[gavel] >> good amonger, the meeting will come to order. this is the january 29, 2024, rules of committee mooting. i'm supervisor ronen chair of the committee. our clerk is victor and. and i would like to thank sf gov. tv for your. mr. clerk do you have any announcements? >> clerk: when public comment is called, please line up to the right. you may submit comment in

writing, email them to myself at bitc. if submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisor and included as part of the file. you may also send written comment to city hall. please make sure to silence all cell phones and other electronic devices. items acted upon today are expected to appear on board of supervisors agenda on february 26, 2024, unless otherwise stated. that completes mia nouns 789s. >> thank you, can you please read item number 1. >> clerk: yes, item number 1 is the site of new library branch

of ocean view merced heights ingle had noted side and plan instruction of a new library branch serving the neighborhoods at any alternate location except as required bit review process, or other applicable laws. just to note that there is a request that this matter be sent out to the bos meeting of january 30, 2024. >> and i'm going to turn this over to supervisor safai. >> thank you, chair. thank you for getting this on the agenda so quickly because, a lot of time has been wasted on this particular issue, i'm sorry. about my voice, but lost my voice yesterday at the game, watching the niners. so let's just say, go niners to

begin the game, that's what i'm calling this the game. okay, so as you may recall, i asked mayor breed in question time on december the 129ing, if she would support the library in 100 yasaba in district 11 which the administration had identified five years as the best option in the neighborhood and to be honest i was not sure how she would respond and i was taken a back when i heard her response, the mayor said, she wouldn't commit to any new site and made reference to funds available to renovate the existing library. she claimed we don't have the budget for a new library and that the site had traffic and pedestrian safety issues and there was no consensus in district 11, community. all of which is not true. so colleagues if you will indulge me for a moment since

we don't have a long presentation and commentators, i want to set something straight. the current library at 343 was spear headed by mayor willie brown. they came together with mayor brown and his administration ask for help to add positive investment to the corridor and lakeview. the community was dealing with a rash of shootings and young people were dying in the streets in the ocean view neighborhood and i see people in the audience nodding their head and they identified this site as one that was particular concern, where the library actually stands today, the current library. the community wanted replace something negative with something positive and what is more positive than a library in a neighborhood that is under served. mayor brown listened and help

sphere head the instruction of the library. that's what mayors do, they find a way to get things done for them. the ocean view library branch did its branch and help bring traffic to the area and helped serve as a catalyst for a safer community. but the library is the smallest neighborhood library in the entire city and county in san francisco and it's past time that we get a new one for the community. fast forward to 2018, the library had set aside money. but the community made it clear, they wanted a real fully functioning larger library branch. so the renovation money that the mayor mentioned was for that particular effort. but that six years past time

and we've moved on and we've had extensive community input and community meeting along with multiple departments put ining dig effort to come up with selection of the site that the community stands behind. so they did an analysis of multiple location that's could be the future home of the future library. parcel d, or 100 arasaba was the best that met the criteria for the site. we will hear from public works today. at the time, there were concerns raised by some community members about traffic and pedestrian safety, we worked to conduct traffic studies at the location in order to identify way to see make the site more pedestrian

friendly and to install traffic common changes to alter traffic behavior along brotherhood way. i have a letter from director tumlin, that states funding planning and implementation can be fully independent of any adjacent land use changes including sighting of the san francisco branch at this location. those studies are still under way and i have spoken with director of the who said she is ready to fund short-term improvement for pedestrian safety. we're waiting for the mta to submit their application for funding and i'm in conversation with director tumlin for that. the cost of library was 47 million dollars. according to then library cfo heather greene.

identified at 25.5 million dollars gap for the ocean view library. there was and 35 million dollars there in the library fund and we went to work. colleagues as you may recall, we all worked tirelessly past review of the renovation, in april 18, 2022 a letter to the library commission he identified that the budgeeter for the new library branch would be funded by the renewal of the library preservation fund. that's why i was the lead sponsor at the renew of the supervisors. so the 47 million dollars price tag in 2020, has undoubtedly gone up a bit. but we have the money a year ago to start the library, it was fully funlded according to estimate that's were provided and as every one knows including

colleagues here and others, we never start projects in the city. and and we never wait to start projects in the city until we have full funding. if we have 75 more funding we begin the work, the soft cost, the architecture and all the other work putting a bid package together for constructions. and so i have a correspondence from director, and of course, prior to this budget cycle we were working with city liberian and public works director as well as the city attorney's office to discover the transfer of land as of september 2022, and i ofk responded for michael lambert that states he recently met with director short to discuss the property transfer, public works is researching what they've done in the past for effectuating transfers and

city owned property. however, by june of 23, all the conversation of transfer halted and public hearings in june, 16, 2023, and june 22, 2023, the library refused to commit to the brother waste site as they had put money funding for. and then, with regard to putting money in reserve, we did not want allow waste of resources and put the balance of funding on reserve until there was more clarity. so i'm just going to end folks with saying, that what changed between september 22, and 2023 was that the mayor, unfortunately stepped in and pushed the liberian to look for alternative sites. going against the will of the community and the work that we

had done to lay the groundwork for an extensive and neighborhood reasonable serving library. that would go from the smallest to the largest library. so rather than wasting anymore time, city resources and confusing the community, that's why i introduced this piece of legislation today. we wasted enough time, i know that there is members of the community that have said that this is one of the things that they want to see get done as, as a centerpiece of the work that they've done and dedicate today san francisco before, before they move on to the next world and i don't want to die, i think that's a negative way to look at it. but i know people have said in meetings, i know i want to see this get done before i die. so the vision for a larger replacement branch aligns well with san francisco's declared emphasis on racial equity that

this brand would serve a historic under served community, under resources community and it has strong political senses, fund sufficient and enough to advance the construction of this library. and that was a quote from the cfo of the library at the time, so i could not have said it better myself. thank you for sponsoring this and thank you super ronen for sponsoring this and set the record straight. and as this legislation moves forward, i know that we have strong consensus in the community for this library. and when i say community, i say those that have been working and fighting in district 11. i know that there may be some concern from neighbors that are not part of the district 11 community and i respect that. but at the same time, this has to be a conversation driven by those fighting in the community for years.

so, that's about it. i don't want to waste anymore taxpayer money on looking for alternative locations. and i think this is the time that we pass this legislation and move forward. and we continue and i look forward to working with the mayor and the community on this and seeing this project move forward. i think we're going to go now real quickly to dbw, so that they can just give us a short presentation on how the site selection was done. do you guys have a presentation? or here just to answer questions. maybe i'll just ask you a couple of questions before we go to public comment. can you talk us through about a little bit about the concept design and how the site was actually chosen and what process you went through? i know you looked at 5 locations along brotherhood way.

>> good morning, supervisors, i'm andy i'm from san francisco public works, i'm an architect, this is julia she is our bureau manager. we've been working with the community and with the library since 2018 on looking at a new branch for ocean view. it started out with the feasibility study of the three branch libraries that were not part of the improvement bond and that was oceanview, china town and mission libraries. they originally budgeted 8 million dollars to renovate the oceanview library which was built in the--the bond program was around 2000 and that library was a new brlg. building, once we got into the process, we heard from the community many of which are here that were at this meeting

that they wanted a larger branch that renovating the larger branch would not be sufficient. the library took that heart and ramped up their fund anding committed to a new library. at the time, we we wanted to do the project on city owned land. and public open space is city owned land that through a permit would work for a library. supervisor safai you were part of that, as well as our director of public works at the time in looking at the sites. and then we did a feasibility study in 2019 that evaluated the sites on way that would

have--and we established criteria, this is that report. we established the cry tier for option 2, and that is the history of the proter hood waste site. one of the drivers was that it was city owned land. >> i'm going to have the clerk put that on the screen. you can look, the two out of the five options but maybe you can talk about the decision making. it was closer to randall street than other sites that we looked at. it was a less sleep sites,

there were numerous sites back on that open space that would require walking up steeper hill, so this was seen as closer, the m train makes a turn down near by. >> yes, it's a block and a half from the train. and >> and there is a bus right there and it's a gateway to the location of the neighborhood. >> i just want to add, out of all the other green space, cross the street, you have dog park, you have an area where a lot of seniors use the flat area, south of wherewith it says brotherhood and north where it says alameda, they use that for ti chi and you say synergy.

>> there is a sisterhood garden, a dog park, there is a potential for synergy with other future partnerships that may happen in the same location. but during that, that study, concerns were raised. and the library reached out to mt a to address the concerns to look at one of the initiaters for that. >> great, i think you've covered everything. if there is any questions, i'll call you back up. chair, i'll just end with saying, i think we public works put significant time and effort ta and mta put in effort and we do have the ability to make

some short-term and long term improvement and i do think that is important. but it is also important to note that it's a block from the m-line, it's a block from the bus line and we do have the ability to engage and inter account and have some cok tiffity with some of the uses. so if it's okay with you, can we go to public comment? unless you have anything to say. >> mr. clerk, can we open this up to public comment? >> clerk: yes, anybody wishing to speak, line up at this time and approach the podium.

