or lease. so, just a reminder of the a.c.a., as you know, redevelopment law limits the amount of money that an agency can spend on its own administration. post dissolution, the majority of our funds are supposed to be spent on direct expenditures, enforceable obligations or wind down activities. and state statute says that we look at the prior year's distribution of property tax. subtract the administrative costs from that year, and then multiply by 3%, and that tells the agency the amount that it can spend on operations in the budget year. and this year, that's 4.6 million. so, i'm sure that you have noticed that in a $16.3 million operating budget, $4.6 million does not cover that entire budget, and so obviously we have to identify other sources to cover those costs. and this pie chart exemplifies

that. funded 4.7 by property tax, administrative purpose, 5.8 for property tax directly related to funding our enforceable obligations, and then $5.6 million of other funds which again are primarily developer reimbursement and lease revenues. so, what that means is we allocate all of our operating -- about 50% of our operating, a little less than 50% of our operating costs out across other cost centers in order to maintain within the state statute of the $4.6 million in administrative costs. on the uses side, like most government entities, the vast majority is related to staff, current staff expenditure or expenditure on retiree health and pension. from a budgeting perspective, what that means is a very large part of our operating budget is not discretionary.

we have already obligated ourselves to either the retiree health or the pension obligations that we have promised to employees in the past and the majority of salaries and benefits we anticipate spending next year are for staff already with the agency. so, what that means is that on any given year, there's a limited level of discretion for spending funds and we are very large largely funding what we had funded in the prior year. in terms of labor, $8.6 million on existing staff, salaries and benefits, 55 full-time employees and two limited term appointments. our two limited term appointments are partner employees who are retirees from either the former redevelopment agency or from the city who wish to be working on a limit term assignment.

as part of our 55 f.t.e.s, we are converting one as needed f.t.e. into a full-time f.t.e. we, at last year's budget presentation, the commission expressed a desire for more administrative support for the agency and all though we were not able to do that this year, we are doing it this year by converting this as needed position to a full-time position. it's a senior office assistant position. did that in response to commission feedback from last year and we are also converting five limited term assignment positions to five f.t.e. positions. that means limited term assignment is assignment at the time of hiring a designated end to the position. but in the two years since we have hired these staff we have realized that the work that they were hired to do is an on -- it was not a brief surge but in fact, an ongoing need to provide resources to continue moving our

projects forward so all those positions have been converted to full-time positions. as i said before, we'll be sending $3.5 million on retiree health and pension obligations. $1.4 billion for current retiree health benefits. $8 million to reduce our long-term retiree health benefit liability and $1.3 million to reduce our long-term pension liability. and what is significance about both of those payments towards our long-term liability, we are making, through analysis, the retirement program identifies the dollar amount we have to pay today to ensure that we'll have enough money 30 years from now to pay the retirement benefits for every employee that has ever gone through r.d.a. or o.c.i.i., or who will be with o.c.i.i., so making a significant contribution towards keeping that promise well into the future, and a lot of government agencies are not able to do that, so we are in a really

fortunate position that we are able to pay 100% of the amount that is required to make our retirement pension plan and retirement health plan solvent well into the future. on the nonlabor side, spending $4.2 million on a variety of nonlabor expenses. i wanted to highlight that we will be spending $1.2 million with o.c.d. they do construction monitoring for us and facilitates marketing and lease-up of the affordable housing projects. $100,000 set aside for public communications which could come in the form of website redesign and professional, and technology to support that. key highlights. on the debt budget, for fiscal year 18-18, $140.7 million.

as you can see from this chart, the vast majority of that 109.8 million is spent on debt service for the existing tax allocation bonds. and those again are funded by property tax, a major driver of our budget. we do plan to issue three bonds in the next, in the coming fiscal year. one mission bay housing bond, would fund gap financing for mission bay six west and mission bay nine. one bond affordable housing project at candlestick .11a, and mission bay infrastructure point issued for, to fund the developer at mission bay for the costs. and come back to commission at the time of issuance to get approval for those actions. a lovely picture of the shipyard project area, as it is envisioned to be, according to

