infrastructure build out of that subphase. >> but you will get into it. but the things that i'm most concerned about is that we are in the process of building public parks a marina, there's lots of infrastructure that we have to undertake and tida is going to be responsible for that maintenance and security. we want to make sure we have a plan on how to deal with the operations maintenance once these -- the infrastructure and parks are built. >> absolutely. of course, the c.f.d., the community facilities district, will be a source of funding long-term for the park's mainls nance. as you know, it does accrue slowly at the beginning soft development.

also for that reason, the d.d.a. does provide that when the first park beginning in the fiscal year where the first spark accepted by tida, that ticd has an obligation over a five-year period to help subsidize the operation maintenance of the parks with the knowledge thaft c.f.d. will only be begining to accrue. >> excellent. good. thank you. this is not an action item. this is merely informational. so are there any questions from the public? hearing none, what's the next item, please? >> item number 11. advisory services open house.

>> thank you, board members. as i mentioned in my report, we had an open house begin the community engagement around the thrnrs and providing services to residence on january 20. and it was truly an exceptional turnout. we had first people show up about five mince earlier than we had invited them. and we were -- went nonstop for the full four hours that we had several people did not take a restroom break. [laughter] during the course of the session. so, it was really, really well-attended. again, we brought on associated right-of-way services as a

relocation consultant last summer. to assist in implementation of the thr&rs, specifically for the residents of the villages at treasure island prior to july of 2011. to educate and advise residents on the benefits of the thr&rs, conduct a needs assessment and part of the reason we're beginning it now is to inform the planning and design of the residential projects we'll be developing with our partners under one treasure island. and assess what of those existing residents entitled benefits, how many might be able to be placed into affordable housing units and how many would need to be placed into market rate units

and then also for purposes of planning those developments, predicting the number and bedroom count of the replacement units we need to construct. so the arws team includes, again, associated right-of-way services but also interethnicka that's been assisting on some of our translation services as well as just advising format of materials for clarity of communication and consulting who has been helping us with the graphic design and, again, the communication, the clarification of our materials. beginning in december, we sent letters to residents to households in both english and spanish and followed those up

with flyers in january. and those were, again, targeted at those households specifickedly available for them. we put up the treasure island cove market and several other locations around the island to publicize the open house. mark connor also put it in the t.i. news and we posted it for many other ways to get the message out to people. interethnicka also did a targeted outreach to households that we knew to be -- you speak spanish or chinese as a primary language in extending personal invitations, knocking on doors, repeated phone calls and even text messages. and then, of course, we had

bilingual staff at the open house. the open house itself was a four-hour session. it was just no formal presentation, but a drop in with people having the opportunity to have one-on-one engagement with staff from arws, tida and tihdi and others. we had a series of poster board sessions around the room. the first station which was manned by myself answering questions about the development timeline and what the future of the island would hold. and then stations could go on and explain what the benefits are under the thr&rs, what qualifies a household for those benefits and what some of their options would be. we also had a table for first-time home buyers staffed by san francisco housing development corporation that

does first-time home buyer training in conjunction with moe. they are not a city agency, but a nonprofit that does training in conjunction with city agencies. and they will be having an on-island session in may. because the first building is also a source of plow shares building, they were present to provide outreach to veterans that might come through. this is just our flyer. we posted around the island doing outreach to folks. some of the parents in conducting the open house. again, the timeline that was presented at the november board meeting but was also part of our communication about how the development will unfold and the timeframe of which the island will be built out. and then just for, again, a

snapshot in time for people to see we're starting our outreach here in january with an intention to complete interviews between now and june. one of those big outcomes of the interviews is to give each household a memo that encapsulates the understanding. so there's a clear understanding of the household of what wi believe the benefits that they will be entitled to so they have something specific to their household as opposed to a generic policy. the first for sale housing will be available in 2020, developed by ticd on ybi and that will include market rate and affordable for-sale units and the first rental replacement housing completed again in conjunction with ccdc in 2022

