>> good evening and welcome to the wednesday, august 12, 2015, of the san francisco board of appeals presiding officer is commissioner president ann lazarus and she's joined by commissioner vice president honda and commissioner swig and commissioner bobbie wilson to my right is robert bryan the deputy city attorney and will provide the board with legal advice the clerk agreeing election i'm cynthia goldstein the board's executive director we're joined by representatives

from the city departments that have cases before the departmca short and we'll be joined by scott sanchez the zoning administrator who represents the planning department and planning commission and joe duffy representing the department of electronic devices are prohibited. out in the hallway. permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within 7 minutes, participants not affiliated have up to 3 minutes - no rebuttal. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or business card to the clerk.

speaker cards and pens are available on the left side of the podium. if you have a question about the schedule, speak to the staff after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow we are located at 1650 mission street, suite 304. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78. dvds are available to purchase directly from sfgovtv. thank you for your attention. we'll conduct our swearing in process. if you intend to testify and wish to have the board give your testimony evidentiary weight,

please stand and say i do. please note: any of the members may speak without taking okay do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you very much okay interning to item one general public comment this is an opportunity for people to speak on an item within the board's jurisdiction any general public comment seeing none, then we'll move to item 2 comments from the commissioners commissioner. >> welcome back mr. bryan. >> okay item 3 commissioners our consideration of the minutes of the august 5, 2015, meeting any additions, deletions, or changes additions? may i have a

motion to approve the minutes as submitted. >> so moved. >> thank you any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, then we have a motion to do you want the minutes by the vice president commissioner fung commissioner president lazarus commissioner wilson commissioner swig thank you that motion carries 4 to zero >> the next item on the calendar is item 4 a rehearing request subject properties on leavenworth street the board received a letter from the appellants requesting a rehearing of the appeal brand new bark versus dpw was decided at this time the board voted it is code compliant the appellant is the construction of a

wireless service facility we'll start with the requesters you have 3 minutes to present our request to the board. >> i'm randell next to me is ann brand nubaker dpw has authority to include a site permits in addition to those cigarette for the in the article 25 to benefit the public welfare this is, in fact, broad view to deny the permit based on the concerns over private views and lights the xifrpt is degrading to the public and adding more will make that worse

whether or not the above was not discussed this needs to take place >> go can we stand we stand by our earlier submission for a request for rehearing we have also recently reviewed the permit denials for 999 and 751 lombardi by the planning disorderly conduct 750 lombardi was recommended for denial for considerations awhile 2215 leavenworth is an excellent view it's permit was approved since 999 lombardi meets the agenda to deny the permit leavenworth meets the same criteria and should have been denied

criteria for the two as excellent viewed streets has important culture and physical landmark views should be the same decisions were made in an arrest warranty inapplicable manner it's been applied in a discrepancy they truth manifest injustice for leavenworth we believe a rehearing is warned new information regarding the physical safety the equipment on the 2215 leavenworth pole and who's responsible for the safety compliance needs review by the board of appeals the cpc u 95 allows the carriers self-monitoring privileges for example, tomcast continues to

add their gear to the pole within the last month tomcast has doubled their presence now the next is 5 devices to the pole the new across bar in the engineering speaking indicates the wires move further into the street view and closer to our home please note it is right here telecom pole can go unmonitored up to 8 years for the c pc u monitoring this over lagged pole has live wires within 8 feet of our home the city of san francisco has the authority to enter succeed we'd like the board of appeals to grant a new hearing based on this new information if you have

any answers i object to answer them. >> commissioners the timer is not working at the moment we have 3 minutes but we'll skip that for the next speaker. >> there are no questions. >> board okay. thank you. >> there's someone for the permit holder. >> if you'd like commissioners, i, use my cell phone for the timer. >> that's not a good sound. >> it's a fire alarm (laughter). >> all right. i will just time it myself and make the noise myself my apologies yeah. go ahead. >> good evening madam president and vice president and mbes i'm jim heard on behalf of the

vertically wireless this board got to right the last time applied the correct standards and found the standards are met i'd like to point out the rehearing is retired for rare case to prevent manifest injustice or new or different material facts that might have changed the outcome they don't address this in their papers or talk about it tonight they've not addressed it in any event they've clearly not met it the two arguments first, they complain about the advice the city attorney gave or not in the subsequent hearing this explicit pass the straight face test it makes no sense after the board

decided the appeal has a bearing on the appeal that's all to be said except to point out the record shows you you were given advise by your council decide the correct legal standards that apply to this appeal no merit to to they're first argument the second argument is completely new not mentioned in their appeal this should be the end of the appealed for due process i'll encourage that this board to dispense it is not proper to be raising completely new issues this late in the process even if you get over this hurdle they haven't met the standard for a new hearing first problem the geo95 the

argument is not a city regulation only a c p u no bearing on whether or not this was correctly issued the other problem is not based new facts but a regulation that was amended three years ago and fire that occurred if malibu 8 years ago so they clearly have not met the standards of new or different material facts it is certainly not an extraordinary case to sum up i'm suggest to you i remind you that the city has reviewed this xaufl and applied the standards they're met and simply no grounds for a rehearing. >> your time is up. >> he didn't get a thirty

second warning i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> okay. we'll hear from the department is the timer working now great. >> good evening, commissioners carli short department of public works basically, i think we feel similar insufficient cause to grant rehearing in this case we don't feel there is new information present we do concur our advise has been that your city attorney get it right this is our understanding of the way it appeal could be grant bans the law so we simply building they don't meet the rehearing we respectfully ask the rehearing is denied thank you. >> okay we can take public

comment anyone wishes to speak. >> oh, i want to speak didn't see you there mr. sanchez. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department the same that the hearing request they cited first, the planning department submitted a brief that was part of public works brief submitted to the department we clearly noted that was a planning location planning compliant and noted our standards for review under that in the rehearing request the appellant kites testimony from the planner on president's subsequent case not misquoting anything for the case before you for those facts we'll not say there is reason for a rehearing question i'm available to answer any questions you may have. >> anyone here wishes to speak on this item

seeing none, commissioners the matter is submitted. >> i have a question for the city attorney. >> is it really interesting thing put forth which is the change in condition on the light pole when we heard the testimony before and we ruled before the condition on the light pole according to the appellant was different than it is today and with the addition of another vendor putting their stuff on it creates the domino effect that the vendor in question or the permit holder in question verizon now may have to place their stuff in a different place because another vendors put their stuff in the place they were supposed to say this a

change in condition? and we might as well answer it now it will probably happen again what happens between now and then a condition changes we were told was to happen might change because the condition was changed according to their plan. >> would it be better to ask if it will effect where they place it? >> if that's the jest of what you're asking. >> it changes the conditions if he were talking about any other case. >> - >> something happened and therefore the plans were changed the plans were changed a building are could be anything we'll be discussing i'd like to clarification of what a changed condition creates a situation where it might merit a

rehearing. >> the department can also address when a new permit is needed with another revision a permit or a revision permit. >> i did not ask you to - i'd like to hear from the city attorney. >> i understand your reference to the city attorney. >> i'd like to hear if the city attorney or of zoning administrator. >> their thank you, very much. this is a rehearing request so the question was whether or not this was information that should have been made available then at the time of the hearing that would have effected your judgment on that matter so i think to extend that world to a

subsequent permit after you decided the issue once before might raise some due process concerns. >> i did not know whether the existence of a new condition created new information for a merit of the discussion of a new hearing according to what i've come to understand and i may be wrong that's why i'm asking the question. >> i think a new permit something that requires a new permit a different condition that's not officially related to the permitted hearing that would give me comfortable to reverse the decision on the new permit based on there's enough information for the new permit the new permit could be appealed

and you could decide probability assuming the law likewise it consider whether or not now to a new permit significantly degrades the view to the buildings or significantly degrade the neighborhood or maybe a threshold point that analysis but i think to go back and undo the decision on the fire permit there's potential a new permit i think this is questionable. >> if the current condition that was created has changed. >> the perimeters of the construction that we have already discussed >> i don't know what you mean by change of perimeters. >> between this is what is confusing between the before and now tomcast cable i'm not saying

they did tomcast comes in and they expand their position on that pole and while xandz their position on that pole they butt into the area that verizon was to put their equipment on and therefore verizon has to move their equipment which is not in sync with the plan we've approved. >> is this a hypothetical. >> i don't know. >> we might ask dpw or x net. >> i'd like to hear from the appropriate. >> i'll start with ms. short. >> it's my belief we've been assuring the permit on the finding of the board and the application before the board in another entities changed the condition of the site to the

extent the placement can't be met we'll likely approach the others entities and say know determine whether or not the information to put the cable and have them move so this permit can be executed as issued or that will require a new process to the permit should - the perimeters felt permit need to be adhered to and adjust the change or a new permit process then appealable. >> shall we move forward if we uphold the permit with the assumption all things are status quo regardless of what maybe changed. >> yes. again, if this entity has the right to make that change and couldn't be resolved we'll need to go back to get advice who wins who's permits wins. >> thank you for that clarification i appreciate it.

>> ms. short your department sooner building and planning has it there's a degree of change that is allowed and probably beyond which you'll require a new permit. >> that's right if this was to shifted the conditions of the permit in any major way yes, we'll need to have a new permit process the degree to which the other entities make adjustment is renot limited to under their existing permit. >> thank you. >> is there a motion? >> well, i would bring something up rehearing requester inferred in their brief that their reference is pretty much to the entire

board as having perhaps some level of confusion with what the specific perimeters are in viewing those types of permits speaking for myself it was pretty clear what types of reviews by the various departments and what triggers certain types of issues with respect to either modification or denial of those kinds of permits, however, if other members of the board felt there was some confusion then as a matter of due process i would support a rehearing just to clarify that particular issue to make sure that we all understood exactly what the perimeters are

and made our decision according i would say that given i was a rookie and i shed confusion during that hearing and substantially mr. brienna had classified all of us i might fit into that category. >> and for the sake the clarity to do a rehearing to make sure that everybody is on board of the understanding of the terms. >> on the other hand, i felt it was clear i personally feel that the criteria of bar has not been met for a rehearing excuse me. that manifested justice has

occurred but since we have had multiple multiple cases from this vendor that will be before this board maybe some clarity on this first case might - so i will defer to my fellow commissioners. >> the only problem multiple multiple permits under different circumstances what you may learner of this situation maintaining be applicable. >> what commissioner swig said the definition of view and 99 lombardi fits the criteria for view for this particular property is that what you're alluding to. >> or the impact i think the ambiguity or lack of clarity that i have with regard to view in article 25 it alludes to the impact on the not just the

individual location but the neighborhood has a whole and the view of the quarters impact there. >> it is still makes me scratch any head i wouldn't if i were the are asking for a rehearing want somebody that is unclear on the subject from the beginning. >> to raise the issue that maybe we should hear this again. >> no commit commissioner. >> no, i was not unclear i understand the standard but not prepared to vote for a rehearing. >> actually. >> i agree as well. >> commissioners. >> well whoever wants to make the motion. >> i move to deny the rehearing request on the base there is no

new information are manifest injustice. >> so on that motion from the president to deny the request commissioner fung marry no commissioner vice president honda commissioner wilson and commissioner swig no that motion carries with a vote of 3 to zero so the request is denied. >> we can move on to item 5 is the appellant here if you could raise your hand okay. thank you item 5 appeal versus the department of building inspection the property on rice street protesting the issuance on june 2015 to john of an alteration permit to remove the downstairs sink and kitchen to wall at the ground floor and we will start with the appellant you need to come up to the

podium. >> no. you can't. >> you cannot. >> whoever is going to speak on this item needs to come to the microphone. >> (laughter). >> hello, everyone thank you for coming tonight. >> so you have 7 minutes. >> okay. >> please speak as best you can directly into the microphone and i apologize for the delay. >> i am really short i'll move it over i apologize. >> nuts i'm sarah i reside on rice

street my request is that you overturn the permit that my landlord filed to remove the illegal unit downstairs it is detrimental to my living situation and it also removes affordable unit stock from san francisco's available housing i - this all came about when i discovered any legislative aide to board president london breed or landlord was trying to remove an in-law unit downstairs to have dpw take notice without a permit and investigate the building materials use in the illegal unit are not fire

retardant that concerns me and per my landlord e-mails that send mixed messages i wasn't sure i had access to the illustrate shut off and the illegal unit i wanted them to come and check out i notified john that i notified expelling dpw and they the an inspection and he dedicated them to file for a permit to remedy the violation and that's when i sort of realized when was happening my rent orient protection was therefore being removed as well as the illegal unit i've been living on rice street since 2011 august 27, 2011 even though it doesn't say on any original lease i was hoping to

