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to the mayor's office. the mayor had a chance to review it and it went to the board of supervisors and was recently passed in july. so this is the final. i want to go over a couple of the changes which you approved. on the revenue side, there were no changes. we stuck with the revenue projections, the only difference in the end, once the final budget, if we have revenues that were needed to make up the full amount of the budget, we'll use our fund balance, so the controls at $5.9 million to get to the full budget. on expenditure side, there were major changes. one was a decrease in salaries. that was primarily due to some increases in attrition. so we had a lot of vacant positions, we're filling them, but others would get vacant. the board of supervisors budget analyst recommended they reduce our petitions from 1-fte to a
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lower, to save us time. if someone was hired in july, it may be to a .77. and there was a deletion of you on other position. we can add money for the peer review services. as you're aware for the tall buildings now, the department did an rfq and you have a list of qualified professionals to do the work for us. this is cost covering so the project sponsor will have to pay it, but for us to set up a contract and do appeal, we have to have money budgeted for it. we'll get that money back. increase to the city attorney bill, because that's been increasing. and we added money to handle the hosting and maintenance for the sf program.
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those are the major changes on the expenditures. i'm happy to answer any questions. well, then i'll go onto the second report. the second report is actual august 2018 report for this coming fiscal year. it's not much to -- gives you the budget and actual revenues, but as i always say in the first two months of the fiscal year, there isn't that much to do, so the projections are very preliminary. if you compare, you can see that we're pretty much where we were last year for revenues, we were at $10.6 million. this year, we're at 10.5, so not much of a change. the expenditures are exactly the same. that has to do with the way we start off the fiscal year and not getting a lot of things in. so this is very preliminary. on that, i'm actually happy to answer any questions, too. >> see none. >> thank you. >> item 11 b, update on proposed or recently enacted state or
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local legislation. >> i did include in our package sort of update on where we are legislatively. you heard just a few minutes ago from both the fire safety ordinance of supervisor ronen and the paving over of the front lawns from supervisor safai, so i think we're on track to move that ahead. i think all of you are aware that we did have a visit from mayor breed early in september, specifically about everybody's efforts city-wide to improve the speed of production of housing with a new executive director at dbi, planning and the fire department in particular, are going to be increasing coordination to try and
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eliminate immediate backlogs. we have essentially six months to eliminate the backlogs. and then four months for new applications to get processed. i think given the numbers that we're currently seeing certainly on adu, dbi, internal team, which is already addressing the adus, should be able to make that deadline. and we're certainly making every effort to do so. couple of other items. as you know, we did complete a city-wide response to the new civil grand jury report that came out in july. that also looked at both adu production and modular housing. we'll be going with other members of city departments to the government accounting and oversight committee, gao, which
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holds its annual hearing. that is coming up sometime later this month, so suffice it to say, we did complete and have now sent to the court our responsiveness to the grand jury's recommendations in those areas. and i did also want to mention that we've been working closely with the mayor's office of housing. the mayor's office, the fire marshal and the fire department on a relatively new interpretation from the state fire marshal as to what is the definition of a high-rise, including an occupied roof as an occupied floor. this does have immediate consequences for especially affordable housing projects in the city. so dbi is part of the city-wide team that is trying to push back to the fire marshal to emilrate
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the interpretation that took place, but would be subject to projects going forward from april 4th of 2018. so we're still in discussion about that and as we have more details, undoubtedly, will come back and update you. we regard it as a serious matter we're trying to address. finally, i'll just mention that the california building officials association came out with a rather strong opposition earlier this month to an assembly bill, 2681, that would call for a required inventory of vulnerable buildings, that every jurisdiction in the state has to produce.
