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there is hiring and other systems, i just want to make sure that this person is in their job description to get us written reports or charts or things that we need, those questions frequently come up here and i would hate to sign up for situations that are difficult for us to get information. >> i will always be available to come to this commission to present that information. >> to the public comment of mr. james, i think that goes towards your employment liaison staff to really work with some of the cbo's particular lau -- the yc to be able to provide additional services maybe to the people that come out of those programs. before there was a lot of construction going on. >> we are coming off a deeper session and we have some focused efforts specifically
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ycb has been charged with a role and outreach with recounty -- reconnection with this place and county workers and the return of construction workers and there are resources set add for burial removal and other things of that nature. >> thank you. any other questions? >> yes, on the administrative side of it when you said that the mou would support one fte, my reaction was is that enough? >> well, we have two additional positions employment liasons which we have been recently where positions will be funded through the on going obligations for the mission bay development group. we do receive some resources through them for these employment
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liasons. in our office because we do provide these work force compliant for construction projects citywide, there is an economy of scale so we are currently staffing these positions without the benefit of additional resources. we are challenged in that and our office really appreciates the commitment from ocie to see this through. >> okay. great, thank you. obviously this is an area that is very important and when we have so many project areas and with so much construction going on in the city generally i want to make sure we have enough resources. i would be interested if the commission understood a little bit of the pipeline, street, not street side but individual residents of san francisco looking for and interested in city build and getting into that training. what i understand
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from chris iglesias who used to be the city build director obviously was organized, but community based organizations and channel through the system. i guess where my understanding drops off is what happens when they get to the city, to that city build program and how are they channeled out to these projects to work and to mr. james question, how many of them remain within the work force of some of these construction companies which is the ultimate goal? >> yeah. it's a pathway. a career path way and that's how we treat it and our goal is to not get through an entry level position and what was the career path that might open up. to employment services there is two ends to it. there is
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services through city built and a more seasoned construction worker, a resident construction worker who would be receiving our service and 3120 mission street and they are actively seeking employment for them to inform our office that they want to be included in the list for any of these projects for local hiring provision. the compliance officers roles for the various workers goal identify shortages on various projects and the contract maybe out of compliance for the good faith goals or mandatory goals which ever they may be and we pass the information on to the liasons and our data list for workers to help meet these demands and goals on-the-job site. we provide on going training in addition to the city built
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academy and in cooperation with city college to provide skills, upgrade to individuals that might be challenged on some of the demands on the work force. we really see ourselves as a partner in our industry and that way we are providing a service to the contract or base as well. >> just wondering if the employing liasons or ft's are they currently working under owed or these new folks that you are hiring? >> we will be employing new. with th the additional sources we'll be able to hire an additional officer and with the recs finalized we'll be able to hire two employment liasons. the focus of all of those positions are under
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ocii projects. >> you will make sure they are up to date with the work force policies that we have? >> oh yeah. and to both the comments from the individual from the public but also jim morales comment deputy director. all of he is the came out of the right hand lane work force policy from the agency. they are varying in some degree and stronger in some manner. but rest assured we are looking for the right candidate for the construction work force but also the various needs in the community that we are charged with. >> that was a question i had about do you keep statistics on the demographics of the work force? >> if at another meeting i have data on everything. i
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can break it down by job site. >> there is a lot of nuance depending on the type of construction it is and the breakdown by trade. the one thing we do do and the benefit we have is a lot of data. so, yeah, i can provide that breakdown. >> hopefully we'll get on going but i would like to schedule maybe another workshop to go over the difference in local state and policy and the data we have. it would be great when you do that. >> sure. >> any other questions or comments? this is an action item. i would like to entertain a motion on this resolution? >> i think this is great. so i will move that we accept the mou. >> thank you. commissioners, is there a second? >> second. >> madam secretary please call the roll.
