our thinking on why, because this is such a unique, situation, it does not lend itself to the normal process that is -- >> thank you. >> okay. if no other questions fl rose could we go to your report, please? >> yes, mr. chairman. the members of the committee, on page 17 of our report we note that the actual projected expenditures from july, first 2010, to june, 30, under the existing contract, the electronic healthcare system, between dph, is 52.3 million, and that is shown on table one, and again, on page, 176 our report. and the board of supervisors has appropriate ated the general fund moneys for the existing contract. we also know that as shown in table two on page 17, of our report, dph estimates that the

contract with ucsf will cost estimated $341,919,891, over the nine to ten years and dph and anticipates the savings of 160 million. and from the discontinuation of the existing systems, and reduced to the growth in the cost for the services which will result in the total net cost of $181 million. and for the contract. and again that is shown in the table two. on page, 19, of our report, we do know that a competitive request for the proposals and process will insure that all eligible vendors are able to apply and strengthen the city's after ability to secure the most qualified price for the needed services. and our recommendations on page

20, recommend that you amend the proposal that dph, issue a request for the proposals. if dph is unable to attain the sufficient assurances that ucsf will be able to meet the criteria, and we consider it as amended to be the policy matter for the board of supervisors. >> thank you, there rose. >> no other questions, we will open it up to public comment. i have a number of speaker cards. sue car lyle and jim marks, and cluade and kneel, and hedie and dr. church well. >> good morning, supervisors. good morning. >> i am the vice dean for the school of medicine. and today, i strongly urge you to support director cer garcia'

request to allow the negotiation to begin, for an net cost expansion of the epic system to include, dph. there have been extensive as you have heard, internal and external evaluations of this, and a con ses sense has been achieved. and the ucsf, city and county of san francisco, partnership, has spanned nearly, 150 years, and together as we prepare to go into the opening of our magnificent, new and mark zuckerberg san francisco, trauma center, i urge you to exercise the necessity of the timely, implementation of technologies that will insure the best care for our patients, the adoption of the epic system for the did. ph will not only benefit, our patients but also enhance our practice environment for the 1,000 physicians and 900 trainees, many of which are already, trained to use the

system. as you have heard there is also, significant opportunities for increased revenue through improved efficiencies and better documentation. so again, i strongly urge you to consider this proposal. thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is jim marks and i am the chief of 1,000 plus, medical staff. at san francisco, general and with my colleagues i am here in support for the ordinance to acquire an emr with the unique features that best serve our patients and providers. you have heard that we use paper electronic, and records as well

as over 60 different records. and fk, when i care for the critically ill patients i cannot see the care or the medications that they have received in the emergency department. and we are making and the regulatory challenges in the environment in which we practice and, we now have the opportunity to solve these challenges by negotiating the acquisition of apex and ucsf, implementation of epic and going this route, offers the substantial benefits to the patients and staff, compared to the other alternatives. and as you have heard, half of our physicians work at ucsf, and regularly use apex and this reduces the training costs and more importantly, increases safety because the physicians do not have to know and use two different emrs. and simply, all of our resident and fellow trainees know and use

it with the same advantages, i cannot over emphasize the importance of this and insuring the patient safety with a workforce that moves back and forth between the two -- >> thank you very much. >> appreciate it, next speaker please? >> good afternoon. i am the chief of neurology and the director at san francisco general. integrated electronic health record is a required tool of the trade for the doctors and nurses

to get the care for the inpatients and outpatients when i announced at our faculty meeting that the director garcia was seeking to bring it to the hospital, the faculty actually applauded and the residents say thank you, and i am inspired on a daily basis for the dedication of the providers on behalf of the patients across the care, continuum from the emergency, fair treatment, and implementation of the ehr is a major undertaking and having the enthusiasm and the engagement in the medical staff is critical to success and we have it for director garcia's proposal. >> they need to spend the time not learning a no. uhr and it is a safety, issue, when the provider, works in the hospitals as most of the doctors do is treating a stroke, patient in the emergency, department and when the minutes mean brain cells, any delay, brought by the infa familiarity is

