lastly, we appreciate the level of discretion offered to the department of the environment, as well as the auditors. we feel that despite that, there could still be some good actors that are caught up in the regulation as well. thank you supervisor safai. and hope to work with these issues. >> next speaker. >> good morning, juan, with teamsters local 350. a business agent representing some -- the majority of recology employees, some work at pier 96 and collections here in the city. i'm here to reiterate a strong support for the legislation since we will leave that in order to be able to reach the 0 waste goals. it requires the help of everyone. we believe that making amendments to the legislation is

actually going to help, hold accountable some of the owners of these buildings and not necessarily the tenants. in addition, this would also create a new job opportunity for our members from teamsters local 350 and local 87. thank you, sciu local 87. >> good afternoon, teamsters joint council seven. back up the affiliate local 350, the workers that do all of this work. this is a piece of legislation that i was made aware of that has got a history of going on almost ten years, my predecessor was very supportive of it. we continue to be. i would hope whoever my successor is would not have to continue the legislation but look for improvements upon it.

say that in a bit of a selfish way. but i think it's legislation that is very important, not just for the workers that we represent, but also for our partners in the other parts of the service industries that are cleaning the buildings and cleaning the various facilities that we are talking about here today. and if we are sincere about 0 waste, i think we should really put one foot in front, as supervisor safai has presented it, and accept this, and find improvements in the coming years where they need to be, but i think everybody in san francisco needs to get on board the policy of 0 waste. and i think this legislation as it's presented is going to go very far and getting that accomplished and we really hope you can see to it to move this to the full board.

>> i would argue the process started more than ten years ago. i'm looking at the budget and legislative analyst report and what it said basically, in 2002, your predecessors on the board wanted to drive the city towards 0 waste. and so they start the a commission on the environment. and in 2002, what the commission on the environment found was that they should direct for policies and programs to achieve 0 waste, including increasing producer and consumer responsibility. it seems that supervisor safai and supervisor, or director rafael agree because the department of the environment has said we needed to get people on the ground to comply. and supervisor safai has said we will try to change the culture around recycling. however, the ordinance before you doesn't acknowledge the consumer at all. it doesn't deal with the

consumer at all. the ordinance only deals with, and deals with them in a series of six, not carrots and sticks, but sticks and sticks, the rate payer, the bill holder, and i -- i gave you guys some feedback in an email yesterday, don't want to rehash those points. what we are advocating for is a pass threw, and it's a pass through for the consumer, user, the person who is not separating the waste, to change their behavior. this is what was found in 2002, it was said today, everybody agrees you can serve more and you waste less when you pay for it. and this is not about money, it's about conservation, and i understand the politics of a pass through for tenants, but we are talking about conservation policy. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, good afternoon

supervisors. representing high rise building owners, mostly office and retail. i want to thank supervisor safai again for meeting with the business community over many months. the issue that we have with this legislation is that, and again i want to see some of the amendments you have introduced, supervisor, so i will look at this again and we have not taken a formal position on the measure at this time, we are hopeful some of our suggested amendments might get in. in a high rise building, we have entire refuse cycle, and when that, when all three streams go into a compactor or two, that doesn't take into consideration what tenants do, and the way we look at tenants, the reallyship we have with them, is that they are all, their employee, 0 waste facilitator. why not start at the beginning and consider every aspect of it. we want to work with you, supervisor, we appreciate again that you met with us, but we are

very concerned about the legislation and we are hopeful that we can meet in the middle at some point. so, thank you very much for your time. >> happy holidays coming up, hospital counsel of northern and central, the san francisco office. articulated concerns in a letter to each one of you, and echo the same concerns that many of you have already heard, we seek a graduated process in which there are multiple points to come into compliance. we don't think it's there yet. and hope that it can get to that place. thank you for your time. >> welcome, next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you president cohen,

mandelman, stefani and safai for working on this legislation and giving us the grace of your time and ears to be able to pay attention to something that has affected us for ten years. our members are split here and we are doing food distribution for strikers that have been on strike for the last six weeks. so, please don't consider this as weakness, it's just strength we have had to divide ourselves. i want to be able to just make reference, you were trying to figure out a sport reference, i would say hockey. you can pick hockey as the game that you can make this legislation into. ten years has gone by and a lot of the building owners, a lot of clients and mixed use, what they have done, passed on the bill. there's been a lot of arrogance, a lot of people will say in the month of april we should award each other, pat ourselves on the back. the people that have always been left out of the conversation have been the invisible folks. the folks doing the sorting and the building, day in and day

out. the last gentleman spoke, complying with all the tenants and every person behind me has gone to every client and tenant and the said you have contaminated the trash. what they have gotten is warning, suspension, how dare the janitor tell me what i did wrong. i am asking every one of you to understand that 1390 market, two blocks up from us, one of the spots that has the facilitator. at twitter you don't have the same results. up the blocks, square and uber, they are not compliant as well. and i just want to be able to say that for bowma to get up here and say we are in support of the legislation but not necessarily in support of your legislation. we want more time. and that type, they have had ten years to do something about it. besides giving themselves nice lunches. i want to tell the board we need --

