tv Port Commission 31417 SFGTV March 19, 2017 12:30pm-4:01pm PDT
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requesting the mayor and board of supervisors to approve a supplemental appropriation name out of $1 million for the wastewater enterprise. >> so moved mr. chairman >> >> second. >> any discussion? any public comment? all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. the item carries. any other new business? seeing none, we are adjourned. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> >>
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>> madam secretary. >> roll call. commissioner willie adams. >> here. >> kimberly brandon. >> here. >> leslie katz. >> here. >> motion for approval of the minutes for february 28. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? item 3 comment on executive session. >> is there any public comment on executive session and public comment is closed. madam secretary. >> item 4 executive session. >> move that we go into executive session. >> session. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? we are now in executive session.session). >> madam secretary. >> all right. >> i move to revine in open session. >> second. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? >> next item madam secretary.
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>> pledge of allegiance. >> i would like to disclose that in close session on february 14, 2017 the port commission meeting the commission unanimously approved the appointment of cathy pouchony as the deputy director and finance and administration and i would like to disclose anything ulc discussed. >> thank you. >> second. >> second. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? next item madam secretary. >> pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag to the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> please be advice the cell
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phones and sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. please be advised that the chair can remove anyone for the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing electronic devices. please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make public comments on each agenda item unless the commissioner adopts a shorter time. item 8 items not listed on the agenda. >> is there any public comments on items not listed on the agenda? i don't have any cards. seeing none public comment is closed. item 9 madam secretary. >> item 9 a executive director's report. >> i am forbes with the port. i would like to give everyone an update on pier tweafnltd we started a rfp process and as you recall the developer was
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jamestown who we selected through a competitive solicitation process was becoming nervous because of some community opposition while they enjoyed community support also and requested that the port bring a term sheet to the board of supervisors and you forwardd that along and approved it and i am happy to report that the board unanimously passed the term sheet on first read today. before that passed the term sheet went to the finance committee on march 2 and aaron peskin, supervisor peskin who is the district supervisor in the area recommended three amendments which i think the port commission will be very happy with. first he specified that he's requesting when the lease return to the board of supervisors that a minimum of half of the goods sold in the 20,000 square feet of retail
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space is reserved for sf makers. the developer said they can meet that requirement and we will talk about that. i know the commission asked for detail on the leasing program. he asked that we're clear that the lease applies only to the bulkhead building as advertised and not to any other portion of the property and not the shed of the property and finally to report to him and the full board of supervisors in a report what we're learning through the waterfront land use plan regarding active recreation and the recommendation and how we're pursuing the recommendations and they have a specific time to come back in february and i am happy to report that the vision for use of the property, the very well run solicitation process and process has been confirmed nam by the board. i would like to announce this
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saturday there is san francisco public works team event from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and warm water cove. it's a family fun event and plantings of trees a lot along cargo way. recology will be there handing out 5 pounds of compost for residents' gardens and please bring your buckets. if you want to be involved in the planting and closed please wear closed shoes and goats and face painting and you can ride in a bucket truck and please come and have some fun and that concludes my report. >> is there public comment on nine, the executive director's report. seeing none. public comment is now closed. madam secretary next item. >> 9b port commissioners report. >> i would like to ask that we
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adjourn in honor of kathryn dodd who retired from the city yesterday and has done amazing things on behalf of the employees and retirees of the city during her tenure. most recently as head of the health services commission where we saw rates in health care went up and we brought rates down and hold steady and save members funding. she served in the mayor's office and leader pelosi as chief of staff and aid to supervisor shell and he nancy walker and adviser to many of us and she just retired from city service yesterday. doesn't mean she's retiring from of abouting us with her knowledge and wisdom and staying on as the chair of the national committee to
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preserve medicare. in a volunteer capacity but would love to adjourn in her honor today. >> i would like to thank the staff. i had the opportunity to attend the contract opportunity open house, and it was such a great event. there was such a wonderful turn out. i think almost 200 people were there in addition to the city and port staff, and everybody was just so happy and so excited that we did it and it was so successful so i want to congratulate the staff and director forbes for the foresight to do it and because it was soful successful making it a event. >> anything else.ing none madam secretary. >> item 11.
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>> 10a. >> is there any public comment on 10a. >> david pilpow. i haven't been here for a while and i agree with the commissioner and appreciate you recognizing kathryn dodd and survive and doing her health circumstances which is courageous. on item 10 a i would like to support this. it seems like a minor and routine item but that will actually make significant long overdue repairs at pier 94-96 and they're minor league flooding event when is it rains i have seen out going out to the recology facility and this
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dovetails with the item of 11c and i want to support the work here. i was going to ask why the resolution didn't include a whereas of the ceqa but this isn't the time action for those purposes and just the bid and back here with approval and that's the approval for the ceqa item. thank you very much. >> thanks david. is there any more comment on 10a? seeing none it is close. all in favor of 17-13? >> all in favor say aye. >> madam secretary next item. >> 11a informational presentation by the city of san francisco office of economic and workforce development on the south beach, rincon, mission bay mission bay, central waterfront, bayview hunters point, candlestick interagency coordination to guide community and city-wide investments. >> i am here today to introduce
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ken rich the director for the office of economic and workforce development and make martin the project director for owed to give you an update on the south beach, rincon, mission bay coordination and framework. you may recall back in may of last year the office of economic and workforce development presented the south beach, rincon, mission bay strategy and they're here today to provide an update some of the community outreach since last may and next steps and with that i will turn it over to ken rich. >> thanks david. good afternoon commissioners. so we were here last may to discuss the effort that owed is leading which we're calling a construction framework along the southern bay front and a couple
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projects and here to give you update between then and now and negotiate public benefits from these projects of affordable housing, transportation and a host of other topic areas that will go over in a moment. 2017 is an important here in this process. we expect to be in front of you later in the year for approval of two major projects, the pier 70 project which you will hear more about after me and the mission rock project. in addition there's another important project, the indian basin project that we expect to get through approvals this year. i wanted to make the point that these large negotiated projects, both the several in this part of town as well as others around the city are going to be providing the bulk of new housing units that we will be entitling in the next years in the city and generally these large negotiated projects are able to provide a higher
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percentage of affordable housing than smaller projects and we place a lot of importance getting them through. we are working with staff to keep these on schedule and get through the process in the shortest time we can without skimping on outreach and vetting and we will go through the a presentation and move through it quickly as possible in the interest of time. just a little bit on housing. as you know in january 14 the mayor pledged to construct many new homes in the city by 2020 and at least 33% of low moderate income families and the majority within financial reach of middle income san franciscans and we have a funded pipeline of projects that will enable another 4,000 to 5,000
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affordable homes. we are track in general to make the 30,000 goal by the projected goal of 2020. these projects will make a strong contribution to housing for working class middle income san franciscans with a least a thousand work force units and 5,000 low and moderate income units. this is the slide you saw before. i won't dwell on it but the water front is composed of distinct zones and the first three of the zones are not places where we expect to see a lot of change. they're either in federal hands or rec park hands or possibly a lot of course is in the port's hands and we'll see modest incremental change until you get down to the yellow zone where we do see the opportunity and sort of consensus that some change is warranted as some but not all but some of the heavy
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industrial lands go into a new use. this is a zoom in of that part of the city and this slide is here to make the point we're not operating on a blank slai. we have 36,000 people living near by and 23,000 people already working and it is our charge to make sure that the planning we do in the projects are adding value for the neighborhoods and residents. these are all the different projects that are involved here. a couple of them -- or at least one of them and the warrior's arena and hunters point and candlestick are approved and several others and five major projects going through for approvals in the next years including as i mentioned two that are under port jurisdiction. i want to call your attention to the gray box in the middle and that district is intended to remain as an active industry and
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maritime activity center. we're engaged in active discussions with your staff on how to make the most out of the ability to house those uses there over time. and so the negotiation framework that we will talk about will generally the five projects they will list off that have yet to go through for approvals and seeking to transform those into assets of the community and a variety of public benefits. the idea we don't want to do one off negotiations but we want to understand what we're asking for from all of the projects in advance of going through and doing these negotiations. just a little bit on schedule as i said this is going to be an important year. we've got the mission rock project and the pier 70 project coming through for approvals by the end of the year, and also we hope to get the indian basin project by the
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end of this california year. a little bit further out in time because they're starting a community process are the power plants and hunters point and portroro plants and quickly and you will get a presentation on these in a minute and the pier 70 project which you will hear about, the mission rock project and another port project thousand units with affordablity and million and a half feet of space and open space. the indian basin project privately owned site and of neighborhood scaled retail and in cooperation with park 1500 acres of open space and a little further out in time and equally important are the power plant and known as
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the nrg site and acquired by another group and again that's a project with the i'm sascale as pier 70. we don't know what it will provide yet but similar mixed use environment to pier 70 and hunters point also is a large site could be up to 1200 housing units and other opportunities for open space and other community assets so those are the five projects we're focusing on. i am now turn it over to my colleague mike martin who will take you through the rest of the presentation. >> good afternoon commissioners. mike martin owed. as was mentioned this is sort of our second trip around to a number of the interested commissions. in addition since we saw you last may we've always had an opportunity to see a number of community groups along this stretch of the southern bay front and i think that outreach helped us build out a lot of the strategic elements of what we're trying to go for in the various negotiations much of which you
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have seen in your projects and term sheets so you're familiar with the items as we go through. this slide sort of summarize a lot of the key feedback and a lot of it has to do with obviously the current community wanting to know what are the projects going to do to augment and improve what is there? so things like affordable housing and prioritizing existing neighborhood residents and need looking for workforce training for specific training employment opportunities to get ahead of the opportunities so people looking for work from san francisco can get the opportunities in the efforts to hire local workers and firms. work force training is a key part of that. in addition transportation and streetscape improvements, trying to keep pace with implementation so the impacts of growth are met with the things to channel the impacts. limiting the car trips and gridlock and hoping that alternative modes of
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transportation can be a help going forward. access to new waterfront open spaces really giving an inviting sense for the people that already live here so the projects aren't just built for the people moving in. planning for sea level rise impacts and obviously a district like this needs to look ahead and that future and designing projects with innovative and strong sustainability principles, so as part of that community feedback as well as moving forward with conversations with each of the development partners we have isolated a number of key areas and tried to identify a unified framework and project is one off and not is only doing the most it can for community benefits but also part of a larger narrative about the revitalization of san francisco so you see in the red circles there are a number of areas we advanced on since the last time we seen you and i will summarize today. housing affordability.
