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be in attend nss so that my proposal for changing this legislation. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we had already taken some input to make amendments and we have already added it in here. these amendments would i believe is to follow and make sure that i get all the right amendments. for seat number 5, it says if the lower park station community advicery committee [inaudible] then seat 5 shall be a-we will cross out member of the general public [inaudible] located in district 7 aopponent td by the supervisor for district 7. for
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seat number 6, i believe what we are seeing was seat 6 should be a person by who own as business on ocean avenue, so it isn't a random any business owner. on page 4, under section 5.17-4 under d, where it says any member of the regular meetings will be a 6 month period without express aprovel of the committee [inaudible] shall be deemed to be, have resigned from the advicery committee. then we'll add that 10 days after the
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third unapproved absence the advicery committee shall inform rezignation in seats 1-5. shall also inform the clerk of the board. that was also suggested as a amendment. are there any other amendments we worked on? >> [inaudible] >> no, i don't want to table it mainly because we are going to be talking to different people and we still could add some amendments when it comes to the full board. so would you like to-- >> [inaudible]
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>> can we send it without recommendation. i motion we move it forward h. i move the amendments as stated be adopted. >> okay, so no objection the amendments are adopted. >> and then i move we send this forward to full board without committee recommendation >> motion passes. >> for clarity mr. clar, recommended as the committee report? >> yes. next item, please. >> number 5 is resolution receiving and approval the annual reports for greater
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union square [inaudible] >> sorry, just taking that long. i believe [inaudible] >> i had to check the clock. good afternoon, chair yee and [inaudible] office of economic and work force development. seen yrb project manager over seeing the district program for the city. just again to provide an overview of why we are here today. oawd is over seeing the [inaudible] program and the program is governed by 2 laws, the first is the 1994
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act and local law, which is article 15. in terms of the review process with respect to union square improvement, we are covering 4 fiscal years from fy 2010 to close of fy 2014. we are responsible for insuring all cv and bids meet their plans and conduct a annual review of reports [inaudible] provides a memo >> student the board of supervisors which you all should have in your packets. here is a map of the union square [inaudible] there are over 500 businesses assessed in this district. in terms of the formation when it was originally formed, we will have it be expired in june 30, 2019
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and it is property base squd cleths just over 3 million dollars. in terms of operations, there are several staff members, 2 of which are here today, caryn [inaudible] executive director and genie hunt gibbon who is marketing and quhunication manager. in terms of service areas they center 3 main areas that are clean and safe, marketing advocase [inaudible] and management and operations. in terms of the bunch marks we reviewed during the process we looked at 4 items. the first being whether or not their budget amount is in alignment with the management plan, the second is whether union square business improvement district collected 1 percent of [inaudible] whether the various between the budget amount and actual spent for the district were within 10 percent points
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and whether it business improvement district is indicating what amount they'll care ato the next fiscal year. for bench mark 1, union square business improvement in 11-12 and 12, 13, were exceeding the amount in what they allocated to marketing [inaudible] this is attributed to their success in collecting non assessment grant dollars for 2 major street scape improvement projects in the district. tin terms of non assessment revenue versus assessment revenue collected, the business improvement district well exceeded that expectation. asia can see in fiscal year 10, 11, they reached well over 25 percent of that goal. in terms
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of budget versus actuals, in fiscal 11, 12 and 1213 and in clean and safe they were at 13 percent and at market [inaudible] they were at 11.9 percent. a lot of this is attributed to non assessment dollars received in the fiscal yours and spent in those years as well. yes? >> [inaudible] if you could get to had conclusion. >> we red the report and are familiar with the contents. not to short chaij you or the bid, but we are familiar with most of the details. >> we can skip over a lot of these items and i want to make sure i give a opportunity to caryn to provide information. i'll skip to the final part of
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my presentation. just in terms of recommendations, i think our lessen learned is we need to be able to separate non assessment and assessment dollars when we do our process because it is unfortunate appears our bids and cbd's don't meet their requirements when they are. i'll skip all that because caryn will present on all the accomplishments of the bid. >> [inaudible] how mech time do you all have? i have 7 minutes. live it up. good
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afternoon supervisor christensen and supervisor yee [inaudible] our accomplishments and challenges over the past 4 years and our vision moving forward. here is a 3457 oaf the district to orient you quickly 27 blocks and 300 plus parcels and [inaudible] 300 million dollar operating budget. here is our team. we provide cleaning and safety services primarily. this is a sell brutory moment after the giant won the world series [inaudible] taggers that take away graffiti and grime. they are in the green vests and not pictureed is the sfpd office rb that provides surface 10 hours a day 7 daysachy woompt we have
