public works commission today is monday, april 8th, 2024. our meeting began at 9:01 a.m. secretary fuller, please call the roll. good morning. please respond with here or present. lynn newhouse seagull is absent. this morning. warren post here. chair post is present. gerald turner, present. commissioner turner is present. paul wolford is absent. and fatty zarb present. vice chair zoghbi is present with three members present. we do have quorum for the public works commission, and public comment is taken for all informational and action items on today's agenda. to comment in person, please line up against

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and media services staff for helping make this meeting possible. madam chair, thank you. before calling the next item, are there any requests from the commission to amend the order of today's agenda? hearing no requests, we will move on to the next item, which is announcements by chair. i do have a few today. i am delighted to report that the lefty o'doul bridge was repaired and reopened on time for giants opening day on friday. this is great news for sports fans and for the city at large. i was really happy to see public works get this job done. last month in the press, there was an informative san francisco chronicle profile and preview of the kezar pavilion seismic upgrade and expansion as a recreational facility that can double as a disaster response facility after a major earthquake or other cataclysmic event. public works will be assisting rec and park for this important project that will benefit all of us, and that

voters approved via bond issuance. also recently in the press was a description of public works protocols for permitting sidewalk planters that residents and business owners wish to locate to beautify the area in front of their properties. part of this is part of our new love our neighborhoods permit to make it easier for individuals and community organizations and businesses to undertake permissible projects to improve the city's quality of life and vibrancy. director short what is the eta on the love our neighborhood permit regulations being completed and published so this important program can get going? good morning, chair post carla short, public works director, we have a what? what? we're considering a final draft of the regulations that we're distributing. for final review by our, colleagues. and so i expect that we will be able to have those regulations, publicly

posted by the end of the month. so that's great news. thank you very much. last as always, i'd like to point out the department's newsletter for march in the works, which, as always, had a number of very interesting, and exciting articles. there was extensive coverage with photos and videos of arbor day, a very festive and productive annual day of civic volunteerism to increase the city's green canopy. and of course, we enjoyed hearing about that from director short. last month at our meeting, there was a discussion of the third street bridge repair that i mentioned and a description of the multiple public works bureaus involved in this very complex work, a nice profile of the upper market, streetscape improvements, and the project's recognition by the california state association of counties. a photo montage of spring wildflowers blooming around town, of which there are many. the adjustment to daylight savings time of three public clocks along market street. i didn't know about that and was

very pleased to read about it. and now i'll start looking up more often. and as director short had noted in our previous meeting, there was recognition of public works, bureau of architecture director julia laue and our own commissioner, paul wolford, as distinguished fellows of the american institute of architects. so i urge the public to take a look at the march issue of in the works, which can be found prominently on the department's website. if there are any questions or comments on my announcements, we will then, ask if i have any of my colleagues, have any announcements. secretary fuller, do you have any announcements? i do have a small number of announcements. thank you, the sanitation and streets committee, commission will hold its next meeting on april 15th, next monday with a hearing on performance measures for the bureau of building and street repair and a presentation

on proposed standards of cleanliness, which is a big step in fulfilling of the commission's mandate. on that topic, and then the, two other, announcements i have. one is that all public works commission members and the commission secretary have completed their form 700 ethics filing ahead of the april 2nd, 20, 2020. pardon me, 2024 deadline. i thank thank you all for completing this important form and training and then the final announcement i have is, given the, campaign season that the city is amidst, i will be forwarding a memo from the city attorney's office. that's that's already been publicly posted. but for commissioners benefit about political activity. for commissioners. and i'll send that out to the commissioners, and i'll also post it along with

our agenda for the next meeting as well. thank you. if there are no questions for secretary fuller, please open this item to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on item one, the announcements by the chair, commissioners and secretary may line up against the wall, against, against the wall furthest from the door. if you are commenting from outside the chamber, please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or press star three on your phone to be recognized and. okay, it appears no call. no one has come forward to speak on this item. and we do not have any callers who have expressed interest on it either. so that concludes public comment. thank you. please call the next item on the agenda. item two is the

director's report. and communicate. public works director carla short is here to present. and this is an informational item. good morning, commissioners carla short. again we have a number of project completions in the last few weeks. i'd like to update you about. they may not be as flashy as some other projects, but i think they speak to our bread and butter work, supporting other departments and ensuring the health and safety of the public right of way. first up, the 911 call center, the 911 call center renovation was substantially completed by the end of february on time and under budget, and the department of emergency management began moving the first phase of 30 dispatchers in. they will be completely moved in by may. we will have a ribbon cutting for the project and that's planned for later. this month. the call center renovation was funded by

the 2020 earthquake safety and emergency response bond. public works teams were responsible for the project and construction management. the 911 call center is located on the second floor of 1011 turk street, and is one of the top 25 busiest 911 centers in the united states. the dispatchers are the initial point of contact for all of san francisco's first responders 24 hours a day. they serve as the communications hub that dispatches first responders to the scenes of accidents, crimes, fires, and other emergency and non-emergency situations. the objective of the renovation project as you may recall, was to expand call taking capacity, reconfigure interior spaces to enhance visual and circulation efficiency, plan for projected growth and replace aging infrastructure, furniture and interior finishes. this project, as i noted, finished on time and under budget. we're very proud, another project we just

completed with our partners at mta is the installation of new solar powered crosswalk safety beacons at the intersection of duncan street and diamond heights boulevard. they're known as rectangular rapid flashing beacons. or close your ears. rachel gordon rfb for short. you've probably seen them in other places. our fb's are part of our citywide vision zero initiative to ensure safe streets for pedestrians. the beacons are used by pedestrians who want to cross a busy street. they push the button at the crosswalk and the flashing lights start blinking to let drivers know that someone is trying to head to the other side. our operations team, specifically carpenters, cement and electrician shops, assisted with the pole foundations and put in the anchoring installation as well as conduit for future wire connections. the mta signal shop then installed the signal pole, solar panels,

transmitters, flashing beacon, assembly, push buttons and signage. this installation marked the first in a series of projects under the walk. first rfp program. we're hoping to start work on a second location at 38th avenue and geary boulevard later this month or next month, and there are a total of eight locations that have been evaluated, some of which will also need curb ramp upgrades, additional locations are under review now, and more rfp will be installed throughout the city. mta funds the project and picks the locations based on collision history, engineering, judgment, and community requests. this particular installation, for instance, came at the request of some neighbors. public works handles the ada review, engineering design, project management, and construction support for them. these efforts will make san francisco streets and intersections safer and easier to navigate for pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers alike.

