public concerns. chariot will only design routes that complement public transit and not compete with it. in addition to working with sf mta, chariot invests in the community. chariot employs the entire workforce half of them who live in the bayview. they pay for each driver to complete a commercial driver's licensing program. they pay for the cost of the program and the drivers to sit through the program at $16.50 an hour. we are proud of our partnership with the teamsters local 665 who negotiated good wages and benefits for the members, setting the bar for micro transit in the bay area. they reduce congestion by removing ten single occupancy vehicles per chariot on the road. we're committed to safety as he ca -- accessibility with a fleet of

wheelchair accessible vehicles we have and we have an in-app function that you can request a wheelchair accessible vehicle through the app. we're also providing service to areas of -- >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, again, directors. i did spend much of the morning looking over this report. i think it's a good first step. i hope that some effective regulation comes out of it. but i wanted to specifically talk about the tncs and has been noted by a couple of directors, this -- the biggest part of the congestion problem in the city is undoubtedly the tncs. the city has thus far taken the

position they don't have regulatory authority over tncs, but certainly you have regulatory authority in so far as it goes -- the general rules, the rules of application that apply citywide to all vehicles or even, i would say, to certain classes of vehicles such as the ones that are contained in this report. so i would love to see some effective regulation having to do with that. i would particularly call attention to the idea of congestion pricing because it's more than just stopping in bike lanes and double parking. it's sheer numbers. it's the sheer numbers of them that are on the street. if a handle can be gotten on that, i think it will have a tremendous benefit across the board and across the city. so i hope you take a good, close

look at that. i hope you also take a look at regulations that find ways that you can regulate tnc as long with other forms of transportation. thank you. >> thank you. yes, mr. gilberte. >> tom gilberte. numbers matter. i heard just recently that it's 6,000 uber lifts on the road at one time versus 35,000 uber on the road at some point. numbers matter. again, quality of life. do we want 6,000 more cars downtown? even if they're giving another government will take a nice profit or tax or, you know -- but do we want them? is that where we want to go? insurance, if a scooter with a helmet hits a person in a wheelchair or a little kid or an

old folk, we get broken a whole lot easier. the uber lit insurance pattern, if there's no one in the car, they have a different set of insurance, what they'll pay. this is a billion dollar -- billions of dollars corporation. i'm sitting here thinking that if you had children and they were going to spend the rest of their life paralyzed, duh. and 6,000 or 40,000 or 30,000 cars are going to add more tension to drivers that are on the street. that includes the tourist drivers that don't know what they're doing. if you're driving in the city and you're making money in the city, you should sign into a $5 million damage policy per person. the city can arrange that funding through a public bank.

we need to go that route. we don't need more sprawl of mechanical machines in this city. thank you. >> thank you. herbert winer is the last speaker. >> there's one thing -- two things that have been left out. one is accessibility to transportation. now, people are expected to walk a quarter of a mile to the bus stop. if you're a senior or a disabled person, it's a hardship. now, that plan should address this. the second thing about congestion, you remove parking spaces, you remove driving lanes. you have an increased volume of cars coming. yeah. you are going to have congestion. that's one contributory factor. in addition to uber and lyft.

i think this should be examined as part of the plan. this is a long-standing problem. it's not been addressed. when you increase the walking distance, less people are going to take public transportation. also, when you constrict the driving lanes, there's more of a pileup of cars. there are areas -- neighborhoods where congestion did not exist before. now it does. try california streets in the richmond district. it didn't used to be this way. now it is. now there's several streets that are could not justed. i recommend that the mta and cta examine their could no congesteg and be more realistic. >> thank you. anymore public comment? no? seeing none, public comment is closed. directors, this is a discussion item only. there's no action, but the public speakers, we did, you

know, hear, again, about the hardships that tncs are causing and it will be good to have a strategy to come out of this report. personally, i think congestion charging is an idea with a discussion coming back is very good. i applaud that. that's going to be an interesting one to hear. maybe this time people will see there is a need and we can do something with it. director rubke, did you have thoughts? >> i'm sorry. thank you. so thanks for this report. it was comprehensive and got into details on a lot of things that i thought were really forward thing and helpful. i just wanted to question the metric used in the accessibility piece. i think they were good in general, but i thought the first one caused me a little concern, by i think, if i'm recalling,

