workshop and garage not non contributing features. siding repair, trim repair, painting, door repair and roof replacement. that work is estimated to cost over $67,000 over 10 years. the proposed maintenance plan will cost about $2100 annually. so planning department preservation staff work with the property owners to create their individual rehabilitation and maintenance plans and they're pro pro at for each property and meet the secretary eye tin ary of standards. it will avoid a lot terring any character-defining features. the assessor recorders office has prepared draft evaluations for each property which out lines the potential property tax savings. the historic preservation recommended all six mills act contracts at their october 3rd hearing.

supervisors mills act contract in their district and the planning direct has the mill contract. planning staff and some of the property owners are available to answer your questions and michael from the assessor recorder's office is here to speak on the property tax valuations. thank you. >> thank you so much, ms. fergusson. >> good morning supervisors. michael from the assessors' office. the summary sheet provided to you shows the estimated tax savings for the six properties you are hearing about today. when properties are under a contract the assessors are required to value a property by three different methods. we look at the first comparison is the factor base share value which is considered the original purchase price plus inflation factor added each year. the second comparison is the restricted value by the income

approach. and this value estimate is the income the property could generate if rented and also using the prescribed cap rate from the board of equalization. the third method we look at is the market value and this is the value estimate by sales of similar properties in the neighborhood. when we come up with the three value tests, wen roll what is called the lower of the three comparisons which is the taxable value. so you see in the summary sheet we've provided, if you look at the column g, that is the factor base your value for each of the properties. and column eye is the market value and the lower of these the difference between column jay and the factor base value which

is currently on the row is the reduction and assessed value which is column k. multiplying that by the current tax rate gives you a tax savings for each of the alcohol um and so the values are effective for 2019 for these properties approved and annually they will review these under a mills act determine the tax value for each year. i would be happy to answer any questions regarding the tax savings. >> this may have come up in the earlier presentation. while the five, the first five properties are somewhat consistent in their reduction, at least with previous reduction that's we've seen at the government and audit and oversight mid' th, the final pry has the smallest reduction so could you explain that. i know it's a larger building.

>> the property is not subject to the mills act property. the front portion of the property, the front building is under the contract and the second one is not so that would be valued at market rates. that's why it's the over value of the reduction. 811 is on the going from renovations so when we pick up any renovation costs, that would affect the future taxes along for greater reduction. >> thank you so much for answering that question. at this time, i do also just want to note that amy is here and so if you wanted to come up and say a few words.

aspects of these buildings which contributes to the cultural district 9 and we're very appreciative of the work of planning staff and shannon first thing sofergusson for processine applications. >> to clarify, it's the final two properties. >> 354-356 san carlos and 811 street in the mission district. >> great. thank you very much. supervisor brown. >> yes, thank you chair kim. i just want to add my support to the 465 and 467 oak street property that's in my district. i just feel like this property is a really great example of why the mills act was created in the

first place. the home is a historic flat front house that was built in 1865 and it's listed on the california register of historic resources. i feel like it's a really important property in d5 and i want to make sure that we have this avenue for them to be able to restore it. i know they have committed to invest $350,000 to rehabilitate their homes. and so, i definitely appreciate them. the historic preservation and planning working really closely with them to make sure that they get it right. that they have the avenue to do this. i just want to thank the historic preservation and planning for working with our residents to do this and make sure it is something they can achieve. thank you. >> thank you so much and i don't

see any questions for in of the properties today so at this time we will open up for public comment on these items. if you like to speak at public comment, please do lineup. seeing no public, public comment will be closed. i do want to thank the historic preservation division for coming in today and for presenting. there's no outstanding cases or complaints. i do appreciate this moving very smoothly and also appreciate our reporter for their work in helping to explain what the impact of us approving this would be for these property owners and also to our over all revenue generation for this city. so, i think at this time we can take a motion to move these items forward with recommendations without objection. thank you all for being here. can you please call items 7-10

together. >> >> clerk: agenda 7 resolution receiving and approvalling an an all report for the benefit district for fiscal year 2016-2017. agenda item number 8 is a resolution receiving a report for the central market community benefit district for the 2016 calender year. agenda item 9 resolution receiving anna proving a report for the north of market/tenderloin benefit for 2016-2017. number 10 resolution receiving and approving a report for the lower polk for 2016-2017. >> thank you so much mr. clerk. and i see mr. corgis is here to present on these items. these are the annual reports for the district that i represent and i also want to acknowledge our great executive directors who are all here today.