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san francisco is already ahead of this in many ways, because of the community action plan for seismic safety, because we do have a long-term plan we're currently implementing, but the way the state legislation is worded, we would probably have to reduplicate that work and actually spend a lot of money to come up with the kinds of inventory data that this state law seems to require. so we have sent letters to the mayor's office dealing with our state lobbying organization and requested that they try and persuade the governor not to go forward and sign this particular bill until it is amended. i don't have any immediate update on whether that bill has yet been put in front of the governor, as you know, he's been rather busy with the climate
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action summit that was held here in the city just last week. so i don't know if we're going to be successful in putting this off or not, but it is an item that is also of some concern to us in terms of its requirements. but with that, i'll be happy to take any questions. >> president mccarthy: i wouldn't mind talking to you offline about the issues we're going to be seeing there in regard to permit applications increase. we had talked to dan. we wanted to go back with amendments about that. >> right. i have been in touch with the city attorney's office about that. we're still awaiting some response. but, right, i believe that it is still over in the city attorney's office and once we have that, we can go back and talk to the supervisors. >> president mccarthy: we could set up a time frame to go and
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make recommendations. and please let me know about that. i'll go to that meeting. all right. >> next item is 11-c, update on major projects. >> tom wood. department of building inspection. you can see overall, 55% increase, but you pay more attention to filing 6.4% decrease. that's going to bring attention. >> director, i was just thinking, i'm starting to hear -- and this is more street talk than factual -- that a lot of projects, particularly good ones, large housing units, are kind of on hold for whatever circumstance, usually financial i'm hearing and so on. so i guess question one is, traditionally when the projects
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are approved, how long of a shelf time do they have before they're extended or can be extended or so on? >> depend on the size of the project. generally couple of years before they start construction. >> president mccarthy: is it your opinion that most of the projects we see here that have been approved and the permits pulled, will be starting construction? >> as you can see from the page 1, you know, complete ones have -- some of them. and then construction also going down. you mentioned if that in fact people are hurt, also in a rumor and the construction costs up
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jump by 15%, due to the trade war, but this is out of our control. but some of the developers want seriously to develop it, you know, some of them want to, you know, sell the permit. >> president mccarthy: i'm reading the tea leaves here a little bit. through what we saw there last week, i'm curious some of these projects may reinvent themselves down the road here, become modular, i don't know, because of the construction costs and so on. i don't know what that means to us -- i actually do know, but projects are going to have start all over again, particularly on the dbi side, right? >> that i cannot say. but the talk with the developer regarding the construction, the costs may be maximum savings 10%, only the time frame you will save. but there is limitation from the
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bad experience we had on some project due to the weather and have to waterproof the construction. that is big effect too. >> president mccarthy: i think the 10% number is a number that i would challenge based on our last visit to the modular factories. that's why it's important that, you know, as a future project for the department, is to get as educated as we can on them and get, you know, commission walker saying we should visit there and really get an understanding on the cost and numbers. because i believe that is going to be help with our housing crisis issue, along with the cost issues so on. >> construction cost is one thing. the material will be more. i talked to them. and then also job by job specific, depend how you're going to have construction staging areas is very important. that's why i say it's not only
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one -- >> president mccarthy: there is a lot of moving factors. i get it. >> that end, you're right, staging and city in downtown is hard, but we have 8,000 units at treasure island. you know, we have a lot of units being built in places that for lack of a better term are basically the suburbs in terms of open land. so i think it would be pertinent for the department to educate itself. >> definitely, we want to -- >> president mccarthy: we're drafting -- this is just me getting in the weeds, we're drafting cranes down to get it. i believe we can get the product downtown with the proper -- with the proper planning. and we asked that question and you know, san francisco, they don't see it as a difficult place. they design around us. so i think as we get more educated, more of these issues will be dealt with. obstacles, the conversations and the objections i hear about
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modular slowly but surely have been chipped away. >> i would like to suggest that the director add a column on the summary. on the summary that he gives to us, maybe just list the number of units on each one. >> ok. >> this will help us understand what is going on. >> one of the things that came up in -- >> we can add it up. >> you finished? >> one of the things that came up in our tour is to the cost, and what you mentioned about the cost increases because of the trade war and certain materials cost going up is that with modular, once the contract is into the factory, the cost is set. and so they just produce at the rate they contracted with, so that at least for that portion of the cost, it doesn't change. and that's from them.
