indeed what we all intend and will happen and with that, i will make a motion to send all three items, items one and two with recommendation. item three as committee report without recommendation subject to the amendment that he will prepare by tomorrow. >> supervisor safai: can we do that without objection? >> clerk: item four is ordinance to change zoning code for nonretail sale and service uses in the c3r zoning district. >> supervisor safai: supervisor peskin. i will hand it over to you since this is your legislation. >> supervisor peskin: thank you chair safai. this has been heard in committee for a number of times and i know that you are familiar with it. for our new members edification,

i will talk little bit about the fact that this is the product of a couple of years of informational presentations and collaboration between the planning department, my office and the always of economic and workforce development. really entered around trying to preserve our destination retail zone in san francisco and union scare, commonly referred to as the c3r zoning district. which has been under pressure from the amazon effect and particularly as it relates to the push to convert upper floors historically have been retailed to office. last monday this committee adopted an amendment that seeks to actually achieve a compromise for applications to convert office space on the third floor buildings which was the source

of concern, contention from property owners in the c3r zoning district. the complie compromise is a poly choice that really prioritizes retail and permitted uses while allowing limited conversions when the physical characteristics of the site are not conducive to retail. just by way of background, we do duplicated the file. this one has a $4 conversion fee that's supported by a study that's referenced in the legislation. we had a duplicate file that has a $6 conversion fee which requires rereferral to plan napping is not before yo -- to . by unanimous vote we imposed interim zoning controls pending the approval of this legislation and what's before us, lift

internal codes at the board put in place by.a year. i want to thank all the parties involved for reaching this compromise and hope that subject to public comment and any statements that mr. starr has made repeatedly is welcome to make again that we can move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor safai: supervisor peskin, can you remind us why you chose the third floor? >> supervisor peskin: a lot of this actually -- mr. starr, you might want to jump in -- lot of this really came -- there were slew proposals to convert upper stories in the union square c3r zoning district to office ranging from properties macy's own and macy's men@ç store, properties on 200 block sutter street. at that time, the department

really expressed concern about doing that and we looked at the building topologies. the first incarnation of this actually said no conversions of the third floor. we made them impossible. my office really listened to the union square business improvement district and others as well as retail brokers and really sought to have some flexibility in the limited physical circumstances that were the subject of last week's amendment. i will defer to mr. starr if you want to add anything to this long-running conversation. >> you covered well. the staff report was initially to prohibit floors. the commission felt that we needed more flexibility on the third floor given the nature of retail and the dealty of leeing

spacespace -- leasing spaces ou. >> i understand they felt what was the difference between third and fourth or fifth floor. why did they not like it being capped at the third floor. >> my understanding, retail -- people generally don't want to go up elevators or escalators to go shopping. third floor is difficult to rent to retail operators because of disconnection from the street. we're very concerned about preserving union square as a destination shopping centre. we don't want it to be degraded either. we don't want the buildings to be vacant. >> supervisor peskin: they did survey and found a relatively healthy occupancy rate. i think that kind of went into

the staff's original recommendation for a strict r prohibition at the third floor. we rhet struck a compromise lan. >> supervisor haney: how floors defined? some of the places have a very open atrium. the second floor might not be up until 40 feet. i'm curious how the floors were defined in instances. >> t >> there are definitions for floors. based on that definition, there's a mezzanine definition. i think in some cases that

counts as a second floor. it depends on certain characters of the building. >> supervisor haney: union square boundaries, i understand you have them laid out here. physically where does the union square downtown zone end? does it end at market street? does it capture the west field mall across the street. is not capturing the mall? >> i believe it does extend to west field and the old bloomingdale. it's not just union square but the neighborhood we know has union square. >> supervisor haney: what would happen to the upper floors potentially? >> they could convert to office on some of them. >> supervisor peskin: on the third floor, with this

compromise along, that's before you. >> supervisor safai: men's clothing tend to be on the up floors. bloomingdale, nordstrom, they all tend to be on the upper floors. >> i think that's changing there. they got rid of the macy's men. >> supervisor haney: can we write in the amendment to protect men's clothing? >> supervisor peskin: about the boundingries of the c3r, we can pull up the map. >> supervisor haney: let's do that. >> supervisor peskin: you can go to planning.org and tab on the

like has the zoning map to pull that up.

>> it has a movie theater and the office. >> supervisor peskin: there it is. well done aaron. i don't mean this aaron. there you go. i want to show that cursor around union square.