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we're seeking to achieve 33% affordability across all of the southern bay front projects coming forward. this is meant to be sort of an area wide target so each individual project may vary from the amount. as mr. rich said i think these larger projects give us an opportunity to grow the pie of affordable housing but also to address hard to reach income levels and larger family units so trying to get that moderate and middle income family housing, the work force housing that doesn't have subsidies like lower income does and how can we build that in to make sure san francisco isn't a city of extremes? in addition we want to build off of the aggressive local preference policy by the board of supervisors in recent transactions again to bring some of the benefits of the below market rate housing to those in san francisco that need it and
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keep people from being displaced that moves forward as a key issue in san francisco. transportation as i mentioned is obviously a critical issue for this part of the city. there's a number of transportation investments that are coming forward as sort and being implemented as the projects are coming forward for approval. a number are listed here including the opening of the central subway so it's a huge improvement in terms of head ways especially at northern end of tthird and limit the congestion coming that is really going to frankly exist the mission bay neighborhoods and the port projects coming forward. there is additional improvements that are implemented also. i think one of the ones that obviously in the headlines is caltrain electrification. we are hopeful it can come forward despite the
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impasse and adding that frequency can alleviate the coniest john. you have other investments that add east-west capacity so we have big boned sort of capital projects coming forward and what we want to do is sort of having the individual projects that are coming forward to benefit from the investments really try to engage with them so finding ways to enhance transit reliability and capacity and fill gaps in the network so alternate modes for short trip such as walking and biking are effective so everyone is forced to pick between muni and jumping on a car and other ways to get around local destinations and each individual project as an opportunity to address really support the city's transit demand ordinance in such a way to not only seek to encourage the use of other modes but to monitor performance and change
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strategies over time as they mature and the different mix uses sort of reveal themselves as to how they're affecting transportation patterns. and as i mentioned earlier i think the site design has a lot to do with people getting along the stretch of the waterfront. that's important. thank you. so obviously all those things have to connect so not only do we have the arteries of transportation but also the capillaries to get at these locations along the waterfront. moving to open space 520 acres of new and renovated open space when you aggregate the projects together and half the size of golden gate park and the vast majority new planned open space in the city so we need to make that accessible to the new residents and also something that the current residents can see as a benefit and improvement that comes along with the growth of the city. so ultimately i think we've started a really
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good collaboration with the park and rec park and the developers to think how do we create a seamless user experience even though we know the ownership of each site is different between the port and private developers and their open spaces and rec park for example and indian basin so having a framework of way finding, having a unified place to go to make references for the open space so they know who owns it and we're building on that and one of the ways that a strategic framework can create benefits than the negotiations itself. sustainability is the next item. i think you heard about your projects and forward thinking but ultimately i think the opportunity for the large projects is to use district strategies that individual buildings can't sort to mort efficiently use resources bike --
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like water and energy. and transportation as a key aspect and the benefits of getting them out of the cars is not just congestion but air quality and water and implement the city's forward thinking on the water reuse amendments that were just passed that require large projects to find a way to use all of the potential resources to limit the uses of potable water and using the coastal adaptation strategies for a living coast line and as part of the sea level rise conversation we're looking at ways these parks along the waterfront while they're not inundated at all times they're resilient with a storm or water event. as the sea level rises we would like these areas adaptable and resilient and function as open
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space ecosystems effectively and look at these key areas and i think the plans that have been advanced and the plans we think have been advanced can achieve interesting and forward thinking things to help san francisco meet the goals going forward and the 35% of green emissions over a san francisco development and 42,000-gallons of potable water saved every year compared to a single generic building and 25% of the area and dedicated green space and other areas there isn't much of an opportunity and we will try to make this part of the larger narrative and have the projects contribute to that and create that story. sea level rise -- obviously the port commission needs no introduction to this topic. i think what we want to see is not only an
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initial build out that protects the developments themselves which as an investment of capital obviously the developers and owners will require but we want to find a way to address the city's challenges with the other areas that don't have this investment coming so the developments themselves will also include their own adaptation strategies but we would like to do something the port has done with projects and use some of the public financial tools available to us to create out year funding strategies so that the future adaptation can be paid for not only for the developments but also for the areas near them so as people request why are you building along the waterfront? and this is the answer and not only a useful part of the city now and an area we need to revitalize for the people that live here but can create tools to protect the waterfront including the port zone seawall so ultimately this is going to be a negotiation on each project but
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once we have the larger frame we're able to get to that kind of an outcome. community facilities is obviously something that is challenging from a lot of directions because it's not always purely public facilities and include child care centers or grocery stores or other private health centers or things that are delivered as part of a neighborhood as it grows that we want to make sure there to serve as long as with the public services and fire and police stations and schools and libraries so we're look working with the planning department to look at resources, figure out the best practices for the incoming population of workers and residents and seeing what are the facilities we need and whether we can negotiate space to accommodate the uses and this look can balance needs from one direction from resources from another. workforce development as i described earlier i think is critical and sort of
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bringing home the benefits of these developments to san francisco. i think we have opportunities to train for current trades and other potential end use jobs even that are currently going to be coming forward with projects and we would like to see residents have those opportunities and create the circle of investment and moving up the employment ladder and this is a field with construction trades but we have opportunities with mixed use developments to think about the businesses there in the future and what we can do to get residents into those jobs. so next steps as described we have a couple of years of intense negotiations and approval dialogues with the various commissions and the board. we want to highlight i think every project is not going to hit the
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list we went through today and having the individual approvals is make efficient choices which project contributes to which goal as we reach the strategic goals outlined today and that concludes the presentation but we're happy to respond to any questions. >> thanks mike. >> is there any public comment? i don't have any cards on 11a. do you have anything to say on 11a please come up and hit the mic. seeing none. public comment is now closed. commissioner kounalakis. >> well thank you so much for this really terrific overview. i am still the newest member so these bigger picture overviews of where the city is going with development projects relative to port property in particular are extremely helpful. i guess i am mostly wondering you have as
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part of your presentation the timeline on these things. are these overlapping timelines? i mean is there -- is there -- are there concerns things are delayed because other projects are moving forward? i guess my question is in terms of the pipeline is the pipeline over crowded with all of this or is there a pretty good sense it's all going to move forward at the pace it's naturally progressing? >> let me try to answer that in a couple of ways. are you referring to the pipeline to entitle them or actually build the units and the office space or maybe both? >> mostly both. >> okay. >> but i am curious about that as well. sometimes you feel there is construction on every block and sometimes it's less so. in the scale of all of these things happening at the same time how do you think
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about this in terms of -- >> so first maybe to address it from getting -- our job is to get these complex projects through the regulatory process and through entitlements which means being approved by a number of commissions including you and the port and the board of supervisors and i wish i could say that they lined up perfectly so each time we ended one the other one started but life doesn't really work that way and i would say we are in the midst of three -- the three projects that i mentioned in the earlier side and pier 70 and mission rock and indian basin are coming through within six months of each other and the two port projects being first and pier 70 the first and we just have to deal with that and get them through it. we also have some other projects of this scale in other parts of the city coming through at this point so and then then a bit of a break so
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our work load isn't completely under our control but we will get them done for sure. in terms of when they're entitled and the units coming online and the biggest determiner and maybe to ask forest city how they see the market in the future, but it's really going to be the market that determines how fast these things move. my understanding is forest city would like to move as quickly as possible but the market -- you know, the way that we understand the market working in san francisco and the way we have seen it work is when the market is receptive and hot you will get everything moving and when it's not you won't get anything moving and the only thing you will see moving and it's a good thing is public finance projects which we like to see happening during down times because it evens out the jobs, construction jobs. we will probably see these projects for better or worse come together -- they are
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done when the market is receptive and not a lot to do about that and if other folks that present after me have a perspective on that i would like to hear it, but generally we're seeing maybe leveling off on a huge boom and saw everything happen during that boom, and you know that's kind of the way it works here. we would love to even it out more and again with affordable housing and public projects we are able to do that, but with the private projects it's subject to the market. is that -- >> that's it, yeah. thanks. >> commissioner brandon. >> thank you ken and mike for the presentation. this is wonderful and very much forward thinking. i really appreciate it. it's a great plan and i guess i am just -- i'm not sure exactly -- well, i guess my question is we have all these projects and we have all these
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various commitments for the projects, and how are they prioritized? i mean how do we decide what gets done first versus what doesn't? it's like all the money goes into one pot and divide it equally or do we give preference? >> i wish you would ask easier questions. [laughter] you know it is this is a major -- you know a major challenge and i think it is one of the roles of you as decision makers to validate and guide us whether we're prioritizing things. we could do 50% affordable housing but not afford a lot of transportation improvement focus we do that. we could do a lot more open space which takes away the revenue parts of the
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development but then we couldn't -- so i hesitate to talk about -- to tell you which one of the priorities is the highest. it goes without saying that the mayor has charged all of us to wake up thinking about affordable housing and go to sleep thinking about affordable housing so that rises to the top but if we don't deal with sea level rise then the housing won't be there in a few years and if we don't deal with transportation the people inviting to live here can't get around so i couldn't tell you. we just try to do the best balancing act we can and also to answer part of the question the way we approach the projects is we look at all of their economics, even the ones that are not on city property so obviously you have been through the pro forma for pier 70. we model the pro formas of the private projects too to make sure we're asking for enough but not too much so you could come up with a total dollar amount of
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exactly you ask of a project and we do a version of this and total you ask for before they won't make a project and therefore don't go ahead and have to slot it it into the different categories and we do our best but they're all of the highest priority. >> thank you. then as far as community outreach i think you have done a great job but i hope to include rcas and especially the advisory committees on waterfront. thank you. >> commissioner katz. >> thank you ken and mike. it's helpful seeing all of this and i appreciate the focus on coordination because you know that was a big concern of all of ours. as we've seen all of the projects coming along and sort of waiting to make sure that we get everything coordinated so i
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am pleased to see everything done and thank you for walking on water in this case and balancing all the different needs. in terms of some of the specifics -- i guess one thing and it's really in legal parlance this is a leading question. you can explain why we haven't done a larger area plan opposed to working on the different projects? >> you know we have done a lot of area plans in the eastern neighborhood plans and these projects, you know the difference -- the reason we're going in a different direction here is those area plans, the eastern market and octavia and other ones and smaller projects and a lot of units and development but they're all the sort of projects that would go through under regular zoning so
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we in an area wide basis we determine what fees and community benefits and heights and all of that and none are large enough to lend themselves to this but the specific opportunities that we have with larger projects so these projects are very large and we think we can get better community benefits from them with a one off negotiation with each one and as mike mentioned and exciting to have a taxation structure and mello-roos tax to stick around and pay for sea level rise improvements and protection from sea level rise. i don't think we can negotiate that in a area plan with a whole bunch of projects but we can go through -- we have five projects and negotiation with each and look at the finances and each pace their own rate and it's not even and the bigger projects are better to have customized
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negotiations and look at the finances of each project. when we figure out -- like the central soma plan going through now has to model the extractionos the medium so it can't place them so high that half of the projects will fail and not be able to go or so low that too many are getting a free lunch. here we can ask for as much we can for each project. >> i started off with a leading question and that's the answer i was looking for and thank you and i wanted to note for the public this gives us an opportunity to be strategic if you will about what happens around each project and how it all works together. also just and thank you for the efforts in terms of addressing sea level rise and how we can work with the seawall although i am sure there are folks down there that might upon the ocean front property but don't want to have
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that happen. and also i want to thank you for the focus on sustainability as you move forward. they're all topics that i am pleased to see they're coming to the forefront in all of these design efforts. one question and we touched it a little bit in terms of transportation coordination. there's a lot of changes and talking how transportation has been changing and i know we're probably going to be chasing it a little bit as all the presentation projects come on but in terms of the next generation if you will in transportation how we look at some of the multimodal requirements and being more creative in -- a little like octavia boulevard and a model for the rest of the world and have the different transportation elements in one location. are we starting to incorporate into the design here and keeping bicycle lanes separate from traffic and more public safety?
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>> i will give mr. rich a break on this one, so yeah. i think that -- i don't know if you all recall there was a waterfront transportation assessment that mta lead a few years ago and had interesting findings that the sort of peak hour congestion in the trans bay area of soma was rippling down to the mission bay and the mission rock area and they were blocking everyone trying to get anywhere and if we eliminate some of the trips and out of the cars and safer grid and it's still challenged but do a lot for the rush hour corridors you're seeing. we're looking to is there a expanded water transportation service, want just ferries across the board but water taxis to the new
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population from south to the downtown and i know the port has an existing service and make sure that the projects work together and plugged into a larger service that way and opening up a new way to travel south and north along the same corridor. >> great. and then not to put you on the spot but as we're trying to figure out how to move the caltrain electrification forward how will that have an impact on some of the efforts we're doing here positively or negatively if we don't get all of the funding in on the time frame we would like to see it happen? >> the political uncertainties aren't something i can opine on well but the electrification was seen as a benefit and move caltrain closer to bart style headways and more trains coming up through the same corridor and the mix used projects that are employment centers as well as
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resident centers it would be helpful to link that peninsula to san francisco. i think there's a lot of efforts not only electrification but the downtown extension and trans bay. i think all of those things are currently seeking dollars and currently trying to get done but when they're done and i do believe they will get done i think it will definitely create -- hopefully catches up with the growth and create a network that has more connectivity than now. i think we're are definitely experiencing the gaps in the network and one key piece we want to kill as soon as we can. >> maybe that might be something looking at opportunities that arise not having a cookie cutter approach to the area and may be some things to look at from getting additional funding perhaps from some of the transportation. >> yeah, i think that's one part of the strategy and not just caltrain but aggregate. we know there are transportation and sustainability fees off of
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the projects. can we aggregate those to use them locally for projects that do what we're talking about? and the $700 million price tag is out of the range but the same idea and create the better connection in all directions? >> thank you very much. >> mike and den i was going to say this is really an ambitious agenda. it really is and with the state of our country it's good to know that we're moving forward because san francisco always marchs to its own beat and being a sanctuary city it's important that we move forward. this southern waterfront -- this is the next renaissance in our city and we know how important housing is in the city, jobs. we've heard about transportation, congestion and when we really think about it -- when we think about the four most congested cities in the word. los angeles is number
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one. moscow is number two. los angeles is number 3 and san francisco is number 4 and you hit on something, ken and mike both. be the subway, water taxis, ferry, biking but we have to have some kind of transportation to think with success. this is great. but with success you always have problems and they're good problems to have as we work through this and i appreciate the update and i ask that you continue to reach out to the community. the community has to go along. the trnz transparency from our community has to be there because this port, this city belongs to every citizen and everybody has to feel they're a part of it. they own it because actually we're moving to the next level and doing these things and so when you prioritize how they come out ken do you think there's going to be any problems in funding or anything or do you think we're going to be okay with the private partnerships and things
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that we have? so we don't have to worry about federal funding from president trump or the government. do you think we're going to do what we have to do? >> continuing the difficult questions to answer. i don't want to make commitments around federal funding. unlike affordable housing that the federal government backed off of that a decade or two ago it's important to know that the major funding source for transportation is still the federal government and we were supposed to have someone from mta today but she's ill and could have answered it better but the funds are helpful as a match of federal fund and if that change it is significantly that will be a problem. >> >> and i'm not in that enough to understand what that landscape looks like but we do need a lot of money from the feds. well as an example now
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that the feds put on hold the caltrain electrification money that money is in doubt and everyone is trying to make up the funding and hope that the grl federal government will change their mind or we need that for the projects. we're more sufficient on the local bike lanes and pedestrian oriented projects but on the major ones we are going to need it. >> thank you. madam secretary next item please. >> 11b information presentation regarding the forest city proposed pier 70 special use district design for development for the area boarderedded generally by 20th street and michigan street and 22nd street and san francisco bay.