and then our target is to complete a new project with each of our partners every two to three years. the next one would be with catholic charities. again, as we discussed several times, the population on the island includes pred.d.a. households that are eligible for these benefits. post d.d.a. households that are not eligible for benefits under the thrr and those households that include some individuals entitled benefits and some that are not. and then, of course, the tie die partners that have a separate transition plan. in this case, we're reaching out to those blue and orange households t pre-d.d.a. and mixed under this programme. and the primary qualification for people to receive benefits to have been on the island prior to the adoption of the

d.d.a. or execution of the d.d.a. so, anyone who was here in july of 2011 or earlier and this is one of the poster boards that we have on the idea of replacement housing, down payment, assistance or in lieu payment. in terms of our outcomes, we had -- again, our target audience was 220 households. 150% of those households were represented at the open house. an extraordinarily good turn outand 103 of those households signed up on that day for interviews with arwss. so, an extraordinarily successful event. we did have some turn-out from tihdi and other resident answer we had anticipated that and

we're prepared to address their questions about the future as well. so information, the board members had copies of some of the handouts that we had. we had a f.a.q. and summary of benefits bifold that we distributed to residents on the day of the workshop as well as homeownership workshop flyer to try and get that on people's radar. for one treasure island residents, we had a separate f.a.q. addressing their transition housing opportunities in the future as well. so last week, arws opened their resource centre on the island, which is in one of the residential units and they're having office hours on tuesdays, fridays and every other saturday.

we'll adapt this as we go forward to people in needs in terms of those tuesdays and fridays, including both daytime and evening hours. so we try to make this as accommodating as possible. one of the outcomes of the initial interviews and from the workshop is there is a tremendous interest in homeownership. so, some of that is in market rate ownership, but also in the possibilities of inclusionary, affordable ownership. so, we're expecting a robust turnout for the may workshop. and we're looking at potentially having an additional open house between now and the may workshop to provide people more information on the criteria and the certification process be in a position to potentially purchase an affordable inclusionary unit.

in the meantime tarws is going to continue to reach out to those who haven't scheduled interviews yet and to forward information to those households that did not attend the open house. again, our overall goal here is to complete one-on-one interviews and provide each household with a personalized beng description by the end of june. i'll take questions. >> thank you. are there questions? ?iek yes? >> just a couple just quick questions. firstly, thank you. were there a fair amount of post -- it doesn't sound like it -- but post-d.b.i. people who had, you know, questions or felt that the system isn't fairs? i had heard some -- you know, i went there ands some people mentioned that to me.

it's like this is not fair. just because of one date. how does this work? and before i forget, i should mention the food was awesome. keep doing that. and i'm sure you'll have full houses all the time. [laughter] >> ok. on the -- we sdrnlt a lot of post-d.b.a. residents who came to the workshop. again, we only had 155 people total and that re.sed 113 households and some households are worth more than one individual present. so, we didn't have a lot of post d.d.a. households. arws has had some phone calls from post d.b.a. households and has been providing some background information. also, some contact from people who believe that they are moved here pre-- prior to july 2011 and so for those households, we'll conduct a review to make

sure that we have complete and accurate leasing records with on shore company. but, yeah. some contact but not extensive. >> thank you. >> linda? >> yes, bob. i said this before. so this presentation is excellent. and we have all the great outcomes. i think what i will suggest is to have all this information an excel with a spread sheet and the reason is because down the line, it might take one person or two or three and they're going to challenge this process. but we need to be able to document in a way that people will be able to see the overall picture of what we're doing here. because all this information can be posted. this presentation material will just be an addendum or whatever. but at this point here and all the information is here and i can help to inform how to design that.

i have the spread sheet here and you have all these people generating interest here. i foresee, and again it might be a challenge later on, but by the time we get there, we have all this wonderful workshops and one-on-one meeting and resource centre and we can present to people and people can say, hey, if you did all this, then you've jumped the hurdles of something. whether to the stakeholders and the commissioners and everyone. ok? so i think this is the way to go. >> no. we definitely are developing a robust record keeping system to incorporate the information that we are gathering but also

for the individualized records for each household. we'll have a snapshot in time and a common understanding of move-in dates, residents in the household and so forth. >> any other questions? hearing none, next item, please. >> item number 12, discussion of future agenda items by directors. >> are there any? hearing none, next time. >> adjourn. >> thank you. >> thank you very much.

