>> good morning i hope everyone had a great pride and the mayor is unhelp with mow for doing a monday morning press conference. we had a great, amazing time y. congratulations mayor on a wonderful day >> today, we are with much provide and happy ness and excitement. announcing that due to a state law that i senate bill 423, today a nice post pride gift to san francisco. today san francisco goes from the longest period of time to get a housing permit in the state of california of all 500 cities to one of the shortest. [applause] it will do so by

removing housing permitting approvals from the hyper political mosh pit of san francisco. where if you follow all the rules, around zoning and everything else this does in the money you get a permit it means that you are now entitleed go in this political pit and fight for a number of year bunkham may be you get it and may be you will not. no more. now we are doing good governmentful means we set the rules ahead of time this is the zoning. these other design standards. here other rules. if you meet those rules with your project, you get your permit in a matter of months. no discretionary hearings. no ceqa lawsuits. 91 of the politics of the board you get your damn permit. period. mruz mrauz when we talk about

the housing crisis in california, you know we are here talking about technical stuff. discretionary approvals and ministerial approval and ceqa and zoning and sb. a number after temperature it is so important always, always. when we talk about housing that is off the technical words are really about people. and weather people are going to be able to afford housing in san francisco and in california. about weather people are going to continue to be pushed out of california, middle and work class family who is decide they can no longer make a run of it there is no pregnant for them to get the housing they need. it is about people as a bottom rung of our economic leader. low income renters, who understand this if than i lose their apartment they can't do

when normally we expect people to do you lose your apartment you find a different one. they understand this than i then may have i choice between leaving san francisco or becoming homeless. in san francisco. it is about people, young people who want to make their home and life in san francisco and don't see a path to be able to do this. these other young people who are the future of our city. the creativity and innovation and energy for the future and we are pushing them out. so, we are talk a lot of technical stuff it is about people, that's when sb423 is about and the good news is about. we spent decades in san francisco lierring process after bureaucracy after obstacle after process, one after the other for the left 50 years. and have made it hard or

impossible to build a number of hope this is we need t. is not coincidence that san francisco is literally before today the slowest permitting time line in the entire state of california. and so the last 7-9 years my clothes and i and two fwonors in a row worked pleasant the seeds to have housing be depoliticized and permits happen faster. change zoning so we zone for enough new homes. to make it possible to dig ourselves out of the massive shortage we dug for ourselves. and we are making progress. well are other issues somewhere beyond our control we can't control interest rates. when than i come down, we need to make sure that our structure that we have empowerhouse the building of new homes.

so specific low on friday, the california department of housing community development declare had san francisco is the first city to be stream lined under sb423. you may recall for those following it. i include a specific amendment for san francisco in sb423 so it would take affect quickly in this city and would not wait another couple years. reason dithat is because san francisco had the slowest permitting time line. san francisco was an end and needs extra help to play catch up. we know this this the predecessor of the senate bill 35 which i offer in the 2017 was being used in san francisco for a handled % affordable to great affect this is successful. thousands of new subsidized affordable home in san francisco had been permitted over the past

5-6 year in i matter of month its has been a game change fer subsidized affordable house nothing san francisco this is 10% of the new home in san francisco temperature is great but not must have. and had this this bill will do is mean instead of 10% of new homes subject to the acceleration for permitting it will be 75%. of new homes. [applause]. basically all new housing in san francisco other than the megadevelopments those have development agreements this deal with their approvals. so, you know i want to note that there are some in san francisco and they have become more organized and louder these days. and than i even have a patron saint in city hall the president of the board of supervisors and

their goal is to shut down and stop housing production in san francisco. they don't want classic mem biism. don't want new homes near where than i live them don't want multiunit apartment buildings near single family homes. and am here to say that does in the represent the majority of you in san francisco. a large majority want more housing. a learning majority understandses building new housing does in the harm existing neighborhoods. it makes existing north americaeds better, i have scombrant diverse. more people to shop at local stores. this is what this is about and i'm very excited that we are here today. i want it bring up mayor breed. i want to siaha it is much more fashionable to be now than 6

years ago. it was tougher then. the approximately ticks were hard exert perception it was a losing political argument. everyone says they are now and that is great like welcome. join the movement for a brighter housing future. there are some people who got it early on and mayor breed was one of those people. and i want to remind people that in 2018, i was authoring the big rezoning bill. sb827, sb50 and rezoning, it was a big huge scombil it sparked a political fight throughout california. asked goners were asked about it at every debate. it was infusing political dialogue in california. and in the middle of this press, we had an unexpected major's race in san francisco because mayor lee passed away. and of

