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having action items on our, you know like a lot of these things. that's how -- i'm not against the project. i just want to make sure. i mean, god knows we need all the units that you can provide but also i would like to be able to say to the community that i represent of which you know i'm a neighborhood representative that i was appointed here to say yeah, you have an opportunity to take advantage and we are repeating out to you and this is what our developers are doing, reaching out and talking that you at least have a crack at this. so that's how i would like to propose my vote. >> amendment, right? >> yes, if it's okay to amend that. >> i would have to approve the amendment. >> i think brian wants to say something. brian, do you want to say
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something? >> you want to understand how this works. >> exactly it's something we don't totally understand because we haven't been involved with the conversation. there are other phases to work with. right now we are talking about the first phase. hopefully we can get you the information before the second phase going forward and that would be the time. >> can you get us the information before the second phase? >> i would have to learn more. i don't have the info that i needed to. >> it was my motion and if i may, madam chair you know, i think in all fairness this is the first time you are hearing a lot of this angst, and you know, i understand that and like i said, we believe in the
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overall project and we don't want to stop the project, but i hope that everybody including people listening hear what we are asking for. and with commissioner mondejar, i'm with you on that in terms of it's like almost what do you do? but i think, again going back in fairness, their # -- this is your first time hearing, you are getting the brunt of all this, right? so i would ask my fellow commissioners that we move this forward, but that you know what we are going to be asking for and i'm sure beyond the five other phases that lanar
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would want to do more business in san francisco. so, this is all on record. so i'm hoping that we could move this but be very clear with what commissioner mondejar and the rest of us are asking for. so again you are hear the the brunt of everything right now because it's the first time you are hearing it, but, just understand what we want and understand the severity of us not getting a better understanding of what we want and if the spirit of what this project is about is not being met that we are prepared to stop. >> understood. >> again, thank you for being here. i know you almost had a heart attack right there. but just know what we want. >> absolutely. i just want to
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say thank you, i very much appreciate what you are asking for from the marketing standpoint and what we are doing for the community. we are going to make you happy, we are going to get you the marketing plan and we believe, the hope that the community has we want to make it a reality. we are on the same team as you and will work as hard to make this happen. we thank you for everything you said. i appreciate everything. >> thank you, you withdraw your conditions knowing that we've asked our staff to ask our mou contractor, mayor's office of housing to come before us at our next meeting in 2 weeks to give us a verbal report of where we are in some of these issues. i think that gives us, obviously if there is something in writing before then. >> we are supposed to get it april 21st. >> that's the formal report. i'm talking about a verbal report
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sooner than that. >> hopefully next meeting. >> well, if we ask. >> i think what i heard the commissioners ask is you would like a verbal report at your next meeting as well as the standing item on every single calendar related to marketing, how are we doing overall, how are we doing at the shipyard. i heard the lanar representative say they are going to provide that information to you and the public and also i heard a continuous reporting for sbe, don't wait until the quarterly report on the services side and construction provide them in memorandum form to the commission. >> yes. okay. we have a motion by commissioner bustos, second by commissioner singh because
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commissioner mondejar has withdrawn the condition. >> not a condition but a request to the motion. >> yes. please call the roll. city clerk: commissioner members, please answer when i call your name. commissioner mondejar, yes, commissioner singh, yes, bustos, yes, rosales, yes. i have four ayes. >> thank you. i look forward to the reports. >> thank you. >> please call the next item. >> the next order of business is 5d. conditionally authorizing the executive director to enter into a memorandum oomph agreement with the port of san francisco
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regarding terjs of ground leases in the former rn con point south beach redevelopment project area and providing that the port assume maintenance and operation of south beach harbor rincon park and other improvements subject to approval by the state lands commission the oversight board and california department of finance. madam director? >> thank you, madam secretary. commissioners and thank you again to the members of the public who are joining us. commissioners, as you know -- dislugs back in 2012, we entered into arrangement with the ports leases
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for that process using tax increments for agreement to enter into that property. our work program is largely complete. we have been fantastically successful in creating a successful public improvement and mixed income housing program and now it's time to return the approved property and terminate the leases back to the port of san francisco. with that, we'll walk through a number of mou units and the port of san francisco are here as well. >> thank you, director bohee and commissioners. i will be very brief in my presentation relying on the memo and we'll be happy to answer any questions and i'm very pleased to have from the port peter daily, john ooh! and lawrence brown and from the port now that are acting harbor master john borrow. as director bohee said it was the redevelopment agency
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would naturally go to the port since these are operations on portland and are not part of our obligation in terms of future development which is really what the success or agency needed to focus on. we have been working since then on a large number of issues to come to this point. i'm very glad to be here with an agreement that have been reached very cooperatively with the staff. as part of the agreement the port would take over some major liabilities with these properties including responsibility for permit conditions that are still remaining from south beach harbor from the bay development commission and will work on that with the cdc for working with that and loans which are currently both of us the success or agency and the porter with the agreement with the respected consent of the port will be