>> good morning, do you want me to start? >> i'm liz, and we are part of the omi collaborative. we have 6 aging, i work for the aging division, we have four programs within that neighborhood. we would love to see a larger library to be able to host events, presentations and activities for inter generational activities, part of our, our client, the goal for our clients is to prevent isolation. so it's getting them out to our programs, we have a senior center and i think that would be, it's always wonderful fit when you plan and zoo how beneficial inter generational activities can be. and we're part of the, like i said, we're part of the i'm here representing part of the

omi community collaborative. we all work together, we all do different services and we're happy to be part of it. >> speaker: hello there, two months ago, i was fired up because i went to a meeting about increased funding and services. and now two months later, we were told that there is no money for both but yet, we have money for projects and being locked into a certain plan. putting a library in a green belt by people who game they're an environmentalist. so i think, we should reconsider the whole idea. but you're going to put a new library, you build on a community that is already there. there is no reason for this

library possible built in a new area, chopping down trees and creating a traffic more of a nightmare, spending two million dollars on altering traffic restructure. while we have people scrounging for food in the city and fentanyl crisis, this is what we're spending millions on. thanks. >> speaker: my name is anne marie noic, i'm not important except that i vote and i pay taxed and born avenue avenuians. soif a lot of personal investment in making you're communities drive. i'm part of a community center

that has book club. during covid the community center got flooded the and oceanview library said, come and meet here. and we were able to continue that book club for senior citizens, a mixed group that was able to have conversations, it's become from 3 people who hesitated with showing up with covid to 12 people. but the room was full. there was a person that came for another event and came to our room because she thought it must be up here because that's where everybody here. the library branch was already crowded. we need a new place, we have the property, we have the site identified, we have the plans in place, we have the funding, we need to make sure to provide

impotus to build this library now, because the community is growing, there are more families in it and there is diverse community that can be served and as a result we can make san francisco a better place, starting with a forgotten neighborhood like ours. thank you. >> speaker: hello, thank you foreseeing us today. my name is renard, i'm the founder of youth first and the president of invest blafjt i'm also a community resident in district 11. so i was a part of along with somebody else said it in the gallery, a part of the first library that was built, by willy brown who supported us. and everything that was said was true, we built that library because we needed something to bring positivity to our neighborhood.

so we've out grown that library. i run youth programs, we use the library every wednesday, we have to go in shifts with our children, because the library is not big enough. so we go in wednesday because one day the daycare that is across the street, went on a tuesday, we go on a tuesday. the field trip was canceled because it could not hold us all. we should not have to take shifts for our children to learn and grow. our neighborhood is under served, everywhere you look. we don't have a lot of place to see put a library but people were talking about this and that and we get all that as community members. we built a whole new neighborhood, homes that are not affordable hoer san franciscans, but we build a whole neighborhood. but we cannot build a labor

refor our kids to learn where one day they can sit in the seats that you're sitting in. we have to find finances to keep our society going and we learn at libraries, we have to have access and opportunity for all. we need equity in our district, we need a library. thank you. >> speaker: supervisor, david oskin from the east side. people realize what a ridiculous site this is for a library, most what i heard is we need a library, right. but i have not heard about this terrible location. it's not central located, it's on an expressway, for god's sakes, what are you thinking? and you want to cut trees, are we still in the 1950s here.

and you look at 5 sites. and it sounds like you've already decided, right, all three of you have decided, so so much for public input. is that what you're really about? one message for all supervisors looking at the bigger picture, quit paving over open space. quit cutting trees in parks, quit building buildings in green belts. this, this is so 1950s. and as has been pointed out, to

get the library. by the way, are you listening or looking on your ipad? to cross, it uses five different cross walks. this library would be an attractive nuisance, people coming from the crossroads living center, would be in danger. >> clerk: thank you. are there any additional speakers on this matter? if there are any additional speakers, if you can line up at this time, it would be appreciated. >> speaker: good morning, supervisors i'm president of

all my neighborhoods in action, native san franciscan and 50 years homeowner in lakeview omi. i am here to ask for your support for supervisor's ordinance to support the library at the brotherhood site, it would help keep costs down and allow for community events and outdoor space for classroom and family activities. as you know, we have this small library and smallest school age children with two elementary schools at that site. the library is a valuable resource and hopefully also, will be a cooling center during a heat wave. the longer we wait, the more this library is going to cost. we have looked at multiple locations, but this is the best site for children's terrance,

outdoor children's activity, a modern library connected to outdoor space and community does not want a church nonprofit library combination that does not work for us. please vote for the brotherhood with traffic and safety improvements. we tried to do our part by voting for prop f for libraries. this saturday, my husband and i had a chance to go to the open spouse at the oceanview library, there is a couple of dozen people and it was packed, it was, this was no room. there is no room for a whole classrooms to come, you have to come, it has to come in stages. and i hope you support this ordinance for our community and our children. we don't even have a bookstore.

>> next speaker. >> my name is eric, i live near by the library frequently. i'm with merced triangle neighborhood association, i'm on the executive board. and i think my main concern is traffic. i have many concerns, and i agree with the need for the new library, it's very restricted right now. this is one of the toughest intersection sxz one of the most highly trafficked. it seems like we're putting the library right in a hotspot and it does not make sense to me. especially when we have

possibilities that would be right there at the m-line. there is a street, that has a long history that is zoned commercial and has easy access for the m-line. so, that seems like a pedestrian friendly site where as putting it on this major expressway, to me is at least very concerning. >> hello i'm len rogers and of course you've already made up your mind regarding this project, could you keep quiet. anyway, what i would like to say regarding this project is that, the church, pilgrim

community search and their leity support the search site. the idea of have thing earthquake fall organic soils and on a green belt, you know, is, to say easily a bad idea. sagmore street, 45 miles the traffic comes down that particular street, different times of the year. the sun blinds the drivers and they cannot see. and this is where the children are going to be crossing the street. however the site has two wonderful handicap ramps 20

feet away from where the library and the it book and the church would be located. transportation food. and music for their residents. and they need to, a shot in the arm in order to have that become a better place for the community. and, that, you know, a dog park is not synergy okay. we have to have other numerous places that do have coffee shops. >> clerk: speaker time has elapsed. >> speaker: hi, my name is andy rice i'm a resident of oceanview. i agree with the last couple of

speakers what they said, but i would like to add that, the site at the on the green belt, there is two reasons that i'm against this site. one is i really don't want to see the green belt disappear. and the other is that, the it's not accessible to a lot of us who live in the neighborhood. it's, it's not a steep hill but it's a hill down to the area, it's a hill back to the area to where we all live. i would like to see it where people can have it for sk sesable. --accessible. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, are there any other speakers? i believe there are no additional speakers on this matter. >> seeing none, public comment is now closed.

supervisor walton. >> thank you so much chair ronen. i just have a few comments, the first thing i want to say s libraries are extremely important to communities and particularly to families and communities without means. this is how a lot of people receive access to knowledge, a lot of people receive access to technology. this is a space where people get to meet, and community building, education for young people, spaces for seniors to meet. and the good thing about public libraries is they belong to every one. and the resource that's they provide and opportunities that they provide, if there is ever a cost, most certainly is fordable. --affordable. and to have a site identified in this city where land is

scarce for opportunities like this. this is something that important and something that i cannot ignore because there has been resourced already committed. and for my stand point, i would never tell a community that their opinion is not important. that their opinion about where something should go particularly isolated communities, communities that have not received certain level of equity over the years, and that's part of the problem when people don't listen to our communities of color, isolated communities that speak up for themselves, there is always somebody telling them what it is. and there is a first time for everything.

so many people suffer from digital divide, and in some cases, the only place where people can receive the technological opportunities that some people have and the privilege of their own home, a lot of communities don't have that. and again, hearing from dpw, knowing that there was a process of input, of having conversation wz members of the community, we can't say that they don't deserve that they want something that is so precious to the community. i didn't plan on anything saying to thed, because i thought this hearing from the communities, listening to the input from the department, having conversations i thought this was something that, really made sense to push forward on. but i did want to let everybody know where i stand and why i stand in this space.

so thank you chair ronen and thank you supervisor safai for bringing this to rules today. >> thank you, supervisor walton, i'm going to end with a few words, is that okay? >> absolutely, go ahead. >> so i want to say for the record, for this particular phase of the library, there is been five years of community process, okay. multiple community input, by some of the architects have been deeply involved in the process. i think that's a important concern. i literally i was just texting with the head of the director of mta and head of transportation authority, they literally have money right now,

they're waiting for the application to put to do some immediate pedestrian safety issues, some of the longer term ideas would be configuration of ways there that would slow the traffic down further. that would be more input. but i cannot emphasize enough and you heard from a youth servicing program, and seniors that are book club, people have to wait outside to get into the library right now. we can't serve our community with this library. if we could, we would have gone for the renovation, but we're talking about 9,000 square feet.

it's going to be over 20,000 square feet, 25,000, it will literally serve an area. but some of the southeast part of san francisco. and, by the way, for those of you afraid of having people come into the neighborhood, that's okay, we will accommodate. we will use the trains, we will use pedestrians, we will use alternative forms of transportation, there will be a little bit of parking onsite, there will be a drop off area. and supervisor walton and i joke about this a lot, we have planted about 3000 trees since 2011, i'm okay with giving up a couple of trees for a neighborhood library, in this instance.

and i think green space should be shaken, i'm one of those people. that's what i think is important to note. and the last thing saying, the idea of colocating, that sounds like years and years down the road. that's more waiting for more funding. the library preservation fund can only be used for libraries. that money can't be taken and used for any of the other ills that we have in san francisco that were identified. this money by voter mandate and renewed by voter mandate with only be used to build and serve libraries. so we have 35 million dollars there that we will identify new and if they sell the location of the current library that

will go towards this library so. we have a lot of things in motion to build this neighborhood library, so colleagues i ask for your support today. thank you chair ronen on this agenda and i think it's a committee report. >> i would like to make a motion to forward this to the full body as a recommendation. >> thank you and before i ask for a vote, i just wanted to add my two cents which is, when there is a five-year long community process, to move the ball after that process has gone through, just does not make sense to me. and as it is, it takes so long to accomplish these major neighborhood infrastructure needs and i see libraries as infrastructure to start all over again, would just be so

disappointing in every way shape or form. with that, can we have a roll call vote on the item. >> clerk: yes on the motion to recommend the matter to the board as committee report, vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> clerk: chair ronen. >> aye. >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> that passes unanimously. mr. clerk, do you have any additional items on the agenda? >> clerk: there are no additional items on the agenda. >> the meeting is adjourned.

