the familiarity with the program exist. i support the ordinance, but i would like to look at the details so we increase its chance of success. speaker: thank you. supervisor breed. speaker: thank you, supervisor christensen for your comments to the chair. i wanted to remind the public that this is -- we won't reinvent the wheel. the pilot program already exists. we have systems in play that will only expand the program. this will give us an opportunity to expand the program and when i met with retailers and also hospitals, they definitely have expressed interest in doing and participating in this program and in fact, for example, kaiser has already moved in the direction of setting up a system within their pharmacies and i think that it won't be as difficult to implement this program

based on the aggressive timeline because again, there's already systems in play that will help us to move this along quickly but i also don't think the department of environment is going to -- if there are pharmaceutical companies who are genuinely working with us to comply, we're not going to be hard core about the timeline in such a way that we make it difficult for them to implement this program. our ultimate goal is to make sure that we implement the program and we are successful in implementing it and we have success in our pilot program. as i mentioned in my opening -- we're going to make sure we have locations as well. we want this program to succeed and we want to make sure that there are kinks worked out as you've expressed based on your concern and ultimately i think this is going to be an

incredible program and we'll continue to work with even those who oppose the program, to try and figure out a way to make it easier to implement. but i think, i'm really excited about this. i didn't start off pushing for this legislation, but when assembly member chiu was leaving the board, and he had a couple of things about unfinished business he wanted to -- the only thing i was interested in taking hold is this in particular especially from our own personal experience of taking the wrong medication and making mistakes and it's not necessarily the pharmaceutical company's fault in that regard, but i think it would be nice to have a place to make it easy for me to dispose of unused prescription and non prescription medications and what's so

interesting about is this is -- one of the pharmacies in my district, charlie, he thought the program was going away and he was definitely really concerned about that because he's, like, i have customers come from everywhere and i develop new customers an -- customers as a result because i have this drop location and a lot seniors utilize this so much. we have several pick ups more than we anticipated. i think there's a strong desire and i'm looking farld to the implementation and with that, i would like to move forward the legislation as amended to the full board for positive consideration. speaker: thank you, supervisor breed. so i also want to thank the public for coming out and expressing your views today. and i believe that the timeline

is an aggressive timeline. i believe sometimes it's durable. i also believe that we're not the first to do this and i think we could especially take note of what alameda has done. if you haven't already, i would ask them when their timeline was and whether this is feasible. that would be really reassuring for all the city here. i think this is a very important program. i've gone through quite a few of my relatives who were seniors and the jars that ms. kelly brought up is a fraction of what i saw them having. and unfortunately i didn't know any better, and i dispose of probably thousands of pills, throwing them in the garbage can, so i'm being educated today, actually. and i also wanted -- if you

don't mind, sign up as a coauthor. this motion that has been put on the floor, without any objection, the motion passes. [applause] speaker: madam clerk, item 2. i know many of you will be leaving the room, but if you can leave quietly. we want to continue. item 2. speaker: item 2, resolution receiving and approving annual reports for the noe valley community benefit district for fys 2009-2014, submitted as required by the property and business improvement district law of 1994 section 36650, and district's management agreement with the city, section 3.4. speaker: i believe chrissy, from the office of economic and work force development is here to present.

are you try to go get the screen on? speaker: good afternoon, supervisors. chair yee, president breed, and supervisor christensen, chrissy from the office of economic and work force development. senior project manager, overseeing the benefit district program. i have a slide show queued up here regarding the noe valley district program. so, welcome to this committee. this is my first time with all of you except for president breed. just to give a brief overview, we oversee a program governed by

the state law which is our tax regulation code article 15. today, the resolution before you covers the annual reports for 5, fiscal years from 2009 up until 2014. it's our responsibility that all cbd's and bids are meeting their plans and staff conducts an annual review of the reports and the financial reviews and we provide the board a summary of those items. here's a map of the noe valley association benefit district. it was formed back in 2005 and the initial assessment budget was roughly $230,000 and to expire in 2020. in terms of operation, debra who is here with me will present more on the accomplishments of the cbd.

their main service areas are public rights of way. district identity and street improvement and incorporate operations. in terms of financial bench marks, obw covers bench mark one. it's budget amounts for each certificate vase provider was within ten percentage points from the management plans. bench mark two, whether they meet -- in comparison to the budget. bench mark three, the variance between budget amounts for each certificate vase category within ten percentage points from the money spent. and whether the funds are cared for into the fiscal year and the budget being spent for those items. in terms of bench mark one, the noe cbd did not meet this requirement in the following

fiscal years, 2009, 11-12, and 13-14. the explanation for 09-10 was the cbd received grant money which helped to increase the money in the district [inaudible]. in fiscal years 11-12 and 12-13, they brought on extra staff to support the organization, and in 13-14, the cbd was lucky enough to receive funding for physical improvements along the street scape. this blew out their budget quite a bit. we had to note they weren't meeting this requirement, there were outstanding circumstances which caused this. in terms of assessment revenue and other income, the cbd was successful in