>> it's this area here. this lighter pink. it does include the properties across market as well. >> supervisor peskin: those are the two parcels. if you get sfgov tv. through go. there's the answer to your question mr. chairman. >> supervisor haney: thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you

mr. starr. we'll open up for public comment. please come forward if you wish to comment. state your name for the record. you have two minutes. >> my name is william levine. i'm a fifth generation san franciscan. i was not aware of your compromise. i think the compromise is excellent. anything above the third floor will be disastrous. we used to have a store building union square that question did e did rent. it's very hard. trends and fashion changed in the last 20 years. i remember when i first started working, everybody wore suits. now hardly anybody wear suits anymore. >> supervisor safai: just us. >> i think only in department stores, do you want to go anything above the third floor.

i think the third floor is a good compromise and you're allowing that situation to occur where you can have offices on the third floor standard type buildings. not department stores. i commend you for that. any other cleaning in that let m--change in that let me know. >> supervisor safai: next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm karen flood executive director of the union square bid i want to say thank you to supervisor peskin for working with us. i know it's been a long road up. did hear us on the third floor. it makes a difference. we care about union square. we wanted it to be as much retail as possible. it creates vibrant downtown especially on the lower levels. this has been really important to us and we appreciate the introduction of the fee for

conversion from four to settlement. tha-- fourto six. so thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. >> supervisor peskin: i thank my staff who did all the hard work. >> sue hester. basically i'm a broken record. please use every opportunity you have to require the landlord to install lighting on the exexterior aexsteer-- exterior . the landlord, the building owner, should have to install exterior lighting. assumption that everyone had that the zoning of the first

floor was retail. it's not safe now. if you're not firm especially if you're older, dark sidewalks are really impediment to feel comfortable in the public realm. the persons that have to do the improvements are the landlords. not the tenants. they should have to install led lights or whatever to light the sidewalks and not relay on interior lighting anymore from retail. you have an opportunity, use it. if building owner is going to take advantage of having more

lucrative space, put the burden on them to light the sidewalk for the public. thank you. >> supervisor safai: any other members wish to comment? public comment closed. supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: i want to say that, this will raise million dollars for improvements in the c3r. i want to >> president turman: thato put . i want to acknowledge my staff and parties planning. representatives of the property owners in the c3r and would like to make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor safai: great. can we do that without objection? it is so moved.

any other items before us today? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> supervisor safai: we are adjourned. thank you. [adjourned] i

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

playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. >> i enjoy the work because i can help people, and i can help the utilities to provide a better water quality, make sure that people feel that drinking hetch hetchy water is actually a pride. >> hats off to the water quality team because between them working on late nights, working on the weekends when the schools are closed, and working as a partner in the

school district for the times they found a higher lead sample, they worked through to address that, so the team went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. >> ever wonder about programs the city it working think to make san francisco the best place to work and will we bring shine to the programs and the people making them happen join us inside that edition of what's next sf sprech of market street between

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approval for the fifth modification to existing contract with bombardier to extend the term through june 30, 2019. and to increase the amount of the contract by $5.1 million. the air train system provides year round service and consists of two lines to all terminals, garages and the bart station as well as the rental car center. 27,000 passengers use the air train on a daily basis and the system has average service level of 99.7%. so fairly high. the original contract in all subsequent modifications to this contract, to this operating agreement with bombardier, has been reviewed and approved by the board of supervisors. this final modification will extend the current contract through the fiscal year. at which point the airport expects to have a new contract finalized and that new operating agreement will come back to the board for approval.

the budget analyst office has reviewed and recommends approval and i'll be happy to answer questions. >> supervisor fewer: any questions? let's then go to the la. >> good morning, chair. yes, respond to what ms. widener said. this contract is a had 4-month extension from march to june of this year. the increase is $5.1 million. we looked at the increase, it's on table 1, it's consistent with the spending of the air train contract. the new contract with bombardier will come before the board for approval. this is a sole source contract being brought back to the board. we'll be reviewing it at that time for your approval. we recommend approval. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. let's open up for public comment. any members of the public that

would like to comment on item in number 1 >> seeing none, let's make a motion to give this positive recommendation. take that without objection? great. madame clerk item 2. >> resolution approving contract modty indication for the airport capital improvement program with extend term by four years and increase the contract by not to exceed amount of $40 million. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. ms. widener. >> thank you, this item seeks approval -- actually, i'm sorry. i pulled out -- i don't want to talk about bombardier again. this item, the second item seeks your approval for a fourth modification to existing contract with hill international to provide project support