have up on the projector for you guys it display state it is protected by the legal ordinance my landlord increased my rent so he boofdz as if i was protected i thought that was the case unfortunately i've learned that which that dwelling unit disappears will go from a illegal unit to a single-family home i'll no longer have the protection and the notification for the fees i received in may that downloads my rent and doubles any security deposit moving forward will actually take effect or, effective actually be legal i won't have the protection of the legal ordinance is my understanding the unit downstairs is separate

from my upstairs unit no shared entrances for the units nothing next to the two of them i feel like this is possible a different sort of example of the shoot sorry. >> okay this is a different example of the detrimental reliance because i relied on any initial lease that guaranteed a 2 bedroom upstairs flat and indeed a downstairs unit because that was a 2 unit dwelling i was located by the rent increases by the ones trying to be passed on to me and the protection

i've entitled to those up until that point and i relied on that i wouldn't have moved into any home or apartment i wouldn't be able to afford that by myself i'm also not allowed to replace a roommate that i had that recently vacated any apartment with a one for one replacement guaranteed to be able to do per john dmrooin any request to replace that person and also adds to the increasing of him harding park i'm xerjs i'm not employed any longer i was sick for two years and taking care of of my sick father i don't have

full-time rent and can't pay the increased rent and security deposit by myself i did have pictures for all of you i apologize this is so unorganized illegal in-law unit is accepted dedicated to 1963 the tint for the space to use as a dwelling unit or living spoois space not something new that mr. north america vary changed the occupancy of the building that moved back in 2009 when they moved in it seems since 1963 that space was designated as an in-law unit so i would like you to either set forth restrictions on the

permit or to over turn it to preserve affordable unit stock in any home i'll be homeless otherwise thank you. >> i have a question. >> oh, go for it sorry. >> your brief was little bit hard to go through i currently occupy the space as well as the in-law unit. >> no upstairs a it two unit bedroom flat. >> was the downstairs rent-controlled unit. >> yes. they were under a couple of years before i moved in they moved out for a large space they had a baby. >> okay. thank you. >> anyone else thank you for your time everyone. >> thank you. >> we'll hear if the permit holder now, mr. north america

vary. >> so excuse me. i'm rather new at this also okay. i submitted a brief with exhibits should i put the exhibit on to the machine as they go united kingdom up here. >> as you wish. >> on may 15th she made a complaint with a possible unit downstairs with the garage and water residue and the tenant doesn't it have access to the water or fuse box or water heater it was inspected by dbi robert waller must be this way

also on june 15th i was able to talk to mr. wallers after he got back from the property he was lead into the property by the appellant she had access to the downstairs to let him in downstairs well, mr. robert wallers did do permit research on this as stated in exhibit c and he came up with a document that was taken out by any mother

in 1963 to legalize the use of downstairs as a ruckus room not a second unit so in talking to dbi mr. wallers i asked him what is finding were that would be the notice of violation exhibit c one and that was to stall a c o alarm in the basement i the he inspected on july 16th a smoke detectors in the renters bedroom i the it was completed and inspected on the 16, remove wiring in the garage which was

an extension cord that was ran to a lights outside so added asked mr. wallers to what to do and put in conduit in talking to mr. wallers at the start by telephone on june 9th, he suggested that instead of going through the notice of violation on the downstairs having a sink and such that shouldn't be there suggested i take out a building permit to remove the kitchen sink and to - directed by the dbi to take out the permit to correct the violation i the so in a matter of a few days my whole intent was just to be in scompliens with the dbi not

to try to sneak out anything to hurt the appellant purple heart to be in experience with the violations that were on the property which i the at my expense i have a picture of the kitchen sink so that is what we're here today removal of kitchen sink oh, and, yes the ruckus room was rented to any cousin he moved out april 9th of 2015 i had no

intentions of rerenting the ruckus room before - oh, my cousin moved in there she was correct he was there right now all i'm doing is try to be in compliance with dbi. >> i think that's all unless i need to use up two more minutes. >> i have a question. >> yes. >> >> i have a question go ahead. >> i'm confused lady lives in the legal upstairs unit. >> that's correct. >> you had relatives living in the illegal downstairs unit with the kitchen sink, etc. >> that's correct. >> so you're now turning that into a legal space by getting

rid of the kitchen sink so why is she no longer going to be a tenant in the building if in the legal upstairs space. >> i'm not environmental impact her. >> what she said she felt it was a two unit building that would afford her tenant rights for the rent control that's what her premise is. >> of it was a non-or in-law unit not a two unit building. >> something the department will clear it up. >> i'll wait and mr. naifr did you charge your cousin rent. >> yes. i do. >> how about 2009 my daughter lived there prior to her getting married i don't think i charged her rent.

>> any desire to legalize this unit. >> no, sir i'm 63 and just not wanting to go that route. >> i have health conditions. >> i have some questions i'd like wait until the departments will clear those up. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. duffy. >> the man of the hour. >> good evening, commissioners joe duffy dbi building inspection under appeal is for probably rice street a second floor building with one basement a down in the building permit a renal for instance, and remove the downstairs ground to

wall i noticed on the permit that the building permit was approved by dbi, however, didn't go to the planning department and typically those permits should go through the planning department i think mr. sanchez will address that that is one thing i've noticed the plan checker missed that in the writing of the permit so that's one thing on the complaint you heard from the previous speakers the complaint was filed with our department and it was the same with the housing inspection services they were read by the appellant here and the housing inspector everything that was said was pretty accurate from the reports on the overhead that was some the housing inspector

took he noticed issued a notice of violation for some as you heard the arms and to remove some wiring in the garage i noticed in the complaint tracking that he didn't reference this building permit the permit research to remove the downstairs kitchen there was decision i'm going to file a permit rather than that write it up that this was underway and the 1963 a permit in the brief and that permit is for the - under exhibit c at this time as a single-family residence and the ground floor to explore two small walls with sheetrock for 9 by 11 feet and the concrete floor to legalize the ruckus

room 20 by 14 feet so obviously at some point in the future between 1963 and 2015 we had a stove stalled and a sink so this permit is remove that and put it back to the legal use so i believe as you may know the appellant lives upstairs i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> i've got a question is there a legal bath downstairs as well. >> is that in the permit i did not really see that. >> i just got the brief no plans or anything in the brief so typically we need to see drawings that's a question for the property owner. >> so the permit to make the correction the original didn't indicate a legals bath a ruckus room; right? >> the property profile may

have a number of bathrooms i have i printed the property profile from the records which sometimes their accurate and sometimes not we have it with us tonight. >> thank you okay mr. sanchez. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department subject property within the rh1 sdroern with the single-family dwelling the use is a single-family dwelling the permit was not realized to the planning department it was a policy we have with the building inspection that permits were removed from units legal or legally are routed to the planning department that had been routed to us there would be no d b m and the unit could potentially, legalized under the planning codes but an option for the pertaining to pursue in

regards to the rent control it is my understanding that the rent board didn't look at the legality so the rent control is to two unit buildings with a project and in a case they probably would say that the go or building as with two unit one legal and one illegal would be sunset to rent control and the removal will liken make it no longer for rent control they're generally eliminated from rent control there are things that are subject to it but previous tenant it predates 1996. >> 1996 i'm available to answer any questions. >> quickly would you consider that the permit was not properly issued it didn't undergo the. >> if it was routed we say

would have approved it. >> one qualification to your statement about it being legal continuity. >> there's a process to go through the legalization and it may not qualify so potentially possible for legalization. >> question as well mr. sanchez so those have come up before those board regularly 3 last week so what is the condition if someone were to remove a illegal or non-permitted room are they able to legalize it there the planning after or some something that stops them once they remove the unit from market it depends upon the circumstances they're saying this is a second dwelling unit

they could prevail themselves to legalize in but if they through the permit legalizing it they lose all change in the future and given the rfp district no provision from the planning code provisions to have a second units on the prompt you could have a case in the rh2 one is illegal their removing that unit and could substantially under the planning code restore that. >> rh1 reremove that if inadvertent not able to add it back thank you for that clarification. >> it depends on whether or not the sunset u unit is allowed or whether or not it is anything that could only beleaguer list. >> okay. thank you. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, ma'am, you have 3 minutes of rebuttal.

>> thank you for - i apologize if i was confusing. >> so we need you to speak into the microphone. >> so i wanted to show you some supporting evidence from mire claim against the argument for 0 sorry detrimental reliance on the argument i have this is my landlord has effectively changed any terms on my lease from the. >> you can bring the microphone

over bring it over. >> from the one 50 rice street to upstairs to the flat to the most recent terms and change of tenancy where it is just one 50 rice street unilaterally changed the tendency without increasing my services having access to the whole house he states in the new lease i've effectively stay in the whole house this is not what's happening and that's not what i signed up for i present your clarifying some things john there's some things that are confusing to me, i'm kind of getting those down in the next minute with you my landlord showed up and put stalled a new mailbox to that covers the two

doorbells that were once for the lower unit i'm sorry and the lower unit he also states that i need to abide by certain criteria on the original lease but trying to pursue the terms of this new leases on other criteria it is a back and forth and very confusing i think that he's benefited from the additional rents from you know however long 6 years of the tenants i knew of and actually presented him with a cost benefit analysis shoim it behooves him to invest $10,000 to bring the unit up to code to be able to enjoy the future rents for himself and for the

folks involved in his trust i'll let you guys ask questions now. >> i just want to - no, no, no that's fine what this body is concerned with is the permit that was issued by the department of building inspection and while we appreciate and understand our situation and your concerns from any prospective most of what you've been talking about is not the purview of this board. >> okay. i apologize. >> don't need to apologize. >> but my appeal with the permit was to try to vet those sort of things. >> of course and a present them in front of of you i know you have sympathy because on april 29th you passed a motion to require some sort of notification for similar situations like ours so this is not i'm not bringing

something to be able to this is not something like this. >> i want you to know with the outcome what we've been considering. >> yeah. the permit to overturn it or let it go through i understand. >> that's what is going to create our situation but can't look at that. >> and i'd appreciate it. >> unfortunately, to follow-up that the case you mentioned was slightly different those folks were actually in the unit downstairs that was physically being removed unfortunately this is not venue for what you need to get down probably with the rent board. >> i have a hearing with with them coming up in september i've been trying to utility all the resources in san francisco to have their voices heard and to present their cases to as many people as possible to stop things like this from happening.

>> i sympathy emphasize bus it's the permit. >> any other questions. >> all right. thank you for your time. >> mr. north ameriavaro . >> nothing relates to the building permit so i'm quite sure i need to rebuttal for allegations about changing some of the tenancy or lease of house that's totally untrue the fact she has a key to the downstairs and garage for emergency purposes for water and electrical and stuff like this i have been a landlord since the

early 80s not just with this house but several others i consider myself a good landlord so sometimes feeling dem in his sometimes by the lady after the relationship that we had for over the years has been a good one there's been really no problems something breaks she calls me i send a plumber or electrician out it gets fixed she's trying to utility everything she can it runs me through the hoops a bit i venting. >> she made an allegation of the mailbox the only piece of woods on the building it was

everything else was stucco it was a locked mailbox she didn't use everything else was hanging on the gate that i guess that's all i have to see thank you for your time oh, any questions for me? >> no, thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. duffy did you have anything more. >> commissioners viewing dbi an answer to commissioner vice president honda's the property profile says two bath but basement is zero there's kind of a conflict for the people to provide the bathroom on the ground floor it shows two bath on the property profile. >> two legal baths on the

property. >> that's what it says. >> it was built in 48; is that correct. >> no i don't think it was built in 63 but the permit removed itself units in 63. >> i've not seen 63 i've seen 48 if i remember. >> i'm not sure just one thing on the building permit i know i do think it should have been reviewed we the planning department and on error by the dbi staff when i read the brief i saw the writing on the permit was flawed i brought it to the attention of higher management at the dbi because we do so a lot of those at the boards most of the time the planning department is not the agree agency that needs to see that because of the different things going on with dwelling

units and just i think this is only right that it should have been reviewed to the planning department. >> on that basis we potentially uphold the appeal and overturn the permit because it wasn't properly reviewed that's the next step would the permit holder have to come back and start over. >> starter with a new permit to show the removal of the downstairs sink and stove. >> no times penalty or any of that essentially not his fault. >> we won't issue a notice of violation or something like that it is unfortunate the applicant it is definitely not applicable on the back of planning it should be sent to planning and it probably misses some phase

because of that planning fees (laughter) which are not cheap. >> yeah. that would be an issue as well. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> do you mind if i ask the homeowner how many bathrooms on the property. >> yeah. could you come to the podium the question is how many bathed to you have upstairs and downstairs. >> one downstairs and one upstairs the full baths and the document you're looking for on the bathroom for downstairs was from 1948. >> yeah. >> and - i'm answered the question since i'm up here. >> no, we only need you to answer the question. >> anything mr. sanchez so commissioners the matter is submitted if you're looking denying the permit another

opposite to continue the case to allow the case to be cancelled if i'm not mistaken allows the are permit holder fees to be refunded. >> i'm willing. >> okay. >> so moved. >> (laughter). for well, we haven't had our discussion yet for how long >> what's our - >> i don't know, you might want to put it to the call of the chair to give the process time the appeal will ultimately be administratively dismissed as removed once the permit is cancelled. >> so the motion to - >> continue the appeal. >> continue the appeal to the call of the chair on the base -

no, that's probably all we need. >> to allow times for the pertaining to cancel the current permit it was not properly reviewed. >> is that - there further destruction or you want me to call the roll. >> commissioner fung any comment. >> i'm not sure the da has indicated he railway puts forth that kind of pressure that planning probably would i'm not sure i'll support an additional process. >> although i would be semiathletic that will involve some additional time but has nothing to do with with her rent.

