dirty i'm happy to answer any questions, we have letters of support that cusia mentioned as well, i'm happen to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> okay. supervisor breed? >> thank you i do have a few more questions, i'm trying to understand the boundaries and the changes to the boundaries. more specifically, i think um, with looking at the yerba buena area i realize it was established for the surrounding area, especially with all the activity all the museums creating this new community which is become an amazing community. a lot of it seems to also center around museums and the arts i noticed in the new boundaries, for example the old mint building the building that's located on mission and

5th. >> 5th and mission on the northwest corner. >> that doesn't seemed to be included. >> that was not included on the original boundaries -- >> i know that. with establishing these new boundaries, and establishing -- i just want to understand that that wasn't included if you can give me details around that. >> i can't tell you why it's not original included -- >> not necessarily originally included it has not been opened until recently but why it was not considered included. >> it's part of central market we were not going to poach any properties off central market, no one approached us we want to be a part of yerba buena, since it had been a historic part of cbd we didn't approach it. >> it looks like you are trying to keep it central to yerba

buena which is -- seems to be the reason for maybe establishing the current boundaries mormasconi yerba buena, can you provide more detail as to how the boundaries were established. i'm just trying to understand. >> we had a lot of conversations about the boundaries as i mentioned we're the largest geographic cbd in san francisco. so there was talk about expanding the boundaries, and there is thinking we're big enough already we don't want to stretch ourselves too thing thin, we want to get it right if you will. we looked at the parcel on 5th street that i referenced, that is part of a development that we needed to absorb and parry street, underneath the freeway and wanting to pay special atent to

that area, hearst corporation, felt more aligned with the cbd, so they moved in that direction. we accommodated them with that. we did not look at extending our boundaries, into the existing cbd boundaries and there is -- to the east of us. cbd, that is currently working so for us taking the other side of second street moving to the east didn't make sense we didn't want to step on their toes either, and the freeway is a natural border for us. >> these maps are a little hard to read so i'm assuming the dark lines for example when i look at the existing boundaries in terms of the maps, the dark lines are where it exists and the more gray lines are where it doesn't exist. with the new

boundaries, the gray lines are still where it doesn't exist. so i think this map makes it difficult for me to understand where we are now and where we're going. >> yeah. i can tell you that the gray area you are talking about i think the gray area you are talking about up on market street. is that the gray area you are speaking about? >> which map are you looking at? >> either one, it's going to be gray on both. >> okay that's not going to change. >> they're not going to change. they're part of west field, and the union square district, they're still in those boundaries. >> okay so for certain. the blooming dales on mission -- >> is ours. >> okay. >> but the market street side is on the market street district. that is very confusing. >> i can't read this map well to determine what that is. >> that's what that is.

>> okay. >> west field is basically split. >> all right. this one is much better. it's in color. thank you. >> color printer issues this morning. president breed, i wanted to piggy bag on the boundary discussion we would not be touching any existing cbd boundaries, right now, yerba buena to the left of market street is covered by union market square. west of 5th street is primarily central market and rincon hill will be a which you know b why north of second street we're o doing our best not to have any straggler parcels, in the cbd in the downtown areas and bark dero and downtown has had several discussions, so we're looking to

make sure up mremental services are in this section of the city. >> we got this map today that's what i'm trying to understand. for example, with the existing boundaries there are 4 or 5 zones listed here i don't know what that means, but in the new boundaries i pretty much understand. i guess where i'm trying to get an idea, this is what it is and this is what it's going to be, and this is confusing. what it's going to be is clear, based on the new boundaries and having two different colors, what it is now is confusing i don't understand what zone one and zone two. everything is scattered and all over the place, i think that's why i'm confused. >> that's why we wanted to simplify and go to two zones this time. because it was confusing confusing. >> so the other zones are a part of the yerba buena? i don't get

that. >> zone one and zone two, in the new map, includes zones 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the old map, we have just minimized we have gone from 5 to 2 zones. >> and for clarifications the zones are in separate boundaries, they're service level, in the old district there are five zones that had varying level of services, in the in one, there will be two varying level of services. >> i think i got it now. thank you. >> any other questions? seeing none. any public comment on this item? come on up. is it ray ardet? you go after her, if you would like. just line up over here. >> hi. good morning my name is

debra i'm the ceo, for the yerba buena center for the arts i'm here to support the yerba buena community benefits district they feed the culture of our district which is important to our city, they do excellent work keeping our neighborhood clean, safe inviting we see visitor ship returning visitors people that linger and engaged with the cultural amenities, which is what san francisco is proud of. community guides are like doe sents -- we have a lot of expansion in our neighborhood from the masconi center and the mexican museum coming down we will incollies and need you port from the community benefit