all the major candidates everyone of them except one came out and opposed our bill. and the only one who came in favor television in 20 ain't was london breed. a lot of people told her not to do it. and she did it and did can with support. and won that race and that's the volume about where the people of san francisco are, so mayor breed thank you for taking riskos house and for your, mazing leadership for the future of san francisco and with this, mayor london breed. >> thank you. so much senator wiener it is great to be here to talk about housing and senator brings sba27. i remember when i was here in san francisco in fact on the

west side of town during a mayor's debate talking about sba27 and the question i asked to the people who were there and in explaining my support for sb a27 was how many of you have been in san francisco your life and born and raised or raised your kids and been here for 50 years and everybody hand goes up. how many of you raised your children here? my kids were born and raise in the san francisco. how many of your kids still live here. hard low any hands went up. public housing that i grew up in spent 20 years of my life living there my mother grew up in public housing had 300 units. that were taken down and 200 built. point is there have been really many mistakes made in the past. and the fact is, all roads lead to housing. if we want to be able to attract and retain city employee who is can afford to live in san

francisco we have to build housing, construction work torse afford to live here the housing units than i build here we need to build more. when we talk about the folk who is work in san francisco how do i get talent to stay here in it is so expensive to build here? it is all about housing. get people autopsy the streets we gotta put them somewhere temperature all starts with housing. and for a decade, this city has said no to housing. they talked about it. but then here come another policy. here come another obstructionist and creative two people in the neighborhood. to stop a development. and the fact is, we have tried to issue executive directives. make changes to local laws we are not giving up. but because of senator scott wiener, we are final low now

seeing real opportunity. not just with sb423 but sb35. already 3500 affordable housing units have gone through a process without the obstruction it has had in the past. and for the first time, we built i broke ground last week on 90 new units of affordable housing in the sunset! [applause] for seniors. for families. enough is enough. san francisco is not a museum. that should be stuck in time of it is a city with actual people. and opportunity for people to live here and we'll always be a beautiful city. and there is no hrm that will come to a neighborhood if we build 6 or 8 stories of housing in those neighborhoods in

opportunity cites. no redevelopment 2. 0 and bulldoze people neighborhood we are not going back. we have to move the city forward. the way we do it is is we have to get honest about our horrible process here and get job done. the fact this you can go from years, years to build units and there is a unit a building is 100%, 100 units of affordable housing for families that took 10 years from the time we identified the property until we went through this ridiculous process. this legislation is a game changer. it is going to stop the obstruction so we can move housing forward in san francisco. for the people the next generation san franciscans the poke who is want to work and live here. want to raise kids here.

how do we make it affordable? we build more housing. hudo we make it affordable. get oust way of being obstructionists. we can't control interest rates but the ridiculous fees and layers of bonjourockacy if i have my may i would take all the housing pop3s put them in chat gpt and type and up start from scratch with something this makes sense this get its moving you can't say you want more house and brag about being a housing leader when you are not willing to take risks to get the job done that's what senator wean cert doing every day and when we have to do here if we want to make sure this our city employees and construction workers, kids growing up now. we gotta think about the future and when this means for san francisco. it means, build housing now. thank you senator wiener for

your leadership. [applause] >> and before i bring up the next speaker, i want to acknowledge you see we have i bunch of carpenters back here. i really the nor cal carpenter we have fight in sacramento for years around labor protections and not whether to have them but what should they be. and created paralysis and then the carpenters showed up and changed everything and i game change and played a critical role in passing us and a strong forum. i want to thank the carpenters -- [applause] next i want to bring update guy who implementing the sb423. the director of the san

francisco planning department rich hill us. >> thank you all, thank you mayor and senator wiener. we are truly in a new era at the planning department and how we approve projects. so 423 applications are alive. operators are standing by and planners are standing by you can come in today online and apply for a housing project. this will be approved by the end of the summer. and that is [applause] that is truly a game changer where this would have normally taken a year or two as the mayor pointed out. 10 years or more ceqa and appeals involved. so between this legislation and then local low the mayor's constraints legislation, which passed again we'll able to approve project in weeks and months. instead of years. it truly is that is -- it allows

us at plan to focus on the work that planners came to san francisco or go in the profession to do instead of project by project refereeing. and this is how planning works in most cities. it is important for us and staff to work on learning are planning issue this is we are facing whether it is climate change and, dapping for sea level. reimagine magging the downtown and filling vacant commercial space. fill in the i world class transportation system or rezone negligent city that has not seen housing that is the role of planning. and when we should be doing. i want to thank senator wean and mayor breed and advocates who have been push for these changes so we can focus this work. thank you very much.

