>> okay, good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco planning commission meeting for thursday june 20, 2024 hearing. when we reach the item you are interested in speaking to, we ask you line up on the screen side of the room to your right. each speaker is allowed 3 minutes. when your allotted time is reached i will announce your time is up and take the next person to speak. please speak clearly and slowly and state your name for the record. the commission does not

tolerate disruption or outburst of any kind and i'll ask we silence mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. i will take roll at this time. diamond, here. moore, here. braun, here. imperial, here. koppel, here. williams, here. we expect commissioner so to be absent today. first is consideration of items proposed for continuance, 1 and b. 2022-009794drp, 1153 guerrero street. proposed for continuance to july 11, 2024. two, case 2022-000438drp, 320-322 frederick street. proposed for continuance to july 11, 2024.

item 3, 58 buena vista terrace, proposed for indeafinant continuance and 4a and b. for property ot305 libber street. conditional use authorization and variance proposed for indefinite continuance. at this time, we should open public comment on your continuance calendar. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on any items proposed for continuance only on the matter of continuance. seeing none, public comment is closed and your continuance calendar is before you commissioners. >> commissioner imperial. >> move to continue all items proposed. >> second. >> thank you commissioners. on the motion, williams, aye.

braun, aye. imperial, aye. koppel, aye. moore, aye. diamond, aye. so moved, the motion passes 6-0. >> for the two variances i'll also continue the variances as proposed. >> thank you mr. zoning administrator. on your consent calendar. all matters considered to be routine and may be acted by a single roll call vote. there is no separate discussion unless a member of the commission or public or staff request. in which event the matter is removed and considered as a separate item at this or future hearing. 5, case 2024-000653cua, 2001 van ness avenue.

item 6, existing awning amnesty program. item 7, 2023-009959cua. 1948 sutter street. conditional use authorization. again recollect member of the public thiss is your opportunity to be be requested any items on consent be pulled off and considered today or at another hearing. seeing none, public comment is closed and the consent calendar is before you. >> commissioner imperial. >> move to approve all. >> second. >> thank you. on the motion to approve consent calendar, williams, aye. braun, aye. imperial, aye. koppel, more. aye. moore, aye. diamond, aye. motion passes 6-0 placing under commission items for item 8mentf >> commissioner imperial will read the

land acknowledgment today. >> we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> thank you. item 9, consideration of adoption draft minutes for june 6, 2024. members of the public, if you like to address the commission on the minutes, this is your opportunity to do so. seeing no one coming forward,

public comment is closed and minutes are before you commissioners. >> commissioner imperial. >> move to adopt the minutes. >> second. >> thank you. on the motion to adopt, williams, aye. braun, aye. imperial, aye. koppel, aye. moore, aye. diamond, aye. so moved commissioners. the motion passes 6-0. item 10, commission comments and questions. >> commissioner koppel. >> so, today i do have some slightly unfortunately news. seeing nigh term is ending shortly, i decided to take the numerous hours and days we spend looking at the packet working on the commission items to focus more on my day job, which is and has been focusing on the electrical industry i'm still a strong part of, so today i am announcing this may be my last hearing. if we have more, i'll be here

until then, but it is time for me to just focus and put my time and energy where it belongs. i would like to say a number of thanks. first of all, to fellow commissioners, expresident rodney fong and now director rich hillis who taught me early on and didn't know how to use the microphone properly so thank you to them. commend dennis richard to brings truth to this commission and also want to thank commissioner moore for actually listening to me. so, i [indiscernible] she listened to me when i had stuff to say and concerns, so thank you. also wanted to thank the president of the san francisco building trades council, larry mazzola for his leadership. [indiscernible] local 6 union hall and

through the electrical contractor association for allowing me the time to put towards this very strenuous position. [indiscernible] still a proud graduate of there and wanted to just give a shout out to all the working class residents of the city that get up and do a job and go to work. i was a second year apprentice working at a temporary palace fine arts building, carrying a 12 foot wooden ladder which is extremely heavy, wearing a hard hat and safety glasses and mask and overalls, my tool belt, bringing up power tools to the top of the ladder, installing light fixtures and said this is real work. this is hard work. as the sweat dripped down my head as i saw-as the days and months and weeks all the scars built up on my hands building this city.

i actually earned my pay check, earned a chance to stay in the city, earned a chance to buy a house in the city. i took the bus and road my bike to every job site. i had apartment on hayes seat and bought my house in the sunset but never take for granted the people who risk their lives when they show up to work every day, whether construction workers, fireman, police officers, especially those electricians and elevator mechanics we just-it is a little more dangerous the stuff we have to deal with and think to this day we are taken for granted. keep showing up for work everybody and all the contractors that employ these workers. we don't just become electricians or construction workers, we have to get trained and trained properly at a training center that teaches properly how to do these dangerous jobs so you can properly earn your pay check. throughout the tenor of my career up here i had reoccurring themes i like

for hopefully you to carry on and a lot has do with something that is in the general plan. under the commerce and industry section and it makes a really important distinction between residents and tourist and what i felt since day 1, we should prioritize our local businesses, our local residents, our local construction workers to build our city. i don't think it is a good idea to have contractors from outside the city. i don't think it is good idea to bring in workers from outside the city, and a lot of our workers were displaced and used to live here. someone who used to live here and displaced i don't think they are tourists. hats off to those in disadvantage neighborhoods. i always have been on your side helping along the way and will be and challenge who ever replaces me to bring half the stylist suit game i have been bringing here this whole time.

[laughter] even half the quality. enough about me. that's it. we got a hearing to do. [applause] >> commissioner koppel, i'm so sorry to hear this news. your voice has been so valuable on this commission. as you just said, your attention to the needs to the people who work here has been consistent and persistent throughout my five years on the commission, and i have appreciated the focus you have had on that issue and making sure that it is front and center in our decision making. i also want to thank you for how welcoming you were to me personally when i first joined the commission. i really appreciated the reach-out and the warm embrace of my entry into the commission.

it was just really really--i just think that your absence will be felt in a very very strong way. i see vice president moore would like to speak next. >> commissioner koppel, thank you for your service. what most impressed me about you, is the consistency for what you stand and for what you taught me through your consistency and your unwavering clarity when you speak about labor. i do appreciate that much more then perhaps i can summarize in the few minutes i have, but with it came not just having a position on something, with it came who you really are. transparent, clear and principaled. something i really appreciate in your work and your consistent

standing by issues when you need to. again, you will be missed. we worked together for many many many years and i always have to answer my question right after you, so i will probably hear the resonance of your name for a long time to come. it is hard to say something profound and meaningful, but let me say thank you and thank you for your services. >> commissioner braun. >> i just want to echo the thanks commissioner koppel and how much i appreciate your long tenure on the commission. it is a very big commitment and you have done it a long time. it is a well earned break to focus on your work. i really valued your perspective and the time i have been on the commission with you and your commitment to both labor as well as the importance of safety and insuring the safety of the projects that come before us.

i'm definitely going to miss having you on the commission and thanks again for your service. >> commissioner imperial. >> thank you commissioner koppel and i really appreciate the friendliness when i came on as a commissioner and i also appreciate your perspective when it comes to safety. i remember [indiscernible] really really mad about it, and it is something that is important that public to know and also when you speak about labor, actually there are times i would like yes, he's right about this. and also your perspective on the cannabis. i think those are really important issues as well. i really appreciate your presence here in the commission and i wish you could have stayed longer. i know you have tenure that

have longer, but i will miss your presence and your voice. thank you. >> commissioner williams. >> joel, sorry to see you go. you know, i relate to you a lot being in the trades, building trades, coming up here in san francisco. even though you are from the sunset, i'm from the mission and excelsior, but we have a lot of cominalities, like the time you told me your baseball goes to wolfs batting cages on mission street, i also went there as a youngster. i appreciate the connections we have. i appreciate and respect everything you do for the electrical union and for the apprenticeship. it means a lot to you. that means a lot to me too. i appreciate everything you

brought to the commission, even though i wasn't able to be with you, sit with you a long period of time, i respect you and i wish you the best moving forward. i know you will be successful in whatever you choose to do because you are just that guy and i'm going to miss those suits. [laughter] >> director hillis. >> thank you for everything. it has been a pleasure serving with you both on the commission and joel was the president when we were out during covid and so we talked every day practically during covid from home and managing that situation and managing us through it tremendously. i thank you. anyone you speak on the commission you see everybody else nod your head. i think when a time folks disagreed with you, it is very rare because i think you put san francisco first in

all your decisions and san franciscans whether working san franciscans or residents, so i think it is something that is going to be difficult if not impossible to fill and thank you for bringing that perspective to the commission on all you have done. much appreciated. >> i'll chime in as well. joel, thank you for your all most 8 years of service. former commission president koppel. if there is nothing further commissioners, if you could also further indulge me and just that we have nothing on your advanced calendar for next thursday hearing and if there is no opposition we'll send a cancellation notice for next thursday and july 4 holiday, so you are given a two week break. >> thank you. >> commissioners that places under

department matters. director announcements. >> nothing from me. >> 12, review of past events at board of supervisor and board of apreels. appeals. >> good afternoon. odd rumaloney and echo on behalf of staff. thank you commissioner koppel for always treating staff with respect and kindness. so, with that, on the board report. there is one item of interest at land use committee this week. this was supervisor peskin's polk street neighborhood commercial which creates exception to allow store front merger and large use for limited restaurant uses designated legacy businesses in the polk street. you all heard this item last week and voted approval with two modifications. as reminders, those were first to remove the prohibition on store front mergers and second, conditionally permit uses that are 2500

square feet or greater and remove the 4,000 square foot non residential use size cap. supervisor peskin chose not to incorporate these recommended modifications. there were 2 public comments in support from the family who owned bop's donet and share appreciation for support and goals to relocate and expand. the item was sent with positive recommendation to full board and at the full board this week there were no planning department related items. thank you. >> good afternoon president dimand, commissioners, the board of appeals did not meet last night. >> commissioners if no questions, we can move to general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission accept agenda items. with respect to agenda items,

your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. when the number of speakers exceed the 15 minute limit general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. >> late 2016 commissioner koppel is when you came? you replaced commissioner [indiscernible] i remember that. i'm sorry. especially leaving now with the rezoning. you are getting out before you know--anyway, i do want to say one thing. i always liked when you were president. you always said thank you to whoever spoke and i thought that was really nice. the other thing i like you said was in january of 2019, before covid hit, i raised the issue about the demo calics you were the only commissioner who publicly said about what the demo calic and director [indiscernible] laughed it off which was not fair.

that is the story. and that is quhie i sent that letter this week about [indiscernible] because it raised so many questions for me. i sit there thinking, what am i hearing? here's section 317, it is all the same definition. whether building department, or the so call tantamount definitions which are not called that in 317. they are just about what is removed so it raised all kinds of questions. i liked at bruno heights and there is no interpretation. sorry mr. teague, no interpretation for demolition part of the bernal heights sud. no interpretation for section 317, so totally puzzled and why i wrote the 5 page letter with all the exhibits because it is not just about bernal heights it is how section 317 and implemented and what i said.

the bernal heights thing is like, you can do in bernal heights is exactly why section 317 was written. didn't want to have alteration that just left a little bit of the building and that was the whole point and didn't understand why that is the case in bernal height s and still don't, particularly given the fact there is no alteration permit with this project. it is just a demo and building permit and the whole point was had a demolition permit. needed to have a demolition permit. really confused. please read my letter. law of the day, i raise that question in the letter too. law of the day, cited at the hearing a hour and a half before. law of the day. what does that mean for 317? interpretation and permit applications. i think the commission needs to assert your legislative authority for

section 3172b and polish up the demo calcs. that -thank you very much. it is questions. i don't want to play got yeah, it is questions. i want clarification. thank you very much. >> thank you. last call for general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. we can move to your regular calendar for item 13. office development annual limit program update. a informational presentation. >> if i can get the overhead,

please. good afternoon president diamond, commissioners. corey teague. here to talk about the office development annual limit program and more specifically impacts of proposition c, which passed earlier this year. just outline of what we'll talk about today. give backgrond on the program itself. we have newer commissioners that had a lot of presentations about the actual program and history and mechanics so provide a little background and go if to the specifics of the amendments to the program under prop c and how we plan to implement those provisions. so, what is the office development annual limit program? it is essentially a regulation to limit major office development each year. it is a city wide program, not specific to any particular zoning districts or parts of the city. it applies to any office development of 25 thousand square feet or more

in the city, and it essentially every year gives the city 950 thousand square feet of office space to allocate to projects and two different buckets. what we call the small cap and large cap. we get 75 thousand square feet per year in the small cap for office projects between 25 thousand square feet and 49.999 square feet. and then the large cap, we get 850 thousand square feet towards projects of 50 thousand square feet or more. so, all these projects if you require office allocation must come through the planning commission. the planning commission is the body that does grant or deny office allocations and each year and each separate bucket, large cap and small cap, any unallocated office space gets rolled over to the next year. over the course of years and decades, sometimes the amount in each

pot goes way up and sometimes drawn way down depending on development psychos. cycles. office allocations can be revoked by the planning commission because they are not moving quickly enough to meet performance period or we have projects allocated a certain amount of office space and end up not using it all. sometimes it is institutional use and we can pull that space into the appropriate pot. again, if it is small cap project, anything goes back to small cap and large cap goes back to large cap. there are exceptions to these rules. state and federal office buildings, do not require local approval, so those do not come to the planning commission for allocation, but the program still requires we account for them. when those projects begin construction, we do have to take that square footage out of the large or small cap and for port and redevelopment

projects, there are different types of projects and different parts of the port and different redevelopment plans with different rules, so whether or not those have to come to planning commission varies but regardless the program has to account for the projects and pull the square footage out of the respective cap. for city and county office projects, those buildings are completely exempt from the plan. not required to get allocation and they are not pulled from the program. very quick history, the program started as part of the downtown plan in 1985 and adopted by the board of supervisors, a temporary three year program and captured 50 thousand square feet or more and certain amount of space could be allocated. intended to term out and there were lots of exceptions for different projects that wouldn't require allocation and that was adopted

by the board. could have been amended by the boards, but the policy year under proposition m the voters adopted, it took that more limited program and turned into a permanent program and made it a program that accounted for the smaller projects, the small cap, 25 thousand-50 thousand square feet and because it was a program adopted through ballot measure it can obviously be amended to ballot measure. which brings to 2020 the last time modify said under proposition e. at that time, we were going into 2020 in a very different development and office market. we had very low availability, high demand for office space, but proposition e made a number of changes to the program. first, it substantially altered the criteria for review for allocations for the planning commission to consider for each case.

