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i had and i think some of my fellow commissioners share because of the conversion to private nonprofit housing as you've mentioned a lot of the code enforcement will fall on us that's been in the past one of the biggest beefs against the housing authority redevelopment agency is that a lot of the problems in the buildings went unheeded for years with tenant complaints and because of federal government's kind of ability to skirt under they were not dealt with i had a couple concrete questions one we have mou i believe with the housing authority even though we when we sent special circumstances case
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into the building we sent them in a lot of the moudz we had an understanding where we would write up suggestions or recommendations for repairs and things like that what is going to happy to the mou now do we have to have a new mou process with that with the mayor's office because a lot of him or her when we issued problems when we piloted problems a lot of the mias they were probably not addressed so, now it has to be different now theirs private housing if we don't address it we'll have to come back and get mo bs there's going to be fines and a lot of those things that's my first question what's the process for that and maybe i should let you
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see if the mayor's office has discussions that i have follow-up specifically whose taking over which projects that's another concern. >> thank you for your question well the good news is as i mentioned we're going to be doing $5 million of rehab to the building and doing them according to the current code so once the rehab is done buildings should have addressed the immediate issues of the housing authority and bull know from the newspaper the elevators have been chronically been a problem for many, many years and to barely effected the health and safeties mostly the seniors and the disabled they gave us $6 million for the housing authority years now to make
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emergency repairs to the elevators so there's a lot more to do besides the slates - elevators this has to be for a 20-year life at the time we're done with the conversions a lot of the issues should be resolved under the private ownership they'll be subject to the city's inspections i don't for see the need for an mou the mayor's office of housing fund are privately owned under the purview of the department without any special mou so awhile i think we should talk about the transition if there's a need to memorialize this to mark when they actually make the
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transition from public housing to private ownership maybe something we should discuss as i see it is going to be a simple and 12r5urd and typical relationship we've had with you as a department. >> one more questioning question i'll ems to other commissioners that's one of my concerns for the thousands of units for the nonprofit there was not a list given to us i want that list one of my concerns we also have contract with private nonprofits to represent the tenant to be advocates of the tenant at that organize the tenant one of the questions i had, sir from the city attorney's office scombroind us i might ask him for input on this some of the
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project managers are the same nonprofits we're going to be put in a position where you you know the same group is going to be sitting on both sides of the table a project manager and as the organize inferiors if we get a complaint and we often do we have a complaint driven system at dbi for tenants how do we resolve that how does the city attorney look at that conflict because just as in the past life as an organizer we also say you can't sit on both sides of the table that's labor manager i see that in the same concept as housing we're going to have both groups sittings on both sides of the table the project managers how do we represent that how is
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our department i don't want to get catch up in the middle quite frankly. >> without understanding your role in the helping mediate those conflicts within the tenants and landlord the people we selected to do the work are doing the property management and organizing across the city so you'll be sending you the list of developers i apologize for having left that out of my report i'll go through it quickly the list of developers we've selected we've divided the 29 projects into 8 columnists this is geographically the first cluster is chinatown and the selected developer is chinatown development community center i'm sure you're aware of
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is an owner and project manager organization so those kind of conflicts are potential areas of disagreement with the organizations i think i've already been vetted by those organizations over the years chinatown in particular has been organizing the public housing residents for the student projects for the 1970s and for them to transition to ownership and project manager of this site it had been complicated i can't speaks to how they're to roll out that change within their own organization but i think that's going to be common for other developers i've mentioned to you now the second cluster the western edition cluster that's 3 hundred and 39 units that is being developed
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co-developed by companies and the tab analytical center the western radiation two is sierra club the tenderloin and we thought west of that the tenderloin neighborhood center with the in community housing partnership participating in the community housing papering is another organization that fills both the roles of the tenant orchestraer and as the project manager and owner the fourth cluster is tenderloin south of market and that's once again the tenderloin neighborhood center and community partnership excuse me. our fifth is the bureau no heights by the neighborhood center and bridge housing so berry natural housing is 11 of those kind of organizing around the housing conditions
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that are see the developed unit our 6th cluster that's 6 different properties in the triangle gosh what do we call it the flip side and castro i'm sorry 18th street and have delores that's being developed by bridge housing and another association i'm sorry, i don't have that acquit right but again, a partnership too the housing communicated organization that has addressed core as part of its core mission improving housing the california corridor is 6 projects to the west of embarcadero those promotions are led by mercy housing which is a long time nonprofit voerp in san francisco
