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let us know about that for instance, there was unfortunately, a lack of quadrants or awareness in the community of the validate of the infrastructure fund those are stabilization fund. >> i know this is not meant to give you a hard time it's not that i've fought about the needs but at the point that the safety finds out about the process what's the disbursement is it 6 months what is the normal practices process the cracking cac goes through to 13e7bd down the fund that are totally available for the community. >> it's been when it comes down i think it's been more of a priorities what needs are in the community our our knowledge of the
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availability of fund finding out whether or not there's an expiration date it is more like us prior tigdz the needs that's how the process has been in the beginning. >> did you ask the mayor's office of housing was the priorities they go to services the shoigsdz of the club house and the infrastructure is it the committees that today in terms of or do you direct staff to help to guide you. >> most relevance we've created those different categories of where we want the fund to go whether in housing or jobs we get approached by community orchards for their needs we try to align them we get update on how much in each category but in
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terms of spending them quickly what are the needs of like - >> so these needs have been in expiates what's the best process for the cac if you're not hearing we need fund for straightaway streetscape improvement if you're ignited by the community not by mow or the cac what's the best way that the priority. >> to attend the cac meetings to - an hour and a half or. >> how often did the cac meet. >> once again a month. >> what's the better system because it's either our office doing the outreach for you or not everyone knows that
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meetings; right? we really need this for south park or that's why you are not hearing any i know those meeting are a priority i was not aware of the fund until december i would have asked for that myself i guess i'm asking what's a better infrastructure in the future for the $2,000 that need to be spent. >> possibly having more community meetings where we can be geenld with what's going on. >> so the cac can do that now to insure that the community can hear those needs. >> we lights have an open table for the community to address our concerned one of the things to do in the planning especially with the infrastructure projects
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when we have an idea to hold the meeting during our get to be strategic and plan out the expenditures well in advance of the funding for those monies. >> thank you you volunteer to be on the committee and you have jobs obey an oversight council for those fund and spend them. >> i guess i'll bring up the mayor's office of housing. >> bryan chu director of community development i'm here with the program manager director of our departmental olsen lee that we have a power point presentation i will try and move through quickly
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so we thought we'd spend time give a brief background on the structure of the fund it is somewhat confusing structure we'll talk about the strategy plan guiding those fund and more speveng the difference between the fund for the infrastructure conducting those held by the a bag financing authority and the stabilization fund and close for the priorities of the fund and the properties to be used to distribute those fund in the future i'm sure you're aware of in august of 2005 the rincon hill area plan was to transform the mixed use neighborhood with this development will be impact fees associated where the impact fees can be used for infrastructure improvement of the impact fees
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are traditionally held by the planning department to offset the impacts on affordable housing community or generally the board established a separate selma fund with an additional fee on the rincon hill development so we have to depth funds that it is source of confusion the additional impact fee for improvement and the additional silver stabilization fee that was imposed and to further complicate the matter $6 million of the infrastructure fee that is continually managed by the planning department was through this legislation mandatory to be adopted into the silver community shakeabletion fund 0 when we talk about the rincon hill fund part of that
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was were impact fees and the other the separate community shakeabletion fund that had water eligibility for fund i wasn't involved in 2005 or 6 my understanding was that the members of the board felt they wanted to have it $6 million of infrastructure to be guided by the silver citizens advisory committee a that's why it was split up even though the outdoors sophomore for infrastructure were the same for the stabilization fund. >> the people wanted it to be altercate with the question i didn't get answered why the rincon hill fund went somewhere
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else my understanding the fund the a bag fund with the city and county and actually, this is an a bag if it wouldn't have been with a bag this wouldn't have happened actually due to the akdz of a bad affordable those agreement those fund were sfifrd off to a bag. >> that's a great question so the act fees can be paid directly to the planning department legislation also allows the developer to pay it to the orients of the bond at the present time in 2005 the city had no experience in issuing those kinds of fund so the a bag was the most experienced centuries that time the city has
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issued money so if that my further development happened in want rincon hill area and they choose it it would be issued and held in city council so this is how it is if we go back this is the rincon hill residential district which is dearrived the impact feeds and here's the 3wr50rd map of the selma area as you've heard a 7 member citizens advisory committee appointed by the board of supervisors two of our members come and speak with you. >> most of the members are new connie ford who many of you know has been on the committee since
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the beginning and mentioned in 2013 a presentation to the committee members about the possibility use of infrastructure fees previous members were given a presentation on the free portion and all turned offer excerpt for ms. ford so finally here you can see the power point on our desk the two types of fees the impact fee at $10.44 for that grow per square feet and the separate selma stabilization fee per gross per fiat square feet and the fee can be 35id through melrose their held in a city accountant and a somewhat stabilization fund held in a