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solely responsible for repaying those loans. as note, all of our employees at south beach harbor accepted the offer of city employment that was recently offered and so there are no longer, that became effective saturday february 28th. so ocie no longer has any employees at soutd beach harbor. this agreement has no real change to their terms and conditions of employment. and the tennants at south beach harbor have been expecting this since their solution and they have been very regular monthly stakeholders meetings and the question is when is this going to happen, not whether this happened. so there is a lot of opportunity for public input on this from the stakeholders. these lease terminations were heard from the port commission in january and were acted upon in february unanimously
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and with no opposition at the port commission. the port commission was very complimentary of the staff in reaching this point. one of the things that did help as you may remember some time ago this commission was involved in raising birthing fees at the harbor and that allowed the harbor to get more stainable and the staff was comfortable that they knew how to move forward and they have reached that level with the expected plans in increased fees. so the implementation of this agreement is conditional upon still. it won't come into effect immediately because it still requires oversight approval, department of finances approval and with the objectives of the redevelopment solution and redevelopment plan we
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don't anticipate any problems with further approvals. from the point of view of the subleaseholders, the port would assume the leases that we have with the subleaseholders and in the immediate term there will be no change who they pay their rent to and it will be up to the port when they handle those leases when the terms are up and it would no longer be our responsibility. with that, i or the port staff would be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. >> madam secretary. do we have any speaker cards? >> i do not. >> no speaker cards. okay. members of the commission have questions for staff on this item? >> i move. >> second. >> okay. moved by commissioner bustos
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and singh. >> commissioner mondejar, singh, bustos, rosales. 4 ayes. short and sweet. next item. >> the next order of business item 7 report of the chair. >> i do not have a report at this time. city clerk: the next order of business is report of the executive director. >> item 6. public comment of non-agenda items. >> can you please call that item. >> the next order of business is item 6. public comment non-agenda items.
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>> do we have any cards from the members of the public? we don't have an audience. next item, no. 8. report of the executive director. >> madam director? >> commissioners, report of ground breaking april 29th is an official opening for 1184 street. there was a fantastic article from john king who commended the 50-unit for family development really it's soaring ability for not just architecture for the family purpose, family child care, 200 kids live there in these 50 units. if you haven't taken a walk through, this will be a great opportunity for the commission and certainly it's open to members of the public. we
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look forward to that grand open ceremony in april. >> that was a good article. >> okay. i need to ask if there is any members of the public that want to provide comment on the executive directors report. seeing none, please call the next item. >> the next order of business item 9. commissioners questions and matters. madam chair? >> do any commissioners have questions or matters other than the ones that we have already identified for staff. >> this month is women's history month and i would like to ask you to join us for a reception at the mayor's conference room 201 to celebrate the women of the year in san francisco. it will be recognized at the board of supervisors legislative chambers at 3:30 p.m. and a reception at 5:30 room 201, the mayor's conference
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room. everyone is welcome. thank you. >> next item, please? >> the next order of business item 10, closed session. 10 a under california government code 54956.9 conference with legal counsel for existing litigation successor agency to the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco city and county of san francisco versus all persons claiming any interest in lean upon the real property here in described or any part thereof john le bolt and richard a le bolt successor agendas et al. >> thank you, at this time i need to ask any member of the public and anyone who is not directly involved with this item to please leave the room. the commission will go
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into closed session to discuss >> no reportable action. please call the next item. >> the next item is adjournment. >> yes, the meeting is adjourned. your honor your honor your [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>
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(clapping.) >> good morning, everyone. i want to thank you all for
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coming out this morning it's a beautiful san francisco morning as it seems to be those dazed but a difficult morning as yesterday yesterday morning an 87-year-old resident of sunset resident named alfred was walk on this street geary that boulevard in a krouks on 26 oath trying to cross the road when struck by an automatic turning left onto endearing later in the afternoon died another san francisco general hospital this is not yet conformed we ronald reagan are hearing that someone driving a motorcycle on 15th was struck and killed by an automobile i want to express you know on my
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behalf and everyone here our profound condolences to the family and friends and anybody that i know either of the individuals are who is impacted by the loss it is tragic that those people are losing their lives on our streets this is a franklin we're restore here the city adopted a goal a policy to eliminate traffic deaths in san francisco and while we're not here to mourn their loss we certainly want to honor them and again offer our dlops we're here to reinforce the notation this is is not accidents i want to ass ask us to eliminate accidents when we talk about traffic collisions in the street the word accidents suggests