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and by jon stewart company a private entity that does a lot of affordability and the southeast cluster two large family unit in the boyfriend those are being led by again by jon stewart company with bridge point and san francisco housing development corporation a nonprofit so i think again those projects are going to be led by the same organizations around the housing conditions across the city and they're also many of them landlords i know the question is for them how they plan to manage the transition with our residents what or so used to having to live in substandard conditions how the unit convert
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to that and private ownership how the relationship is going to be changed it remains to be seen. >> so commissioner walker and then commissioner melgar. >> thank you very much this is a huge project i i know we've been working on that those long mou rather urban successfully to get those buildings up to code i would hope because this is a huge project that is very complicated and when commissioner vice president mar talked about our effort at tenant outreach we have a formalized coming outreach program that helps us facilitate issues from the tenant community in rental housing in the city we also have a sro collaborative
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effort both of these are focused on tenants so awhile it's true that some of the same organizations have become landlords we we have i won't say we resolved the conflict in that relationship we get complaints from buildings that are run by the same tenant outreach folks so i'm the tenant representative on that body i have that concern especially knowing the condition of some of the units and the likely interest from the tenant community to get things fixed quickly we want to make sure increasing there's an unconflicted program through the outreach program also i think that it's clear that is going to be coming in a kind of concerted organized
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fashion unlike our current situation where we hear complaints or do reluctance and reluctant amount of work that's a large amount of work i hope our department will put together and team to be familiar with the properties and the solutions that include our building inspiration folks as well as code enforcement outreach team so i'm assuming that is already planned and i think we ready need to support that from the commission so those are comments i have and do we - so you have a yearlong plan for the first phase followed by a second phase that's also going to be a year i mean, that's a lot of work. >> i know. >> and it's needed i applaud it. >> and i think.
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>> i support it. >> typically our model for housing development we put our developers through a process and those developers essentially then monitoring by us but under our leadership take the lead on developing unit with this rad the mayor's office of housing and community development is doing a lot of project management we're letting the developers took the lead but project managing it on a higher level to there's so many moving parts not to mention negotiation with hud to allow the flexibility of the rad program to make it work in a high cost city like san francisco hud programs are national address
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don't take a look at the region minimum wage and the cost of construction the prices we are bringing on the rehab for the portfolio they've never seen before so we kind of do a lot of work and it kind of gets just to get to the starting line we have 8 panama canal's in the city we have 4 dedicated instead of over the last year to work on those see projects we have the capacity and the been working closely with the management staff not you yet but holy to work to in a take things our describing back to the issue of owners who own property and also organize residents and properties that is an issue bigger than this is a philosophical issue and kind of
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a portfolios come up for residents and the more we educate the residents about what their redress rights are once the units are convert they have a voice but they will have a voice and hopefully under clearer guidelines with our department and other departments that will get releases for quickly. >> commissioner melgar. >> thank you what an excellent presentation really wonderful oar i'm not worried the conflict with the agencies we've been doing this for a while it's a groundbreaking program you know and i think it's pretty progressive and wonderful but i'm worried about capacity in the money so rosemary i'm
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also trying to put more work on you but this is a huge expansion a lot of the problems the agency see are you know because of the unit the conditions of the unit they're based on social problems lack of social status and language barriers so all of those things i totally hear there's millions of dollars of investment the population is still the same so i think that you know over time there's going to be an increase in that workload specifically for c opt and c opt itself is not an enterprise activity so we i think could said person ahead in
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terms of right now, we're looking at our fee structure my own that was taking a look at when we were doing the c study but also i think that you know as part of the rad i don't know if that's an activist that was looked at i'm worried in the future we put away enough in terms of you know the department resources to make sure that the social part of this it taken care of and to work with low to make sure we plan ahead and have enough you know when we put out the rfp for the program we take into account. >> i'll say pardon me one thing about the rad program that is probably a drop in the bucket when we talk about the need for
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residents to have support around organizing and having their voices heard it has a number of protection written into it both the housing authority and the owner the land and the individual landlord will be required to honor those protections and actually incorporate them into the policy one the protections is the owner has to provide $25 per unit per year to the resident they can use for potentially any legitimately activities whether social or organizing or you know with the different developers and the endeavor they are different model some developers are more experienced and establishing robust tenant
