use, business and employment with cac. housing, affordable housing, environmental planning and reuse, finance, recreation, workforce development, and community benefits. workforce development -- and i know it's a passionate area for spice sore safai. and he has worked hard to get that into his district 11. it would be such a help to this city with workforce development moving and developing our committees, including our as-risk youth. the shipyard will bring in job opportunities with workforce development throughout this whole city. what i would like to do if appointed and put on this commission, i would like to

honestly, as clergy and a person of faith, come in with redemtive love, listening, reconciling and bringing in hope where, as dr. king said, out of a mountain of despair, there's a stone of hope. and this development and hunter's point becoming once again the economic engine for hunter's point and the city of san francisco. i would like to be a part, joining in with this committee to see that happen and to see our city strong and thriving again. thank you so much for the opportunity, and if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please ask. >> thank you, ms. scott.

>> supervisor yee usually has questions. >> i know supervisor cohen has communicated to me s supports you. >> as well as she has to me. i think the work you've done -- as we've talked about -- on the hunter's point shipyard cac will represent the work you're doing. the director of your department and i met the other day. i know she's meeting with a lot of supervisors to talk with them, or all the supervisors, to talk with them about the upcoming plan that will be presented on the shipyard and candlestick point. we just went to a ribbon cutting the otheray down for the sales force tower and that transportation hub. a lot of exciting things are happening under the purview of ocii. if you could just talk about what that means to you as someone who grew up a life long

bayview, hunter's point shipyard. what does that mean to you to see the redevelopment in terms of your vision for the city? >> you really bring tears to my heart. i hope they don't flow and stop me, butathat means to me is the city communities that were under surged, overlooked, not given many chances throughout the years, live, stay throughout city. be a part of the city that we've all loved so much. it means that we're reviving. we're building. we're bringing forth great opportunities for great growth and development for all cultures. all people. and we're opening the door for a brighter future.

>> your presentation is music to my ears. the power of redemtive love and everything you said. i'm happy to support you today. >> thank you so much. >>. i think you're coming on at a very exciting time. the experience you bring both from your community work along with more recent work you've done in the cac as well as throughout the bay area and being a voice. [please stand by]

can i entertain a motion? oh, any other members wishing to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. entertain a motion on this item, please supervisor stephanie? >> i'd like to make a motion

approving the mayor's appointment of carolyn scott to the successor agency commission and deleting the rejecting language from that motion and move it to the full board with positive recommendation. >> and can we do that without objection? without objection, that item is moved in order. congratulations, ms. scott. are there any other items before us today? >> item number five is a motion or approving the mayor's reappointment of john ramm to the oversight board of the sister agency to the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco for a term ending january 24, 2022. >> great. can you come speak to this -- this is also on your agency, correct? >> good morning. this is the oversight board. it is a several member board

that was instituted as a result of dissolution and there's a seat -- the mayor has three appointed seats as well as a member from the community college, from school district and -- and john ramm will be a reappointment because he already holds the seat. >> oh, ok. >> and has served in that capacity because of his experience as planning director and some of the planning -- the approvals that will be coming in front of that board. >> so, this is an oversight. so you have your seven commissioners. >> i have five commissioners. >> sorry. five economisingers and there is an oversight board meant to be interdepartmental -- >> it's meant to be the taxing entities. of the taxing -- the entities that receive taxes. so, which would include the city and county which receives approximately 65% and the remaining -- >> of the taxs that are

generated in your redevelopment areas? >> generated city-wide. because they get pass through whatever is not pledged to the development that would be transmited to the other entity including the city and county of san francisco. >> from your redevelopment areas? >> correct. >> former redevelopment areas. >> from a redevelopment. my existing redevelopment areas. i should have some. so as part of that role as the state in dissolving development felt that they needed to have a body that represented the taxing entities. so, he represents the city's share -- >> this was created as a result of the dissolution of the redevelopment agency. >> correct. >> ok. got it. as a way to oversee the taxes that would have -- >> the tax and approved the recogniezed the payment

schedule. >> so, the mayor has three of the seven. >> yes. >> say it again. >> there is one from the school district. one from community college. one from bart. and then three of the members from the city and county and one from labor. >> labor. oh, ok. great. so, this is a reappointment. >> yes. >> thank you. i think it's important not just for committee members here but also for the public. i always try to get thing on the record and it always amazes me and makes me very happy how many citizens come up to us and say i was watching channel 26, i learned a lot, blah blah blah. so, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> ok. any other questions from committee members? seeing none, any members of the public wish to comnts on the items? seeing none, public comment is closed. i think we can send this reappointment to the full board with -- someone want to make a

motion? >> sure. i'll make a motion to delete and rejecting and move -- and approve this -- there is a reappointment of john ramm to the oversight committee board of the redevelopment agency in the city and county of san francisco but positive recommendation to the board. >> great. can we do that without action? without objection, that item is ordered. >> that completes the agenda for today. >> thank you. we are adjourned.

