that we are named as also insured on the policy. >> absolutely. that's the whole reason for us to be here today is actually have someone that's sponsoring the facility. >> right. >> great. >> and i'm sure that you thought of the indemnification. >> pardon me? >> i'm sure you have the indemnification language in the lease. >> yes. >> and that would protect tida and the community itself. >> of course. >> okay. can we have public comment? is there anybody who would like to address the board on this issue before we take action? if you could come up. >> okay. i found out that there was a skate park there, and it didn't have approval from the board, right? so there's something existing already on the island that doesn't have approval from the board, and it looks like it was done by do-it-yourselfers, you

know, that people were just trying to help the community, not hurt the community. i mean, unless you put explosives underneath them, we should all be fine. so i hope that you consider having a skate park somewhere safe on the island where we know it's all clear, and we know that there's, like, people that get paid to say this is actually safe for young men and women. so any ways, i do think this is a great idea. however, we should probably see what's going on and who's doing it. thank you. >> thanks. anybody else from the public? hearing none, the -- we've got a motion and a second. all those in favor say aye? all those opposed? the ayes have it. thank you. >> thank you. >> clerk: item number eight, resolution approving and endorsing an option lease agreement between the treasure island development authority and the chinatown community development center to provide an option with a term of three

years with an extension option of six months to lease parcels d 3.2 for the development of low income housing. >> who's speaking on this item? >> i am. sorry. okay. while i'm waiting for the powerpoint to come up, i wanted to recognize that leon winston with source of plow shares with here, and i have a few slides on the background for this item and then ask leon to come up and say a few words, as well. so what we're proposing today is an option to lease for parcel c-3.2, which is an r-1sub phase of development between tida and sourceable outshares. just on background, as board members know, but members of the public may not be aware,

the treasure island navel stati navial station was selected for closure in 1993, and in 1994, the island entered into a base housing initiative, now known as one treasure island to develop a portion of the affordable housing on the island. and included in member agencies of one treasure island are community housing partnership, catholic charities, source 360, and other entities such as rubicon and toolworks. in the 2011 program entitlement and transaction documents, one of the exhibited to the dda was the housing plan, which set out the framework for the development of the affordable housing on the island.

under the housing plan ticd, treasure island community development is to develop 5% of the unit they develop are required to be inclusionary affordable units, and the balance of the 27% affordable that we are targeting are going to be constructed by tida on -- in partnership, of course with the mayor's office of housing and community development on 20 parcels that were identified throughout the development area. also in the housing plan, it sets forth that tida will partner with one treasure island to develop a minimum of 435 of those units, and this first parcel that we're moving forward with, c-3.2 is on avenue c on the west side of

the island, and we proposed for sometime that it be developed by source of plow shares. part of the reason for that is the availability of veterans housing and homelessness presentation funding that will allow us to move forward with this project than if that funding were not available to us. but also, i think, importantly recognizing the history of the island as a military base and making these housing opportunities available to our veterans. source of plow shares is partnering with chinatown community development center on this project, and they've secured their predev loan from mohcd and have started conversations with the planning department. in terms of our timing, coming to you today, we anticipate

that a notice of funding availability will be coming out for bipt funding this spring, and as part of their application, applicants must demonstrate site control through a ground lease or an option to lease, and that's really driving our timing in coming to you today. so key terms, the option would run for three years through the end of fiscal year 2021. it does have an optional extension term of six months at the optionee's request. the form of the ground lease would be substantial in the form used in mohcd for affordable housing projects throughout the city. the lease would be for a 99-year term, and it does clarify that tax and assessment

responsibilities would be the responsibility of the tenant, as well as the construction and operating costs. the property would, of course, be for affordable housing development. tida would retain the fee title to the land and the optionee source in this case would have fee fight will title to all of during the lease, and at the end of the lease, it would vest back to tida without the need for a deed being recorded. so those are the key terms, but i'll vitally ontocome invite ld say a few words and answer your questions. >> good afternoon, directors, leon winston, executive