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>> we have been working with the port on the pier 70 area since 2013 when the port commission endorsed the term sheet. since then forest city presented several times to the commission, has done extensive community outreach and as recently as of october 2016 presented an overview of the land use plan and design for development. this afternoon jack will walk through a more detailed overview of the design for development. that document is used. it provides direction to both the developer and city staff to make certain that there are criteria and direction for how new horizontal and vertical development and adaptive reuse of historic facilities are constructed. this will make certain that the improvements maintain the integrity of the iron historic district and pier 70 is an attractive place to
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make the place comfortable place to live, work, play and visit. the design for development will be included in the proposed pier 70's special use district of the city's zoning code and i will note that the draft design for development as presented today as gone through extensive review and collaboration with the san francisco planning department, public works work, municipal transportation agency, the puv and the office of economic and workforce development and with that i will have jack present. thank you. >> thank you david. commissioners, president adams, staff. thank you. i am very excited to be here of the every time we come it's becoming more and more real. i can almost feel the construction starting to happen, so we've committed to be efficient with your time and we will do that so just a
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reminder this is now ten years in the making. you could probably go back further than that but the port's master planning process started in 2007 and a three year process and a year to select forest city and we have been at it for six years working with the community and the city family and your staff to move this forward. we've had literally thousands of people have their eyes on the vision that has been put forward for pier 70 and have an opportunity to provide input which we think has made the plans stronger have more support and ultimately have a greater sense of ownership for what is created. a little bit of a reminder for context and this is baked into the design guidelines mentioned. we're talking about a mixed use project centered around a node
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of historic buildings out on the sited it, buildings 12, two and 21 which i think you've all seen and we all know and love. the land use plan includes some development parcels that will be commercial office, some parcels that are residential, some parcels that could actually flex between office and residential which is very common in san francisco. you see this in most of downtown and south of market and allows us to be responsive to what ultimately is planned and implemented on the southern boundary of the site both on the portero power plant property and the members of the public substation. one. >> >> pg&e substation and one thing we were encouraged to be thoughtful how we locate uses in
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the project that activate the site that create an authentic pier 70 experience, and there were examples that folks would give of development that's happened around the neighborhood where it doesn't -- certainly there is residential and office but didn't include the components that make san francisco neighborhoods great. the space for arts, pdr, for neighborhood services, for non-profits so we've actively programd that in as well as identifying key locations where there has to be retail or neighborhood services. we've talked before the specific attention that we've paid to creating a place that is really for walking for wandering for discovering the place, a series of pedestrian pathways and the majority of the waterfront site
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really is a pedestrian priority zone exhibited by not having a road between the waterfront parks and most of the buildings, and this is something that to some degree you could argue has been part of the history of the place and the character of the place for decades, and as we were going through the process with our design team thinking about how do we create a new waterfront park network that honors pier 70, that feels like pier 70 and complementary to what else you find on the waterfront, so rather than recreating the marina green or rincon green pier 70 asks to be a more urban site and so our landscape architect field operations who those of you who have been to the high line in new york and know that the way they have found to bring the
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history and the gritty character into something that is a modern experience looked at the site and how it was used traditionally and where there were these open areas that were adjacent to buildings. it wasn't one large open area but a series of them and that became the framework for an open space program that is like a series of room that have a distinct character, distinct design and distinct use, so that at different parts of the day, different parts of the year you actually you have a diversity of experience of who is coming and how they're using the place, and so we talk about these rooms, and we use them -- one of the ways that we use to describe them to folks is use local references so we talk about how this park network is five or six
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parks or san francisco open space areas in one, so the playground that will be adjacent to irish hill is not unlike the scale and the character that we see at the dolores park playground. around building 12 is a series of platform and urban plaza not unlike what you find in front of this building here between the embarcadero and the face of the building where there's lots of events and very active use. along the southern part of the waterfront we have more of a waterfront promenade that is fronted by restaurants, bars, and scale wise not dissimilar from the embarcadero rincon park where water bar and epic roast house i forget the
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name of it. i think you guys know where that is so it's a good example. they're not many places in the bay area that you can sit on the water on a patio. there is no road between you and the water and the bay trail is right there. slip ways commons which actually connects the waterfront to the historic buildings, not unlike the scale of south park if you took the roads away and the building is fronted up on it and the northern part of the site is more of a green space that is on par with the scale of the -- not all of chrissy field but the picnic area so the design guidelines are really about putting in place a framework for how do we make a great place at pier 70? and i think it's one of the reasons that forest city was chosen by the port. i think we've shown in other places around the country how we have done that. we have a project in
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dc called the yards and we encourage you all and happy to host you all and it's a magnificent project and the parallels with pier 70 are quite surprising. we have a great design team that has been working on and really appreciated working with the port staff, the planning staff, owed and everybody else that has been involved to create a framework that is really what pier 70 deserves. it's what the city deserves and ultimately will will create value for the port and for forest city, and there's no one characteristic that needs to be included in this framework. there's a series of elements to it that all have to be treated appropriately and balanced and then bound together, and they're shown here and another way to think about it is three dimensionally so we want to
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create these great parks and inviting public realm, the design and the character of the streets that we create requires a lot of attention and frankly a lot of battles with ways of doing things, ways of building streets that maybe aren't the best for pedestrians and bikes providing robust public benefits throughout the buildings and in the parks through some of the programs that mike mentioned, work force programs, small business diversity programs and some of the retail spaces. the rehabilitation of the his structures, the treatment of the ground floor of the new buildings and also importantly the design framework that we put in place to have new construction buildings and how do we do that? so i don't have it up here but there's a thick
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document we're proud of that is the framework and the design guidelines and referred to as design for development and it talks about this land use framework about the mix of uses, the makers market hall in building 12, the arts facility on the waterfront which will have the replacement studio space for the artists. it has priority retail zones in the buildings. it limits the amount of ground floor office so you have the active public realm. it has a specific open space section and framework where it talks about some of the things that we must do and we can't do and we're not modifying the remnants of irish hill but have a playground and honor it and the view and where it's appropriate and what type of
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vegetation can be used? and given it's a his district it prioritizing programs for areas. where do you want to a waterfront for dining and appropriate for play and picnicking and design it that it's flexible enough to accommodate the food festival and 30,000 people out there and we think is a great opportunity for pier 70. i talked about the streets and not make them overly wide but still able to get all of the utilities, provide emergency vehicle service, parking. it actually is one of the most complicated peedz pieces of the project and the design guidelines are the launching point for what is a very detailed streetscape master plan that we're working on as well. and then lastly and i'm
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going to let kelly talk a little bit about the -- show you what some of these design guidelines elements how they will play out through the renderings that we have to show you what that actually looks like, but we -- the framework has many of the things that are traditionally in design guidelines, how tall can the building be? how much massing? how many units? but one of the things that we think our design team has really pushed the envelope is an innovative approach to provide boundaries around the building design that don't overly constrain the creativity of the architect. it gets into things that we've never seen before at least in design guidelines documents in san francisco about
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preferred materials so it's a historic district and it's got really beautiful rich materials and so there's actual discussion in there what materials are preferred and even so far as how they maybe treated so they're consistent with the historic district and this is a very high level of commitment that we are very comfortable with as we intend to build most of the buildings and we want that commitment to live with buildings the design of buildings that we also don't build and deliver to maintain the quality and integrity of the district so the slide that i have up here is one of our favorites. we jokingly call it the rainbow diagram. what you see here the colored bars are the different treatments and guidelines and standards that apply at all of the facades in
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the district so there are certain facades that are adjacent to historic buildings that need a sensitive approach that may prohibit materials or require a setback but ensures we're not trying to mimic in new construction what say historic building next to it. i think one of the things that under lines the design guidelines also if you go out to the sited it what you see are buildings that are actually giet actual quite large and large facades and don't have the traditional approach to design for that type of building which is set it back, recess entries. what they have -- they're actually more or less
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boxes and incredible materials and have a rich texture so what our design guidelines have incorporated almost through a lead type framework is the ability to choose do you want to spend more money on a facade and have that really rich texture or is a better treatment -- maybe you do have a bit of a recess in a certain area along the waterfront that acknowledges the shoreline so i'm going to let kelly now go through the fun pictures and show you how through the renderings some of the treatments and guidelines would play out in the design. >> thank you jack. president adams and members of the commission i am kelly and it's my pleasure to present on the pier 70 project. i also apologize for my informal dress. at this point my wardrobe
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options have shrunk considerably. jack went through the frameworks that underpin the design documents and now i have the fun task of showing you pictures what it would look like in place. in order to create the renderings in the presentation as well as to test some of the approaches and concepts presented and for architects to prepare designs compliant with the standards and guideline with the document so we literally hired an architect, handed them the document and design a facade that meets all of the requirements within the draft document so what you're seeing is not finished by any means but a facade study but gave us a chance to test the ideas and whether the document produced the type of knowledges that we're awe. >> >> buildings that were awetentic to the his heritage and pleased with the results. what you see here is of 22nd
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street and the building on the left and building 15 is supposed to be retained with assessment and this will run underneath. using the framework that jack walked through previously this demonstrates key requirements in the d for d. for example the building across the street is required to belt to building 12 and you can see that through the horizontal data and additional requirements and massing and modulation allowable uses within the ground floor are limited to retail and light industrial and arts and the streetscape is shaped to promote pedestrian safety above all. but we know that great places are not defined by the physical realm and architecture and conveys some of the components how we will make pier 70 a complete neighborhood and addressing sea level rise and making transit
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investments and creating opportunities for all businesses and residents. we do this by committing to a 30% hire for construction jobs and to the execution of a pla for the project and lbe requirement for contracting for the project. forest city has its diversity program which we're committed to providing the port with monitoring and reports as well. this next rendering is this time at the water's edge. you can see the dry edge of the repair facility and the skyline in the distance. again the d for d prescribes controls to ensure that the buildings and public realm and spaces are successful and awses thentic to the site and extensions of the trail and materials for the open space design and prioritization of art uses are part of the design controls and again thinking that great places are defined by more
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than their architecture what this is conveying is replacement studio place for tenants and the structures and making them available to get closer to the water and shoreline at pier 70. so to re-cap what jack mentioned and what we attempted to do with the document is to really bring together all of the disciplines that shape the places that we experience, not just architecture but compatibility with historic character, how the ground floor feels as a pedestrian and healthy mixes to promote a active place during the week and the weekend. this is a slide you have seen previously and was woven into the rendering today presented but the project delivers on a host of benefits described in proposition f in 2014 and additional benefits that have been worked on through with the port and owed keeping in mind
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the southern bay front strategy that you saw a presentation and how pier 70 fits into the larger context and planning picture. and then last but not least i get to give you the wonky approvals process procedure, my favorite part. so some of the key documents that are under way for pier 70 of course the eir, the environmental impact report and the foundation for all are based and preparation of a special use district that david mentioned and this document incorporated intie reference into that sud. alongside development of an agreement and disposition and development agreement and infrastructure plan outlining the obligations of forest city as far as delivery of infrastructure and site wide amenities. when new buildings come approval they're
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evaluating against the requirements outlined in the sud and the d for d and eir and mitigation measures and the city of san francisco and the port's building code. a vertical developer submits an application to the port. a staff report is prepared and submitted to the director. if a building is fully compliant with the sud and d for d there is planning director approval of that design review and allows for buildings what is referred as a minor modification or deviation of less than 10% of certain standards that are outlined in the d for d. in the event that a building is proposed that includes a major modification and greater than 10% deviation in this then the building goes forward before the planning commission for hearing and approval. the process for evaluation of historic
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rehabilitation should look familiar it to and you similar to what happens with the port property and with all of these things the developer submits the application to the port and the director gives approval of that proposed rehabilitation. and then finally talking about open space schematic design this again being governed by the requirements of the sudd for deir and the forest city would submit design and review and comment by the committee and port staff and that design would go before the port commission before you for decision and approval. with that i will conclude my presentation and happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> thanks kelly and jack. i wanted to take a second also to recognize that beyond the city team we have been working with to develop this and all the effort and time that forest
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city has put into it and their consultant team a pretty large amount of port staff have gone into it and recognition and brad benson and project management and diane and steven, wendy, mark and many other staff to develop this. thank you. >> is there any public comment on 11b? anyone that would like to speak on 11b please hit the mic. seeing none. public comment is now closed. commissioner katz. >> well thank you for the presentations and i won't repeat the staffful individual but thank you for the dig against on the project and this is one of the most significant projects to hit the city in a long time and
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the impact for generations to come and excited to see the thought going into and kelly and jack thank you for your presentation. it was very thorough so i enjoyed that and i know i spoke to you about other locations in the world that have waterfront sites and i am a broke record with the line sight and have that and how a project along this size can be integrated along the waterfront and create the spaces for different uses. one question i had just another area that's a big focus of mine with respect to you talked about some of the landscaping that is going in on the sites that require -- i forget the term used here, shrubbery, but what are the plans in terms of tree planting and creating that sort of
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opportunity? >> thank you for the question. so i think one of the robust discussions that we have been having across the planning department, port staff and our design team is how do you -- what is the appropriate way to build new streets and parks that are livable, attractive, thal create value when we go out and looking to attract an anchor office tenant they will feel like they're coming to a place that has a little bit of softness to it? and you know we have been trying to strike the right balance. there have been certain recommendations about the historic district didn't have greenery so we shouldn't have that in certain areas. we would certainly like to be able to strike a balance there.