>> all right. well, first of all, good afternoon everybody, and in case everybody is wondering, today is not only valentine's day, but ash wednesday, hence the marks on my for head. [ inaudible ] in sro here in san francisco are available for every single resident. i am incredibly pround to be standing can supervisor ronen and supervisor sheehy. it is incredibly important for so many of our constituencies

here in san francisco, both in terms of gender, our transgender community, it affects so many people here in san francisco. i think as we continue to see push back from our federal administration in washington d.c., just this week, our department of education announced they're no longer going to be investigating transgender student bathroom complaints, which is a step absolutely in the wrong direction, but in san francisco, we are different. we are not going to allow hatred todom namt, we will continue to standup for our communities here in san francisco. we will be a beacon of hope. i do want to thanks tha severa individuals for being here

today, as i mechanicsed, these issues take a lot of leadership outside of city hall, and this one was led by two incredibly courageous supervisors, and so i want to introduce the first one, supervisor hillary ronen. >> thank you so much for being here. i'm very, very honored and excited to be here. i also want to extend a special thank you to jordan davis who brought this legislation to our office and said, when you were supervisor campos's chief of staff, you forgot sro hotels to include that specifically in this lemggislation, so it was pleasure to correct that mistake, which we would have put in the original legislation but accidently left it out. so thank you, jordan. i just want to say what we've learned about this legislation about making bathrooms all

gender bathroom is when the traps gender stands up and fights for itself, for recognition, for dignity and safety, it ends up benefiting everybody. i don't know about you, but every time i'm out in public, and there's an all gender bathroom, that benefits me as a woman, it helps disabled individuals who might have an opposite gender caretaker. it just makes our society better, safer, and more welcoming to all of us. so i just think we should look to the transgender community fore guidance on all policies that we work on in san francisco, because it always ends up benefiting not just the community but all of us. so my deep, deep thanks to everyone that's here today, to claire, to the mayor who made an unprecedented move of joining us onto the legislation

before he even signed it because that's how much he supports this community. and to the only out member of the queer community on the board of supervisors, jeff sheehy, who always is the first to standup for and advocate for his community. thank you. [applause] >> so first, i just really want to thank jordan davis. i've been in your chair. that's how i started. i hope i'm still considered an activist, but when someone can come to city hall this change, that's brilliant. thank you for your leadership. i also want to thank mayor farrell for his supporting this and signing this and leadership along the way. i think this is really very important that sro's are brought into the mix.

you know, this is where many people live without a lot of resources, who are marginalized, and making sure that the dignity of our trans and gender nonconforming community is recognized, respected dignity of this community is recognized on all level in our society is absolutely critical. i'm very proud to sponsor this, and i just want to make one other point, since mayor farrell brought up what's going on in washington. we need to, every time we come together, with one of the communities that have been particularly targeted by this administration, they have sought to target the most vulnerable communities in our mix: immigrants, muslims, and the trans community because they think they can get away with it. so even though every time we come together, even though we're making headway and we're leading in san francisco, we have to remember that around the country, people's rights

are being taken away, and in this city, immigrants' rights are being threatened every day. we have to align ourselves with other communities in solidarity, that are particularly targeted in these times. so again, thank you to jordan, supervisor ronen, to mayor farrell. this is great work today. [applause]. >> sorry. claire. i was just supposed to introduce claire who's so great, really doing a tremendous job in filling the shoes and taking on off tereaf teresa sparks, so i'd like to introduce claire farley, who's senior assistant to the mayor. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm so happy to be here with all of you today in this

historic moment, and this would not be possible without you, mayor farrell, for your continued support of making sure that our city is committed to lgbt folks. also, thank you to supervisor ronen for your incredible leadership on this, as well as your office, and specifically, also to supervisor sheehy, and all the cosponsors on this important legislation. i also want to take a moment to thank joerd on and the -- jordan and all the members on the sro task force. this victory really does belong to all of you, so thank you. [applause]. >> as trans and gender nonconforming people, we are all to familiar with the stress, the violence that comes with trying to use the bathroom that match our gender identity

