passage into the community benefit district. the board was expanded from 13 to 15 members. there was an annual repeat that developed a strong vision that guided the community benefit district since and they mapped out a plan to hire 4 key staff, director of communications, director of administration, project manager to work on our special projects, and that safe passage senior program director that would allow us to expand the safe passage program with under the tenderloin c.b.d. this is the framework that the board developed at its annual retreat. a community for all the residents in the tenderloin. including the people living on its streets. you can see just a short version is it's focused on the physical environment. clean, safe, beautification and also building neighborhood pride and looking for economic

opportunities in the neighborhood. going through a couple of the programs, the clean program. we ended this fiscal year with an existing contract with s.f. clean city. they delivered sweeping steam cleaning graffiti but in may the c.b.d. selected block by block a national cleaning company that allowed expansion of our sidewalk cleaning services to seven days a week and added a second pressure washing truck. we also were able to partner with downtown streets team to provide not just additional cleaning resources but also direct pathway out of homelessness for tenderloin residents. we removed 1900 graffiti tags, collected over 400,000 pounds of litter and steam cleaned 675,000 linear feet of sidewalk that fiscal year. our approach to safe is the safe passage program. we were able to expand and integrate it into the c.b.d. we grew it from 10 corner

captains helping to move children to and from school and the morning and in the afternoon to 15 corner captains. we promoted two of those corner captains into staff positions, paid positions within the c.b.d. and actually since then we've continued that. we have seven paid positions within the c.b.d. that are former corner captains. we have a safe passage senior program. including a morning walking program for seniors. not just about making sure the kids get to and from school. we received vision zero grant to increase our programs and we were able to execute to activation of events. in terms of pride. we work to create a positive impression of the neighborhood and organization. we installed 70 street banners. we developed a twice a month tenderloin talks news letter. we do quarterly tenderloin talks live community events. the first was in june of 2017 at the very end of this miss cal year. we participated in the neighborhoods four corner friday events. we redesigned our website to make it's year to access information and we opened a

storefront office at 512 ellis that allows community members to see the c.b.d. and walk in and talk to us at any time. that is the presentation. i'm happy to take questions about our work. >> thank you, sim on th simon. your staff and team is amazing. kate and fernando are at every community event. you almost forget that they're part of the community benefits district. i think that's something that is unique about the c.b.d. i'm proud of the work that safe passage has done over the last 12 -- >> 10 years -- >> when i was on the school board i started attending meetings to prepare for the launch of safe passage so it feels longer. yes, the 10-year anniversary is coming up and we're excited to honor you next tuesday. i'll be there to attend the wednesday program. i just do think that you are the only c.b.d. with a storefront

office, actually. not to say that every c.b.d. should have one and it's a difficult thing. lower polk does too. it's outside of my district so i'm not aware. i think that having that street presence helps in terms of feeling connected with our residents. the tenderloin is just a very unique neighborhood. it's a neighborhood where residents really are out on the street and you want to get to know and work with and volunteer directly with the c.b.d. and safe passages is an extraordinary program. i did just want to ask the same question that i asked of ms. evervine. it's limited in your time on the c.b.d. because you are new, although you are also already very integrated in the neighborhood. what the staff and the workers on the ground are seeing in the tenderloin in terms of litter, trash, needles and also homelessness. >> yeah, the issues have definitely increased over the last couple of years and i would say you know, digging up an old

annual report from eight years ago, i was a little bit shocked at the size of the number of needles and the number of pounds of trash that were picked up were significantly less. i think as we're seeing the street conditions worsen in the tenderloin in our mind, it has to do with the people who are suffering from lack of homes. a lot of people are living in the streets in the tenderloin. you mentioned earlier, it's counter intuitive this is happening during a time of economic expansion but i think the affordability crisis has followed that economic expansion. it's created a lot of people on the streets at the tenderloin with a lot of needs and the opioid crisis has meant people are not just living on the streets but doing a lot of -- having a lot of drug use on the streets. i think that the intensity of those uses has started to overwhelm the resources. we've been increasing our

resources. we've been coordinating with public works to bring more resources as well to the tenderloin. i think as pit stops so people have a place to go to the bathroom. as people have been forced to live on the streets in a much more intense way, certainly the tenderloin has seen what that does to the conditions on the streets. i would say, fy '16-'17 it's continued to today and we hope we can invest the right amount of resources to start to change that. it's really going to come down can we find places of people who are living on the streets to have a home. >> do you feel the workers are seeing more new homeless individuals? the homeless point in time number, which is not an accurate way to assess how many are homeless on our streets, hasn't gone up significantly in the last eight years. so the question always is, if the numbers aren't going up, then what is contributing to the visual difference on our streets

