mark bautista is our new intern and senior at s.f. state studying mechanical engineering with a minor in electrical engineering and has done course work and i'm impressed with his enthusiasm and i'm already learning a lot from him and will help us plan what the next steps will be on clean pour -- power s.f. she's worked at the network and worked at the annual winter fest.

she has extensive history in fund and in data analysis and i'm thrilled to have her join our team in room 409. so the last item i have is just to a reminder we need to set our meeting schedule for 2019. i sent you and your staff some suggested dates. i will be bringing that for your approval at the next meeting. >> commissioner: thank you very much. colleagues do you have anything today. welcome leah and mark and thank you for your service. thank you. we look forward to working with you. thank you very much. public comments? >> welcome to the interns and just a request, to mr. goebel, if you could make sure mr. bautista is looped in to

conversation the advocates around clean power s.f. to make sure we're on the same page since he's advising you. that would be great, thanks. >> commissioner: new very much. next speaker, please. >> i'll give you background and history of the cab history. >> commissioner: that's the next item on general public comment. >> this is? >> commissioner: this is the executive officer's report. any other public comment on item 10? seeing none. we're closed for public comment. please call item 11. no action was taken on item 10. 11 is public comment. now, please, sir. >> i love these formalities. i'm michael spain and started in '71 as a driver.

in 1977 the biggest cab company yellow cab company collapsed and i with 200 people bought it and began to run it as a co-op. we had to drive to pay the note because we bought the company. so everyone before 1977 bought their taxi cabs either the way we did or from anyone who had a cab and want to sell it and get out of the business. in 1978 there was a sponsored bill before the voters and passed. it was passed in 1978 and for 40 years it would lock the industry into no sales. you couldn't sell or buy and everyone was frozen in time though the cabs became more valuable over time because of inflation and because the city

inflates certain items faster than others. and they tried to reverse the bad things that happened under prop k. that's why we have this situation today. what i'm going to say now is basically blasphemy in the industry. we heard a lot of t.n.c. and jumping on them. the big revolution has been the t.n.c.s. they've changed transportation drastically. as they cheap and the greatest thing to happen to san francisco in at least 100 years. and i stand to lose if this thing passes because i'm part of the pre-ks but i tried to get the industry to change -- [bell ringing]

[off mic] >> commissioner: thank you very much. any other public comment? >> i understand you're under a time constraint. i can come back at another meeting if that helps. would that be better? okay. thank you. >> commissioner: no, no, no. >> i didn't want to infringe on anybody's other appointments. i'm looking at the commission. i was barely aware of its existence before this came up and it seems to be a commission without portfolio that can delve into all kinds of things like a minister without portfolio in a foreign government.

i see that you have this study that's going to be done on labor and t.n.c.s and there's another area of t.n.c. operations that desperately needs looking into and that has to do with the safety of the public and the consumer protection of the public. there are a number of items under this i don't think are being addressed. certainly the c.p.u.c. is not addressing them. i spoke before about hours and shifts these workers are working, about their sleeping arrangements, about where they're coming from, how many hours they're putting on the road before they actually go to work. the kind of driving. years ago the police did a survey and found a

disproportionate number were being committed by t.n.c. drivers and how many accident they committing or involved in? what's the danger to the public from that and what about the counterfeit identity and most are driving without improper insurance. their personal insurance policies don't allow them to drive personally. this is an area perhaps the commission could enter in -- [bell ringing] >> commissioner: thank you, next speaker, please. > >> i wanted to talk about the same issues on the question of insurance. because i go to the c.p.u.c.

meetings quite reg air will, they have -- regularly, they have a hands-off position. they don't keep any kind of a database. i mean, they don't know who is driving. they don't know when they're driving and the biggest problem is they don't know when they're insured or not. now, one of these problems is the way t.n.c.s are set up is there are more vehicles available then there are rides and that's why you get rides more quickly. the only times that's not true is when they have these surge pricing etcetera. now, one of the things that

happens is that these drivers are using business cards. they give these to passengers and say, oh, any time you want to cab, call me. at that point, they are 100% uninsured of anything and driving entirely illegally. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> carlo maron, thank you for listening. i think uber will probably be here for a while so it's not a sustainable model that won't work in the long run. i think the original investors and there's some very powerful ones the families of qatar and goldman sachs are looking for

someone to take them off the hook for the mistake they made. it's jurisdictional dodgeball and they acknowledged they lacked enforcement capacity -- if a lyft driver runs a red light they won't say we have to wait for a state inspector. this is a suggestion on thinning out lyft and uber in san francisco. there's 45,000 cars, supposedly, if we can get it to 25,000 and the people who prefer this service in the next few years can get a right in three minutes than one minute and we'd have less traffic and the drivers of