zbls hi. good morning and welcome to. >> i am joined today by supervisor aaron peskin who's the vice chair. i'd like to acknowledge our committee clerk, john carol and also the staff at sfgov tv for

ensuring t our meetings are available to the public on-line. president breed is not going to be able to attend today's meeting, and so we will take a motion to excuse. president breed, we have a motion and a second. we can take that without opposition. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. clerk, can you please call agenda items 1 through 4 together. [agenda items read]

>> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. clerk, and i see mr. brian hsu who will be presenting on each of these items. >> good morning, brian chiu with the mayor's office of housing and community development. i come here with our annual request to allow us to accept and expand our hud allocations in these four different funding streams. as you see attached in your packet, we are moving into the fourth year of our five-year funding cycle. we are grateful that we will be able to maintain all of our grantees at the same level to which they were previously

entitled this year. as you may recall, even though the president chose to zero out the community development block programs, congress saw fit not only to renew that program but actually to increase it a little bit more, which means that for us, we have a little more money to provide for our affordable housing and a little bit more money to rehab our community facilities. in the black grant program, we also received a little more money for our home funding. that's the dollars thatow us towil construction for our affordable housing. our emergency solutions grants program was renewed at about the same amount, and our hopwa program, housing for persons with aids also compensated slightly, which accounts for the slight decrease that we will be receiving that hud imposed on that program. we don't really have any

significant program attic change from last year because we're moving into the fourth year of our five-year funding cycle. we ask that you allow us to accept t funhe and expend it in the way attached. i'm available for any questions that you might have on any aspect of that program. >> supervisor kim: no questions at this time, so at this time i'm going to open it up for public comment on items one through four. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed [ gavel ] wendy paskin-jordan madam chair, i move that we send items 1 through 4 to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: thank you. and we can do that without opposition. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk. can you please call item number 5. [agenda item read]

>> supervisor kim: and maria benjamin is already up at the podium, director of bmr and home ownership. i also want to acknowledge that cice yen, as well as deputy city attorney sam ray are also here to ask any campbell. severin campbell is also here to make comments after. >> good morning, chair kim and supervisor peskin. item 5 would allow ocb to purchase a condominium that is scheduled for foreclosure sale. it is located at 860 mission street, and the building is called somagrand. the original owner purchase it

had in 2008 through the bmr program. he had a first mortgage and since 2015, mocd, the planning department and the city attorney's office has been in contact with the owner several times to try to bring him in compliance with the program. he owes the h.o.a. over $35,000 in unpaih.o.a. dues. in 2017, the owner defaulted on his first mortgage, and the lender, which is seline finance has scheduled an auction for the property. mocd is requesting from the board to take the most

expeditious course of action which is to bid on the unit at the auction for up to $300,000 which is below the allowable maximum sales price, according to the rules. if we are successful, we would transfer the ownership to an income eligible household. if we are out bid at auction, the unit will still have affordable housing restrictions, but it is a costly and lengthy process to work with an investor who rchases it to bring it back into compliance. so we're asking you to forward the legislation to the board of supervisors with a recommendation so that we can take the quickest and most efficient route to bring the property back. and as you said, chair kim, my colleagues are here to answer any other questions.

>> supervisor kim: so miss benjamin, i know this came up, i think two years ago, when i held a hearing on below market rate, and it was said that at least i had heard for the first time that we had lost at least one or two home ownership units to market foreclosure to the banks. just to help me jog my memory. what is the protocol when we know one of these units is at risk of foreclosure. it just seems plainly wrong that a bank would get to own one of these units when it was part of a contractual agreement with city that middle class owners could purchase homes in san francisco. i'm really glad in this case we have caught the unit before it goes to sale. of course it seems wrong that we bid on this. you know, what is the protocol currently, and what can we do to amend this to strengthen our

ability to procure these units back? >> the current protocol is we monitor the units, all of our units, and when the first notice of default is -- it's usually like three months before their lender has or h.o.a. has the right to actually foreclose or go to sale. we contact the homeowner, and we reach out to them. a lot of times, they don't understand that they actually do have equity in the property, and so they -- they're kind of -- if they're in a financial problem, they are just, like, if they're giving up, we let them know what the value of their property is and then that leads to the sale of their home, rather than letting it just go. >> so -- sorry. in that instance, we would purchase the unit back from

