[indiscernible] who put in 30 years in our union brought this to our attention as was folks like mr. brooks and miss harris and miss moore who has been tireless on this for organized labor to have the opportunity. we voted in a special session and brought it to the council where our secretary-treasurer recommended in the strongest possible terms to each and every single affiliate of the building trades to take a stand with community environmental activist, contractors and in some ways redefined these ideas of silos that where residents environmentalist union members local contractors, we are all community. when we have the chance to do things like this, it spoke to what we are all about in terms of supporting from the ground up. the vote was unanimous. building trades

council, each and every affiliate voted to take the stand although we continue to want to do this work and do it together. it does not happen without standing in solidarity. i have a message which is that we are in receipt of the proposal around dust mitigation at the state-of-the-art level, the local resident community hiring community contracting. we are excited about this and making sure they enforcement happens. the message i had is we consider this of the council we look forward to working with the department and the folks doing the project the commission. but the folks standing right here in this world to give light to this. we look forward to working together to bring these ideas to life. thank you. >> thank you everyone for addressing the commission. do the commissioners have any questions? >> for any of the speakers or

staff or executive director? >> first of all, i'd like to know how many people [indiscernible] or lived there? >> [indiscernible] >> okay. all right. secondly, i want to know how you are monitoring the dust in the demolition? >> the department of public health oversees the dust control plan which does include provision for dust monitoring. there is also a third-party monitor which will be on site to ensure the provisions of the dust control plan will be met. >> i think [indiscernible] have some more meetings and what could be done mutually before you do it on your own is my

recommendation. >> thank you. >> do you have any questions? >> you answered the commissioners question which was one of my questions. but it's one thing to say the department of public health oversees, what does that really look like? i'm assuming we have a him ou with the department of public health? >> we do have an existing mo you , it started with overseeing and regulating on hunters point and like many other departments, depending on the workload, we ramp up in terms of staffing and monitoring. missed drew is in close contact

with the head of that department and this is a top priority issue for department and staff to ensure the regulations and monitoring is met and we welcome feedback from the members of the public and how we make sure the measures are in place and are they working. >> so before i have a follow-up, who is the third-party monitor? >> i'm not sure who that is. the department of public health could not attend today's hearing but i'm happy to report back to you on who that is. >> that is someone they contract with? >> i don't know how the contract is handled. >> i guess my concern about the words oversight and monitoring, oversight sounds kind of an arm length issue and even some of the website's or phone calls or

telephone lines that one control, it seems like something has to happen and then something as reported and something is except divine agency and then the agency response. i would like to hear what measures are being taken ahead of that so that it is essentially ahead of the problem, not after the problem. because once the problem impacts folks, it is done. versus coming up with measures so that gets to the issue of how closely is lennar being -- perhaps we can hear from lennar , what are they doing internally to ensure that it is compliant as it goes along? so it has its own internal compliance mechanisms in place. you can't answer that but maybe someone from lennar can answer

that? >> [indiscernible] from lennar. >> thank you. i am the director of land development with lennar. happy to be here today to have the opportunity to present. i would like to thank the community for their involvement in the process over the past six weeks or so. obviously their input was a critical factor in coming to the determination that to move forward to the with the conventional demo approach. i want to thank the city for the permit so we can move the project forward. specifically, regarding the dust control plan i think i can provide a brief overview. the dust control plan identifies the activities for the project, the construction activities and then identifies a series of mitigation efforts that will be implemented to

mitigate for dust generation on site both during demolition as well as other construction activities for the project. we also identified monitoring network for the dust control and are dust control plan. we have received permits both from the bay area air quality management district, known as aj permit for the demolition as well as an approval of the dust control by the public at department health. that was part of the issuance of the conventional permit from the building inspections department. that plan identifies activities, mitigation, monitoring in addition to monitoring for concentrations in the air, we also include a third-party inspection, that is a daily dust inspection report

in which a licensed individual goes to the site, review the daily activities and document it in a log and then make recommendations for additional measures. there are separate city inspections, both by department and public health and [indiscernible] who are providing oversight for the project. all of the mitigations and the thresholds for additional levels of concentrations are said to be health protective. dr. thompkins mention that concern regarding [indiscernible], effectively, [indiscernible] there are dust particles below a certain size. [indiscernible]

the dust concentration particles less than 10 5 in size so zero through 10. so that fraction includes 2.5+ the range of 2.5 through 10. what we have done to deal with that concern is set our action level thresholds to the lower criteria for 2.5. meaning, our action levels are set lower to the action level so we can ensure that not only are we not exceeding the 10 concentrations that staying below the 2.5. the monitoring we are providing on-site is real-time data. it is constantly recording so we can check those monitors at any time. they have an alarm but once it exceeds the action level, there is a light signal

