financial implications and how they'll be and the materials and everything and it's not going to get there. so you'll end up in creating all of this -- san francisco is actually grappling with that statement now. when the redevelopment agency was abruptly disbanded we had all open space now that we do not know what it will look like in 10 years' time. so going to new york and looking at all of this is that basically we have professors from cornell university and they were gracious and they gave out a red carpet of a lifetime. i think that we also learned that for us reciprocity, we all in san francisco, all of us, better be able to match what kind of treatment that we have in the kind of professionalism and everything that we learned there. it was more than educational. even there i was thinking about

my fellow commissioners because of the quorum, and if there's any other way, i don't know that you can duplicate this tour that everybody really needs to see what we need to see. i think that the commissioners and the mayors have said before that, yes, you're experts in real estate and in structural and anything you don't have the expertise, okay? so even though we have expertise in certain areas here but there's collectively certain areas that you cannot make that decision here unless you see what the other people are doing. that's what this trip -- now in terms of art -- we invited jill mantle from the arts commission and i had the privilege of going with us here. when built it will be opened in 2019, there is no other place in the world that would be like the shed. and we need to put that on the record here. the architecture of the place, the opportunity for art, for

visual, all forms of art, are gug to be there. so san francisco needs to really think and, again, art is part of our development here and it's part of the financial implications. and people are going to go to the shed before they come to san francisco when it fully opens. again, when you look at the design and the structure, and some of the things that we could do on treasure island and the landscape architects and they're the finest in the world. they are already involved with the broo brook brooklyn bridge e companies will build in san francisco and new york and san diego and in all of over the world. so the takeaway for me is that you had outlined some of the things that we really need to look at. and i think that there are serious, serious issues that we

need to really look at. how will we be financially, again, manage all of these parks and open space. treasure island will have more open space than the golden gate park. and so the discussion must begin right here for all of you commissioners now. and it's not that we want to kick the can down the road. so we know the expectations and i would think that going to new york now is important to have this parallel discussion that we'll put in place when we are going to be approving all of these plans. that obligation rests on this commission to really look at putting something in place that we can begin to engage all of the stakeholders as to how we're going to get on treasure island and that's part of the things that we looked at. so commissioner, you are more modest and gratitude for you for these efforts and we owe you a

great deal. and it shows your influence and your class because your harvard education and your colleagues and we are very grateful. where do we go from here? i think that there are other places that we need to look at as commissioner samaha. most of us here, even all, would travel all over the world extensively. there is no place that i go to that i do not go to the parks and look at the sculptures and the museums. when i'm in europe i do that and in africa we had national parks and tropical plants and whatever. we really, really need to look at that. and the takeaway for me, mr. beck, is that we need also -- and i mentioned it earlier -- we need to have a dialogue as to how we'll treat the work of other parks. they warned us that we must be extremely mindful of what we put

-- when you are expecting millions of people to come to the parks, they accentuated your waterway will make-or-break you in what you do in that. that will eat up most of the cost of maintenance is the financial implications. so we're going to all have takeaways there and we'll be doing that and i am pleased, even on my own money, i want to go back to new york and to the shed when it's open. so thank you for that editorial statement and it's to convey to the city of san francisco that it was well spent and that this commission, all of you, should be thinking about us getting out of here and to really look at the best practices in design. and that's what you can take away from this tour. >> president tsen: thank you. i'm leave my comments to later. but miss lai, yes. >> thank you, linda, for sharing your perspective on that. and, yeah, i would agree that it

would be fun to go see it firsthand, but i also feel that we have a lot of experts who have been consulting and helping us. and they have seen a lot of this. so we're certainly relying on you. just a couple of questions. i have never been to governors island before but i think that i only saw the piers and there's no, like bridge or any kind of vehicular means to get on and off the island, right? >> ferry access only. >> okay. so how did the students get on and off the island? because there's no housing there, right? >> there's no housing on the island. they commute via the ferry every day. >> how much is the ferry? >> i'm not certain. the operation -- the operating budget for governors island comes through the governor -- or the mayor's budget of the city of new york and i believe that