chair post, as you noted, we were able to open the third street bridge in time for the giants home opener. our crews completed all of the work associated with the bridge repairs, including our traffic lanes, the bike path, and the sidewalk, which are now restored to normal operating conditions. there are a couple of small items that will be addressed in the coming months, but after a year of work following the major barge collision with the bridge, public works teams have made this bridge fully accessible and functioning for cars, pedestrians and boats. next up, the tiny cabins opening the department of homelessness and supportive housing is hosting an open house for the mission tiny cabins project later this week. this is an innovative response to the needs of our unhoused population. the mission's cabin project transformed a previously vacant lot at 1979 mission street near 16th street into a temporary shelter. the project comprises 60 individual tiny

cabins for temporary shelter. each cabin is for one person. mission cabins is a place for individuals experiencing homelessness to have a safe, warm and dignified space to be off the streets while they receive services and work toward finding long terme housing. public works contributed to the project in terms of design, project management and construction management. total project costs were about 6.8 million. chairperson, you also mentioned our love our neighborhoods program. we are just about ready to go. as i mentioned, we are sharing the regulations with our colleagues and the supervisor's offices, this week and together we'll be figuring out how to get any feedback from key community stakeholders. we're hoping for a quick turnaround so we can publish those regulations, and once complete, we will launch the program. the website, poster and postcards are all ready to go. our informational poster and postcard are multilingual. we expect there to be a press

conference with supervisor melgar and others. additionally, once the program launches, we'll be doing outreach through emails, visiting, standing, community organization meetings, and through our partner community organizations. i do want to note we've been receiving quite a few questions about how the love our neighborhood permit. involves planters. some think that it's actually new for us to be involving planters on the sidewalk, but this is actually not true. we've had regulations in place for over ten years that allow for the placement of planters on the sidewalk. the love our neighborhood program builds off of those existing regulations and includes, among other parameters, that those planters need to be planted with real plants and that those plants need to be cared for. okay, illegal vending in chinatown public works has been working with the department of public health and the police department, and initiated a joint chinatown operation, we started in mid-march to deter

illegal vending. this was in response to complaints from merchants and stakeholders in chinatown. this joint operation is currently every wednesday and at least one weekend day. we're looking at possibly expanding the program because it's been very successful in keeping the sidewalks safe and accessible. the chinatown merchants have warmly welcomed the support from city departments. we've also had good media coverage in the chinese press, messaging that the city is aware of the merchants concerns, and we're working to remedy the situation, public works week is fast approaching. it starts in two weeks on april 22nd, which is also earth day. we have a diversity of activities planned that are fun, build community and recognize the incredible work of our staff, and we hope that our commissioners will join us for some of the events if you're able. so a few of the planned activities on monday morning will be kicking things off with an open house at our offices at 49 south van ness. as

in years past, we're inviting students to join our our architects, landscape architects and engineers to learn about these proficient professions and also to build, model cities. the following morning, we're holding our annual employee recognition awards and pin ceremony. this is one of my favorite events of the year, as we honor those of our colleagues who have gone above and beyond in the past year, we'll be honoring both teams and individuals and will be awarding pins for years of service from 5 to 35 years. we are thrilled that this year, the awards and pin ceremony will take place at the public works designed, project managed and construction managed southeast community center. it's a gorgeous facility that we're very proud of, and it's much rooted in the community. also on tuesday, we'll be holding the first of many project tours that will be offering throughout the week, tuesday will be our street tree nursery at fifth and harrison streets. other tours during the week include our materials

testing lab, the minnesota streetscape improvement project in the dogpatch neighborhood, and the golden gate park golf course clubhouse. and then on tuesday night, we have a block of tickets for the giants game. we're hoping to see the giants crush the new york mets. my childhood rivalry team, so i really want to crush them. on wednesday morning, we're holding an open house for our operations yard, which is always a very fun and educational experience for everyone who attends. we're expecting hundreds of children, visitors get to participate in a variety of hands on activities, and we both open houses also serve as a bring your child to work day for public works staff. our connect team, which is comprised of staff from across the department, is in charge of planning and making the magic happen at public works week. as their name implies, they connect us to each other and i want to really recognize their incredible work for this week and lastly, we may marks asian

american pacific islander heritage month, the national theme this year is advancing leaders through innovation. our volunteer team of staff are already planning events, educational opportunities, and a department wide potluck. as with other heritage celebrations, the goals are to lift up the richness of the cultures of our staff, to educate each other and broaden our awareness, as well as to build community. there will be weekly did you know emails highlighting aapi leaders, tours of the neighborhoods of the historic international hotel and invited speakers. so i hope you may tune in to some of those. and that wraps up my report for this month. thank you. thank you, director short and a big congratulations on completion of the nine over 11 call center on time and under budget. that's wonderful news. i'm sure the public will be happy to hear. and as we all know, unfortunately there is a staffing shortage at the 911

center. so i hope that this new renovation will will, of course, has resulted in a more appealing place to work and perhaps that will help with the emergency departments recruitment for nine over 11 dispatchers. so congratulations to the department for making this very important contribution to the city, my dentist had one question about the love our neighborhoods permit launch prior to the launch, you mentioned you are running the draft regulations by all the supervisors, of course, and other department colleagues will. i presume you're also have running them by neighborhood organizations and community groups that would actually be pulling these permits, in addition, of course, to individuals and businesses that will yeah, i know that our team has met with a number of community organizations and talked through some of the proposed regulations with them. yes great. thank you very much. commissioner zombie. yeah. thank you. thank you for a great job on the bridge again. and 911.