the phrasing is something like the percentage of that services users who have disabilities or who identify as disabilities as having disabilities. and i guess i'm concerned about using that as a metric because i think that in a lot of the cases where this service clearly doesn't have accessibility or disabled access, you're not going to get a very good or useful metric from that in my mind because the user -- people with disabilities won't sign up as a user of a service where there's no obvious access. so, for example, bike share, i love the idea. it's so awesome, but i'm not going to sign up for bike share. but i think it's important that, as we're looking to these emerging technologies and seeing how they com comply with our principles, it's important we keep pressure on then. i understand the report did address those other things. i want to highlight that as a little bit concerning. i think in connection with the

other metrics that you have, i think you'll get what you need. i just had a little concern with that. so that's my piece. thank you. >> that's a good point, director. thank you very much. yes, director ramos. >> thank you, madam chair and thank you to the ta staff for this incredible report. i've been anticipating it for a while, and i was very pleased with what you all produced. it's quite a bunch of information. i hope it's going to be required reading for anybody that's working in transportation today. it really is a nice comprehensive bunch of information. it's very -- it's so comprehensive, there's very little that i can add. i think that speaks to all the brilliant minds that went into the review and the peer review and everybody else that looked at this. it looks really -- you guys

covered your bases, which i applaud. there are two questions i had. i saw that you just -- it seems to me like you're going to be evaluating folks with respect to vmt that's related as service vmt. i see that phrase service vmt a bit. i assume that what you mean by that is that once a car comes into service as opposed to generating to get here from wherever it came, i'm wondering if you can spear to that or if you thought about that much at all and what i would like to do is make sure that we're trying -- this kind of speaks to my next question, which maybe you can do a twofer. with respect to how you're going to be monitoring and rating the percentage of local hire. i saw you refer to the policy,

and i applaud that. i didn't quite catch how you would be evaluating the compliance or how they would be effectively hiring people locally, but i do think that those two things are related, which then ultimately gets to sustainability and congestion and what have you. so i'm just hoping that you thought a little bit about that and i'm sure that you did. i would love to hear more about it. >> sure. to your first question about vmt, it actually is a metric that shows up in several places. i'm going to take your point and sort of project it outward. >> okay. >> when we think about autonomous vehicles as a not too far distant future, they are out of service like you're not in the car, but it is still driving around. that counts in this evaluation. so even though under congestion, we're talking about service vmt, which is your point of -- i'll use this as an example. in the vehicle versus the person that's driving around, vmt finds its way into the financial impact principle under state of

good repair. so we are also counting the total vmt that is just associated with that service. so, for example, the driver who picks you up, susan, if they had to drive five miles to get to you and then you took five miles, it will count as five miles in congestion and ten miles under the finance impact principle. that in fact is covered. then under sustainability, we look at people miles traveled because it's a matter of how many people are in that vehicle. are we moving people or vehicles? does that answer your first question? >> i think so. >> is that more information you needed? >> it's more information than i needed. maybe we can talk more after, but i certainly -- i'm glad you took it into consideration because i do think that's part of the issue is because there's driving around out of service that it's something i think we -- i would like to make sure that we as a city are addressing. so it sounds like you thought

about it and you're addressing it in some capacity. maybe we can talk more. i don't want to be the only one holding us up. this speaks to the point from what i understand, a lot of the reason why a lot of the state appreciates these tn cs so much is because they're job providers in towns that don't have a whole lot of alternatives. then they come here to provide services and that contributes to congestion. i appreciate the nod to the local hire policy, i'm wondering if you'll be doing or thinking through more to acknowledge the companies or the providers that are doing their best to give opportunities to our local residents. >> your approximately is with the taken and we're happy to add that as a future consideration. other documents like our tnc report has documented as an example how many drivers had business licenses before the state granted, about where they