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>> great thank you. that's all. i will give you by bias as i look at some of the other world class cities and the fact they have a lot of trees such as paris and other places and you're able to incorporate the trees in with the communities there. could you talk a little more how you're going to address sea level rise and how it impacts -- potentially impacts the project or what is being done to minimize? >> sure. so at its simplest what we're doing is raising the grade of the site. over the course of the planning of the project the state's recommendation for what sea level rise could be at 2100 from 55 inches to 66 inches and a range and took the high end and adjusted it up and make sure all of the buildings are set at
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least at that level. by the time you actually slope the site back towards illinois street you get up a little bit higher because you need the drainage for stormwater and wet utilities. what we're doing at the park store line portion of the park is the bay trail is being set to 2050 levels and recognizing that if we could build the waterfront up to accommodate 66 inches of sea level rise today but it would separate people from the bay today, the portion of the shoreline they haven't had access to and for a condition that won't exist for decades maybe my daughter will never even be affected by that, so what the design team came up with was effectively an
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informal path at the level of the site today along the shoreline. those crane ways that kelly mentioned which stick out, the short piers that stick out 20, 30 feet in the water and keep them at the level they're at and a great location for fishing or sitting quietly at the bay and the treatment from the informal path will actually accommodate the rising of tides over time so that the use of the park. initially all day all year can use all of the park n20 years there is a number of days there is a storm event and don't want to be on the informal path but the rest of the year you can be. in 60, 70 years they're the concrete steps that lead down to the path. maybe that fourth
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step up is now the informal path along the shoreline so it gives us the ability to give access today but have that managed for that and of course mike may have mentioned this mechanism. there will be a funding plan in place to be able to make future adaptive improvements when they're necessary in whatever that scope is that is necessary and obviously the port will have control of that, but that's obviously really important piece, not just the creativity of design but the creativity of having a finance program that is able to respond to future conditions at the point that is needed. >> great. and last question is where are we in terms of falling under the current office cap and how that has an impact on the project? >> i feel i should let ken answer that question and did a good job answering the
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difficult questions and certainly something to be worked out. >> the city's got eight or 10 million square feet of office that wants to be built and right now about a million square feet in the cap and 875 is add each year and it's a challenge and we have to be sharpening our pencils. >> thank you very much. i am excited about the project with or without -- kidding. >> commissioner kounalakis. >> thank you so much for the presentation. with every iteration the pier 70 project becomes more clear in my mind what will it look like and such a tremendous development opportunity down there. there is nothing else like it and you did such a wonderful job in connecting the old and the new
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and the past and the future, so really my only question for you is on timeline. you have a timeline at the beginning of your presentation that says mid-2016 project approval, and i am wondering then going to the end of your presentation when you talk about the entitlement process for eir, special use district, d for d, development infrastructure plan and disposition agreement. where are those on the timeline and what is the projection to when you think you will break ground? >> so apparently we didn't update the slide in the presentation. we are not approved as far as we're aware, so we are hoping that the project approvals happen late this summer which is why we're saying we can already hear the cranes moving. all of the
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documents that you mentioned they're the project approvals documents. >> okay. >> so super tuesday at the port commission and super thursday at the planning commission and super tuesday again with the board of supervisors we would hope be happening between july, august, september. as i think we have mentioned in the past we are really -- the company is really leaning into this project. we are hoping to catch the momentum of this cycle even as it is leveled off a little bit. we feel good about where it's headed. we think that pier 70 is a good long-term investment in the early years are really the most important for the economic success of the project, so we right now on a parallel path with preparing the design guidelines and the dda, streetscape master plan we're starting to do work with the
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port's engineering team with dpw and puc and preparing the phase one infrastructure plan so that at the point that the project is approved we would be construction ready. there is probably maybe a one, two week permit process -- maybe a couple of months, but our hope would be that we're getting in the ground on starting the infrastructure end of this year, early 2018. we really -- you know, we're going to be spending several million dollars at risk because this is not typically what is done. typically a developer waits until the project is approved and then take it to that level of construction drawings. we think there is an advantage of timing and certainty with the city agencies to have to sign off on the engineering drawings and see in other projects and thought they had agreement and turned out
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because of detail they weren't and caused delay later but we're really as i have said leaning into it in the hopes that we can be in the ground relatively quickly and implementing something that is thus far felt like it's had pretty broad support. wonderful. thanks. >> commissioner brandon. >> jack, kelly and david and grant and thank you for the presentation. it's very good. it's hard to believe it's only been ten years. it seems like so much longer but i am happy finally we're at a place we might put the shovel in the project and exciting project and wonderful and i want to commend you on the extensive outreach and engagement in the process. i think that's wonderful. i
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think most of my comments have been answered regarding the sea level rise and approval process. the one thing shelly mentioned a dwrsity program that you have in place. can you tell me more about that? >> so this is an initiative that forest city is taken on as a corporate citizen to encourage diversity in forest city's contracting processes so we have kind of internal self imposed reporting mechanism whereby we prioritize a use of minority owned businesses, women owned businesses and veteran owned businesses and diverse business ownerships and one of the mechanisms that we have been in discussions with the port as well as the contract monitoring division and share the reporting and forest city is already doing for itself to monitor its own performance and share that with the port as well. >> great. how are you doing so far? >> well, that is for
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construction level so we don't have that for the pre-development but we have the lbe goal for the phase one which we exceeded every quarter thus far and doing good on that utilization for the eir phase as we call it. >> great thank you. >> of course. >> to jack, david, kelly and the port staff and a special thank you and i know director forbes and you kim and had to get involved and probably have to stay involved but jack i was knowing about and i came on the commission six years ago and me and commissioner katz came out and you gave us a tour around the dark buildings and walking around and this vision you were laying out to us and i am really so glad it's starting to really come into fruition but the community outreach jack that you guys have done has been great, and you have listened and you went back and forth and one of the smartest and courageous
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things you did is that you went to the ballot and it was so good when you went to the ballot and let the citizens. that was smart and thinking out of the box and i think that was very, very good and i just want to commend you for your patience and your due diligence. this is tough. this is tough just us listening to it getting our head around it. this thing is so complex. it's like a helicopter and so many moving parts and you have been patient and working through but last time you were here jack i asked you a question. you mentioned about it a little today and worried about the market going soft and what are your thoughts? you mentioned it earlier so what are your thoughts? is that something you guys have been thinking about as an organization or anything? >> absolutely. i mean we are constantly assessing the market both nationally and locally.
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we feel good about where the local market is. it definitely has -- we've seen a softening in rents more on the apartment side than the office side but long-term we think it's more sustainable sustainable and instead of drop off an ease off but right now it's a strong location. companies want to be here. jobs are being created. interest rates -- sounds like they're going up. will that have implication? what will happen with some of the tax credit programs? there's been tax about corporate tax code changing and softened the value of tax credits, so we certainly -- we're not procost nateors ever the national economic situation but right now the best indicator is we're spending
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money we don't need to be spending to move the first phase forward 12 months earlier than otherwise which i think is an indication of the belief that we have long-term in the san francisco market. >> thank you very much. madam secretary next item please. >> item 11 c informational presentation regarding recology's proposed integrated materials recovery facility at pier 96. >> good afternoon commissioners, director forbes, brad benson director of special projects here to present to you -- maybe i will wait -- it's a lot of people. so another
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exciting project potential project for the southern waterfront. recology is a major tenant in the southern waterfront today. pier 96 they participate recycle center, major recycling facility for the blue bin material and there's a potential opportunity to add to that construction and demolition debris recycling in a new falt facility that would be added it to recycle center and we want to present this proposal today. we have maurice here representing recology and jake macy from the department of the environment with the city so why don't i dive into the presentation, give you a little bit of overview of the idea and invite maurice to
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present the proposal for recycling and i will come back up and describe proposed next steps primarily around public outreach. so recycle central has been at the port for quite a while now since around 2000. they operate within the pier 96 lash facility. there's a mechanized processing of blue bin material that comes from the trucks that pick up at the curb around the city. also handles commercial recycling from office buildings in the downtown area. recology also has another lease on the port's back lands sustainable crushing is a recology affiliate and handles concrete recycling and mixed concrete and asphalt recycling on about 7 acres of the port. recology is a big company
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handling a lot of materials in san francisco. their main facility is at 501 tunnel avenue. that's hope to the transfer station for organic material on the way to composting. the black bin material trash is handled through that site. it's also home to c and d, our construction and demolition debris recycling today. this is an image of the sorting work that is happening at recycle center today. this is the hard work of being a sustainable city. we really appreciate all the diversion activities that go on here. recycle center employs 175 people. these are really well paid positions with promotive opportunities throughout the company. recology has an excellent record of hiring in the zip codes in the neighborhoods around the
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facility of the zip codes in the area and hired 161 employees. cities got very strong standards for recycling and landfill diversion. in 2002 i was working and supervisor amiano's office when he had this resolution and landfill diversion of 75% by 2010 and ultimately the environmental commission had a goal of zero by 2020 and policies that the city should pursue the highest and best use of materials recycled and consumers and producers have a responsibility for the waste streams that they create. since that resolution and since the construction of facilities like
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recycle center the city has done an excellent job of reducing the amount of material sent to landfill. through policies like the mandatory c and d recycling requirements so anytime there's a demolition project in the city materials have to be sorted and recycled, and this goes to the city's broader climate action plan so this is the zero-50-hundred roots strategy adopted through the environment commission. there are four main strategies to reach the climate goals. zero to wasteland fill. 50% of trips by sustainable modes and 100% renewable energy and what can we do to protect and carbon think and composting
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is a major component of that strategy so now i would like to hand it over to recology to describe the proposed construction and debris recycle facility at pier 96. >> good afternoon president adams, fellow commissioners, director forbes. i am the general manager for recology san francisco, and recently the recology company submitted a refuse rate application to the city and county of san francisco with several key initiatives targeted increasing diversion and furthering the zero waste goal. recology proposed revamping the collection program by combining organics and trash into one truck and recycles into another truck and reduce the truck trips going to recycle center at pier 96. in addition
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to this it will allow for substantial more capacity on the blue cart routes. as part of the city-wide rerouting efforts recology will provide smaller containers and larger recycling bins to reduce the trash generated and increase the level level of diversion and the material from the black carts. given the nature this material must be processed in the tunnel road facility which is currently very space constrained. the project before the commission this afternoon contemplates moving the construction and demolition recycling operation to pier 96 to allow us to retrofit the building to process unsorted trash or what essentially remains in the black bin.
