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francisco res dens come over re. i don't know if they are union street shops. it will be a challenge but we would like to engage the residents of the city to come over and check this out so security is very important, manet nans is important, transportation, and we need to kind of get the word out. i know there was open streets this weekend or last weekend, so i would like to engaged a a little bit more into your efforts of reaching out to the community. >> yes. thank you. >> chair mondejar: not just this community but to the entire styy of san francisco. >> yes.
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public works will do all of the outreach and notifications and promoting the project and talking to the city about the project. once we get a contractor on board and this is part of that process, then the next door notifications will start coming, but they haven't come yet because we want to announce something and that's construction starting on this exciting project and thank you for that input. >> chair mondejar: now i have to follow your twitter need. i guess i have to go to dpw and follow that. thank you very much are there any other further questions? it's very important that we get the community to know what we are doing and what we are funding. commissioner bustos raised the
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money portion of money and where is it going and does it benefit the city of san francisco. there are no businesses to patronnize and visit and be there. thank you. what's next. i need a motion. thank you commissioner bustos and so moved by commissioner bustos and seconded by commissioner singh. call the vote please. >> >>clerk: we will have two votes. item 5a commission members announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner rosales is absent. three ayes and one absence. >> chair mondejar: motion carries. >> >>clerk: for item 5b.
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commissioner singh? >> commissioner singh: yes. >> >>clerk: three ayes and one absence. >> chair mondejar: motion carries for item 5b thank you very much everyone for being here and please let me know how to sign up and follow whoever i need to follow. madame secretary please call the next item. >> >>clerk: 5c approving a variance.
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b) authorizing, pursuant to the transbay implementation agreement, a third amendment to the memorandum of understanding with the city and county of san francisco, acting through its department of public works to increase funding in an additional amount not to exceed $17,966,556 for an aggregate total not to exceed $19,079,347 for the transbay folsom street improvemen >> nicki henry will be presenting on this item. >> my name is nicky henry ocii. the requested action before you today is a variance under the mission bay design for development. today we will be going over the site location, the variance background, proposed design for development variance, mission based cac meadback, se qua and next steps.
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amount equal to 1% of the hard costs of initial construction of a project for commercial use exceeding 25,000 square sheet. outward wall to protrude outwards allowing for ventilation for operation of the parking garage in a healthy, sustainable and safe matter. here is a rendering of the current art wall design by edward cobra. here is a site plan of block 40, the proposed variance location is highlighted in green and to orient yourself.
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the property line is shown in red and art work projects slightly over the property line a foot and quarter inch and additional four feet for associated lighting. this shows the vertical dimension of the art wall, which is 31 feet four inches and the design development standard is two feet six inches. this shows vertical height and vertical clearance which is 7.6 and extends to 9.2 feet and desig.commission reviewed at ma0 meet and recommended approval. for see qua staff determined it
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is exempt from categorical review pursuant to guidelines and requires no further environmental review. i am here to answer any questions. >> chair mondejar: thank you. madame secretary do we have any speaker cards? >> >>clerk: no speaker cards. >> chair mondejar: quiet today. i will close public comment. welcome commissioner rosales.
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commissioner bustos. >> the design is nice but we couldn't find a local artist to do this project? >> hi, i will try to answer your question. we hired an art consultant and looked at a lot of artists around the world including local, but based on the design of the building, it is a big structure, big-block structure and when looking at cobra's work it's very grid and structured and then has pops of color that
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attaches so the grid and that makes it a little bit more dynamic and have that facing park with all the bright colors, native to brazil where the artist is from, we think that works really well with our building. >> commissioner bustos: make this is a question for staff. you know one of the things that this commission i know and particularly i have been talking about is how do we get local people to do the art work. i remember when i was redevelopment back when redevelopment existed, i really pushed and so did at that point commissioner london breed, how do we get many of our local art tyess.