tracy with central market and civic center and simon bertrand for north of market and tenderloin and kristen martin from the lower market benefit who will offer remarks on their annual report. i want to congratulate all the c.b.d.s and it's been a pleasure to work with each of you. >> thank you chair different gookim, goodmorning supervisors. if the interest of facilitating each c.b.d.'s discussion we'd like to do the presentation on civic center and allow the executive director to present on civic center. is is that ok? >> yes, we'll do each of the community benefits separately and helen will present on the last two and we'll open up for general public comment on all of these items together. >> thank you. >> so we're here today with the fiscal year 2016-'17 annual report for the civic center community benefit district. the civic center community

benefit direct is in district 6. also, etches in a little bit into district 5. it is a property based assessment district with a initial assessment budget of $691,000. it was established in 2011 and will expire in june 30th of 2021. the c.b.d. is tracy everwine. they have a safety program, cleaning program, beautification and activation of public spaces. the bench marks oewd reviews are benchmark one, whether the budget amounts was within 10 percentage points from the management plan. whether one percent of the c.b.d.'s actuals came from assessment revenues, benchmark 3, mr. th whether it was within0 percentage points of the actuals and benchmark for whether the c.b.d. is indicating the amount of funds carried over from the current fiscal year and

designating how that money will be spent in the upcoming fiscal year. for benchmark one, civic center c.b.d. did meet this requirement and they have met this requirement as well. for benchmark two, 3.6 percent of the c.b.d. revenue came from non assessment sources so it did meet this requirement and has historic low met it. for benchmark three, all variance points were within the allotment and they have historically met this as well. for benchmark four, they did indicate that their carry forward amount and how that money would be spent in fiscal year '17-'18. the distribution calender for the city and county of san francisco requires c.b.d.s to budget so that assessment dollars from the previous fiscal year covers the lag in distributions that don't occur until the end of december and early january. everyone on the fiscal year does

always have a carry forward. findings and conclusions, they have performed well in the service plan for the district. they have met all their requirements set fourth in the management plan. since bringing on tracy as the executive director the c.b.d. has increased the capacity to partner with public-private and non private stakeholders the civic center commons and they maintain an active board of directors engage on day-to-day c.b.d. operations. if there's no questions for staff, i would like to invite mr. everwine up. >> good morning. tracy everline for c.b.d. and i have a few slides to augment staff's report. again, this is a map of our district. currently at 294 parcels in 2016

with a budget of $750,000. supervisor brown, the parcels on that map to the left up to gof street, which are not in our end are the parcels that can be added to our district in 2020. our focus is on cleaning, minute tinnance anmaintenance and publ. for the past three years, we have not building dealing with little bits of trash and what graffiti throughout our districts. it's been insurmountable amounts. those are the types of issues our staff are remedying. we're not dealing with a little bit of graffiti, we're dealing with excessive tagging. this happened in two days. extensive graffiti removal happens daily with pressure washing. just a reminder, we're taking tair rada ocare of private prope

want things to be cleaned up asap before they escalate. lots of needle collections. the good news is, this year, our needle collection in civic center has dropped from 1,000 syringes a month to 500 a month. that's fantastic. >> could you repeat that? >> we were averaging -- our staff, just our cleaners were collecting an average of 1,000 syringes off the sidewalks per month. we're now down to 500. >> picking up 500? which means that people are leaving less syringes on the street? >> well, we actually think it's a couple of things. unfortunately it's not less usage. it's support from other city agencies, other non profits and we've put -- like the public library has put out big collection bins so we think

there are folks disposing of syringes on their own. there's a lot of things that have come into play to help there. other agencies are helping to pick up syringes as well as users putting up the minutes. >> they have beefed up their retiefal services. we have downtown streets helping. hunters point family helps. just a lot more resources. >> public safety, our crews are making sure that everybody out there is getting the help they need. whether it's directions or way of finding or medical treatment or the help of a local service provider. it's been the crux of their work.