unacceptable, and when the doctor follows a patient in the outpatient, clinic it is at a different hospital that day and they need to be able to seamlessly, access the patient's medical record from off site. and it is a mission, issue. the it is a special place and the link, will insure that the patients are at the center of our commitments to the patient care, and medical education and, research. on behalf of the service, and medical staff, i urge you to support this ordinance. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good morning. i am neil and a physician and a chief of medicine. and we are the largest department and we take care of people in this city, with heart attacks and diabetes and high blood pressure and hiv. if you have an iphone, imagine if you were forced to use an android this month and an ifor enin april and android in april

and iphone in june and android in july. you would become, quickly frustrated. you might make a mistake, dialling or texting the wrong phone number because you are not familiar with the software features that is what it is like for the 1,000, ucsf physicians at san francisco general who provide, primary and specialty care to 123,000 san francisco residents. and they have to toggle between the two different electronic health records. systems. one at ucsf and a totally different one at san francisco general as they go back and forth boetween the institutions losing your bearing in the electronic health record is not as trivia as texting the wrong phone and saying excuse me, it could mean the delays in care and patient harm and death for a patient treated by a physician, having to use, two widely

different information systems. imagine ordering the wrong medication because of unfamiliar arty with two systems. and not only a human cost for the adults. or the children, like the ones that were just in this chamber, but there is also, the grief for providers and unnecessary cofor tax payers and you have the power to prevent this. and behalf of the chiefs of service i ask you to support this non-competitive process. to advance the health and well-being of san francisco residents. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello, heidi collins and iment the vice president of ucfhealth for the health record and the systems, at 5 hospitals and over 160 hospital and

community based clinics. and i wanted to give the historical background on ucsf road to the successful implementation. and prior to epic, it undertook a nine year journey to implement the functionality, this project had multiple stops and starts.

>> thanks, the next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, i am scott

kene senior director and general manager with the health services a division of the corporation, required. the services february of 2015, it has been the electronic health and partner for dph for 20 plus years and we value our relationship. i am here today, in support of the letter flanagan shared with the board of supervisors regarding the waving of the competitive process requirements. for the selection of a new ehr and naming ucsf as the preferred contractor. we believe that it is not in the public's best interest to wave the competitive process and allow the sole source of the complex and high risk, 342 million dollar, information technology contract. we are asking that the competitive process remain in place, the competitive process, provides, dph the opportunity to fairly evaluate the key factors

which include, an integrated system that meets the unique needs of the dph across the full care. and in addition to the exchange of information, with non-affiliated epic partners, service level agreements for out time, warranty and support levels and a fixed fee implementation and the total cost of ownership. there are no examples of two organizations as large as ucsf and dph with different service lines and government structures coming together in a shared system. this is a very important long term project and we urge the board of supervisors to reject the wave request and follow the normal competitive process, that will allow dph to select a supplier that can meet their unique needs. thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is eloise and i am a san francisco resident and i do not

have a slew of initials behind my name as t the ladies and gentlemen before me. it is a great need and it needs to happen and no one has the passion of the members of the san francisco community more than i do. this goes far beyond the project. the concern is that we are being asked to wave administrative code 21.1, which actually is a protection for business? san francisco, and dph even stated this is for the business of health. well the business and small business of san francisco, have not had the opportunity to engage with anyone. to partner with anyone. and to move forward to be able to be included in this process. this sets a dangerous precedent. and as we move forward, this is a significant amount of money to the sole source of individuals and not to mention that the data

that ucsf is going to be able to accrue and going to be of a great value to them and provide, more dollars into the network as we move forward and we begin to negotiate and negate 21.1, then all of the other contracts that are other larger constitutional contracts that are coming down the way will get much more scrutiny than this one is appears is getting right now. so, i absolutely urge you to reject this as and provide a waiver, and absolutely encourage you to move forward do a competitive process as this administrative code was desiepd to do. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> ♪