about 50% of their annual operating budget goes to subsidize the ferry service to the island. >> oh, 50%. okay. >> of the governor's island operating budget is -- goes into the operation of the ferries or subsidizing the operation of the ferries. >> okay, and the other 50% is just -- >> well, the other is the rest of their operations. so 50% of the budget for governors island is going into subsidizing the operation for to and from the island. >> that's a lot. so the ferry is not free? >> it's $3 round trip. $3 round trip and $1 for seniors and $1 for children 13 or younger. >> that's very affordable. how long is that ride? >> seven minutes. >> seven minutes? okay. so actually approximately the same as from --

>> (indiscernible). >> yeah, i'm just very curious about their model and, you know, their cost recovery or percentage, all of that. maybe if you have some additional information that we can roll into a ticd meeting. i'm just very curious how other people operate their ferries. >> we did ask a lot of questions about the ferry and i think that it's good to compare. but the fare will never pay for the services itself. >> not in america, but, yeah. that was not supposed to be -- (indiscernible) just a fact in. other parts of the world it can happen. and then questions about the conservancy and i'm not familiar with how that works. are conservancies typically just essentially like a quasi

government agency or is it really a non-profit? >> yeah, it varies in the model. some are kind of purely non-profit if you think of like the friends and rec park here in san francisco. and to full -- more like a business improvement district and i think that for brian park, you know, that -- brian park is managed by the bid for the neighborhood around brian park. but, yeah, for central park, you know, it started as a means of trying to put additional money into the main park because in the 1980s, you know, the city of new york will declare bankruptcy and so forth and central park had become not a very hospitable place.

so there was really a philanthropic effort to to raise the level. so it started this way and then moved to operations. and now for central park, two-thirds of the park operations are by the conservancy. and the city parks system still has some operations, but two-thirds ever the operation of central park are under the conservancy. so in that case it's a quasi governmental function. >> president tsen: let me just add to that. i mean, one of the reasons that we had this tour was to look at different models tha models tha. and new york being a city that is in some ways older in their management of various parks, they've had different models. and i think that what we will do, bob, with your help and with your staff's help, is to next

year one of the things that we should look at very carefully is what some of those models are because we have to manage in the end 290-acres of open space, hw we are going to do that. we haven't had a plan brought to us at the board to look carefully and very detailed budget of what it's going to take to operate and manage these various neighborhood parks and those city side parks and the various open spaces that we have. capital improvements and building the parks is one thing, but we've got to ensure that it's going to be maintained and it's going to be open and it's going to be able to be -- again, you know, to operate and maintained in a clean safe way for all of the people involved. so looking at the various models was one of the things that we were hoping to do.

and let me just say that because of core missions, we couldn't bring the whole commission on this trip but it is certainly my intention that all of you will have a chance at some point in time to participate and we'll bring the people over to participate with us and there will be other trips in the future. >> so a question about our existing park systems in san francisco. and we have one of the largest parks here too. golden gate park. is there a conservancy that already works with that park. >> i think it's a 51-c but not a conservancy. >> okay. >> president tsen: mr. samaha.

>> a few comments and a couple questions. one, i have been on this commission long enough, i think 12 years now, to remember that we did have a discussion about conservancy for our parks. i don't know how many years ago this was that we had this discussion, but so much comes before us and we had so many reiterations of a lot of our plans. but did we not have a position on establishing a conservancy for the management of the parks? for treasure island? >> i haven't gone back to some of the board conversations and actions. the open space plan and they left it as an open question but that doesn't necessarily, you know, kind of catch the nuances of conversation that was happening at the board when the

