>> welcome to the san francisco historic preservation commission regular meeting. for wednesday, february 5, 2014. please be aware that the commission did not trotter any disruptions and when speaking before the commission if you care to do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll president hasz. commissioner wolfram. commissioner hyland. commissioner johnck pr commissioner matsuda and commissioner pearlman. commissioners first on your calendar t is general public comment. at this point the public may

address the public with respect to jound agenda items your opportunity when be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to 3 minutes. i have one speaker card >> richard rothman, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm richard rothman i'm back here again talking about the building at the zoo. they opened the children's playground there so the building is now assessable and hopeful that that will be opened up and the next thing the recreation and parks department put in a grant for the historic preservation commission for the

rec and park and the zoo society to do a study to see how much it would cost could renovate the building and i would hope this commission would ask the staff to send a letter of support to the historic preservation commission fund committee in support of this application. and i still building this building down the road is not a city landmark and should be a city landmark. if people want to know more about the building i have a facebook page it's called save the mother's building >> thank you. any accountability members of the public wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners that places you under departments matter. >> good afternoon, commissioners just a couple of announcements that are on your

report. one is that we a couple of weeks ago we had a public meeting to release the that draft for the upper tree canopy on the cities right-of-way e right-of-way. this is for the rec and park department and the urban forest council the first phase has been released and the population there is a second phase we'll be intifrpt the remainder of the street trees over the next 20 years we want to increase the percentage of trees. so we need to we feel it's important to have a goal of

planning on i don't remember the next number but tens of thousands of trees. second an rfp has been issued for a major piece of work that has a lengthy title the boulevard study be feasibility project to look at multi uses of the land development around the cal train yards for cost effective needs for the transcribe that connects it to the transbay looking at alternative uses for the you rail yard and locations. and looking at that component at the i 2 to see if f interest were benefits for the transportation and land use component. there are a number of studies we're building on including the

tunnel alignment but in terms of transportation component to look at it as well as the land use component. it's a major piece of work we received a dwrant from the metropolitan grant society to do the study. we need to take a fresh look at the area and that is the city's future growth in the city. so we think it's timely to do the study but your study went out on friday i believe and we are going we'll be looking at consultants proposals and i'll be happy to answer questions that concludes my presentation >> commissioner johnck. >> i have a question about the study because i wanted to be sure that the port of san francisco is involved when with we discussed rail in san francisco it's not just for

people but cargo too. the port i'm sure you're aware of just got a grant to improve the streets. so i wanted to clarify that and he hope that the port is included in this discussion >> absolutely they're one of the partners at the table. as we receive proposals we'll be getting a technical team that will address some of the ports concerns as well >> great, thank you. >> thank you, thank you commissioner if there's nothing further we'll move on to the staff report and announcements. >> good afternoon, commissioners tim fry from the department stave a couple of items. i'm sure you're aware of making

sure cuss books was approved and the designation ordinance will be in effective thirty days after the approval i want to thank supervisor breed for sponsoring that designation. also soorl the h pc gave a positive recommendation for the st. marys directory and this reclarification will be florescent have been land use committee and staff will be there presenting on behalf of the historic preservation commission. and finally, in regards to the planning commission no items to report from the previous two hearings to he continued their january 16th election of officers and will take up the meeting tomorrow but they may continue this one more time.

i'll keep i updated on the results of that election and finally, excuse me. comment in response to mr. roth man's any public comment? the department ask working with the arts commission the rec and park folks to make sure this commission and the planning department are involved in that study so the planning compassionately commissioners, on that motion commission have not weighed in but we'll keep you posted posted on our level of concerns if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> i have 3 4r5shgd designation reports. >> tim fry the memo regarded your landmark designation was included in your packet. a couple of items i want to

bring to your attention this is a quarterly report it is for activities ending december 31st. so the swedish american hall we got a letter of support under their society so we've begun the research and basically in negotiation on what parts sure in the ordinance and executed also we're in conversations that the owners of the newer hall of the crossroads company. the designation report is complete and we'll have it in front of the of you in the future and also the sailors union the panic we is had a

