of somebody who should be considered for potential of one. this legislation just helps unify from the different entities of city college, school district, and the city and county, and colleagues, i would be more than happy to answer any questions if you would like. and i would just like to say that i have had very positive and constructive discussions with chief gascon and the police department and department of h.r. and the school district and those who run the police athletic league. very appreciative of their enthusiasm and optimism. the chief says he really liked this idea. he frankly was surprised san francisco does not have something in little more institutionalized. >> i agree with you again. 343. the police activity lead -- we

just graduated 28 young men and women on friday, ages 13 to 18 that now will be intense in both english side and bayview station. leadership skills, the goal attainment -- it was a fantastic class. it was a four-week academy where they learned a lot about themselves. again, we came from an environment where the explorer program is probably referencing exactly what you're talking about. each police station in los angeles had somewhere between 25 and 40 explores in each of those stations, leadership skills, and a lot of those explorers went on to beat full-time members of the police department. i think it is something that is severely needed here, and it is something i think can take a lot of discussion. it needs to be acted on. i concur with what you're saying. we lose people for retirement purposes. it would be nice to bring them in from the ground up at a younger age and to groom them in

law enforcement if in fact that is what they desire to do for a career. i agree with you. that program needs to be propped up as soon as possible and needs to start going out into the community, bringing the young men and women in to give them an opportunity, and at the end of the day, even if they do not join law enforcement, it is a career build a, a goal a tenor, and i think it does allow for the self-confidence, and it is a win-win, whether they joined the department or not. supervisor mirkarimi: i quite agree, and i again want to express my compliments with the police apartment. i think of that programming, but it has not blended into the city's institutional system in a way that i think it should get recognized and help that particular student final potentially towards a perspective career and the way that it may eyeless angeles or in other cities. >> most importantly, what it also does, once they are sent

out to a particular district, with his men and women now are working administrative positions, they are doing certain things with in the building, quite frankly, that we have sworn officers doing that it will not need to do and we can get more cops back out on the street. they serve a fantastic function as far as administrative is concerned, and they take upon a lot of responsibilities that would allow us to put more uniformed officers back on the streets, so it does pay dividend, even in the beginning, even if it were not a full-time employee. they are getting involved, and it does take some of the work load off of us and allow us to put more cops back on the street. >> -- supervisor mirkarimi: part of it is we are apprenticing people who know san francisco, who had a relationship to it based on their residency, but quite likely, on the generations of families who have been established here. that in and of itself can benefit the goal of community

policing, something we have been talking a lot about. for community policing, i would say that this would be a primary strategy to bolstering that, but also an antidote to the, what has been over the past few years, recruitment outside of the city, which has been growing quite a bit. >> i agree. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i do not know if there's anyone else hear from the police apartment. i see members here, and i do not know if they would like to speak as well, but thank you. i also see someone from the u.s. commission here. -- the youth commission here. >> thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. we just wanted to articulate that the yout commissionh is very much in favor of this ordinance. it is exceedingly exciting.

this is exceedingly common sense in our opinion. we support this for three reasons -- young people really want jobs. in october 2009, some 9000 san francisco unified school district students who were surveyed, 84% of them said yes, they want job training and career preparation class is. second, and supervisor mirkarimi was speaking to this, what is unique about this ordinance is it tries to unify the san francisco unified school district's existing pathways and academies with the kind of p training kind ofal is doing -- the kinds of training that pal is doing here on a whole, they're very successful. i have a memo that speaks to how great pathways and academies are

for high-school students. in big, comprehensive, public high schools, it is really important to have a cohort and fellow students who have similar interests, similar passions, and the third pillar of our support is yes, community policing involves getting young people from san francisco's community, so thank you very much. i thank the committee, and we look forward to talking with the police department. thanks. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i have no other primary speakers, so mr. chair, i would be more than having to turn over the public comment. supervisor chiu: public comment. mr. paulson. >> i want to say -- ♪ climb every work force mountain ford every stream until you find your academy dream

