have one hundred and the 8 in san francisco. some of you may have seen at the 3 and 4 in the morning people line up because you don't know how many 7090 daybeds there are it's not safe for men and women to be out in the street. i'm glad to say we've shifted that we're moving toward a lottery people can call 311 and make a recreation for a bed now we're going to see that people don't have to be out in the middle of the night people can go and get a meal and go to their appointment and those beds are by lottery. we looked at the long-term beds

users people are afraid to have a seizures or episode in a small hotel room so we're making changes inform did system interest the amazing thing i think the way our world is changing the people that have made 311 restoration people can get a text message and know where you're going to have a bed that might. there the leadership we've opened two other shelters one hundred and 20 beds for chronically bed also between folsom we're opening 374, fifth street there are homeless people

between the ages of 16 and 24 and this facility came about and people are moving into this building to have housing. so i want to take a moment and acknowledge people from houston steve and judy harris stand up and wave (clapping) we love the mayor houston not because thoes the lesbian mayor. in the a first time that we have this sponsor and it's inspiring to us that google is our sponsor for pa c for this event we're really, really pleased. lastly i'm wondering in any friends in hand dot can i see a

waiver from hand dot. if you get a chance stop and see the amazing organization we've been supporting. hand dot uss pretty much a sponsor of homeless someone who was approaching his forgetting reunion he was homeless. it's a principal to work for a mayor that's you should in an area not only of growth and prosper it in the morning where your problems are big or small mayor ed lee >> thank you good afternoon, everybody. happy 53 and tenth this is where

the beautiful people have come in morning i've been laborer looking for. those are the times when people need help and us. they need us with good hearts and smiles and a good connection this is what project homeless has been about for 10 years i've been happy to work with barbara garcia and supervisor farrell and the a other supervisors and new partners that are helping us improve our services. it's not just keeping the cycle that bev vin talked about how about in connection with people giving them a warm smile talking about how to get into long-term support and services.

we also help build thirty thousand more unit in san francisco. how about that you how about we race the minimum wage yeah. help people get a descendent job and work with people like sdoolg so people on the streets can use them launching sf late the other day how about thanking you for the impact grants and all those wonderful things that are happening in san francisco. ? the greatest city in the world but i and everyday now are proving it to be the greatest city people want to be looking at the views and riding great cable cars up to the stars and

walk the block but we want to touch people's hearts like that kid did. everyday we're doing our best. sth past year we've learned more youth that on the streets then we thought before more less obedience and gaze a population of 50 percent we reduce chronic homelessness by 38 percent that's good but we have more to do we always have more to do we invite the challenges and create new perspires that's why good looking is here we need the best of our city government workers and the best of our community to

help folks. we want to be astronomer active for them so when google said they're to come in a volunteer i smiled because they started with the affordability how about free muni for youth for the next 23 years how about wifiing our parks so monoanyone can use this afternoon how about the rally for life how about all the wonderful grants give to impact people's lives in a positive way and to join the volunteers. those are the wonderful things and supervisor farrell is going to talk about how hocking to improve project homeless connect is just the beginning of tropics

it was never both going to be the end when you touch people's lives and they start opening up their lives that's about the engagement how to grab the challenges and work with them that so thank you people from houston. one of the security staff said how did howe house the road i don't in houston we don't have that here we have tech rodeos; right? >> (laughter). >> right. but this is all my way of saying with outline sincerity you have a great deal mayor we're going to work hard with you to make people astronomer their lives i want to start the foundation and

please continue to help and get our employees and employers involved and your family and friends and let's make tropics a real vision and thank you. let's celebrate project homeless connect (clapping.) thank you so i just want to mention as i bring up the next speaker many of the key staff out here providing services are in from our department of public health we couldn't do this without them let's give them a shout out. now i have the opportunity to bring up our rock star of public health. barbara garcia has been in the front when it seemed like we

