>> we're still in closed session. so they need to --

>> president breslin: all right. item number 14. >> clerk: item 14, action item. vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion held in closed session regarding member appeal. >> i move that we not disclose any of our discussion held in

closed session. >> second. >> president breslin: all those in favor. opposed? it's unanimous. item 15, please. >> clerk: item 15 is also an action item. possible report on action taken in closed session. >> i move that we not report on any action taken in closed session. >> second. >> president breslin: all those in favor? opposed? all right. so that's -- >> i move that we adjourn. >> second. >> president breslin: i know there is no objection. >> good. thank you.

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child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple.

they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but

my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i

rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides.

i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months.

my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy.

how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow

all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary.

>> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about $23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess

fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support small businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the major development center the survey with the corners stores

many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having healthy foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it not going to be able to allow it so that's why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to

people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community

what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic you're not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or

not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride business owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store

they have influence over their community. >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that ir store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but healthy options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have more >> i came to san francisco in

1969. i fell in love with this city and and this is where i raised my family at. my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a holly court resident for 32 years. i wouldn't give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago. my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. before the remodeling came along, the condition of these apartments had gotten pretty bad, you know, with all the mildew, the repairs. i mean you haven't seen the apartment for the program come along. you wouldn't have believed it.

so i appreciate everything they did. i was here at one point. i was. because i didn't know what the outcome of holly court was going to be. you know, it really got -- was it going to get to the point where we have to be displaced because they would have to demolish this place? if they had, we wouldn't have been brought back. we wouldn't have been able to live in burn. by the program coming along, i welcome it. they had to hire a company and they came in and cleaned up all the walls. they didn't paint the whole apartment, they just cleaned up the mildew part, cleaned up and straighted it and primed it. that is impressive. i was a house painter. i used to go and paint other people's apartments and then come back home to mine and i would say why couldn't i live in a place like that.

and now i do. welcome to the wednesday, october 3, meeting of the government audit and overnight committee. i'm supervisor kim. i want to acknowledge our clerk john carroll and recognize the staff at sfgovtv, who ensure our meetings are available to the public. any announcements? >> please make sure to silence our cell phones. copies of documents to be

included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. >> supervisor kim: thank you. can you call item 1. >> resolution authorizing the acceptance of expenditure of california state senate bill 1 local partnership program funding in the amount of $4 million. for fiscal years 2017-2019. >> supervisor kim: we have the capital budget analyst with the department of public works who will be presenting on the item and i want to recognize that edmond lee and paul, are also available to answer questions on this grant. >> thank you. good morning, supervisors. i'm elizabeth ramos with public works. this authorizes public works to ex-spend california state senate

bill 1 loophole partnership fund in the amount of $4 millionmill. this is under the road and repair and accountability act of 2017 otherwise known as sb 1. the amended resolution is request to accept and expend $2 million for payment renovation. the initial cost for al maine boulevard was a high level planning cost and now that it has progressed, they have more accurate cost estimates that are lower. we are decreeing crease the -- decreasing the fund to 1.7 million. we'll program the funds to the public works renovation project.

public works request the committee to approve the amendments and i'm joined by the public works project manager and we would be happy to answer questions from the committee. >> supervisor kim: any questions from committee members? i'm sorry you rushed through it a quickly. could you explain why we removed the payment. >> the initial cost is a high level cost during the planning phase and we have moved through design, we know that the cost is lower. so what we're going to do is maximize the local partnership funds for other paving projects to ensure that we are not holding money in a project that will not be utilizing those funds. >> supervisor kim: i see. so the boulevard project will move through, but without this revenue source. could you give us a sense of how we have begun to spend down sb 1 local partnership program thus far. >> we have not. >> supervisor kim: this is the

first? >> yes. >> supervisor kim: do you have a projected plan of what projects we're prioritizing for sb 1? >> definitely, so the programs we have right now are the project we're talking about, the al project in 1920. we're looking to start spending on number 42. we've just submitted at the end of august, a sunset project that would be using the funds. >> supervisor kim: how are you looking at ensuring -- obviously this is not the only revenue source, but just kind of how the pavement renovation is being implemented throughout the city? >> i have the project manager here. may i have him come up? >> that would be great.

