public comment. if there is public comment on this item, please step up. seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor campos: i make a motion to move this application forward with a recommendation. supervisor kim: thank you. i would like to support ms. evans as well. thank you for waiting and for work around pedestrian safety. i would like to support this motion to move for the pedestrian safety advisory committee with recommendation to the full board. we can do that without opposition. supervisor campos: thank you for your great work and we look forward to seeing you. supervisor kim: thank you. can you please call item 5. >> hearing to consider appointing one member to the public utilities revenue board oversight committee. there is one seat and 3 applicants.

supervisor kim: thank you. i believe that two of the three applicants are hopefully still here. we have jussive -- joseph sheehy and. it is the same format as before. if he could speak to your background in terms of how relates to this seat and maybe principles or values you would like to bring in. >> i am a fourth generation san franciscan. "i left my heart in san francisco" was written by my cousin. i was educated at san francisco state. i have a degree in chemistry and

biochemistry and i am also a dentist. as to my qualifications, i served on two previous boards, on the board of golden gate yacht club that is during the america's cup now. i also served on the board of the olympic club. i am very passionate about water issues. i spent my youth backpacking and camping in the area around the hetch hetchy, around cherry lake and i know this area very well. i know the system -- i will not say i am an expert. i know the system from studying it just for fun. i used to know all the flows and the politics and i could get caught up with that as time goes on. if elected to this position, i would be -- bring out passion to

this. i believe in water systems. i believe in what is going on with the city of san francisco, what they're doing with their water system. is magnificent. it was developed over 100 years ago. it still works fine and need some earthquake -- needs some earthquake refit. it is gregory driven. it does not cost a nickel a electricity. -- it is gravity driven. thank you. supervisor kim: i was curious where your son teaches math. >> my son finished his master's degree at usf in digital learning. he taught at universal studies academy. he took off six months -- he was not able to get this certificate and a master's and everything

down when he was working hard. he took some time off and he will be back at unified school district to do that. supervisor kim: i appreciate his service. >> my son -- other son is a policy director for the congresswoman on capitol hill. supervisor kim: thank you. next, karen donovan. she did let our office know that we would -- she would be here. we have a third applicant who could not be here today. again, he was called to jury duty. i do know that supervisor farrell wants to hear the applicants as well. being that we have one of three, i'm not sure if we could continue this to the call of the chair. we will not ask you to come back again because you were able to come today. i would feel more comfortable hearing all the applicants before making a decision.

at this time will open up for public comment. >> i came to speak in support of karen donovan cornell a little bit served for two years on the public utilities commission citizens advisory committee where i was appointed to serve. she also has experience as a deputy city attorney on the public utility team and is an eternity -- an attorney at east bay mud. she has a range of experience that is appropriate. i did not know mr. sheehy. we should find some way to find -- involve him in the puc. the more people who are paying attention to the big important work at puc, the better.

i wanted to see those comments. i have no problem with continuing this item. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for being here. i was really impressed by what you had written in your application. it seems like you do know about the water system and it is not something our average denizen knows that much about. i appreciate your interest and for your experience. also great to have a fourth generation san franciscan applied. that would make supervisor farrell quite happy. being that we could not hear from the other applicants, i would feel comfortable continuing trade or on the record and we have heard you speak. -- comfortable continuing. you're on the record and we have heard you speak. supervisor kim: i understand the desire to hear the other applicants. i am happy to make a motion to

continue the call the chair so we have an opportunity to hear the rest of the applicants and i was impressed with mr. sheehy. i make a motion to continue at the call of the chair. supervisor kim: we will try to get this done as soon as possible. thank you again. madam clerk, could you please call item seven which is our last item today. >> ordinance amending the campaign conduct code to delay the certification of 2012 supervisor early -- the supervisorial candidate seeking public financing. supervisor kim: we had someone from supervisor cohen's office who is author of the

legislation. >> to have had a long committee hearing in his -- hearing this item. -- you have had a long committee hearing in hearing this item. this would make sure that for a candidate seeking election in 2012 we will not certify their eligibility to receive public financing until the redistricting task force has redrawn the city's boundaries which i know we have been involved in. we expect to have this completed by april 15. candidates will be able to apply. there will not be certified until the boundaries are completed. this is something the ethics commission has considered and recommended. i know the executive director is here. happy to answer any questions. supervisor kim: thank you. do you have anything to add? i appreciate you waiting this entire time. >> thank you. that is it in a nutshell.