, in every work force mountain ford every stream soar in the sky fly and ford every stream until you find your dream ♪ supervisor chiu: thank you for always giving us the sound of music. any other public speakers on this topic? seeing none, public comment on this item is closed. supervisor mirkarimi: colleagues, i would love it if you certainly move this forward with recommendations. i see this ordinance just again institutionalizing what are some ongoing practices, but it focuses on the missing links of vocational training, and that is where i hope we endeavor to unify city and county with unified school district, city college, and ultimately speaking

with hiring and recruiting practices in the public safety sector of our city to give our young people a chance to have a job with something that they might seek, summer -- some real career potential, and i think the dividends are completely without any ceiling. supervisor chiu: thank you. i want to thank you for your leadership on this important topic and for moving forward what i think is a very good set of ideas for our young people and for work force development. colleagues, can we move this forward with recommendation? supervisor elsbernd: let me just say that i'm happy to vote for this order is because all this ordinance does is say, " apartments, ride a plan." there really is not much action. there is not really much to this or events at all, but to be clear, it suddenly, the plan turns into something else, i do not want this ordinance to be held over our head as some sort of unfunded mandate.

that is a much broader addition, and that truly is the real discussion the needs to have to implement this, the question of funding. anybody can have a plan written, but it is funding the plan. i just want to get it out now -- voting to have a plan does not mean voting to fund because inevitably, voting to find means defunding something else, and we need to have a discussion about budget priorities when we do that, so i'm happy to send along with recommendation, but be very clear -- in no way, does that mean i am ready to fund this -- in no way does that mean i'm ready to fund this. supervisor mirkarimi: that is fine in terms of the appetizer to the on trade. that is how we view this legislation. in the recruiting budgets, the police department, the fire department, etc., they would have to or we would then have to impose summary shifting -- impose some reshifting of

dollars. this meant a lot of sense, which is why this is the first step in bringing together city and county -- in this case police department -- school district and city college where funding may not necessarily be required but shared because of ongoing practices already, but make no mistake about it, if we really want to, i think, amplify this in a way that gets to the heart of shifting our recruitment strategies, then recruitment budget priorities will have to be reoriented. that is not what this legislation does, but do not be surprised if down the road we may come back with either or events or budgetary discussion -- with other ordinance or budgetary discussion. supervisor chiu: all the work done by the general fund departments are creating this plan, make sure it gets itemized. this would be new. this would absolutely qualified. if this is about the school district doing something, the school district should start

paying a little bit more on their in-kind services. with that, why don't we move this item with recommendation to the full board? madam clerk, is there any more business in front of this committee? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor chiu: thank you. with that, this meeting is adjourned. . >> forgot no. 2. silver is nothing. there is no having made it and

so we beat foreman. i love the competition. . >> american made has really taken it on themselves to green american cities. >> we have a new organizer for the city and county of san francisco. oh, mayor as well. yeah, that's part of the job description. yeah, mayor of san francisco. >> the city is extremely concerned about the emission of green house gasses and making san francisco a sustainable city. >> we need to find other ways to create energy without harm to the environment and this is one source. >> we have over 2 megawatts of solar on various city buildings. we are looking at tidal power and we're beginning to look at geothermal power. >> we're on the roof of the moscone center of san francisco and we have 2500 panels that

power the center. >> here we are using real energy, energy from the sun, free energy from the sun coming in right here. this converts directly into electricity. >> all these technologies cost money. they don't make economic sense. solar never made economic sense. bio fuels never made economic sense. it's when it was adopted that it started making sense. >> some of them have challenges, that take a long time to prove out, but there's no reason that the challenge of where we will get tomorrow's energy in the united states should not produce a very, very large. >> san francisco is unique in the united states because we serve our own power needs. >> the city of san francisco is well positioned in that we are perfectly located to take advantage of any renewable category. >> we tend to be the last one

to figure it all out. it's real people that are saying, enough's enough. . >> the answer is going to be in renewable. the sooner we do something about it, the easier it will be it resolve. >> we're not just talking about what a city can do, we're doing it. >> san francisco has set very aggressive goals for greening the city. >> i'm not just naively optimistic, i am pragmatically optimistic that we supervisor maxwell: welcome to land use. i am chair supervisor maxwell, and i am joined by a member, supervisor chiu.