conversation with the union and they're interested in having more codifies and it will be scheduled at the end of this month to view the interior and keep you posted on how this proposed designation and page 4 the sunshine school we're working with the pro bono on the designation ordinance and i'm sure you're aware of the school district is supportive of this designation we have to get our ducks aligned and getting that in a format. on page of the building just changed hands we're reaching out to the new owners to initiate codifies with the new property owners and finally, just to let

you know on page 10 there's initiative for the old st. marys directory is located in the process you initialed the designation on adams and there are a couple of others in the cue you'll see shortly i'm happy to answer any specific questions if you have them at this point thank you >> commissioner matsuda. >> thank you tim for the up to date. i have a few questions about staff i noted 4 names from our staff and out of them is it mary that takes the lead mary brown >> mary and jonathan and

richard. >> correct he's on 1499 neglecting street. >> correct. >> what percentage of light is dedicated to the list. >> when we discussed the budget we have one devoted staff person to designations those hours are divided amongst the four. >> irish s rich is not a member of the team but part the quadrant so he's expressed interest in working on the team so whenever there is interest the planner has the time we would like to let them pick projects as they bottom available. >> both mary and jonathan have a huge plat so i was wondering

if there could be more staff time devoted to this is there a priority. >> not necessarily it is a matter of working out the designated ordinance with the property owners and getting the designation report in the right condition to bring before this body. it's why we for sunshine school for example, we have a pro bono and that's how we completed moeshgz so we'll take advantage of the offices >> i guess this report from if we believe 2013 to july 2013 there are 3 landmarks that were

designated that's quite a bit are there similar goals set for this year. >> i don't believe so we can discuss that in the report. i'm sure you're aware of the district take a tremendous amount of time and effort there are not any pipelines in our district but we when we have owner consent but if the commission would like to entertain setting a new numerical goal we're open to having that discussion >> i'm just one last thing. there's a spelling error on page 8 for k i n l o n >> commissioners you bring up a good point you basically answered 2 it would be great if we did a monthly goal on the

hours spent on each of those items so it don't get move forward but unless i set goals that would be great for the commission and a staff to set per hours per month. >> basically those are all except for the golden gate park have zero hours. >> well sunshine school has been on for 7 or 8 years per bono so we'll follow-up on that. >> let's move on. >> commissioners that will place us under the commissioners, that places you under president reports and announcements. we're now now a to getting a spooind stipend on a monthly

basis so is there any way we can assign this state hospital a 501-c >> you can certainly file for direct deposit. >> can we do it before it gets taxes then. >> i can look into that. >> we'll move on so i'll follow-up on the information with the gentleman. >> commissioners item 5 consideration of adaptation of draft minutes for january 29, 2014. >> commissioner. >> i had one discretion on page 6 of 8 item 12 there's a name in parentheses and it should be alc h a u r.

so noted >> commissioners any other corrections, notes. any member of the public have any information regarding the members or alternates. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i move to approve the minutes with the correction. >> thank you. on that motion to adapt the minutes as adapted commissioner hyland. commissioner johnck. commissioner johns. commissioner pearlman. commissioner wolfram and president hasz. so moved, commissioners, that passes unanimously 7 to zero and palace you under commissioners comments and questions >> i want to see on a future meeting for the agenda. >> we can accept anything on the agenda.

>> it's the last item in the group that we put on the agenda for future hearing a discussion will state tax credits the district tax credits and what we can do to help support speak maybe get someone from the commission to talk about that. >> commissioner johns. every year the san francisco museum and historical society how old a history expo usually we get 30 hundred or more people to come and see an assembly of delays that you put on and standoff by the various historical organizations in san francisco.

this year, the mr. fry as homeland that the planning department and the historic preservation commission will be represent represented; is that correct? >> i'm looking at to that booth and i highly recommend everyone attend. march the first and second >> thank you very much commissioners, anything else under this item i'd say everybody has been contacted by apple store that's a blanket statement for everybody. seeing none, let's move on >> commissioners that places you under your regular calendar for 2014 through 2016 that is an

informational item only. >> again good afternoon john ram we're here to present the second of 3 for the 2014 and 2016- 2017 budget. we only addressed the resources for this fiscal year in other words, the same number of staff we have now. since the last are hearing we have finalize the data from the first half of this fiscal why were namely the data from july through december and perhaps no surprise to any of us the revenues keep pour in at a high rate and we're substantially above the projects o projections again so we're proposing what you'll see today is how we intend to use those funds. just to remember we do a rolling

budgeted year so we had a two year budget every year. we're proposing in this budget that keith will tell you about to have 11 ftes next year and 14 ftes the following year. that assumes a fairly conservative projection we do the best to project the revenues in the coming years were we promise a modest growth of 2 percent and 1 percent after that. the c pi there for consumer index priced there every year and will weigh against our costs that is around the bensz for staff. that allows us to prop about 11 fte and 14 and a half next year.