most notably, it tied how much aufsh office space we have available each year to allocate to how well we mean our rhna targets. it is proportional if we are only meeting 50 percent of our rhna affordability goals from the year prior, we only get 50 percent of the annual allotment the following year. that was a big change. the other couple changes are in recognition that the caps were very low, but there was high demand. there were provisions to allow projects that provided enough on site affordable housing to still be allocated even if it went beyond the cap had available. same thing, central soma there were special provisions to continue to move forward up to a limit and those projects would be accounted for by drawing down 10 percent the next 10 years, even if it was taking the program into the red.

those were very unique and new provisions added in 2020 under prop e. again, we focus today on prop c, so if there are questions about the program itself or proposition e, happy to go into more detail. as of today, the current balances in the large cap we have nearly 290 thousand square feet and small cap, little over 400 thousand square feet and in central soma reserve, which is the pot central soma projects can pull from until enough housing is developed there, we have 730 thousand square feet. essentially, the annual allotment, where the program reups every year is october 17 each year. we send that out every year at that time. proposition c, what is it? it did a few different things. it was just adopted in march. one thing it does, unrelated to

the program, it exempts conversions of non-residential buildsings to residential buildings from the real estate transfer tax. like a incentive for converting downtown office buildings et cetera, to residential. the other two things that it does are specific to the program. first, it allows existing office if there is proposal to demolish existing office and build a new larger office building to essentially give credit for that demolished office space, which the program doesn't do now. for example, if you have hundred thousand square foot office bidding and you want to fully demolish and build a 500 thousand square foot office building you need allocation of 500 thousand square feet. if you demolish it you lose it. this does change it now so in the same scenario you only have allocation of 400 thousand square feet and gives credit for the existing office

space. that was one small change. the more specific issue we will talk about today is it created essentially a conversion and demolition program and we'll go into what the specifics that are. it essentially says that any conversion of office space or demolition of office space of 10 thousand square feet or more that occurred in 1986 till march this year, that we can document the zoning administrator has until september 1 this year to publish inventory of the projects and square footages and all that square footage is added back to the large cap. so, for example, 100 van ness was a office building here not far away on van ness, converted to residential. maybe 10 years ago now.

not sure the exact timeline. that is a similar projeth. ect. existing office space between 86 and now and converted to different use. theoretically under this program that can do this process-the square footage can be pulled back into the large cap. prop c says the zoning administrator does have to develop a process to give the public a opportunity to review and provide meaningful comment on the list. working back from september 1, which actually september 1 is the sunday leading into the holiday, so we are talking about august 30. the plan is to in early to mid-july develop the draft inventory of these projets. we are still working, it is very initial at this point to try to identify these conversions and demolitions that occurred since 1986, but to publish a draft

inventory and that timeline. we announce that at planning commission hearing, put it on our website. we also have an office annual limit program e-mail list that we use to mail out information, including every october 17 when everything is updated, so we send the information out to that e-mail list as well to give the public a opportunity to review that draft inventory and also provide comment on that draft inventory. and then, again, after about a month of public review and comment period, then that will leave anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks for the development of the final list, which would be again, issued no later then august 30 and that is requirement under prop c. the september 1 is hard deadline, so that is the praiss over the summer to develop the list, issue for

public to review, receive comment, do a final letter of inventory and issue that by essentially august 30. i don't have any projections at this point in terms how much square footage we think may be included. now it is very preliminary of starting to pull together projects that may fall under that list. this is public hearing and announcement to the public, if there are any members of the public who have projects they think will qualify they are more then welcome to reach out with the information prior to the publication of the draft inventory in july. i realize i went through all that which is on this slide. one slide behind. that is essentially what we wanted to just make the planning commission awar of. there is no official role or action for the planning commission in this process. it falls on the zoning administrator to administratively run the process but we wanted you to be aware that on

the front end and of course, on the back end whenever final inventory is published and finalized and added back to the inventory. we'll be back before you to give you the results. that concludes the presentation and available for any questions you may have. >> if there are no questions we should take public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. >> thank you. thank you mr. teague for this handout. i guess i will say is not specifically germane to the inventory, but peripheral to it. one of my concerns and i think i talked about before is, when this conversion happens of office to housing the older buildings downtown that is viable may be vulnerable to conversion

because i think they are easier to do then the big towers that are empty with the large floor plates. for example, i get my hair cut on kearney street in a nice older building. it would be nice to turn it into apartments, it has big windows but that is full of tenants and would be a shame to see a speculative development to occur. i don't know if this precipitates that, but i think it is concern. there was a article in the wall street journal on june 11 and i made a copy for mr. teague and it is about calgary and how they are do it up there but not doing affordable housing and how they are able to get away with it. that is something to think about going forward with there office allocation thing. i guess i'll just say, i'm glad prop m

passed in 1986, because if it hadn't we might have a lot more empty offices downtown and around the city, so that's it. thanks a lot and good luck to you and thank you again and take care. have fun. >> last call for public comment. okay, remote caller. >> good afternoon. this is sue ester who had a role in adoption of prop f. i would just--i appreciated what corey just explained, but i would --please put this on the calendar for discussion, even though you don't have [difficulty hearing speaker] i think having the conversation

about the [indiscernible] by having it topic of discussion at a planning commission meeting would help you understand the public to understand and even mr. teague understand that-i have advanced calendar in front of me. probably one of the days in september is really a good day. september 12 or september 19. i would just ask the planning commission to take incentive of setting a date. even though there is no staff report, mr. teague's report and the public should be able to comment. thank you very much. >> last call for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. this informational item is

before you commissioners. >> commissioner imperial. >> thank you. i have a question on the relation between prop e and prop c. i guess just something to clarify for me is, as looking into the prop e goals is--now that we have prop c and of course there is a lot of you know, the central soma doesn't really-hasn't built that much of office space at this point, and so let's say an office space that's built in central soma, it is already built and being converted into housing, i guess my-because prop c is when you build a office

building that should have equivalent to the portion of affordable housing or housing. but with prop c, now that you are converting it to housing, so the idea now is that let's say that building of 50 thousand square feet that will give to the large cap, but how will that pertain to the calculation of the housing? >> thank you for that question. might be helpful to think of prop e and prop c in two different ways. prop e is very much about how can we allocate space as one prong, the other prong is how much space do we have to allocate. tied to affordable housing with rhna. prop c is purely just about how much we have in the pot. it is purely a process of adding more space into the large cap

through the specific process of identifying projects that were converted or demolished since 1986. one thing i failed to mention in the presentation is, this initial timeline is required in a prop c, but september 1. the first publication of the inventory, but it also very clear ly states that going forward in future years if more projects are identified the inventory can be and should be updated and same process should occur for those future updates. so, for prop e, i might need to dig into your question more, because there is two ways to interact with affordable housing. one is on kind of the supply side. again if we don't build enough affordable housing the year prior we get less office space to allocate the next year. secondly, there is project specific

affordable housing issues which says if we don't have enough in the pot, say there is only hundred thousand square feet in the large cap and there is a office project thatp wants to build 300 thousand square feet, we will let you do that if you provide in the project enough affordable housing, the affordable housing demand created by the office space. if you do that on-site, we'll still let you go ahead and get that allocation and you have to pay it down every 10 years. that is a option, not a requirement. those two aspects of prop e related to affordable housing, rhna aspect and project by project aspect shouldn't be impacted by prop c because that is one time infusion of more office space into the large cap, with the potential for smaller updates in the future. >> prop c doesn't really have

any mandates on whether it should be just affordable housing? >> right. prop c doesn't really impact a individual projects, accept for the one aspect mentioned of, if a project includes demolition of an existing office building, they retain the credit for that office space. >> thank you for that clarification. >> sure. >> i agree with mrs. hester in terms of having this--i assuming that mr. teague, you will have by september 1 and perhaps for us in september will have-good for us to have informational hearing around that time and also looking forward to that inventory list. thank you. >> commissioner braun. >> my first question is

answered by somebody else. my question is, i'm curious to hear more about the methods used to identify the office buildings that may have been demolished and you are using to gather that information. how is that process working? >> at this point the method is anything and everything available. we have certain amount of institutional knowledge in the department, because usually large conversions or projects we worked on in the department. obviously there are other agencies in the city that may have information relative to this, like deparchlt of building inspection, but we again we will be reaching out proactively and have the option to receive input from all the other folks in the industry who work in the space and have worked in the space for a long time and again, i think we already received some of those to kind of very preliminary beginning of putting this list together,

but i don't think there is any specific methodology we have in place and instead just have a much more comprehensive approach to trying to identify these projects any way we can. i think it is helpful-we want to capture every project that is out there in this timeline, but if we dont and miss one or two projects, we do have that option and requirement in future years to update the inventory and add that space back in at that time. >> great. i was thinking, i'm glad it hear you are working with the real estate brokers or community, because they will also have data bases that might track information in a more convenient way. >> a lot of people who work directly in the office development and the office leasing world are on our e-mail list for this program, so they will be getting an e-mail when we send out the

draft inventory, and so we will be insuring all those folks in that sphere will be aware and have a opportunity to provide input. >> great. there will be a lot of what about's. one other in the weeds question, i was curious as to whether space demolished or converted is a state or federal or county building, does that also go back into the allocation? >> it has to be office space under prop m, so going back to the original slide about what we account for and don't, if it is state or federal that qualifies. there is conversion of state building we are aware that was more then 10 thousand square feet that qualifies. if it was a city building that didn't qualify and not considered office space under prop m that wouldn't

count. >> thank you. my other question, i wasn't clear, is there a plan to come back to planning commission with final numbers and informational hearing? >> i did state whenever we issue the draft inventory that will come to the commission and at the final we come back. i didn't specify how it will come back. obviously it is to commission discretion if you want to schedule something that was more specific item opposed to just a report. >> sure. i'll just say, i'm in support also of hearing what the results are at a commission hearing. thank you. >> commissioner koppel. >> thanks mr. teague for this report. i still think that downtown area is extremely valuable area of town just for the economy and commerce sector. not only does it provide a lot of permanent jobs with white collar sector and also the blue collar

sector, the lower wage workers and am excited to see effort put into this. i like lately been hearing some things about potentially just trying to make downtown more a 24 hour section of the town, which is just thrilling to hear. knowing about projects like 100 van ness, especially excited to hear we are looking at the demo credits, because you might think this is true, but a lot of times it is cheaper easier and faster to actually demo an entire building and build a new one, if it isn't set up perfectly like 100 van ness was and is. some are set up more easily for conversions, but honesty, a lot of times it's simpler, faster and cheaper to actually tear it down and build a new one. if we want the housing that may be another way to look at things. just glad to see we are looking at these options and we are taking

everything into account. >> thank you . commissioner williams. >> thank you for the presentation. i agree with commissioner imperial, it is helpful for the public to weigh in on prop c and the possibilities. i think there is positive possibilities as far as getting to our affordable housing goals, and so i think it would be helpful to have the public weigh in and maybe give us some ideas that we are not thinking about. anyway--that's it. >> vice president moore. >> i have a specific question regarding your comment about if there is only hundred thousand square feet in

the large cap and somebody wants to build a 300 thousand square foot office building, he, she will be allowed to get advanced credit if they provide affordable housing. office and housing in one building dont combine so well. can you get that credit in payments? >> short answer is no. the principle of prop e is the reason to give that advantage to allow that project to go forward is that, there will be no lag in affordal housing. office development now pays very high affordable housing job housing linkage fee, but there is the lag before the funds become affordable housing, so that was specific. there is-one miner nuance to that is, if you are doing a project and part of the residential component will have its own affordable housing

requirement as a residential project, if you do the inlew polk, 50 percent can count towards the requirement. the basic answer is now, you have to provide affordable housing on site. it doesn't have to be on the same building. it can be a multibuilding project on same site but has to be the same project. >> the reality of site sizes together with combination of those two uses raise a lot of practical questions and want to put that to the record. >> thank you. i have a number of technical questions as well too. i want to start out by saying, i definitely support the other commissioners request we actually schedule this for public hearing and we hear back on the results of the inventory. so, just to make sure i understand, prior to the passage of prop c,

any demolition or conversion of office space did not result in any credit any of it caps, small cap pool, large cap pool, central soma pool, nothing? it was just lost square footage, correct? >> conversion you did get credit for that. it was specific if you demolish a office building you lost that credit. that's what prop c changed. to treat demolition no differently then conversion and maintain that credit for a project going forward now. >> with the conversion, before and after prop c, does it become a private reserve for that specific site? what if the site or can it be used elsewhere? transferred? >> it cannot be transferred. it is like a private reserve. what tends to happen in

conversion is more if you have a existing building and want to do a vertical addition and want to move the office use higher and lower floors are converted to retail, institutional, something else. you still end up with the same but expanded building and the office space is just located in a different maybe newer portion of the building so you keep the credit for office space you already had. >> is it a life time private reserve? if somebody doesn't use it immediately can they draw on it in the future? >> if it is front end question-there was a project without the address, but they got 400 thousand square feet. they were building the building before they actually finished the building they decided to lease half the building to a school instead of office space, so they never used half their allocation and we were able to revoke that half they didn't use. if they would have built that out, once you have 400 thousand square

