tv [untitled] April 13, 2011 4:00am-4:30am PDT
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as well as other complementary capital work. the goal is similar to the other capital plan with projects ready to be implemented at the conclusion of the process. as indicated, we have identified 10% funding for this project. overall capital costs are $170 million has identified to federal sources. the implementation strategy will allow us to shape a funding plan are around the remaining funding gaps. we believe that projects like the travel time proposals, designed to improve operating efficiencies, are going to compete well for discretionary funds. we will be realigning the existing capital programs. an example would beyond terrible street, the city is going to completely rebuild
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terrible street in 2018. that will include sue wert working, rails, and travel productions built into the work. there is also all of the prioritization complementing the city's street resurfacing plan, looking for opportunities to leverage other projects when possible. the environmental review process is on a current critical path. we expected to take up to 24 months. there are some steps, as you are aware, that have mandatory time periods. we believe there are opportunities to reduce time for staff led tasks. working particularly with nea on dedicated staffing to move this work forward more quickly.
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the immediate next step will be competing the scope of work -- completing the scope of work and doing the structural engineering needed to inform the process. the board will approve a recommendation in the legislative change following sequence certification. to date they have only endorsed proposals because the critical piece is not needed. in order to deliver the plan that we have together, we have a comprehensive task force. this is very much based on our experience in december 2009 and may of 2010. it takes every division within the agency to make that restructuring successful. moving forward, we want to tackle remaining policy issues. not shown are the muni accessible services.
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they are a key part of the process that were left off the slide, which i apologize for. we work on providing direct support needed for this project, including identifying capital project managers and program managers for this work. so, the next key steps are the beginning of the environmental review, conducting community outreach, talking to people about the implementation strategy, and beginning summer employed on travel time reduction proposals and changes. assigning staff and regularly meeting up with the task force. doing environmental engineering and providing quarterly updates on this work. that concludes my presentation and i am happy to answer any questions. supervisor avalos: thank you. i would love to, prior to any
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presentation in district 11, to get briefed and go out at the same time. but that could be helpful. >> it would be wonderful. supervisor avalos: we can drill down into district 11 what will happen and what is taking part with my staff. thank you. we can open this up for public comment. thank you for your presentation. for your work on this. making changes. >> supervisors, on 9l ltd., i would like some of the stops on market to be eliminated. maybe there could be one additional stops at 22nd street, another at 24th street. oftentimes if someone is very
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sick and 24th street, they have to come back to the general hospital and it does not insure any compassion on the part of the city. as you know, supervisors, this is like a conceptual plan. conceptual plans are like a dream. even wake up and they can be your worst nightmare. in order to lessen the nightmare, we need to see a plan. a short-term plan and long term plan with money. right now what is hindering us, to be very realistic, as the economy. five or six fte's have been created. give them $80,000. that way you can see that
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everyone means well. you have created program managers, seven or eight fte's, which is like $1.5 million. supervisors, we need to pay attention to those kinds of details. you know what is happening on the national level. we are lucky because we have a mixed economy. soon, people will be coming here and asking you to have mandatory cuts on big scales. so that we can have some effective government. thank you very much. [tone] supervisor avalos: next speaker, please. >> thank you, supervisors. tep is one of the best things that's has been produced. this evening all of the parking
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meters will be filled with folks going to the ball game. they will pay nothing at the park after 6:00 p.m. we should capture that revenue. there is a funding gap here and i want to encourage may be the mayor to have further political ambitions, as i understand that. let's implement congestion pricing. the projection is that $60 million to $80 million could be produced from congestion pricing. things like small businesses are fighting with an evening outbound. might keep folks later in the hours. they might spend more having dinner and so on. with the america's cup coming, these time lends scare me. 200,000 folks will be making their way along the waterfront soon.
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i have spoken with developers that are dusting off the plans for new developments. another 2500 housing units. the transit center district plan plans to ups on 1,000 feet of office buildings. 2020 is a long ways away. i wanted to say that this is a very wonderful project and i look forward to seeing it implemented. thank you. >> good afternoon. but i am a spokesperson for the [unintelligible] alliance and a muni writer for several decades. when i was in the media program to give a report of the human rights commission, i did not expect so many calls about muni, services, and the clipper
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program. another senior kept asking the chinese driver to ask to remind him where to get off. i feel that the clipper program was extremely badly planned. even one of the members of the ambassador program that i talked about earlier told me that there had been a lot of concerns about clipper. would you believe those applications are still in english only? let me put it down here, this is all in english. how can we provide passenger content for the people? considering the number of non- limited english writers, how can a city still pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to staff
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that do not take in the input of passengers and provide appropriate services? people that earn over $100,000, up their services they are providing viable services to residents. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> good afternoon. i have heard the presentation and tdp before and i get more disturbed when i hear the second time. about it being will be in english, not chinese and spanish as planned. more than that -- not more than that, but in addition the most marketable item that muni has is its express bus.