>> we look at geographic equity so all neighborhoods are treated with pavement renovations. >> supervisor kim: is this put on your website? >> yes, we have a live map on our public works resurfacing web page and we can send you the link. >> supervisor kim: that would be the great. what projects are you doing currently? >> the allah maine project. >> there is great interest to constituents, which streets are repaved. so i'm taking advantage of asking what projects you are on deck. >> our program has $60 million in pavement renovation projects annually, through various funding sources and they're throughout the city. each project varies between 1-3 years in its life.

>> supervisor kim: i'm asking what projects -- >> currently under construction? >> supervisor kim: yes. >> we have a giant list and we can get you a list of all the projects that are currently under construction. there are projects in every district. >> supervisor kim: ok. i would like that list. could you get that to us during committee? >> sure. >> supervisor kim: so, having seen no further questions from committee members, we're going to open up for public comment on item number 1. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. colleagues? >> supervisor peskin: i would move the amendments that are before us, which insert the twin peaks, mount davidson pavement renovation in the amount of $2,106,000, i don't know if we want to hear from the budget

analyst, but they do recommend approval with the changes? >> supervisor kim: my apologies. >> good afternoon. we actually reported on the $2.1 million acceptance of the sb-1 funding. the total project costs are about $4.9 million, shown on page 3 of our report. this is for the twin peak renovation. and i just want to clarify that our report is based on what we believe is amended legislation that is going to be considered by this committee. >> supervisor kim: can we take this without objection? we can pass this item. thank you so much to our public works team. mr. clerk, please call item number 2. >> clerk: agenda item number 2,

revolution approving amendment number 3 and 4 to contract cs-163, insurance brokerage services to provide excess liability insurance for the central subway project with aon risk insurance services, to increase the contract amount by 684,382 and 6,321,304. for additional premium charges not to exceed 25,094,436 and to extend the contract for two years for total term of february 7, 2012 through june 24, 2020. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. today, we have michael, director of clean power sf presenting on this item. also senior manager with the -- well, ok. campbell is making that

presentation. >> good morning, chair kim. i think that might be the wrong name. i'm here for subway. i'm the -- i'm the program manager for the program. >> i'm the acting program manage for the central subway program. i bring back to you an item i had said i would bring back when i was last here, bringing two other retroactive items, this is the third, hopefully this completes all the retroactive items for central subway.

this relates to insurance for the central subway. and it was basically put in place as part of a way to make the program insurance more economical and efficient. when we originally went out with what we call excess liability insurance as part of the contract bid, the bid was almost twice the cost that we currently have. what the agency decided to do was issue. the two amendments, the first one is to cover the additional premium costs for the station contract because originally when the insurance contract was put out, there was estimate of the construction cost. when we got the final bid from the contractor, the final bid cost is greater than the estimated cost therefore we had

to adjust the insurance premiu s premiums. that's why i'm here fort first item to pay the additional premium. the second is the extension of the insurance program. the insurance program expires or expired in june of this year. so part of the reason we want to extend the program is because the central subway program is late, originally slated to finish in 2018, now december of 2019. so we're forced to maintain our insurance program and ensure that we get additional coverage after the program is done. we need to do this extension. and part of the reason why we're trying to do the extension is that this insurance coverage has a tail coverage. what it will do, as long as the coverage is active on or after the condition of the contract, it activates an additional 10 years, so it's not for two years, but 12 years of insurance. so that's what we're trying to

target when i'm here for this extension. but i'm here for any questions you may have. >> supervisor kim: supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you for being forth right. i'm delighted that this is the last retroactive matter. i know you heard loud and clear we were less than pleased about retroactive approvals. i appreciate that. you have cleaned that up. you were speaking in the present tense. i assume there are actually been no lapse in coverage and that we were covered after the expiration of the insured period post june of 2018, is that correct? >> that's correct. as long as this insurance is extended, we're covered. >> supervisor peskin: i guess what i'm asking, we have actually already extended, we're just giving you retroactive

