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speakers are limited to 3 minutes. please complete a speaker card. please give me your speaker card prior to speaking. additionally there are sign up list at the table for those who would like to be added to the mailing list. commissioner steven adams, dooley, monetta white, paul tour sarkissian, commissioner irene riley. >> general public comment allows members of the public to comment generally on the matter of commission's purview and not on today's agenda and

agenda items for future consideration. >> do we have any members of the general public today that would like to comment on any matters that are not on the agenda? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> we should give a shout out to all of our tv viewers. we've been getting fan mail all month and we want to let them know that we love them. >> we have no competition with land use. >> we are in an open time slot today. so for people out there watching us. >> let's move on. item no. 3 is approval of the august 10, 2015, regular meeting minutes. do we have a motion? >> i motion to approve. >> second. >> i second. >> commissioner adams made a motion, commissioner riley seconded. all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? item no. 4. discussion and

possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on bos file no. 150270 public works code contractor parking plan. this ordinance amends the public works code to require a contractor parking plan as a condition precedent for approval of excavation permits for major work that is 30 conservative calendar days or longer and specified temporary street space occupancy permits for construction work. i have a presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners, my name is jess montejano. as i have sure we know the construction is booming here in san francisco and the shear amount of construction in our

corridor is causing quality of life impacts for residents in our neighborhood and our small businesses and our commercial corridor. the genesis of this legislation came from constituents in our district. district 2 had the highest number of residential construction and parking permits in the city. especially owners along chess nut and union as well. we know the scarce amount of parking especially for parking that is vacant for hours and days at a time. we wanted to come up with a proposal to remedy some of the problems. we definitely feel the city can be more proactive to let the residents know about the impacts to residents and we can do better with that. we teamed up with her initially when we

first introduced this legislation back in march and have added supervisors wiener and breed and kim to the legislation as well. we have support to make it through the board. as brian was stating this amended the construction for the parking plan for on street space for parking permits issued by the department of public works and also includes new fees to really help with the enforcement of this plan to ensure that our contractors in our neighborhood are following the permits that were stated in the plans that are going to be submitted to the city. the components of this structure parking plan the contractor will now permit includes the following: the number of parking permits and the average number of employees at the site. the timeline and phasing of the project and the requirement of the contractor to notify the department of any unexpected changes. it also requires the contractor to use

carpooling or park side such as parking garages instead of taking up valuable street parking. there is also a component in the plan that mandates the contractor come up with a proposal for how they will make on street parking available to the general public and to business owners by 4:00 p.m. each day if that space is going to be used after that time. when we are working with supervisor christian and cohen we want to focus outside of our traditional from our office which is in a residential neighborhood and they want to expand it to encompass more of business commercial as well and we had an amendment issued by the land use committee that includes pdr districts and citywide. that was one of the concerns of the commission. we are open to hearing additional construction that should be included as well.

additionally the last component of the plan gives dpw some flexibility to request any additional information that they find important to have as part of the construction parking plan that the contractors will be submitting. additionally all of this information is made publically available to dpw so any resident or any owner of any part of the city can see the parking plan and see how this is impacting their neighborhood. we believe this is a straight forward proposal. we work close with sf mta and contractors on this proposal and we have the majority in support and some of the contractors aren't too happy about the fee increases but before the legislation we did a budget analyst report that shows all the permit fees per capita with other cities

are relatively low so they can stand to be increased a little bit. we understand what's going on right now but most of the times those contractors pass through the additional permit increases to the customer or the client they are working with on behalf and we believe them to be minimal. the legislation today is supported by all the departments and i understand on friday there were some concerns and i had a chance to review this today since we were on recess. i will be happy to walk through any of those questions and answer any concerns that you may have. all right. thank you very much. >> commissioner, adams? >> first off i want to thank supervisor farrell and cohen for this piece of legislation. this is awesome. this is something in my opinion long over due especially with all the construction going on and i appreciate that you are

looking at commercial districts as well as residential because that's where a big part of the problem is right now. i was in the valley a couple weeks ago and they had a few signs up there but no construction going on. my question is what department is going to approve this plan? >> the department of public works. right now most contractors how i understand the process they will go to sf mta. they will come up with a proposal and sf mta and manages and overseas that process. we are primarily working with those two departments to come up with the proposal and how it can be implemented correctly. i think the biggest thing for dpw was to have permanent funding for enforcement and limitation. i think we all

believe that the success of the legislation would come with the enforcement and the additional fees will help with that. >> do you know if there is a minimum amount of parking spaces they can take? >> right now our requisite, one parking space for 30 days. if there is more than one, they will have to do that as well. we didn't want to necessarily slow you know some projects and especially good projects that need to happen in our neighborhood, but at the same time we needed to institute some sort of balance for the residents. >> here is an idea too and i was thinking about this a couple weeks ago. do you have these school playgrounds that they use for parking in the summer time when a lot of this stuff is going on. we can get something in there and maybe it would be a win win for the schools. use those as a parking spot instead of taking up street

parking. >> yeah, i think that's a fine idea. when we were crafting this legislation, we had to be really mindful in what was in our jurisdiction. obviously school parking is a great idea. it would be in the jurisdiction. school district and what they choose to do there. >> what will be added that we plan to introduce at the board is another requirement that states that a contractor has to use the on-site garage parking before they take on an on street parking space. especially in our district we saw folks with park is available on their garage parking and using parking in front. that didn't make sense. >> commissioner dooley? >> i wanted to ask about it mentions having them say how many employees they have. it's certainly been my

experience in north beach, pretty much everybody wants to have their own truck there all the time so they can run out and get their tools. is there someway of limiting maximum amount of street spaces. >> i believe they can take more than 60 on street parking permits. that's the threshold we have now. at the same time we hear clearly from residents and business owners that the city needs to be more proactive in planning and letting citizens know pro actively what's happening in their neighborhood and no process and no notification exist. we think this is a really helpful first step into providing that plan outside of our traditional noticing requirements that we have on the books now. >> is there some kind of incentive that encourage carpooling or truck

pooling amongst these folks so not every single person working on the site has to bring their own vehicle. >> yes, one of the components we have on the plan is the contractor has to submit to dpw whether they have carpooling options. so that's a requirement of the current parking plan we are working on now. i would add some gray area here. there were some difficulties working with the city attorney in what we could restrict versus what we couldn't restrict. what this is is our best attempt to provide the parameters and pro activity for the contractors about what is happening in their neighborhood. >> i also have a question about if they aren't using a space from 4:00 on, i find that a lot of the spaces aren't being used at all during the day. those

are 10-4:00 p.m. our prime business hours where those spaces could be really used. i know a lot of residential space the sign says if no construction is started by noon, i would urge you to roll that back to an earlier hour. >> i think that's something that the cosponsors would be happy to look at. we were trying to find that balance and from the residents especially their coming home after work, the traditional 4:00 hour. they can understand in the morning construction but for the proposal that makes sense. >> the last question. i have a pile of notes. >> it's what we are here for. >> the storage issue. i know when they went to a site, they stored large pipes for weeks at a time taking on an entire

block of parking. so it didn't seem clearly that it was not going to happen. that could still happen is kind of how i saw it, but that is a real problem if they do that. >> i'm looking back here. it looks like on section 4.20, section 8 there. one of the components of the parking plan is how the contractor, excuse me, it's no. 7. sorry. i was wrong. it's no. 8. it requires that they at least submit as part of their plan as to the material of the storage and pipes and construction materials are going to be used as permitted parking spaces. that is identified in the plan. what i will do before this makes it to the board on tuesday, dpa drafted up one page about the project an

parking plan. i will be sure you see it to be sure there isn't anything on there. >> i understand when they put materials in the parking space and they are going to be using them soon. my experience has been that they are not using them soon. they are just sitting there for a month or two and eventually they are going to be used. so i would like to see some kind of time limit for how long they can use it for storage. >> that's what we are looking at and providing this plan making it available to residents and business owners on the website, having a point of contact, i think with additional fees that are going to help with enforcement and this kind of pro activity and contract the business owners will have because the residents and business owners know

their own neighborhood. >> thank you for bringing this forward. it is really necessary and really happy to see something move. >> yeah, of course i appreciate that. >> commissioner ortiz cartagena? >> thank you. this is way over due. the only question, did you reach out to the parking sector companies and explore any ideas? >> i know they have with the parking companies. are you talking about a specific kind? >> just to get their expertise? >> yes. one of the things, or one of the components of the parking plan which is the contractor evaluating whether they can use kind of off street garage parking. all of those sites and majority are own by sf mta and we can host construction materials or

permit out those spaces instead of the on street parking spaces as well. >> okay. >> director? >> through the president, so a quick question as i couldn't really, i wasn't clear in reading this. is this being applied to private contractors or is this parking plan also being applied to city like when we do excavation for water pipes? >> definitely all of the above. anyone that received an occupancy permit, they are all going to have to submit this construction parking plan as a prerequisite for receiving that permit. >> one more question. >> 5 days notice is pretty short. we need to have more like 2 weeks so if

it's going to have a major impact on a commercial district, people can figure out what to do. it's got to be at least 2 weeks. >> that -- does that seem like the overwhelming thought from the commission? >> i would prefer 30 days. the most as possible. >> i think we take this to heart. we understand one of the most important things in business is certainty and knowing what's going to happen on your storefront and corridor. we'll definitely run that to ground. i have to better understand from dpw and the timeline they have in giving out these projects. i can imagine maybe the construction project in district 2, someone just wanted to get it and have a contract maybe tomorrow. with other projects, i'm sure it takes long to mapping out what the project is going

to look at but we can have more flexibility on that. i think it would be non-substantive. so it won't cause any delay. >> i would be surprise anything that impacts parking gets a permit with lead time with more than a couple of days. the contractor might say i mailed them out 5 days in advance and if it happens on a monday, we don't see that for a couple days later and you only find out because the parking spots are gone. we got noticed by cal trans 2 days after the construction occurred saturday and sunday night. all the residents were pissed off. they said we noticed everybody per the legal statute. so there was a case where it got hung up in the mail and the government

transaction didn't happen and none of us got notice. i don't think 5 days is enough to allow for what happens from the time of leaves the person that's putting the stamps on it to get it to the person who should get it. >> i think you are exactly right and that's a reasonable request. john maloney the our city attorney on that request and those that are supporting this legislation as well. i would just add to that i will be break -- back in front of you in about a month or so. so it isn't their standard mailing anymore. so we'll be able to get it out to the business owners through e-mail. >> it tends to be going out to the landlord. most of us never see what the landlord gets because we are all tennants, commercial tennants but all residential tennants. but the

noticing needs to go directly to the tennants as well as the landlord. and the language in this particular item keeps saying neighborhood. neighborhood tends to ring residential. we have so many mixed use corridors here that it should specifically include neighborhood and i think we have some recommended language here about how to call it commercial tennants. neighborhoods, commercial corridors and/or business districts right now. we can recommend some wording to you. >> yeah. i got at the mail from regina. we are happy to include that. that makes sense and that is definitely our intent. what we heard from small business owners is we need to be notified. >> commissioner sarkissian? >> i would like to join my colleagues this congratulating you. >> thank you.