foot office building you have a 400 thousand square foot office building and pre-prop c if you demolished it you lost that, but now you don't lose that, unless you decide to completely remove it. if you have office building and convert to--if it is situation where as part of the project you are moving things around, you get to keep-get credit for all the office space you already have. >> you are keeping track of these buildings to figure-like the example you gave where it became institutional rather then office, so it wasn't lost, it went into the pool, or when you revoked it did it disappear? >> it pulls it back. we do track the construction progress and permitting and everything for all our office projects and we keep a running list and if there are projects

that are essentially inactive or if there are projects that did not use all their allocation for variety of reasons, we periodically bring those back to the planning commission for revocation and when it is revoked it pulls that back into the respective cap. >> i have a sense maybe you can confirm the cap at the moment or amount of square footage in the cap is not stymied development, given the lack of office projects, or do you is a sense it is? people are not putting forward projects for the future? >> we track a very specific pipeline. projects submitting applications and would say the actual pipeline of office projects now is probably the smallest it has been since i can remember. i don't know the exact demand, because at the same time, in the large cap we dont have 300 thousand square feet. one project can easily be way more then 300 thousand square feet, so

depends how you want to judge that. we dont have a lot of office projects in the queue and not sure for a large cap, i have to look, not sure what the last projects was applied for. i don't know the post-pandemic and all of the office projects that have come before you i moved forward are small cap other then central soma projects that were moving along when the pandemic hit. i don't think we received many large cap project application since then. >> do you is a sense order of magnitude how much square footage as a result of this inventory you will be able to add back to the cap? >> i don't really, just because i haven't really began to crunch the numbers at all. at this point, we are very early and just trying to identify potential projects and then once you identify addresses and projects we will

be very actively moving forward to try to nail down square footage et cetera. i would say that we are talking a period that goes back to 1986, so i'm not going to be surprised if is decent size number. >> talking hundred of thousand, millions? kwrrks >> i would be surprised if less then a million but that is speculation. there is good number of projects that have this conversion or demolition that occurred. we have to go through the and document it but wouldn't surprise me to be high hundred thousands or higher. >> okay. one additional question, so when you do this inventory and theres square footage you can put back in the reserve, what goes into the small-does it all go into the large project no matter if a small- >> correct. >> what is allocated to central

soma reserve opposed to large project? >> nothing. this is purely added square footage back to large cap and large cap only. doesn't touch small cap or central soma reserve, and it doesn't matter if it was an office building that was only 15 thousand square feet and less then 10 thousand or more, as long as the conversion was 10 thousand or more, then it would get pulled back to the large cap. >> right. i guess i have one more which is, no matter how many, 9500 square foot conversions there may have been, it is all lost office space, correct? you don't add it up or take into account the cumulative effect? >> can you say again? >> let's say there were 10 buildings that were converted that were 9500 square feet of office space, that square footage you don't look at the cumulative effect.

each individual one is less then 10k, the square footage is gone, correct kblrks correct. >> thank you. vice president moore. >> you mentioned 1986 as the date you , that was time of the development. do any redevelopment projects fall within your pulling the square footage together? >> didn't catch the last part. >> 1986 at that time we still had redevelopment projects. do demolition and redevelopment projects fall under this accounting as well? >> yes, redevelopment and port projects both we have to account for them even if they are withins we didn't have to approve to the planning commission. we will be consulting with ocii and the port and make sure all the projects eligibility, even if not in our typical planning commission authorization sphere, we are trying to capture all

those as well. >> okay. thank you. >> if nothing further we can move to item 14. case 2017-011878pha-10. 420 23 street potrero power station phase 1 block 2 vertical development. major modifications. >> good afternoon commissioners. planning department staff and thank you commissioner koppel for your subs. the item before you today is design review application with request for approval of major modifications to building standards of the design for development or d for d. for block 2 of the potrero power station development agreement. major modifications are required to allow deviation of more then 10 percent from any numerical stanards within the d for d and reviewed and approved by this commission upon advise of the planning department and planning director. the project includes

construction of new 7 story 130 foot mixed use building containing 678 square feet of ground floor retail use, 102 .192 square feet of lab use, 182.652 square feet of institutional healthcare non-hospital use, 44 bike parking spaces and 3 off street loading spaces. three levels of subterraneren space contain healthcare uses and building maintenance and infrastructure and amenities. humbled street will be improved with garden or pocket park. the proposed building operated by the university of california san francisco and include outpatient healthcare facilities featuring a cancer treatment facility with 3 story medical equipment and lab above. the project requires four major modifications to proceed. first modification of priority retail standard in section 3.2.4.

second, the upper building setback in section 6.4.1. the street wall standards, 6.4.5 and modification of inparking and loading entrance in section 6.20.5. the commission must find the requested changes to building standards quality of design and public benefit superior or equal to that anticipated in the d for d. the overall power station mix use project consist of comprehensive master plan for 29 acre former industrial site includes numerous public benefit and community amenities that transform the central waterfront. many applications for been before you for this project and listed in your executive summary so i'll spare everyone the process of going through project history. i will just remind you that this commission initially approved the project january 30, 2020.

certifying the eir adopting findings and recommending approval of plan amendment--then april 21, 2020 the board of supervisors approved the project master plan and da. the projecktd sponsor engaged robrust community out reach throughout the development and refinement of the design process leading to submittal of phase 1 development application over the last several years. i will let the sponsor team get into that. a public preapplication meeting for design review for block 2 held march 28 this year and june 1 the sponsor held a second community meetings fallowed by a site tour. feedback was positive and question around the amenities might provide to memberoffs the community such as children play area and overall timeline for opening to the public. the department receive 9 letters of support from individuals and community

groups including the ymca of san francisco, the dog patch neighborhood association and potrero boosters. strong support for the pocket park, the fact the building will be occupied by cancer treat center kwr the power station team is consistent in community outreach and--the department has not received letters of opposition. you also received a red line version of the staff report with non substantive edits and that staff report includes a new condition of approval related to proposed pocket park. because the park is completely elective and not anticipated in the d for d, there are therefore no guidelines specifically relevant to the park, so we want to insure that there would be a back-stop to review the park. should you approve the motion before you today, the proposed condition of approval requires the planning director and or planning staff to review the final plans for the park prior to issuance of first construction

document or equivalent document. i have copies of the condition if you want to take a look. i'll read the proposed condition into the record. prior to the issuance of first construction document, the project sponsor shall submit final plans and information related to the proposed pocket park along [indiscernible] including but not limited to proposed landscaping, hardscaping and furniture. department staff insure consistency with fiendings of the motion the proposed pocket park achieves quality of design and increased public benefit prior to approval. the department find the project is on balance, consistent with objectives and policies of the general plan and meets the power station development agreement. the special use district and planning code. the project achieve the superior design quality and provide public benefits and excess of was anticipated. by voluntarily constructing a pocket

park and providing first cancer treatment center of its type in the region. the sponsor will fill you with more information. based on the findings included in the staff report we recommend aal proval with conditions and this concludes my presentation. thank you so much. >> thank you. project spencer, through the chair you have 7 minutes. >> commissioners. good afternoon. project sponsor for potrero power station. glad to be back with positive update. last time we were before you in january we said we had a new years resolution to be back with new building and glad on summer sol sts we have a new building to show you. fantastic. so, it is a busy time at power station. we have been taking buildings apart and doing quite a bought of bit to

keep the project moving. since we been before you four years ago when the project was approved we started roit away on infrastructure and building roads, finished the sea wall and by the end of 2025 we will have enough infrastructure on site to support 3 thousand square feet of development. this shows how we link to pier 70 and how they come together to open dog patch waterfront. also work aing on preservation, something close to our heart. we preserved and strengthened the 19th century station a in 2021 and this year starting to preserve and strengthening unit 3, the midcentury power station on the waterfront which we think will be an amazing public space. images of what it looks now without the boiler inside. we also advance workforce housing and affordable housing and broke ground earlier this year on 105 units of affordable housing finance with new

financing method and this was yesterday showing pilings put into the ground so happy to be advancing housing. now block 2, the new building. we have the opportunity to think about how we might use the site that had opportunity for commercial development office and life science laboratory. the university of california came to us couple months ago and said they are trying to build a innovative cancer center yoozing technology called protontherapy. they tried for years. this struck a cord with us. there is 33 proton senters around the country and florida has 4 and the west coast has 5 and nothing between seattle and san diego. if tennessee can center 2 and arkansas 1 we mine as well have our own.

they designed a building that does fit not only protontherapy bit exciting uses. the building block p2 which will be house the cancer center, clinical space and incubator space so the future companies that bring invasion to drive economy will fit. we are pleased to bring world class architects and design. very excited the building will have shown before you the subterranean protontherapy center, three floors of clinic and incubator. the building is set back to accommodate the cancer equipment that needs to come in and for that it created a opportunity which is this pocket park not contemplated. it isn't often you get a chance to do something great for the community and we are excite thrd is a lush garden and park want expected and thrilled to show both the commission and or the planning director the plans for the

garden when completed. the building itself setback in the garden and how the building will be pushed back. the modifications we are requesting help enhance the design and help the utility required for the cancer center. we want to talk about what else is going on at the site. we have robust community engagement process. the projeblth was unanimously approved 4 years ago and take the community commitment very strong. also the commitment and partnership with organized labor which is terrific and continued on. the project is continuing site tours and our power station foundation continues to invest in the community and advance of the project delivered to insure as the project arrives we are coming into a healthy community. finally, when you work on building as much infrastructure as we have, we have the opportunities to open the waterfront which has been closed to the

dog pack community since lincoln was president so thought it was a good idea and if there was the opportunity to advance not only housing, commercial, but also public spaces and so this is a street image taken some days today. you see the street is opened up. we opened up this unit 3, which is is this old power block, which in the past powered the city. now we think it is a incredible place for a public space so this is the chimney looking up. now you can look up in the sky. working with ucsf and this project moving forward, we will be putting in and opening in permanent park, temporary -opening up half decade faster and starting the planning process now and the goal is to be able to open up the waterfront as we open the affordable and commercial building

with ucsf. we are thrilled the project keeps moving along. it has been a long road and we certainly expect every single twist and turn over the past 4 years but very happy the project has been moving along and we have been able to hopefully with not only approval here and later otthe uc regents break ground on this important building next year. thank you so much. >> that concludes sponsor presentation, we should open public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. >> hello. my name is bruce, from ucsf and have a few points i like to make about the project. ucsf is proud to be a national leader in clinical care, medical education and

bio medical research. we are excited to lease a building--i will take my mask off. excited to lease a buildish at the power station and work with [indiscernible] master developer. the new building will be located on approximately 50 thousand square foot commercial parcel called block 2. the building includes 3 major uses, a cancer treatment center, artificial intelligence and life science and clinical areas. block 2 is designed by the firm hur zaugg. notable work include the [indiscernible] as well as ucsf new hospital at parnassus heights. the new cancer center utilize advance cancer treatment with highly precise proton radiation. we envision have a start up

company with focus on intersection with ai, life science, medicine, research and development. the building contain a variety of outpatient clinical use. we don't know what the exact mix is today, but they may include family medicine, endoscopy, multispecialty. there is not any inpatient healthcare use in this facility. the new building comply with provisions of the power station development agreement and make significant contribution towards living community benefit including infrastructure and new waterfront park and other uses. thank you for your consideration of this important project. >> good afternoon commissioners. i told you last week i would be back. jf, potrero booster neighborhood association.

last week are talked about the tension in the dog patch neighborhood between industrial use, residential youth growth and institutional use and the way we try today get around that is through the planning process and i think the power station shows exactly how well that can work. the project sponsor has done a tremendous amount of community outreach and early stages some things we talked about is, the ability to power station to be a place where we can plan for the different sort of uses that are impacting the dog patch community and that is what they did. that was manifested in the d for d and land use plan for the different lots and parcels and manifested in development agreement. and so we see coming together and seeing how that works out so well. not only have we been able to kick-start affordable housing which was a key benefit that this project was going to bring, but now we see how it can accommodate life science and institutional uses. i think we have to give thanks to friends at ucsf for recognizing

this opportunity. we all know ucsf has a lot of flexibility with land use. what they did is saw a perfect opportunity to do something they could nlt do anywhere else and establish a place they could be a anchor just as they were in mission bay so long ago. so, technically we are here because we have to have changes to the d for d and the provisions d for day say we have to provide more community benefit and i think that under lies how this thing you are asked to approve is a win win win win. i can keep going on with the wins but will stop there. not only do we get a state of the art cancer treatment facility, additional clinical space and life science research development space but also get more public open space as a part of the project to accommodate the project. we get the bringing forward community benefits on site and off site in order to help create the infrastructure necessary to support all these new residents and new workers that

we will bring into the neighborhood and we do while keeping active ground floors and all the other things part of good design and get a world clatss architect to boot. we can't get that on every project, but nice when we get it. as a result the potrero and dog patch neighborhood association have been supportive of this project. we went through a long process and conversation and wasn't always easy easy but it was mature and robust and ended up with principles and ideas how to grow this part of the waterfront and what you are asked to approve today is a part that and look forward to you know, continuing to move on with the development of this part of our neighborhood. it is a part of the neighborhood. it could look inward and try to be separate, but no, it integrated itself very well. >> thank you for coming back this weekismt it gives a opportunity to rectify a oversight i made last

week, which is, you are not here in that capacity i want to acknowledge your role on the board of permit appeals and thank you for your service. >> thank you. >> last call for public comment. >> everyone, i think you are starting to get know me. aurora robin, a san francisco resident since 1981. thank you for your services and everyone for being here. i want to let you know that i worked for more then 15 years as project manager and helt care, so it is interesting projeblth to hear about so thank you for bringing more cancer research and dollars to the community, because as everyone knows, cancer is the leading cause of difficulties in our healthcare world. i work for places call

stanford, kaiser, most recently, sutter implementing epic instillation so i know about working with healthcare people and bringing in new clinics so really exciting. my biggest comment is about providing housing obviously because currently even though i have background in bachelor and project manager, i'm in a sro and i love when i hear new buildings being biment with affordable housing. it is at the icon. not to say more about it. i am making it work and it is affordable if you call it that. so, what i wanted to suggest are two things. when i hear about the new developments my concerns are always, are we pushing out seniors, people who paid their dues living in the community? are we allowing for bikers and for the wildlife?

