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>> thank you very much. >> any other speakers please come forward. and if you would like to speak if you could please line up. >> thank you. >> good morning, line up to your right and our left. >> thank you very much. >> my name is amy and i live on 10th avenue and i am one of eric mar's constituents and i have been having a lot of communication about our issue and i want to paint the picture of what it is like to be a resident for our traffic safety issue. i live across from the richmond branch library and the tenth avenue is a children's library, with the toddler playground and it is only the swings and the play structures for two to five year olds and although it is used by other children as well. and there are two schools on ninth avenue, and the school and on my street, two doors down is the neighborhood free school and i am here representing many parents of that school as a parent myself.
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our issue is twofold with the tour bus and number one, they circle a block continually, through the day and i want to emphasize that it has been very difficult and taken me a bit of tracking and it happens around meal times there are two restaurant on clementstreet that do have a bus loading zone in front. but, there are often 6 to 7 tour buses at a time. and i think that for years, we did not notice quite the increase, but since house of banquet moved into a russian there it is now doubled. what happens is that they circle and circle and circle. and it is increased on the weekends and it happens during the meal times and they don't have enough parking for their buses so they will park on our street and they will double park and i think that they know not to from jerry robins who i had contacted and will call the individual bus companies for us when we do make a complaint, however they see us and start
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up and leave. i can't as emphasize enough what a hazard this it and how many times the block is used by so many children and especially the playground, the circling, the double parking and all of that. we are not sure what to do about it, it is a difficult issue to enforce because they are not stopped, but they are just moving around, i know there was a strafk study, but i think that the times are often ten to eleven on a monday morning, or something like that. and i know that my second issue has to do with the casino buses, we have had several drop offs in our neighborhood and i just want to flush out the picture of what that looks like, sun valley and river rock drop off continually and one of those companies has hourly pick up and drove off and it used to be advertised as tenth avenue and that is one of the things that jerry helped us to alleviate and however the solution was to park on the
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muni on geary between tenth and ninth and that was recommendation but when there is a bus in that spot, they couldn't do it and so they parked on our street and so the second solution was to ask them to apply for a permit for a commercial loading zone, and it seems ideal on the ninth avenue and i mean that would be nice on tenth stretch. >> thank you, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> yes, good morning. >> could you speak into the mic. >> i should know better, i am a tour guide. >> good morning, my name is francis glen and i am a 40 year resident of the mariono district and i became a independent tour guide and i am a member of the san francisco tour guide gilled, in july when i started there were few restrictions on any type of private, enclosed charter vehicle. and enclosed charter vehicles
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and going around the neighborhood with private groups and no problem. and we began having issues all of a sudden we already knew that the residents of the areas like north beach and the marina who were wealthy had restricted their areas and so that was a given, in july of 2012, we asked supervisor, chui to end our meeting and speak to the north beach restrictions which have gone into effect and we were unaware and he turned around and said, please get involved. i formed a committee, on transportation, and began working through all of the city bureaucracy and agency to find out who had the responsibility for every issue and every area. and it is now, almost two years later. and i have been and it is i would like to commend jerry robins and he has almost single hand he hadly try to manage
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almost a critical mass situation at present because he has not the authority. and from what i can tell, now, the only solution, is to go to the state puc and in order to do that, the city of san francisco needs to make a one centralized authority. in the meantime our private charter tours are penalized by the fact that we are inundated with the open top or the hop or or hop off, it has turned into a full time job and if i put out and i can send you a copy of the report that i send to our membership. golden gate bridge and the port of san francisco and all of these and now jerry bless his heart is only responsible for a short, and a small area. and answer to the commuter buses they were specifically excluded from the alamo square rules and specifically excluded. okay?
