>> thank you. thank you, do we have public comment? >> we already did it. >> oh, well, do i have a memory? [ laughter ] >> okay. entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor. >> aye. >> great. we are now on item 8, balboa pool renovation, the amendment to the construction contract. >> good morning, commissioners, i'm the project manager for the balboa pool renovation. this is action to amend the construction contract for the balboa pool renovation to increase the limit from $7,130,000 so an amount not to exceed $9,960,000, an increase of $2,830,000 which is greater than 10% over the approved

contract amount. under this plan, the project seeks to inspire public space, strengthen the quality of existing parks and facilities, and to inspire play, promote active living, strengthen and promote the safety and well-being of san francisco's youth and seniors. this is not a request for additional funds. of the project has funding to accommodate the requested contracted inhe is crease. -- increase. it's been one of the most popular sites for swims. the building is located within balboa park, one of the department's equity zone parks. as part of the 2012 bond, they are renovating the pool and construction started late 2016. improvements include new dedicated community room for events, installation to allow for dual programming and increased hours, stairs and ramps, plumbing systems, new

site plan to delineate pedestrian and vehicular traffic and safety. and upgraded site and building accessibility in accordance with latest ada standards. balboa pool construction is approximately 75% complete with reopening anticipated later in 2018. the project has experienced delays to the original schedule due to unforeseen site conditions and with issues to the new electrical service at the building. project change orders to date can be categorized with scope enhancements requested by recreation and park, unforeseen building conditions and items related to the new pg and e recollect al service. one of the major scope enhancements was replacement of the building's window system which was not in the original project scope. it was determined as we were doing demolition and prep that the window system was in too

poor condition to refurbish or warranty. it comes with increased energy efficiency, better functionality and a full warranty. this and some other enhancements from important to the project scope to ensure the best overall investment for the community. changes to the electrical service, during construction, the intended electrical scope of work required a major change due to pg and e requirements. they required the department to install new high voltage primary al metering facility at the sited with the assistance, we negotiated installation of a secondary service at balboa. much the final engineering documents with pg and e are still forthcoming. when we have that completion, we can move forward with the final phases of construction. recently, we have been in contact with them, though, to emphasize the urgency of completing engineering documents

and we have -- just this morning, i spoke with them. they promised to get us diagrams needed for us to do the sub structure trenching work which is part of our critical path on the construction. while they are finishing up the other engineering, we'll be able to move forward tearing up the parking lot to get the conduit and so some is of the other sub structure in place so we can stay on schedule. >> let me ask you a question on that point. so you're getting updated documents that will allow this to proceed, and are they giving us some satisfaction that there won't be further delays on their end when they fin shal fin -- fe documents? >> they told us the final documents will come to us in may. but what we requested of them was -- there are a few things we need to just keep moving and avoid waiting. >> you're getting them. >> those things, they have said they'll be able to get to us.

>> let me jump in on this one because i've been involved in some of the communications and we just got an update this morning. this is just to give commissioners context, this has been extremely frustrating for us. this has been going on for essentially a year. we first engaged both pg and e in the small of 2016 on this project. we -- it took march 2018 for us to get the commitment from pg and e to allow puc to provide power to its own building. there are a lot of reasons for that. it's technical and lost in a big political battle over who delivers power where. each day of delay has cost this project about $1500. so this is real. this is not the first time we've been down this read. levi has had to do with this at the randall and we've got more

projects coming around the bend where we face similar risk. this morning, just on the heels of this meeting, pg and e basically confirmed that their goal was to complete full engineering documents by the end of may. that was actually unacceptable to our team because it was going to result in further construction delays. so as an addendum to that, as levi noted, we're going to trench and do prep work ahead of the completion of some of the technical engineering work-related to the transformer and the the actual delivery of electricity. we've spoken -- worked closely with the puc on this. for a little bit more context, what the puc believes is that there are a number of projects, which pg and e is asking for time extensions. what the puc is hearing is that some of the resources are being

diverted to north bay work, which is not necessarily an acceptable excuse to us. they should be increasing their capacity. in any event, the delays continue, but there's a path forward. >> thank you. does that conclude your presentation. >> i was saying staff recommends amending the construction contract to increase the limit from $7,130,000 to an amount not to exceed $9,900,000. >> thank you very much. >> is there any public comment? okay. being none, public comment is closed. commissioners. >> entertain a motion. >> commissioner bonilla. >> question. this is -- >> can i get to you speak into the microphone. >> yeah. so it's actually an increase. i mean, all throw -- it's more than 10%. it's almost like 30%.