open phase plan was discussed here. >> it's just one of the options discussed but i remember having a very thorough discussion, it was before your time i believe, bob. and we have flushed that out and we thought that it was a great idea not to have rec and park manage the park and to have our own sort of way to manage and fund and all of that. so this is just one thing that i wanted to mention. and the other thing is that i was sorry that i could not go to new york city and i know that because of the brown act and other limitations for the way that we hold public meetings and we could not all be there but i'm happy that a member of our board and staff were there to bring back the knowledge. and when i look at the number of locations where you guys went,

i'm awed by new york and it really makes us feel so small. and it reminds me of a trip that i took years ago which is before and we went to the champagne region in france. i'm from the bay area and feeling all big that we have a big wine region and we said we have the mumm winery here in napa and we went to mumm and they had 25-kilometers of tunnel under the city just for them. and it reminded me of how much bigger other areas are and how huge new york is and how much we can learn and i'd like to suggest bringing people here as well and not having to go there.

and also i like this enough -- and thank you for doing that, bob -- and the synopsis and the next steps and we should look at the next steps here and develop, you know, to have more hearings and to have more study on many of these. because these need to be flushed out. one of the things that, you know, the fact of open space and the design is a really big one and i think that sometimes we get so caught up in the moment where we think that it's going to be the need that we have and it reminds me of clients of mine buying a house and you go in there and they say we want to remodel everything and do all of this. and i say, wait, live in it for two or three years and see what you really need from the space. i think that we should carry that model here somewhat in terms of moving forward with our spaces on the island and how do we, you know, build in

flexibility, among all of the next steps that you have mentioned here. so i look forward to us going through this as a way for us to move forward, to grow and learn, and, yeah, we also have a lot of other regional areas here, models, al ameadea, and there's a lot in the bay area that we can learn from that we don't have to go all the way to new york. but thank for doing that, commissioner tsen, for setting that up and let's use it to grow and move forward here. >> president tsen: mr. dunlop. >> thank you very much, and thank you for your work on this, and the two of you just must have -- boy, that's a lot of work in a very short amount of time -- two days or something? amazing. and i, yeah, so i'm very grateful for your work.

and it's going to take a lot of conversation to get it all -- pull it all out of you. but i think that it seems to me that the most important thing is the funding question. and the funding question to permanently fund it and that means that 50 years from now that it's not going to be falling apart because there's no money. we really have to look at that and make sure that what we put up is also what we can actually afford. and we're not leaving some huge debt for future generations, that we're leaving an ed fis that we can all be proud of that will always be there. and i know that will be a major part of our conversation. and it probably should be a part that just goes parallel as we talk about what we're doing,

like, you know, again, beautiful dog park. i love it. but is that going to be affordable in 20 years? and is there some way that we -- like, say the city as it occasionally does, goes into the red, will we be able to keep our part up? and to be able to maintain it to the standards that we have and which are very high standards. so just my two cents. thank you, again, for your efforts. >> president tsen: thank you, mr. dunlop. and let we just say that the trip to new york was meant to inspire us with some ideas that they have instituted and also to look at carbon problems and issues that come up with the management of large open spaces. that is something that we'll have to dedicate ourselves to. but it was not meant to say that

we have to copy what new york does. in fact, it's really interesting to note that when they were asked, the new york designers were asked what inspired them, they would say san francisco and they are inspirations to us. so we know that we have our own set of -- how should i -- design aesthetic and the fact that we really have an incredible, spectacular setting which is quite unrivaled in the world. we have world-class architects and landscape architects here who are designing for us. so it was not meant to say that we had to copy them, but just to say that there are issues and ideas that we can share. and what came out of this is

that we really have to focus in on what it's going to take to manage and maintain these open spaces in these parks and we have to have as they have done with many of their parks, even before they were finished, very detailed budgets on, you know, so that we know what is the funding that is required to make sure that we incorporate that in all of our planning and financing. and i am sure that there will be other types of trips to bring and one is about affordable housing. so we will do that in the future. but i wanted to thank -- i wanted to thank linda for coming and i thank the landscape architects and tida staff and all of our partners at treasure island development.