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that area held a lot of artists and many have been displaced in san francisco, so in order to try to help i think some of our artists we need to make sure they get some of the gigs because it's san francisco space and san francisco artists i believe should get these opportunities and maybe what we need to do is talk to a lot of these so-called artist consultants because many of them are not from san francisco so they don't know the beauty that is in this city and the talent here. maybe we need to host a meeting with them. i know that other commissions are starting to ask the same questions. what about our artists here? if there is certain needs that a developer wants to take as elements of the project let's make this clear with these artists and say, hey, what would you be able to do, but i would
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love for us and we will push again and keep on pushing to make sure that we hire our own that especially in areas like this that used to be filled with artists because no one else wanted to live there. we need to one, make sure that art work is highlights and make sure they make income from these projects so hopefully they can stay in san francisco. i hope we can do that and i would ask that make we can meet with some of these artists consultants because i don't think they understand what we have in this city. >> it is something that we will encourage and have encouraged. >> something we understand on the good side for this we do
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have a million and possibly two million of fund that people have opted out where we will control it and work with the san francisco art commission to we will make it a top priority for those funds. >> commissioner bustos: thank you. that is important. but there are businesses that are saying they are art consultants and maybe we need to educate them. >> that is very correct. >> commissioner bustos: it's a great design i'm not knocking the design i am just trying to promote san francisco artists to be able to do this work. thank you. >> agree with you 100%. >> chair mondejar: thank you which i shall bustos. commissioner singh. commissioner rosales. >> commissioner rosales: i have
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no comments other than the design is impressive, pretty, but at the same time but i concur with comments of supporting local artists. >> chair mondejar: i do concur with commissioner bustos. is this the final art work? >> very close still working on the artist with nuances because of per formation. we want to control how much you can see through it to see the garage. >> chair mondejar: i see a hand. >> it's a kid's hand. >> the idea if i may. >> chair mondejar: yes. >.>> we want to kind of recall .
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francis always has the doves around him and celebrate innocence and creativity and the dove being released by a child's hand. >> chair mondejar: i hope this is a california dove. [laughter] we are in this area at least bring the san francisco although i like the st. francis idea. since this is going to be there for years to come, it would be great to tell the story of what this means. >> it is in powder coated metal and should stay a long time. >> chair mondejar: i like. next we have voting on this item 5c. >> commissioner bustos: so moved.
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>> chair mondejar: seconded by commissioner rosales. [roll call] >> >>clerk: the vote is four ayes. >> chair mondejar: the motion carries. please call the next item. >> >>clerk: the next is item 5d. authorizing a personal services contract with lowercase productions ("lowercase"), a sole proprietorship in an amount not to exceed $100,000 for web development services specifically the design, overhaul and revamp of the current ocii website (discussion and action) (resolution no. 30-2018)
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>> this item is a long time coming. this will be a two phase contract to revamp the design over two fiscal years period and we intend to come and share with yo progress we made but today we are here to engage contractor to assist in this work. with that i will turn it over to max. >> good afternoon. i am max barns project associate
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medium public relations for oci here today to present item 5d fod.first some background. the current oci sight has been hosted on the city of san francisco's template since the existence of the agency in 2012. over the past 5.5 years the website was deemed outdated and in need of an overhaul. it's been hard for a lot of members of the public and oci staff identify if i the documents they are looking for and easy too get lost an our site as you guys probably all know. as a government agency we are
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supposed to be serving the public and this is what this revamp is to get the information out there as fast and efficient as possible. we set down with the major goals that we wanted to achieve. here is a quick outline about what we are trying to achieve, so we are looking for more service-based easily navigable with affordable housing resources and public information especially. getting more organized. we talked about a clickable map which you can hover over and click on our projects. our site is so inundated with writing and type face and that trend has shifted to a more
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modern look and document archives so we can get all the documents to be more well archived and easily accessible and a tool embedded in the website. lower case productions is a san francisco based small business enter price, micro, local business enter price and they are prior working experience with oci and san francisco redevelopment agency. that means they desig designed e transbay requests for documents dating back almost ten years ago so they havago.
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they have worked with local government and they know what we are about. they have extensive gog of the city's management system and this is crucial because the new website will be on drupple so that will save some time and is an easier migration. i will move on to a few examples of the lower case's portfolio. this is a piece designed by them in 2014. it's very clear and you can see the detailed map on the left and the right and you can see each
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project with a rendering, just to give you an idea of how their design works and the work they have done in the past. moving forward this is public work's home page. you can cycle through the images and right there it has easily identifiable menu links and this is something that we are trying to emulate emulate and move tows because right now our site looks nothing like this. another example is the office of expect planning. you get to the landing page and it's hard to feel lost because all that information is right there as you are going too the site.