call center, two questions, maybe you can. i just wanted to see if we can have an update on taylor street, project. how? that's going and how much more work there is. and my second question is, april 22nd is the kickoff at venice. and it's also a commission meeting. are we? we won't be able to make it so i guess. sorry. i pledge to work with secretary fuller to make the meeting as efficient as possible, so that i hope we will be able to dash over to 49 south ness before the open house ends. okay. thank you. and we'd be happy to provide an update on the safer taylor project. if there are no other questions or comments for director short, please open this item to public comment. members of the public wish to make three minutes of

comment in person on item two. the director's report and communications may line up against the wall furthest from the door. if you're commenting from outside the chamber, please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star three on your phone to be recognized and. and no one has approached to speak on this item in person. and sfgovtv is also indicating we do not have any callers. so that concludes public comment on the director's report. thank you. please open the next item. item three is general public comment, which is for topics under the commission's mandate but not related to a specific item on today's agenda. and members of the public who wish to make three minutes of general public comment in person may line up once again, on the wall furthest from the door. and if

you are commenting from out the chamber outside the chamber, please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star three on your phone to be recognized. it does appear we do have one speaker here in person. welcome if you want to approach and if you don't mind, i'll unmute you. and if you could state your name and any organization, then you'll have three minutes to speak. i'll give you a 32nd notice. thank you, good morning, commissioners tom radulovich with livable city, actually, we have met with beth, i convened a group of kind of community based organizations who want to improve the public realm. so beth rubenstein did present to us. we'd love to see the regulations before they are cast in stone, but, but it was a good presentation. and thank you for all of your work on it and all of your cajoling, chair. so, but that's not why i'm here. i'm actually here to talk about

vision zero. we had the 10th anniversary of vision zero. last month was also kind of a tragic month. we had a family of four killed on the sidewalk, by a car. and then two weeks later, somebody else was hit by a car on the sidewalk, pinned under the car. on fulton street. so, the mayor had a, a thing, i didn't notice the department there and dpw wasn't mentioned. so maybe, like, in the mayor's office, mind. you know, you're not thought of as a vision zero department, but but i think of you as that, we did go back as advocates and said, all right, well, you know who did pass resolutions, which departments passed vision zero resolutions a decade ago. and as far as we know, public works did not. so i'm not here today to ask you to pass a resolution, because we all know those can be empty gestures, but what i am asking you to do is to think about your vision. zero commitments. i mean, it's great to hear that there are projects that you're coordinating, but the theme at the mayor's press conference was, well, we're fully committed

to doing everything. we're already doing, but everything we're already doing is not enough. i really think we need to get all the departments engaged, thinking about how to deliver vision zero, how to make our streets safe for people walking and biking. one thing i've been thinking about is bollards. other cities use bollards, not those floppy safe hit posts, but actual bollards that will stop a vehicle. on sidewalks, cities. other cities have millions of them. we don't use them at all in san francisco, not at all. i mean, i've only seen them in front of federal buildings. so i'm kind of wondering one like, what permit is that? you know, is that love our neighborhoods? is it major encroachment? is it minor encroachment? do you have a bollards policy? do you understand that? you know, like just because you're on the sidewalk, you're not necessarily safe from vehicles and that maybe we need to do more. so i'd love a review of bollards policy. the other thing i think about is coordination. you know, we have a complete streets ordinance about 15 years old, and it says when major public works happen, whether that's a big sewer project, a big repaving project, you know,

these major public works projects that are kind of episodic, that at that time you should make all of the pedestrian safety, all the bike and pedestrian safety improvements and coordinate those as somebody trying to coordinate those. that's not practice. right. actually all of your systems work against that happening. so i really hope that you'll focus on coordination. we've been thinking about a streets budget, working with the transportation authority mta puc to say, let's do a ten year budget. where's the major street rehab going to happen? what's the other stuff that needs to happen at the same time? so i hope you'll consider all this as you think about your vision zero commitments and reflect on the ten years. thank you. thank you for your comments. not that appears to be the only in-person commenter. and also there are no callers interested in speaking under general public comment. so that concludes, item three. thank you, please call the next

item. item four is the consent calendar of routine matters includes the draft minutes from the march 11th, 2024 meeting, of the, pardon me, the draft minutes from the march 11th meeting of this commission and three contract modifications, please note that corrections for clarity have been made to the draft minutes, and those corrections are reflected in the documents posted on the commission's website, consent calendar items can be heard individually upon request by a commissioner, staff or the public, and adoption of the consent calendar and all resolutions contained in it is an action item before a motion is made. i'm happy to take corrections to the minutes and any questions. thank you. i have no questions or comments on the consent calendar. do any of my colleagues have a question or comment on the consent calendar? seeing none? please open this item to public comment. members

of the public wish to make three minutes of comment in person on the motion to approve item four, the consent calendar and all resolutions contained within it may line up against the wall for this from the door. if commenting from outside the chamber, please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star three on your phone to be recognized. and no one has approached to speak on the consent calendar adoption in person, and we do not have any callers who have expressed interest either. so that concludes public comment. thank you. since i see no further questions. all in favor of adopting the consent calendar and all its pertinent resolutions, please. i'm sorry, did we have a motion? i beg your pardon? i move, i thank you, i move that we approve. okay. thank you. sorry. now, on my motion to approve. thank you. i

jumped the gun there, all in favor of the motion to approve the consent calendar and the resolutions that are pertinent to those items, please say yes or i, i the vote is unanimous and the consent calendar is adopted. secretary fuller will post those resolutions to our website. secretary fuller, please call the next item on our agenda, which i believe is the first one for regular consideration. that is correct. so moving to the regular calendar item five is the tenderloin clean workforce development program grant agreement award and assistant manager for central operations warren hill will present this contract award, and it is an action item. good morning, commissioners, and thank you for that introduction. and once again, my name is warren hill, assistant manager for the bureau of central operations. what i am going to present to you today is our tenderloin clean workforce development grant, which i hope you will pass, the tenderloin clean workforce development grant, what i am asking is to

award the tenderloin clean workforce development grant in the amount of $2,005,065. it is a. this it is that better? okay it is a 2 million, $5,065 grant, it is a 14 month project that will be awarded to the tenderloin clean. i'm sorry. the tenderloin community benefits district, it is to provide litter reduction services in the tenderloin and adjacent neighborhoods of san francisco to assure sidewalks. i'm sorry, clean sidewalks and rights of way. background. this is to support workforce development, i'm sorry to support workforce participants in developing careers beyond the program by connecting them to employment and apprenticeship opportunities with public works, other public agencies, nonprofit partners, and private companies. the benefits is that this program will provide litter reduction services in the tenderloin and adjacent neighborhoods of san