>> if you are searching for your health records i am sure that you will find the information there. if you are searching for health records systems. i am sure you will find it helpful safe in there. >> thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment? >> okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i will just say from my point of view, i never, we don't like doing these, and or it is not of the preference to do these type of source things but from the process perspective that is why we have the ability to wave it if we need to. and i am, very conscious of the economics here and i will say from my perspective. the integration, here from the doctors and the health department and i will just say

that a personal experience and my folks over the last few years, the integrated system at ucsf and it is, critical. and i cannot imagine and i would not be in conscious not voting for it. knowing how critical that it has been to their personal healthcare. and not being able to give everybody else the opportunity to do that. so, i understand all of the other kernshz i get it. but from my perspective, when it comes to it all, it trumps it all, i am prepared to approve this right now, and we are going to have the full contract before us and we can evaluate it at that time. that is why we have this procedure in place right now. and i would be happy to support it. tang? >> thank you, i do echo, sperp farrell's comments and also i will make a motion now then to accept the budget analyst's recommendation that if there not an agreement, reached in six months, that the department will go forthwith the rfp process.

so, with that, then, i would make that motion for amendment and then, send forward to the full board with the positive recommendation as amended. >> okay. we have a motion by supervisor tang. >> and we can take that without objection. >> mr. clerk, do we have any other business in front of us? >> on the previous, item, i believe that dph was wanted to propose an amendment that was different from the recommendation of the budget analyst. and i am happy to read that into the record, i don't know if --. >> sure, >> the only difference is if you look at the budget and legislative analyst report, the recommendation is phrased slightly different from the body of the report, than it is in the bullet point at the end. one version says if we are unable to conclude negotiations, in six months, we go to rfp, and the body of the report it says if the director of health is unable to obtain substantial

assurances under subsection b of the ordinance, that we will go to an rfp. and we would prefer significant assurances language, because it does not lock us into that hard deadline. >> and we agree with that. with he discussed that with the department and the wording that i read to you, today, is consistent with that. so we are in agreement with the department. >> thank you. mr. rose. >> do we need a different vote at this point? >> i think that your vote is okay. if it is consistent with the regular dagss. but just one point of clarification, in the write up to the clerk, we will not say that the department has to go with an rfp, if the negotiations break down, but that it has to go with a competitive sola solicitation process, which could be a range of options. >> no other vote needed? in no. >> any other business in front of us. >> i would like to request that the department provide the am d amended ordinance to me by 9:00

m a, tomorrow morning at the late. e >> okay. >> with that, we are adjourned. >> good afternoon, everybody, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisor's budget and finance committee for wednesday march 9, 2016. my name is mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee, i'm joined by supervisor katy tang as well as supervisors jane kim and scott wiener, we'll be joined by supervisor norman yee and i want to welcome supervisor avalos, i want to thank

victor young, the clerk, and jennifer low and [inaudible] mr. clerk, do we have announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phone and is electronic device, any documents to be included as part of the file should be submit today the clerk, items will appear on the march 15, 2016 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, mr. clerk, we're just making sure we deal with a quorum and over the limit issues, and we'll ko*n the deal with that today. with that, mr. clerk, would you call item number 1, please. er >> item number 1, ordinance appropriating 5 million dollars from the general fund reserve of which 2.5 million will be used in the recreation and park department nor facilities improvement ins the geneva car barn and 2.5 million will be use ined the department of public health for facilities improvements of 35-45 onondaga avenue in fiscal

year 2015-16. er >> okay, this item was sponsored by supervisor avalos, so i would like to turn it over to him. er >> thank you, chair farrell and i want to appreciate the work of the budget committee to hear this item and also for all the previous work that the board of supervisors has done for the geneva car barn and the newest version or newbesting building that we're trying to restore in district 11 are the emergency hospital on onondaga and the home and health site on onondaga and elevate, these latitude buildings are two public buildings under the department of public health jurisdiction that had been empty, i believe it's been around 7 years that they've both been empty, they've been sources of blight fwl the neighborhood and just along the corner of alamani and onondaga, there have been homeless encampments there on the build, there's been people squatting inside the building as of last year, the corner building and it's also

a part of the commercial corridor in district 11 that we're trying desperate toy to bring up to viability and economic viability, we've made some really good improvements close by on that corner, but you know, being able to activate vacant buildings is going to be a major part of our effort to bring economic vitality to this part of san francisco. and, clearly, we look at ways that san francisco outside of district 11, outside of the southern neighborhoods have faired during our economic boom, we've seen a complete transformation of partser of the city, that hasn't happened in district 11 and that's really why i brought it forward, this supplemental, to help level the playing field for district 11 to see that we can get, while we're having this boom, some of the wealth the city's been able to