i think that it was a great group to go and to look and listen and then to bring back to san francisco the best ideas. so thank you all. >> thank you. >> president tsen: okay, let's see, any comments from the public? if not -- yes, yes. >> i'll comment quickly. first of all, i'm so sorry that i didn't get to go on that, i was nursing a knee injury and i'm sure they would have slowed you guys down too much. but i'm really glad that you all went. >> president tsen: and your partner too. >> and my partner got to go and so that was great. it was a short 20 years ago that i was touring the contingency around chrissy field when they were looking to start working on broobrooklyn bridge park, so ita small world. i wanted to remind you that commissioner samaha you were right that we had an all-day workshop on conservancies and the benefits of those, maybe

more than 10 years ago in one of the great ybi, and we had them from the california state park foundation. i think that isabelle wade was there from the neighborhood parks council and we had spoken to isbilisabelle krouse and alle people on how it might work. they are takeaways that i would be happy to dig up with you and share with you as we start this conversation. and the big one is that it was too soon then. so i think that now it's not too soon. it's just the right time. and the other was that the success to many of these parks has to do with very active programming to keep things going on and to attract more people out there that also help to attract different types of funding and that also increases the cost for maibs because you -- maintenance because you have more people out there running around. so programming and maintenance are really a key thing for us to

all work on soon. and i'd be happy to help in any way that i can. >> president tsen: thank you. all right, next item please. >> clerk: item 10, the year ahead. >> president tsen: that's a good segue, bob. >> yeah, so i just wanted to, you know, it's kind of a traditional january meeting to take a look at some of what is coming up in the next year. and, you know, starting with the navy transfer map, again, everything in rows and purple and in peach have now transferred to tida. this next year we expect to get site 24 which is shown in green and then towards the end of 2020 or more likely in 2021, so we may take 2020 off, but more likely in 2021, some of the northeastern corner of the island will come -- come and then the last part.

so the end of 2021, early 2022, which is site 12. it's really the only site where there's active work going on at this time. and in terms of infrastructure planning design, we have touched on it many times. a bulk of our focus in this next year is going to be shepherding the subphase three mapping activities through the various city agencies and through the board of supervisors and the department of public works. and that will be -- it's a very important -- in terms of maintaining progress and financing on behalf of the developer and just keeping a flow to the construction work on the island.

on the podium building and left-hand corner there in february for their site work engraving. that will also be including inclusionary units for y.b.i. the other sites are in the planning approval. the townhomes that will be adjacent to the podium building. the affordable sites on t.i. are engage with the planning department and in 2019 the planning review sites should begin as well. just to move through the design,

substantially through the design and permitting process this year and target in june of 2020. seeking a funding so we can fully fund the mercy catholic charities site and continue to refine our financing projections for the third and subsequent projects. that includes pursuing legislative changes at the state level for the rid legislation to law the pledging of as well as extending it to 45 years. also discuss monitoring the discussed around redevelopment that are going on at the state level now. that governor has been sworn in and it's a real focus for the

legislature. and then also, begin the process with arwsf of shepherding our income households through the income certification process including households that would qualify for the for sale inclusionary units. partnership with sftva and tma, again, as the mobility management agency they're working on the towing policies for the island and so, continuing that process this year. again with the objective in 2021, or late 2021, both the

tolling and ferry service and the ac transit service being in place. on the legislative front, i mentioned earlier the marina and sailing center leases are with the budget annalist office right now and we expect they'll be heard in february or march. after conducting additional resident outreach and some studies as directed by the commission, we'll be bringing the towing policies back for approval to the timma commission. i mentioned the subdivision mapping processes that will be going through the board of supervisors around the end of the year as well as the state legislative efforts. november, next november of 2019, capital planning committee is planning to have earthquake safety and emergency response bond on the ballot, which