district. we do a thing together called yerba buena night, they organize they celebrate the district it's free there are families and activities all over the place, they also do granting to the neighborhood, which supports. family art projects, and exhibitions that are really important. i think it's really notable that their street skaep workcape work -- (they're awesome to collaborate with, we need them in our community thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. my name is ray bobit, from sf clubs, we operate 715 harrison, which houses city nights and cityscape pizza. we are one of the store fronts, we

have been there 28 years i have been there 26 years. the transformation of the area is amazing. as you well know beyond the residential expansion, we still have small businesses that have been there several years shg including our own. what the ybcbd has done is created a circumstances we have immediate service to beautify our neighborhood the clean steam comes out to address issues of sidewalks and store fronts the police officer that they have year round, deals with aggressive street behavior. all of their residential people that come around and work directly with the community it's amazing. i'm kind of choked up about it because the cbd has

been so amazing, and had such an impact on our community, i want you to understand we want the renewal of it we care deeply about the work they have done, their ambassadors have been great to us we expanded to parry street behind our building, there is an ayar with the homelessness the ambassadors have been able to address those issues in our community i wanted to thank you for your time. >> thank you. come on up. >> good morning supervisors my name is peter heartman, i have been a residence homeowner in yerba buena for over 24 years as you can imagine, i have seen a tremendous amount of change in the neighborhood. since the creation of the community benefits district, i think it's

working. i'm here to support the renewal, the district seems to be z as a residence, cleaner, safe and more inviting than ever, provides more eyes on the street and has become really the only voice of our neighborhood to city departments to work with city departments and to get things done. we don't really have any other entity down there that represents the whole neighborhood. also i have been working with the district, i'm chair of the streets and public space committee, and sit on the board of directors, i will tell you, i know cathy suggested some projects we have done to improve the public realm, i really look at one of the roles of the district is to improve the public realm there have been all of the changes we have noticed, to the private realm in yerba buena it's completely transformed this again is the

only one focused on improving the public realm. we have as cathy mentioned, had projects over the last few years, we're are looking at creating dog park for the residences alley ways, and arts in the cross walks, i ask for your support and renewal. thank you >> any other public comments? come on up. if you want to have a public comment come over here and line up. >> good morning supervisors shg my name is calvin may. i'm a community guy with ybcbd, this is my first time speaking -- i enjoy working with the businesses the co-owners the property managers, and also

being a -- excuse me -- a problem solver in the neighborhood, working with the police department, sfpd is also assisting folks with the traffic. it's a huge tremendous impact. i never spoke before, so i'm very happy and excited [laughter]. >> you are doing great. >> let me make it quick and simple. you heard a lot of stuff, with the community guys with the cleaning issues helping out with safety issues shg i have a small story, touching to me i had a family, stephen son, it was a pregnant couple i was able to provide them services, and get them something to eat that day these cards provides the homeless to eat for the day, and get them kokted with project connect so they will continue to get housing. that was important to me the mother was pregnant they were able to put a kid

inside an a home instead of on the streets. just wanted to tell you guys thank you for having time for me i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> good morning supervisors i'm john el berling i'm a president of the taco group, and the board of directors representing, community organization we strongly, strongly support renewal of the district. i wanted to highlight two things as mentioned, our request to the district in the renewal is to add the second police officer patrol motorcycle for us seniors in the neighborhood 2,000 of them. traffic, and pedestrian safety is the highest priority, they responded it's a substantial increase, in the budget, a couple $1,000 a year, it's a major improvement it

would be helpful to have that police officer on patrol on the motor bike in the strict. second we're continuing our community district fund at 5% of the budget, since the budget is higher the fund will be. it provides small grants $2,500 to empower smaller groups in the neighborhood. other groups have done art projects, and other betterment that say unique feature of this district, the other cbd's in town don't have that it's creative and specific element that is part of our neighborhood, please, move this forked forward, thank you. >> any other public comments?

seeing none, it is now closed. i would like to say i have seen the difference myself in regards to the area i want to thank the public tr coming out, giving your testimony in regards to the testimony you have seen. any other thoughts? supervisor christensen. >> everybody knows shg i'm a huge fan of the cbd model in the city, and certainly yerba buena has been one of the more effective, that is a part of the city that visitors, and residences see, we're grateful for the efforts those involved, and thanks for all who supported here today, you have another supporter. >> any other thoughts? seeing thought, can we have a motion to the board for recommendation. >> moved. >> okay. no objection? motion passes. congratulations. ma'am clerk can you call item

number two. >> administrative code - chapter six public work contracting and make various other changes and clarifications in chapter six. >> okay, i believe there are three speakers on this item the first will be the director of the department of public works mohammed nuru. >> good morning chair breed and supervisor yee and christensen thank you for letting us present to you proposed changes to chapter six. chapter six is the city's administrator code with the design and construction of city project. over the last year we have had a great working group with several agencies, the public works department staff from the airport, public utilities commission mta recreation park the san francisco port authority

joined with support and assistance from the city attorney's office, general service agency real estate department and the controllers office a number of recommendations were collected, over the year the group has been working very hard to make those changes. as you know, no changes have happened to chapter six in over i think ten years so this is a time when these changes, we believe are very necessary. the recommendations, have gone to the budget analysis, we're in agreement with all of the recommendations put forth, there are three policy decisions that were recommended there. those policy decisions, the threshold amount on contracts, so so construct contracts, and cm d.c.