>> thank you, your time is up. thank you. [microphone was cut off] >> we need to be fair, your time is up. >> as reminder to be fair to everyone, everyone has two minutes. is there any other member of the public that would like to speak? all right, seeing non, public comment is closed. supervisor safai. >> thank you. clarify one point, i know -- amendments talked about were actually covered and we have already dealt with in the legislation. the director and the department have the discretion to work with city departments.

so, that has already been covered. city attorney givener, is that the case, with regard to passing on fines, the budgeting process and so on, we have a lot more flexibility as it pertains to city departments. >> yeah, last week the committee amended in a provision that excludes city departments. >> say that again. >> excludes. >> city departments from the administrative fines provision in the ordinance. >> okay. thank you. >> i just wanted to clarify that. the other thing, the waste stream for hospitals that are not normal, you know, composting a recycling, that is a very separate category, dealt with completely differently and outside of the purview of this legislation. so, hospital contaminated, or contaminants is not dealt with in any way, very specific subset. the other thing i wanted to

point out is that we have had discussions with, as the amendment that was made today, when we are dealing with affordable housing, dealing with the food pantries, we are giving them much more additional time, so really when you really whittle this down, and i heard concerns from the chamber and others about small businesses, very few, if any, small businesses here. and the restaurants here are large restaurants who i have spoken with. lou girrado, and epic, they have someone doing sorting. mcdonald's on the account, large, you know, pier -- and these are entities that need to be, and they have made, mcdonald's has made a stated i guess aspiration to be much more environmentally conscious, so a strong step in the right

direction for them. i am less concerned. we have done significant work to reduce any and all so-called small businesses on this list. so, i just wanted to overemphasize that. and then the last point that i didn't really get to jump in, and wanted to allow the person from recology, speaking to that clear and concise, you know, your analogy of hockey or football, these audits are already happening. work is already going on. there is nothing that stops any entity that would be on this list to say a couple hundred dollars, they have it as part of their account process, we heard that last time from recology. they can ask for an audit, and they can see where they are. they can see where they are in advance of this legislation, and many of them already know where they are. their diversion rate is put on their bill. so, i just want to overemphasize that, it's not a one strike and you are out. many of the account holders know

how well they are performing, they have the ability to work with the d.o.e. and recology, and more precise information, and so this is the final step in a process that has been going on, you know, 16 years, ten years, to your point. this is -- this has been a long time in the making, and we feel like it's the appropriate step. so, if i could -- if we could at least, someone on the board could potentially accept the amendments that we have made for the affordable housing and the food pantry, i would -- i would like that to happen. >> sure. happy to, a motion to accept the amendments before us. seem to be adequate and take that without objection, without objection, we accept these amendments, thank you. supervisor mandelman. i think i saw your name -- no, ok. all right, so, a couple things here. as i started the conversation earlier, i said there are some amendments that i would like to see that we reached out to the deputy city, to the city attorney's office and have not had enough time to finish

drafting them. i would like to see those, i would like to get those amendments, bring them back into committee, and further our discussion which would require this item stay in committee. i hope i'll have my committee person's spo are on this. i particularly am interested in -- seems to me that i want to talk a little bit about, and push for the baseline audit and giving maybe a six-month period for businesses to come into compliance or, or if this compliance, if this legislation has been around for ten years, maybe what we do, we look at the ten-year span of time and see who the most agregious offenders, looking at a longer horizon, five years, break it up into -- into a halfway point. i will work with you deputy city attorney john givener on the exact language, but i just want to give some indication on where