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>> commissioner ellington, mondejar, sing, rosales, johnson. the vote is 5 ayes. >> thank you very much. next item. 5e thourzing a second amendment to the personal services contract with twin three building maintenance company a sole proceed -- that extends the term by 15 months to june 30, 2015, and increase the amount. >> thank you madam secretary. as you heard in the item introduction this is simply a
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term extension with some additional dollars. the existing contract actually does expire in march and as you know the state department of finance is continuing to review our long range property management plan, the latest information that we have that they will approve all the property management plans by the end of december of 2014. certainly we know they are quite busy right now and their review of our obligations payment schedule and the other reviews and this pmp is really at the back of the line. so as you saw in perhaps previous items come before you as a koth contingency matter on the
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parks with which particular of the arm of the city whether it be dpw or parks and recreation and wei been out with the contractors and this is located on hunters point hill, until we can transfer the property. we have property maintenance obligations under the solutions law you are entitled to receive -- new infusion property tax. through our roth process we asked for additional funds on a 6-month basis in order for us to maintain the property. the contracts expiring in march not knowing when the state will frankly be able to have the time to give us our final review and approval. we have extended for 15 months to provide for those property management services. and i will say we have been
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actively working with the community. it's been a long desire for the folks up on the hill to have a playground and park there that is fully functioning. there are some core which we put forth on our roth some core functions that we need to do in order to keep it in the state of good repair. this keeps the baseline. we'll come back to it and you will hear more about it in the budget. we'll do funds able to retain through our due diligence process through cbdg funds to put it back in the state of good repair and negotiating with city partners there may be that they want to make improvements or provide restrictive funds in order to accept it. in any event, this is a simple straight forward contract extension. we
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previously had multiple properties, 5 or 6 that twin iii managed for us and those were housing properties and these are the only remaining non-properties. what we are asking is small comparatively because it's one property rather than 5. the manager of our real estate division couldn't be here at this very moment. that's why i'm available for questions as is our deputy director and interim general counselor and tracy reynolds is here for questions. that concludes staff presentation. >> ms. reynolds you are getting called out. we are getting through pretty quick. is there any public comment on this item? >> i have one speaker card from oscar james.
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>> oscar james again, rerequired to redevelopment agency employee. that was one of the projects that i worked under shore view park. when we worked on the shore view park, there were a lot of conditions that were dangerous to the community. they had ring worms in the sand pit. we blocked them off. they are gate now. i know one time the redevelopment agency was talking about redoing the whole project. if you turn the water on now, it would leak under the ground under the concrete bench. i talked with ms. bowie before about that particular issue. but the whole park needs to be redone. there is no agency, city, state or anybody else or even that project area is going to take that park over the way it is. really commissioners you should go and see that park
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and see what a danger it is to the residents especially the kids. that's always been our concern. that fence has been up for over 20 years and nothing has happened. the wing worms are still there and young people are going there in the evening and doing things that young people shouldn't be doing because it's unlit area and near the park where seniors now have, dr. davis has a senior facility there and you have homes around there and the kids go there and play and do all other kind of things. an you do see a lot of syringes in that area. it's a place that needs to be redone and make the city can take it
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over. if i was a city i would not take over a park like it is. the agency is doing a good job in doing this thing. i'm not trying to put them down and the people doing the maintenance up there. i went up to talk to the lady twice before and she's doing a real good job also. so it's not their fault. it's just the condition of the sure view park. so thank you. >> thank you. >> ms. reynolds? >> i want to start with following on with what mr. -- in the memo they are in limbo land where they can accept it on deny and we do not know if we are going to transfer this part to the city and becomes
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parks and recreation decision and upgrade or rebuild or what have you. can ms. reynolds elaborate on that. is there any further on this strategy for this park? >> again, i policy for being late. you guys went quickly through the agenda. i thought the second one was going to be longer. on that question, all the details haven't been totally worked out yet. right now we've requested the funds, the $1.15 million and the cd on the rotdz which the both approved and the second step being done now is getting this approval, the use of these funds approved through the cities c dbg action plan. so i m it with them and i'm
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getting them taxed. they are going to included it in their action plan and it has to go to the board of supervisors and get approved. as soon as this gets approved and the board of supervisors approves, the easiest thing to do is to transfer shore view to the city and give the city the money and then the mayor's office of housing which is the cdbg administrator, we would grant to them so it's a stipulation for shore view park and they will endorse it into that action plan and to dpw to do that work because they were going to do it back
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in 2010. the exact mechanism hasn't been worked out to do it and instead of going to us and then transfer to the city. it's one of those two options. >> i'm sorry, i don't want to get too far away from the actual item itself. button -- but -- on what you just said, it sounds like you have to have an agreement attached to those roth funds to have an spnd you are -- expenditure attached to them. you are saying if we get on the roth that would be in reserve until the park is transferred to the city and then it would be granted to the city? >> it's a little tricky because the cdbg funds are
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rent payments coming to us. usually how this works is mou gets the money and we grant to people. we are actually getting the money ourselves and we are asking mou to use it and i'm assuming they are going to approve that. and then we would transfer it to them and grant it back to us and we would do a public procurement process to get an entity to do the improvements before we transfer it to the city and they with an agreement or with that restriction on the fund and they would grant it to dpw to do it once the city owns the property. so it's just, it's a little tricky because we are the ones collecting on these payments. we have the money so somehow we have to enter into some sort of cdbg grant money