services for the airport's capital improvement program. mod 4 would extend the contract through november 15, 2023 and increase the contract base $30 million. as you know, the airport 10-year capital improvement contest cysts of -- consists of projects that will enhance security and maintain infrastructure. it includes program controls, scheduling, budgeting. preparation of progress reports and various program management and oversight of the entire program. this contract was the result of a competitive request for proposal process in 2017 with hill international selected as the highest ranked proposer. this multiyear contract approval follows the direction that we had with the previous committee and the budget analyst office as we modify a bunch of these

project management support services contracts with the capital. -- with the capital program. this allows us to align the approvals that come to the board and the amount that are approved with what the airport commission has approved. this is a more consistent approach in asking you to approve exactly what the airport commission has approved. i would be happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, any questions? seeing none, let's pivot to the bla. >> yes, in a follow-up to what mid widener had to say. this is the fourth modification with the contract with hill international. the first contract, the original contract was $8.5 million increased to slightly less than $10 million. it's the first time it's come to the board or approval. it's now approved for six years.

that is consistent with the original contract and to reinforce what ms. widener said, we talked about bringing forward the capital program contracts in a way that was consistent with the charter requirement and we believe this is complying with that request and we recommend approval. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. let's open up for public comment. any members of the public who wish to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleague, can we take a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation? okay. we can take that without objection. thank you very much. madame clerk? can you please call item number 3? >> ordinance authorizing the department on the stats of women to accept and expend a grant in the amount of the $750,000, office against violence against

women and amending ordinance number 182-18. to provide for the addition of one grant funded part-time junior administrative analyst position. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe we have director from the department of status of women to present. >> thank you very much. committee members, special congratulations to supervisor marr. i have good news. our department has been awarded a $750,000 extension grant by the u.s. department of justice office of violence against women to continue our bayview high risk pilot project. we're here to request your support for resolution. i'm joined by the colleague, elise, who has expertly managed the first grant and extension application.

first back ground in domestic violence in san francisco. between 2015 and 2017 there were average of 18,000 crisis calls to community providers per year. or 50 calls per day. any one of these calls could have led to a domestic violence homicid homicide. through our 2015 counsel report we determined that the bayview police station received the highest number of 911 calls, over one and a half time the average of 800. that is not to say there is more dv in the bayview neighborhood. actually, the fact that residents contact law enforcement to intervene is a really good thing. we know that there are huge problems with underreporting of domestic violence. and for example, the mission and

chinatown communities. 18 months ago we introduced a lethality assessment program to the bayview police station. it's based on national research. in half of domestic violence homicides nationwide, victims had called the police prior to murder, but not accessed community based services. it has been shown to reduce homicide or serious injury by 60%. as part of the assessment program for every dv call in the bayview, officers administer a screening tool of 12 questions on predictors of lethality, death threats, strangulation, children from a previous relationship and gun possession. after completing a positive screen, the officer connects a

victim survivor directly to an expert counselor by mobile phone. in previous times before this intervention, it was just a card, but now officers are offering to connect them to a live person, a staff advocate who offers victim survivors a range of support services, including counseling, advocacy, legal assistance and emergency shelter. slide 3. this slide shows data from the first 12 months of the pilot. 601 screens were administered. 55% of these were positive for high risk. 55% of victims chose to speak to an advocate from the scene. 84% of victims who screened in as -- who spoke to advocates from the scene accessed further services from lacassa. and compared to other

jurisdictions, this is a high rate. and 30% of the victims who spoke to the hot line advocate accessed emergency shelter. 54 victim survivors escaped potentially lethal situations because of this intervention. slide 4. the grant extension allows to develop and implement a smart phone app to streamline data connection and enable better tracking and research around lethal cases. we're working with sfpd to finalize the application. we received funding from department of justice to continue the project for another three years. our objectives include implementing the smart phone app, conducting outreach to communities in the bayview, including spanish speaking communities as the demographics of the bayview has changed significantly. we'll be working with support services to provide outreach

through existing home visitation program. continuing to engage in the language access work groups to explore solutions for english limited survivors. working to collocate an advocate in the bayview and partnernerring with the lab to conduct an evaluation. the grant pays for five things. one, direct services. number two, staffing for the da victim services division to better serve communities. number 3, a prosecutor in the district attorney d.v. unit and staffing hours for the police station and the special victims unit. and number, 5, a part-time grant coordinator at our department. today i'm asking for your vote of support for the program to

prevent domestic violence homicide. happy to answer any questions you may have. >> supervisor fewer: supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: one quick question. will you use the money to educate families about gun legislation. i'm hopeful that our city can start implementing the gun violence restraining order. i'm hopeful you can incorporate that into this. >> one of the trends we have seen is an increase in domestic violence involving guns. so it's really very important that we get the word out on the gun violence restraining orders. and that will be part of this effort to really focus on domestic violence prevention in a particular district. >> supervisor fewer: any

questions? i just have one comment which is this power point and also on the screen, it is impossible to read this, the print is too small. so if you really want us to be able to see it, you have to print it -- i don't think someone who is 20 years old could read this. i know my age, but this is impossible. that's pertaining to slide number 2 and 4, wihich actually has interesting information. are you utilizing the family resource centers? >> yes, we have partners providing additional funding to family resource centres and getting domestic violence resources out to the centers. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i see there is no report on this, dla? correct? let's open up for public comment.

