exposed to on san francisco synthetic fields today. the video also contains pictures and video of the rpd installation. in many cases shown on mbc, espn and [inaudible] cpsc meetings. electron microscope [inaudible] these particles are invisible to the naked eye. zooming out reviles the zaged edges that enables them to get stuck in the lungs and gastrointestinal track. even the lanchlgest particles which are easily seen are the size of a grain of sands. the commission is responsible for introducing thousands of tons into childrens play fields and 35 acres of the city

environment. that is millions of pounds. this commission is responsible-as you know, yale publuxed a study which found 12 cancer causes particles. despite you and your business associates other notable agencyerize not sure. the health risk are questioned by the state of california cal recycle and [inaudible] under the direction of president obama, the u.s. epa and product safety commission and center for disease control are a initiating studies. these are the same [inaudible] as claiming tire [inaudible] is safe. as you have been repeatedly informed, over 25 percent the

chemical make up is found to cause cancer. 38 percent the chemical make up of these particles are listed by prop 65 as known to cause cancer. i'm here to ask the commission and rpd to inform the sitvens of san francisco who use the fields and exposed of them daily of the facts. i feel the athletes, the children and their parent and your neighbors lichb ing next to these fields are entitled to have a prop 65 warning posted at the entrance of the fields. i like to acknowledge a friend of mine, eethen [inaudible] who is soccer goly who is joining the list of growing user thofz fields who are battling cancer. thank you. >> thank you. >> anyone else that would like to make general public comment?

seeing none, this is closed. anyone who like to make comment on the consent calendar? being none, public comment is closed. commissioners. >> motion. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> all in favor. so moved. >> we are on item 6, the san francisco zoo. >> apology our it guy who is normally here got a better offer with the start up, so--bear with me for a moment as i get the powerpoint loaded. >> we need someones grandchild

in the room. >> slide show. from beginning. there we go. if you put the slide show up. there you go. delighted to be here. i want to talk about exciting stuff happened and will happen. i want to start with new animal at the zoo is mexican gray wolf a subspecies of the gray wolf and one the most endangered speess on the planet. what we have done is the process is to transform one of our bear grottos into a new exhibit. the grottos were built in 1938 when

cement was king and are now transforming into new spaces. you can see the beautiful glazed wall the public can walk up to and see these wovls. a view showing the length. the finger wall is removed and built a bump in. this is from the other side. you can get a sofens the breath of the exhibit. i want to notice that there is no cement. we have really put 1068 materials so the wlfs won't run on dirt. you can see a pool and on the other slide the mote was fill in. this side the mote isn't. this is the thrital bump in where the public can get inside the exhibit. we put about $30 thousand of electronic equipment to activate the

exhibit and part of our wellness program and this well stimulate and activate the exhibit. new arrives, hyson macaws and [inaudible] scirls. the color here is really muted. these animalerize spectacular in color. the hysons are rare and endangered because of their brilliant blue colors. they are going into the tropical forest and the squirrel is two times the size of our little gray squirrel and comes from asia. mothers day, what a great events at the zoo. about 6,000 families came out to the zoo. 6,000 people, families and mothers lf you see the baby

gerf, he name is inkred born april 8. when they are born they are only 6 feet, 3 inches and about 150 pounds to give a idea and they are up and walking within a hour. it was a great event. we have some other moms and babies. the lion cub was born august 31 of last year, all most a year old. we have oo baby anteater born march 30. a jieant anteater, you got to see this animal. it is cute as heck. it climbs up on the moms back and how it is transported. we have baby [inaudible] and monkey. check those guys out. what happened? kids fest is happening this friday. i

brought cards if you are interesting in having a blast. we close the zoo from 6 to 8 you can come with the kids and have a special experience so come out this friday. endangered species day will be a wonderful event. we are going to celebrate it over 3 days and the zoo-when is the date? may 20? this friday, saturday and sunday. we will keep the zoo open until 6 o'clock friday and saturday. i think we have 18 endangered species. most animals on the planet are in trouble. celebrate life at the zoo. it is a special place to connect to the wild places and things. summer programming begins june 4.

lots of stuff will be going on. shows and keeping talks and youth programs. we have 500 youth. talk about career learning, this is a great program that help kids learn about activities they can get involved with and many kids involved in the programs go on to contrarys with conservation and education. the zoo is 100 acre garden and 100 acre park and classroom, and zoo. come out this summer and see what is shaking. and that ends my report. >> thank you very much. >> is there public comment on this item? item 6. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners any comment? discussion only. we are on item 7, west sun set playground. al

>> good morning commissioners. dan mower capital division. the item before you we presented at the capital committee. it was discussion only item because i didn't have the paperwork to give a formal report but now that we have a few weeks happy to announce we have a contractor on board that we like to have you award a construction contract to. this is for west sunset playground renovation project. this is one of the 2012 park bond programs and taken a little longer to get this moving. we went through a process and advertised and bid the project and the bids came in extremely high during the first go so had to adjust and rebid the project. we did that and ended

up with two bids. one was extremely outrageous but the other was within our means and enyour packages you can see a summary of had bid results that came in. what we propose is the commission award a construction contract to [inaudible] landscape and construction ink in amount of 9, 788,000. we have bid items worked into the project but with the bid price we won't be able to exercise those and try to get those at the back ends of the project. we will monitor that closely and make sure we get the best bang for the dollar. we anticipate starting construction at the end of july and hope to open the facility back up july 2017. if you have questions? in the package i

believe you have a site plan of the facility. roughly about 15 acre facility, 3 soccer fields, 3 baseball fields, parking lot and aminities. : >> thank you. mr. ginsbirg did you is a question? >> can you run us through the alternate and budgets are? a couple i felt were important. there is elements i think are i like to see us alwork together to figure a way to get #24e78 back into the project. >> where to start answering that question. the first question is alternate bid items were replacement of the upper baseball field for lighting. the other is renovation of a smaller womans

restroom down at the lower bleacher section. the original project had two restroom buildings for the women only because the plumbing and current configuration allowed for that. the small one is open munday through friday and as eventss required open the larger. the womens restroom was a alternate bid item. the last is plants and shrubs and larger planting bids. those were the 3- >> that include the gateway the pillars? >> no, this is just the vegetation itself, the green. that is why i prefaced my comment when i started this is we have gone through this twice now to get it into a

reasonable budget. the project had pillars-similar what you see at haight street. a shed at the upper soccer field. the other engineering opportunities we took to get into budget were adjusting the ada access requirements. as i mentioned at the committee level this park has a grade change 40 to 45 feet and make tg accessible for folks in wheelchairs and mobility impavement it is lot of ramps and concrete that need to be implemented so we were able to reduce that to reduce the cost. the upper restrooms in the upper baseball feed are omitted.