the redesign. budget for shipyard is $170.9 million. as you well know, shipyard is our least mature project area and so it makes sense that most of the expenditure is related to planning and design services and that most are funded by developer reimbursement. o.c.i.i. works directly with all of the various either outside consultants or city departments who perform planning and design review and then we bill the developer for those expenditures and are reimbursed for those costs. so, all of that money will be going towards review, design and approval of infrastructure parks and vertical development, following the approval of the shipyard redesign. continuing to work on receiving land conveyances, of course, we'll continue to monitor our community benefits, our work

force compliance, and manage our grants and coordinate with city departments to do all those things. and here is a picture of mission bay north and south. and our budget for mission bay is a proposed $263 million, this budget combines both mission bay north and south together. this is our most mature project area. at a phase as you can see from the photographs, the area is largely built out, and so we are really in a phase where we are building, meeting our last affordable housing and our development obligations and of course, building the warrior stadium, and so we are doing a lot of work in the design and planning area for those projects, and doing a lot of work to issue bonds to reimburse the developer for all the infrastructure over the last 20 years, to make all the development you saw on that photograph possible. so, you can see that bonds are

the largest source for mission bay and most expenditure related to infrastructure. next year in mission bay we will work on the golden state warriors stadium, as well as projects for ecsf. in terms of public open space, beginning construction on the bay front park, p3, p2, p8, and bay front parks, and working on the strategy to transfer the park to the city. we'll focus on public improvements like street improvements and continue planning for art and public spaces. here is a picture of the transbay project area rising in all its glory. as you can see here, the transbay project area has sort of a unique budget, and a result of how successful the project has been, due to the fees that

are levied on development in the downtown core. we have really generated a very healthy fund balance of parks and open space fees or affordable housing fees and we have not yet gotten to the point where we are ready to encumber the funds for construction. so at this moment we are sitting on a fund balance from development fees that will be used for current and future expenditures on affordable housing and parks in transbay. so, that's why you see a large fund balance as the largest source in this area, and the proposed budget is 125.9 million. in transbay, we'll continue to focus on vertical development. monitoring construction, completing construction and transferring completed blocks, and under ramp park and transbay

park and we hope to be in construction very soon for pr the boulevard and monitoring the construction. this is a picture of alice griffith 4, under construction now, and hope to be complete early this fiscal year or next fiscal year, which will be very exciting. and the affordable housing budget for fiscal year 18-19, 366.1 million. as you can see in the far northwest left column, that includes a proposed $220.3 million in new affordable housing loans, and $63.4 million in existing housing loans. so, what that means, all of the loans that the commission has approved in prior years, where building is going on and we continue to make draws on the loans, those are the existing affordable housing loans as prior period authority until

they are fully expended. in terms of the work plan, we'll be moving 2,622 units through the affordable housing pipeline. this slide provides some detail on the specific projects, number of units in each project, and the amount of funding to go to each of the projects. but i think the information is nicely summarized in the next slide which shows 516 units entering the predevelopment phase, 720 units entering the gap financing phase, 706 units in construction, and we hope to complete 680 units. so again, a total of 2,622 units. in the world of development services and asset management, pending the transfer of the yerba buena closeout, doing a single audit on that transaction and will continue to manage our assets in the project areas as well as expired and inactive

project areas and implement the property management plan and the existing loan portfolio. that concludes the presentation. happy to take public comment and commission questions. pending your feedback, we'll be back on may 1 for you to take action on the budget and then we will go through the regular budget process with the mayor's budget office, the board, and the board of supervisors. >> thank you, brie. madam secretary, are there any speaker cards? >> yes, madam chair, two speaker cards. oscar james. >> good afternoon again, commissioners, my name is oscar james. that was a nice presentation. and one thing i'm glad of, they

are taking care of us retirees. as a resident of bayview-hunters point, and first african american to buy a home in bayview-hunters point and homeowner myself for some time, finding out a week before last friday that my home was worth 1,400,000, i could not afford to buy today. p ok, but at the same time, people in the community who were homeless, some have low income where they cannot afford to be in any of these houses. you did a project on armstrong and third that housed homeless