>> just coming back to the tenant issue, i believe that the ground and second floor should be included. >> okay. that's not a problem. thank you. >> commissioners, any other comments? commissioner riley? >> hi, when you determine to noticed the neighborhood, where do you get the information. commissioner dwight just said that usually the notice sent to the landlord? >> yes. >> is it possible to get the information of all the tennants? >> yes, i believe so. that was our intent. we are happy to work with the director and our city attorney to match that intent and all the tennants that are affected. i believe it's 300 feet in our legislation. we were sensitive to some of thcost included because of the permit fees included as well.

that's the intent. we want our neighbors and business owners to know what's going on. that's the plan where we are going to have a contact person and they are always available and they will have a point of reference to go online to check on what's happening in their neighborhood. >> they get planning. planning has to notify owners and tennants of projects now. so when you get your notification in the mail, it says to current occupant. it doesn't even say the landlord's name. it's whoever is living in that unit. that's how they notify you. >> that's good. >> commissioners, anymore comments or questions before public comment? okay. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners, do you have any other comments or questions? jess, thank you very much.

>> thank you very much for your support. >> director? >> well, i think timing wise can you just sort of review with us since we had some discussion about possible amendment what timing wise is. this is agendaized as an action item. you might want to take action on it with a proposed recommendation. >> okay. >> do we want to simply make a motion, read out the recommendations? >> yes. >> okay. >> and real quick to provide that quick timeline. it got out of land use at the last land use on july 27th. it will be on board agenda for the 8, but we have a couple weeks between now to come up with what should be simple fixes to match the needs and desires of the commission. >> okay. would someone like to make a motion?

>> i would like to make a motion on this piece of legislation and i would like to hear what amendments we would like to add to it. >> we have a list of them. >> yes. >> do we need to read them into the record or can we just enter them into the record. there are seven recommendations. >> there are seven recommendations and the only one who hasn't had enough discussion, but making the recommendation is i think recommendation no. 1, just making sure that the parking plan. the alternative parking locations definitely apply to -- when commissioner dooley talks about the number of employees that they are also making sure they are presenting their parking plan where their employees are going to be

parking. >> yes. but we could work through the seven recommendations that we have presented to the supervisors office. i just bulleted them out in your binder, but those are the specific recommendations. >> and storage to keep an eye on that. >> they had that in their no. 8, the storage. >> yes, the timeframe of the storage and commissioner dooley you also, i don't know how much, if this needs to be in the legislation. you said noon? >> it should be noon instead of 4 p.m.. :00 p.m.. >> you might want to note in commercial districts if it makes it easier. >> i think there is some wiggle room because with the residential

construction we are seeing but i think dpw has a policy in place and i will come back to double confirm with their team that any contractor can put this upon themselves if that parking is going to be used for 2 days put up a sign and let them know if that parking will be available to the public. >> we would like to do that. >> right. >> all right. i think easily enough commissioners because we have the seven recommendations that were presented to the supervisors office pretty much specifically address them. >> so i can make the motion that i would like to make a motion to approve this legislation with our seven recommendations and we can just attach these seven to the legislation. perfect. >> great. do we have a second? >> i second it. roll call?

city clerk: commissioner adams, yes, commissioner dooley, yes, commissioner dwight? yes, cartagena, yes, riley, yes. >> success. >> thank you for your outreach. i know you spoke to several merchant groups. this is a great piece of legislation and i want to thank you again for your outreach too. you heard from a lot of people on this. >> yes. it's a big issue citywide. >> thank you very much for your support and i will see you in about a month with our neighborhood notification notice. we are happy about that. >> thank you. >> all right. onto our next celebrity presentation. item no. 5, discussion and possible action to make a final recommendation on file no. 150790 planning code establishing a new

citywide transportation sustainability fee. we have adam varat. >> good afternoon. it's great to come back. speaking of good pieces of legislation. as you know we came before you a couple weeks ago and you gave us food -- feedback and we have information for you. i believe this document was distributed to you all and i'm just going over that quickly. it's just to read a couple of simple pages. the first page is questions raised by the commission, second page a few keypoints and the last one is comparison that breaks the text down into a more readable form so you can see some of the changes we are proposing. i will start this

and run through it quickly and happy to answer any questions you may have. one of the questions that came up were about the new construction trigger proposed to the tsf and how that would apply to pop up retail which generally these days may include shipping containers. a couple examples that came up were proxy and the yard. i mentioned the yard and mission bay project that is temporary and the impact fees because mission bay has their own set of rules in this situation, but proxy was treated like a permanent use and whatever fees were applicable at that time. i wanted to go over that. in terms of shipping containers you can get them in various sizes. the largest is 8 x 40. theoretically you

can get two full large size shipping containers on the lot and that would be less than 800 feet before you trigger that fee. also reminder that tsf like the tdf is a one time fee when the new use is being created and that basically lives as a credit on that site. if you change the use in the future to an even more intensive use or if you demolish and rebuild or replace, you do get credit for that. something else that is interesting about small pop ups is generally speaking they may have this container space or some other type of small modular space but they typically use a lot of outdoor space as a primary area for seating and that space does not count towards the fee. just as if you have a restaurant, that area is not counted towards the fee because

the fee is calculated using the area which measures from the exterior walls. any space outside is not covered by this and currently on tdf or any of our impact fees because they are all calculated through the floor area. another question that came up is where does the 5,000 square footage. it outlined the proposal there for the change of use to take down 800 but create a small business policy credit along with the parking credit and keep that 3,000 square foot threshold for that credit and at that time there was some conversation with the small business community about whether or not

3 thousand was too small and raised to 5 thousand and there are numerous place in the planning code. to give you most of our commercial parking controls and areas where we require parking still are not triggered until the use is 5,000 square feet. in the downtown district in the ground floorless than 5,000 square feet. they are exempt from fees and far's to add how much you can build on the site. in typical districts, it's up to two floors and some allow up to three which is about 5,000 square feet maximum on a

typical lot. similarly tying back to the rg3,000 square feet number. that these businesses are a finer grain. the vast majority is 3,000. again, we also have a conditional use permit authorization required for a certain size. depending on the district you are in, it could be 5,000 or 10,000. in china town similarly the lots are restricted to 5,000 and we have a conditional use requirement in grocery stores if they are over 5,000 feet. that's kind of a proxy

for a small business. obviously a small business can be measured in different ways if it's area, number of employees, establishment and so on. in terms of the fee, the area is the easiest to use for us. there are questions about other businesses. as an example i quickly through in some existing businesses. i won't go over that. you can look at that at your leisure. those numbers are approximate. onto page two, just a couple of key points which we touched on last time which is the changes we are proposing are basically benefits to small business with the tdif now and the existing area plans. the only thing changing in the other direction is the fees girting higher -- getting higher and we are bringing the residential in that category which is not today. other than that,

every change we have made is a positive. if that means the fee will apply lessor there is much more likelihood for the credit for the use that was there. if you go to the last page at the table that just outlines that point which is if you look at the different factors of impact fees. we have three columns here. one for the area plans, one for tidf or tsf. as we talked about the number of land use categories which is an important issue in our area plans is 3 and now it's 9. down to 3. tids is unique in that and we wanted to remove them. small business is not in our areas. and limit tdif in the policy

credit pool. that limitation would be taken away and it would be a permit limitation. and in our area plans all new construction trigger the fee except for tdip now to 800 square feet. tidf and tsf 800. small business and adding the dwelling unit requirements. we just wanted to go over that information with you and give you chance to ask any other questions or comments you like and we are available for any questions you may have. >> commissioner adams? >> thank you very much for this. this really cleared it up for me. i very much appreciate the impact fee comparison. i like this. you did a great job on this.

>> thank you. >> it's definitely something i can support. how is the prime rib at $360 square feet. >> that's a lot of prime rib. >> that's big. >> about the size of a bag factory it turns out. >> director? >> so, commissioners, i just want to provide you with a little bit of information. i had a conversation around 1:00 with lisa pagan and oed and doesn't have the ability to oh pine on it. some feedback that ben hoot an, the industry person. one of the feedback from ben is that with the nexus study takes a look at retail and retail at mostly daytime travel and the nighttime

industry, you can look at it. there is a high number of individuals using it, but also there is less public transportation available at that time. so from the nighttime industry perspective, paying into the fee, if they are over 5,000 square feet for an entertainment establishment they are paying a fee where they are not getting service much return. so in terms of the dealing with the consideration of if you are going to consider putting forward in a final recommendation whether the consideration for the small business exemption should be 5,000 square feet. that was one particular feedback. then, the other was that with the 800 square feet for new development if retaining the 5,000 square feet is what is going to be retained

especially looking at neighborhood commercial development for mixed use building that we have some pretty sizable ones in hayes valley but if you are planning to do one in these respects, could there be consideration for neighborhood commercial new development where it's again sort of working with something simple, a flat 5,000 square feet small business exemption for commercial space, new development, non-new development. those are put forward for some potential ideas to give consideration to. it's not to say that's officially where oewe is, but to give that some thought. >> right. well, i think as we discussed last time, the one beneficial caveat is that it's a change of usage issue.

the limit comes into effect if it's the change of use. if it's the same, it doesn't affect it. anyway, we just put it out there. any other questions or comments? >> then, if you don't mind. can you briefly go over how office space works in the downtown and opportunity to -- the high rises? >> in terms of fees? >> yes. >> large office projects, let's say anything over 50,000 square feet, whether it's downtown or anywhere, there are certain fees that are going to apply. obviously tdf is going to apply. you get into the job housing linkage fee which is triggered

at 25,000 square feet. and the 50,000 square feet with a child care fee if not provided. if you are downtown, there is a downtown open space fee as well. if you are not downtown, if you are in eastern neighborhood in soma, doing this kind of project, you would be subject to the eastern neighborhood impact fee. it depends on where you are exactly. there are various fees that those are subject to. >> is that just for new development. let's say you go into business and into a new building and you take 5,000 square feet and you grow and go to the next floor and the next floor and often the tenant improvement, discussions in tenant improvements are sometimes done by the property manager if they

are expanding? >> if it's just tenant to tenant there is no change of use. there is no new construction triggered. if you have a building, if you are in soma, but you are near downtown, on second or third street corridor and you have a warehouse that you want to convert to office. that would still apply. >> i think where the sum of this question comes from is whether there are exemption that are similar to the other exemption that were made for certain high tech companies moving into central market area and whether this just is a part of a bundle of fees and thing that would be negotiated, but in fact most of those developments were not change of use, probably. so

this particular fee would not apply. >> it depends. so, if you are referring to the tax incentives that were created in the market, >> those are different. >> right. >> if you have a project that have or going through the process of receiving a development agreement and that is a separate process that takes the project away from the codes and negotiated with the city. obviously from a negotiating perspective, the city uses what is required. it's not completely thrown out. but that's a much higher bar. they are doing a development agreement while what happens more often now is not something that happens more often. it's kind of a separate beast that we put in the code. >> okay. commissioners, any other questions or comments?