>> what is had cost of lighting? >> approximately $160,000 for the upper field lights. >> what were the cost of the pillars? >> i center to get back on that one. that was broken out sometime ago so don't have that at my finger tips. >> i like to propose commissioner, there are elements of the project that are painful to have to have given up and i know where we are with open space on the contingencies or reserve but i like to do more work with dan and think about potentially bringing some either one of the funding back or the pillars are no longer in the project and see if we can figure a way toresusitate that >> can't we have the contract as

-gone out to bid several times. can we move this contract forward subject to a change order in case additional funding is found in order to cover any alternates? i guess that is a question to both of you. >> the possibility exists. i don't have a figure for you at the moment to share, so if you want to take an action today on that it would be a arbitary faigier. under the contracting law we have the ability to go up to 10 percent the contract amount without sxhing back for your approval. if we find additional funding i am more than happy to come back and share with the group and commission and ask for the fee increase. >> i propose we move forward with the contract but come back if we identify alternate funds in

your discretion and one is [inaudible] and one is a change order. let dan and i do work and come back to you to the commission even if it is above 10 percent. >> we move the contract--this is to the west sunset playground users i think we have to get this going. >> i agree. >> let me suggest twee get public comment and then i have a question for dan. >> anyone who would like to make public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> dan, the second highest bid was 35 percent higher. can you give a rough estimate of why that is? >> that is a good question and i asked a lot of folks in the contracting world why some of the numbers are so large. to be frank i think contractors out there are so busy and the bid

pool is show shy people are throwing numbers randomly at the table and if it sticks it is gravy and if it doesn't they have nothing to lose. this happened on the first bid cycle one came in excess of 3 million dollars and the second bid was the same. it is frustrating not having clear response why they are doing that, it just doesn't make sense. dpw with their drebter and project management team are going through a exercise looking at all the bids from the different departments inside and outside the agency and what they are finding is bids are between 25 and 30 percent above estimates. it is a difficult exercise for the capital division to put a fine pencil sharp point on estimating even with third party estimators we had 3 firms on this particular project to make sure we cross

reference the numbers but when you put it out for bid it is a throwing out into a black box and don't know what you will get back. >> thank you. seeing no other questions, i entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> moved and seconded. all in favor? >> aye >> so moved. >> we are on item 8, galf green fees approval of increase. >> goon morning, tom heart with [inaudible] management. first i would like to start with a couple corrections. i spoke with our city attorney last week to change agenda wording which you have in your packet, but does not match the agenda that went out. the two items have to do with including

the effective date july 1 of 2016 and we decided not to increase the junior rate, so the language that you have that would be voting on today is correct. i was advised by the city attorney i can make the change orally at the meeting. one other thing even though i looked at the charts numerous times, there is one rate that is incorrect which i like to correct for the report. in lincoln park the resident rate should be $25. excuse me, $26 and listed as $25. according to section 12-20 and park code, the department without further approval beyond the commission is eligible to raise green fees $1 or cpi each year. we did not do this

last year due to a number of reasons including some course conditions. we just finished renovating the growns at harding and had water work done and so decide not to do that. it is time that we ask for increase in green fees. as i explained in the write up, the reason we chose to do the dollar this time instead of cpi because it raises the highest rate out of comparable courses specifically at harding. if this is passed today it would go into effect july 1. we are expecting probably additional-probably closing this fiscal year with 207,000

round up last year. we are doing well, the weather is good and courses in good condition. if we do that we expect additional $200 thousand in the budget for next year. >> thank you. >> any public comment on this item? being none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner mcdonnell. >> in the background references being competitive and forgive my ignoreance, what is competitive mean by raising prices? >> it is really the golf industry changed tremendously in the last 2 or 3 years. we did research and most don't post rate because they do [inaudible] pricing. if you want to know the rate for tuesday at 10 o'clock they call the course and tell you what it is. it could have changed that morning. it is difficult for us to coo

that in a government setting. we have flexible pricing which i brought to you and took to the the board before that we can raise rates 25 percent and non resident rates up to 50 percent with notice to the department and approval. we have just recently started a new tee time system called, easy links which has a program that will help do that automatically. we are-i talked to the general manager at harding a couple days ago and we are probably going to start that around july 1 which will give us data so we are going to be able to make sure we are where we should be within the golf market. the problem is as i said, applying cpi oppose d to the dollar will actuallyened up raising the higher rates and not sometimes the

lower rates. we need more higher rates to be able to keep our resident rates as low as possible for our golfers. >> thank you. >> commissioner low. >> also not being a golfer and it is a while since we looked at golf fees and what the glen eagles lease amendment but how does the dynamic pricing fit in with this $1 fee hike? does it give the opportunity to raise more during-raise the golf fees higher during peak times? >> we will be able to do that and lower it during low times. there is some signs on a key sheet on a day especially during the week they are always emty and so 50 percent of something is better than zero. this will help make those judgments. by law we can only reduce things up to 25 percent.

>> was it easy links with the computer supposed to link all the reservation times, has that gone in place now? we >> we just started that. it is in place and all the golf courses with the exception of golden gate park. >> what this fee increase which i support, there was some accommodations made for particular golf courses in terms of improvements to that golf course that the department had to contribute quite a bit of money, is there tonight to recover some of those costs? >> [inaudible] >> we probably will, but we can't raise the prices unless the quality of the course is there. i think the courses are doing well. i haven't been out to glen eagles recently. i

visited lincoln and golden gate and all are in much better condition than this time last year. >> thank you. seeing no other comments, entertain a motion. moved and seconded. all in favor? >> aye. >> so moved. >> we are on number 9, san francisco southern bayfront. this is discussion only item commissioners. >> tom, do you want to grab nicole? she is in the hallway.