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you cannot drive faster than an express bus, but they are so stingy with them. limited is included in this, and i guess that is the kind of compromise we have to deal with. if we had ltd's and the stops that we have now, there would be no need for considering eliminating a number of stops. many elderly disabled mothers with young children are not able to walk an extra block or two to get to a bus. i think that we should look towards making both parties at the. i live on 44th avenue and it takes me an hour to get anywhere on the bus. if there was a limited near there, it would be much easier.
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if muni could somehow understand community and put a little better, they might listen to some of the things they have said. i have said these things before. i suggest they go to the neighborhood and best for their stops for the limited. i do not believe that it should cost more money. you could alternate. you could have some muni stops and some limited stops. everyone should be having some of their needs met. supervisor avalos: thank you. anything from the public? anyone that would like to comment? seeing no one, we will close public comment. thank you for your presentation and your work. i do want to reach out.
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we could have further briefings about proposals in my office could be helpful in the of reach. i think that that was a step that was not as quite as robust, i thought, as it could have been, especially, but mostly regarding the chinese speaking community, who were a bit alarmed by the proposed changes that were years in the making. i could be helpful in that. also to help translate the concerns of the public back to the mta. i will be glad to help. ok. this is our last item. continued to the call of the chair. after this, we will be adjourned. thank you.
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on cellular phones and pagers. completed speaker cries and talk is of documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk -- completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included as part of the file. supervisor mar: thank you. we have five items on the agenda, and we will move as quickly as we can to items four and five, but before we do, we have three quick items that we will hear first. could you please call item 1? >> resolution authorizing an acceptance of ease anrpetual exn for the installation, construction, operation, inspection, of the san walk-in pipeline project -- the san joaquin pipeline project. supervisor mar: thank you.
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then a good afternoon. -- >> good afternoon. this is a quick and simple item. this is regarding an easement deep to be excepted from stanislaus -- accepted from stanislaus county. part of the water system improvement project undertaken by the puc. this particular location is highlighted on the attached map in the yellow area between modesto and tracy, in particular, to give you a sense of the location. a far different atmosphere than we have in the city. this is essentially an over crossing between the act with up and rode in stanislaus county -- between the aqueduct and road. it gives teh puc -- the puc the right to make changes to the aqueduct.
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the actual area impacted is 7387 square feet. the purchase price has been negotiated through an mou between the county of san francisco and stanislaus county as a zero purchase price for the county of san francisco, simply paying their inspection fees, which we estimate to tallying around $73,000. the mou was executed. parcells themselves -- there is actually 16 properties involved in this overall undertaking -- have been approved through a prior ceqa analysis and general plan referral is also referenced in the board file. happy to answer any questions you may have about this. supervisor mar: seeing no questions, let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone in the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we move this forward?
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so moved unanimously. thank you. please call item two. >> item two, ordinance amendment the administrative code residential rent ordinance for the good samaritan basement following emergency dislocation of tenant. supervisor wiener: thank you. thank you to everyone for coming out today. this amendment to the rent control ordinance is a long overdue and common-sense measure to insure that tenants who are displaced by a natural for human made disaster are able to obtain affordable and available temporary housing quickly while their units are being prepared. it will also provide incentives for these rentals. we know a major earthquake is
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going to hit san francisco at some point in the not too distant future. we know many rent-controlled units in san francisco are seismically both durable and older housing stock. we know that after a major earthquake, a large number of tenants in rent-controlled housing stock are likely to need temporary housing quickly while their units are fixed. there are landlords who are willing to rent to tenants who are displaced at low rates on a temporary basis, but the law as it currently stands provides a disincentive for landlords to enter into this kind of temporary, below-market arrangement. specifically if a landlord offers is the senate, below- market rent for the time when the tenants original unit is being fixed. if the tenant decides not to return to the original unit, there is nothing the landlord can do about it. the tenant will be entitled to stay in the temporary unit in definitely with full rent control protection at the below market rent. this means that landlords either will not rent or will only read
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to displaced tenants at market rates. the goal is to encourage landlords voluntarily to rent and do so temporarily at below- market rates. it creates effectively a new kind of tendency -- tenancy where a tenet has been displaced could enter into a specifically temporary lease with a landlord lasting up to one year or, upon mutual agreement come up to two years. the landlord could charge rent that is no more than 10% higher than what the tenant was paying, and at the end of that one year or two years, the tenancy with either and, or they could enter into a new arrangement at a mutually agreeable red. -- rent. we believe that this will increase the supply of affordable temporary housing
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after a natural for human made disaster. so, colleagues, ask for your support, and i know that we have folks here who are going to speak in terms of the broad support for this measure. i work with both tenant organizations and property owner organizations to come up with good legislation that benefits the city. supervisor mar: thank you. supervisor wiener: i should also just note that i do have an amended version of the legislation initially introduced that it was fairly skeletal legislation. we have since fleshed it out. it is not a substantive change, but it does flesh out a lot of the details of the legislation. again, i work very closely with all sides on these amendments, and everyone is aware of them, so i am proposing as an
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amendment as a whole. >> supervisors, executive director. it is so unusual for me to come before you with something where there is the consent and agreement of both the landlord and tenant communities, so i am basically taking this moment to bask in this kumbaya moment and tell you that i am here as a resourced if you have any questions for me. thank you. supervisor wiener: ok, we will now hear from members of the public. we have a few speaker cards. if anyone else wishes to comment, please let us know.