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this is the contract terms. commission approve will authorize a personal services contract with lower case protections in an amount not to exceed $100,000 for web development services to revamp the oci website. work will commence meetly and will terminate after completion of face it is i and ii. phase i from fiscal year 2017-2018 funding and that will tackle the side scrub so they will go in and determine how to best migrate it to the platform
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and there will be contract strategy involved. i think we are going to go through and figure out if we can do things better and communicate with the public better. last part of phase 1 is information architecture. phase ii is coming from fiscal year 2018-2019 and there will be a lot of back and forth with our staff and lower case's to make sure that we are getting what we want and they are able to provide that and there will be focus groups helds and things of that nature so members of the staff will be making those eggs decisions not just a small number of people. they will train relevant oci
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staff to make sure we have an idea how to update in an easier manner. the work will commence tomorrow with general on boarding if the submission approves the contract and by august 1 we would like to have a phase i scope of services on the way to being completed and the fall we will have focus groups and provide feedback. that will be the longest part of that process because it's determining what we want on this site. winter, spring, 2019 engineering the site and starting to get fuller mock-ups and frames and then summer they will train us how to make the updates to the
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overhauled site. fall 2019 we plan on launching a modern day website. looking at a 12 month to 15 month buildout. that concludes my presentation. i will be happy to answer any questions and jennifer from lower case is right here and she will be doing the technical questions if you have them. thank you very much. >> chair mondejar: thank you m max. are there any speaker cards? >> >>clerk: no speaker cards madame chair. >> chair mondejar: we will close public comment. mr. singh. commissioner singh. >> commissioner singh: i am not very good at the computers but what is that system? >> drupple is a content
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management system thinking that you see online is hosted by a content management system and drupple is one that the city currently employs and it's a template that is very customizable. you don't have to follow exactly what drop tells yowhat drupple . our current site is on drupple. if we were to switch to a word press site, the buildout takes longer and that will slow down the process.
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>> chair mondejar: commissioner bustos. >> commissioner bustos: this is long overdue. i have had trouble navigating through the website. i am excited about it, so with that comes expectations. you have heard me talk about the wow factor. i would love for us to have a wow factor that when people come on to our will be site they are going to be so wowed by not only the visuals but the content and it will make people want to visit frequently. jennifer as you guys are all thinking about this, know that is something i think this commission is going to be looking for is the wow and i think that is something that will be good for you as a showcase when you go to bid for other projects to be able to say whicthis is what we did for ocid
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city and county of san francisco that is a wow that would encourage people to come back to a website over and over again for information. i hope we are able to do that. >> we can going to do our best. as time goes by and we are moving to the actually design process; we would love to have you involved in that process as well. we will send you mock-ups and you can put in your two cents as well so we make sure we are doing what you would like us to do. >> i like the topics o that are easily navigable. i am assuming we are going to do links to mayor's office of housing? >> oh, yeah. >> i think a lot of people when
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they hear the mayor's office of housing they sometimes throw up their hands and say oh my god that is too much information and it would be nice if we could be not a carbon copy of what they have or a simple link but maybe a little more showcasing or distinguishing what we offer. >> the mayor's office of housing is on the template all of these agencies have to follow the same constraints on we are remember site. when you go to the site and you see the golden gate bridge and that template. we will be able to go away from that. we will having something cleaner and more of a wow factor and you will able to find how to apply for affordable housing.
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>> chair mondejar: first of all, finally, we have bee have been g for this, so appreciate that and a lot of thought that seems has gone into this, but i would like to make suggestions. i have been asking for sample of art work. you know all of the art work within ocii and the redevelopment agency i would love to have a list of where are these beautiful art pieces within the ocii redevelopment properties and then the community, the open spaces. i met a young man an for some reason he knows where the open
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spaces are, seriously, he was still in high school and his mom said talk to him he has been to this and he showed me on his phone all the open spaces, so it would be one place to have that because after all it's part of this project and i think it's important that we have at least a list and maybe a nice active map where there are dots of where it is because we spent a lot of money on this and our developers have also done that and it's something to be proud of. i hope that we can incorporate that and somehow be interactive. i don't know if we need to add more money. >> the 100,000 was a contingency
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of 14, 980 built in so if we are participating of wanting to add things so trying to prepare as beas possible. to your point about the list of art work, i will have to have aa conversation with jennifer, that would be just adding another doubt. that would be good. >> chair mondejar: a wow factor we can actually find things and find the documents and the information tor link to where we need to be instead of trying to go through so many. you know what it's lining and then you forgot where you started because you have so many pages in your computer you forgot where you started. of course the information the good things that we are doing
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that this commission has been doing through the years that would be great if we are being proactive and so i know that you are going to be on top of this mr. barns, so we are looking forward to this oversight and working with lower case productions and so thank you. we need a exhaustion to approve this. moved by commissioner singh and seconded by commissioner rosales. please call the role. [roll call] >> >>clerk: the vote is four aye is. >> chair mondejar: motion
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carried now go to work. please call the next item. >> >>clerk: agenda item 5e. establishing classifications of positions and compensation schedules for successor agency staff and establishing authority for appointment to and vacation from positions under said classifications and other matters (discussion and action) (resolution no. 31- 2018) >> chair mondejar: thank you. this item is almost cleanup has been part of usual annual review. we came across some classifications that were not tying properly to the cd classification, so we thought as part of the annualcess to make these amendments and then with suggesting other changes and
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addition to classification does not impact the budget that you have approved by cleans up the salary ordinance or the schedules. with that i will turn it over to april ward to present on this item. >> thank you director. good afternoon chair mondejar. today i too man come before youe approve establishing classification of positions and compensation schedules for successor of agency staff for positions under said classifications. to give you a brief overview my presentation will include a background and history of ocii salaries, proposed salary charts and changes and additions, and depdepartmental scope.
