>> nothing personal just expressing my views. >> commissioners, this matter is submitted. >> this case more than ever, i mean we did approve the last one on the fact that, i mean, this is a complete different case, but i think if you look at how this permit was issued whether the director has discretion or not, i think that this is not an underserved market plus the challenge with the parking. >> they are saying issues of congestion. >> thank you for correcting my thought mr. fung. >> pine and california? >> yes. >> there is no issues with california.

the issues are with pine. >> yes. the thing is as the appellant mentioned is there are three food trucks on that block, so we are making it worse for either location. >> we don't know that because notification went out to both sides and nothing coming back. if you are going to go that way then i think the permit holder should listen to what was suggested and he should pursue 250.

they are saying 250 pine is available. >> okay, do you mind if i make a ? >> no. >> i would grant the appeal and condition it that the location on pine be removed due to safety and congestion concerns. >> i would suggest that because it's within 75 feet of an existing mff permit. >> that is what i said. >> one of the factors that the director can considerate the meeting. >> then issue the permit for 400 california? >> correct. >> so we have a motion from commissioner honda to grant the appeal and issue the permit on the condition that it be revis revised. require the permit for 332 pine

street location on the basis that it within 75 feet of an existing mobile food truck, and to grant the issuance of the permit with respect to 400 california street. on that motion,. [roll call] that motion passes 4-0. you understand you have the 400 california street location and you will have to reapply for the 250. >> the meeting is now adjourned. .

b) authorizing, pursuant to the 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 improvement project that is within the scope of the transit center district plan project approved under the final environmental impact report transit center district plan and transit tower ("feir"), a program eir, and is adequately described in the feir and its addendum for purposes of the california environmental quality act transbay redevelopment project area (discussion and action) (resolution no. 28-2018) >> this item before you today is approval of extension and increase i and project with cmg and we engaged them since 2011 -- in addition public works has

been engaged to do construction management oversight on the project so in addition to approving expansion of the project and amount to cmg will include the fulton street improvement project. with that shane heart will lead the discussions and i think we have a representative from public works as well and the audience will follow. >> good afternoon chair mondejar, my name is shane hart. we are here to discuss the funding of the fulton street improvement product construction in trans bay. the agenda taos a today we are combining agenda items 5a and

5b. i will first present the proposed third amendment to the contract with cmg who is the designer of the fulsom project and then they will present the final design and then we will have a representative from dpw come up to discuss the phasing, scheduling and i will wrap up and discuss the third amendment to the mou. the commission will be taking two separate actions to approve amendments to the existing contracts with cmg and dpw to increase funding for services relating to the foulings street

project. foulings street is the key component of both the trans bay development plan and the project has been in design since 2011. in 2013, dpw was hired to be the projecproject manager. ocii is responsible for funding the portion within the redevelopment plan which is the ramp to bus street. the design is complete and it's been bid out. d pw must have commission of funding for the ocii for the

project to award to the general contractor. we plan on starting construction in september of this year and excellent construction september of 2020. the public outreach has been extensive. the schematic was approved in 2013. i will discuss the third amendment to the cmg contract. ocii hired cmg in 2011 to design multiple trans bay projects including fulsom project. since then approved two amendments to the current contract. the current is close to

$3.7 million and to date we have spent about 2.7 million. the third amendment work scopes, in order to keep the project moving forward, we obtained approval to complete the line items. ocii paid additional 407, 649 to cmg due to number one, extended design schedule from the nine months that's in the current contract to the actual dpw and city ocii schedule of 42 months. additional plan set required by the city also and extensive tree

permitting done with help by cmg. new work design services not to compete $260,320. the scope for this portion is to assist block developers with design of streetscapes surrounding their projects. extend construction administrative services from the 12 months in the existing contract to the actually dpw schedule up to 24 months. contract expires on june 28 so we are extending the contract five years. the cmg contract rs -- i would d

she will represent the folsom design followed by carrie ru rudneck and she is the project manager for the folsom project. >> good afternoon carrie with cmg landscape architecture. i am patiently awaiting the slides.