doesn't necessarily sound like it's treasure-island related but one of the elements of that bond measure will be a financing of a new fire-training academy to be built elsewhere which is one of the things that we need to relocate off of the island as we continue to move forward. this is the city's effort to fund that replacement facility. concluding with our standing items, this is officially the first meeting of 2018. our new board officers are taking their seats now. in march, i'll have informational item on our 2019-2020 budget. april and november we have our on-island meetings and then the budget adoption in may and we'll go true the court office and

selection process again. with that, that concludes my presentation. >> over the holidays and as recent as two days ago, a lot of people were asking me about the toll for treasure island. i took the time and educated them, letting them know that last year we were trying to be in compliance that the state legislature, after the little berating, made the suggestion that we should provide water transportation and the toll actually is paying for the ferries and also as a transitment a lot of people in the audience, when i was speaking, said no, they did not even know that. i think we need to, when we talk about the toll, to the

legislature to the board of supervisors, to the constituents, that we need to have this pre am bell to know because people do not comprehend that san francisco, treasure island, is unlike any other city neighborhood. it's the only one that is in the world so to speak. and is the only one that is heavily impact approximated by the meltdown of traffic on the bay bridge. earlier on, the powers that be, more powerful people than us, in approving the development for the island, made a suggestion that we have to have various modes of transportation. it is going to be the only neighborhood that is even well served, more in transportation of all kinds than anywhere in san francisco. and in mainland. that this very purchase and the transit is na addition to muni

doing its part but that's not enough and that the ferry will be there. when we go back to the board of supervisors and announce that we have a new district supervisor, who is going to be dealing with that, before i spoke to, were at his event, his constituents. and everybody is listening about the toll. treasure island and but i every one of us wants to go out there and we just speak here many of we have to include that pre am bell so people understand the toll is to provide for the ferry service because the city of san francisco but truth be told, they will be pay for that. the property developers is committing a lot of money for the four or five years.

so where do we go for after five years? that discussion is to be at the mayor's level and the supervisors where when they have bond money for muni or anything they need to include treasure island. they need to do like amtrak and how they are subsidized. we are also looking for additional money from the cap-and-trade and from the proposition 3. i think we're able to package, that we do not have any obligation and we do not go there, we're going to be arrow compliant and i think that we need to be with dialogue now and let people know in 2021 that all these decisions need to be made now. to purchase the ferry, there are things you have to go through and that for the operations, in here we're going to have the first residents in 2021 and i don't care if they are 30

people, 300, we still have to be compliant and hear lies the urge urgency. let's begin that and welcome the supervisor to treasure island. he can talk to the legislature and his fellow exercise supervis the only way we can get to this matter. >> thank you. the toll policy will be coming to us in 2019. >> we'll be back in february. anyone from the public, please come up. >> my name is natalie and as bob said before, i have the pleasure of standing in sherry williams' schools for two months while she's on sabbatical. i wanted t. i would put this under future addenda items. but it's really in the next few

weeks and that is about matt haney's town hall. the project for source of plow chairs and china town cdc does have a gap and hopefully after this meeting we'll do some looking. because of the town hall suggestion, myself and cdc will be at the town hall tomorrow. i wanted to implore, as you go through your opportunities and speaking with the powers that be, the gap, the gap it has is it's based on funding scenarios and frankly with the funds to fill in the gap which is $10 million, still, it would go a long way.