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relocating this operation to pier 96 allows recology to modernize the processing operation and enabling us to source and employ the newest processing technology available and move from arguably out dated manual sorting process to a mechanical sorting system that will be capable of diverting an additional 20% more demolition and construction debris. recology is looking to work with the port of san francisco to amend the lease on the pier next facility and 7 acres of land next to the existing lease hold. we're interested in securing a lease for any additional space within the mnr building to the west of our existing lease hold. the image on this slide shows the existing mnr building, the proposed recology building and the existing recycle shed in the
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background and image shows a new scale plaza we're installing as part of this project and allow us to efficiently and effectively rescale the trucks for the operation and the existing pier 96 operation. this proposal represents a significant investment in the city's solid waste infrastructure. the investment in the structure as well as the equipment in the building will be nearly $70 million and generate additional rent for the port of san francisco and revitalize portion of the southern most waterfront tell represent a commit to the zero waste goal of the city. the facility will increase the city's ability to process more material to keep up with the robust economy and construction cycle and generate higher diversion rates and the tons processed and provide employ eeth employees
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modern state of the art facility and free up land at the tunnel complex and pursue waste processing opportunities. thank you. >> so thinking about pier 96 today this is the area west of the pier 96 shed, sort of between pier 96 shed and heron's head park. maurice talked about the maintenance and repair building that has a number of tenants in it. we have tenants used some of the paved land in this area. we believe that we've identified relocation space for the interim non maritime tenants. under the proposal we would keep the maritime access. this is
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shallow water in this area. it's just a depth of about 6 feet so really the maritime users are barge users that can navigate to this area, so a lease would accommodate that continued use. we have rail in this area too both along the stringer next to pier 96 then out to pier 94 terminal used by sf bay railroad and accommodate that use in the area. unfortunately pier 96 has sunk since it was constructed in 1972 by about 3 feet so we have periodic flooding particularly in king tide events. this is a real opportunity given the size and scope of this project to address the problems the seawall and the flooding that we see today as well as address future
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flood risks. this is a plan view of the new building next to the pier 96 shed in between that shed and the maintenance and repair building, and you can see you know on the lower portion of the slide some of the maritime activities and barge activities that would continue. the level of investments that is considered here maurice said $70 million. $50 million is this new building, paving the area and stormwater improvement and it is other $20 million the new recycling equipment that would increase rates for the city so we've done a little preliminary analysis of this proposal to share with you today. the pier 96 maritime terminal, the cargo container terminal closed in 1998. the
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pier 96 latch facility itself has a very limited water depth and we would continue the berting activeity i mentioned and this would permit industrial uses. we believe that the use that recology proposes is consistent with the piers 80 through 96 maritime eco industrial strategy. there's a link to that strategy in the staff report for this item, and we would bring substantial investment to the area. piers 80 through 96 -- this area is designated by the city as a potential location for debris after an earthquake. having the c and d recycling capacity there adjacent to the rail and burrs would be good for the city in recovery of a major event. we think that the lease proposal
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it's 12 years and two five year options is consistent with the waterfront plan and leasing in the southern waterfront for a project of this scale. so on to next steps. this is a big proposal, and with the commission's direction staff would conduct significant public outreach to the southern waterfront advisory committee, the maritime commerce advisory committee, the india basin neighborhood association, the echo center at hereon head's park and good to get together with constituencies and to discuss the proposal and see the area from the center and do outreach to the board of supervisors and president breed and district 10 supervisor malia cohen and if i could go over a few steps required if this
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project is to go forward depending on the results of that public outreach. we would need to prepare a more formal public trust and waterfront plan analysis of the proposed use. part of that would be developed in consult aiz with bcdc and state lands. we would enter or propose to the port commission we enter a exclusive negotiating agreement and negotiate a term sheet. given rent credits that are contemplated in this agreement we think that there would need to be both port commission and board of supervisors endorsement of a term sheet and feasibility prior to ceqa and come back to you after public out reach. that concludes my presentation and available for questions as well as jack from the department of the environment and maurice from
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recology. thank you. >> thank you. david. and david is the one i have a card if you but i notice workers from recology. i am glad you came and if you want to speak please hit the mike. >> thank you and i think we should hit from them. i wanted to speak in support of this proposal and the next steps that brad outlined, the importance that maurice talked about. this is a major facility in relocating the cnd processing from tunnel to pier 96 would go towards the city's zero waste goals, improve the capacity, not just the capacity but the diversion because right now they're limited in both ways, would allow the repurposes of the facility at tunnel to process black bin waste. i agree with all the next steps that brad talked about. just a couple of quick comments
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though. i am not sure if the fiscal feablity needs to happen before the ceqa review or if they can run concurrently. if there's a way to start the ceqa process on the proposed facility at risk while the fiscal feasibility is pursued that would optimize the schedule and built and operational sooner rather than later because it's a tight time frame in order to get the zero waste goal by 2020 if we're going to actually process black bin material by the end of 2020 then this facility needs to up and running sooner than later. the stormwater i talked about early item and the rail access is important. i support the continued operation of the rail but i think we could require as part of both the existing
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recycle center and the i mrf that a number of trips or cargo is done by rail and less trucks and maritime and industrial uses in the area. i am sure the community wants improvements to cargo way for a variety of reasons so reports back from the robust outreach and also from visitacion valley and the changes contemplated there and not in port jurisdiction but related to the changes here and helpful to the commission so i look forward to your support and hope that they are back as soon as possible with good staff work to make this project a reality for all of us. thanks. >> thanks david. if any workers from recology or the
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community we would love to hear from you. please get up and hit the mike. thank you. >> good afternoon. i have been an employee for recology for 17 years now. i'm a native in san francisco and born in the bay view area. i would like to thank recology for giving the opportunity in bay view and hiring from the zip codes and giving us opportunity to work. recology is a great company. i will say we hire from there because we're employee owned. we don't have too many employee owned companies in san francisco and to be a part of that is a great thing because a lot of companies don't offer that and we give back to the community. that's another reason i love working with recology. we did a toy drive for the boys and girls
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club and did it for years and beautified the boys and girls club so recology is a great company and open up opportunities for more residents in those areas to have employment and i just want to say thank you. >> thank you. >> can i just ask you one question before you leave? you mentioned participating in the toy drive. you can tell me the percentage roughly of the employees that participated in that? >> 100%. we reach out to all the companies in san francisco. >> that's the answer i was looking for. thank you for doing that. it's extraordinary. >> hi. i am damon wilson and working for recology for three years. i am a native of san francisco by way of my grandparents and in the bayview hunters point and i moved out and worked for a company new united motors and around ten years ago. i was one of the
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displaced workers there. it was an excellent company to work for. a lot of bad things said about the company but i had a different view and allowed me to buy property in my property and travel the world and see things i never seen before. when i was let go i didn't know what i was going to do. i didn't have a degree and even though i worked with people with degrees and jumping into the layoff system but we had families and homes and different things we had to take care of too. coming back to san francisco being with my family i found myself in a different position and changing the career and it was recology. they gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to sustain my life and my family as well. with the benefits they had i have two new kids it's been awesome. if it wasn't for recology i couldn't say where i would be right now. i wanted
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to share that with you and thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> hello. my name is jesus torres and i have been with recology for over a year. when i moved to san francisco and i learned about recology and their ideology it immediately encouraged me to work for the company. after several times apply further position i landed a interview and at the time i got the opportunity to work for pier 96 recycle center. it was a satisfying feel and made me i reached a goal in life. working for recology allows me to provide for my family and retirement plan and benefits makes me it to give it all for the next 30 years at a great company like recology. >> thank you. hit the mic. >> hi. my name is joe jason and resident of indian basin and
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i probably live about 300-yards from the facility and i live across the bay. i am neutral opinion about this but i wanted to share that there is a lot of audio issues, a lot of decibels so we can hear the forklifts and trucks and hear the train horn going quite a bit in regard to this facility and then with respect to transportation there's a lot of trucks going and out of the cargo way and associated area and they travel at a high speed. obviously i don't know the exact speed but it's a known issue stay away from the recology trucks when on the bicycle because they go very fast and an observation and i want to say am of neutral opinion here. thank you. >> thank you. >> can i ask a question? >> go ahead. >> so they're bringing in a lot of trash. do you ever have -- is there ever smell issues?
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>> we don't have smell issues but i live southeast of it so i don't know if that has anything to do with it. i guess the wind trafls north. >> i am just wondering. >> just a lot of audio. i can hear the forklifts in the middle of the night. thank you. >> are you going to come up? >> good afternoon commissioners. eric smith with the san francisco bay railroad. a hard act to follow the great speakers and great to see mr. benson there. for those that have been at pier 96 and how flooded it gets it's a golden opportunity and recology is a great neighbor and i am supportive of that. we only blow the horns when crossing intersections and required by law. i think this is a great opportunity and glad they're vetting through the community and rail service will continue out there and plans to relocate
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the rail and i would be remiss if i didn't mention that and this is a great opportunity for the infrastructure out there and everything else going on and they're very good company too so thank you. >> is there anymore public comment on 11c? seeing none. public comment is now closed. commissioner brandon. >> brad and maurice thank you so much for this presentation. i think it's wonderful and i would like to thank recology for being such a good tenant and hiring from the various communities and thank you very much for that. (paused).
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>> we have west guard doing berthing along the stringer. we expect the uses to continue. i believe that maurice is already in touch with representatives of sill rad doe who is a marine demolition contractor that autopsies some of the space so we think that there's a way to make it all work together and to promote maritime activities through this lease. >> and so would this lease have any type of maritime component? >> so it depends on -- there's a couple of ways that silnever rado -- >> recology. >> as to recology's activities we think there maybe opportunities for rail. cnd recycling produces metal that needs to be recycled so it's a potential to have it on rail. we will continue to work with
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recology on whether or not their water transit opposites for other materials (paused). >> and that revenue is in addition or combined with the total project. >> that's in addition to what we're getting. we have to look at the various site proves. pier 96 -- improvements. pier 96 seawall is 50 years old. there are holes in it. port maintenance has to patch the holes. it's maybe the seawall needs to be replaced and this might be a strategy to
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accomplish that for funding so we have to look at whether you want to invest some of the $1.7 million in improvements to the maritime terminal and those options will bring forward in later presentations to the commission but this is new rent. >> okay. and then there was some mention in the report about rent credits. >> so there would be site improvements, new paving in the area, things that normally would be you know fit the port commission's policy for rent credits. any capital improvements that are proposed for rent credits would be brought to you -- bless you -- any proposed capital improvements that are subject to rent credits are subject to the commission's approval like this. >> would this facility be able to help with the existing piles that we have out there now? >> so commissioner brandon i
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believe you're talking about the sustainable crushing piles on the back lands and we know that recology is advertising this material actively right now. we've got the potential that [inaudible] may need it for the wp sites. i think the warriors are also looking at this material. port is planning to use some of the material as part of the back lands improvement project. i think our shared goal is get the piles down and really to examine whether or not to continue accepting that mixed asphalt and concrete material on the back lands because it doesn't appear to have a long-term market in san francisco. >> after you do your outreach you will have concrete answers to the questions. >> concrete answers. i love that. [laughter]
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>> and hopefully with the new facility the equipment will be more modern and it won't make as much noise for the neighbors. >> yeah, and noish is an issue that is examined through the ceqa process. you know we're aware that there are a lot of users out there and both residents in indian basin and the park and wildlife and we need to be aware about sound. >> thank you. >> thank you and can i reference the odor question that came up earlier? so there's not a vector problem at pier 96. it's handling mainly dry recycling materials and not a lot of food stream and the vector stream and i wanted to answer that. >> but i think there's an odor problem -- not that recology
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has it but i think some of the tenants have an odor problem -- [inaudible] >> we're familiar with what you're talking about. [laughter] >> commissioner brandon asked so many great questions i think that i'm covered. i just would like to commend the recology staff for coming in and telling your stories. it's great to hear from all of you. >> commissioner katz. >> similar like commissioner brandon asked the questions that i have been pondering also. i was going to ask about the odor to explain that but i want to thank recology for being a great participant in the fabric of the city and a home grown company that gives back like the employ employees were talking about and i want to highlight the phenomenal participation of the
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employees in their charitable activity in the community. i don't think you find that many like that and goes toward the city's effort of zero waste and san francisco has set the standard and been in no small part to the partnership with recology and working to reduce the waste in throughout the city so i just want to thank them and i am looking forward to seeing this project continue and frankly looking forward to seeing more people getting employed locally in san francisco as the facility moves into the pier there. if and when it does it will bring in new workers and attrition occurs with the workers look to see more locals employed in those spots as they open up and thank you for the efforts and excited about the project. >> brad i appreciate the
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presentation and thank the workers for recology also. like commissioner kounalakis for sharing your story and anytime you have industrial -- i myself a union man and in the port there is smells and noise and that's the way it is. going up and down the waterfront there is noise. it's lively and vibrant and that's the way it goes, but i am looking forward to you coming back and i really think that this could be a great opportunity and to employ people we just got talking about affordable housing. now we're talking about jobs and to be able to empower our community and stuff like that and that's what we're supposed to be doing and i look forward to you coming back and how this will work and the maritime component -- eric mentioned about the rail and it's important for us and the
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port to have a freight rail. i know right now that the governor -- his biggest thing is high speed rail but we need freight rail for the port and if can take trucks off the road and cut down on congestion by rail and more efficient and better for the community so thank you. >> can i ask when do you plan on coming back? >> so i think we haven't talked about it so i'm going to offer an off the top answer here which i think we need probably about a month for community outreach component. i think we might be able to be back in front of you at some point in april to talk about some of the next steps, the ena term sheets et cetera. >> thank you. >> madam secretary next item please. >> item 12 a informational presentation regarding the
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request for proposals for restaurant opportunity at pier 33 north at bay street and embarcadero. >> good afternoon commissioners. jay edwards senior property manager and i am joined by sandra. she is the northeast waterfront property manager and share in the presentation with me and we're here to talk to you about an informational item and it's discussion about this upcoming request for proposals that we're planning on issuing for pier 33 north, and i'm going to share with you a brief overview of
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the site, venue and location and business terms and sandra will take you through the business criteria and outreach and our schedule so this is an overview of the location and the site. this was occupied by the butterfly restaurant which had a good run of ten plus years and it's been operating as a restaurant site for 30 continuous years so there's been a variety of other restaurants there and as you can see it's a very good location between alcatraz, our cruise terminals and business parks across the street and residents in the area so we're hoping to attract a wide variety of customers for this site, and we think it's
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that it's time for a refresh concept the butterfly was innovative when first opened but there is competitive pressure for restaurants so we had a mutual termination and now the space is vacant and ready to roll out a new request for proposal. okay. interesting -- so this is a sort of a -- >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> yeah, a rendering of a photo of the bulkhead building and the red awnings is where the former restaurant was located and has good identity along the embarcadero. it also has a high pedestrian traffic count and there's parking lot right across the street so now we're looking inside the restaurant and if you look on the right you can see there's really great bay views
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out pier 35 and 33 on the other side, and then there's high ceilings. it's hope but has an intimate feeling and hoping to capitalize on that so the vision is casual, fun, affordable and appeal to a wide variety of customers and we're proposing here is that the business terms, the key business terms would be ten year lease with possibly for option to extend depending on the capital improvements invested. the rent is greater of a base rent or percentage rent all based on fair market value and the capital investment would be sufficient to bring the property up to all the codes, any type of regulatory requirements and plus give it attractive and appealing look, a refreshment of the site if you will, and so with that -- go to
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the next slide there. >> we will move on to the selection criteria here. our primary goal really is to identify and attract qualified experienced restaurant operators to this location. in addition the rfp is expected to identify numerous opportunities for lbe for permitting, design and construction and operations of the proposed restaurant so keeping all that in mind we developed the five primary selection criteria. first is the proposed concept. we are looking at overall appeal to prospective customers, the marketing plan, the plan for maximizing sales, attracting customers. operating plan hours, how long they're open and what days are they open? what is the menu going to look like? what is the pricing going to look like or the price point of the items? design and capital
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investment. we will be looking at what their proposal is for the interior and exterior of the design, renderings floor plans and so so they submit the proposal. what is the initial amount they intend to put into the construction of the improvements? experience and financial capacity. we want to see that proposers are experienced in running a full service restaurant for five of the last seven years at a minimum so we're looking with somebody with experience running a full service sit down restaurant. we will also look ata source of funding for improvements, how much cash they're investing and loan sources, that kind of thing. we'll look at rent and business plan so the intent is to establish a minimum base rent and minimum percentage rent for this project but we also be
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looking at pro forma for operations whether the ongoing operations funds are coming from, projected revenues. is the revenue stream going to support the operating expenses for the lawn haul? and we will look at local business participation. we want to look at see obviously we have a proposer lbe or partnered with one but we're not requiring necessarily a specific lbe operator. we will be considering whether the proposer of the team submits and including professional services from lbe partners. that could be architects. design construction that sort of thing as well as operations services that could be provided once the restaurant is open. i will
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talk about the outreach we have done to this point. we had a table at the community contract open house that was hosted by the port so commissioner brandon you were present at that. we had a table there. we actually had this fact sheet for this opportunity available. we had a lot of interest from the community particularly with respect to those support services designed construction, operations and so forth so we're are encouraged by that. we had outreach and presentations made to community organizations for the past months and we will have a partnering session as part of our preproposal conference and outreach and give people again an opportunity to make connections and create partnerships with each other, and part of that will also be then during the meeting the site tour and so forth and people can
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make connections and proposers can solidify their team. >> thank you sandy. so here's the tentative schedule we're proposing to move forward on really to deliver this by the end of the year. that's the goa. there's a number of steps here outlined from front of and you back in front you have with the rfp in hand to get the approval to go out and interested receiving feedback and that concludes our presentation. thank you. >> thank you. is there any public comment on 12a? is there anybody have anything they would like to say on 12a? seeing none public comment is closedded. commissioner katz. >> thank you of the i am excited to see something new and lively coming in there
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hopefully. just a question on some of the criteria in terms of the -- i might have missed this the capital investment that you anticipate would be required there. do we have a ballpark of what we think that would be? >> we've looked at that. we're actually doing a facility assessment right now to see what that may be. there's going to be pretty substantial investment in new equipment and also the aesthetic piece of it but we want to ascertain what are the code upgrade costs so at this present time we don't have a number specifically for you commissioner. >> and you said in terms of experience roughly five years, five year history? >> yes minimum five years during the last seven of running a similar type of restaurant.