are we allowing for the character of san francisco to retain? allowing for people who found a way to make san francisco, one of the most expensive cities, being able to live in the city, finding a way to make that work for them? what i heard in the short time i have been here you are trying to do that so appreciative that. but can i suggest this, san francisco needs housing, but what i want to ask ask, if you are looking at the housing, can you look as mini homes because many seniors don't want a big place. i'm 61 this year, and i would settle for a mini home with platform bed. there are so many living in cars and that happened to me, but i made it work and got a job while living in a car so that is a miracle. [laughter] and also i'm available for work, so if you need [indiscernible] i normally dress better but tried to make it here. thank you all.

please consider those things. the wildlife impact, because i saw a wonderful representation of wet land restoration. bringing the birds back means less bugs, more better earth because they poop on the earth and make compost, so forth. won't bore with that. and then the more--because i have been hearing about luxury housing development, but really it is stable housing development that we need. we need to prevent people going into cars and living in sro when they have done their time and dues. i think that is my time. thank you everyone. >> thank you very much. okay. final last call for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed and the matter is before you commissioners. >> thank you. i want to start by thanking the project sponsor for continuing to make an investment in this amazing praublgect.

project. it was one of the first projects i had the opportunity to weigh in on and approved when i joined the commission and i have been so happy to see you not with standing the hurtles in the economy moving forward and coming forward with this project that that accommodate the needs of ucsf. we have heaped praise on the project for honoring history, looking to the future, all the elements. i will not go into detail, i just want to talk about a couple aspects of the modifications you are proposing. i'm very supportive of the modifications, but i want to make sure, given the park design we saw is not necessarily the final dein zoo design, i asked staff if they can draft

a condition that allowed for staff oversight review and approval and i want to make sure that you are okay with the condition that they read into the record. >> we are commissioner. thank you. the only reason the park isn't yet designed is we dont have the final technical specks for the equipment. we are more then happy to come back to the commission, transparency and engagement with community is something we hold dear to the project principles and are values. >> the condition is sufficient but others may want to weigh in to see if they want the design to come back as informational item so we can can see what was-what the end result is. my second question has to do with the frontage along craig. not my favorite frontage, because it is very utilitarian.

i understand why it had to be designed that way, but there is a corky part bugging me, which is the-i think 6 feet wide, the space you refer to i think inappropriately as pedestrian relief area. i suggest those who are dog owners, that is not the greatest term. when you think a dog relief area, that is not-i wouldn't use the comparable pedestrian relief area term. it is like 6 feet. it has driveways on both sides of it. i assume the primary purpose is if somebody happens to be walking there and a car comes out, there is a safe place for them to pause, but is it marked in some way? is there warning buzzers that go off? is the marking on the sidewalk such the pedestrian would know this is a safe zone to stand in? can you describe what you actually visualize this-i realize it is

tiny detail, but as described it isn't making sense to me. >> no problem, commissioner. happy to do it. apologies for the lack of creativity in the nomenclature with the area. craig lane is designed to be a back of the house street. it alley designed to take traffic away, mostly loading traffic away from primary streets to insure faster public transit and safer pedestrian experience. we envision very little pedestrian experience on craig lane. we don't want to plan for that situation, so should a pedestrian walk there and there a truck we want to create a safe place for pedestrians to stop. it will have a flashing light and may have a sound. we will do our best to rename it in a more positive light. >> thank you. i'll call on vice president

moore. >> i don't have questions. i just want to make a comment. i'm in full support of the project. good guidelines. wonderful framework for the overall site and as you implement the project, i can only acknowledge that when you put additional creativity and stack it on top of already good guidelines, i call that creativity gulor. i believe all the things you are asking for are indeed creative interpretation of architect taking good guidelines and mubing into reality of designing real architecture and creating real spaces that work. the guidelines are ideas which most people fight. why do i have restriction to my creativity? in this particular case, i

believe that the guidelines have inspired creativity. i think the building, the use, the mix use character is all amazing. it is community benefit. it has all the support of the community of everybody near and far and i couldn't see any happier project as you are moving forward. so, i make a motion to approve with the conditions which were added and-- >> thank you. >> second. >> commissioner koppel. >> i will third that motion and i don't need you to come back for a scheduled item, just informational on redesign would be fine. i want to thank you again for having the courage to take this monster huge project on. whether we know it or not, there is so much work going on down there and constant basis. large scale, huge footprint

work. i'm blown away so thank you again and showing up here and continuing to keep moving forward. >> our pleasure to present to you over the last 8 years commissioner koppel. thank you for your support and guidance. >> commissioner williams. >> not really too familiar with the project outside of what the presentation you gave me the other day, but i was very impressed with your approach beginning with the approach to community and getting everyone involved and getting community folks engaged and respecting community. i think you know, that speaks a lot to you know, your guys values, and that's really important and it shows through everything else that has come

forward that i have seen so far. i just wanted to highlight that i really appreciate that. you took the time to respect the people and communities that are there with the affordable housing complex and named after a community hero in the bayview hunter point. all that stuff is very important to me and so i just wanted to let you know that i appreciate your consideration and concern and your focus on that. thank you. >> vice president moore. >> i want to add one additional comment triggered by what commissioner williams said. i believe this project is a perfect example how the community can create excellent projects, can create win, win

for everybody. this project has been around quite a few years and from the very beginning when the community was critical and really had all challenges for you, you have stuck through it and today i think we have a project that has more community support because community still is able to weigh in and on hardly any other project before us. that is to acknowledge the community, thank you, thank you, thank you and to acknowledge you. thank you. >> if nothing further, there is motion and seconded to approve this matter with conditions as amended by staff and read into the record related to pocket park. commissioner williams, aye. commissioner braun, aye. commissioner imperial, aye. commissioner koppel, aye. commissioner moore, aye. commissioner diamond, aye. the motion passes 6-0. >> thank you commissioners. >> i think we will take a 10

minute break. >> very good. sfgovtv, 10 minute recess. >> good afternoon and welcome back to san francisco planning commission meeting for june 20, 2024. commissioners, we left off under regular calalder. property 88 spears street. you will be considering the conditional use authorization and the zoning administrator the request for variance. >> department staff. the project before you is request for conditional use to allow office use, and below ground familiar at the property. the project include tenant improvement and one story vertical addition

for restaurant. the property is 11 story building containing 13 thousand square feet of and 144 thousand square feet of office use. the department has not received public comment. conditional use approval to convert conversion to office space would allow the property owner to promote tenant occupancy tenant activity on the ground floor. the department believes the project is desirable for and compatible with the neighborhood and recommend approval. also requesting variance for beyond the dimensions considered by the zoning administrator. this concludes the presentation and available for questions. the project sponsor will present now. >> projethsponsor you have 7 minutes. >> good afternoon and thank you so much

for allowing us to the time to present the project. for 4 years san francisco has been reckoning with the consequences of covid and the toll it has taken on downtown. utilization of buildings is central discussion point and specifically what the future of downtown hold, what does the future of these older office buildings hold for the city and how can they play a role in the revitalization of downtown in this new chapter that we are collectively going to work together to start writing and to show that san francisco can live up to its name as this cradle of invasion and have its downtown actually reflect that energy that optimism and so, with this project, with 88 spear we want to reimagine what it should look

like. up until march 14, 2020 before we went into lock down was hundred percent occupied and never needed to consider alternative uses ground floor activation, truly being a destination just given the vacancy at existed at the imto. 5 percent of san francisco. we took the project as a challenge. it was the first office building that was bought last year at the bottom and we've since rolled up our sleeves and give credit to department leadership and staff for being incredibly creative and taking on a big partnership role allowing to push the envelope and figure how best to position the building, but with that, i just wanted to reiterate that, our commitment here is to really figure out what these buildings need to look like and what we have come up with. we hope you agree with our view

is, a solution we want to see rolled out in many other buildings downtown. with that, i'll turn it over to our great architect, and land use team as well. thank you. >> hello, i'll share design intent and scope of the project. these are images of the existing building. you can see the street level views and upper left and the lower left you can see the spectacular view fram from the roof deck which is under utilized. the image on the right shows the existing program which is retail at the base, office above and existing mechanical penthouse in gray. this shows the new scope of work. this is spear street elevation on the east. one of had most exciting aspect ozs of the project is new restaurant addition which consist of one story

restaurant with associated elevator extension that is required. there is additional work of renovation to the facade of the mechanical penthouse and level 1 and 2 facades. this is a proposed ground floor plan. this will consist of a huge amount of interior renovation to really improve the arrival experience for the project and create a active inviting destination. the access to the roof level is through the main office entry doors. the restaurant reception is located to the north in that pink box. there are additional tenancy carved out in the south which is cafe and coworking space. this is a great view in order to be able to see the whole projeth. . you see the restaurant addition to the modernized base at the bottom

of the building. these images show the renovation to the facade on spear and mission street. you see consistent use of deep dark pallet paired with antique bronze metal. also see the proposed dramatic to set the stage for the hospitality approach that is part of the interior story. these views show the restaurant one story addition as well as the renovation to the mechanical penthouse which turns into a lovely garden area. the restaurant itself will have a translucent etf roof at the top and it has three faces that are highly glazed to maximize these incredible views of the bay bridge all most full span. this also includes work to create a connective feature stair from the restaurant level to the

existing mechanical roof deck level. lush seating areas that have integrated places for people to rest and work and enjoy being together. with that, i'll pass it to john to talk to the variance. >> good afternoon commissioners. mr. teague. john, on behalf of presidio bay ventures. the standard allow for lect of 50 percent of the pbuilding frontage or 25 feet which ever is less. the 50 is only 36 percent of the building frontage and exceed 25 feet. this variance request meets the findings. finding 1, the building constructed in 1966 before the downtown plan. the building was designed with focus on recessed ground floor retail arcade with deemphasized to office stores at the far end of spear street. the arcade filled in 2000 and

building entrance is barely distinshuished. the building ground floor frontage has a mix of old and new features not successfully integrated. enforcement leads to unnecessary hardship. which are the building highly office space. pulls the bay with elevator and back up house into ground floor rather then afterthought. the two bay is a critical component revitalizes and activating the building and the controls undermine this. finding 3, variance necessary for the preservation and enjoyment of substantial property rights. the building design prior to downtown controls, this building needs

flexibility from the controls to rebrand attracting tenants and create a destination roof restaurant. mr. zoning administrator, here if you have questions or fiendings. thank you. >> thank you. we should open public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity kreess address the commission on these items. >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm with east cut community benefit district which is district in which 88 spear is located. very pleased to be here today to speak in support of the project and plans presented for several reasons. it is an aging building that needs quite a bit of work to make competitive and remain in the market. it meets several goals of neighborhood aspirations and greater downtown area. specifically for the mar key, i think you should look at the building today. it isn't welcoming and inviting

to the tenants or public. we welcome any attempt to make the building connect more with the sidewalk. same way the retail space use, if you go there today there used to be a walgreens. such a large retail space in today's market does not make a ton of sense, so we appreciate the addition of cafe space and coworking space, which will greatly improve the connectivity to the sidewalk. bear in mind, the project is on a block that connects market street, so it is quite a heavy pedestrian traffic thoroughfare, because people go to and from bart, to and from the deepest areas of the neighborhood and passing by this brilding so i think cafe space will be successful. we lost three cafes in the past 4 years. specialty, [indiscernible] and lastly, which is the cherry on top is

addition of two stories for restaurant space, which further meet the aspirations of downtown to really transform our neighborhood into commercial, to slightly mixed use, to everybody's neighborhood. we want the space, so san franciscans and visitors have places to visit and very-it leverage the height of downtown. for all these reasonss we encourage you commissioners to support this projects both the conditional use, but also the variance on the. thank you. >> it is funny to hear about the renstrations to 88 spear street because i worked in so many buildings in 40 years since being and moving for school

to san francisco. when you talk about renovations to buildings, i probably worked in them. i'm excited to hear about this one. i just want to add that, in addition to cafe space, and living residential space, you might want to consider what is also lost, which is day care space and that's crushing to me, because in the old days i used to see pg&e had a playground for their children, and that created longevity with that firm and other firms that did that. as you are talking about these spaces being renovated, please remember the children. i was once one is and all you were as well. thank you. >> thank you. last call for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. this item is now before you commissioners. >> commissioner koppel. >> revitalizing downtown and

neighborhood for everyone. could not be in more support for this project. the developer has history of doing nothing but good things here and move to approve. >> second. >> no further deliberation, there is a motion that has been seconded tew approve with conditions. >> commissioner williams. >> just want to say, it looks like a very nice project. very well done. i just hope i'll be able to afford to eat in that restaurant after it is built. it looks expensive, but nice. beautiful view. yeah, it definitely seems like something that will attract people downtown to that space and so--it is nice. thanks. >> commissioner braun. >> i am in support of the project.

it is great reimagining to modernize a build ing. i do have one miner question for the project sponsor. with the mechanical penthouse having the open space around it on the same level, just curious how noise is addressed with the interaction between the restaurant and penthouse and deck on the roof of the building? >> they have recommended to add defusers to some of the areas to mute some of the noise, so it has been determined by acoustic engineer it will be comfortable. >> okay. helpful to know. sure you thought about it, it was more my own education. thank you. >> commissioner imperial. >> i have a question to the project sponsor. are there already perspective tenants for the office use?

>> we haven't wanted to start marketing the space, but we have been in talks with two operators for the ground floor, so a bakery, which would be incredible and so we actually adapted the space and some of back of house to accommodate their functions and also for the ground floor and second floor connected office space, we have been in talks with a incubator operator as well to have that be more of a -rather then a traditional office space with a single tenant, which would would accommodate a lot of smaller businesses so been talking with both of them and haven't advanced it pending today's meeting. we are optimistic we will be able to in short order sign both those leases and also continue the converivation with the soperators for the restaurant bar and event space.

