let's do with materials and finishing work. it is anticipated to come from the city general funds. we're not here to ask the port for money. [laughter] >> that is on the record. thank you. >> i am going to challenge you on the son of the north side of san francisco. there is very little son in san francisco. -- very little sun. >> in terms of accommodating the businesses that are along they're unloading and loading, have we put plans? >> i will refer back to the taylor street improvement plans that were done a year or so ago where a very intensely-use sidewalk along the west side of taylor street, and the entire

street was reconstructed. we faced the project to maximize the amount of -- we major businesses have access at all times. it was done with a complicated phasing plan to address business concerns. we have the same construction manager, and a very experienced and talented people that have been given priority of this tragic to address of the same way. we did not anticipate the problems will be quite as bad, because a number of the sidewalks along the north side were recently reconstructed to handle issues that came up, in other words, the building is above street level. there have been sidewalk improvements that were done with in the past three years, and those would remain. it would allow that situation to be easier, hopefully to minimize disruptions to existing tenants. >> any other existing comments?

>> item 10, new business. president woo ho: any new business? there is one thing i would like to comment on. that is the comments on port contrasting and the fact that we're supposed to give quarterly updates on the contracting activities. i do not think we have had one this quarter. there is not one listed. and i think it is something we need to do it so that we can lead the public know how well we're doing with the contracting activities. that would be great. any other new business? to go item 11, public comment. -- >> item 11, public comment. president woo ho: dan guzulo. >> good afternoon.

in 1995 i signed a lease with the port on pier 45 to open up a fish distribution company. my lease expired in 2005. there were arguments going on about mezzanines and aprons. i was not involved in it. i signed my new lease and continue to pay rent. in february 20132012 i got a letter from the port saying i had not signed a new lease and that i had -- basically letting you know on a month-to-month basis that i owe them more money. also, they wanted my security deposit increase to $7,000 that they want help. i call them and set aside one of

these, what are you doing? i guess you have change property managers quite a bit. i am not quite sure. after scrambling and me having to pay approximately $14,000 in security deposits and back of charges that they have never charged me ever, we thought it squared away. ok. we will go along with that. we go along a little bit further and i get another document saying another registered letter comes to me in february 13 from a 2012 saying i have an undocumented subtenant. they said you have a company subtenant that we know nothing about. i said i have the agreement. i had it on my first place and still have it. -- first lease.

>> so i gave them a sublease agreement i copied from the original sublease agreement. they said that was not good enough. i said why? they gave me this forum, which is a listing application. i said you want me to give this to my tenant? i said i would tell you where to stick it did that was me. i said i am willing to try it. then they asked me to give them -- this is what they wanted. they wanted name, address, illegal composition. three years of financial statements. a list of credit references. current financial statement of the subtenants. leasing application. a sublease agreement, even though the court does not have one. my question is, why do they

need three years of financial statements? if i do not pay, you are coming after me, not my subtenant. i am asking why i am getting these letters? i did not have time to keep getting this stuff if you people are reducing paperwork. i cannot seem to get across to them. >> thing here. i appreciate your bringing that to our attention. and thank you. mr. decasta. >> commissioners, i want to say to you all very clearly about the first people, and one of you commissioners has heard me speak about them.

this land is a lonely land, the land of the first people. some of this think that history began to hundred years ago. the reason why i bring this to the attention of the commission is that some of us have not treated this land with respect. it is shocking. i am the director of environmental justice. it is shocking for me to read the report on pier 70. i think each one of you that our present knows about this, but i do not know if you understand the ramifications where very contaminated toxic soil is going to be kept or very because they

want to save money. commissioners, this is wrong. this is totally wrong. they tried it at hunters point and did not work. it will not work. they tried it at mid-village. it will not work. don't you ever think you have the technology to vary that much of contaminatebury that much ofd soil and i can go on and on, because i have the record. we cannot do such a thing in the year 2012. commissioners, some of you have been supervisors. some of you have been in the union. some of you have been in non- profits. i have a long rap sheet on each

one of you all. i do my homework. put your heads together and come up with the realistic solution. you cannot buried tons and tons of contaminated soil and expose innocent people to contamination. this land belongs to the first people. it was pristine. you can respect this land. thank you very much. >> [inaudible] >> my name is bruce juran. >> i am an old retired military guy who my first time seeing california was in the summer of 1973. growing up in a very small town i was easily impressed to see california and come back almost 30 years later and see san

francisco again. i was as really impressed about the local community. i have been very impressed to be able to start a company here in san francisco. what i am most proud of is i have had the opportunity to hire 12 people this past -- this past year from the bayview hunters point area, people that have been chronically unemployed, and police -- people that have had a very positive impact in being able to interact and show them there's a will. i will not tell you that i have data from our report that says you guys are meeting or exceeding, but based on the interaction i have with other companies like myself, the anecdotal data is not making it to people like myself.