contracts as part of the process we also involved in of the contractors, i see magil in the room today, he's representing the mte's so we feel good about the recommendations we're putting forth. and leading today a presentation will be rachel superman pr the controllers office. if i may introduce rachel. >> hello supervisors rachel from the controllers office i'm a project manager the city services auditor you have a presentation before you, is there something i need to do on the computer? >> (speaking off the mic). >> power point presentation? >> yeah there is a power point presentation. is it on here? sorry about that. so we are here

to talk about the legislation sponsored by public works as mohammed mentioned and the chapter six deports, cp, airport, the port, reck park and mta, the before you will revise the administration code, i will briefly talk overthe process to get to the ordinance that is before you talk about some of the reasons for the change and introduce edgar lopez, which is the city architecture to talk about the policieses that are before the board. as you know, chapter six, the city's rules and requirements for selecting and contracting for the design management and construction of public works contracts, the departments have general authority under chapter six are the departments that we mentioned previously, public works, mta, airport, port and reck park, if you look at the audience raise your hands here

all of the department that are here airport pc, reck park port. these are all of the people on the chapter six working group and here to support it. as mohammed mentioned it has not had a comprehensive revision since 1999, which is over 15 years ago, and over the last few years, dpd, collected what is needed to be be done on chapter six, with contract and project managers we realize there are other chapter six departments, meeting with similar issues so it's important to get consensus before we come to the board for changes, they asked the controllers office to facilitate a process, to convene a working group of the departments mentionses this working group also included the office of contract administration, real estate and importantly the

city attorney's office. the working group began meeting in june 2014 almost a year ago. we met twice a month for a couple of hours, with a bunch of sub committee meeting to go over 50 recommendations, with 34 proposed to you today the changes have key holders we presented at the lb advisory committee, meetings and liaison, committee meetings -- to make sure we had support of the community before coming here today, there is a lot of different reasons for the changes, some are to gain efficiencies, others are processes, that have come to the board for project-specific processes to make the city a more attractive business partner, the code has not been

changed over the last 15 years there is a lot of lessons, learned to update the best prakts and what we have learned along the way there is a lot of increased sophistication, it's important we keep our administration code up to indicate to meet the needs there is general clean up to the code there is changes to existing contracting methods, introducing new contracting methods and there is changes to the chapter six threshold amount instead of going over each individual change we thought we would discus -- there are policies for the board of supervisors. there are amendments to the proposed

amendments -- to amend the ordinance. the city attorney drafted an amendment you have it with you here today, we thought we would spend the rest of the time going over the policy decisions that are before the board. with that i will hand over to edgar lopez. >> good morning board members, edgar lopez with public works. as rachel mentioned, i will talk about the three policy matters that are before you. the first one is we're proposing to modernize [inaudible] process at the moment chapt ir six doesn't have a sole source provision, so we drafted one that is part of the administration code -- delivering capital projects, sometimes we have to specify specific types of materials or specific type of equipment like

working in general hospital we need to know what operating bed we will be using for the project and sole source that because the work is around specific types of equipment we find ourselves in situationses, we're updating or ren know vaeting buildings, and building systems, that have protry tear information in techology, it doesn't make us to bring in a new brand, a classic example is fire alarm systems shg we may have to renovate a space, and add sprinkle ler heads of the same type and technology without introducing any unwanted consequences to that. the provision is drafted with several checks and balances the

departments who have a commission have to seek their commission approval before moving forward with a sole source. departments like public works, where we don't have a commission we think i have covered

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items here. we're joined today by all of our colleagues, from the chapter six agencies who can answer questions if you have any specific questions. >> thank you. supervisor. breed? >> thank you, are there additional presentations? >> i'm sorry, my notes are out of order with the slides here i failed to cover one of the three point, let me go back to that. we're also proposing to change the threshold amount. chapter six at the moment has a threshold amount of $440,000 we're proposing to change that to $600,000. and two of the things that are we feel we need to highlight before you, the benefits of making this change is that it would allow us to for departments like the port airport and public works who have a work force who does routine maintenance and

improvements of capital projects having a high year threshold amount will allow us to perform more of that work, also having a higher tlermd will have the benefits we can allocate more micro lb contracts right now, there is a requirement of 50% contract, set aside for micro lbe's, having a higher threshold will give us an opportunity to set more of those contracts because we have a higher threshold. apologize i didn't cover this point, where here to answer any questions you may have. >> supervisor breed? >> okay are there any other department presentations? okay. i just have one concern colleagues i wanted to talk through this concern in terms of the recommendation made by the budget and legislative analyst. the concern is making changed to the