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and so in answer to your question, the neighbor is correct, we predicted from the square was blocked out it would expand which it has i urge you to go to mayor lee and to work with lisa bagon and to form a regulatory authority and take that responsibility off of sfmta thank you. >> thank you very much. >> is there any other member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. robins could i finally just ask you to follow up, when was the last time that the mta revisited the places in the city where these restrictions will be placed? >> we held a tour bus workshop, april 30, 2013, where we tried to get all of the concerned parties together in one room and work out the proposals and try to address the concerns. so i think that was the last
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comprehensive look at the whole city. >> it seems like there is a lot of work to be done and so i will turn it over to supervisor mar. >> i wanted to thank the residents from the various neighborhoods that spoke and thank you so much to mr. robins for the hard work here and i would like to continue this to the call of the chair because i think that there is a lot of questions about this state's regulation, what authority we have and over the private companies, i did want to say that the frustrations of many of the families, and the parents like amy from tenth avenue on the casino buses that is something that my hope is that we can come up with some proposals to stop the circling, and around the dim sum places and the river rock casino and the thunder valley buses. also, on 12th avenue, i just wanted to continue to follow up to find out how we could create
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more of a safe street there, especially if the wires are going to continue to maybe have a potential danger of the low hanging wires, and also i don't want to create a whack, a mole situation, where some neighborhoods create restrictions and other neighborhoods and the buses are pushed to and the suggestion of a city wide approach makes a lot of sense, but, i want to just say, thank you so much to mr. robins and we will continue to work with you but the inner richmond and the central richmond are key places that we will do the best to engage people and i know that it is sometimes difficult as the speakers have said when it is low income immigrant populations that are impacted but we will do our best and so forward the hearing that my hope is that we can come back in a few months to hear on progress. >> so we have a motion to continue to the call of the chair and if we can do that without objection, thank you to the mta and to all of the residents who came and smoke spoke on this item.
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>> if you could call item three. hearing on the status of sutter/california pacific medical center (cpmc) cathedral hill development agreement (da) and construction project, including updates from sutter/cpmc and key city departments on da commitments implemented thus far, and a schedule of future commitments, as well as an update on project construction and hospital plannin. >> great, thank you very much. and this is an item that i introduced and i want to thank, supervisor farrell and mar for co-sponsoring the hearing request. as you know a lot of works that gone into this project and one of the success storis in terms of the different sides of an issue coming together and working collaboratively to find a solution, that everyone could agree upon. and i know that i am very proud of the work that went into this settlement. and we simply wanted to take this opportunity to hear a
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status report on where the project is, but we are going to hear from a number of city agencies, that are responsible for oversight of the development agreement, and of the project itself. i also want to welcome cpmc, sutter who are present, and i see mike cohail who was instrumental in getting to a resolution and so i want to thank him for being here. and i do want to give sutter an opportunity to say something and it can be at the beginning of the presentation, or we can wait until that we hear from the various agencies. and maybe we should proceed along those lines. and so with that, why don't i call upon the mayor's office of workforce and economic development and thank you for being here and thank you for the very key role that you played in making this deal, possible. >> all right, good morning,
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supervisors. and with your permission, i will go ahead and give a brief update and maybe have him speak right after me. >> okay. >> so i will do a brief run through of the status update. we have representatives from all of the city agents here to answer the questions on their areas of expertise, starting with construction. a little bit hard to read, but the upshot is that the construction schedule is the same as it was when we were before you to approve the project, and it is looking like the saint lukes hospital will be opening in late 2019, early 2020, the van ness and geary campus and the hill will be more like the mid 2019 and so that is the construction schedule, currently and just to remind you that we spent the time working out the process which means that within 150 days and this is a pretty clear graphic that shows it and 150 days of cpnc's fiscal year end which is the calendar year end, they owe us a report and all of
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the activity and compliance with the healthcare parts of the development agreement. that report is made public and there is a 30 day public comment period and then the planning department and the health department have 45 days, to evaluate on the completeness of the response and as well as reporting to the city and to the board and everyone else, on the city's activities and expending the funds that they have given us, and after that period, the planning director is responsible for giving us a certificate of compliance, and if you believe that there is compliance, and then also a unique provision if there was a special monitor who takes a look at that certificate of compliance and to the board whether or not he agrees that indeed everyone is in compliance and then at that point, the board has the option wish to call a hearing and talk about any of these things.