and i've and ask -- my purpose is to make sure you redouble your efforts and be committed to making sure it is san francisco first. at the regional companies across the bay, the state companies, the national companies that come in that fly in and take these contracts they do it like everything else in america, efficiently as possible with no regard to the long-term reinvestment in the community. i think the thing i am doing is building the community and building for the future. although i do not have any grandchildren, one of these days my grandchildren may interact with people whose lives are being impacted by the decisions we make today. that is important to me. i hope to have grandchildren sunday, but i do not live to

see this, i least one to rest assured that i did all i could to make this place a better place than it was when i found this. all i ask is that you redouble your efforts. i am local, which means you can reach out and hold me responsible. when someone comes in, get the contract and leaves, there is no guarantee that any of that benefits anyone else. it is a commitment at every opportunity to continue to try to support those folks like myself. president woo ho: thank you. any other public comment? >> move to adjourn. president woo ho: meeting adjourned at 4:10 p.m.

>> good morning, everyone. my name is naomi kelly, city and minister -- city administrator. welcome to the portola neighborhood. we're celebrating the successful efforts to revitalize san bruno avenue. this city has had a great partnership with the portola never its steering committee, where some of it's never the investments include streetscape improvements, from planting trees and leaves to utility underground in and fixtures and to install office saw improvements and much more. today, mayor edwin lee will talk about launching the investing in iran initiative. joining him is supervisor

malia cohen, robert ramirez from the portola neighborhood steering committee, and many department heads, including jennifer from the office of economic and workforce development, ed harrington from the san francisco public utilities commission, regina from the small business office, bevon from sf hope, and revitalizing our commercial corridors has been near and dear to mayor lee's heart since his days as director of dpw and as city administrator and down as mayor. whether it did the dpw community corridor program, ambassador program, or the challenge grant, the mayor is always asking us how can we strategically deploy our resources to revitalize these aboard commercial corridors in areas that need it the most? with that, i would like to

introduce mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you, city administrator. good morning. welcome to the portola neighborhood. that is the pronunciation that i learned many years ago when we were picking up garbage in these little pockets all over this san bruno avenue. and we learned that very quickly, because the neighborhoods fell that we were not door to make investments in our neighborhood, and if we did not, it would go downhill very quickly. so we started with a number of debra agencies to work together along this corridor. guess what, a few years later with that kind of investment, we have trees alive here. we have got sidewalks that are not only clean, but they have been redone. you have got signage at both ends this a welcome to portola. as a result of that investment, there is a vibrancy that i have

not seen in other corridors comparatively. one of the statistics i want to make sure you know is that during the years where this great recession that hit all of us, i think the city's self tax -- maybe we did a little better than other years. maybe 3%. this corridor along san bruno experienced an 8% increase in sales tax, just because people believe in this neighborhood and continue to come in here, not only for the coffee shops. for the giver and clubs, at the activities, youth activities, -- for the different clubs and activities, positive activities and the neighborhood investments. i could talk all day long about job creation. as you know, cougin recent weeke have been announcing the big leases with a successful technology companies. that is excellent for the city.

it is very much in downtown and south of market and in our mission area. but i want you to know that we're paying just as serious attention to our neighborhood corridors throughout the city. yesterday i walked with carmen chu, supervisor chu throughout the teravelle district and got a good sense of some of the challenges and listened to the copy shop owners, the insurance company owners, some of the other areas where they are giving us and put about how we can improve all along that commercial corridor. this morning, i got the and breakfast with supervisor malia cohen just a block away, and we talked about the different sections of san bruno, how wonderful of an emperor of man that has been over years of effort that has been a collaborative -- how wonderful of an improvement that has happened over the years of

effort. this is the kind of framework that we wanted to continue establishing throughout all of the commercial corridors, the merchant corridors throughout the city. as we walked along third street yesterday with the opening of the kitchen, that was exciting. we commented on how positive the feeling was. it is a framework that wanted to make sure that you know as we discuss things like the revolving loan fund at the board of supervisors, as we discussed programs were we're linking an technology challenges with our neighbor minutes. we wanted to do it in a framework in which the public knows we're bringing together all of the different departments in all of our neighborhood corridors, to make sure you know we are going to take care of a lot of things. this is just an announcement here or there, it is an announcement in concert with everything else we are doing. the most important thing is that

you know we are working with neighborhood leaders when they come into the corridor. it is not about a parklet that is going to be isolated. it will be embraced by the residences and businesses that will use that. make sure that it is a part of the vibrancy. that they have input to the leadership in developing. every one of our corridors, and we're going to look forward to not only teravelle, noriega. supervisor of a los -- avalos wants is to pay attention to the geneva corridor. bernal, as well as the traditional corridors. we're going to be working on ideas about a small business loan and what it means to get resources out here where people feel, maybe they're reading the paper every day and see that we're paying attention to the downtown and south of market interest. we're not and inlet. we're just going to be as