>> we has nothing to do with with her rents. >> i hear you in terms of the process but i'm not comfortable with that, i think it could set a precedent. >> we've done it both ways with planning and yeah. >> we've taken it over rather than sending it back in the number of instances. >> but if you have a motion. >> i will make that motion to continue to discuss. >> calling the roll to continue the case to the call of the chair to allow the permit holder time to cancel. >> commissioner fung commissioner vice president honda commissioner wilson and commissioner swig okay that motion carries 5 to zero and mr. navaro you can

contact me or inspector duffy to talk about the process. >> so we'll move on to item 6 ab they'll be heard together is john nolte and nick versus the planning commission property on hiding street protesting the issuance on june 11th for the architecture incorporated for the pursuant to the planning code for an 85 unit building with 4 thousand plus gross secret and a demolition of a one structure for the united states postal service and on for hearing today is the gentleman in the room okay my understanding commissioners from any confidences he had an

interest in withdrawing his appeal not able to process the paperwork he's told me by phone not planning on attending the hearing we can precede with mr. nolte's appeal wherever you may your decision dispose of the appeal at the same time. >> so mr. nolte if you'll step forward i want to mention you have a family member in the room under the boards rule members of the families or outside the representatives of an appellant or other party are not entitled to speak under general public comment and have their comments given evidentiary weight you might want to share some of your time to alert you to the fact. >> he wasn't part of progress. >> the board's rules say the

representatives of a party needs to speak under the time loaded and the representatives are included that are family members i wanted you to know that now with our 7 minutes. >> part of my 7 minutes or what. >> if you want him to speak do it during his 7 minutes. >> i don't know what he wants. >> or during our 3 minutes of rebuttal. >> i did not live with my brother he's not in my household we live in separate retains so he should be able to speak separately arrest the board's rules don't limit it to

household members only family separately so - >> i mean, i got a lot of relatives i'm a native so - >> i can speak not considered testimony so under the sunshine ordinance he's entitled to speak but under the board's rules his testimony is not considered. >> okay. i'll speak on behalf of he'll not speak and withdraw his speaker card. >> okay. thank you.

>> go. >> okay my name is john nolte a native san franciscan and incorporateer of the tenderloin co-organizer for the campaign and form member of the market coalition in my appeal for 14 dash 095 on the first page of the appeal i asked the commissioners all to go to the neighborhood site to look at the surrounding neighborhood on the first line of my appeal and i hope your commissioners did see and then also on exhibit a-8 i gave a postal letter stating

about how 101 hiding was taken off the list therefore the property owner should have depressed his plans the only reason to start the plan was because on october 11, 2011, the property was put on foreclosing list to other ways to deal with the property since the post office is not closing that site and was taken off that project should have stopped right then and there in 2012 project will add 11 trees no such thing in july 31st, 2004, the community and i planted 8 trees on the hyde street and four on the golden gate side of the property only 3, commissioner driscoll years later the property owner shows not

maintaining the mature trees all project reports the mitigations removal of mature trees is seafoods by planting new ones but the mature trees are greater benefits to - i will not take a decade or two for a newly planted tree to compensate for removal of a mature tree. >> the term line 2011 goals to preserve and the goal to preserve expand and improve the housing for middle-income residence in the pdf file the

code affordable units and all economic segments prop k that was passed in 2014 states affordable housing passed over 65 percent of the voters therefore this property does not include any of that your voigt the voters of the city and county of san francis this is the map of the next door building - or this is showing the entranceway of the property

this is the map of the neighborhood and shows the property entrance here and it goes all the way to four buildings here's a picture of that right here and those are the butt believes that will be taken away a fire exist e exit to the buildings have been taken otaken out this is the next two buildings hyde this is a bar association

building and for hiv people here's proof it is for the bar association property next door this is a next building over on golden gate madonna center 350 the madonna center and the list of the senior center and the living room all for seniors in the neighborhood this is the courtyard at the center and this would be affected by the shadow of the building and also since they use this both for the senior center

this is a map of 3 streets to the south this is from 101 hyde the square, block open space that will be affected this right here is the ymca which is open space this is the open space here open space here open space here, which will be affected by the property and the construction site this is actually a garden for the neighborhood this showing hastening and the ymca playground that will be effecting the seating for the students for hastening their

cafeteria from the mcallister golden gate side this is mcallister side showing they have beverages and everything this is right out from their cafeteria for the students going to the school this is another picture of the ymca yard and plants and vegetables. >> thank you. we, hear from the promotion holde

>> good evening my name is howard from the law firm i'm here representing the motion holder the family trust i'd like to introduce mr. paul erickson one of the co-trustees of the trust and like to introduce our architect i'll take 5 minutes and leave a couple of minutes for the architect and for questions you may have. >> first of all, i'd like to emphasis this is a great project for san francisco in every way the planning commission approved that by a 4 to nothing vote it's been in planning for approximately 4 years the

benefits are that that will not remove any hours no current housing provide 85 new units 10 will be affordable plies with the requirements of the city and provides 5 thousand square feet of new retail space it is consistent with the general plan, consistent with the downtown plan until the planning commission hearing there was virtually no or no opposition to this exhibit 5 to our belief we go through all the various community outreach efforts we are undertaken since april of envelope approximately 7 meetings with various groups and meetings with various individuals the project sponsor and motion holder has gone out of their way to design a project to fit in with the city and meet

people's concerns and so therefore we're going to request the boards uphold the planning commission approval as is without any new additions i'll brief address the main arguments that have been raised although mr. nolte didn't raise it i believe the community members will could you be the post office we've received additional correspondence the main point where the post office is located what service is the post office officer is up to the post office it is the u.s. postal service a federal you know a federal agency has billions of in its budget it is a tenants you know the post office nans it was closing i don't know if it is still on the closure list but a landlord/tenant with the owner

but let the lease expire without contacting the property owner the property owner went to the post office and said would you like a one year extension they said it allowed the post office to cancel with 60 days notice an issue where did the post office itself want to be relocated they'll relocation the boxes to the plazas and general delivery is up to the post office they're looking for new sites they could put it in a current site or a federal building about to block away or fox plaza it is up to the post office site was being poorly utilized frankly by the post office the facility that was there you couldn't mail a letter from the post office or buy a stamp from that facility i walked by that facility today it is not a very good block and this project is going to make that better

it is supported by the community and supported by hastening law school the idea 85 new residential units to try to improve that it provides for housing and nobody is being displaced and just on the post office again, it came up in the commission hearing whether or not this could somehow is post office could be given a rooirl the city attorney communicated to the commission that would be a constitutional condition i believe it would be those cases a cited in the brief those are the u.s. supreme court cases let me briefly addresses mr. nolte's comments with respect to the trees he's planned on the

site they were removed by the police departments there were visibility issues when we plant the new trees we'll work with the you know the relevant departments to try to put them in a place they won't want them removed respect to the tenderloin plan mr. nolte the second goal to expand housing no housing is being removed by this project it is expanding housing 85 new units 13 two or 3 bedroom units for families he mention the driveway he gave you a picture that driveway and easement will remain from place the way it goes the driveway is 17 and a half feet wide is going to remain and turns down into the underground garage the people that currently have access will use it the easement

will remain in place not effected finally he mentioned the senior center the madonna center and other areas in exhibit 3 a shadow study was done the only impact not significant is about an hour during 6 weeks the summer it may be that no longer 12 square feet of the yard in the madonna center has additional shade that's not a significant impact obviously there is trade offs you'll have 5 thousand new - square feet of retail, you're going to have a lot of new housing where it is needed i did not leave any time for the gentleman i apologize. i apologize we're all open for any questions you may have. >> i've got one the rest i'll wait in regards to the

affordable housing are you keeping them onsite or number two, or are you putting in lieu fees or onsite and we're keeping them onsite it is better for the concerns that have been expressed. >> i'm sure you've dealt with the neighborhood randy shaw's office is across the street. >> mr. shaw if he would like to have 85 new housing units it is consistent with the current uses so - >> okay. thank you. >> thank you mr. sanchez. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department i really don't have too much to address the subject is within the c-3 g-3 before you on appeal this is the planning commission

projects downtown as part of this their psyching e seeking to exemptions the one to the rear yard and one to the ground level additionally a variance for the permitted obstruction because it exceeds the exposure for the between at the rear the building that will be before you in early september no argument on consolidating the hearing doits dates unfortunately we believe this was properly reviewed and the planning commission was proper in reviewing the applications most of concerns that were race at the planning commission as well many of the concerns raised in the paeltsdz briefs relate to the displacement of the post office which does have a lease ending at the end of the year i have information from the staff they're in communication with the post office i can

provide about the future here so has been stated the po boxed will be relocated to fox plaza and expect the relocation of the boxes to be completed by the end of october if not easily before the end of the lease in december general clarifying will be relocated and the post office will will have no interruption in service with the service in operation by the end of the year as a back up plan it is available in hunters point and everybody this guess not an open mall solution but going to go through the process of general deliver and hope to have that done by the end of the year this identifies a handful of potential sites the meeting will be at the end of the september after the meeting a thirty day

hold pits everything at the end of the october and depending on the amount of time to make the improvements hope to have it up and operational by the end of the year in early december i'm available to answer any questions thank you. >> the there was one point i noted when i was reviewing the information from planning i did not get a change to go back the rear yard requirement here is this 25 percent. >> there's a three percent rear yard requirement under the code they've sector an exception give in the downtown can be exempted through the thirty 9 process not the variance. >> what does it windup to be. >> i can make that calculation and come back to you on rebuttal. >> thank you.

>> okay. we can take public comment may i see a show of hands how many people plan to speak on general public comment first person that want to speak come to the microphone and the other people listen up on the far side of the wall we would appreciate that as well. >> my name is bryan i live on mcallister i have maintained a post office box here since i moved to the bay area in 1983 the same box number i retained that when i lived in oakland between 2005 because it is important that there be a place i can always receive mail so if i move or anything happened there is no disruption of any mail because that can create problems of mail that is

important moving the boxes could create disruptions ii remember back in 19 when i moved in 83 i got a box of the old post office on 7th street and mixing that lasted until the earthquake but putting p.o. box at the end of town on evans street it is impossible to get to no bart service no it is almost at the san mateo county line would be an anti ravages inconvenience with general delivery for people that use that general deliver are following people in the neighborhood that don't have a place serve no purchase i did not think that the p.o. box has been there we don't need any new

of those ugly soulless building blythe the neighborhood when i moved here i lived i mean this is what's happening to the city another attempt to push low income people out i say totally mixed plan let the post office stay on the property indefinitely the people in the neighborhood need a stable post office thank you. >> thank you and if you haven't filled out a speaker card we'll appreciate that. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening my name is ben i'm a senior phone director for the golden gate senior center we're a downtown center on golden gate avenue next to the post office and as you may know we serve a senior with disabilities most of

time they have a mental disorder bipolar disorder and common depression and mobility problems so when they. come to the center they receive the shipment at the senior my big concern in the post office is being demolished or the new building is being built the loss to our the landlords can cost a person with dementia hesitation earlier or someone with a low mental disorder usually we'll have experience in the courtyard so imagine when the possessive is being demolished and it is

combaegd they're doing the experience my last concern why in front of our daycare center we provide transportation because most of them have mobility problems i'm concerned is the congestion our driver can't park at van there because away from the post office so it raise a scott wiener question to the services because our driver cannot park at the next street we are escort them it is two risky they walk and use a wheelchair across golden gate avenue i would like the commissioners to think about

how the negative impact to your seniors with the disabilities as a stepping stone for golden gate. >> i have a question circo you speak at the planning commission hearing. >> no actually, i have our person if you want to lower our service i'll give it to you. >> that's okay. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi my name is having i get any mail an hyde street i'm here to protest the issuance of the permits on hyde street here are 6 reasons one we need a place for the post office renters to get their mail they pay for this this is a convenient location. two this is the official