generate to come into our neighborhood and help jump start the economic vitality that so far has not really blossomed in district 11 as it has in other places. the geneva car barn, part aof the supplemental is 2.5 million dollars for phase 1 of the building construction that we've been working on for the past 15 years or so, and phase 1 would be on the power house side, it's a big vacant billing where there were power generators, it's incredible, beautiful site but it's not been easy to activate it and to raise the funds to do it. over the years, the city has made appropriations with the support of the budget committee for the geneva office building, i believe there was about 800 thousand dollars in 2008 that was donated or appropriated and then we've made appropriations during our

add back process to keep programming going and to keep fundraising going for the car barn, that's pretty much kept this program alive and then a couple of years ago, rec and park was able to find, they called it looking at the couch cushions to find money that was left over from bond financing that hasn't been expended to be able to use for the car bafrn as well and that has been made available to help to do some of the design work and predevelopment work that has been so necessary to keep this project going. phase 1, we were able to identify three million dollars from the last park bond that was approved in 2012, there's funds that could be going for the car barn and they were pretty much designed for the car barn project, there's also about 1.6 million dollars in historic tax credits that can be applied as well and then this 2.5 million dollars is to cover the gap to be able to do the entire phase 1 of

the project when you combine with the tax credits and the previous appropriation, so i want to thank the mayor's office for their openness to discussing how this project can go forward, so far t mayor's office has not indicated that they are -- believe that the supplemental is the appropriate way to go and would like to consider putting this in their budget, no matter what, i want to see -- and district 11 residents want to see that this is a project that can move forward this year, that we could have fund tog do this phase 1 of the car barn this year. the onondaga sites are going to be more challenging, w ve a budget analyst report that has not been favorable for that site compared to the car barn which gives us the bajt analyst has given us a

favorable recommendation to approve the car barn side, we don't have that for the onondaga site and that's about more how we're trying to collect information for the onondaga site that would allow us to bring the economics to something that would be much more easy to do with our city funds, so i'm expecting that we're going to continue that part of the supplemental before us today, the part related to the two buildings on onondaga and see if we can find some other pathway for those. i know the community is really interested in those buildings moving forward quickly, we ao*f had as i mentioned before, they've been languishing for 7 years, source of blight in the neighborhood and there's a real interest from district 11 residents to move on these project, overall for the supplemental, we received a lot of e-mail and is public input, about 20 e-mails from

people in district 11 to move forward on these project, but finding the funds and the pathway to find the funds is not totally clear, so with that, i would like to perhaps hear from maybe the mayor's budget office on what work so far they've been able to do on helping us to move forward with these projects, i'm very grateful for their work and helping to find funding, and want to continue a conversation on these projects as we move forward for the next week. ing >> it's not to interrupt, ms. howard, i want to say i am going to -- because we're dealing with issues of too many people here in the chambers at one time, i'm going to excuse myself out of the chambers bhiel this discussions until the actual vote, so i will be here for the vote in a little bit and supervisor avalos at the time with we do have the vote, if you can excuse yourself and i'll come back in, so we can have six people at a time

that create as quorum. >> i've been on the budget committee, this is my sixth year, every single year, i've haed a request that every single five person budget agenda that's issued have the special language on it if a sixth member comes in, it becomes a special meeting of the board of supervisors, and that language almost never comes on, it seems like every yaoe, we have this problem where if a sponsor god forbid comes in to talk ability their item or someone on a particular budget matter, all of a sudden a member of this committee then has to leave, and i just -- i'm going to request again to the clerk's office that every single agenda for the big budget committee include that disclaimer, there's no reason not to put it on and it just -- it will address a lot of these problems. >> thank you, supervisor wiener, and i just had that same conversation, that's going to be the case through the rest of our big budget season in the board, with that, i will go out of the