that was in the bayview-hunters point community. they came in homeless, got furniture donated to them. i'm looking for each project now to do that same thing for people who are homeless. i'm also looking or asking you to look at brothers and sisters coming home from the penitentiary to have housing. look at them. they paid their debt to society, ok? they don't want to go back to prison. they should have opportunity to come back and get housing. some of them have certificate of preference. certificate of preference i helped when i was on joint housing to come up with the certificate of preference under a mayor and the joint housing under mrs. -- the director, our project person, i was vice chair. we came up with the certificate of preference. we fought, it went to those in

the army, the military housing, the old wartime housing, that's where the certificate of preference came from. but there were people in other parts of hunters point in the projects that didn't have certificates or we were not able to extend certificates of preference to them because they were basically the property turned over to the redevelopment agency was navy property, and we were living in those properties and we had the mayor from our, my age group surrounded the building and we got the guarantee that we would have preference to move back to the homes and what have you. and we also got $4,500. the young peoples in the community did that, and miss westbrook and my mother-in-law, miss web, and miss dunbar, they went back and got the $40 million. the people in the project areas, parents pay for the projects. if you look at constituents,

when my grandmother bought her home, she paid $4,000 for her home, a little bit over $4,000. ok. those project areas, they are paying $59, they paid for their projects. ok. they need, and some of them are still in the projects today. they need to have preference to move. i know i'm past my time. >> yes. ok. thank you. >> thank you. >> but consider that, consider the people who are homeless and find ways of getting them into some of these houses, with no rent. thank you very much. >> ace washington. >> i just want to say i'm very appreciative i got word i'll be speaking to your director, hopefully i'll be able to come may 1 with my presentation about what i call is the state of the

fillmore. now you know, it's not, nothing about fillmore, none of the -- none of those restaurants is blank. so y'all have to, don't have to tell me what that mean. now, bottom line, i'm not going to get my blood pressure up. y'all know and commissioner, and these two commissioners know before y'all came with the o.c.i.i. i've been coming here for years, 20 years, i think i go past 20 years. right now i think what i'm going to do with this agency is set a precedence for all the rest of them. sit down with the director, i'm going to call it all hands on deck. no middle management. i want all department heads and commissioners, 5, 6 departments. i'm going to roll out case, ace on the case, no, case means something. c as in community, a as in assistance, service, s as in service, and e as enterprise. i'm going to start making me some money now.

i want to assist all those developers, i want to assist everybody outreaching everything that y'all are supposed to have. all these people who got up here and spoke like you say, maybe 5, 10, most don't know nothing. they just, they are pointees, and i'm disappointed in a lot of these appointeees. and she's going to mention, i'm going to meet with her and your attorneys to talk about possibilities of me getting funded. not me, case. because discretionary funds that have to come back to get okayed, those are things i'm going to talk about. >> thank you. >> no more speaker cards, madam chair. >> one last thing. >> i think that y'all should hire my brother back here, oscar, to be one of your commissioners. he has more experience than all of you. how come you can't have him? i'm see who the next mayor will be. >> thank you, mr. washington.

so, we have, is it about the budget? your comment is about the budget? >> ok. madam speaker, deanna gage is my name. my affiliation with this project is about investments and the infrastructure for the construction and developments for our communities here locally and our city and county. and i really wanted to be able to put emphasis on a couple of things that i heard this evening that i was very -- since my stroke took my eye, the o.c.i.i., oversight, i was impressed with the balance and the infrastructure for small business enterprises looking

forward to being independent such as myself, especially for housing. the compliance of contracts, insurance for consent is i would like to be able to establish a contract of consent that i can be able to get consent and obligation to be able to understand control and as merchants wanting to come in to license a forefront and establishment to take care of the household as well as work for infrastructures for contracts here locally. and basically i wanted to award some of the comments that i did hear earlier, but i really want to put emphasis on the shipyard project. i really like what they look like, and they really look beautiful so far. and i hope that those projects turn out to be really good in the future. looking forward to seeing you here tomorrow.