>> adam from the planning department. i want to clarify the point with lisa and i'm happy to follow up. one thing to red -- remember about this fee is it goes to capital improvement and not operating improvement. the improvement for the bus system can help with the speed of the bus service and the program about when it runs. this fee in particular as the impact fees are tied to the built capital improvement. >> okay. so we can feel better about paying. great, any other comments? okay. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> do we have require any

action? >> well, i think commissioners, from your recommendations at the last meeting and the action that you took you wanted to get more information in terms of whether 5,000 exemption was satisfactory. if you wanted to consider making a recommendation for more as a policy decision for you in terms of whether you received enough information to finalize that decision and then also you wanted a little bit more clarity around the 800 square foot and the impact. so i haven't heard much conversation in relationship to that. again, home of those kinds of

projects are going to happen and so it's an evaluation for you in terms of that a little bit of money going into sf mta's budget, or what that may mean for those small businesses and just another kind of as we often hear about stream lining and various things on that end. >> as a practical matter, it seems to me there is a fair amount of inertia around coalescing around this 5,000 feet even if there are urging of more or less. i would imagine that it would be somewhat difficult to change that inertia at this point. also we would want to consider where the diagram overlaps. how many things are really going to be over 5,000 square feet for small businesses. of those how

many will be triggered and used. i feel that ultimately over those intersections of things there are very small projects. to change the inertia behind this for an unspecified but likely small population of projects is highly unlikely. so we can of course make a recommends if we want, but i think any recommends other than 5,000 carries it's own arbitrary nature and all we are doing is advocating for more. the question is where do you draw the line. adam has been very thorough in providing something we all know and love and that their indeed there is one kind of case here where or one example that a company is larger than 5,000. certainly it bears witness to

the idea that they are less than 5,000 feet. it's where to pick your battle. >> right. >> where is the reasonableness plays in. commissioner adams? >> i agree with everything you just said. and i got to thank you guys. when i read these comparisons, you answered my questions and i'm more than happy to support this piece of legislation. so i would make a motion to go ahead and approve this. >> just want to throw out one last thing and reflecting on elisa's the conversation. in terms of the 8,000 square feet, any variability in terms of permanent and non-permit

structure. throwing it out there before be get to finalize and the policy for you for consideration. >> more from our i would say neighborhood economic development in trying to activate different spaces. so, and again, the space that proxy is on, that is city owned and eventually the city to be building on it. but when that will be. that space is not intended to be permanently used as a space as it is now. >> great. are these activations, oftentimes these activations involve the city. is there a case where an activation like that would be subject to a negotiated situation not like a very large construction project?

>> no. not really. ultimately the planning code treads everything from a land use perspective as permanent except for those things that can be permitted as a temporary use. that is very limited. such as christmas tre

>> there is nothing to pass with taking applications now should the ballot pass. if the ballot does pass, the application process will have to be amended because historical preservation will be engaged in part of that process. so there is interest from the supervisor's office. they have been contacting us in terms of wanting to begin to do their nominations.

so i would like to start out with the process of working with the nominees that each supervisor has. i'm not really opening it up just yet for allowing the individual businesses to initiate an application that would be forwarded, but i would like to have you give some consideration and i will have follow up conversations with epa of you over the next week. if we do start taking these applications starting september, last part of september, that means we can officially start hearing it the october meetings. is your preference to schedule these items to be heard at one particular meeting in a month or to hear you know at each meeting.

>> why don't we see how they roll -- in? >> okay. >> i have no idea. i have some idea, but no stated ideas how fast it's going to happen. >> i think in moving in 2013, where am i? sorry. i am somewhere else. 2016 then we will take a look at, i will work with building in terms of meeting time availability and what that means if we need to have an additional meeting. i don't think this is a meeting that needs to be televised. so that will open up our ability to have more flexible dates available. so if we have it in room, i

think 412? what's the one? 408. >> what will happen at a meeting where we review. these will be legacy businesses that have already passed through the application. correct? presumably they have checked all the boxes on the application. i believe we will see businesses that qualify under the rule. so the only thing that would happen here. we are not going to have a huge debate about anchor -- and bakery. i'm not clear what the discussion will be other than to say, that's very nice. i'm glad these people have applied and presuming there is no financial request which many of them will come without financial request, i believe. then i don't think there is going to

be a lot of discussion. i would you are thely encourage us to acknowledge them at this meeting rather than not, why not. we are using this platform as an acknowledgment as it's great. you won the award. you applied and you are approved. what i would like to see is how many people applied, what are the complications, why wouldn't there be anything but acknowledgment and the brief discussion here. >> i have a question about the timeline rolling out when individual businesses can apply. you are saying only businesses that are recommended by supervisors will first be looked at. >> right now it's pure staffing. i mean, it's just having being able to have some control of the floodgate at the staffing level so that we

are working. there needs to be review, discussion time with the businesses that are nominated by the supervisor or the mayor in terms of what's in the application. you know are the applications complete. so and then assembling and getting the packets ready in time for you to review and agendaized and noticed. so really right now it's really just trying to make sure that there are some realistic controls over what we are able to handle and then >> i also would expect, if history is any indication, supervisors are not going to spend a huge amount of time finding the nominations

themselves. they are going to be to those i heard about and other businesses and here is the recommendation. because supervisors are busy. they are working on limitation. to direct their limited staff to say, hey, go find me some legacy businesses. it's not going to work that way. there are others who may have their list already but i think the supervisors may respond to suggestions or interested parties. i think we don't need to unduly prepare for what we do not know what's going to happen. i would recommend that we see what happens initially and we can always react accordingly. >> i do think there is a lot of interest out there in terms of self initiation and until we have

staff dedicated to this program. i want to make sure that staff is handling what is being nominated right now by the supervisors and not working and handling and facilitating the legislation that is not nominated by the supervisors until we have the adequate staff. >> requesting acknowledgment of the legacy businesses other than requesting financial support for a business that is going out of business. i think it's mostly people requesting acknowledgment. it's a restaurant in business for 25 years, a cleaning company in business for 25 years. at the end of the day we should have a very low bar for acknowledging these businesses that have been in business for 25 years or more. who is to say the restaurant or cleaning business

or brewery is more elegant or more worthy of being an elegant business wechl should stick to very objective thing when it comes to acknowledging those businesses because it is nothing but goodness to be bundled up to say this is a great business that's been around for a long time. the businesses that are in trouble and the business for the legislation. this legislation has two prongs, how do we acknowledge businesses that have been around for a long time. that's a good market for the city. the other one is how do we assist businesses who are in dire straits. i think we've all acknowledged the funding available under this program is pretty limited when it comes to being in dire straits. so, those are going to be the exceptions and those are going to be the things that require

perhaps more conversation. i just don't have any sense whatsoever to know how that's going to break out. i don't think we are going to have a land rush of people going, finally, i'm going to get some financial business. i would be completely wrong but if you are in that condition, you need a lot more than what this offers. >> right. well, currently there is no financial assistance. so that is not there until -- >> right. that's the legislation. >> right. so any application that comes through right now is subject to what is currently written, in law, in place. and what's the legislation and not the ballot measure. it would be up to the board of supervisors in making the nomination. it's up to them to

give the consideration in terms of who and how they nominate and should that fund be there in the future, the prioritization of who they are nominating in relation to that as well. because even if a business does apply through our office before the board of supervisors or the mayor nominates, that application gets to the supervisor or the mayor. because they have to be nominated. but again, it's a work flow issue even though we are not asking a lot of them but it's still information. it's enough information to be tracking legislation and dealing with that and processing it and getting it ready for you. i just wanted to let you know i'm going to be very mindful as we start to learn this process. what's going to be submitted in our applications, what's going to be involved with it to

have a little bit of control right now until we have a staff person to really facilitate the program. >> that's fine. if there is anyway we can assist with that, maybe that can help as well in terms of reviewing the applications. i think the ner term incentive for any supervisor is to celebrate how many legacy businesses they have in their district and to pat themselves and their businesses and those companies on the back for being part of san francisco's legacy. it will clearly not be until after november election whether there is any movement trying to determine whether any of these businesses qualify and to what degree that would be helpful to them. so, again, i think the initial vetting is going to be very straight

forward. i think that the candidates are probably going to be companies that are well-known to us and it's largely a pr sort of activity. >> i'm just a little concerned. i understand where we are coming from. i agree we need to see our rolls out. politics from what they are, there might be someone in a given district that may not be necessarily nominated by their supervisor. i would like to see in the future that a business could apply on their own. >> there is nothing in the legislation that passed or in the ballot measure that says that the supervisor who nominates, they can only nominate businesses from their district. it's the high probability because they have those relationships, but nothing precludes another supervisor from nominating a business that is

not in their district. >> does the rule allow only the supervisor and the mayor to make nominations or can the business person make the nomination? >> the law states that it's just the mayor and board of supervisors who can nominate. there is no jurisdictional limitations in terms of the supervisor. >> could it be as a potential not maybe won't happen. but i would not like to see any deserving business not nominated or put forward by their supervisor. >> i would have to think if the business wanted to be nominated and appealed to the supervisor for being nominated. let's say an article in the chronicle about it. they can appeal to us. i'm in small business. i have literally been there and they will not nominate me.

i think i meet all the criteria. then we would advocate on their behalf. >> it's not uncommon for businesses especially ietsz -- either if there is a cultural distinction about the business, other elements that they might have with a supervisor over their district supervisor for other reasons. the legislation didn't spell out anything precluding and i hear what your concern is and i think that -- and the supervisors did say in our meetings with them that they would also like to they don't necessarily want to be in the position of only doing the nomination. that if businesses apply they would like to receive those applications and then decide.