we've done a lot of work in the past year activating commons. as you can see in these slides. back in 2016, we were focused on lunch-time concerts and our holiday concerts. we'll release the schedules soon. the concerts will be along the van ness corridor. we continue to lead the civic center plaza tree-lighting event and just a little plug for this year, it's wednesday, december 5th and the dancing christmas trees are confirmed f i'll leave you with our dispatch information for the office. thank you. >> thank you so much. and actually when you do your central markets presentation, i may ask you about both c.b.d.s together. >> sounds good. >> thank you. >> i'm so sorry. supervisor brown has a question. >> yes. >> so, i know when you talk about safety and having all the

services go out for the homeless individuals, one of the things that i've been noticing and the neighborhood and hayes valley is because of the, you know, the comments in that area has been cleaned up a lot and i love it. it's beautiful. what is happening in hayes valley is they feel that the homeless are being pushed over. they're experiencing the problems that come with having a large homeless population being pushed into their neighborhoods that they've never experienced before. i feel that it when we had these c.b.d.s and especially in an area like this where there is a lot of homeless people, that yes, you can drop in services and the hot team and whomever else, but a lot of people, if there's not a bed available or

something is not available for them they're just pushed out i really would like the c.b.d.s to go out to those adjacent neighborhoods and talking to them. i've been in so many public safety meetings where all we're doing is trying to enforce and push the homeless and you know, hopefully we'll have more alternatives and and things we can do after prop c. if we're going to have this type of c.b.d. and that push, we have to think about the area experiencing the problems now and they don't have the crew on the ground doing all that work with needles and trash and feces and dealing with people. i would love to see them and talk to them about how they can

work together. >> it's a really good point. we're hearing the same concerns about the tenderloin and south of market but there are c.b.d.s there and so when the property owners know who to call and we can deploy solutions such as, you know, barricades or more 10bs or whatever the property owner may need to do. there's no c.b.d. in hayes valley. i would be more than happy to reach out to which group you suggest to give them assistance. >> i appreciate that. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> >> good morning, supervisors, chris, senior program manager, community benefit districts. we're here for the fiscal year 2016-'17 calender year central market. central market is a unique

c.b.d. that decided to operate on a calender year. as you know, community benefit districts are governed by two sets of laws, the 1994 act on the state level and our local law from the business and tax regulations code. our ro review is the 2016 and od staff has annual properties and cpa financial reviews. we provide the board of supervisors with a summary memo. the central market community benefit district is a property-based c.b.d. with an annual assessment budget of $1.2 million. it was renewed in 2013 and is set to expire on june 30th, 2028. the executive director of the c.b.d. is tracy everwine. the service areas are public safety, cleaning and maintenance, management and economic development. once again, we review four bench marks for all c.b.d.s. they're the same except for

benchmark 2 which has different general benefit components. for central market, the general benefit is 3 and 6800 percent of the actual budget. for their first benchmark, central market c.b.d. has met this benchmark comparing the management plan to the annual budget. they have consistently met this benchmark. for benchmark 2, in calender year 2016, central market c c.b. did meet this benchmark and they have historically met this benchmark. in 2016, they did meet the variance requirements comparing the annual budget to the annual actuals. one time they did not meet this was in calender year 2013 and everything has been ok since then and com compliant. they did indicate their carry forward amount and how it would be spent in the upcoming fiscal year. in conclusion, central market

c.b.d. has performed well in implementing the plan for the district. they did a commend able job of raising non assessment revenue. they continue to partner well with community organizations and city agencies to fulfill the management plan and they maintain an active board of directors and robust subcommittees. are there any questions for staff in i'm happy to take them now. if not, ms. everwine. >> hello, again. tracy everwine. there's a map of our district. 800 parcels back in 2016. we're now over 1,000 due to all the development. that's a new condominium and apartments. we had a $1.3 million budget. core services again are cleaning and maintenance and public safety and economic development. our services are seven days a week, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

really strong focus on cleaning and maintenance. obviously just a couple of our stats here. for central markets, our syringe numbers in 2016, we were collecting 462 a month for 5,000 a year. just to let you know, in 2017, that number shot up to 28,000 needles per year. in 2018, we're just a little bit above that collecting about 3,000 syringes per month. that number has dropped as well in the central market, which is really good. in terms of public safety, we're doing a lot of directions and referrals. providing a lot of merchant