room and come back after the discussion. >> thank you for your flexibility. >> mayor's budget direct torx i see you've stood up. >> good afternoon, supervisors, supervisor avalos, members of the committee, kate howard, the mayor's budget director, thank you for your opening comments, supervisor avalos, as you know, we've been working closely with your office with the rec and park department and the office of economic and workforce development over the past several years to figure out a plan to move the car barn project forward. last year, work done by your office, rec and park and oewd resulted in a modified phased plan for activating the car barn and the power house, and the planning work for that modified plan was funded through the mayor's budget at

about 475 thousand dollars. the mayor's office is happy to continue to work with you and your office to figure out an appropriate strategy for fully funding the project, as i think i've shared with you, at this time, it's very difficult for our office to support general fund supplementals given the city's financial outlook, we've put out budget instructions that demonstrate that we have budgetary gaps growing from 100 million to 240 million dollars over the next two years so we'd like the work with you through the budget process through the capital planning committee to make sure that we're able to address the needs of the project but to do it in the context of the budget. happy to continue to work with you over the next weeks and months to figure this out, but that's kind of where we are to date.

>> okay, and are you part of the kettle planning committee? >> i am, supervisor, there are five permanent members of which i am one, the board president is the board's representative on the capital planning committee. >> and how much has the actual car barn brojt been a discussion item on the capital planning committee, if ever? >> i don't know the answer to that off the top of my head. it may have come up, if it has come up, it would have come up as part of the rec and park discussion around rec and park facility needs. i'm happy to look at that and certainly happy to work with them to bring it to the committee's attention. >> i would like to see if we can have it as a topic item for the capital planning committee. i have not participate painted on the capital planning committee in the past tha,'s been a place where the president of the board represents us, but i think in this case, given

that we've worked for many years on the j*e geneva office car barn project, we should elevate it to a real discussion because we've made the commitments here in budget committee and the mayor's office has made some commitments but we haven't had a thorough look at how we can make sure this project goes forward, and we make plans outside of the capital planning committee for this project that i don't think makes a lot of sense that the capital planning committee isn't part of that discussion, so to be very honest, i have very mixed feelings about whether to move forward with a supplemental. i feel like that's the only way i can guarantee that we can move forward on this project and i think we might have enough votes to pass, but i don't know if the mayor would vito that, really having the mayor's support no

matter what is going to be what makes or breaks this project, and so i want to keep the lines of communication open. what i expect to do with this item is to probably just continue it a week, ms. howard, you talked about wanting to talk directly to the mayor about this project, if i could be part of that discussion again before hearing it again next week, that's something i would like to do. there are people who are from district 11 who would like to talk about this project and how meaningful it is, i think it's important na the committee hear their response, we also have the budget analyst review his report and if we can -- >> thank you, maybe i'll go the supervisor yee first and then to the budget analyst. >> thank you, supervisor avalos, for bringing the car barn issue into our attention. even though it's not in district 7, it borders district 7, and i've had the

opportunity on i -- and i suppose other supervisors have had the opportunity to visit the car barn, and when i went to visit it, i was just using my imagination, whatever the people that were giving me the tour wasn't telling me, and i looked at it as such a humongous asset, not only for district 11 or 7 but i think throughout the city, it's a great building to make something happen there, some of the plans, some of the discussions that was taking place when i was on the tour made so much sense in terms of what it could be. i really saw the potential there, and i'm glad you're taking a lead to try to push this because it's been in discussion for years and i would like to strongly support supervisor avalos in

trying to realize this project in the near future, so i will be supporting a continuance and i would like to hear what the mayor's office will be doing with this. thank you. >> so, if there are no other questions or comments, maybe we'll go to mr. rose first. >> yes, madam chair and members of the committee, on page 5 of our report, we state that it's shown in table 2, the projected funding sources total 7 million 501 thousand 278 which is 618066 more than the 6 million 88312 phase 1 powerest maltese cost shown in table 1, again, that's on page 5, however shown in table 2, only 601 thousand 278 has previously been appropriated by the board of

supervisors for this project, so this leaves a current 6 million 281, 934 funding gap for the phase 1 project related to the power house hof the car barn project. on page 6 of our report, we note that funding for phase 2 of the geneva car barn project has not been identified which is currently estimated to cost 22 million 116 thousand 788, regarding the 3545 onondaga avenue project, table 3 and that's on page 6 of our report summarizes the estimated cost for short and long term improvements for that project and it's shown in table 3, the estimated costs range from 3 million 35 thousand for short term improvements to 4 million 903 thousand for long term improvements. on page 8 of our report, we notice that the city's general fund reserve balance