francisco is to ensure clean sidewalks and rights of way. the grantee will provide proactive services such as sidewalk sweeping, gutter sweeping, litter collection, topping off, removing debris from overflowing city cans, litter removal from sidewalk tree planters and basins identify large refuse items in the rights of way, so what will commonly tend to see? couches, refrigerators, things of that nature, from the public right of way spaces and the service areas and report them within one hour of the city's designated contact, i'm sorry, within one hour to the city's designated contact or 311, to arrange for collection and removal. in addition, they will be providing daily tent counts in the tenderloin, what they will provide by 7 a.m. to the healthy streets operation center , the details service will be provided in the geographic area of the tenderloin neighborhood, since san francisco is going to be bordered to the north by sutter, the east by mason, the south by mcallister, and the west by van ness. with the carve out of taylor and o'farrell streets. the reason we have that

carve out is based on service requests that we've received in that area. so the geographic region of which the services will be provided, we experienced just under 2600 service requests in the last six months, just for the identified area. so that's why we provided that carve out, because they did not have that large concentration of service request, again, the director's recommendation is to award the tenderloin clean workforce development grant or contract to the tenderloin community benefits district in the amount of 2,000,006. i'm sorry, $2,005,065 to provide little reduction services in the tenderloin and adjacent neighborhoods of san francisco to ensure clean sidewalks in the right of way, this is the service area map that carve out that we have for the tenderloin. i'm sorry for taylor and o'farrell once again, the director's recommendation is to award the tenderloin workforce development grant in the amount of $2,005,065 for 14 months to

the tenderloin community benefits district to provide litter reduction services in the tenderloin and adjacent neighborhoods of san francisco, to ensure clean sidewalks in the rights of way. any questions? thank you very much, mr. hill. always nice to see you. i sent a number of questions ahead of time, particularly for, kate. i'm sorry, i just blanked on your last name. i don't mean to be rude, kate. i just. robinson robinson? yes. robinson. no problem to address. did you receive those? i did perfect, thank you very much. yeah thank you. so, a little bit of background about our community benefit district. we are tenderloin, so we do everything differently. and our cbd was really founded by resident property owners. so from its inception in 2005 and from its inception, our benefit district has really been, had a lot of

resident leadership and has always been really community based. i came in as the executive director about a year and a half ago. although i've worked at tlc for seven years and have been in the tenderloin for 15 years, it's really the neighborhood that i love the most, and so we, we have really become a workforce and leadership development organization. when i first started, started at tlc, cbd, we had there were four of us and a clean team contract and our safe passage program that i brought in-house. it's, that's celebrating 15 years this year, and we today have 70 staff members and half of them are tenderloin residents. we operate in seven languages that are relevant to the tenderloin and,

and, we make the neighborhood better through safe. we have our safe passage program. we have our clean team that we brought in-house, last july. and we have our parks stewardship program. we also have a policy and voice program that is really focused on bringing direct, advocacy work from stakeholder who live in or own a small business in the tenderloin. and so we, you know, we actually didn't come to this, the decision to, to apply for this quickly because i think any, any rapid growth or any changes really take, a lot of consideration and it takes us into a broader area than our district. it takes us up to sutter and, you know, over to van ness. and so we talked, as, you know, a board and staff and, you know, we really made the decision to apply because we

feel that this could be the opportunity for really having a strong collaboration throughout this whole area that is deeply impacted, by, you know, a lack of safety and a lack of planning , cleanliness, and that, you know, we are now equipped for workforce development because that is what we do with, with our employees. and, and, you know, our, our goal is, is that tlc is really run by and led by residents and, and having our clean team really be a part of that pipeline of leadership development, is a good thing. so i'm really encouraged. you know, we've been meeting with the dpw, team over the last several weeks, on clean coordination, on

on how to really improve our we still use the 311 connected worker app. and so we're working together to, you know, make that more efficient, make that more mutually beneficial. all so that we're seeing a real difference on the ground, it's really challenging for anybody who's cleaning in the tenderloin. and so we have to do it together there. there's nothing that can be done alone, even, to really make the difference. so we are really excited in that this can help us what we envision for this and what we proposed was that, you know, because this is really focused on, litter pickup, sweeping, you know, pan and broom and that we would then have our current clean team of 16. so this doubles our clean team, and that we would then have our current clean team leveling up into, you know,

pretty much exclusively into, power washing and graffiti abatement, which has really been off the hook. the graffiti. and so, and it gives us the opportunity to because the times in this, grant are specific in the morning, you know, 5 a.m. to 130, that we would begin a swing shift for our current clean team to really support our small businesses who are struggling. and many of them, if they're a restaurant or in the entertainment, you know, or, you know, a theater, they open in the evening and our clean team, you know, ends currently at 3:00. and so this gives us opportunity to support our small businesses. and, and yeah, so i'm, i'm incredibly excited. and we've already been talking about doing coordinated campaigns together. you know, there's a lot of education that needs to happen about what dpw role is, what tl cbd's role is, and what

we can. you know, how we can grow into more cleaning and have that impact really felt on the ground because that unless people feel it, you know, they don't think we're out there. and so, so i'm really i'm really hopeful that this can make a huge game changing impact for the tenderloin. thank you. mr. hill. do you have anything to add to what miss robinson said at this point? i have some questions, but if you wanted to add anything. no, we're just. okay no, we're just looking forward to getting started. okay. thank you, miss robinson, what is the safe passage program ? it's my baby, it it started 15 years ago from neighborhood mothers, and older youth in the tenderloin, you know, about ten years or 15 years ago, a kid went missing temporarily, and it sparked debate or, you know,

action among among, neighborhood mothers around who who's really looking after the safety of our kids. and so we were an unfunded program for six years. i used to work at chinatown cdc in resident services in the tenderloin and some of the residents in my building, had, you know, are among the moms who had the idea and they named it and they designated a route through extensive surveying of other parents and connecting schools. we have three neighborhood schools, we have three parks, we have a number of after school programs and early childhood programs, and it connects those spaces, you know, because we also have a lot of drug dealing and have for over 15 years. and so, the first thing we did was designate the route and we have a safe passage path. and then the second thing we did was develop a, our, our corner captain program, where we stand at different busy