them? >> i just want to understand the universe or the scope of this issue. i think it's pretty incredible that we have a pretty sizeable bmr home ownership program today and very few of the owners default. so that i think is pretty extraordinary, well i'd love to get a sense of -- how many b.m.r. units are there? what b.m.r. home ownerships are there, and how many fall under this category where we have to actually work through the bank? >> currently, we have 12 units

in this category. they're at different phases of the foreclosure sale. like ma i can't just mentioned, alhe first phase i notice of default. in that phase, we usually reach out to the owner and refer them to mocd sf and for the agency t provide education for the homeowners. th housing counselor will do financial analysis for the household to see if they can initially keep up the payment of the property. of course there are all kinds of programs help out with the homeowners. mocd, internally we have the program called mortgage assistance loan program which is specifically designed to help homeowners who are in default of mortgage payment or at risk of foreclosure. so it depends on the household tuatsin. there are different options

available fort household? i would say on a more quarterly basis, we were able to help between three to five households to bring them back current or help them with different mortgage options. the reason why we have 12 units on this category because we a still actively working with them. they are still also working with their first mortgage lender to do ownership modification. >> how many units have we lot to foreclosure. >> for the inclusionary program because our restriction survives the foreclosure, so we actually -- just in the last two years, we only have one unit that was actually sold under foreclosure, but now we're working on it, and the new owner understands the restrictions and willing to work with the city to sell the unit to the next qualified buyer. >> supervisor kim: okay.

okay. >> supervisor peskin: my recollection was we had two -- >> supervisor kim: yeah. >> those two units were not inclusionary units. they were former redevelopment agency properties, where we don't have the -- the restrictions do not survive foreclosure. >> supervisor peskin: right. and once those were foreclosed on, they became market rate units forever. >> the inclusionary rate unit, we're talking about, which survives the foreclosure. the inclusionary units, we lost that. that's part of -- the affordable restriction does not survive the foreclosure. >> supervisor peskin: and those are the ones we want to stop. >> those are the ones -- since that time, we have not had any. >> supervisor kim: how many units are like this? this is the mission walk. so how many units are like the

mission walk? >> our portfolio right now, we have 700 units under sfra, which either the restriction does not survive foreclosure. the units, we have about 1300 units. >> supervisor kim: 1300 unit total? >> 1300 total, but for the sfra, we have 1300 total. in addition to the two programs, we also have the conversion below market rate program, which is the oldest b.m.r. rate program, which was suspended in 1988, and for that program, we have about 900 units there. >> supervisor kim: but of what we consider the traditional below market rate units, there's about 2,000 below market rate home ownership.

>> 1300. >> 1300. >> supervisor kim: and of the 1300, there are 1200 in various stages of foreclosure shall we are working with. >> that's correct. >> supervisor kim: and do we require notice to mohcd for all of these units? >> correct. for all the units, we have a copy of request of notice for default. so that will automatically notify the lender whenever there is a default, but for the counter conversion b.m.r. unit that i mentioned, those were on the very old program. that time, we did not have the process to have that documenting ready, but mohcd, we have a system, and that

system actually sends daily e-mail updates for all our portfolios, so whenever there isappe anyth to our unit, we get notification. >> supervisor kim: okay. yeah. thank you very much. i do have to say that 12 out of 1300 units is pretty extraordy, an at some point, i'd like to have an understanding of what we do to ensure people remain successful in their home ownership. but it is for this item before us. >> thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you, miss yen, and thank you, miss benjamin. why don't we open it up for public comment on this item. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor peskin: madam chair, i would move item 5 to the full board with recommendation. >> supervisor kim: great. so we can adopt item 5 without objection, and we can do that

without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, can you please call item number 6. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you. rachel alonso, the transportation financial analyst from the department of public works who's here to present on this item. >> good morning. the proposal allows us to accept a total expend of $926,426 in t.d.a. state grant funds. this is an annual funding source, and the expenditures

are similar in nature to previous years' resolutions. the transportation development act of 1971 earmarked one quarter percent of the general state sales tax for funding. m.t.c. allocates funds annually to the nine bay area counties in accordness with the sales tax collected in each county. public works and the m.t.a. are submitting a joint resolution. improvements could include but are not limited to striping and signing changes, bulb outs, safe hit posts, and bicycle turn lanes. public works proposes to use $232,000 to repair public sidewalks, curbs, gutters and angular returns at various locations citywide. the remaining $232,000 will be

used for planning and designf curb ramps at various sites throughout the city. locations will be selected from a list developed by public works and the mayor's office of disability. curb ramps designed with this grant will be constructed in fiscal year 18-19 with funds from prop k. the m.t.c. does not require local matching funds, and i am joined today by m.t.a. and public works staff. we'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. seeing no questions or comments from committee, at this time we are going to open it up for public comment for item number 6. seeing no comment, public comment is now closed [ gavel ]. >> supervisor peskin: and madam chair, i would make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: thank you, and thank you, miss alonso, for presenting. we will move this forward without objection.

[ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, please read the next item. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. and we have kerrie huang, long-term director of ageing and adult services to present on this item. >> good morning, chair kim and supervisor peskin. we are requesting authorization to enter into contract with brilliant corners fortal subsidy to facilitate independent living for eligible residents within the city and county of san francisco. services include rental unit identification and acquisition,

rental subsidy allocation, unit habitability, tenant well-being inspections, and the modification of housing. just to give a brief background in 2006, the community living fund was established under section 10.100-12 of the san francisco administrative code to fund ageing in place and community place alternatives for individuals who might otherwise require care in an institution. perthe code requirements, daas provides the board of supervisors two documents: the community living fund six months report twice a year detailing the level of services and costs incurred, and second the annual plan once a year. the goal of the community living fund is to assist those who are at imminent risk for and to prevent institutionization whenever possible. this includes transitioning individuals from skilled

nursing facilities like laguna honda hospital which has a dual purpose of allowing people to live independently while freeing beds up for those who need it. this concludes our report. >> supervisor kim: thank you. and john, thank you also for being here today. i just had a quick question. this is a very low dollar amount, which is great. it's not that i want us to spend more, but i'm just curious, what can you do with $16,000? >> it's 16 million. >> supervisor kim: oh, i'm so sorry. clearly, i just came back to work. this is a large dollar amount, then. could you explain -- it's closer to 17 million, thank you, supervisor peskin. could you explain what this

contract costs cover, and i am familiar with brilliant corners anheir work, but what services would be provided under this contract? >> sure. it covers everything from the point for the preparation for moving io the individual up till the time that they leave. so it does a lot of -- they do a lot of work in terms of unit identification and finding appropriate market rate community settings in fair market housing, and it's looking also at accommodations that a person might need. for example, someone might need a roll in shower or an elevator because they need wheelchair access. they do things in -- in preparation for the move, including looking at floors and if there needs to be a rug or not be a rug. if someone has a wheelchair, maybe they need a harder floor. they'll do things like grab bars, and they manage all the logistics of what one might need prior to move in.

once someone has moved in, they'll do regular checks more intensively in the beginning to make sure that person is settled in. this mig include, you know, making arrangements with the landlord if something is not working properly. they serve as a liaison between management and the client. thereafter, once things are stable, they'll meet with them every month to do what's called housing retention visits. this requires an individual going out and meeting with the client one-on-one and just kind of doing the -- you know, everything from the -- the habitability of the unit to repairs to any landlord tenant issues. if they need social services, they'll make the recommendation. if someone is ready for termination, they will make those arrangements, as well, and help ease the facility transition. >> supervisor kim: and how many clients will this serve?

>> this contract has a capacity to serve probably up to 120, that amount. of course it's a moving target with rent rates going up. this contract currently serves 102 participants. we had a- we transitioned a couple of new people out, and then there was about nine people that transitioned in this year. that number is always moving and we're always trying to maintain a pipeline as much as possible so people can be housed. >> so brilliant corners acts as an advocate between a landlord and a tenant, and why is that approximately $140,000 perindividual. it's a 17 million contract, and it serves, you said, roughly 120. >> yeah. i'm the director of contracts for the human services agency. the bulk of the contract is the rents itself. >> supervisor kim: oh, i'm sorry, so this includes the rent. >> yeah. >> supervisor kim: what portion of that is the rents versus the services?

>> 16% of it -- i did the math right before. it's about 16% is just administration costs, and the other three -- it's in the budget. the other 80-somethingcent is all rent. >> supervisor kim: the other -- i'm sorry? >> so for an approximate cost of about 3 million a year, 2.4 is rent subsidies. >> supervisor kim: 2.4 of the 17. >> it's about 3 million a year, so 2.4 is administration. the way we setup our contracts is we have a set base amount, and then we have a contingency. >> supervisor kim: i understand. i understand. thank you so much for that clarification. just one other question. this is actually separate from this particular contract.