were originally located and then driving in san francisco. we are well aware of that phenomenon. >> thank you. >> thank you, director ramos. that is good. i would remind everyone, though, in terms of the tncs providing jobs, i think the last data point i heard which was quite recently because that the average ten tour of the uber drivers is 6 months. they are not providing sustainable jobs and they're not necessarily providing a living wage, but you're right. it's a low barrier to entry. so it's a quick oh, i have a job driving an uber and then it might take them six months to figure out that it's actually not paying -- >> i think that my perception, i could be wrong, but it's such a short tenure because they're tapped into an infinite workforce that they're treating as disposable. you get one star rating now and you're gone or whatever. >> yeah. it's unfortunate. mr. logan, thank you again.

do i have any other discussion questions, comments? no. thank you so much both of you for the work on that. i'm glad we'll be seeing you again with a strategy because we look forward to that very much. all right. i see i have a public speaker comment card up there, but we've closed public comment on this item. what is that on? >> this is for discussion as to whether to invoke -- >> excellent. >> madam chair, would you like to discuss 10.5 at this point? >> yes. do we have -- i believe we need to continue that item. is that correct. >> yes. >> all right. so as we continue that item, i would just remind staff to circle back with the cac since they had concerned around this as well. as we're figuring out what to do about that one, we can also loop back with the cac to explain that as well. all right. so 10.5 we will continue. so we will move on. >> discussion as to whether or not to invoke the important client privilege. we have a comment.

>> thank you, again. i note that the closed session concerns the lawsuit that the san francisco federal credit union has brought against the mta on the medallion sales program. i don't have an opinion on the legal issues in this lawsuit, but i do believe that it is part of a larger discussion that needs to take place around the medallion sales and what to do about it. it's a broken program. it has to be resolved at some point. you can't keep people prisoners in these medallions for the rest of eternity. we've had over 120, i believe,

for closures. so we're going to let it go until every last one is foreclosed. and then the problem goes away. no, i don't think so. so again, i think that something needs to be done about this, and in new york, for instance, they're beginning to come to the same conclusion. there is now a new effort, first of all, to reign in tncs. you may be aware that four taxi and delivery drivers have committed suicide in recent months over desperate economic conditions and that's causing the city to look at this again. a recent editorial in the new york sometimes abou"newyorkt to read you these sentences. over time, the city should consider whether it owes something to drivers who sunk their savings into taxi medallions. many went into debt to buy these

permits because the city promised them a monopoly on picking up passengers, a promise it has not been able to keep. so i think the simple answer is that the mta needs to make these people good and needs to find a funding source to do this. thank you. >> thank you. do i have a motion to go into closed -- i have one more public commenter. >> i want to agree with the comments that my friend mark just made. i hope you'll bear that in mind as you convene your closed session. i just also wanted to clarify your action just know on 10.5. is that to continue it later in the meeting, or is that to continue to t. to a future meeting. >> a future meeting. >> i'm good with that, and i hope to talk to staff before then. >> thank you very much. anymore public comment on closed session? no. seeing number, it's closed. do i have a motion? do i have a second? all in favor. hearing none, we will move to a

>> chairman brinkman: all to a right. so we are back into open session. all right. item 14 announcement of closed session, the mta board of directors went in closed section but no action. it would be item 15 would be appropriate for a motion to disclose or not disclose the information. a first. a second? all in favor of not disclosing? we will not disclose. >> chair, that concludes the business before you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you all for spending your tuesday with us.

. >> good morning and welcome to the government audit and over sight committee. today is may 16, 2018. i am joined by supervisor aaron peskin and london breed. i also want to acknowledge our community clerk john caroll and sfgovtv for staffing our meeting and making sure our transcripts are available on-line. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. [agenda item read] >> thank you. mr. clerk, can you please call the first item?