lyft, uber and taxis would make more money and help the medallions too and would the vehicle code to require a commercial plate. 100% of the cars don't have commercial plates. it underpins the fact they're committing insurance fraud and it doesn't eliminate the fact that t.n.c.s have liability insurance but allows predatory pricing by dodging overhead and millions of dollars are hitting general fund at the hospital because the insurance carriers avoid the policy once the fraud -- [bell ringing] >> commissioner: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello again. i'd like to thank you for your voice of unity. i would like to stay united but it's difficult under these circumstances. we do have a major issue with the loans from the credit union

no longer holding the medallion as collateral and it's cause huge problem and part of the division too is when it came from going from prop k to prop a and forced us to lose our spots on the list i waited 16 years and nobody cried for us. they were ready to throw us under the bus and make us buy. money rules the energy and we mentioned lowe, ting and wiener and they're huge advocates of the t.n.c.s. it's almost impossible to support us though i'd appreciate their support. you go on twitter and everything they do and say is a big lobby for the t.n.c.s. it's very difficult. we're in a very extremely

difficult situation and that's pretty much all i can say at this point and thank you for listening to us. >> commissioner: thank you very much. mr. brooks. >> thank you aaron brooks, californ californians for energy choice and under the structure you've been discussing and i would urge they include studying environmental impacts in the same way jobs are outsourced overseas because countries have lower environmental standards. these jobs are being outsourced to the ride hail companies because they have lower environmental standards. that's one of the factors and because they play their employees jerk wages the way amazon does so that needs to be factors in because it's part of the economic equation the way the workers are paid and treat

and how the ride hail companies get away with this and are under cutting the taxis. then i'll speak to the next item to save you time, future agenda items. i would definitely urge you and the executive officer, since you're meeting every two months to meet every month if you can but since you're meeting every two months right now to definitely put the local clean power s.f. build-out on the next agenda because i'm hearing through the grapevine the s.f.p.u.c. will make a request to the board of supervisors for funding to do a build-out study. i don't think the s.f.p.u.c. is the right fit for that and would be better the commission that's been driving the push for a local build-out and the board of supervisors were to lead the charge on that and request the funding for alafco because it

has the capacity to be forward thinking about clean energy whereas the s.f.p.u.c. has to be more conservative and that study should come through alafco and should be on the next agenda so the ball gets rolling. [bell ringing] >> commissioner: any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. please read the next item. >> clerk: item 12, future agenda items? any public comment? no. public comment is now closed. do we have any other business. >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> commissioner: thank you very much. we're adjourned.

>> when i open up the paper every day i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about the planet i want to leave for my children and other generation, i think of what contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. ♪ clean power sf is san francisco's key way of fighting climate change by renewable energy and offering it to san

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>> good morning, welcome to the government audit and oversight committee for wednesday, september 19th. my name is jane kim, i serve as the chair of this committee, and today i am joined by supervisor vallie brown. unfortunately, aaron peskin cannot be in attendance today, as it is yom kippur, so taking a motion to excuse his absence. recognize the committee's clerk, john carroll, and the staff at sfgov tv. mr. clerk, announcements. >> clerk: silence your cell phones, and completed speaker

cards should be submitted to the collect. items acted today on the september 25, 2018, agenda unless otherwise stated by the committee. >> supervisor kim: i would like to take a motion to excuse supervisor peskin, without objection. so members of the public know, because of supervisor vallie and i constitute quorum, it mayor be in the middle of the meeting we may have to take a break to use the bathroom and other things like that. >> clerk: items 1, 2, and 3, non-renewal of a mills act historical property contract, 215 and 229, haight street, and 627 waller street, and 973

market street. under administrate code 71, notice of the non-renewal and authorizing to send notice of the non-renewal to the property owners. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, and supervisor peskin is a sponsor of these items. we will be opening up for our senior preservation planner, shannon ferguson, present on this item and tim fry is also here from h.p.c. to answer questions from committee members. >> good morning, supervisors, shannon ferguson, planning department staff. items before you today are resolutions for non-renewal of three historical property contracts for 215 and 219 haight street, 617 waller street, and 973 waller street. legislation authorizes local governments to enter into contracts with private property owners of historic properties. this agreement provides property tax reductions for those