that we can then review the data and determine what activity within the vicinity of that monitor may be contributing to elevated dust readings and we can modifier mitigations formally. we do have monitor set up near sensitive receptors since there is an elementary school and the existing residences both on jamestown and we will be adding more monitors to the residences towards candlestick cove off of [indiscernible]. >> i'm happy to provide an overview of the dust mitigations but very generally, they include training of workers, pre-wedding services

that are targeted for demolition as well as work areas. during the actual crushing of material, using mechanically and hydraulically activated equipment, there is continuous wedding during that crushing. we will do our best to work from hard scape areas, not working and unpaved areas with our equipment. fortunately most of the area is paved so we will retain that pavement until the very end. and then there is a series of other measures like twice a day wetting and truck routes on and off-site. there are stabilize construction entrances and exits for tire washing and there is a stockpile management program for both active stockpiles defined to be active within the past seven days and inactive that includes a combination of wetting or applying chemical stabilizers. >> i want to add that we obviously do take dust control

seriously. we are going to be actively performing construction activities for the foreseeable future and we care very much about doing the job right. we have had lessons learned and develop best practices as a result of those lessons learned from the phase 1 grading project at the shipyard. >> thank you for that explanation. i am not an expert in this area but these sound like do diligent efforts. i am not a neighbor or directly impacted but if folks are saying they don't have enough information, they are not getting enough advance warning, kind of advance understanding of what's going on and it causes people to be concerned, my question is what are your means of communication?

do you have plans to improve them? i would suggest you take to heart the comment by one of the speakers that online communication may not work and it may not work if it's only in english so basically it is a question about how to engage the community. do you have any comment on that? >> absolutely. the approved dust control plan, we welcome that be shared with anyone in the community. so that they can be familiar with the dust and litigations we are required to implement. a copy of that is now approved and ready to be shared. there are regular community meetings, i will ask [indiscernible] who is responsible for the community outreach effort to share what the availability of those meetings are that we do want to

have an open forum so concerns can be addressed. regarding the hotlines, the hotline is linked , it sends a notification by text of the message content to three critical people. they include our construction manager and site development manager so they receive instantaneous notification when someone calls on the hotline and there's an example from two days ago, yesterday, where [indiscernible] left a voicemail and received a phone call back within an hour and a half so that system is working and it is effective. >> okay. thank you. can we hear about the community process? >> thank you. i wanted to add a

couple of things, thank you. for speaking about hotline and i heard your concern, about the distance of such, that there may be perceived distance they are and i want to make a correction to what my colleague was saying. there are four people, when calls commit the hotline, four people are notified immediately the a transcription of those calls and email. there was a call that came into the hotline yesterday. even on a holiday. if there is work happening a call came in at 10:21 and i return the call at 11:50 am. we try to return the calls timely and we know that particularly around work happening at

candlestick we will continue to do that and improve if we need but i think an hour and a half is as fast as someone could do that. with respect to the outreach and the community meetings, we did hear at the january 5 meeting some concerns about translation of documents and translation services being provided. at all of the meetings there have been spanish translation available. since that january meeting, we have started to reach out to chinese language speaking partners to help us with translation of documents for outreach. we are working on that right now. we obviously have the news or update or statement about our withdrawing

our permit application for implosion. that just happened on friday. so we are now working now that the new work week has started, we are working on enlarging the territory beyond what is required of the permits for notification for construction start related to the demolition that we will be using. we will be translating that document as well. that will go out to the community at large so we heard that concerned and we are taking steps to respond to that. >> one more thing, bronson also alluded to the community meetings we've had to date and some regular ongoing ways people can get updates about

the project in general. there are some mechanisms in place already. that people can utilize. it doesn't mean we can go beyond those things but i think people need to be aware of some things. we make regular presentations to the [indiscernible] residents meeting on the first monday of every month. those meetings are open to others beyond [indiscernible] so sometimes other residents, and the community is invited to those meetings as well. we also make regular presentations to the shipyard [indiscernible] both to the various subcommittees but in this regard and this context, the second monday of every month at 6 pm at

oakdale. >> thank you. >> i have a couple more questions. first of all, thank you very good to hear that you are listening to the community but it sounds like some of the feedback and public comment, it seems like there is still a few things that need to be done to improve the communication. there was a comment about language appropriate access, translations which you referred to and recalling the attendance of the community in this commission meeting, there was someone who said the highest number of residents in this area [indiscernible] communities so i was wondering aside from the

