Catherine Bremmer & Vivian Sykes
San Francisco Public Library
Bernard Cummings
Public Works Department
Ron DeLeon
Recreation & Park Department
Michael Marcum
Sheriff’s Department
1986
Ann Branston
Municipal Railway
Barney Barron
Recreation & Park Department
John Roumbanis
Public Works Department
Flo Stroud
Department of Public Health
1985
Ed Gazzano
Public Health Department
Sal Kitchener
San Francisco Zoo
Virginia Leishman, RN
Laguna Honda Hospital
Geoff Rothman
Civic Service Commission
1984
Richard Sullivan
Tax Collector’s Office
Leslie Miko
Commission on the Aging
Richard Rogers
Municipal Railway
1983
Stanley Stephens
Controller’s Office
Joe Dominguez
Municipal Railway
Angela Gittens
San Francisco General
Jason Yuen
Airports Commission
1982
Don Birrer
Public Works Department
Mark Finucane
Public Health Department
Richard Koeritz
Housing Authority
Roberta McDonough
Civil Service Commission
1981
Tom Malloy
Recreation & Parks Department
David Fong
Controller’s Office
John P. Mullane, Jr.
Public Works Department
Carl Williams
Housing Authority