[applause] >> so, next want to bring up 3 great housing leaders. who helped play us critically in geting and many other piece of housing legislation pass said. we have a really amazing prohousing coalition and we are winning. so we will hear from brian the executive director and will you evera foot the executive director of action and corey smith housing action coalition. [applause] >> across california cities like san francisco have failed to approve new homes in a timely manner the delays lead to less house and higher costs.

research shown that california ranks the slowest and most expensive states to get permission to build new home and the ascertain mentioned, san francisco has been the slowest in the state. permitting delays cost a lot of money. and every penny goes to rent we pay or the cost purchasing a new home. faster approval process created will not solve all challenges but it it is a major contribution. san francisco and other cities can now dramatically stroll line the permitting of new homes leading to approvals in months or faster instead of years that monies more housing, low are cost and affordable california. on behalf of california i extend my thanks to senator wiener for strong leadership on housing including authorship of sb423 cosponsored with our partners at the california carpenters. the california housing

consortium and the law center. thank you. [applause] >> back to the short people. i was at a park with my po 2 kids and an older woman sat down and we talked and she told me it takes her 2 houros the bus to commute in from the east bay where she had to move she had mobility issues and was not able to find an apartment in san francisco where her kids live and grand kids are thriving but she could not find an affordable apartment on a fixed income. she is commuting 2 hours on the bus to visit grand kids and 2 back. if she was able to live here she would be able to baby sit the kids. more present in their lives. and she can't go to a planning

commission hearing. she is not going to show up at a meeting where supposed lite voice of san francisco people who are invest in the the projects where we make the politicized debates about whether we'll build a housing project or not. she can't participate in that process. but she matters as much as everyone who has 3 hours to kill on a thursday afternoon. which is a very specific demographic. this bill allows us to give voice to so many of the voiceless. they matter in our process. they should matter in our goal this is we set for meeting the housing goals. i want my kids to be able to live in san francisco. and the trajectory we have been on that is in the like low. we have to change the game here. and i want top thank not only mayor breed and planning

department, when we make the luin sacramento it does matter if you are city shows and up says we want to follow the law. we want to implement the policies. we want to make sure we meet the housing goals. it is planning upon department is taking an active role in saying how will we make sure we make good on the promises we have made to have an inclusive san francisco. how do we use the snat laws to hit the goelsz this are there for i reason. they are there to give voice to the people who will be excluded from the city and pushed out. men we can stop tuck burglar displacement and do something about temperature bring people back to this community. we cannot be a sanctuary city if you cannot find hozing in san francisco this is a meaningless commitment if the rent is too high. we have the opportunity today to do this. make good on promises and be a

community this welcomes people in instead of one this has a welcome sign on the door and kicks you out when you sat in the p for 5 minutes thank you for applying, bye. back to where ever we don't care our housing of the cos are too high. we can't do that it is bull and we continue. we need to welcome people in. i want to hand over, thank you. [applause] we have been fighting this. i want to tell one more store. when i got involved in san francisco politicis was i crazy bhorn should a full time dead end sales job and want watch sfgovtv on my laptop. and wait for the moment when i could run the 3 blocks to city hall to give comment. tell my boss i was getting a coffee and run and give comment and run back. 9 times out of 10 i of the only

person who was a working person able to give comment i was the youngest person there by a few decades. this is what happens when you have a process that is set up to enable people who have the stability in their lives who can luxuriate through 3 hours of public comment on a thursday afternoon. you don't get the working people represent in the this process. this process means we are giveingly voice to the people. >> thank you. good morning. i'm corey smith the executive director of housing action. we represent the builders who will builted homes the develop and contractors and land use attorneys the labor unions who will build california out of this mess. and the senator said we are here for a simple reason. san francisco is not building enough home and we are not tracking toward our state mandate target.