intersections and make sure that kids and we've expanded to serve seniors and people with disabilities who need assistance in crosswalks. and we create a safe route. and it's essentially a it enacts a an emergency response. if something really serious is about to happen and, you know, maybe there's a fight or an overdose and we're about to have hundreds of kids suddenly walk home from school, and be, you know, add to their trauma by witnessing this experience or making it harder for, you know, for the individuals to receive services, you know, we reroute all the kids, no big deal. you know, to them, it's just a part of the routine. all of the after school programs are coordinated and a part of it, and we're out there every single day. and we just expanded to a 4 to 6 p.m. shift. so, it's incredible. and it's completely run by residents. we, you know, at this point, the

director, the manager, the whole team, all tenderloin residents, and i believe that's the best use of a tax assessment. thank you. i commend you and the community's resourcefulness in addressing the problems in the tenderloin in that way, those particular problems. that sounds like a fantastic program, and we're having our, our anniversary party may 2nd at phoenix hotel, 4 to 7 p.m. go to our website and get your tickets. there will be karaoke. you should come. i wanted to also ask about 311 coordination and how how that's going for the tenderloin cbd and how how you will it. you know how it will fit in with, with this program. the grant program. you know, i think that's something we'll have the expanded area won't be included on the coordinated worker app. and, and part of the

role is to create 311 requests. and then our current clean team within our district, we are that's our main dispatch. and so we are and we're doing a significant amount. and it's debated, you know, we have property owners who get upset about it, you know, and question if we're doing our zone work, if we're if we're doing so much of the 311, you know, responses. and it's also the best way for people to reach us and, and in talking with director short, especially when it's, requests that are outside of dpw scope. and so it is really something that we, you know, it's a, it's some problem solving that we have to do. and we've established it now, monthly coordination meetings, you know, with just cbd and our dp team in the tenderloin to start working on this together and figuring out the best approach for, for all of us. that's great. thank

you. and i think i'll the answer to my next question, i know which is so you will be then permitted to, perform the street cleaning services outside of the tenderloin boundaries because of the grant money. since you're not using assessment funds, correct? great. i just want to say that out loud so that and our board approved it. understand that. yes. right. because that gets sensitive and cbd's. it does. and we've already started our education kind of campaign around this. we were just together, at a meeting last thursday, a block group. we do a lot of block group organizing work and, and there's a tenderloin business coalition. we merged that group in a meeting to talk about cleanliness. and there were about 35 people there where we talked about, you know, this is what you can expect. this is what it's going to look like. here's how we're coordinating. this is what dpw does. this is what tlcbet does. so we're it's going to take some time. but but we're going to continue to educate folks around that. great. thank you. and, given

what i witnessed on my walk to city hall this morning, your services are desperately needed, to the west of the tenderloin boundaries. so i'm very pleased you'll be working as far as venice. this will, i hope, make a big difference around city hall. my last question is an important one. how do you maintain the safety of your workers, given what you've outlined goes on in the tenderloin. we've all seen it. i saw it again as my walk this morning, and especially as you mentioned, all the children going to and from schools, parks, after school programs. how do you ensure that all of the workers, both on that are paid with assessments funds through the cbd and that will be paid with these grant funds, will be safe in their work? we do extensive training, which really started from the safe passage program. we, you know, at the time we i mean, we didn't know what we were doing when we first started safe passage. and so we educated ourselves and partnered with an organization called kidpower, which is really

fantastic. and it's focused on actual practicing safety, going through scenarios, and building a real muscle memory around potential situations and exactly how you would respond. and so we, you know, we have not only an extensive protocol in our radio system, which now our parks are safe and our clean teams are fully on that coordinated communication channel. and so and, and we are bringing forth those regular trainings, safe passage trains every single day. and we want to expand that into all of our operations, and it really is about awareness and communication, you know, and, and so that's what we practice. we communicate any time something happens, even if it's, hey, i was followed into the office or, you know, somebody was following me, we make sure that we're telling people, you know, our coworkers and we and

that we're nobody's working alone. nobody is on their own, we build it into our. i mean, there's so much trauma in this work, and we it has to go somewhere. and if we want safety for the neighborhood, we have to embody that in our organization, in our operations. again, many of our staff live in the neighborhood. some of them will come in the next morning and hadn't slept the night before because there was a shooting outside of their building. and we talk about it and we make sure that they go home if that's what they need or, or just, you know, work in the office on their own if that's what they need. you know, we it's a part of our daily reality and we build in those supports because ultimately this is an organization that we want residents to be the leaders in their in their solutions for their neighborhood. and that has

to start with addressing safety and trauma and giving them the tools to, you know, be safe. so we do. that's in our dna. good. thank you. this commission has a number of times expressed concern about the safety of public works employees in neighborhoods where safety is a problem at tenderloin, the mission others. and so it is very important to us that the people that will be benefiting from the grant funding are kept safe as as much as possible while they're doing the job. and we would be happy to, you know, even operationally share our space and, you know, and have it be, you know, like a co-working situation because it really is, you know, they're going to be staff out there at five in the morning. i mean, that's a scary time actually. like, that's one of the least safe times to be out there. it's still dark. you know, that 3 a.m. until 6 a.m. time is the scariest time. and

so we, you know, we'd be happy to, you know, be coworkers with with the dpw teams and operate out of our we're going to have at least two different, operation sites and we open those up, you know, for, for co-working and, and also shared training. great. thank you. that concludes my questions, what i would like to request is at the end of the contract, which i think mr. hill said was 14 months, that you come back and let us know how everything went. oh, yeah, i, i, i could come every quarter if you want. great. well, with mr. hill on on updates but but thank you very much, miss robinson. thank you, commissioner zombie again thank you for, for coming over. i can, i can, mr. robinson. i can see the passion. in your talks. i'm assuming that tenderloin cbd is the current, holder of this of

this grant of this work. no. this contract has been dormant since june 2020. in june 2020. correction june 20th, 21 it has been dormant since june 2021. yeah i mean, i've i did hear that, in 2021, tenderloin cbd actually collected 146 tons of trash, which. no. no worries. but, again, thank you. maybe it's very possible. great job, my main, my questions are towards the process. so, mr. mister hill and i, we see panelists, giving out numbers. is there any way we can have, like an access to that for that creates how these numbers. i