is currently 73 million 931, 443, if the board of supervisor approves the proposed 5 million supplemental appropriation ordinance t general fund reserve would be reduced to 68 *f 68 million 941443, our recommendations on page 8 based on the prior appropriations previously approved by the board of supervisor, we have recommended you sever the proposed ordinance to separate the 5 million request into two, 2 million 500 thousand dollar requests, one for the geneva car barn and one for the onondaga properties waeshltion recommend you approve the requested 2.5 million supplemental appropriation for rpd for the geneva car barn and place the entire 2.5 million on budget and finance committee reserve, pend thing determination of the remaining funding sources and the actual amounts of funding received for the project.

we also recommend that you continue the proposed 2 million 500 thousand supplemental for dph pending the identification of additional funding sources, actual amounts of funding received and the organizational structures determined to close the gap to renovate and close the 4545 onondaga property debra newman and i would be happy to respond to any questions. >> thank you, mr. rose, any other comment? s seeing none, we'll go over to public comment on item 1. i have one public comment card, but feel free to come on up and line up. anyone wishing to speak to item 1, line up by the window over there and line up, come on up. >> good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity to comment regarding your vote today to approve supplemental funding for the reuse and revitalization of the geneva car barn and onondaga

property i ao*e been a city resident for 37 years, a homeowner one block from the je geneva car barn for 16 years, like my neighborhood david hooper and carl notty, i have a long perspective on city planning model, i can see how long it takes to make improvements in an area designated for planning. we unfortunately still have conditions of neglect in district 11 today. my business has been helping provide needed housing and commercial opportunities in areas that are ready for improvement and are in need. the key to success for me is a central point in which to orient good planing and a neighborhood identity. what seems to be the necessary key to redevelop an existing neighborhood is an anchor, a safe that identifies a special location through its history or its importance. the specific location at

geneva and san jose avenues is a busy transit nexus for thousands, and it can become the center of new community cohesion and productivity while honoring its past and serving its future of the city and the community there. think of your aye vote as your voice of confidence that district 11 will not be forgotten again during more belt tightening times, that the taxes we have sent you will be used for the very improvements we need to revitalize this busy intersection. please cast your aye vote today to support supervisor avalos' supplemental budget request for this prongt and help fund part of the vitalization of district 11. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is robert mule bar, i'm here to speak in favor of the 5 million dollar supplemental appropriation for geneva car

barn and the alamana hospital, i'm a 35 year resident of this community, i'm former chair and i also serve as the balboa citizens advisory committee, the balboa station area where both these committees are working which was adopted by the board i believe in 2009 really says that this transit node where this geneva car barn is located really has a sense of identity, it does not have a sense of identity at all right now, it is an undesirable place to go but there's all kinds of good signs on horizon that something's going to happen here, there's 85-100 proposed house tog go up, we have sfmta that's going to be doing street improvement, there's an ntip grant that's going to be looking at the intersection of geneva and san jose and across the street, here's our geneva

car barn, our historic landmark building that could be the catalyst for coming together all these improvements, bart's putting in about 12-15 million dollars of improvements so i think our time is now and i would like to see through this supplemental budget appropriation or part of the budget process that we move this project forward and create a neighborhood asset that really it should be, it's a diamond nr the rough and it could be something much better and actually if we're going to put 85 units of housing at this location, it just can't be done in isolation, it has to be done in the context of all the other improvement that is are taking place, so once again, i urge you either through the budget process or both through the supplemental appropriation that we move ahead with this. thank you very much, and i appreciate your time. >> thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> overhead projector.