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the currently salary has a compensation schedule plan that relates to each classification and benchmark salaries to the city. [. [reading] ing] establishes the rate for represented employees that have been negotiated. it also represents the unrepresented staff for salaries to match the salary rules and ordinance as well. negotiations are held between ocii executive management staff, local, and representatives. the salary resolution comes with
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ocii salary chart that provides the salary rates listed in biweekly, hourly as well as extended range in play fo pay. the salary chart is required by calpers to be made publicly available on ocii website. approval to correct five classification salaries benchmarked to city and county of san francisco with current incumbent employees on our salary chart. second, changes of the scope of duty for work of two classifycations, human resources manager and add principle analyst.
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on the chart you can see the salaries between a and b. while we were presenting for the cost of living increases for staff, we came across abnormalities of five classification salaries not comparable with the city and county of san francisco. because of this we sought adistance and he found the same findings that we found. because we have incumbents in these five we wanted to keep them the same. for these five classifications the proposessed salary charts are listed as line a and b. line a for employees that were hired before june 30, 2018 and
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line b will indicate for employees hired after july 1, 2018. we net with local 1021 and 1041 and explained how this will not hurt those in this classification. [ reading] the next item we are seeking approval on is scope of work. the human resources manager is based on disillusion and position overseeing the hr department and administrative
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in addition, it's needed because of the realignment duties of the human resources manager that will increase the scope of work and duty performed. disposition will assume some of the duties of the human resources manager. your approval of the salary resolution i effective july 1, 2018 is recommended. thank you. >> chair mondejar: do you have any speaker cards? >> >>clerk: no speaker cards. >> chair mondejar: since we don't have any requests to speak i will close public comment. any comments or questions from fellow commissioner. commissioner singh?
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>> commissioner singh: i just want to know can you tell me the salaries are on this? >> average salary range for the five positions we are talking about range from as long as $150 to at least $1,150. >> commissioner singh: comparab? >> yeses the. each tied to comparable city and we saw these were off so hired outside analysis to come in and look at our work and they agreed
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the same and we didn't want to harm the employee so we created a line b to project the employee for line a so they would not be stuck at this salary and will get the cost of living increase along with the other staff. i hope that answers you question. >> commissioner singh: okay. >> >> commissioner rosales: tha. i just had a question. am i reading this correctly that there is 101 positions? >> correct. they are not all filled. >> >> commissioner rosales: that was my next question. i just want to know what is our current how many employees? >> 151. >> >> commissioner rosales: fulm e? >> one or two that are part-time. >> >> commissioner rosales: so we have approximately
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>> the motion carries. and thank you for your presentation. please call the next item. >> next order of business is item 6, public comment on nonagenda items. we have no speaker cards. the next order of business is item 7, report of the chair. madam chair. >> yes, i do want to commend commissioner singh. >> if you want to see in the computer, you can see -- >> the new website. >> technology center, you can see all what we have there. >> oh, wow. so, there was a new technology center named after commissioner singh at the bureau of prisons,
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and he was there for the inauguration and did not invite us to attend. but he has beautiful pictures, including a picture with mr. zuckerberg, so that's really wonderful. because then -- it provides -- >> we invited him. >> you can see -- in the computer, you have all the, you know, reporter were there, too. >> wonderful, yes. and so it provides services, additional benefits for the prisoners. so, thank you. and wanted to commend you, congratulations. >> you can see in the computer. >> darshun singh technology center at san quentin, prison. congratulations. that's the reason we were not invited. we need a pass. >> i didn't know that, actually.