several residents in my district are recipients of section 8 and work with brilliant corners and are having so much difficulty finding a landlord that is willing to accept section 8 even as a section 8 holder. so as a policy matter, what can we do to support our tenants who are even -- you know, that are lucky enough to even get section 8, a rent subsidy and get them into housing. it's been incredibly painful to see in particular some of our s.r.o. tenants who won section 8, lose section 8 because it expires. >> it's a very challenging question, but the focus of community living fund and brilliant corners primarily are keeping people out of institutions, so these are individuals that if they were not assisted, they would be sitting in laguna honda or a skilled nursing facility where

it would be thousands of double a month. i think it's double than community living. so the people that have access to these pipeline of units are folks that would otherwise require institutional care. it's a different population. these are folks that maybe need help with their activities of daily living. >> supervisor kim: so do you have a 100% housing rate with this cohort? >> yes. >> supervisor kim: so my question is separate and apart from this contract. because this contract with brilliant corners is before us, i'm asking what we can do to help these tenants find housing when they get a section 8 voucher and they're working with brilliant corners to obtain it, to obtain the housing. >> so this question's outside the scope of contract. >> i think this is a new contract to us that had been previously held by the department of public health, and we're taking it on.

i don't think we're tully aware of what brilliant corners has. >> supervisor kim: got it. thank you very much. all right. so seeing no further questions from committee members -- actually, is jennifer malvo here from brilliant corners? could you come up, please? hi. thank you. thank you for being here today. >> of course. >> supervisor kim: i was hope that you could answer my question. so completely separate from the contract itself, given the scope of your organization, what are some of the challenges and ideas that brilliant corners has to help some of our tenants who have won section 8 but are not getting housing on our rental market here in san francisco, and what are some things that even legislatively or from an advocacy standpoint can board of supervisors or city do to help these tenants

because i have several residents in the tenderloin who have been fortunate enough to land section 8, and then languish because they're never able to find housing on the market, and then, their section 8 expires. incredibly frustrating. >> i don't work on that particular program for brilliant corners. i do know what it is, and i c speak to what some of the challenges are. a lot of the challenges are poor credit scores. a lot of the landlords don't want to work with individuals that don't work or don't have high incomes. thos are the main challenges that we see at brilliant corners. we're working internally on some of that stuff, but it's a bigger issue. it's not something that we can resolve, like, today or tomorrow, but those are the issues, like, landlords are discriminatory. in our case, in our program, we advocate for the client, so we speak directly with landlords

and we build that relationship. unfortunately, i can't speak to the other program that brilliant corners has, but those are definitely some of the challenges that we have as an agency working directly with landlords. >> supervisor kim: ok thank you. i'm sorry to put you on the spot, but i just thought that you were here or brilliant corners is here, and this is something that has been dogging our office because tenants win section 8, and then watch them languish because they're not able to get section 8 housing. i'm just wondering i trere ways that we can support these tenants legislatively. >> i can put you in touch with the director of that prram, and she can give you more information. >> supervisor kim: okay. thank you very much. so at this time, we're going to open this up to public comment on ice number 7. seeing none, public comment is

now closed. [ gavel ] wendy paskin-jordan madam chair, i move that we send this item to the ful board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim: thyou very much. we can do that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor kim: mr. clerk, will you read the next item, please. [agenda item read] >> supervisor kim: thank you, and we have mickey callahan, director of human resources,

presenting on this item. >> thank you very much, madam chair, supervisor peskin. i'll be brief but certainly i'm here to answer any questions. i'm here with community relations director carol isen, as well. we're here with a number of contracts, particularly the fire mou's. there are many changes. our highlights covers most of them, but there are a lot of updates, but parties came with a lot tot table. as a result we did end up in arbitration. there were a lot of work that people wanted to do, and the results of these arbitrations are the agreements before you with respect to police and fire. additionally, we have a number of mou changes which reflect the agreements that we made with our unions to correspond to ab 119, new employee orientation, and some other minor changes really on the

order of howusekeeping to deal with organizational issues and other contracts. i'm very happy to answer questions. maybe that's the best way to proceed. >> supervisor kim: okay. thank you so much, director callahan. there are actually no questions at this time on these items. >> supervisor peskin: let me just say for the record, we've discussed this plenty in closed session, so it's not as though the members of this panel are just saying yes. we -- i think we have had maybe three, maybe four closed sessions particularly around local 798 and the p.o.a.'s contracts. we're familiar with the balance of these. i want to salute you and the employees relation division for all the work that you've done over these past many months, and thank you for your work with the board of supervisors. >> thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you. so at this time, we will open it up for public comment on

items 8 through 20. seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> supervisor peskin: madam chair, i would like to move items 8 through 20 to the full recommendation. itive >> supervisor kim: and we have a motion to move that forward. without objection, those items pass. mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> clerk: there is no further business. >> supervisor kim: thank you. we are adjourned. .

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>> -- and can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, i'd like to call roll.