couldn't have health care there's things about the affordable health care it's going to cover health services and without coverage no better partner than our health advocate barbara garcia >> good morning how many are first time advocates. all right. so i see workday workday folks raise our hands. we hope you'll have 10 more years and hopefully by that time we'll have the opportunity to house many more people. one of the things we are going to be doing as you see the incredible amount of services but daily connect it wouldn't

look like this it will be our staff going to into the shelter for signing up people for my glasses and homes. we have the advantage of getting people into one hundred percent homes. it's going back going to be beneficial as mayor ed lee talked about also being able to get them housed and the department of public health i think we find it's worst a hand in order to complete somebody's health care and be in the best health they need a home. i want to thank you you you're going to have tired feet from walking in the concrete so make sure you come back and we're

going to look for you in the next 10 years thank you very much (clapping.) so it's been mentioned this the the tenth anniversary of project connect and also the tenth anniversary mayor newsom partnered with another colleague and pulled a plan together to end chronic homelessness. as the mayor indicated we've cut that in half 63 one hundred and others are chronically homeless. one of the main goals was to develop 3 thousand new units of permanent permanent howard's now we've got to 28 hundred and i

think that demonstrates we can be successful and i also want to say that was 40 percent of our jail population was homeless now we're down to 20 percent. i bring those issues up because supervisor farrell give him a round of applause. supervisor farrell is our last speaker a great friend to the mayor and myself and others i'm glad to say he's held one meeting already and laid a road map for many hearings we talk about homelessness and reflect over and over on our services a 20 percent drop for veterans and so we're happy to have our supervisor supervisor farrell

>> thanks how about a big round of applause for mayor ed lee and all the department heads. so i want to first of all, thank for being here today. what you're doing is what we're all about in san francisco volunteering our time and taking time out of your workday no pun intended for the work folks. the magnitude we have 35 hundred people every night sleeping on our streets. we have mothers and fathered and sons and daughters those are people we need to care about this is a human issue and to be part of our city's effort we can't do it as a city government alone we do things together and all our cooperate sponsor to

google who contributions not only their money but your efforts this is what we do together in san francisco. please know how important it is that you come here today and we keep cowboy her in the city of san francisco. we're going to have more meetings like this we've introduced legislation to double our outreach team to pasture we have important workers reaching out to the street folks. so thank you and please come back and wear those stlirts today and other it days with pride so you're being san franciscans and thank you very much for being hebeing here

>> [inaudible] investment and infrastructure san francisco redevelopment agency for tuesday, march 18, 2014. madam secretary, please call the first item. >> thank you. the first item of business is roll call. commission members please respond when i call your name. commissioner ellington? >> here. >> commissioner mondejar? >> here. >> commissioner singh? >> here. >> chair johnson is absent. acting chair rosales? >> here. >> chair johnson is absent and all other members of the commission are present. the next order of business is item 2, announcements. a, the next scheduled commission meeting will be a special meeting held on tuesday, april 1, 2014 at 4:00 p.m.. b, announcement of prohibition of sound producing electronic devices during the meeting.

please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic device. c., announcement of time allotment for public comment. please be advised the member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on agenda items unless the commission adopts a shorter period on any item. it is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card provided by the commission secretary and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. item 3, report on actions taken at previous closed session meeting, if any. there are no reportable actions. the next order of business is item 4, matters of unfinished business. we have no items. the next order of business is item 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. first, the consent agenda. item 5a., approval of minutes: regular meeting of february 18,