>> thank you. so, are there any comments, fellow commissioners, comments, questions, on the budget presentation? >> you want to close public speaking? >> let me close public comment. thank you, madam secretary. the public comment is closed. fellow commissioners, any comments, questions on the budget? none? >> so, ok. >> madam secretary, please call the next item. >> next order of business, agenda item 5i through 5n, related to community facilities district number nine, presented together but acted on separately. public hearings to hear all persons interested in the establishment of the community facilities district, improvement

area number one, and future annexation area and b, the indebted necessary and other debt for the community facilities improvement area number 1, 5i, forming successor agency to the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco, cp, improvement area number one, and future annexation area and determining other matters in connection therewith, discussion and action resolution number 17-2018. 5j, determining the necessity to incur bonded indebtedness and other debt in an amount not to exceed $6 billion for the successor agency, to the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco, community facilities district number nine, h.p.s.2c.p., and determining other matters in

connection therewith. discussion and action, 18-2018. 5k, calling a special election and successor agency to the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco, community facilities district number nine, hps2c p, and determining other matters in connection therewith. resolution number 19-2018. 5l, declaring the results of special election and directing, recording of notice to the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco, community facilities district number nine, hps2cp and determining other matters in connection therewith. 20-2018. 5m, introducing an ordinance levying special taxes in the successor agency to the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco,

community facilities district number nine, hps2cp, discussion and action, 1-2018. 5n, authorizing the issuance and sale of special tax bonds and improvement area number one, to the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco. community facility district number nine, hps2cp, public utilities and services, not to exceed 202,200,000, and determining other matters in connection therewith. discussion and action resolution number 21-2018. madam chair. >> we now turn to number of items related to the formation of a community facilities district for phase two of hunters point shipyard, and

candlestick point. the community facilities district or c.f.d. will allow the successor agency to levy a special tax on property in the c.f.d. for public infrastructure and services in the area. the commission previously approved resolutions of intention to form the c.f.d., improvement area number one, within the c.f.d., and a future annexation area and to incur bonded indebtedness and other debt for the c.f.d. now the commission in its capacity as a legislative body for the c.f.d. will undertake a fairly lengthy series of proceedings required by the california government code in order to form the c.f.d. and authorize issuance of bonds for the c.f.d. the proceedings include public hearings and the landowner election. we'll first hear a report from staff about the proposed c.f.d. and then we will open the public

hearing. madam director. >> next steps to create phase two, candlestick services and facilities c.f.d. the chair gave my first three slides for me. so, i'll just say that c.f.d. is a special, a geographically bound area where you can levy a special tax to raise money as the chair said for acquiring public facilities or providing services in that area. it's part of the overall property tax structure in the city. it's levied on top of the

traditional property tax of 1%. as you said in your opening comments, you've already taken two of the major steps in a process, passing a resolution of intention and to establish the c.f.d. and to incur bonded indebtedness. we will first have a hearing where we hear from the potential members of the c.f.d., and then the commission with three resolutions. formation of the c.f.d., of bonded indebtedness and special election. assuming they are approved, the secretary will administer the election, then the commission will consider a resolution declaring the results of the election, assuming those results were to create the c.f.d., the commission will then consider a resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds and ordinance ordering the levy of special

taxes. ordinances are required to be heard twice, today we will introduce and return on may 1 to consider and adopt the ordinance. improvement area number one, and other areas can annex into the c.f.d. at a future time. we are proposing to levy both the facilities special tax and services special tax and have proposed bonded indebtedness limit of 6 billion. this slide shows the proposed geographic boundary, the four projects in the south portion of candlestick points. facilities special tax levied for a term not to exceed 75 years, and the revenue generated by the tax would be used to either build public facilities or to reimburse the developer for building those facilities, and the list of those authorized

facilities is here. this was consistent with the law and the financing plan. also proposed to levy a services special tax, levied in perpetuity, and the revenue from that tax would be used to maintain the parks and open space and potential mitigation measures needed in the event of sea level rise. as we have talked about in the past, the right method of apportionment assigns a different rate of taxation for properties depending on their property type, and we begin by levying the tax on projects where a building permit has been issued in order to meet our revenue obligations and we continue on down the line of properties until our revenue obligations have been met. the c.f.d. will be governed by the ocii commission, goodwin consulting contracted earlier this year, primarily responsible