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that's their words and so, it really does make -- give more reason to really evaluate this and find solutions rather than ways of stopping it, in my opinion, so it's just something to look at and talk to them about as you're touring over there. >> yeah, i understand what you're saying, but also some of the existing, you know, contractors building it, they have a big fight with the subcontractor right now because the cost jumped up unexpected. i just wonder -- >> it's complicated, we get it. but we're kind of at the commission coming around thinking, everybody keeps asking for solutions here, director, and this is to us, based on our first round, is a real strong possible solution to address our housing costs. so the commission is kind of saying to staff and leadership, let's get educated, because the
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information we're getting out there talks directly to san francisco as a possible solution to the housing problem. and i really -- i mean, i was very doubtful, but as i walked through the factory, you become a believer very quick. and understanding how this is something that we should as a city adapt and really seriously consider. there is a lot of opposition to it, but there is a lot of people that believe it's going happen in the future. i want to kind of get the mindset that we need to look at that, we need to get educated, director, and i believe you should bring key people out there. >> we arranged to go there, because last time, actually we did some of the job, you know, on first street and then learned the lesson how to improve it. >> and they did, too. and the factories have adapted
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to those issues as well. so they talked about that. >> yeah. >> president mccarthy: they talked in detail about how there is -- this is not a new concept. it's been around since the 50s. it's failed in many levels, but now i think we turned the corner. base on what we saw, there is a real understanding this could be a new way of forming housing. i think they worked out a lot of issues. theirs biggest downfall right now is sheet rock on site. that is their killer. >> it's labor intensive. >> yeah, and it slows the whole thing down. five stations for the sheet rock and so on. they're looking at it. if somebody could come up other than sheet rock, we could create -- so right now, just so you understand, right now, the two factory floors there, they could in theory, with enough
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orders, right now with the production, produce 2800 square feet of finished housing every day. if they had -- they have the capacity to do three times that with the proper orders in place. so that's somewhere just shy of 10,000 square feet of housing ready, shipped to a site every day. so it's a huge thing. so i really think we need them. i wasn't going to get into that, but we should have another conversation. i really want to stress the deputy director -- >> just to inform you, we've had meetings, there is a large factory built housing going on with mission. we've had meetings. giving them direction. so we could see eliminate some of these obstacles. it's ongoing right now. >> president mccarthy: it's adapt or die. >> [laughter], sort of is.
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>> president mccarthy: thank you for that. >> item 11-d, update on code enforcement. >> morning commissioners, code enforcement and dbi monthly update for august 2018. bid, building inspection performed, complaints received 432. complaint response within 24-72 hours, 415. complaints with first notice of violations sent, 63. complaints received and abated without notice of violation, 195. abated complaints with notice of violation, 32. second notice of violation referred without enforcement, 22. health inspection services, house inspections performed 1057. complaints received 443.
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complaint response within 24-72 hours, 427. complaints with notice of violation issued, 146. abated complaints, 475. number of cases send to director hearing, 58. routine inspections 154. code enforcement services, number of cases sent to director hearing 114. number of order of abatements issued, 21. number of cases under advisement 7. number of cases abated 69. code enforcement inspections performed 224. number of cases referred to bic, none. number referred to city attorney, one. >> great job. >> president mccarthy: thank you. >> any public comment on the director's report items, a-d? seeing none, item 12. review and approval of the minutes of the regular meeting
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of august 15, 2018. motion to approve the minutes? >> move to approve. >> second. >> any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, are all commissioners in favor? any opposed? minutes are approved. item 13, adjournment. motion to adjourn? >> adjourn. >> motion and a second. all commissioners in favor? we are now adjourned. it is 11:54 a.m.