support, resident support and social service outreach. i just wanted to point outnumber of growing embassador programs in the downtown area. we are embassadors working alongside mayors cap programs, civic center c.b.d., the safe passage folks in the tenderloin and saint anthony's has an embassador program in the tenderloin. i want to give a shout out to these great groups doing difficult work. central market continues to expand its security camera program assisting law enforcement. our co responder teams continue to be tremendously successful. fingers crossed we have current interest from a private sector entity to deploy three more co responder safety teams in the mid market area. >> just to clarify, is part of the security camera program the budgetary allocations that this board has given ever year to the

c.b.d.? >> yes, it does. >> and could you talk a little bit about what the outcome of those dollars are? >> yes. in fact, co-worker just forwarded an article yesterday on suspected murderer that was arrested, apprehended in stockton but committed a violent crime on sixth street and it was the c.b.d.s excellent nighttime video surveillance footage that enabled the police to identify victims suspect and make an apprehension. >> i know our office has set aside dollars for a more quote-unquote allocation ever year, the last two years to the security camera program so i'm curious how many cameras have been installed and what the results of that have been? >> so we've added at least six more camera views with those resources and not just on the sixth street corridor, we have

cameras and we're working on a dense program that allows us to capture the path of travel as things occur. so we can tell the story of how something originated and what happened in the end. >> i know it's not just having the cameras but it's having high-quality cameras as well. >> absolutely. there are a lot of cameras out there but more often than not, the quality is not sufficient for -- the identification needed. in the justice system. so, law enforcement and the district attorney office are very, very pleased with our program as well as tenderloin's program and union square's program. >> thank you.

>> we did the first safety summit in 2016. this was focused on personal safety. we have about 300 people together at strand theater. we did it again last year. again 300 people also at the strand theater last year's theme was actually an active shooter training coupled with an education from s.f. general on their stop the bleed campaign. for economic development, we continue to help attract and stabilize primarily small businesses through out the district. we work really hard to make sure our construction and development sites look better and actually are cleaner and safer during construction times or the waiting period until construction starts. and we continue to tout the district's existing resources and amenities. we're doing the seventh annual

sixth street art walk in the spring of 2019. supervisor kim, we hope you will still make it out for that event when the date is published. some new businesses that have brought jobs, and more sidewalk stewards to our district. this is back in 2016. and we work. thank you, very much. >> thank you, so much. first of all, i did, as the civic center comment event on sunday which was great. >> oh great. >> i'm a huge fan. it's one of my favorite events in the district ever year. my question is now, leading both the civic center and central market c.b.d. and it's great there's a lot more alignment there. what you have been seeing over the last two years on the ground and in what you think that we can be doing to both from the community benefit district and the city's perspective to

improve through cleanliness and also safety in this area. what the workers are saying. by the way, i mean, i've just, the workers at the market c.b.d. are tremendous. >> the work done by staff at all of the downtown c.b.d. is the hardest work there is and it's never ending. it often feels very thank less to them. we've had surprising liloly low turnover. our staff are so caring. i think -- that's a big question. we just need more support. i think the c.b.d.s are just so well poised to make a difference, you know, just with individuals living on the street as an example. we are seeing them everyday.

we have small staff and we're patrolling a small area. we have strong relationships with folks. especially for the folks that are service resistant that continuity of contact with somebody that is not your social worker who probably has a huge caseload or the family members that you don't have. our employees, whether you are a cleaner or social service trained embassador, we are that friend, we are that family. we're most likely going to be there when you are ready to accept services. we can always use more cleaning. public works is stretched thin city wide but especially downtown. we get a lot of help from the police department and central market and civic centers when we have large debris that public works can't respond to immediately. p.d. comes in with a truck and helps our staff get it out of

there. >> what is part of the needles and trash on the streets? the numbers are point in time. they haven't gone up tremendously although we visually see it in the direct. what is leading to the actual tonnage of trash ask needles? >> we have foot traffic from what housing has been built from businesses attracting more shoppers to the district. we have more people out on the street because of the housing shortage, because of certain buildings catering to travellers more than low income residents. evei asked someone at police department, do we still have the cheapest drug prices on the west coast? that's what we've been hearing. we were a real draw from other municipalities and states as well because our drug prices ise