>> >> >> >> >> my name is bal. born and raised in san francisco. cable car equipment, technically i'm a transit operator of 135 and work at the cable car (indiscernible) and been here for 22 years now. i grew up around here when i was a little can i. my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of

the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were

20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at night. joking. this is called a barn because everything takes place here and the powerhouse is -- that's downstairs so that's the heart and soul of the system and this is where the cable cars sleep or sleep at night so you can put a title there saying the barn. since 1873 and back in the day it was driven by a team and now it's electric but it has a good function as being called the barn. yeah.

>> i am the superintendent of cable car vehicle maintenance. and we are on the first and a half floor of the cable car barn where you can see the cables are moving at nine and a half miles an hour and that's causing the little extra noise we're hearing now. we have 28 power cars and 12 california cars for a total of 40 revenue cars. then with have two in storage. there's four gear boxes. it's gears of the motor. they weigh close to 20 tons and they had to do a special system to get them out of here because when they put them in here, the barn was opened up. we did the whole barn that year so it's difficult for a first of time project, we changed it one at a time and now they are all brand-new. engineer's room have the four monitors that play the speed and she monitors them and in case of an emergency, she can shutdown all four cars if she needs to.

that sound you heard there, that's a gentleman building, rebuilding a cable. the cable weighs four hundred pounds each and they lost three days before we have to rebuild them. the cable car grips, the bottom point is underground with the cable. it's a giant buy strip and closes around the kab and they pull it back. the cable car weighs 2,500 people without people so it's heavy, emergency pulling it offer the hill. if it comes offer the hill, it could be one wire but if it unravels, it turns into a ball and they cannot let go of it because it opens that wide and it's a billion pushing the grip which is pushing the whole cable car and there's no way to let go so they have to have the code 900 to shutdown in emergencies and the wood brakes last two days and wear out. a lot of

maintenance. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> rail was considered to be the old thing. rubber tires, cars, buses, that's new. there were definitely faster and cheaper, there's no question about that. here at san francisco, we went through the same thing. the mayor decided we don't need cable cars (indiscernible), blah, blah. we can replace them with buses. they are faster and

cheaper and more economical and he was right if you look at the dollars and cents part. he was right. >> back in 1947 when they voted that, i'm surprised base of the technology and the chronicle paper says cable cars out. that was the headline. that was the demise of the cable cars. >> (indiscernible) came along and said, stop. no. no, no, no. she was the first one to say we're going to fight city hall. she got her friends together and they started from a group called the save the cable car community, 1947 and managed to get it on the ballot. are we going to keep the cable cars or not? head turned nationwide and worldwide and city hall was completely unprepared for the amount of backlash they got. this is just a bunch -- the city came out and said basically, 3-1, if i'm not mistaken, we want our cars and phil and her group managed to save what we

have. and literately if it wasn't for them, there would be no cable cars. people saw something back then that we see today that you can't get rid of a beautiful and it wasn't a historical monument at the time and now it is, and it was part of san francisco. yeah, we had freight back then. we don't have that anymore. this is the number one tourist attraction in san francisco. it's historic and the only national moving monument in the world. >> the city of san francisco did keep the cable car so it's a fascinating feel of having something that is so historic going up and down these hills of san francisco. and obviously, everyone knows san francisco is famous for their hills. [laughter] and who would know and who would guess that they were trying to get rid of it, which i guess was a crazy idea at the time because they felt automobiles were taking the place of the cable cars and getting rid of the cable car was the best thing for the city and county of san

francisco, but thank god it didn't. >> how soon has the city changed? the diverse of cable cars -- when i first came to cable car, sandy barn was the first cable car. we have three or four being a grip person. fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire city. >> i want to thank our women who operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. we have wonderful women -- come on forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies, these ladies, this is what it's about. continuing to empower women. >> my name is willa johnson is and i've been at cable car for 13 years. i came to san

francisco when i was five years old. and that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a christmas tree and we rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first time i rode the cable car and didn't ride again until i worked here. i was in the medical field for a while and i wanted a change. some people don't do that but i started with the mta of september of 1999 and came over to cable car in 2008. it was a general sign up and that's when you can go to different divisions and i signed up as a conductor and came over here and been here since. there were a few ladies that were over at woods that wanted to come over here and we had decided we wanted to leave woods and come to a different division and

cable car was it. i do know there has been only four women that work the cable car in the 150 years and i am the second person to represent the cable car and i also know that during the 19, i think 60s and women were not even allowed to ride on the side of a cable car so it's exciting to know you can go from not riding on the side board of a cable car to actually grip and driving the cable car and it opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity to do what they inspire to do. >> i have some people say i wouldn't make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor and the best thing i did was to come to this division. it's a good division. and i like ripping cable cars. i

do. >> i think she just tapped into the general feeling that san francisco tend to have of, this is ours, it's special, it's unique. economically and you know, a rationale sense, does it make sense? not really. but from here, if you think from here, no, we don't need this but if you think from here, yeah. and it turns out she was right. so.... and i'm grateful to her. very grateful. [laughter] >> three, two, one. [multiple voices] [cheers and applause] >> did i -- i did that on purpose so i wouldn't.

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>> good morning the meeting will come to order. welcome to the january 31, 2024 meeting of the budget and finance committedee i'm connie chan, chair. and joined by mandelman and supervisor melgar. our clerk is brent jalipa and like to thank sfgov.org james. do you have announcements.

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time you misend them by postal service to city hall. 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place, room 244, san francisco, california 94102. items acted upon today are expected to appear on february 6. unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. mr. clerk. and before i call item one would like to inform the public this we typically for items with budget analyst report we'll go to department presentation, and followed by the report and then go to questions then we go to public comment. today items 2-6 have budget and legislative analyst r. mr. clerk. call item one >> item 1, a hearing regarding the time line for lead and asbestos remediation completion and the consequence of closure of parts of richmond senior center on operations and service

deliver. and requesting the dbi, disability and aging services to report. we received a request for interruptive service in cantonese with our offices civic engagement and immigrant affairs. when we open public comment. i ask you to approach and provide instructions in public comment. >> thank you. there clerk. [speaking cantonese, instructions for public comment. ] >> thank you.

and madam chair. >> thank you. mr. clerk. i just wanted to comment that you know, today we are calling this today, we are calling hearing for an update on the scientists richmond senior center that i just want to say how much i love the senior center it has been a long standing institution in the richmond providing critical service for seniors and welcome all the seniors on the west side. including those with 29 sunset come to the richmond.

i have been a great primary to the richmond community and seniors and people with disabilities in winlt of 22, they alert me that their landlord, had to close the facility for what was supposed to be a 6-8 week period of improvements. which makes sense. it is a space this need that love and care and so that we can serve our seniors. then more than a year later the work is still imcomplete. there were a lot of back and

forth with our office and richmond senior center. and really city agencies that came together, dbi stepping up to the play to help us problem solve. of course boz and our human service agency. all really came to try to figure this out. for richmond senior center. all with the goal is we recognize how criticality center the the services it provides. and really -- the institute has been a partner to the city as well providing services not just to our seniors but the most vulnerable communities.

what can the city dpo in way this we do better to support our nonprofit part fwhers they deal with the landlord and facility issues? i think that this dynamic has been -- long understanding is a challenge our nonprofits face. the reason why we have heard about eviction notice. the displacements of upon nonprofits. the fear busy have to close down during the pandemic about rent and all that.