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inability accidents happy but we've we've done by adopting vision zero we don't accept that the inability of people getting killed and sierra injured in our streets not something we're any longer than accepting and it is something that modern we're telegraph hill working together under the leadership of our mayor within the city but the greater san francisco community to make sure we eliminate traffic fatalities in san francisco by 20024 there's a number of physical improvements that are going into the streets we've already gotten 12 of the 24 so-called vision zero projects in the ground and here today to talk about improvements
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on gere and fulton ironically the two streets people lost their lives in the last two hours makes this real and impervious we're making the improvements and also importing the laws we're joined by the san francisco police department to step up to make sure that when people are traveling around san francisco no matter how are you how are you how their traveling adhere to the laws and it is about education outreach we look to the media to help us get out achievement of vision zero everything has a responsibility anytime you step off a sidewalk go go that in but you automobile or walk that your traveling and aware of our surrounding so we will continue to doing the right
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thing to make the city save we need everything to do their part so we don't have to start press conferences in the future with press conferences like this we're doing a lot with the leadership from city hall the board of supervisors adopted vision zero policy and mayor ed lee has directed all the departments and exclusive branch of government to accelerate do everything we can to make our streets safer please welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee. >> thank you, ed (clapping.) let me add that as we take a moment ponder the circumstances of which those fatalities happen we are working very hard to make sure that there is less of this and today, we're in district one with commissioner eric mar who also joined strongly the effort
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to put their concrete work into vision zero to make that happen today, we wanted to demonstrate as part find an education and awareness campaign those strooirpz we called them san bernardino are a striping on the swauktsz that have in the past obey retired around schools and mid street kroger's are now going to be more dominant in our intersections beginning on geary street those are important one there are and do in fact slow down traffic and make people more aware but also what ed reiskin and others have been saying in our street safety advocates we've got to make people more aware if we can make sure that ice are the first and
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not other distractions that the eyes see the crosswalks and people in the crosswalk using that it will penetrate people in vehicles to slow down and respect the people that are using the sidewalks and streets and the warns turns into a higher level of safety on the streets this is exactly what we're trying to side here you'll see the departments working i'm going to take physical action and laying down the stripes myself but more of this is going to happen because we as a city agreed we're going to put serious resources into these our vision zero so that it is not just a a pronouncement we make those things happen on as many street corners as possible this is a relatively easier treatment to do but a higher awareness
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comes boo about it as we work on the compacted stres and intersections that require xylophones and a lot of other agencies to be involved in safety of those intersections and streets reich like we have probably a half block away on a very, very business intersects at the same time in in addition to the so-called descend are a striping we'll be taking a look at with our police department and our mta and public defender's office and others on the streets what streets in our city that we have direct jurisdiction where we can slow down traffic on an official basis even a 5 mile reduction in the speed allows nor awareness and more care to occur on those streets and so we have named some of the streets that will
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slow down the speed on and we've already done so on sunset and some of the streets we to name more streets that has your signage and office those as well as our officers we want to insure the public we're working to redesign other streets completed streets and make sure that we present safety to be the preit is not necessary policy to be rkd in those streets but also you'll see me and the supervisors and ed reiskin as well as others making periodic announcements to keep visibility on this serious topic of that he had public safety bicycle safety and driving safety to make sure that awareness is at its highest level and to make sure that violators it will be
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consequences and our officers are out here today sometimes, we might feel we cannot solve every if at any point we can keep a vigilant and dedicated effort to continue to educate and making those changes so this leads to a higher level of safety not about being help also but more action in lives lost that were going to take an opportunity to come even more concerted effort we need to make to prevent those things from happening we have busy streets it in san francisco that's a indication of our economy but make sure that is complimented with a higher level of awareness for safety for everybody thank you for being here commissioner eric mar.
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>> (clapping.) thank you complair and director reiskin on the yes, ma'am of the responding district i'm going to put my notes aside i'm anger and inside mr. alfred 87-year-old mr. alfred yee on gary and 26th avenue outside of a senior center in 2011 a woman an geary we campground a 3 and 4-year-old open fulsome modify who was killed on 25 letting avenue in fulsome we've known about this for years how long will it take to take rapid action on vision zero so as director reiskin they're not accidents they're killing basically we have to work on education engineering and enforcement i'm proud our
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r0r7bd station is here they are the one station that took a hard look at vision zero i want to thank the hard working men and women at the richmond station i'm raifr from the robert district i learned about that or this so my comments are from my heart three or four supervisors from the time after sophies death in the new year's time over a years ago we're looking at new york city and other cities with the bicycle coalition and walk sf and our community coalition we've been advocating for this i'm glad it tom maguire with our sustainable streets is here my hope was we painted stripes that are important csa