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>> good afternoon everyone. on the mayor of the city and county of san francisco. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: i'm really excited to be here with some of our city's most incredible leaders. members of the board of supervisors, and including the person who has led the efforts for each and every one of us that brought us here to this day thank you so much. [applause] for farm too loan, survivors of sexual harassment and assault of how to navigate through tangled web of city departments and resources as they fight for justice and accountability. but thanks to the leadership of everyone here, we are helping those survivors receive the help and the support that they truly need. recent surveys have shown that
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more than 80% of women and 40% of men and have experienced some form of sexual harassment. nearly two thirds of those assaults are not even reported to authorities. so why is that klee because time after time -- why is that? time after time survivors have been dismissed by the system. the system that is supposed to help individuals get the treatment they need to help heal from the traumatizing experience that they have heart. we have heard so many incredible stories about things that victims have had to go through, to the point where they just given up. and to have to recount such a horrible tragedy, time and time again, is something, that what we're doing here today to address is hopefully, is going to help to deal with this. this is not ok in the era of the me too movement and we cannot stand by and let survivors go
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through this experience alone. today, i am proud that the board of supervisors is taking a huge step forward and helping survivors of sexual harassment and assault by creating our new office sexual harassment and assault response prevention. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: it is why we are here today. we, as a city clearly need to send a strong message. we hear you, we are here for you and will do everything we can to put the resources necessary to make sure that we don't just pass legislation to make an office like this possible. we actually passed the budget allocation to support the success of this office. i want to thank all of my colleagues who are here. every member of the board of supervisors was a sponsor of this legislation. every member of the board of supervisors thought for and voted to support the funding to make this office a success.
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i also would like to take this opportunity to address cheryl davis from the san francisco human rights commission. she's not here today but she will be leading the charge in this effort, because we know that she focuses on issues around human rights and equity and things that matter. this clearly matters to the city and county of san francisco, which is why we are putting it at the forefront of the human rights commission. i am grateful to cheryl for her leadership. thank you to all the commissioners here who are here from the commission on the status of women. it does take a village to move things forward in this capacity. we have had an incredible leader in this effort. someone who has been a fighter and relentless in not only just producing this legislation, but making sure that every member of the board of supervisors served as a cosponsor and a real partner for this particular efforts. ladies and gentlemen, at this time i would like to introduce supervisor hilary ronen.
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[applause] >> hello ladies and gentlemen in san francisco. today is an amazing day and victory for all women, but also all survivors of sexual assault in san francisco. let's give that a round of applause. [laughter] [applause] >> i want to start off by thinking mayor lee, first off when she was still a supervisor for being a very early sponsor of the legislation, and now for signing it into law and holding this beautiful ceremony. i think it elevates the importance of the legislation. thank you so much, mayor breed. and to all my members on the board of supervisors, it is so rare to introduce a piece of legislation that is unanimously sponsored from day one by every member of the board of supervisors. i think that is a testament to how amazing this board is. and my colleagues who care so
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much about this issue. it is also a testament to the women behind the legislation. i did not write this legislation alone. i wrote this piece of legislation with a group of six survivors of right who worked every single day -- of rape and they brought the issue to my attention to begin with and then who said we don't just want to complain, we want to sit down and solve this issue. so i just want to give a huge shout out to those women and a very specific thank you to jane doe, who you will hear from in a moment, to rachel, who is here with us today, tiffany who couldn't be here because she's on one of those rare two-week vacations, but who will have a chance to celebrate at the board of supervisors in a few weeks, to britney, to maria, who is here with us as well, thank you for being here, at also to audrey you you will hear from in a moment.
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we had an incredible team together, with my legislative aids, and specifically carolina morales, two champions this was all of her heart and soul from day one. if we can give them all a very big round of applause, they deserve it and so much more. [applause] >> so it was also surprised me that there were many women in san francisco who don't come forward and report sexual assaults, rape or sexual harassment, because we know this is an epidemic all throughout the country. but what did surprise me is that women who did feel comfortable coming forward, who wanted accountability from their perpetrators, who wanted to be involved in our city system to investigate and prosecute and to get some accountability and
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justice, that they were treated so poorly by city departments. that was, honestly, a shock to me. the more i learn learned, the more i realized that we couldn't just have a meeting with the heads of those departments, who i know have the best intentions. we needed something more regular that was going to get us the type of systemic change that would make sure that san francisco would not only dissuade survivors from coming forward and reporting these crimes, but would also take a step forward and make sure we are on the cutting edge and meeting the nation in terms of the best practices of dealing with sexual assault. when we have statistics that one in every two women in her lifetime a sexually assaulted and one of every six men sexually assaulted practice is not something that we can just throw our hands up and say, that is a shame. this is an epidemic that must be taken with all seriousness.