location be presenting for general delivery in san francisco people can't afford to pay for a rental of a p.o. box services 0 those people rely on survival benefits like food stamps and medi-cal and general assistance and some of them may have mobility problems or other problems like you know whether they're in an institution or not they might surf suffer from derby it's not clear with the construction of a mutilate union building will have on the quality of life in terms of pollution and noise pollution and others we must support the united states post office it is a valuable institution and deserves our protection there's

an onslaught of attacks on post office in brooklyn and berringer game where i used to be from our founding fathers mentioned about the protection of the u.s. post office in the u.s. constitution 5, there's also an aesthetic reap to protect this this was a gorgeous mural painted on the outdoor the building if it is an seat asset to the neighborhood there are actors and they like the musical notes and humming birds i speak if you know my interviewing of various people that you know used to live there or still live in the neighborhood they love that building and 6 yes. i agree there is a need for additional housing in the city moll affordable everyone needs

affordable units and prop k was passed by the voters last fall stated all buildings should have 50 percent affordable housing not 10 percent not meeting the standards of prop k please be sensitive to the voters and the renters needs that live in this neighborhood and don't just let the developers also have their way please listen to the people not only the money interests thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm susan bryan i live in the neighborhood for 25 years and most of the points i'd like to make have been eloquently made less than what i was able to do briefly seniors that were

mentioned will have to deal with two years of construction and like i said, i was wanting to take until originally about the general delivery issues and box boxes the tenants that used the boxes in general delivery needs reliable mail they need to you know they will have appointments and services and they're trying to get their lives in order and reliable mail helps that a lot now i can tell you having lived here in this neighborhood 25 years a lot of people have to deal with difficult and hostile managers where they live they have to frequently move and sometimes managers will

retaliate against individuals by holds their mail or doing things they shouldn't do and get away with it that's why it is important for people to have reliable mail always this is the fourth amendment having their papers secures the post office - it is arrest people that interfere with the mail this is important. >> that people have that still guarantee of their papers being secured when in their getting and sending them so it is not a light thing and i have a separate mailbox since 1981 and my mother had a p.o. box up in admission for 16 years until

she passed away this is important for you know for keeping your life together thank you. >> excuse me. do you still have a mailbox at this facility. >> no, my mother has that mailbox when she passed away way from the earthquake i have a mailbox service i've used since 1981 in the neighborhood and i live for 5 and a half years no oakland and come to the city 3 times a week to get my mail. >> do you use a non-governmental. >> yes. i do but it is like i said, i needed - having reliable mail at all the times makes a difference in someone's life especially, if circumstances demand they have to leave the premises.

>> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> yeah hello, i'm joseph thomas a resident of the tenderloin for the last 10 years first reason most residents oppose this project was total out of character for the neighborhood this is a 9 story building the tallest building in the neighborhood besides the federal building and the project does not provide anything like affordable housing if in fact the first step to gentrification of tenderloin

and golden gate avenue is a major transportation lane and can you imagine tying that up for two years and the post office i'm here to speak for the residents that can't make that here which is a lot of the people in the tenderloin as many of you may know are seniors or disabled people or transients and they rile on that facility for their mail many for example, if you live on eddy and taylor can't go to market to get our mail and moving it to evans really like a joke i guess so i think the issue the post office really should be something before this permit is

granted or you know they can build anything there. >> also there are letters that we're submitting in hastening they approximately think this would be a great thing to have a post office in that location that's what the residents in the neighborhood want of that's the building is disapproved a full service post office there's nothing near it it serves the students near hastening as well as the residents of the neighborhood thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello my name is e.r. win i'm from washington and living 90 in san francisco for two years i'm

a homeless residents who's been in variance programs or whatever but my gut i'll definitely want to stress that i wanted to speak what the speakers are speaking about the issues things like that i'm only thirty even for me it is has he will to do the things i do doctor's appointments and things like that making sure i don't have to correct this issue or deal with the administrative work and not just speaking of the post office being a further location that- i'd like to say that will cause a lot of issues on citizens that have wheelchairs and mental issues, neurological issues and

sounds like that location will be further it takes a long time to get to that location which they were sprng about the planning none said exactly when the post office will be would location we'll go to what dates this and that and actually don't have a clear plan where to this new location of the post office a lot of can't afford the service and i feel this is right for us to have a post office that is assessable that we can get to that doesn't cost stress and that is against the citizen data that had the data to make more work for them i'd like to speak on the affordable housing that i also

think i'm for affordable housing but we heard it only group of 10 units i believe we need a higher percentage up might have am living in real estate investments when i hear that number i think it maybe more so i would like to state that i think that if their should be plans for housing it should be somewhere else i'm pretty sure they have other locations i just think that taking the possessive from 101 hyde street not only will cause an issue of on the people transportation wise and them to issue itself is not planned out so i think that it should stating stay at 101 hyde street. >> thank you.

>> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is office of the city administrator 0 i live a few blocks away i think what i think anular to the post office with the speakers are highlighting this service doesn't create a lot of services that are needed particularly for the north of market area neighborhood with some of the unique neighborhood a low income neighborhood and a lot of disabled seniors great number of people walking there if you take a 2000, 9 hundred and food cord that will encompass 50 thousand people living in the square mile and people increases and this is the

neighborhood they're putting this unit in this building in i think the kind of - it - so what i'm saying our neighborhood is doing it's part to provide the hours for the city we're providing 3 times more density than - well more density 3 times more density than all neighborhoods we actually need in the neighborhood is low income housing and affordable housing just 15 percent affordable that's far below we we need we need low income housing and substance housing and program housing, we need shelters those are the kinds of things we need if this project wanted to provide more services to the

neighborhood the kinds of things we'll like to see would be smaller units, which are more affordable by nature a instead of having 15 parking spaces have zero there are more pedestrian accidents in the tenderloin than any other neighborhoods in the city mississippi we've been trying to get land grants that means all of the properties all the units will be permanently affordable if with respect to get that permanently affordable and perhaps another mitigation i don't oppose the project but like to see a better project. >> is there any additional public comment seeing none, then mr. nolte you have rebuttal 3

minutes. >> before i start rebuttal i want to start ask for a continuance there were 8 copies i asked how many of letters submitted and have not gone to the board president they're sitting here there for the commissioners to read i'm asking for on appeal right now. >> there's no need for a ruling when it is. >> no, i read. >> the public not in the middle. >> so why. >> if you want it distributed we'll distribute to the board members. >> those are documents. >> so mr. long distribute those and keep copy for the file before you do thank you. >> i'll wait.

>> you can hand to those commissioner swig and he'll pass the rest along okay. i think you can begin thank you. >> excuse me. ma'am, please

step back you, you ready and mr. long start the clock now thank you. >> this is a map of the active permits in the area this is the map of the active permits within a block surrounding block of the project this is the mini park one block away it will cast a shadow on this is a picture of the project from the north i don't think so how that the project the project here is going to be taller than the surrounding buildings those are

facts on the site this is a picture if the north no -- excuse me. from the east of the property you'll be putting a shadow on the federal building and on the open space over here those backyards and again, here's the playground right here the mini playground right here and so you can see the current buildings in the neighborhood so explain to me how this building matches any of the surrounding buildings we have to the south we have the service center historical district and to the east another historical district this happens to be on the borders of two historical

districts this building didn't fit at all it is a monster so explain to me how does neighborhood wants this building it is - does not look like at all any of the buildings around and show you the shots of buildings around it thank you. >> thank you, sir we have the rebuttal for you now.

>> i'm not going to have time to address every comment every comment has been addressed in the brief i'll address first of all, mr. wong expressed on and on a concern submitted a letter to the board stepping on the neighborhoods the other side of the driveway he's concerned about what is going to happen during demolition we'll meet with him after a construction schedule and try to work with him as well as the city codes with the demolition and do the by itself there's an impact on construction nobody is going to be parking in the white zone by the way, i walked by the white zone the driveway is 17 and a half feet distinct our property

their, their buildings and 15 feet the white zone in front of the building for stepping stone not - the only parking during construction will be in front of our building on hyde and on golden gate and we will comply with all of the parking requirements for all city construction in terms of the statements there was not an environmental impact report it is just not true it was provided with notice it is attached to this brief it is over a hundred packages it found there is no eir in terms of the mural we reached out to the all over the she expressed appreciation we reached out to her she's an opportunity to photograph it and she said she understands and wants to be considered had a new art project is being put up, of

course, she'll be considered their temporary street art she's not a historically significant artist it is a nice mural but that is matter of what happens when you develop properties in terms of please a nolte's concerns about the shadow impact found there is no impact with detail through the shadow analysis and it is discussed in our brief i understand that mr. nolte has a different view but he's not a qualified expert on this issue per i'd like to conclude look the issue with the post office is a red herring up to the post office and the letter that was given to you we've not righted before in that packet there's a letter from july 31st, 2015, from mary schneider a long time san franciscan her draft any blame to be given about the

usage it should sit squaring on this u.s. post office extend the services it is up to the post office they have complaints with the u.s. prosecutor's office not an issue with the property owner. >> just a quick question. >> yes. >> with respect to the adult facility you said you're going to follow the ordinances the ordinances are directed at people without disabilities and very well disabilities; right? so just saying your abide by the rules didn't address those issues you know you understand you take the appellants and the neighbors that are vulnerable to noise. >> right to let me address that. >> i was concerned about they're being that demolition

been 9:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. through friday the ordinance says you can't be doing demolition other than during daytime hours weigh try to meet with the planning department and the police department it is perhaps variance appropriate with compliance to satisfy their concerns by the city as other concerns of demolition rather a short period that takes 10 days and obviously talk about the periods it is appropriated we would do the best we can with it unless we get a surveillance from the ordinance we can do it at night and look at the feasibility of something like that yes there will be some disruption i'm not going to tell you no disruption we'll do the

best to minimize it one concern the noise and one the parking issue the parking is not an issue. >> we talked about that. >> by the way, there's no pilot drive in this project at all that's one of the major noise complaints. >> actually, the major noise concern is not demolition it is construction construction is the period is much along the demolition. >> that's true and again there is - there are the ordinance will comply and we'll do the best we can with it and obviously keep mr. wong informed of it and it is part of what you do when you live in an urban environment there is construction. >> we understand but i noticed in the conditions of planning

approval there's nothing in there regarding construction hours and days also the noise issue as addressed in the planning conditions only talks about the material doesn't talk about the exterior locations. >> i mean as we did it in 1050 valencia we have the conditions as well. >> are you finished i wanted to raise. >> i have a couple of other questions, sir. >> your 5 thousand square feet of commercial space on the ground floor is there a marketing plan for that. >> no. >> is it going to be subdivided. >> yes. 3 spaces again, we worked with the planning department mr. - how do we get

it to there you go. >> yeah. he saw that. >> this is 31 hundred square feet and 167 hundred plus square feet and this is the smaller one hundred and 41 secret and again, it is designed it is not for large retail it is designed for example the small one might be a fiat of some point worked with the planning department to fourth what was the most appropriate for this area. >> the issue of the post office has been throughout your project development but also throughout all the documentations that come to us how many non-governmental stores with either mailbox facilities or mailing facilities are there

in this area. >> non-ghonl. >> yes. >> i don't know have we got that. >> as you may know are fedex 1915 (k) community first option could say. >> and two, that are governmental that are nearby at least two. >> i understand but honorable non-governmental. >> sounds like there are two to three two or three. >> more than that. >> the briefs indicate that post office only 20 percent the boxes are utilized and correct. >> how many it is - there's 8 thousand total boxes i believe and 2000. >> 2000? >> yes. >> excuse me. please you can't speak from there.