historic properties, and allocate toward appropriate rehabilitation and maintenance plans to preserve the property. currently holds 31 active mills act contracts. under that and chapter 71, 1 year is added automatically to the initial term of the contract at the anniversary date, unless notice of non-renewal is given. agreements are ten-year rolling contracts renewed annually, essentially in perpetuity. the mills act contract of either the property owner or the city to not renew the contract. if written notice is not served prior to the renewal date, one year will be automatically added to the term of the contract. the board of supervisors will make the determination the contract not be renewed. property owners will pay property taxes based on the fair market value of the property after the contract expires. the mills act contracts for the three companies were approved on

october 4, 2017, and on november 14th and december 12, 2017, the historic preservation commission approval. information provided by the assessor's office and weighing the benefits to the mills act and the historical value, with the cost of the city, board of supervisors approved the mills act contracts. at that time the board of supervisors also expressed interest in limiting the contracts to ten-year term to balance between the benefit of the mills act and the cost to the city. haight street, waller street, and market street are proposed to be limited to a ten-year term only. rehabilitation and maintenance work will be completed in that ten-year term. the department recommends the board of supervisors approves limiting to the ten-year term,

it will provide incentive for historic preservation, rehabilitation and maintenance work completed in the ten-year term, and achieves a better balance between the benefits to the property owner and the costs of the city. this concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions, and the assessor is also here if you have any questions. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, we will open for public comment on items 1, 2, 3. >> this item here on historical buildings, it should be permanent. no touching these historical buildings, period. this is a discriminatory practice used by the city for decades. you stop the protection, you renovate the building, you create apartment building complex and then you make the requirement to be eligible to move into the building and tenant, and the income -- and

essential location of the building in question. you call it gentrification, and only where people of color are located. never in areas where people are predominantly white. it should be permanent protection, period. not just five years, ten years, it should be life preservation for the historical buildings and not to be with the apartment complex where only people with high income brackets can afford to move in. you claim 100% affordable housing, but you put in the application to be a tenant, income of minimum $80,500 a year. way more than the income of the people who originate in the

vicinity where the building is located. disgusting. you did it to the fillmore addition, russian addition, two different ways discriminated against black, with the technique there and the technique that the army used to displace blacks with the chemical warfare on hunter's point. >> supervisor kim: any other members like to speak on items 1-3? seeing none, public comment is closed on these three items. i did just see an email from our city attorney 15 minutes before the committee hearing asking us to make some clarifying items to make the language clear in terms

of the action taken by the committee today. do you have any comments to make? >> deputy attorney, john givener. coordinated with supervisor peskin's office, basically clarifying, correcting one where we had on the original resolution, the city had informed the property owners 60 days before the annual renewal date that we were planning to terminate, rather than 90 days, reflected in the amendment, and adding result clause authorizing the planning director to record a notice following the adoption of these resolutions. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. givener. we have the language for the amendments before us. does that count as reading the amendments into the record? so, i will make a motion to

amend as said into the record by mr. givener. and we have a motion and we have a second, i'm sorry, and we can adopt this amendment for that objection. may we take a motion to move items 1-3 forward with recommendation to the board as amended, we have that recommendation, and we can do that without objection. mr. clerk, can you please call items 4 and 5. >> clerk: called together? agenda item 4, resolution receiving and approving annual report for the ocean avenue community benefit district, and item 5, report for greater rincon hill doing business as the east cut community benefit district for fiscal year 2016-17. both submitted by district law of 1994, agreement with the city. >> supervisor kim: thank you so

much, and i see mr. korgas, and recognize that dan weaver, is also here today and will be presenting on item number 4, and andrew robinson, executive director at the greater rincon hill community benefit district also known as east cut will also be presenting on this item. mr. korgas. >> thank you, supervisor kim, supervisors. i'm part of the team that oversees the community benefit district program. today hearing two annual reports in the interest of organization, we'll hear about the ocean avenue c.b.d. first, invite mr. weaver up to present on the program achievements and then i will come back up and speak about the east cut and invite mr. robinson to do the same. the community benefit districts and business improvement districts are governed by two laws. first the state law known as the