god knows we tried. we attempted. we will keep doing the board through up consistent barriers and fortunately, the state stepped in and thank you senator wiener for your help on that. as -- a resident and a renter in this city the two of these people here, represent a path forward in a different dreshgz. not for just san francisco but california it is simple. if you follow the rules you should be able to build your building without getting sued by antihousing neighbor. i know in limachine's term this is seems the reasonable and what else could help inform san francisco and california that was not the rule until today. and the bill will reduce the cost housing we are eliminating risk and as we deal with raising construction costs figuring out ways to e eliminate it from the process will help more are

feasibility. and moves the needle. speaking of losing the needle i want to shout out for the carpenter's union up here. folks don't appreciate the shift this happens because of jay brad shaw and pete rodriguez and leadership they have taken in the state of california to stop saying, no. and the carpenter's say, yes. the carpenter's say, yes. yes to more housing protecting work and a better california. today is a really fantastic day i'm excited. you will seat boards on the wall and now they are empty that's where we are. people are not building housing but today is a new day in california. new day in san francisco and look forward to the boards filling up we will see more affordable housing come across san francisco. and we got one that is getting under way.

next sfeeshg i want to introduce a half member and builder from the bernal heights neighborhood center. gina. [applause] >> good morning i want it thank senator wean and mayor breed for inviting me. to a celebration and as an affordable housing developer it is an honor to recognize when sb423 means to the city and ability to make affordable housing easier and faster. we have a saying on our housing team this there is in easy affordable. no easy housing site left in san francisco. and so what this means for us and building in bernal height system that some of the challenges of the site and location. are going to be part of a challenge.

and when this bill does is allows you to do our own contribution to affordable housing. for those of when you minot know the agency is an award wing neighborhood service provide and are affordable how doing developer and our mission to preserve and protect affordable housing. and we have 18 develop the cites over 500 units and through the types of deals sb35 and for you 23 we are now on our way to breaking upon ground in december for the first time in 10 years. in bernal heights. >> followed by another -- development where we were able to purchase the big lots and convert terror to affordable housing for another 70 units. this is done through the types of bills. this guilty neighborhood community based center can do it in all of our afford okay

housing cites can do it when we have this type of support. we also are very concerned about our community age nothing place. we serve over a thousand seniors and i want it make sure that as our seniors age in place they don'ts to worry about where they will lay their head the night. they don't worry about where than i will live or aged out of the or priced out of the community and so we want to be able to continue to contribute through our work and through the sb423. it will allow you to do so. thank you. [applause], thank you very much. thank you to speakers that concludes the press conference and will take a few questions. you mentioned other thing in the way enter rates and construction costs are in there. are there other [inaudible] in

your way? housing like this and when efforts are med to address that. >> interest rates that is i bit above our local and state control. i hopeful low we will resolve itself. and benefit many other things in the economy as limp in terms of there was an issue which is better now but i challenge was cost of materials. but this is in the i bigs problem as it was before. the board supervisors and the mayor did lower the inclusionary which was set at infeasible level they reassessed make sure that it would pencil out and deliver the affordable homes and the market rate homes as well. and -- you know impact fees are certainly -- a challenge and especially in san francisco and other cities that have high fees that are imposeod projects which

increase the costs and we were working on this at the state level this is something this needs to be addressed. 2 of the big, zoning, this is if i canned because we changed state law and required cities to zone for more in san francisco is doing that now and approving homes more quickly that is what this is about. we are not solving everything in one swoop i wish we could. we are resolving 2 of the big issues and the others will over time resolve themselves as well. >> [inaudible]. >> well i would say that this legislation provides an opportunity to get to yes and

make it easier. san francisco has been known for saying, no, mostly because senator wiener mentioned decades built up processes made it difficult for people to invest in san francisco and do business here and build housing and this is an opportunity to get to yes t. is easier. it is user friendly and we are excite body what this could money for the future. [inaudible]. >> it isseen stronger. so, sb1227, a bill this is mirest in peace no longer with us. would created a temporary seek kwa ceqa exemption we are looking at future possibilities. 423 is not just an exemption it

lit irrelevant removed the project in ceqa entirely they north a project for purpose of ceqa it is stronger then and there the exemption. [inaudible] it is we need to have a can did attitude. first, we have a large number of homes that have been approved via development agreement, harj projects like park merced and the ship yard and treasure loishgs landful mission rock, et cetera . that is tens of thussands of new homes. i'm speak for myself. some of the development agreements need to be revisited there were, let of costs put on them this make them difficult or