so, but an application, a business that might submit an application that hasn't first been nominated by the mayor or board of supervisors will not come before you. >> it has to come from the mayor's office or the board of supervisors. >> the nomination. it has to come first and whether they look at it or it goes other way around or inform us we want to name x business and the staff reeps -- reaches out to that business and have them submit the application. >> is there an opportunity where they can self nominate? >> not as it's currently written. but if they want to the nominated

they can appeal to their supervisor. rather than having it here. we'll wait to see the first one. >> this is again why i'm saying i want to start off with some controls whether that business will call our office and we will have the conversation and one of the recommendations will be finding out do they have a relationship with the mayor or the board of supervisors to start off with, anyone of them and if they don't, working through the process, there can be organizations that they are associated with and have a relationship with. but clearly the nomination has to come from the mayor and or board of supervisors. when we have adequate staff, that's the kind of i think sort of kind of

massaging and working with the businesses that will be able to do, but until that time. it will take up time. so i just want to have some controls. in the future, there is no reason why we cannot be, if a business says i heard about this program and want to be considered and we walk them through the process. >> i can imagine a few businesses that some might find objection. i can see that. i think maybe we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. okay, any other commissioner comments or suggestions? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is

closed. no action required. i don't believe. city clerk: which brings us to item no. 7. directors report. >> commissioners, i wanted to bring to you, your attention for the gross receipts to help advise the city and outreach for the business community around to the transition into the new gross receipts. there is going to be a follow up meeting on thursday to kind of talk about give libtd -- a little bit of a preview on where things are in terms of how it's going and the roll out and because in the law it does say that it's how the city is meeting it's revenue goals will affect sort of the percentages in materials of the payroll and the gross receipts. >> who is on that committee

from us? >> okay. commissioner adams. okay. so a heads up on that. and beginning of september will be the official announcement of that we'll have a presentation for the commission. and then did want to bring to your attention that richard hall ran and learner. richard hall ran with the department of building inspection, they are on the commission. they have started to meet and i have been invited to meetings to discuss about how we are going to be working the outreach and working with businesses and the property owners and the appeals commission to get prepared for

supervisor tang's legislation. so i think that's going to be exciting to be a part of. and i will be forwarding to you. there are several bills at the state level that i just became aware of last week. one is looking at doing a similar kind of tax credit and deduction that the federal government has at the state level. another is permanently implementing the dollar fee. it was sunset in 2018. we'll make that additional dollar fee that we charge. a permanent dollar fee. this will be great for us because it's helped fund our cast inspection program. so to help subsidize

it. it hasn't passed yet. but we soon will be mandating the entry ways are dealt with. there are still other issues to be dealing with in terms of accessibility with not just the entry way that are equally as important to make sure the businesses are mitigating. there is still definitelily continuing e working with the subsidized section. i will leave it at that for my directors report unless there are any questions. >> no. >> item 8. president's report. item nine, we do not have a vice-president's report. item 106789 commissioner reports. >> i attended the --

negotiation with google business. they had about 300 people attend that event. it was very good. so that's all i have. google did a great small business presentation. so i want to give her a shout out as well. >> commissioners, any other items to report? >> item 11. new business. >> any new business? no. item 126789 do -- 12. do we have a motion for adjournment. >> i second. >> get ready, here it comes. [ gavel ] >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>.

>> this is a meeting of the rec and park commissioner president buell commissioner vice president low commissioner bonilla and commissioner mcdonnell and just to note both commissioners commissioner levitan and he commissioner harrison has excused 9 and 10 will be removed from calendar item 9 is the memorandum of understanding approval and item 10 the ports insight square approval both will be coming back in september a few reminders please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, during the meanwhile meeting please take conversations outside and also

each person commissioner has 3 minutes. >> 3 minutes. >> to comment on each item and on about general public comment and when you make public comment please comment to the commission in order to allowing allow equal time neither the commission more staff will comment during general public comment but the staff may answer questions when did public comment is done on item 2 the president's report. >> briefly i know we'll hear more about this from staff i want to congratulate all with outlands a huge success and give me the normal kinds of challenges traffic, etc. he think everybody did an extraordinary job. >> monument to make public comment under the president's report. >> not yet.

>> okay. >> you would be the first to comment. >> i think under general public comment seeing none, public comment is closed we're on item 3 which is the general manager report. >> good morning commissioners former vacationed are just about over my kids are back in school what a great summer for rec and park a quick overview in summary we provided for 80 different that summer camps 12 thousand plus individuals participated in the camps phil our camps to 93 capacity our learner to swim programs were a huge success 4 thousand at 96 capacity those are programs to teach kids how

to swim we awarded nearly 5 thousand scholarships $750,000 for all to participate participants learned on some form of skwlip one in 3 and 90 percent of the folks that took the end felt summer survey recommend rec and park exams a hearty graugsz congratulation to bob and his division for all the tremendous work bob is on his way to camp mather with 70 kids with our teen experience are a variety of underserved kids now the fifth summer we've done this what is amazing about the program several kids on the trip have been on the trip boo and working with us in the program

it is a spectacular inheritance for kids that don't spend a lot of time in nature be a little bit more on kathy know that commissioner mcdonnell just got back and but we welcomed all commissioner bonilla fantastic fantastic. >> great. >> we had over 5 thousand 5 hundred visitors in camp mather over the sum over 12 hundred cabins were rented 2 hundred and 28 seniors for the getaway weekend as i mentioned we'll have have 70 teams up on the fifth outdoor experience we've started registering our fall rummage registration is underway it is broken down into 9

thousand plus rental including scholarships with $70,000 this is a busy season for the staff outlands maybe over for those looking to get our go music fix the recent outside festival in october and i'd like to announce and shout out to saturday in mclaren park the jerry gary's theatre hosts by friends of the amp that features four saturdays no october this weekend enjoy a soul festive kicking off at one p.m. at the a.m. pa theatre bring a branth for a appropriation on august 5th

commissioner vice president low and i prarnd in the mayor's turn out at ports insight square competitions within the supervisors and rec and park team while unmatched in spirit came up a bit short exiting the tournament after the fifthdz round. >> oh. >> we gave it our best that is what we ask the teams to do speaker the controller's office released it's bio quartering report bye for muni and, of course, our parks some interesting data san francisco residents continue to use their parks frequently in fact, more frequently than the last time the survey was taken 72 percent of san franciscans are visiting a park at least once a month 74 percent of san

francisco residents rate our systems as an a or b 79 paternities gave the program an a or b and with the shaping and planting so it is nice to getty positive feedback from staff there were a lot of comments been the advantageism in parks but more on that to come our recreation practice is no way we've hired 2 hundred and 50 kids over the summer this program happens year-round for 60 years the kids get work experience along with the professionals the applications for the 2015-2016 are available inventing monday august 24th for any high school youth 14 to 18 might be working with the rec

and park department at any of the centers visit j job apps.or come and work with us in inspiration with the st. francis yacht club kids get an opportunity to sail on october 4th they'll learner the procedures and sail the water with professionals another free event parents registration on sf.org or call our number lass last but not least outlands 3 days of music, art, wine and food in golden gate park the lands festiveal was a huge

success with 2 hundred and 10 thousand people with elton john and black keys and on the i'll invite my colleagues to share a little bit more detail i want to note this is such a large-scale urban event it is a huge success i want to commend and let another plan know how much we appreciate their cooperation with our agency and i want to give a big thank you to the planning staff and for their incredible work to park patrol and all our gardening and custodial crews for their efforts in pacific islander this off i want to invite mr. pearl

and a another gentleman to talk about what their perspectives are. >> thanks phil for your kind words. >> i have to start by saying while we take great pride in what our company does no way we could do this event without the teamwork of city and city hall and rec and park and all the people phil mentioned i'm being redundant it is we can't thank you for the help you give us we work as a team from the gardening staff to everyone here in answering calls it is our farther event it is such a difficult undertaking and we're very proud of that

i wanted to in 8 years we've made tremendous strides i want to give you some numbers to give you of what we go through. >> 2015 we had a total of 76 phone calls from sound to trash, that was a reduction from a hundred and 20 just in one year so there was a 37 percent reduction in total calls of 43 percent in reduction of sound calls just in one year much more over the 8 years part of that is zoo to the fact we have people in the neighborhoods the sound systems have gotten easier to adjust different speakers when we hear something depending on the weather conditions it changes between the 3 nights there's been a 58 percent in

reduction in total calls since 2013 a 71 percent reduction since 2012 and 8 of since 2011 in terms of the economics of the show we had a total of 70 restaurants, 61 from the city of san francisco 61 restaurants were working at the festival showing people from all over the united states the quality of their food you know the one or two both sides of the restaurant. >> i got to stop i for a second as a note even though elton john agent that worked for him to a million festivals all the others festivals when necessary talk about their food and wine they don't light a candle you guys

they do know what you do the backdrop of all you guys that make up san francisco all the people talk about it, it is pretty needed to here people from la or boston or new york see what we do it makes us proud. >> to you. >> i was saying about the trees a nice backdrop. >> we try to take credit for that. >> it just to keep going 34 breweries 8 were located in the city of san francisco, 27 from northern california and then 37 whiners from northern california at festival when i talk about you you know we talk about hotels and we're putting together once again san

francisco state it will help us put together the economic money that is brought into san francisco we won't have have it for a few months because it is a legitimate study we're trying to analysis all the businesses including transportation and muni the lyft the uber how people get there that will be interesting to see and again, thank you it is such a privilege to do this festival. >> thank you very much. we appreciate. >> thank you, greg and sherry. >> all right. we'll wrap up the gm report by a short video this is particularly special you'll see who is married in that. >> thank you.

>> my name is stacey i'm the executive assistant with the rec and park for 27 years. >> i'll pretty much controlled the managers life we work great together at the meeting he set up the meetings and phone call and the garden and the support staff anyone that comes in the room any number of things anyone that walks in on is with a great mile i love to greet people and this is an jaufrn everyday on july 8th the rec and park welcomed the people to the tenth year the workers worked hard to upgrade the trail

in partnership with 12 61 and the rec and park department commission the department hosted the 7th award at the golden gate park it was in gardening and horticulture and men and women worked day in in and out to keep the scenes beautiful congratulations and the rec and park department hosted another year of playday at the recreation center with games for all ages and football and baseball and rock he will climbing live music this was a fun day for all out of the mark the music festival in golden gate park part of this legendary festival for the park systems citywide the next time you're in golden gate park get out to play. >> on behalf of any boss ac

white that concludes my report for the general manager. >> (clapping.) commissioner mcdonnell. >> thank you very much thank you for the report just a couple of things i want to highlight first camp mather just jim and the team the entire staff continue to do a phenomenal job the first year the course amazing, amazing amazing experience i'm looking forward to hearing how the young people going up this weekends get to enjoy it just a great job secondly, outlands phenomenal thank you to the aspirin both the music experience the food and food and beverages experience i had occasion to go for the jazz festival up until

quite honestly, it's goggles better and better i feel a need not to go to new orleans is it so not true i'm going to new orleans but atlantic beach but it is really a fantastic experience to thank you for brairng that to our city lastly the general manager i wanted to highlight another example of great partnership between supervisor farrell the mayor and the city park alliance that's the shared school yard project we've to 23 school yard and extending the amount of office space spabl to the families and as a kind plug another fundraiser next month in supports of that project so just a lot of great work happening thank you general manager.