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organizations than others at least an opportunity and the fact that resident will still have issues even after the conversion even after the unit i minimal are proved there's going to be issues that need attention. >> sorry commissioner lee. >> a lot of the same things we could resolve if we had our department working with you and the tenants now on some of the issues is our department involved with the resolve what are retelling the tenants at this time. >> well, i'll tell you the extent of our involvement that our vice president right now is a straightforward again getting ready to submit applications
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given the priority progressing program interests coordination on the rad level but again each project is going to be coming in and standing on hispanics its own. >> the tenants have expressed any comments after the transfer and who can they go to and contact. >> the rad program requires - required before the city applied to hud for rad vaungs as a condition to be selected we required the developers to meet mostly or have interaction with the residents on a regular basis mostly honestly resident when do we get the improvements made that's their focus the loose
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repairs for the last period of time recipe at first were not enthusiastic about rad is their rent goings-on to go up the answer is no displacement and no rent increase 94 now really their focus why not do it now nobody thought about the next step you know how do we bring our concerns to the tackle later that's someone something that people should be thinking about i think it's been challenging for a lot of the developers to form a relationship with the residents they're out ciders still 33 the city owns the building still and there's not a lot of trust historically in public housing low turnout at meetings so i think we're kind of getting to the point to have the
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conversations with residents. >> i can bet that had been stressful for the residents and given the cost of the city. >> at some appropriate time i hope they understand we're there to help them. >> we should talk about that more because making presentations at each of the building over the next six-hundred months and having someplace from dbi coming to explain how the system typically works this is new territory important the residents if they can hear it directly from the staff that will be helpful. >> commissioner walker. >> i think that is concern does exactly what was expressed that we want to be able to be there sooner or later to develop the relationships and make sure they said that we are here not just
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as our special circumstances case i think a team approach will work best our code enforcement outreach organizations who can help on a long list of things both you know dealing with the building and the construction as well as social issues i mean, i know those buildings are really they're going to be so much better off but the getting there not knowing what is happening but when necessary have to move for the record in order to get things done now is a good time to get our program hooked up so we can figure out how much it is going to impact our staffing needs both in building inspections and housing inspections if we need to look at our code enforcement because
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their they do actually come to us with issues in this housing even though we are that not responsible we had the mou and heard the complaints and their accustomed with our housing distribution - it would be great to hook in now that's why our program is there our c opt project. >> i want to recognize what a night mayor it must have been obviously going forward workout the issue but please communicate what we have we can do we said this is a journey we have to take together and this is something we need to work
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together any personal feeling bans the history i know change is difficult for people that live in those activity apartment is this is a new type of change that is far the better so hopefully you know in time that will present be seen as the outbursts that happened here to good luck and once again, we're here we're concerned in our role because we're as a commission i know a lot of decisions are made and we're just told to take care of it we want to be up front and is you're going to have logic issues here how can i get to the staff level to service those people so they don't have the same experience as in the past that deals with them and brought united states to this point. >> well, thank you
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i was wanting to add within the rad the vendors and the city have developed a interlocking working group structure that deals with all of the issues that are being experienced by both the vendors and the team and the residents themselves and an important component each cluster is geary up to provide service connectors to help the tenants deal with their issues and hermosa beach them to make the transits and take advantage thoughtful opportunity. >> well, thank you for inviting us here i look forward to working with you all to be thoughtful about how the next 6 or 10 months will unfold for the benefit of the resident.
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>> thank you very much. >> any public comment on item 5? seeing none, item 6 discussion and possible agency for appropriately a supplemental budget for telegraph hill improvement >> could i just make the disclosure on this one i believe that some part of the presentation will be made from any colleagues added public works i want to let you know that. >> i'd like to excuse president clinch at this stage of meeting. >> good morning director huey i'm ray donald i'm the project manager for the intuitively this is any colleague who is operating the computer so we
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have a power point there you go next slide. >> this is the project location we wanted to bring everyone on the same package so you're familiar with the project in the north beach area next to the coit tower 3 this is looking up from the street if you look straight up to the left of building to the top the property on the lsd is rec and park and the property is block 50 a private property we want to talk about that area today this area was also used as a query ships with come in and unload their goods and basically fleeting on the water because it's empty there was an operator
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that blasted the hilltop so over time it is in a danger condition it has a history of known rock slides the picture on the left was dug up at the san francisco library 1449 one hundred and 50 cube yards that dropped down the picture to the right is 2 hundred cubic lots of materials that came down in a rainstorm 2012 flash-forward two years ago this is we had 2 and a half inches of rain some came in dout do you have an opinion in the size of that tackle nobody got hurt but the car is smashed up if we're lucky nobody