i'm leaning and what i would like to see. i also want to make sure that i would like to see bcdc and the port, and the community benefit district trash cans be treated like public trash cans. i don't believe that those amendments were reflected in what you presented today. >> they were not, and we actually have, got the final draft this morning and we will propose those, and those are nonsubstantive. so, we can make those, if this were to get out of committee today, we can make those at the full board, that's not going to slow the process down at all. >> in terms of process, a stickler to process. i believe work needs to be done in the committee and not the chamber. i'm the chair of the committee and around eight years and seen how processes work and don't work, and as president of the board of supervisors i see what happens when we sit as a committee as a hole and bring apartments on the floor and work them on the fly. this legislation is so critical, i think it's deserves our

attention, undivided attention, continued work here in committee. i'm not in support of sending this item yet. madam clerk, our next meeting? >> november 29th. >> i would like to continue this item to the next meeting of november 28th. and schedule it as a report and come out and stick with the makers timeline. supervisor mandelman. i know, you are a member of this committee. >> i just -- i want to, you know, since as i said, parachuted in for this hearing and i am new to this committee. i want to press a little bit so i understand continuing rather than forwarding to the full board. it sounds to me like there are sort of two issues still outstanding. one is the port cbd set of amendments not minor but there

seems to be probably agreement around that, and seems like not agreement, but understand the two bites at the apple. so, again, i -- wanting to understand more about what would get done between now and the 29th if it stayed in committee. >> the -- the language, we would have language that we would be able to discuss, it would be coming to the record. and also like i said, fundamental principal of a committee is do the work, that means when legislation comes from this committee, goes to the full board, then if there's other committee persons who are, or people not on the committee that have not opined, and you know, i've seen it happen both ways. it will come to the full board, discuss it, but most likely if we do our work correctly, limited amount of discussion at the full board, and this is just sticking with the integrity of the process. so, that's why i would like to continue to do the work here in committee so we can continue to

work on it. supervisor stefani. >> thank you. supervisor cohen. i, so -- we were in committee last week, and we continued it this time. i'm, you know, i found director rafael's remarks persuasive and i believe the legislation is well intentioned and we have been doing some work on it. wondering what you would think about taking it, or sending it to the full board without recommendation. so we have two weeks to work on it then and at least get it out of committee, and work on it at that time. >> i don't understand the urgency to move something out of committee. the purpose of committee is work on it. so, why would we move something out of committee to work on it someplace else? >> i'm waiting to be called on. >> talking to the committee person. >> i feel this legislation, we have been working on it for, well, very long time, and i just -- posing that as possibility, so that we can, you

know, move the legislation along out of committee, and you know, work on it for the next two weeks, on a timeline and if we are not ready at the board, with he can continue it there. >> so often times i want to respectfully push back to my newer colleagues. the purpose of the committee is do the work. purpose of the full board t review the work that the committee has done, not to continue to work on it. if it needs work on it, this is the appropriate venue to work on it. so, i've made a motion to continue this item to november 29th, is there a second? >> can i just say something on that point? part of the reason why i would like the process to go forward, i feel like we are 99% of the way there, i think we are going to continue the conversation around -- there could be some

fundamental disagreement. we have been working with the mayor's office, different departments. we are coming on a deadline on this board and the holiday and it would be, i know there is a lot of pieces of legislation, i know you are leaving the board, i know there is legislation that you have and others have that are working our way through other committees. facilitating. we want to allow those to go forward. [please stand by]

. (roll call). >> thank you very much. this item will be continued to november 29th. thank you. any other business? >> no further business. >> all right. thank you. to

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through the process eventually one day a a deputy director or staying with the puc is where i love it >> neighborhoods in san francisco are as diverse and fascinating as the people who inhabit them. today we're in the sunset, where we'll join supervisor tang for the inspiration of this show, where we explore san francisco, one neighborhood at a time. hi i'm katy tang the district 4 supervisor in san francisco, which is comprise of sunset and parkside neighborhoods. i think what makes district 4 unique is that we have so many

different cultures here. we have so many different generations of people. different experiences and that makes it a vibrant neighborhood. for example, which you go down urban street you can do to a japanese restaurant, chinese restaurant, american restaurant, and the cultural diversity is just what makes it so amazing my name is ching le, and i'm the owner of the kingdom of bounty. 17th san francisco, 94116. we make the most authentic and different kinds of dumplings and dim sum. recently more and more popular because they are vegetables and meats that we use fresh vegetables and meats in the business. it's really inspired to start discover your district series, because i wanted to find a