challenges that any tenants would face. it is the same thing that our nonprofits have been facing. the reason why we have the ap i equity funds to support our organization, serving the ap i community. so they can acquire the space. will for long-term and sustainable operation. >> so with this, i'm going to turn it over to, i believe we have the program director office of community partners here. introduce yourself and that -- go ahead with your presentation. >> good morning, supervisors. community staff i'm mike with the department of disability and aging the program director of the office of community partnerships. we dot bulk of the work in funding of community part norse

provide service out in the community. a wide variety all within the mission of the department, which is to improve the safety, well being and independence of older adults and veterans. i'm joyed by kelly deerman here in the audience and ocd staff who are providing the leg work when situations like it come up. >> i mentioned, my unit does work with providers. we work with both richmond senior center and the institute. some of the things are a bit were covered in supervisor chan's comments i will dig special high light the importance of services being provide at rich monseigneur center. here are the grants the majority are based at the 6221 geary

site. today's focus i want to acknowledge the work that the institute does for us. they issue important promise they are providing. our aging resource center. one in each district this . is the site for d1. this is where people go if they need information. referral to resource or assist analysis. this is hey. can you tell me more about care giving service. i got this letter in the mail and i can't understand it or need happen filling things out. we have a meal service happening there with project open hand. we have a das owned computer labs. there is train thering to help people learn to use

technologies. home delivered groceries. we are sppth you in tigzal needs of the community asked well as the programs create opportunity to social interaction and reduce social isolation. . we have community service programs offering a lot of hours. educational opportunitiesful activities and socialization. and opportunity to engage in their community. >> just kind of stats and data on what this means. we know since july first of 23 over 15,000 meals served at search. over 1200 assists at the ad rc and it is one individual transaction helping someone with an issue they are having. we had 1, 200 transactions overwhelm 500 people of 1500 hours of socialization

opportunity. every year we ask the senior center deliver over 10,000 grocery bags. over 480 hours of structured computer training at their site and a thousand service hours. on the community. things like the one heart thing the supervisor mentioned. all of this is to say it is important this the richmond senior center in tact, safe, up and functioning. it is one. our remember focus on d1. a focus on the north western side of the city and important resource for people in that area of the city. when we look at the impact of the construction that happened the last year, there are measurable impacts we see this in data in the period of november upon 2022 to 23, there are marked reductions had the site was closed and really nothing could be helping. a reduction in our ad rc ageing

and disability resource center. computer training did not happen and a lot of the socialization activities were reduced. if anything the fact that service did continue during this period speak to the resillance and commitment of staff who looks for ways to do things. scheduling things in the community of the virtual or phone to deliver service. also to go and delivery of meals and groceries. we think about the time line. again we were notified in fall of 2022 that the service would help. it made sense. start time in november with 6-8 week completion time. we have gone past that we saw major service impacts that lefted through spring of 23. not until that time that staff or able to reaccess the build

and start using space in a meaningful way. there are areas that remain unfinished today. as best we can tell they are in delays related to construction delays. and -- the building inspection and approval process. which -- is a bit outside of our expertise and hard to deserve where the efficiency are and where we can push on those things. how is das involved. they became more involved in september of left year. in talk with richmond senior center they are frustrated about the situation. justifiablely so it is impacting ability to provide service. we are tasking them with providing a welcome, warm environment that brings the community in and engage. site under construction in the

consistent with that mission. we have staff working with, folks we talked about, to understand frustrations. hear their. we talked with feldman institute. we heard from them they do have understand the situation. they have an expressed a commitment to completing this work. we have have been in touch with property management to get updates on construction and hear how things are going. >> next steps from here we seen inactivity for much of 2023.

the status of the construction and what we can do the next steps. than i are giving a verbal presentation well is in the a formal presentation. if the department of building inspection can step forward to help us understand -- what steps has the city been taking and from your perspective of dbi what is the holdup and complete or support the institute and richmond senior center to have a resolution with construction and to completion.

if matthew green from dbi. received a complaint work withouted building permit and responded to this and there were not any valid building permits and notice of violation. the notice was removed and replaced sheet wall on the third floor. no valid permits and asked them to obtain a proper building permit to do this work. normal processes you pull the permit prior to work.

the permit approve in the july of 23. they schedule one in july of 23. they were not ready our inspectors said they were not ready for inspection. fire and rough inspections before inspections can be performed theres electric and plumbing w this needed to be inspected prior to the inspector gives the okay. there was a delay. the approval was receive in the november of this year and well is outstanding corrections that needed to be not plumbing we whered a correction notice in

november 15th and the last another on november 29th. the corrections had not been made at that time. the issue from our part is they should have got a permit with the purpose plans. prior to work and a normal process for inspections we want everything inspektd prior to cover up. new wiring an electric inspection. new plumbing a plumbing inspection and rough building inspections with sheet rock and we come back again at the final. then complete perimism i say at this stage we get complaints now when we go out there they have -- proceed being like the electrical workup to code. still in corrections that need to be made for plumbing. there is other complaints about

roofing without permit they got the permit for that a complaint the they did in the have the permit to operate the boiler and they are up to that at the moment. from dbi's view we are waiting for the condition transactor to have a final inspection so we can move forward. i'm happy to answer questions >> one question. clear from your presentation that the notice of violation of file in the april of 23 but we know as you know talked about it earlier richmond senior center made a presentation this work was started in winter of 22. and was long before you and dbi came to issue the notice of violation along the way throughout the year of 23. i when what you said a conclusion is is that throughout this time again waiting for them to complete the work, so the

inspector can sign off for the work completed but seems like it has not been happening. >> correct. i would add this is fairly minor work. i don't know why it is taking so long. could be done i thought it would have been done senior. i don't know the construction company that is performing this. >> but from your perspect you have understanding the work that needs to be done, and in order for the inspector to sign off you know the work that needs to done, how long usually would it take? you mention today is seemingly straightforward and simple work, but? >> i say reasonable from start to finish 3 months. to dot work. which is similar to what estimated the beginning which is 6-8 weeks. and you add an among or 2 in

case we always discover stuff when we open up walls >> thank you very much i appreciate your presentation. i don't have measure questions. and then we will go to rich monday senior center. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm with the rich monday senior center. and i will use 2 laptops because i can read my notes on one. i'd like to thank supervisors for having this has been a difficult 14 months for us and what i heard more than i heard

in the 14 months. i feel more informed and wish i could have had those conversations back in march when we first starting to be frustrated with the process. i want to quickly go through a bit about when we have been going through. and why we are here. so that it does in the have to happen like this again. i deally we should be able to have conversations throughout. understand there will be time when is we have delays and have that communication going back and forth. i don't think it should have to a situation where we have to have a hearing. i will share the richmond senior center. we did learn about the lead and asbestos needing to be addressed. and we knew it was going to take 5 to 7 weeks. we would start in november of

2022. and we were okay with this. we were not thrilled but we were happy that it was going to making our space safe. that's important you to. we were eager to reopen. we had been closed for awhile because of covid and in september we hoped the reopening for our grand reopening weeds have to move everything out of the center and be off site for months, which we did. we were packing up to get everything out of the building and down in the garage. so we are surviving out of the garage that's where our spries are. we are doing limited programming and we have to check in the garage to get thing when is we are hosting events or doing arts and crafts and we have to it strife to another location to

host. early january we hoped we would reopenful it was 3 weeks into the work we were informed it was looking like it would be 6 weeks. we were not told why but told the news when we got it back in january it would be all our space we can reopen. we thought that was the intent. had we final low got to have a meeting in december of 2022, with acme and the project manager. they informed us that we would be getting most of our space back. on january 16th. that there was going to be a

second phase. we were told we could reopen and resume work what wield not have available is in red. and in red, is our bathrooms and kitchen will the hallway to the emergency exit this we need in order to have more than 40 people in our blgsd. we could not resume when they expressed this. acme was frustrated we had not let them when we need to reopen. which was shock to us. but agreed reluctant low to speedup work and get one offer bathrooms and kitchen ready in time so that we could actually function and have our staff on

site and seniors. but that was going to push time back and that meant february was when we would be able to resume that is another change for us. in february, when we got become to the center. we were looking and finding things wrong. the hand's we faucets we purchased and install in the prep for post covid reopening, was gone. and we were told that it was missing or broken and that had reorder today not to worry they would get it done. by march 10th. now we are look at march 10th as the new date. these changes go on and on and on! we are not getting any feedback. not until in early january when they started removing debris

from our bathroom and kitchen. where my staff noticed there were not using ppe. this debris you see in the photo was taken dpoun our elevator to our lob and he plop in the our driveway. you see behind there is where our items we were accessing for senior activities. we were concerned had contaminated debris was exposed. that had us correspond. there were other occurrence items scombroen not replaced. a big one for us was the liking windows. we complained for year busy those. and we complained prior to the remediation starting and were assured it would be taken care of. in this photo you see that the windows leaked this is the new painted remediated window that

is bubbling. now i understands what is happening with the notice of violations. we saw it go up part of reason why things were delayed we were told they were waiting for permit this is was back before the notice of violations which is turns out were there they did not have permits. we are now realizing we are not getting an honest communication from acme. or from the person this charge with manage the project. they are telling us they can't resume until june 20 now the notice of violation they have to have certain inspections and now i learned they need permits that they did not have. so, that's a hard one it swallow. we have started programming at the center without a second bathroom this is ad a compliant. we had limited people on site for awhile.

we did not have more than 40 because the back emergency exit was block and theed fire department told thus we could not have more than 40 people on. until that was removed. i believe a notice of violation was posted for this as well. we heard from marvin davis in mid june, we have been reaching out since december of 2022. so it is now june of 23. and we hear from more vin davis saying he is sorry that he has not been in touch and takes ownership for the lack of communication heel let us know the end date. and he asures tupps is september 4. we are delighted. we had a dealt that says we can reopen and tell our seniors for real we'll reopen on september fourth. so september fourth come and guess we don't get an e mail or a call. we have no explanation as to why

it has not happened had is going to happen. that is when we were forced to file a grievance. we filed with felton's board of directors. this is after i count up to 25e mails they were more. that we sent to al and to marvin asking, can we have a conversation a meeting, help get this under control. we did not get a response tr their board. which is shocking because we have a grievance policy. and somebody were to complain i gr guarantee our board would respondent. october 19th the seniors filed a grievance they know the policy and they finish than i file das has to do something that act i have the das and investigating and i appreciate when they were able to find out and some of the motivation they helped create. the grievance that was filed by the seniors they posted on

change got org and have 700 signatures. supporting getting our senior center open. and then we attended a public board meeting at the felton institute board. over zoom. a number seniors spoke. but an initial us didn't. and all of us were kicked out of the meeting when they felt that public comment had end today did not go for 30 minutes and not allowed stay for the full meeting it was supposed to be a public meeting. we heard from al gilbert on december 5. that the first i heard from him. except for way back in january nishg called him and got a hold and said, nick i can't believe you are dealing with this i will call you back tomorrow and never heard from him. we heard from him in december. i'm working with my board i want to respond to your grievance we will give you an answer you can

expect something december 11th this . is our center it is past december 11 and i have not received word of the status. when tell be done. i heard now through you it looks like in april? or march or may? so nice in today we can hear from al gilbert what can we expect. and why did it take this in why did we have to have a hearing to have a dhafrgz could have happened 8-10 months ago? and saved awful us the stress and headache. we have done a lot to make the senior center functional. we have invested in the bathroom, we don't have a functioning disability opening door. the electric is not set up yet. this is the back room in the ceiling the emergency exit, which was miss wired.