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city accountability the financial department is here they'll talk about their infrastructure fees and later in the presentation we'll diverse a summary 67 what we plan to use in the future that's a brief history and my colleague will talk about more specifically about the infrastructure fund and what it is used for and the a bag falls within the gyp fees and the community stabilization fund what we've puzzled for in the past and close with the process of how to get the fund out into the future and on to suggestions as to what did you say to improve and expedite that process so i'm going to turn it over to my colleague. >> good afternoon supervisors claudine with the mayor's office of housing and community
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development i staff the fund and the cac and so i want to take a little bit of time to go into detail about the fund if any time you want to get to specified questions i'll be happy to do that in 2008 we brought a strategic plan that governs pr provides impact or stabilization fees it was approved in 2008 the mission to stabilize recommends and priority that mitigate the impact of development 4 investment objectives we make all our investment in the those areas housing and job and income and neighborhood communication and physical infrastructure i'll be going over some of the
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listed of the investment a little bit later the strategic plan designated this population low wage resident including the immigrant and geographically the fund can be spent on this map the entire we only shaded area the cac has identified the children and families zone and the filipino heritage district as priority and investments that are made of those areas are a priority this is a summary of the tables that you'll see in the report that you have in your packet they come for the controller's office from 13 and 14 the biological for the stabilization
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is 9.9 infrastructure is $21 million and that's itself entire amount that goes to planning for the amount that was transferred over from planning into the selma stabilization fund is $4.9 million that does include the two types of infrastructure and the melrose bond as well as the direct fees paid by vendors to go into a little bit more detail about the broader infrastructure fund our colleague from the department is here. >> good morning, supervisors from planning what i'm talking about here is the infrastructure the rincon hill community infrastructure fees which are spent on capital projects within the rincon hill boundary we do on annual 5 year expenditure plan so there the
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interagency plan implementation committee that programs those fund as well the fund from the other impacts fooedz feeds such as the octavia, etc. so we project out the amount of revenue we expect to collect and when we expect to collect it in the rincon hill area and allocate that towards the infrastructure projects within the area so this table here is showing from this year's report that will be actually presented to the board later this month showing what we expect in the next 5 years to generate $12 million with the impact fee revenue in the past we've spent some of the revenue some say from cash that the city selected and spend for example, for kwoifrg a piece of property to be used as a park
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and other expenditures in kind from the development itself for the streetscape and the pedestrian path meaning the developers do that - >> just to clarify the guide place park my understanding those fees came from the rincon hill index for example p that the board passed in 2011. >> that's not correct those are impact fees you may be thinking that the money actually came from to the development and we'll later pay it back in the rincon hill fund because it wasn't sufficient at that time. >> oh, i see in the presentation back in 2011 they brought up guide place park and
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the straightaway streetscape improvements so the guide plat mark was from the rincon hill developer. >> and essentially it comes out of the park fund so looking forward there was money allocated in this year and next to actually build out the plan the rec and park stop sign it is moving towards construction and this introvert of the money for the streetscape envisioned in the rincon hill plan on all the streets it happens in kind for the development which in this case they're not impacting so financially that i mentioned but the rincon hill infrastructure fund go through did annual process comes to the board for an informational hamburger and
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exhausted through the properties we have a 5 year infrastructure for all the diversity area planned based upon the impact fees we expect over 5 years and for the men, women, and children immediate budget cycle whether the rec and park department or dpw or others we'll budget the expected revenue and place that in their budget to go through the 0 publicity cycle as bryan mentioned part of the roifrn structure fees gets transferred to the selma fund we have that built into the parks successors and lastly the priority the rincon hill is a small area with defined projects we went out and did a series of neighborhood meeting to terminate the priorities as the funds come in and the park was the highest
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priority followed by the public safety and streetscape those are the two projects that are moving along to finish i'm going to turn it over to emily. >> i'll talk about a little bit about the money that came that was transferred offer to m cd to the selma stabilization the infrastructure fees we spent down $300,000 was spend e spent on a kroots crossroad at fulsome and howard right outside of the park and if e it was a place of residence where kids were crossing to get to the rec & park we spinster money for the havdz project it might be worst noting that some of the other
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projects previously considered when we first got the fund in were ramps to the gene center a lot of excitement about the possibility of doing a city owned center and the victorian park improvement there were a lot of work done to try to access did feasibility of some of the projects you know as jay mentioned the fund sit longer than they should have at the same time it was a process we worked the original members on some of the projects that was a great victory when is we got this one crosswalk and if i may interrupt. >> sure raw you said other projects were previously considered why don't you identify the infrastructure fund to safety any formation of the cac. >> before i arrived the