for calculating and levying taxes and post dissolution. so, as we mentioned, we'll hold a hearing, following the hearing, you will consider these three resolutions, listed on the slide. we'll hold an election, consider two more resolutions and then introduce an ordinance ordering the levy special taxes. the resolution of formation primarily outlines what the boundaries will be, list the facilities and services financed, rate and method of apportionment and the services special tax, appropriations limit of .2 million for improvement area one and debt limit of 6 billion for the c.f.d. as a whole and .21 for area one. second resolution, to incur bonded indebtedness, the necessity to required before the

c.f.d. can issue debt and the limits are same as discussed on the prior slide. then we would, the commission would consider a resolution calling the special election. at that point the election would be for the land owners to consider a levy of the special tax, the appropriations limit and the bonded and indebtedness in the prior two resolutions. we have our mail ballots in hand and the c.f.d. would be passed if two-thirds of the vote cast are cast in favor of the formation. following the results -- following the election, the commission would declare, pass the resolution declaring the results of the election and improvement area one would be fully formed and the commission would have the authority to levy the special taxes. and the commission would have the authority to incur bonded indebtedness up to the appropriations limit. depending on the outcome of the elections, we would then, the

commission would then consider a resolution aauthorizing the commission of bonds in the same amounts as described in the prior slides and the commission would introduce an ordinance that would order the levying of the special tax and again, an ordinance requires two readings, so you would finally pass the ordinance on may 1. which is, would be the next step. so, if anyone has any questions, i'll be happy to answer those or we can move on to the hearing. and take commissioner comments. >> before we entertain questions, commissioners, any speaker cards on this items? >> it was just ace washington, and i think he might have left. >> ok. >> no more speaker cards. i will close public comment. so, commissioners, questions, commissioners singh. >> question about $6 billion,

you know, and how much total we have now? >> c.f.d. has not yet been formed so we have not issued any debt yet. >> uh-huh. and -- >> 200 million more, right? >> do you mean for the agency in general, or do you mean the c.f.d. -- just under $1 billion. >> uh-huh. they are going to spend it. >> well, we'll be spending it on affordable housing, $220 million in new affordable housing loans next year, and development reimbursement in mission bay. >> ok. thank you. >> you are welcome. >> any other questions or comments? from commissioners? ok. thank you, brie. before i formally open the hearings, are there any property owners or registered voters in the c.f.d. who wish to file

written protests? if so, they must be filed by the secretary right now. hearing none, there is none, right? the commission will now hold public hearings on one, the formation of the c.f.d., improvement area number one, within the c.f.d., and a future annexation area for the c.f.d., and the levy of special taxes in the c.f.d. and improvement area number one, and second, the need to incur bonded indebtedness and any other debt for the c.f.d. the hearings are now open, and we will receive comments and questions and any oral protests from any interested persons. madam secretary. did anyone submit speaker cards for these items? >> no, madam chair. >> having -- since there are no cards, i will now close public comment.

and i would like to close the public hearings and move on to the next item. the hearings are now closed. and we will now consider a resolution proposing formation of the c.f.d., improvement area number one, and the future annexation area. so to help move things along, instead of doing a roll call, i would like to do a voice vote, a motion and a second for whatever the action is. so, i will say all in favor, then the commissioners will say aye or nay or abstention, rather than everyone's names. accept a motion to approve resolution for item 5i. >> i move that. >> moved, seconded. all in favor, aye. opposite, opposed? none, abstentions -- hearing none, the item is adopted

unanimously. so the next is, we will now consider resolution determining the necessity of issuing bonds and other debt for the c.f.d. to finance the proposed public facilities. i will now accept a motion to approve a resolution item 5j. >> move. >> moved by commissioner, seconded, all in favor, aye. opposed, abstain, hearing none, motion carries. next, the commission will now consider calling a special election, which will call for the vote of the qualified ee electors, in this case the hand owners in improvement area number one, to approve the special tax, the proposed bonded indebtedness limit, and the appropriation limit for improvement area number one. i will accept a motion to approve resolution item k. >> so moved.

>> moved by commissioner singh, seconded by commissioner, all in favor, aye, abstain, opposed, hearing none, motion carries. so, at this time i'm going to ask madam secretary to open the ballots and the results of the election.