way for neighbors to come and get to know our small businesses and our neighborhoods. get to know each other, get know our office, and do so in a setting that was unintimidating and fun. so i launched this idea call the "discover your district," where we go every month to one or two small businesss in district 4 and we have done things such as learning how to make dumplings that we're learning today and there are so many different activities that we have exposed our residents to. >> today is the very special day, because the city of san francisco hosting this for san francisco city. learning how to make dumplings and knowledge of dumplings. they love to do it and all enjoy it. >> this is definitely not my first time making it, so i have definitely improved a lot. the first couple of time s i

tried to make dumplelings they looks inedible. they have definitely improved. there is a special dumpling eating contest, which is amazing. everyone those eat the dumplings that they made and see how many they can do. i'm curious as to how many they going to be able to down today? >> don't forget to write down what you are eating today. >> we make all different kinds of dumplings and enjoy what they made. so after that, we'll have contact how many pieces of dumplings they can eat and announce the winner today.

>> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at

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san francisco fire commission regular meeting wednesday, november 14, 2018, and the time is 9:03. roll call. [roll call] >>clerk: item 2, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker. the lack of a response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made

during public comment. >> do we have any public comment? please come forward. >> good morning president, vice president, commissioners, chief. i'm the president of the golden gait tenants -- gate tenants association of the hotel. as you know, a fire broke out on the 22nd floor of the davgate w hotel. on behalf of all of us, i would like to thank the san francisco fire department in its response to the gate way hotel fire. the first firefightered arrived

very quickly with other engines following within minutes. they arrived several ways upstairs. the quick response was really what we appreciated. the effective action saved us from what could have been a major disaster in this high-rise. it's a 22, 24, 25-story building. the fact that no one was hurt and only an elderly couple was carried out safely reflected great training and professionalism and courage of the fire department. please extend our appreciation to all members of the force. we know that the fire station 13 was the first one to respond, but others joined them and additional members, and we are so very, very thankful for their tremendous works. thank you so much.

i'm not here alone. other members of the gate way tenants association are here and would like to speak, too. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is bill hammond, and i am a member of the golden gate tenants association, and i live at the gate way. firefighters from station 13 arrived on the scene in two minutes flat, an amazing response time. other stations also responded rapidly. the fire started on floor 12 and spread up to floor 16 with flames shooting out onto the balconies on several floors. your firefighters ran up several flights of stairs, rescues several tenants and put out the

fire. there were no reported injuries. one of your firefighters physically carried john resnor to safety from the third floor. we're glad you're here. we think you have a very fine department. thank you. >> thank you. >> i live in vista south. i was one of the lucky ones in our building. the fire crew was absolutely amazing, and i want to thank all of you. >> thank you. we'll need the gentlemen that are standing by the door to move to the other side of the room. can't block the exit. >> finally, we wrote a thank you song for the great work of all

the firefighters involved in what happened so recently. >> what's your name, sir? >> came the call to 911, station 13, turn your engines on. flames raging at davis street and washington. hear the sirens race down the street, carrying in our firefighting elite, soon to beat the high-rise inferno into retreat. brave men and women of the sfpd shine, racing -- sffd shine, racing up stairs, they saved our

lives at the gate way. pictures melting off of the walls, deep with smoke, hoses in the halls, all the flames jump floors, their hoses rolled up. before it wasn't long they'd grown to 100 strong, so now, without that blaze, we're singing this song. brave men and women of the sffd shine. racing upstairs, they vanquish flames they saved our lives at the gate way ♪ [applause] >> thank you. what was the name of our

talented musician? [inaudible] >> thank you. thank you. for the record. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary. >>clerk: item three, approval of the minutes, discussion and possible action to approve the meeting minutes of october 24, 2018. >> is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, what's your pleasure? >> commissioner hardeman: so moved, mr. chair. >> commissioner hardeman motions for approval. do i have a second? >> commissioner covington: i have a correct. >> -- a correction. >> do i have a second? >> commissioner veronese: second. >> okay. i have a motion and a second. kmifgser covington?

>> commission -- commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: on page 7, it says i did want people to get the impression. it should be i didn't want people to get the impression. >>clerk: so noted. >> okay. we have a motion and a second. we'll go onto item five and come back to item four. >>clerk: item five, ambulance employment facility update, anthony rivera and kathleen o'day from san francisco public works to present on the construction of the new ambulance deployment facility an overview of san francisco arts commission on artists concept design. >> good morning, commissioners.

assistant deputy chief anthony rivera. good morning, chief of department. i wanted to introduce kathleen o'day from public works. we've been working very closely on the ambulance did eployment facility, and we're very pleased to show this rendering of what we see as an asset to our current deployment. samuel chiu who also has been working with us is currently on his honeymoon, so we'll give him a pass on that. >> good morning to both of you. >> good morning. so without further adieu, kathleen. >> i was wondering if you can pull up the screen.