director for seeds to "politico" shares. very excited to be here on what's been a decades long effort to really plug in the transformation of treasure island to the navy basis it was. so -- so it's indeed a milestone. it will allow us to apply for the chhp funding, which really will go a long ways in funding the gap and allow this project to move forward. we are in the process of doing schematic design, which we hope to show you before too long. excellent work being done by the architects, methune and solomon. we're excited to be here, and i'm happy to answer any questions that you have. >> great. yes. linda? >> yes, sir. and i want to thank you for your leadership and excellent work over the years with the

source and plow share. one of the key terms here is the veterans housing and homelessness prevention, and i would like to see that even embedded in that resolution so that average person out there can know about the outstanding work here for us is also great to the community at large in that we are not only meeting the requirement by fast tracking the homelessness for veterans here working on treasure island, so this is a no brainer for us, and it's really great, and this could be a model throughout. treasure island had all these provisions making it a very wonderful, one of its kind development, and so i would move to approve. and chinatown development corporation is the leader in affordable housing and well respected, fortunately for all of us here, wearing all the

hats in the community, it's on record of assisting and supporting the chinatown, so we like to have them be able to do more. thank you. >> mike? >> just a brief comment of saying this is so great. we have been working and laboring on this -- not me specifically for decades, but gosh, it's been a while for me, even. and that things are actually being talked about being built, that things that give support of housing, that -- you know, an incredible organization like yours, this is just -- i think it's a wonderful moment, and i'll be looking forward to watching that building and perhaps others going up with this kind of housing, so supportive housing and -- so thank you. thank you for all you do, and i'm thrilled.

thanks. >> thank you. >> okay. sam, did you want to make a comment or question? >> karen, did you have a question? >> hi. thank you for being here. are there any supportive services that are earmarked for this development? >> yes, there are. we already have an allocation of 44 hud vash doctors which are section 8 doctors tied to supportive services, so there will be va staff attach today that. we are also moving our existing residents in there who have services. we have subsidies moving in there, we have 24 of our existing residents in that program, and a number of our existing households are hud vash households, so they already have va case

management, but we will be bringing more services to the property, and we're still working on that. but there is a 25:1 case manager to resident ratio in the hut vas 1h, at least initially, and we have a 25:1 ratio for the work that we do ourselves. >> okay. and it sounds like the va related services are provided by sources to plow share. are there other services that would be provided by other entities? >> no, not at this site. there will be hud vash case workers. we have space for them to meet with residents on-site. we provide -- we sort of hold the clinical envelope for the island. we have the program manager --

we're there 24-7, our staff are on call 24-7. the va is there during business hours. it works well together the partnership. >> that sounds great. i'm certainly very supportive of any supportive services that you can build into the program. it's critically important to the success of this development to have on-site services and case managers and space to that for even just group recvational type of uses. i'm sure you're working on that as you have in the past on other projects. i do have a question for staff, i think i saw in the lease that it said the use is specifically for housing, so is it okay that we don't also specifically mention the for services, and is that consistent, like, fine with the d for d? >> yeah, it is consistent with the d for d. i'll take another look at the

language, but i think the services would be consideredneconsidere considered ancillary to the housing, but i'll take a look at that. >> okay. and one question about the rents. does that commence at the execution of the option agreement or at the actual start of those -- i guess i don't know when -- >> on occupancy. >> on occupancy? okay. >> yeah. >> okay. thank you. >> yes, mike. [ inaudible ] >> let me just say that i am so pleased to have you here today. this is just the first formal action that we've taken on a specific project, and it is the start of the affordable housing project that will go on on treasure island, so we're really pleased to see you, and it is this vision of permanently affordable housing, not in the private market. it's done by nonprofits, and --

and that collaboration between source to "politico" share and the chinatown community development center, i know that you've done great projects before at 1510 2id s. we just had a great breaking in mission way, and i think that's an example of a collaboration between two nonprofits, one which provides the great social services, the other provides the housing development capablities, and it's the type of collaboration that we would like to see. so i would also like to say that this is an important site because it's going to be the first development together with the other one which mercy will be doing, which will be on a very important street for treasure island. it's the shared street, which is a concept which all of our urban design and our architects and our staff really fought to