so low. the officer said now we have the best drugs. that was really scary to me. we're a real destination for procuring drugs. you know, those are probably bigger d.e.a. questions. how do we get ahead of that? >> i don't mean to single you out in this question and i'll ask the other c.b.d. directors and not just the c.b.d.s that take this on but i'm curious what people are seeing on the streets. the workers are out there everyday that are more intimately familiar with what is changing. it's just so obvious that since 2015-2016, that there has been a visible increase of people on the streets and a increase in trash and needles in the district. i think i've been just compounded by how it happened

and it really, you know, came with the economic boom, which is not the natural kind of thinking that an economic boom would bring this. usually you expect the reverse to happen. it's just been mind boggling and frustrating. >> there's a high number of people using drugs on our streets that are housed. they are very well dressed. they're taking care of but they're coming here to partake in the drug activity. so i have i collection of photos. most people are clearly housed but here to take advantage of the open air drug markets. >> it's important to point out because people are focused on street homelessness as the drug usage but it's clear not just in san francisco but a cross the country, that drug and opioids

are ravaging our communities regardlesregardless of income. thank you for your work and leadership and we'll bring up helen moore to present on the last two community benefit directsdistricts. >> good morning chair and supervisor brown. helen mar with the office of economic workforce development. project specialist working on the c.b.d. team. today we're here for the fiscal year 2016-2017 for the tenderloin community benefit district annual report. the district currently assessing

approximately 680 parcels and it is a property-based district. its initial assessment project was $981,487. it was established in 2005 and is set to expire on june 30th, 2020. their stuff planning but for the year, the fiscal year '16-'17. north of market tenderloin was under the consulting and steve gig son was their executive director. per urban places recommendation they hired an executive director. their service areas are public right-of-way and sidewalk operations. district identity and street scape improvements, as well as management and operations. the benchmarks we reviewed were

the same aside from benchmark 2, where they had a different general benefit amount of 5%. cbc.b.d. met the requirement. they met the requirement for benchmark 2 assessment revenue and other income. they had greatly exceeded their 5% general benefit requirement. for budget versus actuals they met this requirement and has met this requirement. and they had indicated their carry forward and spend-down plan in their annual report. in completing the review of the northern market tenderloin c.b.d. annual report and financials staff made the following findings -- the c.b.d. met all bench marks. the c.b.d. increased cleaning services from five to seven days a week. they also increased staff's

capacity which led to improvements in coordination, relationships and efficiency and effectiveness in organization between the c.b.d. and the community stakeholders. they have continued to successfully market and produce events such as the security camera project, the community banner campaign and four corner fridays. the c.b.d. is well underway with its renewal campaign and has actively been engaging with district stakeholders and property owners. in conclusion, the c.b.d. has increased opportunities for partnering with external community stakeholders and they're well underway for completed an early renewal process and we believe that north of market tenderloin will lin.

>> my name is simon bertrand. i'm the executive director of north of market tenderloin community district. i've been so for five months. here to report on the fy16-17 annual report. repeating some information. the tenderloin was founded in 2005. it covers 30 blocks in the tenderloin between mayson and larkin of farrell and market. the year 16-17 was really a year of capacity-building and adding programs. you've marched it was the under the stewardship of a consulting firm and they focus on building the administrative stability that the c.b.d. needed in order to build its capacity to run its programs. they supported initiatives in strategic planning, worked with the board, substantial fundraising programs, again the

new interim leadership provided by steve gibson and the initiation of several new neighborhood improvement projects. the fundraising campaign produced 561,000 additional dollars, non assessment sources. over 40% of the budget was from non assessment sources and that led us, it allowed us to implement the security camera project which was partially funded in the year before and allowed us to install seven locations in the tenderloin covering multiple areas in the tenderloin. >> could you talk about the source of all of the funding too? where the 42% came from? >> yes, a significant source of the funding was from the silicon valley community foundation via the union square business improvement direct. that was for the security cameras. the office of economic workforce development provided a substantial amount of funding in order to support capacity to building on our programs.

t.l. hip through the saint francis foundation and sutter health also were able to provide a significant amount of funding and we'll see that was mostly to support the integration of safe 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