and expression. as our rights continue to be attack in the country and under the federal administration, it is important now more than ever that san francisco continues to be a leader in the movement towards fair and quality rights for all. no one should have to worry about facing the stress of going to the bathroom in the place that they call home, so all gender sro ordinaryians will extend our existing protections and will ensure that our rights are extended to the full community. furthermore, it will increase access for people with disabilities, residents who have caretakers. this resolution is important to make san francisco better. of course we know there's more time to be done, and together we will continue to advance the initiatives, the policies and programs that support a thriving trans and gnc

community here in san francisco. we will work to implement policies like this, future policies and programs that help sustain the livelihoods of our communities. let's make sure that san francisco continues to be the beacon of hope and change that the rest of the country desperately needs right now. depend, thank y again, thank you so much for being here today and for this amazing step forward. i hope you will join us in the work ahead. thank you. [applause]. >> all right. we're going to get to the signing here.

all right. here we go. [applause]. february 14th, 2018. item one, roll call. (roll call)

item two. members of the public may address remarks as the commission as a whole and not individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not allowed to enter into debate. lack of response does not necessarily mean agreement of statements. >> president cleaveland: do i have any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> clerk: approval of the minutes and discussion of possible action to approve the meeting minutes of january 24, 2018. >> president cleaveland: any public comment on the minutes?

seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, what's your pleasure? do i have a second? >> second. >> president cleaveland: all in favor? aye. unanimous, thank you. >> clerk: update on progress of station 49 ambulance deployment facility. anthony rivera, samuel chui and kathleen o'day dpw to make update. >> president cleaveland: good morning chief. >> good morning. assistant deputy chief anthony rivera. we have been working diligently to ensure that this new facility is going to meet the needs and growing needs of our department, so without further adue, i would like to introduce the dpw team,

samuel chui and kathleen o'day, they are gems that have been really helping us in working diligently. samuel chui will give the presentation on the new adf. >> good morning commissioners and president cleaveland. i'm from public works and here with my co-worker kathleen o'day, we're very excited to be here and thank you for inviting us and giving us time to give you an update on the development of the ambulance deployment facility. here on the front is an artist rendition of the new facility. we have completed 95% construction documents at the end of last year. to give a quick reminder and

provide a little context, the premise of the project is to relocate the current functions from 1415 to about one mile northwest to this new site at 2241 gerald avenue. that's the new address, between the two highways in the southeast part of the city. you can see it's on the block here flagged. it's adjacent to fire station 9 and will have access from both streets. this is the site plan, towards the left of the page on this side or the northwest corner of the site you'll see the four

story ambulance deployment facility building that includes a two level parking garage. on the right is fire station 9 and in between is the ambulance parking yard. just to walk you through on logistics, ambulances enter through gerald but can exit gerald or mckenna avenue. the project budget is $48.6 million, roughly divided into the three categories of construction cost at 35.2. project controls 11.2 and other costs at 2.2. we are on schedule to complete the project in august of 2020

the plans are with planning and the review is underway. we expect to complete that process in april of this year so that we can quickly wrap the comments and address the comments in the same month and advertise in april and if goes as planned starting construction of august this year. as part of the plan to help mitigator reduce the schedule duration, we're looking at starting demolition of structures as early as may with a separate contract. so, again, construction will likely start in august of this year and we're looking at a two year construction duration to

completion. it's been an exciting project but not without challenges. we wanted to share a few key challenges and risk on the project. first and foremost is the soil conditions. we're having to mitigate the soils to have a higher volume of hazardous soil offsite to begin construction. and to mitigate the effect of very poor soil structural capacity that's required to construct essential services building and three, to mitigate the effect of corrosive soil on site. and we're anticipating sea level rise and the site has a very high water table. and of course planning, designing and constructing this

building with a narrow street frontage, it's not typical. so there are challenges with that. and the site permit review has taken longer than previously planned. we are speaking with our colleagues at d.b.i. and planning on a daily basis to check in to see if there are questions we can help address or clarify to help facilitate the review. with that, we'll be happy to answer any questions you might have about the project. this by the way is the view -- when you first enter from gerald and arrive at the ambulance yard, this is the view of the four story facility right behind the fueling station canopy, you'll see a canopy attached to the first story of the building, behind that, the warehouse. and a feature of the project is