[agenda item read] >> vice president brandon: thank you today and this first item is my item. this is for the purposes of providing capacity building and trauma inform systems at bessie carmichael k through 8 which has the highest density of youth and homeless families in san francisco. mayor's office of housing has selected ucsf trauma in schools to provide training to staff and workshops to caregivers as well as direct services via on-site psychotherapy for trauma impacted youth. we know this is a nexus in attendance to school performance, and we know that

our teachers are doing far more than the teachers in the classrooms. we have to ensure that our city is providing wraparound services to our kids and to our families so that the kids can focus on learning in the classroom. we have to move in the direction of treating our youth and our families have the vantage of a public health response. we have severin campbell from the budget and legislative analyst's committee if we have any questions. okay. we don't have any questions at this time, so we will open it up for public comment. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is michelle olivas, and i am a soma resident with united playas.

i cannot support this enough. not only does bessie carmichael have the highest number of homelessness in the district, but the open drug use in the neighborhood, the mental health crisis, the crime of violence is just a lot for a five or six-year-old to bear, and so we are so excited to this have happening and we appreciate your support. thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you. any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is kn now closed -- oh. >> these are good problems, but you're not looking at the economically disadvantaged after they get through these programs and they need housing, every building that offers housing, their income's not high enough to make the qualification to even apply for the position, and a good example was the measure that was heard yesterday where sheehy wants high priority for

people who go through a rehabilitation program and they end up back on the street, and you can't get them housing and he's making it a number one priority. it's not going to do you no good because you don't have housing at the level for people that are most vulnerable. you're actually defeating your purpose if you don't include the most vulnerable, very low-income and low-income bracket people that you're trying to help. that's why you have the cycle of going through your system, then getting reestablished, but then because you've got no housing, no place to go to, you're back on the street, and then, you go back into your bad habits and then getting back in the same program all over again. need to stop the constant repeat of the same mistake over and over and over again. it's a situation where's like you doing the opposite of robin

hood, giving to the rich and stealing for the poor, but most of the programs are being used by people that are rich. that's why most people that are in those low-income brackets remain out in the streets as far as homeless centers are concerned. they need permanent housing, just like you do. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. any other members of the public would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i do just want to thank the soma stablization citizens advisory commission including claudine who has worked with them since its inception. i think this is a great use of ensuring that we are providing wraparound services to our communities, and i wish all of our schools had a fund like this to support our students. so colleagues, i'd like to make a motion to move this forward with a full recommendation.

we can do that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, item number two. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you. and presenting, wie have elizabeth leona, and we also do have severin campbell if there are any questions. >> good morning, chair person women and supervisors. my name is elizabeth leon. hsa is requesting authorization to enter into contract with allied universal security services in a contract amount of $12,704,160 plus a 10%

contingency for a total not to exceed amount of $13,974,576. this contract provides unarmed security guard services for 16 city sites, 13 of which are hsa, the other three are other city departments that pay through work order to hsa. this is a brand-new contract. it will start july 1st, 2018, and there's a three year term. this contract was procured through rsp 86602, which was released through the office of contract administration. alice universal was the highest scoring bidder. the funding is a mix of general funds, state and federal funds, and my colleagues and i are available to answer any questions you may have. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. i don't see any questions from committee members for either the bla or hsa. thank you very much. and at this time we'll open it up for public comment, seeing

no public comment, public comment is now closed. all right. colleagues may we take a motion on item number two? >> supervisor peskin: so moved. >> supervisor kim: we have a motion made to move this forward to the full board, and that can be done without opposition. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, can you please call items number three, four, and five together, please. [agenda item read]

>> supervisor kim: thank you very much. and i realize item three is slightly different from four and five, so my apologies, but why don't we start with item number three. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you, chair kim and supervisor breed. when i first became a member of the board of supervisors in 2001, the western portion of my district was not really well represented by neighborhood organizations. the eastern part, the older part, russian hill, north beach, telegraph hill, all had organizations that went back decades, and a gentleman named john malloy actually started the lower polk neighbors which eventually led to the lower

polk community benefit district, and then a woman named dawn and her husband frank strike thatted the middle polk trainers late 2000's, and eventually, that robust organization found its way to suzanne markel-fox. today, to say that they're seeing the culmination of ms. markel-fox's work, but this is just the beginning. [inaudible] >> supervisor peskin: -- we've seen the fruits of your neighbor to the south. mr. christian martin is here from the lower polk cbd, which is acting as the fiscal sponsor for discover polk.