have, and we want to ensure its success, and the way that it's going to be successful is if there's active uses along that street. so we are very interested in the design. you've got a great architectural team. methune and solomon are one of the best architects of housing, affordable, but we want to hear what those ideas are and make sure that you come back to us as you develop those design concepts and the concepts for the project because we can give you our insight. but very, very pleased to have you today. before we take action on the board, i would like to open it up to the public. are there any members of the public who would like to address the board. >> hi. i'm sherry williams with one treasure island. source to plow shares is one of our charter members, and let me

just echo some of your statements about how wonderful -- this is really a milestone. when you're doing this work for decades, and you finally see site control for affordable housing that serves veterans, i just think we should take a moment and really celebrate it because it is exactly what we've all been working towards for such a long time. they've provided hundreds of people already on treasure island a place to heal. one of the things that we always thought as one of our key members was that, you know, treasure island being a former military base, folks that had been trained for war and sent to war now have a place to come back to heal and rebuild their lives, and they've been in the process of rebuilding hundreds of people's lives since they've been operating their housing on treasure island, and now they're going to be doing it in a permanent new development, the very first affordable on the island, and i'm just so happy to see this come to fruition, and of course

we'renthusiastically supporting this action. >> any others. >> thank you for listening today. my concern is there's not enough room for the veterans housing for people with families. there's only one or two bedrooms available for people in the current existing state, so from what i understood, it was targeted towards older people, but there's no room for families. like, i mean, i have two children right now. i live in a -- i live in a two-bedroom home on chanette court, and it's not enough, because i probably want to have another child, i want to be stable, i want to have somewhere for me to grow into, and right now all they're concerned about is people that are -- in a senior state or

they're developmentally disabled or there's something going on, not really developmentally. but they've been maybe i n inoculated with something, so for seniors, but not with families. so if there's a space that could be made for active veterans that have maybe a family of three or more. even if it's just a very small percentage, like, 10% that's available for families that need at least three bedrooms. so if i have three children as a female, i can't live in a two bedroom and a big closet. i need at least a three bedroom and a front room so i can sleep in the front room and the children can have their space. so i'd like for you to consider maybe expanding on what you currently have made, and then

make it better. thank you. >> let me just say that we have a broad housing program, and the fact is affordable housing that will be for families, as well. that is certainly the -- there's -- there's different groups that do different types of housing, and certainly, there will be one. thank you. are there any other comments? yeah, no, i'm sorry. we have a motion -- we have a motion and a second. all those in favor, say aye. all those opposed. the ayes have it. thank you. next item, please. >> item number nine, resident relocation advisory consultations update. >> so while we're waiting for the powerpoint to come up, we provided an update last month, and we -- following the -- the open house that we'd had on

january 20th, and today, i wanted to give you an update on the progress that -- that arws has made in -- you know, in engaging with existing residents on consultations on what their benefits are and what their options will be in the future. so although we're about four years away from our -- from the project that we -- we just discussed being ready for occupancy, we do want to start the process of engaging the pre-dda market rate households in the discussion about what their rights and benefits are so that we can -- we can inform the construction of our affordable projects as they come forward. so we had the january community meeting. we've been conducting the household interviews and our

intention is may-june of this year to be issuing letters of eligiblity to residents. as i mentioned at the -- previously at our open house, out of our roughly 200 potentially eligible households, we had 155 residents representing 113 eligible households attend in the breakdown of those households, we have some households that hold section 8 vouc vouchers, and so they will automatically be qualified to take affordable units as we build them, and then 170% potentially over income households for which we'll need to build transition units, as well, although some of them maybe will qualify for affordable units, and part of what we're hoping to learn through these discussions with residents.