that you could stock four ambulances at the same time. thank you. >> president cleaveland: thank you. is there any public comment first on the presentation? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners -- chief hayes-white, would you like to add to that? >> chief hayes-white: good morning, i would like to echo what was indicated earlier in the opening remarks, we appreciate the partnership with department of public works. we have a number of projects we're engaged in, this one in particular with samuel and kathleen, they have been excellent to work with, very responsive to what we feel our needs are related to the facility. as you know we're currently making it work out of evans, that was meant to be a temporary site for very dedicated

ambulance and ems division. we're looking forward to getting the project right and getting a facility deserving of the hard work of the men and women at the san francisco fire department. thank you. >> president cleaveland: thank you. commissioners, mr. vice president? >> vice president nakajo: thank you president cleaveland. thank you. in terms of drawing of the facility, we have seen other renditions early in the design, are there anymore slides that have a little more content in terms of what the facility looks like beyond what you just showed? maybe not at this point but at some point? >> absolutely. so as we develop the design, we

could ask the architects to produce other points of the facility and share them with you. >> vice president nakajo: okay. this is very, very exciting. i always seem to say something to the fact that i've been on this commission for a while. what that means, when it comes to different phases of the department, when it comes to our facilities, traditionally you come in here and get familiar with fire stations, so the two bonds and what they provide for our stations are a tremendous important asset to the department and in terms of something like a "new fire station", at least within the participation of my time, i was able to witness the birth of -- design brand new fire stations in terms of -- we call it station four near the ballpark.

the airport station two, brand new facility. it's interesting because after a while you begin to understand traditional stations, like station one, used to be off third street, we went through a growing situation when it moved over to the present site. we're going through a renovation or technically brand new station with 5 and 16. so for us to talk about station 49 and what station 49 is supposed to provide for this commission and for this commissioner, it's a huge, huge big deal. because it goes back to the history of the merge, what the ambulance services to the department have gone through tremendous amount of growing pains through the years. we have personnel numbers and i know cheethe chiefs are all a p of it. i know the facility should have

enough parking for ambulances. you talked about the bay that's going to be able to load up four ambulances at the same time. to the lay people they may not understand that. are you just filling it up with gas -- you know, you're stocking supplies so that the crew can just make a quick turn around in the bay and get the heck back out there in service. the thing about the ambulance in station 49, the men and women who serve in that capacity for years have had rigs as facility or hit a street corner or you're in and out and 49, it grew from what i used to see as a warehouse to an ambulance service to clothing department to arson squad. i mean that station at 49 has gone through so much growth. it's a big old building within the neighborhood so this is

really important. but my questions come later when we can have some more answers, i'm sure there will be enough space for ambulances, personnel, what the configuration looks like and turnaround looks like and i'm assuming scheduling will be a part of it as well at some point in time. thank you for your cooperation in working with us. this is a huge deal moving into our final home for station 49 personnel that is a house for all of us. i'll stop there. thank you mr. president. >> president cleaveland: thank you mr. vice president. commissioner covington. >> commissioner covington: thank you mr. president. thank you mr. chui, miss o' day. can someone tell me the

differences between the current facility and the new one. the top three. >> how much time do you have? (laughter) good morning. chief anthony rivera, i would like to start by saying what vice president nakajo stated in his statement, the current facility is a warehouse and i actually take my hat off to the members of station 49 because they're working in a facility, not designed but able to adapt. the new state of the art facility is designed for our 49ers and a medical facility. there are nuances throughout the building. the ability for four ambulances to get fuel at one time, right now we have two and you have to park them just right. there's a lot of effort that was put in to ensure that this is an

efficient flowing facility that has the minimal of down time. i would say we have multi purpose rooms now in this facility where we can do in-service training. we have areas where it's basically a stand alone and there's not a lot shared with other building. just in design of the parking spaces of ambulances, it's going to be easier for the paramedics to be able to access their vehicles. the way we have the staging area to reload the ambulances is key, which kind of drove the design of the exterior of the building. the ambulance crews will be able to pull in after a shift, gas up for the next crew, very efficiently drive a few more