not possible to build. and so, we need to make sure that the those projects get built this . takes care of a significant can chunk. you'd in the new project by project and bernal heights or other locations 70 here. 200 there. 500 there plus adu and duplexes when you add it together there is a pregnant path. that is an improvement when we have done in the past. yes, we have a path. we need to be open to all of if mayor. >> keep are in the press of looking at a lot of the development agreements that exist and trying to understand when will it tick for the city

to mend in the development agreements to move the projects forward. the other thing is we have a creative financing tool because of the state. we have been able to invest over 265 mission on a front end in order to make sure that treasure i land continues. the and tressel power station project continues. those projects had not been for our financing tool would not be continued than i would be a stand still. it is creative financing. you know the state it is semi like redevelopment where you provide money that we will have to pay for like the utility and infrastructure and under grounding. we usually you know in the development agreements the costs are a per of the projects in the city usually has i responsibility and the developer as well. so, reevaluating the agreements. providing financing on the front end and reducing responsibility

from the development agreements to some case you know we had layers of impact fees for transportation. jobs and we you know will maintain prevailing wage in the jobs there are other investments than i have to give to other organizations and things we need to look at whether or not the types of investments should be provided in the projects because we want them to move forward. and the big are projects there will be discussions with community we can't there was commitments med to communities and now we will reevaluate those made in order to do you want housing or property it stay vacant for 10-20 years. those other discussions happening now with major preshths under way we are trying to move them forward. >> is there anyone else this has a question. >> senator.

the similar things earlier [inaudible]. >> so what happened is we through a law that i authored 6 years ago, changed how we set housing goals for california. and in the past, every 8 years every city gets their husbanding goal for market rate and low income and than i were absurd low low. most famous locality city of beverly hills a housing goal for 3 homes. and other cities got very, usually wealthier cities got lower numbers. and san francisco our number of

twhend this is over 8 years we are a large city. that was low. what we did we did not set up for failure we looked at the reality of the situation. how much husbanding do we need? the goals were set by looking at the facts instead of the political process where we make up numbers out of thin air. it is recognizing reality. is this reality a hill this needs to climbed? absolutely because for 50 years we made it impublic to build enough new homes. we use build thousand ammeds of home in the 60s. 70 and 80 down zone and made it hard to get approved and built and that hundreds of thousands turned to 70-80,000. it is we will have to climb out of this hole and we are working heard to do this. but we need a can do attitude,

let's solve the problem and do what it takes and stop you know ringing our hands. which is when we have done too often. >> am these two and this will be it. question for planning. [inaudible]. planning staff milook different do you have plans [inaudible]. >> like i said, you know things like the rezoning and looking at major portion of the city that has not seen a lot of development and focus on efforts around rezoning, sea level rise. you know we are going through a large press with the army course to do a flood study and the future of water fran. transportation planning got short within the department and downtown come that future of retail looks like in the city.

a host of your this is we look at in addition to planning for additional housing that we're equip exclude focused on. it is a comment we get from commissioners who sit on planning that we spends too much time on dr or project refereeing instead of the learning are issues. final question. >> public housing. the residents in bernal heights neighborhood center. throughout the city what does housing mean for them.

i think it means security. you knownualy prior to covid our organization puts on annual congress and it is for community members to in in and share what their concerns are. i will never forget in the housing round table one of the singers said shoes living on the couch of i friend in her clothe in i treasure bag and asked me. would this housing i want my basic needs. it means dignity elders work in the the city and criminalitied in a variety of ways and all of the housing merits for me i have a hearted for older adults making sure this is in the i problem than i inher exit we can be part of the solution with the creative housing solutions likes sb423. thank you, everyone.

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>> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homeland security. i ultimately spent almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling, some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue responsibility; that i accepted treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older, i felt

more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forward myself, and i feel really strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbled and privileged but also very confident. so here at moscone center, this is the covid command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in july, we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of emergency management, the department of public health, and our human services hughesing partners, so primarily the department of

homelessness and supportive housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now, of course, in this final phase, it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. the fires, obviously, that both we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of air quality. we had, in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people.

you know, all of those things, people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode, so there's a lot of conversations with people making connections, identifying gaps in resources or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the pandemic has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days, more than what we're used to, most of us. honestly, i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us

ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really, the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak about myself. every day, i have to sort of have that moment of, like, okay, i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep going. it is, i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have

seen something in me that i did not see in myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend on, schools and daycare and sharing, you know, being together with other kids isn't available. i've often thought oh, if my kids were younger, i couldn't do this job, but that's unacceptable. a person that's younger than me that has three children, we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be limiting. women need to assume that they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not. we tend to want to be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave, a little more

exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is, when given an opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step up so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you get, the more leadership you have, and power. the more power and leadership we have that we can put out cu