and tim and keith can talk about that how f that allows to the preservation staff but i'll ask keith to come up. thank you >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm keith the of his opinion and it manager for the planning department. it's my pleasure to present this for the up and cop two years were for the presentation we'll go over the building permit and a volume trends. your expenditure budget and some capital requests we've made and i'll provide you with an update to the planning program and show the change from the new budgeted positions that director ram mentioned. we're going to eliminate 4 of our fees and go into the

remaining budget calendar i've provided copies of the presentation to you today and copies for the members of the public. so looking at the vitamin trend. this graft shows the bar charts that are the planning cases and the line represents the percentage change from the prior fiscal year so that on the line anything over zero percentage is a year growth and over the past five or six 4 years we've experienced 8 percent prior growth and in this year we'll see 13 percent volume growth so we're seeing an influx of applications across the board. and as director ram mentioned we

expect the upcoming growth in the coming years but not as significant. so moving into our revenue budget next year we'll have over $37 million. we've completed 6 months of actual data at this point the current year will be $5.7 million which is due to the higher revenue that we've seen in the fiscal year. this is attributable to the volume increases in building permits for existing alternatives and the condo subdivision plantations. in our current budget this fiscal year we've approved 8 new positions and they're currently unfunded. what was agreed about from the

board of supervisors and the mayor's office if we experience a similar volume in revenue growth in this current fiscal year it will allow us to hire the positions sooner rather than later. now we're experiencing this revenue supplies we'll be able to hire those positions more quickly. so in the upcoming process we'll be funding the positions for 2 and a half years starting today going forward. and it will include $200,000 for additional space reconvene formulation work in our office space. your our office revenue will there because of the one time

appropriation fund and a c pi index rate of 2 had the 4 percent which is in the planning and microscopic codes. in the 2015 - 2016 it she's a slight dmrien in our revenue because of the loss of that one time appropriation in the budget of $3 million and in fiscal year 2015 - 2016 the indexing rate is 2.4 percentage. if you strip out the appropriation we'll see 15 percent growth and 15 percentage growth after that. it does show continual growth. our grand revenue is expected to increase and we'll have our colleague present that to you. we receive a small amount of

impact revenue that goes to the support of the program and our expenditure recovery is expected to decline with the completion of some one time projects. your general fund support is about $2.8 million in fiscal year 2014 which meets the mayors reductions for reducing our funds by 4.4 percent >> moving on to your fringe slayer component it is the larger component at the approximately, six 8 percent of all expenditures and our fringe rates will increase slightly. the proposed budget includes 11 percentage fte positions and they are annual for 14.5 in 2015

- 2016 across a variety of initiatives i'll talk about on the next slide. we'll be proposing to substitute a handful of the positions that are more in line with the fundamental position this includes the reclarification of the senior staff positions as well to have those job clarifications to be more appropriate for the job function. we will be increasing our budget to hire additional paid inheritance with the department. and this includes the inheritance to work on the expanded hifkz resources you survey in the summer >> i'll see there are non-personal services and it will increase because of the

service contracts we're anticipating and some one time grant funding for the railroads as well as various it enhancements and in the project slide it increases significantly this is due to the one time $3 million appropriation we'll be seeking to fund the 8 positions for 2 and a half years and finally, our services for other departments includes the city attorney and the rent on mission street and there are no significant increases there. this table represents the total of the 11.01 fte new positions that we'll be requesting next fiscal year. so you can see we'll be requesting over four and a half positions dedicated to continue

to a reduce the backlog of the huge applications we've received including the historic preservation commission applications and a environmental among other. the staff for code enforcement and other key initiatives and there are outlined in the commission packet. so the grant budget. >> hi, i'm sheila the grant writer. so the department are currently has a grant portfolio of 6.9 millions that covers the years to come the planning department is the lead agency about 2 million goes