>> commissioners you will hear a presentation right now from the mayors office of economic and work force development on some very deep thinking going on about and planning along the southern waterfront and moewd is wonderful and collaborative bringing in the rec and park department and a lot of our sister agencies to think about growth in the southeast hol istically. you will here amazing stats. by 2025 we are expected to increase the population by close to 300,000 people along the southern waterfront. san francisco overall population growth [inaudible] i will shut up and let them do that. what is most-important is the way the

city is looking at development along the southern waterfront with a focus and priority insureing open space to balance growth. i'll turn it over to ken rich >> thank you. good morning commissioners. we are pleased to be here to give you this report on a effort that is justating for some time now. oewd and city agencies including this department aimed producing the best results for the city from a number of unique large developments that are proposed in area we are calling the southern bayfront. context, if you take a look at the slide and look at it moving clockwise from the lower left, the first zones in the red and green are under federal control ggnra. with your ownership and [inaudible] and we are not expecting much to change in the future. these are the areas that stay the way they

are. these are open spaces och various kinds. the third area in blue is what we think of when we imagine the san francisco waterfront. change here will happen slowly. it is fairly controversial and don't expect to see a lot changing. which leaves the yellow from att park to had southern boarder of the city, this is a part of the waterfront we believe we will see a lot of change and observers will welcome the change as long as it is benefit to the neighborhoods. the remainder of our short presentation focus on ideas we have been working on how to manage change for the city in the best way. if we zoom in we can say that-zoom in on the area we call the southern bayfront and the key point is this is already a place where people live and

work, but also a part of the city that will see the most growth in residential and commercial development in the coming decades. we already have 36,000 people living here and 23,000 people working here. how do we manage and shape the grouth for the good of the city and neighborhoods? the fact is, most of the large scale development we will see in the southern bayfront is already known and on the horizon. whether it is implementation such as hunters point candlestick or pier 70 or giant mission rock or india basin and pg and e site. look at the very compelling stats on the slide. we'll see at least 20,000 new housing unit created in the

southern bayfront. a third will be affordable. we will see 35,000 job and relevant to you and astounding stat about 520 acres of new open space which is virterally all the open space we will see in the city. this is important. really important for this commission. a couple of the projects that i mentioned are already approved, the ship yard candle stick and have them on the slide to focus on the 5 large projecktds still to be approved. all the projects seek to transforchl formally industrial land with no open space, housing and commercial. the investments are a benefit for the city, wree focused on claiming as much of that benefit and that value created as possible for our residents and neighborhoods. all of these projects will come in front of

various commissions and boards in some cases in front of and and board of supervisors as negotiated development agreements. these are too big and complicated to be zoning entitlement. you will see a schedule later and all come in the next couple years. what we are proposing and the remainer of the presentation will outline is a framework. look at them together and figure what is community benefit we want to negotiate globally. if we need the community benefits we have a whole framework. as we negotiate benefits around transportation and open space affordsability we want to think of them as a whole and not bringing one off deal tooz look at each time. i will bring up my colleagues, lee [inaudible] who will take you through quickly each of the topics and try to focus

for this preg presentation on the open space issue and discuss how we want to negotiate these. >> thanks ken. i'm lee [inaudible] as ken discussed the framework will aim to coordinate investment from the diverse projects into a number of key focus areas. you see the areas at the bottom of the slides and subsquents slides will go into more detail. affordable housing our goal is achieve 33 percent affordability across the projects. this will pruss over 6500 units of affordable housing and notebly will have a direct benefit for local residents through the neighborhood preference program which allows 40 percent the new units to go directly to local residents. this is a powerful

statistic. on sea level rise, we know the city is committed to protecting vulnerability communities from the impact of sea level rise. the great thing about these developments is they will improve and adapt large slots of the waterfront to deal with future effects of sea level rise and also collaborate with the city on long term measures that can help to bolster district wide protection over the long term. transportation, this is a critical component for both existing and future residents of the southern bayfront. the good news is the city is already working to meet demand. the lest 3 slides will show the project investments coming on line as early at next year. in the following decades through 2030. putting the whole picture together youtd can see

the large amount of investment that will come on line in this district. how do these development projects fit in? through collaboration with each other and negotiation with the city through our process our goal is channel the transportation together so they can have a larger impact on the transportation picture than otherwise possible. for example, we can improve local neighborhood streetscape connections by coordinating adjacent projects to make sure there more a hol istic look at the streetscape improvements. we will also try to channel that investment to enhance transit operations along this corridor. moving to open space, as ken said the broader district will see over 520 new and renovated

acres of open space through these projects the projects approved and coming down the line. the goal is coordinate projects investment in open space with existing and new communities. what this means is creating a waterfront that is publicly accessible. much of the waterfront is formally industrial and not accessible to the public in any way let alone through recational activities. we also want to make sure open spaces are connected to one another physically when possibly and if not through a broad messaging strategy. finally, woo want to maketia zee a unified approach to programming or coordinateed approach to programming so there is cohesion of the event. this has the potential to be district wide network of open space that will enhance the

residents use and access to parks and rec facilities. i want to highlight a great example of the coordination which the commission is very familiar with. the work that is happening at india basin where rec and park is directly engaging neighborhood stakeholders and adjacent property owners through a conceptual design process to plan a coordinateed open space and new public park land for the area. this process is achieving all the goals we are trying to achieve district wide and really happy to have this be sort of the first out of the gate to really kind of coordinate and connect all of the various property owners and all the various open spaces that exist and will exist in this district. the other thing i want to highlight on open

space is that there is a broader rec need assessment undertaken by rec and park and planning and this is part of plannings broader southeast framework 5 year plan. they are looking to inventory the current access to and adequacy of rec facilities and parks in the broader southeast. that will help the city understand the neighborhoods needs now and also inform the neighborhoods needs as the population grows especially through these projects. this will allow us to target specific recreational needs and maybe find solutions within the project developments if appropriate. this is also i mentioned being informed by the work that the port has done on the [inaudible] and that work is ongoing with participation from rec and park, so all the broader planning effort will be combined through our strategies here to make sure we are really

addressing the appropriate recreational needs that exist in the district and will exist. on sustainability we want to achieve a high level of environmental sustainability. this is through the use of resource savings utility designs, new technology, our goal is to provide long term environmental benefits for the whole district. a lot of the projects are revitalizing former industrial land so by transforming into high performing sites we can have benefits to the broader community. the final two areas, the first is community facilities. this really touches on public safety services, the fire station, schools, the planning department is analyzing access to and adequacy of the servicess to better understand residents needs now and in the future and this will help us plan all this