1994 act, and local law, article 15 of the san francisco business and tax regulations code. covers the annual report for the fiscal year 2016-17. ensures all c.b.d.s and bids are meeting management plans. conduct a staff review of the annual reports and c.p.a. financials, and provide the board of supervisors with a summary memo on our findings. ocean avenue c.b.d. is a property based district of approximately $239,000, established in 2010 as a 15-year district and set to expire on june 30, 2025. the staff is executive director dan weaver, assisted part-time by neil ballard and alex malaney. service ambassadors, cleaning program, beautification, activation of public space, applies to zone 2. and the first, the budget

amounts are 10% point from the management plan. benchmark two, when 1% comes from sources other than assessment revenue. and 3, whether the budget amounts was in 10% from the actuals, and 4, whether the c.b.d. is indicating the amount of funds carried over from the current fiscal year and demonstrating products in the upcoming fiscal year. benchmark one, historical met the benchmark. for two, ocean avenue c.b.d. raised approximately 19.1% in nonassessment revenue during the fiscal year and met the benchmark. for three, ocean avenue did meet the benchmark in fiscal year 2016 and 17, after two years in fiscal year 13-14 and 14-15 of not meeting this benchmark. recommendations were taken into

account and this benchmark has been met since. ocean avenue did indicate its carry forward amount from fiscal year 16-17 and indicated how the money would be spent in the upcoming fiscal year, due to the way the city disperses money to c.b.d.s, about half of the operating budget carries forward into a future fiscal year. in conclusion, ocean avenue has implemented well in the service plan in the district, implemented all recommendations from the 15-16 annual report, successfully sponsored and implemented neighborhood events and programs including second sundays and the ocean avenue project. partnering with stakeholders and municipal agencies and maintain an active board of directors and several subcommittees. if there are no questions for staff on this particular c.b.d. annual report, i would invite mr. weaver up to present on his benchmarks.

>> good morning, supervisors. i'm dan weaver, the executive director of the ocean avenue association. let me move this forward here. this is a map of the district. generally we have the long, along ocean avenue up to geneva, from, we have a retail district, which is composed of approximately 150 parcels, where we have our marketing and promotion section of the assessment budget. we collect it only from the retail district, and then we have what we call the

educational district, which includes at least on the map all of the ocean avenue campus of city college, as well as the high school across the street. so, that's the existing map. i should mention in terms of the map, we are looking at some time in the future bringing the transportation area, which primarily includes the bart station at balboa park into the c.b.d., but we are not looking at that until we re-authorize the c.b.d. in the future. but nor now, we are trying to establish a contract to provide services to maintain their outside areas around the station. so, that's an additional part of the c.b.d. that we are trying to develop. we have 2 active committees,

street life committee, business committee. street life committee focusses on the activation, particularly of the commercial corridor, and the business committee focusses on developing business growth and retention. some of our partner organizations that we have worked with over the past few years. and these are city agencies that we have worked with since we were established in 2010, december of 2010. this is a break down of the grant income we had for

2016-2017 fiscal year. cleanscapes sf provides us with daily or six days a week maintenance and cleaning service on the entire corridor primarily focussing on the retail district which has more of that to contribute, more trash, more graffiti and so forth. arborist now also maintains our urban forest, which we try whenever possible to add to, with additional trees and landscaping. in this fiscal year 2016-17, we were able to finally complete

landscaping of two large public works owned parcels at the intersection of geneva and ocean, including an eye catching mural on a former graffiti retaining wall near the intersection which actually now has inspired city college to do something with their retaining walls and put up some large murals as well. 2016 and 17, we organized a program called second sundays. we provided music and other events held in small businesses and community spaces, through june 2017. the biggest event we had there was we were able to get inside the city landmark el ray theater building on a sunday afternoon and do a historic preservation

of the neighborhood program where we had about 200 people attending. and as of this fiscal year we are talking about, we had gotten some funding and we were preparing to carry out public events at a large plaza which opened quite recently and we started that programming with funding in 2018. this is a picture of the lobby of the el ray withstanding room only where we got presentations of neighborhood historical places from western neighborhoods project, volunteers. challenges, high rents, and

difficult to work with business spaces have often led to long-term vacancies, especially in 16-17, vacancy problem has improved greatly since then, but back then we had some difficult vacancies, and interestingly enough, some of the newest and biggest spaces are the vacancies that are the most troublesome because it takes a big, large business to come in there because it's a big space and expensive. also for older buildings, property owners underinvest in their store fronts, which gives a facade sometimes a shop or experience. opportunities, a high interest

in the neighborhood for public art events and entertainment. i should add, an additional tree planting and landscaping as well. o.a.a. is working to program free public events and install a variety of new public artworks on the corridor. new businesses establishing on each avenue bring the potential for business owners to participate in advocating for the community. some of the projects we were working on then and continue to work on include providing free public programs at the new unity plaza, pursue maintenance agreement for balboa park bart station area, outside area, outside the station with bart, which continues. let me go back here.

