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at to look at the key passages and if i may read section 2 b. insure success of development of the site city agencies must receive input from the individuals and communities that will be most directly effected, impacted by the project including residence, business and institution surroundsing the site. the 3 suggested amendments we make regarding seat 5 assigned to baloa park advicery committee, if the [inaudible] district 7 gets that saved. 6 clarification that the business owner on oceanarve new be in district 7. similarly for seats 8 and 9 [inaudible]
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>> so, thank you. i do have the letter from the association and some of the amendments >> i was informed the letter was already delivered to the members of this committee >> yes. alice >> good morning supervisors. my name is alice [inaudible] board member of the [inaudible] neighborhood association. i'm here on behalf of the borebd and our president lisa [inaudible] she is out of town to kbraess proposed amendments to admend administrative code to establish the community advisory committee for the public land for housing. supervisor yee we thank you for your leadership z commitment to insure the balo ow reservoir study and includes a representation och the community and giving the knhunty a voice to help shape the project. we are asking for-we are asking for to insure
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that the seats represent the community interest. we want a honest and transapparent process and are willing to give time to develop the site [inaudible] cac have true community representation and the proposed amendment are the amendments that the gentlemen before we mentioned so we are in support of that and you have a letter from lisa spunauly explaining the membership amendments that sunaside is proposing. if it isn't possibility to make these change tooz the ordinance to insure community representation we [inaudible] have voting rights on the committee. we thank you for your attention and look forward to working with you on this project for the community and city
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>> thank you. thanks for coming. nob nub why don't you come on up, please. i can't read it. ing, is it? and robert [inaudible] >> good afternoon. supervisor yee and christensen. i'm roger [inaudible] and president of the [inaudible] counsel and even though we have not yet voted on this i would like to state we ibthe counsel appreciate supervisor yees desire to form this advicery committee and sunnyside is a mb and will be directly impablthed so you can anticipate a faivable response when the council meets. i'm also a trustee of readern high school and readen is also a neighbor of the baloa reservoir and it is just to the north of the
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effected area. i would respectfully suggest that since sunnyside, westward park, city college all have seats as impacted neighbors that our high school which has been there since 1949 also vadesignated seat. thank you very much >> thank you, roger. >> thank you. i just wanted to point out it is called community advicery committee and really hope the xhitey makes the committee a voice of the community and doesn't do that too much. thank you >> my name is roger [inaudible] resident of westward park. would like to thank you for considering getting the community involved
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on this. i understand this hearing is about building a xhuty not a discussion about the projject itself. in the proposed item 573 the membership there are members identified from many of the constituents but the source of those numbers coming from appointments. it is more efoketive if the sourcef the members of the committee came from the constip wnts represented there. i ask the proposed megz be changed to have the members of the committee come from the constituents. section 17-5175 and powers of duties, there are a number of things appear to me to presume the [inaudible] is there, but there is a caveat. it says it isn't included, but
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not limited to. there are other things that could fwee included. many are feeling this is a [inaudible] and this is just a way to rubber stamp this. the last item 5174 under meetings and procedures, you do identify meetings should be held not less than once a month unless everyone votes to not have a meeting. if the members are appointed and don't represent us and they can just not have the meeting, this committee could infact never meet legally so i ask that be changed. i please ask that you not have this go in as written adjusted and passed a different way. >> thank you. >> hello [inaudible] the
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reason i'm standing up here is because i don't want to be on this committee, but a lot of people in the room are on various committees over the years and i think one of the biggest most frustrating thing you hear from this is we are advasery but nobody listens. what are we adviceing on and does anyone takeure advice? i would like to see what i think would be one of the few times in which the community has a real voice. this is called a community advicery as far as i understand so i understand the call for community people and vested communey interest. i understand the politics where often times it comes from houseic and bikes and everyone else gets involved and it turns out he who has the most friends in city hall gets listened to and often times other members don't feel they are listened to. i have been to a few of
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these meetings about baloo and it seems one of the issues that comes up is you said you are hear to listen to us and take our ideas, but you tell me this is a such and such project already so where is the wiggle room inwhere does my advice come in? is this a done deal or are you at a blank sheet of paper and builds upon it? i think the community want tooz know you are listening to them and that they know what is best for their neighborhoods. thank you. >> go ahead carol >> good afternoon. i want to impicize westward park [inaudible] i know supervisor uyou have the responsibility to make appointments or confirm the recommendations from wistward park and sunnyside, my
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question is because there seem to be a imbalance och leaving it up to the mayor who he can appoint spaulsh [inaudible] it is important to recognize that the feedback we are getting at westward park there is a lot of concern of [inaudible] not only in the property and the environment and the various changes that will ensue with this project. i don't know if you can make a final decision today without input from the mayors office but he needs to hear the community needs more input in d 7 especially the mayor got this at large appointment possibility and he appoints somebody from some other district for whatever reason he may have, there will be issues around that and i know we all participate in community processes and it is
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really only 9 voting members and it is critical who represents that community. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is dan weaver and [inaudible] ocean avenue association is a 501 c 4 organized by the community. ocean avenue association is a community benefit district. all our meetings are noticed. all our meetings are open to everyone. many times people knh to our meetings because they can't figure when their nirebld group is meeting. we are one of the most puplicly accessible ocean in the ingleicide ocean avenue neighborhood. i believe
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item seat 6 last proposed last heard is to have not the ocean avenue association represented there, but instead a businessman on organization avenue. i would like to suggest we change that to the ocean avenue association and my understanding is a staff member or board member of the oaa would be in attendance. i'm not sure if we can select those people but it is helpful if we could so we can see who makes those meetings and 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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] >> can we send it without recommendation. i motion we move it forward h. i move the
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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 union square [inaudible] >> sorry, just taking that long. i believe [inaudible]
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>> 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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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.
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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,
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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 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