grouth that is happening so we can identify what the needs may be. lastly, on economic and work force development, each of these development projects will make commitment to workforce development in the construction and professional service field. that is working in close partnership with oewd city build program. also, these projects will contribute diverse new employment opportunity in the office sector, pdr, retail and others and so this will have a large impact on the economy of the city and directly for these neighborhoods. with that, i'll turn it over to my colleague, mike martin. thank you. >> good morning commissioners, mike martin here to wrap up the presentation with talk about the tactics and try to get less wonky than i like to get and talk

timeline and what drove to put together the effort. the current slide talks about how to enter the negotiations because as mr. rich and [inaudible] talked about this is a negotiation strategy so it is a individual conversation with each of these developments. i think rather than just saying we more more more we want to grow-create values using tools we exploreed in recent large scale projects and use things we have seen in development agreements such as targeting of impact fees, the transportation sustainability fee and job housing linkage #2350e to taylor that conversation so each development can see the value we are providing in the zoning approval and other things they need for the density and also the other funding sources for the public benefits that we just ran through. ultimately i think what we like to create is a suite of things each project is doing that plug synchronize to the larger

strategy we are talking about today and increases what is otherwise available. two of the tools are mell ruse special tax and infrastructure financing district. both are flexible to you tool thaz can be used to pay for a number of things including public infrastructure and parks and transportation and housing affordability. what we would like to do is talk to each developer if there are things we can pay for with these tools but they put back into the project to do more of what we are looking for along the waterfront. the exciting thing about mellow ruse tax and tax increment as the tools are used to fund out the initial buildout of infrastructure and once that is paid off the tools can be available to do future shore line adaptationment what we hear all the time is why are

you building along the waterfront when seeing level is rising. the development will protect themselves because that is how they sell to the people that live z work there, but if they can throw out money to adapt the neighbors areas to create the network we need to hold back rising sea level the question becomes-stand on the head and that is why we are developing there to protect from sea level rise. again, we wanted to come back to the the compelling stats and show how this will combine to create a new face hof city on this southeastern geography to make that work for the new people and the neighborhoods nearby. this is a very concepual time line but what drove us to be with you. over the last year we looked up and saw over the 27, 202017, 2016

develops, this will come to the commission and boferd supervises for aprovel and saw each of these will be a huge conversation on the own but if it doesn't relate to what the southern bayfront will become we will luce a opportunity. this feels like the work year working through the negotiation and next year is a transition from that work to communicating what it means to the future of the city. these are the city departments including this department and think it is exciting way to get ahead of what is often a hectic period toward end of aprovel. we can take a thoughtful approach and developers appreciate that too because they can have a rational discussion. that

closes our presentation. thank you for your time and here to answer questions. >> thank you very much. let's do public comment and have commission comments >> anyone who would like to make public comment on this item? public comment is closed. >> commissioner low. >> the 520 acres, about how many fall within this departments jurisdiction? >> maybe i can take a stab where we are. this includes india basin open space of which nicole you may have the number and the two parcels are [inaudible] >> under our jurisdiction. >> the other parcels part of indsia basin north to south

belong to the port. india basin open space is ours and the big piece of open space that belongs to india basin and forthest to the south is north side park which is part of the candle stick ship yard projethlunar is doing. in the jurisdiction of ocii. there is a lot of open space in the area that is under the jurisdiction of ocii and are main-oewd facilitate the conversations and need to think long term management. >> of the 520 acres how much is coming to the department and how do we anticipate additional resources we will need to for capital programming? >> i would say that is one the important reasons the front end

planning and put up a slide that talked about the different recreational aminities to look at need. moewd is thinking creatively about financing devices. [inaudible] provide a funding source for maintenance and programming. there is a question as to who will do it. the city is working through life after redevelopment. during the redwiment development area open space was created by redevelopment and when the redevelopment zone sun seted the property reverts to the [inaudible] over time, we have seen a little more fragmentation of redevelopment properties that have not reverted to the rec and park department. we development no longer is and have office of community investment and

infrastruture and we have a collaborative relationship with oci i. this is coming up in mission bay. it is conversation we need at treasure island and conversation we will have in transit district about as the open spaces are created what is management and program plan. i think we need to beope toon creative partnerships and at the same time i don't believe it is best interest to have 17 parks departments long term. i think we ought to have primarily one and particularly in the program side where we get fl to business having multiple agencies. so, i think it is the short answer to my long discussion is still to be determined. >> commissioner mcdonnell >> two quick questions. one in terms of the growth projections around new houses, do we know

the number of children? >> i don't think we do exactly. we are talking about 20,000 new households and should plan for and assume a good number of children. one thing that may have been glossed over is that not only are we looking at one-we are going negotiate half 1/3 of all these be affordable but the recently passed neighborhood preference legislation 30 percent of the 1/3 is prioritize for residents of 94110 . mostly bayview hunters point and dogpatch. a lot will be for the existing communities so that-i think given that we would be seeing a good number of children as well.

>> related to that and looking at the list of city departments at what point do you envision engaging on the city department side and not city but a city partner and player of the district? >> i didn't hear-dcyf is a good [no audio] >> the approach more than what it results come out of it, which is given that this att to candlestick as the memo suggests, a number of different and growing and

evolving dynamic neighborhoods, how are you approaching getting

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>> commissioner president loftus commissioner turman is excused commissioner marshall is commuted commissioner dejesus is in route commissioner mazzuco commissioner wong and commissioner melara commissioner president loftus we have quorum we present doorstep chief and joyce hicks director the office of citizens complaints question are a interpreter please i've yourself and please sits next to the lady you number one consent calendar receive and file action. >> i'm sorry, i'm sorry did

you want to introduce the doorstep chief and director joyce hicks i think i was thinking how did adults were trying to speed to the politics i'd like to thank dr. dennis chu with elementary school for hosting us and we'll hear from some of the students figure it out graders this is graduation from a figure it out grader i have one i take it exciting i'm glad you're here welcome everybody this is one of the ways we took the business of police commission out sweet spot community and do those meetings slightly differently i'll share we start off talking about who we are we have day jobs we serve

the city this way give you a little bit of background and the way the meeting will work we hear from the captain and members of the community about what is happening at supervision and then public comment at the at the end i'll go through some of the after you hear into fellow commissioners commissioner wong. >> thanks for coming out i've been a civil rights attorney working on a public defender and a civil rights and doing domestic violence and as a result in the human trafficking. >> commissioner melara i i am an in my day job work in st. francis hospital and work with the services and at st. francis and also on the staff the usf school of social work. >> commissioner mazzuco and