so as of last saturday, arws had completed 94 interviewed, so not quite half of the pre-dda households, and they have an additional 18 scheduled for saturday, the 23rd, or saturday, the 24th. and we did have -- we had 11 no shows or missed appointments, and follow up with those households, as well as reaching out to other households to sign up. we originally were taking appointments on tuesdays, fridays, and saturdays, but the demand has been overwhelmingly for saturdays, so that's what we're focused on now, and we plan to continue the consultations through the end of april. so now, part of our communication will be where it had been more open-ended, we're really trying to get people in by the end of april and following up with phone calls and door knocking to get people

engaged. and if necessary, conduct the -- the conversation in -- in the resident's households. and as i mentioned, it -- following -- after the interviews, we plan to send letters to each of the participating households summarizing our kind of joint understanding of household status, eligiblity and benefit options so that we have, you know, a clear record of at this moment in time where -- where households stand for both the households and for our records. the -- some of the feedback that -- or things that we've learned through the interviews we've had to date, there is a great interest in home ownership opportunities with more than 60% of households indicating an interest in home ownership which could either be market rate or inclusionary for

sale affordable home ownership. some -- some interest, roughly one in eight, have expressed an interest in the in lieu payment, and asked about when that benefit might become available. and then, there's been some discussions about the complexities of urban housing options, some interest from multifamily households in splitting households at some point, rather than remaining roommates in perpetuity. and then also some discussion in how changes of number of household members affects the size of the tran transitioning unit that would be offered to a household. i'll go into a little more depth on the first three of those, just kind of highlighting some issues that we're evaluating and may come

back down the road for additional discussion with board members on. in the home ownership area, one treasure island had been in discussion to plan a home buyer workshop. originally they were looking at january but with us initiating this process, they had scheduled that out to may, so this is a first time home buyers' workshop that's open to all households, pre-dda, post-dda or tidi households, one treasure island households, so help inform them of what it will take to qualify to buy a home and to help them with some of the financial planning and some of the other aspects of that. as you see here, it's a three-part workshop series, but in addition, we're working with

san francisco housing development corporation to have an april meeting in advance of those, particularly, again, trying to target those pre-dda villages households to give them additional information on the down payment assistance benefits that are available under the thr and r's and also give them more understanding of the income certification requirements to qualify for an inclusionary affordable unit. on the in lieu opportunities, the -- when the thr and res were being drafted back in 2010, the public comment that was taken in through that process led us to have an early in lieu provisions within the

thr and r's. the thr and r's don't establish a specific time frame for that, but looking back on the records of the public meetings and the presentation of the tida board, the presentation was around that potential five to eight years following the execution of the dda, and even when you consider the roughly three-plus year delay that we had for the ceqa litigation, we're entering the front end of that window. when you take out that, we're about to leave the back end of that window. so i think we may be recommending that sometime in the near future, potentially next fiscal year, we make an early offer to households that won't be able to stay through the development of a replaceme replacement unit, but subject to further conversation. on the affordable housing

options, you know, there's -- there's a lot to cover with the residents on what it takes to be qualified, but one thing that is kind of clear in the way that the thr and r's were drafted, they--they're drafted with the assumption that if someone could potentially qualify for an affordable unit, they would certainly pursue it. and those -- so that under the thr and r's, the default for failing to qualify for an affordable unit or complete the paperwork for an affordable unit is that you're given an overincome unit. so -- but you know, it's not -- the decision of whether to pursue an affordable unit or a market rate unit is more nuanced than just do i qualify

for a lower rent because you may also be offered a different number of bedrooms if you're moving into an affordable unit. so people are sometimes trying to make very significant choices with obviously long-term implications for the household, depending on what they choose. and so we're looking at that, and also, some people might choose not to pursue an affordable unit because of the disclosures involved in the income recertification, recertification processes. but then, also, you know, depending on the composition of a household, they might qualify for an affordable rental unit or they might qualify for an affordable unit, but because those are priced with households as different percentages of area median