mean, i don't understand like for example, number 45 in project approach. what does that mean? is that 45 out of 100, is it, certain amount of points that would actually, be collected or, or i mean, is there any way we can get a copy of that you're referring to the scoring and how the grant was awarded? yes. deputy city attorney tom, i'm going to ask you to weigh in here. just a review with us. what? the commission is permitted to, to, you know, we have to be careful. we don't get involved in awarding the contracts. we leave that to the experts. so, commissioner zombie was asking for some more detail on how the scoring works. good morning. commissioners. deputy city attorney christopher tom, i will confer with my colleagues who handle this and provide advice on this. i, and we can report back, either off the record or

at a meeting. sure. so since since, the question is going to be to you is just that the kind of out of it's like it's right there. these numbers are there just just to know the details of explanation of these of those numbers, well, i think in the past we've seen the things that are considered when they. but we can maybe get a refresher on that. is that what you're asking? what what goes into how the scores are assigned, what you know, what's subjective and objective criteria are? what do they mean in each category? what what is the expert panel looking at to make that assignment is that that's that's you're asking so like for example, the three panelists looked at the fiscal capacity of tenderloin cbd. one of them said 24. the other one said 25, the other one said 22. i have no idea what that means, and again, you know, we did ask

questions about, you know, time and time in, in business and so forth. 15 i mean, you've been there for 15 years. that should be way more than needed. but other numbers? no, i will say that is a better question for our contracts administration team, who unfortunately is not present today, but i do know that there is a rubric as far as, when a potential contractor answers questions along the lines. so it may be just as simple as, you know, we'll use the robert's rules of order book , you know, did they highlight, you know, section one, two and three when they were answering their knowledge of the robert's rules of order book? and if they only answer sections or rather sections one and two, then it's like, okay, well, three was missing. so they did not get those points for that actual score. that's just a just a crude example. but that's that's how we would, that's how they'd be scored. and also just to also explain why i'm asking these questions, we've had some nonprofits come here, stood in line and came up and said, we're

hurting because we're trying to figure out the invoices and how to get our money back and so forth. and, you know, everything could could be avoided just by understanding what the process is. but again, thank you. thank you for everything that you do in the in the tenderloin. looks like a great project. thank you. deputy secretary tom, did you want to weigh in for commissioner turner? thank you, commissioner, chair post, i perhaps, the commission could take, have available the rfp and look through the questions and the criteria contained in the rfp, i don't know if that's available readily. i imagine it would be, that would be a good place to start and perhaps frame the discussion. so this, everybody can better understand the criteria and the evaluation process. thank you. secretary

fuller, i know has made a note of that. commissioner turner, good afternoon, morning. still almost eclipse time, i just i think that this is i just have two quick things. so, one, mr. hill, i believe, in my short time here, it was in june and july, june and august of this year that we've had workforce programs come to us. but i've never seen a cbd come to us. so it was a little different for me to understand. and i and i don't know if we have enough time today, how how a cbd is, kind of isolated our funding from its, tax assessment and, and really not being careful not to commingle. i guess that's the real concern i have. and trying to understand, given that i've not seen an example of a cbd doing this. so maybe that's something that you can help us as, i don't know about quarterly, but when you come back, i would just like to

understand how did we accomplish this, given that i don't have an example of a cbd, engaging in this work, the second, and i think it's tied to, commissioner zoghbi's question, and i think it's a routine thing. when director robertson was here. debbie. director robertson was here, we did mention some of our nonprofits who have now started to engage in this work, trying to kind of navigate the reimbursement process and those type of things. and it did lead to a broader question on. well, given that these contracts are reimbursable financial capacity and resources to be able to maintain this reimbursement, i'd like to say two things. one, i'm proud of our department, because the reimbursement process is pretty straightforward. and i think that the technical assistance and support is provided to our partners, is above, reproach. so i really want to thank you for that. but i do think, given that you do have these new nonprofits. thank you, who are bringing back dormant contracts, more importantly, doing the important

work. i would like a report back on this question of. and i don't know if it's really about the rfp more so than it is now that our nonprofit partners, particularly new ones, are engaged. how are they navigating the reimbursement process? and as our technical assistance really meeting their needs? i think the question is, yes, given the last six months, but i do think that's a reasonable report back, given some of the dynamics and some of the uniqueness and newness that we're all engaging in. well, miss robinson, have you has the tenderloin cbd ever received any other public works department grants or any city grants that you can recall? and how is that reimbursement? i mean, we don't want to compare ourselves to other departments, but i presume you're already set up to segregate assessment funds from any grant funds. yes many actually, you know, our tax assessment is only at this point a third of our budget. we do a lot of fundraising above the assessment. and so, we, we definitely have that mechanism internally and have just

successfully completed, audits every year for the last three years. and in our most recent one came back with nothing. nothing. you know. no, no needs for changes. and so we've, we have really gotten into a better financial system, you know, the, the whole last year of our organization was no growth. it was really building stronger systems after growth during the pandemic. and so, so we do feel equipped, but it's also really important to make sure that the property owners know that the business owners know. and so, you know, even operationally, our teams are going to have different branding and different, you know, they it will say cbd, but it's going to be different colors, different, you know, trucks, you know, for those operations outside of the district so that it's just it's absolutely delineated. and, i do think it's really important that

you're bringing up the, the reimbursement basis because, i mean, we do have other government grants, and it really is hard on an organization, especially when it's payroll, you know, to, to, you know, for an organization to essentially front that money, you know, for, for operations daily operations and then have a reimbursement. and so we've been really grateful, you know, to have communication with dpw around and put in our, in our proposal that we would have to have, you know, a percentage up front to, to ramp up because there are things that we have to make purchases or get them on our systems of you know, our radios, our, you know, we want to have an air system and, and, uniforms, recruitment, training, all of those take, you know, funds to ramp up. and so we're we are really appreciative. i don't think we would have we

would be able to do it otherwise . so just to recap, you are confident in your conversations with public works that the reimbursement system that you have arranged with the department will be successful and allow you to fulfill the grant requirements? yes. great. thank you. any other questions or comments for miss robinson or mr. hill? i just i just want to clarify, while i we're accepting it today, i still would like a report back as to actually how this is progressing, i do believe that, your early inclination, but also your history working with reimbursements, i do think that we want to make sure we get it right. we want to make sure that we're supportive. and i've heard the department want to make sure it remains streamlined. and, the reason saying that is life is going to happen. and so we want to make sure when it happens, one, we're not a newspaper, but second, we really want to make sure that this expanded area, which is very much needed, is something that we really