>> i'm very supportive but have a question for the architect about the marque. how do you maintain the ray of lights? how many lights are there and somebody constantly changing bulbs? how does that work? >> the good news with led is they last a lot longer then your traditional bulbs, and we took ins separation from this piece to incorporate public art, so the feature will actually be designed by an artist and then integrated but it is essentially a larger light fixture or led fixture, so the process that drives all that is on the inside of the building. we don't anticipate there to be as complicated process of maintenance as some of the older versions of what this is meant to evoke in new york

for example. >> thank you. zoning administrator. >> thank you. clearly, lots of support for the project. the only item is just the marquee and design makes sense. i want to give consideration. as mentioned the code allows for 25 foot and this is 50 foot so fairly substantial size and doubling of what is required so just will take it under consideration to see if the situation here unique enough with this site relative to others to justify the full extent of the variance, just want to make that comment. >> if nothing further there is motion and second to approve with conditions. williams, aye. braun, aye. imperial, aye. koppel, aye. moore, aye. diamond, aye. so moved. the motion passes unanimously 6-0. zoning administrator.

>> close the public hearing for the variance and take the matter under advicement. >> very good. commissioners, that place on the final item on the agenda today, 16. 2023-004458cua, 21 flood avenue. conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon again commissioners. lizzi mau, planning department staff. the project before you is request for conditional use authorization for the removal of vacant unauthorized dwelling unit at the first floor of three story over basement house. the property contains two authorized dwelling units and three unauthorized dwelling yunlts. unit. two do not require conditional use authorization to be removed due to the substandard floor to ceiling height. only occupied by family members of the property owner and had no evictions under administrative code

section 37.98 8-12 or 37.9a, 14-16. return the building to original condition as two family dwelling. the department has not received public comment. the department finds the project to be necessary desirable and compatible with the surrounding neighborhood and recommends approval with conditions. this concludes my presentation and i am available for any questions. the project sponsor does not have a presentation but are here and also available to answer any questions. >> very good. the project sponsor forefits the 5 minutes we will open public comment. this is your opportunity to address the commission. seeing none, public comment is closed and the matter is before you commissioners. >> commissioner williams. >> i wanted to ask the planning staff, did someone do a visual

inspection to make sure that there was no tenants inside the building? >> yes. as part of the project i conducted on-site site visit to verify that there were no occupants of either of the three unauthorized dwelling units. >> just another question, is that something that you guys-is that mandatory that you do this? >> for udu removals, we do--as routine inspection, staff do do routine inspection. >> it isn't mandatory? >> happy to jump in. it is staff requirement for all removals of dwelling units to do as site visit. yes is the answer, it is required. it isn't in the code, but it is a department procedure i reinforced to staff, you shall take a site visit before you sign off on anything

that is removal of dwelling units. >> just asking because, there was something a project that came before this commission a few weeks ago where there was tenants in there. >> that's where we had that conversation where it didn't happen but was supposed to happen. >> was supposed to happen. >> it was supposed to and hadn't and if it had we would have--i reinforced with staff and management this is requirement so it is a protocol in the department. >> just want to comment on that protocol. my feeling is that a requirement and mandatory to do to have a vite visit and make sure there is no one living there. i just want to put that out there. i thought we would have some kind of a more conversation on this

subject a few weeks ago it came up and so- >> i think or maybe lost in translation, it is mandatory for staff. just trying to make the distinction between what is in the code and what is the staff requirement and so, the staff requirement we do a lot of rules we ask staff to do that are not all codified and this is one of them, so for any project moving forward whether comes to the planning commission or not, we want to make sure the public, the commission and everyone has confidence that none of those will be approved without there being a site visit. >> commissioner, you see him here or most of them so ask. we are happy to let you know but it is our policy to do that site visit. the one you were referring to didn't happen, but it was the policy and continues to be the policy. reiterated with staff it is our paums. policy.

>> we are happy to have you hold us accountable and ask the question. gives us little more accountability and happy to have it. >> yeah, accountability is important, but more important is that we know that there is nobody actually living there, especially when it comes to demolition. i'm just concerned, that's all. i don't want to have be a party to some unfortunate circumstance for a tenant is overlooked and gets pushed out into the street. that's all. >> we agree. thank you. >> vice president moore. >> i'm curious about the dates. there was a code enforcement in 2020 and follow-up code in 2023. when did all of this start? the course of having 3

unauthorized dwelling units, the owner derived income from these three unauthorized dwelling units. is there a penality when something like that happens and why all a sudden the change of heart? >> did we have the project sponsor make a presentation? we skipped that? >> yeah, the project sponsor did not make a presentation. and, we should do the project sponsor presentation. >> we skipped it because they declined the opportunity. >> sorry. didn't realize that. okay. >> i assume staff would know. >> lizzi mau, department staff. yes, there is open enforcement case associated with this project and fees are assessed based on the amount of time enforcement case has been opened. unfortunately the enforcement planner is not here today and so the

value that fee i do not know at the moment. >> is this a condition that could have existed 10 years prior to it being noted? >> yeah, again we are complaint based, so i don't and it doesn't sound like lizzi knows exactly why or who filed the complaint. it could have been a condition that- >> sorry, misunderstood the question. so, the complaint was open because there is a dbi complaint for fire happening at the property and so the fire revealed there were 3 unauthorized units in 2020. >> we don't know how long pre-fire those units existed or those details. >> commissioner koppel.

>> satisfied as far as we can take this with the question and answer we had, so move to approve. >> second. >> commissioner imperial. >> i do not have generally an issue with this project, but i think it's moving forward for the staff to give us more information history about the complaint, about how long has this been a udu been existing and why just now and also the enforcement penalities. that would be very helpful for us to have that kind of information in our packets, so thank you. >> vice president moore. >> this project has two kitchens and two baths. that is obviously something somewhere along the line somewhere that

must have surfaced. unless this was all installed without permit, et cetera. >> good afternoon. i'm the son of the owner. our family members, we built the rooms about 10 years ago and it was just for family to have a place to stay. that's pretty much it. >> if there is nothing further commissioners, there is motion seconded to approve with conditions on that motion, williams, aye. braun, aye. imperial, aye. koppel, aye. moore, aye. diamond, aye. so moved commissioners, the motion passes unanimously 6-0. and concludes your hearing today. enjoy the break.

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>> we are ready to start! happy juneteenth! happy juneteenth! for those who are standing, can you come and please sit down, so that we can get started? can we have everyone come and take a seat, so that we can get started? everyone who is standing in the back, there are plenty seats. please come forward and take a seat. thank you.

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>> put those hands together for the west african dancers and drummers! what a way to kickoff the celebration. now time for our libation. [drums playing]

>> the libation is our connection to the past and our roadmap to a better future. the purpose of libation is to remember and honor those who walked and worked before us and thus paved the path we now walk. we pour in the direction of the four winds, north, south, east and west. for africa and mother land and those known and unknown who defended our land in history. >> for ancestors who struggled for our freedom and those who defied to [indiscernible] develop our interest as a people. we pour. >> for our elders who helped to give us wisdom, strength for fathers

and mothers who-- >> please call out the name of your loved ones who have now rest in the valley of the departed. >> we pour. >> for the youth who represent the future of tomorrow, we pour. >> for men and women in the human rights struggle, we pour. >> for a new world we struggle to build, we pour. >> for the principals as our guide and in and out in every day life, we pour. >> our all mighty creator who makes all things possible, we pour.

[drums playing] [applause] >> here now to present the national anthem please welcome mikayla, [indiscernible] and joshua carter. [applause] please let us all rise.

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[applause] >> thank you. one more time for mikayla, [indiscernible] and joshua carter. [applause] now, please give me one moment as i catch my breath. i will be your mc today and i'm here to welcome our very own, ms. felicia, you all know her.

felicia jones at this time. [applause] >> thank you. thank you thank you. it is so good to see all of you here, celebrating juneteenth. juneteenth. and so- [applause] you all lood gook. the people in the back, the caterers i welcome you to juneteenth, 2024. lynn i love you and so this is what i would like to say before we bring up the mayor. i'm humbled at this particular time. times are difficult for us . things are going every which way, but it going to go the right way, and if you believe in that, stand on your feet with your flags? stand on your feet with your flags, because it is juneteenth.

it is juneteenth. juneteenth. just like we said last year, we will wave our flags up in the air and rock them to the right and to the left like we just dont care. juneteenth! juneteenth! and so i will bring up the honorable mayor breed. keep standing. do not sit down. do not sit down on my mayor. do not sit down on my mayor. and so, what i want you guys to do, i want everyone in here to show our mayor breed some love. clap it up! clap it up for my mayor! [applause] looking good in that purple. come on up, mayor breed. yes. i want you to go up there. before you go up there, there is something that i would like to present to you on behalf of wealth dispareties in the black community and on behalf of the black community in general,

because we love you. we love you and we want you to know we love you. everyone say, we love you mayor breed! say it one more time because it sounds so good. we love you mayor breed! alright. i have something for you. i would like toprint present to this identify as a memory of juneteenth from last year, and it is all of us stapding. standingism i think it is wonderful keepsake and i just want to say, love i you girl. you my girl. [applause] alright.

say amen! first of all, if you need a seat, there are seats in the front. if anybody is looking for a place to sit. welcome to san francisco city hall to kickoff juneteenth! [applause] you are going to be hearic from a number of our leaders today, but i want to take this opportunity to recognize a few leaders. you'll hear from our state attorney general rabanta. [applause] and our california state senator, scott wiener. [applause] thank you to our local elected leaders, including jose sisneros, our district attorney, brooke jenkins, our city attorney david chui, our chair paul miyamoto, our assessor, joaquin torres. our fire chief, jeanine nicholson. our police chief, bill scott.

our city administrator, carmen chui and a bunch of other department heads including dr. grant colfax, reverend brown and you name it. i appreciate the leadership of this city being here to kickoff juneteenth. it is important that we recognize this as a celebration, but also it is important that we take a step back to understand the significance of juneteenth. and, we know that this dates back to starting in 1863 with the emancipation proclamation and people in the deep south in rural texas not finding out about the freedom that we are enjoying today until two years later, some time in june of 1865.

and then in san francisco, we can look back at when we started celebratory events, all the way back to 1945 or so, and really kicking it off with a number of local night clubs originally in 1950, but walter johnson of the texas playhouse really set it up in 1964 with the first juneteenth festival and parade down fillmore street. and here's the thing, what i have always appreciated about opportunities to celebrate juneteenth is, yes, it is celebrating freedom, but it also overcoming a lot of adversity. when we think about how far this country's history is, in terms of the oppression of black people, that's not

even disant histly. that is really recent history. my grand mother worked one generation out of slavery and she actually migrated from texas to san francisco and still felt very uncomfortable interacting sometimes with people who were not african american. but she was tough and she would give you a good whooping on occasion. when i think about what people like my grand mother and others have to overcome in places like the south, and what we are experiencing here today in san francisco, we haven't come as far as we would like to believe. now, i know that i am the first black woman to serve as mayor of san francisco.

[applause] but i definitely don't want to be the last. just a couple weeks ago, some of you may have recalled or heard in the press of some very racist and sexist words were spray pointed on the front of city hall. and it made me realize in 2024, we haven't come as far as we believe we have. so, i will not apologize for making hard decisions that include significant investments in black people in san francisco. [applause] while, a lot of people talked a

good game after the death of george floyd, we actually did something about it. [applause] we with wealth and despair tease in the black community and felicia jones implemented the 272 recommendations from the obama administration department of justice to reform our police department and our chief bill scott helped to lead those efforts. [applause] and with a dream keeper initiative, people who have opened their first business in san francisco, people who are born and raised in this city opening their first businesses providing opportunities for their program over 32 black people received half a million dollars for down payments assistance to buy their first home.

[applause] and we know the work continues. and especially for all of you who have been the beneficiary of resources from the dream keeper 96ative. initiative. the dream keeper initiative is about insuring your success, knut but it also about the insuring the success of the entire community. you are a part of helping to up lift the next generation of black kids growing up in this city. [applause] because, they need us now more then ever. and we may talk about the fact that we have a less then 5 percent african american population in this city, but that 5 percent is mighty and can move mountains. [applause] the forces have always worked against

me in my life. you know what? the ancestors have always worked for me in my life. [applause] we have to remember that and take the ancestors of strength of what they have gone through and use that to lift us up and lift up our community. that is how we recognize their legacy and what they have done to get us to this point thusfar in life. [applause] and again, like harriet tubman did, put her life on the line to go back and free other people. she was not just content with her success, she wanted to insure that others were free too. as we commemorate juneteenth, yes, we will celebrate, yes, there will be music, yes there will be fun and we

will see people that we haven't seen in a long time. yes, we will uplift african americans in this city and this country, but we will also remain and remember work needs to be done to address the racial disparities and discrimination and a lot of the problems we still experience, even at a place like san francisco. [applause] so, i want to thank all of you for being here today and one of the other things i want to say before i--introduce the next speaker, we this summer under the direction of dr. cheryl davis- [applause] and dream keeper initiative, we

have brought to san francisco an opportunity to bring students from historically black colleges and universities- [applause] -who are taking classes downtown, who are staying in our communities, and who will connect with the young people in our communities. i want our children to see up close and personal what black excellence look like from these students who are joining us here this year. [applause] so, let's continue to do all we can to make sure that we are celebrating juneteenth, but we are recognizing celebrating uplifting our community all year-round. [applause] and with that, i want to take this opportunity to introduce the next speaker.