>> i see our officers are here for recognition, so would you call item four. >>clerk: item four, recognition of san francisco officers. chief, would you like to say a few words. >> thank you, president cleaveland, and good morning. i'd like to ask the officers to come up to the front, please. >> good morning once again, officers. we're here to applaud you for

your partnership and great work on sept sember 19. commissioners, i'd like to summarize what was brought to my attention by captain kevin choker. service on september 19 that throws two officered assisted in saving a life. officers nicolsa wise and brian carew had been doing a welfare check on a reported unconscious patient. they moved the patient to the floor, opened his airway and provided rescue breathing through a c.p.r. mask. the patient was experiencing an opioid induced respiratory arrest, and after receiving natu narcan, was able to respond and coerce with the officers.

[inaudible] >> officers wise and carew should be commended for their perseverance, quick thinking and application of c.p.r. and first aid skills. your actions saved this man's life. on behalf of the san francisco fire department we're here to say thank you, congratulate you, and i know chief bill scott is happy to have you as members of his police department. i know your roles are somewhat different thanes roles of the san francisco fire department, but if it wasn't for you who was on the scene before we were, that man may not have survived. so thank you very much for stepping up. san francisco fire department is always hiring, in case you want to make a career change, so we really appreciate -- sorry about that, chief scott. you have good instincts. but i -- on behalf of myself and

the commission want to present a certificate to you. before that, i'll defer to the commission if you have a few words. >> president cleaveland: did you have any words that you wanted to say, officer? >> thank you very much. >> president cleaveland: all right. let's give them the certificate. >> commissioner hayes-white: so i'll read the certificate from my microphone. they say the same thing. san francisco fire department of meritorious appreciation. thank you very much from all the members of the san francisco fire department.

[applause] >> okay. chief rivera, come back up, and we'll continue with item five. >> good morning. assistant chief tony rivera, and the lovely kathleen o'day. we're going to go ahead, and i believe we may be having some technical difficulties with the display screen, but i just wanted to mention that what you won't see on this display is all the meetings and issues that we had to resolve over -- before we came to this point, and it has really been rewarding to work with kathleen and samuel and the whole team to get to this point, so i just want to make sure that everyone's aware of that. >> are you able to see what i have on the screen? >> president cleaveland: we can see it on the screen here. it's just not visible to the

public, i don't think. >> good morning, commissioners. i'd like to also introduce a few people here -- [inaudible] >> president cleaveland: is your microphone on? >> karen mar, who's with m.e.i.yama mar architects. we also have the artist, michael bartolis, and trish goldberg from the arts commission.

i believe susan contius is here from the art commission, and we have s.j.amoroso construction. thank you all for coming. we're excited. we just started construction october 22. we issued the notice to proceed, and i know that the people behind me do not see this beautiful image, but i think i'm going to hold it up so they can all see the beautiful facility that we're going to be building. so it's a four-story new facility, and big yard for the ambulance. so the new facility is not too far from the old facility at 1415 evans. the new facility is located between 280 and 101.

it's in the bayview neighborhood, so, maureen, again, do you think you'll be able to pull it up. >> i will work on it. >> i will try and describe the building for everybody. >> oh, you can see it? so as i was saying, it's a four-story building with deep piling foundations. on the first floor is the warehouse, and on that same floor is the captain's rescue office, a restock. on the second floor, we have the officers e.m.s. officers as well as the biomedical and gurney

repair. on the third floor are the locker rooms, showers, break rooms. on the fourth floor is all the conference and training rooms. the whole building is 44,000 gross square feet. on the next page, you'll see the site plan. so the site is flanked between gerald and mckinnon. the area is 58,000 square feet. we have an ambulance yard for 49 ambulances. we have a restock area right at the warehouse level for four ambulances. the current facility only can restock one at a time. this will have four. we also have a fuelling station. we have two pumps, one for gas, one for diesel. we can actually fill up four ambulances at a time. that's also going to help expedite. the ambulances will be coming in off gerald, and they'll exit off mckinnon. there's a little bit of

planting, which i'm happy to see at this point. we have some trees and planting along the edges. we also have solar panels on our roof. and other stormwater measures, we have permeable paving. you'll see in this first photo on the upper left, there's the e.m.s. office, and that has a view down in the first floor warehouse. on the bottom image, there's a warehouse image if you're walking around in the warehouse. so the right is an image if you're looking down at the image at the warehouse from the second floor. there's a cat walk. and then, on the third floor, as i said, there's about 300 lockers, and that's the image in the upper left-hand corner. these 3-d renderings are from