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>> on the monetary payments, this is hard to read, but the upshot of this is that this is the same that you saw when you approved the project. and we have in our hands, some cpmc, the first two installments and the first was on the effective date of it and it was due on the effective date of the agreement, and that was a little over 11 million dollars and the second installment was due when the agreement was what was called finally granted so when all of the appeal periods had ended and that was over 14 million dollars and that was received on the december 8th and then that establishes a payment date, in subsequent years on december 8th, of future enstalements which are 14 million dollars for the next three years, and then, 7.1 million dollars in the last year. and that makes up the entire financial obligation and so all of the checks that have and were supposed to have been written from the city so far, have been received by the city, and moving to healthcare, i
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will try to summarize this, and in the healthcare innovation fund which was part of the agreement that we worked out has received 3.5 million dollars from cpmc, i apologize and i should have filled this in out of a total of 8.6 million dollars and so we have 3.5, with the san francisco foupd daysing out of a total of 8.6, and the first round of funding, out of this fund was prioritized for the health reform readiness for the community len%backer clinics and i will just pause and i will not read you all of this but, we have a variety of dollar amounts going to the different clinics as you can see on the screen and we can get into more details on that if you want. and i will go down to the bottom of the slide, and say that pending approval of a business plan that is described here, the clinics will be invited to apply for the remaining 2 million dollars set acid for the clinic readiness and so the first round of
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funding is around the clinic readiness for healthcare reform and the second is around the mental health services and so far we have had one grant of 280,000 dollars, to the progress foundation for the dora street urgent clinic. >> and moving to housing. >> yes? >> a question on that. >> in terms of the remaining of the mental health, money, and how do people know that this is available? >> could i defer that question to miss chawa. >> you will probably have other questions for her too, she will handle that one. >> moving to housing. mayor's office of housing. has received to date, 9.1 million dollars for affordable housing in general in the city. and 1.4 million, to replace or as compensation for the residential units that were displaced by the cathedral hill medical office building and 2.7
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million dollars to replace residential hotel units in terms of how this funding has been expended 8 million of the 9.1 million is programmed for the predevelopment cost on the housing authorities, portfolio and the remaining, several what the number is the remaining 26 million dollars coming in, for affordable housing is not programmed yet by the mayor's office of housing. >> and moving to the workforce piece, on there, is a fund established in the san francisco foundation which will have three million deposited into it over the next three years, i want to correct, or augment the second butt bullet, and that there is five years and the fund will target
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educational institutions and non-profits with the existing of working in the several communities, and the workforce fund committee and so the committee of folks that will make the decision of disbursing the money and includes, cpmc of the representative of the cities and the foundation, and the foundation is the final say and makes all of disbursements upon the approval of the trustees and this committee has met twice in the fall of 2013 and will meet in march of this year, and moving to the first source construction, the goal of the project, are 50 percent hiring and the local hire and entry level positions and 21 percent, of the projected number of hours for them and apprentices and 30 percent over all trade hours for the san francisco residents. and in terms of current performance, 100 percent of entry level have occurred, and
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26.5 of the hours and 36.16 present of over all trade hours in san francisco. and on end use. and the goal is 40 percent of available entry level positions going to san franciscans. and the current stats are, 17 positions have been submitted since december of 2013 and hiring is pending and we have the staff to elaborate, should you wish. >> on transportation, and on the several things here, going to van ness and geary br2 projects 2.1 has been received by mta. >> there are 17 positions that are in or profiting right now and do you know what percentage those are local hires? >> so, i would defer that to our workforce staff, if you would like them to answer now or wait until i am done.
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>> i think that later. >> we will put that on the list of questions to have answered. and for the transportation, the brt project is getting 5 million and got 2.1 million from cpmc and mta said that brt should be operating by the time that the hospital is opened. the transit impact fee that comes into the projects mta is expecting 6.5 million in the years 2015 through 17. and mta expects to use these, these moneys to enhance the money on the lines, impact on the project including the jackson and the 19 polk and the 49 van ness, and there were 400,000 for the bike projects that has been received.
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we have not figured out where the money will go and they are determining where to use those funds and the same is true is there is a pot of funding for the campus and for the enforcement and the traffic safety around the campus and mta is working with the stake holders to determine how to use those funds specifically. employees will have available to me a cliper card at 50 percent discount and that will be in place fairly soon. >> and lastly the garage, sees that there is part of development agreement, a fee placed on entry and the garages and the estimate of the revenue is $300,000 per year and that will not start coming in until the garages open and the hospitals open and that mta is
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available to the mta for the general transportation purposes. there was a pot of fupd funding and we have got already, 1.6 million of the total of this funding, 800,000 has been programmed for economic development, and in terms of receipt maining funding, the remaining is working on the tender loin, and is working for that remaining 3.45 million and to come up with a scope of work for lighting and they are providing inkind help to us and we have the effect of 3.35 million available for this because they will help us out with the staffing and things
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like that and we will work on the preliminary engineering for lighting in the tender loin. is due to begin this year, that is the end of my presentation, i know that we have questions for the workforce staff and for the public health staff and so, would you like them? >> thank you for being here and welcome back. >> hike, the president of center health west bay and cpmc, and cam has outlined the progress that we have made to date, so far, everything remains. i hate to say these words, on schedule, and on budget.