>> thank you, commissioner. >> is there any public comment under the general manager report. >> richard. >> good morning, mr. mark buell chair. >> phil ginsburg ivory heard about the pd can't do any good at the marries ping-pong tournament i had to take offense we want to clarify the issue they had different groupings the advanced seniors and players the advanced players play out of the brill i didn't they bully everybody out of sunset and win everything in the advanced level phil was straight as the other players not as much notice there are from china rec center nun from chinese playground as to what the facility should take

down their they get their butt whipped get the record straight sunset bullies i got quite a few of the players 23, 50, 2250 upper level and 25 hundred in the ovenlgz so if we get better communication between the other facilities and get people to participate hearing d will have no choice but to go up. >> no where to go but up (laughter). >> i couldn't help remark about the concerts there would have been elton john, i remembered in the wartime the

pinball wizard is that the same thing i wanted to make sure i had it right. >> is there monthly that is the general manager report so no other public comment? okay. we're on item 4 which is general public comment up to 15 minutes continued to item 12 this time, members of the public may address the commission items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. and go ahead our welcome >> commissioners. >> good morning general manager. >> my name is leno i'm the president of the united mission sorry for my voice and 15 years ago we created the golden gate park the garden of humanitarians

as a fresh and one plays in the united states i'm here for the people for people that risked their lives prosecuted by terrorists and others in this place this area we organized for student and many visitors uses beverages and tables but last time the beverages is broken now our organization can pay and install new beverages in this place but it is an emergency situation if some beverages crash the carpenter from golden gate park

never fixes and takes the beverages it is easier my proposal is install new beverages and we pay for everything we never ask some budget from city or grant from supply beautiful but we have a service to pay for this. >> thank you very much thank you, very much. >> richard. >> sorry i meant the other richard. >> i have something to ask of the commission i'm trying to help facilitate a request from dr. michael lee he is given the commissions a copy of his request there's something they've gotten completed and i talked with

michael about this we were talking about percy the kind of person that goes up there and simply telephone rp d and the lights will be fixed they were too high we had them brought down lower this is a followup that percy passed away on 4th of july that was a conversation with michael california we do about the lights currently some of the problems that are occurring michael told me the staff people are not that interested in extra hours they're not going to be there the extra hour but the facility often doesn't have me staff so if you had that extra hour i myself will enforce having that done as michael said other people that have another timelines and time schedules to

continue to work out basketball and tennis along with not many kids come out at night that has been going on for a little while now if i can help dr. lee maybe some of you like to know more about his background he works very active at the chinese rec center and trying to get him to betty honking recreation center he's very good extraordinary informed of what's going on in the community actively a rec and park kind of person endorses activities in chinatown they don't have enough tennis tournament the fellow was

richard king they've gone out to san francisco state university so not much of the organized activities required i'm asking that i personally will recommend this the center hour it is not going to cost staff time and all the department has to do is exclude a memo to the electrician to work the timer an additional hour thank you. >> richard. >> good morning, commissioners and general manager my name is richard rothman i live in district 1 across the street from cabrillo playground you know the outlands was great i got to hear elton john from mire living room and i live close enough it was great but

there's a problem parking, traffic we have a richard blog and there's about 60 posts on that not one has to do with about the sound but over 55 of them had issues with parking and even without any events out there, there is hard finding parking out there we need to come up with a plan rec and park, outlands, mta so that cars does not park in the richmond district during those events i have an idea some of the people on the blog had ideas i'm going to bring up or them up now the city of monterey with the at&t golf tourmentd if they can keep

people out of the streets the other thing supervisor wiener's legislation about the hours of closing the park and i've read it twice and it didn't say playgrounds in there i talked to scott's office he says it does i don't believe that golden gate park and cabrillo playground should be in the same requirement or same hours friends of cabrillo playground will dr. the two meetings i don't see why those hours have to come before the commission to get changed you can right now the hour or so 10 o'clock i went around the 4 playground two said 2 clock and midnight and the playground is closed when the sun goes down

your inviting trouble the commission needs to look at or staff they want the friends of cabrillo they've donated ping-pong tables wanting to sign an agreement if any thoughts stuff they donated gets damaged they have to pay for they've raised the money i don't know how much i wasn't active but they don't have the money you know to replace it and plus you know if the playgrounds open at night when their inviting trouble so that's why those two policies need to be looked at and changed thank you. >> thank you. >> watts. >> quite soon you and our associates will on the beach

synthetic turnip in golden gate park all of you in the business partners worked hard to make this happen and spent a lot of money to present it to san franciscans. >> soon you'll throw another parties cut the ribbon and the feelgdz e fields declared save for years mr. ginsburg has proclaimed perhaps in our speeches to the kids and paternities successful facts not in dispute over 25 percent of the chemical make up of the i think field is known to cause cancer as determined by the state of california and you might mentioned the growing number of cancer cases being record for the children so the entire story you might praise your predecessors who are

vigilant about protecting children's height for instance, when they band leads you might mention in 2013, the rp d received a memo and all the synthetic fields in san francisco this states lead was detected in the dust stirred up by the synthetic fields and the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention leads cases reproductive problems in men and women you might mention this commission knows of a safer alternated is slithering more expensive but you choose to energy your business associates to save money you might mention that despite what you know this commission maids the decisions

to dismiss those as insignificant you might remind the countryside despite the efforts those facts and their consequences will not imagine low disappear seeing none, this item is closed we're on item 5 which is the consent calendar is there any public comment on this consent calendar and seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners we'll need a motion. >> motion to >> there is a motion and a second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> >> item six the san francisco z

zoo. >> hello, hello good morning tonya director of the san francisco zoo i think we have a power point presentation so if i point to the screen here i'm on the screen okay. we have finished our fiscal year i'm proud to announce we're 10 percent over projections that being the year prior the numbers were 8 percent over projections we've started the fiscal year july had a hiccup with a report of a missing snake i'm happy to report the snake was never missing and august attendance is back on track with over hundred and 557 visitors that's the fiscal year shortly under the projections of 3 hundred plus visitors the zoo camp is done

with kids back in school this week it's a shock but a record of over 16 hundred campers hats off to the transportation department and the newly refurbished this is a historical dw pa building after the great depression i hope it is the main state of the art and we expand the reptile and brought in two new solution the parrots are instructed e.r. rescued and former pets and those can be changed so the animals have to go throughout the building to look for their food like in the wild adjacent to the rain forest it was important to talk about

water there recent a water main that is a interact active aid for folks to learn about water this is the conversation in the south american rain forest and fun for the visitors i want to give you an upgrade on the lion house that's a picture of the our 13-year-old lion necessary i'll happy to announce she's with cub and the father what about our male she came to us from another zee zoo she's lost two cubs at the prior zoo we're guardian u guard and closing the interior of the lion house to get used to the new nest and she can fortunately movable comfortable so cross our

fingers for lion cubs we'll watch her closely this may look like skunks those are blaek they have long hair on their bodies those are african monkeys threatened and they're known as sloppy eaters that is good are for the african jungle they spread their food we're happy to have them on exhibit you may have read we're trying our efforts at crowd forcing this is an vegetation for the pets you may have one more your dogs it is a bowl that encourages play wouldn't it be fun to custom build one more the run these we have 3 we asked for

money to build the cups for our rhinos their species at great risk with the poaching for horns i'm happy to say we can close the crowd is ours site and have the food letters for our rhinos thank you for the donors the curator primates returned there i can. photo.org and our prove was to observed the rescued animal and it was quite amazing to see those return to the wild after being rehabbed threat inborn no is palm trees i

saw a lot of palm trees but saw wild ones nun of us are professional foifrts that over and over ran hanging out in the jungles we're back with that knowledge we hope to make our future prim mate better i have 3 schematics on the efforts to expand the which i am he's this is the western side of our building and phase two to link the two areas and expand both the which i am does he habitat we'll do that through the trail systems that allows the chimps to go to the able lastly this is

an interior shot of pachyderm building giving for space and habitats space for the chimps we know we - we're bringing those and thank you to my personal friends for underwriting this effort and expansion at the prime mate discovery center and lastly not to forget bic daddy is growing 3 times his body weight he'll be the feature of our labor day festivals and lots of rides and fun activities free for members this labor day that concludes my report. >> any public comment on this item. >> richard come on up. >> good morning.

>> it was wonderful to hear her speaking about the new approach to the chimpanzee implicit if they're trying to use the trail approach what about other animals the only reason i wanted to speak about the which i am does he they're the type of animals they're the prime mates but it's taken a lot of work and the executive staff tried to get the drawings for what is going on at the zoo i michelle have to look at it and see exactly what is going on again my first look at it i looked at the landmark provision of the former o chimps

and the three houses the one house on top that interconnects how will they combine that preservation the other part when i do a joint sharing be sure that chimneys in the wild have problematic they have the hiv two aids that's not - that's something you have to be cognizant about you've got that interest a lot of animals eating and some africaners have gotten the aids and the hiv from the chimps so the chimps i would recommend you keep an extra caution eye on them and if there are to be any new additional

that's the big gadsby daddy i thank you very much and great work. >> anyone else that wants to make public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i'd like to ask we call item 8 out of order we have commissioner avalos here he has a busy schedule maybe start with that. >> item 8 the renovations and improvement project. >> good afternoon girgsz nicole with the capital distribution with the rec and park i'm pleased to talk about the more born project i will give you a

brief history of that very old and slack last year building from then to now the building was built and turn of the last servant by the reed brothers it is a city landmark designated in 1985 the building was occupied from 44 to 89 it was damaged if the loma prieta muni decided to demolish the building and people came together to ask for demolish and came to willie brown in 2004 the rec and park department decided to take the building over from muni realizing a real needs for the programming in district 11 also in 2004 the department partnered

with muni and it will not fall down in an earthquake between 2007 and 2013 the city provided the friends with funds inform capitals campaign work and provided the ladder they did successfully and a lot of this funding came if commissioner avalos office so thank you commissioner dooley and the friends group is a terrific champion with the funding also actually at this time we've received pro bono from the design the conceptual design for the building as well as legal services from gibson dunn and a variety of pro bono partners that was included in the 2009 balboa station creating a human being around the station brings economic and community activities to that

area where there is not a central gather point let's see so going forward the master plan for the building is to add a level to create cafe space and retail space are litter and design studios to roommate a power hours a 35 feet ceiling with natural light and where we will cool industrial features giving a great vibe the secretary of interior will be applied with a gold building a leaf platinum last year the commission approved an lda with a future lease and mou with the mta that allows for our short time and long term access to the building during construction going forward and you approved the