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>> it was a surprise to me. >> a surprise, ok. >> i was there, all -- approved that, you know, so -- yes, so -- i did not know it all. >> excellent. >> thank you, and congratulations. and so i just want to make a statement that i know i speak for my fellow commissioners, and that we are delighted that the california department of public health has committed to retesting parcel a in the coming weeks and that the navy has released a very detailed work plan for retesting parts of g this past friday. the safety and well-being of the residents and workers of the shipyard is paramount and we will continue, we are committed to collaborate with cdph, the department of public health, and the regulatory agencies to address health and safety concerns at the hunter's point
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shipyard. thank you. please call the next item. >> next order of business, item 8, report of the executive director. madam director. >> i want to echo the remarks and thanks, concur that we are excited this is happening. we'll continue to keep you abreast of when the testing does occur. we expect that california d.p.h. will release a work plan in the short-term, and that they will start retest, we have been told, in july, and so we'll keep you posted on, as that progresses. as you know, we do have residents in parcel a and we want to address their concerns. so, this is a good first step. >> thank you. and this is one item that has to be tweeted and posted on our facebook and in our website. or future website.
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this is really, this type of information, that the public needs to know. and that, so they will be able to go to our website currently as it is, but at least our twitter feed and our facebook page so that, and thank you, please keep us abreast and we need to let the public know we are doing our best to make sure that the safety of the residents of, and the workers of the shipyard are taken care of. thank you, madam director. >> please call the next item. >> next order of business is item 9, commissioner's questions and matters. madam chair. >> yes, commissioner bustos. >> commissioner bustos: i want to publicly acknowledge we have a mayor-elect who actually sat on this board as a member of the redevelopment commission. and who understands our work intimately. it was actually at that time commissioner breed and myself
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and commissioner king and commissioner singh to allow the certificates of preference passed on so more people could come to san francisco, come back to their roots and i would love for us through the director to send a note of congratulations to the mayor-elect from the body that she once sat on and then maybe we could all sign it. i think that would be a nice little touch for us to be able to let her know we are still here, and that we are still doing the good work. so, i would like to acknowledge that publicly, i hope we can do that. >> commissioner bustos, yes, congratulations to mayor-elect london breed. maybe do it better and meet up with former commissioner, london breed and new mayor-elect london breed. thank you. any other commissioner -- >> i was there with her in sunset district on last
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thursday, so it's, you know, we open up our office there. >> you were -- >> yeah. >> which office was this? >> london breed, sunset office. >> oh, yeah. >> what you call the campaign office. >> the campaign office, yes, thank you. >> thank you. any other comments? >> i have a question. unrelated. >> but i see that mr. lee is not here i'll ask it anyway, and perhaps get an answer later. does -- does this commission or the prior redevelopment agency, did it have any policy, small business policy that was applicable to our tenants? the tenants -- not our tenants, but the tenants in our developments? like, let's say --
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>> i'm sorry, for tenants improvements, no? never? >> it depends on the particular project, but for the most part, the obligations of the builder of the project are for the owners' improvements as distinct from tenant improvements that come in later by a third party or another party that is either leasing or possibly even buying the condo in a building. so, for the most part, it's the owner's obligation to comply with s.b.e. and that's where we have direct enforcement. there is a question, i suppose, where the owner is building what is finishing certain areas, what might otherwise be considered tenant improvements, but the owner will occupy it. our position would be in that
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case the owner was duly obligated to follow the s.b.e. requirements for contracting and work force. but in the true tenant improvement context, we don't, our policies don't extend that far. >> ok. maybe, and we can talk -- i'm not sure i caught that second tier that, i understand the owner part, but i thought -- i might have heard you say something, maybe an exception to the general rule or the general policy or positions that the owner does not dictate to tenants essentially how to, any policy regarding using small businesses or local hire for their build-out? >> right. and we don't require it in our policies. >> but is there a possibility, i thought i might have misunderstood you, might be a room under certain circumstances where the owner would -- would
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be subject? >> owner is building indirectly for their event occupancy. >> for their eventual occupancy, that's the part i missed, ok. >> i mean, we would interpret that situation to be covered by s.b.e. >> i've got it, thank you. >> thank you. should we call the next item, please? >> next order of bids, closed session, no closed session item. and the next is 11, add jourm t jourment -- adjournment. >> i now close the meeting, 2:39 p.m.
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>> i came to san francisco in 1969. i fell in love with this city and and this is where i raised my family at. my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a holly court resident for 32 years. i wouldn't give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago. my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. before the remodeling came along, the condition of these apartments had gotten pretty
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bad, you know, with all the mildew, the repairs. i mean you haven't seen the apartment for the program come along. you wouldn't have believed it. so i appreciate everything they did. i was here at one point. i was. because i didn't know what the outcome of holly court was going to be. you know, it really got -- was it going to get to the point where we have to be displaced because they would have to demolish this place? if they had, we wouldn't have been brought back. we wouldn't have been able to live in burn. by the program coming along, i welcome it. they had to hire a company and they came in and cleaned up all the walls. they didn't paint the whole apartment, they just cleaned up the mildew part, cleaned up and straighted it and primed it. that is impressive. i was a house painter.
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