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>> our relationship with oshcod and that is something that this committee neither this committee or the county could have any impact on but essentially they have become front and center on the critical path for the project, and they will have to due to the significant changes that we made in the saint lukes plan they will to approve a new set of drawings for saint lukes, and then, as construction has begun, at cathedral hill and they will have ongoing inspection responsibilities. our responsibility and their responsibility to make sure that the projects move along as quickly as possible. and as i said, that is going quite well and as they have
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experienced in other projects that often, ends up being a problem, so we want to get out in front of it, if i may, just the hodge pogde process and, do you have a sense of how long that may take? or is it just unknown at this point? >> it is actually in the schedule, and one of the changes that we have made, within the last several years, is permitting us to deliver the construction documents in stages as opposed to the previous ml which was to complete everything and then submit it, we have actually submitted the structural drawings for saint lukes. >> great. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> and why don't we now, >> i guess that we could take any order, but i see that, boeses who is the chief financial e she is not here >> she is to leave, but jerry
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robins could answer that or those questions from mta. >> if we could hear from mr. robins? >> i think that he would just like to hang out. and keep testifying. >> yes. >> and good morning, again, jerry robins sustainable streets division, sfmta and as mr. rich, identified, we have received approximately 3.5 million dollars in payments for the various transportation improvements including 2.1 million for the van ness plus, rapid transit contribution and so we have received all payments to us at this point. >> if you are split in how the bus rapid transit is split or is it just one general pot of money for both. >> i believe that it is the one pot, by i am not positive of that. >> thank you.
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>> why don't we hear from our department. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> you asked about the remainer of the mental health funding and we had discussed a two million dollars allocation from the mental health fund, and we, or the funding will be allocated as the additional payments to the innovation fund comes into the san francisco foundation, and the reason, that we or the first allocation included 280,000 to mental health is because, we had prioritized the development of the independent physician organization and the management organization for the tender loin provider with the first allocation and we took whatever was remaining from that and second, to fund and they will be funded in the future.
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>> okay, great, thank you very much. >> i wanted to just generally, how do you think that it heats up in terms of the healthcare piece of the development agreement and the project? >> so, as mr. rich reported earlier, we don't have that is not due until may 31, but there has been progress and we worked with the cpmc to do a independent assessment, of the unduplicated medicad and charity patient and it confirmed, that the average of the three year period that the da requires is 30445 and that was confirmed by the independent audit. and we also have worked with them closely on the innovation. and working to get funding out
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as quickly as possible from that fund. >> the patients have to verify that? >> that is great. >> could you just comment a little bit on sort of how you intend to monitor the requirement around the serving of 5400 new medical, beneficiaries. >> certainly, the way that we had looked at the base line commitment was to look at the capitation report and so the requirement, requires the 5400 beneficiary be participants of cap taited managed care and san francisco health plan is the partner for that and so we will compare the san francisco healthcare enrollment from the base line date to the new date, to determine the 5400. >> and do you have, or could you comment a little bit sort of on how you intend to approach and making sure that we have the right service mix, both at saint lukes and
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cathedral hill? >> well, the list of services that are required at saint lukes are included specifically in the development agreement. and so, that will be part of what is reported in the healthcare obligation and of course that will not be required until saint lukes is built. >> and do you have a better sense in terms of what is planned for saint lukes in terms of what that service mix is going to look like at this point? >> only what is in the development agreement only the specifically specialties in patient and the outpatient and the centers that were identified there as well. >> okay. >> any concerns that you have >> not at this point. >> colleagues do we have any questions for the department of
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public health? >> why don't we ask planning. >> good morning, thank you for being here. >> good morning, i don't have any updates for you because i have no obligations due to planning and post approval and they have moved forward or we have moved forward with approving the demolition permits and it is quite obvious from the construction going on right now but as far as we are concerned everything is on schedule and our environmental planning decision has been following the mitigation measures which they are in compliance with. >> what is the next step with the action of the planning moving forward. >> it is the receipt of their sort of their follow up, and blanking on the word, status update that will be submitted to us in the end of may and it will be reviewing for our next objective. >> okay. >> great. >> thank you very much. >> actually, i just wanted to just ask about the community out reach part of planning and i
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