schematic design based on design development documentation it is recently completed the costs estimate is $29 million that is proven to be a heavy left for the friends in the city and we decided at this point well, it had a wall at this point we were having trouble getting transaction with funders that couldn't see how to get to the end goal with a $29 million price tag the mayor's office asked us to participate in a study with a wallace grew up from the netherlands to figure out how to use it with an economic activity with the building on the other

two buildings the old mint and subway station we adding with a two-phase approach with the power house, and, secondly, the office building we actually talked about to the design team and their approach was indeed possible and together the department with the mayor's office of housing and community development and commissioner avalos office felt the approach was the strongest way to cultivate the building and provide a community asset by funderers they'll see it thriving and creating the energy if needs it right there. >> so going forward this project will be a coalition between our 3 departments city will oversee the

development part of excuse me. the office of economic workforce development neighborhood asset activation program that will require the termination of the lda with the friends rather than wait for the schedule reaching the deadlines suggested they have to raise the funds by the ends of 2017 we agreed if the best interests of the project to terminate the agreement to move forward with the power house separate the friends will continue to participate in the development of programming in the power house power house design is essential scaled down version of the power house stop sign it is in the masters plan but all the improvements at this time will be used in the master plan not building mission bay anything and tearing it down which is

terrific and stabilization and landscape improvements and restored windows and mechanic and electrical systems and floors with heating a carter area and office with events in and our organization schizophrenia use it the planning department determined this power house will have no event effect on the ceqa fbdz and the mart plan ceqa in 2013 and that plan will not change that. >> this is just a rendering of the outside of the building this is a render what the inside of the building will look like to complete the power house project we need a different set of construction documentation although some of the work can be

used for the master and also so the additional cd which will require an additional $300,000 plus is fully funded by mayor's office 3 hundred through the neighborhood activation program and hundred and 75 through rec and park that will cover the regulatory fees and adjustments that need to be made because of the shortfall we'll need to adjust the funds we were planning on getting to preliminary cds in the master plan to get us to hundred percent documents we've finished it but needed need to go through the industry process also to add the funds to the contract we'll need to add that under this

the construction budget for the project is $1.8 million we've identified real source of fuentes that need to be approved but we look forward to bringing those of 3.5 millions that leaves a gap of $3 million i would like to point out this is achieveable this $3 million to find the funds i think that will get us to a building to raise the rest of the funds the good news we have prospective source of few minutes for the $3 million including the tax credits for the trust i'll point out in a moment and the pd requests and general fund and private philanthropy there be

renewed interests now we're close to making it happen. >> i'd like to spends the rest of the time addressing the questions of the operational models for the building this is important to know that the vision for the building remains unchanged it will have a youth and arts related focus with additional programming for all community members so it will remain a community focused building are luckily the department has an arsenal of tools we'll spends the next three or four models to figure out the best one the strategies the operated models the rec and park will manage that and will require funding and provide permits to community arts and organizations examples are

harvey milk and dana is here to discuss it if you want to dig deeper this is the nonprofit we do if with a number of building to identify a master tenants and community assess will be assured there the department works are boys and girls club with the ymca as the occupant and sunset for the elderly and hayes valley that has more magic one thing i wanted to bring up the potential role for the cast this is the nonprofits model the american california loans fund a nonprofit constitution that provides resources in real estate and financial train to the nonprofits that serve low income contingency it is one of the leads advisors for the

market economic strategy and also provides financial train and real estate training to nonprofit and the project management services they have a program which provides services for folks who are displaced or facing displacement and rates given out by a volatile economic market the grants are available through the city from the mayor's office of housing and community development cast an organization that has been opportunity $16 million in funding right now through functions and private funders that purposes spaces for the nonprofits organizations while providing the groups the technical system to expand their capacity and manage their facilities and own the buildings

and those two organizations have building and expressed interest in working with us to find the appropriate partner that is ready for the power house the following is a list of organizations in addition to a number of organizations in the pipeline those are organizations that have indicated to supervisor avalos office they're interested in either the power house specifically or expanding their services in or into district 11 so there is a real needs out there briefly a construction schedule assuming we have the funding by next year will look like the following we'll get through cities we're about to get through city design reviews for the power house by next month and look to secure funding by july 2016 we would create the cds and go through the city

reviews it through now and february and september and hopefully start construction in october of 2016 this is aggressive but we believe that is an achieveable goal identification of the appropriate model and partner will it took place simultaneously so we have the right partner in place and if this partner brings funding to the table we'll identify them at this point we'll secure the funding to begin construction on schedule that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> thank you. >> public comment. >> public comment. >> i would ask supervisor avalos. >> thank you commissioner president buell and commissioners, thank you for hearing this item and the changes that are being proposed

to agreement that we've all right approved between the commission and the board of supervisors for this project we want to thank nicole for her many, many years of working on this project she was the director of the rec and park department working with directly with the friends for the geneva carbarn office building i said to thank my legislative aide and work with the community and the city departments to make sure we can figure out a plan on how we can actually do the fundraising for this project the friends group is a very, very challenging from the community side to be the sole responsibility for raising the money for the whole project for $25 million it is a large task to take on we're seeing in district 11 while there is all

kinds of development and money flowing into san francisco we don't have the kinds of development in district 11 that enabling the communities groups to assess the few minutes that are related to part of the development we've had a large number of people all across the district to work together to get the attention like the area around santa fe and give me that carbarn the intersection we've been making sure that the rec and park can build housing on the upper yard was the management of the municipal transportation agency but now under the mayor's office of housing and community development we're building a new neighborhood at the intersection 4 has been an industrial area now we're building new building for housing area commercial space and actually augmenting

services there and what is available for neighborhood facilities with the carbarn wear meeting together all the different neighborhoods of district 11 and creating apace that is a more neighborhood fortunately not had that kind of feel in the history of this area this project is very, very meaningful to make sure we move forward to support this kind of development and changes that is really going to make a whole new neighborhood that didn't exist in this side of san francisco we have a project with many, many changes and a lot of people focused to make sure it moves forward despite how difficult to raise the money now we have the attention of the rec and park that's been involved as well as is the office of economic workforce development and outside groups like cast we have the configuration that can actually moved on the project we

have a faith approach that is really going to make a huge difference we can activate the space early on and do twaes once we've demonstrated the support from the board of supervisors here at the board we've had voted with aid and darling that has done work we voted unanimously to support 24 going forward i hope you can see so and so changes back to resolving the l lda and go forward with the contract and forward the current plan is really what is going to make a difference i hope to have your support in this. >> thank you, supervisor. >> okay rochelle and then leah how do you say your name leona helmsley. >> and reed.

>> i said rochelle first. >> good morning. i'm rochelle the director of the public and private partners for the san francisco arts examination and happy to be here to speak in support of the companies much of what you've heard has been stolen since 2013, the department works with other nonprofits to depth the strategies to help to mitigate the service organizations in san francisco those organizations many of whom have significant contracts with the city and contribute to vital public services that help to design communities are challenged by the real estate forces and through the marries and recommendations that came out of that group the program was launched through an allocation from the board of supervisors 2 point plus million dollars

went to the mayor's office of housing and community development and thanks to commissioner avalos proposal an additional $2 million to the art commissions to serve arts organizations approximately 50 organizations have received financial or technical assistance there is clearly a needs for nonprofit art spaces throughout to he and this for for shared space and collaborative solutions given could provide an art organization serving the public and the arts commission has been working closely with the stabilization and a grant from the national endowment for the arts wear working on a mapping project that includes sites and we're certainly including the geneva carbarn in this picture we plan to continue working with

the rec and park department and oewd and district 11 supervisors office to see how the building can evolve to support a arts questions or comments thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >> (calling names). >> i'm curious. >> it's - >> i'm a senior real estate consulate at northern california community loan few minutes everywhere been working in partnership with the city for 15 years for nonprofits to manage they're releasing niece and in this particular case with the carbarn and is condition of the building as it stands question, help pit together we have a pipeline of 17 different arts organizations that can use the building we're helping them to

get real estate ready to take on a project of this size so i like to say wear in support of this kind project we really want to work with buildings that are outside of the private sector so arts organizations and also when you see a lot of consists going on it is in this math it is because we have laugh nonprofits in private buildings and buildings like this is the kinds we like to see and have a second stock of buildings that are serving nonprofits thank you. >> thank you. >> reed. >> hello thank you for the opportunity to speak today my name is reed i'm the executive director of youth art exchange we're one of the art based organized that is based in district 11 i'm a member of the

excelsior collaborative it is a group of over 20 organizations focused on community vital and youth education there's a letter in support of having a great human being like this within the neighborhood i'll talk about my organization the arts exchange we have been around for 15 years this year and most of the time has been spent in the excelsior we work with public high school students and pair them in the classroom with professional practicing artists all the students are public high school students primarily low income students and students of color we want our students to interact with san francisco as a whole and we have really focused on doing projects throughout the community there's a human being to draw people in this is exist to think about bringing people into the community and one of

the things to note is that we have worked with companies that about our space niece when we started all the programming was in the community and operated in the community now we're all over the city because of the need to have affordable art space in the neighborhood we really excited by this project moving forward and hope to be one of the organizations that use this and our students and families have access thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else that wanted to come on up. >> my name is rosalina principle at the.gov dine we've been working think on this project since 2009 and in spits and spurts the team a excited about this phase it is amazing the building itself has two

sprat pieces that phase it this first phase is providing revitalization from the streets and really provides a space for the communities an early phase thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. dan. >> okay. >> good morning, commissioners uaw kin with the office of economic workforce development i think with the mayor ed lee initiative we're very excited to see the items move forward for the reasons if some many of the speakers you'll hear horizontal from our community members that are here for this vision to revitalize and activate it city it is particular and necessary need to the activated area of

the southern part of san francisco we really want is to see this vacant, westbound activated we think due to the critical approach in partnership we have among the city partners this is a way to do it in a responsible fashion to make sure we see kids and adults enjoying this space of a skip and jump away from the balboa park station. >> 3 months ago basically no plan this opportunity and approach helps us to get the space moving forward the community is very, very excited about and the approach we're taking among the partners is something that is also been enabled by the virtual of the mayors cultivation program that will enable us to realize some go is important one this is

activates and the automation approach will provide a great example across the city for underutilized community assets like the given carbarn we're committed to working with the community and we're committed and letting you know how we are making progress at the carbarn we know through the activation program we look forward to your support thank you for your time. >> dan. >> morning i'm dan weaver the board chair of the friends of geneva office building and power house using a formal name i want to say a few words of the importance of this building and project to the surrounding