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governed by a [inaudible] we have property owners and merchants on the board and sthai are very committed, active and engaged. we also have a flb of committees that represent the core services that we provide. we could not do all the work we do without our partner organizations primarily the city departments we work with. we work with oawd, mta planning and also a number of non profits that share or vision for clean safe and slibeerant uniunion scare and city. we have augmented 3.3 million budget with a number of grants. year 1 we got a million forado to extend theide walk [inaudible] we also got grants from [inaudible] a gate way to the district to make it a vibrant and welcomeing area. finally, we
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raised additional money 3 sponsorship and fund raising. now i will go through year by year and capture a few events each year. the first year we did a stuteejic plan. we got the board members in the room and decided what are the priorities. [inaudible] we also spent time representing community interest on the central subway and in particular the design of union square station and you can see a picture. we also keep track of statistics when they provide service we count the number of interaction of the tourist. we cleaned 5 thousand miles of side walk. we keep track of
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this avenue year. year 2, 2011, to 12 chblt we opened the [inaudible] we also hired a social media and communications director who is here today, genie who brought marketing to a world class level with a beautiful website and a member of social media plass forms. finally we started a security camera which has taken off. we have 2 cameras we put up [inaudible] we now have 75 other properties in the pipe line that are going to receive cam rauz this year. >> can i ask a brief question about that? >> yes rkss >> so the bid is providing cameras for private property owner? >> we got a 2 million dollar grant last year to provide security cam rauz so we put them on private property and
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buildings >> they are only accessed by police in the case of like the wall greens incident >> that is right. when they want we burn a cd. 2013, 14. we continue to develop part numbership with different groups especially around social service issue. homelessness is pan handling is aishue. we need a collaborative approach [inaudible] managing a district day to day isn't without its challenges. top of the list, the legal scavaging and dump thofg carts the property owners put out at night. one of the cleaners said it looks like a tsunami when they come in in the morning. number 2, enforcement of city codes and ordinance on a consistants
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basis. we know the city has limited resources and know san francisco has a for giving approach to quality of life issues. this isn't new york or texas, it is a challenge. finally, number of public safety and quality life issues, if you read any crime reports property crime is way up and our district is hit hard by retail, fast cars snashing through windows and steeling muchendize. this happens in the middle of the night. homelessness and pand handling is a issue as affordability is a issue. we look at them as opportunities. we started a union square project and hired a social outreach worker. we are excited to have a person in our district assessing the
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needs. the winter walk, we took advant object of the nob nub this afs huge hit. you can see pictureed in the lower right there the couple dancing on the winter walk. finally we are pleased to host the international downtown association this fall. this is a conference we will host to bring to 6-900 downtown managers to san francisco to discuss best practices and show case the city of san francisco. our vision moving forward, the bid we are trying to insure maximum clen liness in the area, a area that is safe and welcomeing, we want to promote union square as a destination for our city and we feel
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strongly it is important taoperate a fiscally sound and non profit environment. with that i thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> i want to thank mrs. flood. thank you for your patients in waiting so long to deliver that happy news and i have mew 2 favorite groups, cbd and bid here today. thank you very much. you are a model and plan to use you as a tutor for up coming prospects >> i guess-is this the action item? there are 2 different items. for number 5. this is not a action item >> mr. chair would you like to call public comment? >> any public comment on this item? seeing none public comment is no closed. is this
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a action item or informational? sorry. >> so moved. >> motion passes. item number 6 >> resolution receiving a approval the aneral report for the fisherman warf benefit [inaudible] fiscal year 2013, 14. >> okay. >> [inaudible] senior project managerophorous of economic and work force development. i will glance over the sides we already reviewed. get to the exciting information. in terms of bench mark 1, management planverses annual budget. on the land side we did see a variance with respect to side
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walk beautifulication and order. this is explained to a increase cost of parking control officers to help address pedestrian activity only jefferson street and increase ambassadors along that areas as well. in terms of management plan verse annual budget, on theport side the fishermans cbd was well within the 10 percent range. with respect to bench mark 3 for the fiscal year, assessment receive new they well exceeded this expectation as well. and then in terms of budget to actual for land side we did see a little bit of a skew on district identify and street scape improvement by 3.4 percent and on the port side 2
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percent increase. let's see, this is explained by expenses related to hiring a new employee and war fest 2013 which was a event that helped replace the fleet week events that were sequestered. in terms of careee, we plan to careee over 56 thousand dollars into the this fiscal year and will work closeically to insure the funds. we want to the insure every cbd including fishermans warf and expanding the funds that was approved by the voters. i will bring up troy campbell that is executive