>> ma deek dam cheer. >> eight votes, all the votes are in favor of the ballot measure. >> the results being unanimously in favor of the items, the commission will now consider a resolution declaring the results of the election, i will accept a motion to approve resolution, item l. moved by commissioner bustos, seconded by commissioner singh, all in favor, opposed, abstain, hearing none, motion carries. now the commission will now introduce an ordinance levying special taxes in the c.f.d., and waive its full reading. i will accept a motion to introduce the ordinance and waive a full reading, the

ordinance will be considered for adoption, the commission meeting on may 1, 2018. do i have a motion to approve item m? >> move. >> moved by commissioner singh, seconded by bustos, all in favor, opposed, abstain, hearing none, the item, the motion carries. the commission will now consider a resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds and other debt for improvement area number one. this resolution provides that bonds will not be issued until the specifics of a particular bond, of a particular bond transaction are brought to the commission for our approval. so i will now accept a motion to approve resolution item n. moved by commissioner bustos, seconded by commissioner singh. all in favor, abstain, opposed, hearing none, motion carries.

so madam secretary, please call the next item. >> next order of business is item six, public comment on nonagenda items. madam chair. >> do we have any speaker cards? >> two speaker cards. william -- >> commissioner -- >> commissioner. >> hello. >> long day for me sitting here, but very interesting. good afternoon, bill barnicle, a commissioner for veterans affairs, and also spent 29 years in the military and retired united states air force. i wanted to thank you and my good friend commissioner singh that i have known for 40 years, for the ground breaking projects for the veterans housing a couple weeks ago, a couple months ago, i didn't make it, so thank you. as you know, former mayor lee, was a good friend of mine, and dar, used to come out to the

neighborhood and have breakfast together and talk about the warriors and giants and retired and knew i had a passion for the veterans, and appointed me on to the commission three years ago. also several weeks ago the city -- several months ago, also several weeks ago, the city attorney's office settled a $2 million lawsuit against a landlord providing substandard housing for the vets, and big win for the veterans, if we didn't win that case, or settle that case, we would have had a lot of old time veteran, i'm 67 years old, vietnam vets, out on the streets. because of that settlement that we were able to place those veterans in affordable housing and most are able now to not be afraid to be kicked out. we had a lot of veterans here that were afraid they were going

to be kicked out. thank you for what you have done, and if you can invite us to ground breaking days for our veterans, that would mean a lot. thank you, dar. >> oscar james again. thank you. and i was not here, but thank you for the vietnam vets housing, which is really important because i could have been a vet. but what i want to do, i want to thank you each and every one of you guys for what you did today. you have been a blessing to bayview-hunters point commission, a blessing to this commission, keep up the good work. if you guys have any problems

out in the field i can help you with, call on me. i'm there for you. because you've been there for the community. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. james. >> no more speaker cards, madam chair. >> i will now close public comment. please call the next item, madam secretary. >> item 7, report of the chair. >> i want to mention three items. on march 1, i know the commissioner just stepped out, mission bay block three east ground breaking, mayor farrell announced 118 unit housing for formerly homeless veterans and low income families was named after the late mayor ed lee. on march 20th, our own executive director was honored along with women leaders to celebrate women's history month in collaboration with the commission and status of women.

congratulations, nadia. and then on the 29th, the commissioners attended a ground breaking ceremony for the soma mission bay hotel. i think it's the first hotel built in the soma, in the mission bay area. that's my report. >> please call the next item, madam secretary. >> the next order of business is the item 8, report of executive director, madam director. >> the next order of business is item 9, commissioners questions ance matters. madam chair. >> commissioners, any questions, and -- none, please call the next item. >> item ten, no closed session items. the next item is adjourn. >> motion to adjourn. >> the meeting is now closed.