i just want to thank you. when you first started this effort, you didn't go to the 30% threshold, but rather than tent and go home, you guys have regrouped and gotten to that magic number so that we can vote on it in july. and i want to mention that you've managed to get the support of the four largest property owners that represent over 15% of the assessments, and they've endorsed the formation of the discover polk cbd, as have a plurality of small businesses in the area and condos have been supportives. so after we hear about the presentation and get public comment, i will ask my colleagues to support this resolution of intent. >> supervisor kim: great. thank you. >> this project started in 2015 and 16, and the lower -- on the middle polk community worked to -- with outreach to determine the appropriate

services to deliver appropriate costs to deliver those services. the district budget is going to be approximately $625,000 annually which approximately $604,000 will come from special assessments. the district has approximately 536 parcels. the services will benefit property owners, business owners, and the neighborhood as a whole. they reach 30.33% of weighted support, which is above the 30% requisite, and the district's term would be 11.5 years, and it would expire on december 31st, 2029 to coincide with lower polk sunset date. if the iri is passed and moves to the full board for aful pro, then the district will mail ballots on june 8s. ballots will be counted on july 24th. if the majority is in favor, then they can count the ballots to establish the district. i'd like to thank everyone for

their invaluable support on this project. i'd like to turn this over to suzanne markel-fox if there are no questions for oewd. >> thank you. i'm not seeing the slides. [inaudible] >> thank you very much. first of all i'd like to thank supervisor peskin who has been supportive of our efforts through the three years that we've been working on this as well as the lower polk community benefit district who has served, as peskin said, as our fiscal sponsor as well as our mentor. also, chris schulman and his employer who have provided us with a generous and unsolicited donation to support many of our activities. some of my committee members are here in the room, and i thank them for participating in today's presentation. as the supervisor said, we have 536 parcels in our district,

and 80% of these are condominiums. it's an unusual district, mixed use with a number of apartment buildings, as well. we have a very dedicated steering committee who have met almost monthly since 2015, and have been totally energyized by the project as it stands now with the approval of our neighbors. we have one city park and six nonprofits in our neighborhood, as well. initially, we were a larger neighborhood, but when we did not achieve the 30% in our last round, we restricted the neighborhood to something that is more cohesive and consistent with middle polk. our proposed services are pretty standard. we believe that they will, in fact, have a major impact on our community. we sever, as many do, from the effect of impaired and

sometimes aggressive homeless individuals, and we believe that as we take care of the sidewalks, have a visible presence of safety ambassadors, and elimination of vacant storefronts that will help us address some of those issues. we also want to vitalize our business community. as i said, decreasing the number of vacant storefronts. our budget is a modest one. we're able to take advantage of participating with lower polk cbd, reducing capital investments, and streamlining personnel costs. we will have a dedicated coordinator to oversee all of operations. $21,000 of the budget will not be collected through assessments, they will be general benefit. thank you very much.

>> supervisor peskin: thank you, suzanne. mr. corgis, anything you want to add or should we open it up to mr. schulman. >> i am a little confused as all items were called together. would you like to move onto the annual reports. >> supervisor kim: well, is this public comment? >> supervisor peskin: i forgot that all three were called together. >> supervisor kim: it's my mistake that i called all three together. we'll do public comment for all three together. >> sounds great. >> supervisor kim: i see that helen mar is here from oewd to present on this item. >> good morning chair kim, supervisor peskin, supervisor breed, we're here for the fisk of year 2016-2017 annual report for the noe valley benefit

district this resolution covers the annual report for 2016-2017 and ensures that all cbd's are meeting their management plans. oewd staff also conducts an annual review of the cpa reports and financial reviews, and we provide the board of supervisors with a summary memo. the noe valley cbd is comprised of approximately 218 parcels. it was originally formed in 2005 and will set to expire on june 30, 2020. it's the property based district with an initial assessment budget of approximately $230,000. the noe valley cbd is headed by executive director debra new man, and their sites of operations are rites of way and