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we must have systemic change at every level. and by starting a sharp office in san francisco where survivors and victims can come forward and say, i am not being believed by a city employee, i am not being taken seriously, i'm not being treated with dignity, i'm not being respected, that from day one, they will have an advocate to help them navigate through these difficult systems will be with them side-by-side as they are going through the very painful process of telling their story and getting justice. so this is a very important step is one of only many steps that we need to end this epidemic of sexual assault in the united states. and i'm so proud of the leap forward we are making here today without further ado, it is my absolute honor to introduce to survivors who will speak to you next. the first one, jane doe, is
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actually a city employee who i have worked on for years on women's rights legislation. we worked on equal pay legislation together and is the one that brought these issues to my attention in the first place. we will hear from her and a moment. and then audrey martinez, who is a leader with communities united against violence. it is an organization that works with the lgbtq community to end violence in that community and deal with a very specific issue that that community faces. if you can give them a warm round of applause, that would be wonderful. thank you. >> hello. mayor brigade, -- mayor breed, thank you. recently, a candidate for congress stated that the people closest to the pain should be closest to the power.
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often, we suffer in silence. many of us who speak up are further quieted by abuse. but you listens. you listen to me and dozens of rape victims recount the details of our darkest hour. so many of us were not only raped but blamed and discarded by san francisco process law enforcement agencies. those sworn to serve and protect under equal protection of the law. so many of us did not receive proper care at the hospital because the city process sexual assault response team was inadequately resourced. we are told rape is a fact of life. rape is a sentence. the terror of the crime is only the beginning. the magnitude is unfathomable at first. it slips by shock and denial. but so corrosive is the impact of victims can never be the same nor can we escape the nightmare as it unfolds.
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i am jane doe. it has been two years and nine months since i was raped. 949 days of my precious life stolen. supervisor ronan knew me before as a colleague and governments, a week or so after the rape, we had a call about work. i blurted out what had happened. sfpd was utterly indifferent and tried brushing me off without so much as an interview. they deemed rape to be complicated but not serious. i was patronized for asking police to take basic investigative steps like securing video evidence or interviewing key witnesses. i couldn't wrap my mind around it. neither could supervisor whose unwavering ronen support for your support has been a source of strength. she and her extraordinary team, especially early not more alice, have worked with a group of
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victims of rape to a summons the two stand up. mayor breed, supervisors, i'm overwhelmed with gratitude for each of you. at the beginning of the hearing that led us to today, victim after victim shared harrowing experience as a being trivialized, blamed and. you listens, you asked watchful and smart questions of our city department that consistently failed the rising masses of victims of rape and assault. you stood with us on the steps of city hall to call for change. and today, we take a step forward by taking action. this office will be a source of advocacy and accountability that shamefully, we don't reelect in san francisco. a voice definitely absent in a course crying out to, me too. on behalf of victims, survivors, warriors, loved ones, all those who ever had or will be affected
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, thank you. also, special thanks to supervisor stefani for your support. without women and office, we wouldn't be here. it is amazing that today our first african-american female mayor is signing legislation authored by a female legislature and supported by all of her colleagues. and by community members of all genders. this is truly a celebration of empowerment. to those who spoke up in the hearing, at the sv you or in civil court, because your criminal case is on shelf, thank you. i am honored and humbled to stand in solidarity with you. to those who cannot or will not speak up, who are so far from a seat at the table, we stand in solidarity with you and today, we start the work of building a bridge to you. thank you. [applause]
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>> thank you, everyone. i am here, my name is audrey martinez. i'm a member of the community united against violence. i am doing what it takes to make the change, the change i want to see in my life. i want to hear -- to celebrate and thank mayor breed and supervisors in all city officials that supported this new love to create an office of sexual assault prevention and intervention. this office is important because people of all genders need to have a safe place and get help after violence occurs. as an emigrant survivor, it is
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important to have a space where we can feel cared about without being ashamed. thank you for creating this space that helps foster, sorry, i'm so nervous. to be accountable as a human being and stop being shamed for the experiences that we have gone through. it is about time to get help and start the change . the shame. thank you. [applause] >> mayor breed: again, i know it takes a lot of courage to get up here and share your experience. thank you both so much for your courage and for bringing us to this point. i'm excited that we are here today to sign this legislation with members of the board of supervisors, president cohen had to leave but we have supervisor vallie brown, supervisor catherine stefani, supervisor norman yee, and others.