i want to thank the folks from channel 26 for bringing us live. madam clerk, you have some announcements. >> please make sure to turn of cellular phones and pagers. completed speaker carts and copies of documents to become pleaded as part of the file -- completed as part of the file should be submitted. supervisor maxwell: thank you. will you read items one, two, and three together please? >> item 1, ordinance accepting irrevocable offers up public infrastructure improvements associated with mission bay north lot n1. item two, ordinance dedicating a portion of state trust parcel 54 open space public use, naming the new park, and spark. item three, ordinance dedicating a portion of the trust partial 5 mission bay south part for open space public use and naming the new park bayfront park. supervisor maxwell: thank you. staff? >> good morning.

and with the department of public works. we have the three ordinances' related to three pieces of land within the mission bay development area -- mission bay north and mission bay south. put something up for you. excuse me, there is an image. the public right of way our round n1, which is at the intersection of third, townsend, fourth, and king streets, as depicted in this photograph. -- the public right of way around n1. we're talking about, generally use infrastructure, public right of way in essence. p17 shown here, which is a park in mission bay south.

p18, just north of it, which is this part area. the two parks and actually, a little over 1 acre to future total of 43 -- 41 acres in the mission bay area. in all three cases for these improvements, the director of public works has determined that the projects are complete and ready for acceptance for intended uses. and the planning department has determined that construction and acceptance of these improvements are consistent with the general plan and also, in all three cases, again, the san francisco redevelopment agency has found these to be in conformity with the mission bay redevelopment plans. if you have questions, we would be happy to answer. supervisor maxwell: thank you very much. why don't we open this up to public comment? seeing none, then public comment

-- zero -- oh. all right, then, kelly watts on items two and three. >> avi file [inaudible] my name is kelly watts. i have done audits for national corporations for close to 20 years. mayor newsom and the board of supervisors have done a lot of great things for san francisco and represented many of item -- many of my ideas. we propose partnering with political benefactors to create and/or alter city parks using toxic materials is not one of them. despite the fact that the attorney general and lieutenant

governor are fighting to protect children from their toxicity, the current administration has persisted with allowing such materials to be installed. today's synthetic turf may indeed be popular and being treated as expedient fixes for parks, but we have all seen the historic cost of others as popular fads. for instance, the fiscally efficient and widely used lead- based paints poison for decades, and nothing was thought to be more fiscally efficient than filling buildings with asbestos. today's fiscal fix is to create public parks with toxic synthetic materials that which only time will write be true environmental impact reports. it is a public records that the san francisco parts commission and the city's management regularly utilize city employees from the san francisco department of the environment to help themselves and knowingly falsely claim that the product that they use does not contain lead or heavy metals. such dishonesty and political shenanigans will undoubtedly have consequences. city field and rbd clearly

knows is false and misleading. the board of supervisors and park commission have been told -- and, no, it is not true. the question is if children are going to develop sicknesses from these parts, including the golden gate park, but how many and how soon? it is currently on know how much exposure it will take before children that are in hailing the degrading material in these fields will begin exhibiting symptoms of accumulated lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, chronic asthma, acute mrsa bacterial infections, cancer, or other medical complications. we request that the row and valid environmental studies and procedures be conducted before materials are selected in the future and that the public be properly and fairly informed of any risks that their use made in detail. thank you. supervisor maxwell: welcome. any further public comment on this item? public comment is closed. colleagues, before us is items

one, two, and 3. without objection? so moved. item four. >> item four, ordinance authorizing the execution of an agreement with the museum of modern art for property at 676 howard st., fire station number 1, in exchange for 935 folsom st., a replacement fire station. supervisor maxwell: i just wanted to comment on the -- regarding our speaker's comments. we will be working on those issues. it is ongoing with iraq and parts and so on and so forth, and i think you are right -- it is ongoing with red and park -- rec and park. war right. there is no solid evidence of what you're suggesting, and that is why it continues. -- you are right. but we continue to monitor that. thank you very much. >> i'm from the office of

economic and workforce development. we are here to request the committee's consideration of a conditional land disposition an acquisition agreement between the city and san francisco museum of modern art, which will set the stage for the museum to build a new wing, and for the fire department to acquire a new state-of-the-art replacement for fire station number 1. city staff and representatives have spent the past several months working out what we think is a real win-win for the city and sfmoma. i am going to briefly go over the big picture with you, and john updike from the real-estate department will take you through the key agreement. the big picture is that the sfmoma plans to build a new wing to house the fischer collection. the have already acquired the hill college building and desires to acquire fire station number one, both of which are on howard street, around the corner from the museum.