sidewalk improvements, district improvements and operations. oewd is charged with reviewing the following four benchmarks for noe valley cbd, whether the variance between the budget amounts for each category was within 10 percentage points from the management pln, when 5% of noe valley's actuals came from other than assessment revenue. three, whether budget amounts from each category was within 10% of the actuals, and whether cbd is designated projects to be spent in the up coming fiscal year. for benchmark one noe valley cbd did not meet this benchmark. benchmark two, assessment revenue and other income, noe valley cbd met this benchmark and was able to raise around 8%

in nonassessment revenue which exceeded their 5% requirement. for budget versus actuals, they also met this requirement, and they indicated their variover and spend down in their annual report. in conclusion, the cbd will sunset in 2020. oewd is working with the cbd to prepare for their renewal campaign. they did not meet benchmark one. the cbd improved in meeting benchmark two and was able to raise more in nonassessment revenues compared to the previous fiscal year. although the cbd did not meet one benchmark it overall has performed well in implementing its service plan, has an active board and has sponsored various events including the activation of noe valley town square, and we will continue to work with noe valley cbd to meet their

requirements. do you do any questions for staff? >> supervisor peskin: it seems like the category in benchmark one that is out of whack for 2016-17 as well as 2015-16 is the administrative operations category. but in 2014-15, it was actually consistent with the management plan. so that's kind of crept over time, so i'm not sure what the structural weakness is. >> there were additional city requirements that were not anticipated in the formation of this district, including the financial statement requirement from the know owe valley cbd that added to their administration component of their budget. >> supervisor peskin: so that is the quote -- >> that is the anomaly. >> aaron, remember, we're the first cbd, so our management plan did not include an account review which cost between 5 and $7,000, so that's the missing component and what caused

administration expenses to go up as much as they did. >> supervisor peskin: but just was that -- >> but the reason it wasn't in the other years, to your other points, financial statements are when you take a picture of a certain year over time. sometimes we pay our taxes at the end of the fiscal year, sometimes we don't. in that year, we didn't. it occurred more in july. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. >> you're welcome. okay. time for show and tell. good morning, supervisors. i run the smallest by the miyest cbd, but we're the first and thanks to aaron, we even came to be, so we appreciate his efforts to make cbd's happen with marco. let's go through this quickly. you've seen the map. we have a green committee, we open sidewalks, we put benches in, we are very active with the merchants and with the community, and we put on lots

of different events. we have 24 holidays on 24th street, and we have line reindeer in our parklet. the neighbor raised.5 million, and sf park bought the property. we had grants for additional seating, we put in additional tables and chairs at two parklets, and we have activated the noe town square which has seen numerous events this past year. we move a lot of trash, a lot of graffiti. we're the only cbd that annually washes their sidewalks ten times a year. flower baskets are always a big hit, garbage cans were pointed annually, but we're trying to get mohamed to give us the new ones. even though he hates the big

bellies, we would love them. planter boxes, you can read all about it. i know you guys want me to go quickly. we work with sf rec and park to activate the noe town square, which is difficult to do. i'll talk about that in a minute. the best thing we ever did was a long-term strategic plan, which -- with the community, where we asked, what do you want to see on this street, and we have used this plan to write every grant so that all of our capital improvements on 24 street have been generated by grants so we can maintain them because of the cbd. we'd love to do more murals on large walls, we'd love to improve the greening on the town squares, we'd love to have intersection count downs at the two intersections of church and castro and 24 street. advocacy based, work with the

community and the merchants to modify the planning code for 24 street. this is not true, this is an issue facing every commercial district in san francisco, and i think oewd did a great job of consolidating what the issues are in presenting them. so i think the planning code for 24 street needs to change, and that's going to be a lot of heavy lifting. advocacy, we continue to act at fiscal agent for the town square. this is what it used to look like, and this is what it looks like now, which i think is pretty dramatic and pretty cool. the problem we have is working with sf rec and park. when we want to have an event and serve ice cream, sf park and rec tells us we can't have ice cream because it will stain the pafrs in the town square, to which i say there's a hose and there's water, and we can