>> welcome. >> thank you. i am briefly going to try to move through the project design as quickly as possible. we have been working with ocia and public works on the design. as shane mentioned the scope is from second to spear street, about six block area. when we started the project our charge was to implement the 2006 approved open face plan for the transbay area along folsom street. we saw the main project goals as creating vibrant main street linking the rin con and transbay neighborhood and providing services for all the new residents. the second piece we saw was implementing green

infrastructure. that meant re-establishing transit from folsom to existing and new residents in the area and also providing a two-way bike lane, a dedicated bike lane eastbound and westbound and then the third layer of that is providing wideth sidewalk for pedestrian circulation. our next goal for the project was to create beautiful kind of places to sit and gathering spaces along the street scape. the last one that is listed here talks about the use of enhanced materials and planting along the street to create a unique neighborhood within san francisco. this lenderring starts to just what the project will look like

and the enhancements. i know it's fairly small. we have a regular tree canopy and also moving in the tree lines to create more areas for pedestrians and for bus islands for the new transit that will be established as well as the bike lanes. this next slide is just a quick overview about how traffic flow works in the area. we all know there will still be cars on folsom street even with these other added forms of mobility, so between second and essex will be maintained as one way east eastbound changed from four lanes to three between essex and first similarly two way with the

westbound dedicated to first only and from 1st to spear two lane traffic. we will have a continuous bike lane both east and northbound separated from particular traffic with just a painted buffer and then we will have the three bus islands as well as anothealoading area on each blo. as we know there is a lot of drop offs and yo ubers and lift, so that was another component rolled into the project. this is an enlarged view that represents more clearly the bus

loading island and then the green striping are the bus lanes. for gathering we created these rain gardens that provide opportunities for seating, both on seat walls and benched unique to this neighborhood. we have enhanced materials to try to unify the street and we have enhanced color concrete and granite bands on a regular rhythm that work with the street trees. then we have a suite of site furnishings that will be consistent. we have been working with the developer to make sure that the site furniture works with the

project to create one unified neighborhood. we have one particular street type that is currently planted and we are keeping some of the brisbane boxes and also planting more colorful plantings at the rain gardens. the final picture is the block six developer who has started to implement this plan. we have been working with the developers closely to make sure the design is unified throughout folsom street. >> good afternoon.

i am kellie ridneck and i am the project manager. i am relatively new to this project. i am joined today i have our public information officer, and our project lead engineering brian degussman and contract lead and also joined by our contract monitoring division.

the neighborhood outreach is pretty stand but we will do a little bit of extra things here so that because there is so much going on with traffic, with development and all of that, but what you see here is basic outreach noticing, thirty day and ten-day noticing when we start construction and the open communication with the community on-site we have our pio, public information officer visiting the site regularly, so being open to comments that are coming in. we do both mailings, physical mailings which will be the 30-day and 10-day an also on as-needed basis a newsletter in the mail, a hard copy to folks within a four block radius.

next slide. we have a project website that has been up for some time and will be updated regularly. we also will have a newsletter, e-mail newsletter that will go out similar to what the city is doing now in the second street project that will go out on a regular basis and that is electronic opt-in newsletter and we use next door, facebook, and twitter. we also have a lot of wonderful organizations in the neighborhood cac and east cut, so we have that as a conduit of information in and out and we hear from them and disseminate

information through them and standard ouc outreach we do thrh police, fire, 311, caltrans. then we have press release which is traditional format for getting things out and traffic advisory because we know traffic is something forefront on people's minds and often comes up as the most pressing kind of urgent issues that people have. as you know the area is seeing rapid transformation. this is showing what the development projects that we have going on and what we need to coordinate with, so between second street and free monday, we have two development sites

and this shows the constraints in terms that we can work on the south side of the street but have to recognize the traffic routing specs that require three lanes of open, and this one shows the areas funded through city-impact fees, so in the orange outline you see the area not funded through ocii funds. similarly on the eastern side of the street the last block to the east we have another project scheduled to be completed or you have a development project scheduled to be completed in january 2020, so you have to be working around that project in terms of coordination during construction. i think that's it. i suppose if there are any questions for any of us?