income, people won't typically -- well, would not be able to be making a choice between an affordable for rent or an affordable for sale, they'll be making a choice between their inclusionary -- or their transition unit under the thr and r's and an affordable rental or an affordable for purchase option. and also, you know, just to highlight again that for those that do pursue the affordable for sale, they are eligible for the down payment assistance, just as households pursuing a market rate for sale unit would be under the thr and r's. so these are some of the kind of issues that were -- have kind of come to the surface and we're evaluating what potential policy recommendations we may make down the road related to these. so going forward, as i mentioned, we're going to be continuing our outreach to try

and complete as many consultations by the end of april as we can. at this point, you know, i think we're trying to learn -- to get a good sense of the community and the range of interests and preferences, and a representation of, you know numbers of households that may be qualified for affordable housing and so forth. so if we don't get to 100%, but if we can get to 75 or 80, i think we'll consider ourselves successful at this point. and then, we'll continue to review those results with the board at the may and june meetings, possibly with, as i mentioned, some policy recommendation going forward, including potentially extending the in lieu. and again, during that same time frame, after we've completed the consultations issuing the summary letters

back to the households to give them the memorialize where the current status of each household is. with that, i'll take your questions. >> thank you. >> i -- just one sort of -- just my personal experience with being called to do the survey, and as you probably know, it's a very political time, also, and i'm getting i don't know how many calls a day, you know, about one candidate or another candidate or something like that, and i do believe i was called by somebody -- you know, somebody doing that for just sitting the tida work. and i -- you didnhe didn't rea

explain initially what he was calling about, so i just assumed it was some meddlesome call from a politician or something, so i did what i always do. i'm sorry. i'm really busy. call me later, hang up. but now, i realize that was probably somebody i should have talked to, so perhaps if they could state clearly at the very beginning what they are calling about, it would be helpful. it would be nice if i could just listen to everybody who calls, but it doesn't work that way. but i would certainly give them a lot of time because it's great work and it's very important, as you pointed out. so it's just one more step towards the final re-christening of the two islands, so thank you. >> thank you, bob, for the update and show us that we're

moving along. some questions at the last board meetings and the one before that, i asked the consultant to make sure he have a timeline that can be more or less like an ex-set spreadsheet. for instance, if you look at the first slide that you provided, and you put your circle for the meeting, your presentation is absolutely great. it has -- it had the supporting documents, but i think we're going to get to a point after we've exhausted and doing everything that we're doing. the outreach is going to come to place, all these meetings are going to come to place. so we're going to have all those meetings, rather than see it at the back, let's see it up front now. let's see the consultant, sfhdc go to the way of the committee

meetings, and be there, it needs to be transparent, it needs to be obvious so that when someone comes in and says, they are not at any meeting, they do not have any time, then, that proceeded sheet will be available, we can send it to all the stakeholders. i'm speaking from experience now. i'd like to see that. those workshops in home ownership, that is a given. i'd like to say that. the second thing you mentioned, and in the outreach, are we just limiting the outreach to also 30 people on the island, you know, the main land, and sfhdc when they sent out, how did this outreach, this combination of the stakeholders that we're reaching out, are they solely the population that we're targeting or are other folks also being invited to

this meeting? for me, i'd like the clarification. and also, some of the concerns that you mentioned has to do with splitting households, i didn't really know how to qualify that. sometimes we really need to know what are they talking about here, you know, what do they mean by splitting households, any of these issues. and i know that we talk about the guidelines, it's part of what all these workshops are all about, specific guidelines that we have development over the years that right now should be a template as we're conducting all these workshops so that before we even get to the selection, the residents really know what we are talking about here. we need to have that template be present at every, every meeting, workshop, and opportunity, so that when we get to work in april, another month, then, the residents themselves will know we can do

decisions for them, but either-or, and at that time we're ready to move to june or whatever, let's pull that altogether and make sure we already have that and all the implications, impacted to make those decisions and we also have a timeline to move all those things forward. thank you. >> thank you, linda. paul, did you have a comment? >> very similar to linda's coms. you know, -- comments. at first blush, i thought oh, we've only reached half of the folked in consultation, and i think it makes a lot of sense. but my concern is when this period closes that we don't get folks saying hey, i was never offered that opportunity or i didn't understand what my opportunity was. and i imagine some folks are saying like you pointed out, i don't want to disclose