and this is sort of into what was our board room where we hosted activities. we are here hope to get arounds and to not have this be the way it happens in the future. so we can communicate. >> thank you. thank you for all your patience and thank you for your work. i -- i think that the richmond senior center has been patient with felton institute and the city agency you have been working watch i think you being like cordial and you are respectful. and just and -- always in a very fact finding tone in all your communications. when can we expect to open. what works what are the works that need to be done. what can we do to speedup the process? in fact, i think you waited

until march 2023, reach out to us to our office. then we schedule a site visit together on march 24, 2023 along with dbi. and to just get an understanding of the situation then. you exhausted every communication channel possible directly with felton institute. directly with the contractor. so, i think i see mr. al gilbert here. i think that is right that he be able to have a chance to respond. before we do that, looks like supervisor melgar has questions >> thank you very much. i have questions about money. so, what is situation with the rent payments?

so we decided to stop in march, if i'm correct? march when we stopped paying rent. april. we paid rent diligently and hoping that things were going forward. we actually needed to redirect some rent dollars to making repairs to things that got broken by their contractor. and also to try to like rent another space. we rented another to have art class. and so. -- the payment that brent is either partly or wholly covered by would you recall contract? how does this work? partly, i believe. but the majority of the rent is allocated to our community service. which is our biggest contract. and really requires our spacech >> you do get an admin percentage? >> yes. >> and so while you were renting

a second space to be able to hold program its get income and pay people, was there an increase in the contract from das? was there any adjustment? from das? for >> no but das understand we did have conversations with our analyst and they agreed had we could use funds we are doing a budget revision so we will move money unspent rent dollars to programming. so that is how we will cover it. then you have to dot work for that. yea. yea. >> so -- okay my last question is did felton reduce your rent? or you know agree to pause. they were not providing this.

talk with al gilbert we asked a conversation and -- we never heard back >> thank you. thank you >> thank you. >> thank you for the questions supervisor melgar and with that, like i mentioned i think it is time bring al gilbert to the podium and be able to have a presentation and response. thank you. >> thank you very much. supervisor for calling the hearing. and i'm here i have not been directly involve instead project until some of the requests were coming for involve am from our board and from the issues raised about the delinquency going on in our organization. the 6221 geary site is a site we operate our senior programs out of as well and have a series

other programs operating in the same building and some on the same floor and same on a different floor. some of the pictures in terms of the condition of the floor now where the walls are open and the sheet rock is down are areas that felton uses to provide service out of those spots but because of the construction, what i understands to be true is that the prioritization begin to the senior to the richmond center and so that the felton spaces were the once that are still uncompleted. or unfinish exclude open as you saw in the pictures. i adopt to say we appreciate our partners at the richmond center and i have been with the organization for 21 years. and we have been their left-hand side lords for that entire period. and we shared the floor with them for most of that period as well. and we have the building has

aged. there are things that are happening now in the space because of this aging. and those other things we are trying to address. when i first heard about the challenges going on in the site, what i asked my team to do was to review what needed to be done. i was in front of board supervisors may be 7 years ago when we had to do construction in the building and the concern i had at the time because ad a laws changed since we bought the building and the amount construction work we were doing

>> the oefrnt is important that having other nonprofits using the building as well. of that it is a safe environment. not just for the richmond center and all the others tht building as well. we want to make sure serve in a safe environment. having said this, i think this the building insprektor was correct you don't know what is behind the walls until you go. in an older building you don't know until you ghet this space. having not had the type of requirements that would have allowed us to have known, we did not know in february i think the original question about, did we have appropriate scope at this point. i don't think that we did. and nor dithink that i do think

that anybody expected to be the scale of the requirements for the work this was needed at this time. there have been projects done over the years on small scale. i think this started off being that type of a project. but -- when you asked now about whether or not the scope was changing for the entire building or whether we were working specifically with the project this we already started -- i read in the violations or findings that there was a concern as colletta shared now about leakages in the windows. about there being a likage or whatever. it is my understanding when i asked the question of my new contractor about what is this about? there is no ledges outside the windows they were suggesting this the building itself has

aged and so therefore, moisture is getting throughout windows the framing and the outside of the building into and causing that likage. it is not flooding but it is moisture means they are suggesting you might have to replace the windows to address that leakage happening which is not a small job. this is not in the scope of the project this we are doing. and it directly relates to the richmond senior center those other windows in the pace they operate. so we don't have right now a scoping that has been done to determine whether or not that work will require a lot of money and a lot of work in terms of replacing all window there is because of age or the age of the building or construction this supports it. i don't have this answer. to be honest to answer your question as clearly as we can, our immediate process was to upon finish the hallway.

and the hallway is the hallway you have been there, i understand. that leads to the ad a bathroom that remains to be closed up. bathroom has been delineate is this hallway. this is the priority that we were waiting for the inspectors to approve we could close that wall so that could happen that is the number one priority. number 2 priority was there is concerns about access meaning during fire or any other situation this emergency access hallway is also not completed. and that would be another priority. but at the same time, in the same complaint is the issue around the windowsills liking and other things as well, so, if in the scoping of that it is determined this those things require more work we will have to figure out how to address that. so the priorities are the same

in terms of making sure the hall is closed out and there is access to the bathroom in a hallway that is dry walled. and has proper electrical behind it. in the entire third floor space which the center asked for. the additional third floor space by felton, they asked us is it possible to occupant entire floor? the entire floor requires that there be electrical work on the entire floor that plumbing on the entire floor. so there is an additional inspection process involved in closing update things that is the way it has to do. i mean it has to operate because those things other requirements of the building inspectors. so t is our ghee we would be more than happy to have conversations with them about using the entire floor it is just that is a much big are project and requires all of the approvals from the city that are required and the money that will

require you to dot improvement in an older building. i'm concern body what the immediate nature of the window repair is. because that sounds like a substantial project. as regional center shared, richmond center shared, we have not been receiving any rent for the last 10 or 11 months. and we have not had a conversation about that at all. we have been focused in on getting the costs done. as a nonprofit who owned a build and operates in the building we have find an accommodations for our programs our programs can't be in the building during construction if we make sure they are accommodated. they have to be coordinated. we are in a spot now we were hoping based on permits we have received and approvals we received that we could close up that hallway that we were talking about to the restroom

and the scope of the other things has not been determined yet. >> i hear a lot of information i appreciate. i what i have not heard is when we will get had done. but i will turn this over to supervisor melgar. >> thank you. chair chan i have many questions about all of this. so, how long has felton institute own third degree building. over 20 years. how du purchase it? with when financing? i can't answer that in that i don't know it happened before my tenure. i'm not quite sure how that happened >> sorry. that's not how it is works. you know with public upon financing. usually so you know folks know, i also come from a nonprofit

background we owned real estate. and you know rented out to other nonprofits. and usually there are stipulations with public money about who you rent it to and under the s. and what -- the asset management plan with improvements. so, how are your financing the construction now? >> project? >> currently felton has paid all of the construction costs associated with the project. why from your own assets? >> yes. >> that's like cash you have not that -- it is probably cash that we have. >> i see. >> and are you also in the position of paying for that from your programs?

i imagine that just like the senior center, your programs get a fee attached to the programs you are running? that feed to the maintenance of the building. real estate you occupy. is tht case? we did rent. in our contracts as does the richmond center. that's the accommendation. no additional admin costs >> right. everybody gets that. so if you prioritize the seniority center does this mean you are not in a position to use that admin fee to pay for the building? again for clarification, sake -- the rent that receiving to run the programs that felton operates on that floor which are not being there used to pay rent in other locations for our

programs to relocate during the construction. and -- that is the amount of contributions coming from the city to support those program this is are in that building. >> i understand that. i'm confused about the question. >> because i have been like you are both land lord and tenant with your own programs for what building. so what you just said now is that those programs are operating elsewhere and you are using the contract and admin you get from the city to support the rent elsewhere for the programs. you are then out of your pocket in terms of the maintenance and the construction costs for this aging building and you are in the receiving rent. from your tenants as well. >> right yoochlt. that is concern when we started to understand contemplate what the cost might be for replacing

windows and the other things that are concerns in the property. because at having that discussion gets to the point that can be a large number. there are not resource sitting around for those costs as well. and we have no way of knowing what needs to be done to accommodate what or resources that will be required. but we also have not gotten that scope of what that might be yet in terms of having that evidence done to find out the needs of the property might be. inclusive of the windows. >> i can imagine. sounds like could be a lot of trouble. >> so, i'm wondering -- you know where we go from here. seems like this -- building is an asset. and the city has a large stake