2014. madam director? madam chair, excuse me. >> do we have any speaker cards? >> i have no speaker cards. , madam chair. >> do we have any comments on the minutes from my fellow commissioners? >> i thought they looked good so i move we he approve the minutes. >> is there a second? a i'll second. >> we have a motion and a second. all those in favor please say aye. >> aye. >> any oppositions or abstentions? >> [speaker not understood]. >> we are on minutes, item 5a. approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of february 18, 2014. >> [speaker not understood]. >> madam secretary, i believe we have a motion and a second

with mondejar abstaining. >> please announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner ellington? >> yes. >> commissioner mondejar? >> abstain. >> commissioner singh? >> yes. >> chair johnson absent. acting chair rosales? >> aye. >> madam chair, the vote is three ayes one abstention, one absent. >> very well. i would like to ask the commission to take item 8a out of order. if everyone is fine with that, i'd like to proceed to item 8a. madam secretary, please call the item. >> item ~ update on the march 11, 2014 fire at a 172-unit market-rate apartment building located at 1200 fourth street in the mission bay south redevelopment project area. madal director. >> good afternoon, commissioners, good afternoon to the members of the public. thank you very much for joining

us. as you heard, the commissioner in the news media and as members of the public know, there was a fire in mission bay south on a building, a bre properties building, a 100% market rate building, 172 units. you actually have an informational memorandum in your packets today describing further information on that building which received design approvals from the former rda approximately two years ago. we are privileged to be joined by assistant chief robert postel. as we all know, the fire department acted quickly and courageously real toy prevent this fire from spreading to other buildings, but we're privileged to have assistant chief postel to more vied us with further information. we also have kathrin riley, our mission bay project manager who will follow the assistant chief to provide some context on what else is happening in mission bay. with that, assistant chief?

>> good afternoon, commissioners. just giving a brief synopsis update of the fire department's actions at the mission bay fire. as you know, this was a fifth alarm fire to which over half the people on duty in the city responded. it was a extended operation. as a matter of fact, we brought the last of the equipment there on saturday so we were there several days. currently the cause of the fire is unknown, it is under investigation. one of the challenges of the fire department faced when we got there ~ this was a building that was under construction. it was a wood frame building on top of a concrete fire resistive type 1 construction. the fire was in the upper floors of the building and it had already advanced quite a bit upon our arrival. due to the fact that there was no sheetrock in place, there was no sprinkler system in place nor fire alarm systems.

there was no protection systems to prevent the spread of the fire. when the exposed wooden members were exposed to the heat and flame, there was rapid fire spread. we almost immediately were forced to go into a defensive attack mode. the nature of the building, the lightweight wood truss construction is extremely dangerous in a fire situation. that type of construction fails oftentimes within 10 to 15 minutes of its first exposure to fire unlike a conventional wood frame construction. so, there was a tremendous risk to our firefighters to put them into that building and there were no lives to be saved. and our risk analysis indicated that a defensive position and protect the exposures was the best course of action. we were successful in preventing the exposure -- fire from exposing to any of the adjacent buildings including one building in a similar state of construction right across

long bridge which is a narrow street. we he kept the fire from extending there. also kept it out of the adjoining apartment buildings, both across 4th street and i believe that was the biggest exposure was on 4th street. again, it was a very difficult fire. there was water supply issues. whenever you're on the periphery of the city like that, you have reduced water supply. mains are often dead ends. you don't have many options for water. we extensively used our high pressure water supply system, our emergency water supply system as well as the domestic water supply, and the puc was great getting us additional gate valves open and pressure to deal with that water supply situation. so, from our perspective, although it was a massive fire, it was a great success in the

fact we were able to prevent it from spreading to adjacent buildings and especially the buildings under construction. >> kathrin, perhaps you can provide some context for the commissioners and members of the public for what else is happening in mission bay in some of the other buildings that may be of concern for the commission and the public. >> thank you. good afternoon. i'm kathrin riley, project manager for mission bay. and just wanted to give you a context of the building location as well as an you update on the surrounding development. there is a mention it is located on 4th street. this is block 5, it's in the sin term of the new residential area that's under construction. 172 units, market rate, it' directly across the street from block 4 west, which is -- let me just check the number -- 192 units. this was constructed in 2008 and was occupied at the time of the fire. directly to the north is block 3 west which is also owned by