this will help us to avoid some problems. it is a proactive peace. it also gives us some breathing room. it also makes some breathing room for that effort that you are conducting right now. supervisor campos: thank you. we will open up for public comment. -- supervisor kim:. -- supervisor campos: thank you. we will open up for public comment. it seemed that redistricting the important effort we're going through my result in -- might result in members are candidates running for seats that get reconfigured. they might either not be in the district at pearl -- after april 15 or the district contours' may be different. they may choose not to run or others may choose to run. it may change to some extent the

landscape and it seems to me that delaying certification until after our work is completed was a common-sense approach to this sort of thing. i would urge you to support and enact this ordinance. i would also note in the future when there is legislation like this that has to go to the ethics commission, there was an item in the legislative digest that indicated the ethics commission had adopted or approved or recommended the proposed a legislation. it would be good to have a separate letter in the file from the ethics commission stating that so it is not coming from the city attorney but the ethics commission staff reflecting the work of the ethics commission. thank you. until next time. supervisor kim:. -- supervisor kim: thank you and i appreciate the work on this ordinance. >> thank you.

supervisor kim: is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i wanted to state that we do have a public financing ordinance coming before rules committee next week. hopefully that can address these issues as well. i think this is an important amendment to make as the redistricting task force is considering major changes to our district lines. that will be important to delay certification of any candidate to determine where folks live and which districts that can run for. i do support this ordinance. any thoughts? supervisor campos: i would make a motion to move this forward with positive recommendation supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition. -- positive recommendation. supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition. is there any other

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march 8. go ahead and call roll. >> you do have a quorum. item number three, communications. i am not aware of any. item number four, board of directors new and old business. supervisor kim: any new announcements? to go item number five, executive director's report. -- >> item number five, executive directors report. >> we will give you the quarterly report and various updates and a construction update. first, i want to mention in may we will be putting out a bid for a package that is coming up soon.

secondly, i did want to mention we are going to be having the first-ever groundbreaking for a new development in the transbay neighborhood coming up soon. we have a date tentatively set for september 2. this would be blocked 1 11a. the project is a mid-rise. it is 120 units. it is going to have 108 studios. 121-bedrooms. there will be up to three retail spaces, a community room and outdoor space. the presidents of the building will be formally homeless individuals that are referred by the department of public health that are offered subsidy and funding for services and the project. a joint program of ucf will provide on-site clinic calls in support of services for the residence.

it will offer treatment, supportive counseling their peak and vocational training, etc.. we will be sending the board an invitation would we have confirmed details. tentatively we have it for april 2. our first-ever ground rate for the first development of the neighborhood, and i am happy it is a home for formerly homeless individual. that is the update. now i would like asked sarah to please come up and present quarterly reports. >> good morning. sarah gillate. >> the first report shows expenditures are within budget through the second quarter of this fiscal year we of spent approximately 67 million. about 467,000 and operating

expenditures and 172,000 going into operating reserves. the second report is the contract status report showing that all contracts are within their authorized amount. it shows the percentages for each contract. we are at 15% dbe awards. the third report is our investment and interest earnings report. you might notice the format has changed. it is related to the block 11 supportive housing that was just mentioned, the groundbreaking. it is now invested in u.s. treasury notes.

of that will give an update on the project labor agreement. -- bob beck. >> thank you, members of the board. the board in november, and we have taken a number of steps implementing this. most significantly, we have the first quarterly meeting of the joint administrative meeting, which is including two representatives of the of tpj and two representatives of the labor union. their representatives from turner construction from the project -- program management team, and the project. that meeting went very well, and

recovered a number of items there. and -- we covered a number of items there. the key terms are covering work stoppages. we have not had work stoppages or disputes with the union at this point. the unions are reporting they do not have any problems meeting its labor demands for the project. we did have one of safety incident this past quarter, which was a sprained ankle. the employee in question went for treatment and returned to decide the next dthe site the n in december the executive directors, members of the labor union, the contractor, turner construction attended the opening of the new vocational training carpenter shop and john o'connell high school. the carpenters coming out of