it's a modular project that would replace the housing for all currents of shares residents and some of you may have seen this and i just wanted to put in a plug that we are trying to do an active ask and see campaign to the construction could begin sooner. i wanted to thank you for that opportunity and thank you for telling me about the town hall. >> thank you, natalie. thank you. >> any other comments? hearing none. >> discussion of future agenda items by directors. >> directors. are there any items? >> i'm sorry. this is very brief and might have been something more appropriate at the beginning. i wasn't here. so, i have heard from a lot of

the residents about the grace concert the other day. i guess everybody was pretty thrilled about it except those that didn't know and weren't so happy about the noise. imagine dragons is a big group and very popular. that was great. but, then people have been asking me, i seem to be the dog park guy. will the dog park be rebuilt? i guess they took a bunch of the fences down and so people have asked me about that. i didn't have time today so maybe it's already rebuilt. if it could be rebuilt and then there's a lot of gaps, not a lot but a few gaps where a small dog can zip through. so maybe while you are -- while whoever is replacing the fencing, they could take

attention to that too. >> the outline of the staging should be going back up. i'll make a note and pass it along with the comment you made about the bottom of the fence. >> ok. >> maybe magic dragons can donate something for our dogs. >> they'll pay for the restoration. >> thank you. >> thank you. any other comments or questions? >> could we put the conservancy discussion on sooner than later. an agenda of the various funding options for the open space on treasure island? >> yes. we definitely will -- all of the discussions of the park is going to be, as with housing and other topics it will be a regular a again agenda item moving forwar. >> maybe a future agenda item,

it might be interesting how special events find out about treasure island and how they can book treasure island. if we do any outreach to try ane do things like that? >> we can work with jack and prepare a report. it's not generally a large source of revenue but it is, you know, both for people on the island and people who vis the the island, it's a community exercise in many cases. >> great. >> excellent. >> hearing no other questions, we can now adjourn. >> yes. >> wonderful. >> thank you. >> thank you all for coming. >> good meeting, thank you. happy new year.

>> my name is randy shaw and i'm a director of the tenderloin housing clinic appeared eight years ago, in january of 2011, i realized there was something really wrong with the tenderloin , that we don't have enough lights period people say they don't feel safe in the tenderloin at night, and it is because we don't have streetlights. just coincidentally with that, see pmc was planning on building a new hospital -- cpmc was planning on building a new hospital. and i thought the biggest impact would be all the cars driving up the street to get to the new

hospital so that it was really important for the pedestrian safety of the tenderloin to have more streetlights, so i asked mark aronson, who happens to be here today, a professor at hastings, if his class would do a study analysing the existing streetlights, and here on february 6th, 2011, they did this beautiful ten page study, which became the basis for our request. i also asked a member of the p.u.c., an engineer, for the per light cost, so i could -- took those numbers, and asked the then mayor, ed lee, if you could get us the money from cpmc. we figure the cost of adding lights would be $3 million. so i asked the mayor to ask for $3.5 million figuring there would be some bargaining.

they would bargain with us, and i thought well, we asked for $3.5 million, we are pretty safe to get $3 million. if you know ed lee and how much he loved the tenderloin, he met with cpmc, and he got us $4 million. a million more dollars than it we needed. he said randy, i want to make sure we have enough money. he was smart. so what happened was a board of supervisors approved at all in 2012, but then cpmc had to downsize the project, and it started again in 2014. in 2014, we had a little bit of a conflict with city officials. you see these beautiful teardrop lights qantas everyone like those lights while we are a historic district. we had engineers who said we are not putting in those lights. we are putting in the modern lights because they work better

for lu d. we are having an argument on taylor street of august 2014. and i said to him, let me put it to you this way. mayor lee wants teardrop lights. do you want me to tell the mayor you are not agreeing to what he wants? he did the same thing to mayor breach. you get mayors who really care about the tenderloin like them, in the city bureaucracy starts listening to the neighborhood. that is what happened. it took a very long time. i used to joke about harland kelley at the p.u.c. that whenever he saw me across the street, he knew i would harangue him about the delays. i have e-mails from the staff saying, randy, we are really sorry, but worse case scenario, it is finally going to open in the end of 2015. we finally thought it was going to open earlier in 2018, twice the wrong hardware was delivered , and barbara hale who

is the assistant, since i don't know how this could happen. it is never happened before. twice they sent to the wrong fixtures, were finally, on december 21st, they were installed, and they're all in all the north-south streets, and eddy street, and i think it is all really fitting in perfectly with mayor breed overall strategy for the tenderloin. from the first week she came into her job, she was here on a friday in the tenderloin. in the last 12 months, we have seen more police activity in the tenderloin then we have seen in years. we know it is a mayor who is paying attention. and the police are working hard to, but the mayor, as a team, i want to thank mayor breed for joining us today and for her support for the tenderloin. >> thank you randy. i am really excited to be here today. i know i have only been mayor for a short period of time.