>> the question also goes to the parking i'm quite aware of how contractors are and suppliers are concrete services they park whatever they want to. >> well there they'll be cited if they don't park legally if somebody does something illegal they'll be responsible if we have continuing problems then probably we'll be responsible the project sponsor directly or indirectly and we'll have to answer it that. >> you'll are a have a community liaison. >> right but look we want to build this in a responsible manner and we are responsible we're not a developer that came in here at the last minute we've been a property owner for the

last 50 years and you know we're doing our best to develop it in a way it make sense from our point of view as well as the communities point of view and you obviously can't satisfy everyone with everything this is compromises. >> i understand thank you. >> thank you mr. sanchez. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department just to respond to a couple of questions and points raised in the testimony the subject lot is 77 feet wide and hundred and 37 deep the required rear yard is 25 percent a little over 34 and 1/3rd that results in 26 hundred

square feet of rear yard area subtract i subject property is providing more 50 percent in total of open space but through a courtyard that is of the north northwest corner of the property as well rooftop open space space in the courtyard in the brief and less than had thousand square feet of roof deck in receive that was conducted of the negative declaration you know step below for the blow the eir conditions were imposed related to construction related to the construction air quality no limits on hours of construction up to the building code that is up that to standard and addresses the concerns we

typically have in the city there was no appeal of the environmental impact report this was adopted by the planning commission as part of review those are most of the points i wanted to address questions about the bmr requirements and it does provide 12 percent of the 10 units on the property they have elected to provide that onsite there's been kind of request to have additional below market rate unit unfortunately they're providing what is required under the code and can't require an ad hoc additional requirements under the planning code and we're somewhat just to note under prop k prop c that was adopted that further limits our ability that was voted change by the

electorate we used to have higher bmr requirements but the city voted to reduce that that was part of a bargaining to have affordable housing but just wanted to note that we have limits in our ability to assess greater than the bmr requirements in the code today and a lot has come up about the post office the denial of the what is before you again, the planning commission action on the thirty 9 not even the variance but the thirty 9 can't result in the post office staying there indefinitely. >> we understand. >> i have one question. >> the rear yard then is inturnl less than 25 percent the total area is in excess of open

space requirements. >> yes. and the depth of the rear yard. >> sorry so if i understand repeat question sorry. >> let me find the number. >> the rear yard shows a 18 unit plus all right. and so that's a substantial reduction if the 25 percent based on the variance. >> so it is a modification under the thirty 9 and - >> understood. >> a couple of competing issues this is a corner property for corner properties we seek to have the building wall along the street frontage so in this case they're doing that along golden gate with the rear yard with the

34 feet depth their maintaining that street wall there and one of the problems with not having a greater courtyard and the fact the depth of the lot going on along hyde street is 767 feet if deeper than providing a larger courtyard but finding a greater courtyard reduces the number of units and reduces the bmr. >> i'm raising that point of where different - the police and building code requirements for time and days of construction are extremely liberal i think 7 to 7. >> 7 days a week. >> 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., 7 days a week. >> that's no constraints. >> it's a condition that politics to all conditions in

the city. >> i've seen the conditions the planning conditions that are set days and times. >> where the environmental review has found it necessary to avoid the impacts and frementd the commission that is further goes those conditions but i don't think that that my recollection whether the hearing was the majority of testimony i think you heard was related to the post office certainly there are concerns impressed of the post office. >> last question is project council has indicated that the subdivision of the ground floor retail was that spaces one is 3 thousand something square feet some of the discussion came from planning? >> i wasn't involved in the

discussions about that by within the 3 g zoning district it is the use are in general but the ground floor uses - >> that's quite large 3 thousand square feet particularly - >> but whether it is a fundamental space it would be changed and certainly they can divide that up a number of ways but the way the building was designed some assumes about the gary space. >> go ahead. >> not to put you on the spot mr. sanchez roughly several the public talked about this how many larger in fill buildings are we looking at in planning for the immediate area of the tenderloin. >> i don't have that data in front of me certainly not a high number what was put on the overheads would

be i don't know the basz basis but the permit activity could be facing the window. >> it is highly developing something of a larger building. >> i don't think their not that i'm aware of of the soft sites in development and the tenderloin overall this is certainly a larger project a greater impact but you know we've also seen other neighborhoods that have a greater number of projects as well. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. sanchez. >> do you happen to know how the address 101 hyde come came to be that is 3 blocks up from market street. >> no. >> (laughter). >> curious. >> excuse me. if you have a response directly to that i object to hear it. >> kathy has a response. >> speak into the microphone.

>> i walked it today it is the number is just progressing gradually does that answer your question. >> this is obvious. >> i apologize. >> has nothing to do with with i was just curious yeah. >> thank you. >> commissioners the matter is submitted. >> and as a reminder this is under the planning code section 09 is the for discretion. >> and before us other things as well come forward so regarding noise do we address it now or later. >> not prepared to address it now. >> you know we know that it

takes noise to do construction there's no doubt but you know there's got to be some limits there's some days that people can expect not to have any just a second hammering noises or framing noises there will be a structure i'd like to see the project sponsor with the planning to come work with some reduction from what the code allows both from the planning department. >> the question of you know how they interact with the neighborhood direct your attention of the construction can be tested through the community liaison

given the nature of complaints as far and other things will be held to a fairly good standard with respect to travel and their impact because contrary to the answer they're building something at the edge of the property line and therefore you're going to have impact not only on the adjacent building but impact on the sidewalk they'll have to have some type of protection and be dpoifshgs of the pedestrians and everywhere else i'll leave it up to the liaison to deal with that to take care of those issues i would have thought to given

the size of the project and the savvy of the people working on it they could have come up with a better plan than blame it on the post office you know whether it involves some substance of a brown profit or establishing you're not talking about a great deal floor area that would accomplish the issue and i think given certain second times of our city's population it is a real question of a safe place for the mail given the fact that there are some fairly urban scrupulous landlord and property managers things disappear and we've had i remember one

instance it didn't happen in front of this board but checks and things like that i think this is a real effort i'm not going to do something that constitutes something illegal but the project sponsor to put forth some more positive ways of perhaps dealing with the commercial spaces with respect to the major needs of the neighborhood my comments. >> motion? >> public comment. >> this is one of damn if you do, damn if you don't i'm familiar with that corner that is a bad corner. >> it's a bad corner. >> it's a bad corner drug dealing and violence really bad people hang out there and to know help with no help from our

federal government to make it any better as the proprietor in that space as soon as my feeling as soon as something positive as that project can be built the better i work in the area and as a developer commissioner, i helped to develop some of this stuff the tremendous amount of construction occurring around the fulsome street between first and main and first or second and, yes that is noisy and 7 days a week but it is seeking the area that is completely underutilized and turned it into hopefully, a wonderful you know

neighborhood if you damn if you do and damn if you don't if you go go solar slow it will take longer than if you go fast extending the hours and, yes disturbance it is a damn if you do or damn if you don't situation i agree with commissioner fung i'd like to see creativity by the project developer for a retails for the benefits of the community but if one stays and opens up a can of worms post office that then you'll involve the federal government i don't want to go there. >> the project for the neighborhood is consideration of that corner is awful i think it is responsible for us would be very responsible of us to move forward rather than put any

curbs on it. >> go ahead. >> that plain clothes is under going a lot because the building association is putting a lot of - >> how should we handle it you want two motions. >> make one motion for both yeah. >> since it is one action. >> make a motion to deny the appeal on the grounds there is no error or abuse from the department. >> i'll hope that the project sponsor licenseds arrest commissioner honda we need to reaffirmative the environmental could have that the planning department didn't abuse its discrepancy including it's

adaptation referenced in the motion. >> thank you madam director. >> on that motion public school commissioner fung commissioner president lazarus commissioner wilson commissioner swig that motion carries 5 to zero. >> and commissioner president lazarus no further business before the board tonight. >> we're good afternoon, i wou

tacall to order the regular meeting of san francisco public utilities commission. today is tuesday august 11, 2015. roll call, please >> president cane, here. commissioner courtney, here. commissioner kwon, here. commissioner moran, here. commissioner [inaudible] .

>> before you you have the minutes of july 28, 2015. any corrections? any public comment on the minutes? seeing none i'll call fl vote. all in favor? opposed? the motion carries. at this time i'm going to call for the public comments of any item not on todays agenda. have any speakers today? okay, moving on to the next item >> item 5 is communications. >> commissioners any comments? i do have one speaker on item 5 d. christine hanson. could you come forward, please? >> i have 2. good afternoon

commissioners. my name is christine hanson and i'm speaking to you today as a member of the save ccsf coalition. i would thrike address the real estate service report of the attempt of [inaudible] along where the mayors office to [inaudible] housing development at the bal bola reservoir. it is claimed on one end by the sfpuc and on the onet end city college is in deed still one parcel. the u.s. and history has been intertwined between ccsf and the water department for decades rchlt i document written by joans and stokes entitled common sequa mistakes [inaudible] to declare a parking lot full of car suhr plus is to [inaudible] with the common sequa mistake. when trying to assess the needs of

the nearest neighbor, ccsf, you're dealing now with the changing state imposed administration that sspuc is resting on the word of public officials who guven the school when no public input was allowed. the current board of trustee meet rgz not video taped or broadcats to the community. how can you know the impacts of housing will be on the school. another common sequa mistake noted by jones and stokes is failure to account for past, present and for seeable projects. this is a perfect discrepgz of performing arts center slate frd the riz vore that the school has spent 22 million dollars in preparation to brildbuild. no mention of the project exists in the planning dwuments thus far. that

project replaces the school odd torium raised in 195 saechb to build the current reservoir. as i said, city college and sfpuc are instwineed on the rez ver. the history is entwined and now the state of city college is grim and to base your development on the word of public officials that are not necessarily a part of the college community is messy. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other comments from general public? seeing none, the next item is other commission business. >> other commission business. adoption of resolution and supportf nominationf kathleen tiegs as president of association of california water agency for the 2016, 17 term

>> acwa is the industry association for public water agencies in california. in the last couple decades it started out as a aggregate district agency over the last several decades it has done a good job i think och representing the state more evenly. it has also done a good job of trying to address californias major issues in a thoughtful and methodical and balanced way. it is the tradition to have the president of the board alter nailt between northern and southern california. the current term the president is john colman from east bay mud and in the next term it would naturally fall to southern

california. kathleen has been active in aqua since 2008. she is from cock monga water agency and my experience of her is she is thoughtful and approachable and very effective. she has spent the last term as vice president and will be the nominee for president of the coming year, so i think her presidency would be very positive and it would be my pleasure to move our support of her for that position. >> i'll second that motion. um, any other discussion, comments? any public comments? all those in favor of the resolution? >> aye. >> all those opposed? the motion carries. any other

commission business? moving on to the next item, please. >> item 7 is report of the general manager >> good afternoon commissioners. first would like to start off with the drought update. steve, ritchie >> steve ritchie general manager for water. if we can have the slides. we'll look at where we are in the drought. some are familiar, the first is level of storage in the reservoirs and hetch hetchy is 88 percent full but that is dropping now. water bank is above 100 thousand feed at 18 percent full so we are going through a relatively normal cycle now, hetch hetchy going down. we can't fill water bank as much in the past because there isn't enough water in cherry lake to do that so will

look forward to hopefully a well winter. i have-this is state department of water resources puts out all the states reservoirs and major reservoirs and this continues to show. they are quite low, particularly [inaudible] is at 14 percent of capacity and there is controversy about how much water should be retained behind it versus released during the summer. [inaudible] which is merced irrigation is down 10 percent of capacity so it is extremely low now and don pedrois a third ow capacity. precipitation, oddly nch in the last several weeks we continue to have more precipitation than normally. the month of june we had 4 times more than we usually get in the month of

july. that number continues to creep up on the water year. as far as demand, our customers continue to do well. of the 15 lowest percapita users in the bay area are [inaudible] all doing a great job and think you hear more from that when [inaudible] speaks on behalf of baus cu. total demand picture, again we are below the level last year and well below the level we need to achieve to comply with state water boards requirements. it bumped up because we had heat and started to drop in the last week so we continue to do well on overall system demand. i would like to talk about state water board cur patement action and focus on june 30 is when we received a notice to [inaudible] points of diverse including [inaudible] july 6 we responded

in the point of diversion not subject to state board notice and haven't herd more from the state board after that correspondence. by the end of the week [inaudible] don pedro[inaudible] should exceed the natural flow of the [inaudible] river which is what the state board is measure success is maintaining the flow. i included a diagram which is different than what we have seen before. it shows the flow in cubic feet per second on the left acsss and the month along the bottom thmpt blue line is the full natural flow of the river if it weent diverted by us or the irrigation districts, so you see as the year has progress ed and run off flows, that lines coming down, the blue line. during the month of july it

jumped around. it is moving-what we typically do is go down close to zero below the yellow line. because we had the precipitation it stretched out longer than usual. the red line is our release into the river. you see them coming down towards july and there is a bump in july as we start to generate more at home and put water in the water bank. we are releasing a fair amount of water in the water bank. the yellow line at the bottom is what is coming out of don pedroand that is about 100 cubic feet per second, 50 we volen tearly we wut in the river. the difference between the yellow and red line is what is going in the water bank so that is where that is important at this time of year that we are generating and the water we

release is for our purmshsism we have a bump up with the ecpectation it will dry out and the blue line will dip into the yellow line so the release out of don pedrow will go into the system more than what the river puts there itself. at that point the question is a mute question because there is more water in the river than would already be there. the key thing to note is [inaudible] the water bank, that water the district holds so whatever we were told to do by the state water board is irrelevant because it is under control of the irrigation district. you can see the dealter. there is a lot in there but the basic message is the river is above the full natural flow level in 3 or 4 days and unless we get

storms [inaudible] >> whautd are the next steps if the state water board comes back and they assert the opposite that is within their rights to restrict, what is our next step? >> it is a legal matter but the message is there is more water in the river so it doesn't matter. legally we disagree with you and if we state that that is apologist choice to make. >> can we continue our operations and await legal action? >> we continue operations because there is more water in the river than would normally be there so they have no basis to tell us to do anything. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so the next update is cca. barbara hale.