any members of the public that would like to speak on the item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, is there a motion for this? >> i'd like to move the board to the full board with positive recommendation. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. madame clerk, please call item number 4. >> 4, ordinance delegating authority to the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to enter into grant agreements with terms of 20 years and you the san francisco public utility commission's green infrastructure grant program. >> supervisor fewer: i believe that sarah bloom from the sfuc is here to present on the item. >> hello, supervisors, good morning. sfgovtv, could i have my slides, please. hello, i'm a watershed planner

in the san francisco public utilities commission. and today i'm here to talk about the new green infrastructure grant program. so before we go into the details, i wanted to quickly review what green infrastructure is. we designed green infrastructure as a set of engineered and sustainable storm water management tools that are designed to slow down and clean and route our city's storm water out of the combined sewer system. there is a lot of different types of green infrastructure. some are vegetated, like green roof or rain garden and some are not, like paving or rain water harvesting. but for each type of green infrastructure, they work the same way. they're designed to collect a specific amount of storm water that is flowing to it from an area. this is really what makes green infrastructure different than traditional landscaping, they're specifically engineered to manage a certain amount of storm water out of our system.

and the sfpuc has a strategy toward deploying green infrastructure in san francisco with a long-term vision of managing a billion gallons of storm water or 10% of the rein that falls on -- rain that falls on infrastructure each year. and in order to reach the long-term vision, we're using three approaches. the first one is regulation through the storm water management ordinance which this board passed in 2010. the other is capital projects we as an agency are designing, building and maintaining ourselves. and the third is grant program, which i'm here to talk to you about today. we've seen these green infrastructure projects transform san francisco. this is an example of the projects that have enhanced public common spaces within our buildings. our capital projects that improved our streetscape.

and some of the earlier grant programs that transformed school yards, and learning opportunities for our students. so the grant program i'm here to talk about today will encourage san francisco property owners, both public and private, to design and build these types of green infrastructure features on their property. this program is really targeted toward larger highly impervious properties in san francisco. what makes it different, is that maintenance responsibility will be lying with the property owner and the sfpuc well be inspecting -- will be inspecting those projects to make sure they're performing. the proposed program has five minimum eligibility criteria. the first is location. so the projects must be located on a parcel connected to an owned and operated sewer system. we have a minimum size that a project must manage to qualify.

performance requirement for the infrastructure that they have to manage 90 percentile storm. but also they must demonstrate co-benefits. at least two from the approved list. this includes things like ground water recharge, non-potable reuse, education signage, curriculum development. and the last is experience because these are going to be larger projects. we want to ensure that design teams have previous experience designing and building green infrastructure. our commission has approved $8 million in funding for the first two years of the program and this is funded through our revenue bonds, through our sewer system improvement program and it includes funding from both grants we're giving to folks and staffing. currently the maximum grant amount that is available is $765,000 per impervious acre that a province can manage, up

to $200 million in funding per project. just part of the program we're going to have a maintenance agreement, we're calling that our storm water management agreement and that's a legally enforceable agreement. they will be maintaining the assets for 20 years. we believe 20 years is the best length of the agreement because it's consistent with the useful life of the green infrastructure assets. and because we're using public dollars on the projects, we want to ensure that the projects will perform the same way as if we were to build them as a capital project. and this 20 years supports this program's contribution toward the city-wide storm management goals. so today, we're here for a request for delegation of authority, not just to ensure the useful life of the green infrastructure assets, but also to allow for administrative efficiency for us in delivering this program. and that is really because we

see of the estimated volume and size of the agreements that we anticipate coming through the program, as you can see this is a graph of all of the eligible parcel city-wide that may apply for the program. and 50% of them are between half an acre and acre in size in terms of impervious to be managed. if we have about $6.4 million available to award, that is minus the cost for administration, we could have anywhere from 8 to 17 projects over the next two years that range in funding from $382,000 to around $765,000. and we know that the delegation of authority is not something that should be taken lightly and requires a lot of thought, so we're actually proposing two amendments to the ordinance. the first is that we could come back and report to the board,