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[reading names] . >> i am president of the small property owners of san francisco. support this legislation to help renters displaced by disaster because of its ultra was the contention, and because it is voluntary. -- because of its altruistic intention. only the most intrepid of mom- and-pop housing providers are likely to jump at the opportunity to help out because of the fluid nature of the band control ordinance, and that is something that comes from this board of supervisors, but we do support it. thank you. >> good afternoon. san francisco tenants union. i want to thank scott for reaching out to everyone on this. this is a decent piece of legislation. tenants are in big trouble after
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a fire. there is no word ago, no relocation that the city provides. anything that can be done is helpful. i would like to see just one amendment, it appeared on page four -- i presume i have the most recent version -- section 6 where it asks that the new landlord disclose to the tenant that in one year, their red could be increased by an unlimited amount, or that they could be evicted. it is not mandatory, though, and i would like to see that made mandatory. i like to see these tenants have the right to return where the fire was or other disaster at the same rent, plus any capital improvements. if they do not know that there read my increase by an unlimited amount in a year, i can see tenants getting in a position where they would say that they did not really want to go back to the old place, and they liked the new place. the rent is pretty affordable,
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and tenants are going to end up leaving the right to return, and out of the blue, because the landlord never told them, they get an unlimited meant increase. with that correction, that would make this pretty foolproof, and we will not see any tenants who are inadvertently actually hurt by this legislation. just to make section 6 mandatory as opposed to discretionary would be our suggestion. other than that, i think i share that it is great to have everyone together here. thank you. >> thank you. i would just know, it is actually page 5 at the bottom, and it is mandatory, but it does not invalidate the least -- lease if the landlord fails to provide it, but it is mandatory. i just wanted to know that. thank you.
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-- i just wanted to note that. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am the director of the san francisco apartment association, and i would just like to thank supervisors wiener -- supervisor wiener for reaching out and creating this legislation. with some of the disasters we have had already, i have personally tried to find rental housing for tenants, and it has been rather difficult to do so because of rent control and some other limitations that we have because of the rent control ordinance. this legislation will actually make the job of rental housing providers in san francisco a lot easier, and it will enable them to provide housing to tenants who are in need of housing in
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emergency situations. i would like to thank supervisors wiener -- supervisor wiener for his leadership and ask you all to vote yes on this and pass it forward to the full board. >> i am a small property owner in san francisco. i'm here to speak in favor of the ordinance. i want to applaud supervisor wiener for reaching out to all parties involved in this. i think it is a fine ordinance. i have a few concerns about, which i have expressed, and that is that no good deed goes unpunished. i am concerned about small property owners who may not know all the intricacies of the ordinance that might not give the required forms to the tenant, and therefore, will be
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stuck with a long-term renters at a below market rate that they did not intend to enter into that kind of contract, so i hope that the board will come up with a corporate forms that it -- come up with appropriate forms that a property owner can use to make the necessary disclosure to tenants. thank you. supervisor wiener: is there any further public comment? yes, i'm sorry, peter, right. >> i am the executive director of small property owners. i just wanted to add my two since -- cents. i think that most landowners want to help renters, and this makes it possible to do so. thank you. supervisor wiener: is there any further public comment? public comment is closed? supervisor mar: colleagues, we have the amendment as a whole. can we move that without
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objection? and then on the ordinance itself. supervisor wiener: i move to 4 with the ordinance to the full board with a positive recommendation. supervisor mar: without objection, recommended. thank you. please call the next item. >> item 3, a hearing on the treasure island/yerba buena island redevelopment. supervisor mar: this is one of a series of hearings on the treasure island development. >> thank you. this is our second time before you, and we have a presentation as well if we could put that up on the monitor. we will be brief, but we did want to send some ongoing discussions about treasure island, mostly, that relate to the state and governor proposals to eliminate redevelopment. we wanted to kind of continue those discussions in-house, just a brief overview. you also asked for some additional information on
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