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director of fish ermans warf that will talk about the programmatic accomplishments >> good afternoon, hello. i will go throw some of the programs, the initiatives, the things that we worked on in the 13, 14 fiscal year. i want to point out we are 2 cbd, a property base land side and that is area in green and a business base port side which is in purple. we have committees, marketing, transportation, [inaudible] peer safe which is acronym for partners [inaudible] here is are the highlights. we redesigned and printed 300 thousand brochures to visitor centers and 850 towerest site in the bay area. we provided
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sponsorship for the [inaudible] as the 2013, [inaudible] we hosted war fest as a place holder which is now a annual event and increased the majority of businesses on [inaudible] and sold over 850 tickets to the beer gaurd squn first ever clam chowder comtitian. for the month of october we received twebt thousand visitor tooz the site that doubled. the average. [inaudible] 5 we also helped produce that year the holiday life and [inaudible] with scibt votes from the fishing fleets and saint francisuate club at
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pier 39 and hung [inaudible] and provided lights for the sport fishing fleetsism we produced the second annual crab fest which included [inaudible] reraised nearly 4 thousand dollars which we donated to local non profit. that year we are designed the website and home page. we optimized the search engine and rebuilt the template to a responsive design. having done that we started setting records and highs starting to reach over 30 thousand visitors a month which you can see by this graph is way over the average that we had over previous years. we also designs 2 microcytes, one is [inaudible] and we designed
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that tobroid a better place sfr the community geet information about these c berks d and delineate between the commune tay pages and public pages. we also designed, the horet website is fish ermines warf events.com. it shares information about events and meetings at the warf and listed the venues. we kicked this off with a launch party. we had over 200 people representing the venues [inaudible] local media. we were also able to get facebook and this took years to do. [inaudible] that means our posts are getting more engagement and became a valuable marketing asset. we also rezerected our news letter
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which receives about a 37 percent rate open rate, which is good. it continues to grow about 12 percent per year. one of the big things we did that year and this happened ath the beginning of the fiscal year is the fisherman warfs crab sign was in jeopardy of being red tagged by the port of san francisco. it rusted out so we irk would the muchant association and the port and at a cost of about 115 thousand dollars it was replaced and we replaced the incandescent lights with led lights talight it up. for the first time ever we hired a marketing manager and she created a marketing plan. we were able to get that out to the district and a lot
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of businesses use that as a boiler plate. we expanded the ambas door policeman which is invaluable tr the district. it helps do out reach and is a vital part of the community. the program is well receives and we emerged the cleaning and hospitality into one ambassador. you'll see the stats here. some of the biggest is they removed 15 thousand pounds och trash and helped over 20 thousand people with directions and hospitality. we worked with town square this year as a community internet site where we share information. one of the main things that we worked on here was for muchant to share information about shop lifters, people that they are having issues with, they can
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share that information and provide a alert. if someone shauf lifts in one store, they can [inaudible] we ran a [inaudible] program that year and our tb officer issues over 200 citations and made 7 arrests. we continued-we lit con rad square, a dark park that receives a lot of crime, we lit the park because it has no outside lighting. we held work shops on sustainable fishing where we get the restaurants to remove one red item and replace it with a sustainable item. we also held a free human resource work shop
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and during this year we held the second annual job fair where we had 20 different businesses participating and many businesses hired at least 3-4 people. advocacy, we worked with [inaudible] we continued to advocate for the e line and the extinegz fort mason and continued our promotion and advocacy to jefferson street which we feel is very important for the vitality for the area and recent numbers show every a 6 month period our 3 cameras on jefferson street that we have up now, compared to the 3 most heavily trafficked areas of time ger, from septto february,
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fishermans rf wahas [inaudible] >> thank you for your presentation. supervisor christensen >> i just want to say you know i'm a big fan of the bid, cbd concept and what fixermans warf and uniier do is fantastic. we hear a lot of bad news, it is great to hear oof the appreciatements and the way the organizations are augmenting the cities efforts to take care of ourselves [inaudible] it deserve as wider audience and more balloons and confetti you are getting, but the reports speak for themselves >> i will echo that. it is showing to me the-this is a perfect example of what cbd should be doing and i wish all
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the cbd's in the city were as wealthy--that is the main thing. thank you for saying that. one question from [inaudible] that i had about this and i'm always curious because we only have one cbd in the district, but are trying to get a second, and i always wonder what the cbd's do for vaeckancy? do they get involved with when dhai see vacant store fronts and so forth? do they try to bring in business somehow? >> each is different so they are governed by eemp of the management plans. some of sth plans are resfricktive where some can only be focus odon clean and safe and there are some that have economic development as a part of the marketing program. there are a handful of cbd's that
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