online indications of scheduling of your community outreach, how else are you putting this out? do you do mailings? phone calls to the community? to make sure representatives of the community are [indiscernible]? >> in my comments, i referred to being responsive to what we heard around the chinese language translation. that communication will be mailed to people. we have also reached, the san francisco police department does a regular lingual monthly meeting in addition to the regular captains meeting so we reached out to the captain to be a part of an upcoming monolingual meaning. to participate in that

and have translation at one of those meetings. i've also reached out to the apa to be a part of an upcoming meeting in the valley that is monolingual. we know now that that communication would be different than some of the meetings until this point because we were talking about the two methods of demolition and information about both. now that we have made a decision, the presentations would be different in nature but still trying to provide people with information about the overall project as well as specific information about the demolition method we have chosen. >> i also wanted to say, because you alluded earlier that you have interpreters are translators. i don't know if you are aware but the city of san francisco has a department

that has immigration services and they have a list of interpreters and translators. if you need one. they are usually on call and the other pieces, i don't know if you've done surveys. of how many of the population of this community because it is available with the city. i was in the district task force and i know that departments elections for example have numbers of where the people are, and how many what the populations are. i want you to be aware of these resources available and to have maybe improve the community outreach methodology through community so that there is representation and they know what's going on in their community. >> thank you. i think you can't do what i do for a living

alone. community fairs are just that. you cannot do this and appreciate not appreciate the importance of the community voice so it does speak to organizations or companies made up of people and it speaks to care for the community if we heard the community voice and heard a decision that was heavily a part of that decision. >> thank you. >> i know [indiscernible] for very long time. she was president of the bayview hunters point business association and a board member of the [indiscernible] association and i'm sure she will do a good job during this committee listening to the committee and what they need. >> thank you. >> i have a couple of questions

about the local hire concerns that were raised. maybe i should ask the question, i'm assuming this work is subject to the agencies local hire program? >> it most definitely is and we meet with [indiscernible] when she joined the oci team we meet with the staff on a regular basis to talk about local hiring and we meet with them on a monthly basis. they provide us partnership and oversight to the project with local hire requirements. there is regular meetings with us and with the training organizations that serve the neighborhood so that we can make sure our contractor is in compliance. obviously,

the developer [indiscernible] contracts and then the contractors hire but we partner with the contractors and provide oversight just like oci does them to regular looking to make sure we are in compliance and those good faith efforts are strident once. besides local hire, our small business policy [indiscernible] we have any [indiscernible] and we can make presentation to the commission at any time that we make regular presentations on our status to the cac on a regular basis. >> thank you for the information. >> if you give me a moment. we need to see the executive director wants to say something. >> thank you. to speak directly

on that, do you affirm what miss walker already said? raymond lee is also here, our compliance supervisor and we are not due for another quarterly report to the next meeting but he is here to speak on the status of the local contracting subject to the 50% both for contract, subcontract, professional services as well as hiring. >> compliance supervisor, for clarification, the programs under lennar or program implemented our subject to the compliance programs both for small business contracting as well as local workforce. of course our small business contracting is at 50% and local workforce is at 50%. in terms of contracting overall, lennar

has exceeded our contracting requirements in terms of engaging small businesses. in the next quarterly report i can provide specific details in terms of engagement of the hunters point businesses. in terms of local workforce, they are currently at about 46% overall for both shipyard and the hunters point area but i want to say over 33% of the workforce hours are currently deployed by hunters point residence for the demolition infrastructure projects. >> thank you. >> i must reiterate to lennar and oci that the reason why we are having this conversation is because the committee was not

involved and overall conversation and outreach until the community brought the outreach to the forefront to have the meetings that were had. now that we are on the road to having a substantive dialogue and that lennar has made the decision to not implode, it's important and i cannot say this in a stronger, that the dialogue with the community to find out what the community wants. don't rely on the oversight community or the dph. the community requires that you sit down and talk to us and this is how we are going to forge a relationship with lennar so that they can hear what the concerns and they can get their project on board

because until that happens and having a monologue and going through the department of public health and having this dust study done without including the community, it's just not a good sign that they want to have it robust conversation with us on this. so, i beg the commissioners to implore lennar to talk with the communities because their concerns, they are residents who are here today like myself who live right next to the park. i walk my dogs around the park every day and i understand what happens. i took the pictures that dr. thompson showed you earlier. i know that there are violations out there that we need to not bring this to your attention in this forum. we need to have a

conversation with lennar in a neighborly effort to try and hear us and resolve are concerns and not run to report everything we find that we should have that relationship to discuss this stuff with lennar. when the [indiscernible] were in town and they had 30,000 cars they're all at once it was difficult but the one thing we did have with the 49ers, we had communication. we had game day, communication. momenta moment communication. we had, there was a telephone number and a groundskeeper, a pr person at the beck and call of the community to address