native san franciscan born in the district i'm a criminal defense interest and spent an, an assistant district attorney on the gang unit and spent 9 years in san francisco with my my wife and i have two children we've raised in the city this is any farther part of concussion coming out and hearing with the community as station has to say and commissioner dejesus. >> i took 20 minutes to come up third street i'm happy to be here i'm an attorney on the commission over 9 years close to 10 years and glad to be here in chinatown. >> and my name is commissioner president loftus i'm an attorney and used to be a in san francisco

any husband tom and i are raising our 3 kids in the outer sunset and yeah, he think that's all you need to know (laughter). >> so the rules as you are figure it out graders know there are rules for the way we do all the meetings we'll video a public comment and limited to 2 minutes i know that oftentimes people feel strong about what they're saying my goal so make sure we hear if everyone we ask that for whatever someone is saying listen if someone sdruchz we'll have to deal with that to keep the meeting going. >> sergeant, next line item. >> consent calendar requested did police chief to september 7th autumn defishldz from linda to be placed in new vehicles and assigned to 10

district stations valued at 9 thousand plus request of the police chief so accept donations of a used television from the 1yd of the tuesday kin to delay crime blitz valued at $200. >> and colleagues, any questions on the consent calendar for people watching at home she lost her are son and looks at for ways to prevent other syzt kiftys that's one of the ways she does any questions for the chief. >> we have deputy chief do you want to explain why you're hear. >> good afternoon director joyce hicks i'm here on behalf of the chief chief executive

officer that couldn't attend because of an urgent matter he too share in thanking dr. chiu and thank you for hosting this at jordan cho elementary school i recommend you accept those gifts on behalf of the those who nominated and used for tools to better serve the community. >> thank you do i have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> motion to accept those gifts. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> that item passes thank you deputy chief sergeant, next line item. >> >> item two reports to the commission discussion chiefs report this item to allow the police chief 0 report on recent police activities. >> commissioners, i present a short report opens the by the

time to breakers 35 thousand people that registered we estimated over 50 thousand participate we had a historically low incident of public intoxicate detentions and it went basically without incident no violent crimes recorded that's all i have to report went without a hitch. >> any questions for the deputy chief before captain lazarus. >> thank you that concludes my report. thank you, commissioners. >> george glen eagle captain lazarus. >> welcome to the punishment folks on behalf of the chief suhr i again want to welcome you to the central station we enjoy will you come out to the community we like the fact you get to hear if individual

work or residents of the central district we invite people to have an opportunity to get to meet you and talk with you face to face this is our second time as meeting the captain being in chinatown how for this and many communities are to use it central station and to indicator the vision of our chief to make that a kid centered event focusing on making kids first, we do that by having here at gordon jay allowing elementary school and members of the figure it out grade you'll hear if you've heard from before, before i start with the power point i'll go ahead and turn that on for a second i'd like to acknowledge some people that are here today, i'm so hatch their think present first i'd like to recognize my boss commander bob moser in the

back of the room here today to support me would everyone from central station stand up i'd like to see the central station police officers commissioners i've brought out a lot of the officers. >> (clapping.) >> yes. >> just so you know who our officers are that patrol in our community left to right mark and tennessee why that controls housing i'll talk about that but first time housing team they don't a joke and rose sergeant rose smith one of the investigators and randy is on my staff and handling the facilities officer cam and others two new recruits out of the please academy thanks to the - we can

use all the officers and happy the classes keep on coming and sergeant vanderbilt one of our investigators and a assert from the swing shift and officer sam is our chinatown foot beat officer and officer anthony our video retrieval and assert and sergeant eileen all investigators out here today and am oh, ryan jones the power point person thank you to him he's the power point person but the most valuable guys can put. >> beautiful power point together who am i missing from central round of applause for the central station and last week to thank have a seat and acknowledge any family that is a

family event my wife julia and nicholas graduating from high school and greg. >> (clapping.) >> you know, i have to say i couldn't do this without them the 70 hour workweeks and, speak for all the district captains because we have great families that support us this is another example supporting us and i'm grateful for coming out tonight we - you'll meet many members of the community and on the police advisory board please stand up very nice richard and gasping from chinatown and the financial and karen flood the executive director of business improvement and me chief executive officer from north point and fisherman's

wharf that is the executive director and jennifer handles my community meetings and from telegraph hill, wesley representing sf safe thank you for all you do and may newest member to the board executive director of cameron house thank you for being here this evening with that, we'll move forward thank you, again, for being here other members of the community i'm grateful maybe will speak later starting out the power point next slide we'll start this out like last time we are going to have a special guest speaker that will take over the meeting our fist grader that gives a little speak i'll be surprised if dr chiu has

anything to do with that and gifts for the commission and for the chief and director hicks with that (clapping.) >> good evening commissioner president loftus and the san francisco police commission and to executive branch and the officers of the san francisco police department welcome to my school i hope you enjoy the food and feel welcomed by my fellow students and me when this commission first used our school i remember i spoke before you and now i was a the third grader and now graduating next week and looking forward to starting my new life as a 6 grader in middle school a small finish in a big pond i'm truly

looking forward to the challenges of mission high school dr. chiu talks about obstacles this makes us stronger and smaller user smarter we over come our hardships and smarter we learn from our mistakes no matter how rough the road i'll keep a positive attitude and face the challenges head on chief suhr i like and respect you because you, you gave any school lenient and others captain lazarus who is my personal friend now along with or along with officer courtney who allows us to know them not just as an officer was friends all of the little kids the kindergartener and second grader a lot to meet him, i view

- more mature fashion overall i'm a graduating figure it out grader my principal and teachers have told me i have leadership potential and hopefully earn the title of president like commissioner president loftus i hope to be a leader especially in the community like our own 1k350e6 chief suhr there are people chris's you remember doctor chiu said overcoming obstacles makes us better if you need a 1020 back up i can get any fist graders to help you commissioner president loftus and commissioners we're always to honored you come to our

school i hope you'll continue when i'm in middle school, high school and college you never know may be one day it will be president on the san francisco police commission (clapping.) now my classmate corey chang will say a few words thank you (clapping.) >> good evening commissioner president loftus and executive branch last year, i drew a picture for deputy chief and chief suhr and tom said they really liked it so much that chief suhr said they make chief tom look like burt reynold i--i don't know who that that i hope

you say you'll look like a movie star with my picture too (laughter) >> (clapping.) >> commissioner president loftus i plan tobacco a teacher when i grew up because i want to help children many my community just like you, your president and always helping all people and community i want to give you a picture i hope you like it thank you (laughter) >> (clapping.) >> how about a round of

applause for those future leaders. >> (clapping.) >> okay. at this point the fist grad placing class will help to distribute a few gifts to the commission and folks.