>> good afternoon commissioners. barbara hale. i have a number of items to update you on. lots of activity over the last couple weeks. august 3, mayor lee and some visor breed z mar introduced a resolution reaforming approval of the updateed implementation plan. that is the plan you adopted on july 14 and staff submit today the california public utilities commission for certification so it is now before the government audit and oversight committee. we have also been spending time on the 2 measures, ballot measures scheduled to peer on san francisco november ballot. july 31, the supervisors held a special meeting of the board and at that meeting they modified the measure that supervisor breed had initiated

in a manner that won over the support of the international brotherhood of electrical workers. they will campaign for the supervisors measure and against the measure they had submit frd the ballot. the ballot simplification committee convenes to draft the ballot digist and we staff activety participated in that effort and we are confident there will be a clear z accurate description of the measures cument composed for the voters. today we published the anticipated request for offer to sploi energy to clean power sf program. we asked suppliers to submit bids to sploi the prac with 30 mega watts of

electricity at launch with the opportunity to increase to 50 mega watts over the 6 month period. we asked them to provide firmed and shaped energy, so renewable and conventional power. we asked them to provide california renewable portfolio standard eligible bundled renewable energy. that is what is common referred to the bucket one energy, the more premium renewable lickticity product. we asked them to commit to pricing and deliveries starting marf 1 and continuing for 3 to 5 year. we told the sploiers we have a preference for projects in california and even stronger preference in the 9 bay area counties. that is our effort to get california project squz projects within

the san francisco region. we anticipate the program will serve residential and commercial customers ranging from 20 thousand to 70 thousand accounts. are there questions on this item? >> the change of heart from ivw, was there an agreement? >> [inaudible] measure expressed-at the root was kench that the san francisco clean power sf program would rely on unbundled renewable energy credits and not have much of a economic incentive to develop and build projects, right? so, that was sort of at the root of their concern about the program. the board sponsored measure expressed concern about

too heavy reliance on non renewable power on pg & e's sides oof the house and would require the department of environment to notify customers of the content of the power that pg & e was supplying and making mention of the nuclear conitant. i understand that emphasis on disclose thg nuclear content was what was troubleicing. what the modifications did that brought all the parties together is eliminate the nuclear description requirements in the

supervisors measure, requires the program that we implement at launch to rely on-to not rely on unbundled renewable energy credits to a degree greater than allowed by state law. it met the ibew interest with the positive statement and by dropping the requirements to disclose the nuclear content in pg & e's power supply got them comfortable and support the measure >> no conversation about jobs or prevailing wages or nothing like that? only on description? >> those items do not appear in the ballot measure, no. that's not to say there wasn't conversations about it, but-that is part of the interest ibw is bringing to the

table is interest in jobs but neither measure spoke to jobs as they were initially drafted >> thank you >> today we have a action item on the agenda- >> you mentioned that the anticipateation is cca goes out to residential and commercial custers and the business plan last meeting, we talked about the need to serve full serve commercial customers. is one part of hetchy going to be in competition with cca or how does that relationship work? >> you know, i think there is potential for that competition. i think for the municipal. the public owned utility power, the bundleed power we supply,

not all customers are cost effective to serve because of the distribution system investments that need to be made. we are hoping we will be able to identify customers interested in receiving service from the city and identify those where it is most cost effective for them to be a cca customer or a publicly owned utility customer. we hope in the dialogue with the customer we will be able to best place them within the options of service from san francisco. >> thank you. >> okay, so the next item i want to report on is the fact that we are going to be asking you today to act on a contract for the selection of the back office services provider for the cca program. we're asking you to award ongrument to noble

amare cs to provide the administrative and customer services for the clean power sf program. nobodyal amare cs would provide the meter data management, billing and customer care services. they will manage our customer enrollment process, tracking the customers who are opting out and establishing procedures and exchanging information about customer requests for pg & e. noble mare cs is a qualified provider and are providing to amu ren and sonoma and their cca programs. the action would amount to a contract not to exceed 5.6 million dollars over the 3 year term and end in october of 2018. under the contract noble will recover all costs by charging a per active meter fee

for each month and in that way we won't incur any cost under the contract until we have customers. so you'll have a opportunity to vote on that today as a regular agenda item. and then i wanted to put up our usual milestones slide. i have it on the overhead projector if we can get that up. thank you. i'm going to kind of try to focus it on the items that have changed. so you see we have listed today august 11, as the issue date for the request for offer, that is the first red item. we had target august 3, it is august 11 and we are a little late but none of the other schedule items are effected by that. i mentioned that today we have before you on the regular

agenda are equest to execute the back office and customer care contract. i don't know how we missed this after presenting this so many times but listing sept29 where we precent the analysis. i'm showing the next meeting date there-we will have that reflected properly in the future milestone charts. that concludes the update. we are still on track and moving ahead. thank you. >> thank you. is there a couple comments? i know you would be here. >> jason freed. i want to thank staff for doing a excellent job. i have in my

hands the rfo for power pure cure want released today. thank you fl hard work. i know this was more difficult than anticipated in getting done and they are able to figure how to get the calendar to work in a way that it is going out a few days later, they get back on track through the rest of the process so think that goes a lot to stay the staff and dissever congratuless on that. the timelinel just presented is the moving september 29 to october 13, i get why that occurs. we have started discussion about a joint meeting so if we get the meeting scheduled you could potentially move that item to the joint meeting and have approval of the risk analysis of whatever you are going to approve on that date . you can approve during the joint meeting and keep things on

track. october 13 isn't the wirs thing in the world but that is a idea to through out and think about. we already traded a little time back and forth between myself and your commission staff about the date. i understand staff submitted our potential suggestion which is the end of september we have our meetic on the 25 so if you are available that day we can make that day work for us. i know not all are here today so need to determine how many of you can be there and how many of our people can be there. the other item i want to fwring up is the discussion about the ballot measure. i want to thank you for your staff. comment your staff and [inaudible] submitted, we were able to get good ballot digest discussions occurring so there sadis tinction between the 2 ballot measures and that was going to

be very helpful for those purposes. as government we can't campaign for or against anything but can make sure what is pren today the voters is factual and accurate. we did a good job of making sure a accurate story is presented. we are not clear roof top solar in the city [inaudible] would not necessarily be considered clean green renewable energy under prop g and they would be counted under the boards measure, prop h. we are going to-while we are above the minimum compliance, we are going to be aloud to count roof tops that go solar sf [inaudible] all those roof tops could be counted against us for category 3 so it will give the

ability to count those similar to category 1 and not count against us so we can get as many roof tops in the city. thank you >> thank you. any other public comment? >> all right, the next item is a quarterly audit and performance review report. nancy hom. >> can i have the slides, please? good afternoon president and commissioners. as you are aware the performance [inaudible] sfpuc for the past fiscal year. provides a 12 month historical

forward calendar of all praunlect squz highlights, the breath and depth of oversight [inaudible] takes into consideration our recommendation made by auditors and agencies. we fenshed 2014/15 with 65 individual assurance projects. 22 audits and projects completed by [inaudible] with 29 pregress and 17 scheduled. the majority are performance related [inaudible] compriced of 51 percent of the portfolio. the next largest audit type is financial related and conducted by external [inaudible] in 4th quarter 2 projects were completed, the first is phase one of south east [inaudible] framework. the first phase

provided program project models data collection and reporting programs and internal and external audiences. the framework serves to support the program planning and management such as improvement, [inaudible] and also increased transparency, accountability, public awareness and funding support in the southeast community. the second project completed last quarter is the follow up audit of the job order contract program. the original 2012 audit was determine whether [inaudible] administered and monitored the program of the original 19 audit recommendations 4 remained outstanding and 3 were partially implemented from that 4. as we begin q 1 we have 22 projects over the next 12 months in addition to 22 in

progress. not all are listed here but the significant highlighted here [inaudible] followed by the annual financial report and the audit of statement of changes balancing adprount the whole sale revenue requirements for fiscal year 14-15. we have loyaltyies revenue for [inaudible] cash receipts and receive new and sf reviews and interdepartment invoicing and cost. the current fiscal years annual audit plan is finalized between csa and [inaudible] for fy 15 and 16. the projects scheduled in the next upcoming month. in collaboration [inaudible] continued focus is obtain values for planned projects thatkeepture cost efficiency [inaudible] policies

and procedures and facilitate continuous monitoring. as a result the managements planning audits in prior years added value enthe agency in the follow ways. include the franchise fee audit that led to a 1.5 million [inaudible] 35 fuv thousand dollars of ineligible discounts and provided [inaudible] collection of late fees security deposit and internal controls in property lease management and strengthen internal controls in areas of the organization including information technology, [inaudible] pure curement. as we continue through the year the staff will keep the commission updateed. if you have questions i'll be glad to answer them now. thank you >> commissioners, any questions? >> yes, thank you. first of

all, let me repeat a comment i make every time we do this. i think the commission staff should be proud of the audit program. i'm not aware of a publication anywhere that subjects to such a thorough and transapparent program. it is part of keeping trust with the people who gave us a lot of money to do their work and think it is very important, but for all that importance no less impressive. one overall comment i would like to make is that there are several audit find wrgz the solution identified is to implement a computer system and a computers by their nature take time to develop and implement. it is also true that financial and inventory controls were not invented after the computer age. they existed for a long time before that and the controls are established by

management and not machines. my comment is that we need to not take excessive comfort in the fact that somebody is developing a computer system and need to make sure the culture and management speak tooz the need for managers to protect our assets in whatever form their exist. there are several that have to do with inventory control that have been on the list for several years and hope we can make some real progress in getting those systems up and running and make sure that with or without those systems our inventories are being properly managed and protected. >> thank you. >> good point. any other questions? >> thank you >> thank you. >> so the next update is a water enterprise capital improvement program. quarterly report. >> good afternoon president and commissioners. cathy how, agm

for infrastructure. the written report is self explanatory but wanted to highlight we are finally moving into design for the peninsula pipeline seismic upgrade that was originally part of the-we discovered we needed to strengthen these pipes when we worked on the harry tracey projects under the water system improvement program so the last piece, phase 3 will allow us to meet the seismic reliability level of service goal under the water system improvement program. i can take any questions. >> commissioners, questions? >> thank you >> next item is dan wade will give a update of the water system improvement program quarterly update. >> good afternoon

commissioners, dan wade. [inaudible] director and please today give a update on fy 2014 and 15. may we go to the slides please? in terms of overall status, the regional program is now 88.7 percent complete. the local program is 99.3 percent complete and the overall is very close to 90 percent complete at 89.6 percent complete. pleased to report that the last construction project in the local program, that is the program within san francisco just completed this last month at [inaudible] reservoir. we now have 100 percent completion of construction with the one

small exception of outstounding electrical issues at lake merced pump station. we are in the close out phase. that is a very significant accomplishment for the program and commend those working hard on the projects to get us to this point. in terms of overall program status, we continue to have the majority of activity in construction in the regional program at 2.6 billion dollars of project value in that phase, but the great news is there is 65 projects totally complete in construction or closeout and we have one project, only one project in preconstruction and that is the alameda creak project. the overall program is on schedule to complete in

2019 as has been the baseline for had last couple years and it is also on budget at 4.765 billion dollars. that being said, you may have noticed a few red flags that i just want to acknowledge and point out. on individual projects, these won't effect the overall completion of the program, but if you look that report you'll see the san joaquin pipeline we have close out issues with litigation that was recently resolve so the date fl project is extended and have issues with drainage and solar panels we are fixing. division 5 pipeline, the bay division project pipeline, we had ongoing litigation with

mountain cascade but we are hopeful that will be resolved soon and there is a closed session item today. we have the [inaudible] hap tat restoration program. this geing well and over 100 million dollars to offset the nob nab of the seismic project squz the habitat values are reviewed by the resource agencies and they found the program to be going well, however, the extreme drought has impacted the timing of some of the projects and have to continue watering many plants and had to replace a number of plants as well as experiencing pathogen issues that effected the plants so we are eradicating the athgens to insure we don't have a long term issue. that has effected the schedule of that program as well. and then on the local

side, i mentioned the electrical issues at lake merced pump station but those are the red flag jz commissioner caen, i want to be sure we address those with you up front. in terms of recent accomplishments, i'm not going to read all these, but we have accomplishments every quarter especially as we get to this phase in the program. many of these regional projects are closing out and that is exciting. 36 of the 44 projects have now met the level of suvs goal squz that will continue to happen over the next year until such time we only have 4 remaining major projects in the program that go to 2018. the safety record is excellent but did have a issue this past muchckt so doubling down on the safety to make sure people go home safe at night.