of individuals that are sleeping on our streets? >> yeah, i would say that it's clear to me, even the little time that i've been there, that the way people are using the streets in terms of again, i would point to a lot of drug use that happens on the streets. that that, bringing that aspect of the way people are living on the streets is actually creating more impact on the streets. if you imagine, i look at the sidewalks of the tenderloin and we are pressure washing the sidewalks constantly. public works is pressure washing them as well. they're still often very dirty and it's because there are so many people living throughout the whole day there, eating there, lying down there and so we are trying to catch up to make sure that the sidewalks are clean enough that the people walking on the streets, also the people who are on the streets, sidewalks, forced to live on the sidewalks, also have cleaner places. i guess i don't have an answer to your question except to say, yeah, the need is very great.

it continues to be very strong. >> in may i really see a big difference in the tenderloin in terms of the number of individuals that aren camping in the tenderloin. i had never seen that before. >> it's a good point. the population may be stable but it moves around. it moves around the city based on pressures from different neighborhoods. tent encampments might and i don't have a careful track to say that. i would say we do see month to month we see fluctuations of where people are living. >> thank you so much for your work and i'm very excited to celebrate safe packages with you next week. glad to see the security program office to central market and tenderloin has been used successfully. >> thank you. >> thank you. ok. and so we're back to ms. mar for

our final community benefit district. >> good morning, supervisors. helen mar. project specialist with the office of economic workforce development c.b.d. team. today we're here for the fiscal year 2016-17 annual report for the lower polk community benefit district. as you may know, c.b.d.s are community benefit districts are governed by two pieces of legislation. state law or the 1994 actor article 15 local law. our review process insures all c.b.d.s or b. i.d.s are meeting their management plan. we conduct a annual report of the and oewd provides the

supervisors with a summary memo like the ones in the packages in front of you. the c.b.d. currently assesses 309 parcels. it is a property-based district with an initial assessment budget of 486 -- $846,000 and it is set to expire on june 30th, 2029. there's executive director is christian martin, who is also here to present later on the achievements. their service areas are cleaning, maintenance and safety programs. marketing street scape improvement and beautification programs as well as management and operations. we reviewed the same four bench marks for lower polk c.b.d.

the only variances in benchmark two where the requirement is 5 and 5,500th percent of their actuals. for benchmark one, lower polk c.b.d. met this benchmark requirement. for benchmark 2, lower polk c.b.d. met their general benefit requirement as well. for budget versus actuals, they met the benchmark and have historically met this benchmark. they also indicated the carry forward and spend down in their annual reports. our findings and recommendations for lower polk c.b.d. is, we found that the c.b.d. met owl four bench marks and they secured and renovated a long-term office space at 1170 sutter street using their cpmc mitigation funds. the c.b.d. made significant progress in raising new funds beyond their general benefit

requirement. they secured grant funding to execute the lower polk tenderloin art walk series hemlock mural projects and rest room services and tenant-landlord clinic to prevent homelessness. they played a very pivotal role in assisting the steering committee in fiscal year of '16-'17. in conclusion, the c.b.d. has performed well in implanting its service plan. they also continue to successfully sponsor and help implement programs and events in the district. and they have an active board and committee members and will successfully carry out its mission as a c.b.d. if there are no questions, i'd like to bring up kristen martin to present on the program achievement. >> thank you, i did not know about your storefront office. it is outside of my district. that will be my excuse. >> no problem.

thank you, chair kim. supervisor brown for allowing us to come and present the fiscal year 16-17 bor17 lower polk annl report. this was the tail end of our first year and the beginning of our second year of operations. we were still in the process of building the foundation for the c.b.d. establishing our programs and our internal systems and controls. we are happy to say that i think we've made some significant progress and progress that you can see, smell and feel in the lower polk. i'll walk you through some of our highlights from the year. so, we rebranded and promoted our art walk. we provided information to merchants, pedestrians and sponsored the lower polk wine

walk to bring foot traffic to our merchants. we redesigned and took part in the funding for fern and austin allies which have been a priority for the neighborhood to reinvent our back allies and to pedestrian-friendly clean, safe community spaces where people recreation. we built our c.b.d. website and set the website for caulley park for community members to stay up to diet on what is happening there. we initiated a lower polk is open construction mitigation program and with the assistance of ooh wd market nad to our perch ants that are struggling with the construction on the van ness corridor as well as the