approval for something you've already done? >> so, no, the first amendment or for the $684,000, that's retroactive. this current extension, if this board does not approve it, the insurance will expire. we have not done the extension. we've not paid money for the second amendment. we're here for the approval. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for that clarification. inso far as the mta continues to project that the project will be done in december of 19, and i have heard nothing different, why is coverage going -- i appreciate the 10-year tail, particularly in the environment of things we're learning about, transbay and other lovely things that make being an elected official so much fun, so i appreciate the tail, but why isn't it started in january of 20, why not july of 20, if we

assume we're going to be done in december of 19? >> when we asked for the additional premium, at the time the final completion of central subway was still in doubt, so we didn't want to have to come back and reextend the insurance contract, so we asked for two years of extension. right now, the projection for central subway is to finish in december 2019. that hasn't changed. the extra -- because we need to make sure that insurance is still active on or before the substanti substantial completion of the program, otherwise the tail that we're looking for will not be there. >> supervisor peskin: so you have six months of breathing room is basically the answer? >> correct. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mr. ho, for your forth rightness. >> supervisor kim: seeing no further questions from committee, public comment.

public comment is now closed on the item. colleagues, can we take a motion to move this forward. >> supervisor peskin: i would love to hear from the budget analyst office -- >> supervisor kim: second time. so sorry. ms. campbell, please. >> supervisor peskin: i am prepared to move it subsequent to the presentation. >> this will be brief. they entered into the original contract as an insurance broker in 2012 and that was $150 million for the tunnels. the board approved amendment to increase the coverage to $300 million to cover the track and station. as you know, you're being asked to retroactively approval $684,000. this was entered in 2014. the reason was that the broker determined increased coverage was needed because of the complexity of the process.

amendment 4 would increase the period. so the lapse in june of 2018, that was based on a completion date almost a year earlier from the current completion date in december 2018. so there has already been a discussion about the two-year continued coverage and the 10-year tail. i want to say in response to supervisor peskin's question, when we spoke to the city's risk manager, that the reason the excess coverage expired in june 2018, so that the tail coverage is not currently in effect, but approval of amendment number 4 and payment of the premium amount, $6.3 million will then make that again active. so amendment 4 is not retroactive and we recommend approval. >> supervisor peskin: with that, madame chair, i would forward item 2 to the full board with recommendation.

>> supervisor kim: thank you, supervisor peskin. we have a motion to move this forward with recommendation, and we can do that without objection. thank you for being here today. mr. clerk, can you call items number 3 and 4. >> clerk: hearing on the published report entitled mitigating the housing crisis, accessory dwelling units and urging the mayor to accept the findings through her department heads and through the development of the annual budget. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. so i just want to acknowledge lori campbell and p siegel with the department of building inspection, the fire department, and the mayor office of housing.

i want to acknowledge public works, public utilities commission, infrastructure and controller office for also being in attendance to answer questions. we will start with ms. campbell, the person of the civil grand jury. we appreciate you taking up this very important issue, our housing crisis here and that role that modular housing could play in addressing this crisis. >> thank you. yes, i'm lori campbell, longtime resident and floor person of the 2017-18 san francisco civil grand jury. i'd like to acknowledge some of the other jurors here with me today. just raise your hand for a minute. i'd also like to acknowledge the late mayor ed lee who sadly passed during our tenure. he took time to share with us the issues he saw facing the city of san francisco and we

greatly appreciate that. jury members appreciated the opportunity to learn about san francisco government and to pursue areas of interest to our community in hopes of identifying ways to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of our governance. the jury was interested in addressing major issues, facing the citizens of san francisco. what is often referred to as the housing crisis is certainly one of those very big issues. proposed solutions include building more market-rate housing, affordable housing, below market, and subsidized housing. this jury chose to focus on two alternatives. adu, alternative dwelling units, and modular housing. the jury was pleased that

respondents agreed with most of our findings and many of our recommendations have already or will be implemented. it was rewarding for the jurors to learn that mayor breed is calling for expedited permit process for adus and is committed to building a modular housing manufacturing facility here in the city. we appreciate all those that took the time to meet with us and answer our questions with thoughtfulness and candor. i'd like to introduce p. siegel, a member of the housing committee and will talk more specifically and answer any questions that you may have. thank you very much for your time. >> supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello. i was one of the principle writers on the housing report. and when we began the jury, of