my name's rich chord rof man and i'm not a district 10 resident but i am interested in preserving murals, wpa mural ins the city and i found out about -- i thought the mother's building was hidden murals, but these two murals, [inaudible] he painted these in the tower, this mural and the fwo murals up at ucsf, this building was occupied by public health and for some reason in the 30's, they whitewashed the bottom probably because there was some inappropriate scenes in the murals there. here's a close-up here, actually, bernard zakime's grandson startled the process of cleaning these murals

here. and then this is a mural on the second floor here, community health, the bottom one is called growth, and i think, you know, we save quite tow e beach shall lay and -- chalet, and i think we need to save this building and this building needs to be open to the public so the public can enjoy these beautiful murals, they have been closed for a long time and i think either the city needs to own the building or the non-profit group and to have the building so that it's open to the public and the community and the public can enjoy these beautiful murals. here's one of the artist's, one of the great artist's in the wpa and i think we need to honor him by showing his murals to the public. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. rof man,

before the next speaker, i neglected to have katie who's here from the rec and park department who came here especially to be part of our hearing and she could talk about a lot of the work the department of rec and parks have done for the geneva car barn, so thank you for coming. inger >> i'm kate tea patricioni, so rec and park purchase ted je *f geneva car barn from money in 2004 for $1, and we have spent the last 12 years or so since then working to realize a vision of converting the space into a center for youth arts programming. we have had many partners throughout this process including the friends of the car barn, the office of workforce and he can nom i can development, the arts commission as well as the

long-time support of supervisor avalos and the mayor. in 2015, the budget analyst report noted, the department made the decision to split what has become a very complex project into two phases, the hope being that if we could complete phase 1 which is a renovation of the power house, that would really excite philanthropic support to help us fund phase 2 of the project which is substantially larger. the supplemental that is in front of the committee today would close a budget gap for phase 1 of the project, rec and park is very committed to the car barn project and we look forward to continuing to work with supervisor avalos as well as the mayor's office to secure all necessary funding for the project. i'm happy to answer

questions. >> thank you. >> alright, seeing no questions, thank you very much. >> supervisor yee? >> thanks for your presentation and your support for this project. i'm just curious, when you say rec and park is committed, i know that you've paid attention to it, but has rec and park actually committed any resources, funding to this particular project? >> can i answer that before you do? rec and park has been a great player and collaborator with us on this project, and i'll let katie talk about that more, but over the past several years, nicole avril has been a leader in helping to make sure that the rec and park department has been on it, looking at ways we can find money, making sure that the environmental document

that is were done a few years ago were done, it's night and day where rec and park was maybe 6 years ago to now and i'm grateful for their efforts so i'll let katie also chime in there too. >> so, we support the project in that we have a project manager who's working on shepherding all of the financial and entitlement and planning of the project through the process, but then also there's three million dollars in -- -- earmarked in community opportunity fund ining the 2012 bond for the car barn, so i would say we are putting our money where our mouth is. >> thank you. >> thank you, any other questions, comments for rec, park, seeing none, we're going to resume paub u public comment, so next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name's linda

lighthouse, i'm a resident of district 11, my husband and i have written a letter which you probably received today, so i will just give you a few highlights, we are firmly in favor of this process of extra supplemental money for this neighborhood. we've been in san francisco since 1969 and we've seen a lot of changes and a lot of progress, but as we see in the neighborhood we live in, lots of these projects that we think should have gone forward much sooner than they did have been stalled and that's primarily due to funding. i'll just give you a couple of excerpts from my later, easier and all my neighborhoods are uniquely diverse neighborhoods who contain some of the most actively and engaged citizen ins the entire city w. we

know thousand get things done, we have been honored in multiple category ins the annual empowerment network awards, we have the will and the follow-through but we lack the funding to accomplish our bigger goals, our community is rich in its enthusiasm, dedication and volunteer spirit, but -- and we feel these buildings symbolize the dreams of what we know our community could be, sadly too many people drive by these buildings see these buildings as a symbol of abandonment of our district by the city, our constant rallying to explain that the wonderful renovations that could make these buildings cornerstones of neighborhood pride are usually met with a cynical but when, thank you. >> thank you very much, next speaker. >> my name is jo*el and i'm president of the merchants and residents association and i urge your support for this supplemental and the 5