>> i will now discuss the third amendment to the mou with dpw. ocii hired dpw in 2013 to act as manager for the project. the originalal had three units of work and the originalal mou authorized funding for phase i only which was design services

through 50% cds. since then there have been two mou amendments authorizing work. today i am here to discuss a third amendment which is sub phase 2c which would authorize funding for construction. sub phase 2c, there is 11 divisions of dpw that oversee the construction to make sure the project is built with approved plans on budget and on schedule. also includes funding for

general contractor portion which is a contract between dpw and general contractor. the scope also includes funding for puc and mta for construction and support services. total authorization is phase 2c -- the mou amount to date then would be $19,709,347. this portion is being funded by ocii with existing bond proceeds. regarding the contracting per

2013mou we are relying on the city's contracting requirements, the city has 25% lbe goal. michell engineering chose to construct the project is city-certified -- 72% based on ocii's policy. the city has mandatory participation levels of 50%. the next step july and august dpw awards contract to general contractor and issue notice to proceed. will begin construction in september and project will excellent in mid 2020.

here are the two actions. we have representatives of dpw, contracting folks, and also cmg to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you. do we have any speaker cards? >> >>clerk: i did not receive any. >> chair mondejar: i will close the public comment and turn to fellow commissioners for any comments or questions. >> commissioner bustos: i have a question regarding the design. one of the things i am seeing a lot in terms of a lot of

projects that are happening in san francisco especially with downtown is removing a lot of the parking spots. we have a huge stretch that i see with a lot of parking taken away, and that concerns me because it is downtown and there are some businesses that have sort of not just with this project but first floor retail space and traffic is already bad enough to find a place to park when more spots are being taken away because prior to this particular project people used the only to park on both of those blocks and so now they are being taken away and i see other things like muni hogging up another whole side of the street. that concerns me.

it's i not good. >> there is some parking remaining i think about 22 spaces along the stretch between essex and spear street. currently right now between seconsecond and essex that will remain the same. as a city goal as a a district goal was be to bring in other forms of transit with bicycles and muni as you mentioned to arrive to the area with multimodal forms of transportation.

a lot of the residents and services will be serving a lot of the new residents and they do have parking in all of the block developments, so i think we see this as a lot of retail used by the residents in that neighborhood so they will be walking in the shorter downtown region. >> just that downtown belongs to everybody. i see the chaos down there and i don't know if it will get worse. i don't know if it's a question or comment but as a whole, we really should be thinking about, i know people want to get people out of cars, but people also have a choice and if they have a car and they want to use it, you should be able to use it. if you have a bake you should be able to get on your bike. it just seems like the city is moving more and more away from

allowing people to have that choice, so that is one thing. the second thing regarding the plants, you have the large cape rush that i see and i see that on some of the other neighborhoods like i live in the mission and i see a lot of that type of planting there. the only thing that concerns me is at night i also see a lot of rodents coming in and out of those bushes, so i would just want hopefully, i don't know what we mea need to do because s nice when we want to put plants up on the street and in the mission you have at lot of people that want to put plants everywhere but they are not maintained. >> in this neighborhood we are in a lucky situation where you have the cdg that will be

maintaining that and people out there on a regular basis. >> commissioner bustos: my next set of questions is regarding the contract with public works. you know i'm always concerned when there is constant amendments happening to a project because it's almost like we don't have unlimited resources and part of the reason why we contract out and go through a bidding process is for people to give us the best, fair cost and $17 million is a lot of money and i'm sure that every penny is probably used well and in a wise way, but i get concerned when we are constantly amending things because then it's like when does it stop and if it doesn't stop, why didn't we do a better job of looking at the biggs an bids and if peoplea

bid forward why didn't they stick with it. are we looking at this being towards the end of the amendment process for this contract? >> yeah, i can have kelly talk about the bid process and their process with the contractors. i am totally with you on the cost situation. costs have gone up a lot and it's been a major issue. with this project folsom back when we came to the commission in 2013 we said the budget would be in the 12 million range and now how many years later it's at 12.8, so it hasn't been a huge increase when you compare it to you know other construction