exceeding their 5% requirement. in terms of having their fee compliant with their budget, only in years 13-14 was the cbd off base and that was due to the fact that they received a significant amount of outside funding. in most of our cbd's because of the timeline in which we deliver funds to the cbd's which their first payment gets to them in january, much of their operations is kicked into the following fiscal year so they carry over a 6 month reserve to the funding you see before you is not out of the ordinary to see this carry into the following fiscal year. in terms of recommendations that odw have, we want to encourage that the

cbd includes all the information by the state and local law. in particular, insuring that the total carry amount is in the annual reports and how the funds will be spent. we encourage noe valley to insure that the 5% -- in conclusion, the operations of the cbd has well exceeded or expectations. they have done extremely job such as harvest festival and 24 holidays. they've increased their opportunity with partnering with stakeholders and agencies and maintaining a board of directors and several sub-committees. i'm going to bring up debbie from the cbd to talk about the program-- speaker: i've been the director for association since the beginning. and we helped form it with three

other nand groups about ten years ago thanks to mayor nuson. now we've got -- we're been around ten years. you've already seen the map. there's two activities. the green committee which is about street improvement which we seek grants because we're the second smallest cbd in the city. we have an active event marketing group, we partner well with the noe and profession association. some of the other active communities we have is the harvest festival. this is volunteers from the committee -- from the community who have been doing this for 12 years, and they're still active and they want to put on this festival every year. our partner organizations as i said, who are the noe merchant association and the friends of noe valley and residents of noe valley were

able to raise half a million dollars and convince rec and park to turn a parking lot into a public space. it's adjacent to our cbd on 24th at sanchez and vicksburg. we write a lot of grants. we've had grants for street furniture and planter boxes and pavements to parks for the parklet and the best thing wiener did for us was get our prop b funding so we can take the long term plan we developed in 2009 and actually implement it by putting in three or four new bulb outs and working with mta and then recently last year, odw gave us money to put in new bike racks. so summer feast, we do it the day before father's day and noe valley is a family friendly neighborhood so we

have -- we close off part of the street and do a petting zoo. horseback rides and things of that nature. harvest festival is huge. we take over two city blocks and close 24th street and we have 2,000 people who come there and we have two stages for music and it's a huge event and i can't believe it's run completely by community events and the last thing we do for the year is we do 24 holidays on 23rd street. we put reindeers and there's artist and people roaming the streets. it's a way to get people to shop on 24th street. the day-to-day operations, this is more monday stuff. we remove a lot graffiti because they've been getting more innovative. if we remove the big graffiti, they put it on benches.

we're the only cbd that steam cleans every sidewalk march through december and because we haven't had much rain, the neighborhood isn't looking that great right now, but we'll start up next month. everyone likes flower baskets and we change them every six month. the challenge we have what every neighborhood has, which is get rid of those utility wires and i think there's a group on next door is trying to figure out a way to move this along. the opportunities are -- opportunities to improve our district come out of this plan, which in 200 of we had three community members which we presented 3-d models of what's possible in the neighborhood in the street and we gave everybody a certain amount of money and we displayed huge boards of street scape improvements and things that can make the street better. we

asked everyone where would you spend your money and based on that plan -- we have been successful in having grants. one that's left are to advocate for the property funding on the -- and to work with the real foods people to make sure a new building is built. i think that's it. thanks guys. speaker: so debra. speaker: yeah. speaker: can i ask you a question? speaker: sure. speaker: if you don't mind. speaker: not at all. speaker: i'm curious, is there a merchant association -- speaker: along 24th street, yes, it has been there a long time. speaker: how closely do you work with them? speaker: very closely. we're partners and he's the chairman of our board. we're unusual in that sense is

we have a very active merchant association and we have the cbd and we've got residents so the three of us work together. stern grove is coming and they said we like to do a concert in your town square and we're promoting it for mother's day. i wouldn't be successful if i didn't have the merchant's and the pro supervisors there. speaker: are there a lot of vacancies? speaker: oh, sure. no, i'll tell you what the issue is. the issue is the planning department. there's many people who want to move in, but the planning department follows things up royally for anybody who tries to open up a business in noe valley and i'm sure in other parts of the city. i got a text while i was waiting for this presentation from someone who has been waiting six months to get approved for opening up a cafe. i talk to supervisor wiener because i'm

not in planning. it's about cleaning and improving public space for the cbd, but since we're visible, people ask us, the air smells bad, what can you do about it. i get stopped so bad that my family won't walk with me on 24th street because we don't get to get far. speaker: actually this is a general question. speaker: sure. speaker: for both the cbd, i know that both of the cbd sort of mentions that you're forming to include the quality of life and some of the things that you do there could be evidence that it's improving equality of life, i've always been curious because -- how do you know people feel like the quality of life has improved? speaker: how do i know? speaker: yeah.