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>> in august 2019 construction began on the new facility at 1995 evans avenue in bayview. it will house motorcycle police and department of forensic services division. both sfpd groups are in two buildings that need to be vacated. they will join the new $183 million facility in late 2021. >> elements of the cfi and the traffic company are housed at the hall of justice, which has been determined to be seismically unfit. it is slated for demolition. in addition to that the forensic services crime lab is also slated for demolition. it was time and made sense to put these elements currently

spread in different parts of the city together into a new facility. >> the project is located in the bayview area, in the area near estes creek. when san francisco was first formed and the streetcars were built back it was part of the bay. we had to move the building as close to the edge as possible on bedrock and solid elements piles down to make sure it was secure. >> it will be approximately 100,000 square feet, that includes 8,000 square feet for traffic company parking garage. >> the reason we needed too new building, this is inadequate for the current staffing needs and also our motor department. the officers need more room, secured parking. so the csi unit location is at the hall of justice, and the crime laboratory is located at building 60 sixty old hunters

point shipyard. >> not co-located doesn't allow for easy exchange of information to occur. >> traffic division was started in 1909. they were motor officers. they used sidecars. officers who road by themselves without the sidecar were called solo. that is a common term for the motorcycle officers. we have 45 officers assigned to the motorcycles. all parking at the new facility will be in one location. the current locker room with shared with other officers. it is not assigned to just traffic companies. there are two showers downstairs and up. both are gym and shop weres are old. it needs constant maintenance. >> forensic services provides

five major types of testing. we develop fingerprints on substances and comparisons. there are firearms identification to deal with projectiles, bullets or cartridge casings from shootings. dna is looking at a whole an rare of evidence from -- array of evidence from dna to sexual assault to homicide. we are also in the business of doing breath allyzer analysis for dui cases. we are resurrecting the gunshot residue testing to look for the presence of gunshot residue. lifespan is 50 years. >> it has been raised up high

enough that if the bay starts to rise that building will operate. the facility is versus sustainable. if the lead gold highest. the lighting is led. gives them good lights and reduces energy use way down. water throughout the project we have low water use facilities. gardens outside, same thing, low water use for that. other things we have are green roofs on the project. we have studies to make sure we have maximum daylight to bring it into the building. >> the new facility will not be open to the public. there will be a lobby. there will be a deconstruction motorcycle and have parts around. >> the dna labs will have a vestibule before you go to the space you are making sure the air is clean, people are coming in and you are not contaminating anything in the labs.

>> test firing in the building you are generating lead and chemicals. we want to quickly remove that from the individuals who are working in that environment and ensure what we put in the air is not toxic. there are scrubbers in the air to ensure any air coming out is also at the cleanest standards. >> you will see that kind of at the site. it has three buildings on the site. one is for the motorcycle parking, main building and back behind is a smaller building for evidence vehicles. there is a crime, crime scene. they are put into the secure facility that locks the cars down while they are examined. >> they could be vehicles involved in the shooting. there might be projectiles lodged in the vehicle, cartridge casings inside the vehicle, it could be a vehicle where a

aggravated sexual occurred and there might be biological evidence, fingerprints, recovered merchandise from a potential robbery or other things. >> the greatest challenge on the project is meeting the scope requirements of the project given the superheated construction market we have been facing. i am proud to say we are delivering a project where we are on budget. >> the front plaza on the corner will be inviting to the public. something that gives back to the public. the building sits off the edge. it helps it be protected. >> what we are looking for is an updated building, with facilities to meet our unit's needs. >> working with the san francisco police department is an honor and privilege. i am looking forward to seeing

their faces as the police officers move to the new facility. >> it is a welcome change, a new surrounding that is free from all of the challenges that we face with being remote, and then the ability to offer new expanded services to the city and police department investigations unit. i can't wait until fall of 2021 when the building is finally ready to go and be occupied and the people can get into the facility to serve them and serve the community.

>> good morning everybody. welcome to july 9 meeting of san francisco county transportation authority board. i'm rafael mandelman and serve as the chair the vice chair is melgar. i want to thank james from sfgovtv and amy saeyang. madam clerk, will you please call the roll? >> chan, absent. dorsey present. engardio present. mandelman present. melgar, present. peskin, absent. preston, present.