summer hill homes on both of those blocks. that just recently finished construction and that's 147 units. just in the lease up period, those are the two buildings that were affected the most by the fire for residents, for the purpose of residents. ~ in the sense that my understanding as of end of last week, about 15 units in block 4 west and four unit in block 3 west were uninhabitable after the fire due to broken windows, doors that had to be opened to check for safety, and then the aso block 3 west across, sprinklers. so, smoke and water damage. luckily, block 3 west is still in lease up. so, the owner is able to offer residents who are displaced other alternatives for living directly in the building adjacent. all animal are also gotten out safely, which was good. other to the north is block 13

east, which is 150 units affordable, that's under construction. it's one of our projects with mercy. this one is still in the process of assessment. because they were directly across from the streets that are still opening up and as they're securing the fire site, that mercy has not been able to get in and do a full assessment on the side that was most impacted. however, they have been able to restart construction on the other portions of the building. so, we're hopeful that it is primarily going to be smoke, possibly water damage on that side and we'll have more information, but they're continuing with construction on the rest of the site. other parcels, block 2, 13 west and 12 which are all under construction. i think 2 is completed. did not sustain any large damage and the two construction projects started up as soon as they were allowed back in. we're also assessing damage to the street. we'll probably have to replace street lights and furnish a

couple trees looking a little toasty right now, but it looks like it wasn't too poorly damaged. 4th street was closed, it what reopened a few days after. the other streets surrounding the sites are construction related so they were not open to the public. they have been reopened for construction access. talking to the developer bre on the block 5 site, they started construction or demolition as soon as they were able to get in there to remove any safety hazards to allow 4th street to reopen. they're anticipating it's going to take probably 4 to 6 week to finish demolition. they're hopeful -- the construction type is you have two floors of concrete podium for your parking and then you have the stick bolt because the fire is on the top part of the building, they're hopeful once they clean off the demolition that they'll be able to reuse the concrete podium and move from there. their other site is block 11 which is located to the west, the 188 unit that was unaffected and they're already

working on that project. and the other interest is right next to the west of the site is the future children's park which was slated to start construction in a couple weeks. it's probably going to be delayed a couple weeks to allow demolition to occur, but luckily nothing had started yet so we didn't have any damage to the children's park. the rest of the construction, over 1300 units of residential under construction, the public safety building with the police, fire, and the new police head quarters, police and fire station, plugging along with a november opening date as with all the ec, new hospital and all the rest of the work out there. so, small blip from the side of development, but realty was more kind of days versus months or any large impact to the rest of the development out there. very fortunate that the fire department was able to respond as quickly. we're looking forward to getting that project back up and running as well. thank you.

>> i have some -- >> thank you. >> yeah. >> before i simply take commissioner questions, i think we need to open it up to members of the public to see if there's any comment on the report. madam secretary, do you have any speaker cards? >> i have no speaker cards, madam chair. >> thank you. commissioner singh? >> whats was the cause of the fire? >> at this point we don't know. it's still under investigation. >> why it went so fast? i was watching on the tv. it went in a couple hours go all the way. >> yeah, because there was no sheetrock in place -- and sheetrock is essentially a fire stop, all that wood was exposed. so, the radiant heat from that fire and the direct fire impingement caused that fire to spread through the building rapidly. >> and when you know that what was the cause of the fire? >> i don't know what the estimate is for when we'll determine what the cause or the origin of it. we have our fire investigation unit is working on it.

l >> okay, thank you. >> since the fire started. >> anything else? >> i just want to say thank you to the men and women in your department for being courageous and giving the circumstances and letting the fire out within a timely manner. so, thank you. thank you guys for that. >> thank you, we appreciate that. >> i have a question for you when you have a chance. so, just clarifying are we confident there's no significant impact on just the general timeline of surrounding projects? >> talking to all the different developers, they're going along as quickly as they can. no one has shown -- minor repairs may add a little bit of time, but again, more on the weeks than any significant lengths. no one is talking about having to delay development. >> and do we know he the new timeline going forward for bre or is that -- >> we're still in the assessment stage. >> gotcha.