it would demolish both structures and construct a new wing, linking to the back of the existing museum. in a moment, i will have diagrams for you. in return, the museum will build, at no cost to the city whatsoever, a new fire station at 935 folsom st.. as stated in the organs before you and in the agreement, the city has not yet completed environmental review of these projects. the agreement before you is a conditional agreement, setting out terms for the land transfer, contingent upon a number of independent actions to take place in the future, all of which are at the full discretion of the board of supervisors and other decision-making bodies. these include the completion of the ceqa process and certification of an eir, action to rezone the existing fire station property and the right of way on the street behind it,

as well as to rezone the property for the new fire station. action to vacate the right away, approval of the actual new museum building, and approval of the new fire station. as i mentioned earlier, we think this agreement is a win-win for the city and for moma. it allows the moma to build a new wing to house the world- renowned fischer collection and provides for the fire department and the fire station facility, which is superior in its physical layout and location to the existing fire station at no additional cost to the city. before john goes over with you the agreement, i just want to give you a sense of the overall big picture schedule for this project. we are expecting certification of the eir and project approvals in fall of two dozen 11. completion of the new fire station ready for use, fall of 2012. and completion of the new museum wing, summer 2015.

again, all contingent on the approvals that i already mentioned. at this point, i will hand it over to john. i just want to say to you, after john is finished with his brief presentation, we have representatives of numerous city departments and of the sfmoma key and answer any questions you might have. >> thank you. assistant director of real estate, good afternoon. the action that we are requesting today is adoption of an ordinance, which would approve a conditional land disposition an acquisition agreement between the city and the san francisco museum of modern art and its affiliates. exempting the fire station to be billed by the museum from competitive bid requirements. the agreement has the following key provisions -- i have up here a map of the city-owned property. the city will transfer to the museum fire station one at 676

howard st., and that is shown in pink on the map. as well as a remainder stub of hyde street, and that is shown in yellow on the map. these have been appraised together, a combined value of $2,040,000. some photographs of the property, just to familiarize yourself with that site, are here. that was an independent appraisal completed recently. in return, the museum has purchased a parcel at 935 folsom st. shown here between fifth and sixth. the museum would allocate 9000 square feet of this parcel for a new fire station as well as 1800 square feet as a parking easement. those two assets have been appraised combined at a value

of $2,350,000. in other words, that is in favor of the city. the museum would then build a new fire station for the city at 935 folsom. that is an estimated cost of over $6 million. and then transfer this completed parcel and station in operating condition to the city. the new station at 935 folsom would serve the needs of the fire department much better than where we are currently located. it would provide much more space than currently provided, and it is a location which was in the search zone provided to staff and the museum associates early on by the fire department. the museum will be directed by the department of public works and the fire department staff on all the specifications necessary for the fire station to meet all the requirements that we have as a public facility. though the construction of a new fire station would be exempt from competitive bidding, it is

important to note that it would be subject to requirements related to prevailing wage, resourced efficient building, equal benefits, and first source hiring. we do not think it can be emphasized enough relative to the timing of this and the fact that the proposed agreement before you really establishes a framework for this real estate transaction between the city and sfmoma. does not commit the board or any other city decisionmaker to approving entitlements for the proposed sfmoma expansion project, the vacation of hunt street, where the proposed new fire station project. the land use and project entitlement approvals will come from the board of supervisors, the planning commission, and any other required city decision makers after completion of the internal review under the california environmental quality act. because these projects have not

yet completed environmental review, the city expressly retains all of its regulatory discretion to approve or reject these projects. approve alternatives to the project, or adopt mitigation measures. this reservation of discretion is discussed in considerable detail in the proposed agreement attached to your materials. once the city has completed the environmental review and approve the necessary project in thailand, the agreement before you comes to life and garments the terms of the real estate transaction, which the city and sfmoma would then finalize. again, we have representatives from fire, dpw, other jurisdictions, as well as the sfmoma team to answer any questions you may have. supervisor maxwell: all right, then, why don't we hear from the fire department?