polk street corridor. we installed planter boxes in austin, hemlock and cedar allies to make them cleaner and greener. we pressure washed blocks and conducted daily outreach to our homeless population and made runs of referrals to other community-based organizations like lava may, glide, saint anthony and st. martin. we also provided access to clean and monitored rest rooms. it was on a trailer hitch we dragged through the allies overnight to give people a

clean, safe place to relief rele themselves and give our crew a break from some of the deluge of clean up on a daily basis. finally we installed murals in hemlock alley that beautify the neighborhood, provide an opportunity for community building. they also deter graffiti. on the administration front, we secured and renovated a long-term office space at 1170 sutter street. it is a storefront and also a base for our cleaning operation. we ensure the day-to-day success of the program and we work with the city officials to address rights of way issues. we applied and received a number

of grants for the art walk, the mural project and pit stops. the tenderloin clinic which aims to prevent displacement some things i find compelling are feces calls went down 34% in our first year of operations and contrast with that with feces calls 311 going up 40% city wide. our needles saw a similar decrease. 58% down in our district while city wide they went up 44%. and graffiti calls are down 36% while they were up 24% city

wide. the next fiscal year got some numbers that also support our impact. or display our impact. 115% increase from 2015 to 2017 of needles reported to 311. in the lower polk that number was flat. over the same period, we saw 58.8% increase in feces calls. only a 9% increase in the lower polk. 28.7 increase city wide from '1. lower polk saw 48.8% decrease. we certainly don't work by ourselves. we couldn't do anything without our great partners at the city.

non profits and in the community. those include oewd. helen and chris are exceptional. mayor's office of housing and community development supports our landlord clinic. d.p.w. obviously many of human services agency, where we source some of our labor through the jobs program. the san francisco department association, the bar association of san francisco, u.c. hastings college of law, who all take part in our landlord clinic and finally lower polk numbers, middle polk c.b.d., steering committee and the residents and businesses of the lower polk community. so with that, i would be happy to take any questions. >> thank you so much, mr. martin. i know you only have a tiny

portion of district 6 but i do really appreciate lower polk c.b.d.'s work with sergeant mccauley playground. thank you for in concluding us. that was a discussion when the c.b.d. was initiated and we had asked to have the playground included. it has made such a tremendous improvement on that block to have someone tabling the pit stop and thank you for having your team present. i'm really excited we'll break ground on the renovation of that playground. we have a lot of work to do. i really hope that we can continue to partner and i will proving that particular corridor. >> thank you, i want to thank you for your tremendous support of the park and the programs that are operated and everything else that happens down there. thank you so much. >> we have so few open space in the tenderloin. we have to fight to make sure

that families feel safe using them. it's great to have a playground but if our community doesn't foal safe using the playground, it might asel not be there. >> absolutely. >> thank you for your work on that. i see no further questions but i'm sure supervisor peskin would also say some nice remarks about the work the c.b.d. has done in his district so thank you. >> thank you. >> at this time, we are going to open up for public comments on this item. if anyone would like to speak on item 7-10. public comment is now closed. do you have some closing remarks? thank you so much. it is really been such a pleasure to work with you and our entire office really enjoys being able to partner with you on all of our community benefit districts. we have the vast majority in our district. i do want to thank our executive

directors and your teams many of it is a really tough and difficult job. i think it is only become more challenging over the last two years and so, i do want to just thank your on the ground workers because it's one of the toughest jobs in our city and they really are working to make you're district cleaner and safer and so thank you for all of the work that you are doing to partner with our city agencies. can we take a motion to move these items forward with recommendation to the full board without objection. >> thank you. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 11. >> clerk: number 11 resolution of improving agreement for the non-profit owners association for administration of management of the established property-based community benefit district known as the discover polk community benefit district.