feet, leave the ambulance for our store keepers to have them restocked. this is hours and hours of going through what if we did this, what if we did that. i think we did a great job as a team, really proud of it. a lot of input from not only the ems side but we presented this to local 798 and took in all their comments and they were pleased with the outcome of the design, the way it's set up, the ver way it's set up. >> commissioner covington: i've been to 49, they have adapted with colorful language in the mix. >> on the construction side, this will be designed and

constructed to meet current seismic codes for an essential services building in san francisco which is high in terms of sustainability and providing a more pleasant work space for not just the paramedics but administrative role as well. certification process by which buildings with a high level of sustainblely designed principles and strategies and construction approaches will get reviewed, credentials and at the end you'll get a plaque, but what's more important, making a difference through construction. it's one of the most wasteful

processes out there. so trying to make sure we're environmentally responsible and providing a better work environment and living environment for the occupants. those are some of the highlights of why the city has decided that all city projects must meet lead gold. >> commissioner covington: i think that's very important. so you said the project is on time. is it on budget? >> so that's a very good question. the original budget or, allocat for the project was 43.5 million. and we're at 48.6. this is within the same bond component of the phs bond, the public health and safety bond. and the top three reasons for

this increase was one, due to an unprecedented unanticipated bidding market we are seeing across all projects and especially on the specialty subtrades and having to mitigate the soils and site conditions at this particular location was extremely difficult. having to now design essential service was enhanced level of structural demand. we are -- we have managed to keep the increase to $5 million but be able to provide the same program we promised the voters. >> commissioner covington: where are you getting the over -- the $5 million from? there's not a shovel in the ground yet. >> as typical with design

projects we check in with cost stim estimators. because of the market, we have two estimators on board and make sure the data points are within reason, that we're not being too ambitious and being real about what it's going to take to construct the facility in this very heated market. to answer, that's where we're estimating the overage increase. >> i think the answer to the question, we're obtaining the $5 million from the current fire station fund. but at the end of the project, whatever funding is left over or that we get back will go into our neighborhood fire station bond fund. >> commissioner covington: okay. i wondered how it related to the

bond. i would like to ask our financial director if he has anything to add regarding the funding for this project? and the sources there of. everyone is very excited about the project. this has been a long time coming, so -- >> good morning commissioners. finance and planning, not too much to add, we're working closely with dpw on both sides. the chief mentioned the potential funding of projects to cover the $5 million and working to identify savings elsewhere throughout the bond program to see if for chance the funds are used for the ambulance facility, we could recoup the projects in other fashion. some has come through bond

savings in other programs. it's not directly transferrable across bond programs but overall scope of projects we don't anticipate it being an issue going forward. >> commissioner covington: thank you. well, i am so looking forward to the ribbon cutting. thank you mr. president. i don't have any other questions at this time. >> president cleaveland: thank you. mr. vice president, you have an additional comment. >> vice president nakajo: an additional question. you were saying that the completion is projected in two years and demolition is scheduled to occur in may. so the demolition in may is already budgeted and ready to go? >> it is budgeted, we are currently working with our public works unit on site abatement and remediation group to get pricing on the early scope. our plan, if we can take the

scope outside of the main construction contract, it would save money and time. and so, to answer your question, yes, we're planning to start abatement and demolition of may of this year. >> vice president nakajo: chief, anything with that? >> the site itself has been challenging, we found out through the environmental report there's a lot of hazardous soil issues and two structures on the area, we have the hazardous materials report, very high levels of asbestos and we have consulted with our in-house tony boom. so it's going to be a bit of a challenge and i met with the members of station 9 yesterday but we'll remove the two buildings and get rid of the hazard and prepare for

construction as samuel state stated in may. i think it's exactly what commissioner covington stated, we're very excited and moving forward and it's a new phase for the fire department and ems facility. >> vice president nakajo: i know you were saying about three years from now terms of the whole process, 2020 -- >> summer of 2020 completed. >> summer of 2020. >> summer of love. >> vice president nakajo: i only say that, to the right and left, the three commissioners will be here in the next phase, two of us old timers on the left side -- >> god willing. >> vice president nakajo: serving our term in january of 2020 and we'll see how the wind

blows at that particular time. it would be nice -- (laughter) if we are present in the completion of this historical building or we'll have to use our influence and be invited as guests. thank you for that and the presentation. i'm assuming we'll have a ceremony when we're ready to put the shovels in the dirt? i like putting my name on the beam. thank you. thank you mr. president. >> president cleaveland: thank you mr. vice president. commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: i don't really have many comments, through your presentation, this is a great morale booster for all the folks who work at 49. nice to look forward to this over the years for people who have to work out of there.