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>> okay. just in terms of sort of reaching how we do outreach to finding a little more diversity along the tenants along the waterfront it's sort of a catch 22 but perhaps if we have the rfp worded in a way that allow a partnership that would enable -- or some scenario a partnership of more financial bablging that would bring in more dynamic restaurateur that might not have the requisite of five to seven years experience per se but meet the criteria and operated something smaller and step up and perhaps some flexibility in that.
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>> absolutely we can. thank you. >> thank you. thank you. >> commissioner kounalakis. >> what is the square foot afnlg the site? >> it's approximately 4,000 square feet for the actual restaurant and there is potentially up to another 2500 square feet of support space that could be available. >> so this is the first kind of briefing of its kind since i have been on the commission and i am really curious how the process varies from say if you were leasing a restaurant space through an ordinary process, so for instance if it were privately owned piece of property then you could hire a
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brokerage firm and they would advertise it and it wouldn't necessarily be an rfp; right? you would just wait until the user came along that bid that submitted a bid that you thought was good and market rate and then you would move forward, so i guess what i am wondering is how from your point of view is this process different? and do you feel that it really gets out there, the advertising gets out there, so anyone looking right now for space in san francisco to operate a restaurant knows this is an option? and number two, yeah what kind of both hurdles are there for a cheese cake factory or you know on the one side -- on the one extreme or a great little cafe that has opened up in a part of the city that's locally you know a mom and pop -- what kind of hurdles do they have? and just overall the anything i am missing here in terms what makes the leasing of this site to a restaurant different than an ordinary private sector process? and you don't have to talk too long because i know we're going over
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and i'm the new one here. >> thank you for your questions. perhaps i can take maybe in reverse order if you don't mind? so the rfp process and the way we're proposing it here gives us the qualitative approach and maybe a little bit of the private sector. it's more -- i think the private sector having been in the private sector and more quantitative and what's the rent? what's the credit? do we have an existing relationship and so forth? and in this case we're using a qualitative approach and why we have the criteria that we set up and allow us to look at the operator, how they're going to do it, what approach they're going to take and a lot of details you wouldn't see perhaps in the private sector so it gives us a chance to really provide some sort of analysis and a panel too and a difference
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of a private sector and that perspective and outside perspective so in many ways it makes it -- we hope even though it's more laborious for everyone here and including you and us. i think we do get a fully vetted process though and it's a fair and transparent process and i think that's what the public wants. i believe so. in terms of the outreach it's our committee to do the maximum outreach. we really are -- we have started that. bob davis who is here with us. he can talk about a little bit if you like but we are trying to get this out to the public and that's why we wanted to be included in the community lb open house. we wanted this to be featured as an opportunity for the public, so with those efforts accommodation biened
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with the good -- combined with the overview and input from the panel we hope to get somebody special from the site and fit in with the port and we look at that on that basis and in the private sector you may look at this particular location you have -- we need to take a broader perspective so i think that's a long answer. i'm sorry but hopefully that answered most of the questions. >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> from your perspective you're the leasing agent basically; right? >> i guess you could call me that. >> so do you feel this gets advertised widely across the city and beyond for people who are out there looking for restaurant sites in san francisco? >> i think it does so between the outreach to a lot of the community organizations, the
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event that we held, interest lists that we have been developing and continue to develop you know it gets out in the community that this restaurant space is available and people start calling so the network in that industry is out there and we're getting phone calls from people, and taking down information to let them when the rfp is actually released and available. >> okay thanks. >> commissioner brandon. >> thank you so much for this presentation. this is a wonderful opportunity. do you know why -- it seems like there have been multiple restaurants at this location? do you know the challenges of this location? and why there's not a lot of success? >> we have thought about this and rob did a good job running the restaurant. he had success in its own way. i think that the challenge i see or that we
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see collectively is it's busy there. there's a lot going on so it can get kind of lost in the mix a lot bit. you have alcatraz and pedestrian traffic and potentially cruise dates that are happening all around it and it's a little bit kind of mid-block somewhat so it's in a long stretch of a pier 29 bulkhead building. i think in terms of the also. >> >> you have to appeal to the mark that is there and i'm not sure it's been done yet. i don't think the operators -- if you go back in history a lot of things have change the but if you look at the amount of people in the neighborhood that are going by daily. all of us -- we've gone by it a couple of times a week at least. i think if somebody can capitalize and
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provide a wide variety to meet kind of a broad diverse population i believe they will have some success but that's why we're excited to see what we get and what happens. >> if i may jay one of the things you told me along with sandra that the dining experience is long dining and higher price point and staff is targeting a grab and go and lower price market and kacialg and on the go. >> so that's what we're looking for, not fine dining but grab and go? >> yes. >> so with the selection criteria say you have five proposals and they all have the minimum qualifications how will you differentiate between the proposals and select one? >> so that's a bit of art. it's going to be a panel basis.
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we're going to be really -- you know, getting the panel i think that's number one, getting a really good panel put together. that's key. people that have experience with this, so it's not just our thoughts outside groups that can really contribute and i think it's one of those things i'm not sure we can describe it to you, but we know it if we saw it a little bit. >> but how would i know it? >> you will know it when you see it. >> i mean are you -- [inaudible] to each of the criteria or you know is it -- and then the local business participation. where does that play into it? yeah, we want it but you don't get anything extra for it. >> so it's a point system and how you set up the points and they're all -- i wouldn't call them heavily weighted on one side or the other. it has to be -- we're looking for a balanced
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approach. we don't want to see too much of one or another and i know this is -- i am being -- i'm sorry, vague. okay. but you will get a chance to see because we will have more categories put in there with points. when we come back with the rfp you will see more detail so it's lacking in detail but we will provide it. >> good work. i have a question and follow up on that question. are you limited to a certain type of restaurant to me can they pay and i used to eat at butterflies, right and, have 4,000 square feet so should it be open to anybody that can come in and maybe transform that? because we live in a 30 with 30 million tourists a year and people from the cruise ship or
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alcatraz and stiems it's how you run a restaurant and not everybody is good and run it in different styles but maybe -- he had a good ten years? that's a good run. it's like a stock. you might buy a stock and it might be good for a couple of years and then you have to dump the stock and get another stock. it's the way it is; right? in sports and you win and go through a period and don't win and get traded but i will say is it open to everybody and have you reached out to all over the city and maybe somebody has a specialty restaurant and they own three, four restaurants and not a big restaurant but a smaller restaurant and it can be nice; right? like i like go to
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kak ari's and is it hope to everybody? >> we want it open from the port staff's perspective want it open and diverse to everybody really. that's wearing what we're serving. we're serving a diverse population and the operator is key and looking for experience and a well run -- you can see it as you go out to restaurants as you do commissioner. you can see a well run experienced and bring in the components. we want that and encouraging that and want a team approach. weaver -- back to commissioner brandon's question and evaluating the team they put in front of us and going to start with the operator who is hopefully can rally this great team around him and with that
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we would then get something that maybe we haven't seen or even thought about and yes the outreach component of it going to be really important and that's what we're really going to focus on in the next phase is how do we get the word out? how do we promote this as a great opportunity? so we're excited. >> you want a great professional coming in and not somebody struggling. >> absolutely. >> you don't want somebody struggling and somebody that is well established and knows what they're doing and knows how to win and run an efficient restaurant so we can have a great restaurant there. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> madam secretary next item. >> item 13 a and request for proposals for program management engineering consultant services to support the seawall resiliency project. >> good evening commissioners,
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president adams, i love the hat. executive director forbes. i'm a stanford grad so -- >> be careful i'm a beers. >> bears too. >> equal opportunity. >> we're here too. >> >> members of the public. >> i don't know i didn't am wearing red. just happens. >> i am the project manager engineering division and we have staff here and the coordinator from finance administration will present this item. this is an action item to request commission approval to request request for proposals for engineering and consultant services to support the seawall resiliency project . this project supports the port's strategic goals of resiliency and leading the efforts to address threats from earthquake, flood risks and livability and increasing the
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funds spent by the port by engagement enterprises and knowledge of the seawall program and the relationship with the bay and stability by increasing innovative funding solutions. the seawall resiliency project is to improve earthquake safety and protection along the waterfront and the mission is have a program to repair the seawall and critical improvements by the end of 2025 and include advantaged age and deter action and earthquake and coastal flooding due to extreme storms and sea level rise. level of the bay increased 8 inches over 100 years and expected to raise
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36 inches in the century. and the full cost for the seawall upgrades from pier 35 to mission creek is between two to $5 billion. $500 million is currently estimated for critical upgrades and the budget carrying forward subject to modification during development of the overall program. current project fund suggest 9.5 million. >> >> and we're scheduled to go before voters for approval of $350 million in general obligation bond funding. we established phases and budgets and general timeline. we've completed the initial studies to define earthquake and flood vulnerables and the goals of overall objectives and engage stakeholders develop alternatives and develop an overall program and complete preliminary design and
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engineering and environmental review on the critical improvements followed by final design and construction. the budgets here are total budgets and include port and city staff, consultants contracts and project contingencies. to complete this project we will need resources and expertise beyond port and city staff. the strategy we developed includes the opportunities. the program manager and engineering consultant, this is the subject of today's request. they will provide planning engineering design and environmental services to develop the overall seawall program and complete design and environmental review for the improvements. this contract value is up to $40 million with a term of ten years. communications consultant. this contract will provide marketing strategic communications and public outreach for the project through planning and design phases. the rfp is advertised currently.