wash it down. i'm advocating that sf rec and park give us a permit for this space to do small events and activities as opposed to doing the paperwork every time we want to have a tai chi class or have a petting zoo come in there. they're difficult to work with. questions. >> supervisor kim: no, but i do appreciate the input how we can stream line the process with oewd. >> they're a pain in the butt, that's all i can tell you. >> supervisor kim: we appreciate the honesty back. >> i'm known for that. >> supervisor kim: miss mar? >> hi, again, supervisors. helen mar. office of workforce development. >> supervisor kim: before you begin on the next district, i'm going to give the supervisor to make opening remarks. seeing none, miss mar, thank

you. >> today we're here for the top of broadway fiscal year 2016-17 annual report, and i'll just run through a few slides because they're the same presentation. the top of broadway cbd is comprised of 39 parcels. it is a property based district with an initial assessment budget of $106,000. it was established on june 30, 2013 and is set to expire on june 30, 2021. their service areas are district identity, street operations, buttefication and order, administration and organization and corporate operations. we reviewed the following four benchmarks for the top of broadway cbd. one whether the variance between the budget amounts for each service category was within 10 percentage points

from the management plan, whether 1% of top of broadway's actuals came from sources other than assessment revenue, whether variance between the budget amounts in each category was within 10% of the actuals, and whether cbd is indicating the amount of fund carried over from the current fiscal year and designating the projects to be spent in the current fiscal year. for benchmark one, top of broad cbd met this requirement. they also met the requirement for assessment revenue and other income, and they raised approximately 49% in nonassessment revenue, which greatly exceeds their 1% requirement? they also met their budget versus actuals benchmark three requirements, and they indicated their carry over and spend down in the annual reports. in conconclusion, top of broadway cbd successfully met all their benchmarks and has performed well in implementing the service plan in the

district. for oewd's recommendation, top of broadway cbd found and addressed webpage issues found in early 2016-17, and their website has been in compliance. the cbd also maintained an active board of directors and community members. are there any questions for staff? i'd like to -- >> supervisor kim: no questions. >> -- bring up dominick. >> thank you chair kim and supervisor peskin, supervisor breed. i'm the director for top of broad convey cbd. it was formed in november 2013 and began services in january 2014. as mentioned, we have over 39 parcels with over 100 businesses. $110,000 of our annual budget was spent on sidewalk cleaning and last fiscal year we upped our sidewalk cleaning frequency from five days a week to seven days a week to provide comprehensive coverage, so

that's something we're proud of. like many of the cbd's in the city, we continue to collaborate with others in the community to provide the most effective service possible. we do have great success in fund raising to complete the other half of our budget from some benevolent property owners in the block. the mission of the top of broadway as many other cbd's is to improve the quality of life and economic vitality for the businesses in our district as well as the residents. we have a mixed use district, and we have to tailor our operatives to function through residents and businesses.

federal operations, some of the highlights from our last fiscal year, as i mentioned we increased our sidewalk cleaning frequency from five days to seven days a week, so we have an uptick in the amount of days we were able to provide coverage, 349 days of the year. we picked up over 8700 pounds of trash. we moved over 1,000 instances of graffiti, we reported over 400 incidents in our cbd. i credit that both to the cbd as well as dpw for being on top of their game. they have a -- about two hour turnaround, which is fabulous

when you have a couch or a mattress or a speaker on broadway. the district was pressure washed 13 times throughout the whole year. we want to increase that because we are a night life districts, and the clean will iness of our sidewalks often -- cleanliness of our community offense is over shadowed by our night life community. [inaudible] we conceptualize and contracted with an led contractor to illuminate the kearny steps in the heart of our district. we also developed new branding strategies for expansion bid to try to cater to the differing identity that we have within that broadway columbus corridor. vision and plan, as i mentioned, to expand the district to become more financially solvent, to further