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coordinator for the city attorney's office in san francisco. a lot of it is working with the public and trying to address their public records request and trying to get the information for their office. i double majored in political science and always tried to combine both of those majors. i ended up doing a combination of doing a lot of communication for government. i thought it would connect both of my studies and what was i was interested in and show case some of the work that government is doing. >> i work for the transportation agency known as muni and i'm a senior work supervisor. >> i first started as a non-profit and came to san francisco and started to work and i realized i needed to work with people. this opportunity came up by way of an executive

fellowship. they had a program at mta to work in workforce development type project and i definitely jumped on that. i didn't know this was something that i wanted to do. all i knew is that i wanted to help people and i wanted to empower others. >> the environment that i grew up that a lot of women were just stay-at-home moms. it wasn't that they didn't have work, but it was cheaper to stay home and watch the kids instead of paying pricey day care centers. >> my mom came from el salvador during the civil war. she worked very hard. when she came here and limited in english, she had to do a service job. when i was born and she had other kids, it was difficult for her to work because it was more expensive

for her to be able to continue to work in a job that didn't pay well instead of staying at home and being able to take care of us. >> there isn't much support or advocacy for black women to come in and help them do their jobs. there also aren't very many role models and it can be very intimidating and sometimes you feel uncomfortable and unsure of yourself and those are the reasons exactly why you need to do it. when i first had the opportunity, i thought that's not for me. my previous role was a project manager for a biotech start up. i thought how do i go from technology to working in government. thinking i didn't know about my skills, how am i going to fit in and doing that kind of work. thinking you have to know everything is not what people expect have you, but they expect you to ask questions when you don't know

and that's important. >> my mom was diagnosed with cancer. that was really difficult. she encouraged me to go to school because in case anything happened i would be able to protect myself. i wanted to be in oncology. i thought going to school it would set me for the trajectory and prepare me for my life. >> we need the hardships to some of the things that are going to ultimately be your strength in the future. there is no way to map that out and no way to tell those things. you have to do things on your own and you have to experience and figure out life. >> you don't have to know what you are going to do for the rest of your life when you are in college or high school because there are so many things to do.

i would encourage you to try to do everything that you are remotely interested. it's the best time to do it. being a young woman with so many opportunities, just go for it and try everything. patrick. >> welcome to another episode of stay safe i saw us prepare our crawl space on this episode we'll saw the sheer wall you'll see the finished product

hi, i'm patrick and welcome to another episode of stay safe? the second part we're retrofitting the triple wall as you can see we've installed one of the sheer ply wall on the first episode we provided blocking to secure the ply we'd and bolted and provided the connection with the floor i'm joined by thor madison. >> thor structural engineers and thor knows more about sheer walls than anybody i've met in

my life. >> it provides the stable ability that would rock before and after during around earthquake the nails along the edge of the plywood will reduce the chance of the building falling down. >> what else should we consider in getting ready. >> one thing about plywood a natural material that absorbs moisture and the panels can swell depending on the moisture if they swell they'll bulk out it is important probation officer leave a gap between the panels so before we install the next panel we'll drive in a couple of nails used to as temporary spares. >> what are the nails. >> 16 penny singers a good saying that and we don't need to

be concerned with the exact nail size only the gap the next panel will be held with the existing panel we'll pull those down. >> we have peter from the construction why not go outside and cut our second panel so, now we've got the plywood let's go ahead and get it put up see if we can get it in place.

>> by looking at that a perfect fit why not get peter in here to nail it down. >> so peter did a great job with the nailing but important to know this work requires a permit in the department of building inspection whether you're doing the work or a left hand contractor make sure you have the proper permit and additional to the nailing anything you want to talk about thinking about the plywood. >> the more plywood to install the better and make sure that the nails along each edge of each panel so you can't forget and hedge and had it perform the same thing. >> another example of little

money you can substantially rusz reduce the >> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier.

it's aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk properties but fewer than one-third have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. let's talk worst case scenario. what happens in a collapse? >> buildings have the tendency of rolling over. the first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse.

in an earthquake the building is a total loss. >> can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit? >> one of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. in an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. you have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. >> so, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. can we talk a little about what kinds of repairs property owners might expect? >> it's a very simple process. we deliberately tried to keep it that way. so, what's involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done

here already, then you cover it with this gypsum material. this adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse. and that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the upper floor. >> so, potentially the wood and the steel -- it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30? >> that's exactly right. that's why we're hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great. let's take a look. so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across,

basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready, >> chair cohn: hi, everyone. good morning. oh, god, that was -- clearly i'm the only one excited about budget. okay. all right. all right. let's see. hopefully my excitement will be contagious and you will get fired up. i want to welcome you to the budget and finance sub committee. i want to acknowledge our