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thank you all so much for your support of this very important legislation. at this time, i will sign the legislation. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: here we go. and today's date is? [cheers and applause]
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cp >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco planning commission and health commission joint special meeting for september 6, 2018. i would like to remind the public the members of the commission do not tolerate any outbursts of any kind. please silence any electronic devices that may sound off during the proceedings. i'd like to take roll for the planning commission. [roll call] >> clerk: we expect commissioners hillis and richards to be absent today and commissioner melgar to remind shortly. >> and i'll be taking roll for the health commission. [roll call] >> clerk: very good. commissioners, you have one item under your special calendar for case number
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2012.0430w, this is the annual compliance statement. this is an informational item. >> good morning, president chow and commissioners. i'm elizabeth purl, planning department staff. the item before you is an informational presentation on california pacific medical center's compliance agreement for the fifth annual agreement. i'm joined by several people. today's hearing is one part of the annual review process required by the development agreement: d.a. required cpmc to submit an annual report on compliance and for the department to evaluate their compliance and hold this hearing. following this hearing, the directors of planning and public health will determine whether cpmc is in compliance
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with the findings from last year. cpmc's development agreement allowed them to build a new hospital and medical office building at the vanness and geary campus with the requirement that they also build a new hospital to replace st. luke's. the development agreement requires that the replacement st. luke's hospital be opened within two years of the opening of the vanness hospital. the d.a. also requires sutter to make payments for a range of public benefits and improvements. in 2017, sutter was required to make three payments for a total of 7.1 million, all of which were paid, and that completes their payments under the development agreement. sutter's total payments to date have been over $73 million.
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construction of the vanness hospital is now well underway. it's expected to open in 2019, and the associated medical office building will also open in 2019. cpmc regularly provides the required schedule updates through their website. future construction will include the new hospital at bernal, and the planned guerrero park upgrade, which is due in 2019 as well. for the 2017 reporting period, there are 11 main action items up for review as shown here, including payments, hiring commitments, health care commitments, public improvements, and community outreach. my colleagues will go into many of these in greater detail. one particular area, the public area has a reporting period that does not correspond to the calendar year, so that means we'll be able to provide you with more recent information than other topics, and we'll be able to provide information on how cpmc's hiring record
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compares to roles under the d.a. >> good morning, commissioners, mitchell griggs. in late march of 2018, milman provided the evaluation indicating the analysis between calendar years 2014 and 2015 using data from january and december of those years. cpmc was in compliance. peragreement, milman reported that cpmc had satisfied the annual rate increase commitment of the increase to be less than or equal to 5%, but no additional details were provided other than the methodology used for the analysis. cpmc and san francisco health service system has agreed to engage milman to conduct two
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separate analyses: evaluation comparing calendar year 2015 data to 2016 data and comparing 2016 data to 2017 to determine year to year rate increases. san francisco health is service system requested the claims data from united health care and from blue shield of california for 2016 and 2017. milman has received the claims data from u.h.c., and we are expecting those results in about eight weeks. thank you. >> now we're going to turn it over to ken mann of workforce. >> good morning, commissioners. thank you for having me here. i manage the office program at the office of workforce
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development. first, before i start, i'd like to acknowledge emily chair and lowell rice in my office. they're the ones in the ground doing the work and getting people to jobs, and -- [inaudible] >> it wouldn't be successful of course for cpmc, so that's my acknowledgement. now, first, the first goal is hiring at least 50% of new entry level positions for new nonunion administrative positions. we exceeded the goal, 32 out of 37, which is 86% of the applicable participants got on this jobs, and some of these are lead documenting coordinators, documenting clerk, project manager, and these were hired through our capsa program, and that stands
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for construction professional services academy. it's specifically focused on these administrative positions, so the project has exceeded the goals. moving onto the next, which is hiring interns, 56% of the interns were hired. we worked closely with the school district, san francisco state university, we focused on them to get these opportunities. and of the 29 interns, actually ten were hired full-time, with a contractor on the project, so this was very successful in making sure that students graduating from our schools get the opportunity to work on the project. now, the next slide, and actually, the third and fourth slide are the challenges we've been experience, and this is specifically focused on construction. first the hiring goals for entry level union apprentices.