>> i want like to thank the community for getting the discover polk c.b.d. up to this point and on july 24th, 2018 the board of supervisors approved the resolution establishing the discover polk community benefit district for 11 years and this will allow a levee on the properties in the district and in order to transfer those funds from the city controller to the management association, the city must have a management agreement. this is a document that is a templet used for all c.b.d.s however there are changes made for the specifics of each c.b.d. in this case it was changed to reflect the general benefit requirement of discover polk which is three and 3400%.

if approved they can transfer funds in late december of 2017, early january 2019 when distributions go out over the period of the district we expect $8.5 million would be collect inside assessment. are there any questions for staff? >> there are no questions. we'll open up for public comment on this item. seeing none. public comment is now closed. i believe we can take this item with recommendation without objection. can we call 12 and 13 together, mr. clerk. >> clerk: number 12 is a resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors to establish city and county of san francisco special tax district number 2018-1 for central comb so anticipate and other matters in connection. number 13, resolution declaring the intention of the board of exercises to incur bonded indebtness and other city debt for the formation of the san francisco special tax district

number 2018-1 for central soma and determining other connected matters. >> thank you, i want to congratulate you. this is the last committee meeting you will sit with in regards to central soma plan. and we will pass this out of committee today and bring this to the full board. i did want to just bring you up, if there are any questions in regards to the bond and the resolution of intention to form the central soma special tax district if if you have any awards. >> thank you, the planning department. we don't have any questions at this time. we did just want to highlight for the committee that based on the advice of the clerk of the board, they are recommending we change the date that is listed

in both of the resolutions of intention in order to accommodate the first hearing of 2019 which is the inaugural hearing. currently, the r.o.i. file february 180622 specifies the date for the full board hearing to form the c.f.d. at january 8th, 2019. however, because at that hearing, substantive matters wouldn't be heard the recommendation is that be changed to january 15th, the following week. the other r.o.i. file number 180623 is currently flank is we numbecurrent blank so justadd j. no further comments or questions at this time. >> great. so i will be making that amendment based on guidance of the clerk just to change the date.

i'm going to open up for public comment on these two items. if any member of the public would like to speak. seeing none. public comment is now closed. i'd like to make a motion to adopt the amendment as ms. chen to change the date from january 8th, 2019 to january 15th of 2019. this is on page 9 line 3. so we can adopt that without objection. and can we forward this item to the full board as amended without objection? >> we can. for clar took both the clarity,e whole hearing date of january 15th. it will be included in both the resolutions of intention. both the agenda items. so, the first resolution of intention for the formation presently has january 8th listed as the committee as the whole hearing date. there's a blank in the resolution of intention for the bonded indebtness item that will

get amended to fill in the january 15th date. just for clarity. >> thank you, mr. clerk. we're going to take a motion to move these items to the full board as amendment without objection. with recommendations. thank you. so mr. clerk can we please call the final three items. 14-17 for closed session. >> 14-17 are various ordinances and resolutions offering lawsuits and unlitigated claims against the city and county. >> at this time we will open up for public comment on items 14-17. if any members of the public would like to comment. seeing none public comment is now closed. may we take a motion to convene into closed session and we can do that without objection. we're asking members of the public to exit the room so that the g.a.o. committee can convene into closed session. thank you.

>> we are back in session regular november 17th. >> city attorney john gibner.

they voted 2-0 to amend item 17 to change the authorization that currently reads up to 76,866.20 to instead say up to $80,000. and the committee also voted 2-0 with supervisor peskin excused to forward items 14-17 to the full board with positive recommendations. >> can i take a motion to not disclose the proceedings from closed session without objection? mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> there is no further business. >> seeing none, meeting is adjourned. women's network for

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you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to

hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be

a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more

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>> the teams really, really went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. this past year, the san francisco public utilities commission water quality division started receiving many more requests to test for lead in the public school system here in san francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the public schools to do lead testing. and so as a result, the public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water

quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. >> i enjoy the work because i can help people, and i can help the utilities to provide a better water quality, make sure

that people feel that drinking hetch hetchy water is actually a pride. >> hats off to the water quality team because between them working on late nights, working on the weekends when the schools are closed, and working as a partner in the school district for the times they found a higher lead sample, they worked through to address that, so the team went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. to >> (clapping.) >> i've been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol small business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school

or nonprofit i've been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. >> my name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that.

>> so nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give

back to the program as well answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. >> it is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the

month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good

cause also. >> it is really nice to have a restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community

more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a lot to >> hi everybody, we down here at the /ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in san

francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. we we're going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about san francisco. how are you doing kelly? >> very well, thank you for having us here. >> in front of us, we have a typical soft story building. when i see this, i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. a lot of people don't know these are problematic buildings. why don't you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings? >> soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. when we talk about the soft story, what we're talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or

other /pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. so we're looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in san francisco look like. and the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. they have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea it's significantly less country /srabl in those stories. now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this gr