i think throughout the time, i have been in the tenderloin almost every single day. i came out here because first of all, a lot of the folks that i grew up with live out here and spend a lot of time here, and they want their community to be safe too. we have to make sure that the resources that this community needs, so kids can get to school safely, so that folks who live here and especially our senior community, so they feel safe in their community, i want to see him clean streets in the tenderloin, i want to see safe streets and the tenderloin, and i want the people who live here, who spent time here to take care of the tenderloin too. this is an effort that is so critical to the success of this community, and i say yes, community, because there are so many people from so many parts of san francisco that live here,

that enjoy this community. some amazing park space, and part of what our responsibility is is to make sure that the resources that this community needs, they get. that is why this opportunity for lighting, and i know people are thinking, well what is the big deal about lighting? it is a big deal. every community in this city, they want pedestrian lighting. they want teardrop lighting. lighting fixtures that look this beautiful. the tenderloin, we have made it a priority so that this community knows it is a priority , that we are going to continue to make sure that the resources are brought to this community on a regular basis. i want to thank cpmc for their community benefit package that includes funding for not only pedestrian safety like these lights, buffer housing opportunity, for job opportunities, they are a part of the tenderloin community and so they have invested in the tenderloin community.

in addition to all of that, there will be free services and care at the package to take care of the residents of this community. it is absolutely amazing. is a true testament to a real partnership between cpmc and the city and county of san francisco i can't wait to be there in march when we cut the ribbon to open the new hospital on van ness avenue. i also want to thank harland kelly and the guys and gals at p.u.c. for your work. thank you so much for finally getting this job done, because a randy, not only did he harass the mayor at the time, he harassed every mayor of the board of supervisors, and that is why we finally have got it done, and yes, in less bureaucracy years than typical. i also want to thank the san francisco police department. thank you for so much for the officers who continue to walk

the beach and develop relationships with the community on a regular basis. it definitely means a lot to have community policing so that members of our community feel safe when they are walking the streets. thank you to so many folks who are a part of really the driving force. they are the reasons why we, as a city, pay a lot of attention to providing resources to the community, starting with randy shot in the tenderloin housing community clinic, essential safety s.r.o. collaborative, thank you so much. [cheers and applause] >> u.c. hastings, and unite here local two. incredible partners. people who are fighting and advocating for the tenderloin. i have made a commitment as i have said to you all before that we will continue to invest, invest, invest in resources. in fact, many of you heard about the significant amount of money that we actually came into

recently. it is a one-time fund, and my proposal with conversations with so many people here today includes a significant investment, especially in the tenderloin community. make sure that you pick up the phone and call your supervisor and other supervisors to let them know that the tenderloin will get its fair share of resources, and will not be forgotten. we will make it clean and safe for all of the residents and visitors alike. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. as the mayor pointed out, the reason we have lights, the money came from cpmc, and one of the interesting things about the experience, there was a whole big narrative about how difficult it was for cpmc to work with certain people in the city, but their representative, from the very first time i met him, he said of course, we want to do streetlights pick whatever it costs, we want to do it.