in it. and somebody with project management skills should be look at it terms of the building being an asset to the city and making sure we can get you the support you need to finish the construction because it is the -- you know seniors but sounds like the promise as well and the ownership of the building. i can imagine you can only bleed cash for you know your organization suffers. thank you. supervisor. >> thank you. i think we can go to details at this moment about you know your long standing lease agreement. how is that agreement structured in your maintenance. work. and of courseef we can go in the deeper questioning around felton

institute as an institute how do you manage your assets? what does >> asset nothing strategy plan? we can go into details of that but unless you feel like you are ready to go in details today. >> so, we felton institute owns i think 3 properties. een though we operate out of 22. for the service we provide. so we have a property management team of that supports the 22 locations even though 3 are owned by you know the organization itself. and then in terms of the asset management plan i'm not prepared now to address that. it is not something i'm directly associated with or involved in. and we have hired a new project

manager specific low to manage this property. who has done a lot of work with tenderloin development corporation another property for childcare support in visitation valley. and so he is working on this project now. i asked him to come to do a fresh look at it. and a comprehensive look at t. armando vasquez. and so -- that is a process had was commenced recently when i did my walk lieu and asked him to take time to support us on this project as well. when do you expect that to be completed? so, we are in two phase simultaneously operating. one i asked to prioritize getting the hallway repaired. so that they can have access to

that bathroom without walking through there is access now as you know to the bathroom just that the walls are not closed up. so i --an dhoen give an and you want mr. chu can on the permitting process and whether the inspections happened close this up. i think it is either already happened or about to happen in terms of that. the issue in terms of closing up the emergency access, which is a different part of the hallway requires a bit more work. because all of the yours that are impacted by that inspectd and have to be closed i'm not surety time line for that. and -- the over all inspection of the windows and that has been requested. and that should commence in the next two weeks or so that is from the contractor who is going

to ring in somebody tolls do an analysis of the windows from the side of the building. i don't know at this point. whether that should prohibit the equalization of center because it might not. it has not prohibited for years that is correct is not the right answer to say it has been liking and don have it so i think we need air professional answer in terms of what that take and a stopgap situation or if it requires a whole changing of the facade, which could be stucco or could be asbestos or all things. and this might require the appropriate fix. we want to do things correctly. we thpt asset to be available for the city and service for the future. so i appreciate that don't know the time line on that.

the prioritization is access to the hallway just so the existing center can continue to operate with hopeful low 100%arc sesz to the pace they need for operations. and that is the short term plan. >> so it sounds to me if i based on the information you just provide again without a time line i think that the best you came up with was 2 weeks assessment for the window what you are saying is that we are still not in the place where we can get a commitment or understanding when the in actual closing of the wall i want to if you have your building inspector come back up they will not give you that answer, either. and part of it is is this

dependsos had scope of work is and the related process is for inspections and scoping and all of that. if we have to replace the windose f. we assume we are not doing a major building restructuring. assume that is not happening, then the process of closing update hallway is something had mr. chu can speak to now. because he's involved. >> theme have him to conclude it sound its is the same issue this we have since winter of 22. can't understand the scope of work. don't understand the scope of work. figure out the scope of the work and still cannot figure out the scope and don't know when we will complete. >> there is a different option. one option is to relocate the senior center. so that then the walls can be taken out and the work done and windows done. roof being the asbestos can be

done without lives jeopardized you don't want people providing service in unsafe place. that was always the alternative. what we have done in working with the center is try to create a solution where they can continue to operate and we could manage the exposure in that process. way more complicated process. takes a longer time line things are happen nothing real time. and then work can't happen while they are trying to do senior service at the same time they asked us not to do construction while seniors there you are workingad midnight or evenings or weekends the senior programs even on weekends. the other option is to move the programs out. dot work and you can control the construction time line and control the you know the costs all the things and move everybody back in an environment

once the work is done. but we collectively chose to do a quasi approach to this when might not have been the best approach. and we are still in the middle of this now. we can choose to just do a scope. if it come back requiring huge amounts of work and money. then it might mean we have to do something different. but let me let mr. chu speak to that. >> thank you and i needed to point of i don't need to repeat of the scope i needed a specific time line if you can commit to it? go ahead. >> good morning i'm anthony chu. licensed contractor with the city. to do work in the cities. with the building department. so, let me i got a baptist

notes. why don't i give you a time line how it started. it started -- back in -- i think only because we are already have the time line. shoot meet questions you want answered. >> how is that. >> that sounds good when will we finish? i need probably -- dependsoth inspections i have left 3-4 amongs from this point. based on everything that has been going on. right now i have rough plumb being next friday. if everything goes well that will be signed off. i have building cover ins ligz and the last with the fire department if they give me the okay the walls go back up. the other thing i want to make clear was business about the emergency exit there is is no emergency exits blocked

everything is code to the fire code. so there are 2 routes for egress special the elevator. so i don't know where this complaint about no emergency exit being blocked or something there was a complaint what happened during the asbestos remediation, they had a machine blocking it and plastic zip wall to control the dust. this has been removed and corrected. any complaints that have been written or violations by the department of building inbeing spection have been corrected i have the paperwork it is in your system as well as that's it. that is the scope. my scope right mou is to complete the second phase of the third floor, which impacts the senior center about 10-20% the hallway and the walls leading to a mop closet, 3 storage rooms

and working ad a bathroom. the bathroom always worked. it was never taken apart and they had electrical problem with the door that has been corrected. >> thank you. i think its i will leave it that for me it is about when we will finish i thank you. >> yea. i said if here is the second issue i had the reason is dragged out from the time of violation issued because of director green correct me if i'm wrong a commercial building needed plans and i can't pullover to counter permit i needed plans hi to wait for architecture there was a 3 among lag time with the time the violation issued and the permit correction permit was issued. the permit was issued for in kind dry wall removal only.

i went ahead and went with this. when i called for the first inspection due to the eyes on the project, the plumbing and electricmented additional permits to over seat project. once they came out and did inspections they noticed stuff not up to code we brought that up since. we could move forward. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. >> thank you and with that supervisor melgar has questioning. >> sorry. >> the scope of work and the permit you now have is for dry scombaul finishing phase 2 of the construction. >> exactly. mr. gilbert said that we still don't know the xul full scope windows are liking. they may need to be replaced. i think you are getting the scopes mixed up. >> no, i'm not. i think that you have a scope of work and mr. gilbert said he did not know the full extent of the

work that would be needed on the floor because it may necessitate changing out windows not included in your scope of work >> correct. >> but that is when he said. so, you i'm asking you, your scope is dry wall and mr. gilbert said the windows are liking is it this you think that you don't want to put up the dry wall if the windows are liking because the dry wall will get messed up? that is not correct. you are going to finish the dry wall. i can finish it with or without. >> that is not part of your scope. >> right. a separate issue. >> are you -- exactly. the windows are not liking every time it rains. if the rain hits at an angle like blows like today is rain and he windy yes, there is some leakage coming in. if it is light rain you don't have that.

it is not like every time it rains i get a call special put a bucket or -- over time it is cumulative du test for lead on the window sns i did not test. synergy i had an environmental company test. did than i finds lead. no. >> no. >> so -- and getting back to the beginning the reason i did not pull permitos phase one because an environmental company was involve said as well. i thought they had pulled the permits they did the initial demo because that is what they doed lead and asbestos removal. i came and did the build back only there was miscommunication in the beginning. from this point forward all permits are under my name and i have full control overnight build back. >> thank you. >> thank you. i appreciate it and go to public comment on this item. >> thank you.

upon we upon invite members to peek on this hearing. to line upon along the windows to your sxriet my left. and come forward. each speaker will have 2 minutes. this is the time. first speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm kevin casey. i'm a member of the richmond senior center. and i have been enjoying the benefits for 5-6 years now. i have a statement i will read it quickly for the time. the closure of the richmond senior center on site activities

due to the pandemic was hard for me and so many seniors in the richmond district. we used to go to the centers for food, learning, exercise and most important low for many of us friendship. when i heard the centers planned reopen nothing late 2022, would be delayed for weeks because of the construction project i was disappointed but looked forward on it opening the end of 2022. i can't believe it is now more than a year later and we don't have our center back. i have seen how difficult it is for the senior center staff to function with less space especially had they meet with clients individual low for confidentiality. please, do something so we can have our community back againful

thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm a proud payment of the senior center a place noters a sense of community. we rely on the seniority center to place community keksz. treated my second home so. closed for i year because of the construction. [inaudible] to mow with my friends neighbors in the mission district. and to hear about different happenings in the area. police consider what we are saying today. so many of our seniors can enjoy this space.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> miss chan said that nutrition

and exercise is important it me. i rely on the richmond senior center to help me stay healthy. and due to the delay of the reopening, it has been taking inconvenient i wish they would fulfill their commitment to serve what they committed to do and providing a service to us. thank you for sharing your comments.