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final design one or more contracts for final design of the improvements. one or more construction contracts will done for the improvements and may contain any of these issues and contracts and construction management support. we anticipate construction support services will be required to assist port and city construction management groups. program management and engineering consultant contract is vital to moving the project forward. the primary scope includes planning and program development, environmental review, preliminary design and initialing, management assistance and review of final design and construction by others, essential skills and expertise of this include infrastructure planning, program development and management, coastal engineering, structural
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and geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering and seismology, environmental assessment and permitting, waterfront urban design including historic preservation. i would like to invite boris up to go over details of the rfp. >> good afternoon commissioners i'm the port's contract coordinator and joined the contract monitoring division compliance officer that's assigned to the port. in terms of a schedule our goal is to commence the advertisement and so lisment in late march and two weeks later we will hold a pre-submittal meeting at the office. proposals are due in late april. we anticipate reviewing the proposals and selecting a winner by the end of may and returning to you for contract award in june. the resulting contract is a
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solicitation of over $10 million which requires a board of supervisors approval. our goal would be go to the board in july and then commence this contract notice to proceed in august. the contract monitoring division set a 15% lbe subcontracting goal for this project. the potential roles include geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, civil initialing and cost estimating, environment services, testing and inspection services. there are a number of contracts as steven mentioned that are resulting from the seawall resilience project and the first was issued last week and the communications contract. it has an not to exceed amount of 1.7 million and subcontracting goal. the bulk of the subcontracting dollars allocated from the
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seawall project will come from the final design and construction work. based on similar projects that we have researched we anticipate that goal to be about 20% that lbe subcontracting goal. working with cmd to set goal for this project we looked at similar programs city-wide. the closest in size and scope were programs that were issued through the public utilities commission. we looked at the sewer system improvement project and the water system improvement project and similar large scale multi-year contracts. ssip had a 10% lbe goal and the wsip to hetch hetchy and goal of 13% so we will work to go higher than 15 on this specific contract but we will also be able to increase
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the overall program goal with the final design and construction contracts which at this point we're estimate to be about 20%. in terms of the selection process similar to the last presentation we will appoint a evaluation panel. the selection panel will be made up of at minimum of two port employees and two non port employees. the panel will have expertise and knowledge in the area and the objectives. once the proposals are submitted we have an internal group to review the minimum qualifications and determine whether they have met all of the formatting requirements, the lbe requirements and whether the proposals are responsive and responsible to the rfp. after that happens we convene the panel. the scoring criteria
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will include the experience of the firm, their knowledge of the port, the experience of the project team, the work approach, how they will -- how they will preach each of the disciplines, how they work with port staff. we will score references. written proposals are worth 100 points and we will invite the top four highest ranked firms to return for oral interviews. the interviews will have a similar break down and worth 100 points. we will -- the final score, the highest ranked will have the highest combined scores and do that with the highest rank prop poser and return to you for award of the contract. in terms of outreach we formally initiated the rfp process on march 1 with our contracts
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opportunities open house. over 200 individuals attended that event and very successful. this initiative and rfp was the trigger for that event. we featured it prominently. once we issue the rfp we will also post it on the website. the contract -- office of contract administration website. i have attended meetings. i've gone to the african-american chamber of commerce to promote this opportunity. we will go to other chambers and outreach to lbes and presubmittal meeting in april which will another networking opportunity for prime and subcontractors. at this point we feel good about the outreach, the word is out. i think there's a lot of contractors standing behind me now and they know this is coming and there's a lot of interest in working with the port and on
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this initiative. in conclusion we respectfully request your authorization to issue the rfp and steven and i are here to answer any questions that you have. >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment on 13a? is there any public comment on 13a? seeing none. public comment is now closed. commissioner brandon. >> thank you so much for this report. you guys did such a thorough job that joaf any questions. thank you. >> [laughter] >> really? >> really. commissioner kounalakis. >> all right. i have a couple. i am trying to remember from the last time we talked about the seawall. it seemed to me it was still unclear what the best solution was going to be in terms of repairing, rebuilding where? so it seems to me that
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-- i mean i don't know but it seems to me you have the estimated cost of the conceptual level between $2 billion to $5 billion for full replacement or critical upgrades of $500 million and the scope to be determined but then schedule and budget it looks as though you decided we're going for critical upgrades and the question is that correct? that what i am reading? >> that's correct. >> between the last time we had a presentation on this and now how did we come to that conclusion? >> the initial vulnerability study, the earthquake vulnerability study and the flood protection study completed previously we've identified a zone around the ferry building that appears to be -- have both
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seismic risk, has initial flood risks today and a lot of our critical facilities so we honed in in on that to set up the initial budget. however, it's important to note that we have not done the extensive stakeholder engagement and program development that's needed to really finalize a first package. you know we're definitely focused on life safety improvements, critical infrastructure improvements that need to be functional post earthquake for the city disaster response functions, and there maybe other criteria that comes out as we get program development phase. for example the constructivity of some of the -- how much impact they do? if they're spread out in different areas do we want to attack different areas with an
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initial project? we may find out that the five human million -- $500 million are not enough and search for out additional funding and we have to start now and with what we know now this is the best we've got. >> okay. because it's a fairly big leap to make that determination and also to identify further that we're not looking at rebuilding the seawall. we're looking at fixing the seawall in the critical area around the ferry building. >> not necessarily. we have to go through the planning process to determine what that project is going to be, those critical improvements. we have ideas now but they're very much internal ideas. they're not -- and they need to be informed with extensive engagement and a
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thorough process of additional engineering study, alternative analysis, and alternatives refinement. >> right -- >> planning phase. >> because initialing consultants who -- engineering consultants and how to do critical repairs but not draw the lens back on the bigger question which is the vulnerable itd of san francisco from flooding or earthquake, what did venice do kind of level of analysis? so are you looking at -- i mean there are different consulting firms. some could figure out how to fix what is there and others that take the wholesale innovative look and what do you do about this problem. so will you be
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targeting firms that have that ability to look at this complex problem from multiple angles? >> yes, the latter, definitely the latter. we need to look at it from all the angles. >> and i can add extra content here so this is considered the planning phase of the project and while engineering is a big part of the contract planning and design will be a big part as well so we will be looking to set a conceptual framework how to respond to sea level rise along our seawall, our vulnerable seawall looking to -- we have earthquake risk and current risk and sea level rise which is emerging threat and look to what areas we should make secure first and but we will be in this planning phase developing a framework to tackle the entire seawall.
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>> that's what was my understanding so that's why i was surprised by this leap from replacing the seawall to critical upgrades and it was decided but it sounds like -- >> it's in part decided by the money, so we are on the bond schedule for $350 million in 2018. we're looking for $500 million for the first investments and critical improvements that relate to san francisco emergency response et cetera that should be addressed first and tackling the repair of the seawall now is not realistic from either a funding standpoint or a project delivery standpoint so we have a staff recommended that we start with critical repairs first and eventually tackle the larger seawall fix or replacement. >> okay. thank you.
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>> commissioner katz. >> thank you steven and boris, very thorough. i just had a couple of questions given it's going to be broken out in terms of the -- large share going to the preliminary design environmental work. is there anything that would preclude any of the or successful bidder on phase from being involved in the subsequent final design and construction phases? >> so the program manager will be on board through final design playing a review role and assisting us, so they would not be able to compete for final design work. >> okay. and then just confirming this isn't going to be necessarily a lowest bidder but the whole monopoly of services and as ranked it will be somewhat based on a range of
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responses as opposed to purely fiscal? >> yeah, they're ranged purely on qualifications and so negotiate with the highly qualified firm to come to an acceptable value and scope. if we cannot do that and we will give ourselves a time limit for that and if not we stop negotiations and move firm two. >> got it. just confirming and thank you very much and for all the outreach done to the community and really and this is a significant project on so many levels and i think really having gone above and beyond in terms of outreach to ensure that we get a broad cross section of people aware of what we're doing is great so thank you. >> boris and steven -- steven i think you guys are both geniuses but i know you had a chance to go to amsterdam to do
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studies about sea level rise and stuff like that and what was happening over there and in october director forbes and commissioner brandon we were in dropped) and talking to leader pelosi and her direct and talking to the army corps of engineers and getting money from them. i am with you. i want to do something because and really go for it because if something happens and we're not prepared
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where it might be $2 billion to fix it and like new orleans and not prepared to fix it and then it's eight, $10 billion and where we will come up with the money? i would like to get ahead of that and i was in sack ac and the transportation bill and david chiu is up there and assembly member, scott wiener and we need to ask them you guys need to get money for san francisco and it's out there and get on top of this and dc and meet with secretary chow and make you come to san francisco and see what we're up against. we can do this the easy or hard way. we pay now and up front and look like heroes and if not if something happened and here and come up with the money and i know it's a priority for the
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port and elaine when you're back there and the business people, the chamber need to be knocking on the doors in dc and republicans and democrats and we need to be up front on the issue and need money for san francisco and need close to $2 billion and we want to fix the whole thing. and i will go back would you work on it from the inside or from the water side in and from the inside it's down the embarcadero and people doing business; right? and we want to hurt them doing business and this is our city of tourism and can you work on the water side. did i say that right? >> you did. right now there are very high level concepts how to improve seismic safety on the waterfront. the deal with ground improvement land side highly disruptive to businesses and to the embarcadero and so we
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also looked at the water side construction technique. we would go out into the bay, do your construction out there and buttress the existing wall and let life on the waterfront exist while this is going on water side. that is controversial because it includes bay fill. the environmental review and approval process would potentially take much longer but it may actually be a less cost alternative so it's a valid alternative and in this planning phase we need to look at all alternatives. we need to get everything on the table and then develop those, rank them, refine them, start to whittle that down and that's the intent of this planning phase. our goal is to be complete with the planning phase by 2018 so we have a good idea what works along the waterfront. >> have you guys had any
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discussions with the army corps of engineers and have they said anything? >> we sure have and we're working on the final strategy with them. there are pitfalls but right now we actually -- next commission meeting we're bringing to youa i feasibility cost sharing agreement with the army corps of engineers for a project and continuing authorities program and federal interest of $5 million and it's looking at a portion of the waterfront for flood protection improvements south of the ferry building. that's our start with the corps. we think that can pivot to a larger general investigation project and so we do have our foot in the door with them under the cavstudy. they determined federal interest for us and ready to kick off the feasibility study in partnership with us and our goal is turn
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into a general investigation. >> huge project. >> yeah. it's huge. >> it's exciting, right, but it's historic as well. and of course there's lots of changes with regulation you know. who knows whether or not there is staff at the army corps. who knows if there is massive deregulation. who knows if there is an epa tomorrow. all of these difficult to predict scenarios but i think it's just -- we're in such a fortunate situation that the mayor is prioritizing it and up to us to talk to the public and fix it quickly and the best solution at the best price and
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stanford okay and maybe berkeley would have been better but it's really a huge challenge and opportunity. >> it's a huge challenge. the dual threat, the earthquake threat which is at the door step any day and the sea level rise threat which is emerging and trying to balance those, what actions we can take now, it's going be extremely difficult to hone in on the project that supports both. >> i support you being very proactive. thank you everybody for going out on this and doing what we have to do. okay colleagues since there is no more discussion. all in favor of resolution 17-14? >> aye. >> opposed? pass unanimously. madam secretary next item please. >> informational presentation on the port's report on contracting activity for first
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and second quarters of fiscal year 2016-17. >> good afternoon. i am the administrator with staff from the contract monitoring division. the matter before you is an informational overview of the port's contract activity. for the first two quarters of fiscal year 2016-17 that's the period that covers july 1 to december 31 and follow up to the report september stwefn. i will talk about the ordinance. i will go quickly. i know you had a long meeting tonight and talk about lbe certification and the firms and contracts awarded and payments made on open contracts. i will talk about local hire and upcoming opportunities. the local business enterprise program was designed to level the playing field for businesses bidding on contracts. it affords bid districts and
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subcontracting goals for certified lbes. there are 1197lbes and increase of 30 since the last time i came here. i had a conversation at length tw the certification manager. they have made changes and growth in firms for the first time in a few years and over the last five months there's been a study increase and so i think in the next report we will see even larger increase in lbe firms so i think that's a positive note. they also made administrative changes and the time to become certified has gone from 60 days to 45 days and 25% increase in the certification process. the break down of firms is 23% women
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owned and 40% other business enterprises and 37% minority owned firms with 45% of minority firms as asian american, african-american firms make up 25% of the currently certified lbe and latino american firms are 23%. in terms of our contracts awarded during this period for the first six months of the fiscal year we awarded $9.2 million in contracts through six new contracts. five of the six contracts went to lbe firms as prime contractors. that's 83% of the contracts awarded at the prime level. the bulk of the contract dollars that we awarded during the period came from two specific contracts and the mission bay ferry landing and the crane cove park site preparation contract.