that is a fact. that is what he said to. it may get him into trouble forgiving us so much money, but he said cpmc wants to increase lighting in the tenderloin. it wasn't like the pole or the fighting, it was great. let me introduce -- i want to make sure i get your name right. pamela kentucky -- kanaki. >> we indeed want to have safer streets in the tenderloin. so as you heard, i am the chief operating officer at cpmc. we have been part of san francisco neighborhoods for over 150 years. we are very excited, as mayor breed said to be opening our new hospital and our new campus just around the corner from here, on march 2nd, less than two months. as a not-for-profit organization , centre health believes in getting -- giving

back to the communities. and these lights that everyone is talking about are one of the ways that we are working with our neighbors, the city, to make our communities better, safer and healthier. in fact, a couple days ago, last friday, i was going to dinner in the tenderloin and i noticed the lights. i mentioned to my husband how beautiful the lights, how bright and beautiful they were, and so we are very pleased and proud to be part of the city, and the tenderloin. thank you very much. [applause] >> our last speaker, there is the empire market right across the way, which is benefiting from all these lights, and they have been a running that market for decades. she would like to explain what the lights mean to her. bora? [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much. good evening everyone. my husband and i own empire

market right across the street. my family, which includes my children who live in the tenderloin for many years. i work at our store at night so my family is happy to have additional lights that will improve safety on sidewalks. during the daytime, a business owner and resident, we walk through sidewalks all the time. we are faced every day with safety issues, however, i am glad to know that new lights will offer a much safer situation. we will be able to know what is going on the sidewalk outside of

our family business neighborhoods. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> it turns out that the lights actually got on before jane kim left office, within a few days. jane kim by unexpectedly, so she would like to say a few words. [cheers and applause] >> so it really is incredible that these lights have come on. just a couple of days before my turn was ending, only because this was one of the first projects i worked on when i came into office in 2011. it only took a little over eight years, but this did really begin in the community first, when the negotiations with cpmc began about the move of their hospital to the van ness core door, and has a lot of questions about the impact that this hospital would have in terms of traffic to the neighborhood, in terms of economy, and many other things.

it was groups like central city s.r.o. collaborative who had been working collaboratively on passages to increase adult presence on the streets as kids walk and back doors walk back and forth between school and afterschool programs, and i see many of our partners are here today. and randy, who talked about a study of how this neighborhood had the least number of streetlights at night of any neighborhood here in san francisco. so this, along with the pedestrian safety improvement really became the priority at the community and how cpu josie beat -- and how cpmc could make this neighborhood safer and stronger. there are many steps along the pathway to get here, of which they were not the major obstacle because they committed to this program so early on. i can't mention how many neighborhood studies and community processes that our offices worked with so many of the community leaders here over the last eight years to make that happen. i want to give a huge shout out

to the public utilities commission. i know the general manager is here. [cheers and applause] >> the staff really did a tremendous amount of work to move this money that has been committed to, which i should note, also went to the tenderloin museum that was standing behind here today, and we actually had to repurpose other city funds to come to help fund with cpmc originally, which is a street lighting funding program, and the p.u.c. made that happen. and whether the challenges we are getting, we need to connect it to our infrastructure, to so many other design challenges, and then different wants from the community. the p.u.c. really came out, along with the mayor's office of economic development, working alongside our community leaders to make sure that this happened within eight years. so i just want to wish everyone a big round of congratulations. our neighborhood really does work together to make this community safer, and i want to

thank our mayor for her strong commitment to making sure that the tenderloin continues to be invested in heavily and strongly , and prioritized over her time as mayor. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> and matt haney is out of town or else he would be here, our new supervisor. thank you all. if you have any questions or anything important to ask to folks, enjoy the lights. the darker it gets, the brighter they are. thank you all. [♪] in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly 400,000 square feet. we were especially pleased that

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>> for tuesday, december 18. miss dowd, would you please read the roll. >> clerk: yes. [roll call] >> clerk: you do have a quorum. >> just a note for the audience, we don't have ms. boomer today. >> clerk: item three, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. please be aware that use of cell phones, pagers, or other sound producing electronic device is prohibited.