course, we had to consider looking into the housing issue because it has reached crisis proportions in the city. at the time that we began our investigation, we looked at the housing pipeline for 2016 and saw that 157.5% of market rate housing was in the pipeline, but only 11.2% of moderate housing, and 19.7% of low-income housing. so the question was, what can we do to provide more affordable housing in san francisco? we looked at options and we decided to cover adus, and modular housing. everybody seemed to like the adu

idea and the city's program that began in 2014 has been increasing in scope and adding a new possibilities since. and, of course, one of the advantages of the accessory dwelling unit program is that it adds density without changing the neighborhoods and sort of makes everybody happy. we found with adus as with modular housing, that there were positive things about it, and negative ones, or i should say challenges. one is that the costs here are very high. the cost of everything in san francisco is higher than it is anywhere else in the country. and the turner center suggests

that the cost of building an adu here is $50,000 more than it would be in another city. so we looked at -- >> supervisor kim: can i interrupt. $50,000 more, what did that make the average cost of building an adu? >> $200,000 here and $150,000. >> supervisor kim: really? i thought it was $250,000. >> supervisor peskin: it's all over the map. there are a million factors. some are easy and cheap, some are prohibitively expensive. >> yes, true. we found the reason that people weren't more interested in building adus, the two things that stood in the way most were the permitting process which takes a very long time, or has

taken i should say. and the cost of permits. in other cities, the cost of adus under construction increased dramatically. we were very happy to see that following our report that all the agencies involved in permitting are working together to expedite the process. that's very good. modular housing was another thing we looked at and asked why aren't we doing more of this here? the authorities in the field all say it's cheaper and it's quicker. so why aren't we doing more of it? well, it has to do, of course, with contracts with the labor

unions and a certain angle ziept about what that will do -- anxiety what that will do to their union members and so on, but we now have the two projects -- at least one project under construction at 1068 mission street. and hopefully, another at mission bay block 9. that will provide homeless housing. so, the issue of course was complicated by the fact that we don't have a factory here, but we had noticed that in responses to our report, that there is interest in building a factory here so that these enormous prefab units don't have to be transported by freight. so hopefully, these two types of

alternative housing which are cheaper than the conventional construction will continue to be explored and used in san francisco so that we can mitigate the housing crisis. >> supervisor kim: supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: ms. siegel, the report briefly touches on financing issues which i think are as much of a barrier to entry and maybe a higher barrier to entry than the permit fees that represent on average less than 10% of the total cost of adding an adu. do you want to expand on that? i think access to a loan product for mom and pops is also another recommendation worth pursuing. >> i do agree.

this was not in the report, but it would be great if we had a citibank [laughter] to offer low interest loans to people who would like to do this. there is very little available financing through conventional banks. >> supervisor peskin: to that end, and not to toot my office's horn, but we've been working with the san francisco federal credit union that hopefully in the next custom of months, we'll have a loan product aimed at adus. we were just in touch with them yesterday and actually looking at an e-mail that says they think they will have such a product to offer within the next 45 days. so that is encouraging. i think corporate apartment owners are much better positioned and indeed, when you look at the data of where our

adus have actually been applied for, permitted and constructed, they tend to come from large apartment owners who know the system and have access to financing. the part of the potential market that we're not exploiting is, you know, the 125,000 single family homeowners that are out there, some of which don't lend themselves to adu and some that do. the largest barrier to entry is getting a loan product that would allow them to recoup the life over the rental property. >> agreed. there are other problems, like for example, a multiunit building owner can apply for one permit and build two adus in the basement of a big apartment building. and that's an advantage --

another advantage for landlords as opposed to single-family homeowners. there is also another thing about the process that could accelerate the development of the west side. it was mentioned in the report, but wasn't a recommendation and i'd like to bring it up again. the sunset district was built by henry doll jer, he built almost all the buildings out there. he used five plans to build all those houses out there. and we mentioned in the report that it would be great if the city had prefabricated plans for adus in the