integrate surrounding the community members and coordinate resources amongst the various industries or agencies. promote the diversity of the district to identity projects like the historical marker project. [inaudible] >> this is some of the district challenges that we see. they're very common to other cbd's in the city. homelessness remained a major challenge for us, as well as enforcing no trespassing signs, and illegal dumping, as i mentioned, we've seen great improvements, but it continues to be an issue, and i find that education is the most effective solution to potential dumping. i mentioned the kearny steps lighting project, that is something that we have just recently installed back in april 1, 2018. when we did the ribbon cutting for the historical marker project, a bunch of community

members came forward and expressed their desire to see plaques placed to commemorate other north beach will you jets and dignitiaries. north beach banner program, that's something that we're interested in in telling the story of the district with a banner program. pertinent organizations, oewd has been tremendous in terms of assisting our cbd and finding grant funding as well as shepherding us through the auditing process. sfpd they've definitely upped their game in our district. they've been an instrumental partner in helping us reign in the problem businesses on

broadway. [inaudible] >> thank you for your time. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, dominick, for your work and for the work of your board members. >> supervisor kim: we will open it up for public comments for items three, four, and five. seeing -- >> supervisor peskin: don't be shy, mr. schulman. >> supervisor kim: if people don't walk up, i will close public comment. >> good morning, chair person kim and supervisors. my name is christopher blus, i'm a husband, father, property owner, and i'm also on the steering committee with suzanne and marco fox. i'm here to support the community benefit district to ensure that my family, neighbors, and visitors to my

neighborhood have a great experience with clean and safe streets, a voice to city hall, and a vibrant and growing business community to ensure the long-term viability of our neighborhood. i have recently moved from chicago. i've had the great experience of working with a cbd out there. the impacts are far reaching and truly get to the roots of the community. they represent the interests of the community members and definitely take a longer term view which most communities and cities these days are severely lacking. so i ask that you establish the cbd as we move forward through this progress. i'd also like to give a huge thanks to my steering committee members as well as the office of oewd. thank you very much. >> supervisor kim: thank you. >> supervisors, chris schulman,

resident of the lower polk community benefit district. i'd like to just extend our full support on behalf of the board, and we look forward to working with the discover polk cbd and hopefully see them through fruition. i'd like to thank suzanne and their board for all their efforts and everybody else who's worked with the group organizing this cbd, and i wish them well. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, chris. >> chair kim, supervisors breed and peskin, thank you for the opportunity to support suzanne and discover polk. we have worked with them over the past couple of years to come to this.

>> supervisor kim: seeing no other public comment, we are now closing public comment on item three, four, and five. >> supervisor peskin: chair kim, president breed, it is my absolute pleasure to recommend item number three be sent to the full board with a very positive recommendation, as well as items four and five. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much, supervisor peskin. we have a motion to move forward all three items, and we can do that without opposition. thank you very much. mr. clerk, can you please call the next item. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, and i want to thank and acknowledge my colleague and sponsor of the hearing aaron peskin for your continued determination in continuing our discussion on this topic. supervisor peskin?

>> supervisor peskin: thank you, chair kim and thank you, president breed for your continued indulgence as this is now hour ninth hearing on the subject of tall building seismic safety standards after we learned a couple of years ago about the millennium tower differentially settling much more than we predicted than the four to 6 inches that was originally projected for uniform settlement over the course of its entire life. and of course the will i limmium building is actually in supervisor kim's district, so i want to thank her for allowing me to continuing to get to the bottom of why it is sinking and tilting and what we can do about it. when it was completed a decade ago on a very tight and expedited building, it was the tallest concrete building situated in a seismic zone four

region in the country. it was the fourth tallest building in the city and county of san francisco, and the tallest residential building in the united states west of chicago. the significance of the building's setting, design, construction continues to reverberate through city policy and the city skyline, and san francisco now has 160 buildings that tower over 240 feet, and a dozen more that are evntitled r under construction, almost all within this seismically vulnerable downtown core, which almost all sits on fill. if you read the report that is part of the record, the revised geotechnical report of 301 mission street, you'll see the first 23 feet of this site is rubble largely from the 1906