communities primarily the excelsior and the bmi that used to be messy every time we divide the districts but let me say recent information shows that 50 percent or more the residents of the surrounding communities the excelsior particularly are immigrants where ene english is not the first language that there is enough for most people to know this is a challenge for the children and youth as they group not knowing english i think so that thirty percent of the immigrants that live around the building in the excelsior which i have the data for are, in fact, legal immigrants a huge challenge as a number of people pointed out no place in the district or no

proper place to have after-school programs and that's the other part of the challenge not like when we have we've got a wealth of choices andness will distancing pointing out this this is the challenge we have in 1999 we said okay. we saved the building now what do we do it become clear the number of children and youth in district 11 was high the highest level in san francisco of all the districts. >> so let me say 16 years later this is a better approach this is the way in which we can hopefully move forward and show private funders the city is serious about taking did leads with the resources and getting this done thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else that wants to make public comment on

this item. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner vice president low. >> so i still trying to figure out what we're being asked for so the first step is to determine the l e w a. >> that's correct. >> is if documented and we have a termination agreement drafted by the city attorney that would be fine and actually has to go to the board of supervisors. >> once the lda is termed the rec and park department steps in to take over the role of i guess this initial part of the phase one. >> correct we have been actually taking over we've been the project manager on the design working with darling to date we'll continue in that role

and are we at this time we don't have a deforgiven program with the actual users; right? there is ideas of bart's groups and community organizations, youth - walk through the process how that comes together. >> commissioner this is an asset that belongs to the rec and park department. >> uh-huh. >> there the l d b.a. we've designated through the programming responsibility to the friends of the carbarn in a long term lease and provided that they met certain fund prairgz we're going to change the model for the funding and take on a smaller piece of this building it is basically like any other

sort of clubhouse although it is worse unhabitual but we're drooeg going to try to fidget a strategy to renovate and program this feels a little bit like a deck eerie was going to be my own comments because i see here the project is incredibly important to a neighborhood with a number of partners and programming flexibility i think my sense given the need no district 11 the eater pact forward will be with a nonprofit participate whether there nc c l r - f i'm sorry helping us identify a partner or any of that long list of communities groups that has expressed to supervisor avalos a needs for nonprofit space so i

think in some respect this project has goggles simpler we are candid about the fact that are money to identify join that the programming piece is frankly not our biggest challenge that is a simple element we'll ends up with whether a master tenant lease occupied by 2 thousand square feet about 2 thousand square feet to do what they do. >> i get does d-11 plus i'm trying to figure out the strategy to bring together all of those potential users so - what's the strategy to brings together. >> i think again there are a couple of different strategies one would be to identify himself to work with lc cf and have them

serve as the broker for a single multiple of arts that could use the desk or boo deckerer with the boys and girls club but the boys and girls club we have the ymca and others community-based organizations and frankly rec and park does programming the third strategy simply to do what we've done to identify the community-based relevant partners in the space to partner with us and lease the space and to program it when we do that we still work with that partner to make sure there is community assess for the parties and community meetings. >> so either of those 3 strategies what is the - what is - is it running concurrent.

>> yeah. a conversation and you know we're still in conversation with the nc c l f and are pursuing the casts partner because interests pooshl with investment in this you know capital investment in if this space we have time to figure out and there's a lot of need and deferring groups that fit our programming vision over the times that will take to work through the process and identify other financial resources we need to commence construction i think we'll have the time to figure that out and work closely with supervisor avalos and the office of economic workforce development. >> the schematic design we're being asked to approve is only the phase one power house which was on the slide. >> thaishg the master plan has been approved.

>> the sole source and then the real approving 4 hundred and 75 thousands of additional architecture fees to department the construction documents that looks like base buildings. >> it is actually 3 hundred and 70 thousand arrest the mayor's office gave up money that includes permits and regulatory. >> it is really what we're being asked $375,000 for additional architecture fees to go from maybe the architect design elements documents to construction elements. >> correct. >> only for the base building. >> only the base power house. >> so the work is being approved can be utilized but we have additional - a different program or deft communities

organization that wants to use the space that work can be reused in terms of we're trying to avoid something done trice. >> to answer our question the space is not being designed for a specific partner the - this is now going to be flexible open space that is can be programmed with a variety of partners it is basically a building hop a nice one. >> so we're just taking this to a soft shell. >> well, to be clear the construction documents we want to finish building yeah, he think we're going to ends up with a space that's programable i don't know what you mean. >> it will be occupyable if a tenant couples as a arts organization or a dance group wants to add a reliefable floor

they can come in and do improvements it will useable. >> we're not approving construction at this time correct this is only for that of the architecture contract. >> correct. >> no construction contract. >> no. >> okay. >> commissioner bonilla. >> yeah. i think commissioner vice president lows questions are critical but i imagine that we will have ample time the communities and the commission will have ample time to really talk about all of users potential users of the cow barn and the what will be at the end of the day what will be the

operational model i don't think we're really here to discuss all - to discuss the model specifically because i think there is a lot that goes into making a determination of which would be the most efficient way to operate that particular asset so the only thing i really wanted to comment on is that i live in district 11 and i drive to work everyday through that intersection to and from every day oftentimes i ask myself when are we going to move forward with that

project. >> and i don't only ask myself that because there are many residents that know that i live in the district that i am asked which is something going to be done with that facility i'm really fwlalgdz by the fact we have a people we finally have come up with a vehicle that will enable us to move forward with doing something with that facility i really think that something has to be done demolishing it is not an option and the - i think having lived

in district 11, 25 years now and having been involved in the cuomo the communities of the mission - i've forgotten the acronym but i actually did some of my first work in the city was to do block club organizing and we went to the - house-to-house talking to neighbors how to bring in more resources into the outer mission over the years since i have been not only helping i mean been involved in that capacity and been a

resident i think i can say without question we really do not have informational point in the excelsior whereby residents nonprofits, seniors, different organizations businesses could really coalesce and be engaged in really making the neighborhoods better so i can really i feel really strongly about moving forward with this project and when the time comes i would like to make the motion to support going forward. >> thank you and i will add that if this project is approved this approach we'll hit the ground running to think about the

programming partners and models and spend the next 12 months doing that. >> commissioner mcdonnell. >> thank you commissioner president buell. >> a couple of things and a comment i'm clear on the design elements basic building and making that habitable but the question for you and the general manager and i get there are a number of programming with that said, what's the funding formula for whatever lands in this space. >> essentially if it is a nonprofit model the nonprofits will pay rents for the space offset by the rent accuracy for any potential improvements that the partner decides to want to do or need to side obviously subject to a lease negotiation

but no different than the relationships we have many of our clubhouses with community partners those are clubhouses have not been revenue janitors there about broadening our reach and offering a program breath and capita in the way we don't have the resources interests another model if that go fails through rec and park could manage the space frankly, we're more of a program partner and not driver in that space there is too much community needs and community programming in the district and i think that would be the most likely path forward. >> and latest appreciate this new phase approach a smaller lift but $3 million is not significant can you talk about

the strategies for the fundraising. >> show your there are historic preservation commission tax credits it was fattens and phase two were approved by the rec and park service this is one avenue that has been complicated we're no longer signing a lease with the friends we'll have to pursue another oaths but you 20 percent and many soft pockets that's approximately $1.2 million of a $6 million and many soft cut budgets interests cast that has received actually $16 million in funding they've recently invested 5 millions in two buildings the luggage store was one that was to help stabilize to buy the building and stabilize they're releasing. >> why not put up the slides.

>> sure. >> no there we go. >> there would be general funds asked from the department and next year's city budgets, there's the opportunities to pursue a number of city sources a funding from the general fund we do believe that an operator might bring tenant consortiums i feel a number of organizations that have capital finland's in their account to invest in a building such as ours we've received to foundation the goldsmith that committed funds and a a number of companies that indicated a willingness seeing

more achieveable the 26 millions a big lift to the foundations and a pipeline of folks those companies will have been cultivating. >> that's united states summary. >> i appreciate that one final follow-up if we have a sense it maybe hard it is the project programs of those prospects how much in the percentage or is necessary to get started. >> we've identified the construction shortages is about 3 a little bit more than 3 so that's what we need. >> but you know we feel like we've gotten 3 and a half again, this is you know the this engineer that could this is the little building that could we've

gotten from a vision from to big of a fund-raising lifts to a project that gets necessary activation in the space and hopefully spark some point the large project we want to start small you know this is are still a reach but it is more researchable reach. >> sure thank you. >> a quick comment echoing what commissioner bonilla said my youth grouping in the fillmore and right at the corner of fillmore and turf is a building that is unhabitual and it's my teen years catching balboa park so it is exist to see this particular building this is light in the building thank you, thank you for getting us to this point. >> commissioner vice president low. >> i just times it is like i

said, we have the money to pay for the architecture fees to help at least depict what is going to be built to the basement that at least makes a portion of the, however, hours habitual we know who the users are we don't know at this time we don't have the money to build it but since overwhelm in the real estate industry i'm not a surprised i think so it is good real estate and if we start the process this will came into together so i defer to commissioner bonilla to make the motion to approve this. >> so let me say before i ask commissioner bonilla to do that that i've twice toured this building and had interest in

that i once went to a quasi meeting with the funders to see the presentation and i must say i agree with the general manager the undertaking was so big and required some vision i don't think there is a lack of support in the philanthropic community but a lack of getting their hands arm the size and scope of the project i do believe this first step in doing sometimes that demonstrates this potential will go a way it is not questionable the real estate is getting more extensive and providing space in this city for nonprofits it profitable i'll encourage my colleagues to

support that thank you sxoil. >> i'd like to make the motion to approve staff's recommendation for the geneva carbarn improvement project. >> >> >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> so moved. >> and thank you one and all. >> we're going back to item 7 the cleans parks bond the second issuance. >> commissioners good morning dawn director of planning and capital management i'm briefly walk through the same presentation that was delivered to capital committee we're reaching an important milestone in the clean and safe parks bond arrest the

totals value of the bonds we've been making process going through the bond at this point it includes neighborhoods specific projects we specifically named for a total value of a hundred and 60 millions roughly about 97 millions for specifically called out neighborhood parks and another $40 million for citywide programs and other million dollars for the golden gate and park merced this is shared with the port of san francisco that have been 34.5 millions allocated one of the things i think we've done a good job in the 2008 bond we've continued to the 2012 is leveraging bond funds against

others bopped sources tony our grants person along with lisa with the partnership team have done a great job with the steering wheel to manage and leverage the 7 and a half million dollars against the same projects that is a good ratio we'll to continue to pursue those funding sources as we move forward we've had a sale of 53.2 thoilz that funded the disdain design the fattens with the projects in line we're actually moving forward with the instead kind of parade with approval for your approval and when our intent to finish the detail design and move into construction the second $30 million is going to fund the

first year the design for the second batch of neighborhood programs that includes the recreation playground and george christopher and others we'll move forward with completing the design for those projects in the next year and come back hopefully, a year from now for a third and final sale worth 75 plus million dollars that then funds construction an everything and we'll spend the funds down to deliver the remainder of the neighborhood projects this dwraf shows the suspending of the first sale $53 million bhaepz most of spending in the projects to construction even though right now if we look at a snapshot only 14 millions over the next month's it burglary go up as we condition to complete

constructions and get gilman and start the construction in mountain park and sunsets is around the corner the bid that be submitted and the minding is set up when we have the cash in hand for october the next thing to put balboa pool out to bid we're making steady improvement we think continue to move ahead some projects ahead and some behind we've detailed the schedule making conscious choices to in some cases not ruin every third graders summer because of the permitting and closer and in order for us to go out with the extraordinarily design services our the president to have all the neighborhoods park projects

pled by november 2018 when we are supposed to go for the next general obligation bonds on the safety will deliver us exception of margret hayworth this is our scenario in the next 3 months umbrella have more information whether or not we can move forward with a shorter schedule. >> just some additional milestones we've completed the task force and hope to start design for the playgrounds pier one programs in january and come back in september, october next year by analyzed both our project management and we also want to host i should say run there are $12 million set aside for the 2012 bonds with