either quarterly or biannually, who we've granted to, how it's going. and the other is that the delegation of authority could sunset after two years. and that is because our commission has only approved two years of funding for the program, so we'll be going back to them. if they choose to approve the program for another two years, we would come back to you at that time if we think the delegation of authority is needed after learning from the first two years of the program. any questions? >> supervisor fewer: any questions? seeing none, i think we might have report from the bla. >> yes, so this is ordinance delegates authority under the board's charter to the general manager of the puc for grant agreements that would go up to 20 years. and under the charter, the board approves grant agreements over 10 years. we do point out in our report --

we do consider this a policy matter, we point out one of the concerns is the commission has also delegated their authority to the general manager to review these in a public process. so at this point in time, there is no public -- if the board were to approve this, there is no public process by which the grants would be revealed. my understanding is that the puc is now recommending two amendments, one is the sunset this authority, so only this $8 million allocation would be subject to the del gaegs of authority. but also to provide quarterly reports to the board that detail who received the grants and what they're for and how the grants were awarded, but we consider this to be a policy matter for the board. >> supervisor fewer: any members of the public that would like to speak on the item. come on up. you have two minutes.

>> good morning, supervisors. my name is ta mar, i'm the green schoolyard manager for the san francisco unified school district. i have over 15 years of creating and sustaining green school yards. as a member of the san francisco school district sustainability office, i address two of the five pillars of sustainability in the district. access to nature and water resiliency. i'm here to voice my support for the infrastructure grant program. as a green schoolyard manager i support our school communities as they sustain, create and expand outdoor learning and play spaces on school grounds. i'm also the point person addressing water resiliency in the district, specifically for storm water management projects. for over ten years, we've been

funding small scale projects like cisterns and rain gardens, which have successfully augmented our network of outdoor learning and play spaces. since the storm water management ordinance passed, we've worked with the puc. in this past fall, they celebrated the opening of the first jointly funded [bell ringing] -- in the sunset district, which was a pilot project that paved or depaved the way to the development of this green infrastructure grant program. with its focus on funding, the design and construction of the storm water management elements like rain gardens, pavers. this grant program will be an

excellent resource in our continuing efficients -- [bell ringing] -- efforts, lay whiered spaces -- >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any members of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, any questions or comments? >> i have one question for the sfpuc. we talked about, on slide number 9, you talk about minimum eligibility criteria and location. i wanted to know, are you looking at geographic equity when we're looking at where these grants are, because it seems it must be connected to a sfpuc owned or operated sewer system, with i don't know where all those are. so i'm -- >> it's the majority of the -- >> it is. >> like 95% if not more. that's a standard so the projects are ratepayers of our

public agency. but we -- because the program is first come-first serve rolling admissions, we won't be looking from an awarding perspective at distribution, but we'll get that from the technical assistance and outreach. we'll be doing outreach campaign to get folks interested and to make sure we're getting projects from all over san francisco. >> supervisor fewer: that's great, because supervisors from district 2, district 4, district 1, would be happy actually to help outreach to the community for the opportunity. i wanted to make sure -- >> that would be fantastic. >> supervisor fewer: -- weren't boxing us into this. we should vote on the two amendments -- oh, i'm sorry. mr. givner. >> deputy city attorney. we haven't prepared the amendments for today's meeting, we can, but i wanted to clarify

the specifics. the sunset two years from now, i believe, would be june 30, 2020. and i believe the first of the quarterly reports would be due july 1, 2019 and quarterly after that. if that's the puc's desire and the committee's, we can write it that way. >> yes, we agree with that. >> supervisor fewer: okay. colleagues, are you comfortable voting on this today not having the written amendments in front of you as they have not been prepared yet? okay. i'll make a motion to accept the two amendments. and to give this a positive recommendation as amended. can we do that without objection? great. thank you very much. madame clerk, item number 5. >> item number 5 resolution approving the controller office of public finance to manage the

debt issuance process. >> supervisor fewer: let's see. i believe that we have anna from the controller's office to present on this item. >> yes, thank you. good morning, supervisors. my name is anna, i'm the director of the controller's office of public finance. the item before you today for your consideration is a resolution to approve an updated debt policy. the controller's office of public finance has maintained a written debt policy. this is formally adopted by the board in may of 2017 in accordance with new estate law. this document establishes the city's policy objective for debt, such as maintaining moderate debt service levels, the highest practical credit rating, establishes processes and internal controls and demonstrates a commitment to best practices in the munp