>> of course we have one important doctor chiu and grace and her partner thank you very much thank you, thank you, thank you thank you great job. >> (clapping.) >> okay. if i can have grace retain she's headed to the middle in a week we have something for him and deputy chief and get graces mom to come up so grace has been a good sport in the middle of the third are fourth gratitude up here for deputy chief tom she was the mc

she agreed to come out tonight as well and done a lot for the community and us and she's a future leader as you may know a leader right now in the fifth grade so on behalf of the chief deputy chief sign will present but read it it says certificate of appreciation grace o in deepest outstanding service to our community in the san francisco police department sets an example is won't of the high seem awarded the 18 day 6 may by chef gregory sandra fewer. >> (clapping.) >> all right. thank you very

much everyone on to the next slide please one more award and talk about the central indict is the mcdonald's family come down if you folks come up one more award to present so alex is the 16-year-old junior at stuart hall i'm not going to read you anything but tell you on a story alex want to introduce our parents. >> this is my dad bruce and mom. >> on july 24th, 2015, as thirty minutes past mingled a young partner the young woman had a purse noticed the man she was suburb about sitting close to this couple and keep on and on the woman they felt uneasy as

the conversation with the boyfriend continued she noticed the man was getting closer and closer to the point she felt intimidate about this man and told her boyfriend time to leave the park the man jumped up and bolted and grabbed the purse and the suspect took off through the park over to union street and preceded on westbound on union the boyfriend chased after the suspect he feel down at some point and couldn't keep up the suspect makes it to mason and terminals left on uphill the police know suspects run downhill hfs the case that with suspect that got to mason just in time to run both alex he and

his classmate who witnessed the robbery that decided to forego personal safety for the good of the community and tackle the suspect took him to the ground and held on and detained him with the arrive of police and as a result a violent robbery suspect was taken into custody i won't ask when you were on the ground doing at midnight and glad you were there at the right time and an award on behalf of the chief i'll read it certificate of appreciation san francisco police department and alexander mcdonald outstanding bravery at great risk sets an example by the worthy esteem awarded you the 18 day of may 2016 by our police chief

greg suhr congratulations and thank you very, very much. >> (clapping.) >> all right. thank you very much thank you for dloelg on to the presentation next slide so welcome to the central district the northeast corner of san francisco we are divided the way we establish our police strategies divided into 5 car segments last july 2015 we redesigned all the borders of our district as a result we added a 5 car segment that means month of you can see was taken over by us from tenderloin that also meant that market street from the ferry building to thirsted and one block to mission was taken from southern

station and calls for service went if about 48 hundred calls to 69 calls for serve every month in the expansion of the area this is a beautiful part of our city as you may know 24 schools and 24 parks 35 hotels, 4 hospitals we went from 21 consulates to 35 consulates and pay attention to the consulates and we estimate about one hundred residents and 4 hundred residents that is 5 segments next. >> we have central station foot beats in the way i've been doing thing for the last few years every time an academy class y where can i put the officers to get them out of cars we've been able to tie in

chinatown 4 officers dedicated full-time to a foot beat in the daytime. >> health care providers. >> oh, no. >> address their demands. >> as i said i as i said i want to hear from everyone we are asked to follow the rules you're out of order you'll have a chance to speak in public comment you're out of order if you don't stop i'll have to recess the meeting and not be able to do do work we have to do tonight this is our last warn this meeting will stop we're in recess. >> assert please reconvene the meeting. >> we're back on record item

2a captain lazarus was giving us his presentation. >> i'm to remind you there is a different format so with the commission can hear if from people in the neighborhood that want to raise issues with us and in order to do that we want to make sure we hear from everyone captain lazarus about complete his report and hear from the office of citizens complaints and i assure you everyone will get a chance to have their voices heard two minutes of public comment i urge you many of the members of the community came to address a number of issues and make sure we hear them ask for everyone are cooperations if people are out of order and do not comply with the rules of the police commission we'll not hear from everyone he ask for everyone's

cooperation you're out of order, sir you're out of order. >> sir you've heard you're out of order. >> i'm going to invite, i'm going to invite if i like us to hear you i would like you to follow the rules which to hear in. this is not this is not how weer able to do our jobs i'm inviting you to follow the rules that everyone here will follow if you're unable to do this meeting will in about adjournment and we'll not hear from including you about what you want i'm going to go back to the agenda if you keep on interrupting i mean, i'll be forced to journey 24 meeting and take away my opportunity and the

opportunities of commissioners to hear from peep that's a shame that would be a shame we'll have alls conversations not in the middle of this meeting captain lazarus please continue with our report >> okay. >> go back to the slide with the central district. >> okay in terms of the foot beat. >> you're out of order you're out of order so here's how this will go i'm going to say that would great sadness unfortunately, the important work the police commission will not continue tonight i'll invite a motion to journey this meeting people are out of order i apologize from the people from chinatown and central station that came to raise a dough have a motion

journey. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> that motion good morning ev [inaudible] city librarian and like to welcome to the visitation branch library. we are very thrilled to be here today with mayor lee and just a little bit of context about the neighborhood branch, this july

will mark the 5th anverseraphy of the library and we are vore proud of it because the community has fully imbraused itment serves about 23,000 residents and it is in deed the most diverse neighborhood in all of san francisco so we are proud of that. great partner shch with the community and will see a lot of children today see proud it severs many daycare centers, middle school, high school, we work with community partners to make this a private anchor for our neighborhood. with that, again welcome to visitation valley library and like to introduce very proud of the support for the library, mayor ed lee. >> thank you lieu ease and welcome to the visitation valley branch library. this is one of those gems that