>> thank you.

i have joined the center to have scomplufrn socialize once i started retirement. and i like this place a lot i have been a resident in the richmond for 30 years. and i participate in activities in the senior center. and now, it is -- inconvenient for us senior who is need to go to the back of the build to use this one bathroom. last call for anybody who wish to provide public commentary.

if there are speakers we ask you lineup. >> hello.

i participate in the different program at the cert for many years. i wish to know when the work will get done and when tell be

reorganism don't delay constructions because -- having the open walls and with the -- back of the of senior center not -- construction work not complete we have one bathroom and for us senior its is a language time for us to use the before we eat and dance in the become we need to know how long tell take are the senior center to reopen i like for to you help us. get this work done so we can go back to the center. thank you. next speaker, please. thank you. supervisors for holding hearing i'm nick. the executive director of goldenigate senior service respond to the richmond senior

center. we have been were the the building on geary was owned by easter teals since 19 skimp we move in the 1994 and occupied the murder in the third degree floor space. we invited family services agency in that space in the late 90's. easter seal decided to tell it they would sell it commercial low. we were able with the help of supervisor in d1. we were able to stop that sale and allow family services to purchase for 3 million dollars.

so. we were happy and than i took over our lease with easter seal. what i want it say is we have been providing services for 50 years and -- since 1990 in the richmond. so. castro it has been since 1980. we are having in acquiring the rest of the third floor space and understand that it may take a good period of time to renovate that. that is fine with us. the big thing was that bathroom.

i understand. >> we have to allow equal time. your time heads elapsed. thank you for addressing committee. thank you. i than in -- thank you. want to wrap up public comments. thank you. that completes our queue >> seeing no public comment it is now closed. i -- think that why don't we do this. why don't we do, i wanted to

bring back want golden gate senior center service to finish that you know the remark you were going to make and just if we can do a concluding remark what we would like next. sounds to me. i think the end of remarks i have a same reaction in initially was it is an aging building. seems loo like it is challenge to repair i'm not sure i don't understands the scope of the work it could be challenging. any construction can be challenging. i was not upon understand. i did in the understand where feltonmented go. it is felton's intention to

figure out perhaps this is no longer a building they want to keep it is more trouble then and there worth. was what i was trying to understand today. and i want to understand today. but stound me that the richmond senior center wants to stay. and not only just stay negligent current space wants to occupy more space knowing it requires a lot of work and renovation. i'm trying to understands are we in the same space mind set with the landlord that they want to keep the building and tenants wants to stay. and that approaching a space where we need a communication

channel. we need to city agreement on the scope of work and time line and a lot more specific? perhaps is to establish a written agreement and understanding here is the scope, time line. again i think thanks to supervisor mecar. it is 2 types of work we are talking about and the time line of completion also is differentful i also understand if we finish the wall there other windows if we do window there is is more work. it may cement construction is impedament to your daily operation and work may not be completed in the way may be you finds a way and we have dhn in construction.

the street in the closed this may not be the most ideal. today i'm trying to understand. as a concluding remark, from gilbert, it is felton intention to keep the building. continue to lease to the tenants and want to phenotype work. 94 will have an understandsing construction work may be on going if you finish one part of it like closing the wall to the bathroom in the hall. could be windows that could be coming.

thank you. and for azing this question. we are committed to keeping the building because we want to keep it in public use, period. it has reachd that time it aged now we will run into issues. that has become clear. my goal now is to -- finish the space so they have access. second our second goal would have been to complete the rest of the third floor space that nick suggested interested in occupying but got to be built out that will take a number of months but he is comfortable with that. we still provide service as an organization and does downstairs we know there are issues with

the backyard space and got funding through others to make improvements. there has been a lot of public investment in the space in the building to make sure it operates. there does become an issue with the roof. thank you the windows are important i don't like the conversation they can deal with the windows. it is not okay. could be an indication well is dry rot or walls are rotting because moisture is coming in which should not be the case. those have to be addressed. they are major could be major projects. the priority to make the space accessible and then on find out

the scope of, to make sure that there is no mold the costs may be a prohibiting thing when we fwoet this work and this requires additional finance and work. it is or intention to keep the space. we had a long time in the build and this is our goal. i want to thank you for everything you just said because that is what we wanted hear and thank you for having this hearing. the richmond senior center loves being tenants and love our space. we enjoyed per inning with your program and had a good relationship with you so we would love to resume this. we want to keep having the

conversations so we know what is next. we are happy to write letters of support to find fund to make the repairs, we are here for the longhaul. so i'm hoping that this is a good ending for this thank you. >> thank you. if i may i will come to a conclusion of this and my colleagues and i will get to the rest of the agenda is time i appreciate everybody coming to seasoned this meeting. which i appreciate. i think mr. chu in here is my suggestions is this -- for mr. chu to provide us weekly basis in the written if i may be involved in this and long with das.

and provide a weekly report on construction with ports smith square. telling meet progress and so -- if this is possible with the agreement. provide a weekly update to the richmond senior center and das and myself. and that weekly we are communicating and we understand if there is issues perhaps we can -- problem solve collectively. so this way if there is impedament on the operation or may have to cease and make arrangements to accommodate the construction. mr. chu has someone to say i need help.

i love this starting in february in the upon effect than i decided that you may want to go a different direction i hope we have a different conversation about the building. with this said thank you and clothe fist i may i appreciate this conversation. sometime its seems that when it takes to get it done. we appreciate the seniors coming out on a rainy day for comments. we are committed to make sure you have bathrooms. i like to bring this to the call the chair, with that like a roll call. >> on the motion it continue

this to the call the chair vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> motion passes. upon call item 2 >> a resolution approving the direct property on behalf of public health to execute a lease agreement for continued use of an office and clinic space on south van mess and the parking lot effective upon approval and execution of the lease. determining on december 31, 27 a rent of 52,000 a total base rent of 626,000. with 3% to 5% increases. plus a 5 year extension option. and director to enter in

amendments to the lease. thank you. mr. director thank you for hear i like depends how the last hearing i almost call you and up help us to find a new phase. this will be a 3 admissibility presentation. -- thank you. >> mr. clerk. i, mr. clerk i modified the presentation that was begin to you and it is on the laptop. good morning chair chan, supervisor mandelman and melgar.

this morning seek recommendation for resolution authorizing a lease at 755 south van ness on behalf of dph. to children with series mental and emotional problems, adult health provides out patient service. and age youth mental health and case management and other service for adult youth 16-22.

this lease extends at this location. they can provide services to this community. 13,000 square feet of office space. well is a fenced parking lot. upon land lord is offering for free. term of the lease approval assuming a 24 commencement date the term is 3 years. the rent for the first year is 644, 930 dollars for 47.61 per square foot. the bla will prosecute pose an

amendment to -- collect an error. the real estate and public health support this metropolitan and have no objections. the rent increased by cpi betweenly and 5%. the require lease expired on december 31 of twoochlt we went in to hold over among to month it increased to 46 per square foot that was 5% increase over the prior lease. we have an extension option with the current lease. it is 1-5 year option to extend 95% of fair market value.

i have dave frid dph to answer questions you may have. that concluded my present anticipation. good morning. from the bla office. item 2 a resolution approving a lease with public health and aim to the landlord of south van ness avenue. the let's a term of 4 years through december of 27. with one 5 year option to extend. the terms on page 3. we note the stealed pay 2. 7 million dollars -- in rent costs plus utilities 120 thousand dollars over that term of the if the lease is extended the rent reset to market rate.

we note the city lease third degree site since early 80s. and prior we recommended this the public health report to the board on potential low moving the programs to city space. we had a conversation with the department about that. they are planning consolidate. that's part of their plan they have in the prioritized moving this property and there is no funding for temperature there is abopportunity in november of 24 to perhaps include fund nothing this bond for the -- purchase for the where the service could

move. it would take time to work that out have you to work with the capitol plan and public health and real estate to determine whether it could support that purchase. i want to then and there if the site did move. and the bond was approved you would not see savings until after the first term the next 4 year tellsed take time to get the funds identify a move. there would not be immediate savings. we have a technical amendment. just to correct the rent amount. 644 thousand dollars upon approval. in commence am of the lease and recommend approval >> thank you. want to confirm this it does have 3 to 5% increase on rent

with the new agreement. >> that's correct that is still with -- market rate at this moment. i will defer to the director. based on our review of the materiel this is is at or below. the rent increase is cpi. so it is market. great. i -- and i think that -- budget has said manage in this analysis is what partly the board you heard it from other committee members. the management as a city what do

we do in managing and beens lease agreements we had this conversation about other loses that came before us about the fact the market favorable to acquire. i'm inclineed approve and move forward the timing is lack of 2027. we were to have bond funds and identify other sources tell take awhile to get there to acquire the site and transition as out there. so i am inclined passport and move forward today would urge that d. public health with our real estate to work.

think a longer term. from this point. and i know you are a mall team, though. i had this conversation. we know you are figure what out. we appreciate your work >> thank you. the topics you mentioned are near to my heart and always top of mind i would appreciate having the ability to have more capacity to take advantage of the opportunity when they become available. let's go to public comments. public sxhent closed i like to

move this with recommendation and a roll call >> with accepting the amendments from make -- move to amend the legislation has proposed by recommended by the budget analyst to state the initial rent. and move to full board with recommendation. looks like john has things to say. because the amendments increase rent above stated in the title the committee will need to continue for a week before on. >> thank you. and with that we will like to rescind this motion and make the motion to amend and continue for

a week. on this motion to amend the resolution to increase the annual rent. and continue to the february 7 meeting of this committee as amend vice chair mandelman. >> aye >> member melgar. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> thank you the motion passes and with that mr. check call 3 and 4 together. >> items 3 and 4 resolutions authorizing office of contract administration modifications to contracts between the city and the following for the purchase of electrical materials. supplies and if i can sures 3 executes modification 3 the contract with san francisco and alameda electric inc. increasing it by 600,000 for a total amount 2.5 million. with no change to the total

contract of may first 2018 through april 30. and item 4 modification 8 to a contract with buckle myth electric increasing the amount by two million a total contract amount not to exceed 19. 5 million with no change to a contract of july 5 of 2016. through june 30, 24. >> thank you, mr. clerk and we have office of contract administration here. good morning share chan. i'm manager with office of contract administration and i'm here to present 3 and 4 together. the contract modification in front of you for buckle smith

electric company and alameda electric company. both are citywide electric supplies and fixture contracts. it these are boths as needed contracts means the condition tractors not guaranteed money under the contracts the not to exceed values are a cap not a commitment but by the city to spend this amount. city departments purchase as needed. spending provided from each department's budget champion is approved in the budget process each year. it is next two slides show you the contract to date for each contract. along with a top 2 departments users. which in this case are the public utility's commission and the airport commission for both

contracts. the amounts shown match when the data was pulled with a correct information oca should be requesting a mall amount more for each contract. we would like to leave them as they were submitted and these will be sufficient. district attorney departments use the contracts throughout end dates of april 30 and june 30 for buckle smith. while oca works to replace the contracts. and oc adjust issued that new solicitation this month. for the electric supplies and

close in february and anticipate the new contracts to be in place before the current ones expire. i am happy to answer questions.