costs and i can have kelly talk about the process. >> as shane said we are seeing bids come in quite high these days. we have a low bidder and the construction contract and the low bidder is $16.5 million for the project. it did come in 150% over what we estimated and that is kind of what we are seeing unless we were to put this project on hold and wait, we don't know how long, until construction costs come down. one of the things we saw that was really high in this contract in this bid was for the concrete base for our street paving, so it just happens that there is so

much demand for these types of materials and things like that they are very expensive right now, so it's not something that we have any control over today except to wait and we don't know how long. nobody can predict when this boom will subside. >> chair mondejar: if i may the contract before you today the first and second amendments were regarding soft cost so it was really designed in getting construction document through and this is the first time you are approving the construction piece of it, so in terms of the agreement in front of you approving the contract it is a first. it was sequenced that way so we could have more certainty in what the cost is.

>> commissioner bustos: appreci. we hold the trust of our community with the resource. that is very helpful for me and for anyone who may be watching on tv. >> we feel from the experience of the city and contracting we feel this is a really solid bill. this is someone we have worked with a lot. we had three bidders and we had two that were quite a bit higher. >> thank you. >> chair mondejar: commissioner singh. >> commissioner singh: how many man hours were required to look into these sites? >> sorry, can you rephrase the

question? >> commissioner singh: how much time is needed to look after this, about how many mens? not construction i mean the landscaping. >> oh, for the landscape portion, i will have carrie come up. >> do you mean postconstruction to maintain? i'm not sure i have an exact hour amount to give you. i know that the cbd has reviewed plans and set a budget for maintaining the street scrape and hope space in thand open sp. i wasn't part of that process. >> the commune benefit district

will do the maintenance on top of the city standard. we basically have with the community benefit district a higher level of maintenance for those types of planting to keep them alive and clean and we don't have the exact number of hours it will take, but we do have an agreement with the community benefit district that they will maintain that. >> commissioner singh: public works takes care of the browns and everything too. >> that's right. a partnership between public works and the community benefit district. >> chair mondejar: thank you commissioner singh. i have a couple questions. first of all i know you have a website and all these e-blasts and you work with a newsletter how does one get into that. this is my neighborhood and i don't think i am on the list and

i would like to opt-in and a lot of these changes are exciting and i'm concerned i have livered ilivedin the neighborhood for 2s and many of us still don't venture to folsom street, so this is exciting as far as i am concerned and some of my neighbors, so seems like the outreach of how we can participate is not getting to some of us. >> first of all if you live within a four block radius, you will get physical mailings that will come to you, so that will cover the people, residents, businesses adjacent to the project area. i think we will need to start working on compiling those mailing lists now that we are starting construction and we are counting on some of our partners, you know the cbd has

extensive mailing list and the cacs to be that conduit and also add to our mailing list. we also will use next door and the other social media. i think that is pretty much how we gather. >> i'm not next door and i don't think i have seen any. maybe i should pay attention to that. i am several of the next door lists. >> so just pay attention and we will utilize the supervisor's pages and you will be able to go to the website and opt-in and request to be added to the more

frequent biweekly newsletter updates. >> my point is i don't know about this and i'm a resident. i need to know how are we reaching out to the wider neighborhood. this is not their park and they don't own that. it's for the city and for the entire neighborhood, so any question is really a more vigorous outreach so that we can because next door doesn't allow you to join all the neighborhood. i tried. i joined some. there are all these pockets. i am on the list. jane kim puts out a monthly newsletter and i pay attention to that because i am obviously a

district 6 resident, so i'm just saying maybe we could be a little bit more aggressive or asertiff in our outreach. >> you will receive those updates once the contract gets awarded. our aggressive outreach starts once we have a contractor on board and we have a notice to proceed and then we will send out the 30-day notice to let folks know that the project is coming. >> chair mondejar: so all of these include the lighting, maintenance, security that will make the entire city of san 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. 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 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. 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.

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.

amount equal to 1% the cost of construction for exceeding 25,000 square feet. public art projects shall be subject to approval and review. the redevelopment plan requires the installation and maintenance of works of art costing an 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. 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

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.

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

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. 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 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 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 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 .

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.

>> 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)