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those combined were responsible for 92% of the contracts we did award. the remaining contracts however we issued as micro lbe set aside and as small contracts put out to bid for only lbes and oarve all we were able to award 41% of all dollars to lbe firms. here's another look at the prime contracts we awarded again six valued at 9.2 million and five went to minority owned businesses. of those five contracts three went to asian american owned firms and two went to african-american owned lbe businesses. whereas the last slide showed the number of prime contracts awarded this represents the contract dollars. as from the pie chart on the left the performance was 41% and
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o bes 4% of dollars. women owned firms 12% of awards and majority owned businesses won 25% of the contract awards. those dollars can be further broken down by ethnicity. the chart on the right shows 82% of dollars in the mbe minority enterprise slice went to asian american firms and the 13% split between african-american and latino owned firms. as i mentioned before these charts were dominated by two contracts. 92% or 8.5 million of the dollars awarded came through the construction at crane cove park and for the mission bay ferry landing. the lesson here we need to come up with diverse ways to increase our dollars
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awarded to lbe firms and encourage diversity at the subcontractor level. we have been on message at the contract open house with the contractors when we have presubmittal meetings this is something we want to see when you do business with the port. in terms of payments we issued $6.2 million in payments during the reporting period. 31% of those went to lbes. overall we are -- our professional service and construction contracts are meeting or exceeding the average lbe subcontracting goals. as needed contracts fell 2% below but we expect that to increase as the different scopes of work come online. this slide compares the awards and paymentses over the six months
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of the past three fiscal years. we awarded six contracts in the first half of each of the last three fiscal years. this time we've gone down a bit with 41% going to lbe firms but we did well in the last two fiscal years and we're exceeding the mayor's city-wide aspirational lbe participation goal of 40%. in terms of local hire these are construction projects that are over a million dollars. they're subject to the local hire ordinance which is implemented by the office of economic and workforce development. since the inception of the ordinance back in 2011 there have been 15 contracts at the port that have fallen under the ordinance and its requirements. they have all met the ordinance requirements. currently we have one contract that falls under the threshold and that is the pier 31 roof
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repair project. the threshold currently for local hire is 30% of hours worked must be done by local san francisco residents. that project is currently at 40% 40%. during the reporting period through the director's delegated authority we a authoritied 2lbe micro set aside contracts and one to butler enterprise group and the other to rdj enterprises and the goal of the work they're doing for us is to link residents in the surrounding communities, district 10 to port employment opportunities. though the contract is new one of the considerers has hit the grand running and hired three district 10 residents there and have additional seven individuals that have been cleared and
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awaiting start dates. bob davis is managing the other project with butler enterprise group to recruit and promote and hire local residents from the city's sector on port jobs and excited about that initiative and if the work that the team is doing. we have a ton of contracts coming in the next three months, four months and include the one that you heard before. we had contract opportunities and open house. people want to come and work for the port. there is buzz out there. some include construction pier 31 upgrade and the belt line building core and shell. there are seven construction opportunities coming in the next seven to eight months. we have a number of professional service contracts and the sea level rise
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resiliency management and two communication contracts out now and the as needed environmental service contracts coming on line next month so there's a lot of activity and a lot of opportunity at the port and all our projects we work to have at least a 20% lbe subcontractorring goal and that is a floor and not a ceiling and we have been able to exceed a lot of those goals. finally in conclusion the lbe performance for the past six months and 40% to lbe and 30% of payments and one project under the local hire ordinance. we have some contract initiatives that are happening on a parallel track and then just a lot of work coming down the pike in the next six months to a year. that concludes my presentation and i am available for questions that you have.
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>> thanks. >> is there any public comment on 13b? any public comment on 13b? seeing none. public comment is now closed. commissioner katz. >> as always boris very, very thorough, so i appreciate your presentation. are there any -- a broader question. are there trends that you see or things that we should be aware and think as we focus on improving our outreach efforts or where we see other things where we might want to address and reduce barriers for participation? >> i think on the contracting realm you know there are a lot of insurance requirements and barriers that come through working on water for instance and things of that nature so working -- we i'm on the lbe advisory committee and growd up representatives from different departments and looking at that and bonding and those types of
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initiatives. i think that's one area where we could have some bonding support that would help firms bid on some of this work. i think we're doing -- we try to break up contracts as much as possible by awarding micro lbe set asides and that's the first level getting into the city contracting process. we had four during this period i think continuing on that line is important. >> is it at all helpful for us to encourage you to explore or encourage the port to explore the feasibility of providing some of that bonding support to potential contractors? i know you're working with city-wide but maybe there is something we at the port can do to back that up. >> we have been talking with the contract monitoring division. they have a program through merry whether and williams that we want to bring to our next open house and
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feature and talk about some of the resources available at the city for bonding and things of that nature. thank you. >> thank you. >> boris commissioner brandon doesn't have anything to say. commissioner kounalakis is next. commissioner brandon is happy. >> actually that was a great presentation, very thorough. thank you and it's terrific. it is really great to see the progress and ensuring that local businesses can really have a good crack at doing work for us and the diversity -- you know the work to create diversities in terms of hiring practices is also -- it seems like it's really doing what was hoped when these initiatives were put into place so it's terrific. >> boris that's it -- no, commissioner brandon. >> i have nothing to say.
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[laughter] >> no, boris thank you so much for this report. i really appreciate all of the effort and everything that has gone into making these numbers what they are today. this is really, really a great -- much better than the last report, much better so thank you for that. i think the contract opportunity open house was really great. i think it was really well attended and think it generated a lot of interest and i agree that we need to find some way to try and diversify our outreach and interest in all the opportunities that are coming online pier at the port, and i had the opportunity to introduce our executive director to ingrid merrywhether last month and i hope we bring her in prior to
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next year's annual open house. hopefully we can find some way to at least start the dialogue sometime soon. >> i think that's an excellent suggestion and these done excellent work for the contractors and businesses in the city through the bonding program in the city and working through creative ways to make it easier to do business with the port of san francisco so boris and i will reach out to her directly. >> thank you and thank you so much for all of this. thank you everyone for making this these opportunities available and a priority. thank you. >> thank you. >> i second all what my my commissioners said boris. director. thank you. you have been listening and a long-term process and we're getting there. i am sorry i missed the breakfast that bay but i understand from commissioner brandon and commissioner forbes
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and great and 200 people and i appreciate it. madam secretary next item please. >> 14 new business. >> colleagues is there anything you want to the port calendar? seeing none next item please. >> adjourn. >> in the memory -- >> honor. >> in honor. >> i move to adjourn the honor of kathryn dodd in retirement. >> second. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? it is 6:35 p.m.. thank you. [gavel]much.
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>> well, everyone well i present to you the mayor the city and county of san francisco mr. edwin m lee. >> (clapping.) >> thank you theo well, everyone well people's palace our city hall kids how you doing junior 49ers in the house. >> (clapping.) >> well, i'm really glad you're here i know when young people are here they don't want to hear speech we will have
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action even though findings i pen thank you to the supervisor president breed who is working closely with me on this legislation along with board member supervisor peskin green from district 3 and ahsha safai district 11 thank you and supervisor cowen malia cohen is on her way and will be here in a minute and, of course, i need do board of supervisors i'm signing legislation that's what they had had good we do better when we work together with sheryl and others you allow us to a or as a city to work together with the most important people are the residents of potrero and sunnydale thank you for being here. >> (clapping.) >> i get to say that you know as a someone who started out in
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public housing this is personal to me that i pay attention to those that are living in housing to not allow you to fear in you're living live in fear and isolation we had many, many discussions at city hall about how to do better and do justice by our low income residents and in communities that often have been labeled as solicited and not paid attention to we're changing that we've been changing it for quite sometime particularly with our board of supervisors and particularly with supervisor president london breed and also with malia cohen that they work soibdz along with the philanthropic community that is part of our hope sf our justice community i know with that allen and you juvenile justice and rec and park and see
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the chief of police william scott our subject hyde are their working together increase in large umbrella called hope sf hope sf yes. >> (clapping.) >> that's exactly what it is kids. >> everybody say hope sf that's a word we truly believe in this people don't center hope all they've got is misery we have put that hope in that term hope sf with the collaborative partners those that are in the funding streams working in banks and working in the private sector of housing like rick rich and mercy housing those are the organizations we help with the positive and the annexation and sunnydale in order to rehabilitate every units of
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housing in that neighborhood in our neighborhoods why are we are doing this one is because everyone who lives in san francisco should be san franciscans they should never be referred to as residents of public housing everyone is a san francisco resident and when we're here in san francisco with our equity calls and calls that people be treated equally good housing this should be at basis that's why working with the housing authority with hud making sure that we're changing the entire way we manage those projects those developments the housing that you live in i got to a point i got tieftd excited people weren't talking about broken glass and water system didn't work but how many bedrooms will i live in how many kids are we're going to have
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open space so for our kids and the playgrounds we want it is a new conversation with you talking about the housing needs of all our residents so i'm very proud of all the residents that are coming together with the collaborative partners as part of hope sf the entire board of supervisors thank you for preserving in everything you're doing those dreams were thought of maybe over 10 or 15 years ago people stuck by the dream so those kids what have hope amount how many of you what a brand new bedroom yeah. yeah all the trophies you'll be winning yeah, you need more room (laughter) so as i promised let's look at the action and morgan hill to the building of this housing you have a place to called home forever this is san francisco we
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do what is right but all the residents with that, supervisor president breed. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, thank you everybody well, i'm really excited to be here today some of you know i grew up in plaza east how many know where plaza east and obamacare i grew up no obamacare over 20 years born and raised on eddy and laguna through difficult times through the drama the violation the hope less in this and despair why didn't my communities have battery playground and why are we left out in the water of our city with everything that's why i ran to the board of supervisors because i wanted to see a difference when i became a member of the board i made it
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clear to the mayor and my colleagues what were my 34 top priorities mr. mayor. >> housing housing and more housing. >> (laughter) pursue exactly but more importantly rehabilitation the conditions that existed in plaza east when i grew up there no showers and busted pipes had to use other people's bathrooms on a regular basis and laundromat was always messed up why, why in a waeshth i didn't city would we allow to continue to happen that's why this historic day this historic position we're able to pass with any colleagues here with supervisor cohen leading that effort and supervisor peskin and supervisor safai on board that legislation is going to make a better community it is going to change lives i'm excited about the future of san francisco
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because we are finally doing with we should have done even i was growing up pay attention to what was going on in the community and make sure that everyone can will in the city with dignity thank you for being here i'm excited and let's goat hope on the map for ever san franciscan. >> (clapping.) >> and now the supervisor the district 10 supervisor cohen. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you good afternoon, everyone how are you this is an exciting time you guys need to lien up you have no idea how long it took maybe some of us know resident 10 like, yeah that is incredible this is like changing exactly why i feel i was put in elected office to serve this is an incredible
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journey i've been the the board seven years thank you, mayor ed lee he's been here and talking the talk and congressional legislation and leader pelosi getting the federal dollars to reach on the shore that's how we get hunters point and the olsen in the dream team olsen lee. >> (clapping.) >> barbara smith. >> (clapping.) >> barbara smith >> (clapping.) >> i want to recognize theo miller an incredible champion theo has been the inside guy that has been silently pushing the mayor and we have a host of the community nonprofit organizations our partners i want to recognize mercy bridge helping us to troofrm all of
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this. >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much and to the housing authority commissioners grateful for your time and commitment when times were tough and more importantly recognition the residents that have been living in public housing for generations that have's endured the roaches and rats and now this is our gift to i got that drama a trip to department of housing and urban development executive said people have suffered through the rats and roaches and today is about standing at all and strong. >> (clapping.) >> so it feels good to stand up here we have the junior 49ers thank you and a ton of residents leaders i'm looking at to see the jackson family is here thank you, larry everyone at forefront prior to my election on the
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board of supervisors now there is one woman that has been leading the charge keeping everyone honest from the beginning of time and this is mother ruth jackson i don't see her where is she, she will be speaking the next voice this is an incredible fearless leader feeds the homeless and takes care of the cited, bringing pride into the southeast neighborhood raising a family and raising grandkids this is a small business owner a model san franciscan right here please help me welcome mother jackson. >> (clapping.) >> i would like to thank everyone for coming today and my name is ruth jackson i've lived in the visitacion valley sunnydale for over 50 years
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i ran a family daycare over thirty, i've had generations and generations of children and i want you to know i love my neighborhood >> (clapping.) >> i've had people - that called me at night and say ms. jackson my waters is a gray coming out of the pipes i would get on the phone and call someone i want you know to we've been fighting and struggling with that a long time and i don't add too much long but we're happy today and we want to thank the mayor and throwing and all the people that have worked hard who have serviced our community and this way we give our families and children hope
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because we're there is no hope there is no light. >> and most of our young people in our area they don't feel they will live to get through high school so today, this gives us hope we want everybody just like you are today, we want to join hands and make sure this works. >> for all our families in our neighborhoods because i'm going to be around to see it (laughter). >> (clapping.) >> thank you thank you. >> thank you, ms. jackson now we'll get to action mr. mayor. >> there is pizza in room 201 let the children and elderly eat
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didn't o- >> sound familiar do you keep on getting up there's an easier way. >> of course there's easier way get rid of of mosquito they breed whatever this is water no water no mosquito mosquito feed on good blood the eggs hatch and stay near the waters san francisco to breathe and the adult underlying mosquito waits on the as many until it's sexuality hardens water pools in any areas and creates places you'll not
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normally think of budget and any container that holds water and hidden in bushes or else were dump the water and do it over soil not into a drain the larva can continue growing in the pooled water is sewage disthe first of its kind the area if the sewage is two extreme have a licensed plumber assist water pools in rain gutters and snaking and cleaning out the water when keep the water from pooling and keep in mind that mosquito breed in other waters like catch balgsz and construction barriers interest crawl spaces with clmg is an issue you may have is week to cause the water to collect this is an sour of mosquito so for buildings just fix the clean air act drains and catch basins can
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be mosquito ground it will eliminate it as a possible location keep shrubbery and growths estimated any water to can be seen and eliminated birdbath and fountains and uncovered hot tubs mosquito breed but it is difficult to dump the water out of a hot top can't dump the water adding mosquito finish rids the source of mosquito there are also traditionally methods to protect you installing screens on windows and doors and using a mosquito net and politically aau planet take the time to do the things we've mentioned to eliminate standing water and make sure that mosquito are not a problem on your property remember no
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water no mosquito >> calling this hearing to order good afternoon and welcome to the historic preservation commission for wednesday, march 15, 2017, i'd like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. proceedings. and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to call roll at this time. commissioner president wolfram commissioner vice-president hyland commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns commissioner matsuda and schaem commissioner pearlman commissioners, the firstm
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