way back in public works days luis teamed up together with public works department and designed this beautiful beautiful building and think all the residents who use the library with families and kid appreciate how we restored the building with a great architectural touch as well as the actual content and hours. this is a example of what we are talking about that is reflected in the budget for neighborhoods. i have always loved the city because it has strong neighborhoods and one the anchor institutions that make our neighborhoods strauss is sth public libraries. opposite to what sometimes i read about other cities when they have economic troubles first and foremost they go after their libraries. we do the opposite and when ineconomy is strong as it is #4ist torically today eel we'll invest in more

public libraries. this is where places work and want to say thank you to our librar ian, she wundserful leader and let us have their family children space. if we are here too long the kids will get rowdy and they have every right to because this is their space and respect that. i think they know why i'm here and happy to be here to unveil the may 1 budget, but before i do that i want to share a bit of good news and that is in concert with our libraries and great leadership of library staff here and every branch we have in the itcity, we runouncing a increase to the library hour frz the entire city. that means that there will be a minimum of at least 50 hours a week the libraries are open. there are more program

jz more story time to be readic to and read to in branch libraries like this. this is part of the enrichment programs violate to families and children and in fact, a number-i think at least 3 to 4 that willect attend the hours to 7 day as week. that is a incredible part to do so but every library will have a minimum of at least 50 hours. the chinatown branch and ocean view branch and mission library branches will be at least 3 that will experience fis clt upgrades to make sure they are the libraries for the 21 century. again, i will emphasize just a few years ago, we were having e to consider cutting so many thing jz had double digit unemployment but as a result och good investment jz

result of having great bond ratings and borrowing opportunities we'll invest in our libraries and make sure that they reflect what we want for our families, for our kids, for our parents, a safe, clean place to read, to learn. more and more you see the libraries are full of computers now too so they can access the internet, learn how to use it effectively. we do that and know we do that in the bayview library branch jz other branches so that we can use the libraries as 1 of our ininstruments to fill the digital divide at the same time. >> [inaudible] [yelling in background]

>> for anyone to suggest that investing in our neighborhood branch libraries is i think a incredible gap of understanding. but, let me say this and i'll want to make sure that you know that the 12 departments of the city out of the 53 departments is the announcement for todays may 1 budget. those 12 departments comprise the 4 enterprise departments and a number of departments that have fees as rather than the general fund as their major source of revenue and includes all of the departments that deal with our cities basic infrastructure. they together all 12 together comprise some 4.9 billion dollars in investments in the next 2 years that create and sustain some 41,000 jobs in the

city. this is announcement and proud working with our office, they are working and will be presenting of course in the budget to board of supervises and we'll seek their approval of their budgets and it continues our strong economic foundation for the city in making sure we take care of our infrastructure. in the 12 departments ask include the airport and port and public utilities commission, the municipal transportation commission or building inspection as a example, you have at the airport. they will continue refurbishing our terminals and making sure they support the incredible historic levels of visitors coming into the sitee. they also have a incredible turnout the airport is building its own hotel that will be part the

visitor experience that will be reflective of the number 1 driver in the citytoryism and haase pitality. we will make invisment in theport that will be one the biggest infrastructure challenges in the time and chablg for reziziancy and that is making sure the sea whaul wall will be there for hopefully another century or. the sea wall is something we'll teach the public about because it is underground and along the entire eastern side the city and you don't see it, it is below ground but if we don't rebuild the sea wall and make sure it is safe, everything along the water front from embarcadero to piers is under incredible challenge. the puc will make investment jz water system and sewer system and our pawer system and mta that will be improving

transit and making sure the city is safer and longer last aing and includes funding for some 30 vision zero projects that total $70 million. we want to come pleat the vision zero projects and make sure the goal is met in 2024 so this budget will do that. we'll also have something we are experiencing in the mission and that is a much more cultural effective response and prevention and too the fire squz anything that will destroy affordable housing so we have within this and again thank you to the leadership of tom howee and building inspection collaboration with the fire department to insure education in the communities where fires seem to be still ones that we want to prevent from

happening that will have a comp tent response making sure that all of the residents and building owners have a higher level of safety for these very valuable historic buildings and buildings that are housing a lot of affordability at this time. those are the sro's and the low income apartment buildings that still exist in the mission district. this budget will also reflect the moving forward and muni forward-forward muni program we have that increase the service ublth by at least 10 percent. muni seems to enjoy a better relationship with the riding public these days and want to continue that investment, make sure that we continue to have free muni for elderly and for people with disabilities along with youth up to the age of 18. again, to

also make sure that we instrest in the routes that make muni more efficient, gives people moving to the places of work or to their education or branch libraries in a more efficient way. this is just the may 1 budget with these 12 departments. the other departments that are general funds related will be part of our june 1 budget and we are working hard on that and we are making sure that we could step up with the $246 million challenge we have. it is a deficit we have for the next 2 years and we'll bridge that without decreasing services in the general fund departments and we are working hard on that and will be ready to have a balanced budget by june 1 and beginning discussions with members of the board of supervisor so

they know what we doing in a transparent way. we are holding community meetings and neighborhood meetings and meetings with the supervisors to get their input to see what the next budget will reflect. the budget is reflection of sth cities values and will continue reflecting that. we have been able tobalance our budget. my tum as mayor for the last 5 year jz continue doing so i fill unthe gaps and making sure the cuts that may come from the state or federal government we want to reflect in the budget are taken care of, but other things whether they are homeless shelters improvement or navigation centers or affordable housing or challenges of affordability in general, i think the branch libraries is a huchblg contribution to the affordable because they are all free and safe and have the modern technology in them but also the

books that we increase and the link to our public education system. they are linked to our neighborhoods they are strong. they are linked to even small businesses who may want to come in and take a respite from the small business and get on the internet and maybe open up a business they want it through the business portal, all that can hpen inl the branch libraries. with that, i want to say we are happy to initiate the may 1 budget of the 12 departments i & we are working hard to make sure the rest of the departments get the treatment deserve and will have announcements in the coming week. we are work wg the board sw neighborhood groups and can do this because we vastrong economy and we can do this because we are transforming our actually transporting the type of revenues we do so from evonets

like the superbowls and the neighborhoods that need them and continue building strong neighborhoods. with that, i can take a few questions if you have them, the budget or anything else and then we'll go on. >> [inaudible] >> well, it is a old old library just like this was and the physical changes we identified in some of the paperwork we are passing out. they will have-they are kind of behine the walls. they want more technology in the branch libraries and part of that will be upgrading the wiring system that is very old. we don't have room to expand so we actually have to comp sate for that limited space and make sure that all the spaces used and upgraded with