$6 million for a kind of more standards cf small programs for projects $500,000 and under but another 6 millions set aside for larger projects set up for more leveraging and require more sophisticated preparation in terms of ceqa we hope to get that round of projects at least start the evaluation of those projects in the spring we continue to work alcohols with the puc to obtain grants into their quart conservatism that matches you're our bonds and reached a negotiation with the mclaren park how they want to start the first round of spending and look to start a larger vision zero with the mclaren park in spring we've managed to with the beach and

the plays hills dan will be 3 in the spring the first time in a decade really to take on some larger golden gate park to the habitat is something we've committed to and many other partners we'll commence in the spring and this bond sale will help to fund all the projects. >> so after today hopefully with your approval go to the board of supervisors actually first capital planning in september to get their recommendations for the second sale and hope to be at the board in october and have cash in hand by the end of the month that's our goal i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you do we have any any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> >> there is a motion and a second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> so moved.

>> items 8 and 9 off calendars next james weldon johnson square shadows impact on golf street. >> thank you good morning, commissioners item before you today is the items the project at 950 combrofl that casts a shadow an jackson squawk this created the sunlight ordinance planning code section 295 and have the combines for this action a memo from 1989 that provides guidance for thresholds and independence some is shadow limitations on certain parks this image show us the james

weldon johnson square park and golf directly across the street if the golf street from the park this is the building design it has 95 units 11 are onsite affordable units a 10 thousand 43 square feet church the new sites for the lutheran church that was located before it burnt down in 1995 there will be a 61 car parking garage located under i believe will underneath the building sorry and the environmental impact was implemented in june 2015 this is an image of jeksz park that is sclapdz with grassy fields with dog areas there say is pathways that crisscross the park the new

shadows kaftdz will be in the first few hours goes through the year this is directly next to the park generally in the same shadow in the same location as the original building the st. paul lutheran church on average about two hours in the morning larger size of the shadow is 46 thousand square feet that's cast on the summer sole test on june 21st it is cast other than the earner side of the park and it koofrz some of the pathway and some of the lawn space guidance we received from the 1989 memo for parks that are greater than two acres that one is 5 point 61 acres a shadow load to permissible this park is shadowed only on 1.6 percent

this project will increase the shadow by .5.569 percent the threshold and this is the day of and moment of maximum impacts the blue shadow is the new shadow that cast by this project the yellow area from a mask reduction from the that went on during the design phase a little bit less than the project was had been designed here is it is day of maximum shadow shadows from 648 throughout the park here at 7:30 and 744 and 8 o'clock and 815 and here almost 9 o'clock gone from the park it is completely begun did i 948 for the project

pipeline there's one other project that is coming down the line 807 it is a little bit favorite away from the park has a minimal impact on the park that as a 2 point zero impact it increases it is in design phases not received a complete shadow analysis i don't know it will be coming before the commission i imagine in about a year. >> the developer and the project manager project sponsor has a number of community benefits and stacey the st. paul church has 11 onsite units of below market rate and the

project sponsor and the church have worked with the firstborns of genetic square and is alliance to endow for the park it will assess the golf homeowners association 15 per month and the project sponsor will match any contribution that the friends of james weldon johnson square raise up to $50,000 for the first two years pardon entered into a memorandum of understanding with the park alliance and is friends of james weldon johnson square to commemorate this demons and it will a last for 50 years the project sponsor received 62 signatures into the neighborhoods supporting the project i'm joined by the planning department staff and the project sponsor if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> for some plane my ipad the

technological ability to pull up do you have a copy of the resolution thanks. >> so public comment i'm going to quickly reads off the names (calling names). >> unifying have 3 minutes each to speak on this item can be in any order. >> good morning i'm brad with the korea one the co-sponsors of the project just to reiterate what stacey said the projects 95 unit project 10 thousand square feet of space for the church and a 61 space parking garage this project replaces the

original historic church that burnt down in 1995 church was originally built in 11894 through the process we've reached out to the community which includes a preapplication meeting hosted by the planning department staff we have about 20 people show up for that. >> we've also reached out to the folks at 951 eddy street a senior housing facility right hidden our site we've also reached out to the chinese-american international school which is south we've also organized with 1090 and 1080 eddy street and we've may be seated with the cathedral hill

neighbors association as stacey said we have over 50 signatures of support through this process we've worked with the friends of james weldon johnson square park and the san francisco parks alliance to crafts africa mou that will encourage quarterly clears up of the park we've delivered a park support funds that assess homeowners starting at 15 there's a month and then continue for a term of 50 years so this in addition to increased public safety for the park we appreciate your support. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is chandler white

i've been a residence of san francisco since 197 of a my part time i felt the heat if the church being burnt there was a garden now looks like a big old tooth cavity i would love and support this completely mr. beginnings berries staff said you can use that is that as a putting green 24 makes the cavity look worse but we need to bring up the foot traffic the weddings and the other functions we've received and it is just a

wonderful location i fwresht our support for this i love this city i had a opportunities to retire if north carolina i wouldn't leave san francisco so i appreciate your consideration thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker >> commissioners i'm dan the pastor at sfaupz lutheran church sfaupz has been serving san francisco for almost one hundred 60 years 1867 across the street from jefferson park since the iconic church building burnt in

1995 in some ways the church has been a custodian from jefferson park i'm not sure when jefferson park was establishes or names but st. paul has a corner on the place literally and figuratively we have cards for the park and been part of its activity for those hundred years in which the church building stood unfortunately, the church building burned our congregation moved into the school next door but conditioning concern for and care for the park has continued loss of the building was extraordinary proposition and ironic that even though it was a

devastating loss it was a plus for the park because there was a rather significance shadow also that of eliminated and now we come back to the commission here and requesting that we be allowed in some a ways to return to the spot all be that with the residential unit as well but the cast the shadow to be cast was much less than the other building important issue for me is that this this or that this park across the street continue in its pristine way encouraged and supported and cultivated and st. paul has delivered for those hundred years and want to make

sure that it is cared for in a reasonable fashion thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker and just as a reminders this is item is on the shadow impact is if i can make you are comments towards the shadow impact please >> next speaker. >> good morning. i'm tom i'm the residents manager at 1090 eddy street part times in the northeast corner of jefferson square park i come on here to talk about this is not supportive of a shadow impact it is less than one percent this about safety and from 1090 where we needed to go we gather the 62 signatures over 90 percent of our taunt 90 percent

overwhelming that given that petition i'm going to sign it including the mailman we didn't agree on the exact reason it sign it we need you housing sprets others say that will the is horrible cavity but it is a lot to do with safety park your car at night and you'll have a window broken in the morning we need the eyes and ears if or in that corner that shows as your picture all those wonderful windows the offer looking at the park that will absolutely help with the safety in that area it is less than one percent we have signatures but 90 percent of the tenants said they'll sign it on a few said they don't sign petitions i get it i wanted you

guys to have a couple of pictures of that northeast corner there is nobody here as you can see there is a big lot of lands and no eyes and ears especially at night and the sacred heart again, a big l of none there at night and even during the day wear so glad the chinese-american students are moving in during the day having the rich kids will help (laughter) just saying lastly i'd like to show you that chandler said that is a cavity the fire department came to the lot over the last weekend they were not there for a picnic i don't know with why there were there but someone called them this is a picture of the hole in the fence the church is good at

fixing the holes in the fences back to the shadow it is about safety and lastly your own crews have actually said to me that 90 percent the needles the needles the sickens in jefferson park under the page trees diagonal to 1080 please execute them don't have a drug deny. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you very much i'm dustin the music master as st. paul's and since we're focusing on the shadow i'm going to be brief we're excited to get back there and hopefully resume the outdoor services and begin to be part of that and we're as the gentleman

said earlier excited to bring the people back into the neighborhoods and face the foot traffic for the park and beyond that we are thankfully for your port if helping us moving this project forward and hopefully, the shadow what about improved. >> thank you. >> next speaker >> commissioners and ralph i'm the attorney for st. paul's lutheran schuch thinksable will i i'm advocate i think that is important to understand this project is necessary to the continued services and the presence of st. paul's in san francisco in that naeshdz burning the building 20 years was destate of to the communities and destate of in the congregation and since then

st. paul's is moovg if temporary to temporary location during its by itself to continue the service in the communities and continue it's presence in the exultance it is sxrooel important to our ability to go forward with stacey st. paul's at that location we have the connective benefit of partnering with the developer who will provide the housing that means building in an envelope that is at the limitations of what the city of san francisco will permit us which means it's necessary to bump that this bit of shadow and once again in the area and not beyond what was there from the church steeple previously we need this the fulfill extents and gridlock thank you for your

consideration. >> is there anyone else that wants to make public comment. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> seeing no comments we'll entertain a motion. >> >> second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> so moved. >> we're on item 12 general public comment continues from item 4 anyone want to make general public comment that didn't comment under item 4 seeing none, public comment is closed. item 13 is commissioners matters >> this item is designed to allow the commissions to raise issues they believe the commission should address t at future meetings are there any. >> we have a shadows case coming in september and october. >> yes. >> i believe the one in october is on. >> 363.

>> gene i understand other projects in the pipeline if we could have an accumulate active shadows study done prior it that had been helpful to evaluate the shadow cases camtc before us in october. >> anyone else? . seeing none, public comment is closed. arrest 14 new business agenda settings >> commissioners. public comment is closed. >> 15 communications commissioners? public comment? this item is closed >> item 16 adjournment. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> thank you. >> thank

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