is there anything chief, you're the head honcho over there when this opens up, probably at that time you'll probably still be in charge, you never know. like commissioner nakajo says, the way the tides blow and with all the elections and everything who knows. but, it would be a great thing to look forward to. and i agree with vice president nakajo, signing the beam would be a fun thing to do. anything that you as the person that's going to be the grand marshal of the event maybe, tell us what you think about this? any particular -- >> like we were all saying, we're very excited about this. as far as we understand it, it's the only deployment facility inside a fire department in the state of california. most other fire departments have individual fire stations, similar to what we had many

years ago. we're the only one that's going to have a facility designed and built specifically for rapid deployment and turn around of ambulances. definitely to the chief and commission, thank you for that. it's under your guidance we have gotten this far and look forward to the completion of the project. dpw is doing a fantastic job, totally responsive to every request we have to make the building work for us and couldn't do it without the chief. one of the questions you had, what is different between station 49, the old and new one, it is designed for rapid turnaround of the vehicles. stocking, the supply area is going to be completely different. the supervisor's office will have views of the yard and ambulances while restocking to figure out who is next to go out, how to move the units along much faster. the repair facilities for the bio med to repair the

defibrillators, very important pieces of equipment on the ambulances, the area is being designed for repair of the devices. we're not trying to fit square pegs in round holes. it's going to be a fantastic building and fantastic for our membership and it has room to grow in it and it will be designed to have plenty of room for everybody. >> commissioner hardeman: thank you for your comments. >> president cleaveland: thank you commissioner hardeman and thank you for the report. we're all excited to see new station 49. it's been a long time coming. i would like to remember and thank former mayor ed lee who put this in the health department's bond a few years ago. that's why we have the money to build the new facility. hats off to former mayor ed lee. i had a question of questions on technical issues, you can't use tilt up, is that right? it would not be seismic or is that right?

>> for this building we are not using tilt up. i've seen it still used for non essential service buildings around -- >> president cleaveland: it can be seismically safe or not? i'm just asking. >> it can be. it can be done. >> president cleaveland: but not here. >> no. >> president cleaveland: why not have a general contractor hired at the beginning and have them get the excavation and demolition and all that through subcontractors? >> i think that decision is driven by time. we would not be able to bid out for a contractor until we have the permits reviews complete and drawings complete. we would like to advertise with the complete set of designs. but ahead of that, we -- >> president cleaveland: you want to get the demo out. >> exactly. and this allows not to have a mock up on the demolition.

>> president cleaveland: do you have to look at the soils before demo? >> in this case, abatement of the buildings being demolished, i don't think -- >> the first phase of demo is just going to be the abatement and demmiolition of existing buildings. and then when the larger construction project starts and they start to do excavation, they'll do testing of the soil and determine whether we can bury it underneath our paving in the lot which we hope to do a lot of and some may have to be -- >> president cleaveland: why is the soil so contaminated? >> it's the area of fill in the city. that whole area of our city, people have dumped things over the years. that's part of the problem. people buried things. people used to throw their garbage and bury it.

>> president cleaveland: you might discover something historical? (laughter) >> yeah. >> president cleaveland: hope not. are you doing lead silver or gold? >> it's designed for lead gold. >> president cleaveland: thank you and thank you for the presentation. madam secretary, would you call the next item? >> clerk: overview of the early warning system, presentation from the department of emergency management michael dayton on the current system and future warning systems. >> president cleaveland: welcome mr. dayton. >> good morning president cleaveland, good to see you, good morning commissioners and chief. it's a pleasure to be here and look forward to reporting on the alert system. i would like to introduce anna who oversees the program