wiring and new technology. we also will increase those hours in the library-like i said in all the branch libraries including chinatown that will have the library hours expanded as well. when i go out there it was very crowded and everyone uses them throughout the weekend so expanded the hours is also part the deal. well, certainly muni has ever reason to do with transportation so one the programs that we supporting is called muni forward and that means increasing the services of muni by at least 10 percent . all the services include additional routes and includes improved routes and includes making sure muni moves

deliberately on those routes in a safe way so it is very hard to get all the specifics but we can do so because it is part of the muni forward plan they approved. at the same time, they have some 30 vision zero projects. projects that will make the streets safer and engineered and designed to be safer. slow down traffic where the projects have pruben traffic going too fast and people are not taking the turns in a safe way to cause safety challenges for pedestrians for seniors, all that is in the 30 additional projects we want to complete and want to do so i cost some 70 million dollars that is incraseed in the muni projeblths. and keeping muni free for seniors and people with disabilities and youth, that

is all part of the budget as well. thank you. you get your room back kids! be joined by city attorney jessie smith also here are tom [inaudible] evan [inaudible] kristin jen son and victoria, all working diligently on the action we filed in san francisco superior court this morning.

i'm joined by supervisor aaron peskin and soon scott wiener both of whom are working on isues related to this defend for many years. today, i'm announcing i filed suit against the silties largest property owners and land lob lords acad amof arts that detailed [inaudible] purchase and lease properties for use city wide. again and again aa [inaudible] use thrf property acquired was unauthorized, unpermed or prohibited by local law. again and again aau [inaudible] at planning and building code requirements which every other san francisco property owners is expected to follow. again and again aau flouted basic requirements involving signage,

historic preservation and environmental review and more. most seriously of all, again and again aau acquired residential and xhrjs properties to convert to student dorms and facilities. in doing so aau derived san franciscan of 300 residential developing we need in the misof affordable housing crisis as well as critly needed office space. infact, the stale of aau's defiance is breath taking. according to a planning department memo last month, the 40 properties aau operates in san francisco shown on the map to my right, 33 failed to xum ply with permit entitlement or authorization requirements. academy of arts is a agregious land use scauth law and defiance per cysts at the worst possible time for our residential. for as long as aau has been

eaking the law, city officials have been working to get them to comply the law and i'll confez i was sometimes less patient than some of my client departments about those efforts. make no mistake, for more than a decade our city worked with aau to resolve the violationment we extended aerfck professional courtesy and no one can doubt the good faith san francisco showed work wg aau and yet again and again aau met our good faith with bad faith and again and again sought to fix existing violations and scheming to commit new violations. aau set deadlynns it missed and made promises it broke. with a lawsuit today the again and

again's end. sue toog end the wrong doing we ask to adjudicate 23 aau properties in violation. another 10 properties on the map remain under review by my office and may be added in a complaint in a later date. our litigation make certain san franciscos rights are protected and seeks objective no environmental r view process alone can accomplish. we seek to restore [inaudible] residential units. san franciscos right to have a voice shaping their neighborhoods. to end unfair business practices which disadvantage competitors who play by the rule jz penalties that are

commensurate and sufficient to detrer would be laws in the future. i'm conclude saying how thankful i am with the lawyers. i'm grateful the effort and patient of zoning administrator scott sanchez, to the planning department and to our planning commission. i'm grateful to aaron peskin who includes many san franciscos properties where aau is flout thg law for leadership and hard work over the years and to to scott wiener who pushed legislation to design to limit the aau's ability to flout san francisco's zonejug land use laws. before i take any questions i like supervisor peskin and when supervisor wiener can join us to say a few words. >> thank you city attorney, i'm here to commend the city attorney and staff for finally bringing this action.

we have been waiting patiently perhaps two patiently for over a decades. this is disproportioninately impacted the northeast corner othe city where hundreds of units of affordable housing are removed during the height the crisis. the academy played san francisco for a fool but that is coming to a end today so let me thank city attorney her aa and deputy city attorneys. >> thank you supervisor peskin. i'll let supervisor wiener say a few words when we gets here but in the interim happy to take questions or refer to my staff. >> [inaudible] >> took so long for? >> all this to come to a head. [inaudible] for a long time. >> it has been no secret i have been less patient than others. there has been i think a process of [inaudible] and dlie by academy of art

leading people to believe they were going engage in a good faith effort to remedy the issues and to our clieants credit they gave them every opportunity. they bent over backwards to give them every opportunity and despite that the academy of art did not engage in good faith. there is no secret that they are economically politically powerful and have a lot of resources at their disposeal and used every one to kick the can down the road. this has toened and that is why seeing the planning department issue their round of notice of violation and think everyones patients has run out. >> [inaudible] >> it can not alone. you probably heard or may hear from aquadomy

of art we are so far along in the eir process why in the world would you drop the law suit now? this has nothing to do with slowing down anything. the eir alone doesn't remedy past wrong doing ortake care of violations that are currently there. it doesn't slow down the eir process at all and the fact of the matter is this process has been going on for more than 5 years which is unheard of and that is because of their delay. >> the academy is iis aing they had a generous settlement proposal on the table and you turned it down. >> i say that is groussly over states the facts. settlement discussions the particulars i can't go into because they are conficial but nothing

is further from the truth a generous offer was put forth. there was numerous settlement discussions but it became clear to me they were going no where because the aau wasn't taking this as serious as they needed to. i wouldn't have fall filed the suit if i didn't think i needed to. before i take questions i want supervisor wiener to say few words. happy to have supervisor wiener here and he has been pushing legislation and working for years to limit the aau's ability to flaut the law and make sure we have even handed enforcement with educational institutions and mast r planning. jerk >> thank you dennis i want to thank the city attorneys office to moveic forward to enforce the law. it is a basic

concept that everyone needs to fall ow the law. when we passed zoning limitations, when we passed housing measures to try to protect our scrarserantal housing stock, it is important those laws mean something and it means something when the board of supervisors passes a law that says universities need to build their own housing but can't buy rent controlled apartments and convert to dorms. it means something when we have restrictions in the planning code limiting how you can use properties, there is a reason why we do that and everyone needs to follow the law. in 2012 i authored student housing legislation to do that, give incentives for universities to build student housing, we don't