our attorney general, rob banta has been a real partner in a lot of the work that we do to address the challenges that exist in our law enforcement community. i want to especially appreciate how consistently when there are problems in this city, he is always doing everything he can to use the law as a tool for good and in fact, we have been working together to address a number of the challenges related to hate crimes in this state. he formed a committee to really insure that people are held accountable and brought to justice and earlier today, we were at self-help for the elderly, talking about elder abuse, and how elder abuse of our seniors is on the rise and we have services and support to protect our most vulnerable, our senior community. i appreciate the work he's done. ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome, attorney general, rob bonta! [applause] >> give it up one more time to mayor breed! >> thank you for the very kind generous introduction mayor breed. i'm honored and grateful for the opportunity to be here to celebrate the kickoff of juneteenth with all of you. i want to say first, greetings from both me and assembly member mia bonta, sometimes known as the better bonta. we send our best as you kickoff the celebration in san francisco and of course we are commemorating the emancipation of enslaved black americans in the united states of america. a time we take the time to

honor the legacy of those who fought for freedom and celebrate the significant sacrifices and achievements and contributions of black americans to our great country. we also recommit to forging a new unified future, a future that doesn't ignore the past, because we must acknowledge the sins of the past, the wrongs and ingests of the past but isn't-voting disenfranchisement. america fulfills its promise to all and juneteenth and about acknowledging that and acknowledging while we made great strides, we can't afford to be complacent and for granted the hard fought gains and as the mayor

just stated, we have more road to travel on that road to progress. there is more to do. it is important in my humble opinion to be impatient for the change we need. we need to demand it. we need to be intolerant for ingests of injustice and make sure we pursue in place jz spaces and also must remind ourselves, we all have a role to play. we have agency, we have power, we have potency, the ability to create the change, the society the state the nation we deserve. that we want. and, we must be cognisant of the challenges and threats that we see all around us when we see rampant efforts to erase black history from school curriculum whether through book bans.

hate crimes against the black community at very high level as they continue to be remain a ongoing threat. and doj, we are committed to this important work of protecting and advancing civil rights and freedom and democracy. we launch-thank you [applause] we in my first weeks in office we launched the racial justice bureau to call out systemic racial injusts in california. to work with and for the community throughout california. active with civil rights making sure our california constitutional and civil rights are honored and make

sure the rights are vindicated. we are supporting the work of the california reparations task force. [applause] that has acknowledged the original sin that remains a stain on our country history of slavery and taking steps to create more justice and more opportunity and more healing. we will continue to fight against racial bias in housing and healthcare in policing. make sure our schools teach inclusive curriculum that reflects the states beautiful diversity. combat attacks on diversity programs that provide equitable access to education and economic growth and disrupt the school to drop out track by protecting students from discriminatory discipline practice and excessive school removal and that a small sampling of had work we are doing and the work that needs to get

done ask the work we can only do if we do it together. i am very proud that i have the opportunity to serve as california attorney general and i have a role to provide more to californian and americans and also proud my father, marched and organized in the civil rights movement and as a call to action when his friend sent cassette tapes across the country with the voice of martin luther king, jr.-he went to selma alabama and [indiscernible] when martin luther king, jr. appeared for a unannounced sermon. we all have a role to play, and we can look forward with anxiety and worry and fear about our future, or we can look

forward with optimism and hope. and i have optimism and hope that we with accomplish anything if we do to together, if we fight for each other and love each other and have each other's back. happy juneteenth. i'm honored to stand by you and fight by your side. [applause] it is my great pleasure to introduce the person who is going to introduce the next speaker. [laughter] >> thank you attorney general bonta. welcome director cheryl davis to the podium. [applause] >> i love having the chief in the audience, because will always make me feel really special. thank you all for being here this afternoon.

give a round another for ms. felicia jonesism [applause] i have the great honor to be able to introduce the next speaker. i want to first also give a shout out to dr. [indiscernible] who is supporting this work. [applause] the mayor mentioned we will be launching the hbcu satellight pilot next week and think we have some of the student here today. could you stand up for us please? [applause] so, i have as many may know, i said this before, i'm a woman of faith and grateful because god allowed me to do work that gives me such joy and

pleasure and he's allowed me to work with the amazing london nicole breed, and supervisor shamann walton. [applause] i know both of them from before they were elected. i had the great pleasure to work for years with mayor breed and community and did a lot of work with supervisor walton and the one thing i always say to folks what i know and believe with my whole heart, politics aside, they both went into this work to be what they needed in the city growing up here. and so, when you get to these places and folks challenge and want to talk about what somebody is doing or not doing, let's be very clear, they are doing for black people and for everybody in the city is and county of san francisco what should have been done when they were children. [applause] so, i am just grateful because,

they have both entrusted me to do such great work, and when we think about it and when we look back i want everybody to understand and trust and believe that you will never have stronger leaders in the name of city and county of san francisco because they know investment in the black community is investment in san francisco. [applause] and so, it brings me tremendous pleasure to be able to do this work every day and to also be able to recognize and acknowledge them boket and with that, i like to invite up supervisor shamann walton to the stage. [applause] >> good afternoon! happy juneteenth everybody! i want to say this at attorney general banta's face, but he since left, but i didn't know he was supposed to

be giving a keynote today. but i do want to thank attorney general bonta for his work. when i was fighting and working with a lot of you to form the carinates in san francisco he also-yes. he also put legislation together when he was in the state assembly to make sure these arbitrary 911 calls that were happening to black people for doing every day activities did not happen at the state level so he put that in into law at the state to protect black folks as well. [applause] i apologize for being late, but i am actually right now as we speak in two places at one time, because we are in the middle of budget, but i do want to say a couple things this afternoon. i will be brief. the first thing is, we have a lot of amazing events happening this weekend here in san francisco. i want to make sure that everyone in

this room takes the time to support all of those events. a lot of people fought hard to make sure that these events were able to happen so we could commemorate what happened in 1865 in texas when folks finally found out that they were actually free and so i want to make sure everyone takes advant age of the events and opportunities we have here in san francisco. second, if you are black and in leadership, please stand. any black person in leadership, please stand. [applause] some people took their time to stand up and i know we have a few more leaders in here, but i want to make sure that our black leaders are

acknowledged and given the props they deserve for the hard work they do every single day. san francisco is not kind to black people right now, and so the work all you do, the fight that you have for our community, i just want to say thank you and acknowledge you for that right here in front of everybody publicly. [applause] i want to thank felicia of course for her leadership and making sure this event continues to happen. thank you so much. [applause] and i don't know if this is done yet, but i want to send a special shouts out to dr. cheryl davis for all her work she does on a daily basis. [applause] i know we say this all the time, but we really do entrust director davis with a lot of work. everything we do in the city that is

around improving the lives and opportunities for black people, most certainly we push through the human rights commission and she has been a staunch leader making sure what we put in play leads to success on the ground for communities, so gone, thank you so much, dr. davis. [applause] >> the last thing i will say and mayor touched on is historically black college university internship program we have this summer. i had the privilege and honor attending morris brown college in atlanta georgia, and that experience truly changed my life and gave me everything i needed to be able to stand before you today. my hope and my goal is to make sure that our young people in san francisco has the same opportunity that i and so many others had, but do not have to go thousands of miles away to

receive that opportunity. thank you and happy juneteenth. >> thank you, one more time for supervisor shamann walton. now let's welcome, please chief, william scott. [applause] >> good afternoon everybody. and happy juneteenth. i will do two things. i want to say a few words. three things and thank a few people in the room and say a little about juneteenth and then i have an award for ms. felicia jones. give her a round of applause. [applause] i will call you up in a second. so, juneteenth, it has been said by our mayor and attorney general,

1865, june 19, 1865, people in texas african american people in texas finally found out that they were free. problem was they had been free for two years. how does that happen? it happens when you don't have a voice and at the mercy of others to have a voice. we are in a different place now, because we all have a voice and let me tell you, we have to use that voice. now, there are many people in this room who don't have any problem speaking truth to power. reverend brown, you know what i'm talking about. felicia jones, you know what i'm talking about. [indiscernible] you know what i'm talking about and i can go on and on and on. here's the point, i will tie this back to felicia, my introduction to felicia was on january 23, 2017.

my first day as the police chief here in the city. as i get sworn in, right there in that city hall rotunda, i heard this voice in the balcony screaming about, freedom and screaming about equality and justice and i'm like who is this lady? that lady was felicia jones. [applause] now, i think it was about a week later, ms. jones and were in my office talking about those issues and she is not shy speaking up for freedom and equality and justice, speaking up against police brutality and speaking up to make sure this department fulfill the promise we promise the city we complete 272 reform recommendations. she has not been shy and there are many others in the room that have spoken up. i want to thank you all,

because thalths that's what we need. it isn't just about a good time agreeing, it is about people standing up and speaking up when it is time to stand up and speak up. so, that is what leadership is about, and let me tell you, there are many people in this room, including our mayor, who have done that since the day i met them, and felicia, ms. jones as i call her, you deserve a round of applause for always speaking up. [applause] so, for particularly the young people in the room and students, hbcu student, i hope your time here in san francisco is life-changing, because you will have the opportunity to meet some amazing people in leadership positions and

amazing people many of us didn't have access to when we were your age. take advantage of it. use your voice, because we expect that will be in these position s in the very near future. we are here for you, we have people that will role model for you and we want to make sure we never ever again in this country go 2 years or any amount of period without people understanding they are free and they have equality and justice. [applause] so, ms. jones, if you come come up and i'll come down to you to give you your certificate. come up front and center. [applause] so, this is a certificate of honor presented to ms. felicia jones, april 12, which is when we had the celebration but late getting

your certificate. 2024. it reads, whereas, on behalf of city and county of san francisco, i'm pleased to recognize and honor felicia jones for your work on the collaborative reform initiatives. your steadfast dedication and working with the san francisco police department to help build trust by implementing the collaborative reform initiative and setting new burnmarks reducing use of force and officer involved shooting accountability for police is inspiring. furthermore, your unwavering commitment and creating a fair safer and more just society for san francisco has left a positive lasting impact for years to come. under your leadership, your dedication to addressing racial and social inequity and promost justice truly represents our city's values at its best. therefore, i set my hand on the city and county of san francisco to be

affixed, signed, mayor london breed. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> i just want to say a few words and the work that we have done with san francisco police department took seven years to complete. that seven years of being upheld and having mayor breed know that this work was important after mayor lee passed

away, and made a promise that we would do this work. i want to say thank you to wealth and disparities in the black community, because i couldn't have done it all by myself without you. tom brown, i know you are in. stand up, tom. i don't know who else from wealth and disparities is here. lynn, who helped me all throughout-thank you. i will leave you with this, don't come for me unless i send for you. [applause] don't come for me, unless i send for you. and then i am going to say, i'm not new to this! i am true to this! fighting for my people. [applause] thank you so much. thank you again mayor breed. thank you chief scott. thank you everyone. thank you black people!

>> beautiful. come on, one more time for chief scott and ms. felicia jones. [applause] here now, let us welcome, senator scott wiener. [applause] >> good afternoon! amazing to go after felicia jones. congratulations and thank you for everything you do. let's hear it for felicia again. [applause] i'm honored to be here today with this community and also want to thank mayor breed from the bottom of my heart. i have known the mayor many years and we work hand and glove every day for this community. that is state, city partnership is so critical and are the mayor pours her

life into this city and into the loving the city, so madam mayor, thank you for everything that you do. [applause] so, as some of you may know, this year i was appointed to be the chair of the senate budget committee and i have great timing. i was named budget change in time for a massive budget deficit. a lot of fun to enter under those circumstances. at first i was like wow, this isn't going to be fun. it is always great when you have money to invest in things and to do new things, and to come in during a deficit isn't the most uplifting thing, but then i realized that it was actually quite uplifting because when you are in tough times that is when your values really come out. what are the priorities-who are the communities that you are going to go to

the mat to protect? and i just want to tell you, we worked so hard in the legislature and passed our budget yesterday and we were able to protect and restore services for some of our most vulnerable communities for our seniors who are home-bound, for our foster kids and at risk youth, for folks who need healthcare, and i am so proud of the work that we were able to do in the capital to say that even during hard times we are never going to protect-never going to forget what this community is about and the need to lift everyone up. i will also say that we helped save some of those critical services by taking some money from our prison system to help do that, and in the state of california, in the

state of california over the last 10, 15 years our prison population went down by 40 percent because we finally moved away from the year of mass incarceration. but during that time period it was going down, the budget went up by 60 percent, so we are working hard and we need to all work hard as a community to manifest our values and we are doing that and i'm so grateful for so many people in the room who are working so hard and particularly during a period of the attorney general talked about, when we have forces in this country that want us to forget about the past. that want to white wash everything. pretend everything was okay. everything was not always okay for a lot of people in this country and many things are still not okay for many in this country, so we want to make sure that our kids know about actual

history. the history of our african american community. the history of our lgbtq community of our immigrant communities, everything. the good and beautiful, and the not so beautiful and we will fight so hard to make sure that those forces don't win and we will do it and have a better future. thank you everyone. [applause] happy juneteenth! >> please welcome this dynamic father daughter duo, michael and mikayla cheato. [applause]

>> thank you so much for having us. [music playing]

[singing mercy mercy me]

[applause] >> i will step aside and let me daughter mikayla--give another round of applause. [applause] [singing]

[singing song, golden]

>> one more time for michael and mikayla! one more time. [singing] >> wow. come on, show your love for

this band. top of the mark. alright. now, at this time, please let us welcome a dance from eric. [applause] [music and singing]

[applause] [singing] [applause] [singing and music]

>> one more time for mr. eric lee with that wonderful dance. now, we are getting ready to go a little higher. look at your neighbor and say, a little bit higher. at this time, i like to welcome ms. ramona massey to present the juneteenth court. >> alright.

good afternoon. happy juneteenth and i just want to say right now, after that performance, everybody here needs to be shouting. that was amazing! amazing, amazing. i will hurry up. i have the privilege and honor of introducing to you, san francisco, mr. and mrs. juneteenth in court, 2024. before you meet them, let's give them a round of applause. [applause] alright. so, this is an age group from 3 to 17, and they are being groomed for excellence. as mayor breed said, she does not want to be the last so this is our futureism as i introduce them, keep in mind there were others but they are representing the finalists. for third place, i have ziri. give them a round of applause!