that's huge. yeah. do we have any idea before we started the project that this might be a potential -- i mean, we would be realizing this significant of an increase in this project, or did this come out of nowhere. >> i would say we didn't anticipate this huge a shift. >> you didn't? >> i think we had two things. pg and e was a major chunk of this. then i think the other piece was we -- this building was built in the '60s -- i'm sorry -- '50s, and there were elements that were just -- were not able to be seen by the design team during -- they would have required demolition, and i think the windows is a really big one. frankly, had we known we would have planned for it ahead of time and with garfield pool,

given -- they're exact same age. we have built in full window replacements knowing the pool environment corrodes these things. so we're going forward knowing it will need to be done on future pools. >> since i live in the neighborhood, when did can i sas it will be completed? >> i would say right now, my best guess is fall of 2018. >> commissioner, just to remind you, the real complicated reason for the delay has been the issue that i briefed you on, which is the delivery of power, which ha, unfortunately, that we have been able to control. so we've been applying as much leverage as we can with pg and

e, i've been involved in this. supervisor safai has been involved with this. i don't -- i'm not going to let -- put levi's neck out there. this is dependent on pg and e delivering on their commitments. >> i would just like to be able to -- when i'm asked -- >> i will add, we've been -- >> i fully understand all the additional work that has to be done and so on and what the delays are. i mean, that's not a question -- i mean, i don't have any problem with that. it's just that i would like to be able to give some sort of response rather than saying i don't know. >> well, i would add, we've been really happy with the contractor. they've been a great partner. so they have been really proactive in helping us try to adjust the schedule wherever we can to have things ready. you know, the construction sequence is complicated, and so they've been really willing to

work and make sure we're ready to go and roll. if would you like to come and take a tour and check it out during construction, i'm happy to -- >> what we've noted in the report is that we anticipate another proximate 20 weeks of construction once this pg and e issue is completed. everything is being held up on the construction. we're hoping -- let's say that pg and e we get final designs by the end of may and transformers in and all that stuff sometime in june. then it's low temperature 5 months. so probably by the end of the year. does that sound right to you? by the end of 2018. >> thank you. commissioner mcdonnell. >> just quick question about the contract summary calculations. this is the part i don't understand. i think i understand, but what unforeseen conditions are.

i don't understand the expenses related to unforeseen circumstances. different from the installation of the windows, et cetera. >> i think the major change was the -- something like the windows that is such a major expense, there was a way around it, but it would have meant reusing the existing windows and i think installing just an interior product that wouldn't have been warrantied. >> i'm thinking of something different. in the budget summary, around the additional expense, there are the expenses related to the enhancement and then there are expenses related to unforeseen conditions. i don't quite understand what those are. >> that would be things like i have one listed here for repairs of corroded and crusted steel.

i would categorize them as smaller elements in the building many as you uncover it, they need to be addressed. >> got it. >> there was a lot of -- given the pool environment, there was a lot of miscellaneous concrete that needed to be worked on because of the chlorine and that kind of stuff. we also had storm mitigation. when we had the huge storms last year, we actually had over $100,000 in expense to remove trees that had fallen on the construction trailer. we had flooding in the basement that needed to be pumped out because we had opened up the basement to do foundation work. so things like that. >> thank you. >> thank you. seeing no other further questions, the chair would entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> all those in favor. >> aye. >> so moved. thank you. >> we're on item 9 public comment continued from item 4. is there anyone who did not

speak on item 4 that would like to speak on item 9? being none, this item is close . we're on item 10, commissioners matters. anything? >> seeing none. >> is there any public comment on this item? being none, item 10 is closed. item 11 is new business agenda setting. is there any public comment on this item? >> commissioner mcdonnell. >> i don't know whether this warrants a new agenda item, but i would love to know the timing of the next update for the commission on our equity work. we have benchmarks and we're doing good and great work against it, et cetera, but i don't know the right sequence of timing to have it -- >> we typically will re-present during a cycle when we present our strategic plan and our operations plan. it would be the next sort of

full update would probably be in the fall. >> okay. great. thank you. >> is there any public comment on this item? being none, public comment is closed. item 12, communications, is there any public comment on this item? being none, this item is closed. we are on item 13, adjournment. >> so moved. >> second. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor. >> aye. >> so moved. >> thank you, commissioner.