item 4 a 2 million dollars increase to the buckle smith contract. that increase is reasonable and 64% of that contract is for the puc recommend prove as well. >> great. thank you. and i'm glad to hear that both are going to go out to scombid you have it resolved soon and appreciate the work of having this extension until we get the new ones. with that, let's go to public comment. >> yes, members of public who are here wishing to address regarding items 3 and 4 now is the opportunity to approach . we have no speakers. >> thank you. no public comment it is closed. i would like to move the two

items 3 and 4 to full board with recommendation. with this a roll call. >> on this motion to forward them to the full board with positive recommendation. vice chair mandelman. >> aye >> melgar. >> aye. >> chan. >> aye. >> the motion passes. thank you very much. and mr. clerk call item 5 and 6 together. resolutions approving the 2023 lease and use agreements between the city acting by through airport commission and the following from the first day of the calendar month following the reach approvals of the city june 302033. affirming planning determinedation and authorizing the airport director to enter in modifications to the lose this don't increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and necessary for the purposes of the loses or this resolution.

item 5 identify instead resolution. 6 with the star lucks airlines company limited dba, star lucks north america. madam chair. >> thank you today we have kathy, chief external affairs from san francisco airport. thank you. good to see you >> good morning. thank you. kathy from the airport. the resolution ask approval to add 8 airlines to the airport lease in use agreement. the proposed resolution will add airlingas flair airlines, had what airlines, jet blue, qatar, and star lucks to the 23 lease and use agreement. this is the agreement that allows airlines to provide flight operations and rent space at the airport. the lease and use agreement provides a set of lease provisions rent and fees and permitted uses in the terminal.

as well as providing the financial framework for the airport to make a service payment to the city based on 15% of nonaeronautical revenues. board approved the lease and use agreement in june of 23. yes. 23. for a 10 year term. with 40 airlines. as additional airlines start service and sign on to the agreement the airport will bring new to the board for approval to add them to the agreement. the airport anticipates revenues of 361 million dollars from these 8 additional airlines overnight remaining term of the lose through june of 2033. terminal rent and lanng fees the budget analyst reviewed the 8 and recommends approval and i can answer questions you might have. >> thank you.

>> item 5 and 6 would add 8 airline to the airport lease and use agreement. that the terms and conscience of them other same previously approved. the loses have 10 year term. and wouldienerate 3 scent million dollars during this term for the aaron. recommend approval of 5 and 6. >> thank you. and i'm looking at the report of thank you that it is going on since 2022. we appreciate the negotiation and on the work that our airport commission has done. . they have done vetting through this process and thank you for the airport staff. for all the work you have donisment to confirm that you know looking at this now. we approved 40 airlines the board of supervisors approved the lease agreement with 40

airline in 2023? >> correct. >> and there were 8 that initial low did in the sign on last year in 2023 but mull they have? which is what is before us today? >> that's correct. and with this, that and00 autoairport commission approved that in august of 23 that's why it is coming now and along with additional low now we have the star lucks airlines. in november that was approved by the airport commission in november. together the 8 additional plus star lucks now is before us today. >> yes after approval of the resolution there will be 48 airlines to the lease and use agreement. >> thank you. >> and are they all ending the same time? yes. lease and use agreement which was approved in june guess for 10 years, the airlines as they sign on will assume the remaining time. these 8 have 9 years and 6

monthos the lease. >> thank you. thank you for the clarification i don't see a name on the roster go to public comment. >> members joining and wish to speak now is your opportunity to lineup and provide comments to the committee. >> we have no speakers >> no public comment it is now closed. i'm glad we are here and able to have 48 airlines in the lease agreement. before us today. i like to move item 5 and 6 to full board with recommendation and a roll call. >> that motion to forward both to the full board with positive recommendation mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> the motion passes. mr. clerk do we have other items today. >> that concludes our business. iot meeting is adjourned. clear clear

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ensure that wheelchair users can get to the wheelchair accessible area in the park area, provide an adequate ramp or parklet ramps are even with the curb. nobody wants to trip or get stuck. cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. instead, electrical cables should run overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so that we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf.govt/shared spaces.

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>> my family's starts in mexico in a small town. my parents are from a very, very small town. so small, that my dad's brother is married to one of my mom's sisters. it's that small. a lot of folks from that town are here in the city. like most immigrant families, my parents wanted a better life for us. my dad came out here first. i think i was almost two-years-old when he sent for us. my mom and myself came out here. we moved to san francisco early on. in the mission district and moved out to daily city and bounced back to san francisco. we lived across the street from the ups building. for me, when my earliest memories were the big brown trucks driving up and down the street keeping us awake at night. when i was seven-years-old and i'm in charge of making sure we get on the bus on time to get to school. i have to make sure that we do our homework.

it's a lot of responsibility for a kid. the weekends were always for family. we used to get together and whether we used to go watch a movie at the new mission theater and then afterwards going to kentucky fried chicken. that was big for us. we get kentucky fried chicken on sunday. whoa! go crazy! so for me, home is having something where you are all together. whether it's just together for dinner or whether it's together for breakfast or sharing a special moment at the holidays. whether it's thanksgiving or christmas or birthdays. that is home. being so close to berkley and oakland and san francisco, there's a line. here you don't see a line. even though you see someone that's different from you, they're equal. you've always seen that. a rainbow of colors, a ryan bow of personalities.

when you think about it you are supposed to be protecting the kids. they have dreams. they have aspirations. they have goals. and you are take that away from them. right now, the price is a hard fight. they're determined. i mean, these kids, you have to applaud them. their heart is in the right place. there's hope. i mean, out here with the things changing everyday, you just hope the next administration makes a change that makes things right. right now there's a lot of changes on a lot of different levels. the only thing you hope for is for the future of these young kids and young folks that are getting into politics to make the right move and for the folks who can't speak. >> dy mind motion. >> even though we have a lot of fighters, there's a lot of voice less folks and their voiceless less folks and their voiceless

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold.

tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are

refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

[>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of

delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the

fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of

people don't know it's here. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> the two largest bridges in the road, symbolizing pioneer and courage in the conquest of space and time. between these two great bridges, in historic san francisco bay, here's tribute to the achievements of our time. he's a dream come true, golden gate international

exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an

airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945, treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and

the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in 1997, the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city, both the

affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at treasure island. >> the development facility and (indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master plan to make sure that the master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and adopted by the city and after meeting, that's plan that the city approved. the members of the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] >> the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island, looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island, but also making sure that there is an ongoing of

development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure island and the buena island. >> materials used during the construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here, it's a

process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate

is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. once the compassion and

tapping is done, it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build on. >> i think that every city when they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as treasure island because treasure island is five hundred acres and it depends on their needs at that time and in 2011 to now, the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest addition to the park system in

san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in san francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation

agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for treasure island. >> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that could be converted for private use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't allowed at all because treasure island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on

it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the plan we have now. >> planting strategies for treasure island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be

either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub, i mentioned we're trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down the middle of the neighborhoods. it's a curbless street, cars are allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first

phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's defensive architecture that's trying to keep people off it. this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base. >> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands, which are designed to factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and

the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea level rise to come onto the island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative urban farming is included in the

plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten

will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. this garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay area. >> whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you know, it lands on the streets, it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so it's treated here in the storm water basin and then it's

sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket species. this is a leave a

lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so it's kind of our backbone species. this one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a

heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value for stormwater. >> this is super tiny. >> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island. it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and

introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s that's trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we identified a number of species of native plants that seem applicable to the ecology that we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge, l-e-g- which is literacy for environmental justice. they grew

those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was inundated with invasive plant species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island and treasure island. literacy for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with

native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena

island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up, divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used

collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant habitats at hunters point and we used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics was a two-year process. and then it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species. >> this is the infamous -- it's a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant

for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another thing that's unique about this plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and

build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants

we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in

1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island and make this place even a better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to

know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle

traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that

will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to

take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will also provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry. >> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the

public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan, it will -- time will tell, but i think that the last ten years, we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition.

>> good afternoon everyone. happy monday. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the january 29, 2024 regular meeting of the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisor. i'm supervisor melgar, chair of the committee joined by president aaron peskin and vice chair preston. the committee clerk is john carroll. i also like to acknowledge jaime at sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. >> please insure your silenced cell phones and electronic devices you brought with you in the chamber today. if you have document tuesday include as of the file you should submit them to me over the rail. same with comment cards. we now ha