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original cac received an 4r0r7b9 presentation from the city attorney's office do specialized in bond precedes. >> where you aware of that. >> unites this meeting but in 2006 prior to when i arrived in other 2006. >> so in 02006 the cac was alerted to the infrastructure fund being available and in 2012 we spent down thirty thousands of that was that the only project we've paid for from the infrastructure fund. >> we paid important affordable units on harrison it was a bigger grant part of the costs came from the infrastructure feeds. >> how do infrastructure fees pay for affordable housing and those particular fees that are transferred over can be used - they can't be used for
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affordable housing because they come to the fillmore stabilization they can be used for affordable housing it is kind of a definition but we can't use them for that. >> okay. >> now you know, i probably should say also only for the general infrastructure fees the bond procedures can't be spent on housing. >> so specifically for the melrose fees sorry thank you for clarifying but melrose fees that set up with the a bag k3wik9d only spent for infrastructure and parks what pot have we spent down. >> $300,000. >> for the pedestrian crossings. >> you came on as manager in 2006. >> in 2006. >> so i guess i just you know since 2006 we've been
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considering renovation with the youth center and club house there's been turnover in the cac that means we have those funds for 10 years when you notice that a fee is not pay attention to a bag or mother prioritizing or spent down or doing outreach into the community what had you feel your role is in funding that down. >> we - prior to now we've kur7b8d the cac members and reached 0 out to the community members like the influence of jean friends and friends of the d m.d. and the contacts at the c p w and mta i think prior to now relied on the cac identifying and the community identifying the needs outs there additional
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moving forward this is a good lesson working with other departments to identify the potential projects and bring them them to the table as well. >> i mean the one thing that is really sprooildz for me how long you've known about the fund and the cac has known about the fund i'm disappointed i know the members of the committee and they know those infrastructure needs i guess i'm confused as a to why we've not been spent them down i just want to state at the full-time staff member moving forward it's a point to play an active role and setting up a role for the cac their spernd their money in a reasonable
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amount of time beyond what happened over the temple years with the turnover with the fees they're not paid to do this or the volunteers the responsibility of the city if you have a furthermore staff to guide so this money is not sitting there for 9 years. >> i wanted to add in on behalf of the department we completely agree with the need to expedite the infrastructure fund i know from my prospective having seen the cac grow from when i started in 2005 it's been true that oftentimes the low hanging frustrate so to speak is on the social certify and it is easier for the community to
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grasp whereas public safety while people understand it's a concern they don't immediately transfer that to say we can ask for a stoplight another fulsome this is in planning so it's been a lesson learned learned we do need to be able to move more expeditiously and as relevance happened our ability to mobilize with rec and park planning, mta dpw and move those funds much more expeditiously like in the past i think it is a good learning lesson. >> this is a unique situation and scenario that was set up by the rincon hill developers and i just want to agree with that you know a lot of the resident may not understand how the fund get spent down and all
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the supervisors so i don't want to completing let high bias come into that for me it really, really is surprisingly you've known about those fund centuries 2005 and whatever nurnl we can do zed we have tons of fund that maybe it is a good lesson to provide that support and education to our cac members. >> this is not to negate any of the money we definitely could have spent it down sooner but provide that a little bit of background maybe i was there some of the reign why when this agreement was first made the only requirement was the with that a reasonable expectation for the fund to be spent within
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3 years at that time, if of the cac we had a youth center while we were in those discussions 2008 happened we didn't ghetto more fees for several years i think that while it looked like that project was not going to go forward not wanting to supplant the fund by other city departments like mta with the pedestrian across lights we've had discussions centuries then but cac as caution about providing the fund where the fund should be provided by other the president's and used for other things the department may not be able to cover that's part the story we needed to be more
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proactively and spending than in the past. >> and again if so a review our perspire are the community members identifying the projects presented to the cac and staff our staff looked at the feasibility the cac would take action to recommend the funding to see if it's feasible and the spend comes down through the board of supervisors and then now i'd like to talk about the fund that were spefblg held by a bag a bag finance authority back in 2006 is when the city entered agreement with the a bag financial authority and in july
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of 2014 the first supplemental endenture and $5.8 million of which 1.4 was transferred to the supplemental agent in julia supplemental venture that was issued this document is the document that was approved for disbursement of procedures from the disbursement of costs with the approval the a bag financial approval and not a city official this is where the problem started and in august of 2014 is when there's a letter issued to identify the a bag finest 0 authority and the controller's office no evidence of the current balances