the program attracts media attention and were able to celebrate that last project in the local region by having a reporter from the chronicle come out. we continue to earn industry awards and that is a great accomplishment for the project teams that have worked so hard for many years on these projects. in terms of preconstruction, i mentioned we only have one project that is still in preconstruction which is alameda creak recapture and the design phase is in process and the environmental impact report is also in progress. we finish thd notice of preparation and had a public meeting and so we are moving forward on those aspects. we also have the admeada fix passage facilities which is a subproject. it is significant project and finishing 100

percent design this month and put that out to bid in october and proceed next spring and have a prequalification in progress. pausing to look at some of the major projects that are ongoing in construction, i would like to start off with a little project called cal varus dam. construction is 70 percent complete, which is ahead of schedule. we had significant risk reduction on this project recently because we were able to resolve issues that were of concern. steve ritchie tells me he doesn't want to hear about the geologic feature and were able to solve [inaudible] they were crossing the new outlot cond uit and have desire to address those

issues. we are getting close to the bottom of the excavation. we excavated [inaudible] have about 500 thousand lelft to go and that won't be removed until next year but have a good understanding what is beneath the material and so a risk we will find something new will go down. that being said, there is still significant risk remaining on the project because we still have to build a dam. some of those risks include the source material for the hard rock insureing that we have the quality and quantity of materials necessary to construct the dam without quality issues as we go forward. deal wg nesting birds, we had some minor delays due to birds being aggressive building nest so that is a risk

continuing forwards with construction. we have-any time we do a excavation at the site there is concern with slope stability so that is risk. we do expect it to rain so there are whether delays but the risk has come way down, i just don't want to leave you with the impression we don't have risk going forward. this photo shows a recent construction photo of the spill way. we are in the [inaudible] looking upstream. 40 thousand cubic yards of concrete is placed. by the time we are finished we will place 60 thousand cubic yards of concrete to provide 45 thousand cubic per second of pill capacity. this photo shows the tower and

architectural components. if you go on site today you see this taking place and this is really a nod to the history of the system that was built here in the bay area by spring valley water company that sfpuc took over and this is a reflection of the architectural team at the [inaudible] water temple designed by wills polk around the turn of the sentry. there is a blue man on the right doing his best to prevent nesting birds on the tower so we don't have delay in construction. if you look at the urban [inaudible] project what you see is some work taking place on the existing tunnel. you recall the new tunnel went into service february and took the existing tunnel out of service. we did find [inaudible] repair work

taking place and expect to be able to put the existing tunnel back into service in september and do the final testing on the project. on this project you see restoration work going on. this is the photo of the sound wall being removed to insulate the neighbors from the construction and we are also focusing efforts on resolving 2 outstanding claimwise the contract, one is for excessive hard rock discover said during mining of the tunnel and also the 2 buckling repairs that we did based on the incidence that happened last fall. the peninsula pipeline upgrade is our last major pipeline program and that is going very well. there are no major issues during the construction of the project. this is 5 site on the

peninsula to replace critical portionoffs pipeline that go through fault crossings. this photo shows a couple locations where we have trenches thatd cross the seismically vulnerable areas and the one of the right is near the site of [inaudible] this is in a fault crossing zone where we have a special trench detail with bedding that is allowed to deform in the event of a major earthquake. the regional ground water storage and recoverry project started construction in april and the project is off to a good start. it is about 6 percent complete. this continues to 2018. thes is 16 ground water to help the aquifer to help in the event of drought thmpt goal is provide 7.5 million gallons

of water per day in lieu of construction project when we experience a drought. we have drilled several wells that are up to 720 feet deep and also cart started construction of the pump station structures you see in the photo. the last construction project i would like to talk about that i haven't talked about much in the past is a biregional habitat restoration program. the program is going well. it is a very large program. it is 100 million dollars of mitigation sites mostly on sfpuc water shed and the folks working the program are proud of the work they have accomplished by restoring the pristine watershed lands and working with the natural resources folks in puc to do that. this project has experienced some delays due to

430 million dollars in wages that represents 12 thousand workers3 4 f1, 48 percent of th howererize [inaudible] 72

percent of apprentice hours are from the same tear toze. we work with 4 regional based [inaudible] for sfpuc territory residence placed on projects in partnership with trades and contractors. i also just want to mention a couple dynamic partnerships and initiatives under the leadership of general manager harlan kelly [inaudible] in partnership with labor. the small business contracting tips work shops was held in hayward which was a success. we updateed folks on changes to local business enterprise ordinance and so that was one thing done

recently. there are several job specific training programs that benefited the water system improvement program and benefit the sfpuc as we do projects in the future and include the operating engineers heavy equipment training held at cal varus dam replacement project. it include the [inaudible] training. and also the labor biregional hap tit restoration training held. i want to end with a photo of the folks that participated in the training. this was a tremendous success. sfpuc in collaboration with the training center in san rumoan and mission training center in san francisco launched the biregional habitat training program and the training addresses the need for skilled workers to support the construction and maintenance of the projects for the water system improvement program. happy to report that several of

these people have gotten great jobs immediately after the training on projects and their position to really enhance their careers and families and provides benefit to the city as well and there is a fantastic video that our folks in mu [inaudible] put together that highlights the testimonys of the individuals that experienced the training and encourage you to visit our website to view that video. with that, happy to take any questions. >> i want to appreciate your comments about the biohabitat training and that you mentioned to masud and all the heavy lifting. i can't sit here and not recognize the great work of general manager kelly because the laborers, we like to take credit for stuff that we do, right? maybe a little stuff that we don't do we'll take credit for, but harlan does

deserve all the credit and husband staff because it wasn't easy to get that done and we wouldn't be talking about how we were able to place people and wouldn't talk about success and longevity if it wasn't for your vision so i was glad we were able toget that done. i'm compelled to say that >> i agree and glad you took the cue to commend or general manager. >> curious on the video you have, is there [inaudible] involved in that? >> the sewer system improvement program really took that. we are not as cool but they did a great job with that. >> one serious question, i was having a hard time keeping track of pluses and minuses going through the risk and trends discussion and there were several projects where it

was clear it would take more money but it was vaivl in the directors rover reserve. for the program as a whole, is there enough money currently identified to deal with risks and trends >> i think we have a fighting chance to finish the program in the budget. that being said, there are significant trends that we know about, but there is also risk. the risk we run a monty carlo analysis and we can fund the 80 percent confident level of risk with the directors reserve and con tingency in the program. i believe we have a strong likelihood of finishing the program within thbudget, that being said there is igsug couldn't risk ahead.

>> from reading the report it looked like we are in a different phase of the projects. as the projects come to completion, close out issues and claimerize in the forfront >> they are very much in the forfront and it is a lot of hard work that people are doing behind the scenes to address those issues, but just as a important as the start up phase or middle phase of the program to finish well and that is what we talk about all the time is finishing well. >> thank you >> thank you. >> congrats on the 100 percent completion, that is a accomplishment. question about the cal varus dam replacement. for the record, the california academy of sciences could not handle the whale fossil because of confrict of interest. >> we are in discussion with another entity and hope to have a contract in the future to

pure cure the fossil squz displace them >> thank you for you and your staff for [inaudible] >> the whale? >> they found how many whale fossils? significant importance in the project itself and the academy of science is in dialogue for about a year or so in terms of helping cureate and handle these but prevented us from getting involved after i joined the commission. >> any other comments? thank you slnt excellent report. we have public comment? >> okay, for my last update, would like to have a budget status report. have a [inaudible] eric sandler give you a update. >> president caen,

commissioners eric sandler, assistant general manager of business services and chief financial officer of pu crnchlths happy to be before you after a 10 year highates and here with a brief presentation that is a your relural quarterly budget report. the budget report that i'm about to present is a summary of fiscal year 15, recently completed june 30 that needs preodd audit numbers so they haven't been to audit for external audit [inaudible] and the way thais is organized, i have a presentation and there is a memo that provides narrative context on the year and detailed schedules in your package. before i get into the play by play for each enterprise, i thought there were helpful observations that aplayed to all. all thee enterprises experienced reduced revenue as a result of the

drought our drought response. we have been able to fully or partially mitigate the revenue reductions through a number of measures that are pretty much one time in nature either one time revenue or one time expense reductions. the good news is that all of your policy guideline frz debt service cov rrj and reserves are met but we have question about the implications for the financial planning for short, medium and long term. in the short term the question is what do we do for fy 16 and you took measures to adjust to reduce revenues when you adopted the 16 budget. we'll come to you in september to talk about the budget for fy 17 and 18. weal r what if the drought stops or continues or worse, those are the kinds of

things to consider and in the long term the question is how to rebalance the long term plan against potentially down shift in water sales volumes and sewer service volume. now i'll dive into what is going on with each enterprise. let's start with water enterprise. we saw a 41 million dollar reduction in revenue and that is just under 10 percent of the water sales revenues. 13.4 million of that was related to sales within san francisco and 27.7 is related to whole sale customers. one thing to keep in mind is the water supply agreement has a mechanism of balancing account so that the under collection in this year can be recovered in the following year. the issue with whole sale customer reduced volume and revenue is timing

issue than a absolute dollar issue. on the plus side, we had a number of one time positive event in the revenue picture. we had a 11 million dollar settlement with a contractor over some water main replacement and we also had a 8.1 million dollar sale of suhr plus property in mountain view. on the wrus side, wie also have-as a result of therefundings, the reserve requirement is lower and therefore we were able to take a certain amount of money off the debtd service reserve and

dollars, but we didn't use the 20 million in planned reserves so the waste water enterprise came out positive. 3 4 f1 with respect to hetch hetchy, we saw a decrease in sources and this was not really as a result of reduced of billed volumes but

there was less water so we produced less energy and we had lower sales of energy. we sold now power on the whole sale market this year and significant reduction in electric sale tooz the irrigation districts. on the e use side we did chbt have to punchs as much power as intended and saw the other enterprises 11.6 million dollars savings from not using planned reserves. as i mentioned earlier, all 3 enterprises meet the commissions policy targets for reserves and for debt service coverage and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> any questions? um, do you have any thoughts about what we are going to do if we have no rain next year? >> that is a good question. i

thipg that what me and my team are doing and what the exectev team is doing is looking at scenario planning. what if things get worse, what if they stay the same and what if they get better. there is no-what i can say is there no silver bullet but it will take a lot of everything to manage through this. >> i think the plan is september we'll come back with scenarios that if the drought persists that what are some of the things we will do to put us in a better position so we'll come back and talk about options. it is not only effecting water but waste water and power so we are going to do that as well. >> it isn't just a matter if the brout persists, if conservation persists which is

a good thing that presents challenges that we have to deal with. >> the last thing before we close, i don't know if we actually officially welcomeed the commission. eric, i know we talked individually and i was ought the last meeting but he stepped in and did a great job. it took the efforts of annhering [inaudible] and tod rr [inaudible] and michael [inaudible] to recruit eric to come back and apply for the position under probably a lot of pressure, but it is great to get someone in the industry because he came from east bay mud and was here previously and he has come in and fit right in like a old shoe. comfortable shoe. >> need a shine. >> we just wanted to thank you

and welcome you and he is a great addition. >> thank you. >> with that i conclude my report. >> very good. any public comment on the general managers report? okay, next item, please. >> item 8 is bawsca update. >> good afternoon commissioners. nick col sandkulla. if i could have the slides. i want to talk about 2 things today. first, i want to give a flavor for how the service area is doing in response to the call for water use reduction and i'll land and end on [inaudible] first, good

news. the bawsca agency are leading the state in achieve thg reductions requested by there governor. as a whole, if we wait their targets, they have to achieve a 15 percent reduction target and in fact, compare today the state wide reduction of 25 percent, in june the agency achieved 33 percent which is a pretty incredible number. state wide the state agencies as a whole barely exceeded the governors target and in fact, among the bawsca agencies all but one exceeded the target and that individual agency just found out what the reason for, it is was [inaudible] their major shopping center in town was close said june of 2013, demolished, 1.3 million gallons is a normal use in the month

that didn't exist and not on the books and now fully rebuilt and they were in demand of june 2015 that couldn't figure what happened to west burryo that is the answer. if you look that rest of the state, the state as a whole, 61 percent of reporting agencies are achieving the target. there are many agencies in the state that are 15 percent away from the target. for me the take away is that they are doing a very good job but need to continue to do more. this is the breakdown. this is something that my board had asked for and so each of the agencies, this is the june data and 33 percent overall savings is the solid dark line across the top and the 15 percent is the average. the conservation standard sin yellow and percent reduction they achieved is in

blue. so, what you really see is the fa nominal experience with each of the agencies. this is the same data but tr had residential per capita use. just some people like to look at that a little differently. what you see here is the broad difference among the region where you have low residential per cap taw agencies like dally city and east pally alto and high ones hills burrow being the highest in 2013 in june, but doing a very good job achieving the target and they are very serious about doing everything they can to reduce their water use. what we know is that that number is great for june, we must achieve the bulk of savings in the summer when you have the majority of