information. i'm not interested. is there some kind of documentation that says they don't want a consultation or they're not interested for whatever reason they might have? >> yeah. we will be following up with households, and if people delaine to decline to be interviewed at that time, that's certainly their option. we've opened up a resource center in one of the vacant units in the island, so this phase of it is really to have staff available conducting it on a sunday, as we did last weekend, conducting 16 interviews on a saturday so that, you know, that kind of intense availability, you know, we will continue to have arws under contract for five years, and you know, we can always make people available for phone interviews or, you know, if

there are additional requests coming in, schedule periodically a saturday where we get a number of requests built up and we'll schedule a time on island, but it was kind of this intensive outreach will come to a close, but we'll continue to engage with residents and make opportunities available to them. but like i saed, trying to capture as much as we can in this window. also, to director richardson's questions, in working with the san francisco housing development corporation, and their conversations with tidi and scheduling this event, they really wanted us to demonstrate that we can fill an event like this in terms of having one on the island as opposed to requiring island residents to go to one somewhere else in the city. so initially, the outreach is -- an enrollment is limited

to the island because we are trying to demonstrate that we can fill it with island residents. it will play into the factor of whether we choose to have another one on the identifies land. but yeah, if we get to may and things have not filled up, we would open up the enrollment to a larger part of the city. in terms of splitting households, there's kind of two common scenarios. one is that a lot of households on the islands are roommate situations. you have disparate individuals who have been living together in a roommate situation for more than a decade and they're trying to look towards the future at some point not being roommates. in other situations, we have households where we had a family with -- with some cases

young children that are now adults, and they're wondering about potential opportunities for splitting into multiple households, so those are kind of the situations that we have, where, you know, a household is -- is interested at some point in having multiple glowing options. >> yes. >> quick suggestion. i know that on our tida landing page, there's usually some shortcuts to a couple of things, like upcoming events or featured. i couldn't find a spot to connect to this, a transition. could we put this somewhere promine prominent? it's great that we're trying to communicate to people, but there is a contingent that will come to us, as well, so i think

it will help if it's prominently displayed on our page. >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> are there any other questions by the board? thank you very much for that update, bob, and so this is not an action item. next item, please. >> is there any public comment on item number nine? item number ten, discussion and future agenda items by directors. >> do directors have any? yes, sharon. >> yes, thank you. so myself and actually another director have joined not long ago, and i understand there's been a lot of work done on a couple topics that i would request to see if we can get an update on the board. i would defer to the president on the timing of it and whether it's appropriate at the full board or perhaps at asub committee. the two items that i'm

interested in, one is an update on the status of the ferry, where things are with that, how are discussions going with mtc. and then, secondly, maybe an updata's well as a refresher on the toll conversations and some of the assumptions that were put into the thinking when this was last before the board. >> i think we can certainly do that. >> yeah. >> both the ferry, and it would be weda, the agency that governs the ferry operations. >> yeah. it would probably be tima for both of these as this point. >> yeah. >> tima has been working with whta on a potential operating agreement, but right now, it would still be with tima. >> so if we could have an

update on those items it would be helpful to the full board. >> it might be may. next month we've already got a full agenda, but i'll look at may-june and work with tim on timing. >> comments or questions? hearing none, i think -- >> adjourn. >> yes. meeting adjourned. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>streets.