million dollars. i was a patient at the mission emergency hospital which was 45 onondaga and many times scraped knees, scraped things like that, shot that is are needed was where we went to go get our immunizations in the neighborhood, these are two -- the geneva office bar, car barn and also the 34 and 45 onondaga are community build advising we need to have these in our neighborhood because they are necessary, we need to have our own tower, something to have pride in and we as citizens and as residents and as tax payers, i'll throw that in, we really urge you to pass the supplemental. thank you for your time. >> thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is david hooper, i serve as the president of the new mission terrace improvement association and this is my hometown, i was raised in the mission. with regard to the

supplemental request, i support it, the geneva office building and the alamania hospital and adjacent buildings have historical, architectural and significance to the community, they are anchors that haven't been used. as robert mule bower said, the intersection of geneva and san jose needs a real opportunity to make something happen and the gob is that opportunity, as for the 35 and 45 onondaga, the emergency hospital and the adjacent health center buildings, i would like to thank richard rothman for raising the flag and saying the murals there, you have to see nem in person to appreciate them, that he made the effort, last month, the historic preservation commission, is it a commission or a committee? >> it's a commission. >> they voted to landmark

unanimously the emergency and the health center building adjacent to it. they're anchors, change is going to come to the excel sher, we can get ahead of the game, so i would also thank supervisor avalos for trying to rally support with the board of supervisor and is to the mayor's office for the supplemental and one last note, i think i went to all of the emergency hospitals when i was a kid and the geneva office build ising where i took the oral exam to become a muni operator, yes, i passed, and i would like the say that it isn't just me, it's generations in the community identified with these buildings. thank you. >> thank you. next speak -- speaker,

please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm dan weaver, today i'm speaking for the board of the friends of geneva office building and power house, needless to say we support the supplemental, we also support the mayor's efforts towards finding the money to make this project move forward finally. we've been trying to move it forward since 1999 when we persuaded muni or the mayor i should say at the time, willie brown to direct muni to work with the community to restore the building as a community center. our focus has been over the years to focus on the youth and the neighborhood because as rec park leaders told us when they joined us in the partnership in 2003, that that was what was needed, a new way of dealing with recreation, after school

programs for youth and that's what the department hadn't been able to achieve and district 11 of course is the perfect place to experiment with things like that and we've been partnering with the rec park department as they've explained earlier towards getting this thing going, getting it started, getting it operating, and this phased approach is something that is working and we need to continue to make that work, hopefully the mayor will be bemind us sooner -- behind us sooner or later, thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisor, asha from district 11, i want to support this, [inaudible] this important institution, as well as david hooper and lisa hooper from the mission

terrace improvement association and putting the alamani hospital and the health buildings on everyone's radar and the important murals so we stand in support of this today, thanks, supervisor avalos for put ining the request, it's very important for our community and we would like to see this move forward, thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> the gee nao*ef va car barn's been there a long time, it's been a long time, been a long time, been a long, long time sm. singing ) why don't you give it a dime, it's been a long time, been a historic long time, been a long, long, long time, won't you make it shine, it's been a long time, been a long time, won't you make it all turn out, public health and shine, thank you. >> thank you very much, any

other members of the public who wish to speak on item 1, please come on up, seeing none, we're going the close public comment and pretend to bang the gavel, supervisor wiener? >> i just wanted to thank supervisor avalos for pushing on this project and really commend the neighbors for pushing for decades now on this project. we know that a lot of times, things only happen when neighbors push for years and years and years, so i'm very supportive of this project, i'm also appreciative that supervisor avalos will be engaging in dialogue with the mayor's office to talk about how we can make this move forward, so i'm hoping we can have a qume buy ya moment and a have a great project. >> thank you, supervise so, any last comments? >> thank you for hearing this and i want to thank rez

densest from district 11 for coming out in good numbers today. it's not often we get a lot of district 11 residents to come to public comment during the middle of the day, and so i think it's really special to acknowledge that. i also want to acknowledge for the many people who have been working for years on these projects, in particular, dan weaver from the geneva office building who has been tireless in his efforts and has been able to mobilize a decade long district 11 support for this project on geneva and san jose avenue, and just more recently, the work around the onondaga sites have been led by a lot of residents but in particular, david hooper from new mission and terrace improvement association, so i want to thank him for his efforts. as mr. rothman mentioned, there's a bernard zack hao*im mural of the comer