investment-friendly to our merchant corridors throughout all of the city. even as we set the agenda for the old redeveloper over subcommittee, we are going to be paying attention to all of the kind of commercial corridors that they pay attention to as well, whether it is midmarket are outlining areas like san bruno avenue. that is the framework in which we wanted to make sure the discussion continues. it is the portola, the neighborhood that has been out here. the neighbors that want to continue investing, want us to invest in debt. it is a coordinated and collaborative effort. today we begin identifying the key partners and leaders. so i wanted to announce that noami kelly is the city administrator and will be working with jen matts as kind of the two leaders in this initiative of the neighborhood investments. the neighborhood investment initiative is going to reflect

collaboration of all of the different elements that made a san bruno successful. in an addition to the small business loans, we're going to have a lot of other ideas. where do we bring more of our community ambassador program as we invest in that? where do we bring in the collaboration with our police department here today, where they can have more visibility so people can feel safe? how do we get our office of small business -- regina is here today, to get their programs out where needed, and to lecture the commissions are paid attention to all of the different corridors. this all has to do it collaboration and a coordinated effort. when we announce the $1 million this year and the $5 million small business loan program, it is in the context of a very good collaboration that we have from agencies like the puc. ed harrington is here today.

dpw, community ambassadors program, muni, our police department, and cdbg, our mayor's office of housing. it is all part of the way in which we should do business, getting collaboration as well. so that when we meet with neighborhood leaders here, they know they have got connections to every single agency. when we work with sf ci5tty and quarter and eight permits online. when we do things like an event parklets and make those successful and accessible. or use money to create an even better coffee shop that will come here to san bruno. it is going to come very soon.

we have leadership in place. we have coronation. funding is in the works. -- we have coordination. we're on a positive scales in our economy. i am going to use the additional revenues we see coming into this city. make sure we do it and use it smartly. we are going to invest in our community challenge grant program that has been so successful all along this corridor. they have worked magic with the neighborhood groups that want to see greening and better programs. the murals in place of grafitti have been wonderful. it will be replicated throughout the city. thank you very much for joining us. [applause]

>> coldiron, we have some more people -- hold on, we have some more people. there will be questioned. next, i would like to invite up supervisor malia cohen. [applause] >> good morning. i think today is another example, as was yesterday, of the physical manifestation of what happens when thoughtful people and thoughtful leaders come together. i like to publicly to thank the portola neighborhood steering committee. thank you for your leadership and commitment to san francisco and to this little cove that recall the portola. my home. i was raised here. my parents still live here. this corridor means a lot to me personally. it is a very committed to continue to support the merchant corridor, as low as the neighbors, and continue to improve our efforts to beef up and maintain the safety as the number-one priority here on the margin corridor. thank you to our community

leaders. [applause] >> , thank you, supervisor. next, i would like to introduce reporter wrote rivera's to speak on behalf of the portola neighborhood steering committee -- i would like to introduce roberta ribble -- roberto ramirez. >> good morning. we recently went through and name change. we're not the portola neighborhood association. i am making the official announcement today. i want to thank the office of economic and workforce development, as well as liz. our partners. i also want to thank the mayor and his staff for being here and enacting the initiative this morning here in the wonderful portola, where we have accomplished a number of great things in the past couple of years. and number of volunteers successfully completed the first phase of the island

beautification project at the intersection of allegany boulevard and san bruno avenue. we're still hoping to complete phase two and phase three of the project soon. we hope with your continued support, mayor, that we can accomplish this. mid the first phase was made possible by efforts of dpw, mohammed nuru, liz, and sandra. greening and planning has been made possible by dpw and staff and sf clean city coalition. have accomplished and made possible seventh assata improvements along san bruno avenue. -- seven facade improvements along san bruno avenue. we have had a series of events to promote a neighborhood pride and involvement, such as an night on the portola, chinese leaders dinner, and a pop-up art

gallery this past february right there in that space, which is available for lease. this is the site of our future pocket park and hopefully a coffee house right there in that space. [applause] and i wanted to thank others for their efforts and architects for humanity. [applause] thank you for helping us move this forward. i would like to give a very special thanks to oewd who has been instrumental and supportive. this coming thursday at 6:00 p.m.-exact location, we will be having a needs assessment workshops to determine the needs of the neighborhood in hopes of continuing to make the portola of better place. we still have a lot to do. we're confident that with the mayors of the city's continued support, we're going to get some great things accomplished. thank you, mayor lee, for your commitment to helping the

portola and other san francisco neighborhoods. [applause] >> ok, next we have a member of sin city coffee, one of the first revolving loan applicants. [applause] >> thank you all for coming. i did not really expect to see all of you here. 15 months ago i was laid off. with $25 and a big dream, i often -- and opened a little coffee shop. amy came around six or seven months later asking if i would like to open another one. i said, if you believe in me, i will take a chance. the biggest gamble ever did. mayor lee, your staff rocks. thank you so much. i know what i do open, each and every single one of you can come and check out blue bottle coffee and single origin and chocolate. thank you.

[applause] >> all right, in addition to all those departments that i mentioned earlier, i want to thank mohammed nuru from the department of public works to build ginzberg from rec and park, adrian, jose, von, tiffany, and lenita from the community challenge grant. and juaquin. thank you. portola, portola, portola neighborhood. thank you for coming out to the portola neighborhood today. [applause]