that. we have a training room with 30 seats, and here's a typical office on the fourth floor on the lower right hand corner, and then, the upper right corner is the open floor office. so the next slide is about our budget? this is a $50.1 million project? the total construction budget is 38.1 million? we awarded the contract to s.j.amoroso. our project controls which are all the soft costs, permitting, etc., that is 8.6 million? the art enrichment is $560,000? our sf&e and department of technology costs are 1.5 million, so that all is a

total of 50.1 million. and here is our current schedule? so we had initially -- as you see in the upper -- the lower corner photo, those are the existing buildings that were behind fire station 9? and then, the photo on the right, you'll see that we're showing the buildings demolished. that was the first phase. if you look at the lower yellow on the schedule, that was the first phase construction, was to abate those buildings and remove them, and that happened end of may, beginning of june. and then, you'll see where we just started construction, we were waiting for the -- you know, we were -- basically thought we'd get a jump start on the demolition while the contract was being bid and awarded. so then, we started on october 22. we will have substantial completion in july of 2020, and

then close out in the fall of 2020. this next slide shows you what milestones we made since the last time we were here to present. the last time we were here was valentine's day, and so we got our site permit, we had our construction documents in the spring, our permit issued also in the spring, our phase three design permit in the spring. then we bid the job on june 7, and we awarded it august 31. we bid this job with the best value procurement method. this is the third time the city has tried this, where it's not just a bid on costed. the other things that are evaluated are oral and written

scores, as well as what the contractor commits to. we had some outreach, as well. we were at the police station presenting this project in april. we were at the bayview-hunters point c.a.c. in march. we also presented in front of gobach in march, and then, i just went through the construction listed in the below part of this slide. so the risks and challenges that we see on this project, in the bayview, as you know there's a lot of contaminated soil. it's also corrosive soil, so one of the things when we start demolition is what we unearth. we're hoping there's not anything more than what we suspect. we had done a lot of soil borings to determine what the class of soil is. we have primarily class two.

class one is the worst. we also met with the department of health to figure outweighs to reduce the -- out ways to reduce the off haul another risk is when we do the pile testing, the piles right now are estimated to be 135 feet, so once we get the results from the analysis of the pile test will tell us how deep they need to be. hopefully, that's adequate, and hopefully, they don't need to be shorter. another thing to note about this project was we have risen the elevation of the site to -- because of the potential impact of sea level rise, so the middle of the site is about 2 feet higher than the existing grade, and then, it grades down all the way to the street to meet street

grade. we have a lot of long utility lines and multiple you tiutilit lines, so these are all challenges, and we're working with our different teams and departments to make sure that we don't run into any hiccups. this is a view from mckinnon. this is sort of the black view as the -- back view as the ambulances are exiting. i'm very excited to announce we'll have the ground breaking on december 9 at 11:00 a.m. with that, i'm going to present the mic to the artist. we're very excited? michael bartolis, i don't know how we're going to do this. you're very tall.

[inaudible] >> i can answer any questions after. there we go. >> hi there, everybody. thank you for having me today. i'm going to give you a five-to-ten-minute quick overview of the artwork that's been commissioned for the gates and fence of the facility. i'm going to start by showing a previous project that i did with the san francisco arts commission as a way to introduce myself and the artwork that you'll be seeing for this particular project. this project that exists already

is called the mission parade fence. it's a decorative metal fence that runs besides the valencia street and mission sides of the valencia street playground, and it was installed in the spring of 2012. the images that you see here are the playful depictions of the mission neighborhood. i am he showing this because a lot of the same qualities that made this a success will be applied to the ambulance deployment facility project. for example, easy to read shapes, but have enough detail to draw in engaged viewers, and bold, graphic forms that are whimsical but graphic enough to engage all ages. it's a sequential narrative, and they're an assemblage of

vignettes to suggest a story, which is what will be happening with the ambulance deployment facility, as well. and perhaps most importantly, it seeks to deliver a positive message. it's designed to be entertaining, up lifting, inspiring and inviting. one of the things of working on a project like this is the artwork's ability to cast shadows. these will reach onto the sidewalk, vying with passerbys for attention. you'll see that this steel -- this one-eighth inch steel is the same material that we'll be deploying to the ambulance deployment facility project.