agencies using 5 oor 60 gallons per capita today you won't get reduction from those in december. you have to get the savings in the summer, so that is a very important message and one we have talked about through the suvs area that now is the time to achieve those savings and need to do more so we make sure overall throughout the year we save everything that we need. so this is our push. these are 2 of the billboards that are down on 101. one is going north and the other south in the vuscenity of red wood city. the push is really about outdoor irrigation and it is about going native, planting drought tolerant species and allowing the grass to go gold as mine has and looking at either givling it up or replanting with natives after

the drought is over. that is a big push and i think we are seeing the results with these numbers and hope that will continue. now, on to my second topic. mountain tunnel. i do feel it is important to speak to that today. it was my understanding you were going to be present would a schedule today and anyhow that is put off until your next meeting in september which your next meeting. houv, it felt like this challenge is so important and the need for progress is urgent and to protect the water users who are dependent on the water system that delay of weeks or days do matter and want to say a few things since i have your time today. the tunnel according to staff and consultants is at risk of a failure which can could reduce water deliveries to agencies and customers for a extended and undetermined length of time. i believe the situation

requires the same attention that is given to a lot water system improvement program which is successful [inaudible] and really that was where back in 2005 we felt mountain tunnel should have stayed at the time. last week i met with your staff and we areiveed the schedules to do the work necessary to improve access to the tunnel, the work to inspect sw repair and build the by-pass tunnel if required. we are working with your staff and together to determine how to protect our water users and assure reliable water supply. each of the 3 projects require a lot of time to complete, 2-12 years. amazing to think about. that doesn't include contingencies or thij things we can't anticipate today. mean while, 24 threat of extended outage continues to exist until the project is complete. as

you know, may 26 i asked the commission for a plan to determine how to meet water needs fl customers in the event of a outage where a certify actry water supply can be found and how can it be delivered and our biggest priority now is the protection of those water customers. 1.seven residence squz 30 thousand businesses and thousands of community agencies i represent. given the schedules we received and the 3 mans i focused on 2 issues. the prompt identification of the water supply plan in case of tunnel collapse and urgent approval of the best plan to fix the tunt, the efforts are connected and equally important. they are both critical to protect the interest. continue to ask the commission and staff to give

priority to these challenges and urgent implementation of plans that will hopefully be approved. [inaudible] thank you. with that, i'll take any comnlt you may have. any comments? >> >> thank you >> thank you commissioner. >> next item, please. >> item 9 is the consent calendar. all matters here listed counsitute are considered rutune by san francisco public utilities commission and [inaudible] vote of the commission. there is no separate discussion of the items unless a member of the commission or public requests in which case the matter is removed from the calendar. 9 a, approve kubra [inaudible] award agreement cs 310 and offer profession agreement for an amount not to exceed 1

million for 5 years. [inaudible] for total contract amount of 876, 177 and authorize final payment to the contractor. c, accept contract number, w rks with 526 approve modification 3 decreasing amount of contract by additional 257, 353 and authorize final payment to the contractor. d, award contract number ww 569 in the amount of 746, 492 to the lowest qualified responsible and responsive bidder lc engineer and construction >> any request to remove any of the items? to the public, same question? seeing none may i have a motion? >> i make a motion >> second >> all those in favor? opposed? the motion carries

>> item 10 approve the selection of noble americas energy solution award agreement cs 247 r and authorize professional service agreement for amount not toexceed 5 [inaudible] >> did you want to present this again? no. i should ask are there any questions on this? jrk jason freed. this isn't on the critical path this is a item that should have been put on the critical path so encourage you to pass it today. i think a contract is important in get thg program or the agreement is important to get the program up and running since the only way to collect funds is if we have back office support system. i encourage you to pass out the staff recommendation today. >> good, thank you. any

further questions from the commission? may and a motion, please? >> move >> second. >> all those in favor? opposed? the motion carries. let's see, where are we? madam secretary could you read the items for closed session? >> 13 is unlitigated clam [inaudible] versus city and county of san francisco. 14, existing litigation, ccsf versus pg & e. item 15 existing litigation mountain cascade contract litigation. item 16, existing litigation restore hetch hetchy versus city and county of san francisco. item 17, unlitigated claim, ccsf versus ae com. item 18, litigation city county of san francisco versus [inaudible] golf and

recreation. item 19, conference with real property negotiator water shed lands known as parcel 61 and 65 containing 218 hole golf courses located at [inaudible] under negotiation is price and terms of payment. items 20-26 will not be heard today. >> um, first of all, i need a motion to recuse commissioner courtney from closed session for item 13. >> i'll move. >> i second >> all in favor? opposed? motion carries. any public comment on the items in closed session? seeing none, we will now go into closed session after a 8 minute rec

>> >> the commission has now reconvened to open session. in closed session, the following was done: item 13, 14, 15 were settled. item 16, 17, 18, 19, no action. i have a motion regarding whether to disclose? >> move to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor? opposed? the motion carries. other new business? the only thing i can think of is i don'ts think that commissioners should wear cubs >> i conver, thank you. >> be aware. >> would you like to announce

the august 25 meeting is canceled? and august 25 meeting has been canceled, so the next meeting will be the second tuesday in september. >> i can't promise to wear these until the next series. >> the meeting is adjourned at 4: 32. . >> and this place did not look like this this is unbelievable and it is the jewel of the

tenderloin thank you, mr. mayor for making it so and boys and girls club over there and other entities and the big missing piece a kid's we're missing with only trophy we have to yeah oh, at the hall of fame without further and i do let me introduce the mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee. >> thank you. well it's fun to be here with the champion of tenderloin and the police station as well as the wonderful kids out here happy summerhouse life without school (laughter) well, i'm glad to be here joining you on to national night out we're doing that all over the city you'll be up in another place greeting the kids it is a night where we have a sized

family kids coming out to really participated in 234ir playground and we have rec and park staff and we can neighborhood staff here we've got people running important office we have the united way and social services, we have community people most importantly the residents of the tenderloin who deferred this world-class particular to play in and have fun to be healthy and they enter in between with the rec and park volunteers tonight our social services provided up, up would the sport to make sure our neighborhoods are strong many say what national night out does i'm glad to be with the chief to make sure everybody is safe we have a couple of things in front of us chief what are the things for those of you who have yet to

catch up those are the san francisco giants world series trophies so later on everybody that has cameras can take a picture of yourselves i have one with my business cards i give it to other marries and say what have you got in the way we celebrate the giants have been be us a great fund that helps to penetrate all the communities i'm happy they lent you will say here for more fun and a lot of great shoppers i want to give a note of appreciation for everyone that provides food and refreshment where we happen we have a new company that opened up their ice cream that is the human try if you've been to the ferry building you've lined up with many thousands of other

people and they tent are donating ice cream for the kids how about that have a happy nationals night out and enjoy our communities, enjoy the relationships, get to know each other this is a time we ought to be knowing each other by our first names in the parked and streets this is part of was this the community is all about glad to be here celebrating thank you. (clapping.) >> your new champion trashing i'm handing it off and what more can i say we have lots food and ice cream and candy corn kids sugar up and playing music it might be a little bit of dancing

enjoy the nig (clapping). >> when you cast our vote in an election in san francisco you might kaflt your vote at city hall or choose to vote by mail ever wonder what happens after you cast our vote what's the process for tal vote in san francisco and how is your vote counted let's follow our ballot when you tall a certified by the department of elections first, we'll look at what

happens to our vote another a polling place when you cast your vote it is set into a system called on in sight it read our ballot and the data is soared on a memory cartridge it is based in denver, colorado provides san francisco with high sail balance scared and software to count the votes when the poll is closed the memory card is removed by the inspector cartridge is sponsored are stored in a anti static bag and a san francisco parking control officer takes official custody to deliver to city hall the custody of the actual completed ballot is transferred to deputy sheriff it verifies delivers them to pier 48 managed i the election on election night pier

48 is a hub of activity bringing the ballots to poll line up audits to delivery to the team it's a long night for those election employees staffer unpack and sort of all the ballot bags and i account for the ballots and dropped off at polling places and from the machines the inside ballots a counted to verify the total ballet for the polling places more to do with the ballots and we'll get back to them a little bit later

meanwhile at systematically city hall the department of elections sets up a gone night only uploading center staffed by the employees and to transfer the memory cards by the parking 0 offices. >> on election night that he set up austin at city hall to process the votes and completely and accurately as possible in the bag it was placed on a reader that records the summary next the carriages are unpacked and checked in by our staff then the carriages with a vote so for etch print are fed to into the right sideers by the

memory software is he see the vote by a line that is in the department rooms tabulations back at the polling place on election day you might cast our veto using the edge voting machine a bilingual that allows the voters with limited vision or other disabilities to have access to the ballot their recorded on a paper printout and stored in the edge machine. >> i also need the edge printer. >> at the end of the election day a deputy sheriff take custody of the field container from each edge machine. >> you on have one edge printer; right? >> those deputies transfer the container with the plastic bottles and the departments

warehouse on pier 48. >> the department of election staff opens the sealed container into every edge machine and reviews the printed record. >> here at the department warehouse teams of two people roach the edge printer material and check and recheck if the votes are recorded a team have to people puts it onto a blank perspective and two different people confirm the votes and correct any errors all the edge printer are hyphenated their transferred to the deputy sheriff and the department employees transfer those ballots to city hall and feed into the

machine for counting that way all the votes cast on the edge machine are included in the election tally. >> voters are encouraged to vote at they're assigned voting place people that cast in other marathon their ballet place their plaid in a special envelope to be verified verification is checking to see if the voter is registered in san francisco if they are their votes are count for where their registered more than 60 percent of san franciscans cast their vote by mail ballets cast at city hall have also process as vote by mail process brother you receive our ballot in the mail it has to be received and sort of by the

u.s. post office the largest may progressing facility in san francisco though it is get i quite a large operation about 5 hundred employees throughout 3 shifts that runs 24/7365 today what we have all the day when the city of chicago have arrived and they'll be processed for delivery so over here a truck that has come in we're expecting about 2 hundred and 48 thousand ballots to come into the plant on 6 different trucks so for we've received 3 of the trucks as you can see there's a lot of mail here right now, we're getting ready to run the mail on a bar code softer and we but u put it into

a sequence it is good for the ballot constituents. >> voters drop off 25 percent of the ballets at poll places at the end of the day custody is transferred to 0 deputy sheriff that transfers them to pier 48 at the pier battles are a collected the number of rushes is needed and quickly transported by two deputy sheriff's to city hall for process before any counting of any vote by mail can happen the voters signatures must be verified so first, the unopened vote by mail is run through scanner that takes a picture of the bar code and signatures the bar code identifies the voter and this information along with the voters signature is sent electronically to the voters

place for verification while here in voter services we check the signature on the ballet envelope with the signature on the voters fill the name predict and name is entered into 9 election system the staff reviews the information on file and visually compares the signature and we challenge the valid of the ballot if it is severed they've voted in this election and the official stamping of the ballots sent electronically back through the scanner envelopes radio run introduce the scanner again to sort of out any unverified ballets on the second scanner their sort of by predict voter services staff we

proclaims every ballot to make sure that the voters are contract and their vote is counted. >> though accepted vote by mail used to be opened by hand now opened by a rapid extract machine it helped on the envelope on two sides and the machine that opens the flaps are recorded you can reach in and pick up the ballot it is probably twice as fast as a manual process and the wlalts is then scanned by a 4 hundred high-speed scanner that counts the votes on each ballot sadder at the same time employees schek the

dominion sheet and compare it the scanner sometimes cannot read a ballot due to damage or light parking garages by vote their transferred by hand by a go person team those new ballets is run through the ascertain sea the votes are add to the final tabulation wonders where your ballet is you can consortium our battle ballot was received and check the constitutes and conform our vote better to be safe than sorry was ultimate counted using the tool at sfgov ballot.org. >> then we transfer the data from the skarnlz into this laptop and tabulate using the do night time software. >> on the severe those are

transferred into the memory cartridges once the data is loaded on the laptop the service tabulates the vote we generate the veto and put 12 on the website and the report also includes a predict by predict breakdown of the polling places and by mail a one neighborhood district of votes and the neighborhood turn out report. >> we can take a lot of information about the election including one of the most popular broke down by party and continue to look forward to improvements. >> you'd think that is the ends of the story but still more work at pier 48 that needs to be done california election code requires one percent of the predicts that are chosen added random by an elected official

the one percent manual tallied it their counted by hand here to the department of the warehouse 4 employees count them there are 3 steps first in each team won person called the vote and two people tall the votes that are called second to the tall people have the same results and finally the tallest are compared with the electronic vote. >> this one percent manual tall is one of the last steps in declaring the official result of the election from your home or neighborhood polling place to city hall by memory cartridge high speed up scanner or manually our vote is tab laid and the results end up printed and posted and declared certified by the department of

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