that session agreed to donate textbooks for the program, and the general contractor's donated a number of pieces of equipment, several toolboxes and other equipment to the facility. more recently last week the remembers of our team went to john busraharah burton high schd presented to groups of ninth graders on engineering and construction trades in the importance of math and science curriculum. we are also looking to carry forward our high school internship program this summer, both with program management team and tpja for what will be our fifth year. earlier last month we meant with the executive director of the of hellman's for hard hats

director. he met with representatives of the labor union to give us details on the program, how they identify prospective candidates who ardee leaving the military r recently left the military and trades they would be interested in, so those can be dovetailed with apprenticeships programs at local unions. upcoming in august there is going to be a job fair on the uss hornet that we will be attending to look to connect with potential candidates as well. there was also a job fair at the veterans building march 2 that dog holly from the program management team attended to distribute information on our project and the hellman's for hard hats program.

in terms of updates on apprenticeships opportunities in utilization, carpenters have reported to us they have nine apprentices currently working on the project. operating engineers have reported they have for apprentices and city build graduates working on the project, and a labor union has identified they have 36 apprentices working on the project in the month of november and december. that concludes my report on progress to date. if you have any questions, i would be happy to answer. >supervisor kim: i appreciate you went to buto highrton high school. i am curious how you plan on recruiting students and how big is selected? >> we have an open the

application process, and we typically have a people come in for interviews with potential people they would be managing or mentoring. it is throughout review of applications and potential interest in match with the particular -- >supervisor kim: you are just recruited ninth graders? >> no. there was an opportunity at the school for people to come and speak. we have established dialogue with the district office, and we are trying to match up -- match up whenever there is an interest from one of the schools for presentation, and speaking opportunities or site-visit opportunities. we're making that wide open. we tend to focus more on juniors

and seniors, people who are making decisions about college. supervisor kim: are you looking for specific backgrounds or skill sets you have a criteria to pick from? >> it is open, so it is somewhat of a broad net. we are looking for people who potentially have an interest. supervisor kim: who are you working with dspecifically in the district? >> doug holly is the point person for the veteran's component in the school district. he has been for the last number

of years. doug, why don't you answer the questions. supervisor kim: who are you working with specifically at the school district? >> james coal. when we went to get the presentations, we did work directly with the read of the high school teachers. >>supervisor kim: i am curious s to -- it is already march, and usually internships in turn have been in march and april. i am worried if we do not have a specific plan -- i would love to see the application, i just want a sense of how the out reach will happen. when the net is too broad, you often do not get students to apply. it is not really clear who this is being directed to and what the students need. it is usually helpful to target

specific academies. it does not sound like there is an actual plan. >> there is in a plan. why don't you give the plan. >> in working with the sacramento unified school district, they -- san francisco unified school district, they provide candidates who are interested. obviously the teachers' work directly with the students. the candidates are interviewed, and they interestingly enough, they go through a hiring process -- supervisor kim: i am curious about this today even gets there. the interview point. clearly you have a selection process laid out. and >> >> we do. the program has three different elements to it. reaching out to the ninth

graders, we do not try to get them interested in math and science, because 10th and 11th grade will be the times when that will come math will come i. the presentations are part of the process. i did have a note on that. athis summer interns is the second part i just described to you. we have them for six weeks on the job. then we have office and job site tours for the glasses. essentially what we are doing is something that georgetown university, george washington university as a classroom.

so we do start with ninth graders to try to get them interested in math and science. we to invite them to the office to see a real time at what engineers to come architects as well. >> you present to the ninth graders and take the same group on tours? >> that is up to them. one of the things about taking them on tours, is a bit overwhelming. also, at the age of the students. ninth graders are typically 13 and 14. when we get into the intern program, it is for seniors. the students have already had math and science, and we do take

them on to the job site. supervisor kim: may be at the next board meeting we can get a more detailed presentation. i appreciate what you're trying to say. and >> i think the question is the following, how is it the are the students selected? how does the school make the determination as to what students to recommend to the transbay authority. >> typically at the academy at burton. i think they may have something out washington as well. i will check which aims to see what criteria he does use. >> basically through james we have cast a wide net to all the schools in san francisco. the transbay authority is looking forte