[applause] second place, i have dylan knight. and third place-or mr. juneteenth is davan knight. let's give them a round of applause. zire is 7, dylan is 8 and davan is 9. we have third place amia whitley, 9 years old. second place, kaley williams, age 7. ms. juneteenth is [indiscernible] age 11. let's give them all a round of applause. that is dry. this is our future. give them a round of applause! [applause]

this is our future. alright. amen. >> hi, everybody. thank you for coming here and watching me be mr. juneteenth. [applause] and watch out for me in the future. [laughter] >> thank you. >> alright. give it up for this year's juneteenth court. give it up! [applause] wow, look at our future right here. how amazing. congratulations. alright. now, let us take a moment and

get ready for our special guest, so some of you may know this man from a group named black streets. you might also know him on his own, chicago 85. please join me and put your hands together for mr. dave hollister. [applause] >> we are going to sing a few ditties to you all. if you are all ready, come on say, yeah, i'm ready! [singing and music]

>> i got a question, can i take y'all back to 1994? i can't hear y'all. can i take you all back to 1994? if you know this i want you to help sing the song. [singing and music]

>> thank you all. [applause] photography >> one more time for mr. dave hollister. [applause] listen, i want to thank you for having me out. these guys over here have been all over the world with me, and i thank god for them. they get to chill today. you all get to chill today. he's one of the greatest vocalists i know. you all give it up one more time for my little brother, josh. [applause] mikayla is over here on the side, so they just chillin today. this is a great occasion and thank you all for doing this. i want to leave y'all with this

one last song, is that alright? this one last one, is that alright? let's go. [single and music]

[singing and dancing] i love you all, god bless you. have a good evening. take the lord everywhere you go. i bless you. how about one more time for mr. dave hollister! [music] we not done yet. we not done yet.

alright. are you guys enjoying the program, thus far? let's give a round of applause for the performers thus far. next up we do have a youth dance performance from heat dance line. heat dance line in the building! alright. immediately following heat dance line, will be sf [indiscernible] show your love for heat dance line.

[singing song, i'm every woman]

[singing song, sweet dreams by

beyonce]

>> one more time for heat dance line! [applause] fantastic. now, let us welcome, sf-to the stage. thank you. [applause] >> happy juneteenth, happy juneteenth! we are the san francisco bay area theater company. we got one song for you today in honor of juneteenth we are performing our show at the historical grace cathedral space, so please come check us out this weekend only. without further ado--

[singing song, in daddy's arms i am tall]

[applause] >> thank you all so much. check us out. happy juneteenth? ! >> happy juneteenth indeed. one more time for sf--well, i really hope you all have enjoyed the day's events. to close us out, please welcome back to the stage, back to the podium, the one that put this all together, please give around of a uz applause to ms. felicia jones. >> alright, we are getting ready to get ready-i know you guys are hungry. i know you guys are looking over there at all the good food. right. ? we are getting ready to close out. tonia williams, stand up, girl.

tonia williams. yes. this is my sister tonia, and i want to just say again, thank you all for coming. you guys put me to the test last year and you guys told me i had to beat last year and was all under pressure trying-what am i going to do, what am i going to do, what am i going to do, but we did it and we are closing out like this! come on! come on! [singing and music]

[upbeat singing and music]

francisco. >> (music). >> city and county of san francisco korean-american is one of the and preserve agrees in america we work with job seeker

to make sure they're trained and able to enter the workforce by i work with the number of partners able to then recruit our residents from training and get a solidified trained up workforce the hospitality initiative started in 2012, we saw a need for culinary workers within san francisco is everything from hotels gift services to culinary training to also to security services as well as are jailer training is under the hospitality initiative umbrella and um, the goal so really try to make sure we have various training tracks for folks to answer within the industry and our program is about a tense week program about

job readiness, you know, included with our kitchen work we teach life skills. >> to assess the program not only what my helped my life build. >> i come from a hardship to starting to connect again to changes, you know, and this is a second chance. >> why not to mess up on that and the program has supported me in that you a oewd is amazing; right? one of the things we focus on more on for our workforce development how to help more trained workers would our industry want to help raise the awareness of those organizations so our members know hey this is a place we could go and find a cook find a things to. >> my sidewalks previously i

did 10 years in federal penitentiary i was released into prison and that's how i got introduced with that so to chat they said apprenticeship they taught me to leave the program and i found multiple jobs and owe that to everything i learned here in. >> no wrong donor i feel your department has done is great job throughout the workforce developmen

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>> you may also watch live at www.sfgovtv.org. item one roll call. >> president morgan present. >> vice president fraser. >> commissioner nakajo presents. >> commissioner feinstein has been excused and commissioner collins is whusz jeanine nicholson, chief of department. president morgan will read the ramaytush ohlone ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement. >> ramaytush oholone land acknowledgement: the san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush (rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula.

responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. rights as first peoples. thank you, item by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment..

okay. madam secretary any public comment at this time. >> nobody is approaching the promoted owe podium. >> no one on the call >> no one on the call in [discussion and possible action]discussion and possible action to approve meeting minutes.• minutes from regular meeting on may 22, 2024. >> so madam secretary any public comment? >> on this. >> nobody approaching the podium and none on the line. >> commissioners any motions. >> i move we accept the minutes. >> i second that. >> commissioner nakajo the motions is unanimous and approval the minutes minutes from the special meeting on

may 31, 2024. >> any questions or comments from the fellow commissioners. >> motion? >> i'll move to approve the minutes. >> okay. >> i'll second that. >> commissioner nakajo, aye. >> the motion is unanimous. >> the motion is unanimous. item >> the motion is unanimous. item 4. >> 4. chief of department's report [discussion] report from chief of department, jeanine nicholson. budget academy and communications and outreach to oat government agencies and the public and. >> report from operations, deputy chief darius luttropp. and omc deputy chief sandra tong

will be continued she's been ensued from this meeting. >> all right. good morning. >> commissioner nakajo and commissioner feinstein and staff. >> jeanine nicholson, chief of department. this is my respect the previous commission meeting in may. >> it been all budget all the time and all hands on deck represent this 10:00 a.m. number 8 on the docket and prior to this myself and 2, 3, or 4 dr. have met with the 5 members of button and finance committee supervisor chan act supervisor mandelman who is number 2, and

supervisor preston and laid out what our budget looks like and um, some of the challenges. so i'm looking forward to um, to doing this friday. and then i know that director corso has been working with the budget analyst have to put their eyes on everything we should have the final from them today and then we'll aspect with the budget and finance committee on friday and then after that that is a week until um, the 21 when he go back to the budget committee to finalize the budget a lot of work so many work like everybody

who has done that work especially mark corso one of the unsung heroes of the department and working with chief and his staff on medical reimbursement for the street crises response for our paramedicine responses we do get reimbursement medi-cal for work but not yet for community paramedicine so we must go through the department of public health to get this done for medi-cal reimbursement you up to $3,000 per call. and it is pretty complicated and it is taking some time. but i have been assured my dps will work with us to get this done have to

go through them medi-cal only wants one main entity within the city and county of san francisco. so we have to go do dph to get this done and more to follow in the months to come. thank the command staff for the memorial day service nancy pelosi was there and many, many veterans a shout out to all the veterans in the fire department. for the work they've done and continue to do. many of i attended the one hundred and three three graduation they were up and coming in the second week and in the field it was a really nice graduation thank you for attending and pretty packed house. fit seven hundred people

that recent pretty full. (clearing throat) we also have made offers to the one hundred and three 4 class um, we're hoping to have 54 members in this class and it is due to start i believe um, the 24 june this monday. >> i attended an event in the fillmore called grilling in mow and they've had had event 17 years the fire department received an recognition from the folks that put that event on just for our work in the community. um, really nice event and great music and barbecue that was um, a fun event and glad to be there. we continue

our retreats myself, 2, 3, 4 and director corso to talk about the high-level projects and status of certain things and just been a very helpful to tool for me and us. we then met with the controller's office on possible projects we could have them do for us over the next year. and um, of course, i don't have it off the top of my head but in terms of whether necessary looked fee replacement plan for us or an ems staffing model or what have you we give them our top projects in order and they will determine what they um,

what if anything they'll do for us for this year's projects (clearing throat) speaking of fleet replacement chief will talk about the status of our rigs. and it is a great concern for me. and something advocated for for an amount of time you'll get an update on that a very clear and helpful update for you all to see. i attended emergency city leaders graduation we tried to send a couple of our members to different programs that department of high-rise will you tell us u puts on to help our folks so this we servant our fire marshall and i went to the

graduation and they got a lot out of class we try to send members to a lot of the membership classes and think it is super important i want to acknowledge didn't get acknowledgement our fire marshall fire marshall ken cofflin when i get a call if city hall or someone it concerned about something he just jumps into action and a good relationship with on the city folks and knows his job and knows what he's talking about and gets things deny i am to shout out to you conveniently for your work. thank you very

much. i really it is great to know you're always on it so, thank you. >> um, we also had an opportunity deputy chief of ems yesterday more to follow on that and 7, 8, 9 to acknowledge um, neil assistant ems today his last commission meeting and he's crying in the back somewhere. so but neil thank you for all the work you've done for the city and for the department over is years and um, you know, you have made a significant impact on how um, things are run in the city when it comes to crises and paramedicine and the like. as well as ems so thank you for all your work and i'm i wish you a happy retirement the you're not

retiring working somewhere else i don't know whereby nothing can stop you and congratulations and give him a couple of minutes to say a few words sometime today that would be great. >> come on down neil (laughter). >> need to give you a time limit and we have three minutes right and can't agriculture with you fire marshall. >> this is the first time i've been up here at the commission meetings so thank you for letting me. commissioner nakajo and chief and president morgan and colleagues. thank you. >> um, yeah. no it's been a

wild ride 0 thirty years a long time and certainly an honor to serve this city. um, so many you different capacities it is hard to believe. and, of course, i'll continue to try to find ways to help, you know, the people of san francisco the department and my professions and colleagues, you know, i think the thing i look back and the biggest honor has been to work with fellow, you know, paramedics and firefighters the most is responding to calls and being shoulder to shoulder with the people that all have the same goal in mind so certainly it is starting with the paramedics the biggest honor to try to help my colleagues, you know, who were absorbing a lot of the issues related to the several on the

streets and helping them. and helping our hospitals and helping the people on the street as well as up and coming it is hard to get someone to get someone when a person is in cardiac ari hope it is shown that and always to help my colleagues and help the people we serve and certainly an honor to be a chief and work with all of you as well i appreciate all of you and appreciate everybody out there and yeah. >> thanks. >> (laughter). >> thanks chief appreciate that give a round of applause. >> (clapping) deputy chief sandra tong

something you can read into the record for lack of a better term commissioner nakajo and president morgan secretary i'm assistant deputy it's been a long time coming. is ill and property some that remarks in honor of chief asked me to read them and gave my permission to add my own comments and let you know what it is mine and not here's or hers and june 28th will retiree starts in ems in westminster massachusetts working an ambulances still in high school and before working in san francisco chief worked in alameda county as a paramedic for 4 years that's where i met

neil and started as a paramedic in oakland and the came one year later i thought a seasoned veteran (laughter) and let him know that that's when i first met him, i was 25 and the was 21 or 22. and 19 did 4 he was hired a as paramedic with the san francisco department of public health and one year later i thought hired with the health department and show learning channel called paramedics traveling in city to city doing donate o documentaries on ems providers and think that see the person think halloween ropdz to 9-1-1 in a pirates costume with a par

rot on his shoulder i was in 1997 with the paramedic division merged with the fire department. since this time cross-trained and paramedic and promoted to paramedic captain and in many roles training captain and it was during if era when to was um, working um, for the depth the division of training and teaching advanced prehospital trauma life port. support to keep the students engaged demonstrate what it is like for a hallow organ to have the trauma have a watermelon in the front of class and get a sledgehammer and smash that watermelon sending watermelon

everywhere you have to be there and if you're in the front right now i experience it good well in 2004 created the medical home team he alone respond in a van concentrating many with substance abuse and had substance abuse issues governor gavin newsom was mayor of san francisco and there was a community town hall meeting neil another paramedic were selected to speak i don't remember the topic and afterwards neil was there with thirty page document he wrote getting a degree in social welfare in uk berkley at

that time and waited for then mayor 92 so on so many i have an idea. and i was there and mayor newsom said i'll have any people look at it from that point mayor newsom helped him get started and chief tonga a precursor to the paramedicine and a model captain known by the call sign ems 6 was a 1 person street crises and overdose team his role he was a senior to those on the streets and those of us respond repeatedly to the same people but for the appropriate for the entering room we can call ems 6 captain gave us hope

a frequent 9-1-1 will get the help they needed at that time neil was a very, very - we've been close friends affair thirty years i was working as firefighter and paramedic he was ems 6 and i decided to ride along with him and that was a it's been a long time coming. for me someone experiencing homelessness with social needs that was not a call i wanted to go on but i would like to move up and astonished what neil is doing we climbed down into a utility evaluate and found someone that had been living there got him to a shelter and spent over an hour talking to someone in a sro through the

closed-door i couldn't believe that neil was talking to this person it was astonishing i couldn't understand how someone how a paramedic who a paramedic is a lower end of the medical hierarchy but a neil told stories a lot of stories of backroom deals and negotiating and applying i couldn't believe that was true and so, now that i have been everything he was doing was mind blowing to me. after the home team got shut down he continued looking for ways to help people and did asthma outreach on his own a

documented machine and have members do pulmonary testing and got national awards he's won more awards than i can count. he's one paramedic of the year at least twice and in addition to a person reilly looking for new ways to help the public at the bottom he's an excellent clinician and paramedic in jeanine nicholson, chief of department. after i say promoted and in 2022 deputy chief of ems during the tenure instrumental in helping the department navigate and uncertain time day to day operational changes and

managing supply shortages and messaging the field with the latest information and focused on the demands it oemgs operations to manage the increasing call volume and metrics incidents but reviewing the ambulance schedules and designed the popular 13.33 hour shift schedule and constantly looking for ways to improve the webs welfare and to push the city so our crews can get out of public eye and take a break bought the practicing at the top of the clinical license and been a member to participate in ems research any problem or question was an opportunity to create a

program to address the issue. and the would have a multi page proposal ready in a couple of days and throughout his long career been an advocate for ems for those who provide the care and those who receive it. so though i know you're not done with coming up for solutions for the next ems problem or crises enjoy your retirement (clapping.) he's worth is; right? >> (laughter.) >> yeah. i just want to salute you for a your long story