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>> hello, everyone. welcome to public works tv. i'm edgar. executive director of public works and city architect. before we get started, let's take a look at the events of this week. >> this week at public works, we launched our 18th pit stop in the 9th neighborhood. this lower polk location is next to mcaulay park. we came together with other contractors to strengthen communications by discussing processes, expectations and opportunities of working in the city. our construction management and materials testing lab partnered with central concrete to test a new product on the roads in the inner sunset. this product recycles wet unused concrete back to the plant where it is mixed with another batch and additive for reuse on other projects. our crews were on cargo way,

paving a protected bike lane to make sure cyclists have a smooth ride. >> today, we're at beautiful city hall in san francisco. as many know, san francisco city hall is one of the finest examples of architecture. what you may not know about city hall is in this current location, this is the 5th city hall that san francisco built. it was built after the earthquake. the building took roughly two years to build. and the voters approved the bond for $8 million. to buy the land and build the building. the construction total around $3.5 million. imagine that in today's dollars. for $3.5 million the city was able to build this magnificent building in record time. the city hall was damaged in the 1989 earthquake. public works was to restore and seismically upgrade the

building. we had a team of consultants and architects, city architects, engineers who worked on the project. our role was to define the scope of the renovations and do a full seismic upgrade and modernization. there is very tricky things about city hall you will enjoy observing when you come back. one of the most fascinating things about city hall, it's base isolated. what that means is the weight of the building, every column, was placed on a base ice later. this is a quarter size base isolator. it has two large plates of steel at the top and the bottom. and the middle is made up like a cake. layers of rubber and layers of steel. and when there is earthquake, the energy is dissipated through the rubber and the steel plates. so this is connected to the ground. and this is connected to the building. and the building will experience

a lesser magnitude earthquake as the ground will. so while you may come up the front stairs of city hall many times, something you may not have noticed, these are floating stairs. they're not connected to the ground because the building is base isolated. the concept is in case of earthquake, if there is movement, the building moves separate from the ground, so the stairs can move in any direction up to 24 inches. this represents the maximum distance that the building is expected to move in case of earthquake. this is a flex joint that allows the building to move. so the building has a mote. i don't know if you noticed that. on this concept of base isolation in case of massive earthquake and you were here, you could see the building coming close to you and moving away. when you're down stairs at the light courts, you have this

beautiful glowing amount of light that comes in. what we did for the renovation, we remove metal deck and concrete put here. nobody really knows, but the stories that i heard, during the war, they wanted to darken city hall to make sure we wouldn't have amounts of light glowing. we consulted with a party planner when we were doing this, how people might set up the space for events. and they told us that at the two ends, you would have a band. so the rigging points we put in can carry 2000 pounds of weight, which is equivalent to a full-sized car. and that's meant for carrying speakers, equipment and have bands that set up on either side of the light courts. that happens also on the north light court as well. the other scopes of work included how to modernize city hall. we ended up putting emergency generators for backup power.

we put miles and miles of cable to allow for internet connections. as you know, the building was built over a 100 years ago and it had not received any major upgrade to modernize it. today, when you walk through city hall, you see the grand you're of a building of baroque style, but it has the style of modern building. we had to add ramps to make it ada compliant. there was no way of having somebody be able to go from the second floor to the board percent. so we needed to add those ramps. these lights, they're replicas that were fabricated in the south of france where the original lights came from. the steel pieces that you see that are red in color, that's

the primer. and that's how you can differentiate the new steel that was put as part of the seismic upgrade versus the historic structure. one of the biggest challenges of doing the work at this level was how to get these pieces of steel. because there is not a lot of room as you can tell. i remember seeing workers with the little rig that they had, trying to get the steel in place. you had a connect it, get it into this tight spaces and do the welding. [ ♪ ] >> we're at the top of the dome area in city hall. enjoying this gorgeous view that is uninterrupted and giving us a clear view of san francisco. at city hall, looking at the historic details of the building in contrast with the modern buildings that are going up in san francisco.

it's a very special place to be. and we're very proud of our city hall. i'm edgar lopez, thanks for watching public works tv. >> i am devon, i keep sf on budget. i am public works. >> all right. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. my apologies for starting committee late this morning. it is 10:22. i would like to call this meeting to order and welcome you to the budget and finance committ committee. our friends at sf governor tv, jesse larson and mya hernandez are assisting us. and