dedicate resources to. so i do want to encourage, and i know that deputy director robinson is not here, but i do want to understand that. and mr. warren also, thank you. thank you. if there are no other questions or comments, please open this item to public comment chair post. we will need a motion. i beg your pardon. i move that we award the , workforce development grant to the tenderloin community benefit district second. now please open the motion on public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on the motion to approve item five, the tenderloin clean workforce development grant agreement award, may line up against the wall for this from the door. and if commenting from outside the chamber, please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star three on your phone to be recognized. and it appears we do not have any in-person

commenters on this item. and sfgovtv is also informed me we do not have any callers wishing to speak on this item. so that concludes public comment. thank you. if there's no further questions or comments, all in favor of awarding this grant, please say yes or i, i, i it passes unanimously. the grant will be awarded and i want to thank mr. hill and miss robinson again for their, very interesting comments and helpful comments today. and we will work with the department to address commissioner zarb and commissioner turner's, request for updates. and as we go along. so thank you both very much. secretary fuller, please call the next item, item six is new business initiated by commissioners. this is an opportunity for commissioners to suggest business for a future agenda. and it is an informational item. do any

commissioners have an item of new business? i do not hear any, so please open this item to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on item six. new business initiated by commissioners may line up against the wall for this from the door. and if you are commenting from outside the chamber, please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star three on your phone to be recognized. and no one has approached to speak on this item in person and sfgovtv has also let me know that there are no callers on this item either. so that concludes public comment. thank you. and i believe we do not need, item seven, which is general public comment continued. that is correct. so as was pointed out, our next meeting is monday, april 22nd at 9:00 in this room. that is the kickoff for public works week

and is simultaneous to the 49 south van ness open house. so as i said, we will do our level best to adjourn. so that commissioners and staff and the public who wish to attend the open house can still make it while it while it goes on and we are adjourning today in time for anyone who wants to see our partial eclipse here in the bay area. see it. so thank you very much and see you in a couple of weeks.

when i shoot chinatown, i shoot the architecture that people not just events, i shoot what's going on in daily life and everything changes. murals, graffiti, store opening. store closing. the bakery. i shoot anything and everything in chinatown. i shoot daily life. i'm a crazy animal. i'm shooting for fun.

that's what i love. >> i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer for the last i think about 20 years. i joined the chinese historical society. it was a way i could practice my society and i can give the community memories. i've been practicing and get to know everybody and everybody knew me pretty much documenting the history i don't just shoot events. i'm telling a story in whatever photos that i post on facebook, it's just like being there from front to end, i do a good job

and i take hundreds and hundreds of photos. and i was specializing in chinese american history. i want to cover what's happening in chinatown. what's happening in my community. i shoot a lot of government officials. i probably have thousands of photos of mayor lee and all the dignitaries. but they treat me like one of the family members because they see me all the time. they appreciate me. even the local cops, the firemen, you know, i feel at home. i was born in chinese hospital 1954. we grew up dirt poor. our family was lucky to grew up. when i was in junior high, i had a degree in hotel management restaurant. i was working in the restaurant

business for probably about 15 years. i started when i was 12 years old. when i got married, my wife had an import business. i figured, the restaurant business, i got tired of it. i said come work for the family business. i said, okay. it's going to be interesting and so interesting i lasted for 30 years. i'm married i have one daughter. she's a registered nurse. she lives in los angeles now. and two grandsons. we have fun. i got into photography when i was in junior high and high school. shooting cameras. the black and white days, i was able to process my own film. i wasn't really that good because you know color film and processing was expensive and i

kind of left it alone for about 30 years. i was doing product photography for advertising. and kind of got back into it. everybody said, oh, digital photography, the year 2000. it was a ghost town in chinatown. i figured it's time to shoot chinatown store front nobody. everybody on grand avenue. there was not a soul out walking around chinatown. a new asia restaurant, it used to be the biggest restaurant in chinatown. it can hold about a 1,000 people and i had been shooting events there for many years. it turned into a supermarket.

and i got in. i shot the supermarket. you know, and its transformation. even the owner of the restaurant the restaurant, it's 50 years old. i said, yeah. it looks awful. history. because i'm shooting history. and it's impressive because it's history because you can't repeat. it's gone it's gone. >> you stick with her, she'll teach you everything. >> cellphone photography, that's going to be the generation. i think cellphones in the next two, three years, the big cameras are obsolete already. mirrorless camera is going to take over market and the cellphone is going to be

better. but nobody's going to archive it. nobody's going to keep good history. everybody's going to take snapshots, but nobody's going to catalog. they don't care. >> i want to see you. >> it's not a keepsake. there's no memories behind it. everybody's sticking in the cloud. they lose it, who cares. but, you know, i care. >> last september of 2020, i had a minor stroke, and my daughter caught it on zoom. i was having a zoom call for my grand kids. and my daughter and my these little kids said, hey, you sound strange. yeah. i said i'm not able to speak

properly. they said what happened. my wife was taking a nap and my daughter, she called home and said he's having a stroke. get him to the hospital. five minutes later, you know, the ambulance came and took me away and i was at i.c.u. for four days. i have hundreds of messages wishing me get well soon. everybody wished that i'm okay and back to normal. you know, i was up and kicking two weeks after my hospital stay. it was a wake-up call. i needed to get my life in order and try to organize things especially organize my photos.