career since 1994 that's a long time and grateful to have you in the city of san francisco and is standards you set throughout the fire department and been a gift to the san francisco. thank you. >> and i'll see if the other commissioners have something to say. >> oh, yeah chief i'll keep it brief i have so many admiration and spent a little bit of time with you and terror that making changes always is hard especially in a big city like we're in around here the types change requires commitment and energy all of which you have quite a bit in this wonderful thing a gift to san francisco and all the fellows and sisters in the fire department and i

guess to all the citizens and wish i well thubdz i hope you'll come back and tell us more don't work too hard to took taking a break congratulations. thank you very much. and yeah. he know you're going to visit the commission meeting we're going to dedicate this one to you. watch reported session of this meeting. um, commissioner nakajo thank you, thank you president morgan and vice president fraser and chief is not here but again, you can be late to her i'm

appreciative having an it's not for chief to come up and address the commission. i think always that many of our members they retire um, i don't don't remember occasions sometimes an occasion i thought that was appropriate that chief and t were able to come up here you're right. i can't recall verbalizing and in you chiefs for this message i gave as well as interpretation of your own experience each one of us has an experience i want to touch about it how important to do this kind of session and how hard and difficult to maybe sit this but it is significant and important. and i think you augment to take

in whatever you want to take in on our last day if you want to smile go ahead and do that or cry i understand you have so understand we're going to miss you and part the three are for members not hear myself we'll get by a keep on moving and god help us by the kind of vision i remember the stories and entity chief when i was in the station i believe when jeanine nicholson, chief of department. was the captain and you rode along and the story goes as soon as i got in this you throw me our thesis and everything we understand has today and again, as a commissioner served 28 years may i in terms of what you

attributed and for myself elevated the concept of ems paramedics and emts and elevation to the department i was here with the merger occurred with the transition of metrics to the fire department and now we are one family one culture one department. i appreciate and thank you for that for myself you elevated that and to consider to see your contribution it is pretty amazing. i'm you're valuable and a guy like me or commission in the department tough not to be part of that contribution i want to say directly and to tell you how much as a commissioner, i appreciated the fellow colleagues as well and exciting to see you - for the city and

county of san francisco in everything. >> pretty amazing to get it punch i appreciate that and soars the opening statement and paramedics that is truly another thing for the department not everyone can be - so thank you for that and for giving me the opportunity. >> thank you commissioner nakajo. >> at that point i will check in with madam secretary any public comment before we go to the chiefs report. >> any public comment on the chiefs report? >> nobody approaching the podium and no one on the public comment line. thank you. madam secretary i guess you've up chief the floor is yours. >> good morning commissioner nakajo and president morgan and

command staff and moreno and deputy chief for the month of, nay. this is my report and get this slides. >> up on the computer? >> there we go perfect, thank you. >> so in the month of may there were a slight uptick in the number of boxes but work and fire is subsequent and two great alarms to report first great alarm on the second of may, this box 1535 initial report fire coming from the roof avenue corner building and 41 arrived on scene and passed that on to other chief and found do fire quickly in the rear of the building but because of space

able to as at an a boiler fire stand not walls and they were quickly able to extinguish it at box is 5 three 5 and a second alarm was where i reside an extensive over hail to make sure it is not extended on the top of the building that if and strong work by everybody involved and second alarm was box 3542 on the together of may. and commander that was achieve a captain this was a fire initially report on the fourth floor of the very large building mercy i'm sorry - housing for elder many sdashltd

and when units arrived on scene went for the fourth floor we believe the fire was sprumsz by a sprinklers the fire starred on the third floor and smoke conditions were not improving on the third floor that was an extensive overhaul with the void spaces protected by plywood and required chainsaws too, so those actions multiple multiple rescues i'll detail why in what few minutes had additional companies with all the staffing available able to complete a significant number of rescues and thank you for establishing a

medical group the occupants were assembly in a common space and able to get a head count and diagram what was not evacuated and effect the others involved. other complicating factors it beside that was the water supply the chief has addressed and tightened up the operations for this type of combined fire sprinklers and stamp system that i want as well as the previous second alarm will be issued to companies and a new product calling it an action attached it to the back of the power point and will talk about that many a moment but water is established and the rescues were accomplished the fire was contained but to get into the

roof space. the roof presented another unique challenge it had a type of installation that is uncommon in the city of san francisco the company was able to make the communication and make an adjustment despite the number of solar panels on the roof all in all it effected the operations. another extradition complication and we're keen to protect the staffing model and the unit if you can too go to the box and look at the units listed out the first chart is out of the second truck is the second shock at the time the third truck was at another dispatch water leak the 16 truck was dispatched and the first truck to arrive at the incident

the 5 truck 6 was on a lift and the 7 truck was at central shock we go through so on a regular day in disaster operations or great storm on trucks are busy doing a lot of work in the city the second truck was truck 7 the quarterly at 19 and folsom very, very far in the street. this chief had a multiple resources available in the other calls and water leak and dispatch had additional staffing all in all the amount of staff that arrived that tradition is normally in a row that the incident commander is reefdz and held because of

complexity of the incident this box was listed as a second alarm and staffing wise and the system does order nearly three-quarters of the staffing but thank the chief for the work on this incident. i attached to the rear of your slide presentation. an example of after action report that issued so since 28 fillmore a roof operation and the chief had the company officer of truck prepare a document this is our goal moving forward that somebody had a unique incident or unique exchange will present that information to out to everyone in the field and available to all officers what have discusses and chief can discuss the operations and we look forward to these coming out

frequently a great educational benefit improvement of operations so the fire marshall has a chance to present a portion of his staff today. kind of abbreviated report nothing toward the notice to improve or violations with the inspection program is on track and one arrest for arson in the reporting period if you go to the small outside fire map i know that a favorite of the commission of late as you can see they remainder a problem but concentrate and not a problem throughout the city. for other work that fire marshall accomplishes in his office had a number of meetings with our work group for our policy design with

mta and coming to a census on a plan of work and design standards that will be for the coming that work continues and additionally i'll leave it at that. >> for the airport division the chieftains to do great work a couple of things to highlight the transition to the non-poly the non- former is delivered will be operational and significant number of his staff to dallas to get trained in the lastly technique and this is a big month are for the chief and interaction with the fire scope and with the fire department there state committees. no words.

>> wasn't me (laughter). >> i'm sorry. >> all right. and the chief also conducted a vow last year scale experience called the bay x experience in the month of may and units responded and in the report. they had a heavy hazmat component and thank you to the chief for that effort and division of training proud moment 1 hundred and three three class thank you for attending we look forward to serving in the next class this month and additionally the chief was heavily involved with millers design of the future training facility that is going very well we're in a much better place than i exceeded to be and thank you to the chief for that and

they also completed a new educational mou with the city college it is greatly expanded the enter action with the classes we'll offer in their umbrella which will us to receive the benefits and codify the classes and additional education the chief is trying to drive. chief is inmentality in getting that money through. and a fun one i don't have pictures of a fire blanket demonstration for electrical vehicles with the chase center a whiff product and expansion into our operations with that blanket system and lastly, i want to say a few words about the chief also. i

appreciate chief we had conversations about that in the past how much i admire you and respect you when ems 6 was a new program chief and i were fire officers with a heavy, heavy impact by ems of one of the goals for committee ems and others programs beyond a great benefit to the people they serve and helping the communities and the in the greater city of san francisco. and firefighters and emts and paramedics always there for the membership in the field i know the membership in the field appreciates him and chief if we allowed the busiest companies in the world to

celebrate him they would celebrate him. thank you, again. chief and that concludes my report. >> at that point madam secretary is there any public comment? >> there nobody approaching the podiums and no one on the line. >> commissioners you have any as he may deem appropriate. >> for deputy chief darius luttropp frazer frazer sorry. thank you. for your report it is interesting that a list of we're - during the greater alarm was scary but i'm sure everyone learned from that moving forward thank you for sharing that (clearing throat) and also thank you, again, for the outdoor fire masks i understand that and it is favorite. i had a question about the phone you mentioned for the airport the non- p pack phone is

that available for other kinds of fire locations by the airport or this is particularly assigned to the airport environment. >> the field of operations with traditionally had a way to deliver foam by that is adopted as industry standard will be always the fire operations general. >> that's great. um, the the other thing is you know that the number of solar panels on the roof for one fire is that something problematic or do they get taken off in a fire how do you approach that i see them everywhere not a bad thing but in a fire and they're a great thing can be a blue ribbon panel to the operations objective limit the space where we can

have ventilation we don't want to remove them or disturb p them and any light that touches the panels including just the lights for the operation to generator electrical we have a long stavndz that is zika the power from the solar panels so they're not charging the building covering them, but in general don't we don't try to disturb the panels in possible in our report i didn't put it in the power point but how narrow between the panels. >> very interesting report. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> hear from commissioner nakajo. >> president morgan and chief for our comprehensive reported i

look forward to the presentation by the fire prevention outreach and acknowledge the chief for the airport news letter the photos in the news letter and the work you're doing that i very much appreciate it i want to say as chair chief thank you very much for your crew for the rest of seniors over there think fillmore street. senior complex. thank you very much. chief. thank you. mr. president. >> um, thank you for your report. deputy chief darius luttropp sounds like last month too big fires there within kind of hurt me the one that

(rustling of papers.) fillmore with you're generous about throwing the contractors under the bus in you're description i guess i will hopefully the superintendant did references and hopefully the names were not larry, mow and curly this is horrendous what kind of shortcuts with people, you know, and fires sounds like it traveled real fast behind the walls and i like the description i put in the report how the fire travels late lateral and all the units effects in the fire could have been a lot worse thank god thank you for the work you did on that fire and um, that is i'm

speaking the right one 1727 fillmore street. >> that's right. >> a total of a 50 units. >> 50 units and one hundred people displaced. >> amazing no one got seriously hurt you guys did a great job and i commend you and all the companies that worked on that and almost a third box stricken on that one that's the one, huh? >> the number of units involved. >> uh-huh. so it probably is unlivable now. >> i hope they're returning. >> oh, i want to commend you guys for the great work and sorry for the bad contractors (laughter). >> no chief it's in the report thank you to the chief for her

extensive report but a personal connection throughout the incident was exemplar. >> good. >> i commend you, too. >> and what's the chiefs name, again. >> drive by. >> okay. >> yeah other than that one just stuck irritate to out /* /* out to me and i don't have anything else to say we'll continue on back to madam secretary to >> 6. update on status of sffd fleet [discussion] deputy chief shayne kaialoa to provide and update on the department's fleet status. >> i it out we're doing

on the agendas have yeah. >> we have - >> fire marshall. >> we have what. >> fire marshall conference report. >> on this one it says. >> sorry i crossed out the wrong one. >> item 5. >> sorry >> sorry deputy chief shayne kaialoa. [discussion] fire marshal ken cofflin and inspector tomie kato to provide an update on current community outreach and education efforts. >> good morning president morgan and vice president fraser and command staff thank you for allowing the fire marshall office time today to bring to the commission

meeting and introduce you to the bureau of fire prevention & investigation we play a roll in the areas but for those of you who don't know fire prevention is for the bureau of fire prevention & investigation from review for safety for the public and our firefighters conducting the emergency operations and issuing permits for events and meeting complaint of insuring the city's now housing is fire department safe for our residents. while developers with building more fire resistance treasures the items inside the house will continue to burn. >> the bureau feels one of the best ways to reduce in the home presidents make sure we are

dedicated in fire safety that's where our team comes in i want to introduce you to inspector tomie kato to helm for more than 6 years and one person of the commission seen many, many times during the depth report discussing dbi the concepts in the power point slide probation officer with others always representing the fire department in the best light and working to make sure the fire department is seen by residents not just through emergencies and educating anyone about fire safety and interact roll being a leading example not only working in fire preservation in the best practices but her and her team

offer support to the d e i interest through job fairs and another events and at the high school ems high school in building their knowledge of fire prevention and education introduce you to inspector tomie kato. >> come on up. >> i'll be quicker. >> thank you fire marshall ken cofflin good morning commissioner nakajo and vice president fraser and commissioner nakajo and vice president fraser and command staff and over present. >> thank you for this opportunity. to be here today before you my introduction stated i'm currently a fire inspector with the education team and i thought it it it would be nice to give you a brief history for this you

haven't seen this program grow over the years. um, so we have some photos that um, my new teammate can - or fire marshall ken cofflin will move through i joined the team in 2017 and learned from fernando at that time there were was a program in place after the rash of fires in the mission district in 2015 and the program was a joint effort between the department of building inspection and oats fire department to bring education and awareness to the residents of san francisco. so under this mou a presentation

was developed and a workshop was formed called fire safety in the home. and this in the workshop we um, talked to the residents of san francisco about the top causes of fires in the home, how to prevent them, smoke and carbon dioxide alarms what to do if you get trapped in and fire and all about is in 2018 we

south expanded our services in the community a new van to transport augural the equipment that was wonderful and um, we collaborated with another entities um, throughout the city. we worked with our pio john baxter and we created district safety fairs we can get into the various district throughout the city. as one of the goals to reach every community in every corner of the city and to the different underserved or at risk communities as well. um, we added - established relationships with many communities goes to accomplish

this and at those events set up information booths in which we distribute and staffed with fire inspectors we with the help of volunteers many of our h20 volunteers cc sf and the fire students and also the san francisco fire reserves come out to do community service and help us deliver fire safety information into the community. with their help we have reached 10 of thousands of our san francisco residents and visitors. additionally um, we formed a core competent our committee outreach and reimbursement community are recruitment and education that's

why we call it core a mouthful (laughter) so the core committee was developed to um, to coordinator and streamline the departments in relation to recruitment and education and report to our chief in all aspects of that. the um, in 2019 our biggest year we were reaching more people out in the community with that vital safeties and strengthened other relationships with the office of civil engagement and immigrant affairs they were instrumental in our language interpretation getting the information to

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