successfully raise funds, for artwork, and o.a.a. 15-year plan for the c.b.d. corridor. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. weaver. a quick question. you had mentioned some of the challenges for the corridor, accessible business entryway program, high rents, design challenges. what has the c.b.d. done or proposed or advocated for to kind of help alleviate for address some of these challenges on the ocean avenue corridor? >> primarily what we have done, well, for shop worn buildings we have worked with people, we have tried to get whenever possible funding from s.f. shines. we have, and just right now we

are, we have gotten the last six months two facade improvements carried out through s.f. shines money. that's a project that's difficult to fund for a couple of reasons, or to carry out. first is the funding seems to be city-wide and it's unclear when it's available or where, and secondly, the projects take years. they take years to get done, from, well, from start to finish. it's -- it's difficult to keep momentum going. it's difficult to get a real start. the rules at s.f. shines comes with or the grants come with are complicated. and, but they right now -- they are in a good place. yes. >> supervisor kim: if i could just ask, what are some of the challenges to the property

owners, just investing in their property? >> i think there's much -- much easier for them to do it, just by themselves. >> supervisor kim: right. so what are the challenges for the property owners investing? >> the challenges that i hear about is basically going through the city process of getting plans approved. >> supervisor kim: does your -- does the c.b.d. provide any services to help facilitate this process and help kind of guide? >> we do try whenever we can, yes. we are offering services that are related to that. >> supervisor kim: that's great. >> so, we do make that effort. we also advocate for filling up empty spaces, ideally with appropriate businesses that people have said they like to see on the streets.

ok. great. >> supervisor kim: one last question, and i only ask this because there was an article that came out in the examiner this morning about community benefit districts and i'm sure, what percentage of your budget or resources do you spend on policy advocacy with the city? >> policy advocacy with the city -- other than me talking to supervisor once in a while, usually our own, none. >> supervisor kim: ok. thank you so much, mr. weaver. >> ok. >> supervisor kim: thank you for being here and i know your long commitment to this neighborhood, appreciate seeing you here. i'm so sorry, supervisor brown has questions as well. i'm so sorry. >> supervisor brown: that's ok. thank you, mr. weaver for coming back. it sounds like the ocean avenue c.b.d. is doing some great things for the commercial corridor, and the community. the but my question, on ocean

avenue, has a very diverse community with many chinese language merchants. and what are you doing to provide language appropriate outreach to these merchants? >> this is a problem we have recognized, was talked about last year as well. what we are trying to do is to get a chinese speaking small business manager. we have not been able to do that. it's difficult to find such a person. we have talked about other alternative ways rather than just advertising, and we have come up with the idea of trying to get an internship program or programs going at s.f. state where students would get credit for working with us on just

those matters. we have also, whenever possible, tried to pass out information generally, for example, the new requirements for a.d. access to small business spaces is an important one. we were able to get an o.e.w.d. package which was translated into chinese as well as english. so, we circulated that, and that was well received. so, we are trying to function here in a high employment environment which is difficult to have a choice of employees when you hire anyone, and we are continuing to try to work through this. >> supervisor brown: have you talked to the city college, with maybe a part-time student to help? >> we have not done that yet.

our understanding is, i intend to follow up by actually checking with that. they don't have internship programs, unlike state where they get academic credit for it. but i'm going to further research that. >> ok. thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. weaver. mr. korgas, presentation for the next item. >> absolutely. interest of time, i'm going to skip over some repeat slides. >> supervisor kim: great. >> so, the rincon hill benefit district is doing work as east cut community benefit district. established in 2015. assessment budget, an i approximately $2.4 million and will expire on december 31, 2030. executive director of the district is andrew robinson.

the service areas, and quite a few of them, public safety, cleaning and maintenance, parks and green space, communication and development, management as well as operations. the benchmarks reviews are the same for all c.b.d. however, benchmark two foreign con hill and the east cut is different due to a unique engineer's report. so, due to the different service categories, it was determined that 1.40 of the actuals for public safety need to come from public sources other than assessment revenue. and 1.4 from cleaning and maintenance needs to come from sources other than assessment revenue. and 6.79% of the actuals for the parks and green space area need to come from sources other than assessment revenue, and that was due to the engineer's determination the parks and green spaces substantial general

benefit compared to the other two areas. the other three benchmarks are the same. for one, the first annual report as required by the state of california. for benchmark one, the east cut c.b.d. did meet this requirement. for benchmark two, the east cut c.b.d. met this requirement across all three of the subject -- the different sort of category areas that require general benefit. for benchmark three, east cut c.b.d. also met the benchmark, and the east cut c.b.d. did indicate the amount carried forward and how it would be spent, they did meet this as well. in conclusion, they met all three benchmarks and the management agreement with the city. the c.b.d. management plan -- given service area as