>> probably took two million photos in the last 20 years. i want to donate to an organization that's going to use it. i'm just doing it from the heart. i enjoy doing it to give back to the community. that's the most important. give back to the community. >> it's a lot for the community. >> i was a born hustler. i'm too busy to slow down. i love what i'm doing. i love to be busy. i go nuts when i'm not doing anything. i'm 67 this year. i figured 70 i'm ready to retire. i'm wishing to train a couple for photographers to take over my place. the younger generation, they have a passion, to document the history because it's going to

be forgotten in ten years, 20 years, maybe i will be forgotten when i'm gone in a couple years but i want to be remembered for my work and, you know, photographs will be a remembrance. i'm frank jane. i'm a community photographer. this is my story. >> when you're not looking, frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p

>> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest, carolyn mante. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you are watching san francisco the stow about restaffing rebuilding and reimaging the city. the guest is carolyn manteto talk about the organization is helping to preserve the city cultural heritage and architecture. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me e. >> good to have you here. >> can we talk bat the

history of your organization and the mission. >> sure, thank you. san francisco heritage started 51 years ago and the main mission is to preserve and enhance the architectural and cultural identity of san francisco. when it started out the focus was really on the buildings, historic landmark listings and really concentrated on downtown area with all the development happening. our organization was raising a reg red flag with historic landmarks in danger and victorian mansions so a hallmark of our organization is moving these victorian mansions in the way of development to inwestern addition neighborhood and other areas to get out of the way of development and preserve them. our organization was around before there was the historic preservation commission of the city so we were at the forefront drawings attention to

historic preservation, landmarking and over the last 51 years we have seen how there are more then just buildsings in safeguarding the city cultural resources, there is also small businesses and the different neighborhood icons that make a neighborhood special, so our outreach has really-it is really come full circle in a way because it moved downtown into the neighborhoods and now with the covid epidemic it is really going back to downtown again looking at how we can play a role in the economic recovery and revitalization of downtown san francisco. >> that's great. so, now i understand your organization is also responsible for maintaining a couple properties. could you tell us a little about those? >> yes, our non profit was gifted in 1973, the historic (inaudible) house. it is now a historic house museum but this was a family since

1886 built this victorian mansion in the same family year after year and one of the last resident of the family when she passed way gifted the mansion to san francisco heritage so since then we have been running this historic house and the home of our office. in 2018, one of the long time members nor aa lasten gifting a building on the e h-as hate polk became a commercial corridor after the earthquake, the owner at the time, he raised the house and put 6 store front underneath in order to take advantage of the commerce so we are in charge of the house on the corner and it has been a wonderful

way to get new numbers, new audiences interested in the work of our organization. during the pandemic, we have been using it as a artson residents and partnering with different bay area artists as well as cultural institutions, cultural districts and then one of the storefronts we converted into a pop up galleries so gives a opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of the art and cultural resources in san francisco. >> that's fantastic. so, now, let's talk about legacy business. what does the designation mean? how does somebody get add today the legacy business registry and what benefits does being named a legacy business? >> i love this program. it was started by san francisco heritage and adopt ed by the city and run by the office of small business but the program looks what are the businesses really contributing

to san francisco and the neighborhood. when we started the first focus was bars and restaurants but over the years it exb panded to include other businesses so these are places that contribute to the character of a neighborhood, so sam's grill downtown, the amazingarian press in the presidio. book stores like city lights oergreen apple recently named. this year we had a lot of attention on the legacy business program. we put out a contest to the public of what you think should be the next legacy business and one of the businesses that was recommended was the club deluxe, jazz club on the corner, and 2 or 3 days after we launched the contest, the owners announced they would have to close. the rent was driven up, they couldn't afford it, coming out of the pandemic so we worked at speed to get

that application submitted with them and that status convinced their landlord to negotiate with them a lower rent and this way they have been able to stay, there was a lot of social media support around this, so when you become a legacy business, not only do you get marketing and business support from the office of small business, but you also eligible for grants and we work closely with the legacy businesses as we do our work for san francisco heritage. >> that's great. so, apart from architecture and buildings, you also work with cultural districts, and the castro theater strikes me as a place that is both. a beautiful building and cultural hub and center. what has been happening with the recent acquisition by new owners; >> it is leased to another planet entertainment and been in contact with planet

entertainment by the castro theater is historic land mark building. it is recognized as a very important architectural monument. one thing-one of the main activist organizations of the preservation of the theater we work together with supervisor mandelman on a interior landmark historic landmark designation for interior, but what happened over the is summer and people learned is there is a lot of concern not just by san franciscans but people all over the world, movie directors, stars who are very concerned about the risk to the lgbtq and film programming at the

castro theater. another planet hosted community stakeholder in august, and it was so moving to see the number of people who took the microphone-everyone had two minutes to say their testimony of what castro theater meant to them and those testimonys showed this building is contributing not just as a architectural monument but plays a role in the lgbtq community that is irrelaceuble able. >> it is beautiful theater. >> it is. my involvement in the theater raised awareness to not only the castro theater to be emblematic of the lgbtq culture and history but also there are many other sites in the city that also contribute to the identity. that is why so many people come to san francisco as a place of freedom and diversity so in my

previous work i worked at the world heritage center, so when i joined san francisco heritage i was thinking why isn't san francisco a world heritage city? for the architecture alone it could be inscribed. golden gate bridge to name a few but the city is so unique in the architecture, the mansioned and historic landmarks so hoping to start a conversation on that with city stakeholders this year. >> that is great. let's talk about your relationship with other agencies. you mentioned economic and office of work force development and planning commission. how do you unt integrate to them? >> these relationships are essential. we are working with office of small business for the legacy business program and the planning department is really one of our most crucial relationships. we

meet quarterly with them and we really see how we can support not only historic land mark listings and historical cultural context statements, strategy for culture districts and city survey among many other activities that really are of concern to both of us. for the office of workforce development, i attended a etmooing recently that the chamber of commerce organized with them on the downtown revitalization and a key goal in that meeting and in the downtown revitalization is to make sure that the city historic culture resources play a key #r0e8 in the economic recovery and revitalization especially after the pandemic. the office of workforce development has the city build program which is admirable program where youth are trained in construction techniques for rebuilding and especially with the new housing legislation, and we really want to

see how can that workforce be expanded to include training in historic preservation. we have so many victorian homes, historic buildings and other places that really need a skilled labor force to make sure that they are preserved and that they help keep the special identify of the city. we really value these relationships, we meet quarterly with the various organizations and we are really grateful for grants of the arts we receive and other supports so definitely that is a key relationship for san francisco heritage. >> the city build is great. i like that a lot. thank you so much for the time you have given today. appreciate you coming on the show. >> thank you so much raising awareness about san francisco heritage. we hope the people watching will join us in the mission to help keep san francisco special. thank you. >> that's it for this

episode. we'll be back shortly. i'm chris manners, thanks g.

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