speaker: i honestly don't know as far as residents or community members. i don't know if they feel that way. but the property owners who pay for these improvements and we sent out a survey and they were satisfied. if you asked the man on the street, i think they would be happy with the bench and the plants and all the beautiful things you get to look at. my biggest job is i advocate for that street. i advocate for that neighborhood. when the property owner who owns what is now -- they want to put in molly's stone, i said we need a real foods. that building has been empty for ten years and he got them to move on that and together we organized a community meeting on january 22nd where over 100 people came and wanted to see what the plans were. you know noe, it's

an active neighborhood. they're very involved, but i think they're happy with what we've done to date. thank you for your time. speaker: i wonder as an office with the cbd's, we could actually support their effort to maybe survey residents to ask this question. how do you feel about this business corridor or this corridor. i never could tell whether people that actually live there feel like we're hitting the points or market as far as quality issues. speaker: my predecessor lisa who run the study for years. she took a study to look at the real and the perceived improvement in quality of life, so in her study she found that both

crime was down and the perspective or perception of crime was addressed in that time period. in addition to cleanly ness, we noted that cbd's were generally cleaner in those commercial districts in comparison to non cbd neighborhoods. we can share that report for you, but we plan to do that for the 2015 timeframe as well. speaker: any other questions. any comment comment. seeing no public comment. public comment is closed. supervisors, any thoughts? somebody like to move this. speaker: so moved. speaker: no objection, this passes. speaker: madam clerk, item number 3. speaker: resolution receiving and approving annual reports for the castro/upper market community benefit district fys 2009-2013,

submitted as required by the property and business improvement district law of 1994 section 36650, and the district's management agreement with the city, section 3.4. speaker: good afternoon, supervisors. chrissy, oewd, senior project man -- manager. i'm going to -- the presentation is similar, so i'm going to skip over some of the slides we have already shared with respect to the legislative overview. we were reviewing the cbd for fiscal years from 2009-2013 so we'll take fiscal 2014-15 in front of you shortly. below is a partial map of the cbd. they were formed back in 2005 and they're planning to expire in 20 -- in terms of operations, we have andrea, the executive director of the

market cbd. they too already have the service areas of public walks of way and district identity and street scape avenue and corporate operations. again, the bench marks we overview, i'll go into them in further detail in the following slides. with respect to the management plan to annual budget, the cbd performed well in this bunch mark. the only year where we saw a variance was in fiscal year 2009, 2010. in terms of assessment revenue and fundraising for non assessment revenue, cbc met this requirement with exception in 2010 and 2011 and they were shy by 1.7%. in terms of budget to actuals, the cbd has performed well in this respect.

in 2009-10, the various points for public rights of away was greater than 10% and this was explained by grants they received in that fiscal year and in the same in 12-13, it was shy of point 7 percent on that mark. in terms of carry over, the cbd has designated all these projects. they carry over a six month reserve and that's why you see a significant amount for the cbd. additionally, the cbd was successful in getting street improvement work and -- in terms of recommendations for the cash market cbd. we would like to encourage them to ensure their annual budget is reasonably aligned with their original budget outlined in the management plan and similar to noe valley, to make sure -- by the

local law. in particular, insuring the total carry amount is identified in the break down of those funds are identified in the actual annual report. i'm going to be bringing up the cash market cbd to go over the program that they've celebrated. speaker: i'm andrea and i'm the executive dreblther for -- executive director for the market. i'll go over our presentation. that's our map as you can see where it's a large district where 18 blocks, we go from castro and 19th all the way down to market and octavia street plus side streets including the safe way and

behind safe way church street between debosen, so it's a large district. our assessment budget is running around $45,000 and we get a lot of grants from the city and private fundraising that increases the size of our budget. we have four active or standing committees, executive committee and finance committee, a district street scape committee and a service committee. the members are board members, although our bi-laws allows for non board members to be on the committee as volunteers. voting volunteers. the organization is that we partner with the castro

merchants. the neighborhood associations which are very active in the castro market area, castro eureka valley neighborhood and the duboce neighborhood association and the castro after dark and most holy redeemer catholic church and saint francis lutheran and safe way. we have support grant which we predominantly use to help stimulate business during the sidewalk widening process, and so we had -- we partnered with the merchants on this project and we had advertisements, paid advertisements on muni and some of the bart stations, so it's about the underground and on the light rail vehicles. it was a shop in the castro type of campaign

during the construction. we had a grant from oewd to help us pay for the lad lights. those lights are led lights, they're up on top of the new light poles on castro street and they change color and they can be programmed to different light shows and so this grant offset our cost. the total cost for those was $74,000 and we got $25,000 from the city to help pay for that. and then we still have an ongoing retail strategy grant on oewd. the first two grants have been completed so the retail strategy grant is partially helps pay for this project. the rest of the funding is provided which -- from all the local partner organizations that were listed earlier and the

developers on market street. the overall goal of this project is to try to bring forward and develop a very strong and vital retail environment in the upper market castro. this project was developed out of concern before the vacancy rate and especially since there was a lot more empty spaces built on market