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the goal was 50%, and we've reached 30%. though it's below the 50%, both contractors really worked in our system, particularly our city build academy and our community based organizations that we recruit individuals to get into the industry to get them to work. to date, of the july 2018, we've had 168 resident apprentice construction workers that was placed on the project. and some of challenges we've been experiencing is actually getting available local residents interested in some of these higher skilled crafts. for example, the drywall, ironworkers, sheet metal workers, brick layers, operating engineers. it was very difficult to fill these positions. we get employer requests for these workers and working with the unions and the trades and these community based organizations, we were able to get some workers in there, but it still wasn't enough to reach the 50% goal. i'll address a little bit more
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of the details of why on the next slide, which is our fourth goal, reaching a 30% overall hours for journey men and apprentices would be performed by san francisco residents. as of july 2018, we've reached 25%. of the 5 million plus hours, 1.2 million were performed by local residents, the problem is san francisco we've had a booming construction. city build had been involved with all the major construction work, and in the last several years, there was unprecedented demand for local construction labor across the region, and this impacted cpmc's contractors to achieve the minimum 30% goal, and compared to this same reporting period as last year, we've actually increased 1.8 million work hours, which is about 36% of increase and keeping it at 25%, which is -- to our end was very successful in working with the contractors to make sure that they fulfilled their
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commitment. and also, at the same time period, city build had been working with the chase build to build this other major infrastructure. a lot of hours were added into those work, and they were pulling local residents to make sure they had their own local requirement that they had to meet, they were competing against each other for our workers. but still we've had more than 309 resident construction workers placed on this workforce project alone. and some of the things that city build have been doing to meet the demands of the industry. last year, we increased from our regular two cycles of regular city build training, we added three cycles. this year we've already increased to five specialized trainings just this year alone to meet the demands, and one of those examples was the chase training center. training center graduated last week.
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32 out of 32 participants graduated last week and are aligned to work on the construction of the chase arena. in addition to that, we have the glenn eagles training program, and all of this effort to make sure we don't leave anyone behind. even though we have 2.1% unemployment rate, we want to make sure that the communities that are still challenged with unemployment to get the residents to work on not just this construction projects but across the -- san francisco. all right. and these are just some additional informations for your reference. these are the demographics and pie chart whereas you can see with the work hours and how many of that is apprentice compared to the rest of the work hours. and now, we break it down by demographics of the neighborhood it represents. and one of the neighborhoods that we really target with the
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bayview-hunters point, ingleside, mission-excelsior. now, in addition to our workforce development, i'm here also to speak on behalf of the c.m.d., contract monitoring division. the contract goals have been met, so the main goal was the l.b.e. participation was at least 14% of the contractors working on the project are local business enterprises, and some of the specific -- the success, vanness had 15%. the current medical office building had 12%. the st. lukes which just celebrated its grand opening had 21%, and all three projects combined is 16.4%, and as of july 2018, something like 22.5 million have been generated for local businesses. and specifically outside of
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construction, we also have opportunities to work on the operations of the hospital, so this is entry level positions. it could be medical, clerks, and working in the -- in the hospital's operations for the food industry, so a lot of those jobs are entry level, which our goal is 40%, and i'm happy to report that it's exceeded. and these are some of the target areas that we worked with, so western addition, chinatown, outer mission. and they currently were at 54%, so 35 of the 65 employees were hired through the workforce system. and in addition to the workforce hiring, there's also investment fund grants that was provided? cpmc paid over $3 million fund to workforce through san francisco administration and also in partnership with the
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office of economic and workforce development. it focused on the area movable job training and economic opportunities, so our office worked with local community based organizations to make sure they get the funding that they need to provide the services to get residents to get through some of the barriers to work on the project. and it also targeted educational institutions and nonprofit organizations that in priority neighborhoods. some of the current grantees are faces sf, jewish vocational community, success for help and young developers. that concludes my portion, and i'll be around to answer questions. thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. my name is sneha