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day of them in the grinding rocks around the camp we have about 15 grinding sites in came so it was a major summer report area for the 92 hawks. >> through there are signs that prosperity were in the area it was not until the early part of the century with the 76 began the construction of damn in helpfully a say mill was billed open the left hand of the math for the construction by which lake was used to float logs needed for the project at the same time the yosemite park and company used the other side of the camp to house tourists interesting in seeing

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it has over one hundred hundred cabins those rustic structures gives camp mather the old atmosphere that enhances the total wilderness experience and old woolen dressers and poaches and rug i do lay out people want to decorate the front of thaifr their cabins and front poefrnz their living room is outside in this awesome environment they're not inviting their guests inside where the berms are people get creative with the latin-american and the bull frogs start the trees grow and camp mather is

seen in a different light we're approaching dinner time in the construction of the hetch hetchy damn the yosemite park built jackson diane hauling hall to serve the guests it does was it dbe does best service s serve the food. >> i'm the executive chef i served over 15 hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks breakfasts are pancakes and french toast and skranld eggs and hash brown's our meal formulate is we have roost lion it's reflecting of the audience we have

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>> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to

build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders.

i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took

years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the

lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon

cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating

something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve.

>> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the

dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their

showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco.

>> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this

going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line

i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san hello welcome to public works tv. i'm miguel and i will be your host today. before we go on, let's look at

our past week. this past week, we gathered at jean parker elementary school in chinatown to unveil a street scape that keeps traffic safety tips to students. speaking of safer san francisco, our crews installed concrete island separators on upper market streets. we were honored to participate in the mayoral for pit stop worker who recent low helped save two lives in one day monitoring one of the pit stop in the tenderloin. did you know that public works runs the city's subdivision and mapping division in this week we're hanging out with bruce, the city and county of san francisco surveyor who leads the team that keeps s.f. in line and on point. let's look. my name is bruce and i am the city and county surveyor for the city and county of san

francisco. i've had this position for 13 years. the city and county surveyor is in charge of processing all the subdivisions within the city as well as trying to do most of the field work for all the additional agencies. >> what is a survey? >> in the early development of the country, there were a lot of surveys not only provided mapping but they provided geographical information and soil samples and things like that. the sort of the seat of the pants definition is the art and science of locating lines and points on the surface of the earth. and now of course it's three dimensional so it's off the surface of the earth. >> how precise are these surveys? >> there's 25.4 millimeters in a inch and we can survey down to a couple of millimeters. we can survey less than an

eighth of an inch. >> why is surveying important? >> just about everything you see out on the street has been surveyed and the curb, gutter, sidewalk, streets, the building are laid out by surveyors. san francisco has a fascinating history and virtually all of it was laid out by surveyors. >> are there any famous surveyors? >> farrell street is the first city surveyor. eddy street was the second surveyor. look at mount rushmore, the only guy up there that wasn't fifth surveyor was roosevelt. washington, lincoln, and jefferson was a surveyor. >> is a monument? >> this is a monument. this is for part of our high precision network. these are monuments that similar to what they set out of mer said. this is a plastic cap that has a license number and this goes on top of a rebar.

there's monuments everywhere. anything can be a monument. mount die ab low is a monument and it defines the public lands and most of the public lands in california and all of nevada. >> has surveying changed through the years? >> so we went from what they traditionally they called it a chain that was steel tape we measure with. we went to e.d. m., and then we moved into g.p.s. and the g.p.s., when i was in school in the late 80s, you had to plan your g.p.s. observations over when you knew that the constellation of satellites would pass over your spot. but there's 35 or 40 up there and they keep adding more and more and more. >> can i be a surveyor? what do i need to know? >> you have to know math and you have to know some unusual math. you know, you need to know how to add and subtract angles in

your head. there's plenty of judgment calls that aren't strictly math. there's a lot of people who think that you can open up a book some place and the answer is there. or you go up to their house and you look at a book and map and say oh, it's right there. it's not like that at all. you have to look at their deed, the a joiners deed, you have to look at whole block. you have to analyze stuff. you have to be able to write a legal description of a piece of property so that someone 100 years from now can go out and resurvey it and find it on the ground. there's a lot of our work will be examined over and over and over again for hundreds of years. >> what do you like about being a surveyor? >> so many things appeal to me. you can get dirty and do hard, physical labor all daylong. hard, hard, physical labor. swinging a hammer, pounding things into the ground, out in

the heat and out in the dirt. so that appeals to the kid in me and being in the sand box. today, we have these machines, we have these state of the art toys that are phenomenal that have blue tooth capabilities. we have drones that can fly over and provide you accurate information in a very short period of time. we have a laser scanner that can take several hundred thousand survey grade shots in minutes. we did a laser scan all of market street and i think there was three billion points taken in that survey. thank you for watching public works tv. thank you, bruce. we hope you enjoyed this episode. if you did, give us a thumbs up

or leave a comment bell below. you can follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram. until next time, thank you for tuning into public works tv. hello, my name is bob and i'm a junior administrative analyst. we are review issue permits to the city to ensure compliance and maintenance of the public right of way. i am public works. >> together we are >> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪

>> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash

that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go

ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved.

every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪ ♪ by the power ♪ of your name

>> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in

two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks.

if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situation.