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with the city. some entity has to enter into an agreement with mou to use the funds for shore view park. >> got it. >> because then they monitor, they have to monitor the use of those funds and grant the use of cdb g funds and it has to enter with us and say yes, these funds are what they are approved for. >> last question and i promise. 15 months is a long time. is that because it's just easier to have a continuation of the same management set up that we have right now until we know what the property management plan? >> yes. there is a couple reasons. one is now that this contract is a property, we
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used to have five and that would justify an rp, now we have one and it's difficult to do an rp for just one property. it's for the moment to make it jive on a roth for a 6-month fiscal year and it was in march and was extending it and more on a fiscal year basis. thirdly, it's just, i mean, we just don't know when this transfer is going to happen. it could happen a lot sooner than that. that's hopefully the outside dates. >> this you very much. >> yeah. question. the whole last interaction with the question about cdbg funds. and coming from are we going to fix the part before we transfer it or are we not ? >> that's still being figured out. that hasn't been
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determined yet how whether we are going to do it or transfer the funds to the city? >> it's still being discussed? >> yes. the intent is to fix the park. which pathways bayview arts -- because of the hurdles. there are many levels of review. but the bottom line is the intent is to fix the park and transfer it to the city whether the city does it or we do it as a part of that transfer we'll work that out. hopefully there will be greater clarity and that's the intent to fix the park. >> do we have a time line on that? or are we still waiting for the property management plan. >> before we get it approved, we have to approve the fund
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on the roth. then on the board of supervisors you have to approve the mayor's housing action plans. we have those two things that we have to wait for and then we'll have to have a discussion about whether or not say, for example we would want to retire waiting for or we think we can do it faster or i don't know. maybe we decide we just are going to do it somehow or we enter into a letter agreement with dpw to do the improvements. everything has a city standard so everything can be maintained by the city afterwards. if it's non-standard then they have issues with maintaining it. this would be a dpw project. if we hear from dof from the property plan then we can transfer the much this year
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hopefully. we would like to do it sooner rather than later. >> is there a rep from this organization here? >> well, i told her to come at 3:00 :00 p.m. so i'm sure she's not here yet. i didn't want to have her, she's working and i apologize for that. she was planning to be here. i'm sure she's on her way. >> we are going to be done. i can talk slowly but not that slowly. we'll probably be adjourned by 3. i don't know if you want to call her. >> you said these guys are not here today. >> they are on their way. >> they know that we have on the agenda? >> yes. but i was the one that told her to come at 3:00 p.m. because i thought your previous two items were going to take longer.
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>> she's on her way now. >> we should wait for them to come, right? >> no. it's up to you guys. >> i really prefer for her before maybe it's approved. maybe they don't want a job? >> they do. >> how do you know? >> because i know because i have talked to her and it's my fault that i told her to be here at 3:00 p.m.. >> how about is this place in >> the park? i think it's almost an acre. >> the acre needed to $42,000 for a year. >> it's $1300 a month. >> here is 19,000 for 6 months? >> for 15 months. >> oh. >> that comes out to about
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$1300 a month. >> i still would like they should be here. i don't want to -- you know. >> i would hate to penalize her because i was the one that told her to be here at 3. she was going to be here at one and i told her you will to have sit for a couple hours and i was the one that told her to come at 3:00 p.m.. >> we are becoming more efficient. >> i personally, you know i'm sure staff has spoken to the proprietor many times about the contract and contract extension. i would like to hear from them, we are probably going to be finished with our meeting by then. i think i'm going to call for a vote pending the questions and people can vote how they choose on this item. >> you can put it over. we can finish the calendar and continue. >> not for the next meeting. i would like to continue. can we continue this item until the
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end? council brian? >> okay. let's finish the discussion first. are there any other questions on this item or comments? okay. seeing none, let's continue the vote, continue this item until later in this meeting. let's call the next item until after the report of the executive director and hopefully we'll have proprietor here in case you want to make comments. >> the next item is 6. public comment on non-agenda item. madam chair. >> do we have any public comment. >> i have one speaker card from oscar james. >> hello, oscar james again. i just want to make a comment about the ground breaking for the dr. davis senior housing. it was to me a tremendous
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success, both the ground breaking and the event that happened afterwards. i was in vip, the section, my wife and myself and four of the dr. davis staff and we prepared a lot of food. any way, two of the people that came in donated $5,000 a piece for the fundraiser. there's more that was raised, but i can only remember the big money. one lady paid $250 for a slice of mywife's key lime cake. i don't know how many people tasted it. i know commissioner ellington was there. it was a success. commissioner king was there who i was glad to see.
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i did give him some cake. we only made three cakes. one for the contest. we won something, i don't know if it was two prizes, i know we won one but we only made three cakes. several people did get an opportunity to taste the cake? >> is it key lime cake or key lime pie? >> it's a cake. >> thank you. anymore public comment cards. >> no cards. >> next item please. >> the next item of business is the report of the chair. madam chair. >> thank you very much. i
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will miss my first commission ever. i will not be here for the next committee meeting. commissioner rosales will chair. >> the next report of the executive director. >> commissioners i wanted to report on legislation approved by the governor on february 18th and relates to how success or agencies a number of provision to how success or agencies operate and intended to provide some relief which is why the governor signed it about a week before these roths were due. fortunately for us there is a summary that council robert brian has prepared for taund
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